1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,120 McVitie's Family Circle need to revisit their, we hear the crunch in that stuff 2 00:00:08,120 --> 00:00:14,240 putting it back in the box. Those were horrible those biscuits. 3 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:32,480 They good? Back in the box? All back in the box. Yeah I just need a quick drink because it's so dry. 4 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:39,760 So dry. Oh wait, hang on, happy new year. It will be happy new year won't it? It will be 2024. No it is. 5 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:50,400 No it is, it is 2024. Hello everyone from the future past, future, had a custard 6 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:57,080 cream, a little fat chocolate finger and they were grim. They were so dry, they're 7 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,600 horrible. That is exactly why you got them for free. We'll never get them again. 8 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:06,880 They were dusty. I hate to think how old are those biscuits. No no no no don't, I 9 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,040 thought it was gonna be in the box. They're not gonna be that old. I don't know. Christmas 10 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:21,520 2023 stock. Mmm mmm so what's up? I swear this microphone smells mouldy. 11 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:30,240 Oh wait smell it. Moldy. It smells the same as mine. Yeah mouldy. Well it can't be mouldy because they 12 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,040 they stay with silica packets. That's not like a... It prevents moisture don't it? 13 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:41,920 Well yeah but the stink, the stink remains. They're in a bag, in a ziplock bag, in a box. 14 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:47,480 It's a paramount. So they can't... Well I can smell a smell. It's just microphone smell. 15 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:55,880 Is it your and Ash's breath? Might be. Never know. Stinky boys. We have just finished 16 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:02,320 Days Gone. I kind of wanted to get it done before we did the podcast because I 17 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:06,320 wanted something really decent to talk about. Why are you looking at me like that? No nothing. 18 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:11,320 What are you looking at me like for? I'm not looking at you like anything. I haven't rushed anything. No I know. 19 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:20,320 I know you haven't. That was a weird look you give me. That was a loaded look. What did you think? 20 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:27,320 Jesus Christ was that your breath? God I hope that didn't come from the microphone. 21 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:41,320 That's a horrendous birth. That was crazy. Yeah I thought that was good. I don't mean this in a bad way but do you feel... 22 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:50,320 It might be one to ask maybe a couple of weeks from now. And not now because I think now you're in that afterglow of a good game. 23 00:02:50,320 --> 00:03:00,320 But do you think it had anything stand out special? Yeah. What? I believe it did. 24 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:19,320 One of the main things of it. The hordes. As far as I can tell there aren't really any other games thus far that have taken the mechanics of 25 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:28,320 those zombie hordes and the way they behave and just the whole general basis of them and built upon it and used it. 26 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:38,320 Those hordes were the first time I've ever had something like that in a game. With that volume of enemies and having to pick them off and be tactical. 27 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:46,320 But I know obviously I just ran in with an LMG and jobs are good. But I feel like for me that stood out. 28 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:58,320 The bike was quite cool as well and the upgrades for that and being able to kill a lot of zombies whilst you're on the bike and that type of stuff. 29 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:10,320 I've said it before. The weather in the game. Something so simple but I feel like it's done so well. Really well. Really dynamic. Properly dynamic. 30 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:21,320 I think that it had very good scaling in the sense that things that were genuinely impossible at the start became easier towards the end but not a piece of piss. 31 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:36,320 It was challenging throughout. I think as well with the bike upgrades there were a lot of fun cosmetics to be had but there was also necessary quality of life improvements that you did have to earn. 32 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:43,320 And that element of realism as well where you didn't just have one pot of money. You had credits between each camp. 33 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:50,320 As it would be in real life. You couldn't go, oh can I have this from you? Because I did a favour for him 20 miles away. 34 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:56,320 That kind of thing where you have to build trust and alliances and stuff. I thought that was very cleverly done. 35 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:13,320 Yeah I think it, what I found it was not forcing me but it is forcing but it's a good kind of force where I would have to do side missions for certain camps because not every camp was giving you what you needed. 36 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:29,320 So like Lost Lake would have bike upgrades but Copeland's camp did. One of the other camps near Lost Lake didn't diamond something. 37 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:37,320 Didn't give you bike upgrades. You could just refill your fuel and shit like that. And it was the same sort of system with the weapons as well. 38 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:53,320 So there were camps where you needed to bring up your trust level. And obviously towards the end it sort of doesn't become as much of a necessity and all sort of melts into one. 39 00:05:53,320 --> 00:06:10,320 No I don't think so. It's just Maze of the Horizon. We've said it before and we've spoken about it a couple of times. I think this is now the third or fourth episode where Days Gone has been brought up before. 40 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:26,320 And it's like survival but survival light. Yeah. Where you need to craft most of your stuff. So bandages, healing cocktails and bombs and all sorts of Molotovs, all sorts of shit. 41 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:38,320 The only thing that you can't craft, couldn't really craft was silencers for your weapons but even then you can still go to certain cars and loot them from the bonnets because they were oil fillers. 42 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:56,320 But usually I find that kind of stuff quite annoying because I don't want to have to watch my resources. However they made everything so plentiful that you was never really lacking on stuff and it was quite easy to find everything. 43 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:13,320 And with the petrol system for your bike, like in real life you're going to run out of fuel and naturally you'd have to fill up and you could either go to a camp and you could pay to have it filled up or you can find petrol while you're free roaming. 44 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:26,320 And there was plenty of it. There's petrol stations, there's canisters everywhere. So again, it doesn't feel like you're massively lacking. I liked the fact that when you fast traveled it had an impact, i.e. it cost you time and it cost you fuel. 45 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:34,320 So it depend and it was until obviously because I got the really cool Death Stranding fuel tank where it has like the baby floating around. 46 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:57,320 Before I had that I could only fast travel a certain distance. It wouldn't allow me to go past what my fuel tank could actually do which makes perfect sense. So sort of at the beginning, sort of like the middle of the game, you are contemplating whether it's worth fast traveling somewhere or riding there yourself and filling up along the way because you might not have the money to find. 47 00:07:57,320 --> 00:08:07,320 But because not once but I think I come very close where I fast traveled and then just didn't have the fuel to go out and about. I had to go and find some fuel real quick and come back. 48 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:11,320 So yeah, I really liked it. I like that aspect of it. 49 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,320 Very nice. Why isn't the thing moving? 50 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:15,320 What thing? 51 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:17,320 That bar. 52 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:18,320 What the sound bar? 53 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,320 The blue thing. Does it not move? 54 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,320 No, but we're not at the end of it. 55 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,320 Oh, I see. 56 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:26,320 Oh, very cool. Hello. 57 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:27,320 It doesn't auto scroll. 58 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:28,320 No. 59 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,320 Can you see? 60 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,320 Yeah, I was listening. I just suddenly panicked that it wasn't recording. 61 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,320 Look at the numbers at the bottom. 62 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:41,320 I like the story was very good. 63 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,320 I think. 64 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:43,320 Yeah. 65 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:47,320 So, I should have it logged in on my phone. 66 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,320 The actual hours played. 67 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,320 So, 68 00:08:53,320 --> 00:09:01,320 I think 31 hours is what I put into it, which is about bang on the average of what it is to finish everything, or at least what I've done. 69 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:10,320 I think it was like 36 was the average for the main story and then for everything else, it was between 55 and 65 or something like that. 70 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:17,320 So, I haven't actually got that much more side stuff to do, I don't think. 71 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,320 Are you going to leave it now? 72 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,320 I won't make any promises, but I do kind of want to get those hordes done because only three left. 73 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:25,320 Yeah. 74 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,320 Only three left in a couple of like one camp. 75 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:30,320 So, I might do. 76 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:34,320 Plus, there's some cool weapons I want to see. 77 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:39,320 I want to test out because you get those mysterious weapons in New Game Plus as well. 78 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,320 I don't know if I'll play New Game Plus because I can't be asked to that sort of story again. 79 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,320 So, it's never been my thing. 80 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,320 But what I will say, not once did I get bored. 81 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:51,320 Oh, no. 82 00:09:51,320 --> 00:10:02,320 Throughout that entire 51 hour game play, not once did I get bored of what I was doing, which I find with single player story games. 83 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:10,320 I feel like if it doesn't grab you intensely and keep you there, I tend to slump off a bit. 84 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:11,320 Yeah. 85 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:17,320 And I would not come back to it or have to give it a little bit and really pump myself up to do it. 86 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:26,320 But Days Gone 100% is one of those very few games I played where that shit has, well, both of us held both of us for throughout the whole thing. 87 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,320 Because I started playing it. 88 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:35,320 I think I got like 10 hours on it or something before you'd started watching it with me. 89 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:36,320 Yeah. 90 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,320 We basically did what we did with The Last of Us. 91 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:39,320 Yeah. 92 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,320 And then you actually really enjoyed watching it. 93 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:50,320 So, made a silent pact to not play it unless we were both in the room watching. 94 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:54,320 So, yeah. 95 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,320 It's just another one of those games where so many people have said you have to play it because it's so fucking good. 96 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,320 And then I've gone now. It's not really my cup of tea. I've tried it. Blah, blah, blah. 97 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:04,320 I think I did the same thing with God of War. 98 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:05,320 Oh, my God, Jeremy. 99 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:06,320 Yeah. 100 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:07,320 When you were like, you had the disc, didn't you? 101 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:08,320 Yeah. 102 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:09,320 God, that was so long ago. 103 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,320 Yeah. First God of War, 2018. I was like, that's just not for me. 104 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:13,320 Yeah. 105 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,320 How mental. Absolutely mental. And Days Gone was exactly the same. 106 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,320 Yeah. I've watched you start it. I think twice. 107 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:21,320 Yeah. 108 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:22,320 Yeah. 109 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:23,320 It's the first thing I downloaded on the Steam Deck. 110 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:24,320 Yeah. 111 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:28,320 And I started that and couldn't be bothered. Deleted it and then redownloaded it from when we went to Ireland, played a little bit. 112 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:30,320 And I was like, actually, I really enjoyed this. 113 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:34,320 And then it was Mark that was like, obviously, it's free on the PlayStation. 114 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:39,320 So he was like, try on that. And it just played so nice. 115 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:43,320 The guns feel fantastic. The movement feels really good. 116 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:53,320 How, like I said to you yesterday, we know that it had a rocky release and that's what really harmed it. 117 00:11:53,320 --> 00:12:00,320 And the critics, the reviewers of it gave it really shit scores for like, not incredibly bad, 118 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:05,320 but far it deserves far better than than what it received. 119 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:15,320 However, this is me talking in 2024 when it released in 2019. 120 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,320 So there's a five year gap there. 121 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:25,320 And with something like Cyberpunk, when that first come out, when No Man's Sky first come out, they were awful. 122 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:30,320 They were they were buggy as shit. They were received really poorly. 123 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:32,320 They weren't optimized properly. 124 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:43,320 And now look at what they've become is absolutely incredible because the developers have listened and worked on fixing that. 125 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,320 And I feel like that's the same kind of story with Days Gone. 126 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:52,320 I don't know how bad it was when it first released. Mark said it was really buggy. 127 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:57,320 But had to what extent like was it unplayable? How how truly awful was it? 128 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:07,320 Because it definitely isn't now. No, but then I think it doesn't take much when you're not yet invested in it at all. 129 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,320 I really don't think it takes very much to turn your way. 130 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:17,320 I don't mean you personally, I mean like a player because you're not you have no love for it. 131 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:23,320 You know, it really wouldn't. I don't think it does take a lot, which is a shame. 132 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,320 But I think it's just human nature. 133 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:33,320 I think you also have when it's a when it's an exclusive, I feel like it's put in the spotlight a lot more than other games. 134 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:38,320 Expectations are high. Yeah, because you're like you you release this solely for PlayStation. 135 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:42,320 Obviously, I know it's on PC now, but you're releasing this solely for PlayStation. 136 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,320 This needs to be good. This is this is one of your flagships. 137 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:53,320 It's you've got to get it right. So when it's when it's not anything but perfect, I suppose you have people. 138 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,320 But I feel like we've all been guilty of that as well. 139 00:13:55,320 --> 00:14:02,320 When you when you sort of look at a game, you're not massively invested and then it comes out and then you you hear from a couple of people that's a bit shit. 140 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:06,320 You just made that assumption and go, I'm not going to get anything because you've said it shit. 141 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,320 It's like Mark's playing the crew motor fest. 142 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:16,320 I haven't got it, but I was looking at it if he turns around and says, yes, a bit shit. 143 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,320 I'm over that. Yeah, that's all I need is one person to go. 144 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:29,320 I wouldn't bother. So, OK, so if I'm that fickle, there must be well, there obviously is so many more people that fickle with that kind of stuff. 145 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:37,320 It's very volatile. But I feel like if you're able to play Days God and you have you never have 100 percent, I recommend it. 146 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:45,320 That is. Other than the last of us, but we're talking different kind of games. 147 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:49,320 Probably one of the best zombie games I've ever played. 148 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:59,320 Really fucking good is out of games of all time, I'd put it firmly up there, definitely in the top 10 somewhere. 149 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,320 You're sick, really fucking good, really good. 150 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:06,320 You could blow people's heads up. Yeah, it's fantastic. 151 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:10,320 I'm just all over it. How how Sony? 152 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:20,320 Haven't revised that their decision on not having a days gone to is beyond me because of how that game is finished. 153 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,320 You could definitely have a days gone to you can definitely do more shit with it. 154 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:30,320 And you already have an incredible game there that you could build on again. 155 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,320 Why you wouldn't. There's a reason. 156 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:38,320 You said yourself if it wasn't received well, they're just going to move on to something else. 157 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:43,320 This is true, but the last was part two. Wasn't received massively well either. 158 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,320 And they got fucking remastered. 159 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:50,320 Well, yeah. But I suppose that's a different studio, though, isn't it? 160 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:56,320 Different developers is enough. Well, obviously it doesn't always work out that way. 161 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:05,320 You know, like trying to think of an example. I don't know. Maybe like life is strange. Absolutely loved the first game. 162 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,320 I'm really, really excited for for what was next. 163 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:13,320 They came out with some wank prequel. Well, some people may like it. 164 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:25,320 I personally thought it was shit, which again, actually kind of touches on what we're talking about where I got that because I was really excited. 165 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:29,320 Didn't like it. Didn't finish it. Didn't even really start it, if I'm honest. 166 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:34,320 When life is strange to roll around, I was already turned off. Yeah. 167 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:39,320 I did give it a small chance, but I couldn't really. 168 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:44,320 The idea that because they can't just do the same thing again, which I appreciate. That's fine. 169 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:52,320 And the whole premise without spoiling, I guess, is, you know, someone has like a develops a supernatural power. 170 00:16:52,320 --> 00:17:02,320 So but that that particular power in the first game is to do with time and the rewinding of time and whatever. 171 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:09,320 And it fits really well. And then I couldn't even tell you what the prequel thing was like happened in there. 172 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:18,320 But life is strange to it was something to do with like he had this like rage thing that like destroyed stuff, I guess. 173 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:24,320 I can't remember. And yeah, it was almost like you're making a noise. 174 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:28,320 What was I breathing into? I don't know. I won't do that again. Sorry. 175 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:33,320 That's right. Yeah. And it's something that you think that you want it. 176 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,320 But actually, the reality of it, you didn't want that. 177 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:40,320 It's like, oh, no, you've done it wrong. Like the sequel is wrong. It's not what I wanted. 178 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:44,320 It's so hard, isn't it? It must be there under so much pressure to get it right. I think. 179 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:51,320 Yeah, that's the there must be that when we know there's people that feel that way about life is strange to fucking last of us part two. 180 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:59,320 Yeah, they're like you've taken this this thing that I love and have played hundreds of times to change it into something that I now no longer. 181 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:08,320 Yeah, that's the that's the that's the risk that you sometimes have to take though, because you can't something like life is strange. 182 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,320 Well, there's a third one now. Yeah, whatever it is called. 183 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:23,320 And the last of us and games like that, you kind of have to innovate in in in the sequels to keep people there, even with God of War, because it's not those types of games. 184 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:32,320 You have something like Call of Duty, FIFA, where people aren't looking for massive change in the next installation. 185 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,320 They are. They know what they want. They know the bones of it. Yeah, that is what they want. 186 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:43,320 That is what works. Yeah. Whereas something like let's let's go with God of War. 187 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:50,320 You got God of War 2018. You've got the building blocks of that when you have Ragnarok. 188 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:57,320 It's very much the same. However, there are lots of little tweaks, new new abilities thrown in new weapons. 189 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:07,320 I think it's been built upon and new characters introduced and all this kind of stuff to to make it feel like the same, but also different. 190 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:21,320 The last of us part two obviously went that one step further and completely destroyed the protagonist that everyone's fallen in love with. 191 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:31,320 Yeah. Completely removed and gone down a different direction, which was an extremely risky move, but in my opinion, paid off and worked for them because I fucking loved it. 192 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:36,320 Yeah. And so many people did, but so many people didn't because they have that attachment. 193 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:42,320 They Naughty Dog changed something that to a lot of people should have never been changed. 194 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:51,320 And that was changing the path of Joel storyline. But I feel like they needed to do something. 195 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:59,320 Well, yeah, and then today there's a there's a realism in the fact that he's an aging man with a lot of enemies. 196 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:07,320 You know what I mean? And and you need to have the impact that the conclusion of part one has. 197 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:12,320 You know, it was it was going to be again without spoiling, I suppose. 198 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:16,320 Not that I'm sure anybody doesn't know, but we won't say anyway. 199 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:35,320 But like I feel like potentially it would have been very, very difficult to have another game where nothing like, you know, I mean, the entire story of the first game was leading to that point. 200 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:39,320 You know, with the final cure, wouldn't be this, would it be that? 201 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:50,320 And so you'd be it was essentially directionless. Yeah. So, you know, I mean, like I kind of what exactly it was radical, but I think it was also almost like necessary. 202 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:54,320 Yeah. What exactly are you supposed to do? Where is that? 203 00:20:54,320 --> 00:21:00,320 Otherwise, you're literally just cracking on. Yeah, you're just cracking on surviving. There's nothing you're there's no end goal. 204 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,320 There's nothing to build around. Yeah. You already know that there's not going to be a cure. 205 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:11,320 Yeah. So well, now what? Now you're just surviving. Yeah. That's that's become a sandbox. Yeah. Yeah. 206 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:28,320 Pretty much. So so they have to do that. And I respect developers that decide to to to do that because I feel like there's a lot of games out there where that just has not worked and it just kills. 207 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:40,320 Now, what's up? We had enough of the dog. Yeah. See you later. Look at. 208 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:45,320 Yeah. Yeah. I think the sequel to something that the Square Enix Tomb Raiders did really well. 209 00:21:45,320 --> 00:22:00,320 Why are you looking at me like that for? I'm really yawning. It's like a really weak yawn. It's like there, but it's not there. 210 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:12,320 But yeah, it's something that I feel like there was enough familiarity where you're getting the same of what you always liked, but with new shit. 211 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:20,320 And I still must finish that. Stop doing the face. I'm trying to yawn, but you keep fucking making weird noises and looking at me and ruining the yawn. 212 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:26,320 No, because you're gone now. Oh, because you have to keep talking about yours. 213 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:34,320 What I was going to do was look at if I'd have had remembered the thought that I had this morning. 214 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:46,320 I was going to do like a go down. Obviously, it's a bit boring to listen to when you're live, but like the topics of this year's pods. 215 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:54,320 Oh, yeah. To see like. So hang on one moment. I'm not going to go through all fucking like 70. 216 00:22:54,320 --> 00:23:06,320 No, obviously not. It's just interesting to see where you at last night. Like last night. No, last year. So it was both. Oh my God. 217 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:16,320 You had both started collecting Pokemon cards. Is that it? Yeah. Yeah. The quarry. We both stopped collecting Pokemon cards now. 218 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:26,320 And then it was the last of us, the show. Yeah. Fantastic. You'd ordered a Steam Deck on the 27th of January. Jesus. 219 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:32,320 Talking Hogwarts Legacy, your review of the Steam Deck and how Jedi Survivor was delayed. 220 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:41,320 Then we start Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. More Pokemon collecting. Destiny 2, Diablo 4. Valheim. Oh my God. 221 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:47,320 That died a death for you guys. Valheim. That did not die a death. It was just merely. 222 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:54,320 Put back on the shelf and kept warm. The pair of you were so traumatized by that thing. 223 00:23:54,320 --> 00:24:01,320 Oh, it was such a good game and they've done so many more updates since as well. Oh, really? Yeah. Maybe 2024 will be Valheim. 224 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:09,320 Maybe we'll have to crack it back out again. I wish they had put it onto a console. Yeah. It'd be so fun. Was Ash playing on? PC. Yeah, must have been. 225 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:18,320 Was he? I think so. No, he wasn't. Oh, so it is on console then. It's on Xbox, I think. 226 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:25,320 I think, yeah, it's on Xbox, not PlayStation, because I remember when we was playing together, it was like really laggy. 227 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:33,320 Or like he would be like above me in the sky and I'd be in the ground. Yeah. So then April brings us the Star Wars celebration. 228 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:41,320 Again, another cool day. There won't be another next year, will there? No, no. Dead Island 2. Oh, very good game. 229 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:49,320 Yeah, the Redfall disaster. So the poor reviews about Redfall. Then we have Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. 230 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:57,320 Hands on Diablo 4. You're talking about Star Wars. Another game that died a fucking death. Well, I say it died a death. 231 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:03,320 We spoke about that the other week. Very much hasn't died a death. No, you just don't like it. Yeah, I just don't like it. 232 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,320 I don't like it. It's a death or it's not good anymore. Not all about you, alright. 233 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:17,320 Then talking about Star Wars Outlaws and the Xbox Showcase. Then June. Oh, God, I would have said it was later in the year. Assassin's Creed Mirage. 234 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:23,320 What, in June? No, you must have been. That must have been the announcement maybe. Yeah, well, it didn't come out in June. 235 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:29,320 Then on the 30th of June, it was the one year anniversary of the pod. That's when we sent out T-shirts and shit. 236 00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:39,320 Yeah, and then it was Diablo down for Diablo for downfall question mark and nostalgia for the fallen Diablo immortal. 237 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:48,320 Fantastic mobile game. Then we returned to ESO. And you guys gave your review. I need to cancel that sub. 238 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:53,320 Yeah, so do we. I think we'll go back to it, but we just need to stop spending 20 quid a month on it. 239 00:25:53,320 --> 00:26:02,320 Yeah, collectively. We're not each spending 20 quid a month. Yours isn't 20 quid a month, is it? No. Someone's having you over. 240 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:07,320 Your crown is going to be crazy. You tell me who's the nice man who charges you 20 pounds. 241 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:14,320 Uh oh, my parcel has just been delivered into the bin. No, sorry. I don't know why I read that. I was just paranoid. 242 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:24,320 What episode was that? Right, so you guys gave your Baldur's Gate 3 reviews. Then it was Remnant 2. 243 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:29,320 Cyberpunk must have been. Oh, yeah. Your new opinions on Cyberpunk. Yeah. 244 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:36,320 Yeah. Then you hypen up for Starfield. What a wetty that was. 245 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:40,320 Then, oh my God, when I went through that weird Netflix gaming phase where I was like that police detective. 246 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,320 Actually class. Yeah. Someone shouted then. Really, really good. 247 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:49,320 Then Starfield released. So you're all really excited about getting into Starfield. 248 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:56,320 Yeah, I'm glad I played that for like a week. Then we had the state of play for Sony. Starfield was just. 249 00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:07,320 I tell you what, I don't know with Starfield where it went wrong for me and so many other people. 250 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,320 I think it's because you could steal the stuff out of that closet you had nothing to work for. 251 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:16,320 I don't even think it's that because that wasn't like the best gear. It was just decent gear. 252 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:21,320 Yeah, but again, it's like what we were saying earlier. It's lazy. You think, oh my God, really? 253 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:30,320 Like to me, I find that it's a low chance of finding it, I suppose, from the developer point of view that someone's going to look through tiny slither in glass. 254 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:38,320 Yeah, but it's also Bethesda. You know what I mean? They've seen that kind of shit in Skyrim. 255 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:49,320 Like with going into the armory and being able to punch the gear off of the wall and then just slowly scoot it out by kicking stuff into it. 256 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:57,320 And then you can loot it without being a fee. I just I don't really know what about the game. Just wasn't. Yeah, just wasn't interesting. 257 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:06,320 It just didn't. I really don't know. I really don't. Maybe maybe it was the traveling because it was just constant load screens. 258 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:11,320 Yeah, maybe. Even though it weren't really that bad, but it was. 259 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:15,320 But when you've been playing games where that's not a thing. Yeah, there was a lot. 260 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:23,320 There was a lot of you'd think you'd you'd go you're in a city, you go to your ship, you then load into your ship. 261 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:28,320 You've then got to go to your seat. You then load into your seat. I'm already bored. 262 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,320 Yeah, there's a loading screen of the ship taking off. Blah blah blah. 263 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:39,320 There's there's multiple just to get to one fucking place. Yeah, it's long winded. Yeah, maybe that's why I died. 264 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:45,320 Well, there's probably someone who loves it. Yeah, Neil. Neil loves it. Good for Neil. He's only just finished it. 265 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:49,320 Wow. I was like, what the fuck took you so long? He was like, I was doing everything. 266 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:59,320 Oh, so fair enough. So here we go. October was Assassin's Creed Mirage and Ash was still into Baldur's Gate 3. 267 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:09,320 Then what did you have? Spider-Man 2. Yeah. And Lords of the Fallen. Yeah. 268 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:18,320 And then we had an episode about Comic Con. Then it was I was just saying you put episode 69. Nice. 269 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:28,320 There's four endings in Days Gone. Oh, get away. There's four endings. Don't say them. 270 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:40,320 Uh, yeah. Wow. Are you back in the room with us? No, we've lost him. We've lost him. 271 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:47,320 They're too long. Well, I'll come back to that. Well, don't say because you don't want to say the endings. 272 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:53,320 I'm not going to say them on the pod. OK. But I was just reading what they are because there's four. 273 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:58,320 Yeah, you said three normals and one secret. Oh, because Ash just text me. 274 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:04,320 He's like, well done for actually do it. I finished and I didn't think you'd be able to like you would. 275 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:10,320 There is a secret ending. I'll have to read the article. See what that is. I won't do them. 276 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:17,320 You won't know because I have to fucking start the game again. Oh, you can't load back. 277 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:25,320 Well, I can, but you won't. I won't. Fair enough. I'm lazy. I won't do it. 278 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:30,320 What was you saying before I interrupted you about endings? Oh, we're doing the year round. 279 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:40,320 I won't recap like every other fucker. Yeah. So your non-consensual. Yeah. What's the buttons wrapped? OK. Twenty twenty three recap. 280 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:46,320 GTA six announcement in November and Lethal Company. Oh, yeah. 281 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:55,320 But God, that's for like ages. It's a sick. Then it was the Game of the Year awards when Ash goes through his nominations. 282 00:30:55,320 --> 00:31:01,320 And then we had an episode about the Steam Deck OLED Baldur's Gate three. 283 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:07,320 Then we're coming up to December now with our sharing his daisy stories. 284 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:13,320 Oh, sorry for that thing. And then it was the results of the Game of Year awards. Light No Fire trailer. 285 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,320 Yeah, I can't wait for that. I really can't. That's going to be so fucking good. 286 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:23,320 And then brings us to Monday with God of War Valhalla DLC, PUBG and Days Gone. 287 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:29,320 So there you go. That was a year of what's the buttons. Becky got Daisy for Toby. 288 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:36,320 Yeah. And he's having a whale of a time. He's really enjoying it. He was like, he was like, what? 289 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,320 What should I expect? I just said to him, I said. 290 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:45,320 I said, don't don't expect anything. I said, I said, the game is not going to hold your hand. 291 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:51,320 I said, it's not going to tell you what to do. You're going to have no fucking clue. You're going to suffer, but you're going to love it. 292 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:56,320 And I just said to him, treat it as if it is real life. 293 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:00,320 Yeah, well, that's what you can do. That's as simple as if you can't work something out. 294 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,320 Just think what you would do in real life. That's probably how you're going to do it. 295 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:08,320 Yeah, I was like, if you cut up a chicken, you said your hands are going to be all covered in salmonella. 296 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:13,320 So I said, you need to wash them before you eat the chicken. I said, you need to cook the chicken as well. 297 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,320 But I said, you need to wash your hands because I know this the hard way. Yeah. You don't wash them hands. 298 00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:24,320 You're fucked. And he messaged me with a picture of him loading back in and he was like, we go again. 299 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:31,320 He was like, he died of starvation. I was like, oh, that sucks. But he's he's enjoying it. 300 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:37,320 Yeah. The didn't we look and like even if you find antibiotics, you still have to take like however many an hour. 301 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,320 Like you do the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Take a certain amount. 302 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:43,320 You can't just take one and then it's done. It's crazy. 303 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:54,320 But also like things like when you when you've got a cold, if you're coughing and stuff like you can put a rag in your mouth to muffle your coffin. 304 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,320 Because obviously proximity wise, people can hear you. 305 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:04,320 And the same as if you eat people, you get like a sickness that makes you laugh randomly. 306 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,320 You can put a gag in your mouth as well to stop you from laughing or to muffle your laughs. 307 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:14,320 I wish you'd muffled in the other morning. You're playing it like the crack of dawn. He was going, oh, what day is gone? 308 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:18,320 Oh, what day is it? Yeah. 309 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,320 Constantly. And actually, it was my fucking alarm. It wasn't bad. I needed to get up anyway. 310 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,320 But yeah, he was just going, oh, you know the one when you died on the road. 311 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,320 Oh, God. Oh, that is like, oh, my God. What was even wrong? 312 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:35,320 I had blood poisoning. That's what it was because I cut myself. 313 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,320 And the only bandage I had was like rags. Yeah. 314 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:44,320 And I did it and then, yeah, I had an infection. And that's why I was dying of blood infection. Yeah. 315 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:47,320 Septic basically. Lived quite a long time though, didn't you? Yeah. 316 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,320 Growning. Yeah. Walked around for a long time. Yeah, you did. 317 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,320 Until I finally gave up. Gave up once you got out of bed. 318 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,320 But yeah. 319 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,320 I don't know what else to say. 320 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,320 That's the one. We got deaf stranding next. Yeah. 321 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:11,320 That's the next one. Yeah. I know absolutely nothing about it. 322 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,320 I know that Norman Reedus is the protagonist in it. Yep. 323 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,320 I know that a lot of people don't like it. I know that a lot of people do love it. 324 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:25,320 All I've seen is him riding around on a motorcycle with boxes on his back. 325 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,320 Like you're a delivery man. So I don't know how good it's going to be. 326 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,320 Let's have a look at some meta critics. No, don't, don't, don't, don't. No, I challenge you not to. 327 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:37,320 Don't let it shape your opinion. It's not going to shape my opinion. No, I don't care. Please, no. 328 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,320 No, after the day's gone, I don't care. I'm going to do it. 329 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,320 Get your foot off my penis. I don't know what you're talking about. 330 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,320 Get it off my penis. 331 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,320 Get your slippers off my penis. I don't know what you're talking about. 332 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:54,320 I'm going to smack your titties. Get off. Oh, wow. You're hot. 333 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,320 Get off. Why? 334 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,320 Because it's not going to have any effect. I'm going to do it anyway, regardless of your threats. 335 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,320 We began this podcast talking about how fickle you are. 336 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:08,320 Yeah. But after the day's gone, I'm a changed man. Oh, no, we've all heard that before. 337 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:13,320 Metacritic. I'm not going to play wow until the next expansion. 338 00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,320 I believe a word that comes out of your mouth. 82. Perfect. Lovely. 339 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:25,320 Generally favorable is what it got. And the user score mixed or average. 340 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:30,320 So it is what it is. OK. Yeah, not so bad. 341 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,320 It's got an 86 on PC. Yeah. 342 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:39,320 Death Stranding is creating a new game genre and therefore paves its own path towards more interactive experiences. 343 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:46,320 It is a brave work thanks to its novelty, which fortunately is not a bragging right for its creators, 344 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:52,320 as it may have seemed, but an exceptional title that will reward the bravery, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 345 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,320 And that was for P.S. for so naturally it's going to be better on P.S. 346 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:00,320 Hopefully, that is how the world. 347 00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,320 Unless it's the Assassin's Creed remasters, in which case it's not how it works at all. 348 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,320 They were really bad. Which ones did they remaster to? 349 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,320 Did they remaster to? Oh, they did, didn't they? 350 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:19,320 Because we go through the pictures and we were like, that looks like a way and brotherhood and revelations, I think. 351 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:23,320 They did it. They called it the XO Collection. Oh, yeah, of course they did. 352 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,320 I want to say. Yeah. They were like potatoes with eyes. 353 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,320 Yeah, I think that was the one that Mark was playing, was the XO Collection. 354 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,320 And he was like, I just can't be arsed. 355 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:36,320 After a while, I think he did he did two brotherhood or whatever. 356 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,320 I'll have to ask him. But he did quite a few and he was like chipping away. 357 00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,320 And then he was like, I just can't. He's like the graphics and stuff. 358 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:49,320 He's like, you're not interested. I know we've said in the past how you're not interested in playing like old games. 359 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:53,320 But is there any that you would have a go at now? 360 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,320 Simpsons Hit and Run. Yeah, do you want me to crack it out? 361 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:02,320 Possibly. Simpsons Hit and Run is something that I would. 362 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,320 Do you remember Simpsons Skateboarding? 363 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,320 Do you remember that? No, I don't remember that. 364 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,320 Did you have the Treehouse of Horror on Game Boy Color? 365 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:17,320 No, I might not. No, no, maybe. Maybe I did. 366 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,320 Simpsons Hit and Run, though, I feel like. 367 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,320 Did I complete it when I was a kid? I don't actually think I did. 368 00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:29,320 I got up to the snowplow and the rocket car and stuff like that. 369 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:37,320 Yeah, but I would love to go back now because I don't know if you get it, but I always get like a tick tock live of someone playing Hit and Run. 370 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,320 Yeah. Yeah. And always think like that. 371 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,320 Didn't they? I feel like they did bring out a new version of it, didn't they? 372 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:55,320 No, no, someone someone made was trying to make a new version of it because I've looked it up before and we'll probably have to look up again. 373 00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:00,320 But there is a reason why in July 23 Simpsons Hit and Run remake is now finally complete. 374 00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,320 Not only does it look fantastic, but it's fully playable. 375 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:08,320 Yeah, but it's made by a person, not made by a developer. 376 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:12,320 They've they've I remember watching them on YouTube. 377 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:19,320 They put a series out of how they were doing it and the money involved and the assets they had to buy and stuff like that. 378 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:24,320 And it did look really good, but it weren't. 379 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:28,320 Oh, gee, they didn't have necessarily permission to do it. 380 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,320 Yeah, they were just making their own hit and run. 381 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:36,320 But it was very, very interesting watching them like do all the coding for it and everything like that. 382 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:48,320 But it's one of the few games where I would look at it and I'm really not bothered by the graphics or anything to do with it because it's fucking Simpsons Hit and Run. 383 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:59,320 Yeah. How fun. But I would also love to do it now as an adult to see what it's like, because obviously having never completed it and the last time I played it, I was a child. 384 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:03,320 Obviously, my mind is completely different. 385 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,320 So it's like, how hard is it? How long is it? 386 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:13,320 Like, what did I miss? What what what am I going to like this time round would be really interesting. 387 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:22,320 The Prince of Persia's I'd love to do again, but I would kind of want a bit of a little bit of a graphic enhancement on some of them. 388 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,320 But definitely like the warrior within. 389 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,320 I would love to play that again. 390 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:35,320 There's some definite like that would scratch a certain itch because they were like my childhood things. 391 00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,320 Prince of Persia, so fucking Simpsons Hit and Run, Ratchet and Clank. 392 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,320 That was like the OG shit for me. 393 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,320 Yeah. And I find it. I know we've said it probably a hundred times. 394 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:53,320 We've all said it on here, but it always never fails to amaze me how we didn't notice how shit the graphics are. 395 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:58,320 Like you can remember playing PlayStation games, DS games, whatever, and they were crispy. 396 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,320 They were they were great. 397 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,320 You know, like, oh my God, look at that. 398 00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,320 You look at it now and it's like, oh my God, I can't believe that. 399 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,320 And I think it's so odd. 400 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:10,320 And like, I don't know. 401 00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:11,320 It just really gets me. 402 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:16,320 But you think that back then that was that was that was that was top tier. 403 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,320 And it's like, yeah, that was incredible. 404 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:23,320 Now it's like you look at that and you go, yeah, that was shit compared to what we've got now. 405 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:27,320 And I always think what kind of stuff do we have now? 406 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,320 We're in 30, 40 years time. 407 00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,320 We're going to look at it and go, what the fuck was that? 408 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:32,320 What was your plan with there? 409 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:44,320 Because like we've said so many times with the like with the the PS5 and the series X and S with PCs and stuff like that, 410 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:55,320 the curve for for engineering purposes is is is a lot less prevalent than than what it used to be. 411 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,320 That that gap is a lot smaller. 412 00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:05,320 So it's so we again, like we've said, rather than going from from from graphics, 413 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,320 because I feel like you will hit a ceiling. 414 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:09,320 You have to go for something else. 415 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,320 You've got VR. You've got loading times. 416 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,320 You've got you've got how fast something could download. 417 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:18,320 All these all these different areas that you can build on and improve. 418 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:24,320 So it's like what things do we have that are already kind of? 419 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:29,320 You know, I mean, you're not going to get like at their maximum. 420 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:35,320 Yeah, because you think you think that this laptop is a powerhouse for what it is. 421 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,320 It's it's beefy that will play AAAs on it. 422 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,320 No, no, no, no issue. 423 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:47,320 You grab a laptop from years ago. 424 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:52,320 Like you said, your dad, when he bought his first laptop or how much was that like the two grand one or something like that? 425 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:59,320 Yeah, yeah. And compare that to that is fucking huge. 426 00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:04,320 They had one of those connected to the Internet had one of those, you know, the big things pull out the gap. 427 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:05,320 The gap is incredible. 428 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:17,320 Whereas if you grab this laptop and then in five, ten years time, grab another laptop, say another MSI. 429 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,320 How different are they truly? 430 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,320 Do you think they'll be very different? 431 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,320 Potentially. If you look so hang on. 432 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:32,320 What year is it? If I go. 433 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:42,320 Because there's also a lot of stuff where you like older stuff when you think fucking hell, that's so ten years ago, under engineered ten years ago. 434 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,320 This was your iPhone. 435 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:46,320 Yeah. 436 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:50,320 So, yes, you know what I mean? 437 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:54,320 Like, I know what you I don't know. 438 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:55,320 Basically, it's impossible to. 439 00:42:55,320 --> 00:43:02,320 I mean, like that. Yeah, but the capabilities of that iPhone to the iPhone that you've got the iPhone that you've just looked at that iPhone with now. 440 00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:13,320 But that kind of is the theory that proves it, because in ten years time, I don't think that it's necessarily going to slow down. 441 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:16,320 Yeah, but I think the. 442 00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:21,320 Because you think that the zoom and the you know, the cameras are the best thing. 443 00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:24,320 But that was the same case ten years ago. 444 00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,320 Yeah, but everything has its limit, doesn't it? 445 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,320 But no one's found a limit yet. 446 00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,320 Or that you know of. 447 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,320 What you think they're all in secret going fuck we've reached the limit. 448 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:45,320 Well, no, I feel like there must be there must be some aspects where it's like, OK, well, we cannot make this bit any better than what it is. 449 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:58,320 We cannot improve this any more than we already have. We need to power pay attention to a different area of whatever it is that we're looking at. 450 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:12,320 Do you not think, though, that if you think of where VR is heading, where AI is currently going and even something like Alexa's where again, ten years ago. 451 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:21,320 Siri was a clunky piece of it was still still now, but I mean, that that was like, oh, wow, look, you press a button and it's like it's talking to you. 452 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:27,320 I feel like shit like that is going to be way, way more prevalent. 453 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,320 Yeah, different area being explored. 454 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:36,320 Yeah, but I don't think they're going to ever move away from from graphics. 455 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:43,320 Anyway, there's like I see what you mean, because I know we've said before. Yeah, like at what point does it become imperceptible by the human eye? 456 00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,320 Like, yeah, I think it's already crispy as fuck. 457 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:51,320 How is it going to get any more because I think it will be there will be a ceiling with graphics, but it will be something else that gets built upon. 458 00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:57,320 So it might be it might be the graphics of this game is exactly like real life. 459 00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,320 So now we just need to make it load up quicker. Yeah. 460 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:08,320 Yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. And eventually you're going to hit a point where you can't make it load up any quicker and so on. 461 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:14,320 Even like when the PS5 first come out, obviously, I know over time technology slows down a little bit. 462 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:20,320 Like sometimes with the laptop, I have to press the on button like three times for it to fucking realize I'm pressing the on button. 463 00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:30,320 Weird. But when the PS5 first come out and people were looking at the loading times for games and like Spider-Man was something like seven seconds from turning the PlayStation on. 464 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:37,320 To loading the game and being in the game was seven seconds or some somewhere near that. 465 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:43,320 Obviously, now it's still fast, but maybe a bit slower. 466 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:57,320 So it's like once you've got that almost like instant, there's a lot of technology that I feel is really fucking cool and we just don't sort of notice it as much anymore. 467 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:03,320 Well, yeah. And I would say that I don't feel that anything is at its peak yet. 468 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:11,320 No, neither do I. But I feel like there are bits that might be coming to their peak. 469 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:20,320 Possibly. But again, I'm not smart enough nor am I a fucking engineer or an inventor to truly understand. 470 00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:27,320 I mean, fuck me. I can't I can't get wireless earphones to work properly. 471 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:33,320 Android. What do you mean? They were my fucking the ones for my laptop and the PlayStation. 472 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,320 No, most of the world use Android. You know that. 473 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:43,320 Yeah, but not all. There's two thirds of it. 474 00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:50,320 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not a little laugh. I'm hungry. You hungry. I am. 475 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:54,320 We've got massive camembert. I've got to read the freezer for party food as well. 476 00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,320 Oh, we haven't picky bits. I've got to do some maths on oven times. Fantastic. 477 00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:07,320 We can do that. Well, do you want to wrap up them? Oh, we will wrap up 20, 23. 478 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:13,320 And you're going to listen to this in 2024. Oh, how fantastic. 479 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:20,320 We do have to do the exclusive, which is what's the buttons dot com for slash. 480 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,320 Oh, I'm a little calm for slash. There is a what's the buttons dot com. 481 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,320 I need to check that really to make sure that I am still paying for it. 482 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:31,320 If I would imagine that. What do I? Yeah, you own the domain. 483 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:38,320 I do own the domain. We we the collective own the domain employee. 484 00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,320 So we might as well do that. 485 00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:48,320 We must say, though, as fantastic as it's been playing days gone with you watching. 486 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:54,320 It's been a long time since we've played a game where we've both been engrossed 487 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:59,320 like that consistently from pretty much start to finish. 488 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:03,320 I think the last of us part two was the last one with the quarry. 489 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,320 But then we were both playing. Yeah. 490 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:15,320 So it makes it I must say it makes it for me far more enjoyable to play it that way. 491 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:20,320 And I feel like there's so many people out there that don't have that kind of relationship 492 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:24,320 where where there's like that simultaneous like game of brain. 493 00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,320 It's like that's both involved. 494 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:31,320 I mean, it got to a point, everyone, where where Steph was like my co-pilot 495 00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,320 whilst we was playing that with like bandages and shit. 496 00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,320 So you've got a little bit of health. If you if you use a med kit here, 497 00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,320 you can go and pick one off of that case that you killed about 10 minutes ago, 498 00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,320 but couldn't look it because you had too many med kits. 499 00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:46,320 But looking at stuff like that, that the other day or the fucking missions. 500 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:49,320 For whatever reason, I could not read the dialogue. 501 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,320 I couldn't fucking see it every time it popped up. 502 00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:53,320 I just weren't paying attention to it. So I'm sitting there. 503 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:57,320 Steph's like, well, use your fucking eyes. 504 00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,320 I'm not that passive aggressive. 505 00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:01,320 You were getting there. 506 00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:10,320 There was a point where no spoilers, but someone's being like violently attacked by zombies. 507 00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,320 And at the top, it said, find a way in. 508 00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:17,320 And my man stood there looking at the window, just going, what? What's happening? What is it? 509 00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:18,320 What's that? What's that? 510 00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:23,320 It's like, could it be that the truck next to you that you could push and under the window? 511 00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,320 Maybe the answer is like, you're supposed to go and find it. Oh, right. 512 00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:27,320 Yeah, I apologize. 513 00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:30,320 You just stood there listening to the poor bastard getting absolutely ravaged. 514 00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:35,320 There's also a plethora of clips that we've managed to get from this game. 515 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:46,320 The fantastic clips. I put one on the Instagram yesterday and it's it's it's got viral potential. 516 00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:51,320 I reckon because it's just fucking funny. It's just so, so simple. 517 00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:56,320 All it was is a clip of a bounty. 518 00:49:56,320 --> 00:50:02,320 I have to say someone on a motorbike and I thought at the time I had to kill him. 519 00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:08,320 I just got a Barrett 50 cow, one beefy fucking sniper. 520 00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:15,320 And I see him on the bike. He was in front of me. I pulled out the sniper and I zoomed in. 521 00:50:15,320 --> 00:50:20,320 And then on days gone, you've got a focus meter, which basically slows everything down. 522 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:28,320 So I hit that. And as I hit it, the geezer that sent me on this bounty hunt like radioed in. 523 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:32,320 And he was like, I need him. Yeah, remember, I need him alive. 524 00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:39,320 And literally as the word alive left his mouth, I shot the geezer in the head and blew his head up. 525 00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:43,320 And then I would see it restarted the mission. And it's just it's just so funny. 526 00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,320 Go on the Instagram and watch it. 527 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:51,320 Fell through the floor because it hadn't loaded in fucking hit a wolf and it was stuck in my bike for ages. 528 00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:57,320 Knocked Mike off his bike. Killed Sarah. Killed Sarah fucking falling off or riding up a cliff. 529 00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:05,320 Jumped off a cliff. Jumped off a cliff and died. There was the fucking one literally today. 530 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:11,320 Steph didn't like it when I killed any of the wolves or any of the animals, even though they're trying to kill me. 531 00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:14,320 So she wouldn't let me kill a pack of wolves. So I was like, all right. 532 00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,320 I said, well, they're going to chase me anyway. So they're going to get me at some point. 533 00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:24,320 And rode away on my bike. And then I turned the corner and then sure enough, a wolf fucking runs at me. 534 00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:30,320 And then it comes up with that slow mo like press R1 if you time it right and you'll you'll like kill them. 535 00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:36,320 And I did it. And the wolf just fucking shot up into the air, just completely spaz down and went. 536 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:44,320 Yeah, some funny clips that I'm going to cut down and then and then put on the Instagram because they're just they're just entertaining. 537 00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:49,320 I don't know whether to post them up separately or post them in a series of compilation compilation of clips. 538 00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:54,320 I think that's fantastic. So tune in for them and we're going to leave it there. 539 00:51:54,320 --> 00:52:01,320 So Merry New Year. Happy New Year, everybody. And that's it. 540 00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:06,320 And it's kind of some kind of bear is the twenty twenty four guys. 541 00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:34,320 We might need a resolution. Oh, fuck. OK.