Hello, welcome to What's the
Buttons episode 83 with me,
your host, Ashley and
unfortunately, Reese isn't here
today. So, with me, I have
Steph.
Oh, Langdon's here.
Langdon's always here. Yeah,
he's always here. Haven't
missed a day since day one and
I'm here. Yeah. That's how it
is. Yeah. So, that's that's
it. You're alright? Yeah.
You? An explosion of energy.
Yeah. I'm good. I'm good. It's
been a I played some hell
divers yesterday and I've
decided that I've I've I've I've
fallen beyond the curve. Oh,
really? I'm too far behind.
Can that happen? I guess.
Maybe. I don't know. It's
fucking I was playing with
Connor and his pal Dan
yesterday and it was just
fucking pandemonium. It was
just beyond the point of fun
and it was just very very
tough and and and they're I'm
like level eight. I'm a little
space cadet and they're like
fucking grand marshals and
**** like level forty odd and
it takes ages to level up in
this game. So, they're just
they're just sweating it,
aren't they? Who's you playing?
What? Who's you playing with?
Connor and Dan. Oh, who's Dan?
It's one of Connor's pals. Oh,
okay. Well, you can't get
pissy because you ain't got it.
I generally just, I thought
you said Darryl. That's all I
can say but he obviously he's
**** He only plays Call of
Duty that guy. Yeah but this
game is literally just about
killing robots and bugs and he
put you're part of an army.
You're literally part of a
space army. That's him all
over. I don't understand why he
only plays that **** game
because his missus doesn't let
him play anything else. Why does
it matter what game he plays?
What do you mean? Why does it
matter if you play something
else other than Call of Duty?
Does she particularly? I mean
just playing in general. He's
got to look after the baby and
he's got to look after the
babies as a baby. Oh, I didn't
know.
You don't talk to him as much
as I do. Show us how much
you're a friend you are. I just
refuse to answer this question.
Mm hmm. Go on. Uh I was just
looking. I was thinking on the
way here. If we Google best UK
gaming podcast will we come up
and the answer is no. Who
would you be? It's great, isn't
it? Well, leave us a review.
You cunts. I wonder how many
people actually do. I imagine
quite a few people now. Anyone
can slap a podcast together. Of
course. The market's very
saturated. We're we're having
fun. That's the main thing.
Yes. Doesn't doesn't matter
yet. We're still having fun.
Yeah. I'm having fun. Do you
want to talk about something?
Gaming? Yeah, I'll give up
on that. I'm going to go
back. That deflated you. It's
upsetting. I honestly thought
we'd be on somewhere. No, of
course we wouldn't. Some Reddit
post. Oh yeah. It's like a year
and a bit. Yeah, that's long
enough.
**** What a waste of time.
Every **** Friday. Sit here
wasting a **** time. Can't even
come up on a Google search.
It's the **** listeners fault.
If you Google the name, it
comes up. Yeah, I know. Um I
don't know if you've ever played
a game called God. Yeah. That
game's not died of death then.
No, of course it ain't. Never
will. How far are you now?
Funnily enough, Jim said, what's
this game you're playing? I
said, it's **** It's Boulders
Gate. My favorite game of all
time. You said, you say that
about everything. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I said, what? What
have I said that about? You're
a very fickle man. Not at all.
You are. I said to her, I've
only ever said that about the
Witcher three and now Boulders
Gate three. Yeah but. Never
said it's the best game ever
mate. Yeah but you and me are
one of the same where we pick
up the game and we're like,
that's why I'm so scared about
Final Fantasy. The mantle of
best game ever is is only ever
been for me. Witcher three and
Boulders Gate. Whatever was
before Witcher three but that's
**** Long time ago. Um so yeah,
she was, she was, I said that
about everything. I don't know.
You know, you say everything's
the goat. Yes, the goat but.
That's what you say. The actual
goat. Until another goat ****
rocks up. If I can't find this
**** Boulders Gate statue, I
would say, yeah, they're just
mega expensive. Well, it's not
even mega expensive. It's ****
ludicrous. You should be, you
should be shot for the price.
How much was the was the OG
price of it? Well, like 200, 250
or so. Yeah, if that, if that,
but the thing is, look, I'm
finding it here, sold, 10th of
December, 349 quid. Yeah.
Collectors edition statue and
box only. I'll pay that. Yeah.
But it it just, I can't find
the, the, the **** make of it
that someone else has made is
490. Yeah, don't go and get
what? I'm not going to. How?
I don't know. You can get
Connor to make you one for that
**** Honestly, pissing me off,
bro. I've been looking all ****
week. Yes, but this is exactly
and I'm sure when we have our
hands on our own little mesmers
there in in in months or maybe
years to come, there'll be
people going, why why is no one
going to buy it? And you'll be
on the other side of the fence.
No, but I I wouldn't be
selling it. Yeah, but you're
experiencing exactly the your
you are the person You are the
exact reason as to why ourselves
and others love buying
collector's editions because
other people will want them
when they're no longer
available. That is why. But
this one's different. This is
the one that I love. What is
the statue of? Oh, it's a
**** It's a mind flayer and a
drought. It's **** sick. Oh,
it's so **** cool. If you can't
have it. Well, I know I can't
and it's **** pissing me off
every single day. Look at it.
Yeah, it's very cool. Oh, so ****
is it big? Yeah, it's pretty
big. Collector's edition is very
cool. Statues are a very cool
thing and you also get dice.
You get free magic, the
magic of the **** statue, man.
Yeah. And Connor said his
mate's got one and he was going
to ask him if he'd sell it to
me but I mean, I already spoke
to him about that. He won't
sell it. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't
blame him because you ain't
going to sell it for less than
you get, would you? So, why
would you? But even then, if
you had, if you had hold of
one and someone like say it
cost you 250 quid and someone
turned around to you and said,
listen here, I'll give you
350 quid. What's your response?
I'm like, no. No. Yeah. It's
going for over a grand. So,
no, but no, but even if it
weren't, would you let it go
for 350? No, no, no. Exactly.
It's not worth 100 quid extra
to not have it. Exactly. So,
the same thing you're whinging
about is exactly what you would
be doing anyway. The beard's
looking decent again. I'm
enjoying it. You're getting
that long beard. No, no. I want
to shave the head. I want the
Bowler's Gate statue. That's
all I care about. I'm not
interested in my beard. I'm
interested in that **** statue.
I don't care about the box. I
don't care about anything else.
Someone **** sourced me this
**** statue. Please. So, this
is where you start to show your
age because I don't think
you're that good at being able
to purchase stuff. What do you
mean? I just will. You think
you can find it, yeah? I
reckon I could, yeah. Go on
then. I found you a Hayden
Christensen for a decent price.
You know what I mean? I can
find, I can find anything
anywhere. Is that fell in your
lap from the page that you
already follow and buy stuff
off regularly? That was there.
I have sourced this ****
statue in America, in England,
on eBay, on Amazon, on all
these little weird websites.
They're either sold out or a
thousand pound or 600 quid or
something stupid. The only one.
What's the budget? 300, 350.
The only one that I've found
that is not reasonable at all
is like 600 quid and I've got
to do that. Do you know what I
mean? I'm not doing that. It's
only so that's the only one. I
thought about offering him like
maybe 350, 400 quid and then
pick it up but Berman's is
south south of the water. I'm
not doing that. It's dangerous
for me to go there with being
the west end boy. He said that
to me once. I was I was in I
was in where was I? I was out
with Jim. We was in London.
I was out in the fucking
bright hot summers day and had
me top off. I had me tattoo on
my back. There's some geese are
fucking like whispered in my
ear. I didn't know he was here.
He went, you're on the wrong
side of the water now, boy. I
looked at him and he had a
fucking mill wall tattoos
scarred in his arm. Scarred in
his arm. Scarred in his arm. I
smiled at him and he I think he
was being serious. I think it's
a bit weird. Yeah. Me and me
and Mark drove past the Mill
Wall and I was just saying she
just looked and went scum. It
says uh what's it say there?
No one likes us and we don't
care. I'm telling you. Fucking
Millwall fans are just on a
different level. I'm sorry if
anyone listening supports
Millwall but you're scummy. I
apologize. I love them to come
up and play West Ham in the
prim. I'm telling you they're
what are they in at the moment?
Are they in championship or
league one? In championship?
Yeah. I remember um when I used
to play Millwall, it was always
a **** a mess because there's
just police everywhere because
they just bring that kind of
energy. Well, I saw my see
West Ham play Millwall. I see
a punch a horse.
and someone threw a brick.
Why is that people punching
fucking police horse? I take
it. I'm just it's insane bro.
I mean, they're just using like
cup drawers and stuff. So,
West Ham and Millwall don't get
drawn. Yeah. Cuz it's just
chaos. Yeah. It's **** mental
and also if they come up in the
prim or we went down and we had
to play them again twice a
season. It's just insane.
People get **** seriously hurt
in them games. It's dangerous.
It's very dangerous but back to
the statues, you, yeah, I think
you're I'll try my best. Have a
look. See what you can find but
I'll have a little look. See
what you can find. I don't care
how why you know, the condition
I pretty much paid the ****
Eldon Ring one off now. I got
like 49 quid to pay. Yeah, I
realized I'm not that it's a
problem because I had the money
but I can't. It's called
flexing. I can't flex that
payment because it was done by
PayPal and not my card. So, I
just have to lump the **** the
money. This is fine. But yeah,
I was playing bowl escape for
come out. I got myself in a bit
of a situation where everyone's
going to die and I went in there
and then everyone died and then
I died. Mm hmm. It's just
stressful. It's so difficult.
Are you still not safe scumming?
No, but I think I want to start
again. Get you around that but
the only thing that's stopping
me is the adventure of rain
dolo not reaching his
conclusion. So, the only thing
I can think of is just get him
in the situation like that and
then, you know, you're going to
die. No, no, no, no. No. What?
What? I don't know. Why would
you not finish it? Because I
don't know where I'm going.
**** lost. So, chapter three is
humongous. Yeah, that's the
whole point. Yeah, but I'm so
like, yeah, but making yeah,
but making another another
playthrough. You'd have to do
it all in like a finish the
**** playthrough. You've
already **** it anyway because
you've already you have you
have an MPC followers. You
have, you have one MPC
follower. Exactly. No, yeah,
but you have none of us because
they've died. It was their
fault. Exactly. So, you've
already, you might as well
finish this and then start
again because you've already
missed out like two thirds of
the **** game because you
killed off all your people. I
got so much left to do. Even if
I play again because I've got
all them other characters and
also want to do a dark urge
playthrough which is completely
different. There's just so
much to do. It's just it's just
great. It's just
Final Fantasy. How you getting
on? I see you. Uh see you
bought a mount. Yeah, I bought
two. You bought a mount that
you get for free. No, I haven't
You have. It's just white. The
version you've got is white.
Exactly. And the version you
get is black. Yeah. Yeah. I
want the white one. Okay. Fair
enough. That is seven quid.
Yeah. You bought the big ****
whale. Not the one that can
hold eight people. The one that
can hold two. Okay. So, they're
with me. We're mobbing around.
We can both be on the same
mount. Nice. They're both very
nice. I both enjoy them but
yeah, that that that white one
is a single use one. Same with
my snowman because my snowman
is on a different account
because I like different
character because I was like,
why can't I **** use that? And
yeah, some mounts are account
wide and some are single
character only. I don't see
myself doing another character
either. I'm having a lot of
fun. It's all clicking into
place. The the main story, I
don't know what's going on.
I'll be perfectly honest with
you. Much like you after we
had our last conversation
where you said, unless there's
voice acting or something
interesting to look at, I'm
just skipping the cut scene.
Well, that's exactly what I've
been doing now. The minute I
see that chat box come up,
escape. Yes. I get rid of that
cut scene because I'm just not
interested in it. Same with the
dialogue. Just click, click,
click, click, click, go
through that. I'll I can figure
sort of figure out what I'm
doing through the main story as
it is but yeah, I know how much
better it gets after a realm
reborn. So, I'm just trying to
get through it because I know
that it's **** boring so far.
Yeah, I think I'm in a
difficult spot. I'm in like in
between a realm reborn and the
expansion. I think there's like
a lot of things going on in this
place. It's just for probably,
I'm not even exaggerating here
when I say for probably two,
two and a half hours yesterday,
I had, I was just doing back to
back quests and I probably had
one combat encounter where I
was just go talk to this person,
go talk to this person, go back
to this place, talk to this
person. So, is there ever going
to be something happening? Yeah,
there's a lot of that bouncing
around stuff but once I get out
of that **** when all you see is
this, this is going to be and
believe me, it gets so much
better. You have to believe.
You just have to believe and
I've asked everyone in that
novice chat going, is the is
the main story quest really
this boring and most people
have said, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If
you're not a fast reader or
you're not interested in reading
dialogue, it's quite boring and
there is a lot of talk to that
person, go and fetch this ****
teleport over here. It's a good
thing that every quest gives
you a decent amount of guilt
because you can't go 500 there,
600 there, just **** pulling
all over like, it's fine. They're
going to be wrong. I'm still
still very much enjoying it.
It's just I want to get through
that that main story and start
cracking on. Uh I also found
out that when you get to level
70, all of your the XP gains
from all of your other jobs is
increased by 200%. So, everyone
has to do that for as long as
you can because when you decide
or if you decide to go and do
something else when you've hit
level 70 and above, it's a lot
easier to catch up than doing
trying to do like two
simultaneously whilst doing the
main story quest. I also saw
someone saying that
they like jump around from job
to job and keep in line with
the level requirements for the
main story quest. So, level
forty-four and the main story
quest I'm doing, I like for
like level twenty-seven or
some **** like that. So, there's
a big old gap there. So, you're
telling me someone's **** staying
in line with that. I don't see
how because they're just ****
throw levels at you. Yeah but
it always hacks you down,
doesn't it? You always do that
sink and it was level sinks.
So, it's not, it shouldn't make
too much difference. Yeah, I
don't really know. Don't see the
point of it. I find it somewhat
funny when you're like, you
**** go into it and you can't
use it for **** sake. Yeah, it
winds me up. It does. But I am
very much enjoying it and I can
feel that I'm getting more
acclimated to it. I mean, I'm
I'm I'm getting I know what sort
of what I'm doing. He's
acclimatizing. Yeah, I feel we
both have to be fair. You know
what I mean? I remember the
first time I stepped into the
Golden Saucer. It was basically
a game and I was so
overwhelmed because I was like,
what the **** is this? But now
when I go in there, I need to
do my scratch cards. Um it's
fine and like I say with the
question stuff is the
the glam, the glamour stuff. I
sort of understand and don't
understand. It's a bit weird
because I made a plate. This
sounds awful for people that
listen to this that don't play
this game. It's a bit boring. I
made a **** plate. Put it on. I
can't work out how to take it
off without spending currency
to get rid of it. So, I'll
cross that bridge when I come
to it. Okay. I think I unlocked
a raid yesterday and I got too
scared to queue into it. So, I
didn't. because I think you
have to do a raid before.
There's the it when I was
reading something a while ago,
it says the main story quest
is to get behind this person.
I want to I didn't really want
to jump into that without
YouTubeing it first because
I've seen I've seen mechanics
in boss fights where it is you
have to get behind this person
and I'm still trying to work
out some of the **** Well, it's
very obvious even with my color
blind eyes, I can see big red
patch. Don't go there. Big red
cone. Don't stand in that but
then there's other ones. There's
red thing over this person or
these other little things pop
up. They look dangerous but
they're not going to kill you
alive. So, there's many
different things that I'm still
learning. Did you know that
with the AOE **** that you've
got to avoid? You've only got
to avoid it while that's while
that circle or cone is up once
that wondered that a couple of
times. Yeah. Once that's a say
the say the circle comes up and
flashes a couple of times and
then disappears and then the
the move happens once that
circle disappears, you can go
back into that area and if the
circle is gone, because you've
already avoided it. A bit of
disparity there compared to
World of Warcraft because wow,
if you're in the **** then
that's it but yeah, Final
Fantasy as long as you're not
in it when that ring's cracking
on, you can **** step back in.
So, you can you can
you can just stand in the
animation basically. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. As long as that **** on
the floor has disappeared, then
yeah, you can you can be
able to do that because you've
already avoided it which is
quite nice. Interestingly, the
Xbox retail version of
Bouldersgate three is going to
be on four discs. Four discs.
Mm hmm. Is it not on Xbox yet?
Yeah but it digital. I don't
know if it's actually out on
Xbox yet. Four discs. Why? Uh
and on PlayStation five, it's
two discs or will be two discs.
It's massive. Yeah but so is
Call of Duty. Call of Duty. How
many gig was Bouldersgate?
130 odd. It's big. Yeah, I
don't know. I don't know why.
Um Mark Wallboy commented on
the fall of Malvulon Creek.
Malavulon Creek. Yeah. We lost
many good men at Malavulon
Creek. He said if I'd been on
that planet, it would have gone
down differently. Yeah, well,
he's not talking about. He
weren't **** around with
Malavulon Creek, was he? I keep
seeing. It was pissing around
with something else. People
saying about this **** thing
and they've got a games master
who gets up in the middle of
the night and **** through it
and stuff. Yeah, his name is
Joel. That's that's cool.
Basically, um Arrowhead are the
creators of Helldivers? Yeah.
Um the CEO come out and and
said that um essentially there
was a war that we're all
fighting and his name is Joel
and he basically is like a
games master for the whole
thing and and has a very big
sway on how things are are
happening and I think it was
quoted to him saying like um
sometimes like three in the
morning, he'll wake up just to
like to buff the automatons.
Um just so that when people
wake up in the morning and log
on, there's been like a mass
of people who have pushed far
back and he can change the
tide of the war and like if you
think some planets are being
liberated too quick, you'll
just like log in and and buff
it up a little bit and and
**** it up and yeah, that
must have been what he done
with Malevolent Creek but it's
a very, very, very smart thing
to do because we lost a lot of
brothers and sisters at that
place. There's a lot of that
was it was basically has been
a very, very smart game. I
tweeted uh over 180 thousand
L divers, two players are
storming a single planet and I
want to liberate it in under
24 hours unless Arrowhead's
devious Dungeon Master gets
mean again. It's funny. Yeah.
It was great marketing. It was
very nearly liberated and then
um and then it wasn't it
wasn't uh so yeah but
apparently the mech suits are
very, very cool. I mean, I
think there's a lot of people
um wearing the mech suits and
they look very, very, very
cool. So, um yeah, as much as I
said at the beginning of the
podcast that I feel like I'm
behind the curve on on that.
Ultimately, it doesn't massively
matter because the gear and
stuff isn't isn't that different
but it definitely helps. Um so
you can still crack on and and
do what you need to do. It's a
very fun game. It's very good.
It's a very fun game. It's a
very big **** problem. The
problem is that I want to play
it and I feel like I'm
massively missing out on its
best moments. Yeah. And being
involved. You are. But I got
too much going on. More drops
I think. No, I don't want to.
The the problem is this Hell
Divers whilst it's more it's a
linear **** experience. It is
what it is. It's reminding me
of the game where Eldon Ring
was just everywhere on Twitter.
Every like everyone discovering
stuff together. Like you don't
really get games like that
anymore but even weeks, months
after, it's still stuff coming
out. Uh and Miyazaki even said
the other day, there's still
something in Eldon Ring that
nobody has found or if they
have, they've never posted it.
So, well, there's still stuff
in there. Still stuff hidden in
Eldon Ring. Probably a ****
wall that takes a million hits
to get to. It's not massive but
there's still something that he
hasn't seen be discovered. Uh
but yeah, that that's why I'm
looking forward to Shadow of
the Earth tree as well. Just
for everyone to come in again
and be like, oh, if you do
this or wow, wow, wow. Cuz a
lot of the stuff's old hat for
Souls players like the
invisible walls and all that.
Yeah, we it's natural for me
and any souls going to hit a
wall. Mm hmm. Just always do
it or roll into it sometimes.
Yeah, it was quite cool. So,
this Helldivers thing, very
dynamic way of playing the
game. Um with all these battles
and stuff and the liberating of
planets. I think I think they
want something good there. You
have to look at Helldivers too
in the in the idea that your
character is not your character
and you are not the main
character of this game. You are
the main character of the
weapons of war. So, when you
when you dive into hell, when
that when that character dies,
you you respawn but you aren't
respawning as that character.
You are just respawning as
another another troop. So, how
does that work? What do you
mean? So, do you just, how does
Helldivers work in that
respect? So, if you die, you
respawn. It's it's it's it's
metaphorically speaking, it's
it's it's metaphorical in that
you you create a character,
very basic creation. Um and you
get different armor and skin
and **** like that and yeah,
when you dive into a planet,
when you die, you, it's not
called respawning. It's called
um it just comes up
reinforcements available. So,
that's where people are saying
you aren't being respawned. It's
not you just spending another
wave of troops in. So, that's
the idea is that you aren't you
aren't the main character in
this. You're just fighting for
as long as you can and when you
do die because you will, it's
not you that comes back. It's
just another another character
which is kind of where I feel
like they should make it a
randomized um at least change
the voices every time you come
in um to make it just give it
that extra feel that it isn't
a real game um because it kind
of that theory is somewhat
spoiled in that you're wearing
the same gear when you when
like when your reinforcement is
called it but the the idea of
it is still very cool. It's
very grim. It's surprising how
well this game is done
considering it's a paid game.
Normally, these sort of games
would be free and filled with
market transactions because it
is a live service game. So, I'm
not sure. I don't think it's
very cheap. It's yeah. All
these games, man. Look at all
these non AAA games. Just
**** blowing over. Anyone?
Skeleton Bones? Anyone? Boulders
game. Anyone. Hell divers.
**** remnant two. Yeah, man.
What's the other most recent
one? There's like thirty
quid. Entrouded. It's very
power world. Power world.
**** Bro Tato. Bro Tato. Sick
power world. I think Hell
Divers too is just ****
decimated. People are just
obsessed obsessed with it. Like
we said the other the other
week, if it it itches that
scratch in the male in the male
brain of of dying for the
greater good. That kind of
bollocks. So, yeah, it's good.
It's just tough, man. It's tough
like I say when me me and Conner
were talking about like I'm
ramped up the difficulty for no
reason whatsoever but even he
was saying he was like this is
way more difficult than it
should be. Way more difficult.
Him and Dan were both saying
that and I was just running
around like a headless chicken
because I was like, I don't
know what the **** is going on.
I have no idea. So, yeah, if
you haven't got it, you're
missing out. Yeah, well, I
think unfortunately, I'm going
to have to carry on missing out
because I've got too much going
on. Bowlers gate, Final
match. Not too keen on that but
I think I'll have a little I'll
have a little whirly poos with
them. Little bit of banter. I
miss the lads. Don't miss the
game. You know what I mean? I
miss playing with the boys but
I don't miss playing that ****
game. I should all play
Helldivers. Yeah but it's hard
to get people to jump on stuff
that cost money, you know? What
other games have I been playing?
I'm sure I played something
else. That's it. I've got
nothing else to offer you. I
saw the the PlayStation Plus
games, the free games. Yeah,
Sifu got that sick game. Sifu
uh what is it like F one twenty
three? It's one of them.
Destiny. The Witch Queen. The
Witch Queen. Is that just the
DLC or if you get that, does
that include the the whole
thing? The game? So, well,
Destiny two is free anyway,
isn't it? It's the expansions
that you get for the expansion
and you've already got
Destiny two because it's free.
Oh yeah but the way but you
don't have access to all the
other stuff because you gotta
pay for it. So, fantastic but
you also have like eight
expansions. It's pretty nice.
Yeah, it's brutal. They really
should go down the route of uh
I thought Destiny two used to
have to **** pay for it. You
did. Well, then they just made
it free. I suppose Wow did
that though to a point. Yeah,
you used to have to find a game
that you could buy. Hard copy.
Floppy disk. Did you used to
buy the hard copy of it?
Destiny's just that seems like
a call for help. Yeah. Please,
our player base is diminished.
Yeah, I don't know what their
plans are but they need to do
something because it is falling
off a cliff. Can it in and do
something else? Well, they are.
They've they've got another
game coming out and they're
first person shooter
multiplayer game but it's not
the first person shooter game.
Was it Sony? They've just done
another wave of layoffs.
Yep. Unfortunately, many devs
are killing that Star Wars FPS
that was unannounced. Uh it was
the Mandalorian is what it was.
Is that what it was? Yeah. The
one that we spoke about not
long ago. The Mandalorian
first person shooter game. Oh.
It's not the one that you think
was the first one. No, that's
outlaws. Yeah, not that one.
This one was a Mandalorian game.
I would. People are frying
together a theory that they
think they do. Companies are
doing this to allow more room
for AI to get involved with
gaming to almost take over from
a lot of roles that humans
previously did but now AI because
of the way they are. Especially
games that aren't AAA. There's
there's AI involved with the
development of the games to
obviously make life a lot easier
and and and streamlined and
yeah, there's there's a brewing
theory that that's what a big
companies are looking to
potentially delve into is
getting AI to to help with their
games which I think I can't
remember exactly what game we
were talking about but it was a
while ago where they were saying
that they wanted to make their
worlds and and and and and and
things like that and I can't
remember the name of the game
but I remember us talking about
saying that seems quite cool.
Um but at the same time, you
sort of I don't really want
games that are just made by AI.
No, of course you don't. You
want you want the heart and
soul of someone to be put into
it. Someone who cares to to put
their craft to it. Not a but
how do you know? Oh, I I don't
know. I don't know where he is
but I wonder if there's a list
of what games have AI doesn't
sound like a great time and
obviously you want the people
to keep their jobs, don't you?
You want the people to
games.
made with
Let's have a look. Minecraft.
Tom Clancy Splinter Cell
and a little bit about this.
Games. Middle Earth expands its
narrative possibilities with
the nemesis system of this AI
driven technology. Uh we're
dead attention to
Alien isolation. Well, we
already knew that because of
the **** alien itself. Bioshock
Infinite as a human dimension
and then we have the
Elizabeth. Grand The last of
us. The last of us has had a
devote.
There's quite a few. Yeah, I
don't believe all that. Yeah,
but it might be AI in a sense
of if you're make if you want
to bring life to NPCs, AI is
a pretty decent and quick way
to go about doing that. Yeah.
So, I suppose it would count
as your game has has used AI in
a sense. Again, you've got the
argument that that was oh well
you're taking a job away from a
voice actor and and and stuff
like that. which for big games,
I can kind of understand why
you would use AI especially
like GTA five but also from big
games. Yeah, I'm just reading
about the cancelled Star Wars
game from inside gaming and it
says the den had your ship
galaxy map and upgrade station
and armory. You could select
which bounty you wanted to do
equip your items, upgrade them,
get in your ship, and visit
planet where the bounty was
located. Take downs were like
doom. Main enemies were storm
fighters, NPCs, outlaw gangs,
and other bounty hunters and
it's very sad. It's over.
Apparently, I had a demo
already and it should be said
by all accounts. This game was
fantastic and that isn't just
coming from the developers but
from everybody who had the
opportunity to play the game.
Feedback from all play tests
was always positive and
surrounded with great buzz with
the developers enjoying the
entire process of working on
the project. That being said,
for whatever reason, EA felt
that they just decided to pull
the plug. EA and Ubisoft are
**** useless, you know? Do you
know what it is? I read earlier
and it was very early in the
morning so I can't recall too
much of the fact but it was
basically saying that publishers
and developers are moving away
from licensed games. IE Star
Wars because and I can't
remember which one it was but
it gave the the fact, alleged
fact that when or like say for
example, it was Spider-Man.
Twenty-seven percent of revenue
would go to Marvel and
obviously likewise with Star
Wars and stuff like that. So,
already, they're losing a
massive chunk of money. No,
no, no. A quarter essentially
because of where it comes to
big games like that. Uh what?
They gave a really good example
of the only one that was really
valuable was God of War because
it's not other than that,
they're all massive licensed
games because isn't isn't EA
losing their Star Wars license?
They already lost it. Yeah, they
still can make Star Wars games
but they lost the exclusive
right to be the only company to
make games. Thanks. EA are
possibly one of the worst
developers in our current time.
They are **** awful right
alongside Ubisoft. Both of them
are **** useless. I hate them.
They're so **** And who are the
only ones making Star Wars
games? Exactly. Ubisoft and
Star Exactly. They're so ****
Their games are **** awful now.
They don't care about the
game. They don't care about
the game. Especially ****
Ubisoft. It's all they care
about and they're just sucking
the life out of out of it. Big
AAA developers used to be the
flagship for gaming used to be
the they were the innovators.
They were the ones that would
come up with the brand new
ideas and do some really cool
**** because they had the money
to risk that. They were the the
risk takers when it comes to
making indie companies to be
the ones to take the risks
because the **** big AAA
developers don't want to lose
the **** revenue and take that
extra risk. I don't. Yeah but
the key word there is wrong. I
believe it's not the
developers. Is it? The
developers want to make good
games. The developers don't
want to make. Yeah, I'm not
talking about developers. I'm
talking about the people that
run the company. You said the
developers. It's not the
developers. It's the owners of
the company. The shareholders.
Not the developers. No. The
owners of the company. The
shareholders. The shareholders
are trying to do the best that
they can with the games that
they're given and the crafts
that they're giving. Let me
let me rephrase it. I'm not I'm
not digging out the boots on
the ground. No. I'm digging out
the suits in the offices. Yeah,
that's what I know you was. I
was trying to correct it.
They're they're they're the
ones that are just **** Let me
just crunch the numbers. They're
just sucking the life out of
it. You don't get into being a
game developer without being
interested in games. I find it
very hard to believe that any
developer would do their best or
want to be recognized for their
craft and obviously their name
in credits and you you see CVs
on LinkedIn and the like of all
the games they've worked on and
rightfully, they're very proud.
You know, people that will be
working on skull and bones and
stuff like that. They're trying
to do their best. They don't
want it to be an online only
game. They probably want all
the features that everybody
else wants but they're being
told what to do by the you know
the big wigs that only care
about that bollocks when if you
take a leaf out of the indie
book and go, hold on a minute.
Look what boulders gate done.
Look what hell divers have done.
Just make a good **** game and
the money will come in
afterwards. IE Power World as
well. Yeah but how can the big
suits not **** see? How could
you not see that? You go, oh,
maybe we should start taking
the risk because those lot seem
to be raking in **** money
because we're doing **** all.
They look at the fortnight of
the world, don't they? And go
like, oh, we want so how can we
make a game that's good enough
to catch them and then fill it
with microtransactions. It's as
simple as that. Unfortunately,
they just want a game that
sustains the company and that's
their argument. Now, we'll look
for the big live service game
to sustain us and then we can
make the big projects. That's
what it is. It's the ****
microtransactions that I don't
disagree with microtransactions.
I only disagree with them when
they are somewhat imperative to
the game. I don't disagree with
that Final Fantasy or
Fortnite. Fortnite does it very
well in that the the
microtransactions hold
absolutely zero bearing on the
game itself. It does not change
anything about the game but
they put a lot of effort into
their skins to make them look
very cool and make you spend
money. It's very tempting but
you don't have to. It's purely
a cosmetic base. Whereas
microtransactions hold some
kind of bearing on the game
itself. XP boosts on a single
player Ubisoft game. Yeah. You
know what I mean? Like when
when they're when they're going
to actively change an aspect,
whether it be small or ****
huge in your game is when I
stop agreeing with them. I
think by all means, if you're
if you're setting a game and
you want and it's a live
service and you want to throw
some microtransactions in it,
go for it. It's a live service
game. People have paid paid for
the next 10 years. Yeah, maybe
maybe give them the option to
spend a little bit more money
over those 10 years to keep
the **** game afloat. I'm with
it but yeah, when you're
creating single player games
and then just whamming it with
microtransactions to make it
more fun **** me. I hate it.
Yeah, they should be limited to
solely to uh expansions and
cosmetics. It's just like like
you say with skull and bones.
It's just like you say with
skull and bones. Made skull and
bones are absolutely trying
their best and did try their
best to to make an incredible
game. There's a lot of
development that went into the
game for a lot of years. and
just like the run that I've
just had, there will be a lot
of people that will have the
same run. However, they will
not have someone like you on
the other side quickly
correcting them even though you
know what you're correcting
them on is what they meant
to do. They're going to be the
developers and those developers
will see that and they'll take
that flack. It's not the ****
the people that are in charge of
them that will take all the ****
will be the people that
actually made the game. Of
course, which isn't fair. It's
devastating. You see a lot of a
lot of developers nowadays on
Twitter are snapping back at
people and yeah, it's just
people that are very narrow
minded. Just, you know, fix
this game. Do this, do that.
You've got you've got a group
of 100 people minimum making a
game and they've got their own
department that they work in.
They're not responsible for
this other stuff. So, you have
to hope all the pieces fall
into place and your piece works
and so does everyone else's. So,
it's not solely down to them
but yeah, I I just feel bad for
the developers because they're
getting screwed over and yeah,
like you say, Ubisoft and EA
have got a lot of good
things going on. EA have got
Respawn which are good. Uh
under their banner, Respawn
making Apex. Um and Titan Fall
and Jedi Survivor and Jedi
Fallen Order. So, they're like
the only real interesting games
to me and Ubisoft, they've got
is it Ubisoft Massive or something
that's making the Star Wars
series. What I don't understand
is Ubisoft have got this ****
horrible cloud over their
company where they go Ubisoft,
if any games got loads of icons
on the map, they go, it's a
Ubisoft game even if it's not.
So, stop doing it because
nobody likes it but you keep
doing all these. Oh, here's a
strong old go do that. Open the
map. It's the same formula in
every single game regardless of
what genre it is and it's not a
good look but yet they still
have the same game. They're
doing the same **** and they're
not going to, they must hear
and go, well, we don't care.
We're going to put it out
anyway. Mm. Eventually, no one's
going to buy a game. So, sort
it out and please don't do that
to Star Wars. But they didn't
**** listen. Even with Far Cry,
they didn't listen because we
had one, two, three, four, and
then you had that weird **** in
the middle with the two with the
two um women. I can't remember
what it was called but it did
work. And then after that, they
then brought out another one
that no one really liked. Like
like you say, the formula did
not change and I can respect
that it's a it's a it's a
franchise. So, there's only so
much you can do but like you
say, the **** icons on them and
it is just the same same ****
same **** different ****
wallpaper on the on on the game
case. It's just not Yeah, that
is not the case. If you know,
I mean, if it weren't, if it
weren't a formula that didn't
work, they're big enough to
know if they're hemorrhaging
money which they must not be
but that's also probably why
they fill everything with ****
microtransactions to offset
that. Yeah. Yeah, it's they're
just they're just not good and
unfortunately, as I say, all
the all the good games are
coming from the uh indie
game industry. There's fantastic
news that came out after the
podcast last Friday which I
text you saying, this is
fantastic. Look at this. This
is mods for Boulders Gate even
coming out on console. Get
inside me. But you have no idea
what mods you want to put on. I
don't care. I will never use a
mod. The fact that they're
available is fantastic. More of
that. More of that. How's that
going? Is that going to be
available for PlayStation?
Yep. How's that going to be
available for PlayStation? Same
way as it is for Skyrim on
PlayStation and the mods. Is
that going to be available? I
thought it was only Xbox. Nope.
PlayStation as well. You're
scaring me. Just not. No, the
trouble is PlayStation, the
mods with PlayStation and they
probably won't be as good on
PlayStation. Well, tell them,
tell the people I'm trying if
you shut the **** up. The mods
on PlayStation won't be as good
as they are on Xbox because
PlayStation doesn't allow
outside asset use. Therefore,
they can include things that
are not already in the game,
right? So, assets that are not
in Skyrim cannot be used in
Skyrim on the PlayStation but
they can on the Xbox. That's
Sony doesn't in doesn't allow
for things to be altered. So,
the mod selection on the site
on PlayStation is shocking
compared to what you can get on
the Xbox. Hopefully, there's
some work around there. Not
have Thomas the Tank engine in.
No, no, no, no, but you
can't get any of those mods.
Can you do then? Well, you know,
quality of life like survival
modes and **** You can you can
still do a lot of stuff. You'll
be surprised the amount of good
**** is on there but if you
want to really alter in
experience, you're not going to
get down PlayStation. Um so,
step in the right direction.
Yeah, for sure but any any
content that can be added to
Boulder's Gate, not that there
is a mod selection. Absolutely
what an absolutely rich game to
be throwing mods into the the
boulders gate community.
Basically, the population of
the world. Um is incredible and
the ingenuity and the
creativity within Boulder's
Gate is incredible. So, to
then be able to build upon
the
The mods there. The drawings
are definitely **** there. You
know, someone's going to mod it
in. So, it's real time combat
as well. 100%. You reckon,
yeah? 100% they will. 100%.
How's that work? I don't know.
I'm not a real time combat.
Yeah. What do you mean real
time combat? Oh, hack and
slash. Attack. Press square to
hit. Oh, that kind of **** Oh,
sorry. Yeah. Yeah, that would
be **** cool. Oh, don't get me
wrong. I love Boulder's Gate
but if that game was real time
combat, it would be elevated to
another ethereal. That would
make me play it 100%. But yeah,
turn based don't really my
thing but I get it and I like
it and I like what it does.
Still my favorite game of all
time. Mm. Even with a combat
system that I prefer it wasn't
but it works and I'm happy.
But yeah, that with real time
combat would be very
interesting. What other mods
would you want to see? Let's
see. Yeah, man. The amount of
expansions you can get. More
content, please. For Skyrim and
stuff. People creating entire
expansions. It's just insane.
Uh so yeah, I'm excited to see
what they come up with. I'm
sure there will be many, many
mods. Is there a date for that?
No. They said this year. This
year at some point. So, you
know, we still got plenty of
that. When does Dragon's Dogma
March 28th? March 28th. You
excited? I believe. Yeah, I am.
I'm excited. I might have
boulders gate wrapped up by
then but that's just Final
Fantasy lets me go. To have
played the first one. No, no,
no, no, no. Definitely not. No,
no, definitely not. What was the
the first one was **** wasn't
it? No, it's really good. It's
just old bro. It's I've been
trying to play it not recently
in the last month or so. I was
trying to play it and um. She's
not there. No, like it's it's
still very good but it's it's
very hard to play. It's come
out in like twenty thirteen or
something. It's just it's
engulfed with updates like an
MMO. You know, where it's still
I can get by with this. Um but
yeah, I can't wait for that.
Let's go. That's my next big
one. Um interestingly on
Final Fantasy, I keep seeing
the same people running around.
I feel like the reason I've
seen the same people is because
we've I've seen them before
because we're kind of running
to the same quest markers.
Probably. Because we're the
best community in this game.
Is one of the best communities
I've ever been a part of in my
life and I am one of the people
that host the best gaming
podcast in the world. So, to say
that is is of high regard. It's
it's great. You ask anyone for
some help and they'll give it
to you. You ask anyone a
question and they'll answer it
for you. When I couldn't get to
the chat room, we had a full on
chat and I enjoyed the role
playing. I basically I was part
of his haram and um. What the
**** does that mean? Basically
like it's groupie pretty much.
Um and yeah, we just got into a
whole a whole little thing. I'm
almost certain the people in
the novice group chat think
that I'm a woman. I'm going to
roll with it. Why do they think
that? I don't know because I
don't know. I don't know. Yeah,
that's interesting. So, I'm
going to assume that they think
that I'm going to let it keep
rolling. Um but yeah, I'm just
I'm just very much enjoying the
it's just great rather than
googling something. You just
go, oh, does anyone know how to
put numbers on this part of the
screen and then like 5 seconds,
you'll have someone with an in
depth **** step by step guide
on how to do it. You go,
oh, I'm just going to do it and
yeah, it's just great, man. I'm
loving it and I'm going to be
very sad when it kicks you out
of the novice chat. Very sad
because it's either 300 hours
on one character which is quite
a feat to to do. Um which makes
me think I should probably start
logging out more when I'm not
playing the game because there's
a lot of times where I leave
myself logged in because it
takes me to a certain level and
then it like takes you out of
it. I saw this post yesterday
from Red uh on Reddit and it
reminded me after what you just
said. It's a Xbox players, a
PSA from a veteran. You have no
idea how happy we are that
you're here. Watching you go
through the content and
experiences that we've long
since left behind. Priceless.
Helping you figure out the ins
and outs of the game.
There's a couple of things to
know. Rule number one, do not
worry. Is it your first time
here? Are you still learning
your job? Are you not
comfortable with big pools
yet? Just say so. We'll
understand. Hell, we may even
have some pointers for you.
Please, please, please do not
be stressed out that you are
not performing optimally or some
crap like that. That's not what
the game is about. Well,
ultimate savages and exes aside
but that's not relevant to this
conversation. Have questions,
comments, or comments on a
poll or to a boss? Did another
party member die? Don't worry
about it. We certainly don't.
Even if the whole party wipes,
we'll get it next time. Boss
mechanics and patterns can get
tricky and we totally get
that. Us vets still die from
time to time. Please don't get
stressed because of party
deaths. Also, watch the cut
scenes. We'll wait. They're
super cool and nobody will
begrudge you seeing the story.
In alliance content, think
about watching a cut scene. We
make sure the whole rage stops
and waits. You get a special
icon next to your name so we
can tell you're in one. This
game is some sweet cut scenes
and the story is super
important. We get it. Above all,
be yourself and just enjoy the
game the way you want. Again,
we're ridiculously happy. We
get to share the game and these
experiences with floods of new
folk. Welcome to to A. This is
our new home. This is the new
home. This is just what it is
right now. This is where I live.
This is just where it is.
Eosia. Eosia. Eosia.
Thank you. That is
essentially the vibe I've got
from the moment I've been
playing. I constantly see
people asking questions. I've
100% these these **** are so
happy. They're so happy. Oh,
it's nice, man. I'm just like,
you gotta see it from their
point of view as well rather
than just be nice people which
is rare in an online game. The
game is their baby. This is
their your world of warcraft to
them and now it's been released
to millions of other people on
Xbox that I solely have Xbox.
Mm hmm. They'll think, well, if
this is an influx of new
players and it can retain 10%
of them, they'll all show
Final Fantasy. We need more.
Give us more games. More
content, more stuff, and it
just drives the life force even
further. So, yeah, I think more
more eyes and more players is
only a good thing. It's a very
good thing. The only bit that
that that sort of I don't get
yet which I will ask the
question when I log back on is
how you know when to repair and
how you repair your gear. Oh,
you can ask me that. How do you
repair your gear? Go to a hammer
icon. Okay, but when do you
know how to repair your gear?
Because if you click character,
Yeah. And and where all your
items and weapons are on your
character in the little box
that you've equipped, there's a
little bar on the top and you
can see. Oh, at the top. Yeah.
So, underneath your swords or
your helmet or whatever.
Underneath, it's a little bar.
So, you can see how much health
is. Ah, that makes sense. So,
Jason, but I think it does come
up saying, you should repair
your gear if it's proper ****
but you know, it's even when
you drop into a dungeon when
even if it's an NPC dungeon,
it comes up with a quick warning
at the beginning. One or more
players are brand new to this.
I love that. Just so you just
know, it's the only problem.
And ironically, I sound like a
cunt because the veterans
aren't but I did one of them.
I was trying to unlock some
more of them **** bars. I don't
know if you can get them yet
because you're a bit lower than
me but there's these bar things
you unlock and you you do like
daily dungeons or whatever to
get them. Yeah. Uh and I did
one and it was like uh
essentially one of the final
ones. It's a **** long. It's a
long mission. but you have to
watch all the cutscenes. It's
unskippable cutscenes to watch
every single **** one. Every
single one. You can't, you can't
even skip them if I want to.
That's that's long. I don't
want to do that. Um but then
when you're not doing them main
story quest, I think you can
skip cutscenes but then if
someone else is watching them
but that's fine. If someone
else wants to watch them,
that's fine. At least let me
do it. I'm going to be stuck
in watching these **** cut
scenes. I've watched three
times because it's not just
one cutscene you have to watch
when you get to the next part
of the mission, you have to
watch the next and it's one of
the final missions. So, the
cutscenes are long as **** bro.
The mission takes about 3040
minutes and a lot of that's
cutscenes. Come on. We've
learned. We've learned that
Final Fantasy regardless of
which one you're playing loves
a good old cutscene and I love
a cutscene but not when
they're boring. Yes. I've seen
it. Yeah, Final Fantasy's
filled this again, isn't it?
No, I don't think so. I think
it may have filled like 25% of
it but the rest of it, we've
we've struck on quite a lot of
cords. No, there's always
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