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Hit us with the fucking...

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Hit us with the levels, Prince!

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Let's go!

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Are we on?

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Yeah.

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Oh, hello.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hi.

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Hi, guys.

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I'm back.

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Thank you, Connor, for sitting in.

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You don't stand up job.

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And I did listen.

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Obviously.

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As I let you know, because I said I wasn't being horrible to dwarves.

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Um...

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Yeah.

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Good episode.

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Well done.

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Fantastic.

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It was alright, wasn't it?

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Oh, fucking hell.

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Fucking hell.

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I've got it for the PlayStation now.

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I know.

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I've been watching.

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I've been watching you.

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It's...

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It's very exciting.

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It was a bit of a...

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Well, no, it weren't a cunt setting up the...

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Cross saves, but you have to manually go into the settings on Steam and then do it on...

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It's all in-game.

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And then do it on the PlayStation.

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And then you've got to sync it all up.

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But like, half the saves didn't fucking sync up.

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So I had to...

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I had to go onto Steam.

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Do a quick save.

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And then you have to wait for it to upload it to the cloud.

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And then you go onto the PlayStation, turn that on, and then it fucking...

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It syncs it all up and then...

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Blah-dee-blah.

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I think by the looks of it, it should do it pretty auto.

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I can't put into words how happy I was that you were playing Baldur's Gate.

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I genuinely exasperated.

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I went, huh!

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It's decent, man.

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Don't get me wrong.

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But...

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Because Connor was like...

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He was like, oh, another apology episode coming.

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I've never said a bad word about it.

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I know you didn't.

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I've never said anything iffy about it.

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I've always maintained that I was happy to pay my 120 quid now.

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You've always G'd them up and said respect them, but it's just not a game that I enjoy.

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Just weren't for me.

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But obviously the fucking...

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It's all changed now.

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After our D&D session, I was like, you know what?

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I'll give this another little tickle.

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I mean, I haven't played a massive amount since the last time because obviously the

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new season of WoW started, so it's been a bit like...

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But I jumped on it and played it on controller rather than mouse because I started it up,

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did a new save, made a fighter, just a bog standard human fighter called Zeema, and thought

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I'll give it a crack on mouse and keyboard again.

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Instantly I was like, this is awful.

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This is the worst movement style ever created.

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It's horrible and whoever thought it was a good idea should be burned in hell because

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they shouldn't have to click and move and then move the camera around with WASD and

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Q&A.

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It's horrible.

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It's a horrible way to do it.

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So I plugged the controller and I was like, this is amazing.

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So this is so much better.

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This is way better.

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Got into a couple of fights, fucking did some dialogue and Steph was laying in bed watching.

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She was like, do you want to do that?

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Maybe you should talk to this person.

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She was like, I'll let you play.

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I'll let you figure it out yourself.

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Then yeah, what was it?

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12, 13 hours in, something like that.

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And boom, here we are, fucking all over it.

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So I was like, oh well, I'll buy it for the PlayStation because it was Connor that was

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like, you know it's cross save.

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I was like, shit, is it?

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And then we Googled it and it was like, yeah, yeah, it's cross save and it's quite easy

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to set up.

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I was like, fucking hell because obviously I want to play it on the Steam Deck as well

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and where that's obviously all up onto the Steam cloud.

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It's very easy.

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And then yeah, I was like, oh fucking hell because obviously Steph hasn't played Baldur's

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Gate for a while and having seen me then get quite heavy into it, she's obviously like,

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I want to fucking jump in.

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And yeah, once I found out it was cross save, I was like, right, I'll buy it for the PlayStation

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because that way either of us can fucking play it whenever we want, like simultaneously

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if we really wanted to.

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So yeah, that's where we are at the moment.

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So I'll probably, I might get some time in over the weekend or to be fair, I'm quite

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happy plodding along doing whatever I'm doing and Steph fucking play it on the PlayStation.

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That's mainly the reason why I got it because graphics are better on the PC than they are

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on the PlayStation, I won't lie.

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So I'm happy either way.

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It's good.

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It'll be a slow burn.

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Oh yeah.

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It's funny that we've done it the opposite way.

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So I played Baldur's Gate and then was like, I really want to play D&D and you played D&D

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and was like, I want to play Baldur's Gate.

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But are you seeing the similarities between the D&D and then the, because things are making

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more sense already.

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Massively.

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Wait, let me just open that door.

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You ever see them videos where they're like the air doesn't move?

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It's like that.

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There we go.

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Yeah, definitely that short, what fucking seven, eight hour D&D session that we did

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made it so much more enjoyable and understandable because I was like, oh, I've got to do a skill

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check for it.

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Nice to see that my rolls are still wanking fucking Baldur's Gate as opposed to, what

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was it?

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I was unlocking a door or something that I needed a 10.

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Oh no, no, no.

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Sorry.

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I was unlocking a door.

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I needed a two.

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I rolled a one.

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All right.

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And then because I got no charisma, minus one.

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So I rolled a fucking zero.

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Did that twice.

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Oh, that's fantastic.

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Absolute bollocks.

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Oh, what a game.

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I did start again.

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I just started.

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It's Solax Astaria.

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Yeah.

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Oh, you made him on fucking, yeah.

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Made the drow Sorcerer, I believe he is.

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He's doing the Dark Urge path.

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I've literally only just got out the Nautiloid and onto the beach.

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I haven't done it really.

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I just started, but it feels good to be back.

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Although I haven't played it since because, steam decking that.

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You've been banging the steam deck away, yeah.

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So yeah, the steam deck is here.

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She's beautiful.

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Two weeks ago.

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Oh yeah.

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It's been fucking two weeks.

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I forgot that you bought it, to be fair.

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It's good, isn't it?

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Is it good, yeah?

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This might be the best thing I've ever bought.

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Yeah.

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It's that good.

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It's a different fucking mindset on gaming, isn't it?

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It's a weird one.

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But then I bought it and I didn't, for like the first three days, didn't buy a game.

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Yeah.

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I was just like, I don't know what to do.

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I was paralysed by choice.

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I was on this deck.

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I was on the store just looking.

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Exactly what I was like.

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I was like, what are you doing?

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There's a lot of games on there that I'm like, but I can just play on PlayStation so I don't

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bother.

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So I'm like, what do I want to play?

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So I bought Stardew Valley.

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I love it.

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I put it in, I don't know how many hours, 10, 12 hours.

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Play it every night.

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It's the most peaceful, lovely, delicious, wholesome, beautiful little game I've ever

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played.

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It is fantastic.

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Chopping wood, fishing, mining.

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You can play Valheim on Steam, don't you?

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Yeah.

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Valheim.

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I've wishlist loads of shit.

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Yeah.

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Loads of shit, man.

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I've wishlist stuff all over the shop.

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Have you gone into desktop mode yet?

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I did it once and then went straight back.

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Scared the fuck out of me.

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I don't like it.

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Get me back.

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Did you update it at all?

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I just did everything it told me to do.

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Whatever updates it needed.

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You're decent.

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I'm good.

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Wishlist, V-Rising, obviously.

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War Tales, which has just come out.

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No, Mana Lords, which has just come out, sorry.

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War Tales, Hades 2, and Project Zomboid.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, Project Zomboid.

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Very cool looking game.

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I've done a lot of research on that.

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It's probably my next pick up.

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As close as you can get to real post-apocalyptic zombie,

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that's sort of like as real survival as you can probably get.

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It's funny that you mentioned it because it was literally a TikTok

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I was watching the other morning while I was having some fucking breakfast

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of a guy, he was like, he's like, here's my idea for the best

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like survival zombie game that has never been created.

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And the guys are basically just listed off all the shit that's already in DayZ

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and then is in fucking Project Zomboid.

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And everyone in the comments was saying that.

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They were like, your perfect game is already out.

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It's this, this, and this.

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Yeah, it looks very good.

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It's like a more, it's like a friendlier DayZ.

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But it looks serious, if you know what I mean.

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It's gritty.

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Yeah, it's very cool.

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I think that's perfect up my alley, perfect for the Steam Deck as well.

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I've also been playing a little game called No Rest for the Wicked.

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No Rest for the Wicked.

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Never heard of it, don't you?

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No.

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Made by the same people as Ori and Ori and the Wisp.

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Nope, lost on me.

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Anyway, very, very good.

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Massive, massive game.

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Big, like probably one of the most hyped up indie titles.

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For God knows how long.

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Described it as a Diablo, or not a Diablo, it's like an ARPG.

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It's very good.

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I don't even know how to explain it to you.

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Look at it.

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What was it called again?

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No Rest for the Wicked.

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No Rest for the Wicked.

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It's got like the Diablo, the Diablo...

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No Rest for the Wicked.

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View, so it's like top down-y kind of thing.

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But it's not a Diablo kind of game at all.

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It's very Souls-like.

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It's very much like combat.

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It's resource gathering.

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Yeah, it looks pretty fucking...

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How much was it?

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Seven out of ten on Steam?

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Yeah, the reviews have been terrible because...

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No Rest for the Wicked is an action role-playing game developed by Moon Studios

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and published by Private Division.

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Set in the year 841, the player assumes control of a holy warrior

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who must travel to the island of Isola Sacra

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to investigate a plague named the Pestilence.

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There you go.

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Why is it bad reviews?

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Because the performance was awful.

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But bearing in mind it came out six...

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It's early access, by the way.

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So fuck the reviews. It's early access.

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You know, you can have an opinion, but it's not the final product.

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But yeah, it's not a great performance,

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but bearing in mind it came out six days ago as of yesterday.

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It's had five updates in six days.

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So they are like...

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And they're like all over what does the community want?

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And people are saying to them, look, be careful.

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Don't let the community make your game.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I mean, make the game you want to make.

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Have a presence and then the people that...

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Eventually the people that are whinging,

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if they still don't like your game, well then it's not the game for them.

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They can fuck off and play something else.

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Exactly.

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Everyone can't just keep...

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It's not exactly a peachy world to explore, but the compelling characters

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with top-notch voice performances and depressing vibes

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of a beautiful world gone terribly wrong are both exceedingly well done

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and quickly become an extremely alluring reason to press on

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through each harrowing area and lethal boss.

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Very cool.

285
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Seems like the kind of perfect game for the Steam Deck.

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It is.

287
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So here's what somebody tweeted...

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This is something he tweeted earlier.

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What are your folks' plans for multiplayer?

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Because you're doing multiplayer as well.

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I'm guessing most people want to play single-player realm and main there

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and have another realm that they share with their friends, but let's hear it.

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Keep in mind what we're trying to do is advance multiplayer

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beyond what Diablo and Souls do, et cetera.

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Meaning we'll allow you to create a persistent realm for up to four players

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that's always online and doesn't require a host.

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So if you share a realm with your friend, they can keep farming,

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raiding and progressing stuff, even if you're offline.

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A party will have to communicate and coordinate,

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and loot is first come first serve because we'll ultimately want players

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to have to argue and debate about who gets what.

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People voted for single and multiplayer.

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And someone commented,

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saying, I'd hoped this would turn into a semi-MMO maybe in a future expansion.

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And they said, we're not really interested in competing in the MMORPG space.

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Instead, we want to create our own niche where we can do all the things

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that you can't do in a single player RPG and can't do in an MMORPG.

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I want to be able to play together with friends,

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but I also want to still have all of us be able to have an effect on the world.

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MMORPGs by nature are basically like theme parks.

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One group goes and kills Arthas.

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Five minutes later, Arthas has to be respawned again,

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so the next group can have a go at it.

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I always thought that's really immersion breaking.

315
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Instead, if one player in Wicked manages to do something,

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the citizens of Isola, Sakura should react to that,

317
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so they should build you a goddamn statue if you manage to make their lives better, et cetera.

318
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So I think this is like a game for the long haul.

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Obviously, it's early access,

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but the idea of what they're saying is really cool of the persistent realm.

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So you can log on, do your shit.

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I log on and go, oh, you've done that. That's well good.

323
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And you haven't got to be on together and all that nonsense.

324
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Everyone wants games like that to sort of break into the MMO space,

325
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but it's beyond the point where there's no fucking point.

326
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I'm with them on make your own identity, do your own thing,

327
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and if it works, it works.

328
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I feel like the minute you try and label a game like that as an MMO,

329
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it's always going to be compared to the fucking Big Daddy.

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Always. As every MMO does.

331
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And they never stand up to it.

332
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Otherwise, they'd be at the top of the podium, and they're not.

333
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But MMOs are not what they used to be anyway.

334
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MMOs are not what they used to be, but neither is gaming.

335
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MMOs were like a place where everyone went and played.

336
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But now, most MMOs, I'd say probably even World of Warcraft to some degree,

337
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you can play solo completely.

338
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You don't really need other players, and when you do, you can just dungeon queue.

339
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And you can do it with NPCs now, right?

340
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They're not what they used to be anyway.

341
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They're just single-player games with multiplayer if you want it.

342
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MMOs are like most gaming.

343
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They're an evolution of the times.

344
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If MMOs stayed exactly the same how they used to be,

345
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they wouldn't be as popular as they currently are now.

346
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That's why.

347
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But you can get taste of the old school, like with something like WoW Classic.

348
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That is just vanilla WoW, but obviously now it's gone to fucking Burning Crusade,

349
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and now it's fucking Wrath Classic, and now it's going to be Cataclysm Classic.

350
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So that's not even fucking vanilla anymore.

351
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But things have to adapt.

352
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Realistically, you now, as who you are and the fucking family that you have

353
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and the life that you lead, and same from my perspective,

354
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do not have as much time as you did when you were fucking 16,

355
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when you were younger, when you were a teenager, gaming.

356
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And most of us who have grown up with gaming still game now.

357
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So developers have to adapt to that because they have also grown up,

358
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and you can't keep rolling with the same shit that you did when we were all teenagers

359
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because we can't fucking do it.

360
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We can't. Yeah, World of Warcraft, you can play as a solo character,

361
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and most people do, unless you're lucky enough like me where you have a guild,

362
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but even then I play mostly on my own,

363
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because if you needed to group up to do every single bit of content,

364
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yes, that would be more fun.

365
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However, it would take so much fucking longer and nothing would get done

366
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and only the people who can sweat it and spend hours and hours playing it

367
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will get anywhere, which will just push everyone else out.

368
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You've got to have a balance somewhere.

369
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So yeah, fucking don't, they don't need to be an MMO.

370
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This game does not need to delve into that.

371
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No, and I don't know why it would even be suggested that it's to go into the MMO realm,

372
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because there's not one part of that game that looks MMO to me.

373
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Because everyone wants a fucking fresh MMO that's never going to happen

374
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because you've already got people fucking concreted at the top.

375
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But they're trying to compare it to Diablo, but Diablo is not an MMO.

376
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Diablo is a single player game with other players running about in it.

377
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Yeah, Diablo is not an MMO.

378
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So just because there's other players in the world doesn't mean it needs to have an MMO tag.

379
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I think No Rest for the Wicked, I still don't really know what it is,

380
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because I started on the ship, you do your little bollocks walking about meeting people,

381
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ship crashes, you end up on a beach, and then it's like, off you go.

382
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And then you're just wandering around a beach, and then I went into an area,

383
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and it said, yeah, it was quite hard, and then I died, and it was like, yeah, this is hard.

384
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And they even have a weapon for the first hour.

385
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I was punching people. I can find a weapon.

386
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I think all the loot's random, so that's fucking cool as fuck.

387
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I love that. Even when you open a chest, it's all random.

388
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And then, yeah, you can find different weapons and all sorts of shit,

389
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but I'm finding things to dig up and mine, and it's like, oh, you need a shovel to dig this,

390
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and you need a pickaxe to mine this, and you need a fishing rod to fish here, and rah, rah, rah.

391
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And you need an axe to chop down trees and stuff.

392
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But I'm like, why am I collecting wood? I don't know what that's for.

393
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Yeah, what am I doing this for?

394
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Yeah, so I don't know what that entails.

395
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But the way it's suggested here is that you're building stuff and rah, rah, rah, rah.

396
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So I think if they can go down the road of what they're doing,

397
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because it's already unique because it's Diablo-style, but Soul Combat, so it's punishing.

398
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It's hard, but it's got the isometric view.

399
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If they can just get multiplayer in terms of a bit of co-op and a bit of like Soulsborne, PVP, like Elden Ring,

400
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where you can just fight other people, that'd be enough.

401
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I don't think you don't need fucking hundreds of people running around the world.

402
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The idea to have a consistent server that your friends can just drop in and out of,

403
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that's always a nice thing when you can drop into somewhat like a dedicated server

404
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that doesn't require the host to be involved with it.

405
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Enshrouded, I believe, does that, but you have to, I think you have to essentially pay for the server

406
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in order to like to have a dedicated server.

407
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And yeah, that sounds extremely difficult to uphold with the,

408
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if you kill a boss within this world, then that's it, that boss is dead.

409
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And if one person's done it out of the fucking six people in this realm, then so be it.

410
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But at the same time, it does sound very cool.

411
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And yeah, you do want people to fucking argue over certain things

412
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because it just creates a little bit of fucking turmoil and excitement.

413
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If you're all fighting a boss and two of you are after the same thing and that thing drops,

414
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you fucking, right, well, now we've got to fight out over this.

415
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It makes things interesting, man.

416
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It also piss people off, but fuck it, I like it.

417
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But it makes you want to go and grind out that big gear yourself.

418
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Yeah, yeah.

419
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And they're also talking about, I can't find it right now,

420
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but I still don't really know what the game is, so I'm still finding out.

421
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But they were talking about just allowing trading,

422
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like through realms, just letting people trade whatever the fuck they wanted.

423
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Because why not?

424
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And then if it's not working for the game, they'll change it.

425
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Get rid of it.

426
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But why not just let people try and do it, yeah, and just give it a go.

427
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So at the moment, I think it's very good, very, very, very good.

428
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This is what early access is for, though.

429
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100%.

430
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Early access is to be utilite.

431
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I wish that people's outlooks on early access could be fucking changed,

432
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because I feel like every game, especially on Steam,

433
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is in fucking early access now.

434
00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:43,440
I feel like a lot of people have just lost sight of what early access is,

435
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like you literally started with.

436
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Don't listen to the fucking reviews.

437
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It's early access.

438
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None of it matters.

439
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,440
You can't, it doesn't make any difference.

440
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Same with fucking WoW.

441
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The WoW we're in is going through open beta, closed beta at the moment.

442
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And anything that happens within that,

443
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it does not matter for when it actually releases.

444
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So for example, an arms warrior is at the very fucking top of the DPS by a long shot.

445
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They're absolutely killing it in the beta.

446
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They're going to be nerfed to fuck.

447
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It will all balance out.

448
00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:23,440
So it poses absolutely no relevance to when the game actually releases.

449
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And that's the same with games on Steam that are in early access.

450
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So many people review bomb shit and have a go and go,

451
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oh, this is shit, you need to do this, blah, blah, blah, blah.

452
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But all people play the game and then just complain because it's buggy or it's broken

453
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or there's bits that are missing.

454
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And so it's early access.

455
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What do you, the only time when it takes the piss is if a game stayed in early access

456
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for fucking ever and still hasn't fully released.

457
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Then yeah, you're like, well, what the fuck are we still in early access for?

458
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It came out now.

459
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Six days ago.

460
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Yeah, seven or six days ago as of yesterday.

461
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And they've done five updates.

462
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It's early access and they've done five updates.

463
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Do you know what I mean?

464
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They obviously want it to work.

465
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I don't think they should be allowed to review without massive disclaimers.

466
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It's just been like, this is early access because I knew it was early access.

467
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It still cost me like 30 quid or whatever it was.

468
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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.

469
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And a lot of people were saying, but also saying the performance was shocking and it's really bad.

470
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And sometimes dipping down to like 20 frames a second and certain moments and stuff like that.

471
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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.

472
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And this is early access.

473
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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.

474
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And I've never been, and this is why the Steam deck is so good for me.

475
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I've never really been someone to jump into early access.

476
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I've always had to wait for the 1.0 build to come out.

477
00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:03,440
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.

478
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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.

479
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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.

480
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,440
You need to constructively criticize.

481
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That's what you need.

482
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:25,440
That's what you need.

483
00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:26,440
You need to bug report.

484
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:29,440
You need to give feedback on what's going on.

485
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:30,440
You can't buy.

486
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:32,440
Also, you paid money for it.

487
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,440
You haven't paid money for a full game.

488
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:41,440
You're not entitled to if there's performance issues to just give it a poor review and complain.

489
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,440
You you have essentially paid to be a beta player.

490
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So be a beta player.

491
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You've paid the fucking money to join that club.

492
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:51,440
So be one.

493
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,440
If the performance is shit, don't fucking write it a poor review.

494
00:22:55,440 --> 00:23:01,440
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.

495
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:02,440
Be that person.

496
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,440
It's an early access game.

497
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:05,440
That's your job.

498
00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,440
Regardless of if you paid for it or if you've got it for free, it's early access.

499
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:10,440
It's in beta.

500
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,440
You you need to test it.

501
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:17,440
You're a games tester when you play it on the Steam Deck when something happens.

502
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,440
And I'm not saying because a lot of people don't.

503
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:25,440
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.

504
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:26,440
It's not that big of a deal.

505
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:55,440
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.

506
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,440
Then fucking what's it going to be like now?

507
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,440
Well, is a developer Thomas Malar.

508
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,440
He tweeted just say it's a very good tweet.

509
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,440
We're not even a week into early access.

510
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,440
And it's already pretty clear that going with early access is one of the best decisions we could have made.

511
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,440
I see some people still irked about why games are wicked.

512
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:25,440
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.

513
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:29,440
But that's looking at a complex problem through a way too simple lens.

514
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,440
I think his games become more and more complex and sophisticated.

515
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,440
We'll see some form of early access happening more and more often.

516
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:45,440
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.

517
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,440
Of course not. And I mean actual users, not a focused testing group.

518
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,440
Even if we'd had two to three times the staff, it would have been quite simply impossible.

519
00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:59,440
The product is just way too complex of a beast to reasonably expect that nine women can't make a baby in a month.

520
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:06,440
And even even historically speaking, I think some games would have benefited from early access even before early access with the thing.

521
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:14,440
Imagine Dark Souls one would have been in early access instead of from rushing to ship a box product in a somewhat cyberpunk.

522
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:21,440
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.

523
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,440
You could just do that through updates and DLC.

524
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:29,440
I hear you say no, oftentimes you can't shipping games is always incredibly difficult and stressful.

525
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:35,440
Most of the time it means making quite drastic compromises, especially if your product is trying to accomplish something new.

526
00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:39,440
And if you don't know that, it's OK to bring in certain features and scope after the fact.

527
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,440
You'll just end up cutting before you hit the market.

528
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:47,440
So even if you dislike the idea of early access, it's one way to allow developers to truly perfect a product over time.

529
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,440
So please try to understand that there's value in that.

530
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:55,440
I'm confident that we will see games being created for early access programs that would have never been made without it.

531
00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:00,440
And to that effect, we will need to see PlayStation and Nintendo also embrace early access.

532
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:05,440
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.

533
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,440
Ultimately, people just want to play great games.

534
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,440
It shouldn't matter how the game is developed, just that it was.

535
00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:15,440
And if players can't play some great experience on your platform, you're doing your audience a disservice.

536
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,440
What a guy.

537
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,440
Very good tweet.

538
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,440
It is. And he's completely right.

539
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,440
Because correct me if I'm wrong, Power World is in early access, right?

540
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:23,440
It is.

541
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:28,440
Because I could only play on Xbox because PlayStation doesn't allow early access.

542
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:29,440
Which is frustrating.

543
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,440
That is one of the good things about Xbox is you can play early access titles.

544
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,440
But once again, not enough.

545
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:36,440
There's plenty of games.

546
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:43,440
See, I'm in an iron now because that game that I really want to play, V-Rising, the vampire one,

547
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:49,440
that comes out next week, I believe, or week after.

548
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,440
We've controller support, Steam Deck support, all that.

549
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,440
Do I get it on the Steam Deck or do I get it on the PlayStation?

550
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:56,440
Now I don't know.

551
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:57,440
It's very difficult.

552
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:58,440
Is it cross-save?

553
00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,440
I don't know.

554
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,440
It's always worth it.

555
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:05,440
If it's cross-save, then 100 percent I'll get it on both if I like it that much.

556
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,440
But then I've got the added advantage, another reason why I bought No Rest for the Wicked,

557
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,440
your words are ringing true in my ear.

558
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:15,440
If I don't like it, play it after an hour and 59 minutes, I refund it.

559
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:20,440
I get my money back and I realise this is not for me and the performance is shit.

560
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,440
Steam makes it very, very easy to return games.

561
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:27,440
That's why I think within two hours of No Rest for the Wicked, you would know,

562
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:32,440
one, if that game is for you, and two, if the performance is not up to snuff you.

563
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:40,440
So just refund it and then leave your comments yourself because it's not a full release.

564
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,440
So don't shit on the game.

565
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,440
Constructive criticism, like you said, is perfect.

566
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,440
Yeah, they just need feedback.

567
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:55,440
You think how many games, I can't fucking spring to mind because I'm not heavy in early access games,

568
00:27:55,440 --> 00:28:01,440
but there has to be a long list of games that were put into early access and then fucking diminished

569
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:07,440
because people review bombed or said very bad things that just tanked it.

570
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,440
Because it's not just the game itself.

571
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,440
There's people behind that screen that are then making that game.

572
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:18,440
We do this podcast every fucking week.

573
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,440
Sometimes we feel up to it, sometimes we don't.

574
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,440
It's just how the fucking world works.

575
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,440
It depends how our week's gone.

576
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,440
But we're here. We do it consistently.

577
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,440
It's very fun.

578
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:37,440
If we just kept getting feedback all the time, serious feedback of saying how shit our podcast was,

579
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,440
you're not going to want to do it anymore.

580
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,440
You're going to go, I don't want to do this anymore because I'm not getting any.

581
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,440
I'm not doing this for fucking good praise.

582
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,440
We're doing this because we enjoy it.

583
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,440
But at the same time, if every episode you're releasing is just people saying,

584
00:28:51,440 --> 00:29:00,440
that episode was wank fucking, you're talking about shit, you're not going to want to keep pumping out episodes.

585
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:01,440
It's demoralizing.

586
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,440
I felt that would be the same for developers.

587
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:11,440
Last tweet, someone asked about the multiplayer and how it's going to work with story and stuff like that.

588
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,440
This is what they're planning.

589
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,440
He said, one, right now we're not planning to lock characters to realms.

590
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,440
There's been major debates about that in our team and we might still change this.

591
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,440
I think we should allow just allow global trading and see what happens.

592
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:30,440
Which is fucking cool to story can be progressed even if you're not there.

593
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:37,440
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.

594
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:38,440
That's pretty cool.

595
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:44,440
Again, lots of debates happening around this subject, but ultimately we think it's best to let players decide.

596
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:48,440
Ideally, we'd want the multiplayer realms to feel a bit like playing D&D.

597
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:53,440
And when a new story update drops, folks should party up and play it together.

598
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:58,440
Same way people party up to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones back when it was great.

599
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:01,440
Three, Friendly Fire will be on by default.

600
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:06,440
We tried without Friendly Fire and four players wailing on a mob is just not fun.

601
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,440
We want players having to be careful and play tactically.

602
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,440
Four, PvP will be part of our multiplayer update.

603
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,440
At first you'll be able to play against other players within our arenas.

604
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,440
Invasions are something we're still thinking about.

605
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:23,440
And five, if we detect people cheating you'll get flagged and only matched up with other players you've cheated.

606
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,440
Will there be some ranked PvP system?

607
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,440
Yes, I think we all want to know who the top ten most wiki players in the world are.

608
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,440
And I noticed there are only three houses in sacrament for purchase.

609
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:39,440
I was wondering will houses be shared between players or does each player have their own personal space?

610
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,440
There will be more player houses and yes they'll be shared.

611
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:46,440
First come first serve so you better snatch up the primary estate while the getting's good.

612
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,440
See I haven't reached the city yet, I'm still on the beach.

613
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,440
But like I say, I'm not going to go anymore because I've already spore-shitted for myself.

614
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,440
But the point of the matter is, the game's not even fully out so you can't even play to the end.

615
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,440
Because it's early access, it only goes up to a certain point.

616
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,440
But I love it and the idea of what they want.

617
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,440
I can't believe you haven't heard of Ori and Willow Wisp.

618
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,440
They have mad reviews bro.

619
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,440
They're like a highly coveted developer because of Ori.

620
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,440
Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Willow Wisp.

621
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,440
Massive games for them is what really put them on the map.

622
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,440
10 out of 10s and 90 on Metacritic.

623
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,440
They're huge.

624
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,440
You would have seen it at least.

625
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:33,440
Yeah, the picture of Ori sitting there on a branch seems to ring a bell.

626
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,440
I think maybe I've seen Steph not play it but look at it possibly.

627
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,440
Yeah, they're massive games in the indie community.

628
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,440
Well known because of that.

629
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,440
Everyone was hyped about this.

630
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:51,440
But because of their previous games and what their plan is for this,

631
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,440
I think this game's going to be a monster.

632
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,440
When it releases in 1.0 and it's actually got a marketing campaign behind it

633
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:03,440
and a year of early access, I think this game's going to be a monster when it comes out.

634
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:08,440
The real estate thing is cool.

635
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,440
It's kind of like fucking real life.

636
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,440
You get in while it's fucking nice and cheap and easy to obtain

637
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:18,440
and then just fucking sit on it so no one else in the fucking future can buy a property.

638
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,440
Until they offer you loads of money or they kill you for it.

639
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:26,440
He did make an interesting point earlier about the MMO stuff that I've never really thought about

640
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:27,440
but he's right.

641
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,440
It is immersion breaking when you kill someone and then you wait

642
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,440
and then you have to wait for them to come back to kill them.

643
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,440
But there's no real other way for MMOs to do that.

644
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,440
If they can find a way to...

645
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,440
I mean it's different because it's not an MMO.

646
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,440
So I don't really know how that would impact this game.

647
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:50,440
It's immersion breaking in a sense of, yeah, from a role play perspective

648
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,440
like with Arthas the Lich King.

649
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:53,440
Is that who he's talking about?

650
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:54,440
Yeah.

651
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:55,440
I wonder why you laughed.

652
00:32:55,440 --> 00:33:00,440
If you've gone through the entirety of like Rathal the Lich King

653
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:05,440
and then yeah, you're in the Icecrown Citadel which is where he is

654
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,440
and you kill him, really cool.

655
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,440
And it was really cool as I was fucking there.

656
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:17,440
And you get all these big cutscenes or whatever and fucking story progresses and blah, blah, blah.

657
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,440
And then every Wednesday the reset happens and you can just go back there again

658
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,440
and do the exact same thing and continuously do it.

659
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:28,440
I get that it fucking rips out the immersion but it would never ever work for an MMO point of view

660
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,440
because it's a raid boss.

661
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:31,440
They drop gear.

662
00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:32,440
It's a season.

663
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,440
You have to continuously kill something.

664
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:40,440
I would like to see maybe the idea of what Remnant 2 does

665
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:46,440
with the procedurally generated areas and the bosses thrown into that as well

666
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:50,440
because obviously they change quite consistently.

667
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,440
Not the fucking main bosses but the side ones.

668
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,440
They obviously change up a bit.

669
00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:02,440
Maybe you could employ something like that where if you kill a boss,

670
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,440
that boss is now dead and the loot table that that boss now held is gone.

671
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,440
However, that boss was in a list of a hundred other bosses.

672
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,440
So carry on doing what you're doing.

673
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:19,440
Maybe there's a timer or something and that boss comes back in a different form as something else.

674
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,440
Now there's a different loot table so you can kill that and then so on and so on and so on.

675
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:26,440
So I feel like you'd have a group of five people

676
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:30,440
or they may have only fucking interacted with a third of those bosses.

677
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:36,440
So you've got quite a long time before it's the fucking same boss.

678
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,440
Maybe you could have something like that where it doesn't break that...

679
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:41,440
I don't know.

680
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:42,440
Difficult one.

681
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:43,440
Very difficult.

682
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,440
It's just the idea of the game is just really cool, man.

683
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,440
I love resource gathering in games.

684
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,440
I don't know why.

685
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,440
I love like that's why I love Stardew Valley.

686
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,440
It's all done on a day by day basis.

687
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:56,440
You can only get so much done in a day.

688
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:06,440
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.

689
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:07,440
All right.

690
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:13,440
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.

691
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,440
Well, that's not fucking real, is it? Because trees don't grow that quickly.

692
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:24,440
So you can't you can't have it where I've killed a boss that boss has gone forever.

693
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:29,440
That loot what I got is what I got and you won't be able to get that again within this campaign.

694
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:37,440
But maintain a multiplayer aspect and a replayability aspect and then have a fucking resource gathering system alongside that,

695
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:42,440
which is constantly fucking refreshing itself because that's not real.

696
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,440
You can't you know, I mean, you can't have one and then the other.

697
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:50,440
It's very difficult to try and juggle that you need to have some sort of replayability,

698
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,440
especially if it's all about combat and fucking boss fights.

699
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,440
Well, I'm in it for the long haul.

700
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:56,440
I backed it early access.

701
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,440
So I'm a backer.

702
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:02,440
I mean, so I'll be there pointing at all the scrubs on day one on launch day.

703
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,440
So if your fucking mansion, the cost you a fiver.

704
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:06,440
You idiot.

705
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,440
I was here from the fucking beginning.

706
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:14,440
Standing on the beach watching them all wash up, laughing, doing the laughing.

707
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,440
Yes, it's a very cool game.

708
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:22,440
So far, I've been far too scared to take the steam deck to work.

709
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,440
You got a screen protector on it.

710
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:29,440
Yeah, but nevertheless, I'm scared because it was in the van and I get robbed.

711
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:30,440
Not even that.

712
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,440
I put it in my bag, which I'll zip up.

713
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:38,440
If I'm not in the van, I'll put it off doing something, I'll put the bag in the back.

714
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,440
So if anyone's like, oh, I smashed that window and grabbed that bag.

715
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,440
I always do that anyway.

716
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,440
But then if I'm not back in the van and someone needs something,

717
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,440
I open it and just tread on my bag or something.

718
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,440
Trying to get, that just causes me anxiety.

719
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,440
I used to take it on site with me.

720
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,440
You're a mental, absolute mad man.

721
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:05,440
I sat there in the heart of London at Gloucester Road is where I was.

722
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:10,440
And I was sat there on the wall with shit going on playing Shadow of War.

723
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,440
I don't know how. You're a mad man.

724
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,440
And then there was another time, what was it?

725
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,440
There was a load of shit going on.

726
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,440
I was in some bus depot.

727
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,440
There was a wood chipper going on.

728
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:26,440
I think we had a 45-minute break because we were waiting for something.

729
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,440
And I was just sat there playing fucking Shadow of War again on Steam Deck,

730
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:32,440
just fucking in amongst all this shit.

731
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,440
Because I'm like, it's exciting, man.

732
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:36,440
That's what it's for.

733
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,440
You've got a fucking portable PC in your hands.

734
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,440
Being able to play all these fucking games.

735
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,440
I was like, this is cool, man.

736
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:44,440
Don't get me wrong, I didn't do it that much.

737
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,440
But I was like, the idea of it.

738
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:53,440
And what it made me do was I prefer to play little indie titles and stuff like that

739
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,440
on the Steam Deck as opposed to full-fledged AAA games.

740
00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:02,440
Because I wanted games that were sort of short that you could pick up and put down whenever you'd like.

741
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:03,440
You could quickly flick around.

742
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,440
Whereas you're playing something like fucking God of War.

743
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,440
And you're right in the middle of a fucking lead up to a boss fight.

744
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:12,440
And there's cutscenes and shit like that.

745
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,440
You don't want to just fucking switch that off.

746
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:15,440
You don't want to break that immersion.

747
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:17,440
But you're playing fucking Stardew Valley.

748
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:21,440
You can, to a point...

749
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,440
Oh, quick, I've got to go and do this fucking bang it in rest mode.

750
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,440
Are you saying Stardew Valley is not an immersion?

751
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:28,440
Mate, I am immersed.

752
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:29,440
I'm not fucking saying...

753
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,440
Oh, mate, I am immersed.

754
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:33,440
I'm planning out my days, probably.

755
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,440
Please tell me you're putting it in fucking rest mode and not just turning it off.

756
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:37,440
I'm turning it off.

757
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:38,440
No.

758
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:39,440
It power shut down.

759
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,440
No, that's not what it's for.

760
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:42,440
Why?

761
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:43,440
That's not what it's designed for.

762
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:44,440
Put it in rest mode.

763
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:45,440
Why though?

764
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,440
Because you need to let it fucking live.

765
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,440
It is living.

766
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:49,440
No.

767
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:50,440
It's resting.

768
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:51,440
It's not good for it.

769
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:52,440
It's fine.

770
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:56,440
I don't actually think it is good for the battery to keep properly turning it off because it

771
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,440
is designed to sit in rest mode.

772
00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,440
That has no point.

773
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,440
When it's not being used, turn it off.

774
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:02,440
I'm old school.

775
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:03,440
I turn the telly off.

776
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:04,440
No, no.

777
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:05,440
Yes, yes.

778
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,440
Because the telly doesn't fucking bang in rest mode.

779
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,440
Well, it goes on standby, doesn't it?

780
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,440
Yeah, but that's not the point, is it?

781
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,440
No, it doesn't matter what Google says.

782
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,440
I'll always just turn it off.

783
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:22,440
But yes, another reason I'm not taking it away is because I know I won't read no more

784
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,440
because I'll just be on that all the time and reading is important.

785
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,440
Yeah, but so is playing video games.

786
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:32,440
I know, I know, but I'm too busy reading and I'm immersed in my books as well.

787
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:37,440
So yeah, Starly Valley is very good.

788
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,440
It is the perfect Steam Deck game.

789
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,440
I'm going out cutting down wood.

790
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,440
I've just built a little furnace.

791
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:46,440
I've been smelting some ore.

792
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,440
I've got myself some copper bars.

793
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,440
I took my fucking pickaxe to the blacksmith.

794
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,440
It took a couple of days for him to...

795
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,440
Oh no, you can just switch it off if you want to.

796
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:56,440
I'm talking bollocks.

797
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:57,440
Okay, thank you.

798
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:58,440
Thanks for being honest.

799
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:03,440
There is a shipping mode, however, where if you're going to leave it for a couple of weeks

800
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:07,440
to months, you can turn it off into a shipping mode that will preserve the...

801
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,440
Because you can't... that's where I have to be very careful.

802
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:11,440
Sorry to butt in.

803
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:19,440
Where I'm not using my Steam Deck really a lot, you can't let it die and then just leave it dead

804
00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:21,440
because it's not good for the battery.

805
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,440
It needs to be fucking used.

806
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:24,440
I mean...

807
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:25,440
No different to a car.

808
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:29,440
When the Steam Deck is dead, I'll get the Steam Deck too when it comes out.

809
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,440
I'm in this ecosystem now.

810
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:36,440
I now have to buy every Xbox, Nintendo, PlayStation and Steam Deck.

811
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,440
It's so stupid on the point.

812
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:40,440
Have you looked at any themes?

813
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,440
Any startup themes for it?

814
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,440
Have you not seen my profile?

815
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:44,440
No, no.

816
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,440
Fucking get my Steam profile up, mate.

817
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,440
I am flashing like a fucking firework display.

818
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:50,440
Oh yeah, have you changed all of that?

819
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:58,440
What's so mental about it though is that we're obviously on a technological point with PCs

820
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:05,440
and stuff, obviously I'm further on than you are, but nowhere near am I fucking anything special.

821
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:10,440
I mean, fuck me, we do this whole podcast, we don't even edit the fucking things, I'm too scared to.

822
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,440
We don't need to, but if we needed to it would be an issue, alright?

823
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:15,440
I'd have to fucking learn.

824
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:27,440
And we both own something of the Steam Deck where the things you can do with that are absolutely incredible

825
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:33,440
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.

826
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:39,440
When I download games on that, so I downloaded No Rest For The Wicked, so I downloaded No Rest For The Wicked

827
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:46,440
and then it said, downloaded, Linux Spearhead downloaded, Linux, what is all that shit?

828
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,440
All the programs in the background for the Steam Deck.

829
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:53,440
But why does it download when I download a game, all these different, like, Warrior and Witcher?

830
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,440
Because that's what it needs to download, that's what it's all paid into.

831
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,440
Scared me, I was like, what else have I downloaded?

832
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:05,440
Let it all download, they're very, very small, they're just for the background running system of the...

833
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:16,440
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.

834
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:26,440
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.

835
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:34,440
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,

836
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:41,440
and then you can swap into Windows mode and you can update it through there like you would a normal laptop,

837
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,440
because there's loads of updates and shit for that.

838
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:50,440
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.

839
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:55,440
I didn't realize that you wouldn't download games when you're playing a game.

840
00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:02,440
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.

841
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:07,440
Yeah, and it's the same as it won't download games in sleep, like in Rest mode.

842
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,440
But I changed the setting.

843
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,440
There is no setting for Rest mode download.

844
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,440
Not Rest mode, but it downloads while I'm playing games now.

845
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,440
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

846
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,440
So I carried on playing Stardew Valley whilst No Rest For The Wicked downloaded, which was great.

847
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:28,440
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.

848
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:35,440
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.

849
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,440
But because it's plugged in, the screen doesn't turn off.

850
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:45,440
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.

851
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:51,440
And then because of how, because the battery is very smart, it doesn't diminish the battery because it's plugged in.

852
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,440
So it just draws power straight from the fucking electrical mains rather than the battery.

853
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:59,440
There's a weird one that you can't download it and Rest mode it.

854
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:06,440
It's been a conversation point ever since it come out because a lot of people are like, well, fucking why?

855
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,440
Just leave it on with the screen on.

856
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:09,440
It's weird.

857
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:15,440
Yeah, it's annoying and it's basically because of the way the system works, you put it in Rest mode.

858
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,440
It's still running, but it's not at the same time.

859
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,440
PlayStation and Xbox have a different capability.

860
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,440
It's the same with the PC. You're downloading something on the PC.

861
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:25,440
The thing has to be turned on.

862
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,440
You can't, you can have it so the screen turns off.

863
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:29,440
Just give me that feature.

864
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:30,440
Yeah, that's all.

865
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:31,440
Give me that.

866
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:32,440
Can you not just tap the power button once?

867
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,440
No, it puts it in Rest mode.

868
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:36,440
Fair enough.

869
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:37,440
It puts it in Rest mode.

870
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,440
I'm too scared to press buttons.

871
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:40,440
You know what?

872
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,440
I'm worried about how many times I'm pressing X.

873
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,440
Genuinely, because I'm pressing X on Stardew Valley, chopping stuff up, fishing.

874
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,440
And I was like, I don't want to press it two to two minutes.

875
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,440
Look at your shiny little profile.

876
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:51,440
What's going on here then?

877
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,440
I want to press X too many times in case it starts getting stuck.

878
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,440
And you're fucking.

879
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,440
Yeah, I got some.

880
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,440
I got me some fucking startup videos.

881
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,440
Have you seen mine?

882
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,440
I got a little Hades startup video.

883
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:06,440
Come round and look at mine.

884
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:07,440
I've looked at yours.

885
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,440
What, with the bugs dancing around?

886
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:10,440
Yeah, no.

887
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:11,440
Is that new?

888
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:12,440
No, it's not new.

889
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,440
I'll see your what's the buttons thing.

890
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:15,440
Yeah, the what's the buttons thing.

891
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:20,440
I'll just put the background with a fucking load of crickets or whatever mobbing about.

892
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:24,440
What service you can sell all your achievements and shit.

893
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:25,440
What's that all about?

894
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:26,440
Oh.

895
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,440
People are like, oh yeah, market value 7P.

896
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:30,440
I was like, what?

897
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:31,440
Yeah, you can sell.

898
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:32,440
Trading and shit.

899
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,440
You can sell like portraits and avatars and things like that.

900
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:37,440
There's a whole market there.

901
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,440
Kind of like fucking CSGO.

902
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:43,440
I wanted to find a Baldur's Gate avatar, but I couldn't find one.

903
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:44,440
There's no way of searching.

904
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,440
It's literally just scroll through avatars.

905
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:48,440
Yeah.

906
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:56,440
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.

907
00:45:56,440 --> 00:46:00,440
I got bored in the end and just went, I'll go with a wolf because there's fucking millions.

908
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,440
I got 46.

909
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:07,440
I completely forgot that you can fucking sell everything.

910
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,440
This item is worth 4P.

911
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:10,440
Yes.

912
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:11,440
What?

913
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:12,440
This is worth 5P.

914
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:13,440
Who's buying this shit?

915
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:14,440
6P.

916
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,440
It's cool, but I don't get it.

917
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:24,440
I'd imagine it's in game currency like a steam currency type stuff where.

918
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:25,440
What's this?

919
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:26,440
You can't sell that.

920
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:27,440
I got a dancing crab here.

921
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:28,440
Can't sell that.

922
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:30,440
I can't sell that.

923
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,440
I can't sell mostly.

924
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:33,440
It's weird.

925
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:37,440
I've got like fucking 60,000 steam points or something, man.

926
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:38,440
Oh yeah.

927
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:39,440
When you buy the steam deck, it gives you a load.

928
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:40,440
Fucking mountains of them.

929
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:44,440
But you can only use that for like the avatars and stuff like that.

930
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,440
You can't use it for games.

931
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:47,440
Yeah, that's cool.

932
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:50,440
But I was looking through it and I get overwhelmed.

933
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,440
I get paralyzed by choice.

934
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:55,440
So I just use the steam default one.

935
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:57,440
There's a lot going on with the steam deck.

936
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,440
It's just as long as you keep the fucking thing updated and that's about it.

937
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,440
You don't need to fucking do anything else.

938
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,440
It's a very cool.

939
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,440
You see how odd it is though.

940
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:10,440
It's an amazing piece of equipment.

941
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:11,440
It's crazy.

942
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:12,440
I'm amazed by it.

943
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:17,440
It's such a technological niche thing.

944
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:22,440
And yet it's the ability to play these games on the go is just fucking crazy.

945
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,440
I've had my daughter, Jem and her brother all say to me, oh, what's that?

946
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:26,440
A switch?

947
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:28,440
I scoffed.

948
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:29,440
This is a steam deck, sir.

949
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:30,440
I gawked.

950
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:40,440
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.

951
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,440
Honestly, the steam has just got everything.

952
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:43,440
You can mod stuff.

953
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:44,440
You can get emulators.

954
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,440
I mean, don't get me wrong.

955
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:47,440
I probably never will.

956
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,440
But the fact that you can is cool and I love that.

957
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:53,440
There's people out there that use it as their work computer.

958
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:54,440
It's mental.

959
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,440
They do editing and all sorts of shit.

960
00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:02,440
I might even buy a boulder's gate on Steam just so I can cross save onto the other Steam deck.

961
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,440
Just so I can have it on there.

962
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:05,440
It's very cool.

963
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,440
Some of them you've got to fuck around with the settings.

964
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,440
Have you bought a battery power?

965
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:11,440
What is your battery like?

966
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:22,440
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.

967
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,440
What's your play time looking like?

968
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:25,440
Fantastic.

969
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:30,440
Obviously, I'm not playing really powerful inducing games.

970
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,440
I'm just playing Stardew Valley and no rest for the wicked.

971
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:36,440
I haven't ever got to the point where it's needy charging.

972
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:41,440
I've put it on charge because I've played it for two nights in a row and it's getting low.

973
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,440
So I need to charge it while I'm playing.

974
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:48,440
But I haven't run out of battery or got close to being, I better put this on charge while I'm playing.

975
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:55,440
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.

976
00:48:55,440 --> 00:49:05,440
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.

977
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,440
That's when I'll be using it and I'll always have a plug near me.

978
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,440
The battery life is not the end of the world.

979
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:19,440
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.

980
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:24,440
That charger that you've got with that is fucking beefy.

981
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,440
It's a big old cunt.

982
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:30,440
Anything else, your phone charger will not charge that Steam Deck fast enough.

983
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:36,440
You're talking like 16 hours to charge it full on just like a normal USB.

984
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:42,440
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.

985
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,440
This is not strong enough to do it.

986
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:46,440
And then when I bought a battery pack, same thing, not strong enough.

987
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,440
It's a vehicle that is propelled along.

988
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,440
Yeah, it's like this isn't powerful enough to do it.

989
00:49:50,440 --> 00:50:01,440
So you have to buy, mine was like a 24,000 milliamp fucking battery, big chunky fucking thing, which is charging it.

990
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:10,440
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.

991
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:11,440
It's a fucking instant.

992
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:12,440
Can't be good for the battery.

993
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:16,440
It must be overloading it, but I don't give a fuck because it runs out in half an hour after doing that.

994
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:20,440
I'll just plug it in for another five, give myself 70%.

995
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,440
Yes, I'm very anal about charges anyway.

996
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,440
I always make sure I use the right one for my Kindle and all that stuff.

997
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:28,440
I don't like having them switching up.

998
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,440
It's a fantastic bit of kit.

999
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:37,440
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.

1000
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:44,440
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.

1001
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:49,440
This is never getting dropped because Steam has such a vast library of games that I've always wanted to play.

1002
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:57,440
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.

1003
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:04,440
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.

1004
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:17,440
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.

1005
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:30,440
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.

1006
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,440
Have you bopped an SD card in it yet?

1007
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:40,440
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.

1008
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:41,440
And that's it.

1009
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:42,440
I'll just delete it.

1010
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:43,440
Same as me, man.

1011
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:50,440
Yeah, there might come a time, but I'm not envisioning playing any Call of Duty that are fucking 300 gigabytes.

1012
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:57,440
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.

1013
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:05,440
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.

1014
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:13,440
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.

1015
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:18,440
Do you know what I mean? So I think this is just a fantastic machine that I love playing.

1016
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:22,440
And Stardew Valley, I genuinely believe I'm going to be playing that for hundreds of hours.

1017
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:39,440
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?

1018
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:40,440
I just love it.

1019
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:45,440
It's very good, but do you see what I mean with the thumbs and the... But I've got small hands.

1020
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:51,440
You've got big fucking sausage fingers, like manly dad fingers. Your fingers ain't that long though, are they?

1021
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:52,440
They're just wide.

1022
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:54,440
No, I've got little hands.

1023
00:52:54,440 --> 00:53:06,440
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.

1024
00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:11,440
No, to be honest, I haven't played a game where I've really needed it that much to use the triggers.

1025
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:15,440
I've only really used them on Stardew Valley to go between icons.

1026
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:22,440
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.

1027
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,440
I love that it's touch screen as well, man.

1028
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:28,440
It's everything. It's just so good. I forget it's touch screen.

1029
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:34,440
I always forget the hotkey to get the keypad to come up as well.

1030
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:42,440
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.

1031
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:48,440
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...

1032
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:52,440
When you're on Steam and you click search, it auto prompts the fucking keyboard.

1033
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,440
When you go into desktop mode, it doesn't for a lot of stuff.

1034
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:59,440
So you have to, I think it's like the Steam button and fucking X or some shit.

1035
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,440
That desktop mode is for adults, mate. I'm sitting way away from that.

1036
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,440
I'm just standing on the little Steam page where it's safe.

1037
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:13,440
Yeah, I got fucking... Because it's one of them, man. You delete something off of that.

1038
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:16,440
It's a mess. It's a fucking mess.

1039
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:22,440
I am gobsmacked though about how good the mouse pads are.

1040
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,440
Yeah, they're cool, ain't they? With the little vibration in them and everything.

1041
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:28,440
Yeah, they're cool, but they are like... They're like so accurate.

1042
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,440
You know the PlayStation 5 one? Shocking. Shocking.

1043
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:32,440
Yeah, awful.

1044
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:34,440
Rubbish. So that's how I just envisioned it.

1045
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:36,440
This is like... You could genuinely use that if you wanted to.

1046
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,440
Yeah, I do. Really good.

1047
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,440
When you're in desktop mode, I do. That is what I use.

1048
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:44,440
I've been holding off Football Manager because I feel once I get that, it's over.

1049
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:49,440
Because that is thousands and thousands and thousands of hours I've put in them games over the years.

1050
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,440
Probably 10,000 plus hours.

1051
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,440
So I just feel like that needs to be back burning.

1052
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:56,440
Yeah, that's going to fuck you up.

1053
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,440
For almost ever, to be honest with you. Because once that's done...

1054
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,440
If I get Football Manager on there and I take it around to show Clarky,

1055
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,440
he'll get a Steam Deck. I know 100%.

1056
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,440
I could easily make him get Stealed like that.

1057
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:10,440
So yeah, what a system.

1058
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:15,440
It's a very, very cool... And that's barely scratching the surface with all the other console...

1059
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:19,440
All the other handhelds that are out as well that use a different UI system.

1060
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:23,440
Some of them use Windows, some of them fucking obviously Steam.

1061
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:28,440
So you've got a completely different... Like the Asus.

1062
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,440
You can have Game Pass on that. Can't have that on...

1063
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,440
I'm sure you can jimmy it so you can have Game Pass.

1064
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:39,440
Through desktop mode you can have Game Pass.

1065
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:42,440
But obviously that's a different aspect of it.

1066
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,440
And it's just exciting, man.

1067
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:46,440
What I like, it's a very cool thing.

1068
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:49,440
I've got the Steam Deck and I'm playing it and I'm loving it.

1069
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:56,440
But if the Steam Deck died tomorrow or Steam Decks would stop being made or whatever,

1070
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,440
I've still got a library of Steam games.

1071
00:55:58,440 --> 00:55:59,440
Yeah.

1072
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:05,440
So it's not like, oh, you know, like I'm talking in terms of like Nintendo Switch games or PS3 games.

1073
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:10,440
You have the games, you've got the physical games, which is great, but they're useless now.

1074
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:12,440
You need the system to be able to play.

1075
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:15,440
I've got a catalogue of games that are there when I play the laptop.

1076
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:20,440
Do you know what I mean? Because I wouldn't be... What's the word?

1077
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:27,440
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.

1078
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:31,440
I don't know why it makes a difference now, but because I've played it on the Steam Deck,

1079
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:35,440
I'll be like, OK, I know this game and I'll just put the controller in and play, which I might even do.

1080
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,440
I might even check that out. But the fact that I don't know, I just love it.

1081
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:41,440
But honestly, so good. Get a fucking Steam Deck, people. Really.

1082
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:43,440
I know Mark when I got mine, he was debating it.

1083
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:44,440
So good.

1084
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:48,440
He was debating getting a Switch for a long time and then he was like, I don't know what to do.

1085
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:51,440
And then I got the Steam Deck and he was like, oh, I might get one.

1086
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:58,440
They are hit and miss, but they're more hit than they are miss for a lot of people.

1087
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:03,440
And I feel like there's a lot of people out there who would definitely benefit from having something like a Steam Deck

1088
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:08,440
without fucking realizing that if you're listening and you've been debating over getting a Steam Deck or not,

1089
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:10,440
well, it doesn't even have to be a Steam Deck.

1090
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,440
You've been looking at any of the other fucking handheld PCs that are out there.

1091
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:14,440
I'm just wrong.

1092
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:19,440
Fucking get one. Just get one. Because they're fucking decent, man. They're sick.

1093
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:26,440
The Steam Deck, because obviously you've got the highest end one that you can get.

1094
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:30,440
I've got the lowest end one you can get, which is quite a cool fucking contrast.

1095
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:38,440
The difference between them other than your OLED screen and potentially the battery is not that fucking vast.

1096
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:39,440
No, not at all.

1097
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,440
They do exactly the same things. They play exactly the same games.

1098
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:44,440
The hardware has very, very minimal differences.

1099
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:51,440
The only difference in them is that the load up times for your one will be faster than mine.

1100
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:56,440
And that's it. And if you can live with that, if you can live with the GTA V loading screen,

1101
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:58,440
then you can live with the difference between this.

1102
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:03,440
I feel like if, same with the Switch, right?

1103
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:07,440
So if, as I didn't have the Steam Deck, I thought, well, I'll get the OLED.

1104
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:10,440
If I had a Steam Deck, I wouldn't be buying the OLED.

1105
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:12,440
I wouldn't be selling that Steam Deck to get an OLED.

1106
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:17,440
Same with the Switch. I had a Switch, OLED come out, I'm not getting an OLED.

1107
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:21,440
I'll get an OLED if mine breaks, but I'm not going to go out and replace it.

1108
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,440
It's not a deal breaker. It's not big enough.

1109
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:29,440
It's not the Steam Deck 2.5. It's just the Steam Deck 2.1.

1110
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,440
It's better, but it's not game breaking.

1111
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:36,440
So yeah, I think it's fantastic. I'm very, very happy with it.

1112
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,440
And I'll be playing it for years.

1113
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:43,440
It's definitely not going to be a Switch that I've bought two or three of over the years

1114
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,440
and sold or give to the kids now.

1115
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:49,440
There's too much variety with it, man, for it to...

1116
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:53,440
Longevity-wise, don't get me wrong, the Switch has obviously got longevity,

1117
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:59,440
but the Steam Deck is far more accessible and update-wise far more capable.

1118
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:02,440
There's much more that can be added to that,

1119
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,440
and there's much more that can be done with that.

1120
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:06,440
If you really wanted to, you can pull the fucking thing apart

1121
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:10,440
and change the fucking SSD and all that shit.

1122
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,440
I was getting anxiety. I told you about pressing the X button too much.

1123
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,440
I was like, I don't want my X button to get stuck.

1124
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:18,440
And I was worried about pushing too hard on my analog stick

1125
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,440
and thinking I was going to get stick drift.

1126
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:25,440
So I watched a YouTube video on how to replace the buttons and the things,

1127
00:59:25,440 --> 00:59:31,440
and I was like, well, if anything does happen, at least I know that I can replace them.

1128
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:33,440
So I'm fine. But I was getting proper anxious.

1129
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,440
I was like, oh, I've got to stop pressing X so much.

1130
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:42,440
The thing is that because it's a PC, Steam, Valve want you to,

1131
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:46,440
with the system itself, they want you to fuck around with it

1132
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,440
and what can I fucking put on the Steam Deck?

1133
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:50,440
What can I download? What can I change? What can I mod?

1134
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:52,440
They want you to do that, but they also want you to do that

1135
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:55,440
with the fucking system itself, with the console.

1136
00:59:55,440 --> 01:00:01,440
And yes, it's somewhat difficult to take the thing apart,

1137
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:05,440
but at the same time, it's a PC. They haven't locked it away.

1138
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,440
You can't fucking, you can't touch it.

1139
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,440
You have to be a scientist to fucking an engineer to take this thing apart.

1140
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:13,440
It's just a PC. So if you want to fucking take it apart

1141
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,440
and look at the hardware and change bits, fucking go for it.

1142
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:18,440
I don't think it is that hard to take apart.

1143
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:22,440
I think the only thing I would do if I was to do it would be one,

1144
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:28,440
to obviously watch YouTube video and two, would to be buy an actual set of the tools.

1145
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:30,440
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you're not just going out there with a fucking Phillips.

1146
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,440
That's what I mean.

1147
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:35,440
Get your Halfords set out and fucking crack on.

1148
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:38,440
If I got the proper bits and bobs, I'd be confident I could do it.

1149
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:40,440
But unless I need to, I never will.

1150
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:41,440
Yeah, you don't need to.

1151
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:44,440
Yeah, I'm very, very, I couldn't be happier.

1152
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:46,440
I like 11 out of 10 for that.

1153
01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:48,440
I was, you know when, I don't know if you're the same as me,

1154
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:51,440
but I get very anxious after I make a big purchase.

1155
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:52,440
Yeah.

1156
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,440
And I'm like, oh, fucking. Have I done the right thing?

1157
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,440
Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten times I was thinking,

1158
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,440
do I cancel it before it comes? I'm fucking, I'm shitting myself here.

1159
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:01,440
That's a lot of money. Ra, ra, ra.

1160
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:05,440
And then as soon as I put it on, I was fucking about with the intro systems.

1161
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:08,440
And before I even bought a game, I was like, this is fucking amazing.

1162
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:09,440
Yeah, it's cool.

1163
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:13,440
It's just so good in every possible, it feels good. It plays good.

1164
01:01:13,440 --> 01:01:16,440
It's comfortable. It's pretty. It's lovely.

1165
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:21,440
Also like the, the cooling system of it isn't at the bottom.

1166
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,440
It's not on the underside. So you can.

1167
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:24,440
You're not getting hot hands.

1168
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:26,440
Yeah. So you can have it resting on you and you ain't going to,

1169
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:30,440
you ain't going to suffocate the thing. And, um, yeah,

1170
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:34,440
it makes very minimal noise as well. It's like, yeah, yeah.

1171
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:37,440
They're, they're, they're just fucking cool, man.

1172
01:01:37,440 --> 01:01:39,440
They're really cool bits of kit.

1173
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:44,440
And they, I love that all the, the ports and the ch- everything's on top.

1174
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:48,440
So if you wanted to have it charging, you ain't, that's not in the way.

1175
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:49,440
You can just plug it in at the top.

1176
01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:51,440
It's always annoyed me that having charging ports on the bottom.

1177
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,440
They're understood why a lot of things do that because then you, you,

1178
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:56,440
you can't use it.

1179
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:59,440
No, cause you put it down. It should bend in the cable. Yeah. Yeah.

1180
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:00,440
Yeah. Yeah. It's cool, man.

1181
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:03,440
And the cable, I know it's different for the OLED, uh,

1182
01:02:03,440 --> 01:02:05,440
because they changed it obviously after a lot of moaning,

1183
01:02:05,440 --> 01:02:07,440
but the cable is really long. I don't know.

1184
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:10,440
The other one's a bit shorter. This one can go for a long time.

1185
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:11,440
Long way.

1186
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:13,440
I think the, the one that I've got,

1187
01:02:13,440 --> 01:02:16,440
I could have it plugged in in that corner there and I could probably

1188
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,440
still sit on the end here and it'd be all right.

1189
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:22,440
But it's not, it's not fucking crazy long, but yeah, it is long enough.

1190
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:23,440
Yeah. As long as it's long enough.

1191
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:25,440
I'm gassed though.

1192
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:29,440
It's just blushing over or gushing over the steam deck, but genuinely it's,

1193
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:33,440
I put it this way and I'm not just saying this.

1194
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:36,440
I am much happier with this purchase than I am the Xbox. Yeah.

1195
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:39,440
The Xbox was for Starfield, which is annoying.

1196
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:43,440
Uh, that it come out the way it did, but genuinely,

1197
01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:47,440
I've already had more fun with the, with the steam deck than I have the Xbox.

1198
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,440
I've had the Xbox for a year now.

1199
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:53,440
It's because the, it's because the steam deck is that, um,

1200
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:57,440
it's that, what was the fucking word?

1201
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:01,440
That technological advancement that you would want within gaming.

1202
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:05,440
It's, it's that such, it's something that's so,

1203
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:09,440
for a lot of gamers that never, that weren't into PC gaming,

1204
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:12,440
PC gaming seems like an alien fucking concept.

1205
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:15,440
It does seem like a almost higher being because it's like,

1206
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:17,440
I don't fucking know anything about computers.

1207
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,440
I don't know how to do any of that. And then it's like,

1208
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:23,440
everyone seems to think that most games you need like this atomic fucking rig

1209
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:25,440
to be able to play most shit.

1210
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:29,440
So most people stay away from that because it's very expensive to achieve a lot of stuff.

1211
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:33,440
So to have this not budget price,

1212
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:39,440
but somewhat affordable console come out that gives you straight access

1213
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:46,440
to 99% of that PC world is so much fun.

1214
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:50,440
It is so cool. And I love that for, for, for gaming.

1215
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:53,440
I love that as a, as a pathway for most people.

1216
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:55,440
Sam and Carl, if you're fucking listening and you,

1217
01:03:55,440 --> 01:03:57,440
you got a bit of dough that you want to fucking,

1218
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:01,440
I know Sam has because he gives a lot of it to us.

1219
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:03,440
But if you get thinking about getting a steam deck,

1220
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:06,440
just fucking buy one because they're sick.

1221
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:09,440
Just do what I did, man. Just, just get it. I've got it on PayPal credit.

1222
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:12,440
I've nearly paid it off now because I like to pay shit off quick.

1223
01:04:12,440 --> 01:04:16,440
But yeah, even fucking Amazon paying free or whatever, man,

1224
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:20,440
it's so worth it. So fucking worth it. I am amazed.

1225
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,440
And what's great is, you know,

1226
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:26,440
Jem's watching her movies in the evening. I'm just sitting there playing games.

1227
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:29,440
We're in the same room. She's watching her film. I'm doing what I want to do.

1228
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,440
She's doing what she wants to do. And there's not, there's arguments,

1229
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:34,440
but there is, it's just nice, you know,

1230
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:37,440
whereas normally she'd be watching something I'd be bored out my skull,

1231
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:41,440
playing on my phone or, or I'll be on the PlayStation on the telly

1232
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:42,440
and she'll be just...

1233
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:46,440
Now you can see the heat up when the portal come out and why I was so fucking angry,

1234
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:49,440
like not angry, but it's like, why,

1235
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:51,440
why have that when you can have a fucking steam deck?

1236
01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:55,440
The vast differences is, is, is mental with the capabilities.

1237
01:04:55,440 --> 01:04:58,440
One just fucking streams games and one, one is powerhouse.

1238
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:02,440
Bearing in mind, you can get like the base steam deck for like 300 quid now, 329 pounds.

1239
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:08,440
Yeah, mine, mine, mine cost me. Yeah, I think it was 329 quid to buy it.

1240
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:12,440
They're last now they're the relics. So they're all the shipments of them.

1241
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:16,440
They're selling. So you can get them cheap as fuck from steam.

1242
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:20,440
And the portals 200 quid for basically another one up.

1243
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:25,440
You can get a fucking monster machine or you can get this wifi only thing

1244
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,440
that doesn't even work half the time is glitched. What a waste of money.

1245
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:31,440
Portals fucking decent in its own right.

1246
01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:35,440
Yeah, it's not when you're, it's not what we're fucking looking for.

1247
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:37,440
And it's not what a lot of people are looking for.

1248
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:41,440
When you, when you got a market with a steam deck in it and you're coming out

1249
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:47,440
with, with your like a flagship handheld, you've got to fucking have it stand up

1250
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:50,440
to par with something like steam deck, especially when you've got the back end

1251
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:51,440
that fucking Sony has.

1252
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:57,440
Mate, I wouldn't be surprised if steam deck makes a home console with steam in mind.

1253
01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:03,440
Yeah, they could make a PlayStation that is that could put out steam games.

1254
01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:09,440
Yeah. Because you, because you with the steam deck, obviously you're, you're

1255
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:13,440
entering that, that realm, whether they would fucking go for it.

1256
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:14,440
They don't necessarily need to.

1257
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:19,440
But the idea probably would be explored because yeah, it's not a bad idea.

1258
01:06:19,440 --> 01:06:22,440
It's just whether you would fucking need another console on the market.

1259
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:23,440
That's, that's the same.

1260
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:27,440
But then that gets into that iteration of having everything all in one.

1261
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:28,440
Well, that's what I mean.

1262
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:32,440
You have them really all PlayStation games seem to come to steam nowadays.

1263
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:36,440
They're just a little bit behind if you can keep up with the demand for it.

1264
01:06:36,440 --> 01:06:40,440
If you can wait, but at least you're playing it all on one system.

1265
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:42,440
Then I think it's fantastic.

1266
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:43,440
Very happy.

1267
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:45,440
And that's that.

1268
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:50,440
Is that patient fantastic patron time fucking when I go and do the real shit.

1269
01:06:50,440 --> 01:06:52,440
Thanks for your ears.

1270
01:06:52,440 --> 01:07:03,440
See you later.