Guess who's back back again Ashley's back tell some men rub my back rub my back
rub my back great I'm back I'm back from sunny island that rained every day apart
from two it was typical in it I'll shout out Connie done a stand-up job well done
fairly enjoyed listening to it in the rain well done well done well done and
the Prince is back ready to fucking in part so what an exciting fucking day
today is yep of all the days of days of days and I've been watching all sorts of
tick tocks and before you buys just to gauge some fucking interest on two very
very very specific games very cool so I have two things I can talk about I can
have a talk about dragons dogma so played it for about three hours this
morning yeah well I can talk about something else it's up to you because I've got
another thing let's I'll tell you what let's bang it off of dragons dogma 2
only because number one the clickbait purposes because that will be the head
of the title and I want people to listen and then number two full-on review
played it for hours number two is obviously two weeks ago when I was
talking to you about the pair of these games dragons dogma and rise of the
Ronin you were firm on dragons dogma 2 and I was quite firm on rise of the
Ronin because of dragon dogs was 30 frames per second lock on on PlayStation
after watching some stuff on rise of the Ronin I'm a bit fucking torn now
because I'm not as impressed as I thought I would be so it would be good to
hear your in-depth free hour review on this game they helped me okay well gone
I sped the process up a bit because I downloaded the character created last
night so I spent about two and a half hours creating my characters so you
create your main character yeah and you create a pawn right like Baldur's Gate
almost kind of if you will so my main character is called Solax Astaria and
much to your shock I am a mage and I started as a mage where's the name come
from was very it's very Magus where's that gonna come from solus so lacks
so lacks Astaria Astaria that's such a mage name it's cool say it again so lacks
so lacks like Snorlax Astaria so lacks Astaria mm-hmm watch out for so lacks
yeah so essentially how that name come about is obviously by the way while I
was in Ireland I read three and a half books which is mental
buried in mind they're like 400 pages each yeah and I'm on the sick from final
one of the series I've read so I've come from series well book one took sick
obviously was it one a month it wanted to do yeah you can rest for three months
yeah basically yeah and it's all about the drow which are an elven race in
Baldur's Gate which is like the dark skinned elves essentially live underground
so with that in mind I wanted to create a mage because one of the main characters
in the book I read a mage called Faerun Misarin and he's fucking just powerful
so I was like fuck it I'm gonna do a wizard or a mage or sorcerer or whatever you
want to call it so that was my inspiration and I was gonna do Faerun I
was gonna do the geezer in the book and I was like no no I'm gonna continue the
trend of creating my own character taking them through with me so I was
struggling with names I'm not gonna lie because I've got locker and blood on
Final Fantasy right rain dolo obviously we will know about him so what I decided
to do I was gonna create rain dolo I thought I got better idea than that okay
new character and to get the name I googled a drow name generator yeah
clever and I went on it and I randomized it fucking hundreds of times and it
come up with like 30 names each time and I was going through it and so lacks
didn't come up but something similar come up and I don't like that but if I
take a couple of letters out so like sounds good so I went with that and then
for his surname when you create when you create a character you can put a
moniker which is essentially a nickname I don't know what the reason for that is
but I think it's just like a so you can't put naughty swear words or I don't
know the reason exactly but as I was going through the monikers Astario was
one of them so I was like fuck it I'll use that and that'll be a surname so
that's where so yeah I made so like star up cool mage made him all up my pawn my
companion rain dolo the crossover and the reason I don't expect it a reason
I've done that was because two reasons one I thought if I have him as a
companion hmm I'll care about him yeah yeah whereas if I'm just planning my
planning Jimmy and I've got a generic secondary but if his rain I'm like my
boy no no no don't hurt nobody so I created rain dolo he looks fucking sick
the character on that is the best crazy unit it's the best cat's crowd
absolutely crazy the depth in that he's got like he looks he looks pretty much
like rain dolo he's got tattoos you can put tattoos wherever you want move them
all around make them big small he's got the scar he's got the bright blue eyes so
yeah I've just in my head is so lacks he's come from the under dark the men's
of Barone he's fucking come up he's met rain at some point during boulder skate
and now they're in this world and they're cat trappings get up so that's
how it works I text Connor last night asking if he was getting a game and he
said yes so I asked him if he would take rain with him so rain will now go in
Connor's game and journey with Connor huh so this is what the porn system is
right so you could you whatever the porn is that you create you can as far as I
can remember from the first one but so rain will still accompany me right you
still need me but you can hire rain to be one of your pawns to come in your
game yeah and whatever journeys you have with rain he'll be doing if you say just
just to keep it simple you find a chest right up on the top of a mountain the
next time I rest all the data that rain has collected whilst being with you
quests chests carry over to you download onto my game when I rested in it in so
when the next time I go past this place he'll go oh I think there's a chest up
there and then you can press up on a d-pad to like say go and he will lead
you to the chest that he found in your game that is very clever this was very
but it was like that in dragons dogma 1 and no one's replicated since that's why
dragons dogma is such like a cult favorite and just everyone loves it
what's the what's the combat feeling like yeah it's amazing it's the dragon
dogma one combat was great but then you got to remember it's like 10 years old
right so it's like it's great but it's still thing dated that the whole reason
dragons dogma was created you go back to the interviews originally was the
creator said I really like Skyrim but what if Skyrim actually had good combat
yeah so he tried to create a lesser scaled Skyrim but with good combat so
the whole game was focused on combat this so far it's just sick just everything
it's everything I wanted but amped up by like a hundred I don't know I haven't
done very much and I'm staying away from tick-tock and all that cuz I don't want
to see shit I've seen a few things where people have like felled a troll when it's
fell across that's not that's not a scripted moment either yeah it's just
the thing that can happen but they had like the physics system in it it's very
like physics based and earlier on I was running around killing these goblins and
a fucking big old harpy Falcon fucking thing come swoop me down took me on was
just flying around with me rain shouting for me yeah cuz I read a thing of
someone saying that like a griffin come down and attacked him and then fucked
up like he started battling it and the griffin fled and fucked off but then
come down like two hours later into his gameplay exact same health that it had
when it flew off and started attacking him again and he was like that's so
crazy for it to I'm gonna buy it it's honestly it's one of them really really
immersive games where the game is the gameplay where it's on the fly I need I
need I've been excited for this quickly run over it rise of the Ronin just
isn't looking like something that I really wanted it to be it looks like a
much lesser version of ghosts of Tsushima which I'm not particularly
happy about dragons dogma 2 does look good but the that that 30 frames per
second is a bit of a bit of a hmm for me however from the stuff that I've seen I
think I'm just being snobby with it personally I do I hate 30 frames a
second we've touched this feel like feels fine it's listen I don't ever play
any games in 30 frames per second it's horrible I hate it but this isn't locked
to 30 frames this goes up yeah it's just but it also does come down someone
someone made a good point of it's been optimized to run at what it runs at and
this person that was on a reddit thread was basically saying he was like these
people are the developers they're the professionals and now what they're doing
you don't basically that but also it looks fucking beautiful like you're
looking up at the mountains and the mist going through it looks like a painting
but it's got that it's got that listen this dragons dogma one I never finished
it dragons dogma one story was meh don't care the game is the gameplay the game
is the story that gets created be like fucking I was running around and then
this boulder fell on me and a goblin person basically put this way right your
pawns have got some weird adaptive AI right so basically I read this thing
yesterday that geese has been playing it for a week or whatever reviewing it and
he said I kept constantly picking up goblins and frying them off cliff
you can pick little you kept picking goblins up and find them off a cliff
then all of a sudden that's all his porn does now the porn is registered that
you're that's what he wants to do that's what he wants to do so every time he
sees a goblin he picks him up runs to the cliff somewhere and frozen it's
genius like the system in place for that is insane now is is the deluxe edition
worth it or did you get the normal edition also got a deluxe what do you
get with it you get fucking get some camp supplies you get some start music
and sound collection harpy smoke beacons fucking a pendant rift incense gold
gal key and makeshift gal key yeah that's yeah I got I got all this stuff I
got it early on right away basically the game starts and you're in it says gal
right but that's jail I learned that from Eldermann jail what's art of metamorphosis
change your characters customization or you don't get there normally no like if
you want to change it off my food again if you know I mean completely rebuild
your character oh let's buy that one then should we but yeah I see funny
enough I've seen this game review bomb now so come out really good reviews it's
getting review bomb now because they've introduced rift crystals or sat in
microtransactions essentially but they're just crystals right and the first one
had them as well so you can spend these crystals to buy fucking fast travel
crystals or hire more powerful pawns from the rift and stuff like this and
people are kicking up a stink and it's just like I get it because people are
like oh you want us to pay to fast travel but it's not the case the whole
game is developed to not be a fast travel game yeah it's supposed to be a
journey when you go out in the dark right on Dragon's Dogma one I haven't
been out in the dark on this one yet it is fucking dangerous and if you die
you're in you're in you're in problems yeah it's got a thing where you lose
your health and stuff until you rest it and in so you're constantly battling
against I was at the same as on like Dark Souls 1 yeah so it's an issue
like going out is where the dangerous monsters are in the night the ghosts and
wraiths it's a proper journey if you want to say you look on the map right
and you want to travel from this castle to this fucking cave or the whole fucking
village or something you look at your route and you go right I'm gonna go
this is how the game is right you're gonna go right I'm gonna go through this
forest we'll cut through down we try and jump over that bit you're planning out
your route and you'd be like right have I got enough have I got enough oil for
my lantern so my lantern goes out and fuck because it's black you're seeing
fuck all have I got enough resupply have I got enough items have I got enough
potions have I got enough apples to eat all these little bits so it's got that
constant hunter and gather you see a bush go pick some apples you see some
potatoes go pick them and you can mix the ingredients you can cook it all up
it's so immersive I saw the cooking animation because it's real cooking
isn't it it looks real I don't know if it is yeah they was it stupid yeah they
come out and they because it was obviously quite a talking point and it
was for like CGI purposes and stuff like that animate animation purposes it would
have cost more money and been more effort to do that than it was to just
put in a real footage of of a steak cooking it's cooler yeah yeah I like it
I like it but what do you expect from people that make Monster Hunter oh yeah
it's got that about it so you can climb up the monsters do all that got the the
game is also immersive in terms of someone gives you a bit of chat and
tell you don't like just kill them but they're dying and they ain't coming back
what happens is they go to this is what I read before the game come out it'll go
to a morgue and they'll stay in the morgue for a couple of days you can
spend something or do something to resurrect them but if you don't do it
within the two days of dead forever and that goes for quest givers that goes for
everybody in the game also monsters can come into towns and attack yeah I've
seen that someone the town was being attacked by a troll for no reason exactly
so that that adds to the dynamic gameplay that is exciting because you'd
be like fucking what the fuck's going on this is supposed to be the safe zone in
games right it's not safe no more but with that in mind then it just adds to
the dynamic gameplay the things that you can do the experiences you'll have will
be not necessarily planned by the developers but also put in there to be
like a there's a cooking pot in it and it will come to a boil with all these
different little things that will happen it's if it's anything like the first one
which so far it is but looks beautiful then I'm gassed there the cutscenes are
amazing there's actual like dialogue this time up proper there's a decent
story so far I've barely touched surface you start off in the jail you come out
the jail and that's very Skyrim yeah it does give off that Skyrim vibe but then
the quest also it's not like I haven't gone anywhere apart from the first
little town I'm in right so I've gone out done a couple of little quests but
come straight back there's no quest markers there's quest markers when you
get I'll go and deliver this letter and do whatever is you need to do so he's
in this general area but to get that quest there was no quest marker this
kid has got quest just bowling around and they'll either come to you but
excuse me sir could you help me I need this done or you talk to someone and be
like I could have this done but there's no quest mark above their head so also
adds to the I'm gonna go very old and ringy yeah I'm gonna go talk to people
see if they've got anything for me to do but some of the quests I don't know if
it tells you this or not but also time gated so the quick the game carries on
without you so if you this is why it comes up on the game in the help screen
when you first start accepting quests it says be careful accepting too many
quests at one time because the game will carry on without you and if you don't do
it it's not gonna happen I'll go save this from the goblins you didn't do it
the goblins have eaten him that sort of stuff so I just find that sort of
gameplay speaks to me much more and always has because I like immersive
games like cyberpunk and stuff like that so so far as I predicted this is
definitely my game of year just yeah it's just I'm not cuz I if it carries on
the way is because of Dragon's Dogma 1 if I hadn't played Dragon's Dogma 1 and I
had no idea what this was I'd have no idea still but it's got that it's got
that dark dark like Game of Thrones house of dragons feel it's not like
colorful or pretty it's dark and gritty powerful the spells are fucking sick I
hit anything with a sword but rain as he looks course fuck I do like that porn
system yeah you can have so you can have you can have four pawns or three pawns
sorry and obviously yourself you go into the rift and you can these these pawns
will just walk up to you and you can inspect their stats like they're
experiencing different monsters what they know what they don't and you can
hire them the more experienced the more powerful the higher level pawns cost
more riff crystals right you get riff I don't know how you get riff crystals you
can buy them yeah you can obviously just earn them because it's not a game that
is supposed to have my transactions they've put them in who cares people
moaning whatever I don't give a fuck I'll never I'll never buy only matters
with this if it I suppose it only matters where if they've put them in and
then severely tone down your not your passive gaining of those crystals within
game if it used to be like oh yeah you can get a thousand within the first hour
and then they brought in a microtransaction now it's like you can get
a hundred within the first hour that's when it starts to take the piss it was
very true but also I read someone's review yesterday over a hundred hours in
it not once as he said he's ever thought about spending the option wasn't even
there yeah you know who cares basically people just moaning for the sake of
moaning I get it don't want microtransaction especially in single
player games but at the same point you can pay to fucking transmogrify or change
your characters customization in MMOs it's an online game granted but it's
still just a game yeah but microtransactions in a single player game
are whether they're useful or not they're still a bit of a because normally
it's only ever cosmetic which I can understand but when you when you throw in
things like oh you can fast travel this place where you can do you can start
doing actual helpful things within game but you've thrown a monetary price on it
on a single player game that's when it starts to feel a bit iffy you got to ask
the question if you don't need to do it why they've done that yeah but I don't
know the thing is some people will want to fast travel everywhere then there's a
cost because the game is not designed to do that if you want to fast travel
everywhere then you're diminishing your own experience because the game is not
designed to speed around in menus yeah but if that's not how it's designed then
don't implement a a microtransaction that enables that if you've designed a
game that's not meant to be fast traveled around instantly then so be it
what as a developer what are you gaining from that because it's hard to explain
fast travel system is there but it's not a system that is it's unique through its
own experience like they're like called fairy stones right so I think you put a
fairy stone down I'll put a very stone down in the town I'm in now for example
and then so I get somewhere I'll put another fairy stone down and then I can
teleport between them two spots right so I thought but I don't know if that's a
one-and-done thing I can't remember but that is that is the fast travel system
there's no like I just want to zip back here and zip back there and zip back
there so if people want to speed up their gameplay for some reason then by
the crystal things but it's once again if you don't need it don't use it you
know if it was required then of course I'd be shitting all over it but of course
it's not required it's just something that that people can do if they want but
why would you that's all I'm worried about is you've only put you've only
sunk in three hours and it just seems odd where why throw that system in there
if you really don't need it I mean it's terrible for them because it seems like
a throwaway they've got so many good reviews and people singing its praises
and stuff and then they've done that and people all of a sudden going me me me
me what are angry people are you just Google it people are very angry but
then also I say the reviews that I've read have said they've never even
contemplated it or needed it so I just think it's a it's a non thing to be
honest with you but yeah the porn system so you can get people you can hire
people wandering around to become your porn if they are a pawn themselves but
the pawns that you have with you won't level up with you right so you will need
to hire higher level pawns as you go yeah but yeah I could have your porn
Conor's porn and someone else's porn what clever party of all my mates pawns
yeah yeah which is like that it's very cool and then you can say whatever I
Pokemon you swap and trade fucking portents sick sick did you have to keep
paying to hire them out or is it a one fee here's a tenner you're now stuck
with me until I tell you fuck off a thousand riff crystals they go and now
you're mine and yeah I just miss you yeah but say the original game added
and I never had any complaints so I don't know why everyone's kicking up
stingy world's changed a bit I guess but yeah so far the game's fucking great I
can't wait to play I'm super excited and yes everything I wanted so far which is
more dragons dogma but looks prettier runs better and just yeah it's
fantastic yeah decent so yeah that's my dragons dogma review game the year 10
out 10 best game ever let's talk about announcement thing that I was gonna say
it's not really an announcement it's time for you to eat some humble pie talk
about the actual best game of all time
finally finished it yesterday it is done rain dolo's journey has come to an end
and what happened are you full squid man spoilers for anybody so if you don't
want to hear any boulders gate spoilers step out of room yep okay now that's out
the way so rain dolo's journey is a tragic one of course it fucking is yeah
I am fully squid yep I are you even any resemblance to what you used to be no
I'm full squid this is full so you can see in his eyes is right do you look
like he is right do you look like the person at the very very beginning that
that it'll fit on the ship yeah but it's weird because you do look like that but
I don't know if it's different for every character but I swear his facial
structure has still got rain in there let me yeah let me Google fucking
boulders gate for little fit and see see what comes up but carry on but yeah so
there comes a time basically when you've got choices to make hmm as you have
throughout the whole game essentially hand it over to the hand the stones
over to your lifted let him deal with it I didn't like that idea yeah or you can
do a couple of other things or you can become for lifted yourself and go
through it rain has just been a whole journey about sacrifice everything is
done has been very sad to save save the world
save boulders gate save the universe killed your entire party and many many
people around you for very little reason I didn't kill anybody they saved anyone
the vampire attacked me in my sleep so he got stabbed right that is how that
one went down I didn't expect him to die that star in yeah he died straightaway
within ten minutes of meeting him I didn't know he was gonna die for it's
just a normal you know I didn't expect Game of Thrones level of loss here yeah
I thought oh yeah just a I'll attack him back and I've killed him he's dead
yep so that was him another guy got upset with the decision that was made
that I had to choose between this camp or that camp I went with evil goblins
because they offered a quicker path to success like that so he attacked me so
he got slept on dead another guy another demon woman thing she's fucking I had a
quest to go killer turn up did what I was asked killed her then picked then
her loot there's all her stuff like companion packs and I was like oh she
could have been a companion didn't even know they could have been companion
right that's also not on me and I can't think of any other ones but yeah they
died that's not my face is exactly how a villain sounds but it's everyone else's
fault and I was just defending myself so I got attacked twice and killed someone
that was told to kill I can't see any blame on me but they are nevertheless
stories a sad one he took he took the illithid form to save the world
essentially and he did what he had to do he did it he did it well and this this
also proves my point about too good to use syndrome right so the fight is
fucking hard man you have to do this out in the other you have to get in this
portal within five turns getting there then there's a brain got kill it within
five times she's got 300 health I've got it down to a lot I say like 100 or
something I've got two turns left and I don't do enough damage and my fucking
geezers are outside fighting so I couldn't get him in the pool couldn't get
him in quick enough so I looked through my scrolls I had a scroll that this does
50 to 100 damage this scroll did fucking 70 damage I only had one of them right
so I'd there's 30 31 damage left I had to do in one turn yeah bearing in mind
one of my sword slashes does seven to twelve damage my spells do my spells do
like ten it's just shocking I had one I had one smoke don't you get loads of
cool powers for being a push do but that you're not used to fighting things that
have got that much health and you're not time constraint by one turn or oblivion
yeah so I looked in my fucking inventory the only thing that had more than 30
damage was a smoke powder bomb it done anything from eight 18 to 60 damage or
so mmm and needed to do 31 it did 31 bang on 31 I don't know but it killed it
killed it so luckily for me the brain went down jobs are good and cue the
praise I'm the greatest and then everyone realizes that it was an illicit
that saved them they're all bit scared rightfully so because I did brain eat
someone it's pretty disgusting but I had to you open what you opened up someone's
head like a boiled egg I had to and you ate the yolk being their brain part of
the story so I see how villainized you sound no you know I understand this cause
at the end you're eating people's heads no one person who had to you had to die
he had to they all had to fucking die today I have saved so many lives in that
game is the joke that's why I had a big squad because you can all the people
that you've saved or a lot allied with come with you at the end and you can
call them in for reinforcements and that's very cool I see how it all
culminated yeah so after all that my left and then the story says you know
you're lifted now you stand on the end of the pier looking and it says you're
lifted now you know you're gonna eat people and suck their brains out turn
them in stuff or are you are you a different and if it are you unique are
you this are you that do you feel yourself so then you have the choice of
continuing on as an illicit or killing yourself or hoping for the best and not
eating anybody but if you feel like you're gonna eat somebody kill yourself
or lock yourself in a prison for the rest of your days and I thought well I'm
not gonna kill myself is that's well out of order yeah just like the world so I
took the noble approach and put myself in jail so there I am I'm in prison and
then withers the old skeleton guy he comes down and he says you know you're
you're a good man do you feel like you could come out now and I put no I feel
myself but I also feel like I could eat people essentially so I kept myself in
the jail and that was it that's where I stay that's where I live and that's the
sad tale of rain dolo he sacrificed himself he turned illithid and then he
locked himself away from civilization because he didn't want to hurt anybody
it's a sad sad tale but it's come to his end what's an absolutely pointless
fucking existence that rain dolo has has has imposed upon that world I saved the
entire haven't saved nothing save the world you get so you've you've killed
anyone that you've come into contact with so untrue you're just getting the
party you killed attacked me yeah you've killed all the attacked my shadow heart
in this she's next to me she's my best friend she's my lover is she what she
got in the prison with her no no she's gone on her own way so she's left you as
well well yeah I'm not gonna have a lesson case I eat her she's the main
reason I've locked myself away but but hold on but if you were given the option
to are you are you unique are you different do you not want to eat
people's brains like fucking scrambled eggs could you not have just gone with
that yeah but I don't know that the game's gonna go I don't know how he
actually feels do I oh so you're scared I'm scared that's what it is if I'd
chicken shit right at the end no if I did that and I and it turned out that I
ate shadow heart in the next scene I'd turn the game off I've been fuming yeah
but that yeah yeah but I also saved them all because none of them are infected
by the parasite anymore yeah but so you allowed your emotion to get the better
of you and to enter so you you chose the easy way out you might as well just
killed yourself locked myself exactly because you were scared of things that
might not have happened I did the right thing there's no one's gonna convince
me that I was bad or I did anything wrong I was attacked I killed them I had
a job I killed them anyone that needed saving I saved you're a heartless man
that I saved an entire I saved an entire fucking castle full of vampire children
you what oh ironic the vampire children or children that had been turning to
vampire they get the fucking survive but a star this is the problem it's like the
witcher there's no straight in the neck there's no fucking right or wrong
answers just gray and gray there's no it's like yes this is the right answer
also comes with huge consequences the tale of rain dolo so I said this woman
right this camp of people were like please save our children have been
taken by the vampire king so I went to this fucking castle a really fucking
hard fight man it was that's what I was stuck on for so long and then I stopped
playing it and I went back and I fucking did it and I didn't turn the difficulty
down and I killed him killed him so and ironically it was a star is master
because the star ends up on a fucking steak like that right fucked up you
know and that killed him I was like I didn't even know him easy where he
tell me so it's quite cool that probably would have been his story yeah that
would have been a cool little fucking interview standing next year you were
fucking it's also cool as fuck that killed him and he's still in the game
and he's there and it's still it's still cool and it also gives me more reason to
play again which I definitely what happened to Shadowheart so how did that
work at the end you were standing on the cliffside and they were like Lazele left
me Lazele the orc looking on the Giffy Yankee she won she was happy that I
saved everybody but she was like but you ate that geezers face and that was like
her master and she's I understand why did it but a bit too much yes didn't
like that but she's off the other geezer is you know he's someone from the rift
he was a nobody didn't even have a voice on nothing it's quite funny when they're
talking to your companions are shadow she's turned from the I even turn oh
good because she's evil right so she's turned from the dark into the light rara
the Giffy Yankee warrior she's done this and that and then just looked at my porn
that got summoned is like you just know you're an NPC that should be another
character but it's not yeah so Shadowheart I don't know what she did you know she's
probably just living a sad life without me but she has now been freed I took her
I found her parents with her I've everything that I've done whenever
there's been a moral dilemma I've always tried to help the people and I have
saved more lives than I have I cannot believe that you've gone through this
entire thing just to put yourself in prison it's not about me it's about
saving the world it's about saving boulder's gates about saving favor and
it's about saving ever saving the world from what from the fucking elder brain
you just become part of it though I didn't all the elephants are dead well
they're not because one of them is in a fucking little prison cell ones just me
I can't believe you were there was no intrigue to to not go in a prison and
see how you'd fared no on the outside well each other and I don't know what
his intentions are cuz I'm not him so I presume that if I pick that it might
have dire consequences because that's how the entire game goes you go I wish I
didn't do that I'm not safe scum in so I'm gonna have to live with it well I
want to do that shadow heart will live I put myself in jail everyone's a winner
she can come visit me I mean I can't get my tentacles through the cell so it's
all good it's I'm very happy with the choice I made I feel like it's a very
noble and honorable way I'm upset I'm upset with this choice I don't feel
like rain dolo deserve I feel it is a better you turn him into a squid that's
what I find irritable I turn him into a squid for the sake of humanity because
without the squid powers I would have had no chance I would literally have had
no chance honestly Wayne rain dolo is fucking shocking I built him so shit he
was so shit at everything but literally the only character that could do any
damage was lazy was lazyl she's the only one that carried me for the entire game
everyone else was wank shadow heart just went like untouchable she'd use sanctuary
and then she couldn't get hit and then she just healed everyone all the time the
fucking jaseline or whatever his name is the major summoned he is fucking
shocking glass cannon mate he's so powerful but a fucking breeze blew him
over and he was down so he was like he was good when he was up he was down more
than he was up that's what fucking majors are though and yeah I know but he was
really really weak and then it's proper glass he is proper glass and then and
then rain was just like I think I built him like jack of all trades master of
something he's really like he's done a lot but didn't do anything good never
good you always want you always want to fucking yeah I've learned that with that
kind of stuff you want to be a master of something you don't want to be a jack of
all you what you want to show your strengths at some point I get too
excited I'm not that sounds like a call of Billy I'll get that even though it's
got nothing to do with what I currently do but it sounded good so did you did
you um no yeah cuz you you were on that podcast when we decided the date to go
and see Connor and play D&D you don't need to speak to Jim I don't know if she's
working or not she's got to wait for her shifts to come they come monthly already
come monthly is nothing I can do I asked him I said are you all good with that date and his
response was how many weeks exactly is it because she's working maybe she's
working next weekend and she does every other weekend we figured that out
yeah but then you changed the date you said because we gave you the original
date which was the sixth and you said can't do that because she's working then
we changed the weekend after right the 13th for it so how many weeks from 13th
of April next weekend she's working right so so so not this weekend so next
weekend which is a 30th she's working so then you've got the weekend after that
is the sixth yeah is she working the sixth no she's on off on so the 13th
she's on she's working well clearly so when I was when we picked the six and
you this is what I presume but you said I have to figure it out so I was sick
for the 13th we'll figure it out you said on the podcast the other day Connor
said he couldn't do the sick that's why it got changed that's what you saw is
that why I got changed that's what I said on the podcast I listened to it with my
own ears maybe I'm in the wrong doesn't matter we'll figure it out but I'm
definitely doing it all I was trying to make a point of is it whenever we do it
we're gonna have to make our characters again because I feel like I've made one
that's a jack-of-all-trades as well and I don't like character so I will need to
make another one and I'm gonna specialize in something very very
specific like cooking that's fine something I'm gonna poison it yeah cool
it's not gonna be good but yeah rain rain dialers journey has come to an end
and I'm very very happy about it's ended and more importantly I'm very happy
that I finished the game because you said I would never do it I'm happy for
you said I would never go back to it I also believed I wouldn't but I lied
pressure and I've done it you had a bold statement and said it's your all-time
favorite game but you had never finished it but you can't have that statement
you said that you send that but then Steph's all-time favorite game is
breath of the wild she never finished that she's finished breath of the world
yeah now she has finished though but she never had and said it's all time
fine but that's okay yeah but she was right at the end so was I you weren't
no yeah right at the end all I do is kill one enemy and then go to the boss
are you doing another playthrough yes I need to start a proper playthrough what
you mean one with actual story involved not fucking two-thirds of it cut out
with other characters yeah I'm gonna do dark urge next I'm gonna go full villain
yeah oh sorry I forget how fucking yeah fucking priestly you were this time around
you fucking play the game and tell me how many people don't die exactly exactly
I haven't got the patience for it so I'm gonna choose a drow I'm gonna do
because they're like the because you can choose like the pre-made characters
right so if you want to play as a star and you can play as a star you can play
as any of these which is cool because they're fully voiced it's probably more
interactive the darker just got its own character it's like a dragon born he's
like an actual dragon but I feel like I want to create a drow because they are
like the oppressed race they hate everybody everybody hates them but they
are cunts they are like they have no feeling no remorse they'll kill traitor
scum I feel like it suits the drow race as a as a dark urge because I don't know
exactly what dark urges but I know the whole game is pretty much different and
I'm pretty sure is very evil so I'm looking forward to that but I was gonna
start last night I thought am I mental am I fucking mental I've just finished a
hundred-hour journey on boulders gate don't start a new one let it fester for
a while let it simmer then we'll go back but at the moment it's all dragons dogma
or all guns are going and I'm looking forward to getting home and playing it
really really excited to be honest I didn't want to come here today because I
wanted to play dragons dogma but I'm a man of the people so here I am doing the
podcast listening everyone you enjoy that didn't want to come here but I had
to I wanted to play dragons dogma which is part of the podcast you know so yeah
I nearly oh I did stop I stayed up till 5 to 12 last night and it said five
minutes until I could play I was like I'm not starting it now I'm gonna start
in the morning in the morning fresh head fresh brain fresh coffee and we went
for it so yeah I'm looking forward to kind of making his character and then
nabbing him out the rift and then yeah then we're good to go and then if you
make one I'll nab yours as long as you're not called fucking stinky brains
or something stupid why would it be something stupid you always name your
character stupid toast slice stinky log yeah fucking poo head whatever else you
got apple sauce it's always stupid names cabri cow yeah yeah yeah decent names
you gotta be you gotta be special with it yeah that's why I create my own little characters
so yeah that's that for me I need a piss so we can carry on I can hold it or
no I got my posit I love a little nap there we are back where was he what was
he doing just finished up my segment although I will say gone I also have
more to add because I forgot how long his pins have been here two weeks go on I
also finished Final Fantasy 7 remake they some yep did that it's tough one
I didn't like it I didn't like where I got up to it was too much picking
flowers it was too much ball sound parks gonna be all over this it was it was
really it was really mind-numbingly boring yeah so I stopped playing it you
alright and I was playing Final Fantasy online mm-hmm obviously which is the
same shit that's different don't pick this up go get your share the way and
then we'll then I'll quickly touch on that so yeah and then I saw Final Fantasy
7 rebirth come out and everyone's going wild for it games amazing it's a lot of
good things open world it's completely different ways this one's very linear
very boring locales it was a bit shit well you know what fuck it I'm gonna do
it so what I did I put it on the easiest setting I just ran through everything
I didn't try and sidetracked to pick anything up just ran through it
absolutely blitz the game and when the story's going it's good it's really good
the stories really cool characters are cool I like all the twists and turns and
all that very good but all the all the mundane side quests I was just like no
but there's no way of like skipping certain things that are boring they just
have to do it you have to do it so it's like I have to fucking move this crate
over here with this mechanical arm and it's the world's burning in the
background but you go and pick ten cloves of garlic for the garlic farmer
basically that so yeah that shit that I had to do was horrible but the actual
story is really good so much so that I've bought Final Fantasy 7 rebirth
straight away jumped into that like a mad man is that the one where it's like
they've made it into split into three bits it's a split into three games the
original Final Fantasy 7 has been split into three games being so I'm saying
fucking the gaps huge and now Final Fantasy 7 rebirth which is obviously a
middle portion or however they've split the game so never played the original
to its completion but so far it's very fucking cool very beautiful very just so
much better in every conceivable way from the other one like every possible
way this is how a sequel should be or a second part of the game whatever you
want to look so much better on every level it's amazing but obviously it
doesn't matter anymore because Dragon's Dogma so what will happen is I'll go back and play
Final Fantasy 7 rebirth before they release the third one yeah because I
bought Final Fantasy 7 remake played it for 10 minutes for I don't like this
never played it again when rebirth was close to coming out I was like that looks
cool I want to smash through that so that's what's happened
Final Fantasy 7 rebirth has come out I'm enjoying it a lot
Dragon's Dogma has come out it's gonna get binned and then I'll play it before the third one
I am I'm so sick and tired of fucking fetch quests I I I can't Ash is in
jeopardy it's in jeopardy my mind's thinking of other things and I don't
know what to do to fucking help it because this this fucking this fucking
slog on Final Fantasy online between a realm reborn and and Heaven's Ward is
something that I've never I've never experienced anything like it in my life
it has got to be one of the most boring stories I think I've ever had the
displeasure of taking part in when it's good it's good when it's ramping up but
you get 200 quests of fuck all of baking cakes and speaking to this person and
then go over and speak to that person that's 10 foot away and then you've got
to travel to this place speak to that person for two words of dialogue
straight back to exactly where you just was to speak to the person who's then
gonna send you five feet away to fucking stroke a cat and then speak to that
person about how the cat was feeling and then go and speak to that person and
then eventually you might be able to attack something once and then you go
and speak to another hundred people big battle for five minutes wait in a queue
for a raid that's fucking ten years old for half an hour ten more minutes of
dialogue I'm sick of it join it yeah it's fucking um ah and I and I made the
fatal error of looking at like the Final Fantasy wiki because there's a whole
drop-down list of all the main scenario quest for every single expansion just to
see how many I had left and oh my god ah I'm I'm in the latter end but when I
first looked it I was like surely because obviously got the you got the
around reborn main story like main scenario requests and then after that
you got the little interlude between that and fucking Heaven's Ward and I was
like surely this can't be that big and then someone in a novice chat was like
no it's just as big as as around we brought and I was like there's there's
no fucking way and then obviously when you were doing it and you were telling
me about how much it fucking cuts down your experience gain fuck me I've been
level what my 57 or something like that for about 30 hours I just want to get to
70 so I can play a fucking Reaper but I can't because I've got slog through this
shit and every person I speak to it's like yeah the game was all about the
story it's immersive you need to you need to start paying attention I can't
with ten paragraphs of dialogue that's not voice acted that I've got no fucking
but I don't know what's going on the minute a cutscene goes on I hit escape
and get out of it straight away because I'm not paying attention I can't be
bothered I don't want to play this game anymore it's making me feel that way
no one's forcing you I know I know but I feel I feel so conflicted because all I
keep hearing from everyone is the game gets so good at the end and it's just
trying to get there I don't even think it's at the end it's just out of this shit
because I echo your sentiment and agree so boring it got there must have been
about I want to say at least three hours of one evening of me just going back and
forth without hitting anybody yeah and it was just talk talk talk talk and I
was like this is getting silly now and I even googled myself and I screenshot and
send it to you like I'm like I don't know eight missions away from finishing
it but they make missions or so 50 missions inside it inside it about the
same I'm gonna be wrong I'm all for a story driven game and obviously Square
Enix that that that's their bread and butter especially when it comes to
Final Fantasy it's all story driven I understand that but fucking hell like
this is this something else and at the same time it's so difficult because if
it was a hard no this is just how the game is full stop I'd fuck it off
straight away yes but the fact that everyone's saying literally the minute
you get into Heaven's Ward it starts fucking ramping up and then that's it
off you go it's fantastic there's voice acting all over the place fucking this
that they really you really learned from from their first release and fucking
listen to feedback and blah blah blah but it's not just trying to get there is
it's very hard I always maintained this even before I played it because I'd
always heard that the game was good you have to pull a hundred hours in before
it gets good as a no game should have a hundred hour time to play that is a
fucking tough one man but yeah no I'm in the same bar I won't be playing it for a
while because the Dragon's Dogma now I'm gonna be taking my sweet time with this
and enjoying it don't get me wrong it is fun it's a fun game I like the combat I
like the abilities I like it all I love the community very very fun I haven't
played it for a couple of days I'm planning on playing it today just to try
and fucking slowly because my plan now is to completely ignore any kind of lore
that's going on until I'm in Heavensward and then watch a fucking YouTube
gloss over of exactly what the diff what happens between around we born and
fucking Heavensward so I can catch up with the law because I can't I just need
like a little 15 minute video of some some American geezer telling me what the
fuck's going on and then I can crack on because I'm not I'm not interested it's
so bought even the voice acted scenes half of them I've just been skipping
them I get it it does get very mundane because I know the ends in sight and
because I've put so much time into it I have to at least get to Heavensward now
by Heavensward yeah I have to see what yeah if we agree if we get there and
it's not everything it's been hyped up to be we just leave it but what I don't
understand is what could change that much for it to because I don't understand
the way people go on about it's like a fucking night and day but don't
understand what could possibly change in that expansion that makes it that much
better like the game itself when you're playing it good fun but the the the
you'll still have to go and deliver berries the postman's and stuff like I
don't I don't get what will change I mean I definitely know that I'll finally
get the other half of my abilities please the fucking spell book with all
the abilities that are grayed out because I haven't hit fucking Heavensward
yet because it's been gated behind a thousand hours all that I can't wait
for that to then suddenly have to do a million quests to get my abilities and
then not know how the fuck to use them it's a difficult one right because you
could say the same about wow because in terms of the way because wow
structured differently right so you can just go on someone ago yeah except Bob
if you was forced to like late that dialogue role and just press X press X
press it or press click whatever then you would feel the same about well but
because you can just accept and go well it used to be like that with wow and
then they changed it and then it because it used to be the the the quest log
would scroll in that little parchment that comes up very slowly and then they
brought in a setting where you could then speed that up and then they brought
in a setting where it was just instant and now it's just fucking instant yeah
just click out of it but it's because it's funny enough it was it was yesterday
I was watching her a like a wow versus Final Fantasy online and having
obviously played a fair chunk of both now they are two completely different
beasts the the the end game goal is different World of Warcraft is very much
you're on a constant uphill climb for gear you're doing mythic plus you're
doing raiding that it is a race to get right to the very end and get the best
gear and keep going and every six months a new patch comes out and it's fucking
rinse and repeat something comes out and everything gets scaled up and blah blah
blah whereas Final Fantasy is the kind of like elder scrolls where the gear
once you get your gear gear set that's it it doesn't it like plateaus you don't
have to worry about I need to fucking do this latest raid to get this there's no
that that best in slot that that's in Wow doesn't necessarily exist to the
extent that it does in Wow so you're you're much more free to live your own
world if I want to fucking get to the end game and become a fisherman for the
rest of my life then so be it I'll go deep-sea fishing if I want to just
spend all my money in the casino then then so be it like you've got that kind
of freedom and I'm just trying to work out which beast I want to fucking be a
part of you know I mean I feel like you need to get I need to get to the end of
the fucking of the second beast to work out which one I hate the least don't
feel like you're playing the game that everyone else is yet or we aren't
playing the game everyone else is yet it's had moments well footage is really
good there's also been a lot of moments where I thought I've done it and then I
haven't the raids that you have to jump into or the trials they're fun as fuck
yeah the the animations and the the graphics and the abilities that you have
really fucking cool like the combat wires I really like it it's really cool
and that one of the final missions where halfway through that machine comes down
that mountain you get and you just start blasting through I was like this is
this is not single player game yeah very cool it's very fun but it's just more
of that one yeah the fucking slog to get there is incredible it must it must just
be amazing once you get through because there's no way that percentage that
many people would preach that I wasn't true I asked in the notice some
substance I was in a novice chat the other day I said how do you see your
time played because obviously I'm why you just put forward slash played and it's
forward slash I think it was like P time and then it and then it comes up
saving well and tell you and mine was like what was it it was like a couple of
days or some shit like that and there was a geezer in the novice chat who had
like a crown emblem on his name so he's obviously fucking big week 338 days on
that character he had played 338 days I did the fucking I did the maths this
morning because I wanted to really work that out so that was 338 days 8,112
hours minimum that person's put into one character 8,000 hours now crazy days
that's impressive it's very impressive so the game must be fucking good for you
to do that for sure it has to be and that's my fucking that's my run over
basically I don't see I can see on you how long I've played it for but it's
been quite a fucking while hmm but no I'll be honest I really like it and I
will definitely go back to it will be the MMO I stick with just because it
just suits me right it can pick it up and put it down yeah for sure very easy
World of Warcraft you can't it to be fair if if wow was on console I'd
probably stay well because I like the aesthetic but I just I much enjoy playing
console too much to play well one of one of the the main comparisons between the
two is is graphics and like most people say that Final Fantasy has far superior
graphics but I sit on the side of I prefer well I prefer that artistic style
to it and I think what I've also got which is conflict in my brain is
obviously I'm reading a lot of the books so you've got an affinity with me as 15
years worth of fucking gameplay for me so I already love the game and the
characters in it I'm now reading the book so I'm getting fucking sinking my
teeth right into the fucking law and because I know the game inside out I
know what I'm reading and it's like just giving me that little bit of extra
fucking love you know I mean yeah I completely understand that tasty not
it's not the graphics are the graphics I take or leave with either game I think
they're both fine but aesthetically I'm more dungeons dragons monsters you know
fucking demons whereas Final Fantasy's bunnies yeah bunnies and people driving
around and flying cars and stuff well I'm like no I like dragons and and
fucking like big demons coming out of volcanoes and stuff that's my jam where
I feel like Final Fantasy is more just it's not that if you know I mean I
think it does get there and there's been times in the game where it has got to
that level as well but yeah at the moment World War X got that darker tone
and I like the darker tone well I'm just trying to see exactly where I am and
yeah I'm in the I'm pretty sure I'm in the latter half of oh no I'm not yeah
I've done the the Ank the Akaka fa and amphitheater you know that trial you've
got to do that one on hard is one of the last one of the latter ones and then
I've got yeah there's maybe fucking millions was that like maybe another 30
fucking quests to do until I'm in Heaven's Ward so I'll be 30 with about
fucking 30 in between of each fucking quest I'm trying to see I'm sure I sent
you the quest logs or where I was at but I can't seem to find they they cut out
over a hundred quests as well from that and you know what's even more griping
what's even more worse is I can't remember the date but with the next
update that's coming out like the next big one they're introducing a skip for
all of this a skip to fucking like towards the end of of the expansions so
but so so I'm now like I'm now do I want to wait for that skip and not have to
endure this or do I want to be able to say no no I did this and I didn't miss
out on anything I cracked on so I think I'm at like I think I'm I'm between 201
and 205 but I'm not sure which one and that's the rest of them but I don't know
how many are you further than that or before that what's 201 205 what's that
on your obviously I know there's a question and uninvited Asian and then
because my one here doesn't have numbers an uninvited Asian I've got an
inspected I'm trying to I want uninvited Asian yes you're you're a little bit
further than me so I'm I'm currently was that like one two three four five six
seven eight nine I'm nine behind you and then after that you've got another one
two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen
fifteen sixteen seventeen more chapter thingies you've got you've got two more
until you're in the the the part two like the final part of this yeah I knew
that because I went into the you can go into your in and you can look at the
yeah storybook thing and it tells you whereabouts you are in the thing but it
doesn't tell you how many are in there because I suppose that's another thing
as well is that you can go into your in and look at that law if you wanted a
quick recap of everything I'd imagine you can go on that and then just press
play and then away you go and you can fucking watch it all over again I'd
quite I'd be quite interested to see how they how that pairs together because
obviously it's all the cutscenes but the couple of the cutscenes won't make sense
if it's missing out all the ones that don't have dialogue that makes sense yeah
I don't know I wanna see I think you're right I think just going on YouTube and
doing the fucking realm reborn recap is just enough and it'll just be basically
what you did with Final Fantasy that one we bought the love we love for five
minutes and then realized it was shit oh yeah five minutes that's the one I
don't think I watched the end of the cutscenes that's what I plan to do but I
never did I did it with Guardians of the Galaxy yeah yeah because I just had
enough of the combat I liked all the story in that is the combat I just hated
it so yeah I watched all the cutscenes and I just watched the end of the game I
loved that game man the game was very good just combat grew old for me quickly
before we wrap up did you see the World of Warcraft Battle Royale? What? You've seen
that? No. World of Warcraft Battle Royale? Like an actual game? Extremely fun. What do you mean?
Extremely fun perfect for a controller I might add absolutely perfect for it
what is it? They announced a limited time event so they they had a patch coming
out on their roadmap and it was just a like a pirate symbol you know almost
what can this be what can this be and basically what it is is it it's an
interim patch between now and the war within or when the next patch comes
over like Fated Raiden or like Bollocks to keep people sweet and it's it's a
battle royale and it's called plunder storm and it's all like pirate themed
and it's your typical like drop in on a fucking rather than a ship you're on
like a parrot that drops you into a place called a rafi basin and it's
completely separate from World of Warcraft it's in a completely separate
mode so when you log in and you got your character screen at the top left it says
like a war within so the current whatever and then next to it is plunder
storm you click on that swaps you over into a different fucking login screen
and there's a character and typical fucking battle royale fashion it's up
to 60 player games you drop in however there's no guns or anything like that
completely overhauled the spells there's all completely different spells and
abilities and stuff but you can only pick up four of them at any given time
that's good and they can upgrade right and it's obviously you got the typical
zone that's closing in but there's NPCs and monsters and stuff like that and you
can kill them and level up and as you level up your health goes up when your
damage goes up and then sometimes they might drop spells you pick up a spell
there's one called like firestorm well if you kill an enemy and it drops
firestorm again it then upgrades from fucking like stat like good to like
uncommon and then to rare and then epic like the gear does in WoW and it's yeah
it's fucking fun man because the combat is completely different it's not
clicking on someone and then attacking it's more Elder Scrolls type combat
kind of similar to that it's very very very unique and I've been having a lot
of fun with it it's very cool very strange we never expected that yeah no
I don't think anyone fucking expected it but yeah for from a controller point of
view so you have your bog standard weapon so like like your sword which is
like which you can just normal like hack and slash with and then the button next
to that is your health potion which is just on like a 30 second cooldown that I
think will heal you like two-thirds of your health while you're channeling it
you basically like chug from like this big blood casket thing and then yeah
you've got your four abilities at the end that you have to obviously find and
loot and there's all chests and stuff which are like dotted around the map
that are like plunder and all this bollocks there's a it's a battle pass
but obviously for WoW it's like a renowned scale you remember them so it's
one of them where there's all cosmetics and mounts that you can get from that
that that translate over to in-game because the characters on this battle
royale have absolutely they're nothing to do with your characters in World of
Warcraft absolutely nothing you can create like you can change your
character for every single game and you get to pick all the every single race
and you can make her so you can make a war going one game and then you can
fucking change it to a gnome the next and then you can make an orc whatever
and yeah there's like 40 tears on this renowned thing with cool cosmetics and
shit like that and they all go into the main game into the main game that's cool
yeah it's decent man real decent I'm having a lot of fun with it it's just
one of them very easy fucking pick up and put it down type quite quick games
when you when you jump in there gives you a couple of little quests it might
be like going kill two elite mobs within the within the area and yeah it's just
fun man they've got solos and duos so far I don't like limited time modes
though cuz that's the problem with it and it well I feel like they're really
good then you want them to stay I think that's what they're doing they're
testing the waters to see if this is a new pathway because basically from what
I was reading one of the guys that's come on to the development team was the
head of or was in charge of making a game it was called like like spells ward
or some shit like that which is a very very very similar makeup to this battle
royale so everyone's like it makes perfect sense that now this person's
come over to the development team on Wow suddenly about a royal comes out which
is very very similar to that kind of makeup of whatever that game was called
it's just about a way out that's quite unique because obviously every other
battle Royale is going to pick up the guns and fucking shoot people whereas
this one is pick up these different spells and already they've been patch
notes and earth this and fucking buff that and bloody bloody blah a lot of
people are shitting on it but I'm with the crew that says we don't like it
don't fucking play it it's free yeah I agree but I think you have to have an
active an active sub to be able to play it that's fair enough though but it's
very fun it's very very fun reason I say I'll be daisies for controllers because
there's only seven no six buttons yeah that's that's why like that's why like
early gaming RPGs because I'm not overwhelmed yeah I Dragon's Dog more
I've got I start off with fucking I've got a healing fucking globe thing that
put my staff up and I can heal anyone that's in the globe so I call rain over
my get my boy or I've got a little arcane blast thing that swing about or
I've got a fire spell that comes out like a flame thrower but to do like more
powerful suppose you have to channel it so you hold your staff up yeah you get
this like glowing thing and then when it's finished then you can say with
some of the abilities on this you know but the the channeling thing and all
that but that's cool because I'll master these three know what they are and then
I can move on to other abilities and also then you can switch classes right so
you can dual class like a sorcerer that also can use a spear mm-hmm so yeah
there's the staff with four classes but they also dive old into multi classes
like the I don't know if it's coming be exactly called but I think there was
something called a night strider or sat in in Dragon's Dog more one so you can
start off as a fighter mage archer or thief or rogue or whatever but you say
you start as the archer you can later down the line turn that into like a like
a night strider the air bow and arrow and daggers yeah so yeah you can split
them up yeah very cool I just want to go and play Jason
but I won't be able to anyway because I've got kids fuck me I guess what a
great fucking week for gaming yeah it's really good everyone fucking go and
listen to this go and enjoy your games and we'll speak to you next week we love
stir