O3C Games

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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Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges
Minty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo

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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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Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
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Minty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo

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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 - www.twitter.com/clement_boo

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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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Minty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo

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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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Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges
Minty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo

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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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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Alex Dunn, Nathan Bain, Sam Roberts, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe and Thomas Duncan!

Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges
Minty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo

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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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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Alex Dunn, Nathan Bain, Sam Roberts, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe and Thomas Duncan!

Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges
Minty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo

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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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Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Alex Dunn, Nathan Bain, Sam Roberts, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe and Thomas Duncan!

Reach out to us individually:
Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunn
Chris - www.twitter.com/Chas_Hodges
Minty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo

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