O3C Games

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 Knig...

(..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 ‘indefin...

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 sump...

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...

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 Skii...

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...

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...

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 King...

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, Observ...

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 gam...

CURVEBALL [ˈkərvbôl] NOUN baseball a 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" informal something which is unexpected, surprising, or disruptive. "It was a real curveball when Minty Booth crowned seldom remembered, oft-forgotten N64 ti...

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 Accomplish...

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 t...

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 pre...

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 D...

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...

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 th...

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 i...

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...

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...

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 en...

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-ma...

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...

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...

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 ho...