O3C Games

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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