One Life Left — s05e05 — #101 — Standing Room Only
Summertime and the living is easy. The radio presenting not so much, thanks to the hottest studio since the bad old days of ‘06 and an impromptu physical challenge. Welcome to a giggly, grouchy, fractious, slightly unbalanced One Life Left.
In this week’s show:
* Returning special guest Leo Tan pops in to tell us about The Gathering, Capcom’s nerd sanctuary in London where One Life Left plan to drink and play games for free!
* More diaphragm than ever! As the team attempt to complete the whole show standing up as if they were four Chris Moyles, except somewhat more tolerable
* Twitter! Wah wah wah twitter this wah wah wah onelifeleft / steishere / byronicman / scanters wah wah wah wah wah.
Also you might notice some L/R balance issues, especially in the theme at the end. Stick with it though, there’s an Easter Egg there.
Music on 101:
Remedy Remix — Jungle Fiction
Tristendo in Space — Xaimus
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OLL top 100 games of all time final few..
The tension mounts as we near the no.1 spot! (Are you sure about that? – Everyone)
10 Half-Life 2
9 Metroid Prime
8 Super Mario Galaxy
7 Final FantasyVII
6 Monkey Island games
The final 5 will soon be revealed! What will they be?
Well No. 5 is Sensible Soccer!
Which is several Sensies mixed together of course but it all counts. Naturally the single button Amiga version was best. Definitely the best football game of all time ever!
No.4 is Katamari Damacy
Which had the honor of featuring in my very first Free Market Economy. I just went for the first one to cover them all as they are all pretty much exactly the same. Minor tweaks between them don’t make it worth biasing the vote one way or the other. Lovely to look at, awesome soundtrack, great fun to play, fully deserving of this high position.
No.3 is The Legend of Zelda :Ocarina of Time
There were lots of Zeldas voted for. Very few of you agreed on the title of this one though. There were just so many variations. Zelda: Occarina, TLOZ:OOT, The Legend of Zelda: Occarina etc.. It’s totally boring it being here of course. So terribly predictable. I kind of liked it at the time but somehow in time the memory of it has been tarnished by the likes of Dynasty Warriors being completely brilliant. Still I suppose it was a pretty impressive adventure. If you like that sort of thing. Probably worth 7/10.
No. 2 is Goldeneye
The best FPS ever and about the only one I’ve ever been able to play. The bunker level with pistols and one shot kills, no auto aim is the only honourable way to play the game. If only there weren’t complicated legal issues stopping it being remade. But then maybe something this wonderful deserves to be just preserved as it is.
And finally the best game of all time ever is….
SUPER MARIO 64!
Boooring.
Chart 100 Market Economy THE RESULTS parts 1-3!
I’ve been busy compiling all your votes the last few weeks and with the aid of SCIENCE on my side I have eventually come up with a DEFINITIVE list of the best games of all time. After all, who would know better than the listeners of One Life Left?
It’s certainly taken up more time than I expected as there were so many variations on the gamenames ( Zelda [x] , Legend of Zelda: [x], Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, GTA: Vice City for example). And of course people who couldn’t spell (Tecken indeed..).
I also took the liberty of combining certain titles. Rock Band I’ve combined with No.2 and used that. There’s no reason anyone could prefer 1 to 2 as they’re basically the same but with better organisation in the second one. The Ace Attourney games are classed under the ‘Phoenix Wright Series’ much like with the Monkey Island games. Slants toward a particular one have been noted. I’ve done the same with We Love Katamari and Katamari Damacy.
I’m still disappointed that there weren’t more votes for 8bit games and also the Warriors games. Most ill defined vote was ‘That baseball game I used to play on the gamegear’ which has obviously not made the chart.
So without further ado, here’s the first 20 games from 100 to 81
100.Resident Evil Code Veronica
99 Sonic3 & Knuckles
98 Warcraft III
97 Total Annihilation
96 Speedball 2:Brutal Deluxe
95 Sonic CD
94 Cortex Command (WIP indiegame) [Can that even be allowed ?)
93 Settlers2
92 Dystopia (SourceMod)
91 TombRaider (PS)
90 Sonic 2
89 Samurai Warirors 2 (360) (Clearly this should have been number 1)
88 Mount & Blade
87 Dancing Stage Euromix 2
86 Asteroids (arcade)
85 Quake (PC)
84 GTA:Vice City
83 Empire
82 GTA San Andreas(PS2)
81 Mario Kart 64 (Why? Isn’t this one utterly horrible? I thought it was)
So there you have it. 20 games today. And 20 more will be updated tomorrow. Possibly twice. We’ll see how much time I have.
Part 2 80-51
80 Mario & Luigi: PartnersInTime
79 Teken 2 (PS1) (Strange, I would have thought Tekken 3 was the one)
78 Half-Life
77 Syndicate (Amiga) (This should have been higher in the chart as well)
76 Guitar Hero III
75 Braid (Voting for Braid is soooo pretentious)
74 Beyond Good and Evil
73 3D Deathchase
72 Shenmue
71 Psychonauts
70 Metal Gear Solid (Borrrring. Why not just watch a film instead?)
69 Fifa09
68 Chaos (Spectrum) (Hey have you heard of http://www.wikihost.org/w/doodleblog/chaos_wars/ by OLL’s Duncan Timiney)
67 Mass Effect
66 Head Over Heels (Spectrum)
65 Oblivion
64 Castlevania : Symphony of the Night
63 StarWars (Sit Down Arcade-80s version) (It’s best when the controls work of course, unlike at Videogame Nation)
62 Lemmings (The Speccy version is best because of the way the lemmings splat, more gooey)
61 DeadSpace
60 Civilization IV (Clearly this one was out in the lead of all Civs)
59 Wi iSports (Wii) (Unnecessary identifier alert!)
58 Bioshock
57 TurboEsprit (GTA: Spectrum? Pretty much)
56 Resident Evil (Gamecube)
55 Pokemon(blue/red/yellow)
54 Mario Kart (I’ve never liked Mario Kart, you’re all wrong)
53 Left 4 Dead
52 Command & Conquer:RedAlert
51 WWF NoMercy (N64) (Pleased to see this do well as it’s the best wrestling game ever! Obviously.)
Part 3 – 50 to 11
50 Supreme Commander (PC Games are boring and rubbish, I don’t care what you say)
49 Wipe Out 2097 (Did you vote for this just because of the soundtrack?)
48 Fallout 3 (I’ve tried many times to get into this and just can’t, thus I conclude you’re all wrong)
47 Team Fortress 2
46 Ace Attourney series (DS) (They are all brilliant even if some of the art in Apollo is dodgy. I’m currently replaying 3)
45 Perfect Dark (N64) (But it only had one good level – the Blade Runner rip off..)
44 GTA III(PS2)
43 Earthbound
42 DonkeyKong’94
41 Eternal Darkness
40 Panzer Dragoon Saga (Maybe not enough of you have played this to realise it’s the best RPG ever)
39 Diddy Kong Racing (I’m now ashamed of the lot of you)
38 Worms (7/10)
37 Baldur’s Gate2
36 Super Mario Bros
35 Legend Of Zelda : Majora’s Mask
34 Gitaroo Man (Surprised to see this so high)
33 Jet Set Willy (If only I’d known it was the 33rd best game ever when I saw Matt in Manchester, I could have told him)
32 Legend Of Zelda : Link’s Awakening
31 Civilisation (Amiga) (I lost many hours to this, somehow this original version can be more appealing than later advancements)
30 Prince Of Persia : The Sands Of Time (PS2)
29 New Super Mario Bros
28 Mario Kart DS
27 Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
26 Deus Ex
25 Super Mario World (Look stoppit withe Mario and Zelda okay?)
24 Ico
23 Super Mario KaAARRRGHGH
22 GTA 4
21 StarCraft
20 Tetris
19 Chrono Trigger
18 Burnout Paradise (Are you sure? Is just because you’ve been playing it a lot recently?)
17 Advance Wars
16 ResidentEvil4
15 Rock Band 2
14 Street Fighter 2
13 Bubble Bobble
12 Super Metroid (No. You’re wrong)
11 Portal (Well maybe just because it included Still Alive which is the best video game related song ever. Probably)
For some kind of exciting gimmick which would have worked better for show 100 I’m going to update the final 10 during tomorrow night’s show. (Though by that I meant Tonight because for some reason this didn’t update properly when I did it last.)
One Life Left — s05e04 — #100 — End of a Century
Hello. Welcome to a very special One Life Left. Why? Because — OMG — we’re 100.
Numbers aside, we’ve always been ’special’, haven’t we? And this is every bit as special as our previous, metaphorically and occasionally literally unbroadcastable hours with features, news, reviews, music and game-related nonsense aplenty.
In this week’s show:
* The team sing! It’s OK, they get that bit done with pretty early on. The cake comes later. That’s not even a lie.
* Superguest Jon Hare, creator of Sensible Soccer, one of the greatest videogames of all time, tells us about his new job at Jagex and some super exc-exc-exc-exclusive music news.
* We actually play Best Worst Game, promise. Also new stuff from Dr Avatar and The Doyouinverts.
Music on 100:
Cruisin’ Mah ‘95 Pimpmobile by Kulor
Le Road To Bordeaux by Thomas Armstrong
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Chart 100 Market Economy?
Hello OLLers! For episode 100 I thought it might be fun to celebrate with having a chart of the 100 best games of all time according to the listeners. Thus, if people are reading this site as much as they should be, I’ll be able to compile said chart for episode 100. Please send your 20 favouritest games in the whole wide world ever! to derek at onelifeleft dot com. Oh and do be good and put them in the order of preference.
Please note I reserve the right to put a Warriors game at the top of the charts even if you lot aren’t capable of realising they’re the best games ever.