Hit us with the fucking...
Hit us with the levels, Prince!
Let's go!
Are we on?
Yeah.
Oh, hello.
Hi.
Hi, guys.
I'm back.
Thank you, Connor, for sitting in.
You don't stand up job.
And I did listen.
Obviously.
As I let you know, because I said I wasn't being horrible to dwarves.
Um...
Yeah.
Good episode.
Well done.
Fantastic.
It was alright, wasn't it?
Oh, fucking hell.
Fucking hell.
I've got it for the PlayStation now.
I know.
I've been watching.
I've been watching you.
It's...
It's very exciting.
It was a bit of a...
Well, no, it weren't a cunt setting up the...
Cross saves, but you have to manually go into the settings on Steam and then do it on...
It's all in-game.
And then do it on the PlayStation.
And then you've got to sync it all up.
But like, half the saves didn't fucking sync up.
So I had to...
I had to go onto Steam.
Do a quick save.
And then you have to wait for it to upload it to the cloud.
And then you go onto the PlayStation, turn that on, and then it fucking...
It syncs it all up and then...
Blah-dee-blah.
I think by the looks of it, it should do it pretty auto.
I can't put into words how happy I was that you were playing Baldur's Gate.
I genuinely exasperated.
I went, huh!
It's decent, man.
Don't get me wrong.
But...
Because Connor was like...
He was like, oh, another apology episode coming.
I've never said a bad word about it.
I know you didn't.
I've never said anything iffy about it.
I've always maintained that I was happy to pay my 120 quid now.
You've always G'd them up and said respect them, but it's just not a game that I enjoy.
Just weren't for me.
But obviously the fucking...
It's all changed now.
After our D&D session, I was like, you know what?
I'll give this another little tickle.
I mean, I haven't played a massive amount since the last time because obviously the
new season of WoW started, so it's been a bit like...
But I jumped on it and played it on controller rather than mouse because I started it up,
did a new save, made a fighter, just a bog standard human fighter called Zeema, and thought
I'll give it a crack on mouse and keyboard again.
Instantly I was like, this is awful.
This is the worst movement style ever created.
It's horrible and whoever thought it was a good idea should be burned in hell because
they shouldn't have to click and move and then move the camera around with WASD and
Q&A.
It's horrible.
It's a horrible way to do it.
So I plugged the controller and I was like, this is amazing.
So this is so much better.
This is way better.
Got into a couple of fights, fucking did some dialogue and Steph was laying in bed watching.
She was like, do you want to do that?
Maybe you should talk to this person.
She was like, I'll let you play.
I'll let you figure it out yourself.
Then yeah, what was it?
12, 13 hours in, something like that.
And boom, here we are, fucking all over it.
So I was like, oh well, I'll buy it for the PlayStation because it was Connor that was
like, you know it's cross save.
I was like, shit, is it?
And then we Googled it and it was like, yeah, yeah, it's cross save and it's quite easy
to set up.
I was like, fucking hell because obviously I want to play it on the Steam Deck as well
and where that's obviously all up onto the Steam cloud.
It's very easy.
And then yeah, I was like, oh fucking hell because obviously Steph hasn't played Baldur's
Gate for a while and having seen me then get quite heavy into it, she's obviously like,
I want to fucking jump in.
And yeah, once I found out it was cross save, I was like, right, I'll buy it for the PlayStation
because that way either of us can fucking play it whenever we want, like simultaneously
if we really wanted to.
So yeah, that's where we are at the moment.
So I'll probably, I might get some time in over the weekend or to be fair, I'm quite
happy plodding along doing whatever I'm doing and Steph fucking play it on the PlayStation.
That's mainly the reason why I got it because graphics are better on the PC than they are
on the PlayStation, I won't lie.
So I'm happy either way.
It's good.
It'll be a slow burn.
Oh yeah.
It's funny that we've done it the opposite way.
So I played Baldur's Gate and then was like, I really want to play D&D and you played D&D
and was like, I want to play Baldur's Gate.
But are you seeing the similarities between the D&D and then the, because things are making
more sense already.
Massively.
Wait, let me just open that door.
You ever see them videos where they're like the air doesn't move?
It's like that.
There we go.
Yeah, definitely that short, what fucking seven, eight hour D&D session that we did
made it so much more enjoyable and understandable because I was like, oh, I've got to do a skill
check for it.
Nice to see that my rolls are still wanking fucking Baldur's Gate as opposed to, what
was it?
I was unlocking a door or something that I needed a 10.
Oh no, no, no.
Sorry.
I was unlocking a door.
I needed a two.
I rolled a one.
All right.
And then because I got no charisma, minus one.
So I rolled a fucking zero.
Did that twice.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Absolute bollocks.
Oh, what a game.
I did start again.
I just started.
It's Solax Astaria.
Yeah.
Oh, you made him on fucking, yeah.
Made the drow Sorcerer, I believe he is.
He's doing the Dark Urge path.
I've literally only just got out the Nautiloid and onto the beach.
I haven't done it really.
I just started, but it feels good to be back.
Although I haven't played it since because, steam decking that.
You've been banging the steam deck away, yeah.
So yeah, the steam deck is here.
She's beautiful.
Two weeks ago.
Oh yeah.
It's been fucking two weeks.
I forgot that you bought it, to be fair.
It's good, isn't it?
Is it good, yeah?
This might be the best thing I've ever bought.
Yeah.
It's that good.
It's a different fucking mindset on gaming, isn't it?
It's a weird one.
But then I bought it and I didn't, for like the first three days, didn't buy a game.
Yeah.
I was just like, I don't know what to do.
I was paralysed by choice.
I was on this deck.
I was on the store just looking.
Exactly what I was like.
I was like, what are you doing?
There's a lot of games on there that I'm like, but I can just play on PlayStation so I don't
bother.
So I'm like, what do I want to play?
So I bought Stardew Valley.
I love it.
I put it in, I don't know how many hours, 10, 12 hours.
Play it every night.
It's the most peaceful, lovely, delicious, wholesome, beautiful little game I've ever
played.
It is fantastic.
Chopping wood, fishing, mining.
You can play Valheim on Steam, don't you?
Yeah.
Valheim.
I've wishlist loads of shit.
Yeah.
Loads of shit, man.
I've wishlist stuff all over the shop.
Have you gone into desktop mode yet?
I did it once and then went straight back.
Scared the fuck out of me.
I don't like it.
Get me back.
Did you update it at all?
I just did everything it told me to do.
Whatever updates it needed.
You're decent.
I'm good.
Wishlist, V-Rising, obviously.
War Tales, which has just come out.
No, Mana Lords, which has just come out, sorry.
War Tales, Hades 2, and Project Zomboid.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Project Zomboid.
Very cool looking game.
I've done a lot of research on that.
It's probably my next pick up.
As close as you can get to real post-apocalyptic zombie,
that's sort of like as real survival as you can probably get.
It's funny that you mentioned it because it was literally a TikTok
I was watching the other morning while I was having some fucking breakfast
of a guy, he was like, he's like, here's my idea for the best
like survival zombie game that has never been created.
And the guys are basically just listed off all the shit that's already in DayZ
and then is in fucking Project Zomboid.
And everyone in the comments was saying that.
They were like, your perfect game is already out.
It's this, this, and this.
Yeah, it looks very good.
It's like a more, it's like a friendlier DayZ.
But it looks serious, if you know what I mean.
It's gritty.
Yeah, it's very cool.
I think that's perfect up my alley, perfect for the Steam Deck as well.
I've also been playing a little game called No Rest for the Wicked.
No Rest for the Wicked.
Never heard of it, don't you?
No.
Made by the same people as Ori and Ori and the Wisp.
Nope, lost on me.
Anyway, very, very good.
Massive, massive game.
Big, like probably one of the most hyped up indie titles.
For God knows how long.
Described it as a Diablo, or not a Diablo, it's like an ARPG.
It's very good.
I don't even know how to explain it to you.
Look at it.
What was it called again?
No Rest for the Wicked.
It's got like the Diablo, the Diablo...
No Rest for the Wicked.
View, so it's like top down-y kind of thing.
But it's not a Diablo kind of game at all.
It's very Souls-like.
It's very much like combat.
It's resource gathering.
Yeah, it looks pretty fucking...
How much was it?
Seven out of ten on Steam?
Yeah, the reviews have been terrible because...
No Rest for the Wicked is an action role-playing game developed by Moon Studios
and published by Private Division.
Set in the year 841, the player assumes control of a holy warrior
who must travel to the island of Isola Sacra
to investigate a plague named the Pestilence.
There you go.
Why is it bad reviews?
Because the performance was awful.
But bearing in mind it came out six...
It's early access, by the way.
So fuck the reviews. It's early access.
You know, you can have an opinion, but it's not the final product.
But yeah, it's not a great performance,
but bearing in mind it came out six days ago as of yesterday.
It's had five updates in six days.
So they are like...
And they're like all over what does the community want?
And people are saying to them, look, be careful.
Don't let the community make your game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, make the game you want to make.
Have a presence and then the people that...
Eventually the people that are whinging,
if they still don't like your game, well then it's not the game for them.
They can fuck off and play something else.
Exactly.
Everyone can't just keep...
It's not exactly a peachy world to explore, but the compelling characters
with top-notch voice performances and depressing vibes
of a beautiful world gone terribly wrong are both exceedingly well done
and quickly become an extremely alluring reason to press on
through each harrowing area and lethal boss.
Very cool.
Seems like the kind of perfect game for the Steam Deck.
It is.
So here's what somebody tweeted...
This is something he tweeted earlier.
What are your folks' plans for multiplayer?
Because you're doing multiplayer as well.
I'm guessing most people want to play single-player realm and main there
and have another realm that they share with their friends, but let's hear it.
Keep in mind what we're trying to do is advance multiplayer
beyond what Diablo and Souls do, et cetera.
Meaning we'll allow you to create a persistent realm for up to four players
that's always online and doesn't require a host.
So if you share a realm with your friend, they can keep farming,
raiding and progressing stuff, even if you're offline.
A party will have to communicate and coordinate,
and loot is first come first serve because we'll ultimately want players
to have to argue and debate about who gets what.
People voted for single and multiplayer.
And someone commented,
saying, I'd hoped this would turn into a semi-MMO maybe in a future expansion.
And they said, we're not really interested in competing in the MMORPG space.
Instead, we want to create our own niche where we can do all the things
that you can't do in a single player RPG and can't do in an MMORPG.
I want to be able to play together with friends,
but I also want to still have all of us be able to have an effect on the world.
MMORPGs by nature are basically like theme parks.
One group goes and kills Arthas.
Five minutes later, Arthas has to be respawned again,
so the next group can have a go at it.
I always thought that's really immersion breaking.
Instead, if one player in Wicked manages to do something,
the citizens of Isola, Sakura should react to that,
so they should build you a goddamn statue if you manage to make their lives better, et cetera.
So I think this is like a game for the long haul.
Obviously, it's early access,
but the idea of what they're saying is really cool of the persistent realm.
So you can log on, do your shit.
I log on and go, oh, you've done that. That's well good.
And you haven't got to be on together and all that nonsense.
Everyone wants games like that to sort of break into the MMO space,
but it's beyond the point where there's no fucking point.
I'm with them on make your own identity, do your own thing,
and if it works, it works.
I feel like the minute you try and label a game like that as an MMO,
it's always going to be compared to the fucking Big Daddy.
Always. As every MMO does.
And they never stand up to it.
Otherwise, they'd be at the top of the podium, and they're not.
But MMOs are not what they used to be anyway.
MMOs are not what they used to be, but neither is gaming.
MMOs were like a place where everyone went and played.
But now, most MMOs, I'd say probably even World of Warcraft to some degree,
you can play solo completely.
You don't really need other players, and when you do, you can just dungeon queue.
And you can do it with NPCs now, right?
They're not what they used to be anyway.
They're just single-player games with multiplayer if you want it.
MMOs are like most gaming.
They're an evolution of the times.
If MMOs stayed exactly the same how they used to be,
they wouldn't be as popular as they currently are now.
That's why.
But you can get taste of the old school, like with something like WoW Classic.
That is just vanilla WoW, but obviously now it's gone to fucking Burning Crusade,
and now it's fucking Wrath Classic, and now it's going to be Cataclysm Classic.
So that's not even fucking vanilla anymore.
But things have to adapt.
Realistically, you now, as who you are and the fucking family that you have
and the life that you lead, and same from my perspective,
do not have as much time as you did when you were fucking 16,
when you were younger, when you were a teenager, gaming.
And most of us who have grown up with gaming still game now.
So developers have to adapt to that because they have also grown up,
and you can't keep rolling with the same shit that you did when we were all teenagers
because we can't fucking do it.
We can't. Yeah, World of Warcraft, you can play as a solo character,
and most people do, unless you're lucky enough like me where you have a guild,
but even then I play mostly on my own,
because if you needed to group up to do every single bit of content,
yes, that would be more fun.
However, it would take so much fucking longer and nothing would get done
and only the people who can sweat it and spend hours and hours playing it
will get anywhere, which will just push everyone else out.
You've got to have a balance somewhere.
So yeah, fucking don't, they don't need to be an MMO.
This game does not need to delve into that.
No, and I don't know why it would even be suggested that it's to go into the MMO realm,
because there's not one part of that game that looks MMO to me.
Because everyone wants a fucking fresh MMO that's never going to happen
because you've already got people fucking concreted at the top.
But they're trying to compare it to Diablo, but Diablo is not an MMO.
Diablo is a single player game with other players running about in it.
Yeah, Diablo is not an MMO.
So just because there's other players in the world doesn't mean it needs to have an MMO tag.
I think No Rest for the Wicked, I still don't really know what it is,
because I started on the ship, you do your little bollocks walking about meeting people,
ship crashes, you end up on a beach, and then it's like, off you go.
And then you're just wandering around a beach, and then I went into an area,
and it said, yeah, it was quite hard, and then I died, and it was like, yeah, this is hard.
And they even have a weapon for the first hour.
I was punching people. I can find a weapon.
I think all the loot's random, so that's fucking cool as fuck.
I love that. Even when you open a chest, it's all random.
And then, yeah, you can find different weapons and all sorts of shit,
but I'm finding things to dig up and mine, and it's like, oh, you need a shovel to dig this,
and you need a pickaxe to mine this, and you need a fishing rod to fish here, and rah, rah, rah.
And you need an axe to chop down trees and stuff.
But I'm like, why am I collecting wood? I don't know what that's for.
Yeah, what am I doing this for?
Yeah, so I don't know what that entails.
But the way it's suggested here is that you're building stuff and rah, rah, rah, rah.
So I think if they can go down the road of what they're doing,
because it's already unique because it's Diablo-style, but Soul Combat, so it's punishing.
It's hard, but it's got the isometric view.
If they can just get multiplayer in terms of a bit of co-op and a bit of like Soulsborne, PVP, like Elden Ring,
where you can just fight other people, that'd be enough.
I don't think you don't need fucking hundreds of people running around the world.
The idea to have a consistent server that your friends can just drop in and out of,
that's always a nice thing when you can drop into somewhat like a dedicated server
that doesn't require the host to be involved with it.
Enshrouded, I believe, does that, but you have to, I think you have to essentially pay for the server
in order to like to have a dedicated server.
And yeah, that sounds extremely difficult to uphold with the,
if you kill a boss within this world, then that's it, that boss is dead.
And if one person's done it out of the fucking six people in this realm, then so be it.
But at the same time, it does sound very cool.
And yeah, you do want people to fucking argue over certain things
because it just creates a little bit of fucking turmoil and excitement.
If you're all fighting a boss and two of you are after the same thing and that thing drops,
you fucking, right, well, now we've got to fight out over this.
It makes things interesting, man.
It also piss people off, but fuck it, I like it.
But it makes you want to go and grind out that big gear yourself.
Yeah, yeah.
And they're also talking about, I can't find it right now,
but I still don't really know what the game is, so I'm still finding out.
But they were talking about just allowing trading,
like through realms, just letting people trade whatever the fuck they wanted.
Because why not?
And then if it's not working for the game, they'll change it.
Get rid of it.
But why not just let people try and do it, yeah, and just give it a go.
So at the moment, I think it's very good, very, very, very good.
This is what early access is for, though.
100%.
Early access is to be utilite.
I wish that people's outlooks on early access could be fucking changed,
because I feel like every game, especially on Steam,
is in fucking early access now.
I feel like a lot of people have just lost sight of what early access is,
like you literally started with.
Don't listen to the fucking reviews.
It's early access.
None of it matters.
You can't, it doesn't make any difference.
Same with fucking WoW.
The WoW we're in is going through open beta, closed beta at the moment.
And anything that happens within that,
it does not matter for when it actually releases.
So for example, an arms warrior is at the very fucking top of the DPS by a long shot.
They're absolutely killing it in the beta.
They're going to be nerfed to fuck.
It will all balance out.
So it poses absolutely no relevance to when the game actually releases.
And that's the same with games on Steam that are in early access.
So many people review bomb shit and have a go and go,
oh, this is shit, you need to do this, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But all people play the game and then just complain because it's buggy or it's broken
or there's bits that are missing.
And so it's early access.
What do you, the only time when it takes the piss is if a game stayed in early access
for fucking ever and still hasn't fully released.
Then yeah, you're like, well, what the fuck are we still in early access for?
It came out now.
Six days ago.
Yeah, seven or six days ago as of yesterday.
And they've done five updates.
It's early access and they've done five updates.
Do you know what I mean?
They obviously want it to work.
I don't think they should be allowed to review without massive disclaimers.
It's just been like, this is early access because I knew it was early access.
It still cost me like 30 quid or whatever it was.
And I was on the fence because I watched a lot of people say they loved it and it was their game of the year.
And a lot of people were saying, but also saying the performance was shocking and it's really bad.
And sometimes dipping down to like 20 frames a second and certain moments and stuff like that.
But then I was like, but that is never going to, it's never, they're never going to allow it to stay like that.
And this is early access.
So if the game is that good and it's just the performance, then I'll jump in now because they're going to fix that.
And I've never been, and this is why the Steam deck is so good for me.
I've never really been someone to jump into early access.
I've always had to wait for the 1.0 build to come out.
So to be able to experience this game now and then maybe to see what it's like in a year's time, if it comes out in a year or sooner, I don't know.
To just be like, ah, remember when this fucking, when you started on the beach and you had no weapon and now look, you know, just to experience that's going to be cool.
If you're jumping into an early access game, you need to understand that you can't jump in and complain and berate the game and the developers.
You need to constructively criticize.
That's what you need.
You need to bug report.
You need to give feedback on what's going on.
You can't buy.
Also, you paid money for it.
You haven't paid money for a full game.
You're not entitled to if there's performance issues to just give it a poor review and complain.
You you have essentially paid to be a beta player.
So be a beta player.
You've paid the fucking money to join that club.
So be one.
If the performance is shit, don't fucking write it a poor review.
Get hold of the fucking developers through whatever toolkit they've got within the game to fucking report stuff and explain what's going on.
Be that person.
It's an early access game.
That's your job.
Regardless of if you paid for it or if you've got it for free, it's early access.
It's in beta.
You you need to test it.
You're a games tester when you play it on the Steam Deck when something happens.
And I'm not saying because a lot of people don't.
I myself, I'm not someone where if a bug comes up, chances are I'm not going to report it because I'll just wash over.
It's not that big of a deal.
But if something comes up and it is bugging you, then just fucking say, you know, I mean, but say it in the right way, because all that happens is when you're when you're looking when you got a price tag of thirty five quid in your early access and it's been review bombed because there's some performance issues because it's fucking early access, then you're just going to harm that game even more because most people when it comes into full game will see those reviews and go over it was shit in early access.
Then fucking what's it going to be like now?
Well, is a developer Thomas Malar.
He tweeted just say it's a very good tweet.
We're not even a week into early access.
And it's already pretty clear that going with early access is one of the best decisions we could have made.
I see some people still irked about why games are wicked.
Hades to Larry and his new game, et cetera, launch into early access, even if the studio should have should have the funds to finish the game and release it then.
But that's looking at a complex problem through a way too simple lens.
I think his games become more and more complex and sophisticated.
We'll see some form of early access happening more and more often.
Speaking from our own experience, there's just no way we could either have shipped wicked one point or without being able to see all the data we're seeing now and getting all the feedback from users.
Of course not. And I mean actual users, not a focused testing group.
Even if we'd had two to three times the staff, it would have been quite simply impossible.
The product is just way too complex of a beast to reasonably expect that nine women can't make a baby in a month.
And even even historically speaking, I think some games would have benefited from early access even before early access with the thing.
Imagine Dark Souls one would have been in early access instead of from rushing to ship a box product in a somewhat cyberpunk.
They probably would have been able to look at the second half of that game and still fully form and polish the less polished areas like lost eyes, etc.
You could just do that through updates and DLC.
I hear you say no, oftentimes you can't shipping games is always incredibly difficult and stressful.
Most of the time it means making quite drastic compromises, especially if your product is trying to accomplish something new.
And if you don't know that, it's OK to bring in certain features and scope after the fact.
You'll just end up cutting before you hit the market.
So even if you dislike the idea of early access, it's one way to allow developers to truly perfect a product over time.
So please try to understand that there's value in that.
I'm confident that we will see games being created for early access programs that would have never been made without it.
And to that effect, we will need to see PlayStation and Nintendo also embrace early access.
The industry is changing at a rapid pace and holding on to things that were the norm five to ten years ago is too restrictive.
Ultimately, people just want to play great games.
It shouldn't matter how the game is developed, just that it was.
And if players can't play some great experience on your platform, you're doing your audience a disservice.
What a guy.
Very good tweet.
It is. And he's completely right.
Because correct me if I'm wrong, Power World is in early access, right?
It is.
Because I could only play on Xbox because PlayStation doesn't allow early access.
Which is frustrating.
That is one of the good things about Xbox is you can play early access titles.
But once again, not enough.
There's plenty of games.
See, I'm in an iron now because that game that I really want to play, V-Rising, the vampire one,
that comes out next week, I believe, or week after.
We've controller support, Steam Deck support, all that.
Do I get it on the Steam Deck or do I get it on the PlayStation?
Now I don't know.
It's very difficult.
Is it cross-save?
I don't know.
It's always worth it.
If it's cross-save, then 100 percent I'll get it on both if I like it that much.
But then I've got the added advantage, another reason why I bought No Rest for the Wicked,
your words are ringing true in my ear.
If I don't like it, play it after an hour and 59 minutes, I refund it.
I get my money back and I realise this is not for me and the performance is shit.
Steam makes it very, very easy to return games.
That's why I think within two hours of No Rest for the Wicked, you would know,
one, if that game is for you, and two, if the performance is not up to snuff you.
So just refund it and then leave your comments yourself because it's not a full release.
So don't shit on the game.
Constructive criticism, like you said, is perfect.
Yeah, they just need feedback.
You think how many games, I can't fucking spring to mind because I'm not heavy in early access games,
but there has to be a long list of games that were put into early access and then fucking diminished
because people review bombed or said very bad things that just tanked it.
Because it's not just the game itself.
There's people behind that screen that are then making that game.
We do this podcast every fucking week.
Sometimes we feel up to it, sometimes we don't.
It's just how the fucking world works.
It depends how our week's gone.
But we're here. We do it consistently.
It's very fun.
If we just kept getting feedback all the time, serious feedback of saying how shit our podcast was,
you're not going to want to do it anymore.
You're going to go, I don't want to do this anymore because I'm not getting any.
I'm not doing this for fucking good praise.
We're doing this because we enjoy it.
But at the same time, if every episode you're releasing is just people saying,
that episode was wank fucking, you're talking about shit, you're not going to want to keep pumping out episodes.
It's demoralizing.
I felt that would be the same for developers.
Last tweet, someone asked about the multiplayer and how it's going to work with story and stuff like that.
This is what they're planning.
He said, one, right now we're not planning to lock characters to realms.
There's been major debates about that in our team and we might still change this.
I think we should allow just allow global trading and see what happens.
Which is fucking cool to story can be progressed even if you're not there.
We'll probably do a last time on thing so that you get updated on what happened on your realm while you were away last time.
That's pretty cool.
Again, lots of debates happening around this subject, but ultimately we think it's best to let players decide.
Ideally, we'd want the multiplayer realms to feel a bit like playing D&D.
And when a new story update drops, folks should party up and play it together.
Same way people party up to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones back when it was great.
Three, Friendly Fire will be on by default.
We tried without Friendly Fire and four players wailing on a mob is just not fun.
We want players having to be careful and play tactically.
Four, PvP will be part of our multiplayer update.
At first you'll be able to play against other players within our arenas.
Invasions are something we're still thinking about.
And five, if we detect people cheating you'll get flagged and only matched up with other players you've cheated.
Will there be some ranked PvP system?
Yes, I think we all want to know who the top ten most wiki players in the world are.
And I noticed there are only three houses in sacrament for purchase.
I was wondering will houses be shared between players or does each player have their own personal space?
There will be more player houses and yes they'll be shared.
First come first serve so you better snatch up the primary estate while the getting's good.
See I haven't reached the city yet, I'm still on the beach.
But like I say, I'm not going to go anymore because I've already spore-shitted for myself.
But the point of the matter is, the game's not even fully out so you can't even play to the end.
Because it's early access, it only goes up to a certain point.
But I love it and the idea of what they want.
I can't believe you haven't heard of Ori and Willow Wisp.
They have mad reviews bro.
They're like a highly coveted developer because of Ori.
Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Willow Wisp.
Massive games for them is what really put them on the map.
10 out of 10s and 90 on Metacritic.
They're huge.
You would have seen it at least.
Yeah, the picture of Ori sitting there on a branch seems to ring a bell.
I think maybe I've seen Steph not play it but look at it possibly.
Yeah, they're massive games in the indie community.
Well known because of that.
Everyone was hyped about this.
But because of their previous games and what their plan is for this,
I think this game's going to be a monster.
When it releases in 1.0 and it's actually got a marketing campaign behind it
and a year of early access, I think this game's going to be a monster when it comes out.
The real estate thing is cool.
It's kind of like fucking real life.
You get in while it's fucking nice and cheap and easy to obtain
and then just fucking sit on it so no one else in the fucking future can buy a property.
Until they offer you loads of money or they kill you for it.
He did make an interesting point earlier about the MMO stuff that I've never really thought about
but he's right.
It is immersion breaking when you kill someone and then you wait
and then you have to wait for them to come back to kill them.
But there's no real other way for MMOs to do that.
If they can find a way to...
I mean it's different because it's not an MMO.
So I don't really know how that would impact this game.
It's immersion breaking in a sense of, yeah, from a role play perspective
like with Arthas the Lich King.
Is that who he's talking about?
Yeah.
I wonder why you laughed.
If you've gone through the entirety of like Rathal the Lich King
and then yeah, you're in the Icecrown Citadel which is where he is
and you kill him, really cool.
And it was really cool as I was fucking there.
And you get all these big cutscenes or whatever and fucking story progresses and blah, blah, blah.
And then every Wednesday the reset happens and you can just go back there again
and do the exact same thing and continuously do it.
I get that it fucking rips out the immersion but it would never ever work for an MMO point of view
because it's a raid boss.
They drop gear.
It's a season.
You have to continuously kill something.
I would like to see maybe the idea of what Remnant 2 does
with the procedurally generated areas and the bosses thrown into that as well
because obviously they change quite consistently.
Not the fucking main bosses but the side ones.
They obviously change up a bit.
Maybe you could employ something like that where if you kill a boss,
that boss is now dead and the loot table that that boss now held is gone.
However, that boss was in a list of a hundred other bosses.
So carry on doing what you're doing.
Maybe there's a timer or something and that boss comes back in a different form as something else.
Now there's a different loot table so you can kill that and then so on and so on and so on.
So I feel like you'd have a group of five people
or they may have only fucking interacted with a third of those bosses.
So you've got quite a long time before it's the fucking same boss.
Maybe you could have something like that where it doesn't break that...
I don't know.
Difficult one.
Very difficult.
It's just the idea of the game is just really cool, man.
I love resource gathering in games.
I don't know why.
I love like that's why I love Stardew Valley.
It's all done on a day by day basis.
You can only get so much done in a day.
So it depends how it depends how real you want to be with it because if it if your result resource gathering cut down a tree.
All right.
So let's say in real terms two hours later that trees back there again, you can cut that down again and get more wood.
Well, that's not fucking real, is it? Because trees don't grow that quickly.
So you can't you can't have it where I've killed a boss that boss has gone forever.
That loot what I got is what I got and you won't be able to get that again within this campaign.
But maintain a multiplayer aspect and a replayability aspect and then have a fucking resource gathering system alongside that,
which is constantly fucking refreshing itself because that's not real.
You can't you know, I mean, you can't have one and then the other.
It's very difficult to try and juggle that you need to have some sort of replayability,
especially if it's all about combat and fucking boss fights.
Well, I'm in it for the long haul.
I backed it early access.
So I'm a backer.
I mean, so I'll be there pointing at all the scrubs on day one on launch day.
So if your fucking mansion, the cost you a fiver.
You idiot.
I was here from the fucking beginning.
Standing on the beach watching them all wash up, laughing, doing the laughing.
Yes, it's a very cool game.
So far, I've been far too scared to take the steam deck to work.
You got a screen protector on it.
Yeah, but nevertheless, I'm scared because it was in the van and I get robbed.
Not even that.
I put it in my bag, which I'll zip up.
If I'm not in the van, I'll put it off doing something, I'll put the bag in the back.
So if anyone's like, oh, I smashed that window and grabbed that bag.
I always do that anyway.
But then if I'm not back in the van and someone needs something,
I open it and just tread on my bag or something.
Trying to get, that just causes me anxiety.
I used to take it on site with me.
You're a mental, absolute mad man.
I sat there in the heart of London at Gloucester Road is where I was.
And I was sat there on the wall with shit going on playing Shadow of War.
I don't know how. You're a mad man.
And then there was another time, what was it?
There was a load of shit going on.
I was in some bus depot.
There was a wood chipper going on.
I think we had a 45-minute break because we were waiting for something.
And I was just sat there playing fucking Shadow of War again on Steam Deck,
just fucking in amongst all this shit.
Because I'm like, it's exciting, man.
That's what it's for.
You've got a fucking portable PC in your hands.
Being able to play all these fucking games.
I was like, this is cool, man.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't do it that much.
But I was like, the idea of it.
And what it made me do was I prefer to play little indie titles and stuff like that
on the Steam Deck as opposed to full-fledged AAA games.
Because I wanted games that were sort of short that you could pick up and put down whenever you'd like.
You could quickly flick around.
Whereas you're playing something like fucking God of War.
And you're right in the middle of a fucking lead up to a boss fight.
And there's cutscenes and shit like that.
You don't want to just fucking switch that off.
You don't want to break that immersion.
But you're playing fucking Stardew Valley.
You can, to a point...
Oh, quick, I've got to go and do this fucking bang it in rest mode.
Are you saying Stardew Valley is not an immersion?
Mate, I am immersed.
I'm not fucking saying...
Oh, mate, I am immersed.
I'm planning out my days, probably.
Please tell me you're putting it in fucking rest mode and not just turning it off.
I'm turning it off.
No.
It power shut down.
No, that's not what it's for.
Why?
That's not what it's designed for.
Put it in rest mode.
Why though?
Because you need to let it fucking live.
It is living.
No.
It's resting.
It's not good for it.
It's fine.
I don't actually think it is good for the battery to keep properly turning it off because it
is designed to sit in rest mode.
That has no point.
When it's not being used, turn it off.
I'm old school.
I turn the telly off.
No, no.
Yes, yes.
Because the telly doesn't fucking bang in rest mode.
Well, it goes on standby, doesn't it?
Yeah, but that's not the point, is it?
No, it doesn't matter what Google says.
I'll always just turn it off.
But yes, another reason I'm not taking it away is because I know I won't read no more
because I'll just be on that all the time and reading is important.
Yeah, but so is playing video games.
I know, I know, but I'm too busy reading and I'm immersed in my books as well.
So yeah, Starly Valley is very good.
It is the perfect Steam Deck game.
I'm going out cutting down wood.
I've just built a little furnace.
I've been smelting some ore.
I've got myself some copper bars.
I took my fucking pickaxe to the blacksmith.
It took a couple of days for him to...
Oh no, you can just switch it off if you want to.
I'm talking bollocks.
Okay, thank you.
Thanks for being honest.
There is a shipping mode, however, where if you're going to leave it for a couple of weeks
to months, you can turn it off into a shipping mode that will preserve the...
Because you can't... that's where I have to be very careful.
Sorry to butt in.
Where I'm not using my Steam Deck really a lot, you can't let it die and then just leave it dead
because it's not good for the battery.
It needs to be fucking used.
I mean...
No different to a car.
When the Steam Deck is dead, I'll get the Steam Deck too when it comes out.
I'm in this ecosystem now.
I now have to buy every Xbox, Nintendo, PlayStation and Steam Deck.
It's so stupid on the point.
Have you looked at any themes?
Any startup themes for it?
Have you not seen my profile?
No, no.
Fucking get my Steam profile up, mate.
I am flashing like a fucking firework display.
Oh yeah, have you changed all of that?
What's so mental about it though is that we're obviously on a technological point with PCs
and stuff, obviously I'm further on than you are, but nowhere near am I fucking anything special.
I mean, fuck me, we do this whole podcast, we don't even edit the fucking things, I'm too scared to.
We don't need to, but if we needed to it would be an issue, alright?
I'd have to fucking learn.
And we both own something of the Steam Deck where the things you can do with that are absolutely incredible
and the fact that it runs on Linux as well means that you can fucking do even more than you would be able to do on a standard PC.
When I download games on that, so I downloaded No Rest For The Wicked, so I downloaded No Rest For The Wicked
and then it said, downloaded, Linux Spearhead downloaded, Linux, what is all that shit?
All the programs in the background for the Steam Deck.
But why does it download when I download a game, all these different, like, Warrior and Witcher?
Because that's what it needs to download, that's what it's all paid into.
Scared me, I was like, what else have I downloaded?
Let it all download, they're very, very small, they're just for the background running system of the...
Because you're running a PC essentially with Steam put into Windows mode, like Window mode, which you can do on here, it feels fucking horrible.
So there's a lot of shit going on in the background, so you just need to let it fucking do its downloads, let it do that shit.
If you're like me and you really want to, you can do your downloads on the fucking Steam Deck, on the handheld side of it,
and then you can swap into Windows mode and you can update it through there like you would a normal laptop,
because there's loads of updates and shit for that.
But you don't need to worry about that if you're never going into fucking Desktop mode, but if you do, you're going to need to do them updates.
I didn't realize that you wouldn't download games when you're playing a game.
So I downloaded No Rest For The Wicked, I went on Stardew Valley, I went back on it, I was like, fuck this game, it's paused.
Yeah, and it's the same as it won't download games in sleep, like in Rest mode.
But I changed the setting.
There is no setting for Rest mode download.
Not Rest mode, but it downloads while I'm playing games now.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I carried on playing Stardew Valley whilst No Rest For The Wicked downloaded, which was great.
What I do when I'm downloading the game that's going to take a while is I turn the, because the screen doesn't turn off.
It turns off when it's not plugged in, but obviously the battery dies, so it won't download in time, so you have to leave it plugged in while it's fucking downloading.
But because it's plugged in, the screen doesn't turn off.
So you basically just turn the brightness all the way down and then just leave it and it's like dim enough to not be an issue.
And then because of how, because the battery is very smart, it doesn't diminish the battery because it's plugged in.
So it just draws power straight from the fucking electrical mains rather than the battery.
There's a weird one that you can't download it and Rest mode it.
It's been a conversation point ever since it come out because a lot of people are like, well, fucking why?
Just leave it on with the screen on.
It's weird.
Yeah, it's annoying and it's basically because of the way the system works, you put it in Rest mode.
It's still running, but it's not at the same time.
PlayStation and Xbox have a different capability.
It's the same with the PC. You're downloading something on the PC.
The thing has to be turned on.
You can't, you can have it so the screen turns off.
Just give me that feature.
Yeah, that's all.
Give me that.
Can you not just tap the power button once?
No, it puts it in Rest mode.
Fair enough.
It puts it in Rest mode.
I'm too scared to press buttons.
You know what?
I'm worried about how many times I'm pressing X.
Genuinely, because I'm pressing X on Stardew Valley, chopping stuff up, fishing.
And I was like, I don't want to press it two to two minutes.
Look at your shiny little profile.
What's going on here then?
I want to press X too many times in case it starts getting stuck.
And you're fucking.
Yeah, I got some.
I got me some fucking startup videos.
Have you seen mine?
I got a little Hades startup video.
Come round and look at mine.
I've looked at yours.
What, with the bugs dancing around?
Yeah, no.
Is that new?
No, it's not new.
I'll see your what's the buttons thing.
Yeah, the what's the buttons thing.
I'll just put the background with a fucking load of crickets or whatever mobbing about.
What service you can sell all your achievements and shit.
What's that all about?
Oh.
People are like, oh yeah, market value 7P.
I was like, what?
Yeah, you can sell.
Trading and shit.
You can sell like portraits and avatars and things like that.
There's a whole market there.
Kind of like fucking CSGO.
I wanted to find a Baldur's Gate avatar, but I couldn't find one.
There's no way of searching.
It's literally just scroll through avatars.
Yeah.
But I need a fucking search bar, man, because or a filter where I can be like, yeah, medieval RPG rather than just scrolling endlessly.
I got bored in the end and just went, I'll go with a wolf because there's fucking millions.
I got 46.
I completely forgot that you can fucking sell everything.
This item is worth 4P.
Yes.
What?
This is worth 5P.
Who's buying this shit?
6P.
It's cool, but I don't get it.
I'd imagine it's in game currency like a steam currency type stuff where.
What's this?
You can't sell that.
I got a dancing crab here.
Can't sell that.
I can't sell that.
I can't sell mostly.
It's weird.
I've got like fucking 60,000 steam points or something, man.
Oh yeah.
When you buy the steam deck, it gives you a load.
Fucking mountains of them.
But you can only use that for like the avatars and stuff like that.
You can't use it for games.
Yeah, that's cool.
But I was looking through it and I get overwhelmed.
I get paralyzed by choice.
So I just use the steam default one.
There's a lot going on with the steam deck.
It's just as long as you keep the fucking thing updated and that's about it.
You don't need to fucking do anything else.
It's a very cool.
You see how odd it is though.
It's an amazing piece of equipment.
It's crazy.
I'm amazed by it.
It's such a technological niche thing.
And yet it's the ability to play these games on the go is just fucking crazy.
I've had my daughter, Jem and her brother all say to me, oh, what's that?
A switch?
I scoffed.
This is a steam deck, sir.
I gawked.
I saw the modding community managed to get GTA V running on Switch and it runs at like five frames per second with nothing going on.
Honestly, the steam has just got everything.
You can mod stuff.
You can get emulators.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
I probably never will.
But the fact that you can is cool and I love that.
There's people out there that use it as their work computer.
It's mental.
They do editing and all sorts of shit.
I might even buy a boulder's gate on Steam just so I can cross save onto the other Steam deck.
Just so I can have it on there.
It's very cool.
Some of them you've got to fuck around with the settings.
Have you bought a battery power?
What is your battery like?
Because you've obviously got the OLED version, which has the upgraded battery system in it, which adds on like another two or three hours or something like that.
What's your play time looking like?
Fantastic.
Obviously, I'm not playing really powerful inducing games.
I'm just playing Stardew Valley and no rest for the wicked.
I haven't ever got to the point where it's needy charging.
I've put it on charge because I've played it for two nights in a row and it's getting low.
So I need to charge it while I'm playing.
But I haven't run out of battery or got close to being, I better put this on charge while I'm playing.
Time will tell, but I will never take it to a place where I won't be near a charger anyway because I won't take it out.
It'll only be for when we go away and I'm in the evenings, when you go to a caravan park and there's nothing to do, them sort of places or I stay around like a family members or something.
That's when I'll be using it and I'll always have a plug near me.
The battery life is not the end of the world.
You have to make sure that if you're going to charge it, you have to use the plug that it gives you because anything less, it won't.
That charger that you've got with that is fucking beefy.
It's a big old cunt.
Anything else, your phone charger will not charge that Steam Deck fast enough.
You're talking like 16 hours to charge it full on just like a normal USB.
When I got it and I plugged it into the van because I was like, I'll just charge it from there, it literally come up saying, not enough power.
This is not strong enough to do it.
And then when I bought a battery pack, same thing, not strong enough.
It's a vehicle that is propelled along.
Yeah, it's like this isn't powerful enough to do it.
So you have to buy, mine was like a 24,000 milliamp fucking battery, big chunky fucking thing, which is charging it.
That's why I say when you charge your phone with the Steam Deck charger, this will either blow up or it charges in about 10 minutes, which is what it does.
It's a fucking instant.
Can't be good for the battery.
It must be overloading it, but I don't give a fuck because it runs out in half an hour after doing that.
I'll just plug it in for another five, give myself 70%.
Yes, I'm very anal about charges anyway.
I always make sure I use the right one for my Kindle and all that stuff.
I don't like having them switching up.
It's a fantastic bit of kit.
Amazing. It's honestly one of the best. I've said to everyone that I know that knows I've got it is honestly one of the best things I've ever bought for me.
It's amazing. I thought it was going to be cool, novel, and I'll play it like I do with the Switch and then I'll drop it.
This is never getting dropped because Steam has such a vast library of games that I've always wanted to play.
I haven't played because I just don't play on PC or I don't like playing on a PC screen or laptop screen.
Now I can just play on the Steam. The only real things I want to get, I want to get a dock so I can put it on the telly.
There's certain games that I want to play and I'd like to, I mean don't get me wrong, I'm fully aware that it ain't going to be that pretty because it's going to blow up onto a 50 inch telly or whatever, 55 inch telly, but I'm not a graphics man anyway.
You can use your PlayStation control, Xbox control, any control you want, Nintendo control. I want to get that set up so I can just have the option to do that for certain games.
Have you bopped an SD card in it yet?
No, I don't think I need to at the moment. The same with thing, much like the PlayStation, if I'm playing something I tend to be playing that game.
And that's it.
I'll just delete it.
Same as me, man.
Yeah, there might come a time, but I'm not envisioning playing any Call of Duty that are fucking 300 gigabytes.
You know what I mean? So I'll be playing a lot of indie titles. The big hitters, unless they're Steam only, I'll be playing on PlayStation.
This is for the games that I like playing that aren't, I don't have to pay too much attention to, I've got to plug my headphones in.
Because if No Rest for the Wicked is a fucking banger, which it is at the moment, if it comes out on PlayStation, I'll probably buy a PlayStation.
Do you know what I mean? So I think this is just a fantastic machine that I love playing.
And Stardew Valley, I genuinely believe I'm going to be playing that for hundreds of hours.
It's a very good gateway into PC gaming with the comfortability of console gaming. But do you see what I mean when I said that it's almost a bit too wide?
I just love it.
It's very good, but do you see what I mean with the thumbs and the... But I've got small hands.
You've got big fucking sausage fingers, like manly dad fingers. Your fingers ain't that long though, are they?
They're just wide.
No, I've got little hands.
So you might experience it then, like just with the length between the joysticks and the triggers is sometimes a little bit stretchy, but not console breaking.
No, to be honest, I haven't played a game where I've really needed it that much to use the triggers.
I've only really used them on Stardew Valley to go between icons.
If I had to use something that was that permanently, then yeah, probably I'd get it, but I'm only using the face buttons really.
I love that it's touch screen as well, man.
It's everything. It's just so good. I forget it's touch screen.
I always forget the hotkey to get the keypad to come up as well.
Because obviously when you're typing stuff in, it doesn't pose that much of an issue when you're doing it through the Steam UI.
When you go over to desktop mode and you're using Google and stuff like that, that's when it's a bit of a cunt because it doesn't auto prompt the fucking...
When you're on Steam and you click search, it auto prompts the fucking keyboard.
When you go into desktop mode, it doesn't for a lot of stuff.
So you have to, I think it's like the Steam button and fucking X or some shit.
That desktop mode is for adults, mate. I'm sitting way away from that.
I'm just standing on the little Steam page where it's safe.
Yeah, I got fucking... Because it's one of them, man. You delete something off of that.
It's a mess. It's a fucking mess.
I am gobsmacked though about how good the mouse pads are.
Yeah, they're cool, ain't they? With the little vibration in them and everything.
Yeah, they're cool, but they are like... They're like so accurate.
You know the PlayStation 5 one? Shocking. Shocking.
Yeah, awful.
Rubbish. So that's how I just envisioned it.
This is like... You could genuinely use that if you wanted to.
Yeah, I do. Really good.
When you're in desktop mode, I do. That is what I use.
I've been holding off Football Manager because I feel once I get that, it's over.
Because that is thousands and thousands and thousands of hours I've put in them games over the years.
Probably 10,000 plus hours.
So I just feel like that needs to be back burning.
Yeah, that's going to fuck you up.
For almost ever, to be honest with you. Because once that's done...
If I get Football Manager on there and I take it around to show Clarky,
he'll get a Steam Deck. I know 100%.
I could easily make him get Stealed like that.
So yeah, what a system.
It's a very, very cool... And that's barely scratching the surface with all the other console...
All the other handhelds that are out as well that use a different UI system.
Some of them use Windows, some of them fucking obviously Steam.
So you've got a completely different... Like the Asus.
You can have Game Pass on that. Can't have that on...
I'm sure you can jimmy it so you can have Game Pass.
Through desktop mode you can have Game Pass.
But obviously that's a different aspect of it.
And it's just exciting, man.
What I like, it's a very cool thing.
I've got the Steam Deck and I'm playing it and I'm loving it.
But if the Steam Deck died tomorrow or Steam Decks would stop being made or whatever,
I've still got a library of Steam games.
Yeah.
So it's not like, oh, you know, like I'm talking in terms of like Nintendo Switch games or PS3 games.
You have the games, you've got the physical games, which is great, but they're useless now.
You need the system to be able to play.
I've got a catalogue of games that are there when I play the laptop.
Do you know what I mean? Because I wouldn't be... What's the word?
I can't think of it. But I wouldn't be object to now put the laptop on and play No Rest for the Wicked on the laptop.
I don't know why it makes a difference now, but because I've played it on the Steam Deck,
I'll be like, OK, I know this game and I'll just put the controller in and play, which I might even do.
I might even check that out. But the fact that I don't know, I just love it.
But honestly, so good. Get a fucking Steam Deck, people. Really.
I know Mark when I got mine, he was debating it.
So good.
He was debating getting a Switch for a long time and then he was like, I don't know what to do.
And then I got the Steam Deck and he was like, oh, I might get one.
They are hit and miss, but they're more hit than they are miss for a lot of people.
And I feel like there's a lot of people out there who would definitely benefit from having something like a Steam Deck
without fucking realizing that if you're listening and you've been debating over getting a Steam Deck or not,
well, it doesn't even have to be a Steam Deck.
You've been looking at any of the other fucking handheld PCs that are out there.
I'm just wrong.
Fucking get one. Just get one. Because they're fucking decent, man. They're sick.
The Steam Deck, because obviously you've got the highest end one that you can get.
I've got the lowest end one you can get, which is quite a cool fucking contrast.
The difference between them other than your OLED screen and potentially the battery is not that fucking vast.
No, not at all.
They do exactly the same things. They play exactly the same games.
The hardware has very, very minimal differences.
The only difference in them is that the load up times for your one will be faster than mine.
And that's it. And if you can live with that, if you can live with the GTA V loading screen,
then you can live with the difference between this.
I feel like if, same with the Switch, right?
So if, as I didn't have the Steam Deck, I thought, well, I'll get the OLED.
If I had a Steam Deck, I wouldn't be buying the OLED.
I wouldn't be selling that Steam Deck to get an OLED.
Same with the Switch. I had a Switch, OLED come out, I'm not getting an OLED.
I'll get an OLED if mine breaks, but I'm not going to go out and replace it.
It's not a deal breaker. It's not big enough.
It's not the Steam Deck 2.5. It's just the Steam Deck 2.1.
It's better, but it's not game breaking.
So yeah, I think it's fantastic. I'm very, very happy with it.
And I'll be playing it for years.
It's definitely not going to be a Switch that I've bought two or three of over the years
and sold or give to the kids now.
There's too much variety with it, man, for it to...
Longevity-wise, don't get me wrong, the Switch has obviously got longevity,
but the Steam Deck is far more accessible and update-wise far more capable.
There's much more that can be added to that,
and there's much more that can be done with that.
If you really wanted to, you can pull the fucking thing apart
and change the fucking SSD and all that shit.
I was getting anxiety. I told you about pressing the X button too much.
I was like, I don't want my X button to get stuck.
And I was worried about pushing too hard on my analog stick
and thinking I was going to get stick drift.
So I watched a YouTube video on how to replace the buttons and the things,
and I was like, well, if anything does happen, at least I know that I can replace them.
So I'm fine. But I was getting proper anxious.
I was like, oh, I've got to stop pressing X so much.
The thing is that because it's a PC, Steam, Valve want you to,
with the system itself, they want you to fuck around with it
and what can I fucking put on the Steam Deck?
What can I download? What can I change? What can I mod?
They want you to do that, but they also want you to do that
with the fucking system itself, with the console.
And yes, it's somewhat difficult to take the thing apart,
but at the same time, it's a PC. They haven't locked it away.
You can't fucking, you can't touch it.
You have to be a scientist to fucking an engineer to take this thing apart.
It's just a PC. So if you want to fucking take it apart
and look at the hardware and change bits, fucking go for it.
I don't think it is that hard to take apart.
I think the only thing I would do if I was to do it would be one,
to obviously watch YouTube video and two, would to be buy an actual set of the tools.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you're not just going out there with a fucking Phillips.
That's what I mean.
Get your Halfords set out and fucking crack on.
If I got the proper bits and bobs, I'd be confident I could do it.
But unless I need to, I never will.
Yeah, you don't need to.
Yeah, I'm very, very, I couldn't be happier.
I like 11 out of 10 for that.
I was, you know when, I don't know if you're the same as me,
but I get very anxious after I make a big purchase.
Yeah.
And I'm like, oh, fucking. Have I done the right thing?
Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten times I was thinking,
do I cancel it before it comes? I'm fucking, I'm shitting myself here.
That's a lot of money. Ra, ra, ra.
And then as soon as I put it on, I was fucking about with the intro systems.
And before I even bought a game, I was like, this is fucking amazing.
Yeah, it's cool.
It's just so good in every possible, it feels good. It plays good.
It's comfortable. It's pretty. It's lovely.
Also like the, the cooling system of it isn't at the bottom.
It's not on the underside. So you can.
You're not getting hot hands.
Yeah. So you can have it resting on you and you ain't going to,
you ain't going to suffocate the thing. And, um, yeah,
it makes very minimal noise as well. It's like, yeah, yeah.
They're, they're, they're just fucking cool, man.
They're really cool bits of kit.
And they, I love that all the, the ports and the ch- everything's on top.
So if you wanted to have it charging, you ain't, that's not in the way.
You can just plug it in at the top.
It's always annoyed me that having charging ports on the bottom.
They're understood why a lot of things do that because then you, you,
you can't use it.
No, cause you put it down. It should bend in the cable. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It's cool, man.
And the cable, I know it's different for the OLED, uh,
because they changed it obviously after a lot of moaning,
but the cable is really long. I don't know.
The other one's a bit shorter. This one can go for a long time.
Long way.
I think the, the one that I've got,
I could have it plugged in in that corner there and I could probably
still sit on the end here and it'd be all right.
But it's not, it's not fucking crazy long, but yeah, it is long enough.
Yeah. As long as it's long enough.
I'm gassed though.
It's just blushing over or gushing over the steam deck, but genuinely it's,
I put it this way and I'm not just saying this.
I am much happier with this purchase than I am the Xbox. Yeah.
The Xbox was for Starfield, which is annoying.
Uh, that it come out the way it did, but genuinely,
I've already had more fun with the, with the steam deck than I have the Xbox.
I've had the Xbox for a year now.
It's because the, it's because the steam deck is that, um,
it's that, what was the fucking word?
That technological advancement that you would want within gaming.
It's, it's that such, it's something that's so,
for a lot of gamers that never, that weren't into PC gaming,
PC gaming seems like an alien fucking concept.
It does seem like a almost higher being because it's like,
I don't fucking know anything about computers.
I don't know how to do any of that. And then it's like,
everyone seems to think that most games you need like this atomic fucking rig
to be able to play most shit.
So most people stay away from that because it's very expensive to achieve a lot of stuff.
So to have this not budget price,
but somewhat affordable console come out that gives you straight access
to 99% of that PC world is so much fun.
It is so cool. And I love that for, for, for gaming.
I love that as a, as a pathway for most people.
Sam and Carl, if you're fucking listening and you,
you got a bit of dough that you want to fucking,
I know Sam has because he gives a lot of it to us.
But if you get thinking about getting a steam deck,
just fucking buy one because they're sick.
Just do what I did, man. Just, just get it. I've got it on PayPal credit.
I've nearly paid it off now because I like to pay shit off quick.
But yeah, even fucking Amazon paying free or whatever, man,
it's so worth it. So fucking worth it. I am amazed.
And what's great is, you know,
Jem's watching her movies in the evening. I'm just sitting there playing games.
We're in the same room. She's watching her film. I'm doing what I want to do.
She's doing what she wants to do. And there's not, there's arguments,
but there is, it's just nice, you know,
whereas normally she'd be watching something I'd be bored out my skull,
playing on my phone or, or I'll be on the PlayStation on the telly
and she'll be just...
Now you can see the heat up when the portal come out and why I was so fucking angry,
like not angry, but it's like, why,
why have that when you can have a fucking steam deck?
The vast differences is, is, is mental with the capabilities.
One just fucking streams games and one, one is powerhouse.
Bearing in mind, you can get like the base steam deck for like 300 quid now, 329 pounds.
Yeah, mine, mine, mine cost me. Yeah, I think it was 329 quid to buy it.
They're last now they're the relics. So they're all the shipments of them.
They're selling. So you can get them cheap as fuck from steam.
And the portals 200 quid for basically another one up.
You can get a fucking monster machine or you can get this wifi only thing
that doesn't even work half the time is glitched. What a waste of money.
Portals fucking decent in its own right.
Yeah, it's not when you're, it's not what we're fucking looking for.
And it's not what a lot of people are looking for.
When you, when you got a market with a steam deck in it and you're coming out
with, with your like a flagship handheld, you've got to fucking have it stand up
to par with something like steam deck, especially when you've got the back end
that fucking Sony has.
Mate, I wouldn't be surprised if steam deck makes a home console with steam in mind.
Yeah, they could make a PlayStation that is that could put out steam games.
Yeah. Because you, because you with the steam deck, obviously you're, you're
entering that, that realm, whether they would fucking go for it.
They don't necessarily need to.
But the idea probably would be explored because yeah, it's not a bad idea.
It's just whether you would fucking need another console on the market.
That's, that's the same.
But then that gets into that iteration of having everything all in one.
Well, that's what I mean.
You have them really all PlayStation games seem to come to steam nowadays.
They're just a little bit behind if you can keep up with the demand for it.
If you can wait, but at least you're playing it all on one system.
Then I think it's fantastic.
Very happy.
And that's that.
Is that patient fantastic patron time fucking when I go and do the real shit.
Thanks for your ears.
See you later.