23rd of February 2024 and on this day at three minutes past three was when I entered the world
and then 27 years later this podcast what's that fucking buzzing what is that can you hear that
I can can you hear that what is that can they hear it yeah it's gone I fixed it look I think
one of the cables yeah I might need to replace one of the cables you know um happy birthday to me
I've got the one ring the prince no one's gonna see it um the prince has gotten me the one ring
I have it's very cool it is very cool it's very cool I used to have one of these years ago that
had a little mount doom cradle that you'd pop plop it in and then it would light up that's cool
and I wonder how much that would be fucking worth it's gone now like disappeared into the
nether but that was like fully metal like this this is very impressive I'm happy with it good
and it will cherish it I won't wear it because of a fear of hurting it I might need it what you need
is a necklace and then whack that on there 100 I need a chain and I think I might have one somewhere
there what you got yeah one of them that's what I need a little check little chain what's the
purpose of that don't know Jim got it for me for Christmas fair enough running out of options
we've been together so long how else can I get this cunt yeah we're here happy birthday thank you
birthday mother what huh mother I just I wasn't here last week why wasn't I was busy you was
doing so you was dying wouldn't you was I was that last week no you was busy yeah no I was ill you
said can we do tomorrow and I was like no oh yeah I had that stomach pain yeah that's the one oh
yeah and then you died yeah yeah you're good now I think so hopefully what was it you don't know
uh yeah I don't know I've got to have blood tests so so I won't be here actually good good reminding
on the uh 10th I think it is maybe the 10th it's somewhere near whatever that weekend is
uh because I've got to have blood tests and it's like a very awkward time on a Friday
and this because I've got to have um I shouldn't really talk about this on on on the pod I'll talk
to you after about it but I've got you're just not gonna be here I've got uh I've got a blood test
for satin in particular and I'm not allowed to eat or drink and I've got to go work in the morning
yeah fair enough fucking raucous day fair enough it'll be a step or so there's absolutely fine
um big big old week of gaming lots of shit's happened in it lots of lots of fucking shit
has happened let's start with and glaze over it very quickly because I'm not massively interested
in it on how god-awful skull and bones looks oh it's got some terrible reviews as well it's got
some absolute dog shit reviews oh my god they're fucked up man that's a live service game excuse
the pun dead in the water yeah 100 what was that like 10 years of development some shit like that
and it doesn't even stand up to black flag it's mental even the facial animations people have
put comparisons to black flame and black flags pissing on it that's insanity awful and and
and all that ubisoft is doing is um is advertising skull and bones and like all these achievements
and all the team like stand like they're really trying to fucking put a positive spin on it um
and naturally everyone's just saying no this game is this is dog shit this is fucking awful
put next to what was just another another case of triple a games coming out and then being
overshadowed by little games like hell divers too completely overshadowed fucking skull and bones
100 people aren't interested in that they're interested in hell divers how does this happen
though how do you spend 10 years on it and it come out like that it's i think it's had some
difficult development time i think it's had a lot of like stops and starts and restarts yeah but
fucking hell like surely the the basics of yeah it's it's cool to be a pirate and it's cool to
blow up other people's ships but one of the fundamental parts of being a pirate is hand to
hand combat and being able to bury your treasure and fucking dig it up and and have have your own
like um hideaways and shit like that and you the own you you can only get off of your ship at very
specific locations and even then from a pvp basis you can you can't you can see other players i walk
around with them you can't do anything with them you can't attack them you can't do anything they're
just hub areas and they yeah just hub areas and on the on the boats themselves you can't even walk
around your own ship for fuck's sake that's shocking that's ridiculous you can customize your own ship
but you can't walk around it that's that's just mental yes it's crap it's dead in the water they've
got some serious work to do if they want to they want to bring that back uh is it worth the
investment probably not 100 not so yeah they've they've put the shuttles in a foot that's fucking
ubisoft when was this a year ago they come out and people were playing it like some press event and
people were you know cold on it then picking up the things that people are picking up now so
they had time to you know delay it work on it do whatever it is that the people that were moaning
about it wanted um but then at the same point we're just normal people we don't know what goes into
it so maybe they had to get it out by x deadline and they couldn't delay it and blah de blah but
yeah but fucking hell i know it's crap it looks really shit uh on the opposite end of the spectrum
final fantasy seven uh the second of the trilogy looks really good it's got some really good
reviews yep so yeah that looks that looks cool i believe there's a crossover event happening on
final fantasy online you mean the best mmo ever made is that what it is something to do with that
it's been two weeks it has yeah we've been playing final fantasy online yep um and yes
pretty fucking good uh i didn't mean to i can't even remember why i did it i think it was more
because it's natively that's the reason incorporated a controller into it already it's on so final
fantasy online is an incredible mmo there's a reason why it stands up against something as
mammoth as world of warcraft um but it's also a completely different game it's so similar but
so vastly different but it's also cross play with pc and playstation and very very very recently it
released on xbox did it yeah that's so so there's been a massive influx of new players to final
fantasy because it's just come out on xbox it's the um the whole the whole game isn't fully unlocked
on xbox so there is a cap to what they can reach i don't actually know what it is um that novice
group chat that i'm in in final fantasy they're all talking about it um what what do you mean why
is that the case that's weird i think maybe test in the waters possibly um i think maybe it's
something like they can get to like level 44 i'll google it later but there there is a cap that they
can they can get to um for now and then obviously the full game will be released but that's obviously
created massive massive volumes of players coming to final fantasy i'm seeing a lot of sprouts about
a lot of sprouts a lot of sprouts acting like i ain't one it's fantastic man it's i don't i don't
understand though so i i've got the game and i'm playing it yeah i couldn't find that free trial
bollocks yeah so i just thought fuck it i'll sub whatever and i've subbed but then i go on the store
and it's like what's the what is it endwalker endwalker is the latest one endwalker yeah 39.99
or whatever the fuck it is so do i do do i own final fantasy 7 online final fantasy 14 online
yeah or do i have to buy that to have it online or what is i don't understand it's the same shit as
as as wow in it so you play up to you own the base game okay but you don't have the final expansion
so it's probably worth i probably ain't gonna reach endwalker by the time the fucking next one
comes out so i might wait until that comes out and then i'll have endwalker i think i've i've got
endwalker because the last time i played final fantasy i must have just got greedy and thought
fuck it i want that so i've i've got that and i know that from when i load it up on steam the
loading screen thing is endwalker okay because i asked a load of people and said how do i fucking
know because through steam i can buy it but through the mog station thing with your actual account
i can't buy it it says i've i have there's no um expansions i can purchase so i asked them and
they were like just look at your loading screen which one i don't know what it's like on playstation
i don't think it's the same thing because it's not run through a launcher but for me it launches up
and it says like if it says endwalker on it that's the fucking one you've got um so yeah it's just
that so you have you have the base game and i believe i would imagine it runs very similar
to wow where with the latest expansion the previous expansions just come with the base game
yeah yeah they're just incorporated into that now because obviously this whole content it's unfair
to make you fucking pay for it um so yeah destiny might should think about one day you know
just saying no maybe destiny should think about doing something like that yeah you still have to
pay for all the fucking previous expansions yes bollocks if you want to get into destiny now
and do everything cost you 300 quid yeah that's why that game is fucking shit
but yeah it's um it's just a uh it's weird because the last time i played it i i put in
it on steam it said like 50 something hours i've checked so i put in a decent a decent crack and i
really really liked it um and it was just wow that pulled me back in but for some reason this time
round i'm seeing it in a different kind of light i don't know whether that's because maybe you're
playing it um or if it's just i'm i'm i'm less i've gone from a point where with mmos everything
needs to be done straight away i can't miss out fomo i need to do this i need to do that to the
point where it becomes a job whereas very much now i'm much more laid back with it but still
intense with it if that makes sense so i'm not so i'm not constantly searching like what's the
fucking best character all this shit i need to what can i do to get that i'm just taking my time
with it and very much enjoying it i am also taking my time with it and doing that mainly
because i have no fucking idea what it is even if i'm told so you know i've probably walked past
many things i should be doing uh but i have very little knowledge i've done i think i've done six
six dungeons now all with mpc party yeah um and smashed them but obviously i feel like because
we're in that 100 xp server because it's like a preferred server whatnot obviously you outlevel
in a lot of the stuff then you get the level sync so it sinks you down in your dungeons but obviously
if you're higher you still it's still a little bit of a thing but i am the thing i love most about
this in comparison to wow so far is the the way it teaches you because very good i am a sick tank
right i know i know what how to pull enemies i know when i've got their aggro and when i haven't just
buy a symbol next to their name literally i look across at the enemy boards and it's like
depending on what color it is and what shape it is i have their aggro or i don't and if i want their
aggro i can either throw a shield at them or i can do an aoe and get all of them on me there's an
ability that just pulls them towards you with aggro that you have on pretty much all the time
anyway um i i i know how to tank i'm not high level i'm nearly 50 i'm like 47 or something like
that but it's taught me everything i need to do and it kind of spoon feeds you in a slow way but
that is how i need to learn because when it's bombarded with menus and text and stuff i can't
i can't do it i found it does it if you look through your spell book it's much less intense
than in world of warcraft so like me for example i'm playing a um a lancer which will then soon be
a dragon and sick yeah they're cool they go up in the air don't they come down yeah i'm enjoying
it man and um looking through the flicking through the spell book there's like maybe like six spells
in a rotation and that's it and it's the same for like most of the fucking classes which i feel like
just makes it that little bit easier to play don't get me wrong there are some classes where they're
meant to be quite tough to master but i just feel like it works it works man especially because
you're you're incorporating console onto that you can't have fucking 20 different abilities to
incorporate into console it's not it's not viable you'd be surprised do you know how many abilities
i have up have you got a lot 38 all right so well because you've got so many so what i do i've got
i don't know how to because i think you get more spells at 50 as well i think when you hit level
50 you unlock like this different subset of fucking whatever's there's shit loads i think that it's
i don't think it's obviously in wow you you select a tree right and then you go down and you pick
left right middle whatever you want i don't think it has that i think it's more these are all your
skills but use what ones you want right so this is what i still don't really understand and i can't
i haven't really found out yet even despite looking so i start off as a gladiator which then
goes into paladin which i am now paladin but obviously when you hit paladin level
you unlock other skills and abilities and stuff but some of them are quite similar in terms of
like uh i think the gladiator one's called rampart right so it's like a defensive buff for 15 seconds
15 seconds whatnot then the paladin will have a different one but it's very similar so and then
i don't know whether i'm supposed to have both of them or if i just swap one out for the other
and i can't work it out i've got i've looked at a video of how to level it up the gladiator and
paladin and i've got all my defensive abilities which i really like on this because it's in the
shape of say uh a playstation control so i've got triangle circle x square they're in that shape so
i just go right for my rotation for my defensive when they're off of cooldown i'll just go triangle
one first then i go so i'll just go clockwise round so it's easy for me to remember rather than
the boxes that are just next to each other but yeah so i've got i've got uh so how it works is
if you want to attack you've got you hold r2 or whatever you bind them to and then you have four
abilities in triangle circle square and x um and then you have four abilities when you're holding
r2 on up down left right on the d-pad you have exactly the same when you hold l2 right so i
hold l2 and i have my defensive on triangle circles x square and whatever else i have on
l2 and the d-pad if i want to bring up another one of all them with r2 and l2 and all the
different combinations i can hold i hold l2 and then press r2 and it brings up a whole what is
that four eight twelve sixteen more um and then if i want another different one i hold r2 and then
press l2 it brings up a whole different taskbar thing again so i've got what is that so that's
four eight twelve sixteen sixteen that's sixteen right on one thing yeah sixteen thirty two
so yeah no i've got more than that i've got fucking sixty four but i haven't filled them all out
yeah i filled out two of them yeah and it's working it's so easy i'm like one it takes a while to be
like what's where but now i've got it it's second nature it's just what i just press l2 and r2 and
it brings up my mount my teleportation my return skill all them other skills that you don't need
all the time but sprint just bang bang done and then all my attacks are just straight away there
i've customized all my hud so it's completely uh translucent and then when i hold r2 they all
pop out again so i can see i love the fact that uh when i press r2 not only does it show the
symbols clearly it also has the name of the ability so it makes it easy for me to remember
what the what what ability it is um i've moved all the hud i've turned mini map off because i just
have my map up when i want i just press square and move it about auto run i've turned i've turned so
much stuff i've customized the hud how i want it i watched a video just because i wasn't sure what
was important to be out i've extracted material from what items i'm i'm just learning at my own
pace and fuck me is it good and let me send you which is i've been sitting on this since last night
i was really wanting to send it to you but this is this this character sorry listeners this is i
might post on the patreon this is my end game this is the geezer i want to be look at that i'm hoping
that samurai oh god he's just sick oh yeah that looks fucking cool doesn't it how fucking cool
isn't it how fucking sick is that do you know what i mean that is that's the goat yeah they give samurai
vibe the the samurai that i've got that i logged into um they just look cool man they just they
look like a proper samurai there the the whole vibe around them is is really interesting quick
side note i didn't realize that you can fucking breed your your mounts quick side note didn't know
yeah because i've joined the facebook community and yeah someone put a post up saying they got
like because it's got different like traits like speed and fucking stamina and like all the standard
shit and then a couple of like quirky ones and there was all like five stars and they're like
finally breed it after blah blah blah and it's all like rng base and shit so i'm sure we'll figure
that one out and breed later on we'll find out how many times i've seen that wolf mount knocking
about pissing me off bro every every single person that's got it's got the little sprout next to the
name as well i think they got you didn't they're probably gonna get me when i get a fucking mount
as well you know you got it so that your chocobo fucking helps you fight yeah yeah just feed them
grass yeah got that bro yeah nailed it down yeah because i obviously haven't reached that point
here because i've now made like my 10th character um but which you still haven't added me by the way
yeah that's the that's the bit that i feel like we're doing wrong because if it if we aren't doing
it wrong it seems rather stupid that every single time i make a new character or you make a new
character we've got to add each other as a friend again probably not adding accounts or adding
characters i must be able to add an account surely surely i can do that um but yeah it's just
it's just a fun it's just fun man and i like the art style the graphics are decent i can't wait to
progress to another expansion because obviously the graphics will improve there if you look at
dragon flight and then the burning crusade and wow they took two completely different fucking
games completely different even down to like the mechanics of the game are different the the
visuals of it the artwork like it's it's all it's all far more improved in later expansions which
is what i've heard is the exact same with final fantasy
and i just want to get out of the base game because a lot of people have said it's very bland
very bland fetch this kill that and basically fucking beeline the main story and your
class missions until you get out of that and then get into your first expansion which i don't know
how that happens i don't know what i don't know how you know if you're in an expansion or what i
don't i don't get it well i've worked out that i'm definitely not because i went through the quests
well i've worked out that i'm definitely not because i went through the quests i went back to
i forgot about that actually i went back to my in house yesterday yeah so i went to sleep in the
bed so when i play tonight i'll get even more xp because you get the rest of the bonus oh can you do that
yeah and when on your xp bar your bar goes blue showing how much like you'll get extra xp and
yeah wow did that if it goes off the screen then it's just going to keep going and keep going
because because i know because you unlocked the ins fairly early didn't you in the main story i
haven't actually utilized one yet oh i should do that so yeah i don't know i don't know if it does
give you a buff because obviously we're getting 100 well i think if you are ready as well if you
join like a guild or whatever they call it on on that you get an xp buff as well so many requests
so i just ignored every unless it's a cool name i'm not joining i'm not joining you know philips
pirate band piss off it has to be something cool like i don't know vaders 12 or something yeah yeah
um yeah so i've rested at the end and i looked there's a thing in the in your little house
uh that you can look at like uh i think it's called like a journal or some shit adventure journal
or something you can look at all the cutscenes but at the top it's got a tab and it says like
the expansions at the top and when i've gone across they're all empty is that through the
in it's in my house in the inn but you'll you will have the same house and the same adventure log
yeah because i think that adventure log might actually be in your act on your problem thing
anyway like where your hunter log is i don't know if it's called adventure log it's called
saying like that be something along those lines um but yeah i'm i'm fairly far in the story i
think essentially as far as i can tell i'm just collecting these crystals and and thing but yeah
i've i've i've i've slain ifrit so i don't really know what's going on with the fucking well you
know ifrit yeah yeah i don't really know what's going on with the story so far from what i've
i've a lot of it because there's no voice acting in the first bit it's it's kind of like there is
some little things yeah it's kind of mind numbing so i've just been fucking click through that well
i've been trying my best to read it but unless it's like oh my brother's gone to get some lilies and
he has been gone for three days like yeah well what i what i did read was that apparently with
final fantasy it's a lot easier to pick up the story and what you're doing um you don't necessarily
have to read everything to kind of understand what's happening um which yeah i'm kind of i'm
kind of getting that vibe i don't get me wrong i do try and read most of the dialogue but it's more
scanning it yeah i don't want to spend my whole evening fucking reading when i just want to be
killing shit and leveling up and and doing bits and bobs i started doing like um carpentry
you see i haven't done any as well and started leveling up some of that where that starts
it's fun man will you go and pick one you know when you can pick a different class when you go
on your map and you've got a red quest like a key holder thing just look in your city and it's like
so you want to be a carpenter or something like that and you just go and you start that um
um vastly different to how you do it in wow um one of them little geezers a tiny little fella
yesterday with a little sprout of his name he's just chopping down trees they call them potatoes
you know that that's their that's their nickname for that race whatever they're called lulu pells
or some shit like that and yeah they apparently in the in the community they call them potatoes
very they walk very strange they're weird and they they're just dwarfs little midgets yeah i
don't know what i am i'm that weird i'm the geezer with the bunny ears whatever they're
fucking called the bunny is one of the bunny years yeah down the bottom yeah can't remember
what the fucking what they're gonna be steph was helped me make a character and i switched over to
the female version of that bunny and i was like we both agreed i guarantee most of the community
is playing that because she was fit as fuck like they they'd made her character model as as as
nerdy as they possibly could um we yeah and i was like i guarantee you most people are fucking
playing like that and yeah there's been a lot of people that have come across where they're
playing like that i was like fair enough fair play to you i'm just playing a big fucking human
geezer although but then like i say you can i know that you can change everything you can change your
race and character and everything so when i get to the point where i look cool and i've got the
gear that i want i'll switch to that elf looking thing because that's what i wanted to make but i
couldn't work out how to do it and they look stupid the ones i was seeing and it's weird
because you can't have a beard on everything and i don't know it's a weird one you can't all have
the same beards they've all got different beards styles and shit the geezer that i made for a little
bit when i made that marauder fucking shit beard like you can have like basically like the chin
strap and then when it comes to the tash but it doesn't fucking connect and everything i was
fucking stupid as well it's so stupid uh so yeah i don't really know i don't know how the loot works
um because i don't i kind of don't mind it but i also don't like the fact that when i kill satin
the loot just either is picked up or it isn't like there's no like auto loot where i pick something
up off him because there's nothing to pick up it'll just sat in the corner with a lever
oh great i don't know what that is for crafting i'm guessing um but yeah when it comes to like
dungeons and stuff there's just you kill the mobs and then there might be like a little treasure
chest and you'll go over and you'll go oh yeah the you know the warden's trousers i've got oh sweet
but then you go to another chest and it's like you've already got the warden's trousers you
didn't get the warden's trousers so i don't know if there's what i imagine it's just a pool of items
you can get from each dungeon fuck knows or i genuinely have no idea um but yeah i've got
i've got some fucking cool looking shit but i also don't know what to do with it all i don't know
whether i'm supposed to sell it because it's i've sold a lot of the crap but then there's some
called like that are like uh unique um and they're like yeah do you want to sell are you sure you
want to sell this i'm like i don't know do i so i haven't because i don't know if you know it's
like wow in terms of once i've unlocked the appearance of one item i have no fucking clue
well yeah exactly i haven't sold a single thing yet i've got about fucking 10 different lances
like weapons that i need to fucking get rid of i like i do really like that it's so easy to flick
between between everything i just looked up that account thing and it is the character to character
because the game was built to do everything you want on one character because you can change
everything there's not really need for alts unless you're mental when you start three different
characters before you hit level 20 i've seen people where they have one character that's like
fully maxed out on every single class and like every subclass and then every like profession
and it's like fucking hell like that's mental but at the same time i really like that because
yeah it allows you to especially if you're like quite big into role playing it allows you to
stick with one character and build a really decent story which obviously i know you're
you're more into something of a role playing-esque type than myself so it's kind of annoying if you
put like 100 plus hours into a character and then decide oh actually i don't really not really
enjoy being a samurai anymore i want to go be a a dark mage instead yeah it's nice to be able to go
i can go and i can go and do that that's not a problem i just find it very friendly for
players like me because i haven't got that time to put in hundreds of hours to i have but not for
each fucking character i couldn't you know i might want to be like you say mage but i'm not i me
personally would be like i'm not doing all that shit again i'll just stick with this crappy
character that i've got ninja seems quite cool there's loads bro have you looked up fucking
everything yeah rogue rogues turn into ninjas and i read that rogues basically when you get given
the quest to turn into a ninja it's highly advisable that you do because rogues are basically
useless past like level 30 or some shit like that there's fucking gun breakers there's all
sorts of shit man there's there's so much stuff i'm just invested in fully to be a samurai so i'm a
couple levels off i hope to hear it when i remember playing samurai they're cool man they're they're
they're very cool it was just when i logged into mine the other day it was just so overwhelming
i was like i don't know where i am that i've got like 20 abilities here i don't i don't want this
i don't want to just want to start again i just don't like characters with shields i've just got
no the shield i've got looks sick but i just don't like sword and shield i can't believe i put that
time in the fucking marauder and didn't realize it was a tanking class yeah because i because
what made me realize it was when i did a did a try to do a guild lev a lev mate levy mate whatever
they're called they're like daily kind of things um and it was making me go into a dungeon and when
i queued for it it queued me as a tank i was like no no i don't want to be a tank i'm a dps but it
didn't give you the option to cure as a dps because i'm not i'm a fucking tank i was like
fuck no fucking way i'll text you i was like there's no fucking way that this this is a
fucking tank class i don't i don't want that i don't want to do that um and then yeah i made a
made a lancer which i actually made the first time around i played final fantasy and really
fucking liked it and got it to my ninja my samurai sorry was and is a dragon um but it's been so long
since i actually played it that is still very refreshing and i can't remember any of it um
but it just feels so much so much nicer to play a lot a lot more um my style and i like the
teleporting as well oh it's beautiful on it it's very eso my eye beam around that yeah and that
as long as you've unlocked it you can fucking teleport there for a fee and you can you can do
it as much as you want there's no call around the town for free yeah yeah and it just makes life so
much easier world of warcraft you haven't got that unless you're a mage who can make fucking portals
um you have one half stone and that's on a 30 minute cooldown or 15 minute cooldown and that's
that's it you can't there is no other form of fast traveling unless you find a portal
which isn't always there right the fact that they could make well on console if they can do that for
final fantasy they can make well i think with the with the the add-ons and the controller support
and everything and and obviously you were doing it natively 100 they can incorporate that and i
wouldn't be surprised now with the microsoft takeover that they there's a potential of them
looking into something like that you think where they've put final fantasy on xbox now you can't
help but think that if that goes very successful which it is so far that they wouldn't look at
something like world of warcraft and go maybe maybe we do an exclusive here where it releases
exclusively on xbox for for for a time and so like i i could see i could see that happening
happening um and blizzard themselves have got like a brand new team they're they're they've got i mean
they just sacked a load of people but they've they've got a brand new team under their belt so
fresh blood new faces see what happens i'd like to see it on console people have been calling for
that for over a decade now so it would be nice to see it i think you're on the cusp of it being
there you got eso you got fucking final fantasy you got um i can't fucking name any but there's
there's plenty of their mmos styled games that are on console but they just miss out on the
biggest portion of the market i think i think the biggest portion of the market in game in
his console because you the casual joe will have a playstation you know that then there's you know
a lot of my mates they might play gta might play cod they might do this but they wouldn't they
wouldn't have a p they wouldn't buy a pc to play wow no yeah or or final fantasy but if it was out
on playstation i'll check this out yeah this free trial yeah and then they might like it and then
just play it for fucking years so you miss out on such a huge market i think um but yeah i'm
looking forward to unlocking this samurai and then seeing what what sub did you go for because
there's two different brackets in there there's one that lets you have like eight characters and
then there's one that lets you have like an unlimited amount i don't know if there was a
difference in price though uh i just think i just went for the normal one i've gone for like the
basic one it was like seven quid or something like that i think yeah even then it's fucking cheaper
per month it's like seven pounds sixty a month something like that i'm happy to pay that i can
pay that yeah um i am also paying that and i've already got a month's worth out of it easily and
when i hit level 30 it went oh here's 15 more days for you yeah i was like oh thanks pause very
quickly i apologize yeah sorry about that we're back ever since we found the pause button and
worked out how to use it effectively it's it's i was literally thinking of that when we was walking
over here i was like you remember back in the day when one of us would go for a piss and the
other person would just talk absolute bollocks for five minutes trying to fill the void of silence
that was fun we could have just paused the pause the fucking thing do you think that we've done
more episodes in here now than we did in the other place yeah 100 that's crazy 100 what is this this
is episode 82 that's crazy that's a lot of episodes there is a lot of episodes that is a lot um
can't remember what we were talking about something final fantasy samurai you said did i pick an
alternate sub class or something no i know sub yeah no no that's just a subscription yeah samurais
come in gonna look cool i want the samurai attire because i don't like the clothes that i get i've
had a few cool oh i can feel the warm floor yeah oh um i've had a few few a few cool clothing items
but then within minutes something drops that's a lot better and i'm like now i look like a dick
again i don't want to look like a dick there's a very cool setting which is probably in wow
probably in everything the auto equips you can press it and it if you've got something that's
better it will auto equip it for you and tell you what it is that is auto equipped
um so i just click that quite regularly and check that i've got the best gear on um but yeah once i
hit 50 then i'm going to slow down because i've been beeline in main quest to get a xp yeah
11 000 xp no try 22 000 because i'll have that please thank you i've also done uh
uh all the training so there's like a tank training yeah they're cool in there yeah so
that's where i learned a lot of my tanking shit but at the end of doing all of them i got a ring
gives you 30 xp yeah bonus uh up until level 30 and you can do that it's one of the best rings
because you can equip it when you're doing other classes so when you get another class and you
have to level that from zero guess what pop the ring back on yep how long does the xp last on
this server or is it just infinite i have no idea because my knowledge is so fucking lax with this
i really don't know i'm really enjoying it but i don't want it to last forever i i doubt it will
last forever but i don't know how long um yeah it will last for i also don't want to waste if
it's like oh yeah you get 20 days of that i need that xp now i can ask on the novice chat yeah do
the askings um shall we move on to the next subject i think i know because i know some people will be
getting bored of final fantasy especially mark i understand you won't like that um elden ring
elden ring two years we waited maidenless maidenless maidenless we've waited two years
and finally the dlc has a come out with a trailer and has given us a release date 7.7 million views
that trailer's got what's a good trailer i fucking love it it's gonna be incredible do you know our
irony of it all i've completed all and ring obviously and it looks like in the and in the way
uh previous from software games access their dlc's and expansions you go to a specific place
i know the specific place that you go to it looks like morgues fucking yeah that's one of the only
bosses i haven't killed have fun i know we went there you came with me i know and you gave up on
me and then i went on my own and fucking brutalized him yeah because you can use the shackle can't
you i don't know he just kept making me bleed i really can't remember the fucking i need hard
i need to log back into the game because i can't remember fuck all but there's a there's a shackle
that you can get where you know my margot or whatever his fucking name was like one of the
first bosses that you can use and it basically changed him to the ground for a couple of seconds
you can use it on fucking the blood geezer as well um but yeah he's a tough boss but he's he dies and
yeah that the because do you have you seen the sort of like cut scene that happens after you kill him
nah so i won't spoil it but i kind of know that that that will be the entrance for the the dlc
really intrigued to see how it actually works like i said to you 99 percent of people that played
elden ring have now boosted their characters to like max everything mine is i can't remember
the level of it but mine is maxed out on everything um so i don't know how it really works with the
dlc because i don't want to have to make a new character and go through the whole game again
because that's not what i want to play it for it will never level gate you you'll be able to do it
for every any level character you want i just don't know how that's going to entwine in the
yeah but i also don't want to go to that area as a brand new character because it's nigh on impossible
yeah but that's what i'm saying so you if you go there level 999 or whatever you are you i don't
know how that's gonna scale up you i don't you don't want to go in there one shot and everything
yeah um but you also don't want to go in there as a scrub but i will be doing a new one um i'll be
trying to do an optimal route so i'm probably going to try and get in there for like level
i don't know 60 or something but i don't know i don't know yeah because i got eight new weapon
classes 10 over 10 weapons yeah but eight eight new um 10 bosses yeah over 10 bosses um eight new
eight new like weapon categories and then i can't remember how many new weapons they've they've
brought in but a few um and yeah it's oh it's shaping up to be good it's the size of limb grave
he said but apparently that's bollocks which is mental because i remember seeing limb grave and
thinking like this map's not bad but i thought that was the whole game size i bet that red area
is the last area that's scary it's called a red shit and ponds and yeah i don't want to go there
caled yeah that's a scary place uh and then yeah but then like i say the like bloodborne the old
hunter's dlc i think that was like 20 quid or whatever it was massive like the dlc's are just
huge and they're charging like a lot more for this and from software are the last company i'd expect
to money grab i don't think this i think they're gonna be like yeah it might be the side of limb
grave but then you go under and you go above and there's they're gonna be a lot more they don't
tell you shit bro of course they don't i like that i think this is gonna be um it's gonna be very
very good i a lot of people say i've been too long but this isn't a live service game elder
elden ring's not like it's a single player game predominantly um so you can kind of excuse the
the the two years it's taken them to make a dlc because you know that they would have made a
fantastic dlc no they they're from software have never done a bad dlc and i've had pretty much
everyone from all the souls games and i also think this is more like an elden ring 1.5 because
i can't think in my head and i've tried of a single player game that's had a collector's
edition for an expansion well that well it's funny we talk about that because
because from software has received a check from the pair of us for the lovely sum of
460 pounds yes collectively not for each 230 each we both we both bought the collector's edition
my first collector's edition for anything is that your first one is that your first one
because starfield was gonna be and i backed out oh and you couldn't get fucking
in ragnarok could you no uh oh my god yeah i really wanted boulder's gate one and i'm looking
at that imagine that your first fucking collector's edition is a dlc but it looks great i mean let's
face it it's probably not the best collector's edition that you can buy as your first one
purely because you're basically just getting the statue but that's all i'd ever want from
collector's editions anyway myself yeah i think it's a very fucking good statue it holds its value
we don't give a fuck because we wouldn't be selling them anyway but it's it's um yeah ash bought it
and then um i followed so it took about five minutes of convincing i convinced myself basically
i meant to tell you it sold out on bandai namco already it sold out the next morning when i checked
yeah but it said on the i don't think game collection i don't know i haven't checked it
again since but on uh yeah bandai namco website it was gonzo's um but yeah it's cool it's melana's
brother mesmer is yeah that guy he's got fucking vipers swinging around from him he's got vipers
on his crown he's just he's got red hair yeah he looks sick uh funny thing is i've even thought
about not not a um opening it at all leaving it in the box and buying the dlc separate and just
keeping the whole thing in the record yeah i know what i'm like the only way i'm gonna see this
statue is looking at yours you can stand the fucking box so you you can still get it on the
game collection um i believe that's all of the yeah playstation 5 and um xbox series x still
available and pc is still available on there um grab it as far as the collector's edition goes
like i say you're in it for the statue that's basically it because all else you get is a art
cover book um obviously the digital code for the um the dlc itself and then i think
uh very yeah official soundtrack which i was about to say is a bit pointless but we did an entire
fucking segment on the patreon yesterday uh last week talking about the importance of music within
gaming which i thought was a very good subject to talk about it is because a little side note
you don't know yet that in final fantasy uh 14 online every time you get on your chocobo he
does this and that was cool man i liked it for the first three times and i turned that off yeah i
gotta say you can there's an add-on that you can have which lets you pick whichever music you want
throughout the entire game i'm happy for all the music but not not to just have that every
because it'd be like in a in a fucking scary you know sanctuary and then you get in chocobo it's
like what's going on here turn that off now it's just silly i'll get there eventually when i fucking
unlock it but yeah i found out just by playing i didn't look at it but every now and again it
just pops up mount speed increase so your mount speed is uh increased by doing x mission in a zone
but it's just the main story i haven't done any of anything else so once you've done a few main
story quests or all of them i don't know it'll say north something mount speed increase and then you
run like a fucking whip it's mad um but yeah i don't know i don't know does every mount fly i
don't know this yet either no no no because i have a snowman and i can't see how that's gonna fly
can you well you just guessing or i'm guessing but i'm pretty positive well i know that wolf can
fly uh um because he stands on his i could be wrong how have we ended up back on final fantasy
it's great uh i need i need to do more mounts i want more mounts i like the chocobo but i'm done
with him buy one goro by that wolf yeah no no no i want to earn them i want to go and earn mounts
and titles uh yeah fuck that off anyway elden ring uh yeah this statue is sick i want the statue i
can't wait for the statue and yeah it's just the 21st of june yeah it feels fitting obviously i've
got dragon's dogma next month which i want annoyed that i can't play hell divers because i've just
got too much on normally i'm not that guy i'm like i'll buy it and then go i haven't got any time
same with fucking spider-man still haven't bought that i've changed i haven't played a lot of hell
divers recently because of final fantasy but yeah hell divers is is good man really fucking good it's
so much better when you're playing with people oh for sure i imagine 100 um but yeah very very fun
game one that you can just pick up and fucking put down another one like sky's the limit with
hell divers though they can go as big as they want i see a lot of the people that i follow for destiny
switching held i was going do you know what this has got potential to yeah of course it does the
new the new big one um there's a game that's coming out i can't remember what it's called
which is terrible but it's basically taking the same mechanic of the as the flight in anthem um and
has incorporated into whatever game they're making like a shooter type looks kind of kind of i think
the premise was like you're on this world which has been overtaken by rope like a humanoid robotic
force or something and you've got like typical eradicate them and save the world blah blah blah
but yeah the the flying mechanics were were anthem pretty much it's in a different skin which was
very weird because it was the other day that i was told i can't remember who i was talking to
and saying how much i loved the flying mechanics in anthem it was my favorite aspect of the entire
game and i was so annoyed that no one's picked it up since um because it was just so unique
and yeah this this game that i can't remember um seems to be picking up but i was really interested
and i started seeing some of the the gum play and i was like yeah no it's not this might not be for
me um but good luck whatever game that is good luck that game uh power world is still fantastic
and doing numbers um but obviously we've moved on i'll definitely go back to that because that
is a sick game diablo 4 isn't doing very well is it not just dead dead dead poor diablo i think
they get like it's like 300 streamers now like it's low very low really sadness on to the next um
i believe that i want to go home and play file fantasy the games that were announced
for the crossover from from the exclusives from microsoft being released on um playstation were
as we predicted and as everyone predicted a high-fi rush sea of thieves uh a game that i don't
i had no idea what it was and i can't remember the fucking name was it pentium or something
something like that some strange game that i yeah and then there was another game which again i
can't remember but sea of thieves looks quite cool see if he's a good game i've played it a lot
on the xbox that will fucking overshadow skull and bones 100 yes yeah cheers ubisoft will be
buzzing with that one thanks very much thank you this is how extra have been yeah that's a cool
game that is uh not very solo friendly i found that i like my online games to be solo friendly
because i i like to interact with only myself i think it's an interesting time as well um
to see because naturally all you all you've had now is everyone's got an xbox now calling out
saying right well we've given you sea of thieves now you give us hell divers too
they're they're desperate for it anything that's online should be well i get i get having single
player games you know i can get it i don't like it but i can get it but anything that involves
players playing online especially if it's online only i have service yeah hell divers and service
why not you are you are you are sewing shut your own pockets but i don't want any more money if i
can get it across there because you know how many how many how much more money right i could be
wrong here but i'm shooting from the hip all right so you've got sea of thieves say for argument's
sake on the xbox so people are i really want to place this thieves so i'm going to go and buy an
xbox or you've got people playing sea of thieves on xbox and playstation massively increasing your
player pool buying stuff from the item shop now surely the people that are playing sea of thieves
on the playstation buying stuff from the item shop equates to more money than the the minority
that would go i really want sea of thieves i'm going to buy an x an expensive xbox just for that
game surely you get more money from opening it up to the masses if it's a live service game it will
have micro transactions that is natural as the way it goes so i feel like they they just shoot
themselves in a foot i said before with live service it makes sense with single with single
players point you made the last time we spoke about it in that that that competition that market
if you release everything to every console you then don't have that that um uh back and forth
um contest but with live service yeah i agree i think i think it should just be on fucking every
major platform and cross play and cross play yeah cross play and think the the capability with
something like hell divers too if you allowed xbox to have access to the game and you could have like
well you're all fighting for one cause but the the people that are playing on xbox are actually part
of a different army and they've got they've got different skins and stuff like that and the same
with the playstation players and the pc is just fucking mingling in between um and they're
station got blue suits yeah man but they can work together and there can be like different
achievements for like do a certain amount of fucking missions with with an xbox player and
vice versa and there could be like different like minute but different cosmetics that are only like
specific to xbox and playstation and stuff like that like you could you could do quite a lot of
wholesome stuff um and i feel like with a game like hell divers too people are taking it seriously
like they're in the fucking wars in real life with that game if you then start throwing different
armies in from different consoles like different regiments within the army looking upon each other
i just feel like that would be really really interesting because the role play within hell
divers too at the moment is incredible so if you throw something like that in it would just i i
just think it'd be really cool i see a tiktok yesterday it was like this guy he was like so
what bought you to the war boy and he was like i just want to get home to my mama and something
fucking just blows his head off he's like no this is great yeah i love it the the the amount of um
voice acting that happened the professional voice actors that are birthed from gaming clips is
incredible and i love the i love the i think it's such a cool feature is don't get me wrong i haven't
played this is just what i've read and seen is the people like sending out sos's so like one of their
players goes down or quit so i don't know what the the parameters are for it but you'd be like yeah i
can drop in and help them and you drop in in your pod when you come in save the day so yeah geese
are called fucking i read a little reddit post and he told you know them cool reddit posts where they
tell stories and fluff it up but yeah he went on for his oh yeah well army was down and this guy
went down and we was up against it at a sliver elf then sergeant slaughter came down on his drop pod
he was like thank fuck the sergeants arrived instantly dead that's just like the way he the
way he read it was fucking hilarious and didn't half make me laugh but then then they're the
stories because every game's different because you're building your own narrative within the
game if you know i mean yeah it's so beautiful them games i love them i'm desperate to play it
but i can't turn myself away from final fantasy online which is fair enough and that's finito
oh that's ripped that's finito my birthday over birthday pod done over onto the birthday patreon
the juicy stuff is so yeah that's that welcome to welcome to the final fantasy online podcast
uh episode one please please let us know any hints and tips and tricks you thought that you were done
listening to mmo talk with world of warcraft but it's just sucked us straight by the way i still
love world of warcraft this isn't as i said to you before it isn't a sly on on world of warcraft
i can appreciate it but this is just more akin to me because it's on the fucking i'm trying to get
stef involved with it i'm trying to i'm trying to get her to go on the playstation and fucking play
it the more the merrier man because the fucking security account system bollocks the interface
for that you know is a cunt but you can just create a new email account you use the what's the
buttons one it's locked to the fucking playstation the account's locked to the playstation it's
ridiculous so if you make a fucking final fantasy account on that playstation that is the only
account that you can use on that playstation i can't fucking remember the login details for it
that's a weird one but yeah the what's the but my it's ridiculous my final fantasy my steam is linked
to my email but my final fantasy account is linked to the what's the buttons email put the fucking
what's the but my book so when i buy a subscription i pay for it through steam but it gets sent to
what's the buttons and then the other half gets sent to fucking my email very weird it's very
annoying and i daren't go in there and try and fucking change it just let it keep fucking rolling
just let that keep doing dangerous game with you i can't be asked i can't be asked to do it um so
yeah good night everyone it's been a pleasure uro