Season 6 Premiere - Mass Effect 3, by Aoife O'Friel (Part One)
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01/19/22 • 70 min
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 fact the show never had this series even once as its own episode. And now, over the course of nearly a year, there's three of them.
Last May, we finally had an episode on Mass Effect 2 featuring Annapurna Interactive's Kelsey Hansen as part of Season 5. And now less than a year later, a two-parter on the finale of the Shepard trilogy.
Season 6 of My Favourite Game, the first themed season ever, kicks off with Mass Effect 3, celebrating its tenth anniversary in March. Which also means we're approaching the tenth anniversary of the brouhaha that kicked off in regards to the game's ending and how it was received. But that's for part two next week.
Until then, part one of the Season 6 premiere sees Aoife O'Friel, writer and narrative designer on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora at Ubisoft Massive, talk of Mass Effect 3 as her favourite game as well as how the Tomb Raider series was her first love in games and more.
You can listen to it here. Part two drops next week.
Links: Play Diaries|Twitter|Facebook|Patreon
Twitter: @aoifeofriel | @JohnnyCullen
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 fact the show never had this series even once as its own episode. And now, over the course of nearly a year, there's three of them.
Last May, we finally had an episode on Mass Effect 2 featuring Annapurna Interactive's Kelsey Hansen as part of Season 5. And now less than a year later, a two-parter on the finale of the Shepard trilogy.
Season 6 of My Favourite Game, the first themed season ever, kicks off with Mass Effect 3, celebrating its tenth anniversary in March. Which also means we're approaching the tenth anniversary of the brouhaha that kicked off in regards to the game's ending and how it was received. But that's for part two next week.
Until then, part one of the Season 6 premiere sees Aoife O'Friel, writer and narrative designer on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora at Ubisoft Massive, talk of Mass Effect 3 as her favourite game as well as how the Tomb Raider series was her first love in games and more.
You can listen to it here. Part two drops next week.
Links: Play Diaries|Twitter|Facebook|Patreon
Twitter: @aoifeofriel | @JohnnyCullen
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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 Massive's Aofie O'Friel talking of the final chapter in The Shepard Trilogy, Mass Effect 3. Until then, here's a small slither of who to expect this season.
(In order of appearance):
Jess Campbell (Art Director, Bellular Gaming - The Pale Beyond)
- Shane McCafferty (Co-Founder, Rocketship Park - Love)
- Jordan Bradley (Co-Founder, Ambertail Games - Amber Isle)
- Stephen Downey (Founder, Outsider Games - Jennifer Wilde)
- Alanna Linayre (Founder, Toadhouse Games - Call Me Cera)
- Michael O'Kane (Founder, Level 91 Entertainment - Intertial Drift)
- Aoife O'Friel (Narrative Designer/Writer, Ubisoft Massive - Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora)
- Ellen Cunningham (Writer, Gambrinious - Guild of Dungeoneering/Cardpocalypse)
- Colm Larkin (Founder, Gambrinious - Guild of Dungeoneering/Cardpocalypse)
- Vicky Potts (Co-Founder, Whitepot Studios - Ho-Ho-Home Invasion/Stargazing)
- Vic Hood (Gaming Editor, TechRadar)
- Denman Rooke (Art Director, Romero Games - Empire of Sin)
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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 contentious ending of Mass Effect 3 as it approaches the tenth anniversary of the game's release and the original reaction to the ending as well as how making them is very hard plus reflecting on the brilliant Citadel - released after the ending brouhaha and the release of the Extended Cut.
Plus, we delve into last year's release of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and what we hope to expect with the next game in the series.
And I somehow end up mixing up Hitman: Silent Assassin with Hitman: Blood Money.
And keep listening to the end to get a taste of what's to come this coming season!
Links: Play Diaries|Twitter|Facebook|Patreon
Twitter: @aoifeofriel | @JohnnyCullen
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