My Favourite Game

“What are ye buying?” Hello. We’re officially back! Like actually back! We’ve been gone for just under two years for reasons that’s already been outlined, but we’re coming back. No more delays, we’re finally here again. I’ve explained all the details for why My Favourite Game has been gone for so long here, but needless […]

Ending 2017, the greatest year in gaming ever, with a bang. It’s happening. We’re actually back. Yes, My Favourite Game is well and truly back after a year away. It’s one episode, but we can’t just let this year go without paying tribute to what has been an incredible year in gaming and easily one […]

“After everything we’ve been through… everything I’ve done… it can’t be for nothing.” Hello. It’s been a bit too long since we put together an episode of My Favourite Game. Right now, plans are currently in motion for Season 5 – we already have one episode down – but considering when Season 5 is currently […]

But there’s a twist. When asking BioShock 2 creative director and now Question Games co-founder Jordan Thomas to come onto the show, someone who I’d been dying to have on for a while, there was a lot of back and forth over what his favourite game was. In the end, he settled on tabletop software […]

“A night of curses. A night to remember.” Finally! A Souls game. Or a Souls-like game, but hey, when it’s From Software, it’s all good. Anyway, Bloodborne. What can you say of it that hasn’t been said already? An evolution of what makes Dark Souls so great. Faster gameplay, excellent design – both from a […]

“Idi ka mnie.” The legacy of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games has lived for a long time, even since the core team of Shadow of Chernobyl moved on from the now defunct GSC Gameworld. From small splinter teams doing Kickstarters for spiritual successors to big successes like 4A Games and their adaptations of Metro 2033 and its […]

“The three of us will always be one.” Ask and we shall receive, apparently. It’s time to delve into a Kingdom Hearts game that, alongside 3DS game Dream Drop Distance (coming to PlayStation 4 sometime with the release of Kingdom Hearts 2.8), laid the path for one of the most anticipated games in recent times: Kingdom […]

Barrel jumping for Olympic eSports. My Favourite Game tonight takes a look at a game from 1986 released across numerous platforms since that is, well, a bit off for a collection of sports games. Epix’s World Games follows in the same vein of Summer and Winter Games, essentially a collection of sports games that isn’t […]

“My name is Lucas Kane. My story is the one where an ordinary guy has something extraordinary happen to him.” Hello. Enjoy E3? Good. Lets resume where we left off. In 2005, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the US due to a title conflict with Michael Moore September 11th documentary Fahrenheit 9/11) made landfall on PlayStation […]

“It takes time to master your skills… and use will hone your technique. But take care to choose your new skills wisely.” Its taken long enough, but at last, a Blizzard game is the main subject matter of an episode of My Favourite Game. And if this – and further mentions to come in an […]

“Here comes the real Yuna!” Contrary to what I say in tonight’s episode of My Favourite Game, this is not the first time in two years we’ve had a Final Fantasy on. What I meant to say was it’s the first time in two years we have a different Final Fantasy game on that isn’t […]

Plus, never before published bits! So that’s Season 3 at an end. And what a season it has been. This past season has been, for my money and my reckoning anyway, the best season yet in the show’s short year-long history. A more varied mix of guests than previously, more personal insight into people’s favourite […]

“Ah, hello, Prince. This is the King. Long time no see. We thought today would be a good day for rolling.” Katamari Damacy never received a release in Europe unlike in the US or Japan in 2004. The first time Europeans would get a taste of rolling stuff up in the silliest possible way would […]

“As long as I’m with you. As long as you’re by my side. I won’t give up, even if I’m scared.” For the first time in the show’s history, we have a returning game. To give context, I don’t allow a game to be on consecutive seasons as I like to give it a bit […]

“Jesus Christ, JC!” If there was a game that let players come up with and combine different kinds of playstyles, it was Deus Ex. At least certain, the Ion Storm-made stealth title was the first well-known game – at least from my era of games – that let players mix and match on the fly. […]

In space, no one can hear you sneak. So tomorrow’s episode of My Favourite Game sees Gunpoint and Heat Signature bod Tom Francis come on to talk all things turkey on Deus Ex. That’ll be live at 6pm tomorrow. I talked to Tom on Heat Signature as part of his episode, but because of the […]

“In my restless dreams, I see that town – Silent Hill.” Hello. We’re back after a two-week period. And so begins the second part of Season 3 of My Favourite Game. And it begins tonight by looking back at possibly one of the best horror games ever, if not the best horror game ever. Lets […]

“We’ll be in touch, Commander.” In 2012, Firaxis brought a whole new generation of players to the XCOM series, bringing out its on take on the series with Enemy Unknown. Certainly for me, it was the first strategy game I’d spent a great significant amount of time on and it paid off. It’s clear that […]

“No one can escape time. It delivers us all to the same end.” At last, someone talks Persona! Been waiting for someone to come on to talk of the series and I’m super happy we have Persona 3 as one of the main games for the sea—hey, wait, come back! I know it isn’t Persona […]

“War. War never changes.” We’re three weeks out from the big day (it’s why we’re taking a two week break in early November). The big day being the arrival of Fallout 4, just five short months after it was first announced and such an incredibly small time-span of announcement to release. But ahead of that, […]

“Let the world be consumed by sorrow.” “Do you want to do MFG?,” I said. “FINALLY…yes please,” replied 10 Second Ninja and Castles in the Sky developer Dan Pearce, knowing as if it was his life’s work to appear on this podcast. Or at least wait for his turn. Anyways, tonight’s My Favourite Game – […]

*insert Simish gibberish here* Hello. Do not adjust your sets. My Favourite Game is back at last. Hooray! And it’s our first birthday! Double hooray! It’ll be a year tomorrow (technically, 52 Wednesdays ago, but whatevs) when My Favourite Game first began with The Curse of Monkey Island. A year later, My Favourite Game has […]

There’s only room for one Boss and one Snake. Hello. So My Favourite Game’s third season is on its way this autumn but the wait between seasons has been longer than usual as I put together the best possible batch of ten episodes. There are big plans afoot for the show from Season 3’s launch, […]

Plus, never before published bits! My Favourite Game Season 2 was fun. After the show’s first season in where it was all fellow writers and personalities, saw the introduction of game developers from the season onwards. The season ended back in May, but there’s still one last episode to get through before we can start […]

“You left the safety on, rookie.” We began My Favourite Game’s second season in March with Metal Gear. Tonight, we end it with Metal Gear. Tied with The Legend of Zelda in terms of most appearances so far on My Favourite Game, Metal Gear Solid 1 is the third time the series has headlined an […]

“The fast-action arcade hit!” We begin tonight by looking back on what is the oldest game to ever have been part of My Favourite Game. Released in 1982, Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar’s Robotron 2084 was one of the first of the twinstick shooter genre, coming out in a golden era of the genre alongside […]

“Isaac and his mother lived alone in a small house on a hill.” We begin tonight with a comment. One that at least most of you reading this will already know, but it’s worth reiterating it again: games are amazing. Whether they be fun for the sake of fun or tell a story that’s deep, […]

“Good morning and welcome to the Black Mesa Transit System.” We begin tonight with a warning. If you thought last season’s episode on Final Fantasy IX was in-depth, wait until you get a load of this bad boy. For me, my Half-Life experience more or less consists solely of The Orange Box on Xbox 360 […]

“Let mother read you a story.” We begin tonight with a story. From Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma, speaking of his disinterest in making a Master Quest version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. From an Iwata Asks in 2009: “…As someone who has been in charge of the dungeons [on Ocarina of […]

“I’m looking for some sailors.” We begin tonight with an admission. I openly mock the fact that there’ll never be a Shenmue III to fellow peers on Twitter, but I’ve never actually played either Shenmue or Shenmue II, despite it being one of the most beloved games of all time. It’s a game that has […]

Doo-do-do-do-do. We begin tonight with a game that is a Mega Drive classic. Shining Force is one of the games that would define the Mega Drive, made by a key figure of Dragon Quest’s early days in Hiroyuk Takahashi and perhaps inspired by some of its peers alike, including Nintendo’s Fire Emblem series, of which its […]

“Do you want to touch me?” We begin tonight by looking back at a series that should be, for all intents and purposes, dead in the water. It was one of the first two games to ever be announced from the upstart Platinum Games, founded by Hideki Kamiya, Atsushi Inaba and Shinji Mikami in the […]

Doodly doodly do… A game that is considered to be on many greatest ever lists, we begin tonight with also perhaps one of the most important games of all time. An influential game of its time that still stands tall today as one of the finest games ever, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to […]

“There’s only room for one Boss and one Snake.” Ten years ago today. That’s how long its been since Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater made landfall in Europe, just four months after its US and Japanese launch. It is a matter of opinion on what is considered the best game in the Metal Gear […]

Plus, never-before published segments! Next Summer, My Favourite Game will return for a second season. Who knows, it may come earlier, it may even come later. But that is currently the plan. And in the next week or two, I’m going to go about and email the ten folks who I want to have on […]

4/10. For the Season 1 finale of My Favourite Game, we begin tonight with a reflection. A personal one, if you’ll indulge me. Just under four months ago, this project plopped into view as I sat thinking about the concept of talking to someone about their favourite game and how they ended up getting into […]

“Picking a favourite Sonic game for me is like choosing between your kids.” We begin tonight with a confession: out of the three classic Sonic games, I’ve only really played a little bit of Sonic 1. Other than that, not many others. And in terms of modern games, I’ve only played a tiny bit of […]

“My name is Manny. Manny Calavera.” We begin tonight with a game that, 16 years on from its original PC release, is set to make a return in a remastered form in a little over a month’s time for PlayStation 4, PS Vita, PC, Mac and Linux. But it’s a game that still has a […]

Sit in for this one folks, it’s going to get all technical in here We begin tonight with a warning: this is going to get really bloody technical and in-depth. As I’ve mentioned a couple of times on the blog – and in part in Louise Blain’s episode this series – I got into the […]

It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this. We begin tonight with what is looked back fondly as of the finest games ever in the eyes of many, having been chastised and criticised at the time by die-hard series fans for taking a cel-shaded route instead of the serious route it hinted at during Spaceworld 2000 at […]

Punchy. We begin tonight with a fighting series that has had over the years numerous whispers and rumours of several reboots from numerous places (look around the internet, you’ll see one of them). But despite that, it’s the second instalment in the series which we look back on in this week’s episode of My Favourite […]

Spoiler: Aeris dies. We begin tonight with a game that is, without doubt, one of the most cherished and beloved games of all time. Final Fantasy VII is likely ranked among many people’s lists as their favourite game ever or as part of their list anyway. This was, after all, an RPG that told a […]

“I NEED SCISSORS! 61!” We begin tonight with, even for me, a game I hold in high regard. Say what you will about its flaws or other aspects of the game you may not like, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is a game I love a great deal, second only to its successor in […]

Requiescat in pace. We begin tonight with this fact: Assassin’s Creed III was rubbish. Really rubbish. It’s a good thing its predecessor, Assassin’s Creed II, was not. Not that II was without its flaws, but it built upon a decently laid foundation from the 2007 original. It provided one of the best protagonists of the […]

“You’re about as fearsome as a doorstop.” Welcome to My Favourite Game, a ten-episode season of podcasts where writers and personalities talk about the games they love most and how they ended up in the industry. For more details on what the objective is for My Favourite Game, hit this link. We begin tonight with […]