O3C Games

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 Seki...

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 pl...

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 t...

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 o...

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. J...

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 atmospher...

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...

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 class...

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 Ri...

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 ce...

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 yes...

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...

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...

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 hu...

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 lockdo...

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 thei...

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 S...

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...

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...

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 main...

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 sw...

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 nex...

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.. ( w...

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...

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 impressio...