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Jonathan Dunn, Chris Dow & Minty Booth chat about all things video games!

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Bonus Level - Your Three Cents
04-10-2021
Bonus Level - Your Three Cents
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 Boyswww.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — — The Top 10 Top 10 Lists!Andy Smith1. XCOM 22. GoldenEye3. DOTA4. Civilisation 45. The Witness6. Age of Empires 27. Command & Conquer: Red Alert8. Halo: Combat Evolved9. Don’t Starve10. Final Fantasy VIIIPeyton (RNG Party)1. Megaman X2. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance3. Pokémon Red/Blue4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild5. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind6. Stardew Valley7. Fire Emblem Awakening8. Kirby 649. Super Mario World10. Civilisation 5Kaspar (MetroidVaniac)1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild2. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt3. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time5. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds6. Hollow Knight7. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night8. Bloodborne9. Fallout: New Vegas10. Metroid PrimeGene Limbrick1. GTA IV2. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (1-3 really…)3. Counter Strike4. Shadow of the Colossus (series)5. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (series)6. Road Rash7. Driver8. Max Payne (series)9. Quake 210. Mass Effect 2Gethin Jones1. Final Fantasy VII2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim3. Tomb Raider4. Final Fantasy VIII5. Resident Evil 26. Batman: Arkham Asylum7. Portal8. Tomb Raider 29. Dead Space10. Resident Evil 4Ioan Gwyn1. Resident Evil 22. Tomb Raider 23. Bioshock4. Super Mario Kart5. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time6. Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 27. Metal Gear Solid8. Portal 29. Dead Space10. Street Fighter II: Champion EditionBen (RNG Party)1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild2. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D3. Final Fantasy XIII4. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse5. Mario Kart 86. Wipeout Omega Collection7. Pokémon Red/Blue8. Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon9. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door10. Attack of the Friday MonstersMike Williams1. Banjo Kazoo2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild3. Metroid Prime4. Bloodborne5. Hollow Knight6. Super Smash Bros Melee7. Pokémon Red8. Dark Souls 39. Super Metroid10. Halo 3Lewiss Norman1. GoldenEye2. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge3. Metal Gear Solid4. Sensible World of Soccer5. Half-Life6. Grand Theft Auto7. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt8. Red Dead Redemption 29. Battlefield Vietnam10. Command & Conquer: Tiberian SunDavid Boys-Layton1. Dark Souls2. Cannon Fodder3. Warhammer: Dawn of War4. Fallout: New Vegas5. Tyranny6. Speedball 27. PES 20108. Warframe9. GoldenEye10. Tetris— — — — — — — — — —Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Nathan Bain, Chris Walker, Sam Roberts, Alex Dunn and Ross Ewing!Connect with us via a selection of social media platforms:Our Three Cents | LinktreeReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo
Number 2 (Jonathan Dunn) - Metroid Prime
13-09-2021
Number 2 (Jonathan Dunn) - Metroid Prime
(..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.QUIZANOTHER 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 GAMESJonathan 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 GAMENintendo 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.www.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — — Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Nathan Bain, Chris Walker, Sam Roberts and Alex Dunn!Connect with us via a selection of social media platforms: Our Three Cents | LinktreeReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo
Number 2 (Minty Booth) - Pokemon Silver
06-09-2021
Number 2 (Minty Booth) - Pokemon Silver
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.www.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — — Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Nathan Bain, Chris Walker, Sam Roberts and Alex Dunn!Connect with us via a selection of social media platforms: Our Three Cents | LinktreeReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo
Number 3 (Minty Booth) - The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past
09-08-2021
Number 3 (Minty Booth) - The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past
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!www.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — — Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Dominic Kemp, Chris Walker, Sam Roberts and Alex Dunn!Connect with us via a selection of social media platforms: Our Three Cents | LinktreeReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo
Number 4 (Minty Booth) - Space Station Silicon Valley
12-07-2021
Number 4 (Minty Booth) - Space Station Silicon Valley
CURVEBALL[ˈkərvbôl] NOUNbaseballa 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”— — — — — — — — — — 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.www.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — — Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Dominic Kemp, Chris Walker and Alex Dunn!Watch our video content on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dZ2gmgSubscribe to our Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/o3cpodcastHelp support us in exchange for some incredible perks: www.patreon.com/ourthreecentsBrowse all previous episodes at: www.ourthreecents.co.ukJoin in the conversation with us: www.facebook.com/ourthreecentsFollow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/o3cpodcastReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo
Number 4 (Chris Dow) - Tetris
05-07-2021
Number 4 (Chris Dow) - Tetris
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!www.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — — Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Dominic Kemp, Chris Walker and Alex Dunn!Watch our video content on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dZ2gmgSubscribe to our Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/o3cpodcastHelp support us in exchange for some incredible perks: www.patreon.com/ourthreecentsBrowse the episodes from Season 1: www.ourthreecents.co.ukJoin in the conversation with us: www.facebook.com/ourthreecentsFollow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/o3cpodcastReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo
Number 5 (Jonathan Dunn) - Thief II: The Metal Age
28-06-2021
Number 5 (Jonathan Dunn) - Thief II: The Metal Age
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? Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Dominic Kemp, Chris Walker and Alex Dunn!www.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — —Watch our video content on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dZ2gmgSubscribe to our Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/o3cpodcastHelp support us in exchange for some incredible perks: www.patreon.com/ourthreecentsBrowse all previous episodes to date: www.ourthreecents.co.ukJoin in the conversation with us: Our Three CentsFollow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/o3cpodcastReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo
Bonus Level - Punting and Gathering! (Euro 2020 Special)
21-06-2021
Bonus Level - Punting and Gathering! (Euro 2020 Special)
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.www.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — —Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Dominic Kemp, Chris Walker and Alex Dunn!Watch our video content on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dZ2gmgSubscribe to our Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/o3cpodcastHelp support us in exchange for some incredible perks: www.patreon.com/ourthreecentsBrowse all previous episodes to date: www.ourthreecents.co.ukJoin in the conversation with us: Our Three CentsFollow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/o3cpodcastReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo
Number 5 (Minty Booth) - Paper Mario
14-06-2021
Number 5 (Minty Booth) - Paper Mario
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.www.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — —Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Dominic Kemp, Chris Walker and Alex Dunn!Watch our video content on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dZ2gmgSubscribe to our Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/o3cpodcastHelp support us in exchange for some incredible perks: www.patreon.com/ourthreecentsBrowse the episodes from Season 1: www.ourthreecents.co.ukJoin in the conversation with us: www.facebook.com/ourthreecentsFollow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/o3cpodcastReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo
Number 5 (Chris Dow) - Super Mario Odyssey
07-06-2021
Number 5 (Chris Dow) - Super Mario Odyssey
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’!!!www.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — — Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Dominic Kemp, Chris Walker and Alex Dunn!Watch our video content on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dZ2gmgSubscribe to our Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/o3cpodcastHelp support us in exchange for some incredible perks: www.patreon.com/ourthreecentsBrowse the episodes from Season 1: www.ourthreecents.co.ukJoin in the conversation with us: www.facebook.com/ourthreecentsFollow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/o3cpodcastReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo
Bonus Level - We've Got Balls!
31-05-2021
Bonus Level - We've Got Balls!
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!www.ourthreecents.co.uk— — — — — — — — — — Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead, Jasper Blacketer, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Dominic Kemp, Chris Walker and Alex Dunn!Watch our video content on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dZ2gmgSubscribe to our Twitch channel: www.twitch.tv/o3cpodcastHelp support us in exchange for some incredible perks: www.patreon.com/ourthreecentsBrowse the episodes from Season 1: www.ourthreecents.co.ukJoin in the conversation with us: www.facebook.com/ourthreecentsFollow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/o3cpodcastReach out to us individually:Jonathan - www.twitter.com/jonathandunnChris - www.twitter.com/Chas_HodgesMinty - www.twitter.com/clement_boo