Here we go. We're back
We're back
After hiatus two weeks is it two weeks two weeks
Just missed one little episode we apologize for that
but Steph had an operation she's absolutely fine and
It took up the week and I was looking after her so apologies, but we're back on track and it has been a
Absolute jam-packed two weeks in the gaming world has it not has it it has why fill me in what's happened?
What do you mean? Well, I've got no concept of time sir. You're not now terrible. Well
Power world is still absolutely booming. Yes power world. It is absolutely booming. You have purchased it outright
That is now yours to own forever
I'm sticking with that very quick. Did you see that Microsoft have?
A
Basically support in power world now. I did read that yeah, they've given them their their resources to
to bring out updates quicker more efficiently to
streamline it for your
Your GPU, they're stupid not to this is a fucking gold mine. Yeah, you're enjoying it
I fucking love it. Just tell me when to talk about and I'll do it. Okay now I
both love power world, however
I'm not comparing the two because I I don't like this idea of constantly fighting over this games better than this game
And that games better than that game. I think it's it's a bit. It's not what gaming needs
So I'm not gonna throw that spin on it, but I have been absolutely encapsulated within shrouded
100% I think I'm now on 50 Wow something
Hours I can take very quick on Steam. It is he's gonna take it is quite possibly
The best survival game I have ever played I prefer it to power world. Do I think it's better than power world?
I don't know for me. I think it is but for many other people they disagree with that as many people that would agree with me
But yeah in terms of survival, I think it's it's poor
Poor but can't and I think can be done about it
For in shrouded releasing in the same week as power world because power world is just absolutely decimated
that space
In shrouded is still very popular. I think in the first four days it got over a million players
which
for these indie companies making these games is
Incredible to see compared to triple-a games that are coming out. They've had millions and millions and millions of players
Millions and millions and millions of pounds spent on them and years and development have just been absolutely farted by
These two little developers. I still remember the episode we did on power world where we were fucking laughing
Remember when it was announced me like what the fuck is that Pokemon with guns man?
Well, I what the fuck is that I know that was only what a couple months ago and now it's out and
Well, it's all I'm saying
Power world power world power world. So you're free to
Dive old
Okay, so it all started a long time ago in a galaxy far far away
It's not perfect by any means of course it's not but it's damn fun
46.8 hours. Sorry is what I've been fair fucking play. I
I
Didn't even try on game pass because I didn't want another subscription tied to my name due to my well still running
Mm-hmm
So I thought fuck it. It's 25 quid. I'm willing to swallow that if it's shit
So be it I still own it and it might get better and I saw it more of an investment indeed
So I click the purchase button
I downloaded it very quickly and I proceeded to jump in and at first I was a little bit like
It's a little bit fucking flaky in it. It's a little bit
I'm not too sure about this and then it just gets you by the bullet. Yeah
Right in there. Come here. Yeah, I get it now. I get it. I don't know
Yes, but final perfect. I mean the first thing I noticed that really
pissed me off was that I can't change the
My character's name and I can't change the pals names
Because it kept coming up player three six one five is
Was like what the fuck is going on man, so I googled out to change name and it said oh, yeah you can just go here
I went there and there was nothing and then I read a bit further. It said it's not out on Xbox yet
The feature to name your character or name the pals is not out on Xbox
How is that a feature that is missing from this because thing there's also I can't I can't
Remember what features and everything but apparently power well plays and is a lot better on steam than it is
PC on through Microsoft like for a game pass, which is just fine. It's like I say, it's a
It's a brand new game. It was never supposed to hit the heights that is hit
Well, it will change now that it's supported exactly. So I'm it doesn't bother me in the slides because I know that will be coming
But it's it's got all the ingredients. It's like they went right. What do you like about Zelda?
I like the open world and I like being able to glide about pop that in. Mm-hmm
What's not about survival games? Well, I like eating I like staying warm and clothes
and I like crafting or pop that in
Would you like about building games? Well, I like building buildings and stairs and roofs and
Scenic views. Well, let's pop that in. What do you like about the open world Pokemon? Well, let's put Pokemon in but let's call them pals
Yeah, and and there's more the more I play it the more I'm like, yeah
That looks like a Pokemon and that looks like a Pokemon but the same point a lot of them are like
Penguin Fox wolf, you know, how many different ways can you make these look different?
You know, you can pop a hat on them. You can do this at the other in reality
Pokemon don't own the rights to act furry animals. No
This is true. So in reality, they are just
Little animals or whatever you want and you put them in balls
And but that's been the same for what everything dragon not dragon ball Z the
Is that is that the same sort of shit digimon and all that crap? It's some of them are cut in a fine line
But also I mean me personally, I really don't give a fuck
I really don't care if it's if it's plagiarizing off of off of some Pokemon
I really not bothered the game itself is fantastic
It's not an issue for me, especially when you have things like
Every fucking battle Royale in the world copying each other constantly and something like so like four
Night was built. I know it's his own thing now
But it was originally built on just fucking copying everything and everyone
Well, it was only built on copying PUBG cuz PUBG was the only battle Royale at the time and now it is the the
Is the alpha Omega on that on that front?
But the the people that are kicking off saying are you're copying?
Pokemon's a fucking massive IP. All right game freak a huge and so's Nintendo
If the little guy wants to fucking take some inspo off of that, maybe
Closely base some shit off of it. Let them
I mean done what they should be doing. Like it's mate. This has to make them go fuck
Whatever they've got in the works now. We can't release delay it
Let's let's let's build something that can be a game
Let's let's let's build something that can rival this because what we do is embarrassing
but that is that this is one of the points that i've been trying to get across for a while is
people
with with game freak and with Nintendo just grow complacent
Of accepting that this is the best that they can do look how good this is when when it has been subpar
For a long time what has been being produced and it's not just in Nintendo
PlayStation Xbox
We all as gamers are suffering with that kind of
that lack of
creativity in gaming
and I feel like
Games like this made by smaller developers is what allows that creativity to shine through because you're not
A massive company being hounded by figures and fucking numbers and you must do this and you must do that
We need to do it this way. Otherwise, this won't make this margin and blah blah blah
they're just making games for the fun of it and
I just find it incredible that
a game like power world
has
forced Nintendo to look into legal action and
Probably will influence a lot of their developments within gaming
Because of how extremely popular this is because this is just what everyone's wanted in pokemon for a very long time
There's no innovation. There's never been innovation with pokemon
It's the same as when I was a little boy sitting on my windowsill with my game boy playing pokemon
Blue I think or green or whatever. It's just not black and white anymore. Yeah, it's just it's just different now
But it's the same. It's the same concept. Nothing really has evolved
They've got I'm not being funny the latest fucking pokemon game, which I enjoyed but only because it's pokemon
If that's any other game, i'm not enjoying it
Running at 12 frames a second. What the fuck are we doing? Yeah, there's fucking you look at like
Castlevania in 1999 or so that one running at 12 frames a second. It looks better. I mean what what's going on?
You can't even argue with like like how like the argument that I usually make
When it comes to nintendo with a hardware issue and things like that because you put breath of the wild
Or tears of the kingdom next to any of the pokemon releases around the same sort of years
the
Graphic wires and running capability is so vastly different but on the same fucking console
So it's like you haven't really got an excuse to be producing this
What i'd say poor quality. It's awful games. You can get the witcher three on the switch
Yeah, so come on. You're telling me you can't make pokemon actually be decent. They're
the uh
They don't innovate because they don't need to because it doesn't matter is pokemon and people will buy it fucking
And they're happy with the amount of money they're getting and yeah, hopefully this is now going fuck
But you know because what will happen now, right? Let's just say
It continues as it probably will and power well continues to be successful
Let's be honest power's not going to get worse. No, okay. It'll only improve now
Yeah, um, so power world will be its own brand its own ip and it will grow merchandise
There's the developers already tweeted out cards and fucking little fluffies and all that sort of shit is just gonna go bang
So that continues down down the road is going pokemon releases pokemon fucking
claret and blue
I don't know
Blue and fucking and everyone's like what the fuck is this shit? It's the same shit
That is when I think people will now start going we don't want this anymore and their sales might be affected
And they'll have to do so if they're stubborn enough to to do that where right now
I think they should look at whatever it is. They're producing and go if we're making similar to um
Scarlet and violet what they just released it needs to run
Perfectly at least at the bare minimum needs to be buttery smooth
It cannot run at 12 frames a second can't do any of that and they need to innovate
The biggest problem with pokemon and my biggest turnoff for pokemon was I imagine right?
It's just the geezer somewhere sit and his whole job is making pokemon
You know you you look at charles eyes a fucking fire dragon, right? You look at mew too. He's a fucking persian
hairless cat you look at fucking
uh
bolt, um my favorite blast noise is a fucking turtle with
With fucking water pumps on his back sick nowadays. I imagine there's a geezer sitting somewhere looking around the office going
bin
binmon
Do you know what I mean? It's just shit binmon. Yeah
Binmon wasn't there like a gold geezer on a skateboard or some shit was a pokemon that was
Goldengo something like something like that just on a fucking skateboard. It's just crap. It's just crap
I mean, you know, it looks binmon. He looks at the next one. He sees a stapler
He goes staplery and that is the sort of shit they come out with it is though, isn't it?
There's not even any there's not any
Ingenuity in the names or nothing. It genuinely is and I I both think that
whilst that is a really cool and funny way to to create a an animal that
people can can draw like a
A likeness to can resonate with something they they can get that
I think yeah, it's it's beyond the point where it's like, okay, you're you're taking the piss of it now
It's just silly, isn't it?
Yeah, if you've if you've if you take the first five ever hun like 500 ever pokemon
And a couple of them are like that where it's like chairl-a or fucking
Yeah, or or tree doom or some shit like that. That's quite cool. You can kind of get away with that
You think that's quite cool. That's unique. That's funny. That's quirky when you bring out an entire fucking game and everything
Like you say staplery and i'm not being funny. They're like the latest installment of pokemon scarlet and violet the one i've played
They're fucking motorbikes. Yeah
What are you doing? Don't use the wheels either. It's just shit like the whole point of pokemon
It might just be me. All right, I might be speaking out of turn for other people
But to me pokemon pocket monsters, it's supposed to be cool things man, like say like dogs or fucking dragons or
Wyverns or not just chairs and fucking broomsticks. It's just you can have the odd one man, but it's just getting silly
uh, and they could do so much more with
Like say you just kept the original pokemon you could do so much more with the game just with them ones in it
Uh, and and do what power's doing building crafting exploring 100
Power world is fantastic and I and I really see
What the the draw is I haven't played it for a couple of days i've been tired
But what i've killed a couple of bosses now i've unlocked a grappling gun
I've uh, i've got my base up to like level
Fucking nine or ten i'll say i've only got one tutorial mission left and that's to kill the first boss
Like proper boss, um, which is the bird riding pikachu shooting guns at you
I got it down to like quarter health, but I was well low level
um
And i'm just having fun man. I've got like i've got
I've got this fucking this this fucking sheep thing at work. He's a twat man. It keeps coming up
He's slacking and all this and I just had enough he said he was slacking. He was hungry
So I thought I just got one of the other sheep that had working for me
And I just butchered it in front of him and then fed him it
so
And he ain't slacking no more. It's literally a butcher thing, isn't it? I don't know if you've unlocked it
Yeah, and it comes up all pixelated and you cut the shell
Yeah, you eat that now and then that will learn your lesson get back to work dickhead. Listen, this this is an early access game
All right, do not forget this. This is same with enshrouding
These are early access games. So these are not far from fucking beta
beta, okay, so
So power world released on the 19th of january 2024
Okay, so two weeks ago
two and a bit weeks ago, right this is from
uh
This is from 22 hours ago
Okay
So with the news, um, it's run by a statistics company that that um monitors
global sales and stuff like that
so there's
There's 19 million copies around the world have been sold which is roughly 12 million on steam and 7 million on xbox
So there's 7 million people who could get it for free on game pass
That's not that's not including the game pass people because they don't count as a buying statistic. They're a subscription base
So there's 7 million people with game pass that are full. No, I want to buy this
like what you've done
19
million people from a budget of just under 7 million
pounds dollars, whatever it was
for this game
It's quite a turnover and it's it's 20
It's 20. I can't be asked to do the maths on that whatever 25 quid is times that by 19 million
However much that is and and they'll also get a cut. I'm imagining from game pass
Sells. I don't know how that game pass works. Yeah, there must be something but they obviously must get bought some way or even on steam though
man, it's got so it's it's very positive it's got um
168
thousand two hundred and ninety reviews so 25 times 19 million is
475 million
Which is ridiculous. They've made half a billion off this silly little game that they probably thought was just going to be like a fun
Just a little little bit of good fun practice for them in game development, which is it's
It's absolutely incredible. No, absolutely never have to work again
Well, I hope they do so they continue making more shit. It's it's
Yeah, it's just it's just so good. I want to see the
the
Longevity of it. I mean because we've already seen
um somewhat of a road map for it
And teasing it at vehicles and things like that
The big one is is there's two big ones. I think that that they need to get in
They need to to stabilize the game to the best of their ability first
And then the big ones for me is pvp
Which is they are bringing which is right at the top of the list anyway
And pvp just for the mons, but I also believe that pvp
We like so you can fight with them
So you can fight with them will be great but with the
With the actual pals, I think they need to be careful. So there's two routes they can go
They can either have it you throw your power out you throw that they throw their power out and they just scrap
because you're not controlling them or
You throw your power out they throw their power out and it goes
And then you use your moves in a turn-based system or
Have both of them systems and have it an option of which way you want to pvp
Then when you start getting that and you start getting
Leaderboards and all that bollocks then you start having tournaments. That's when the youtube world is just focused on
competitions for money
Yeah, and also
Because there's breeding in it
You want to breed the best pokemon the the best pal?
So you'll want to build breed the best one. So then it will be more of a i've i've i've got 100
Percent fucking perfect one i've been looking for for ages. I actually god roll basically god roll. Yeah, I actually found a fucking
A shiny. Mm. Yeah, they're cool. I don't even know it was just all like spark
Yeah, I don't know what the difference is but I caught it and put it in a box never to be seen again
It just lives in a fridge. We didn't bring it out
No, no, I just I just put it in a box. The annoying thing is I say I don't
Because I can't name them. I can't have favorites. I don't know what one's what
Yeah, because they've all got different abilities and stats and all that nonsense
I accidentally butchered my favorite favorite one and he was my highest level as well
He's like level 16 or something dead because I butchered the wrong one and I was distraught
I think they've brought in mods and everything now as well. I think they've allowed
Oh mate, the potential for this game is fucking through the roof
And whilst it obviously will drop off because it will never be no game will be sustainable for numbers like that
It will I think it will always have a player base now. It's going to create a niche
It's going to be the new battle royale. People are going to be like right. Let's make pokemon games. Yeah, it will it will definitely
hold
validity
For quite a while. I believe it. Yeah, it will drop off 100%
People love it at its worst possible time, but love it. So and they're aware of its flaws
How can they make this worse one way microtransactions?
You can do it but be very careful how you do it because you can alienate a lot of your player base just through putting
Microtransactions in there. Did they say they're introducing trading with other pals?
Possibly, but that's another great thing you could do
You could basically do a lot of the systems that's in pokemon that pokemon don't fucking own because it's a system
Um and introduce it into power world. This guy's the limit for them merchandise cards everything because you also
You can't not compare it to pokemon because what else are you supposed to compare this to this is quite obviously taken
99 percent of his influence from pokemon
So when it comes to new ideas and stuff like that, you do what is natural and that is to get inspiration from the things that are
already doing that
And trying to make it your own
And trying to make it your own the trouble is pokemon took most of its stuff from dragon quest
So they can't really yeah, they can't really fucking hell. Yeah dragon quest jesus
so throwback, they can't really complain because it
All this does is inspire
uh
What's the word?
um
Creativity, you know it sparks creativity and people take ideas
it fuels competition
It makes it a um
Where's the word
What what is where it's like you're cornering a market, which is when you you're suppressing you're monopolizing
Yeah, and I feel like
This should give
Game freak a kick up the ass. This should give nintendo a kick up the ass
To just have a look and go. All right. Well
Pokemon's obviously gone stale
and obviously it's it's
it's
It's faded out. So you need to do something differently and that's where something like power world because survival games are the next battle royale
I can you can see that trend
Going up and up and up people are fucking playing daisy all the time. People are playing arc survival people are
People are on fucking power world. They're on valheim valheim's fucking still massive. Yeah popping and that's another game
That's not fully released. Yeah. Yeah
But how are these games so much better?
Genuinely, I wish that it was on console because I think it would blow you out of the water
enshrouded is oh i'm excited is
absolutely
fucking incredible like genuinely
it is
It is mental how good this game is and i'm it's such a shame that it's
It's being so overshadowed by power world because I would love to see just how truly popular this game would be
if power world wasn't a thing because
It is so good. I've never i've never played anything like it because it's not
the aspects of it that I like is
Think the things I really hate about survival, which I find an integral part of survival
But I really don't like it is a food and a fucking water meter. I hate that shit
I don't want to do that. I don't want to have to keep monitoring my food
And then keep monitoring my water because you always get to a point where you're inundated with those things
You've got so much food and you've got so much water to the point where it becomes
It's it's not valid anymore. You don't need to worry about it. So get rid of the fucking system
Not in daisy. It doesn't it doesn't yeah daisies daisies a different beast, but
Things like no man sky
It doesn't matter. I don't need to keep refueling my fucking jet pack because i've got about 10 million fucking
Oxygen that are going to go in it. We don't need to do this leave this out
um
So it hasn't got that in it, which I like the the cold fucking meters
It does have that but you literally just need to put on any bit of gear and you're fine
And that's it and all it does when you are cold is just reduce your stamina by like 15 percent
It's really not that fucking detrimental
But the the combat is very
souls-born
In that you need to be you need to be dodging there's mechanics
um
Hacking and slashing isn't really a thing until you get a little bit further up the ladder
There's skill trees that are fucking huge. There's like
barbarian
tank
mage wizard healer fucking athlete
There's a whole skill tree based around creatures in the world that like making them not attack you and attack certain things and blah blah blah
and that
that brings a
whole new meaning to
to the survival aspect of it and wanting to
Level up and things like that because you're not just doing it for gear and for a better base
You're building a skill tree and you can mix and match so much more shit like
For example, I know that connor's gone for like a ranger
kind of build
Whereas i've gone for a sword and shield tank fucking lots of health and and deal decent damage kind of build
but at the same time
I've floated into the healer
Talent tree that means i'm passively healing all the time and now i'm floating in the fucking there's gliders and shit like that
So you can traverse the world a lot better. It's just
It's so much fun. It's such a good game
And the fast traveling is fucking decent as well
I love it. Um, just reading up that
Uh
It's got controller support so I might even just download it on steam it does have controller support
So, you know, you know me I do love a controller. I tried it on control. I didn't like it
I think it's far better on mouse and you would your mouse and keyboard guy and i'm a controller guy, but it
It's the
The vastness of it as well. The map's fucking huge
I'm talking huge like big big boy. There's um
basically there's areas in in this biome
Where they're called enshrouded and it's like weird gas type areas that you can be in
But only for a certain time like five minutes and then there are skills and potions and shit that you can
Take and use to increase that time
um, and whilst you're in there, you can't fast travel or anything like that. It's kind of like a
um
like the
dark zone
in um
the division that kind of kind of vibe
and
There's much more lethal enemies involved
There's these things called elixir wells where you basically always go underground or whatever and there's all these root systems and everything
And there's this big fucking giant red root that you need to cut out and that cleanses the fucking land
It's taken a lot of inspiration from zelda
Even down to like the climbing and the the gliding and stuff like that uses that same stamina
wheel and things like that
and
It's just
It's crazy. It's grabbed me by the bollocks 100 percent. There's the funny thing is
I looked at the start of this year and I thought
All right. I've got i've got three months till march where dragon's dog my two comes out
Sweet and then these have come out. I'm like where the fuck have these come from? Yeah out of nowhere
Enchanted was something that I'd never
Never and when I bought it, it was a gamble because I read it and I because I was playing power world
And I was enjoying it. But what happened was it kept crashing every 10 minutes. I was playing it
It was crashing and I got so sick and tired of it. I was like, I don't want to play this
I was like this this is this is doing my head and this is such a good game
But I can't deal with it crashing every fucking 10 minutes is really pissing me off
so
that's when I went on steam and then enshrouded popped up and then I looked into it and I was like, uh,
because the
The building aspect of a survival is what always puts me off
Because i'm not creative. I'm not a massive fan of building
However in enshrouded 100 percent. I love the building
100 percent where
Something like valheim the building is very cool and you can do a lot of shit. Everything had its own health meter
so
You'll remember you build a base wrong and it all collapses and all your work has just been undone for fucking nothing because you put one block
In the wrong place. There's none of that shit on enshrouded. You can put stuff pretty much wherever you want and it is
And connor agrees an extremely intuitive
building
um
mechanic in that you can
You can adjust and take out and add individual squares
Into the the building so you really can shape it however you want and there's so much shit involved
um
And they make it quite good with that your bases don't get raided or anything
So they're not going to take damage and not going to you're not going to come back and they're going to be fucking blown up
no one's attacking you
and
They're more just homes for you to put npcs that allow you to craft other shit
So you haven't got to make extravagant places like mine's literally just what like one long fucking
Single floored building with everyone in it and then i've started building underground instead with hidden doors and shit
i'm getting more creative with it
but
It's just so much fun
So much fun. I'm gonna watch some more videos on it. I've seen a lot but I'll watch a few more. I'll look at the uh,
Uh controller support and if it's intuitive enough, uh, and I might might download it, but I shouldn't because i'm
My my plan is to continue playing power world, uh until I get to the point where i'm a little bit
Bored not bored but frustrated with my level of progression and updates and I need more fresh content to come back
It gives you that no man's sky vibe of
But you know, it's it's gonna improve obviously and get better but every every few months something big drops
You know, i'm jumping back in having a look, you know
I mean it's giving me that sort of vibe of a game and I want to get back into wow
I don't want to leave that too long. Um
Because yeah, I enjoy that game and it's it's been calling me. I've started my little blood death night
Nice now i'm wobbling around with that because that it's i was talking to stef about this morning
I'm so heavily addicted to both
but i'm so stuck on enshrouded
but
Because i'm playing like a tank sort of rolling in shrouded with that constant hill back passive healing every time I do
I attack someone I get five percent of the damage that i've dealt back
And then if I deal a critical I get like 20 of that back. So a lot of boss fights and
It should be nerfed ultimately
Because no one can kill me because i'm just as long as i'm attacking i'm fucking staying at my top health
And that's very much how blood death knight plays. It's all about taking damage and the more you take
Damage the more you can heal it back
Um
So i'm playing enshrouded and it's like oh, yeah, this is getting me really hyped up to play my death knight
But then every time I switch that laptop on i'm like, let me just quickly jump in fucking enshrouded quick
Let me just check some some crafting stuff and then I get I get fucking sucked in because oh
I've made a new thing and that's unlocked a recipe. That means I can make another thing
But i've got to go to this place to do it and blah blah blah
and it's just
No
I'm gonna play wow after this because i've also
heavy into my reading
heavy
Into my reading big fucking stack of books rocked up this morning more world of warcraft books have moved on i've got one more
like graphic novel type thing to read of a series of four and then i've got the full-on thick like
700 page
100 page thick books that i'm fucking starting
Yeah, I was gonna say when you said to me you read five books like two days after you said they're derived. I was like what?
How I read a lot and
I'm not a slow reader by any means so for you to have banged five books in I because I got um
Uh, there's been times where i've read I haven't read for six months and there's times where I just can't stop fucking reading and obviously
You know I read
Uh, i've moved into the 20th century
And I use my kindle and on the kindle it's got like stats and stuff
So i've read for five weeks in a row
Tells you how many books you've read this year and how many minutes and all that stuff
So I like to keep track and I want to make sure my plan is to read 12 books a year
So I want to read one a month basically
Um, and i'm on track for that because i've already read one so
What about spider queen?
Oh, yeah
Love it and it's and it's all like a uh, forgotten realm stuff
So it's all set in in boulders gate universe essentially not boulders gate, but it is that
It is that universe. So it's very exciting and enthralling. I looked into magic the gathering cards
I downloaded, um magic gathering the arena card game
I thought that
Oh, it's too much going on man. It's expensive as well man
There's so much shit happening and the trouble is the cards that I want. I don't think are very valuable
So there's no real big pool. We're we're out of pokemon for what six months?
And I couldn't fucking jump back into it. I have no idea what fucking
Expansions have come out what booster packs are there? I do I have no fucking only the latest one paldy and fates
I've been watching so many breaks for them. Just I got no interest in in the pokemon cards
But I just like watching people waste money. I'm like, what a fucking shit box that was darryl went to that um,
pokemon, um
The regionals didn't they or something like that?
And then I think I said where he he was bringing his deck with him
I think he brought two decks because you can play on the side for like prizes and stuff like that
And I can't I can't remember the exact number. I think it was like he went like seven and oh or something like that
What wins? No. Oh
I think the only win that he got of the entire night he said was by default
There's something about the guy
Not having a deck or some some something that like I think I don't think that he played to the to the death. I think
He texted he's like he's like fucking he's on fucking four and oh
I was like what the fuck's going on and then about five minutes later five and oh six and oh
It's like fumi said his mate that was with him was killing it and he was just getting slaughtered
What deck was he playing? I have no idea. I have no idea because I gave him a couple of my cards from
um from uh
My um silver tempest set because I was like look i'm not gonna do anything with these you need them for you to
Actually play with them. So here you go fucking take a couple of these cards
so
Some set they involved that but they're all mixed and matched didn't they?
But he sounded like he had a decent time. It's taking part in it
I think he's going to another one in april
That he invited us to well you too
It extends it's just weird, isn't it? How it works out?
I tend to like I tend to like grow close to people and then help them and then they just fuck off and latch on
To the other people that I help and just forget about me. I'm just fucking nobody. It didn't work with you though
He wouldn't be here if it wasn't for me. Yeah, but he worked with me almost every single week
So naturally we built a brotherhood as a group chat and everything
Oh, yeah, cheers. You're not in it because you're not part of that
Yeah, because you don't put me in the fucking group. Yeah, because we only made the group because we work together all the time
Yeah, we don't work together. They don't talk about work though. Yeah
Uh sometimes just pictures of bollocks and banter
Yeah, it was all fat people exactly. So where's my fucking invite?
I want to see his bollocks again. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're saying
Anyway
Did you watch the playstation showcase fucking shit?
Uh, yeah, it was pretty. Uh, I watched I weren't that impressed. I did watch it all
I wasn't I wasn't I was only excited for two things on there
Which was drag what I was anticipating to be dragons dogma dragons dogma 2 and rise of ronin
Uh, I left leaving that dragons dogma 2 i'm just hyped for anyway rise of ronin. I was less hyped after seeing it
However, yeah, it is it is giving off like
Sekiro vibe so it does look very soul secure. Oh assassins creed type. It's more like neo
Like it's it looks good. But I I agree with you. I when I watched it. I was a bit like, uh, this isn't
That's not the fucking trailer that I remember first seeing no, it won't it won't give enough what I wanted
But but then they're the ones that always end up surprising me. Yeah, um
But I did stellar blade looked quite good
It's the first one that they they were chatting about and didn't do it for me the silent hill
uh
That they released they shadow dropped that didn't they for free so downloaded that i'll let jen play yesterday. Fuck that exactly
Fuck that. It looks terrifying. Did you play pt? No, but it's just another pt in it essentially, uh, but
Jim loves that shit. So I said fill your boots. Uh, why the fuck?
until dawn
Yeah, I know he's getting a remaster. It's mental. I don't understand like everyone was saying fucking blood-borne
Where is it? Every cunt wants blood-borne. Why why are we why are we pissing around with until dawn?
When we could do something like blood-borne. I know because it's easier to do until dawn. Fuck me. It didn't need it didn't need that
the what we're doing
The game was pad was given to me and I said i'm not playing this if you want to experience this game
You're fucking playing because i'm sick to death of playing games like this for your amusement
Yeah, because she just does it to make to laugh at me jumping. I'm like you fucking play it because it ain't it
Ain't just me jumping. It's the fucking control that makes you jump. It's all the bollocks
So she's playing it and within the first like 25 seconds or something I jumped because the fucking you keep getting text messages
Yeah, and the text message noise comes out the fucking controller. So I was just sitting there and just went
Fucking hell man
Scared you're already heightened up because you know, you're gonna get scared but to be honest with you. It's not scary at all
it's in fact rubbish the
there's like
You're just going around reading shit and all that crap going through room to room trying a piece of story together
Bloody blah and then every now and again the screen goes funny and you have to run through a corridor
Uh, and then every now and again this fucking monster with like flowers for a face
Might catch you and stab you and you have to do it again till you find the right route and that's the only like
Thing that's really happened
What I said to jim was the scary part about pt was the you'd be like walking it'd go
Look behind you or something like that and you'd slowly turn around and just be like yeah pt was
Terrified or you just look and there's just a woman staring at you. That's scary like the fetus in the sink and shit
Yeah, that game was the door shuts and then you are like slowly open. It's just scared
It doesn't there hasn't been any of that and that is what I found terrifying about pt
So in terms of like at the moment the amount of fear that that game's causing is very little
Um, but it was a shadow drop and I don't think it was free bro. So you can't complain about free stuff
Yeah, so yeah, how big was it to download not?
No, it's about nine ten gig or so. It's not gonna be a massive fucking game
No, it's cool enough. You know, it's not my cup of tea and if jim didn't want to play I would never have played it
Silent hill 2 remaster or something. They were yeah, that's the one they're advertising the most the remake but I can't remember what this one was called
You know, um, but yeah had some kind of name death strand in two
As well. It just looked weird man. It looked so fucking odd, didn't it?
I liked the little puppet thing what the puppet that was at like six frames a second
Yeah, for no reason. Yeah, it's just like I
Mean, that's the design
That's how he's meant to be like that. Oh, yeah. I know. Yeah. Yeah, obviously I liked it
I think he was really quirky, but I fucking
like a
Because because usually what happens when you get a state of play or a showcase or something like that
You watch it and then within about a minute
IGN gaming Bible fucking
all those types on Instagram
All bang up pictures and shit like that. So you can basically like get everyone's opinions on the showcase straight away
And yeah with the death strand in two everyone was like fuck's sake another walking simulator like another and someone made a good point
They were like it's not for most people but for the people that enjoy it. They really enjoy it. This is a masterpiece
type
and then obviously Hideo Kojima, uh
Said that he was working. They're working on a new IP
Back to the tactical espionage action of Melga solid basically, which is very exciting to me
the
I mean death strand two looked all right. I mean the first one was
It wasn't a bad game. I just never really got it
You know and the story was just so hard to follow and convoluted and it's one of them stories
I don't think you understand unless you watch someone break it down. Yeah, but I feel like control was like that
When you when you play control and you finish that you're not
Necessarily satisfied it is one of those games where it's like right
I need to google what this meant or I need to sit here and really think about what I have just seen
Because I can't fully understand it because it's weird weird weird game
Yeah, uh, then it's got Troy Baker in it. Of course it has
Yeah, he's an everything any but he was in the first one. It's like the main video
But he was in the first one. It's like the main villain
But he's come back this time with a vengeance and a guitar and a guitar. Yeah, the guitar was cool
Which was a strange turn of events, but yeah, I don't really know
What they're going with with that game, but it must have done. All right, otherwise they wouldn't commission a second
It feels like an art installation
Most people aren't gonna get it
But for the people that do it's really fucking cool and i'm happy for those types of people
I haven't played death stranding yet. I've got it. It is downloaded. I just i've been playing other shit
So it is on
It is on the on the bucket list however, um
All i've seen is just that it's a walking simulator and that it gets boring it is and it isn't
It's more to it than that, but it's also not it's also just that it's very very very hard to explain
It was probably the hardest game to ever explain to someone. Yeah, yeah, I get that it just doesn't
It doesn't make sense
I can appreciate that because in the trailer for death stranding 2 there was a baby in what looked like someone's cervix
throwing up
um
What did it throw up? I don't know the fucking mannequin or something like that
It always has that baby in the womb thing at the uh in death stranding 1
That was always a thing and his little baby in his in his
liquid pouch that came around with him and stuff
I mean, yeah, there's the story behind that and it makes sense and it but it's still just
It's still just very odd. It's a very odd game
So you're not like oh, I can't wait to get to the next cutscene to see what happens because you don't know what happened in the last cutscene
Because you're like what just happened? So now why am I now delivering this?
Like it's it's weird. There are there's combat in it, which is you know passable
uh, it's just
It's just I can't explain it. I I was hoping for more because kojima is like the goat to me
obviously because the metal is solid but
Yeah, they say death stranding 2
It I think death stranding 1 should have been more polished. So hopefully this one will be more polished and it'll make it more
uh playable
but other than that that was about it, wasn't it you got metro exodus the
The psvr I was excited until I saw the floating hands because jen was watching it with me and I was like that's fucking vr
The minute I saw it I knew from the very very first scene that it was metro exodus
I'm saying and then I said to stef about 0.5 of a second after that. I said I bet this is vr
And then sure enough, like you say the floaty hands come up and you go for fuck's sake you go
Jesus christ, I get we've got to cater to the market, but come on man. Do it with a fucking less popular game
There was another one as well. There's another like there's like an rpg looking vr game
Yeah, which was called like the longest name in the fucking world
like proper bog standard like um, like
Psvr rpg combat game like it was weird. But yeah, I weren't I weren't um
Massively impressed. I won't lie. There was nothing really on there that
that was
Tickling my pickle like you say rise of the ronin. I was I was
expecting a bit more
Yeah, but like you say chances are i'll get it when it comes out 100
I feel like that's uh, one of them games that you need to play in having your hands to appreciate
Yeah, when you look at it, it's a bit like for me. It looked very ghost of tsushima
And I thought well if it's anything like ghost of tsushima, it's going to be great, but we've already got that
I think it looks more like neo to me
which is
Essentially dark souls, but uh team 17 or team ninja. I can't remember who creates that
um
Yeah, that's what that looks like to me. Anyway, and I think it's just going to be more souls like combat
Which is good, but it just depends how it plays
I need a piss. So hold on. Okay
We're back baby, that was the longest piss ever it was fantastic
What else
What else?
What else is there where uh the suicide squad game came out and then got immediately pulled
Fantastic why did that happen? I don't know why
I think I don't know
Some issue have you seen much on it? I can't say
My algorithm hasn't been locked on to
Suicide squad. I know I saw a couple clips where like batman's always watching you or some shit like that
Yeah, that's pretty much all i've seen. I see people say i've seen um
Polarizing things with people like the last thing i've ever seen i've seen people say people just shitting on it
Because it's cool to shit on at the moment. Yeah, and it's actually not that bad
So I don't really know
Where people sit with it at the moment?
But it sounds like it's going to be one of them that's good for some
And bad for others and I believe i'll go down the road of just presuming it will die
Like marvel avengers because it's a live service game and once again, oh is it live service? Yeah, I didn't know that
Yeah, yeah, yeah battle pass and all that bollocks
Um, oh is it? Yeah
So it's like you know, it's one of them where it's like
You can play it single player
But you have to be connected online
Yeah, so everyone's like trying to play it and it's saying can't connect and he's like I want to play it on my own
Why do I need to be connected and you've just ruined the experience?
For me, so that's what i've seen people complaining about and
Everything's trying to shoehorn
A battle pass and an item shop and all that bollocks into the game and I get it because that's where money is
But then also power world no micro transactions. That's also where money is if you make a good enough product
People will buy it and then think about micro transactions. Yeah, if you want to don't build your game around micro transactions
Build your game and then maybe add it if it suits and if people are requesting it
So you want funny costumes for your pals?
Okay. Well, here's an item shop and they'll also drop in the world
But if you want to specifically get one you can buy one
Then things people can be like, okay. Well, I'll take it. I'll leave it as long as it's available in the game, too
But when you just shoehorn your game around
battle passes and
season passes and
All that crap people just automatically turn off
I feel like with
Microsoft's backing
You will get something
microtransaction esque
Throwing into power world just because once a big company gets their grubby fucking
Selfish hands on something that they know is making a lot of money
They'll turn that into like most people do like most big companies do with most people
Games into a cash cow. Where can we squeeze the most amount of money and how can we do it? Oh, I know
Let's do this this and this well, that's fine as long as it suits is like I say because people will
Be fine with it and not interact with it if they don't want to but when it's
Forced upon the game to be online and you have to buy to progress and all that people don't want that
People don't want that shit and rightly so
Um, is power coming out on ps5 power isn't on ps5 but playstation is getting another power power brah
Interesting to see if it comes out on ps5
Yeah, I know um, it's confirmed by pocket pair power could potentially come to ps5 in the future
This was confirmed by developer pocket there
Yeah, but when was that confirmed was that confirmed before fucking microsoft transaction or two days ago? Okay?
Okay, so it's two hours ago
All right. Well, yeah, I think I think that would be a that would be a smart move. They haven't been they haven't been purchased or anything
By microsoft. No, yeah, they've just been helped out. Yeah, because let's be honest. Microsoft could do with a big hit
Yeah, of course. So microsoft. They're probably going, uh, we'll buy you if you want to sell and they're going well
No, we seem to be all right. Yeah, we're fine. We've just made half a billion dollars
I'll tell you what we'll do
We'll get some really intelligent people in to help run the company and help push the game in a better way
And help push the game in a better direction and hire some staff and we'll just continue to live off this ip
Is it is it gonna be?
Is it gonna be something where in a month we're sitting here on a friday?
Having a fucking episode
saying wasn't that a fun game because it's dotted or
Will we be sitting here in a month and it's still extremely popular with all this new shit and then in six months
Will it be something like how fortnight has turned into does it have that?
Puzzazz because as far as survival games go
I feel like this is the most unique because of the pals
That's the that's the that's the aspect that you do not have in other
Survivals that I can think of other than arc. I believe this has huge staying power and I believe now
That they're gonna obviously get better and better updates are gonna keep coming
and
Content is gonna come and modes and bits and bobs are gonna keep getting added
And I feel now we're gonna have an influx of games of this ilk and rather
The same as pokemon and power are being compared games are gonna be it's not quite power world
They're going for the power world and it's not power world power world is I feel power world
I feel power world is genre defining. I feel it's created its own genre now because pokemon even if pokemon was like this
It still hasn't got the mechanics. It's the the the building it still hasn't got the
Survival system, you know, I mean it's it would just be pokemon but 3d
Power world has created a sub genre within a genre that is survival exactly which which arc
Arc was doing and doing very successfully. But at the same time arc was very niche
As much as people as much as it does have a very big cult following and people love it
Me personally, I've always thought it looks janky as fuck. It's never been my cup of tea
But
It's it's always been extremely popular, but it's never appealed to a wider audience
You then throw in the same
type of of game
But you've then thrown an attachment of oh, this looks very similar to pokemon
you've drummed up enough fucking word of mouth and people have uh, uh, either whinging about this game or fucking singing its praises and
You've also made it look very pretty
And very easy to access and a very easy game to play
So everyone's able to get involved with it and you're gonna have
When the next pokemon game releases you're gonna have
People fighting and comparing the two and that's just inevitable until pokemon
innovates
Power world will be successful more successful. Yeah, and also
The irony of the whole thing is if pokemon innovates
And they add building and all that sort of stuff. They'll go. Ah, you nicked out power. Yeah
Yeah, you stole that off of someone else and that's the irony there. Yeah, I I do think power world is a juggernaut
I think it's here to stay
and I think it will be one of them games that everyone just knows and plays and will come back to or play continuously with
thousands of hours and
It'll only get bigger when they do more things like servers with 100 players on or you know
You know what I compare it most to uh, funnily enough out of all the games that we've spoke about none of them
I feel this is a minecraft
Personally, yeah, I feel like it's a minecraft. It's got the same
I have it. I just base settings. I didn't change any of the settings where you can customize your whole world
I have it so I lose all my stuff on death and then I can go back and pick my stuff up and all that
I just see it continuing down the trend of minecraft minecraft still one of the most popular games on the planet
Yeah, definitely and it will just continue to innovate
And add more maybe digging underground where you can't do that now
You can smash rocks up and all that but maybe more like terraforming of the terrain
Um
You know how in minecraft they they create things and then you can
They'll develop a star wars server or this
sorts of things like that like server where people can just
Just build and and and and create resources and because that's one of the things that microsoft's going to help out with is more servers
Oh for sure, it's going to give them access to more more servers whether they'll be dedicated servers or not
um
it's
Yeah, it's it's an exciting time
for them
unless nintendo
somehow
Win a lawsuit that they put to them
And sue them out of the ass, which I really can't see how this is how that would happen now, especially with its popularity
I just can't see them being taken to court and then
Being affected by it the the smart people on the internet are just saying they haven't got a case
I don't think if they did that it would already be it'd already be done because nintendo are ruthless
And this would not be in the position it is and if it was
Imagine 19 million refunds
Yeah, because what you're gonna do we've bought a product and you you fucked it for us. You have to give our money back
Too late. We spent it. It's I think one of the things that makes it so popular is it's that it's that
that
Serial killer in most people in that you've always watched pokemon and when a pokemon battle happens and the pokemon faints
Everyone's always thought why the fuck is it not died?
Why do what happens to these pokemon when they die? What like what what's going on blah blah blah
and then
You get introduced to something that looks like a pokemon
But hold on I can get a deagle out and blast its fucking head off
Or I can throw a pokeball at it and I can capture it and then I can make it a slave at my camp
Or I can make it run around with me and go on great adventures. I can do whatever the fuck
I want with this thing or I can cut the fucker up if it mess if it misbehaves
I mean I can do whatever I wanted to do with this
You can breed them and make better ones. Do you know how many fucking breeding guides?
No, see I I haven't got that far. I've stuck away from watching youtube videos
Yes, this is the game that I'm playing now and I want to discover it on my own
Yeah, i'm doing the same with enshrouded but power world it my tiktok is just filled with breeding guides breed this with that
To get this and this is the best power to get and blah blah blah that that's
As I as I always say the typical thing
One day two days into this game releasing. Here's the top five tips to do as a beginner for power world
Here's the best 10 powers you can get you want to know the quickest way to get the best power before level 10 blah blah
It's like shut the fuck up with this stuff. Go away. I just like playing it on my own. I've worked it
I haven't watched a single guide on it
Um, i've watched people talking about power world whilst powers playing in the background
Um, but yeah, i've just worked out my own i've gone around i've killed not like a main boss
But i've killed a lot of the sub bosses that appear on the map and i've caught every single one of them
Um, so now i've got massive pals working at my camp
Or out with me. I've i've got a wolf that I ride around on i'm just about at the point where I can craft a saddle
So I can fly one of my bird ones
um
And it's just a fun time. I can teleport back and forth from my camp. I've died a fair few times
And I like the combat. I haven't got a gun yet, but I like the thought that when i'm out
I can i've got like a powerful fiery pal and I throw him out
And and it's all like, uh, as you would think of fires strong against ice and ice is strong against grass and all that sort of shit
So use your head and you go i'll use this one throw him out and you can get involved in the fight
Or you can just watch them two scrap it out and it's fun because you're
Unlike pokemon your pokemon your pal is fighting alongside you or fighting for you. Whereas pokemon it's
Come on, it's doodle doodle doodle doodle doodle. Yeah, this is the battle. Yeah, and now I have to pick this and i'll be
But this is they're they're creating their own battle and you can just stand on the cliff and watch them scrap
You can tell them to fight you can tell them to retreat you can bring it back in your ball
You can tell them to only target the the the pals that you're fighting. It's for
For something that's so new it's got a lot in it
You know what I mean?
And as I said, they're only going to build on this and and I think it is going to be I think this is the pub g
uh of
Pokemon slash survival games now
I think this is like you said a subgenre on its own and I think this is going to be what all survival
Games or any game that has little monsters that you put in balls or boxes or whatever fluff they want to change it to
This will be what it's compared to now not pokemon. Yeah, 100 because pokemon is pokemon
But pow world is now the genre like everyone says this is more likened to arc than it is to fucking pokemon
And if you're liking it to arc then you're liking into most survival games. So
Everyone's everyone's based off of everyone else when it comes to survival
and I feel like if if this game were so closely related to arc survival or just standard arc like
Why aren't everyone who's playing pow world playing arc instead?
It's because pow world has a special kind of source to it and it is
Those pals it's a culmination of many games and it's taking the best bits of certain games
Plopped them in and created a masterpiece into not a masterpiece. But you know what I mean?
It's a very very good game. Everyone's like this is the best of all the games that I enjoy
And it's got pokemon with guns. Yeah
I find it wholesome man. I'm glad that everyone's playing a game with this
I'm glad that that there's there's pow world and that there's enshrouded. I like these games
These are these are fantastic games that for the price of 20 odd quid
No, I mean you're getting this for 20 odd quid and this is early access both of them
I said that earlier
To wrap your head around the idea that that's early access
enshrouded
I because obviously my my
Game time on pow world is far more limited compared to enshrouded
I can't understand how this is an early access game
I do not see where enshrouded is early access because there's nothing that's locked out for me
Absolutely nothing I can do whatever I want and there's a vast vast progression system to it's like and I'm sure it's the same with
Power world where it's like well, what else are you gonna do then?
That's the exciting because this is crazy. That's the exciting thing. You've given me all of this
This is early access. So what the fuck else are you hiding behind the door?
This is what it's exciting and games like enshrouded power world more maybe more enshrouded than power world will probably have expansions
Yeah, enshrouded the whispering winds is coming out and it'll be like a whole new map with all this stuff to go and do
Yeah, and power world will just be updates update 2.6 where we've added fucking
I don't know
Spaceship fucking pals with laser guns, you know, but it's just more go to space
It's just more content and they'll keep piling that on and enshrouded will have content and expansions and valheim
That's still early access that's adding zones and it's constantly adding and adding and and and
Putting stuff on top to already great foundations and these games will just continue to prosper and people will love them
And then you've got massive triple a games
I call a duty churning out the same old bollocks and I think people are getting sick of it people are just going no
No, but warzone is not doing great nowadays people are just like i've had enough of this battle royale as a genre
Is slowly dwindling you're seeing less of them being made
Fortnite is innovating with all its lego stuff and it's racing stuff. It's done what a lot of other
um
Battle royales haven't done yet and that is understanding the trend seeing what the future holds and changing course
for a plan b
Which is which is what they've done and they've done it very successfully as they will um
One thing before we go
It is lovely to have
before I had a pc I always saw things like steam
I thought I fucking know there's so many cool games on there that I don't have access to on my playstation that i'm never going to get
access to
Now obviously I am on pc. So I now have access to all of those games and i'm able to play them
it's
nice that
slowly, but surely
Those same kind of games are making their way onto things like game pass and then onto xbox
Where people are able to play those games alongside them coming out on pc so that you're not just locked away
So that they are being introduced into pc into console
Because there's as has proven from the last fucking hour of us speaking
so many
indie small developer
Fucking hidden games
That are fucking incredible that you years ago. You'd never get access to unless you had a pc
So it's just just it's just mental man. It's great fun and uh
What a fantastic start to the gaming year
Yeah, and it's only going to get better and i'm looking forward to playing power world
And when there's an opportunity if anyone's got an xbox holler me up and you can come and join my uh
my land of menza baren
Excuse me. Yeah, this is where the this is where the the drow live
In the books that i'm reading and in the universe and that's that's the land the men's of baren
Men's i can't really pronounce. I think it's men's of baron or so men's of baron. It's the realm of spider queen and you're welcome
Uh, I hope there's a spider power. I'd like a spider power. I haven't seen if there isn't one
They will add one eventually. Of course. It's great
All right, that's my yawn and that's us out. Oh
Ah, love you glad you love that. See you later. Hooroo. Hooroo