On the assumption that a good proportion of you either a) don’t live in the UK, and/or b) don’t listen to BBC Radio 4, this week’s Weekend Debate probably requires a quick introduction.
Desert Island Discs is a long-running British radio show in which a well-known celebrity is asked which eight pieces of music they’d take with them if they had to spend the rest of their days stranded alone on a desert island. They also get to choose one book, and one luxury item (which can’t be a living thing).
It’s classic pub conversation fodder, and a hypothetical I frequently find myself locked in with chums. So, this week I thought I’d give it a video game-centric twist and throw it out to you guys. I want to know:
- Which two video games would you take with you?
- Which piece of videogame music?
- Which luxury item?
List your picks below, along with an explanation for each choice. For the sake of argument, we’ll say that the desert island in question comes equipped with a high speed internet connection to enable online play.
I’ve got eight codes for the rather excellent PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale on PlayStation 3 for the most entertaining responses. Check out the trailer below to remind yourself of its lunatic charms.
Oh, and my personal picks to get you started:
Game #1: Dark Souls – considering how much a blather on about my unbridled love for this game, friends and colleagues would probably welcome my banishment to a distant faraway place. In short, it’s massive, it’s got crazy amounts of depth and the brilliantly weird multiplayer would keep me from feeling too lonesome!
Game #2: Resident Evil 4 - A classic that I’ve beaten umpteen times, and will happily plough-through again and again. Perfect desert island fodder.
Music: Yes, Rock Band is cheating! Having been separated from friends and family, I’d likely be a bit miserable so it needs to be something perky. Easy: PaRappa the Rapper.
Luxury: The thought of life without Maltesers is simply too dreadful to contemplate…
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Posted on 3 December, 2012 at 1:03 pm by Klart
Game #1: Provided that I win this contest
: the rather excellent PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. A good ole beat’m up with lots of replay value is what you need on a desert island (that and coconut cocktails).
The local monkeys will be decent adversaries for day long gaming sessions. Winner gets a free coconut cocktail!
And I can look forward to some great DLC.
Game #2: Fallout 3: whenever I want to pretend I’m not on a sunny desert island with coconut cocktails, I can disappear into the gloomy postapocalyptic world of Fallout 3 for hours on end.
Music: The fantastic soundtrack of Machinarium. Out of this world. You pretty much are out of this world on a desert island anyway. Especially when you’ve had three or more coconut cocktails.
Luxury: I’ll bring a book. “How to make your favourite desert island coconut cocktails.”
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Posted on 3 December, 2012 at 1:20 pm by Omegastoopreme
Game 1, gotta be Fallout New Vegas, I could play it a hundred times and do it differently every time.
Game 2 Jak and Daxter HD Trilogy, there HOOOOGE!!!
Music The music from Wonderboy 3 on the Master System
Its impossible to be grumpy while listening to that.
For a luxury item is a 40ft motor yacht too much?
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Posted on 3 December, 2012 at 1:28 pm by Daboiflip
ok here goes..
Game 1 would be Final fantasy 7 old i know but i would loose countless amout of hours on this game. And when i went exploring id hope to find my own party and solve some mysteries and hopefully solve the world from and evil being who has got some weird wish to cleanse the world.
Game 2 would be assassins creed as if im going to save the island/ world im going to need to be stealthy at some point
music has to be from GTA awsome sound track for every situation
Luxury item would be ezios costume id have style and look the part .
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Posted on 3 December, 2012 at 9:51 pm by Jestersoil
no winners this time?
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 9:24 am by Fred Dutton
Hey everyone. Sorry I haven’t done the winners yet – I was out of the office yesterday. I’ll get on it this morning!
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 12:14 pm by Coody-Baroody
@ Fred
Hi Fred, if you were out of the office yesterday, any chance you could see why yesterdays “deal” in the 12 days of xmas promotion seemed to be a tad wrong? It said that Battlefiled 3 came down from £59.99 to £29.99 but how could it?
You see the “Premium Edition” was £57.99, £2 cheaper than the standard version before the “sale” but with ALL dlc included? Somethings wrong somewhere isnt it? The post yesterday received tons of replies asking a similar question but up to now Chris hasnt replied to clear it up.
I know PSN had maintanence yestaerday so you guys were probably busy but any chance of a reply today? Im holding off buying it in case it IS the “Premium Edition” thats meant to be on sale as im not paying £29.99 for the standard game when i can get it half that price retail.
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 12:19 pm by Coody-Baroody
Also, even if i DID want to buy the standard version im unable to. I downloaded the Hour Trial a while back and now the Store only says i can either have the Trial for free or download the full game for free but when i do its still just the trial.
Its been like this for a while now too mate. Any news on a fix?
Sorry for multiple questions.
Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 2:00 pm by Fred Dutton
I’ll chase Chris for some answers…
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 12:47 pm by ChemicalBacon90
@Coody-Baroody
To fix that problem with the full game trials, I think you need to play the trial for 60 mins until it expires. Then go back to the store and you should be able to buy the full game.
The only games that display correctly after downloading the full game trial are the first 2 on the list: two of the Assassins Creed games. They’re the only 2 that, after downloading the trial, still show the trial as free and the full game as a price. The rest are broken, so hopefully they can fix it!
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 1:16 pm by Coody-Baroody
@ ChemicalBacon
Ahhh ok thanks for clearing that up mate!
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 1:24 pm by yume_2501
Game #1: little big planet 2 – virtually lbp2 is a game library himself because of the created levels with so many different type of games so… it’s like cheating because actually it’s one game, but we know what can be done with the creation mode
Game #2: fifa 13 – we all need at least one sport game, and fifa at the moment is the right one.A lot of modes (love fut) and you can play in pro club with up to 10 friends (11 in total). so a perfect multiplayer co-op game to enjoy in a distant island…
Music: there a lot of great soundtack to choose from…dark souls. it should be awesome to listen to the bonfire music (firelink shrine is the title) while you actually light a bonfire on the island
Luxury: An ADSL connection so i can playing lbp2 and fifa online
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 1:56 pm by hayzink
@fred
fred just counted your 1 code short.
missed comment 11
lol
Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 1:59 pm by Fred Dutton
Heh, sorry, not this week! Keep hammering away!
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 2:43 pm by Golwar
@Fred
I experienced the very same issue as Coody-Baroody in #207.
Already posted a list of issues directed at Chris and your here http://bit.ly/TFrvvX Point 3 is what Coody mentioned too.
Meanwhile there is the christmas section that I demanded, but once more this section is just filled with empty boxes. At least in the german store.
Btw., I also mentioned some weeks ago that games appear in the store for sales sometimes, which are otherwise untraceable in the store. All games that I mentioned then, can be found now. So thanks for delivering the message and fixing it.
A lot of other content is missing though and I wish your team would check that stuff on their own, without requiring us to name every single object.
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 2:45 pm by toxic-inferno
Thanks Fred! Any idea when the codes will be sent out?
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 4:21 pm by Sirpartyboi
if take god of war 3 with the wipeout soundtrack, and the luxury item would be duct tape. duct tape fixes everything
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Posted on 4 December, 2012 at 6:55 pm by SauloP
Since my birthday was just a few days ago I guess I can still count this one as a present, haha.
I really wanted to take a swing at All-Stars but the budget is tight. Thank you very much!
P.S. Tekken combos are just like playing an instrument. Pay attention to the tempo and see what connects the best. =p
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Posted on 7 December, 2012 at 5:17 pm by alasdairelmes
Game #1 – Persona 4 Golden edition
Amazing game, so replayable and has great music.
Game #2 – Skyrim
Another game with a lot of depth, hundreds of hours worth. (as long as I can bring the patches as well)
Music – This is slightly cheating but the soundtrack of Soundshapes. What a game
Luxury Item – Rum
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