Get that fucking headset on and then we can start this awful podcast.
Will you start again?
Yeah.
As always.
Element of surprise is the best thing.
Why have you shaved your beard off?
He shaved his beard off ladies and gentlemen.
It's horrendous.
It is what it is.
He's done exactly what I did months ago and it's just...
It feels good.
Look shit.
Feels good.
Let the chin breathe.
Yeah, let it breathe for a bit man.
I've gone full circle, haven't I?
I think this time last year I was about to go on holiday
and I was bald with a big beard.
Yeah.
And now I've got a full head of hair and no beard.
That's great, isn't it?
Fantastic.
I say full head of hair.
Yeah.
I went to the barbers yesterday and I said...
I showed him a picture.
I was like, can I have this please?
Or something similar and he pulled my hairline back and he went, no.
That is cruel.
Swear on my life.
He's like, no, you can't do that.
He was like, he pointed out.
He was like, look.
I was like, yeah, I know that.
He was pointing at your hairline and he's going, look, this is no good.
I can't work with this.
Look at them massive holes.
That is a violation.
He went, no.
No, no, no, no.
You can't have that mate.
Flicked to the over 40s.
You can have something like this.
I was just like, we'll just do your best.
And this is what you come up with.
It's not that bad.
I don't know about it at all.
It is what it is.
I'm holiday ready.
So I'm Gucci.
When do you go away?
Monday.
I'm going to work first.
Yeah.
You're squeezing in a shift.
Squeezing in a shift at work.
Got to wait till my daughter finishes school first anyway.
So...
Oh yeah. Fair play.
How long should we be sitting around all day playing computer games?
Which isn't bad.
And then you're back Thursday.
Friday.
You think you're going to make it?
Depends what time we get back.
This is indeed the way.
This is the way.
Okay.
So we've had an exciting week.
But before we jump into that,
I'm more excited for you to find out what it is that you keep fucking talking about,
but not saying anything about and just sending me memes for.
I haven't sent you memes.
You have.
What have I sent you?
You said that you'd done something and then just didn't tell me.
Oh, it was classified.
Yeah. What is it?
Was it the beard?
No, no, no.
What have you done?
No, no, no.
Because mine might overshadow whatever you've done.
Probably will overshadow it.
So do yours first.
I bought the collector's edition for Starfield.
There's a collector's edition already?
Yeah.
How much?
What would you get with that?
That's cool because I was thinking about doing that.
What did you get with that?
A case.
Yeah.
A steel case.
The game, which is a fucking rarity.
Yeah, which is of no use to me because I'm playing it on PC.
Well, yeah, it's not the game.
It's digital.
A digital code.
Digital code.
I'll tell you what you get.
Hold on.
Go on.
Fill the space.
Just fill the space.
I didn't realise that they did it because I was thinking about it after the showcase
that it would be quite cool if they did a collector's edition.
But I just hadn't seen anything of it yet.
So if I can still get hold of that, what do you know?
I know you can't speak at the moment, but the price would obviously be a big thing.
Do you get that from game, I'd imagine?
No.
I got it from game.
Oh, you did.
I got it from game.
And last I checked was yesterday and it was still available.
Yeah.
All right.
So for the collector's, the Constellation edition, it's £249.
You get the game.
Yeah.
£249 for a collector's edition.
But you've got to factor in the fact that the game comes with it.
So £70, that's the game.
Yeah, but it's free on Game Pass.
Yeah, I know.
But if you want to play five days early, which I do, you have to.
One of them is that you get a course.
Of course it fucking is.
You can play it on Game Pass and pay like £30 to play it, to upgrade to like their
version that you should play five days early.
Regardless, nevertheless, I'd buy it anyway.
I love Bethesda games.
Game, which is £70 obviously.
Shattered Space Story expansion.
If you know anything about Bethesda games, the expansions are massive.
So whenever that comes out, it won't be out for ages, but up to five days early access.
So it's out on September the 6th, but it all games shipping it or it should be at yours
on the 1st of September, which is when mine says it will arrive.
Constellation Skin Pack, whatever.
Starfield Digital Art Book, an original soundtrack, whatever.
Still Book Display Case.
Pretty cool.
Yeah.
Constellation Patch is just like a patch.
That's cool.
Starfield Chrono Mark Watch and Case.
A watch.
Yeah.
You get a watch with like a proper cool case.
Yeah.
Credit Stick with Laser Etched Game Code.
I don't know what that is.
A credit stick.
So you also get this pre-order bonus, but you get
Old Mars Skin Pack for the Laser Cutter, Deep Mining Helmet and Deep Mining Pack.
Nice.
So I can actually show you exactly what it is.
No figures or anything like that, no?
No figures.
Well, I suppose.
What are they going to do?
Here we go.
I can show you exactly what it is.
Oh, bing bong.
Right.
I'll play it into the mic whilst you look.
Okay.
You need a new screen protector.
Yeah.
Oh, come on.
Yeah.
Come on.
Show me the case, you bull prick.
Oh, look at it, Mum.
What the fuck's that?
Look at that.
Yeah.
Look at that Prince Among Men.
Look how cool that looks.
Come on.
How about you shut up?
Look at that.
I think it's my first ever collector's edition, you know?
Yeah.
I don't think I've ever bought anything.
Mark's pre-order of Mirage is his first collector's edition.
Ragnarok was my first ever collector's edition.
That may be my second one.
The problem is that I'd want to wear that watch all the time.
There's no reason why you can't.
I just won't because I'm a bitch.
See, I'd wear it for work.
I probably won't even open that box.
No.
See, I'd wear it because I wouldn't have any anticipation of selling it.
Yeah, so wear it then.
Oh, see.
And what's tempting is that game don't take the money until like just before release as well.
This is a problem for me.
This is why it's annoyed me a little bit.
It's a solution for me.
So what's happened is...
Don't get me wrong, I haven't got a lot of money.
I've got some money.
Always make sure that I've got enough money for bills,
enough money to pay anything I need and for the children.
They come first and foremost, of course.
So anything I buy is with that in mind.
It's a cannon fodder.
I can afford it.
So I went to buy it and I was like, it's a lot of money.
It feels bad to spend 250 quid.
So I've got PayPal credit.
So I was like, fuck it.
So you split it.
So no, I just stuck it on PayPal credit.
It was like 250.
You get four months zero interest.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Whatever.
But what I didn't realize was that game don't take payment until like just before it comes.
So they haven't took...
I can't start paying the credit off, which is what I wanted.
I don't want 250 quid to be on my head.
So what I've decided to do, I've transferred like 100 quid into my PayPal.
Right.
And then I'm just going to pay it off.
I'm just going to put the money into my PayPal.
So when it comes out, I'm just going to go bang.
There's the money paid for.
So I'm still paying it off without actually paying it off.
If you know what I mean.
Just because I want it.
I don't, I like to know the money's there and I ain't got to worry about it.
Oh God.
I could end up with back to back collector's editions then because fucking Assassin's Creed
is in October.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Is that hot?
It's very fucking hot.
My eyes, do you see my eyes watering?
How did you know it burnt me?
Because I could just tell, man.
These cups, you can hold them like that.
They're insulated so they don't burn you.
But they hold the heat in.
Yeah.
They're not hot, are they?
No.
That's what they're for, but they hold the heat in.
Fucking, don't they?
Sorry.
That's all right.
That's good.
I might have a look at that then because putting a lot of faith into this game.
But I think, I think the only reason it's really tickled in your pickle is because of how much
No Man's Sky fucking blew your little mind.
Yeah.
This is just No Man's Sky with fucking content.
Exactly.
That is No Man's Sky with content and actual combat.
Yeah.
I mean, I've seen people stealing sandwiches, so I kind of want a piece of that.
Did you watch, did you watch the whole thing?
Have you seen all of it?
I didn't see the whole thing, but I feel like I have just through TikTok because my whole
TikTok at the moment is just the showcases.
Like everything is all over it.
Some of the things they explain you can do on there are crazy.
The craft, the building system for the ships, the customization, the fact that you can just
build whatever the fuck you want.
I find that crazy.
And walk around in it.
Yeah.
It's just going to be so good.
Like what happened with Tears of the Kingdom where people start building crazy shit.
You're going to get that in tutorials and all sorts of fucking stuff.
There's like a 45 minute thing with the developers and stuff and the developer showed that
one of them built like a massive transformer that stood up on its legs.
I see it, I see that one. It's cool.
It does look so fucking good.
One of my favorite things about the whole thing was something quite small, but it was
when you're shooting ships in space, you can just blow them up obviously, or you can board them
and like then finish them off.
And you can steal their ship.
Yeah, and then steal their ship.
Keep it forever.
That's the sort of shit you want.
I love that.
If you want to roleplay as like a space pirate, just going around, just fucking.
And you can haul cargo around, when you approach planets it says like cargo scan initiated.
It would be so good if it was multiplayer.
Yeah, yeah, but I don't know.
Some things are just better off the way they are because it complicates matters.
True. I mean, there's a lot of people that are very skeptical of it because
gameplay trailers aren't really anything to go by nowadays.
They're a bit hit and miss.
However, having seen a side by side of when they delayed it for essentially another year
from how it used to look to how it looks now is night and day.
I feel like Bethesda looked at what happened to CD Projekt Red with Cyberpunk
and thought we don't want to do that.
So let's just delay it, deal with the hassle and then make it better than what it already is.
And I think that's gone in their favor.
I think everyone's right to have skepticism considering the way
Fallout 76 launched, albeit the last multiplayer game.
Yeah.
And then Redfall, the absolute state of that, even though it was.
Fucking mess.
Strictly Bethesda.
No, but they still had a fucking hand in.
So yeah, obviously rightly skeptical, but this is like the reason I'm not that worried is
because this is Todd Howard, the creator of all the Fallout Oblivion Skyrim all them.
This is his magnum opus for like,
this is what he was talking about back in like 1998 when he was making Morrowind,
Daggerfall and all that.
He's always said his ultimate game is to make a space game, open world space game.
Yeah, because this is the first, uh, this is the first, the first different IP.
25 years.
Yeah.
That's a long time.
This game's been in development for so long and they've scrapped it and started from beginning.
It just feels like it's got all the best parts and it's like every took in the best part of every
game and put it into Starfield.
They've got the crafting and the building and all that from Fallout four.
Yeah.
Uh, yeah.
I really, I know that we spoke a little bit about it before, but I really don't like the
fact that it's locked to 30 frames per second.
I don't like that.
Um, I mean, I won't have an issue because it's not, that's not on PC.
It's, it's have it wherever the fuck you want on PC.
But for PlayStation and Xbox, I feel like, cause I watched the interview section where
they're talking about it.
Um, and they were saying how they, they wanted to choose fidelity over performance because
of how good it looks.
They didn't want to sacrifice anything.
And I think that is absolutely fine, but give players the option for performance mode.
Don't force them to have fidelity, but if they want performance, let them have it.
But I can understand why they're saying, no, we've made this look beautiful.
We want to keep it beautiful.
But give people the option depends how much development time it takes to make that switch.
Yeah.
I've got no idea if that's an easy thing to do or if that's what I mean.
Like I would prefer to play in 60 frames per second and lose fidelity for sure.
Cause I don't care how resolution, how many pixels it looks good.
I don't know.
It looks good and also looks all right.
I don't know.
I don't know many games where if you switch them from fidelity to performance, where they
really, where they like, you notice I'm not going to be able to do that.
Where they really, where they like, you notice a massive difference.
Like, you know what I mean?
God of war, for example, it doesn't look shit in performance mode.
Still look gorgeous.
The thing is I don't, I think some games deserve a pass and I think Starfield should be one
of them just because of the sheer amount.
The Senate, like God of war is, is a different beast.
You know, God of war, if that more linear, it's linear, you know, it's got, you know,
branching paths, but they all come to an end.
Like Starfield's got like the radiant quest system, but much more expanded that was in
Skyrim, i.e. I don't know if you know much about the radiant quest system, but you know,
items can spawn and create a quest out of it.
So it'd have like numbering factors, item, person it belonged to, target.
And they're very rarely, you would get the same quest.
It's a very clever system.
Whereas like, you could drop an item or no.
So you say you murder a civilian, then their son could hire a bounty on your head and things
like that.
That is very, and then that could just go on forever.
And that's the reason why people still play them games and the modding, you know, the
modding is, you think of all them planets that all the modders are going to have access
Then you can just fucking do whatever you want.
Yeah.
I know people are worried about it looking dead, dead space because it's so big and
open, but it sort of, it's very difficult to achieve having that big and open space
and filling, absolutely filling it with a shit ton of stuff.
But you get to fly around in space.
That's what most people want.
I just want to fly around in space, man.
Yeah, you want, it's an open, all anyone's ever wanted.
Well, I know there's open world space game.
It's just, they just can't do it.
And in that interview, Todd Howard said like there's a, when halfway through that game,
he was just like, you know, they realized there's a reason why nobody has made this
game.
Yeah.
Cause look at star citizen, granted it's online, but it's never coming out.
Star citizen costs a year, 53 million star citizen has been, been in development for
fucking years and everything is so expensive on that game.
It's ridiculous.
Uh, industry favorite man, Jeff Grubb has tweeted and they'll read this early.
Suddenly while I'm saying it, he said, if you're upset about procedurally generated
planets in video games, I have some bad news for you about how they form in real life.
I can't relate to the anxiety about barren worlds.
Don't go to that planet.
I don't know what to tell you.
Are you saying that wasteland planets shouldn't be in the game because you are imagining it
might be a waste of your time.
You are an adult.
Choose not to waste your time.
Hmm. Also, I'm not being funny, but as far as we know, right.
And don't get me wrong, don't get me started on the fucking moon landing because you know,
I don't believe that shit happened.
But regardless, nevertheless, uh, there's two choices in this world.
I have a, we're alone.
All right.
Or we ain't.
And both are equally terrifying.
All right.
Both of them are terrifying in their own way.
I mean, we're not alone.
I'm just gonna throw that out.
But you know, there is a high chance that you, we could go to another planet and there'd
be fuck all on it or there'd be things on it, but we couldn't see them because there'd be
tiny little micro-organisms or whatever.
So, you know, not everything is going to be filled with stuff and there will be stuff on there.
I watched, there's a, there's a really good documentary, not a documentary,
but a breakdown from ACG, really fucking clever guy.
And he goes all into how excited he is, but he's not a fanboy in any way,
shape or form, he calls bullshit, bullshit.
And he goes into all how this technology that Starfield are creating is not just
procedural generation on the, on the level of, you know, basic, it's quite advanced.
And it's not just going to be cut and paste, copy and paste crap.
You know, there might be planets with not a lot on, but that is the whole point of exploration.
You go there and you have a little bowl about it.
It's not really a lot going on, but you just have a look around, you go somewhere else.
You're not always going to find something, but when you do,
it's going to be worth the while, you know?
Yeah. I think if every single, if you had 900 planets and every single planet had a
plethora of things on it, you're going to get somewhat bored or used to it.
The idea that maybe out of 900, 300 or 400 of those planets have got life and interesting
things on it, well then you're going to enjoy the hunt way more when you find one of those
planets. It's the same with No Man's Sky. There's a shit ton of planets on No Man's Sky with fucker
one of them. Fucking wasted planets or corrosive planets or dead planets where you land and
there's not even rocks on the fucking thing. There's nothing to do.
In reality, there's not a lot going on in No Man's Sky. It's the same stuff, but there is a level
of excitement and exploration. No Man's Sky is very, very fun. I think the
funnest part of No Man's Sky is the flights, the spaceships, the finding, the new ships and all
that type of stuff. It was one of my favourite aspects of that game. I think Starfield, by the
looks of it, has that and more. Which to me is very exciting. Yes, Bethesda are known for having
very, very, very buggy games. Most games now are fucking buggy, if I'm honest. Most games now come
out with a fucking day one patch because they're buggy before they've even released. As long as
there's nothing absolutely groundbreaking, the fact that it's a single player offline game as well
sort of means it doesn't matter as much if you do run into a very poor bug. Because hopefully with
autosaves and things like that, you won't have lost that much. I'm not making an excuse if there
are bugs like that, but it's not the fucking end of the world. With a game as massive as this,
you kind of expect that kind of stuff. I definitely expect bugs from Bethesda, but it all just depends.
As long as it's not game breaking, I don't really care. I expect bugs in any big game.
They're not gods. You can only do as much as you can do. You can't foresee everything. With that
many moving pieces, it's inevitable something's going to go wrong now and again. You just have
to be a bit understanding sometimes. Some people are just not, are they? He had an interview with
Ryan McCaffrey from IGM. It was really interesting. It was a really long interview. He asked him some
awkward questions as well. One of the questions that stuck with me was what was one of his
favorite moments he's had since playing it? Just testing it and stuff. He said he was on a planet
really early on in the game, just minding his own business, scanning things and whatever. He said
a ship landed in and loads of pirates got out and started attacking him. Which is stuff like that,
which I've always wanted from that one guy. It just never happens. They fly around, but that's new.
You just get the sentinels everywhere.
I want people to land and try and kill you. He said they landed and they started shooting him.
He said he was having a firefight. He didn't really have any good weapons, so he's ducking and diving.
He ran round like some rocks or whatever. He made a dart for their ship and he was standing
on their ship shooting them on the ramp. He'd gone up the ramp and he was shooting them off of there.
And then the ship took off. He said he just ended up in space on the end of someone's ship.
He was like, this has never happened before. He was like, I didn't know this could happen.
Can it happen? Clearly it happened. That's cool. The pilot took the ship.
That's the sort of random stuff that Bethesda are known for. That's what makes them games so
replayable because they're stories like that. You're like, fuck, you know, it's mad.
The Star Wars mods are going to go crazy.
They create their own stories. Oh, mate. That's the best thing about Xbox is they allow mods.
Yes, PlayStation don't.
The mods are going to be...
Just give me a light saber.
I'm fucking done.
Yeah, 100% that's going to be rolling in there. 100%.
Oh, God.
It's going to be sick, man.
I didn't even think of that for some reason.
Yeah, the modding community on that one is going to go crazy. We've all seen
and spoken about at length Skyrim and it's prop up of fucking modders.
It's just, it's inevitable that I'm going to be able to fucking fly around in Thomas the Tank Engine
shooting dildos. It's going to be some shit like that. It's great.
FYI, the Constellation Edition is available for PC still.
If that's the PC one.
How much do they want? Same price?
Same price, yeah.
Oh, God.
Tap to zoom. Oh, just look, the game just looks fucking phenomenal.
Phenomenal.
I'm scared.
Yeah, I don't know what that data disk thing is that it gives you.
Description. I don't know what the description is.
It's a lot of money, man.
That's why I got it on PayPal credit.
Mark Glicktree just text me saying...
Look at the stuffs.
I know, it looks sick.
Look at the bottom left. That's the laser thing.
Is that the thing? Yeah.
I don't know what that is.
Mark just text me saying 220 quid for the Spider-Man Collector's Edition.
Can't be asked to spend that.
Have you seen it though?
The statue is cool though.
The Venom, yeah. I saw that earlier and I was like, I'll be all over that.
But I don't like Spider-Man enough to spend that.
Whereas I love space. Get space inside me.
I am space and time quantum physics.
I think the Mirage Collection Edition was a very easy one to go for because it's 130 quid.
And it comes with a very cool statue.
Statue is very cool.
Yeah, that's the bit that I was after.
I probably would have preferred a statue to the watch.
But I think that case, the watch, the package is just...
It's very sleek.
But like you say, you've got the game included with that.
I didn't even think of that with the Mirage Collector's Edition as well.
There's a fucking 60 odd, 70 odd quid game thrown on top of that.
So really you're only paying about 50 quid for a collector's edition is quite good.
Nowadays it don't happen, does it?
It just doesn't happen.
Nine times out of ten, the game don't come with it.
So that's why I'm factoring it in.
And like you said, yeah, it is on Game Pass.
But you better fucking believe I'm paying at least the 30 quid to play it five days early.
So, you know, even if I am getting the game for literally half price, I still...
I probably will.
I was saying to Mark today, as far as very collector's edition heavy pod,
because I was talking to Mark about it today.
Considering how much I play World of Warcraft,
they release a collector's edition with every single expansion.
I've never bought one.
Ever.
I've never even seen one.
I always forget about them.
I must remember.
I was talking to a guy at work yesterday about it.
He doesn't read, because I explained that I bought the Constellation edition.
He doesn't understand computer games.
He was like, you paid that for the game.
I was like, it's not just a game.
He was like, it is that, isn't it?
I was like, no, look at all this other stuff.
Yeah.
And I was like, but it holds its value.
And I got nervous.
I had the FOMO effect and I was like, no, fuck it.
I'm buying it.
I talked myself out of it the first night.
I had it in the basket and I was like, no, I'm not doing it.
I woke up the next day and I was like, fuck it, I'm doing it.
I just couldn't help myself.
I'm going to do it right now.
But I went on there.
Let me do it.
But as I was saying to him, I said, I guarantee you scalpers will have it.
Look on eBay now.
Look.
How much are they?
Well, why?
But you can still get them.
Yeah, but you've got to remember, all these could be in America.
I mean, not all countries can get things from game.
You know what I mean?
There's 350 quid, 330 quid.
Look at 250 big ones.
Game not do fucking reward things because I must have so many points.
350 pounds just across the board.
It's everywhere.
I was another thing as well.
Go on.
On the PlayStation app the other day.
I told you, did I?
Is it only PC that's available still?
I think.
I don't know.
On the PlayStation the other day, you got the PlayStation app.
Yeah.
There's a little thing here.
I don't know if you signed up to it.
Clarky hadn't and it's on a waiting list now.
I don't know when I signed up to it, but I clicked on it.
Oh, yeah, I've got that as well.
And you get rewards for all the things you've done.
Yeah.
I've got 20 pounds in my wallet.
For the rewards for the thing.
I must have fuck all because I don't play on the PlayStation.
I got 20 quid.
What level are you then?
It was just level three.
Yeah, I'm level three as well.
So where are you seeing that?
Go rewards.
Yeah.
And then points.
And then go down to wallet funds and how cool.
How many coins you got?
What are your points?
Where are you seeing wallet funds?
How many points you got?
I've got 1366.
Well, that's a fire that you can get.
Look at me.
Might as well.
Money knocking around like it's nothing.
Let me just preorder this PC collector's edition of Starfield
and then find out my PC can't run it.
I mean, it can.
I've seen the specs.
Very exciting.
I'm so excited for that.
And the best thing about it.
So close.
It's not far away, is it?
It's two months.
It's not far.
You know, we're not far from July.
So it's July and August.
And then it's the first of the September and it's fucking there.
Boy, buy now and spread the cost.
I bet you fuck off.
You do what I did.
Give me this fucking secure this check out.
Let's.
Oh, God.
This always happens.
You remember that episode that we did when we said,
yeah, never pre-ordering again.
It's been the third preorder that I've.
No, this will be the fourth preorder that I've done.
Because I had Diablo on preorder as well.
Yeah.
Waste of money.
That was I got my mountains.
I got this for a completely different game.
Oh, I hate the fact that they talk.
What delivery do you go for?
Just the box down one.
That's coming on the first anyway.
So I don't know how they can even offer different deliveries.
Fucking better.
I've on the first.
I'll be fuming.
Yeah, I've got one of that card there, please.
Yes, two hundred and fifty four pounds and ninety eight pence.
Steph.
Get a nice watch, though.
That's what I do get a nice watch.
I watched the strap strap will probably feel fucking horrible on.
Yeah, I don't know.
It looks pretty high quality.
Nevertheless, we're fucking better be for two hundred and fifty quid.
It's a bit of history, isn't it?
That's a bit of history.
This game flops.
Not going to be good, is it?
Starfield's priciest preorder comes with a fully working smart watch.
I don't really see how it can for a lot.
I don't think it will flop.
Oh, that's all.
Now, that won't them taking the money.
Good.
I got already panicky then.
Screenshot that as always.
That's that done.
I've preordered the constellation edition of Starfield for the PC.
So was that lady.
You can say you do it.
That's done.
While we're on the talk of purchases, I bought the most expensive Funko pop
that I've got in my collection so far.
I've spent the most money that I've spent on one singular pop.
It's not here yet.
It hasn't arrived.
I want it in an auction among many people.
It's not Anakin, is it?
No.
Thank fuck for that.
It's more expensive than that.
Anakin.
So it's Lord of the Rings and it's Elrond.
It's Lord of the Rings Elrond, not the Hobbit Elrond.
Who the fuck's Elrond?
Elrond.
You said it three times to learn the name.
The fact that I have to explain it to you.
I'm not even going to explain.
I'm going to get you a picture and you'll know Elrond straight away.
Elrond, mate.
Oh, yeah, that matrix guy.
Yeah.
Hugo Weaving.
It's a Funko pop signed by him.
It's an extremely rare Funko pop to get hold of signed
because he doesn't do any fucking signatures.
So when you look at a lot of Funko pop collections for Lord of the Rings,
a lot of people don't have him.
Same as Aragon because they just don't do many signatures.
Do you want to know how much I've spent on this singular Funko pop with his signature?
I'm going to say 500 pounds.
It's not far off.
435 pounds.
It keeps shaking your head.
And it's going to sit there all lovely amongst all my other signed Funko pops.
It's crazy.
I thought buying Funkos was expensive, but buying signed Funkos is another level.
It's mental.
There was a geezer that I was in a bidding war with and he was like,
it was around like the 300 quid mark.
He was like, I'm not letting this go.
I need it for my collection.
And half the seller was like, you will.
So you fucking will.
And basically it was, the auction was meant to finish at nine o'clock
and every bid after nine o'clock added on five minutes.
Basically the way that they're doing these auctions now,
it used to be that it was the last bid at nine o'clock.
Whoever got the last bidding would win.
So you could very easily snipe an auction.
Whereas now he adds on five minutes
and they just keep going until no one else bids.
So it just makes it a little bit easier.
You ain't got to worry about someone sniping you out.
And I was being quite horrible with it because it was getting,
so at nine o'clock he bid and added on another five minutes.
So I let four minutes pass and then bid up another five.
You're a dick.
And then it got to 35 minutes past nine
and it was about a couple bids through.
And the guy like joking around said to the person running it,
like in the comments, can we close this at quarter past nine
because I've got to get back to work.
And I was like, well, you've put the nail in your coffin now
because now I'm just going to extend it even longer.
So I just kept going and kept going.
And then it, yeah, around the fourth,
when I put my 435 quid in, he said,
he said, I'm going back to work.
Congratulations.
I was saying, at least he wasn't a dick about it like you.
Well, I was like, oh dear, oh dear.
But I messaged the geezer to obviously pay him.
And I said to him, I said,
you want to throw in a hard stack for it?
And he was like, yeah, yeah, for a bit of extra money.
I was like, fuck that.
No, thank you.
Charlotterie postage.
For what?
A hard stack.
What's that?
A hard case.
Yeah.
How much are they on their onesies?
Like 15 quid.
I won't even throw in a fucking hard stack for me.
Is that the geezer you bought loads off as well?
Yeah.
I'm his top contributor.
Isn't it?
But it's all right.
Very money driven.
Sometimes you have to be.
But it's fine because at seven o'clock there is a,
is it popfigures.com or something like that?
That C3PO that I sent you that Mark got
from a 15 quid mystery box.
They're releasing it.
That is nuts.
Yeah, I know.
It's crazy.
They're releasing.
What sort of mystery box?
Off of him?
Yeah.
So there's this, not this geezer.
So the ones that I'm getting all these sign funcos from
is called Ink to Grails.
It's a Facebook group.
Shout out to them.
The website that Mark has showed to me is,
I'm pretty sure called popfigures.com.
And every now and then like once a month,
he was saying they released like 250 mystery boxes,
15 quid each.
And with every mystery box, you get a hard stack.
So you're basically getting the funco for free
because the hard stack is going to cost you 15 quid on its own.
And they release a list of the rarest stuff that's in it,
like five or six different items of whatever.
And yeah, they're 15 quid each.
And Mark bought two and got that fucking, that Freddy C3PO
that's worth an absolute fortune.
It's crazy, man.
It's crazy.
He doesn't know what he's doing with it yet.
Doesn't know what he's doing with it.
Because it's very difficult to narrow down a price
because there's only, how many of them was there?
What was it like?
I don't know.
What did he fucking, there weren't a lot.
I quickly flick through the picture he sent.
How many?
There's only, there's only 520 of them in the world.
So trying to narrow down and when you go on eBay,
so if there's only one or two that's sold
because most people are just holding onto them.
But to have that in a mystery box, I was like, fuck me.
Who the fuck put that in there?
Who's thrown that in there?
But I guess if you're selling 250 of them
and only six of them have something crazy in it,
they've all got a minimum value of nine pound, I think,
worth of Funkos inside it.
And then you throw the hard stack on that.
So you're essentially making your money back.
But 250 times 15, you're not doing too bad
with that sort of dough.
Well, congrats.
Yes, fucking got heavy into the Funkos, man.
I got a signed Philip J. Fry.
Turning up as well, Geyser out of Futurama.
Man.
Managed to win him for 65 quid.
That's cheap, man.
Proper cheap.
You've got some serious investment in your pops now.
It was proper cheap.
I messaged the Geyser.
I was like, why, what are you selling up?
He said, oh, found out he's like, used to collect Funkos,
stopped collecting them now because of the root.
I now collect Lego.
I was like, oh shit, I said, I've got a mate that fucking,
I shouted out the podcast to him.
I did like a selfless plug.
I was like, Geyser, I do a podcast with,
started like dabbling in collecting Lego.
I said, you've gone from one fucking expensive hobby
to the next.
He's like, yeah, I know.
The fact that you've bought all these pops
and that one you've just purchased,
now makes me feel bad for not getting that photo
and pop signed from Anakin at the Star Wars convention.
Well, that signed Anakin come up again,
because every Tuesday, Ink to Grails do a seller's post.
So you can't sell stuff on that grill.
So you can't sell stuff on that group.
Every Tuesday, he puts up a thing saying,
anyone in the group is free to put up free items
that like for sale.
And that's where I got the Philip J. Fry.
And literally the first person to post something
was that Anakin that I showed you.
And they wanted, I think it was like 350 quid for it.
And it's a justifiable price because like you just said,
we know how much it costs to get a fucking signature
off the Geyser if you don't just pass him in the street.
So 350 quid technically is cheap.
Yeah, I mean, I'd be more up for it.
I'd contemplate that more, but I just don't like that pop.
I don't like that version of Anakin.
I like the older version or the dark side version of him.
Yeah, I think if I was gonna go
and get something signed by Hayden Christian,
I'd want a quote as well.
I wouldn't just want his signature.
I'd say, why sign it?
Can you put like whatever phrase you would want
because that's what a lot of people do.
There's this guy on the group
that has a massive Lord of the Rings Funko collection
like all signed.
Funny enough, he doesn't have Elrond.
So apologies for that one.
But every single one of his pops has a quote
on the side of it.
And it just looks way better.
But yeah, it's an expensive game to get into.
Speaking of, well, nothing really.
But did you watch the Star Wars reveal,
didn't you, the Ubisoft Star Wars outlaws?
I think it looks so fucking good, man.
I think that looks so sick.
Well, it won't be overshadowed by Starfield
because it's not even releasing this year.
Neither would I agree with you
of what you said I don't think it will release next year
either, but from what I saw, it looks so fucking fun.
If they can pull that off.
I think it looks so fucking good.
People have been asking for a Star Wars game.
Convenient that they announced that
after EA have stopped pissing around with Star Wars.
Yeah, but then a lot of games have been in,
I read this because I'm quite up to date
with Star Wars games and stuff.
And it said that a lot of companies
have been creating Star Wars games
before EA's tenure was up with Disney
or Lucasfilm or whoever they have the rights from
because they knew it wasn't being renewed.
So, you know, there's no point waiting until the date
and then starting working on the game.
So there's a lot of gangs ready to go.
Star Wars outlaws, by the way,
for people that don't know what we're talking about.
I'm just disappointed because there's no character creation,
but I've fought long and hard about this.
And I think I know why, because this was a long time ago now,
or not that long ago, but it's been well known
that Ubisoft were making an open world,
do as you like RPG with a creator character.
So that is what I've been waiting for,
the reveal of this game for so long.
Is that why everyone thought it was gonna be Kotor?
No, no, no, no, this is what it is.
This is what it's supposed to be,
an open world Star Wars game.
It was supposed to be create your own character,
be a bounty hunter, be a sith, be a smuggler,
be a Jedi, be what you want.
That's what everyone wanted.
But I've got a feeling,
and I know why they've gone with the path they have.
So it's not an RPG, it's just an open world game,
they're akin to GTA maybe,
and they've got the female lead.
I think that Disney are just saying no,
no character creations in Star Wars,
because we want these characters to be canon.
We want them in the universe,
because Cal Kestis from Jedi, Survivor and stuff,
he is rumored to be in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series.
He was rumored to show up in that.
It's still rumors of him coming up.
He's a real actor, isn't he?
You're thinking that they don't want anyone
to make anything that might ruin the movie and series side
or have an effect on that side of Star Wars.
No, I just think that the character creation,
so you can make whoever you like
and go and do what you want,
but then it's just an open world Star Wars game.
I'm not saying they don't want that,
but I think they want more characters in the world
to play with in films and TV shows.
Oh, I see what you mean.
So Cal Kestis is a canon.
Disney, basically every game that comes out,
they're basically saying this is canon.
So they can fit around all these narratives.
As I say, Cal Kestis is the actor that plays him.
He could easily, he was rumored to appear
in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series.
He's still rumored to be in the Ahsoka series.
He's rumored to be in all sorts of things.
So is this protagonist in Outlaws,
is this a current Star Wars character
or is this someone completely brand new
who we would expect at some point
if the game is as good as we hope,
would make it eventually into some form of series crossover,
something like that.
Yeah, that's why I think they're doing it.
That's why I think they're making it that way
because it adds for more content,
they put more characters to play with.
I feel like that isn't a bad move, if I'm honest.
No, it's not a bad move,
but it's not what a lot of people wanted.
And I'm getting sick to death of it, right?
I'm gonna address the thing right now.
I don't want to play as this woman, okay?
But all I'm seeing, right, is people saying the same thing.
They say it respectively, respectfully,
on Twitter, on YouTube.
Some are twats, some are cunts, let's have it right.
They're mugs, talking shit.
But respectfully, I see a lot of people saying,
I don't want to play as her.
I wanted to play as either my own character
or another dude, right?
And then instantly, they're just bombarded with,
you're sexist, who hurt you, you're this, you're that.
Not true at all.
I would rather play as a geezer.
I am a geezer, I relate to geezer things.
It's personal preference, right?
I've got nothing against women in games.
I'm all for women in games, no problem.
I, when it's a story-driven game akin to this,
which is gonna be a story-driven game,
I find it easier to relate to a bloke.
That is my preference.
That doesn't mean I've got anything against women in games.
I prefer that.
Everybody's got preference, that is my preference.
But people saying that you're sexist
because you don't want to play as a woman is wrong.
I don't think it's sexism at all.
However, I think, I sit,
I have the same argument, but on a different outlook for it.
With a story-driven game, I strongly believe
that you shouldn't have the ability to change the,
if it's a woman or a man that you're playing
because it's story-driven in the same way that you wouldn't.
I'm not saying that.
That's not what I'm saying, by the way.
I'm not saying I want to change.
No, but I'm saying that if a game is story-driven,
if it's a woman or a bloke,
I think that is dependent on the story and how it fits.
You wouldn't have The Last of Us
with Joel and Ellie swapping positions.
It wouldn't work.
You can't do that.
Same with Control, same with Horizon,
same with Tomb Raider.
You know who has done it, don't you?
Ubisoft, with Assassin's Creed,
where you could be Cassandra or you could be the other guy.
The last two or three.
In Valhalla.
And the one before that.
And then you had Syndicate,
where you could play as both of them.
The thing is, with...
This is different. This is different.
This game has been designed to play as her, which is fine.
No problem at all.
Also, I think if Ubisoft...
I believe Ubisoft would have said that.
We will make a female and a male character
and let them choose.
But I think this is why I said what I said.
I believe Disney would have said,
no, choose one or the other,
because that character is going to be canon
and in the story of Star Wars,
it's going to be in the universe.
It may well be.
I really don't see an issue with it.
I don't really give a fuck who I'm playing.
If it's a man or a woman, I don't really care.
You watch the trailer and it's the same tropes
that get thrown around all the time.
She says a couple of things like,
I've been held back my whole life.
I don't want all that, I'm held back as a woman now.
Yeah, but we didn't see any of that.
I did. Did you not watch the trailer?
Yeah, I didn't see any of that.
That's exactly what she said.
I didn't see any of that.
That's exactly what she said.
I've been held back my whole life.
If they go down that road, then I'm just out.
Yeah, but if she's saying she's been held back
her whole life, that doesn't mean-
It depends on the context, of course.
Yeah, that doesn't mean the narrative
that they're running with.
It's just a played on stuff
that I'm just bored of, quite frankly.
I'm not interested in that.
If it's a very cool story,
with her absolutely fully in crack on,
but I just don't want it to be this copy and paste crap
where it's the same old nonsense.
I don't think it would be, because yeah,
it does get played on quite a bit.
It might have been in the trailer the day before
where she said that,
because they had the announcement trailer the day before.
I feel like it-
In the cut scene.
I feel like it matters,
but I definitely feel like companies play on that shit
a lot more because they're gaining-
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Some form of-
Brownie points.
Yeah, from something.
That fucking diminishes the issue that's there,
but there's countless games
where you have to play as a bloke.
There's countless of gamers that are women
who have to play those blokes.
For people to sit there and wins
that they've got to play as a woman
when there's fucking basically 90% of games out there
where if you're a female gamer,
you have to play a male lead.
It's an argument over a game
that doesn't really fucking matter.
It really doesn't matter.
If the game's good, let the game speak for itself.
It should be good regardless of what you're playing.
There's a difference between having a preference
and preferring something as opposed to moaning about it.
I.e., if there's character and customization,
I love customizing characters.
I think male armor just looks cooler in games.
When I'm playing as a character, I like male arms.
I like the stature of a bloke,
like big, strong, big cloak-
I'm the same as well.
So I just prefer that.
I prefer it aesthetically to be playing as a bloke.
This automatically on the internet
is met with you're a sexist cunt.
Yeah, yeah, people are ripped before.
And that's my point.
That is my point.
People have a go at you.
I wouldn't want to say that online.
No, I get you.
Because I'm just like, that is not what I am.
It's a dangerous world to fall into.
Exactly, to voice your opinion.
But quite frankly, it's bollocks.
People will have a go at you.
I think it's perfectly fine
if you don't want to play a woman.
I know that you aren't one of the types of people
where you go, I'm not fucking buying the game
because you have to play as a woman.
I'm 100% for female representation in games.
I am all for it in every way, shape and form.
But what I'm not all for is if it's forced, like you said,
if it's forced because of companies or corporations.
If you're made to feel bad for wanting to play as a bloke.
That's what's happened.
I don't think that's fair.
But I don't, it's difficult, isn't it?
It's not even wanting to.
It's just preference that I would prefer to.
Will I still play this game absolutely?
And I hope she's the sickest character in Star Wars.
And she might well be.
Ultimately, most of the people that are holding
the extreme opinions about it
probably aren't fucking game designers.
So therefore don't know the issues
that involve having more than one different type
of person in a game.
It might be more difficult than you fucking think that it is.
Especially with a story-driven game.
You change the gender of someone in a story-driven game.
It changes the entire fucking story.
If Joel was Janice, you know what I mean?
The entire dynamic of The Last of Us changes all of it.
So it's not as, if it's something like No Man's Sky
where you're suddenly being forced to either play a man
or play a woman, where it's kind of like,
well, it doesn't fucking matter.
Same with World of Warcraft.
Doesn't fucking matter.
Skyrim doesn't matter.
Destiny doesn't matter.
With a heavily story-driven game, I think it does matter.
But like you say, I think you're right with saying
that I think Disney are telling what,
calling the shots on this one.
Because ultimately they wanna make
as much fucking money as possible.
They're smarter than we are at doing that.
And they know way further into the future
in terms of Star Wars about what is coming out,
what's being filmed, what's on the pipeline.
So yeah.
I'm glad that it's a woman in terms of,
if this story has obviously been curated for her
as opposed to curated for a man and a woman.
I think she looks like a really cool character.
Yeah, she is.
And she's luckily, it's also a disappointment
that it's not a character creation
because she's probably set in the coolest part of Star Wars,
which everyone wants a game from.
Everyone wants to play this part of Star Wars,
but they wanted the RPG that was leaked.
This is the problem.
People wanted the RPG where you could create
your own character, be a Jedi, be a bounty,
be a Mandalorian, be a bounty hunter, be a CFP.
That's what they wanted.
This is great and I'm 100% for it.
And it looks like it could very well be
one of the best Star Wars games ever made.
And I'm all for that, 100% I'm in.
But it's just, I just wanted that.
I wanted that RPG, man.
That's not to say that it isn't gonna happen,
but it's such a tall order.
Of course.
And it's always the same with this type of shit.
You sit here now and say that you want an RPG of Star Wars,
an actual proper one.
I want one of the Lord of the Rings.
They're not there.
You've got the Old Republic, you've got fucking Star,
you've got Lord of the Rings Online.
They're older shit.
Yeah, that's mental though, isn't it?
You've got Star Wars and Lord of the Rings,
like two of the biggest franchises
in pop culture history.
And it just hasn't been done.
Where are the RPGs?
It just hasn't been done.
The lore is there, the characters are there.
It's all there for someone to put together.
And I feel like people won't do it
because of how much of a tall order that is.
Because the series themselves, the IPs, they're so amazing.
If you have all of those ingredients
and then make something and it's shit,
well, there goes your fucking gaming studio
because you've just taken one of the biggest IPs
in the world, Star Wars, and just created something.
You've been given the funds to make the biggest RPG ever
for this IP and it's shit.
See you later.
It's such a, this isn't some indie company
that's just trying something for the first time.
It's a massive, massive undertaking
to do something like that.
And I think that's why so many people haven't done it.
And let alone the running costs of doing that.
Imagine if you had, what you want is World of Warcraft
with lightsabers.
Basically.
That's what you want.
You've got that with the Old Republic,
but it isn't the same.
I don't want it online.
I just want the single, I want the Starfield.
I want Starfield, Star Wars.
Yeah, Starfield with lightsabers.
If it wasn't Starfield, it was Star Wars, mate.
You want Starfield with lightsabers,
but you want it to be 100% Star Wars.
Yeah, that's exactly what I want.
In that world with those characters,
with the story lines.
All the planets I can go to.
Yeah, everything like that.
That's exactly what you want.
Mate, if they just released, right,
and this is against probably what most people would say,
but I'm different for this.
If they just released a couple of planets
on an RPG of Star Wars, it was like every month
we're gonna add a new planet
and it costs you like 20 pounds a month.
Yeah, you gotta pay for it.
I'm having it.
I'll pay, I'll pay.
Yeah, I'm having it.
Just keep expanding this fucking RPG.
Single player RPG, just keep expanding it
and I'll just keep visiting these planets
and fucking chopping shit up with my massive red lightsaber
and call myself Darth Microtransaction.
Yeah, it's...
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah.
But just to wrap that up quickly,
I'm all for the bird in the game.
I'm 100% buying it.
She seems like a very cool character.
Yeah, she's very cool.
I'm very excited.
I can't remember her name.
Did they say her name in the title?
Kaz or something.
I like the little gremlin thing that she's got with her,
whatever the fuck that was.
Yeah.
They've all got little companions,
and they cows got BD1.
They've one of the coolest moats.
It's set between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
So it's set when,
cause you actually see Han Solo
when he gets put in Carbonite
and he gets shipped off to Jabba's palace.
You see him in the trailer go past in the Carbonite.
So it's just, it's basically the last film
where Luke confronts Vader and all that stuff.
So they've already said there's gonna be
like loads of characters in it and stuff.
So it's exciting to see what they're doing.
And I hope she's a sick character.
And yeah, even if it was a geezer,
I'd still be saying the same thing.
Hope it's a sick character.
I think it's gonna be good.
They want a story driven game style as well.
Make that story good,
like they have with Jedi survivor and that,
and you'll have a hit on your hands.
I think it's gonna be good.
I don't think it's gonna be out in 2024.
No, I reckon 2025.
It looks a bit choppy to me.
And very curated, obviously.
Yeah, but in terms of showcases,
it was a fucking old jam-o-packo fucking week, man.
There was some serious shit,
some real decent shit, Assassin's Creed,
Mirror, I was being one of the top ones of that.
That looked fucking, yeah.
That got me fucking crispy for that one.
It looked very like the original.
That's exactly what we fucking wanted.
When they said that they were going back
to their roots with Mirror,
I was kind of like, oh, but are they?
Steph forced me to play a bit of Valhalla.
And I weren't having it.
I was like, this is shit.
I don't like this.
I'm not having fun.
I was just climbing a mountain in the snow.
I was like, this isn't fun.
I just wish the combat was better.
Their combat in them last three RPGs they've done is so shit.
I said to Steph, I said, this is a waste of time
because I already know that I am not going to play this game.
I said, even if I like it,
I'm not sinking that much time into it to complete it.
I said, it's not happening.
So me sitting here playing this for 15 minutes
is absolutely pointless.
So this is boring.
I think it took me over a year to finish Valhalla.
I kept going back in different sections.
I'm just not gonna do it.
I'm just not interested.
Whereas, and I was, like I say,
when they said that Mirage was going back to their roots,
I was skeptical about it thinking,
are they actually gonna go back to their roots?
Because I feel like that's a cool quip
that a lot of people like to say,
we're going back to our roots, how it used to be.
And then you see a gameplay reveal
and it's nothing like how it used to be.
Well, seeing Mirage's gameplay reveal
looked exactly how it's supposed to be
and how it used to be.
It looked fucking sick.
The only bit that got me a bit flummoxed
was when he was teleporting all over the place,
stabbing people up.
I was like, hold on here.
I said, what's this little bit of fucking spice
that's been added?
But it was quickly sorted out with the idea that,
so if you hadn't seen it, basically Basim,
the protagonist, the assassin.
From Valhalla?
Yep.
Do you know his story in Valhalla?
No, I don't think so.
Is chilling on a ledge
and there's three enemies below him.
And like the Deadeye from Red Dead,
like it pulls up like this time freeze thing
and you've got a bar, like a meter filled with blobs
and you can mark each one of these targets
and it empties that meter.
I.e. you get to the end of the meter,
you can't fucking mark anyone.
And then you release it.
And what happens is you assassinate
the people that you've marked consecutively.
And when I see it, it looks so cool,
but I was like, fucking what's going on here?
It looked like one of the wraith abilities
from Shadow of War.
And although it looked cool, I said to Steph,
I was like, how the fuck does that work?
I was like, how does that work?
He's got a piece of the Eden apple thing.
I was like, how does that work?
And then obviously when he does it,
he goes the same shapes and color of the animus.
So when you're running around the room,
he goes the squares and stuff like that.
So I was like, oh, maybe it's an animus thing
that I'd imagine we work out in the game.
I for one hope that they actually do something
a little bit better with the animus this time
because it seems to have dropped off.
That was the whole point of Assassin's Creed,
was that animus.
And they lost that very early on.
You're the Assassin's Creed expert.
I will bow to your heady knowledge of the game.
Apart from Valhalla and Odyssey and that, I know very little.
I played them, but meh.
But that animus for me is just by far the worst part about it.
No, they-
They could take that out of it
and just keep it a self-contained story
is much more interesting.
Whenever I get the opportunity
in all the last three games I've played
to get out the animus,
as soon as I get out, I turn around,
put him straight back in.
I do not care.
The animus died with Desmond.
When he died, it wasn't long after that
when the idea of getting in and out of the animus
and exploring after that, it just fell flat
because with Desmond Miles,
there was not only the storyline of being Ezio,
you had the storyline of being Desmond
and then the two combined over the course
of all the various Assassin's Creeds that come out.
So you grew a bond with both of them
and playing as both of them,
which meant that when you got out of the animus,
you were way more excited to play as Desmond
because you weren't just walking around
picking up scrap bits of paper.
You were turning into an Assassin in Desmond's world,
which made it much more meaningful
when you got out of the animus.
Whereas I agree with you, after Desmond died,
the animus just fucking-
They just lost it.
There was no point boring it.
It was no longer Assassin's Creed.
And I think that also happens
when you get what Assassin's Creed is now.
It isn't Assassin's Creed.
They're only carrying the name because they can
and it's not Assassin's Creed.
It should be labeled as something completely different.
So the animus doesn't belong
with Assassin's Creed anymore either
because Assassin's Creed doesn't belong
with Assassin's Creed.
Whereas Mirage is going back to its roots.
So I'd like to think that the animus
will fucking follow suit with that.
You're gonna wanna watch the story of Basim in Valhalla.
I will.
It's gonna be interesting
because he's essentially the bad guy in Valhalla.
So it'll be interesting to see what the scoop is.
I know he's younger in this, but-
I can't fucking wait.
I just wish they'd shown some 1v1 combat.
Like, is it going back to like the Batman style
where you counter with one button and stuff?
Because I always really liked that, but-
I said to Steph, it would have been nice
if I could have seen some gameplay
without the hidden blade with a different weapon
because he just uses the hidden blade.
It's just all assassinations.
I'd like to have seen something with a sword,
a fucking mace, a spear,
something other than a hidden blade.
But I'm sure it'll be fucking fine.
I like the way when he throws a smoke bomb down
or whatever, the camera shifted to like them confused.
And then you've obviously carried on running a bit
and it catches up and it's like, oh yeah.
No, it looks really good.
And I'll probably buy it to be honest with you.
I'm not a massive Assassin's Creed fan,
but I'm a huge fan of stealth games
akin to Metal Gear Solid.
I remember, I must've been 18, 19
before Assassin's Creed 1 came out.
And I was sitting at a really old computer
at my partner at the time's mom's house.
And the amount of times I watched
that Assassin's Creed 1 trailer over and over again,
I was so gassed for that game.
And then when it came out, I was just a bit disappointed.
If I'm honest with you.
Out I hear Assassin's Creed 1 never played it.
It was all right.
I haven't played it.
I don't know what I was expecting.
I joined the Assassin's Creed world at Assassin's Creed 2
and I always tell myself I should really go
and play Assassin's Creed 1, but I just can't be bothered.
Just watch a play for a while.
Yeah, I have.
I've seen what I need to see from it.
So it's like, I'm not gonna bother playing it.
Mark tried replaying all the Assassin's Creeds
a couple of months ago and said like,
I just can't do it.
I think the only one I'd be interested to play
would be Black Flag.
Black Flag, 100%.
The only one I'd be interested to play.
Did you never played it?
Play bits of it.
I don't think so.
I've watched a lot of it.
Black Flag was so fucking good, man.
When you managed to capture one of those
Portuguese man of wars, fucking legendary ships,
those things were fucking,
Steph hated the ship system on that.
I loved it.
I thought it was so fucking good.
It was such a cool addition to the game.
They did the typical though,
give you one of the fucking best weapons right at the end.
And it was like some whip where you could hang people
up trees and shit like that.
Oh really?
Yeah, man.
You could crack a whip around their necks
and it would go over a tree branch around their necks
and you can just hang them.
It was sick, man.
That's very cool.
But you only got it for like,
maybe like two hours worth of gameplay
because you were right at the end.
Do you not just get to carry on after the game's finished?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cause you can carry on fucking.
So you can still use it.
Yeah, but you know me.
I don't carry on after the story's done.
I'm done so guns.
He dips in, he dips out and he's back on well.
Basically, yeah.
That's pretty much how it works.
That's like me nowadays with Diablo.
I'm not dipping, but I'm back.
I've got all the people in Discord
and our guild starting to complain about Diablo.
Yeah, here we go.
Because they're, unlike you,
they are full timers with this kind of shit.
So they sink in, I know you've sunk in a lot of hours,
but they've.
59 hours to be precise.
Yeah, they would have sunk in more than that.
They're already like max, max, max, max.
They've got everything that you could possibly need.
All the Lilith statues, everything's done.
And yeah, they were whinging quite hard the other day.
I say whinging, that makes it sound bad.
They were debating quite hard about the lack of content.
They can fucking suck my cock.
The lack of content and that they're beginning to get bored.
Now, I'm in the mindset of the game's been out for two weeks.
Why the fuck are you writing?
Why have you done everything already?
That's your own fault.
Because this is what happens,
these are World of Warcraft players.
And in World of Warcraft, when a patch comes out,
people rinse it and get everything done
in a matter of weeks
and then wonder why there's nothing to do.
I'm at that point now, I didn't even fucking rinse it.
I'm scratching my head.
The next content update is next month.
But there's not much more I can do.
I'm done.
But these lot have rinsed Diablo.
Like I have not seen them on WoW.
They have just been on Diablo nonstop.
So have hit that wall.
And I saw a thing on TikTok of someone saying
that Diablo 4, I think you were watching the same video
when you come here, but I don't think you got to that point.
They were saying that Diablo 4 is more casual friendly
than elitist friendly.
And Diablo 4 has an absolute wealth of content.
And if you're a full-time player
who is managing to sink in 80 hours a week,
it will not be enough for you.
You will get bored.
But if you're just a casual player, a fucking parent,
you've got a full-time job,
you've only got X amount of hours to play every night,
maybe two, maybe three, then you ain't getting bored
because there's fucking loads to do.
Obviously you don't have the same kind of time
that these people fucking have
because they are on it nonstop day and night.
They are on Diablo 4.
So they've just hit a wall.
And I think after seeing all of that shit,
I'm kind of like, yeah,
I just don't want to be a part of that.
Yeah, I just disagree to be honest with you.
Unless these people you're talking about
have made five different characters
and got them all to level 100, then nah.
That's not how they roll though.
Well, Diablo is different in it
because it forces you to diversify and play different stuff.
You know, what, all right,
I'm not trying to shit on WoW or anything here.
I'm just trying to draw some comparisons.
What else could you do in WoW
once you've done all the story stuff?
Like what would you do?
What's the plan?
Like you said the other day, you're done for now.
You could go and dip into other things.
You got Rage and Mythic Plus
and then you've got the PvP brackets.
But what could you get?
Yeah, you got PvP and Diablo,
but this game's just come out, man.
Let it breathe for a minute.
That's what I'm saying.
Let it breathe.
It's already expanded on all this stuff.
That's what I'm saying, but this is Blizzard community.
This is what they do.
So they've got PvP.
So you could go and do that if you wanted.
Wow, so these raids, what'd you get in the raids?
Yeah, and then there's achievements
that you can get in the raids.
Normally like what we're doing.
So we've done the raid on heroic
and you get an achievement called Ahead of the Curve,
which is where you finish a raid on heroic difficulty
before, like while it's still current content.
It's quite a prestigious achievement
to do without having to pay a group
to fucking boost you through it.
And then you have a mythic difficulty,
but that is locked to 20, man.
You need 20 people to do that.
The guild doesn't have 20 people.
Not a lot of people do mythic.
It's just a whole nother level,
different mechanics and shit like that.
But naturally there's like the highest point
of gear that you can get.
I think at the moment for me,
the highest item level that I could get
without going into mythic raiding is 444.
And I'm 440.
So I'm almost as high as you can get when it comes to gear.
I've got all my tier set.
Mythic plus is another thing.
It's just really difficult dungeons.
They're timed.
The better you're doing them,
you get a score and all of that shit.
It gives you a rating.
Once you go past, you get a rating of 2000.
You get, it's called Keystone Master.
You get a mount and a title and shit like that,
which everyone fights for.
So after that, there ain't a whole lot more to do.
It's not too dissimilar.
You can go and run nightmare dungeons,
which just go up exponentially.
The levels just get higher and higher.
If you can do them,
you can craft nightmare sigils
to unlock higher nightmare dungeons,
essentially dropping more gear,
getting unique gear,
which completely change the build
to the unique items that drop.
Very, very, they're like the rarest shit.
Obviously you can get rarer,
but I'm not in tier four yet.
But nevertheless, the unique stuff will give you
like completely different abilities.
So it will like change your character.
So you get different unique weapons that can drop.
And yeah, I don't really see much difference.
You've got PvP rights in its infancy.
You've got nightmare dungeons once again in its infancy.
So yeah, maybe there isn't the wealth
and breadth of content that they're after,
but it has just come out.
And as you say, normal humans would,
with any responsibility,
wouldn't be able to sink that many hours in.
But nevertheless, for them to say there's nothing to do
is wrong.
And if they're judging it off the same merits as WoW,
then it's wrong.
They're not the same games.
No, they're not the same games,
but you can't say that WoW's got anything more to do than,
they can't say Diablo's got nothing to do
if you're gonna do something very similar in WoW,
is what I'm saying.
Yeah, I mean,
WoW's fucking 100 times bigger than Diablo.
Of course.
There's way more stuff to do in WoW
than there is in fucking Diablo.
But 90% of the stuff to do in WoW now is not current.
You can do it for fun.
Most of the current stuff, yeah,
you push your gear up as much as you can,
and then you do exactly what I'm doing.
They brought out a 50% XP boost.
You just level up alt characters for the fun of it.
I can still play my main and I will.
But yeah, it's-
There you go.
That's another thing they could go and do,
go and do the alts.
It's the same shit with games like this all the time.
It gets massively hyped.
Same destiny as well.
People wanna play it.
The FOMO kicks in, people rinse the fuck out of it,
and then they hit a wall or put up a perceived wall,
and then start whinging about the game.
And I think that is somewhat of a toxic trait
because the game's two weeks old, man.
It's two weeks old and you're whinging
there's not enough content.
There's nothing for me to do.
I've done everything exciting that I want to do.
I don't wanna do PvP, but I've done this, this, and this.
I'm tier four, blah, blah, blah.
So that's your fault for not pacing yourself.
You've made that mistake by going fucking-
So literally, when we finished ahead of the curve
on a Sunday, we finished it real decent.
I have not seen any of the people
that I did that raid with since.
I have not seen them,
and I've been logging in almost every day.
I have not seen them because they're on Diablo.
They're on Diablo 4 doing whatever the fuck
they're doing on Diablo 4.
And when the new content comes out for WoW next month,
they'll be back on WoW.
And they probably won't be touching Diablo.
I don't know, they'll be waiting until the season,
because the season comes out in July as well.
So-
At least let it have a season before you start
shooting them loads in.
That's what I'm saying, man.
People don't have the patience, but at the same time,
these were the same people that were telling me
when they were explaining the seasons to me
that you have about three months worth of pissing around
and then you start to get bored.
These motherfuckers couldn't even last two weeks
and they've already got bored.
So what-
I'd say I've played it for 60 hours, right?
And I love the game more now than I have any other time.
And I'm 60 hours in, so that's irrelevant to me.
I absolutely love it.
I'm playing with a guy from work.
We're not talking, we're just playing.
I'm messaging and we're messaging,
just a little message on the chat, which is easy.
We were running through a dungeon the other day
and there's a geezer that can randomly appear
in certain places in the game.
The butcher?
Yeah.
He randomly appeared.
He fucks you up.
Yeah, he randomly appeared for the first time for me
the other day in a little cellar thing.
And I was so excited because I got him down
to like a quarter health.
He's got this ability that just keeps slowing you down, man.
I run out of potions and you know when you're just
so frustrated, like, get away, get off me.
And he managed to hit me and I punched the floor
and it really hurt.
Nice.
But yeah, then anyway, I'm playing with my pal
and then he appeared while we was in this nightmare dungeon
and fuck me was it scary.
But yeah, we beat him, man.
And it was a buzz.
It was such a buzz.
Cause we're, cause he's a couple of levels item.
He's like 62 and I'm 58.
We're running level 73 nightmare dungeons
and that's hard.
It's really difficult.
He's kind of carrying me a little bit.
He's builds fucking nuts.
I don't know what he's doing,
but the help bar most of the bosses go whoop.
Hmm.
And then he turned up.
So I was already nervous.
Is he a rogue by any chance?
He's a druid.
Oh shit.
What bear druid?
No, he's not bear or wolf form.
He's just a druid.
Just normal druid.
Yeah.
And he's got wolf companions.
Lightning geysers,
lightning fucking spitting everywhere.
No.
Oh shit.
He's got wolf companions that run around attacking things.
Yeah.
They're annoying.
Cause I keep attacking them thinking they're enemies.
Hmm.
But yeah, it's a buzz.
And we're in that really hard content.
And then he turns up and we're like,
oh my fucking, you are having a laugh.
But we managed to beat him and yeah, it was such a buzz.
But it was honestly.
It's I'm having a great time.
As long as you're having a great time,
it don't fucking matter where everyone else is.
I'm obsessed with it.
I think about it constantly.
It's one of those games where people can whinge
and say that they've got nothing to do and blah, blah, blah.
And that the game's boring.
But when that first season comes out,
you know that they're going to be fucking playing that.
So it doesn't matter that they're saying they're bored.
They've already got two expansions in the works.
Yeah, of course.
They're going to do like big expansions.
It's not like the old Diablo's.
They're doing big expansions.
This is exactly what happens in World of Warcraft.
It's a carbon copy of the same behaviors.
But new content comes out.
People love it.
They rinse it.
They get bored.
They complain.
New content comes out.
They rinse it.
They love it.
They get bored.
They complain.
New content comes out.
It's just how MMOs work, man.
I see Connor was playing the other day.
I jumped in his game.
That guy's all right.
There's something wrong with him.
He is like, I don't know if you're similar or not.
I'm not.
But he's like, I go in a zone.
I complete everything in that zone until I move on.
I don't move on until I've completed everything in that
zone.
That guy's all right.
He's level 42.
Bearing in mind, I'm level 58, 59, whatever.
He's level 42.
And he's still in act one.
For context, I finished the game at 40.
I'll do it the same way he does it.
I'll do everything.
I'll do absolutely everything.
Yeah, I'll do everything.
This is what I do.
This is my problem.
I will do everything in the zone that I can while I'm
leveling.
Once I hit max level, I fuck everything off.
I don't bother doing it.
All I'm worried about is gear.
Everything gets left.
Unless it's the main campaign, I'll do that.
I'll do the main campaign.
Any of the side shit, nothing to me.
But this is the problem.
You don't get your mountain to act four.
So he's running around.
So he's running.
With nothing.
So I'm getting on my horse, and he's just jogging along
behind me.
And the real fun in Diablo is to be had after the campaign,
when you put it up a tier, and you start getting sacred items
drop and stuff like that.
Well, he's new to this shit, remember?
Well, I know.
I know.
He's a PC gamer that's fucking new to World of Warcraft.
He's new to Diablo.
He's new to fucking the Old Republic.
Because I've got him on that now as well.
I'm playing around with that.
Yeah, I don't know what he's doing.
But yeah, he's taking his sweet ass time.
But it was amusing to watch him.
So I was just playing with him, pissing about.
And I'd be smashing things up and that.
And then every now and again, I'd stop hitting things
and just stand there and watch him and his little damage just
tickling in their health.
I was like, fuck this.
Come around.
Just, boom.
He's clawing him back to World of Warcraft
because of the XP boost thing.
So he's going to play as a hunter this time around.
And I'm going to fucking play as my hunter.
And then we're going to level them up together.
Let's be honest, mate.
You just need to make a fucking decision now.
Stop pissing about.
Are you playing Diablo?
Are you playing World of Warcraft?
Or are you playing fucking Star Wars?
Make your fucking mind up.
It's World of Warcraft, bro.
Or Destiny.
It's World of Warcraft.
Stop pissing about.
Destiny.
Off Destiny is nothing.
It's World of Warcraft.
It always will be.
I'm sorry.
It's just better.
It's better in every single way.
And it's got a better longevity, as proven.
It's just better.
Plus, he hasn't got a controller to fucking play Diablo with.
Diablo 4 feels dog shit without a controller.
Once I switched to controller to play that,
I had such a better experience with it
because it feels horrible.
Because you have to click everywhere
like fucking RuneScape.
It's shit.
I spoke to Connor about it, and he said it's shit.
It's a shit way to play it.
And then I spoke to the people in the guild,
and they all said 90% of the people playing this
are on controller, even on PC.
Because the clicking movement, it's the clickings annoying,
but also the actual character movement
while you're in combat is janky as fuck.
It's so difficult. But once you're on controller,
then thumb sticks, you hit that switch box.
Personal preference.
I know, Geyser that I'm playing with
is playing on PC with a mouse.
And I said exactly what you said to me about,
you find that annoying.
He was like, fine for him.
No, he's a bellend as well.
So don't worry about him.
Once again, your opinion is more important
than everybody else's.
My opinion, along with you,
you have a 90% of the population
that have the same opinion is right.
No, you're just a cunt.
No, that's just how it is.
You're a pig-headed cunt,
and I don't know how Steph puts up with you.
And I hope one day she leaves you
and you find yourself dead in a bin.
I can't wait.
I hope it's a clean bin, and I hope it's a recycling bin.
Look, I don't care what you say.
I like Diablo.
You can eat shit and die.
Yeah, have I offended your little fucking Diablo heart?
No, you're just annoying, aren't you?
I haven't offended your pissy little game once,
and then all of a sudden...
You constantly.
Oh, wow.
You constantly.
It's a far superior game.
You just can't, it's a little bit of longevity.
You don't have to use a controller.
The movement's delicious.
I love playing all the raids.
I can get Mystic-a-Sif-a-Biff-a-Gear,
and I can get level 486,
and if I want to, I can get 487.
If I just put in 480 think hours extra work.
In 12 months...
Fuck off, you cunt.
In 12 months, Diablo 4 will be dead,
and the World of Warcraft will still be standing.
What, like Diablo 3 was?
Yeah.
No.
Yes.
No.
What's the date?
Diablo 3 is still going, bro.
It is the 16th of June.
The 16th of June, 2024.
We'll come back to this conversation,
and then we'll see, unless I'm dead in a bin,
and we will see where Diablo 4 is sitting,
if it's still fucking sitting,
because I don't think it will be.
What do you mean, where it's sitting?
Ooh, how it's doing as a game.
I just don't think many people would be bothered by it.
But why...
The hype will wear off, man.
You've got to remember,
most of the people playing fucking Diablo
are World of Warcraft players.
They'll go back to what is right.
Thank God for World of Warcraft players.
That's what I'm saying.
Why do you feel the incessive need
to just constantly compare everything
to that fucking game?
Because it's one of the best games in the world.
All right, good for you.
And it's made by the same people.
Who gives a fuck?
Who cares?
You've said it yourself,
Diablo is not the same sort of game.
So why are you comparing it so incessively?
It's an awful game.
Diablo 4 is an awful game.
So boring.
Okay, okay.
Just getting loot constantly.
Loot and money.
Mm-hmm.
So boring.
What are you getting in, wow?
Loot and money.
You little sucky cunt.
Yeah.
All right.
I'll set them.
Yeah, I need a piss.
I probably won't be here next week.
I might be, just depends.
No one gives a fuck.
Yeah, I know.
No one cares.
Absolutely no one cares.
I know.
Right.
With that note,
we're gonna go and do the money makers.
Yeah, boy.
See you later, everyone.
Uro.