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We did it! And by ‘it’, we mean ‘2024’. And by ‘did’ we mean ‘survived’.
Videogames helped. Videogames always help. And so we’ve opted, as is tradition, to get together to regale and delight one another as well as YOU fair listener, with tales of the games that made 2024.
Big AAA games! Indie games! Games exclusive to the Playdate! Games that came out a few years ago! Games that came out 20 years ago! Games that may come out next year, or beyond!
FUN
What will we crown as our individual games of the year?
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Y’know how in these episodes we always talk about a bunch of games? Well this month we REALLY talk about a bunch of games, no foolin’, NO CAP.
Here is a list of the games we discuss in case you want to play along like a book club or something. Would you believe that some of them are developed in Spain too so that we can maintain the central conceit of this season’s over-arcing narrative premise?
Deadly Premonition 2
Tokyo Xtreme Racer
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
Dragon Sinker
UFO 50
Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus
New Super Mario Land
QOMP
QOMP 2
Please Touch the Artwork
Cat Quest 3
Little Kitty Big City
A Match Made in Hell
Sonic x Shadow Generations
Dininho's Space Adventures
Habroxia
Cozy Space Survivors
Razion EX
Luigi's Mansion 2 HD
NEVA
TemTem
TemTem Swarm
GO FORTH, PLAY VIDEOGAMES, BE MERRY
DECEMBER IS UPON US
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It's that time again! A brand spanking new episode of the O3C Podcast.
This month, Chris and Jonathan check out the games of Indonesia including Rage in Peace and Coffee Talk, but not before catching one another up on a month's gaming activity including retro obsessions on the Anbernic RG35XXSP, a final verdict on Astro Bot, and big thumbs up for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.
Not enough?
What about a review of Eyeland for the Playdate? Or a breakdown of how modding tool Seventh Heaven ensures the original version of Final Fantasy VII remains relevant and accessible to players no matter Square's remake efforts? Or Chris boring everyone to tears talking about Tetris again?
OH BOY
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Bonjour!
We’re in France. Well not really, but within the fiction of this series we’re sat at a nice Parisian café and ready to tackle a couple games from the incredible well of French development. How did Jonathan get on with The Rogue Prince of Persia? How did Chris get on with Jusant?
But naturally, that is NOT all.
There’s a big discussion on the current State of Sony as the company publicly juggles massive highs and lows that run the gamut from Astro Bot to Concord. Chris gets stuck into 2018’s Dad of War. Jonathan updates us on a swathe of mobile games that have been entertaining him as he moves house. And then there’s a load of waffle from Chris detailing why cheap retro handhelds from companies like Anbernic and Miyoo might actually be pretty great now?
VIDEOGAMES - THEY’RE GOOD
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Just a small trip this month as we hop over to our nearest neighbours in Ireland. What gaming delights does the Republic have to offer? And what of this offering will Jonathan and Chris be quaffing? (A turn based Dungeon Crawler and a tetralogy of dross PS1 racing games, of course).
PLUS, a whole bunch of semi-contemporary videogame chat, as per.
Final Fantasy XIV! Slice and Dice! Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League! Bleak Sword DX! Thank Goodness You’re Here! These are games that we’ll be talking about!
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Have you noticed how these episodes are getting longer and longer? And that as of this episode we’ve only covered 18 of our 80 games? And that by this season’s end that means each monthly show could be 16 hours long?
SHEESH
Anyway, videogames!
We’re in Germany to talk guns and horses with Crysis and Windstorm, but not before lengthy coverage of DOOM, DOOM ETERNAL, ECHOES OF THE EMERGENT, SUPER MONKEY BALL: BANANA RUMBLE, APOTRIS, DEADLY PREMONITION, ELDEN RING and the STEAM CONTROLLER.
DOUBLE SHEESH
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Grab your vuvuzelas, as we’re headed to South Africa to check out some VIDEOGAMES.
There’s deep dives into Terra Nil and Broforce that come courtesy of Cape Town natives Free Lives Games, but, as ever, so much more.
Has Chris really become the only human on the planet who’s managed to get Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut running on the Steam Deck?
What’s Jonathan’s favourite shell in recent indie hit Another Crab’s Treasure?
Has Chris finally beaten all of the Outer Worlds DLC, a cool 2 years late?
And what’s Jonathan’s mobile game du jour this month?
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You all know what time it is, right? C’mon, check your watches, we’ll wait.
It’s a new episode of the O3C Podcast! And boy howdy is it a chunky boy.
Limber up and stretch out to extended thoughts on THE OUTER WORLDS, ANIMAL WELL, BALATRO, LOOP HERO, DRAGON SINKER and OTHERS, and then take on the main AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 GAMES event as we visit India to sample LOVELY PLANET and RAIJI: AN ANCIENT EPIC.
You won’t be disappointed. Although to be honest, even if you are, this is free, right? Unless you’re paying into the show using links at o3c.games/support in which case we’re sorry, we apologise, please don’t report us to trading standards.
ENJOY IT
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After a long flight, our plane descends, loops the outstretched arms of Christ the Redeemer as we touch down in Brazil.
What treats will South America offer on our videogames tasting menu?
Chris gets stuck into indie racer Horizon Chase Turbo, and Jonathan picks through the tabletop referencing Knights of Pen and Paper.
There’s loads more though, OF COURSE.
But, rather than spoil it here, why not give this month’s globetrotting episode a listen? We PROMISE that the episode includes: videogames; jokes that may or may not be funny; and spuriously researched facts.
ENJOY IT
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Jonathan and Kaspar are back AGAIN for Part 4 of an originally planned duology of episodes. Just how long can this casual chat continue?
AD INFINITUM when you’re discussing one of the very greatest games of all time!
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We’re off to Australasia to check out the videogames of New Zealand!
Jonathan staves off ichthyic madness in Dredge, and Chris revisits Shatter, a modernised take on a the brick breaker genre.
But before any of that, OF COURSE there’s a good 45 minutes of waffle about other games we’ve been playing!
Chris has a right old moan about Starfield’s bizarre design missteps. Jonathan plays through almost the entirety of The Legend of Zelda’s formative 2D past. Chris realises that ‘scoring goals, goals, goals is what he does best’ in recent indie release Sociable Soccer. Jonathan sinks 550,000 hours into game du jour Balatro.
There’s more, naturally, but you’ll have to do a bit of the work and actually listen to the fruits of our mouths and brains to find it.
Is that alright? Yeah? GOOD.
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POLAND!
There are so many great titles produced in Poland: Cyberpunk 2077, This War of Mine, Dead Island, Outrunners; the list goes on. which is OF COURSE why Chris spent a chunk of the month playing Teyon’s execrable Rambo: The Game. Jonathan tries a little harder with his homework, smashing through One More Level’s sublime Ghostrunner 2.
Also! Thoughts on modern games like Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Palworld, and Playdate treat Under the Castle as well as thoughts on old games like Rez (zzz), Lumines (double zzz) and Screaming Mad George’s Paranoiascape (!!!).
VIDYA GAMES - THEY’RE CRACKIN’
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Welkom allemaal!
We’re back on our globe trotting adventure, exploring the games of the Netherlands with special focus on Guerrilla Games’ Horizon series, and Rusty Lake’s… well, Rusty Lake series.
Plus - because we’re good to you lot - Jonathan’s here to tell you all about his recent romp through Dark Souls 3 on the Steam Deck as well as Vampire Survivors copycat Halls of Torment, and Chris has some long tedious updates about his emulation setup. He’s been playing some old tosh via Wii emulation apparently?
GAMES, GAMES, and would you Adam and Eve it, MORE BLEEDIN’ GAMES.
(Bleedin’ Games Murphy? Is that a thing?)
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2023 may well be DEAD and BURIED, but what of its gaming legacy?
Join ol’ Jonathan and Chris for their thoughts on the year that was.
How many games did the boys finish between them over the last 12 months? What were the best games of 2023? What were the best games not of 2023 that we played in 2023 for the first time? How’s the Playdate ecosystem getting on? What’s on the gaming docket for 2024?
A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
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OFF WE GO!
Back on the plane, folks, we’re off to South Korea. Perhaps most famous for their mobile titles and MMORPGs, what other games has the land of K-Pop produced?
Dave the Diver! DJMax Respect! …Metal Slug 4?!
ALSO: Loads of top gaming chat covering the new Steam Deck OLED, Sony’s Insomniac’s Marvel’s Sony’s Spider-man 2, Fae Farm, some Evercade and Playdate updates, and a truck load more we weren’t permitted to take as carry on luggage.
Prepare for boarding!
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As the plane wheels touch down at CPH, season 6 starts proper. Around the World in 80 Games starts in earnest, TODAY. It’s got a bleedin’ jingle and everything!
There’s Danish facts, Danish games, and Danish jokes. But also, in depth looks at Hitman: World of Assassination (as well as the franchise as a whole) as well as the brand spanking new puzzler from former-Playdead lead Jeppe Carlsen: Cocoon!
Of course, we also update on what we’ve been playing in the last month with thoughts a selection of games including: Windowsill, a Playdate grab bag, Lies of P, and the sometimes nauseatingly bright and colourful (but in a good way) Super Mario Bros Wonder.
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Jonathan and Kaspar are back for Part 3 of an originally planned two-part spoiler episode. This time we managed to get through half of our planned discussion, which is only fitting when you are talking about a game where you set off to do one thing and 10 hours later you still haven’t done that one thing, but you’ve done a million other things, and they were all extremely fun! So come join us in the meandering delight that is Tears of the Kingdom!
In part 3:
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We discuss all of Link’s new world-bending, and mind-blowing abilities! We share our favourite use for each one, and no, it’s not just messing with the Koroks!! Well… not just that!
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We talk about the shrines, shrine-quests, how they changed from Breath of the Wild; and which ones were stand-outs for Jonathan and Kaspar.
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Once more into the breach!
Jonathan and Chris lay down their thoughts on 7 or so games they’ve played recently:
The shared-world twofer of Aeterna Noctis and Summum Aeterna; a bunch of Vampire Survivors clones; Super Mario Land 2’s gorgeous DX rom hack; the breezy knockabout that is TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge; LaserCat (?); and the calmingly bucolic Farm Together.And… AND… make sure you listen in to find out our intended format for Season 6 proper, kicking off in just a few short weeks!
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What ho adventurers! It’s Part 2 of the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Spoiler Special! And in this episode, our intrepid gamers Jonathan & Kaspar are diving even deeper in the stories and the world of Hyrule 7 years post-Calamity!
They discuss their favourite Side Quests, Side Adventures & NPCs. They discuss the evolution of the world, and why Nintendo ‘re-using’ the Hyrule map of Breath of the Wild is a stroke of genius!
So many wonderful characters to love and so many incredible stories to be a part of, and J&K are here to tell you about ALLLLLLL of it!
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Hey, hey, hey!
Would you like to know what we’ve been playing over our extended Summer hiatus?
How far into his Master Mode run of Breath of the Wild did Jonathan get?
How many consecutive days has Chris played Daily Dadish?
Has Mr Dunn gone Playstation 5 or Steam Deck for Diablo IV?
What about the recent Switch port made Vampire Survivors suddenly click for Chris?
How does Brotato hold up against its vampiric inspiration?
What on earth is the Uzebox, and why has Mr Dow been playing Tetris upon it?
What makes Tents and Trees Jonathan’s logic puzzle du jour?
How does New Star GP hold up against its sibling, the GOAT New Star Soccer?
Is Blasphemous 2 a trim too far when compared to its predecessor?
Have the brothers Dow actually finished their 2 year long playthrough of Plants Vs Zombies?!
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Are you still knee-deep into Tears of the Kingdom and perhaps crafting that perfect Hoverbike, hunting those nefarious Bubbulfrogs, or diving to grab a Korok seed instead of destroying Ganondorf and finding the princess?
Then you might want to stay clear of this episode for now, because we are talking about EVERYTHING! Consider yourself warned, this is the spoileriest of spoiler episodes.
In part 1:
- We talk about the first Zelda game we played and why we love the series.
- Find out which one of us tackled the geoglyph memories out of order and which one did it chronologically.
- Find out where we think TotK falls on the Zelda Timeline (nah, not really, who cares?)
- Hear us explore the story beat by beat and share why we think the narrative in this game is so much more compelling than in Breath of the Wild.
- Hear us talk about what we think is the single greatest moment in video game history. (hint: It’s vertiginous!)
We originally planned on talking about many more things in episode 1, but it turns out we love this game so much and praising every aspect takes a lot of time, so please come join us for the next ones, where we will be talking about Side-Adventures, Side-Quests, Shrines, Temples, Purah, Sidon, Thirst Traps and everything in between!
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We’re back!
Kind of!
In this pre-season, episode zero kind of dealio, we lay out a few changes that will be part of the upcoming season 6, and try to be as honest as we can about why we’ve had to rock the boat a little in order to keep the ol’ girl sailing.
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Bing bleedin’ bong, it’s the end of the season, and by GUM do we have a lot stuffed into this finale for you.
A FULL RUNDOWN AND RANKING OF ALL 26 PLAYDATE SEASON ONE GAMES
A BEST OF THE REST TOP FIVE RANKING OF SIDELOADED / CATALOG PLAYDATE TITLES
BARELY A BREATH BETWEEN US
Which games ended up tippity top and which games ended up bippity bottom? How many times does Chris mention Fish’n Feathers? Can anything save Lost Your Marbles from taking the bottom spot?
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Boy oh boy! How are these two boys getting on with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom? What new marvels have they unearthed? What new ways of solving puzzles have they found? Just how mad are their respective strategies for approaching every single little thing in the game?
Find out!!
But also find out:
How Chris is faring with Dadish - a daily GBA-inspired run-based charm-em-up!
How Jonathan is faring with Tomb Raider: Reloaded - the ongoing microtransaction-free freemium game.
How Chris’ lizard brain is being satiated with the repetitive cleansing of Power Wash Simulator
You better believe there’s more too!
Enjoy!
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Just as Panic saw fit to bestow Playdate owners with 2 free games via their on-device Catalog store, so too do we at O3C bestow upon you reviews of said free games to extend our season coverage of the Playdate.
Reel Steal and Recommendation Dog both arrive via a mentorship programme run in conjunction between Sweet Baby Inc and Panic that looks to give industry opportunity to fledging designers, artists and musicians, but are the two games actually any good?
ALSO: Thoughts on a whole range of Catalog releases including Skwish, Down the Oubliette, A Balanced Brew and MORE.
ALSO ALSO: That Zelda is still incredible, right? (No big spoilers here, but skip to 12:10 if you’ve yet to start Nintendo’s epic and want to go in ICE COLD.)
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I know it’s only May, but shall we just announced our Game of the Year now?
Let Chris and Jonathan fill you in on their initial thoughts on Tears of the Kingdom’s opening few hours.
(It’s astonishing.)
SPOILER WARNING: Whilst we don’t go into serious detail about the game’s plot or questlines outside of vague allusions to opening tasks and challenges, we do talk about mechanics and the general topography of the world. If you want to play TotK cold, maybe wait until you’ve played for a few hours before listening!
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And with that, we reach games number 23 and 24 in Playdate’s Season One.
Jonathan and Chris tackle both the rotational take on Arkanoid that is b360, and the Link’s Awakening love letter that is Ratcheteer.
Are we going out on a high?
Also! The boys cover a billion other Playdate games released via outside of the main season, as well as the official Playdate Podcast.
How did they fare with The King’s Dungeon? Tapeworm Disco Puzzle? Skew? Grand Tour Legends?
And why is Sparrow Solitaire so, so, so, SO, SO good?!
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What better way to celebrate the coronation of KING CHARLES THE RUDDY THIRD than by wrapping your oversized plate-ears around this latest offering from O3C Games! We’re filling each other in on our gaming activity of the last fortnight since last we chatted - and it’s the usual eclectic mix of genres and qualities!
JD chats Vampire Survivors, Tomb Raider and a variety of indie games and Metroidvanias!
CD chats Minecraft, Sonic Frontiers, Mixalumia and Shadows of the Damned!
Obviously!
Enjoy!
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Naughty Dog made a game called the Last of Us. Then they remade it. Then they remade it again.
Not content with camping at the top pretty of much all ‘reasons to buy a Playstation 3, 4 and 5’ articles published over the last decade, is The Last of Us’ marquee television serialisation reason to subscribe to Now TV, HBO Max, or Hulu?
Joining Jonathan Dunn to chat game and show is special guest Lewiss Norman. How does the series compare to the game? Is this proof positive that Naughty Dog and Neil Druckmann’s efforts were pretty much just interactive cutscenes anyway?
(Chris sits this one out as he’s a massive weenie a bit too scared to play the full game, and a bit too lazy to watch the full series.)
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Look out for two bonus episodes winging their way to the Patreon feed in May covering The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Apple TV’s Tetris movie.
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It’s the penultimate week of the ‘oh oh, blue light means there’s new games to play!’ Playdate season, and we’re here, as you rightfully now EXPECT to give our thoughts on the bizarro pairing of Battleship Godios and Forrest Byrnes: Up in Smoke.
A shmup-come-Arkanoid clone with modern racer style rewind? A procedurally generated platformer that tangentially connects to the first person narrative game Firewatch? Quite literally, ONLY on the Playdate.
As a bonus for fans of lil’ cranky, Jonathan also lays down thoughts on Core Fault, Word Trip, and Gravity Express, all available via the machine’s on board Catalog store, and a sideloaded port of indie darling Celeste.
Chris bores us with updates on an Evercade favourite, starts It Takes Two, the third in the loosely connected Josef Fares co-op trilogy, and regales tales from a recently Steam Deck compatible Forza Horizon 4.
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Chris and Jonathan play a boat load of videogames.
How ‘bout we do this in alphabetical order, eh?
Alwa’s Awakening, Canon - Legend of the New Gods, Chime, Cruisin’ Blast, Dragon Spirit, Farmside, Gato Roboto, Have a Nice Death, Lone Fungus, Marvel’s Avengers, Pac Attack, Plants vs Zombies, Tomb Raider Reloaded… is that it?!
YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT
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SNAKE + JUMP = SNAK
ADVANCE WARS + POKÉMON SNAP = SASQUATCHERS
Allow us to expand on these derivative X plus Ys and give you the lowdown on whether this week’s Playdate offerings ought tickle your pickle.
ALSO!
Resident Evil 4 still doing the business for Jonathan? Is the steady drip of Theatrhythm DLC satiating Chris’ rhythm game urges? How’s the videogames music on vinyl community getting on in 2023? Has Chris got bought of Canon on the Evercade yet? And when on earth did Netflix start offering mobile games with their streaming subscriptions?
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Jonathan bests a potential addiction to a new F2P money sink and decorates his attaché case in Resident Evil 4 Remake as Chris mines the Evercade library for shiny jewels.
Can you AFFORD to miss this?
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Would you believe that there’s more bleedin’ Dead Cells talk in here?
Jonathan approaches his final form in the little roguelite that could whilst Chris curses the in-house focus groups at Sega for making Sonic Frontiers into… whatever it is.
On the Playdate this week: RPG adjacent not-quite-em-up Inventory Hero, and Cooking Mama: Cauldron Edition (otherwise known as Spellcorked).
There’s also a lot of laughing, so y’know, if you hate fun, get lost.
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What’re ya buyin’? What’re ya’ playin’?
Not the RE4 Remake demo, that’s for sure.
Jonathan Dunn enjoys returning to Dead Cells and its expansive, luxurious Castlevania inspired makeover.
Chris continues Harvestella, grinds his head against the rough surface of Monster Jam Crush It, and gets back into the Evercade in anticipation for receiving the new EXP handheld.
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Is this the best week of the Playdate’s season so far?
(spoilers: probably!)
Jonathan and Chris pick apart what makes the arcadey, Nights Into Dreams-inspired Star Sled such a riot, and gawp at the sheer artistry on show in traditional point and click Saturday Edition.
Plus! More Theatrhythm! Some highlights from the Nintendo Switch Online emulation suite! Post-patch shrugs for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet! A soft recommend for the jank of Road Redemption! As well as some initial confusion as to what farm ‘em up, slash ‘em up Harvestella is and / or wants to be.
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After a wee break for holibobs, the boys reconvene to catch up on The Callisto Protocol Dead Space worship, Chocobo GP’s sunset months, Farmside’s Premium-Freemium bucolia, and Theatrhythm’s ludicrous generosity.
Plus, a huge segue about guns and the UK postal service for some reason.
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Thoughts and opinions on Nintendo’s recent Direct are HERE, baby! What are we excited for? What were we surprised by? What do we laugh at?
THEN:
Jonathan completes his romp through the Metroid Prime trilogy with his first playthrough of the third entry in the series, and garnishes his time with Retro Studio’s take on Samus Aran with a revisit to the inaugural entry via newly released Metroid Prime Remastered.
Chris gets nostalgic for Xbox Live Indie Games classics like Apple Jack, weeps into his palms at the relentlessness of The Sims on Playstation 2, and reappraises 2016’s The Division in light of the real world pandemic.
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Let’s make it easy for both you and us. What’s in the episode you ask? Well, I’m going to tell you, RIGHT BLOODY NOW.
This week we will present thoughts on the following games, in this EXACT order. No foolin’. No messin’. No tricks.
METROID PRIME 2
FORZA HORIZON 4
DEAD SPACE REMAKE
EXECUTIVE GOLF DX
QUESTY CHESS
How ‘bout that then?
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What have we been playing this week?
RPGs!
Rice Pudding Games
How’s ol’ Jonathan Dunn getting on with his Metroid Prime Trilogy replay? Does the recent Dead Space remake hold up to the original? Is Chris still playing Fish ‘n Feathers on the Playdate? Does the ‘Valve Playable’ Forza Horizon 4 really work that well on Steam Deck? And what connects Earth Defense Force to ‘bullet heaven’ games like Vampire Survivors?
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After being quietly tucked into our pockets over Christmas, the Playdate makes its big return with, dare I say it, its strongest weekly pairing yet?
How does Hyper Meteor pay homage to and iterate on the arcade classic Asteroids? Why is Zipper better than Ghosts of Tsushima? What sideloaded treats has Chris been playing this week in between the season’s meatier entries?
PLUS, all the usual guff you’ve come to expect about the big AAA games Jonathan managed to scythe through in a number of days, and the rubbish Chris has focussed on that, quite literally, no one else in the world is preoccupied with.
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HEY-OH!
We’re back, and at least partially rested from our festive bonanza to talk, to you dear listeners, about videogames.
What have we spent the last month playing? And how did we get on with our Christmas homework to play Silver and James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod?
Including thoughts on:
SONIC FRONTIERS
BABYLON’S FALL
THUMPER
POKÉMON PICROSS
FAERIE SOLITAIRE
VAMPIRE SURVIVORS
BROTATO
(oh, and SILVER and JAMES POND 2 as well)
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Arcade Paradise is a Game of the Year.
Elden Ring is a Game of the Year.
Bloom is a Game of the Year.
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As the sun breaks to a New Year, join Chris and Jonathan as they reminisce on the 365 days colloquially known as Twenty Twenty Two.
What were the standout games we played in 2022? The best releases of 2022? The games we never got round to because we were stuck playing Everybody’s Golf and Monster Hunter respectively? And the games we’re looking forward to in 2023?
2022 may be DEAD, but videogames remain ALIVE AND KICKING.
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And so this is Christmas,
And what have you done?
(Other than listen to 50-odd episodes of the O3C Games podcast of course!)
Bezzies Chris and Jonathan get together for a festive celebration, sharing gifts and glad tidings as they unwrap four presents each that have been chosen to fit in with the schema ‘something you want, something you need, something to wear, something to read’.
How far have the boys bent the definitions of each category for their videogame themed gifts?
Merry Christmas to you and yours from us at O3C Games. We love you!
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Sail the Sunless Sea,
(actually Unterzee),
Here where it’s darker, and light is much starker,
Failure guaranteed!
Then under the sea,
Under the sea,
Moments of quiet, then gatekeeping giants,
An eco-message ‘bout trees!
(Chris and Jonathan report back on saltwater twofer Sunless Sea and The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human)
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You know what? I’ve written about 200 of these blurbs now, and I’m reasonably confident no one reads them.
Sometimes I put in little stories and jokes about the games we’ve played like this: Jonathan and Chris do their best to get to grips with the 85th instalment in the venerated Demon Quest franchise, and lose their topsy turvy minds and collective motor faculties as they get to grips with OMAZE, a game quite literally about mazes.. made from ‘O’s.
Sometimes I’m a little more direct: In addition to a Playdate bounty, this week our intrepid podcasters have played Pokemon! Rez Infinite! Jumping Joe! Jumanji! And a few other cranked goods.
But whichever way the copy fairy takes me, I always put the work in, to make sure those who stumble upon this show have a decent idea of what to expect in the episode.
If you’ve read this far, cheers! Come give me a wave on Twitter. You know the handle by now. And if this last line remains, forever truncated in obscurity by the podcast feeds of the world, who cares, eh?
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Listen to Chris and Jonathan tackle the following old games:
Jurassic Park, Nintendo Entertainment System, 1993
Jurassic Park: The Lost World Special Edition, Sony Playstation, 1998
Cave Noire, Nintendo Gameboy, 1991 (Fan Translation by Aeon Genesis, 2012)
Good? Bad? Ugly?
Also!
Chris completes Arcade Paradise, listens to dance music, and is rewarded for a speculative purchase made nearly a decade ago. Jonathan rags on Pokémon Flippert and Pokémon Fandango for a long, long time.
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The plucky little handheld that could, does and continues to do, delivers two more oddballs this week in the form of Flipper Lifter and Echoic Memory.
Ferry penguins up hand cranked elevators. Restore the memories of sentient boomboxes.
Quite literally, ONLY on Playdate.
PLUS!
More Arcade Paradise, and some Pokémon Upset.
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Games are really chuffin’ cool.
On this week’s edition of the O3C Podcast, let us walk you through our experiences with the following *very good games.
LUNISTICE
ARCADE PARADISE
TETRIS EFFECT: CONNECTED
BAYONETTA
UNBOX: NEWBIE’S ADVENTURE
MO: ASTRAY*Oh, and Jonathan plays ten minutes of the perfectly-serviceable-but-nothing-special Poi as well.
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They can’t all be zingers, right?
Week 3 of the first Playdate Season has us readin’ and rollin’ with Lost Your Marbles, and pickin’ and packin’ with Pick Pack Pup. As a mild spoiler, we enjoyed one of these games much more than the other!
Alongside our Playdate play date, Jonathan bigs up 10 other sideloaded Playdate treats from itch.io, and Chris continues to slather and slobber over the Steam Deck’s myriad uses.
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Who’s up for some retro gaming?
Two weeks ago, Chris challenged Jonathan to whack on the Sega Mega Drive twofer, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Quackshot Starring Donald Duck. How did he get on with the in-house, Sega-developed takes on two of Disney’s most enduring characters?
Jonathan asked Chris to give Gameboy Advance powerhouse, first-person shooter Ecks vs. Sever a go. How did he find this early handheld venture into the 3rd dimension?
Also - because there’s always an also - reasonably targeted thoughts on Resident Evil 3 Remake from DUNN, and Effie from DOW.
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I’m sure you’re all eager to hear how we got on with the Playdate’s second set of weekly offerings, right?
Big thoughts on the platform puzzler Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure and the chiptune sequencer Boogie Loops are HERE for YOU to LISTEN to.
What have we been up to this week?
Jonathan plays a lot of Resident Evil.
Chris presents a lecture on the inner workings of golden era Arcade emulation via MAME.
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Fresh from stints staying with the NHS, Jonathan and Chris reconvene to talk about the old vidcons. How did the boys entertain themselves both in and then out of hospital?
(deep breath)
Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, anyone? Tetris on mobile? The Terry Gilliam-inspired comedy adventure game Procession to Cavalry? The Gameboy’s James Bond: 007? Starfox Adventures? The Alto Collection on the Nintendo Switch? Sonic Colours Ultimate? FIFA 23?!
Then, onto our Fortnight Challenge - digging into games set for us by one another.
How did Chris get on with Amanita Design’s wordless point and click adventure Machinarium?
How did Jonathan find the Xbox Live Indie Game’s throwback Bleed?
(Special thanks to Kaspar Mairowitz for helping create our new ‘What’re You Playin’!?’ jingle!)
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In a rare state of synchronicity, both of our O3C boys have spent most of the last week in hospital with entirely unrelated NHS-challenged stints.
As the first to be discharged, Chris picks up the microphone to fill the void left by our inevitable break in scheduling. And he revisits his old stomping ground of video game opinions, a blog called GamesIRL. Allow Chris to talk you through some of his ancient musings on games as eclectic as The Faery Tale Adventure (never heard of it), Driver: Speedboat Paradise (never heard of it), Tank! Tank! Tank! (never heard of it), and KONAMI Pixel Puzzle Collection (heard of it, played it, loved it, best mobile nonogram game!)
And we shall be back next week as expected with our first Fortnight Challenge report!
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Games are so flippin’ cool. Am I right?!
Season 5 of the O3C podcast introduces a new fortnightly segment as our boys tackle the offerings of the Playdate’s seasonal output two at time.
This week, thoughts on the handheld console itself - “it’s yellow! it’s square! it’s got a crank!” - as well as mini reviews and thoughts of its launch pairing, Whitewater Wipeout and Casual Birder.
Of course, it wouldn’t be our silly show without thoughts on what we’ve been playing, so enjoy the sort of waffle you’ve all grown accustomed to on games as disparate as Chime, Black Mesa, Harold’s Walk, Batman: Arkham City, Death Loop, and Cult of the Lamb.
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It’s all change at O3C Towers.
After a brief end of season break, Chris and Jonathan are back, flying duo, to update you lovely lot on where we’re at, where we’re going, and what we might do when we get there.
Plus, why not enjoy a slathering of thoughts on:
TAIJI! BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM! FORZA HORIZON 4! HERO EMBLEM! EXCITE TRUCK! TOP GEAR RALLY! RAYMAN REDEMPTION! DIGIMON SURVIVE!
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After nearly 200 episodes, it’s all change at O3C Games as Minty Booth steps down from the podcast.
Join us in wishing Minty a fond farewell with individual messages of love and support from Jonathan and Chris; a Dennis Norden style ‘Best of Minty’ clip show compilation; and a last ‘thank you and goodnight’ from Minty as they sling their bindle over their shoulder and walk into the distance.
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Season 3.5 draws to a close as we solidify our top 100 lists,.
Chiselled by hand, these stone totems represent Jonathan Dunn, Minty Booth and Chris Dow’s favourite videogames of all time, or at the very least their favourites as of September 2022.
Honourable mentions! Movers and shakers! In Memoriam! And then, a final countdown of the THREE HUNDRED videogames O3C Games collectively enjoy more than any other.
What’s gone up? What’s come down? Any last minute additions or subtractions?
IT’S ALL HERE!
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Jonathan Dunn reaches his final amendment, finding space in his list for the majority of From Software’s collective oeuvre.
How has Jonathan managed to justify the Dark Souls Trilogy only taking up ONE space on his list? How high is Elden Ring going to place? Why are Jonathan’s memories of Dark Souls 2 so heavily intertwined with memories of his infant daughter?
All this, PLUS:
A METRIC TONNE OF SONIC GAMES
SKATEBOARDING GUFF ON THE STEAM DECK
DIGIMON: COMPLETED IT, MATE
SOME “ABSOLUTE BUNK”
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It was inevitable, perhaps, that Chris’ addendum list would conclude with the best modern reworkings of perennial favourite Tetris. But how high will they rank? Will the Mizuguchi helmed synaesthesia trip that is Tetris Effect displace the Miziguchi helmed Rez Infinite at the top of the list? As a strictly multiplayer experience, how high could Tetris 99 place for the notoriously single player gamer Christopher Michael Dow?
Also!
Digimon updates! A lot of chat about Sonic! Some more Steam Deck waffle!
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We have reached our final trio of ADDENDA episodes, and Minty Booth is here to kick us off with the very best JRPG he’s played since starting our O3C journey 134,000 years ago.
Will the desolate, demon collecting, Switch exclusive displace Tales of Symphonia at the top of their list?
Also! Jonathan Dunn returns to tell us about Monsters that he has hunted. Chris bores on about the Steam Deck again. Minty continues to romp through the crippling decisions of Digimon Survive.
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With Jonathan Dunn indisposed as a result of having his access to the internet THROTTLED, Chris and Minty step up to the plate to keep your earholes tickled with tales of what they’ve been playing over the last week or so.
Is Minty still enjoying Digimon Survive?
Has Chris actually played any games on his Steam Deck?
Has Jonathan’s mobile internet hotspot been enough for him to continue hunting those monsters?
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Jonathan Dunn tenders his penultimate amendment, proffering Moon Studios’ Ori and the Blind Forest - a game that reduced him to tears in its opening cinematic - as the newest entrant into his top 100 list.
How does it evolve the format of the original Rayman? Why is the soundtrack so affecting? How near the summit will Jonathan place it?
Meanwhile:
Minty gets stuck into Digimon Survive, a visual novel-come-strategy RPG explicitly advertised as a visual novel-come-strategy RPG that the internet has seen fit to hate upon for being… a visual novel-come-strategy RPG.
Chris continues to tinker rather than play on Valve’s handheld super computer.
Jonathan concludes one Monster Hunt, before migrating to another.
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Chris gleefully updates the most heinous omission from his original top 100 list, as Playdead’s Inside replaces Playdead’s Limbo as the ultimate cinematic platformer.
In other news:
Jonathan continues to vanquish beasties with a side helping of ruthless administration in Sunbreak.
Minty enjoys donut ASMR in Freshly Frosted.
Chris welcomes a shiny Steam Deck into his life.
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Yo Dawg, I heard you like numbers in your numbers so we numbered a number of numbers in your number.
Disgaea is a series about numbers. Minty is a fan of said numbers, especially when they go up. How high do these particular numbers go? And how high in Minty’s list will Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance place?
…pfffffft….
Steel yourself. Get your self a cold drink. Make sure you are seated firmly - I honestly don’t think you’re ready to hear this.
Also! Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak updates! Evercade news and updates! A mobile game Minty fails to share the name of!
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Jonathan Dunn sleeps.
…Metroidvania…rogue-lite…2D pixel art…Soulsborne inspired…
The words hang in the air of his chamber, lilting backwards and forwards in their slow descent.
…METROIDVANIA…ROGUE-LITE…2D PIEXEL ART…SOULSBORNE INSPIRED…
Their volume increases as they near his body.
…METROIDVANIA…ROGUE-LITE…2D PIEXEL ART…SOULSBORNE INSPIRED…NOW WITH ADDITIONAL ACCESIBILITY OPTIONS…
He sits bolt upright.
“I am awake, and I am ready.”
It’s time for Dead Cells, folks!
Also: thoughts on Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, Everybody’s Golf, Wreckfest, The Looker, Saya No Uta, Dark Souls, and Grimoire!
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Chris swings in to break the rules and amend his list by.. not amending his list?
Cue a lengthy discussion on what makes Clone Hero both a game and a non-game at once, and a celebration of the diligent groups that keep communities like CH, Doom and the like alive and kicking long past their publisher intended sell-by dates.
Also!
More Digimon! More Doom! More dinosaurs! More.. dormies!
(I apologise for this joke. It’s an obscure golf term, and on this occasion I felt it was more important to continue this silly line of alliteration than to actually deliver intelligible content. I love you all, and I know you deserve better.)
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Are you a fan of explosives? Fancy detonating some ordnance?
Would you like to join the Bomb Club?
Minty Booth would be happy to support your enlistment.
Also! This! Week!
Digimon portmanteaus reach shocking new levels. Happy Gilmore remains very much in town. Dinosaurs rule the earth.
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Oh day of days! And night of nights!
It’s your weekly dose of the O3C Podcast, courtesy of your close friends at O3C Games.
Inspired by Chris’ masturbatory appreciation of Grindstone last week, Jonathan revisits the modern mobile classic. Minty multitasks, attempting to game his Digimon watch as he watches Digimon on the Switch. Chris sinks birdies like they’re going out of fashion in Everybody’s Golf in sad anticipation of its online shutdown in a few short months.
Ah.
ALL THIS in build up and servitude to the main event: Jonathan retrofitting Hollow Knight, 2019’s metroidvania archetype, into his top 100 list.
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Chris retrofits Grindstone into his top 100 - a puzzle game described as having game feel and feedback almost sexual in its satisfaction. How high will Capybara Games early Apple Arcade standout rank on Chrissy D’s list?
At third time of asking, Jonathan finally finishes Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Minty climbs a Welsh mountain but finds time for a little R&R with Slime Rancher and Quake. Chris gets absorbed by the Square Enix live service combo of Babylon’s Fall and Chocobo GP’s second racing season.
O Lucky Man!
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Minty jets off to a far away planet to harvest the dung of some colourful blobs and learn of the emotional fate of an absent mentor, in Slime Rancher.
Why has Jonathan’s The Outer Worlds playthrough concluded more whimper than bang?
Do Minty and Chris succeed in protecting Jonathan’s wallet by advising that he ought not pick up free to play title Conquer the Tower on mobile?
Why has Chris started playing the Platinum developed Babylon’s Fall, a live service title doomed by the internet at large?
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Jonathan combats the hiss and ponders whether or not he’s been ‘Derren Brown’d’ into appreciating Remedy’s sci-fi romp Control more than another venerable entry in his top 100 list, as our trio get on with playing:
T H E E X P E C T E D: The Outer Worlds! Digimon!
T H E U N E X P E C T E D: Dungeon Encounters! Tetris CD-i!
T H E S L O P P Y: Turok 2!
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It's a lovely morning for a podcast, and Chris has brought up a horrible goose.
Chris says Untitled Goose Game is the funniest game ever made. Perhaps you agree? Or perhaps you'‘d like to be persuaded?
Anatidae aside, what else have the boys been up to?
Jonathan bemoans Bloodborne’s less than consistent peformance, Chris gets stuck into Child of Eden, and Minty samples the mach-speed gameplay of Doom Eternal before retiring to the more comfortable climes of his Digimon empire.
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HEY, HEY, WHADDYA SAY
EPISODE TWENTY HERE TODAY
Minty goes crawling through the Poké-brush to take some snappy snaps of Poké-lads and Poké-lasses as he inducts New Pokémon Snap into his personal hall of fame.
But of course that’s not all.
What’s Minty’s favourite dinosaur?
Is perennial eShop sale-piece Planet Alpha worth a punt?
Did Jonathan really beat Ghostrunner, another hard-as-nails action game, in less than a week?
Has Chris bought another janky old PlayStation 3 just to play some weird version of Tetris no one cares about?
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Naughty boy Jonathan Dunn breaks the rules to present not one, but two amendments on this week’s show: recent favourite Sekiro, and the quantum mechanics exploring, organic learn-em-up Outer Wilds.
- Slash slash slash with katana, boost boost boost with the ship! *
Following the rules like good little boys, Chris and Minty sit on their hands, only speaking when being spoken to, to tell of their weekly gaming activity.
More Quake! More Digimon! Some Puzzles and Dragons! The impossible Switch port of 2016’s Doom! Phantasy Star Online! Grow! Ghostrunner!
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Chris is a fan of Forager’s active idle gameplay, and its… ‘faecal alchemics’.
Perhaps you will be too?
Minty utilises his calves of steel, to placate his digital monsters, and brushes goblins in Rune Factory 5. Chris looses his cool with Elden Ring, then cools down as he unearths the relatively unknown follow-up to O3C favourite Yonder - Grow: Song of the Evertree.
…and Jonathan plays more Sekiro in the space of a week than any man, woman or indeed child has ever accomplished. Probably.
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Minty bad-at-first-person-shooters-even-though-he-is-actually-a-massive-fan Booth is back to tell you why Quake, and more specifically, Nightdive Studios sumptious remaster of Quake, is one of his new-found favourites.
Why is this ID Software classic such a boomy shooty treat?
Also! Jonathan gets Covid and plays the entirety of Elden Ring (and most of Sekiro) on his handheld super-computer in a plague fugue. Chris celebrates some Switch oddities like Into the Dead 2, the remarkable port of Ghostrunner, and 90s throwback Sidney Hunter. Minty vanquishes the big bad using an armory of sculpted vegetables in Rune Factory 5.
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Present: Jonathan Dunn, Chris Dow, Minty Booth
Apologies: none
MAIN AGENDA: What makes The Messenger metroidvania royalty? Allow Jonathan Dunn to regale you with tales of double jumps, shifting visual aesthetics, top quality writing, and that soundtrack.
AOB: Minty enjoys a spot of the ol’ real life, but decides farming fantasy is pretty swish as well. Jonathan vanquishes Kirby and continues to put the Steam Deck through its paces with playthrough #2 of Elden Ring. Chris brings the lurgy but finds time to beat Telltale’s The Walking Dead and make granular progress through FromSoft’s masterwork.
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The Super Smash Bros series has always been a collective favourite. But why exactly is Super Smash Bros Ultimate particularly worth celebration? Chris is here to explain.
But not before some thoughts on HOT TOPICS like Sony and their recent PlayStation Plus rejig, and Nintendo’s revelation that The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild 2: The Sequel to Breath of the Wild has been delayed.
Also on the decks this week: How’s Minty’s new Android phone treating him? Which Pokémon ROM hacks are worth checking out? How’s Chris getting on with Elden Ring? Is Bury’s Arcade Club still as incredible as Chris remembers from his last pre-pandemic visit? Is Evercade’s new Renovation Collection worth a purchase?
..And what’s this shiny new portable PC that Jonathan has been rocking?!
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As we speak longer and longer and longer about these games that we live and love, we’ve made the decision to tackle just one of our amendments per episode. This week: MINTY OF THE BOOTH.
Insaniquarium! It was a Flash game, but these days its also a regular game. Minty is a big fan. There’s fish. And aliens. Woof!
Also this week:
Minty and Jonathan have opposing views on Kirby’s latest adventure.
Jonathan BATTERS Elden Ring and is BATTERED by the revelation that Chris has also decided to explore the Lands Between.
Chris defends Chocobo GP.
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Due to extenuating circumstances, we’ve had to take a break week from our regular season.
BUT we wouldn’t leave you hanging would we?
Please enjoy this previously Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, looking at Architecture in videogames.
“We three gents take a deep dive into some of our favourite pieces of architecture in the video games we love. The buildings, the worlds, environments and atmospheres that have been carefully, and lovingly constructed by some amazing architects!
Find out why Jonathan would like to live in the underground tunnels in Metro 2033.
Find out why Chris holds the semi-sunken world of Submerged in such high regard.
Find out why Minty sees the Clock Town Clock Tower from Majora’s Mask as the pinnacle of architectural design.
Have a listen to all our thoughts on this slightly off piste, off kilter perspective contained in this beautiful maisonette of an episode!”
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INTO OUR RECENT EYES AND EARS:
“The game is just incredibly good” - Jonathan Dunn on the mighty Elden Ring
”Ominously, my save file says ‘cycle 1’…” - Minty Booth on Shin Megami Tensei V
“Sorry! I’ve failed!” - Chris Dow impersonating his dead (again) PlayStation 3
INTO THE LISTS
Minty works up a sweat in Ring Fit Adventure. Jonathan breaks the back (both literally and figuratively) of the Monster Hunter franchise in Rise. Chris sups from the speedrunning well with Fred Wood’s LOVE.
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Time is fleeting. Time is precious.
Why not give an hour of your time to us for another weekly dose of the O3C Podcast?
There’s updates on Minty’s progress through the phallus-heavy Shin Megami Tensei V as well as collective thoughts on the recent Switch port of Puzzle & Dragons. Jonathan continues to gawp at Elden Ring’s near-infinite world, and Chris delivers high praise for Telltale’s classic take on The Walking Dead, as well as… 2002’s Gran Turismo Concept on the PS2?
Then, with lists in flux, as always, this week our boys welcome the trio of Bravely Default 2, Blue Fire, and Her Story to our tri-centuries.
What made Square Enix’s Switch exclusive Bravely Default sequel so very, very good in the eyes of our JRPG aficionado Minty Booth? Why was the Souls-inspired platformer Blue Fire such a hit with young Jonathan Dunn? Can you be bothered to listen to Christopher Michael Dow waffle about how Her Story reinvigorates the FMV genre?
Plus - PLUS - we announce the winner of our recent social media share-a-thon competition!
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It’s Monday! It’s time for a podcast! About games no less!
Oiright den guvnor, what ‘av we bin playin’ an’ doin’ this week?
The Poké-fans reflect on some fresh Poké-news.
Minty slashes his way into the end game of Arceus. Chris embraces the post-patch GTA Trilogy on Switch, and begins the climb through a new community-helmed song pack for Clone Hero. Jonathan enters the infinite depths of Elden Ring.
Luvly jubbly, cobber! ‘ows ‘bout dem lists though?
Minty channels his love of flash games-made-mobile in the idle ‘line up the animals’ game Super Auto Pets.
Chris talks architecture, capitalism and human failure through the lens of the combat-less, free-climbing sail-em-up Submerged.
To round out the triptych, Jonathan reflects on the harrowing This War of Mine in light of current geo-political conflict.
(All O3C profits generated in March will be donated to humanitarian aid charities working to support the current Russia-Ukraine conflict)
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Come join us as we welcome three new games to our lists, then pour one out in commiseration as we wrestle, emotionally, with ourselves as we dustbin three more.
Minty knocks back a tall glass of JRPG royalty as he makes way for Dragon Quest XI (in its expanded Switch port) to take residence on his list.
Jonathan sups from the rogue-lite beaker as he ushers modern indie classic, Hades, into his century pile.
Chris gets busy with the fizzy, taking a long draw through a short straw, as he attempts to justify his personal inclusion of genuine GOAT Ocarina of Time.
Also, as is customary, a big dump of spoken word regarding our recent gaming activity. Minty’s thoughts on Ni No Kuni early game, Jonathan’s post-credits thoughts on both Pokemon’s Gen IV’s remake and PS5 launch title Demon’s Souls, and Chris’ wrap on Little Nightmares 2, Lego Lord of the Rings / Conquest, and Picross NP Vol 1.
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Every week a Monday, and every Monday a brand spanking new episode of the O3C Podcast, brought to you by the fine fellas at O3C Games.
“we’re doing this ‘til the grave!”
What did our boys make of the recent Nintendo Direct?
Collective trouser tingles at Mario Kart 8’s surprise run of DLC! Then individual excitement at Splatoon 3’s nearing release; Kirby’s dribbling mouthful; and odd ports from yesteryear.
On the NOW PLAYING list for this week: Pokémon Legends Arceus and Brilliant Diamond, Ni No Kuni, Oli Oli World, Clone Hero, AND Elder Scrolls: Blades.
As a crescendo, it’s top 100s on the line once more.
Listen in as our fearless hosts Jonathan, Minty and Chris attempt to expunge a previous century pick in favour of three new shiny shinies: a virtual reality update of The Room (dir: T Wiseau, 2003)*, Sony’s Insomniac’s Disney’s Marvel’s Spider-Man, and the unknowingly strange Desert Child respectively.
*(only joking! we have fun here, don’t we?)
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Is Jonathan still feeling positive about the Pokémon franchise after slamming nearly 60 hours (in one calendar week!?) into Legends Arceus? How many tens of hours has Minty found for the open world this week? What has Mrs Minty named our menthol man’s Pokémon party?
Could anyone have predicted that Chris would be playing Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures on the SNES this week? And can anyone guess the genre this weird Pac-oddity falls into? How’s Chris getting on with Clone Hero after a 2 year hiatus?
List amendments this week take the form of a modern reimagining of an old 3310 classic; a salty, social, swashbuckling, shanty of a game; and a game all about wanderlust.
SNKRX, Sea of Thieves, Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
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Three more games. THREE MORE GAMES.
Will the games ever stop?!
Paper Mario: The Foldy Monarch, Metroid Feart , and Statik (you can’t really get the thesaurus out for a word that’s not a word).
Very little to connect these three if we’re honest, but they’re here. And we love them. Enough to shove them into our lists no doubt.
Perhaps you’ll love them too? Perhaps you already do?!
There’s also a big load of smish smash piffle paffle about some games we’ve been playing this week. Perhaps in the future some of these titles will claw their way into the top 100 lists in their 8th or 9th revisions?
Minty and Jonathan give their initial thoughts on Pokemon Legends Arceus. Jonathan remains suitably impressed but personally nonplussed as he wraps up Death’s Door, then flaps and slashes his way through a few runs of Mon Amour and then Dead Cells respectively. Chris considers the Euro-design sensibilities of Sturmwind EX, kills time with Disney Pixar Cars on the GBA (why?), then takes an alternate history walk down memory lane via Zaccaria Pinball.
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This week on the O3C Podcast, our gamers three bring three more games to the table for your consideration: Midway’s part-sequel-part-spinoff Doom 64; Housemarque’s PS5 exclusive Returnal, and Nintendo’s Balloon Kid a 30+ year old Gameboy Classic.
Where will they fall in our big bad lists? And which games will be excised to make room for their spritely inclusion?
“Imagine trying to juggle with a hundred and twenty balls? You’re going to drop some.”
List to one side, what else have we been playing?
Minty smooshes demons together to create long greyhounds in Shin Megami Tensei V, and weeps salted tears at Banjo Kazooie’s lack of right analogue stick camera control.
Jonathan tippy toes towards the goal line of Isaac, revisits the warmth of Little Inferno, but goes a little cold as he progresses through Death’s Door.
Chris gets told off for picking up a F2P gem buster; tells off a cynical publisher for devaluing indie titles like the Foxyland duology on Vita; and watches his partner play through Lego Lord of the Rings.
(Apologies for Chris' less than stellar audio this week - we're investigating the cause of the digital farts!)
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Oh, stories.
There are always stories.
Remember when our silly little podcast lasted 20 minutes a week and we just said ‘game’s good’ and then moved on? It’s been a fair old time since we were that succinct, and those clamouring for ‘less, less, less!’ certainly won’t be placated by this week’s serving of ‘more, more more!’.
Stories of digital polygamy. Stories of Ghibli tears. Stories of lockdown.
Was O3C ever really about games?
This week, in games we have played: Minty plays ‘avoid the phallus’ in Shin Megami Tensei V; Jonathan spies the end of his Isaac tether on the horizon; Chris gets dewy eyed as his PS3 is lowered into a temporary tomb.
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There are no other videogame podcasts in existence where, in a single hour long episode, the hosts will talk passionately about games as disparate as Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, the PS4 reboot of God of War, and Popcap’s Zuma’s Revenge. IT JUST DOESN’T HAPPEN.
Sail with us, fair listener, as we make the case for this trio’s entry into our top 100 lists. Why do they merit inclusion? And, when their inclusion has justified, which three titles leave the party this week to make way for their insertion?
Back on dry land, what have we used to entertain ourselves over the last seven calendar days?
Minty sets down an RPG to play.. an RPG. Jonathan plays some more Isaac, of course, but is also swayed by Chris' to pick up Dariusburst to get his space on. Chris beats the PS3 tie-in to the 2009 film of the same name, Terminator Salvation.
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Back to it then, eh lads?
It’s 2022. An entirely new year. You know what’s not new?
Our *love***for videogames.
What did we get up to in our Christmas break then?
Minty played… some Digimon! Jonathan played… some Binding of Isaac! Chris played… some old rubbish no one cares about?
Peppered in between all that, listen out for some colourful stories of Jackbox parties, some colourblind stories of Switch indies, ..and tales of Chris’ lost Christmas days playing long-discontinued ports of ancient arcade racing games.
Back in list town, which three hits replace our - not misses, of course - but older hits?
Minesweeper Genius! Superliminal! Dariusburst!
“they’re good games Brent.”
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Thank goodness that one’s over, eh?
Games have kept us sane. They’ve kept us in touch with one another. They’ve kept us busy. They’ve kept us.. fit?
Escapism, creative outlets, communication tools, a home gym. We love them.
Get your ears round our end of year spectacular to hear our favourite gaming moments of the year, as well as stand-out titles that we consider our games of the year.
What will be crowned our collective game of the year? Will Chris be able to convince the boys that Cruisn’ Blast is the best thing released in 2021? Will Jonathan and Minty be able to argue that The Binding of Isaac’s recent DLC counts as a new game? Can we really nominate Animal Crossing: New Horizons again?
LISTEN, ENJOY and ENGAGE
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It's Christmas!
Alongside seasonal staples like gorging yourself to the point of near-death, sharing gifts with all and sundry, and arguing about politics over the dinner table, it's the O3C Christmas Special!
This year, we loosely hijack the parable of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to chat about our gaming ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
We pontificate on disappointing gaming gifts gone by as recipients of the past; explore some hidden gems of a very here-and-now eShop sale as Christmas misers of the present; and then get all warm and fuzzy considering the games and game adjacent treats we may like to pass on as Christmas gifters of the future.
Seasons greetings, and a very Merry Christmas from all at O3C Towers!
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Another week, another trio of games p r o m o t e d as a trio of forebears are canned.
There’s the usual chit chat about the games wot we bin playin. Jonathan and Minty enjoy a bit more Isaac, in co-op no less! Minty trudges through the latter stages of Digimon Cyber Sleuth’s cyber story and begins a 100% playthrough of Paper Mario. Chris plays a liddle bidda dis and a liddle bidda dat, but mainly just gets annoyed at Hot Wheels Unleashed.
Then onto that there list admin:
Minty points and clicks through the graphic adventure NAIRI: Tower of Shirin. Jonathan hacks and / or slashes his way through Platinum’s largely forgotten Nintendo exclusive Astral Chain. Chris celebrates O3C’s favourite QWERTY keyboard controlled dungeon crawler, Backspace Bouken.
All great titles now IMMORTALISED on our apparently ever shifting top 100 games of all time.
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The housekeeping begins!
Spreadsheets at our finger tips, we begin the devastating process of retro-fitting some of our very favourite videogames back into our top 100 lists. Which titles make the cut? Which titles get the chop?
The sacred scrolls have been unfurled. The table has been set with the very finest cutlery. The cork is popped on a very expensive bottle of alcoholic lager beer.
Minty swipes at the mobile bonanza Disco Zoo. Jonathan cruises around the digital idyll that is Forza Horizon’s take on the British Isles. Chris completes a 700 mile round trip to shoot at a cup in Quick & Crash.
Also! In depth Binding of Isaac: Repentance progress reports! Chris’s thoughts on Vita action RPG Freedom Wars! Asterix! Digimon!
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We’re back, baby!
Refreshed, clean-shaven (metaphorically of course), and with a new hat!
Our Three Cents becomes O3C Games as we step away from our top 100 lists.
Well, not just yet.
Season 3.5 represents us ‘showing our workings in the margins’, picking through the games we’ve played and loved over the last 3 years that fell just outside the window of eligibility for our top 100 lists.
From next week we’ll be tackling three games a week, old-school style, and attempting to give them a rough position in a revised list. We’ll also each say farewell to a game a week, shunted unceremoniously from the top 100 to make way for the new class.
For today though, let us tell you of the games we’ve spent our 6 weeks off playing. Big games! Little games! Good games! Bad games!
I T ‘ S A L L H E R E
(Astrobot’s Playroom, Sackboy’s Adventure, Farm Together, MUD, Pic-a-Pix Classic, Evercade VS, Bomb Club, Monster Hunter Stories 2, Digimon Cyber Sleuth, Metroid Dread, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Tetris Effect Connected, Dead Cells, Tales of Iron, Binding of Isaac: Repentance)
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Are you ready for this?
I mean, are you really ready for this?
Almost 3 years after we kicked off this silly little project, we’re here to deliver our grand finale.
WHO WILL BE VICTORIOUS IN THE OUR THREE CENTS QUIZ?
WHAT WEIRD NICHE ARCADE INSPIRED THING DOES CHRIS LOVE MORE THAN ANY OTHER?
WHICH JRPG (did you expect anything less?) DOES MINTY CROWN ATOP HIS MONSTER OF A LIST?
WHICH NINTE.. (wait, hang on?) PC GAME DOES JONATHAN BELIEVE REPRESENTS VIDEOGAMING BETTER THAN EVERY OTHER THING HE’S EVER PLAYED?
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With just a week to go until the final episode of season three (and the bombshell revelation that we all, independent of one another, have placed the PlayStation's Japanese exclusive Pepsiman at the top of our lists), we've decided to celebrate YOU.
In this final week of edging before our lists conclude, we're diving into Your Three Cents, and picking over ten top ten sent in by ten top friends to give our thoughts on some of your very favourite video games of all-time!
With all our love,
The O3C Boys
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The Top 10 Top 10 Lists!
Andy Smith
1. XCOM 2
2. GoldenEye
3. DOTA
4. Civilisation 4
5. The Witness
6. Age of Empires 2
7. Command & Conquer: Red Alert
8. Halo: Combat Evolved
9. Don’t Starve
10. Final Fantasy VIII
Peyton (RNG Party)
1. Megaman X
2. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
3. Pokémon Red/Blue
4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
5. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
6. Stardew Valley
7. Fire Emblem Awakening
8. Kirby 64
9. Super Mario World
10. Civilisation 5
Kaspar (MetroidVaniac)
1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
3. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
5. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
6. Hollow Knight
7. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
8. Bloodborne
9. Fallout: New Vegas
10. Metroid Prime
Gene Limbrick
1. GTA IV
2. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (1-3 really…)
3. Counter Strike
4. Shadow of the Colossus (series)
5. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (series)
6. Road Rash
7. Driver
8. Max Payne (series)
9. Quake 2
10. Mass Effect 2
Gethin Jones
1. Final Fantasy VII
2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
3. Tomb Raider
4. Final Fantasy VIII
5. Resident Evil 2
6. Batman: Arkham Asylum
7. Portal
8. Tomb Raider 2
9. Dead Space
10. Resident Evil 4
Ioan Gwyn
1. Resident Evil 2
2. Tomb Raider 2
3. Bioshock
4. Super Mario Kart
5. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
6. Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2
7. Metal Gear Solid
8. Portal 2
9. Dead Space
10. Street Fighter II: Champion Edition
Ben (RNG Party)
1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
3. Final Fantasy XIII
4. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
5. Mario Kart 8
6. Wipeout Omega Collection
7. Pokémon Red/Blue
8. Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon
9. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
10. Attack of the Friday Monsters
Mike Williams
1. Banjo Kazoo
2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
3. Metroid Prime
4. Bloodborne
5. Hollow Knight
6. Super Smash Bros Melee
7. Pokémon Red
8. Dark Souls 3
9. Super Metroid
10. Halo 3
Lewiss Norman
1. GoldenEye
2. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
3. Metal Gear Solid
4. Sensible World of Soccer
5. Half-Life
6. Grand Theft Auto
7. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
8. Red Dead Redemption 2
9. Battlefield Vietnam
10. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun
David Boys-Layton
1. Dark Souls
2. Cannon Fodder
3. Warhammer: Dawn of War
4. Fallout: New Vegas
5. Tyranny
6. Speedball 2
7. PES 2010
8. Warframe
9. GoldenEye
10. Tetris
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15 more games that didn’t quite make it into our top 100 lists.
They’re not the best games, by any means. But they are certainly games. And games that we enjoyed, no less!
Want to hear a few, possibly misremembered thoughts on games as varied as Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell? WWF Smackdown: Just Bring It? A grab bag of Flash-based web games?
Want to hear some foggy memories of Doom RPG? Bad impressions of characters from an unspecified entry in the Professor Layton series? Or a heartfelt run down of The Discworld M.U.D.?
IT’S
ALL
HERE
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After what feels like one million years, we stand just weeks from the zenith of our lists.
To whet your collective whistles, and to leave everyone positively salivating for our favourite games of all time, we’ve gone back to the genesis of our lists to discuss the almost-rans that narrowly missed out on inclusion by metric of us judging them to be worse than Bomber Raid, Elebits and Clockwork Knight 2.
In the first of this two part bonus, allow us to serve up 15 games that we thoroughly enjoyed!
(just not as much as the 300 others we’ve already covered)
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(..come hither, sweet child...)
As our number ones loom in the wings, allow master of ceremonies Jonathan A. Dunn a quick chance at the top of the episode to regale you with news as to how this season of our fair podcast shall conclude. Then, business as usual: QUIZ, RECENT GAMES, BIG GAME.
QUIZ
ANOTHER nail-biting round of both the ‘definite article’ quiz between Chris and Minty, and the ‘indefinite article’ quiz in the Minty-helmed Quiz Master’s challenge and / or Gauntlet.
RECENT GAMES
Jonathan finishes Astalon, but is then paralyzed by the choice of what to play next. Pokemon Snap? Quake? Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin? Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate? Into the Breach? Spelunky? Thomas Was Alone? Xeodrifter? Hexalogic? Pokemon bleeeedin’ Crystal?
(Calm down, mate!!)
A busy Chris keeps himself sane with stolen moments of Picross before bed, and the eternal thrill of watching a collated library of games increase in number.
A similarly busy Minty continues to enjoy the ‘moreish’ Quake, and enjoys the opening cutscene of Monster Hunter Stories 2.
BIG GAME
Nintendo sweep the O3C seconds as Metroid joins Animal Crossing, and Pokemon in the penultimate pool. Metroid Prime, the now legendary first person take on the Metroid formula, is officially Jonathan’s second favourite videogame of all time.
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Heartbreak in this week’s quiz as tables are TURNED. Who will be victorious at our series end?
Minty pushes numbers ever higher in the mobile title Exponential Idle, and very much enjoys Nightdive’s recent remaster of the PC classic Quake, a game he describes as like Doom 64 1.5.
Chris continues to download and compile his infinite library of games; becomes hooked, alongside Jonathan, on the sumptuous A Monster’s Expedition; and is pleasantly surprised by the demo of the upcoming WarioWare: Get it Together; and ends his week pretty cheesed off with Apple Arcade exclusive Tetris Beat’s sub-par execution.
Jonathan gets stuck in to 2017’s Everybody’s Golf (the game that Mario Golf: Super Rush could have learnt a LOT from) as well as the indie, pixel-art, metroidvania that is Astalon: Tears of the Earth.
To close out this chunker of an episode, find out why Pokemon Silver, inarguably the Gameboy Color’s swansong, is Minty’s second favourite game of all time. Hop in as Minty floats between stories of family, stories of discovery, and stories of callback and celebration, as he applauds the scale and depth of the little handheld cart that could.
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Chris reveals the penultimate game on his top 100 list, the warm hug that is the Animal Crossing series, here represented by its 3DS entry, New Leaf.
Why does Chris consider Nintendo’s life and social simulation more ‘friend’ than game?
All that, naturally, but not before:
..more head scratchers in the quiz;
..a continuing retro games odyssey via Chris’ emulation station;
..Jonathan’s thoughts on the longer-than-expected Monster Hunter Stories 2;
..and Minty’s spittle-flecked fury at his frustrating time with Skyward Sword HD.
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Join O3C as we speak to genuine industry stalwart Giles Goddard!
Travelling through milestones in his varied career, find out how working with Argonaut led to the development of the Super FX Chip which would power the technical powerhouses Star Fox and Stunt Race FX; how taking residence in Japan led to a closer relationship with Nintendo and work on Super Mario 64 and 1080 Snowboarding (not Skiing!); why Steel Diver remains one of Giles’ favourite titles in his collective oeuvre; and how ‘going indie’ eventually led to returning to the cutting edge with the VR-exclusive Carve Snowboarding.
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The Sega Saturn takes what is likely its final moment in the spotlight in our top 100s as Jonathan talks up the underrated Shining the Holy Ark. Lick your lips, and take a big ol’ bite of one of Sega’s very best JRPGs.
Music theory! Incubi and succubi! The threads of destiny!
In Quiz Town, Chris and Minty rack their brains attempting to match up negative critical reviews to games they personally have nothing but love for.
Jonathan has a great time with Monster Hunter Stories 2 and its tactical turn based battles despite the Switch’s performance issues, whilst also filling downtime with Jupiter’s latest Sega-themed Picross release. Minty continues to boss his way through the ophidian rogue-lite distillation that is SNKRX, but finds frustration in Skyward Sword HD. Chris fills his proverbial britches with every retro game under the sun, configuring Launchbox to unlock the secrets of the gaming matrix.
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This week on the O3C Podcast, linguistic shenanigans ensue in this week’s Quiz round as Chris and Minty duke it out for trivial supremacy.
In our gaming activity, Minty’s Cyber Sleuthing comes to a natural caesura, and he gets his mobile retro rogue-lite action on in the brilliantly deep and minimalist Snake throwback - SNKRX! Minty also takes on the new lord of microtransactions in Pokémon Unite, the new (is it really?!) free-to-play MOBA featuring the beloved critters.
Jonathan shares his final verdict on The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD - does it soar into the sky like a triumphant Loftwing? Or does it plummet like Link when you accidentally press ZR and fall off said Loftwing? And elsewhere, has he hunted his last Monster for now? Probably not - he’s bloody addicted now!
And Chris ‘the Mighty’ Dow battles against the relentless tide of his growing games collection by playing every inch of Monster Attack, the DLC for Little Nightmares, and not one but TWO packages of minigames masquerading as pieces of shovelware, that might actually be, and I quote: ‘not bad’.
And what’s for dinner?!
Millions of pounds would have been lost to Ray Winstone if Jonathan and Chris had placed their bets on what game would be sitting in Minty’s Number One spot - because The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is ONLY his 3rd favourite video game of all-time!! But he does have some lovely words, thoughts and feelings to share about his epic relationship with this equally epic game!
Behold!
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9 games left. 9 games to go.
It seems only yesterday that we kicked off this silly project, and yet here we are, several years on entering the top 3: our very favourite games of all time.
Chris kicks off the boys tip top trilogies with Jonathan Blow’s incredible puzzle adventure The Witness. Can Chris sell you on a game that is ostensibly just about solving line puzzles for 60 hours?
In the Kingdom of Quiz, how do Chris and Minty fare in a test of their chronological gaming knowledge? What do the gang think of Valve’s portable PC, the Steam Deck? What have they been playing this last week?
Expect, nay, demand, thoughts from Chris on Grindstone! Thoughts from Jonathan on Apple Arcade’s legacy releases, Monster Hunter Rise’s ‘end game’, and the new Switch port of Skyward Sword! And thoughts from Minty on Forager, Beat Saber and, naturally, Digimon, digital monsters, Digimon are the CHAM-PIONS.
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In a very special bonus episode, Our Three Chaps chat with actor Kezia Burrows!
Through her storied career, Kez has portrayed characters across film, television and videogames. With over a decade of experience working within the games industry, Kez regails our trio with stories of her time working on titles as varied as Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Remember Me, Bravely Default II, Observation, 007 Legends, and, of course, the trouser soiling Alien: Isolation.
Acting as a canonical bridge between Alien and Aliens (the legendary sequel which celebrates its 35th anniversary this year), Isolation saw Kez stepping into the shoes of Amanda Ripley, providing motion capture as well as her very image. How did Kez become involved with the project? And how did our historically fearful trio get on with Alien: Isolation?
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Jonathan Dunn is here to tell you all about a little game called The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, his very favourite entry in the Zelda canon.
Hop aboard the King of Red Lions to sail the great sea, presumably in search of some little shiny triangle pieces, a big ol’ sword, and… a princess, I guess?
But that’s not all, oh no no.
Want to hear our thoughts on examples of when maligned game mechanics or tropes have actually been done well?
Want to hear some thoughts on franchises as varied as Digimon, Metroid, Little Nightmares, or Monster Hunter? Or thoughts on some standalone IPs like the surprisingly decent Poi? Or the disappointing Pictooi?
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CURVEBALL
[ˈkərvbôl] NOUN
baseballa pitch thrown with a strong downward spin, causing the ball to drop suddenly and veer to the side as it approaches home plate.
"his three-speed curveball enabled him to win 20 games in two different seasons"
informalsomething which is unexpected, surprising, or disruptive.
"It was a real curveball when Minty Booth crowned seldom remembered, oft-forgotten N64 title ‘Space Station Silicon Valley‘ as his 4th favourite game of all time”
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Join in with this week’s quiz round that, through design, is impossible to lose after last week’s single point debacle.
Have your magnifying glasses at the ready as Minty continues to investigate Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth.
Roll your eyes as Chris does mental gymnastics in his attempts to justify importing and playing the execrable Renzo Racer on the Switch.
Yin and yang with Jonathan as he shrugs his shoulders at Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights, then whoops and hollers at Monster Hunter Rise.
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It’s only ruddy video games again! We honestly can’t get enough of them!
In our latest hour of podcasting you can hear our musings on a select selection of video games this week including:
- The most pointless round of the quiz so far - literally!
- The answer to a listener question that reveals which video games have given us real world wanderlust.
- Chris celebrates Zero Mission Accomplished as he finishes his first Metroid!
- Minty takes a trip down Digimemory Lane with Digimon Cyber Sleuth.
- Jonathan survives the Beneviento House and completes a spectacular and spooky adventure in Resident Evil Village!
- And Chris and Jonathan hit the Links to find out how Mario’s latest golfing effort shapes up on the Switch!
And if he hasn’t done this enough in the past, Chris waxes lyrical about Alexey Pajitnov’s industry behemoth, Tetris, as it qualifies as his 4th favourite video game of all-time!
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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy - loosen your belts for this week’s BUMPER episode of Our Three Cents, folks!
Do you want to hear three non-gamers give their best descriptions of games they haven’t played, or, in most cases, even seen? It’s the ‘WAGs Opinion’ Quiz Round!
Do you want to hear three non-non-gamers give their best thoughts on the damp squib that was E3 2021?
Do you want to hear some updated thoughts on Sp!ng? Undermine? Dariusburst? Super Mario Odyssey? Abzu? Or brand new thoughts on Beat Saber? Or Metroid Zero Mission!?
Then, after all this succulent, gut-busting content, Jonathan Dunn presents a very ’Jonathan Dunn game’ via his thoughts on his 5th favourite of all time, Thief 2: The Metal Age.
Why is Thief 2 better than Thief: The Dark Project and Thief: Deadly Shadows, both of which have already appeared on J-Dog’s list? What makes Thief 2 feel so alive, setting it apart from the majority of first person games that preceded it in the 1990s? What exactly is a taffer?
...and, perhaps most pertinently in 2021, what exactly is a demo disc?
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At a time when you can't even look out the window without having a national flag waved in your face, we're here, to jump on the bandwagon, to talk about FOOTBALL.
It's bleedin' Euro 2020, innit?
To celebrate big boys kicking big balls, we've signed a one match loan deal with podcast strikers Tom Dow and Andrei Grayson of The Boys in Red and White to talk videogame football.
Hear our collective preferences on the eternal, annualised fight for dominance that is FIFA vs Pro Evolution Soccer.
Allow all five of us to sing the praises of the 'little engine that could', New Star Soccer for mobile devices.
Then let four fifths of our footballing cohort sell you on some lesser known kick-men classics, before bringing on super sub Minty Booth to give cutting edge opinions on three pieces of eShop esoterica that at best could be described as being... football adjacent?
Are we able to predict the winner of the real life tournament? Listen to the very end of this special bonus episode to hear and laugh at our punditry.
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Minty is a big fan of role playing game. We know this.
But.. but... for why? What title started the RPG ball rolling for young Mr Booth?
It's Paper Mario. A pancake-thin Mario.
But outside of Minty's romantic, rolling reminiscence, what else have we got for you?
Ruminations on the games we wish we could forget and revisit. Minty's early thoughts on virtual reality. A nod to eShop puzzler Circuit Dude, a puzzle game both improved and worsened in equal measure by alcohol. Jonathan's fair and considered appraisal of Balan Wonderworld, and some mobile recommendations in the form of a trio of All of You, Sp!ng, and Infinity Pinball.
Bang for your buck.
A lot of bang, for absolutely none of your buck.
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Good morning / afternoon / evening!
(delete as appropriate)
We gather here today, to listen the thoughts of three young men. The thoughts of three young men about video games!
The quiz hots up, with some lateral thinking puzzles that make our duo look like absolute dummies!
Chris lays Genshin Impact to rest for the time being, continues to make incremental progress through the genesis of the Earth Defense Force series, and bigs up the retro throwback handheld the Evercade roughly a year after first picking it up!
Minty fights through the perils of a sore thumb, to chip away at The Binding of Isaac, and to experience his first 'stand up and be in a place' VR experience!
Jonathan grinds through Returnal, digs down into Undermine, weeps into hands as he attempts to stream Balan Wonderworld, and begins the gruelling psychological horror of Resident Evil VILLage!
Then the ruddy main event!!
The boys break into the TOP FIVE with Chris' 5th favourite game of all time!
It's Super Mario Odyssey!!
A game Chris describes as 'unfettered joy’!!!
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A baying mob collects outside Our Three Cents towers…
Ten thousand feet stomp in unison…
The floor of the building ripples softly…
A chant erupts from the crowd…
“what do we want?”“an incredibly deep, and somewhat esoteric dive into the mechanical history of ball-rolling video games!”“when do we want it?”“now!”
Join our trio, and Rasmus Jensen of Bolverk Games, to discuss the humble roots of the genre in Mark Cerny's Marble Madness, through Sega's Super Monkey Ball, Metroid Prime's morph ball, to modern indie titles such as Bolverk's Glyph.
What makes a good ball roller?
What makes Glyph one of the best ball rollers?
How did we convince Rasmus to join us when most of the episode ended up just being jokes about balls?!
“Grab a drink, roll some balls!”
Let’s go!
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Podcast notification, your Monday morn' marker
Quiz Master Jonathan, channels legend Sue Barker
Then J's progress through Morta, its children, Returnal
C's racing highs, racing lows, love for bad games eternal
M binds young Isaac, points, clicks and fishes
Then to Jonathan's six, a most wholesome of dishes
Metal Gear, Metal Gear, but not as you know
In the hand, in the pocket, a coloured Gameboy is stowed
'Best handheld game ever!'; tis high praise indeed
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As sure as day follow night, Minty is here to sing the praises of a JAY ARR PEE…
…wait, what?!
Allow the man with a mint in his eye to extoll the virtues of Metroid Prime's first sequel proper - SURELY the highest ranked FPS on our collective lists?!
If that hasn't got you dribbling enough, activate those salivary glands for the following:
A rogue-like / rogue-lite combo pack of Children of Morta and Returnal!
A PlayStation 2 'buy one get one free' of The Sims and Earth Defense Force's earliest entry Monster Attack!
A wholesome meal for one in the form of thick, creamy thoughts on Pokemon Snap!
A descent into the measureless caverns of Mortal Kombat's multimedia empire!
…and Genshin Impact.
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Did you know that the Rock Band series taught Chris how to play the drums?
Well gosh and darn it is he going to tell you!
Indulge Chris a little of your time to talk up what he describes as 'the crowning jewel in Harmonix's collective oeuvre’!
But of course, OF COURSE, there's more!
After listening to and marvelling at how this week's quiz round breaks Minty and Chris' brains, find out the answers to these questions:
How is Chris getting on in Genshin Impact now that its native PS5 app has launched?
Has Jonathan ascended to a higher plain given he's finally beaten The Binding of Isaac Afterbirth+ 100%?
Why doesn't Minty care about the illustrious return of Todd Snappington-Snapsworth in Pokemon Snap?
Is Chris going to become a famous EDM producer using only the Korg Gadget on the Switch?
Which pun-heavy, fruit and veg themed Zelda-a-like has Jonathan stomped through?
Will playing The Sims co-operatively on the PlayStation 2 lead to the end of Chris' relationship?
How did Jonathan find the time to session Giant Squid's
The Pathless and Abzu in a single day?
How have Minty and Mrs Minty enjoyed Nairi: Tower of Shirin on the Switch?
But of course, OF COURSE, OF-BLOODY-COURSE there's even more - why not have a listen, eh?!
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What's better than a juicy sandwich? A second, even juicier sandwich, of course!
But wait, what if the second sandwich was dry, lacked filling, or was assembled without the care you'd come to expect from your sandwich artiste of choice?!
heartbreak
How about taking the very concept of the juicy sandwich and extending it to a new sandwich two point oh the artisan bread stuffers had yet to even envisage?!!
Join the usual Our Three Cents trio, as well as special guests Alex Miller and Will Thrasher from the Sequelcast 2 and Friends podcast to shift this stupid sandwich metaphor to video games!!
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Jonathan Dunn is here to celebrate the 'A' game of the Pokémon Gold and Silver duology by way of Beowulf inspired progressive rock, a stuffed drawer of Eevee plushes and… the Backstreet Boys!
BUT NOT BEFORE a scintillating synonym heavy round of the quiz, Jonathan's weekly Isaac update, and thoughts from the gang on games as disparate as Toree 3D, the ageless Super Mario Bros. 3 and the Chinese-made free-to-play monolith Genshin Impact!
Poo jokes, discussions on random number generation, the Sega Saturn's Athlete Kings chucked through a thesaurus, and loads of other FLUFF that you WILL not get anywhere else!
Guaranteed!
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Oh my golly, and oh my gosh!
Minty veers violently from his role-playing bread and butter to celebrate the platforming purity of Super Mario Bros. 3 as his 7th favourite video game of all time!
But before any of Minty's childhood memories of the mustachioed, there's another nail biting round of the revised quiz, and thoughts on a whole bunch of bona fide gamey games that our trio has played using their fingers, hearts and minds!
In unnecessarily alphabetical order:
Balan Wonderworld: THE DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF AVERAGE
The Binding of Issac: NEVER-ENDING
Bravely Default II: BESTED
Cadence of Hyrule: A RHYTHMIC CONFUSION
The Outer Worlds: ELEGANTLY RESOLVED
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy: GOING BACK TO THE SHOP
Spider-Man Remastered: ASTONISHINGLY POLISHED
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 Remastered: CAN'T STOP, GOT TO POP
Games.
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After a ludicrous 50/50 score draw in the quiz, we enter QUIZ TWO POINT OH with a revised format!!
Then, onto the games…
Chris plays his shiny new PlayStation 5, and has many, many thoughts on the console he loves, yet describes as being 'very much a product that has had its final QA pass during a global pandemic’!
Jonathan hits an insane 'hours played' milestone in The Binding of Isaac, a game he just cannot quit, and then blows off some steam with the bloody duology of Super Blood Hockey and Serial Cleaner!
Minty continues the now stalwart Booth pairing of Bravely Default II with its layered bluff endings, as well as grinding away at Isaac to prepare for Repentance's potentially wobbly Switch port!
Dinner for today's spread? Super Mario 64!
Allow Chris twenty minutes of your time to try his best to say something new about a game our trio have already collectively talked about for about 100 hours since this show began. Pawn-shops! Nesting dolls! Bubsy 3D! Silly voices!
Games are so bloody good!!
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Blue Fire is a fantastic debut indie that melds intense, freeform platforming action with a Legend of Zelda-come-Dark Souls structure and aesthetic.
Robi Studios is the Argentinian team behind this little cracker, and Gabriel Rosa, the director of the project, was kind enough to spend some time talking with us about the game's design, development and surrounding post-release community!
Find out how Rosa and team were inspired to make what would become the extremely well received Blue Fire; the games which did and didn't feed into their original design specification; and their desire to use their games to 'improve the lives' of their players!
Also, hear Minty and Chris give their thoughts on a title that Jonathan has already gone on record as calling 'a very good game’!
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It’s only another ruddy Monday and we’re at the end of an octagonal triptych - it’s the last eighth-favourite-video-game-of-all-time from us three cents!
But before we do that - the Our Three Cents Quiz spectacular reaches the finish line - who will carry the baton over it? Will either of them? Will both of them?! What will we quiz upon now?! Gosh darn it if you don’t just want to know the answer to those rhetoricals!
Then the chaps discuss games that were spurned by many but loved by them! And their recent gaming activity sees Chris find a very ‘Chris’ game in Sumo Digital’s Hotshot Racing! And Minty continues his adventuring in Bravely Default!
Elsewhere Jonathan dutifully takes on the toughest challenges that Edmund McMillen can throw at him in The Binding of Isaac, and then he goes from “way ‘ard” to Weyard with his 8th favourite video game of all time - the extraordinary Golden Sun - the enormously epic JRPG, that “didn’t care it was ‘just’ on the Gameboy Advance!”
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In the latest smackerooney of an episode, Chris returns to work and suffers an inevitable dip in his gameplay activity, and Minty, as is his Default, is adventuring Bravely on in his latest JRPG epic!
Meanwhile, Jonathan is still making babies cry in every direction for the sake of the podcast’s YouTube channel, and he also ventures to The Outer Worlds to discover an adventure that is more Firefly than Fallout, and more Bioshock than Bethesda!
And then, the main pudding! Big long boys, lots of green lads, glowing green letters, whimsy, fantasy and a huge dose of earnest storytelling, all play a part in Minty’s entry for this week!
Listen on to find out why the albeit admittedly flawed Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros. gave Minty “the most emotive gameplay experience of his life” and thus made it his 8th favourite video game of all time!
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Want to know the gaming imagery We Three Cents would have permanently etched onto our buttocks?
Want to know how Chris has got on with a number of games like Lonely Mountains: Downhill, awe-inspiring Vita ports of the PS2's Grand Theft Auto trilogy, or 3DS ports of some pixel art classics?
Want to know how Jonathan has got on with a bigger number of games like a 3DS platforming triumvirate, the Champion's Road of Super Mario 3D World, or the entire launch line-up of the Playstation 5?
Want to know how Minty has got on with one game, the cavernously large Bravely Default II?
Then, the meat and potatoes of the episode - want to know just how much can one man say about a game comprised entirely of three-second experiences?!
Find out why Chris considers WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$ Nintendo's most immediate but also most cerebral release to date!
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Do you like typing?
Smashing your little fingies down on your keyboard, laptop or touchscreen to make wonderful words manifest into being?
How about typing to play a game? Not just bouncing across W, A, S and D as you whip your mouse around for frags, but using the actual letters themselves to manipulate on-screen action?
Join the Our Three Cents team, as well as members of the developer RNG Party Games, as we plot the checkered history of the typing genre via MS DOS commands and edutainment, through Typing of the Dead and Pokémon Typing Adventure, to modern examples like Epistory, The Textorcist and RNG's own Backspace Bouken!
Whether you're a touch typist, or a one-digit stabber; come revel in the clickety-clack of the keyboard!
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Number 9 (Jonathan Dunn) - The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
'ERE WE, 'ERE WE, 'ERE WE FACKIN' GO!
What are our intrepid podcast heroes thoughts on the recent Nintendo Direct? More Hyrule Warriors? A new Mario Golf? A weird Octopath Traveller follow-up come sequel? Stubbs the Zombie DELUXE?
Jonathan finds a new ball-rolling indie obsession in Glyph. Minty blasts through Bowser's Fury in the flick of a cat's tail. Chris breaks down and buys a New 3DS XL!
Then, and you better be ready for this, Link's Awakening RIGHTFULLY becomes Our Three Cents approved, as Jonathan nominates the dreamy surrealism of the first pocket size Zelda as his ninth favourite video game of ALL BLOODY TIME!
EGGS!
SEASHELLS!!
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS!!!
It's one of the best games of all time!!!!
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bang, bang, shoot 'em up, cops and robbers
Minty goes blat, blat with his gat, gat as he talks up Saints Row 2, his ninth favourite video game, and perhaps Volition's crowning glory as the game that transformed the Saints Row franchise from a soulless GTA-copy, to the fun-loving series it would become!
ALSO THIS WEEK: the trio get stuck back into The Binding of Isaac in a big way; Minty asks for suggestions to play on his peat-powered-personal computer; and Chris deals vigilante justice in The Outer Worlds. Jonathan gives his thoughts on playing Super Mario 3D World for the first time; Chris and Jonathan go on and on about the 3DS's joyous stereoscopic 3D; and a certain Souls-like-liker gets all fired up talking about Robi Studio’s Blue Fire!
Go and play some video games, you deserve it.
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How many references to Handforth Parish Council can our trio slip into this bumper episode as Chris breaches the TOP 9s?
Chris and Minty tussle quizzically as part of the, y'know, quiz. The boys attempt to explain their approaches to fitting gaming into modern living. Jonathan does his damnedest to sell Chris on his recently acquired PlayStation 5!
Thoughts on games as far reaching as: THE BINDING OF ISAAC, THE OUTER WORLDS, THE MESSENGER, SPIDER-MAN REMASTERED, PARATOPIC, ASTRO'S PLAYROOM, DEMON'S SOULS as well as some reverent nodding in the general direction of Sony's adaptive triggers!
Then, pull up a chair, make sure your bladders are drained and that you have access to a hot drink and snack of your choice, as Chris takes a deep dive into Lumines, his 9th favourite game of all time!
ATTACK
THE
BLOCK(s)
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To break up Season 3 (and make sure the grand reveals of our number one games gets further and further away), we invite you to meet the first of our guest stars: JP of Premium Edition Games and JP's Switchmania fame!
In a SPECIAL EPISODE dedicated to physical games and their collection, hear how, why and what our group and guest collects; personal memories of standout releases over the years; as well as hopes and dreams for games that have yet to be immortalised on disc or cartridge!
PLUS: exclusive, behind the scenes information on how physical games make it to market, as well as hot-off-the-press details on the first two Premium Edition Games releases Super Blood Hockey, and Pigeon Dev Games Collection!
"how the sausage is made"
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StarterThe boys think on bad games they played for just that bit too long - a cavalcade of handheld ports and novelties that our trio defended vehemently, until they just couldn’t!
MainChris plays some punishing platformers on the Vita courtesy of Ratalaika Games and endless runners on the Switch courtesy of the dregs of eShop sales past to distract himself from home working.
Jonathan continues a roguelike Greek Odyssey, revisits some cowboys he previously poo-pooed, and gets very excited about the bit-switching, chiptune joy that is Sabotage Studio’s The Messenger!
Minty finally concedes that Grindstone is an absolute belter of a pocket-sized puzzler!
DessertJonathan Dunn rounds out the first round of the top 10 with a deep dive into the nested design of 'the crying baby game - Ed McMillen's The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+!
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Another week, another NUMBER TEN, this time courtesy of Master Minty Booth!
The original Doom ranks as MB's game for your consideration on this drizzly January day. Find out why it's so much more than a 'legacy entry' chosen only for its historical value, and remains a bloody (no pun intended!) good time, even today!
But of course, we shan't be allowing any of that ripping and tearing payoff, before binding you to a metaphorical chair and forcing you to hear our collective opinions on topics as disparate as: mind-blowing mechanics; perfunctory passwords; ruminations on lockdown malaise; and of course, games wot-we-have-been-playing!
Go and play some games. You deserve it!
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Can you believe it? I mean, seriously, can you believe it? It's the top bloody ten, gals an' guys!
The quiz returns with a fantastic new theme tune! The trio discuss some of the weirdest games they've ever played, giving separate nods to Desert Child, Horace and Humanoid 47 for your consideration. Chris and Jonathan try to sell Minty on the mobile magic that is Grindstone. And, of course, the gang collectively play an awful lot of G A M E S!!
Then, to get the top ten underway proper, Chris is here to tell you not only why Sonic 3 & Knuckles is his tenth favourite video game of all time, but also:
- how its lock-on cartridge tech is perhaps the most impressive piece of creative problem solving in games history;
- why it’s the Mega Drive’s crowning glory;
- how it laid the groundwork for the triple A cinematic action game a la Naughty Dog’s modern oeuvre!
The countdown is ON, baby!
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SEASON THREE BEGINETH!!
AS PROPHECY HAS FORETOLD, JONATHAN DUNN, THE PRODIGAL SON, HAS RETURNED!!
After a week’s break, we’ve missed you all, and maybe you’ve missed us?
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2020, eh? It was certainly a year.
Allow Jonathan, Chris and Minty, your good pals from the Our Three Cents towers, to:
tell you which games they used to ring in the New Year!
tell you which games made them feel a veritable swathe of ‘happy, happy, joy, joy’ over the apocalyptic year that was!
tell you which games they hope to play in 2021!
tell you which games they hold up as the very best released in 2020!
Want to know if Shrek: Hassle at the Castle on the Gameboy Advance is any good?
Want to know if Jonathan enjoyed The Last of Us Part 2 when he returned to Naughty Dog’s critical darling?
Want to know how Minty is faring in his quest for a Living Dex via Pokemon Home?
Want to know how many Nintendo franchises feature in the trio’s best of the year?
GOODBYE 2020 and HELLO 2021!!
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CHRIS IS A BAD FRIEND (™)
MINTY IS A GOOD FRIEND (™)
Minty bought Chris a Christmas present last year. He’s only just split the cellophane.
Chris bought Minty a birthday present a few weeks back. He had it up and running within 60 minutes of its arrival.
Hear Chris’s (late) thoughts on Tales of Zestiria, and Minty’s (timely) thoughts on Heroland.
ALSO! Thoughts on the Lost Lands mobile series; updates on Minty’s ultraviolence MAX playthrough of Doom; an overview of the indie-Metroidvania Xeodrifter; and Chris’ incredible disappointment at the recent Panzer Dragoon remake.
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welcome
to
T H E
I N T E R N E T
Chris and Minty, two cool-kid millennials recount their time on the early mainstream web.
Flash! Neopets! MUDs! Optimism! Klik 'n' Play! Discworld! Pickles!
Listen to the boys feel warm and fuzzy in remembrance of the wave of positivity that accompanied the dial up internet, and then share in their crushing sense of despair when considering how the web has splintered and become polarized some 20 years on.
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Chris was a Sega kid, and Minty was a Nintendo kid.
Two childhoods characterized by conflict; the blood and sweat of frontline fighting in the console wars.
Can the boys sell one another on the consoles they weren't conscripted to support as wee'uns?
Chrissy-Wissy presents Minty with a veritable platter of Mega Drive classics in Streets of Rage 2, Rocket Knight Adventures and Toejam and Earl.
Boothy-Toothy suggests Chris sample the delights of Super Nintendo treats, A Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, and, well, Street Racer.
MAKE CONSOLE LOVE, NOT CONSOLE WAR
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The Chris and Minty Adventure Month begins NOW.
Whilst Jonathan rears an actual human child, Chris and Minty get together to discuss what they've been playing and their favourite digital babies.
In the first of a mini-series of episodes some are calling “a little bit silly”, and “a stark departure from the show's usual format”, the Our Three Cents B-Team do their best to entertain, inform, and discuss infant excrement and its many potential colours.
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Minty yonders around, well, Yonder, as well as the Pokemon DLC.
Chris beats Yonder, and blasts through a few stages of The Master Chief Collection.
Jonathan has a baby.
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Jonathan bigs up a pocket-rocket of a Zelda adventure in Oracle of Ages, one half of Capcom's Gameboy Color duology.
Minty flashes back to The Binding of Isaac's initial release.
Chris points in the direction of Full Throttle, a mid-90s adventure game that just clicked.
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J. DUNN has some STRONG opinions on GLASS MASQUERADE and multitasks Mike Bithell's SOLITAIRE CONSPIRACY when he OUGHT TO BE WORKING!
C. DOW draws near the end of YONDER, takes a bunch of SILLY PICTURES and plays the SONY PLAYSTATION VITA in his BED!
M. BOOTH also begins his journey through YONDER and questions the VALUE of his POTATOES!
And then…
Hear about crafting, resource management, and ancient history in Minty's 12th favourite video game of all time, Pharaoh!
Hear about invincibility, subversion and art history in Chris' 12th favourite video game of all time, Wario Land II!
Hear about routine, collection and wide-eyed orphans in Jonathan's 12th favourite video game of all time, Animal Crossing: New Leaf!
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To celebrate seven full rotations of the earth, we've prepared a new podcast. About video games. For you!
The quiz delivers a cruel twist… (CRASH!)
Chris picks up Yonder, a soft pillow of a game… (BANG!)
Minty vanquishes Xenoblade… (WALLOP!)
Jonathan gives a seasonal update on Animal Crossing… (WHAT A VIDEO GAME!)
Unlucky number 13? Nah, mate… All killer!
Did you know that Jonathan's number 17, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, has inadvertently become Minty's number 13 or that Minty's number 17, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, has become Jonathan's 13?
Did you know that Chris is waffling about some Sega Mega Drive game again?
Play these games! Then talk about these games! And at some point, find time to listen to us talk about these games!
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Oh my golly gosh, would you wrap your ears around this WHOPPER of an episode!
Jonathan masters Resident Evil Revelations, is undone by the architectural malaise of Doom 3, enjoys Pokémon's recent DLC drop, hypes himself into the ionosphere with Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity's demo, bumbles around as a Part Time UFO, AND STILL finds time to dump a million hours into Pic Pic on the DS after Chris' recent glowing review!
Minty lists the names of many Galarian Pokémon that Chris hasn't heard of, and nears the end of his Xenoblade Chronicle!
Chris starts Mario Sunshine, then plays some casual oddities on the PC with the meditative Glass Masquerade and the Mavis Beacon approved typing adventure Backspace Bouken!
Oh, and the boys get angry at Super Smash Bros Ultimate's dreadful netcode!
Phew!!
14’s, eh?
Are you ready to hear why The Witness may be the most impressive game ever made?
Are you prepared to accept that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the best launch title of all time?
Will you let our resident JRPG aficionado sell you on the under appreciated gem Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean?
3 perfect games. Honestly. Just listen!
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Today you're going to hear about some good games. I mean, last week's games were good, sure, but these are a whole week's worth of good better!
...but before we do that...
Why not let us tell you little bits and pieces about our weekly efforts through Super Mario 64, Tetris 99, Mario 35, Pokémon Sword and/or Shield, and a wee snifter of Resident Evil!
Let Minty tell you just how good Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader is!
Let Jonathan tell you just how good The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is!
Let Chris tell you just how good Pokémon Red is!
Very, very good x3.
(There are actual tears.)
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WHAT ARE YOU BUYIN'?!
WHAT ARE YOU SELLIN'?!
As Spooktober draws to a close, the gang tackle a veritable moaning horde of Resident Evil titles!
Will Chris surpass his previous, pathetic efforts to stomp through Resident Evil 4?
Will Minty enjoy his first exposure to the series with its earliest canonical entry, Resident Evil Zero?
Why has Jonathan thrown the towel in with Resident Evil Remake and leapt head first into the more modern Resident Evil Revelations?
No more scary games, please.
(can you guess who writes these blurbs?)
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Trials and tribulations in the quiz, perchance?
Jonathan has a busy work week, yet still finds some time to drown in Hades' extended lore, and evolve a shiny Charmander in Pokemon Go.
Minty chugs along with Xenoblade Chronicles, making his way to the Mechonis, mopping up sidequests in the wake of his relentless forward progress.
Chris revisits two old favourites, the minimalist platformer Love, and the explore-em-up Submerged.
List entries this week!
A handheld logic puzzler no one has even heard of.
A 2D platform-come-adventure-come-lite RPG starring a certain moustachioued plumber.
An all-star brawler featuring cameos from Earthbound nobodies and Japan-exclusive peripheral mascots.
Pic Pic! Super Paper Mario! Smash Bros Melee!
GOOD GAMES, GOOD GAMES, GOOD GAMES, GOOD GAMES.
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DOOM 3 then, eh?
A game initially defined by being built around the question 'VISION or AMMUNITION?', today's modern suite of ports retools the vanilla game as a pretty straightforward horror-themed action title.
Has this been a week of all guns blazing, demon popping pow pows? Or has the game retained elements of its early 2000s spook factor with its soupy shadows and shambling hordes?
Find out by piping our words and thoughts into your ears and brains!
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Urghh, Mario!? They're not still playing Mario are they?
This week, we're going interactive with our blurb!
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1) Please answer the following questions by selecting the appropriate answers from the well below. [3 Marks]
What's Jonathan finished or started this week?
What's Minty gone back to this week?
What's Chris got running in a window behind Powerpoint on his laptop this week?
(Hades / MO:Astray / Book of Demons / Doom 2 / Among Us)
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2) Given the number of entries remaining across our lists, how many are likely to be from the Legend of Zelda franchise? [1 Mark]
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3) Compare and contrast the use of linear and non-linear design in Majora's Mask and Breath of the Wild. [10 Marks]
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4) On a scale of 1-10, how disappointed is Chris in having to talk about Limbo rather than its successor Inside due to its ineligibility for his personal list? Please justify your answer. [2 Marks]
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Three men sit; crumpled, folded.
A door opens purposefully.
A figure enters and takes a seat across from the trio.
The group's eyes meet. There is measured silence.
Words fall softly into the room.
"Tell me about… Amnesia."
The first man shuffles in his chair before speaking with quivering voice.
"The digital dark has made me fear the literal dark".
The second interjects
."It's a Lovecraftian nightmare, truly."
The third resident, speaks with reserve and distance.
"Oppressive. Relentless. Good."
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This week, the boys hit the ground running with motors purring:
Jonathan races through Mario's 3D ouevre at a rate of knots!
Minty sets our faithful plumber to one side to race through Xenoblade Chronicles!
Chris disappoints everyone by racing through Big Bobby Car: The Big Race!
Travelling back in time, let Jonathan tell the story of a trendsetting Christopher Dow (aged 11 years old) importing Pokémon and setting Jonathan on a lifetime journey with pocket monsters!
Pull out your Media Studies degree or your Theatre Studies thesis as Chris gets heavy detailing Kentucky Route Zero's postmodern approach to the framework of the adventure game!
Minty exalts Wario Land 2, the little handheld platformer that could, as a truly elevated experience!
According to our triumvirate, three of the very best games EVER made!!
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Spoopy poops the second! This week the gang tackle Bioshock - 2K Games' seminal first person underwater-dystopia-em-up.
Played across PC, Switch and PS4, how does the game hold up 13 years after its initial release?
Will Jonathan brave the shadows, or recoil under a metaphorical childhood blankie?
Will Minty best the horrors of the depths, or sink without trace to a Big Daddy's fist?
Will Chris shoot from his plasmid infused hands, or his spooked tooter?
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Oh, hello!
New here, are ya? Not worry, not to worry. Just do your best to follow along, and you'll feel right at home in no time.
You've heard of these things called video games, right? No?!!
Well, you press buttons and things happen. And there's these three guys named Jonathan, Minty and Chris who like them an awful lot. Perhaps they could entice you to give them a try with their rambling superlatives?
On this week's show, find out how the trio have got on with Super Mario 3D All-Stars, and how Chris has used games like Neoverse and Gun on Steam to reward himself for being a good worker man at his personal computer.
Down into the teens now on the century lists!
How long can Chris reasonably talk about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3?
Can a mischievous Minty convince you to return to the earliest entries in the Final Fantasy series via the Gameboy Advance double pack Dawn of Souls?
Returning to the start of his time at secondary school, how highly did Jonathan Dunn's 'miscellaneous' English Project on The Legend of Zelda score given its accidental focus on Ocarina of Time?
Enjoy!
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It's Spooktober!
To celebrate the month of spoops and ghostly boops, we're pumping out F I V E (count 'em!) bonus episodes dedicated to playing horror games.
This week - Slender: The Arrival!
Will Jonathan put up with having to use a controller rather than a mouse and keyboard?
Will Minty's current location, an isolated holiday cottage, help or hinder his playthrough?
Will Chris drop an unexpected present in his trousers?
What are we doing?!
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Like the perpetual turn of the earth, so Monday brings a new episode of Our Three Cents.
Minty huffs unjustly after having Super Mario 3D All-Stars sent to the wrong address, so instead spends his week romping through Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition.
Jonathan continues his Mario marathon by beating New Super Luigi U, before starting what promises to be an extended suckle at the teat of Mario's latest Switch collection.
Chris (or shall we say Moaning Michael) enjoys but also whines about the All-Stars port of Super Mario 64.
GAMES! GAMES! GAMES!
Minty gets a-shovelin' and nominates Plague of Shadows as the best way to celebrate the incredible generosity of developer Yacht Club's seemingly endless entries in the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove of 8-bit throwbacks.
Jonathan goes all lally-lally at the world building and phenomenal narrative present in Bioshock Infinite's sumptuous lagoon of lore.
Chris gets all sad at the thought of 2020, but is buoyed by memories of 2016's global moment: Pokémon Go.
ALSO:
ASMR! Pumpkin Swamp! Sea of Thieves! Egg! Blockbuster! Perambulation!
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Want to know what we think of eSports? It's a topic we're all fantastically ill-qualified to discuss, but has that ever stopped us jumping headfirst into a listener question before?
The boys excitedly await Super Mario 3D All-Stars imminent release, passing the time with games as varied as the ludicrous Saints Row IV, a smorgasbord of 2D Mario titles, the organically cinematic Sea of Thieves, a smattering of Apple Arcade titles viewed over the shoulder of Mrs Minty, and the STUNNING remaster of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2.
Then, our choices for the week!
Jonathan explains why Twilight Princess (the Gamecube version, mind, none of this mirror image Link nonsense) offers one of his favourite Legend of Zelda narratives. ('Bark at the Moon' by Ozzy Osbourne [1983])
Minty chooses the personal computer's Rollercoaster Tycoon, explaining how its gentle management helped him realise his real life event management skills. ('Love Rollercoaster' by The Ohio Players [1975])
Chris tells of the life-saving or perhaps life-preserving properties of Super Mario 3D World, Nintendo's perfect synergy of 2D and 3D Mario. ('Scatman's World' by the inimitable Scatman John [1995])
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Mario! It's Super Mario!
Find out just how much money our trio are preparing to tip into Nintendo's coffers in celebration of Mr Mario Mario's 35th anniversary! A totally unnecessary Game and Watch! eShop treats! Remasters! Reissues! Karts with cameras!
Jonathan gets to the end of Raji on the Switch, and begins his journey with Spiritfarer. Minty romps through some of Doom 64's bonus episode, before returning to the nightmare of his Ultraviolence run of Doom 2. Chris gets buried under the workload of a new job!
This week, joining the boys' podium of all timers:
P E G G L E D E L U X E
S U P E R M A R I O F L I P P I N G S U N S H I N E
H Y R U L E W A R R I O R S D E F I N I T I V E E D I T I O N
How did Peggle almost destroy Chris' old plasma TV?
Did Jonathan engineer Nintendo's announcement of Super Mario Sunshine's imminent arrival on the Switch given that it was his 22nd favourite game of all time?
Why is Minty comparing the trials of the fated three in Hyrule Warriors to bubbles in a thick milkshake?
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Are you a gaming virgin? Let the chaps direct you to the very best starter games for those approaching the hobby, tabula rasa.
This week: Minty chips through his backlog, Jonathan fills in gaps in his knowledge of 16-bit movie tie-ins, and Chris explores a parody game.
23rd favourite games of all times, you say?
Chris dehydrates himself talking about the hyper stylised, ultra violent Hotline Miami, a "ten out of ten game with an eleven out of ten soundtrack".
Minty pogos as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales on the NES, making special mention of its Moon theme - a chiptune classic tied indelibly to a video charting the inaugural flight of a balloon laden Bichon Frise.
Jonathan hopes to do justice to two podcast faithfuls with his run down of Heroes of Might & Magic 3, a game designed for, in his words, "those who are smarter than me".
Have these three games ever come up in the same conversation before? No, no they haven't.
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This week on the podcast, our net games played is well into the minus figures as Chris finally clears out his closet of all his repeats! Thankfully Jonathan is on hand to indulge in a plethora of games featured in the recent Nintendo Indie World Direct and samples such off piste delights as A Short Hike, Overland, Evergate and Raji: An Ancient Epic. And Minty, inspired by last week’s episode, has wrapped his fingers around New Star Soccer once more!
And then onto our 24th favourite video games of all flipping time! My word! What games they are!
Find out what makes Metroid Prime the exception to console first-person games!
Find out what makes Journey such a primal and existential experience!
Find out why learning the ins and outs of Super Crate Box is akin to learning a new language!
Dive in and enjoy a ruddy good talk about some ruddy good things! Mangetout!
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The last quartile. Can you believe it?
Jonathan digs into Owlboy's tantalising lore, and leaps into wireless VR with the Oculus Quest. Minty vanquishes Doom 64, after eating away at hell's offerings chip by chip for months. Chris dabbles with player-made PC mods and digs up Telltale's long delisted Jurassic Park game.
How did a teenage Jonathan become the 10th best Super Monkey Ball player in the world?
What makes Chris qualify New Star Soccer as a 'perfect mobile game'?
How does Minty bring Jonathan to actual tears talking about his personal connection to Octopath Traveler?
3 video games that you should go and buy. Buy and play. Play and love.
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As the weeks go by,
And our thoughts grow stronger,
Much as we may try,
Our show grows longer.
A quiz, with cheers,
The games we've played,
A selection of memories,
That will not fade.
Bugs, a PC, a pirate's knell,
An awakening, body horror, and a blue shell.
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Bloomin' 'eck it's been hot, hasn't it?!
Find out what the boys think about the recent Nintendo 'Gigaleak' courtesy of a listener question.
Then hear of the chaps' gaming efforts for the week.
Paper Mario, Alice, Forager: DONE!
Carrion: STARTED!
Slay the Spire: REVISITED!
Tales of Vesperia: SEGUED SEAMLESSLY INTO A LIST ENTRY!
Vesperia is Minty's 27th favourite game of all time!
Eternal Darkness is Jonathan's 27th favourite game of all time!
OutRun 2 is Chris' 27th favourite game of all time!
The Linear Motion Battle System! SUCCULENT Lore! A protagonist named Yuri Lowell!
Intertwined stories! Unpronounceable Lovecraftian abominations! Stellar voicework by William Hootkins!
Outrageous drifts! Single player content up the wazoo! An arranged OST by Richard Jacques!
What more could your fine ears lust after than these hardcore pearls?!
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This week Jonathan Dunn sails towards the end of his time with Paper Mario: The 'Orange Army' King lumping high praise on Mario's latest papery adventure. Minty Booth swings back towards loving rather than loathing the same title, allowing it to leap frog the inconsistent Colour Splash in his hypothetically revised list. Christopher Dow nears the end of Alice: Madness Returns, and revisits Deadly Premonition for some Lynchian spooks.
Want to know our 28th favourite games of all time?
Minty gardens his way to sweet victory in Viva Piñata, Rare's gorgeous 360-era animal management simulation.
Chris feels embarrassed discussing his relatively miniscule time with the smorgasbord of content and riches that is The Binding of Isaac when viewed against Jonathan and Minty's playtime and mastery.
Jonathan finds a magic coin and wishes the sumptuous Rayman into his childhood possession.
Top banana.
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This week:
Chris attempts to chip through his backlog, SMASHING through Thumper with the highest possible ranks, MEANDERING through the middle third of Alice: Madness Returns, RESETTING and RESTARTING Forager, one of the trio's favourites of yesteryear.
Minty YO-YOs between loving and loathing the new Paper Mario and the Origami King, praising some of the changes to the series wider design whilst resigning himself to finally accept that Mario's 'Story' may have finally been retired.
Jonathan eschews many of Minty's criticisms of Paper Mario, bowled over as he is by the game’s song and dance numbers, as well as Mario's car 'which is a big shoe'.
And then:
Entering the 20s now; oh boy, oh boy!
Hear how and why Jonathan managed to 100% the FIFTY HOUR platform epic Super Mario Odyssey, within a 72 hour stretch!
Gasp in amazement as Minty links a daily walk past a pair of bus stop advertising hoardings to the gleeful, self-referential escapism of Saints Row IV!
Let Chris wiffle and waffle about the near-unclassifiable NiGHTS Into Dreams…, (Jonathan's 30th favourite game!) and glow at the thought of Sega Saturn synchronicity and serendipity!
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Knowing me, the writer of this O3C episode blurb, knowing you, our humble listeners. Aha!
We've played a lot of games this week. Oh boy have we played a lot of games! Super Mario Maker 2! American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns! The NES de-make of Pacman Championship Edition! The Last of Us! God of War! Superliminal! Probably others!
Some very, very good games, and yet… AND YET… none of these games place on our collective lists!
Games that ARE reserved for list placement this week:
The dreamy, surreal, technical powerhouse that is The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on the original Gameboy.
The dreamy, surreal, technical powerhouse that is the fever dream NiGHTS Into Dreams… on the much maligned Sega Saturn.
And the GTA derivative Crackdown on the Xbox 360?
Three genuine 10/10 rippers. Take our triumvirate of words for it.
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THIS WEEK:
Minty has popped back to Skyrim's Tamriel as a man with magic mitts.
Chris has popped Super Mario Maker into his 3DS, and found what is perhaps the only 'hidden gem' in the core Mario franchise.
Jonathan has popped between Animal Crossing and the Last of Us, seesawing between glorious climes and azure waters, and bleak, post-apocalyptic ruins.
ALSO THIS WEEK:
Chris goes biblical with his description of Thumper, a dreadful, visceral 'rhythm violence' game best experienced in VR.
Jonathan recounts his time with Octopath Traveller, a sprawling RPG that follows an octet of lads and lasses in a tilt-shifted, pop-up book world.
Minty takes you to the cinema (remember the cinema?) to collect a special Pokémon in Emerald, one of the GBA's strongest entries in the Poké-pantheon.
What a love-er-ley bunch of video games!
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Kick off this week's festivities with a 'double pointer' quiz question!
Then journey with Jonathan to the Isle of Armor, before commiserating with him as he throws in the towel with first person shooters on console; share in Chris' excitement as he watches his brother dominate a 20+ year old handheld football game; and sit patiently with Minty as he 'potters around, enjoying his life' as he anticipates the release of the new Paper Mario.
Then three VERY list-worthy games.
Jonathan goes deep on Super Mario Maker, offering a huge thank you to Nintendo for passing the design torch to its players. And why not challenge his Super World from Super Mario Maker 2 like Chris did in our recent YouTube video - Maker ID: 1L9-KKR-22H
Minty shrinks down with the aid of the Minish Cap in the GBA's Capcom-helmed entry in the Legend of Zelda franchise.
Chris adds Mario Kart 8 to the list of Our Three Cents approved titles, sharing disparate memories of his tenure with the Greatest Kart Racer of all time.
(I think it's fair to say that we are big fans of Nintendo!)
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Two thirds of the list down. Two ENTIRE thirds, now in the past. But with a final third starting THIS strongly, we hope your tears are short-lived.
Minty makes friends with a Kung Fu bear, Jonathan wraps up Xenoblade Chronicles with a gaggle of Nopon tag-alongs, and Chris… moves house?
Is Summer in Mara any cop? How many levels of Doom 64 did Minty get through this week? Is there any chance whatsoever that Chris will get through the first Last of Us?
Then let a teenage Minty sell you on the outrageously strong Golden Sun; a single-digit Chris talk up a weekend trip to soft play to leap in ball pits and play The Simpsons Arcade Game; and a full blown adult man, one Jonathan A Dunn, wax lyrical about Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Cosy couches! Pat Sharp! Akimbo pistols! They're all here.
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It’s Monday. You all know what that means? Time to wrap your willing ears around a new episode of this absolute wallop of a podcast!
How have these three gents enjoyed video games this week?
Chris has a boo boo back :( and as such has resorted to less taxing games in easy-to-play forms, such as a classic card game on the Switch that has captured his imagination, and continued forays into his handheld retro machine, the Evercade!
How is Jonathan’s ongoing quest with Xenoblade Chronicles coming along - does he have time to spend a wee smidgen of his Summer in Mara in the new Kickstarter indie game release?
And, in light of a fallow gaming week for Mr Minty and in a delightful turn of events, we find out how Mrs Minty is getting on in the collective Mintys’ Clog Island in Animal Crossing!
And then the rankings! 34 to go means it’s wall-to-wall excellence now!
Minty takes us on a charming locomotive trip down memory train track with his recollection of one of the more quaint Legend of Zelda adventures, in the DS’ wonderful Spirit Tracks.
Jonathan takes us on an epic, console-spanning, dimension-hopping trip down adventure lane with the uncompromising Zelda/Dynasty Warriors mash-up, Hyrule Warriors.
And Chris takes us on a warp-speed trip down memory-racing-tube with his childhood reminiscences of Nintendo’s flagship sci-fi racer, F-Zero X.
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Minty is in a hole - a GOLF hole! - in Team 17's Golf with Friends. Jonathan details his Reyn time in Xenoblade Chronicles, as well as a late night foray into the recently Chris-approved VVVVVV. Chris commits to collecting physical games for yet another console with the brand new portable retro-tech, Evercade!
FROTH AT THE MOUTH as Chris says that Timesplitters 2 is a better console first person shooter than Goldeneye!
DON THE SUIT OF THE DOOMSLAYER to fight through the gates of hell with Minty in Doom 2!
REMEMBER THE GLORY DAYS of Nintendo's early online multiplayer efforts as Jonathan talks up Mario Kart DS!
BOOOOOOSH!
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…oh, hello! Didn't see you there. I was just listening to the latest episode of Our Three Cents here.
You won't believe it, but in this podcast, these three little boys tell stories about their favourite games of all time, and in this very episode they're talking up the games they proclaim to be their 36th favourite games ever made.
In addition, they talk about some of the current games they've been playing. Fancy that, eh? This fella called Chris has been playing some weird title called Ace of Seafood that he reckons is worth a go despite 'defying classification', as well as a title called Adam's Venture which sounds pretty dreadful. Then a wee lad named Jonathan said he's been enjoying a recent remaster of Xenoblade Chronicles as well as an indie title called Hyper Light Drifter on the Nintendo Switch. The final member of the cast, Minty, says he's returned to playing the ludicrously named Tales of Vesperia, alongside a handful of other strangely titled Japanese role playing games.
Then they all get quite excited about some game about Animals? But to be honest I just glazed over for a bit then.
Aren't they all busy boys?
Then the lists! Oh heavens, the lists!
Master Minty tells a story about learning of the Nintendo franchises at the edges of the multiverse in Super Smash Bros Melee.
Master Jonathan talks about the horror game Resident Evil 4, waxing lyrical about its atmosphere, and optional chainsaw controller.
Master Chris praises the simplicity of a game called VVVVVV by a lone developer named Terry that was apparently inspired by the old ZX Spectrum.
What a strange show?! Right, back to it.
Ta-ra!
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After almost two years in the video game trenches, our heroes, Jonathan, Chris and Minty, have reached number 37 on their lists.
Jonathan strikes fear into Chris' heart as he nears the end of construction on his Super Mario Maker 2 Super World, and then invites us all to Golf with Friends. Chris tarts up his Animal Crossing island, and beams with admiration at two indie games: Gone Home and Desert Child. Minty treads water with a smidgen of Dead Cells, a pinch of Labyrinth of Refrain, and lashings of hot Disgaea 5.
Bust kickflips and boneless pop shove its with the excellent Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. Batter hellspawn with a twelve gauge in the genre-defining Doom. Wrestle with the sombre sense of isolation (but also the Wiimote controls) of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
Better than Panzer Dragoon Saga? Why don't YOU tell US.
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The games start coming, and they don't stop coming, eh?
Tetris Attack, a game in no way connected to Tetris entertains Mr Dow. Mr Booth continues to flit merrily through Labyrinth of Refrain, but also returns to Dead Cells. Mr Dunn brings a veritable cavalcade of games to the table as he continues to make progress in Lonely Mountains, New Horizons, as well as his magnum epic Super World opus in Super Mario Maker 2.
Then, our number 38s.
Monsieur 'Egyptian Boat' gets tangled in his attempts to talk up the visual novel 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, without, y'know, just explaining the novel itself. Good endings! Bad endings! Layered endings!
Monsieur 'Enclosed Seating at a 60s Diner' gets all fired up talking about the high point in flat Mario's role-playing offshoot Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. Chapters! Consoles with handles! Battle towers!
Monsieur Completed Task relives Chris' agony at placing Panzer Dragoon Saga too low on the list after a modern replay, by placing it too low on his list after, you guessed it, a modern replay. Artistry! Scale! Parallels to Japanese anime!
Bleedin' 'eck. How on EARTH are there still 37 games better than these?
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It's a week of - q u e s t i o n s -
ROUND ONE
Will Minty continue his meteoric quiz comeback?
How is Minty doing with the big bees of Labyrinth of Refrain, a dungeon crawler he hasn't picked up since the beginning of the podcast?
How many games has Jonathan beaten during a fallow period of self-employment due to lockdown?
Can you count the number of racing games the boys lavish praise upon in the first fifteen minutes of the episode?
Why is Streets of Rage 4 so, so good?
Which VR game made Chris feel like he was truly 'in space'?
ROUND TWO
What is Minty's excuse for playing Skyrim for eleventy billion hours and not 100-percenting the main game?
Is Skyrim worth playing in virtual reality?
Just how 'new' was New Super Mario Bros?
Why does Jonathan 'not accept' Super Mario Advance as a legitimate 2D Mario title?
Does Minty ever get bored when Chris and Jonathan get all toasty about the Sega Saturn?
And why is Chris simultaneously incredibly excited and dreadfully upset to talk about Panzer Dragoon Saga?
Phew!!
Answers on a postcard, team!
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Today is the start of the week, and therefore the start of another Our Three Cents ODYSSEY!
Can you believe we are now sixty games deep? There's been some crossover, sure, but still, we have now collectively delivered ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY monologues about our favourite games.
'fore we raise this hallowed number to 183, listen out for: a mysterious creak on Minty's audio channel (a genuine prize for ANYONE who gets close to identifying its source - details on our Facebook page!); a deep discussion on secondary school discos; thoughts of Bravely Default 2's refreshing approach to game demos; Jonathan's multiplayer PC smorgasbord; thoughts on the recent Streets of Rage 4; Chris' apology to indie developers who find themselves at the behest of unscrupulous console porting houses; and... of course... some updates on the gang's progress in Animal Crossing.
Jonathan tells of the bucolic delights of Stardew Valley.
Chris hazily remembers the Ghibli charm of Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch.
Minty is illuminated by the warm glow and feline embrace of Super Mario 3D World
Every one of these games are worth your time and attention, and hopefully you'll agree that our 40 minute chat about these wonderful titles is an equally solid way to kill a commute, or a morning lie-in if you're currently furloughed.
Stay safe. We love you all almost as much as we love video games!
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Being served up today: a sweetly hoppy brew of video game chit chat and nonsense.
For the main event, three gently sparkling jars of amber nectar as Jonathan, Chris and Minty tell tales of their 41st favourite games of all times. But of course, not before a round of aperitifs in the form of Animal Crossing waffle, as well as some thoughts on Ori and the Will of the Wisps, some classic multiplayer PC games, the recent console port of Doom 64, Super Mario Maker 2's recent update, and lockdown-induced gaming malaise.
(shall we, uh, stop with this, uh, alcoholic beverage metaphor?)
Today's MAIN EVENT games!
Chris tells some long winded stories of teenage disappointment to tee up his eventual glowing praise of Ridge Racer 3D's greatest hits approach to the Ridge Racer formula.
Jonathan places Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time atop two towering pedestals marked 'defining 3D action game' and 'best third party title on the Nintendo GameCube'.
Then finally, Minty talks up the grandiosity of Squaresoft's 16-bit crowning glory, celebrating the true artistry of the games sprite work, setting, story and soundtrack.
Drink up, lads!
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As April 2020, the longest month in recorded history, draws to a close, Our Three Cents is back to give your earholes a tickle with our sultry voices.
Are we still playing Animal Crossing?
Has Jonathan really turned to the dark side and started playing on, deep breath, the Xbox One?
Which VR games has Chris been using to escape from the reality of L O C K D O W N?
Then, hear us get excited about THREE distinct Mario games. Three! THREE!!
Mario… in a stomach!
Mario 64… but not on the N64!
Mario… that you make yourselves?
Nintendo's mascot there; as equally comfortable in an RPG, a 3D platformer, or a sandbox creation toolbox. Doff your red cap in honour of his genre-hopping maleability.
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On this week's Ournimal-Crossing Three Cents, Chris celebrates his birthday amongst friends on Jonathan's Otter Isle, Minty stuffs his pocks with eggs, and Jonathan welcomes genuine canine celebrity KK Slider!
What's this show meant to be about again?
Games! Is Roundguard, the Peggle / Rogue-lite hybrid any good? Is mobile puzzler The House of Da Vinci as good as it's inspiration, The Room? Do you really need to go through 3000 duels to conquer 3000th Duel?
Then, big entries for our big lists.
Jonathan remembers Tomb Raider: Anniversary, spinning vivid tales of his initial exposure to the series via the Sega Saturn's port of the original release before it's Wii update.
Minty is thrilled by Splatoon's 'electric newness', Nintendo's incredible foray into the world of online shooters completely devoid of screaming, racist children.
Finally, Chris relays a series of fraternal memories connected to Pro Evolution Soccer 6, the ONLY football game worth playing! (In some people’s very specific opinions! - JD)
Oh my! Games are so, so good.
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We are reliably informed that it's... Monday? In the absence of any real societal markers of time and date, why not use this weekly episode of Our Three Cents as a reminder that yes, time is passing, and yes, video games still exist.
There's more Animal Crossing chat, naturally, as well as opinions on Doom 64, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom, some eShop bargains, and… TETRIS.
Chris adds Worms Armageddon to the list of games revered by all three cents alongside Fantasy Life. Minty makes the extreeemely controversial statement (can you tell it's one of the other Centurions who writes these blurbs?) that Banjo-Tooie is the best game on the Nintendo 64. Finally, Jonathan swells with joy talking about Rare's pre-rendered sprite classic, Donkey Kong Country.
WORMS
BEAR AND BACKPACK BIRD
MONKEYS
Oh, we do spoil you!
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The boys are playing Animal Crossing, of course, but what else is floating our collective boats?
Are Chris and Jonathan going to be able to keep up their Ring Fit regimes? Why has the Panzer Dragoon remake rankled the J-man? Which eShop games are worth your pocket change? Which Gameboy exclusive sequel has Chris's heart all afloat?
Then, after the dust has settled on our April Fools fake out, what are our ACTUAL 45th favourite games of all time?
Chris gets a bit over excited talking about Diddy Kong Racing, the 'best racing game on the N64'; Minty explains why the weird animals and cultural pastiche of Pokémon Black 2 beats out much of its franchise competition; and Jonathan emerges from the depths of vault 101 to explain why the post-nuclear wasteland in Fallout 3 stands head and shoulders above its sequels.
If you'd like to argue with us about any of this week's opinions, feel free to use the following sentence pro formas:
- "CHRIS is wrong about Diddy Kong! Mario Kart 64 is truly the best kart racer on the Nintendo 64 BECAUSE..."
- "MINTY is wrong about Black 2! Generation 1/2/3/4/6/7 (delete as appropriate) is much stronger BECAUSE..."
- "JONATHAN is wrong about Fallout 3! 4 was a true evolution of the series BECAUSE..."
Be safe, stay home.
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APRIL FOO- (beer cascades out of the roof in a long shot of the Simpson's house)
Did you really believe that Minty would have returned to and, gasp, ENJOYED, Sticker Star, his previously professed least favourite Paper Mario entry?
Did Jonathan and Chris' respective digital purchases on the eShop and App Store of Grasshopper Derby and Seagull Officer really sound plausible?
Did Jonathan's Ancient Kingdom II: The Fire of Old Legends (it spells 'FOOLs' for gawd's sake!) sound too good to be true with its layered systems, ludicrous sidequests, and PC bound limited modern accessibility?
Did the anarchic spirit of the genuinely real (honestly! look it up!) Don't Sh*t Your Pants ring any alarm bells given Minty's usual penchant for sprawling adventure games and RPGs?
Did the weird spelling of Chequy alert you to the fact that Chris' 16-bit hidden gem was actually hidden to the point of non-existence?
Is self isolation really getting to us all that much?
Hope you all enjoyed this silly little aside! Regular programming will resume next week!
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is finally here and we've made the corporate decision to BREAK RANK and record a bonus episode right here and right now.
Animal Crossing is a series that has grown exponentially since its early release on the GameCube and then the DS, Wii, 3DS and arrives now on the Nintendo Switch in the midst of a global pandemic.
Does New Horizons stand up against its franchise forebears? (yes)
Does New Horizons prove that the commentariat who willed Animal Crossing to go free to play were wrong, wrong, wrong? (yes)
Will Minty, an Animal Crossing newbie, enjoy the plaintive pacing of Nintendo's life sim as much as Chris and Jonathan, the series stalwarts? (yes)
All this and MORE in this bonus episode!
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Hey, hey, kids!
Have you ever played Final Fantasy VII, Parodius: The Fantastic Journey or Luigi's Mansion 2?
If so, listen in and see what we thought of the games you may have loved or loathed. And if not so, maybe we can talk you into giving them a blast?
We three cents place hands firmly on our hearts and suggest that this generation defining RPG, this cutesy, parody shoot 'em up, and this.. hoover simulator (?) are all very, very worthy of your time.
Also this week: Jonathan finishes Outer Wilds, Minty doesn't finish Tales of Vesperia, and Chris gets someone else to finish Limbo.
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Another episode? A whole one?
Fair enough.
Is Minty still playing that Tales game? Is Jonathan likely to beat the 400 hour long Witcher 3 before Animal Crossing: New Horizons releases? Can Chris contain his excitement at winning his first Tetris Invictus Maximus?
Then the rankings. Ohhhh, the rankings.
Three games that we felt were very good. Three games that we felt were SO very good, that we took the time to talk them up within the very podcast you hold digitally in your hand.
The sumptuously narrated space-Western, Bastion.
The gorgeous, expansive collectathon masquerading as an action RPG, Xenoblade Chronicles X.
...and Sonic R? We love games and we love you.
(please wash your hands and take care of one another)
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As the weekend crumbles to dust, sweep away the Monday blues and listen as the boys tell meandering stories about their 48th favourite video games of ALL. TIME.
TUROK 2 and its BULLETS and GUNS FIREWATCH and its WALKIE TALKIES WONDER BOY 3 and its TRANSFORMATIONS
…but before we do that, perhaps you'll appreciate the long awaited return of the quiz pun? Or enjoy mulling over the thought of Ralph Fiennes hypothetically voicing the mammalian face of capitalism? Or share in Jonathan's disappointment in the relative calorific deficit of Level-5's Snack World, Chris's off-hand lamentations on The Simpson's gradual decline, or Minty's travel log through the impossibly named factions and cities of Tales of Vesperia? PLUS: Chris does a -LOT- of laughing.
Come and have fun with us.
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Our very own menthol man details how Nintendo hits it out of the park with their 'coolest' racer F-Zero GX. Our host extroadinaire revisits the gloom of Thief's grubby dark-age world in Deadly Shadows. That hairy bloke talks about Arsenal Football Club and its weird connection to Sonic Team's online experiment Phantasy Star Online.
Listen for Chris' thoughts on the Open Source Scanline Converter, Jonathan's thoughts on breaking the back of flagellation simulation Blasphemous, and Minty's thoughts on a selection of eShop demos.
PLUS:
Where are we plonking our virtual homes? Are Minty's valiant efforts to fight a four point quiz defecit in vain? Why is Chris so shit at turn-based combat? How's Jonathan getting on in S N A C K W O R L D? Why are the boys going to Butlins in Bognor Regis?
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FRATRICIDE AND SMOOCHES DAIRYLEA TRIANGLES CONVERSATIONAL BREAKDOWN
What on earth do any of these things have to do with love?
Join Our Three Cents as we, or at least Chris, willfully misinterprets the theme for this Valentine's Day special, before giving genuine recommendations for games to play with the special people that may be in your lives.
Much love from your favourite gaming goons.
In our final numbered episode of season one you will hear: a particularly weasely quiz question; Jonathan getting hot and heavy over a listener's question; some thoughts on our secret santa gifts; and Chris' thoughts on a classic.
Then more games. Three incredible games. A veritable triumvirate of bloody good games.
Jonathan talks up one of the best handheld Mario games of all time whilst simultaneously throwing swathes of depth-perception-based criticism at 1986’s Labyrinth. Minty reminisces about Pocket Monster themed ephemera present at the birth of a franchise and Chris bigs up a mostly forgotten brawling treasure from the back catalogue of the legendary Sega Saturn.
Perhaps these are games you loved? Or perhaps they're games you'll grow to love.
We certainly love them. And we love you.
Would you, our dear listeners, consumers of our humble podcast, wish to listen to our thoughts and feelings on games of the video variety?
Allow Jonathan to describe the three stages of the Souls-like, and the violent combination of Hotline Miami and MasterChef Australia. Humour Chris' attempt to intellectualise not one, not two, but THREE indie-darlings. Let Minty sell you on the joys of Volition's Saints Row: The Third through its semi-recent release for Nintendo's hybrid console offering.
Then dive into extended discussion on a flagship Ninty franchise's tentpole release; a genre defining puzzle platformer; and an arcade shooter that no-one played.
HURRY UP
It's Ocarina of Time, Wario Land 4, and TxK.
And some other bits.
What is Grand Theft Auto 3 x Metroid Zero Mission x Super Mario 64? The amount of time you should waste before listening to this episode!
Three absolute franchise behemoths feature in this swish and dense episode as we trawl our three Cents’ memories of their gaming childhoods!
Plus, the intrepid Pokémon trainers among them are nearing the end of their Galarian adventures, and Minty merges some dragons, Chris takes on a new puzzle platformer indie game in the form of Gris, and, quite fittingly as Jonathan is currently on his honeymoon, he chats about his experience in The Touryst!
Plus Minty discovers a new consonant...
PS - for the eagle-eared listeners, you may notice some temporal inconsistencies in our discussions from the last episode, which is because we recorded this episode at the tail end of last year! Almost like a flashback. Almost like a multi-narrative story. Go forwards and then go back for the full picture. Christopher Nolan would be proud!
See you next year! 2020 vision! Something something decade!
Now we’ve got all the contrived new year bumph out the way let’s enjoy the New Year episode with some contrived, vaguely Dickensian bumph:
2019 might have been an absolute mound of turds, but it’s been another great year of gaming. Jonathan has spent most of it smacking down nightmarish monsters in Lordran, Minty’s been smacking down dragons in various quests, and Chris spent most of it smacking down coloured shapes in... Tetris.
What’s been the best games of the past year, according to the centipedes? What games are they looking to in the future? What did they get in their secret Santa presents?
Find out all this and more as we delve into the Games of past, present and future. Happy New Year everyone!
NINTENDO FIFTY FOURRRRRRRR
THIS WEEK: Chris gets annoyed at shoddy portsmanship of a storied RPG franchise. Jonathan can't be bothered with Star Wars: Law and Order. Minty takes an extended dip in a rusty lake.
Let the boys' fifty fourth favourite videogames whisk you away on an island holiday! Or to another dimension by way of a portal in a mysterious underground facility! Or on a cross country roadtrip!
We challenge anyone to find a single episode of a podcast that includes conversation that flows seamlessly between Mario-themed waterboarding, the crowbar's cultural ascendency, and handheld stereoscopy's finest moment.
Please enjoy. We want you to enjoy.
This week on Our Three Cents we have another eclectic triptych of games including an Italian-plumber-based-handheld-sporting RPG, a 32-bit odyssey about a man’s obsession with hiding in a cardboard box, and an epic adventure involving a black knight in the darkness of the night whilst you try to forge some lightness into the world!
Elsewhere, Chris spends his week killing time with Suicide Guy, and we also have a full debrief on Pokémon Sword & Shield, complete with the presentation of the 1st ever annual Jonathan Andrew Dunn Pokémon Awards. Find out which lucky critters have been selected as the recipients of the coveted JADPAs!
And, more importantly, find out whether Jonathan & Chris’ school English teacher, Mr Haywood, ever got round to playing Chris’ childhood gaming creation, Dunce Goes to Hollywood?
Only on Our Three Cents. What a bunch of absolute ridiculousness. Amen.
Oh boy! In a bumper episode, hear the trio chop through a massive stack of games they've played recently, as well as their usual three listed all-time favourites!
Would you like to know our thoughts on The World Next Door, Metal Wolf Chaos, or Forager? How about Ni No Kuni and its sequel, Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz, or Bloodstained? Maybe Ring Fit Adventure, Luigi's Mansion 3, or Pokémon Sword and / or Shield? Or even the varied entries in the Cube Escape series of mobile games?
For this week's numbered entries, Minty goes for a splash with the Gamecube's legendary Wind Waker and regales its avian-come-oceanic story with the gusto of a Jackanory presenter; Chris shoots some baddies with a plastic pistol and a bulky cathode ray tube television in the fantastic home port of Time Crisis 2; and Jonathan goes deep on the late Clover Studio's ridiculously stylish whack-em-up Viewtiful Joe.
(big deep breath)
So come along and enjoy some of O3C's most impressive expletive bleeping, some silly callbacks for long term fans, everyone's favourite Pokémon, 'Floopididoop', as well as a LOT of curry.
On the menu this week - the further adventures of Minty questing after dragons, Jonathan grinding some stones and Chris racing a football (something like that I believe…)
In the rankings, a classic Nintendo game on a classic Nintendo system, a small fragment of AI experiencing isolation and “a big warm hug of a game.” Three really quite incredible games - real absolute bangers!
Also dogs. Well, more specifically requests for dogs. If it wasn’t implied in all our episodes previously, we now request dogs explicitly.
Dogs are great. We don’t deserve them.
Do you like videogames? Do you?!
Join an uncharacteristically excitable trio in their ongoing mission to talk up the videogames which make them happiest.
Can Chris keep up his commanding quiz lead? Is The Witcher 3's recent Switch port any cop? A few months in, how is Jonathan getting on with Mario Kart Tour's layered economy? How is Minty progressing in his personal Dragon Quest?
Onto the rankings: What makes artsy platformer Celeste so good? How long can Chris talk about Earth Defense Force, a series that no-one in the world knows of or cares about? Is Chrono Trigger worth downloading on your mobular telephone or personal computer?
(we like videogames)
After a brief, one-week hiatus to allow Jonathan to enjoy being newly married to his lovely lady wife, the boys are back in town (copyright Phil Lynott, lyrics used by permission of Vertigo Records) to once again celebrate their love of video games.
Tackling their 59th favourite video games of all time, listen intently as Jonathan gives Mario Kart 8 a big thumbs up; Minty gives a huge A-OK hand gesture in the general direction of A Link Between Worlds; and Chris gives a standing ovation to Plants vs Zombies.
Link visits a Mercedes Benz dealership on the outskirts of Hyrule Market! Dinosaurs duff each other up! Lands of both high and low topography fall into disrepair! Flooded literature! A shitty ouroborous! Plants inexplicably fighting zombies!
All of that, and probably a bit more: it's Our Three Cents.
(I apologise for the moistness of this episode - I will never again eat chocolate raisins whilst recording. I am sorry for your ears. -JD)
Boo!
Haha just kidding it’s the fellas from Our Three Cents here!
One of the benefits of paying homage to our favourite games over a period of literal years means we can show appreciation for loosely related public holidays and the like. This week, instead of our rose tinted lenses we’re looking through novelty pumpkin shaped glasses to bring you our favourite ghoulish games and monstrous memories.
Sit back, crack open a cold cauldron of spooky stew and enjoy the spinning of spine tingling gaming yarns (into cobwebs, the spookiest string).
The accusation that we three cents are just a bunch of Nintendo fanboys is usually unfounded! Especially given Chris’ notorious love of all things Mega Drive, and Jonathan’s salacious affair with the Sega Saturn library! But in an episode that touches on the three big Nintendo RPG series, it’s hard to argue that we don’t absolutely flipping love Nin-ruddy-tendo!
Swords, shields, monsters and incest - the main pillars of many games, are all present here! We also take some time to discuss the ongoing questing of Minty and his dragons whilst he attempts to escape rooms on his phone; Jonathan having a wonderful time venturing into the blind forest with Ori, and Chris’ tremendous disappointment with poorly ported retro games!
It’s all good fun!
Honk! This week on Our Three Cents, the chaps are all horrible. “What’s different from usual?” I hear you ask! Well, this time, they’re all horrible geese! Enabled by the sterling work of House House, Untitled Goose Game has captured all of our imaginations - find out what these three cents think of the game here. Will you be having a honkingly good time terrorising the neighbourhood?
Also, hear all about Nintendo’s latest mobile release in Mario Kart Tour - is it worth your time?
Meanwhile a can of time worms is opened as Chris waxes lyrical about his time on the open road with the cult classic, Euro Truck Simulator 2; Jonathan wanes chordially about his titanic adventure in Xenoblade Chronicles 2; and Minty moons melodically about the hugely successful Final Fantasy & Disney chimera that is Kingdom Hearts!
Which of these 61st favourite video games of all time have you played?!
What’s with all of these rhetorical questions? You tell me… that’s not how rhetoric works… Sorry?
Thursday the 10th of October marks World Mental Health Awareness day. In recognition of this, our trio tell personal stories of how videogames can be a force for good in managing mental health and periods of distress or low mood.
Clone Hero, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, A Link to the Past, Alto's Adventure, Tetris, and Super Mario Bros 3. Disparate games linked here by their ability to make our triumvirate slow down, refocus, and calm.
Videogames may not be the solution for everyone, but we at Our Three Cents firmly believe in their value as tools for offering escapism, structure, or soothing nostalgia when the world seems a difficult place.
Much love to all listening. Be kind to one another.
Join Joddy Doddy, Chroddy Doddy and Moddy Boddy for another exciting half hour of gaming guff.
Can Apple save mobile gaming with the disruptive Apple Arcade? Can Nintendo sort out some of the framerate wobbles in Link's Awakening's otherwise stellar revamp? Just who or what is the Bucket Mouse?
Then, onto the rankings where the gang rip through rusty robots, golden eyes and anthropomorphic forks by way of rude words, whimsy, bullet decals, dead ends, trilbys, and joy.
They're good games, Brent.
It’s another week at the Our Three Cents towers and the lads have hoisted their banners to celebrate their 63rd favourite video games of all time. In this week, we have a gravity-defying plumber, a time-defying gunslinger, a sanity-defying beetle, and a deep analysis of what is need to make virtual reality a virtue and a reality for current generation gaming.
Meanwhile, the gang conjure some veritable computer-game Chimeras thanks to a listener question about genre-bending classic game series; Jonathan’s Astral adventure is off the chain; Minty is pining for a horrible goose; and Chris has apparently started working as a part-time Samsung TV troubleshooting guru!
Behold.
Look, mate, we know it's hard being the only kid in the playground during Monday lunch not talking about the latest Our Three Cents episode.
They'll all be talking up how Chris was banging on about the Mega Drive yet again whilst Jonathan and Minty had a bit of a Zelda love-in, and you'll be staring at your shoes thinking 'if only I were a centurion, if only I knew what the boys 64th favourite video games of all time were'.
Now you can. Now you can!
Embrace the cents. b e c o m e t h e c e n t
Mario guest stars alongside Ubisoft's Minion-esque abominations, Parappa the Rapper hands the spotlight to his guitar playing pal, and Tim Schafer goes all weird again.
Three great games, talked up by three great guys!
Also, learn the answers to questions as varied as: Can Chris continue to engorge his quiz win tally on account of Minty's cross Atlantic phone delay? How many This War of Mine scenarios will Jonathan play through before he suffers a case of mental distress not too dissimilar to the games protagonists? How has Minty spent his tax rebate?
In just five minutes marvel as the trio chat about: a noughties pop sensation! Onions! Extreme heat! Beasts of ascending sizes! Chris misunderstanding the word ‘unique’!
Then, with your podcast appetites whet, listen on for a further 25 minutes as Minty talks up his collection of purses, Chris goes on and on about a load of balls, and Jonathan reflects upon his favourite co-op experience of all time.
Three lovely games that you should listen to us talk about, and then go out and beg, borrow or steal* to play yourselves.
(*Our Three Cents do not condone burglary with intent to thieve… … … … … …unless it’s the only way in which you can access Puzzle and Dragons, Beautiful Katamari, or Rayman Legends)
It’s another week, and a Bank Holiday Monday at that, so what better way to enjoy your bonus time than by listening to this week’s episode! We discuss mobile games, virtual reality and disappointing woodland adventures. And Feathers are ruffled in the rankings this week, as we discuss what it feels like to be scared, what it feels like to be small and, most importantly, just how much starch belongs in a floppy green hat!
And if that doesn’t get you listening, I know that you’re going to want to know which game has a tenuous link to the forgotten, and incredibly niche Sega Saturn release, Enemy Zero. Listen on to find out!
This week on Our Three Cents, the chaps tackle another eclectic tryptic of games in the form of a significantly-formative childhood gaming experience featuring a mouse; an expectation-subverting modern platformer featuring a tumour; and an abbreviation-smattered classic RPG remake featuring some running shoes!
Also on the docket for discussion are Chris’ veritable summer-holiday-gaming stampede of activity; Jonathan’s veritable summer-holiday-gaming descent into pure unadulterated wartime bleakness; and Minty’s veritable summer-holiday-gaming instigation of Chris’ robo-dino-phobic beliefs!
More hyphenations than you can shake a stickily-sticky stick at!
Deal with it.
Three more games.
And good ones at that!
Punch your mates (or your AI mates if you find yourself riding solo) in an early competitor to Super Mario Kart with Minty, zip around as an Opossum who finds itself adorned recklessly with a rocket propulsion system atop its back with Chris, and look quizzical at Sonic's roughshod attempt at an isometric adventure game with Jonathan.
Additionally, enjoy a discussion on veritable hot potatoes: videogame violence, uncouth youth, and digital literacy; some extremely late to the party views on Playdead's Inside; the perils of Kickstarter funded independent games; and technobabble that fuelled the 16-bit console wars!
And all of that within a spritely 32 minutes?! YES!
P-p-pick up a podcast! In this 'p' filled episode the chums embark on a merry hike across seasons, portmanteau'd archipelagos and a facsimile of continental europe. An uncharacteristically raunchy episode, listener discretion is advised (unless you want to be cursed with thinking about a Charmander's naughty bits).
Take shelter from the UK's unseasonably warm start to the summer, by allowing the cool, soothing tones of three doofi (doofus; plural) talk sunny, bright weather and sunny, bright games.
Find a comfy spot in the garden, crack open a fizzy pop, then injure your neck as you twist to best utilise the sun's searing rays to illuminate your Gameboy's monochrome screen, sharing all the while in the summer gaming memories of three young men who could probably do with getting outside a bit more.
Football! Progressive rock! Balance boards! Family holidays! It's all here. As well as, of course, the usual nerdy discussion on games past, present and future that we assume you all harbour an insatiable taste for.
BLUE SKIES FOREVER
Marvel as three ostensibly sober adults appear inebriated through sheer early 30s tiredness, as the boys discuss their 71st favourite videogames of all time.
Let Minty sleepily teach you why Banjo Kazooie a particular treat for the neurodiverse. Allow Jonathan to elucidate you on the echidna, and reflect on how accurately Sonic & Knuckles portrays this egg-laying mammal. Finally, let Chris refresh your GCSE English skills by recalling the difference between the definite and indefinite article in a tangential aside when discussing Sid Meier's Pirates.
Games, eh?
Congratulations on arriving at the start of another week! Whether or not you have much time for games yourself, listen to the boys recommend the best way to stuff 30 minute windows of stolen gaming time, wax lyrical over the pedagogical approach Nintendo have taken with Super Mario Maker 2’s story mode, before settling in for another esoteric trio of video games linked only by their matching places on three distinct numerical lists.
Jonathan extols the virtue of doing a lot with a little on the Gameboy Advance’s diminutive screen; Chris details the outfit that saw him sneered at when attempting to master the Happy Gilmore swing at a local driving range; and Minty gets all tangled in pastel coloured yarn.
Also: an 'I Love You' present, an abrasive impression of a British children's TV institution, and at least one word that only Minty can comfortably wield in day to day life.
This week, two games from the Super Mario Extended Universe feature as Jonathan & Minty’s choices, in addition to a literal curveball (rotating disc) from Chris!
Meanwhile, some things never change - like traffic congestion, pencils and the inevitability of death. Also not changing are our video gaming habits this week: Jonathan’s tackling a Metroidvania indie game, Chris is playing a retro classic and Minty is continuing his tactical adventure through Dead Cells.
Also, a user question turns the table on another user question, and we discuss what the best movie video games are! Listen to find out if your favourite movie or indeed, your favourite game is mentioned!
This episode is absolutely jam packed with top class video game chat! Talc up, and dive in!
In our most disparate trio of games yet, our three gamers discuss their 74th favourite video games of all time! Elsewhere, voyeurism, a sad fat man, a little red fella and a multitude of hats collide in our weekly video game chat! Oh, and Jonathan destroys Minty’s precious childhood memory. Whoops.
As we reach the quarter mark in our countdown, a phenomenal phenomenon occurs with the first tri-peat of the series with Minty also reflecting on his interesting fictional existence! Elsewhere in this pun-tastic episode, Chris enjoys plunging his way down memory lane with a legendary Disney adventure and Jonathan once again reverts to his dastardly thieving ways! Else-elsewhere we also discuss the cons of retro throwbacks in games, alternative Japanese video game titles, the little known MMEU (Mickey Mouse Extended Universe) and we gain a new mascot in the gloriously-named Granny Rags!
E3, or the Eideo Eames Eonference, has come and gone once again to delight and disappoint swathes of angry entitled nerds. We take a break from our regularly scheduled chat about three games to tackle the mammoth docket of Everything Nintendo Announced, and Whatever That Thing They Wheeled Out Keanu Reeves For was. We discuss each company's approach to showcasing their upcoming releases and, whilst Jonathan attempts to retain some PokéOptimism, Minty is jumping aboard the Pokémon Hate Steam Train (this is a joke that references the setting of the new games by way of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Minty wishes he’d come up with it when we recorded), and Chris is ready to cross oceans to raise a riot in the Pokémon head office! Come and listen to how we somehow talk about 60 games in 45 minutes!!
In the most punctuated episode of Our Three Cents yet, Chris becomes an accountant, Jonathan becomes an anarchist and Minty becomes an antagonist!
Also, slammed own on the Our Three Cents round table of discussion by a Twitter fan is the matter of video game movies. Coming hot on the heels of our thoughts on Detective Pikachu, we dive into a deep dissection of literally EVERY video game cinematic adaptation ever made and those to come!
This week on Our Three Cents, Jonathan recalls how he lived out his best fantasy life in deepest Africa, Chris descends into a hypnotic claustrophobic nightmare to pass some time, and find out why Color Splash is the Titanic of the Paper Mario series.
Elsewhere, Jonathan has gone on an Indie Game spree tackling a series of games including a small, bespectacled scientist, a big ol’ face-rock and electrified tentacled atrocities. Chris had a few small weeps experiencing an Old Man’s Journey and Minty has been having a wonderfully idyllic time randomly naming a variety of chickens!
This week on Our Three Cents, the birds are singing as we take another eclectic trip down memory lane! Outside of the space sex, hard-hitting rhythmic punk and fishy mishaps that make up the boys’ rankings this week, you can find out if Detective Pikachu is the greatest computer game movie ever made!
Also featuring Dennis Hopper, and a gorilla covered in roast beef. Boomshakalaka!
This week the lads are all investing in their latest obsession in Konami Pixel Puzzle Collection, whilst Jonathan has been off shaking the Hand of Gilgamech in SteamWorld Quest and Chris has been gearing up for Borderlands 3! All the while, one of the Arsenal fans within the collective have been venting their frustrations in their team’s downward turn in New Star Manager! We also decide to throw around the very hottest of accessible potatoes where we discuss the recent discourse about notoriously difficult games and the potential inclusion of Easy modes.
Meanwhile in the rankings, Minty visits the spectral plain with a very spooky entry, Jonathan takes another adorable trip down memory lane and Chris gets his brain tied in a series of complex and metaphysical knots!
This week, in a total car crash of an episode, Chris burns out, Minty pokes a small boy with a dream and Jonathan takes a thoroughly leisurely stroll down memory lane - a lane lined with cows, turnips and Christmas disappointment! Elsewhere, we all get our Picross on thanks to Konami’s new mobile game, Minty tries his hand at Cuphead, and Jonathan sees Image & Form knock yet another genre out of the park first time in their new RPG, SteamWorld Quest!
In Our Three Cents this week, we have a Rare convergence - covering a full complement of video game tropes from border control admin to racist tigers, with ambiguous inter-solar nuclear operations in between! We also take Prince Harry to task on his Fortnite thoughts, and the boys get sucked in by the newest starriest football management game!
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Featuring: "Madotsuki's Story - Children Theme" by Francisco Jurado Gálvez
This week on Our Three Cents, Minty joins in the Dead Cells fun, just as Jonathan is moving on to playing, what seems like literally, all the other games - ping-ponging from the ludicrously unchallenging Yoshi’s Crafted World to the sadistically-designed Shakira: Hips Lie Twice, and covering a myriad of other recent releases in between! Meanwhile Chris is getting his retro on with some lovely electro-synth mobile pinball action! The chaps also discuss their 82nd favourite video games of all time featuring such classic video-game tropes as shallow tools, pickup trucks, strategic anxiety and the origins of grinding! Plus our dear old friend, nominative determinism rears their appropriately-named head - gender un-assumed.
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At Our Three Cents we understand the profound importance that the innumerable faith systems play in the lives of all people across the globe. Therefore, on this most holy (and importantly, four day) weekend, we offer to you a solemn and reflective Easter special episode, which we hope will help you fully comprehend not only the gravity, but also the jubilation of this observed holiday. Contains excessively silly stuff about Romans, a very sexy Wario and dollops of fresh rabbit! All topped off with lashings of hot egg!
This week on Our Three Cents the chaps discuss their favourite Disney games, Jonathan embraces his inner Shinobi, Chris takes us on a retro arcade trip back to before any of us were born, and Minty forgets how to sit on a chair!
It’s coming up monkeys this week on Our Three Cents, with apes out everywhere in Jonathan’s abode, Minty monkeying about with some bread and butter, and Chris is just dropping some simian faux pas all over the shop!
This week on Our Three Cents, sickness (rotten colds) abound with Minty and Jonathan delivering the episode from their respective death beds (not actually dying). Thankfully, Chris is on hand to bring the energy and enthusiasm, divulging some deeply personal pudding-related predilections, revealing some fascinatingly pedantic trivial tidbits, and mourning the untamed spirit of Kurt Cobain. All the while in their paracetamol-induced hazes, the chaps concoct the concept for a Super Crash Bros racing compilation! Bon.
In a real trip down memory lane, this week the chaps recount all manner of recollections from hungover poolside birds, astrally-projected book clouds, and shouting incendiary warnings during vintage old-school threesomes! Plus Chris embarks on a new RPG to try and finish in the next 10 years, find out what’s hiding in Minty’s chest, and witness Jonathan suffering with a severe case of Dead Cells! It’s classic Our Three Cents.
This episode serves as an endearing study of friendship, co-operation and stories about caves! With Tetris fever still rife in the Our Three Cents camp, will the boys be able to stay focuses enough to recount their 87th favourite video games of all time? Sort of. But really not.
In a jam-packed episode this week, we have our first repeat entry - the chaps are more riddled with Worms than ever before! In a surprising video game industry twist, Tetris is the suddenly the most revolutionary title on the market again - life really is strange! And whilst Minty plays with his suspiciously-designed pocket monsters, Jonathan explains why Blowfish Studio’s Minesweeper Genius is better than Red Dead Redemption 2! Discuss.
In a hot-headed episode of Our Three Cents, the chaps engage in all out battle over some 64-bit classics, Jonathan keeps his thieving up with a new indie game, Minty channels his inner sullen misanthrope as he duals with the Devil, and Chris beats up a car with a palm tree! Also, what does Arsene Wenger have to do with making video games harder? Find out what these pros did when they found old games too easy!
Gathered in the Our Three Cents towers, the boys dissect some revolutionary first-person video games, Chris waves the pixellated flag of an indie game, Jonathan comes to terms with his harrowing freemium game addiction, and Minty goes on a trip down memory lane, a long time ago… far, far away… (insert better Star Wars reference here). This episode is so chock full of succulent detail and rich metaphysics that an art critic would deem it ‘satisfactory’.
This week on Our Three Cents, the boys forms a series of vendettas! Minty voices his frustrations with Ed McMillen; Jonathan is frankly livid with the developers of the Lemmings mobile game, and Chris continues his crusade against conventional logic when it comes to assessing which video games to spend his time on! And the terrible plague of worms continues to spread across another episode!
Really tight selection of games this week! Two linked by the medium of comics, two linked by being in 3D, 2 linked by nommynomive dooberryism, all 3 linked by being our 92nd favourite games. Who will emerge as 1/100 of a Victor in the trivia showdown? Will the dog make a surprise cameo this week? Will Minty be able to continue the podcast in spite of his terrible case of worms? And what of the Deep Lore???
This episode has it all! Evil bags, lamentations about finger-pointing at seemingly derivative titles, inflammatory accusations leveled at incredibly average footballers, natural disasters, and that new quiz section we started last week. Listen in to discover the exchange rate between a ‘Chris Hour’ and a ‘Jonathan Hour’, and learn about the Guitar Hero modding community. Just as a good thing came to Minty overnight in the form of his Tales of Vesperia download, here is a good thing that has come to You, Who Hath Waited. SPOILER ALERT: Deep lore abounds.
In an unintentional PC special episode, the chaps resurrect memories of some classic desktop computer games in the week’s rankings! Their childhood memories also feature reminiscences of some classic game shows as Stars in their Eyes, Going for Gold, and a pitch for a brand new Michael Barrymore vehicle! Fittingly, this episode also introduces a new regular Quiz section, pitting Minty v Chris in a battle of video-games-trivia-related wits! To the death! (Not to the death)
‘Changing Reality’ by Kai Engel is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial License.
In a lovely divisible-by-five-ranking episode, the 'fellas’ cast a critical eye on beloved children's authors, honour the sacrifice of Jonathan's dad's thumb, and scour the ancient Yahoo forums to confirm rumours surrounding Joe Satriani. Also there is video game. The week’s featured Smash spirits: Ashnard, Koffing and Linebeck.
Now that the thrill of being united simply by the love of gaming has worn out, this episode sees us united by geography for the first time ever! With nothing but a table separating us, we have our first mobile game and noodle around the elitism shrouding the platform like a gamer fuel-induced fart, explore the layers of enjoyment of a inter-presenter gift, and gripe about the oft-referenced ‘golden’ age of When Video Games Were Hard. Includes a special appearance from a bumbling woodland friend in potential peril.
Ho ho ho!! In a special episode of Our Three Cents, the chaps recount memories of gaming at Christmas time, in addition to comparing notes on some festive-themed games from times past! So microwave yourself a comforting cup of mulled something, yank a cracker, scoff a pie, drape tinsel from your face and pop your feet all the way ruddy up, and enjoy!
The chums converge on a recent release, which sends them off on a session of rampant nostalgia and unanswered questions. Why did Chris’ dad call his Blastoise ‘black cab?’ What did Minty do with a condom when he was ten? Can Jonathan keep this ship afloat? Find out as you listen to three people really hammer home just how thirty-something they all are.
Schindler’s List, Penny Crayon and bottles of wee! Find out what links these pillars of society together in Episode 3 of Our Three Cents, as the boys wax lyrical about their 98th favourite video games of all time. Plus, has Chris found his new favourite game in a recent release?
This week on Our Three Cents, Jonathan, Chris and Minty examine the full gamut of video game technology, discussing Virtual Reality and old school 16-bit ambitions! Plus, what have they been playing this week? Someone takes on Dark Souls for the first time - have they now succumbed to being a lifeless husk of a gamer? Find out in Episode 2, along with the reveal of the boys’ 99th favourite video games of all time!
In the inaugural episode of Our Three Cents, Jonathan Dunn, Chris Dow and Minty Booth discuss the first entry in their Top 100 Video Games of All Time lists. Join them in a trip down memory lane as they trawl the archives of their video game libraries to pull out three games they deem to be their 100th favourite game!