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, Observation, 007 Legends, and, of course , the trouser soiling Alien: Isolation. Acting as a canonical bridge be...
Jul 26, 2021•58 min
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 game mechanics or tropes have actually been done well ? Want to hear some thoughts on franchises as varied as...
Jul 19, 2021•56 min•Season 3Ep. 21
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 title ‘Space Station Silicon Valley‘ as his 4th favourite game of all time” — — — — — — — — — — Join i...
Jul 12, 2021•43 min•Season 3Ep. 20
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. ...
Jul 05, 2021•55 min•Season 3Ep. 19
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 S...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 18
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 ...
Jun 21, 2021•57 min
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 consi...
Jun 14, 2021•45 min•Season 3Ep. 17
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 fi...
Jun 07, 2021•43 min•Season 3Ep. 16
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...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 12 min
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 is stowed 'Best handheld game ever!'; tis high praise indeed To find out more details, listen in, and...
May 24, 2021•51 min•Season 3Ep. 15
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 and Returnal! A PlayStation 2 'buy one get one free' of The Sims and Earth Defense Force's earliest ...
May 17, 2021•53 min•Season 3Ep. 14
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 to these questions: How is Chris getting on in Genshin Impact now that its native PS5 app has launc...
May 10, 2021•55 min•Season 3Ep. 13
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 envisage?!! Join the usual Our Three Cents trio, as well as special guests Alex Miller and Will Thrash...
May 03, 2021•1 hr
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-made free-to-play monolith Genshin Impact! Poo jokes, discussions on random number generation, the Seg...
Apr 26, 2021•55 min•Season 3Ep. 12
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 their fingers, hearts and minds! In unnecessarily alphabetical order: Balan Wonderworld: THE DICTION...
Apr 19, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 11
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 just cannot quit, and then blows off some steam with the bloody duology of Super Blood Hockey and S...
Apr 12, 2021•51 min•Season 3Ep. 10
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 how Rosa and team were inspired to make what would become the extremely well received Blue Fire; the g...
Apr 05, 2021•51 min
It’s only another ruddy Monday and we’re at the end of an octagonal triptych - it’s the last eighth-favourite-video-game-of-all-time from us three cents! But before we do that - the Our Three Cents Quiz spectacular reaches the finish line - who will carry the baton over it? Will either of them? Will both of them?! What will we quiz upon now?! Gosh darn it if you don’t just want to know the answer to those rhetoricals! Then the chaps discuss games that were spurned by many but loved by them! And ...
Mar 29, 2021•50 min•Season 3Ep. 9
In the latest smackerooney of an episode, Chris returns to work and suffers an inevitable dip in his gameplay activity, and Minty, as is his Default, is adventuring Bravely on in his latest JRPG epic! Meanwhile, Jonathan is still making babies cry in every direction for the sake of the podcast’s YouTube channel, and he also ventures to The Outer Worlds to discover an adventure that is more Firefly than Fallout, and more Bioshock than Bethesda! And then, the main pudding! Big long boys, lots of g...
Mar 22, 2021•50 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Want to know the gaming imagery We Three Cents would have permanently etched onto our buttocks? Want to know how Chris has got on with a number of games like Lonely Mountains: Downhill, awe-inspiring Vita ports of the PS2's Grand Theft Auto trilogy, or 3DS ports of some pixel art classics? Want to know how Jonathan has got on with a bigger number of games like a 3DS platforming triumvirate, the Champion's Road of Super Mario 3D World, or the entire launch line-up of the Playstation 5? Want to kn...
Mar 15, 2021•53 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Do you like typing? Smashing your little fingies down on your keyboard, laptop or touchscreen to make wonderful words manifest into being? How about typing to play a game? Not just bouncing across W, A, S and D as you whip your mouse around for frags, but using the actual letters themselves to manipulate on-screen action? Join the Our Three Cents team, as well as members of the developer RNG Party Games, as we plot the checkered history of the typing genre via MS DOS commands and edutainment, th...
Mar 08, 2021•54 min
Number 9 (Jonathan Dunn) - The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening 'ERE WE, 'ERE WE, 'ERE WE FACKIN' GO! What are our intrepid podcast heroes thoughts on the recent Nintendo Direct? More Hyrule Warriors? A new Mario Golf? A weird Octopath Traveller follow-up come sequel? Stubbs the Zombie DELUXE? Jonathan finds a new ball-rolling indie obsession in Glyph. Minty blasts through Bowser's Fury in the flick of a cat's tail. Chris breaks down and buys a New 3DS XL! Then, and you better be ready for this...
Mar 01, 2021•50 min•Season 3Ep. 6
bang, bang, shoot 'em up, cops and robbers Minty goes blat, blat with his gat, gat as he talks up Saints Row 2, his ninth favourite video game, and perhaps Volition's crowning glory as the game that transformed the Saints Row franchise from a soulless GTA-copy, to the fun-loving series it would become! ALSO THIS WEEK: the trio get stuck back into The Binding of Isaac in a big way; Minty asks for suggestions to play on his peat-powered-personal computer; and Chris deals vigilante justice in The O...
Feb 22, 2021•49 min•Season 3Ep. 5
How many references to Handforth Parish Council can our trio slip into this bumper episode as Chris breaches the TOP 9s? Chris and Minty tussle quizzically as part of the, y'know, quiz. The boys attempt to explain their approaches to fitting gaming into modern living. Jonathan does his damnedest to sell Chris on his recently acquired PlayStation 5! Thoughts on games as far reaching as: THE BINDING OF ISAAC, THE OUTER WORLDS, THE MESSENGER, SPIDER-MAN REMASTERED, PARATOPIC, ASTRO'S PLAYROOM, DEMO...
Feb 15, 2021•54 min•Season 3Ep. 4
To break up Season 3 (and make sure the grand reveals of our number one games gets further and further away), we invite you to meet the first of our guest stars: JP of Premium Edition Games and JP's Switchmania fame! In a SPECIAL EPISODE dedicated to physical games and their collection, hear how, why and what our group and guest collects; personal memories of standout releases over the years; as well as hopes and dreams for games that have yet to be immortalised on disc or cartridge! PLUS: exclu...
Feb 08, 2021•58 min
Starter The boys think on bad games they played for just that bit too long - a cavalcade of handheld ports and novelties that our trio defended vehemently, until they just couldn’t! Main Chris plays some punishing platformers on the Vita courtesy of Ratalaika Games and endless runners on the Switch courtesy of the dregs of eShop sales past to distract himself from home working. Jonathan continues a roguelike Greek Odyssey, revisits some cowboys he previously poo-pooed, and gets very excited abou...
Feb 01, 2021•53 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Another week, another NUMBER TEN, this time courtesy of Master Minty Booth! The original Doom ranks as MB's game for your consideration on this drizzly January day. Find out why it's so much more than a 'legacy entry' chosen only for its historical value, and remains a bloody (no pun intended!) good time, even today! But of course, we shan't be allowing any of that ripping and tearing payoff, before binding you to a metaphorical chair and forcing you to hear our collective opinions on topics as ...
Jan 25, 2021•47 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Can you believe it? I mean, seriously, can you believe it? It's the top bloody ten, gals an' guys! The quiz returns with a fantastic new theme tune! The trio discuss some of the weirdest games they've ever played, giving separate nods to Desert Child, Horace and Humanoid 47 for your consideration. Chris and Jonathan try to sell Minty on the mobile magic that is Grindstone. And, of course, the gang collectively play an awful lot of G A M E S!! Then, to get the top ten underway proper, Chris is he...
Jan 18, 2021•59 min•Season 3Ep. 1
SEASON THREE BEGINETH!! AS PROPHECY HAS FORETOLD, JONATHAN DUNN, THE PRODIGAL SON, HAS RETURNED!! After a week’s break, we’ve missed you all, and maybe you’ve missed us? ————— 2020, eh? It was certainly a year. Allow Jonathan, Chris and Minty, your good pals from the Our Three Cents towers, to: > tell you which games they used to ring in the New Year! > tell you which games made them feel a veritable swathe of ‘happy, happy, joy, joy’ over the apocalyptic year that was! > tell you which...
Jan 11, 2021•59 min
CHRIS IS A BAD FRIEND (™) MINTY IS A GOOD FRIEND (™) Minty bought Chris a Christmas present last year. He’s only just split the cellophane. Chris bought Minty a birthday present a few weeks back. He had it up and running within 60 minutes of its arrival. Hear Chris’s (late) thoughts on Tales of Zestiria, and Minty’s (timely) thoughts on Heroland. ALSO! Thoughts on the Lost Lands mobile series; updates on Minty’s ultraviolence MAX playthrough of Doom; an overview of the indie-Metroidvania Xeodrif...
Dec 28, 2020•36 min
