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 outr...
Jun 29, 2020•47 min•Season 2Ep. 18
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 al...
Jun 22, 2020•50 min•Season 2Ep. 17
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 ...
Jun 15, 2020•43 min•Season 2Ep. 16
…oh, hello! Didn't see you there. I was just listening to the latest episode of Our Three Cents here. You won't believe it, but in this podcast, these three little boys tell stories about their favourite games of all time, and in this very episode they're talking up the games they proclaim to be their 36th favourite games ever made. In addition, they talk about some of the current games they've been playing. Fancy that, eh? This fella called Chris has been playing some weird title called Ace of ...
Jun 08, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 15
After almost two years in the video game trenches, our heroes, Jonathan, Chris and Minty, have reached number 37 on their lists. Jonathan strikes fear into Chris' heart as he nears the end of construction on his Super Mario Maker 2 Super World, and then invites us all to Golf with Friends. Chris tarts up his Animal Crossing island, and beams with admiration at two indie games: Gone Home and Desert Child. Minty treads water with a smidgen of Dead Cells, a pinch of Labyrinth of Refrain, and lashin...
Jun 01, 2020•50 min•Season 2Ep. 14
The games start coming, and they don't stop coming, eh? Tetris Attack, a game in no way connected to Tetris entertains Mr Dow. Mr Booth continues to flit merrily through Labyrinth of Refrain, but also returns to Dead Cells. Mr Dunn brings a veritable cavalcade of games to the table as he continues to make progress in Lonely Mountains, New Horizons, as well as his magnum epic Super World opus in Super Mario Maker 2. Then, our number 38s. Monsieur 'Egyptian Boat' gets tangled in his attempts to ta...
May 25, 2020•46 min•Season 2Ep. 13
It's a week of - q u e s t i o n s - ROUND ONE Will Minty continue his meteoric quiz comeback? How is Minty doing with the big bees of Labyrinth of Refrain, a dungeon crawler he hasn't picked up since the beginning of the podcast? How many games has Jonathan beaten during a fallow period of self-employment due to lockdown? Can you count the number of racing games the boys lavish praise upon in the first fifteen minutes of the episode? Why is Streets of Rage 4 so, so good? Which VR game made Chri...
May 18, 2020•52 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Today is the start of the week, and therefore the start of another Our Three Cents ODYSSEY! Can you believe we are now sixty games deep? There's been some crossover, sure, but still, we have now collectively delivered ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY monologues about our favourite games. 'fore we raise this hallowed number to 183, listen out for: a mysterious creak on Minty's audio channel (a genuine prize for ANYONE who gets close to identifying its source - details on our Facebook page!); a deep discuss...
May 11, 2020•46 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Being served up today: a sweetly hoppy brew of video game chit chat and nonsense. For the main event, three gently sparkling jars of amber nectar as Jonathan, Chris and Minty tell tales of their 41st favourite games of all times. But of course, not before a round of aperitifs in the form of Animal Crossing waffle, as well as some thoughts on Ori and the Will of the Wisps, some classic multiplayer PC games, the recent console port of Doom 64, Super Mario Maker 2's recent update, and lockdown-indu...
May 04, 2020•46 min•Season 2Ep. 10
As April 2020, the longest month in recorded history, draws to a close, Our Three Cents is back to give your earholes a tickle with our sultry voices. Are we still playing Animal Crossing? Has Jonathan really turned to the dark side and started playing on, deep breath, the Xbox One? Which VR games has Chris been using to escape from the reality of L O C K D O W N? Then, hear us get excited about THREE distinct Mario games. Three! THREE!! Mario… in a stomach! Mario 64… but not on the N64! Mario… ...
Apr 27, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 9
On this week's Ournimal-Crossing Three Cents, Chris celebrates his birthday amongst friends on Jonathan's Otter Isle, Minty stuffs his pocks with eggs, and Jonathan welcomes genuine canine celebrity KK Slider! What's this show meant to be about again? Games! Is Roundguard, the Peggle / Rogue-lite hybrid any good? Is mobile puzzler The House of Da Vinci as good as it's inspiration, The Room? Do you really need to go through 3000 duels to conquer 3000th Duel? Then, big entries for our big lists. J...
Apr 20, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 8
We are reliably informed that it's... Monday? In the absence of any real societal markers of time and date, why not use this weekly episode of Our Three Cents as a reminder that yes, time is passing, and yes, video games still exist. There's more Animal Crossing chat, naturally, as well as opinions on Doom 64, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom, some eShop bargains, and… TETRIS. Chris adds Worms Armageddon to the list of games revered by all three cents alongside Fantasy Life. Minty makes the ex...
Apr 13, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 7
The boys are playing Animal Crossing, of course, but what else is floating our collective boats? Are Chris and Jonathan going to be able to keep up their Ring Fit regimes? Why has the Panzer Dragoon remake rankled the J-man? Which eShop games are worth your pocket change? Which Gameboy exclusive sequel has Chris's heart all afloat? Then, after the dust has settled on our April Fools fake out, what are our ACTUAL 45th favourite games of all time? Chris gets a bit over excited talking about Diddy ...
Apr 06, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 6
APRIL FOO- (beer cascades out of the roof in a long shot of the Simpson's house) Did you really believe that Minty would have returned to and, gasp, ENJOYED, Sticker Star, his previously professed least favourite Paper Mario entry? Did Jonathan and Chris' respective digital purchases on the eShop and App Store of Grasshopper Derby and Seagull Officer really sound plausible? Did Jonathan's Ancient Kingdom II: The Fire of Old Legends (it spells 'FOOLs' for gawd's sake!) sound too good to be true w...
Apr 01, 2020•28 min
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is finally here and we've made the corporate decision to BREAK RANK and record a bonus episode right here and right now. Animal Crossing is a series that has grown exponentially since its early release on the GameCube and then the DS, Wii, 3DS and arrives now on the Nintendo Switch in the midst of a global pandemic. Does New Horizons stand up against its franchise forebears? (yes) Does New Horizons prove that the commentariat who willed Animal Crossing to go free to...
Mar 25, 2020•24 min
Hey, hey, kids! Have you ever played Final Fantasy VII, Parodius: The Fantastic Journey or Luigi's Mansion 2? If so, listen in and see what we thought of the games you may have loved or loathed. And if not so, maybe we can talk you into giving them a blast? We three cents place hands firmly on our hearts and suggest that this generation defining RPG, this cutesy, parody shoot 'em up, and this.. hoover simulator (?) are all very, very worthy of your time. Also this week: Jonathan finishes Outer W...
Mar 23, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Another episode? A whole one? Fair enough. Is Minty still playing that Tales game? Is Jonathan likely to beat the 400 hour long Witcher 3 before Animal Crossing: New Horizons releases? Can Chris contain his excitement at winning his first Tetris Invictus Maximus? Then the rankings. Ohhhh, the rankings. Three games that we felt were very good. Three games that we felt were SO very good, that we took the time to talk them up within the very podcast you hold digitally in your hand. The sumptuously ...
Mar 16, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 4
As the weekend crumbles to dust, sweep away the Monday blues and listen as the boys tell meandering stories about their 48th favourite video games of ALL. TIME. TUROK 2 and its BULLETS and GUNS FIREWATCH and its WALKIE TALKIES WONDER BOY 3 and its TRANSFORMATIONS …but before we do that, perhaps you'll appreciate the long awaited return of the quiz pun? Or enjoy mulling over the thought of Ralph Fiennes hypothetically voicing the mammalian face of capitalism? Or share in Jonathan's disappointment...
Mar 09, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Our very own menthol man details how Nintendo hits it out of the park with their 'coolest' racer F-Zero GX. Our host extroadinaire revisits the gloom of Thief's grubby dark-age world in Deadly Shadows. That hairy bloke talks about Arsenal Football Club and its weird connection to Sonic Team's online experiment Phantasy Star Online. Listen for Chris' thoughts on the Open Source Scanline Converter, Jonathan's thoughts on breaking the back of flagellation simulation Blasphemous, and Minty's thought...
Mar 02, 2020•40 min•Season 2Ep. 2
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Feb 24, 2020•Season 2Ep. 1
FRATRICIDE AND SMOOCHES DAIRYLEA TRIANGLES CONVERSATIONAL BREAKDOWN What on earth do any of these things have to do with love? Join Our Three Cents as we, or at least Chris, willfully misinterprets the theme for this Valentine's Day special, before giving genuine recommendations for games to play with the special people that may be in your lives. Much love from your favourite gaming goons.
Feb 14, 2020•21 min
In our final numbered episode of season one you will hear: a particularly weasely quiz question; Jonathan getting hot and heavy over a listener's question; some thoughts on our secret santa gifts; and Chris' thoughts on a classic. Then more games. Three incredible games. A veritable triumvirate of bloody good games. Jonathan talks up one of the best handheld Mario games of all time whilst simultaneously throwing swathes of depth-perception-based criticism at 1986’s Labyrinth. Minty reminisces ab...
Feb 10, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Would you, our dear listeners, consumers of our humble podcast, wish to listen to our thoughts and feelings on games of the video variety? Allow Jonathan to describe the three stages of the Souls-like, and the violent combination of Hotline Miami and MasterChef Australia. Humour Chris' attempt to intellectualise not one, not two, but THREE indie-darlings. Let Minty sell you on the joys of Volition's Saints Row: The Third through its semi-recent release for Nintendo's hybrid console offering. The...
Feb 03, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 49
What is Grand Theft Auto 3 x Metroid Zero Mission x Super Mario 64? The amount of time you should waste before listening to this episode! Three absolute franchise behemoths feature in this swish and dense episode as we trawl our three Cents’ memories of their gaming childhoods! Plus, the intrepid Pokémon trainers among them are nearing the end of their Galarian adventures, and Minty merges some dragons, Chris takes on a new puzzle platformer indie game in the form of Gris, and, quite fittingly a...
Jan 20, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 48
See you next year! 2020 vision! Something something decade! Now we’ve got all the contrived new year bumph out the way let’s enjoy the New Year episode with some contrived, vaguely Dickensian bumph: 2019 might have been an absolute mound of turds, but it’s been another great year of gaming. Jonathan has spent most of it smacking down nightmarish monsters in Lordran, Minty’s been smacking down dragons in various quests, and Chris spent most of it smacking down coloured shapes in... Tetris. What’s...
Jan 13, 2020•31 min
NINTENDO FIFTY FOURRRRRRRR THIS WEEK: Chris gets annoyed at shoddy portsmanship of a storied RPG franchise. Jonathan can't be bothered with Star Wars: Law and Order. Minty takes an extended dip in a rusty lake. Let the boys' fifty fourth favourite videogames whisk you away on an island holiday! Or to another dimension by way of a portal in a mysterious underground facility! Or on a cross country roadtrip! We challenge anyone to find a single episode of a podcast that includes conversation that f...
Dec 16, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 47
This week on Our Three Cents we have another eclectic triptych of games including an Italian-plumber-based-handheld-sporting RPG, a 32-bit odyssey about a man’s obsession with hiding in a cardboard box, and an epic adventure involving a black knight in the darkness of the night whilst you try to forge some lightness into the world! Elsewhere, Chris spends his week killing time with Suicide Guy, and we also have a full debrief on Pokémon Sword & Shield, complete with the presentation of the 1...
Dec 09, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Oh boy! In a bumper episode, hear the trio chop through a massive stack of games they've played recently, as well as their usual three listed all-time favourites! Would you like to know our thoughts on The World Next Door, Metal Wolf Chaos, or Forager? How about Ni No Kuni and its sequel, Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz, or Bloodstained? Maybe Ring Fit Adventure, Luigi's Mansion 3, or Pokémon Sword and / or Shield? Or even the varied entries in the Cube Escape series of mobile games? For this wee...
Dec 02, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 45
On the menu this week - the further adventures of Minty questing after dragons, Jonathan grinding some stones and Chris racing a football (something like that I believe…) In the rankings, a classic Nintendo game on a classic Nintendo system, a small fragment of AI experiencing isolation and “a big warm hug of a game.” Three really quite incredible games - real absolute bangers! Also dogs. Well, more specifically requests for dogs. If it wasn’t implied in all our episodes previously, we now reque...
Nov 25, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Do you like videogames? Do you?! Join an uncharacteristically excitable trio in their ongoing mission to talk up the videogames which make them happiest. Can Chris keep up his commanding quiz lead? Is The Witcher 3's recent Switch port any cop? A few months in, how is Jonathan getting on with Mario Kart Tour's layered economy? How is Minty progressing in his personal Dragon Quest? Onto the rankings: What makes artsy platformer Celeste so good? How long can Chris talk about Earth Defense Force, a...
Nov 18, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 43
