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My Favourite Game
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My Favourite Game is a podcast from Play Diaries (playdiaries.com) where personalities in the games industry talk about their favourite game ever, how they grew up with games and more within the games industry.
Episodes
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Season 6 Finale - Neopets, by Jordan Bradley (Part Two)
And so here we are, the final episode of My Favourite Game - Season 6, the All-Ireland Season. And we pick up where we left off last week with Jordan Bradley of Amber Isle developer Ambertail Games talking of Neopets as her favourite game. Tonight, the final episode of Season 6 delves into other...
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Season 6 Finale - Neopets, by Jordan Bradley (Part One)
And so we come to the beginning of the end. The All-Ireland themed Season 6 of My Favourite Game hits its last game with Neopets and kicks off a two-part finale that has roots tied back to the start of 2020. As I said announcing the full guest lineup back in January, the initial inspiration about...
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Dark Souls, by Denman Rooke
For the first time in seven-and-a-half years since the show's inception, we finally have a Dark Souls game! This isn't My Favourite Game's first rodeo with a From Software game - you have to go back to 2016 and Season 4 with Bloodborne and ex-Naughty Dog artist and current freelance concept…
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Petz, by Vicky Potts
Talking of Petz, or any pet simulation game as someone's favourite game, is a bit of a jarring experience (nor, with three episodes and two guests to go, will it be the last time this season - spoiler, it's not next week either). But tonight's My Favourite Game sees Whitepot Studios co-founder...
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Burnout 2: Point of Impact, by Shane McCafferty
We're starting to hit the beginning of the end of the All-Ireland themed Season 6 of My Favourite Game, but before we do, we're talking of one of the most beloved arcade racing series of all time. Tonight, Shane McCafferty of Love: A Puzzle Shaped Box developer Rocketship Park talks of Burnout 2…
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, by Ellen Cunningham
For the first time since Season 2’s Majora’s Mask episode with Molly Carroll of Larian Studios (then of Chucklefish) in 2015, we have representation within The Legend of Zelda on My Favourite Game again. Tonight, in a special St Patrick’s Day episode drop to reflect the All-Ireland theme of the...
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TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, by Vic Hood
The second half of Season 6 of My Favourite Game gets underway by delving into a well-loved franchise and the hilarity it provides. TechRadar’s Vic Hood talks of TimeSplitters Future Perfect as her favourite game and delves into the sort of humour it has, the different kinds of humour in games…
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Baldur's Gate, by Colm Larkin
Tonight, the first half of Season 6 of My Favourite Game comes to an end. And it ends with a debuting franchise! Here, Colm Larkin of Cardpolcalypse and Guild of Dungeoneering developer Gambrinious talks of Baldur's Gate as his favourite game. Here, we talk of his early days playing games on the…
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Ratchet and Clank, by Jess Campbell
Tonight’s episode of My Favourite Game is not the first episode released from a face-to-face recording of the show – that was last week with Outsider Games’ Stephen Downey on The Witcher 3 – but it is the first face-to-face episode to ever be recorded (to say of it being the first episode of…
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, by Stephen Downey
Another week, another My Favourite Game. Tonight, we delve into The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with Stephen Downey, founder of Outsider Games, who are putting the finishing touches to upcoming point-and-click adventure Jennifer Wilde: Unlikely Revolutionaries. Seems like only yesterday it was the first...
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Ridge Racer Type-4, by Michael O'Kane
For a debuting series for My Favourite Game, this is an incredible entry to begin with. Ridge Racer Type-4 is for my money one of the best racing games ever, let alone the best game in the Ridge Racer series. So who better to talk of it as his favourite game than Michael O'Kane, game director at...
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Pikmin 3, by Alanna Linayre
When you think of Pikmin 3, you think of being, for the most part anyway, a relaxing adventure game where you try to save the planet from a famine? Maybe it’s the cutesy nature of it that makes seem appealing and relaxing, right? “Oh I don’t play these games to relax,” says Toadhouse Games CEO...
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Season 6 Premiere - Mass Effect 3, by Aoife O'Friel (Part Two)
Season 6 of My Favourite Game rolls on with the second and final part of our season premiere. Last week, Ubisoft Massive narrative designer and writer Aoife O'Friel got into Mass Effect, the character and world-building within Mass Effect 3 and more. Tonight, part two delves into the incredibly...
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Season 6 Premiere - Mass Effect 3, by Aoife O'Friel (Part One)
As of this year, My Favourite Game will have been running for eight years. And in that time, a particular series was always a regular bridesmaid - that is to say an honourable mention in half a dozen episodes - but never the bride, getting their own episode. And for years, I'd been lamenting the...
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My Favourite Game - Season 6 Lineup Trailer
Hello! We're delighted to tell you at last Season 6 of My Favourite Game - the first-themed season in the show's history as an All-Ireland podcast - will premiere starting Wednesday, January 19. For more details, visit playdiaries.com. We'll see you for the two-part season premiere with Ubisoft...
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My Favourite Game (of 2021)
So here we are at the end of another year, the end of another year in the pandemic and the end of the first full year of the new consoles. And here we are with the first Game of the Year special episode of My Favourite Game in four years. We’ve not done one of these for four years! But doing…
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Season 5 Finale - Persona 5 (Royal), by Anisa Sanusi
Two months and ten episodes later, we come down to the final episode of Season 5 of My Favourite Game. And we end with a humdinger. Persona 5 Royal, in terms of release to getting its own episode, is the most recent game to get an episode of the show, but when talking of Royal, you have to factor...
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Day of the Tentacle, by Wan Hazmer
The penultimate episode of Season 5 of My Favourite Game sees us delve back into Lucasarts for the second time this season and touch upon a classic of the point and click genre. Wan Hazmer, lead game designer of Final Fantasy 15 and co-founder and game director of No Straight Roads developer...
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Undertale (Part Two), by Kitty Crawford
This week’s My Favourite Game sees the end of our two-part Undertale arc. Tonight, freelance games producer Kitty Crawford talks of why Toby Fox’s game is very much meta in that it tries to kill you with kindness and why it’s a mantra she has carried throughout her life. She also delves into the...
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Undertale (Part One), by Victoria Tran
When Innersloth community director Victoria Tran started discovering games, she did so while under a strict family that didn't see them in a positive light. And when she first started getting into the industry, it was after coming in from a sector that was as far from entertainment, let alone...
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X-COM: Enemy Unknown (1994), by Fernando Rizo
Modern Wolf founder Fernando Rizo has a big throughline of what his favourite games are. Or rather, his favourite genre. It's reflected in the publisher he founded in 2019 and the games Modern Wolf have put out as well as his own favourite game, UFO Enemy Unknown. Or better known retroactively as...
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Mass Effect 2, by Kelsey Hansen
Seven years after the show first started, we’ve had multiple episodes across many series’ in the industry like Final Fantasy, Metal Gear and Zelda. But despite the number of times it has gotten as an honourable mention, there is one particular series that has never gotten its own episode. That…
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The Secret of Monkey Island, by Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou
My Favourite Game back again in your life. And this one is a good one as we wrap up the first half of Season 5. Tonight, Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou of Roki developer Polygon Treehouse talks of The Secret of Monkey Island, the first time we've had a Monkey Island game since the very first episode in...
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Fable, by Hollie Emery
When Fable developer Lionhead Studios closed five years ago this month - the news actually breaking in the middle of recording an episode of Season 4 of My Favourite Game - Bonsai Collective co-founder Hollie Emery was heartbroken. In her own words, they were "crying' when the news broke. As they...
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Zero Escape: 999 - Nine Persons, Nine Hours, Nine Doors, by Els White
Yes yes, it's time for another episode of My Favourite Game Season 5. This one really getting into not only a particular series for the first time, but a particular genre - graphic/visual novels - in far greater detail. Els White of Retrace developer Spider Lilly Games talks of the first of the...
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The Sims, by Charleyy Hodson
My Favourite Game is back once again for a brand new episode following Season 5's debut last week with Ragnar Tørnquist of Red Thread Games talking of Journey as his favourite game. Tonight, Xbox UK and Ireland social media and events manager as well as Xbox On and Forza Monthly host Charleyy...
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Season 5 Premiere - Journey, by Ragnar Tørnquist
Five years after the end of the last full season, My Favourite Game is officially back in the saddle. Eleven guests from across many facets of the games industry. All of them around the world. And all of them talking of their favourite games ever, the stories tied to them and why games mean so…
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My Favourite Game - Season 5: Guest Lineup Trailer
Hello! We're delighted to tell you at last the first full season of My Favourite Game in nearly five years will premiere starting Wednesday, March 10. For more details, visit playdiaries.com. We'll see you for episode one with Red Thread Games' creative director Ragnar Tørnquist talking of...
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The Lost Tapes #5 (Finale) - The Witness, by Jen Simpkins
[First recorded in November 2017] And so here we are. The final episode of The Lost Tapes mini-series of My Favourite Game is here and we end with a doozy as well as an episode that, personally speaking, was one of my favourite episodes to ever record for how fun it was. Tonight, Edge...
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The Lost Tapes #4 - Thief: The Dark Project, by Nels Anderson
Back at it again, a new My Favourite Game is here to discuss one of the most influential stealth games of all time and one of the forebearers of the immersive sim genre that the likes of Irrational, Arkane and others have gone on to define over the years. The kicker, however, is that if it…
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The Lost Tapes #3 - Exile, by Alex Hutchinson
My Favourite Game returns once again with a new episode of The Lost Tapes mini-series. This one is slightly shorter than usual, but still a really fun episode recorded back towards the end of 2017. Alex Hutchinson, co-founder of Typhoon Studios and creative director on Journey to the Savage…
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The Lost Tapes #2 - Xenogears, by Ed Fear
[First recorded in November 2017] After two years away, My Favourite Game is back. Speaking personally, once the first episode of what was then Season 5 was out, I was just burnt out of the whole podcasting thing. Truth be told, I thought I was ready to come back to it but I didn’t really have…
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The Lost Tapes #1 – Resident Evil 4, by Steve Gaynor
[First published in March 2018 as the Season Premiere to Season 5] 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. We start off Season 5 with this,...
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My Favourite Game (of 2017)
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 of the greatest years in gaming ever, if not the greatest…
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My Favourite Game (of 2016)
So here we are, then, at the end of what has been a horrible year. And its been incredibly horrible, to give the understatement of the century. 2016 is a year where we’ve lost actual heroes (I’m writing this a day after Carrie Fisher passed away) and where the world is in an iron grip of fear,...
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The Last of Us, by Johnny Cullen
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 planned to launch (sorry, you’re not finding that out today besides ‘early...
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Season 4 Finale – Shenmue, by Catherine Woolley (Part Two)
The end is here. The season finale of Season 4 of My Favourite Game, the second part of our two-part ender, wraps up the season with Media Molecule’s Catherine Woolley continue to talk of Shenmue as her favourite game (I was not kidding last week when I said it was a three-hour romp). (2020 Ed...
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Season 4 Finale – Shenmue, by Catherine Woolley (Part One)
The end is near. For the second time, a returning game hits up the show, but for the first time, a two-parter episode on the same game and guest as Season 4 of My Favourite Game comes to an end. In the first part of this two-part finale, Media Molecule designer Catherine Woolley (2020 Ed note:...
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Fantasy Grounds, by Jordan Thomas
When asking BioShock 2 creative director and 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 Fantasy Grounds. But on…
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Bloodborne, by Alex Neonakis
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 gameplay and art perspective –…
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl, by Dan Pinchbeck
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…
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Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, by Alexa Ray Corriea
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 Hearts 3. Tonight’s My Favourite Game sees ex-journo…
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World Games, by Dan Teasdale
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 a branded...
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Fahrenheit, by Kellee Santiago
In 2005, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the US due to a title conflict with Michael Moore’s September 11th documentary Fahrenheit 9/11) made landfall on PlayStation 2 and Xbox – the game would eventually come to PC in 2014 (Ed note: and just announced last week at E3 to be coming to PlayStation 4...
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Diablo 2, by David Goldfarb
It’s 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 episode later in the season – is any indicator, considering the amount of polish and magic in their games (a subject discussed...
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Final Fantasy 10-2, by Nina Freeman
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 7 (by the way, don’t expect any more 7 episodes...
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My Favourite Game of 2015
And that’s it this time. This is the final My Favourite Game for this year. And what a year it has been for the show. Two full seasons, two best of episodes and two special episodes plus an award nomination. All in the calendar year. Plus, celebrating our first birthday back in October. It’s been…
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My Favourite Game: The Best of Season 3
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 games and why they…
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Season 3 Finale (Part Two) – A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Sam Barlow
In January 1985, the incumbent Ronald Reagan would take the oath and be sworn in for a second – and final – time as President of the United States of America after defeating his Democratic opponent Walter Mondale with just shy of 59 percent of the vote two months earlier at the election. Later in...
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Season 3 Finale (Part One) – Katamari Damacy, by Robin Hunicke
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 be We Love Katamari in 2006, the second game in the series and the last to feature creator Keita Takahashi. Now,...
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My Favourite Game is a podcast from Play Diaries (playdiaries.com) where personalities in the games industry talk about their favourite game ever, how they grew up with games and more within the games industry.
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