1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,960 Hello everyone, podcast listeners, what's the buttons, fanatics and general gaming people. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:19,280 Wow. Hello. Hello. What a jam packed week it's been in between our last episode and then this 3 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:27,920 episode, recording a bit later because of unforeseen stuff. However, what it has afforded us is in the 4 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:37,280 interim between there has been the PlayStation State of Play, Summer Game Fest, the Xbox Showcase 5 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:46,640 and Ubisoft Forward yesterday. And we spoke a bit about State of Play and it was, I mean, 6 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,880 my own opinion is I thought it was a bit shit this year. So I don't really want to bother talking 7 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:57,840 about it. I think you and Ash did talk about it. We did. Yeah. Xbox Showcase, we spoke about on 8 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:06,720 the Patreon because I'm not massively versed in the world of Xbox, Microsoft fucking. So there 9 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:11,920 was a lot of nostalgic games being announced that I just couldn't, I can't resonate with because 10 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,600 I've never played them like Gears of War and things like that. So it's very difficult for me to 11 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:25,120 have that much to say. However, Ubisoft Forward, which we both watched that went on for about four 12 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:30,400 hours. Did it really? No, but it felt like it. I think it was quicker than the Xbox one. 13 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:36,800 The Xbox one, yeah, was about two hours, wasn't it? Around that. They didn't know when to jack it in. 14 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:42,800 The long old time. Yeah. But the Ubisoft one, very, very, very, very interesting. It was actually Ash 15 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:46,960 that, because I knew that it was happening, but it was Ash that reminded me, it was like, are you 16 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:53,200 fucking watching it? And obviously they opened up with their big, big hitter, which was Star Wars 17 00:01:53,200 --> 00:02:01,520 Outlaws, and then followed it up with Assassin's Creed Shadows. And both of those games look fucking 18 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:10,800 incredible. Oh my God. Oh my God. So for the next 45 to an hour, I reckon we can fill the void with 19 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:15,360 that. You reckon? I reckon. I admire your confidence. I reckon we're capable of it. 20 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:20,640 Okay. So which one do we go with first? Up to you. Let's go with Shadows. Okay. Let's go 21 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:30,400 with Assassin's Creed Shadows. Oh, didn't that look good? Oh my God. I know. And I can't, 22 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,360 well, speechless, speechless. There were so, so many cool elements. It looked so cool. Like even 23 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:41,920 something as simple as, you know, like, and I really remember them from Nightfire, the James Bond 24 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:49,040 PS2 game. There was like a section where you were in a sort of like Asian area. I can't remember 25 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,120 where he was, but that's what it really reminds me of seeing those, you know, they've got like 26 00:02:53,120 --> 00:03:00,400 papery doors. And yeah, in the, in the sort of, it was more like sort of extended gameplay, wasn't 27 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:06,480 it? As opposed to sort of a trailer. Yeah. Pretty much the entire thing was gameplay. And just like 28 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:12,720 the, the way that they've integrated using the light and the environment to, you know, you see 29 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:18,160 their shadow and stab through the paper door. It's so impressive. It's incredible. Oh, like even 30 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:23,440 something as simple as she's there and she goes, he's coming. I need to hide. And I think I literally 31 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,880 said, wait, what the fuck? Like out loud, because I just thought, where are you going to go? And she 32 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:33,120 just shoots to the ceiling, which there's just that element of realism. Not that it's not been 33 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:38,560 there, but I feel like they've done it really, really fucking well. Yeah. This, this looks, 34 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:49,200 the, the shadows specifically in that. So what we saw was, um, Nayaway, something like that, 35 00:03:49,200 --> 00:04:00,800 is her name, I think. Um, and she's that assassin type role. Yeah. Um, and basically there, there 36 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:08,000 was a part in the gameplay where she's hiding behind a typical like crates made into a wall 37 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,680 type shit. And then there's an enemy in front of her. And next to the enemy, like, uh, up to their 38 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:19,120 left is a, is a lantern, which is obviously illuminating the area, but there are quite a 39 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:23,120 lot of shadows. This is the middle of the night. So a lantern is only going to fucking light up 40 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:33,120 so much. And she basically shoots that down. And then what happens is it doesn't make everything 41 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,440 go completely black, but obviously it gets rid of that illumination. And then the guy that was 42 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:43,040 talking over while I was playing explained that this doesn't make her invisible. However, 43 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:49,920 it increases the enemy's reaction times and allows you to, to get close enough to assassinate. And 44 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:54,880 that's exactly what she did. And I thought that looks so cool because even then, like she's 45 00:04:54,880 --> 00:05:01,040 sculpted in the shadow, like, cause there was different depths of shadow, um, in the scene 46 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:05,360 and she was right in the, in the darkest depths of those shadows and then just lunged out and 47 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,680 fucking done him over. And then I think it was after that, she had that, um, that ranged 48 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:15,280 assassination where she has that, that almost that flail thing. I can't remember what it's called. 49 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:23,040 Um, basically like a, I think it's a spiked ball, like a flail, but not on a much longer chain. 50 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:31,280 That think of basically like the chaos blades, but with a fucking spike ball instead. Um, and yeah, 51 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:35,360 she, she like wrapped it around someone and pulled herself towards him and then fucking 52 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:41,920 assassinate. And I was like that, that's perfect. And the parkour looked fucking really, really 53 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:49,680 seamless, really good. And then, um, it was just so cool cause they, when they announced it, 54 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:55,440 they were talking about how they have worked very, very hard to make the scenery and everything 55 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:03,680 around you destructible to a, um, to a respect. Yeah. Um, and they said in that it'll be like 56 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,960 your Katana would slice through boxes and papers and things like that. It would, it would cause 57 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,080 damage with what you're doing. And they obviously showed that where when there's most weapons, 58 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:19,600 weapons, enemies and she's spinning around with a flail thing, obviously she cuts through the 59 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:24,720 bamboo and doing that. And it, and it did cut through the bamboo. Admittedly, it just phased 60 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:32,720 out after a second because fair enough. But I thought that's, that's such a cool added depth 61 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:41,360 to the scene that you wouldn't need to add, but it makes it so much better as well because it gives 62 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:45,280 it that little bit because you do think that when you're swinging a weapon around or if you ever like 63 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:50,000 swing an axe into a wall and it just, a spark comes off and you just go, yeah. And then that's 64 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,320 it. It was like, well, that's, that's not real. Is it like, that's not going to happen. Yeah. I'm quite 65 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:59,280 interested to see how it plays out with, obviously they mentioned about how the environment will 66 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:06,320 change with the time of day, with the time of year. And then he said how it will basically be like an 67 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:12,000 area you visit in the winter and it'll be too cold to swim, but you might go back there, you know, 68 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,880 in a different time and you're able to, so you're able to access places that you previously couldn't 69 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,680 or he, he used the example that like, you know, the rain and the muggy weather, you can hide easy. 70 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:29,600 And that, that I think is again, it's like that fine line that you draw with realism in a game, 71 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:35,200 whereas take something like, I know, um, you know, Red Dead Redemption 2 and it bothered you about 72 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:40,960 how much you have to keep him warm, keep him fed, you know, energy and stuff. And whilst a lot of 73 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,800 people, you know, they said, Oh no, it gets better once you reach a certain level, you don't have to 74 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:49,680 worry about that. But let's say that, is that something that bothers you? It's like, this is 75 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:56,720 that alternate way of doing that, where you might not have to worry about that, but there are times 76 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:01,120 when you, you know, when you think of playing a game and you're running in the snow and yet they're 77 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:05,280 not even affected by it or it doesn't matter. They just dive into freezing cold water and then crack 78 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:10,320 on like it wouldn't be, you know, hypothermia sitting in. So that I think is really, really 79 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:15,600 clever. I'm excited to see how that kind of actually feels to play if it is a frustrating 80 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:21,680 element or if it does lean into like quite a fun way of doing it. Yeah. I'd like to see how they 81 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:29,040 transition from season to season. Yeah. Is it a case of I go to sleep one night and it's, it's 82 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:35,680 like spring and then I wake up in the morning and it's changed around to full blown fucking summer. 83 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:40,960 Like how, how are we going to, is that something that's going to progress through the story? 84 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:46,400 Which I don't know. Is that going to be where it's like, say, say you, let's split it into 85 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:53,680 chapters for argument's sake and you've got first three chapters you're in winter and then the next, 86 00:08:53,680 --> 00:09:01,360 next two chapters, it rolls round to spring. And then like, is that, is there a story progression 87 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:08,880 in that or is it just a in game time sensitive thing? What would be cool? Could you imagine if 88 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:13,200 it was, I know they don't really do these sort of in and out of the animus anymore, but imagine if 89 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:18,160 it was a way where you could choose. So you could visit that area in that time, in a way, 90 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:22,880 because you could imagine, say you start off in the summer and then you miss in it or rather 91 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:27,600 start off in the winter, I don't know, whatever. And there's an area you can't access because of 92 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,440 something to do with the weather. It would kind of suck if you were then locked out of that 93 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:36,640 because you've then progressed beyond that season. It's an interesting one to see how they, 94 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:43,200 because season changes aren't a new thing at all in any game, but the, in this, I feel like for 95 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:48,160 Assassin's Creed it is though. For this it is, yeah. And the fact that it has an actual effect 96 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:56,160 on the environment is very new. So it's intriguing to see how they, how they go with that. Also the, 97 00:09:56,160 --> 00:10:00,320 the art style of, I kept saying it, of when they kill a boss or something and it goes all black and 98 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:07,360 white. There is a name for it. I can't remember what the, what the art style is called. But yeah, 99 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:16,320 basically when you kill a head honcho or something like that, it goes like this Japanese style manga 100 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:24,000 colorway on the screen and looks fucking phenomenal. It looks so cool and the combat 101 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,840 looked really good. It all looked fantastic. You seemed dubious about the health bars. 102 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:34,720 At first, yeah, because at first, the first bit of combat you see a health bar pops up above the 103 00:10:34,720 --> 00:10:40,480 enemy. And I was like, this is like, for me, I feel like that takes away a little bit from those 104 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:45,920 types of games in that I don't want to see a health bar. What do you find it like immersion wise? Yeah, 105 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:51,200 ruins the immersion of it. Not that I find something like Assassin's Creed is massively immersive, 106 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:58,560 right? But I feel like it's a, it's a thing that you don't necessarily need because with health 107 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:02,560 bars, to me, that means that there's going to be stats involved and then there's going to be gear 108 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:07,600 involved and then there's going to be weapon damage and, and things like that are going to start 109 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:15,280 creeping in. So yeah, when I saw the health bar flashed up, I was like, it's not really what I'm 110 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:20,480 interested in. However, once the combat kicked off, I was like, no, forget it. You're fine. You're 111 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:27,840 cool. You can keep your health bar. Because the combat just looked so fun. So much fun. The geyser 112 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:34,640 pulled out a katana and lifted someone up with it and then just fucking just threw him away. Like 113 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:42,000 it was nothing. And then went into a boss fight. I was like, that is, that is so cool. That's perfect. 114 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:46,560 That's what I want to know as well is I couldn't really catch it because it was towards the end 115 00:11:46,560 --> 00:11:50,720 where we'd sort of like not stop listening, but we knew it was sort of coming to the end. 116 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:57,200 So I wasn't quite clear on if it's going to be, you can flick between sort of like syndicate where 117 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:02,320 you can, you know, you, you flip between Jacob and Evie as much as you like. Or if there will be a 118 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:10,800 point where you choose who you are. Well, from what I, what they showed us was, because what, 119 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:16,080 what is his actual name? So you got, you've got, you've got a nail. Because I feel like they're 120 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,800 quite, quite different. This isn't a case of, you know, basically pick if you want to be a male or 121 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:27,680 female, they do seem like they're completely different sort of skill sets, you know, storylines, 122 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:35,520 just whole different setups and like ways of approaching combat. Um, you know, he, he is 123 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:43,760 by default not as stealthy as she is, you know, and it's almost like that. Yosuke. Yosuke. Yosuke 124 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:49,840 and Naoe. Naoe and Yosuke. And Yosuke is a. Because they do know each other, don't they? They 125 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:56,480 sort of interact with each other at points. Yeah. And Yosuke is a, um, he's a samurai. Yeah. Um, 126 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:06,080 and he is that typical heavy armored tank sort of berserker, um, role. And then yeah, Naoe is, um, 127 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:14,880 um, is very much not that. Yeah. Well, yeah. Stealth and sort of like agile kind of, kind of 128 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:20,400 vibes. I would quite like it if it is a set up where you can just flip between both as to, 129 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,920 as to what your sort of like needs are in the sense of, you know, if you're presented with a 130 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:28,480 mission where you've got to get in and out and not be seen, well, Naoe is the, the clear option. 131 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:33,440 If it's somewhere you've got, you know, fucking just nuke them all, then there was his name, 132 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:38,400 Yosuke. Like he would be your choice. Cause it gives you, it gave, it gives you that option 133 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:43,360 from what we saw. Yeah. But is it permanent is what I'm saying. Cause you know, like Valhalla, 134 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:47,680 you choose who you are and that's, that's that. And I believe it's the same for Odyssey. Um, 135 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:53,280 whereas, you know, something like Syndicate, you would, one would just sit on the train 136 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:57,760 and then you'd switch as, as, and when you liked, you could skill up and, you know, like at one 137 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:04,080 point I was way more skilled in one than I was in the other just because I'd used them more. Um, 138 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,360 wonder if it says anything in this article about it. This is what I couldn't catch. Cause I think 139 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:12,240 he did say something about making a choice, but I didn't catch whether it would be like you play it. 140 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:17,280 If you imagine you could play the first quarter as one, the second quarter is another, and the 141 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:21,840 last half you choose. Yeah. Something like that. I feel like would be kind of cool. So you get more 142 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:27,040 of a feel of who you actually want to be and not just picking on sort of like face value or like 143 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:31,760 seeing, you know, reading the book and its cover, but to actually be able to experience the gameplay 144 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:36,240 as both of the characters. Yeah. I'm trying to read to see if it throughout the whole thing or 145 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:41,920 having to choose. I feel like you can't, they seem like very prominent characters with, with a very 146 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:52,240 rich and in-depth story. So you can't, I say you can't, but they did it on Syndicate pretty well 147 00:14:52,240 --> 00:15:01,600 in that both of, um, Jacob and Evie had very good stories as characters in their own right. And like 148 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:06,080 you say, all it would be is if you were playing fucking Jacob, you, you were, Evie was on the 149 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:10,560 train or vice versa. You, they weren't doing anything. You played his bloody granddaughter 150 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:17,200 at one point. Yeah. So, and their stories were still very good. So I was going to say like, 151 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:24,160 you can't just have where you're playing one solid character and that's it. But then you kind of, 152 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:28,400 if you'd have wanted to play just as one or the other in Syndicate, I'm pretty sure you could. 153 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:34,480 Yeah. Um, I don't think that there was too many where it was like dedicated singular missions for 154 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:38,400 that person. There were some, don't get me wrong, but I feel like they were more to the start of the 155 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:43,600 game where it was almost sort of introducing you to these people and, you know, almost forcing you 156 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,400 to, to at least play a little bit of it to get that feel. Well, I have, there's nothing here that 157 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:54,560 says that whether it's confirmed or not what, what the situation is. I can imagine it would be a flicking of both. 158 00:15:54,560 --> 00:16:06,640 I would like it to, I, I would almost like it to be able to be where you can flick between the two 159 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:13,040 during a combat situation. Really? I feel like that would be quite cool. What kind of like, 160 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:20,160 like a dual control. Yeah. And that's to say, so if you're picking, if you're doing a mission 161 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,080 or something like that, you choose the way that you want to do it. You want to go over Ysuki, 162 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:29,760 then you want to fucking storm the gates and go in fucking all guns blazing. You pick Naioh and you 163 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:34,720 want to, you want to do it stealth. You want to do it quietly, but it'd be nice if when you're just 164 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:41,040 out and about on an interaction, if you're fighting whoever, say I'm fighting as Ysuki 165 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:48,960 and there's a button or something that allows me to switch and essentially call in Naioh. So now 166 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:53,440 I'm, now I'm playing her, so it's a, like, I'm on the ground, like with my cudgel fucking smacking 167 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,920 the shit out of people and I swap and then there's Naioh, I've swapped to her. I'm now on a roof, 168 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:07,840 but Ysuki continues to attack as AI essentially. And then I can draw in the fray. Yeah. That makes 169 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:13,760 sense. I don't really know how that would work that nor if that would work at all, because if 170 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:17,600 you're going into a mission and you're being made to choose between the two, that kind of defeats 171 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,840 the whole point of being able to freely swap between the two in that respect. But it would be 172 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:31,200 quite cool to see something like that. That makes sense. You should text them. Drop them a line. 173 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:38,240 Hey, I've got a good idea for you. Yeah. Very intrigued to see how they play because I feel 174 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:46,800 like I would play both of them. Yeah. 50-50. Because it just seems so cool. Yeah. It's 175 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:52,480 definitely got me hyped up for it. Like I said to Ash, I feel like where Mirage had its downfall 176 00:17:52,480 --> 00:18:00,080 was that the bones of it were very good, but the actual finished product of it was quite shit. 177 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:11,040 However, from a. I feel like it was testing the waters to see this new hybrid evolution of what 178 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:21,600 Assassin's Creed can be and will be in that you have everything up until Origins Odyssey, Valhalla, 179 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:29,840 I feel like though they're all they're separate, like two revelations, fucking brotherhood, 180 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:35,840 they're completely different to Origins Valhalla and all that shit. However, I feel like Mirage was 181 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:41,760 almost like a tester of let's see what we can do if we put those two genres basically together, 182 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:49,440 not genres, oh yeah, concepts together and then build upon that because Mirage wasn't bad. It just, 183 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:55,600 it wasn't great, but it was a breath of fresh air. If the game was longer than like 20 hours, 184 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:00,640 then it would have been really shit because fuck me, was it getting a bit tedious? However, 185 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:04,640 you could see the direction they were going in and I remember saying when it first come out 186 00:19:05,360 --> 00:19:11,040 and then when I finished it saying that they can either go one of two directions, either go back to 187 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:16,080 more of how they used to be or continue in their new direction. It's nice to see that from that 188 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:21,520 gameplay that we saw of Assassin's Creed Shadows, it just looks like an amalgamation of the both. 189 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:29,840 Yeah. Because it just looked so good, so good. Arguably from what I saw there, 190 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:36,240 it looked like it could potentially be better than the likes of Ghost of Tsushima because obviously 191 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:41,360 that's what it gets compared to. You go Assassin's Creed Shadows, as much as everyone that likes 192 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:47,200 Assassin's Creed has been begging for a setting in Japan ever since it got announced, all people 193 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,040 have done is fucking whinge about it. Why are you doing that when you got Ghost of Tsushima? 194 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:57,200 Because everyone whinges, isn't they? It's not going to be as good as Ghost of Tsushima. 195 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:01,200 Obviously you're off the back of Mirage, so of course you're going to be a bit sour. 196 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:07,760 It's just nice to see that, no, they're creating their own thing here. They're not 197 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:16,480 copying Ghost of Tsushima. From what I saw, it looks very, very good. I'm just hoping that they 198 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:24,400 don't fuck it, but Assassin's Creed is one of Ubisoft's biggest IPs, so please for the love of 199 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:30,960 God just continue. What we saw in that half an hour or whatever, continue doing that because 200 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:36,640 it was very good, very, very spot on. It was indeed. That is Assassin's Creed Shadows. If 201 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:42,080 you haven't seen the gameplay of it, I implore everyone to go and have a look at it because it 202 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:47,040 was very, very, very good. The only downside to it is that there weren't the typical Assassin's Creed 203 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:54,640 like theme music where they're like, ah, that wasn't, that didn't make an appearance. I feel like I 204 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,080 heard the little bird call though when she was stood on something high. Yeah, yeah, a little bird 205 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:11,280 call there, but the, wasn't there. Yeah, that's that. Outlaws. Outlaws. Spicy. Looked good. 206 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:16,800 Looked fucking incredible. Did it, didn't it? Yeah. Did you see all of it? I was next to you. 207 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,720 I know, but you were flicking on your phone. I don't know if you missed bits. 208 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:23,600 Oh, I was very, very deeply invested in Monopoly Go. I needed to put shields on my landmarks, 209 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:28,560 okay? I was being constant. I was constantly under threat. Fair enough. I had the little 210 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,480 Martian treasure things was engine in five minutes and I did not have five minutes to give because 211 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:38,880 I knew you wouldn't pause it nor would I ask you to. So I had to, I had to dual wield and get enough 212 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:44,480 of the little rocket things to do it. Okay. I did. So we're fine. But yes, what I saw of it 213 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:49,040 looked fucking amazing. Looked genuinely, genuinely cool. Graphics look incredible. 214 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:58,640 Yeah. Yeah. And I just, I don't know. I've not played any Star Wars games. So I can't, 215 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:05,120 I can't really necessarily compare anything. So I'm just kind of basically excited. I mean, 216 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,360 it's difficult because I think same with Assassin's Creed. I don't really know 217 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:16,640 at what point I will play it because I feel like lately with like say Mirage, I didn't play it 218 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:21,280 because then you played it and you played it so fast and then gave me a review. I was like, 219 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:28,160 oh, okay. That's it. Like, do I mean, it's odd. I feel like, I don't know. I would like to play 220 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,600 it kind of like how more like how we did Hogwarts legacy where we did just both play it. We just 221 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:37,600 took turns and sort of shared. Yeah. Shared it. We can do that. We can do that with shadows. 222 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,800 We'll see. I'll just be miles ahead of you. Well, I mean, I finished Hogwarts legacy before you did 223 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:48,960 it. Didn't I? Oh no, no, no, no, but I did put about 15 more hours in. Excuse me. Are you mental? 224 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,600 No, because you fucking rushed it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 225 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,200 we're not having a big argument now. I put in more hours than you. That's what I say. I didn't finish 226 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:02,560 it first, but I did put more. I took you like six months longer. It definitely didn't. So also I got 227 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:07,680 the house cloak way before you did. No. So let's not, let's not say I did more than you did. 228 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:14,000 What? You didn't. What do you mean? I put, I did more than you did. I did do more than you did. 229 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:18,160 You played more than I did. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, but it was. Oh my God. I misspoke, man. 230 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:23,360 It was a long time. It was. When I completed it until you completed it. Definitely wasn't. 231 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:28,400 I think I find it was. Well, excuse me for not rinsing the game the second it comes out. Just 232 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,320 taking my time and actually enjoying it. No, because I. Let's not start criticizing play styles. No, 233 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:36,880 because I was playing it and then you were getting jealous. No, that's the complete opposite, mate. 234 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:42,800 You saw that I was ahead of you and then went fucking full steam ahead and rushed through it 235 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:48,240 to be first. I didn't rush through it to be first. Right. For the record, for benefit of the tape, 236 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:53,760 he is laughing in a knowing way because he knows exactly what he did. If this was recorded right 237 00:23:53,760 --> 00:24:00,160 now on camera, you would see him remembering that that is exactly what he did because I was ahead. 238 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:05,200 You couldn't hack it. So you fucking logged in when I couldn't and you rinsed that motherfucker. 239 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:13,680 Case closed. Anyway, so back to Star Wars. Go. So I like the look of it. I think. 240 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,600 I think it's very interesting. I sit in the same boat with you where. 241 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:22,720 Same boat as long as you're first. Yeah, I have a seat at the front of the same boat. 242 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:31,520 That I've never really played any Star Wars games. I'm not a Star Wars fan. I don't I don't pretend 243 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:37,680 to be a Star Wars fan. That's no hatred towards Star Wars, but it's it's never it's never grabbed 244 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:45,440 me in any way, shape or form. I do. I'm not interested by it. I've tried to be, but my heart 245 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,600 is with Lord of the Rings. What can I say? I feel like you're either sitting one or two camps. 246 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:55,040 You can mingle between, but ultimately you have a home and you're either in Star Wars camp or you're 247 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,000 in Lord of the Rings camp. I'm firmly in Lord of the Rings camp. It just is what it is. 248 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:02,560 But I can appreciate Star Wars in all its entirety and its glory. 249 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:09,200 But yeah, I've just I've just never been massively interested in in. 250 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:14,880 Playing it like Jedi Survivor and things like that. They just don't. 251 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:20,000 And I know they're very good, and I'm sure that if I did play them, I would really enjoy them. 252 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:23,040 But I've tried and I can't be bothered. Fair enough. 253 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:28,720 And I just don't know why, like the map pissed me off. I don't like how the way the map and the 254 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:33,280 mini map is set up is like some weird, teared bullshit like fucking Zelda. And I hated it 255 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:37,440 because you can't work out where the fuck you're going. It's horrible. It's enough to put me off. 256 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:43,440 It's shit, isn't it? What do you mean by Zelda? More like Tears of the Kingdom. 257 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:48,640 Yeah. Is that the one where you pop up the map and it's it's not just a here's a fucking 258 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:54,960 a four sheet of paper with the map on it. It's here's a 3D render of the fucking area that you're 259 00:25:54,960 --> 00:26:00,160 in and the levels of what you're fucking in and where it is. Oh, when you're in a dungeon. Yeah. 260 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:06,320 Yeah. Oh, normally it's flat. Yeah. Normally it's flat. Normally not on fucking. 261 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:14,000 Jedi suck my ass. That shit. Fuck. It's all coming out now. Fuck me. It's so ridiculous. 262 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,760 Don't do a map like that. It's so shit. I don't need to. I don't need that. Just give me a little 263 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:22,800 mini map. That's fine. We don't need to go in depth with fucking mini maps. However, 264 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:33,920 Star Wars Outlaws just looks so intriguing. I feel like for me, it's because 265 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,120 it's a completely different character. 266 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:47,360 I feel like that's my that's my enticement to it. OK, which I'm trying to figure out what 267 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:53,760 what is I'm trying to say. I mean, I'm interested by the character because I know nothing about the 268 00:26:53,760 --> 00:27:03,360 character. That makes sense. It's it's something new and and refreshing. And the dynamic that we're 269 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:07,120 that we're seeing and how she's being portrayed. I don't even know her name. What's her name? 270 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:12,880 Kay Vess, I think. Kay Vess. Yeah. She might be an actual character. Like I said, I know nothing 271 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:18,640 about about the Star Wars world. So forgive me if she is an actual character. I don't know. 272 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:28,640 However, her and is it Nix? I think so. Yeah. Is the little fucking lizard dog thing that runs 273 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:34,800 around fantastic? Yeah. Really, really enjoyable. I like it. I mean, I'm intrigued to see what her 274 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:44,400 story is like and just how the game plays out. Even the the ship combat looked really fucking cool. 275 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:49,200 Oh, well, I got like the look of the bike as well. Yeah, the bike hover bike thing. You know, 276 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:57,120 like what's the fuck me? What's the game with Deacon? What? Days gone days gone. Yeah. And 277 00:27:57,120 --> 00:28:00,960 you know how you like do stuff to your bike? Yeah. Like I really liked that element of it. 278 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,680 And I kind of hope it's like that. Like, you know, you're going to be able to like get parts and 279 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,200 upgrade it and like it would take damage and you have to fix it. And like, I wonder if you'd like 280 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:14,800 to fuel it like little little things like that. You know, where you have to sort of be careful 281 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:19,600 where you're going because, you know, you've got to think about your transport and stuff kind of 282 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:27,520 like days gone was. Yeah. Having some kind of realism on that. Yeah. That would be really cool. Yeah. 283 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,920 And just think like the scenery and stuff. Like I had a friend who would never fast travel on 284 00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:36,240 Skyrim because he just wanted to like take in all the things and he would like genuinely like walk 285 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:41,600 the horse, which at the time I never really appreciated because, you know, my attention span 286 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:46,800 was that of, you know, I'm fucking fast traveling right now, mainly because I used to really get 287 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:51,120 really fucking confused with the way that speaking of mini maps and shit, the directional thing. 288 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:57,120 When I, when we know you're talking back in 2011, you should really fucking confuse me and I'd be 289 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,800 like halfway up the mountain. The compass. Yeah. That's it. When it wanted me to go around, I was 290 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:06,160 just like, you know, I mean, I was, I was like 14. It was, it was a whole thing. Fair play. But now 291 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:11,120 I can kind of, yeah, like appreciate that. Like it's shaping up to be such an aesthetically like 292 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:17,440 beautiful game. And I just want to be like riding my little bike and the factions as well. Factions 293 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,120 seem cool. The fact that you can like double cross, like jub of the heart and shit like that. 294 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,040 And like they would, how they were talking yesterday with like how much fun they have had 295 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:30,400 genuinely like recreating all of the places and you know, that you can tell that these are genuine, 296 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:36,480 genuine fans and like lovers of the series that have made it. I'm just excited to see how that's 297 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:42,000 all going to be able to like walk around it. Even as I mean, I probably like Star Wars more new, 298 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:49,920 but again, I'm not like this mega fan. Um, but just appreciating like all of the hard work that's 299 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:54,080 gone into it. I really fucking hope it's not shit, but like, you know, I mean, I, I do think it's 300 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:58,480 going to be a good one. You can tell a lot of love and attention has gone into it from the, 301 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:07,280 from the gameplay that we see. Um, but it is Ubisoft. We have to bear that in mind. It is 302 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:16,240 Ubisoft and it is Star Wars. So just where they can rinse the money, they will probably try and 303 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:21,840 rinse the money. You reckon? That's what happens. That Star Wars fans will buy anything. Well, 304 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,880 they have a subscription, don't they Ubisoft? Of course they do. Yeah. They will buy. But then 305 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:32,160 that was around, you know, it's been around for a long time and I always found it to just be like, 306 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,240 yeah, you might get like cosmetics or like a slightly better weapon earlier on in the game 307 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:42,080 or something. But I'm, my experience of it isn't open. Battle passes and stuff like that, which I think are 308 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:52,320 already in, in it, in Outlaws or something similar season pass. Um, anything, put a price tag on any 309 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:58,320 of it. Someone's going to buy it. I mean, you can get a lump of shit and put a lightsaber in it and 310 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:06,400 just label it Star Wars poo with a price tag. Someone's going to buy it. Will they? Yes. I 311 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:12,880 promise you now I would. Yeah. But have you ever found that Ubisoft's like paid shit is that 312 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,880 limited? I haven't found it. So it's not going to be that, it's not like it's going to be a, 313 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:23,600 well, it killed fucking, it killed battlefront. Can't get a different game though. They had the world in their 314 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:33,360 hands. The, the, the, the FPS world for Star Wars was in their hands and they fucking crushed it. 315 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:40,320 They fucked it with loot boxes and weird shit that no one wanted and they got their money and then 316 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:47,520 they dipped out, ruined it. They had the potential there and it's, that's where people get slightly 317 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:53,600 concerned because that's where there's micro transactions and, and things that you don't need 318 00:31:53,600 --> 00:32:01,920 to, like with the, with the, um, there's a job of the heart storyline or some shit where I believe 319 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,680 you have, I believe there's a storyline in the base game anyway, because how could there not be? But 320 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:10,720 I think there was like an additional quest or some shit where you only get it if you buy a certain 321 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:15,200 addition or if you buy something extra from the game and people were kicking off because they're 322 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:20,240 like, you already, I'm already paying for the game. He's already there. Don't fucking start locking 323 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:26,560 shit, but multiple games do that. Hogwarts legacy, for example, with their shitty arena and the 324 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:31,600 fucking PlayStation quest that six years later, everyone's got access to now and blah, blah, blah. 325 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:40,800 Oh, you seem, you seem quite angry. No, no, no, I'm not angry. But then I just think it's fucking 326 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:46,000 cheap to go for the effort of making a quest and then locking it behind 10 quid. Fuck the 10 quid 327 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:51,200 off. You don't need it. You're charging me 70 quid for a game. Give me everything. Yeah. I know what 328 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:58,880 you mean. Give me everything please. If you, you want me to pay for DLC, that's fine. You come up 329 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,800 with the DLC, there's additional quest lines in there. That's fine because they're additional. 330 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:08,400 But if you've made an entire game and then have content that you've made on that with that game 331 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,120 alongside it for this game, and then you've gone, we'll lock that behind even more money. 332 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,880 But then what I don't get with the whole, you know, taking Hogwarts legacy and the 333 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,040 Hogsmeade haunted Hogsmeade quest, for example, it was very good quest. It was very good, but you 334 00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:27,520 know, I start to get the impression now having it's now been released to everybody. 335 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:32,000 I want my money back. Well, no, I think it was more the case of they managed to get it to work 336 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,880 on PS5. They were like, right, what can we do? I know we'll make it a PlayStation exclusive until 337 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,080 we can figure out how the fuck we can make it work on all the other consoles and then we'll drop it 338 00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:44,640 as a DLC. Like that's, that's what that's smelling like. They just, they did that and they were like, 339 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,240 all of our developers want to kill themselves. I never thought of it like that. Yeah. We're, 340 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:53,040 we're on the fucking edge here. So let's just crack it out as an exclusive, make them all feel 341 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:57,920 special. And then when we finally figured it out at our leisure, because no one knows it's coming, 342 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,920 we'll release it's a DLC. No one will moan because at the end of the day, everyone on PlayStation's 343 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:06,320 played it. They've been, they've been undone and everyone else will go, oh, lovely. How exciting. 344 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:12,160 Oh, you love me. I reckon that's what's happened. They just, they just couldn't crack it out until 345 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:21,280 now. But who's, who's getting excited over that? You know, if someone hasn't been able to play it. 346 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:27,200 No, I do think it was very, very poorly timed. In fact, poorly timed. What is it? A fucking year. 347 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,840 Yeah. But do you not think though, I think I said this the other week, 348 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,560 we'll get it on Nintendo Switch in five years. It's already on Nintendo Switch. 349 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:45,200 This is a dig at Nintendo Switch. Oh, you're odd. Um, I forgot my fucking point now. 350 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:55,040 No, think of it. I fucking can't. I can't. Um, oh, that was it. Is it that sort of thing where like 351 00:34:55,040 --> 00:35:00,960 IGN and the likes have taken a small, what is essentially a small like update and been like, 352 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,280 new content on Hogwarts legacy? That's exactly what it is. Like, you know, like shit like Lab 353 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:11,200 Bible. They're cracking out stories from like 15 years ago now. Fucking click bait to cunt. 354 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:16,800 They posted about series nine of suits. Oh, who's excited for series nine of suits? What? 355 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:22,240 It came out like literally two years ago. It's just new on Netflix, but they made out there was 356 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:26,480 some big new season. And I mean, we stopped watching like season seven, didn't we? The 357 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:34,560 upon exit of Patrick Adams and Meghan Markle. But spoilers. Oh, everyone fucking knows. Come on. 358 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:40,240 You don't know how or what, why? Well, we all know why. But anyway, um, yeah. And it's like, 359 00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:44,400 stop. Everyone knows they're recycling, but no one's unfollowing. I've not unfollowed, even though 360 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:49,760 literally it would be like baboon eat 60 year old woman. And it happened in 2007 and they're acting 361 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:55,600 like it was yesterday. You know, feel click bait bollocks. I know. We just fall for it every time. 362 00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:01,440 Fall for it every time. So maybe, yeah, maybe that is the spin that it was put on. No one 363 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:07,360 answered my question on the patient as yet. Cause I noticed yesterday when it came out and it said, 364 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:12,160 2026 man was fuming. You were fuming, weren't you? Because exactly the reason that I said, 365 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:17,440 don't dangle. I was in front of me. I was doing it. It's a Persia thing was announced back in 2020. 366 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:22,240 So they've actually, that's going to be six years later. I was fuming. Wouldn't you rather not know 367 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:28,480 and they drop it six months before they're listening. Um, on the patron episode, we 368 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:35,040 asked the question of, would you prefer, because a lot of stuff that was happening on the Xbox 369 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:43,840 showcase was coming 2025 or no date at all. Yeah. Or nothing. Um, and the question that we asked was, 370 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:51,040 would you rather have absolutely zero info on a game and then get given some, like given the info, 371 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:57,200 given the announcement trailer and everything, and then the release date be within six months 372 00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:06,000 or a year of when you see that, or would you rather know of the game, see an announcement trailer 373 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:12,080 and know that it's in existence, but then have to wait multiple years for a release date? Would 374 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:16,240 you rather know of, know a game exists and that's being developed, but have to wait years for it to 375 00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:20,640 come out or know absolutely nothing about a game until six months before it comes out and then 376 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:27,600 everything drops? Yeah. Oh yeah. Six months to a year. Like I can, I can deal with, so say a trailer drops now 377 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:35,120 and it says June 25 or, or fall 25, whatever. Something that's a bit more sort of like tangible 378 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:40,320 because I feel like where we're at now, like take Prince of Persia, for example. So we were like 379 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,240 early pandemic and they were like, by the way, we're working on a Prince of Persia. And everyone was 380 00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:49,600 like, Oh my God, that's going to like power me through COVID. And then here we still are, still 381 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:57,920 doesn't exist. And now it's been 2026 and you were fuming about 2026. Fuming about 2026. Yeah. But 382 00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:03,760 seeing how blissful ignorance, my friend. I know, I know because I have a very, very good affinity 383 00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:08,160 with Prince of Persia. They're the first games that I ever properly, properly played that and 384 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:14,160 ratchet and clank. Yeah. And Prince of Persia sounds of time. There's just, I have some. 385 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:21,600 Imagine waiting on what time it is literally just a remaster. It will be. Why has it taken that long? 386 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,600 A remaster or a remake. How does it take you six years? It can't be any part of the story. 387 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:30,560 You can't have the sands of time as the first Prince of Persia and then have another sands of 388 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:37,920 time alongside that. No. It doesn't work. I'd love there to be a new one. Stop the fucking side 389 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:45,120 scrolling, comic looking bullshit that Prince of Persia. Why are we doing this? Who's asking for 390 00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:51,760 that? Our third side scroll of Prince of Persia. No one wants it. No one wants it. No one, no one 391 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:58,880 wanted the shitty fucking, what's it called? Like shadow cell, whatever that. The one that's in there. 392 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,200 Yeah. The one that's in there. Whatever that fucking art style is. No one wanted that. It was 393 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:10,160 shit. There was no gore. Everything was just black. It sucked. Fuck that off. Right. And then you come 394 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:16,560 out with side scrollers and platformers. No one wants that. No one wants that. No, that's not true. 395 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,360 Someone wants it because it's there. Quite a lot of people would want that. Majority of people that 396 00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:27,200 play Prince of Persia do not want that. We want more Prince of Persia. I want the old Prince of 397 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:35,360 Persia. Sands of Time. Fucking Two Thrones. You know what I mean? Like Assassin's Creed, basically, 398 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:39,440 because that's what happened. Prince of Persia got dropped and then Assassin's Creed become 399 00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:44,320 fucking massive and they focused on that instead. Fair enough. If you've got Assassin's Creed in the 400 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,880 mix, I can see why you're not rolling more with Prince of Persia because you've already got it 401 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:58,080 cemented with Assassin's Creed. I get it. However, we want a Prince of Persia. I want a decent one. 402 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:06,480 If it is a remake or a remaster, I'll go for it. That's fine. But I do want another iteration to 403 00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:11,920 the story because Prince of Sands of Time, I had very, very fond memories as a kid playing that. 404 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:17,120 And one specifically where there was some bullshit fucking maze puzzle thing where you're in like 405 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:22,320 some weird Colosseum thing with like 20 doors and you have to run through them in a certain order 406 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:27,440 and fucked if I could do it. So my mum did it instead and she made me spaghetti bolognese and 407 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:33,520 I fell asleep next to her and then woke up and she basically set out a diagram of Lego to figure out 408 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:38,000 what doors she was going in and shit and she worked out and we completed that game together. 409 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:43,760 And I had nice memories from that. And then I played every single Prince of Persia that 410 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:54,480 rolled on since. And yeah, I would just like to see that again. But 2026 is a long old time. 411 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:59,840 You know what I'm saying? I do. That's a long time. Especially when all you gave us was a fucking. 412 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:05,040 Literally it was like Prince of Persia Sands of Time. Thanks. Yeah. And here's a sand timer. 413 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:11,680 Yeah. Goodbye. Yeah. I was like what is that? Crumbs. That's what that is. Crumbs. 414 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:18,160 Too many crumbs. Not enough crumbs. Give me a slice. The crumbs have come from a loaf. 415 00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:24,160 That means the loaf exists. Well, for there to be crumbs, there has to be a loaf. The Patreon 416 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:28,720 listeners will be getting a little treat here. So therefore if there's a loaf, give us a slice. 417 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:35,760 This is called backtracking. I know. I'm very. Tasting the crumbs. Famous for it on this podcast. 418 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:40,800 Speak before you think. I would love to get some sort of system that can control through how many 419 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,280 times that you or Ash have gone. This is going to be my game of the year. This is going to be 420 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,720 my fucking game of the fucking year. This is going to be actually. And then literally like 421 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:54,240 no, I fucking hate it. I hate it. I think Assassin's Creed Shadows might be my game of the year. 422 00:41:55,040 --> 00:42:00,640 You heard it here folks. From what I see, it might be my game of the year. But also that's. 423 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,640 Might be good. Might be shit. That's contesting with Shadow of the Ored Tree, which comes out 424 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:09,760 this month. Yeah, I can't actually remember when that comes out. You got a Russian finished 425 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:14,560 plague. Tell me because you've stopped. You dropped your PlayStation Plus. Yeah, my PlayStation Plus. 426 00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:20,160 I canceled it because I thought I can't. I can't be asked with it. I don't use the PlayStation 427 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:24,080 nearly as much as I do everything else. But you got your game pass, haven't you? What game pass? 428 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:27,920 You don't have game pass anymore either. No, no, I got rid of all of them. I've got a game pass 429 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:35,680 ages ago. Steam baby. All about Steam. No, the annoying thing though is that obviously I lose 430 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:40,800 access to my entire PlayStation Plus library. Really? Which is why I have to finish Plague 431 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:45,440 Tale before the 27th. Does it keep it if you resubscribe though? It keeps it. It just locks it. 432 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:50,960 Fuck off. What's all of your PS Plus like the like two ones you get each month and stuff like 433 00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:56,800 that? Concrete Genie. To be fair, I'm too sad to play the end of that game anyway. I actually 434 00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:03,040 can't cope with it. Honestly. Can I delete it then? No, no. It's taking up space. No, my babies. 435 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:09,360 Do you want to know how big Call of Duty Black Ops 6? All right, we saw more of that on the Xbox 436 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:18,640 showcase. Right, looks very good. 309 gigabytes. Oh, that's ridiculous. 309 gigabytes. And that, 437 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:22,800 are you telling me that in the same showcase they marketed? They're like, oh yeah, we've got like a 438 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:29,120 digital only. One terabyte. We're going to take a third of that for one game. 309 gig. 439 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:39,760 That's nuts. That is nuts. How does Activision do it? How do they make their games so monumentally 440 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:47,920 massive but at the same time not? It will be a six to nine hour campaign with five PVP maps. 441 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:53,200 So how are you making that 309 gig? I don't understand where that comes from. If you used 442 00:43:53,200 --> 00:44:01,680 to be able to do it in like 80. Where, yes. Where does that facilitate? Because you have 443 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:07,680 people that are like, oh yeah, well the last one was 150. Right? That's no excuse. Still too much. 444 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:12,000 Right. And then I saw someone else saying, current gens have been around long enough. 445 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,600 You're telling me people haven't got multiple terabyte SSDs. 446 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:21,840 What? I shouldn't have to change the SSD to accommodate one game or buy an external 447 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:29,840 hard drive to accommodate the game. What's the point? That's mental. I've seen enough sources 448 00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:35,200 to say that it's over 300 gig. My external hard drive on my Xbox 360 was an eight gigabyte 449 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:40,480 memory stick that I got from college. It's mental. I'm going to be wrong. I've got two external 450 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:46,800 hard drives. One's a terabyte and one's two terabytes. I've got the facilities for it. 451 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:54,480 Oh, ho, ho. But what I'm saying is. Yeah, that's huge. I need to look into it because I cannot, 452 00:44:54,480 --> 00:45:00,640 for the life of me, understand why these Call of Duty games are so massive. I don't get it. I 453 00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:04,960 really don't. To the point where, wasn't it like one of the previous CODs, you had to select which 454 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:10,960 part of the game you wanted to download. You could have it so that you didn't download the campaign 455 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,880 or you didn't download the multiplayer or something like that to make it smaller. 456 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:20,720 That's kind of clever. Yeah. How about you just make your games fucking smaller? Go for the effort 457 00:45:20,720 --> 00:45:25,600 of just making the files smaller. Again, text them. You let them know. 458 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:31,520 But we can do this. That's a thing that can be done. In an age of where everything's going 459 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:36,320 digital, when Xbox will wanking themselves off going, we've released a digital only Xbox. 460 00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:42,560 No one gives a fuck, but we've done it anyway. Why is one of your main blockbuster games that 461 00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,160 you're showboating on the showcase to the point where you had like an extended version for like 462 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:53,600 40 minutes after wanking off to that. And then that's going to take up more than a third of your 463 00:45:53,600 --> 00:46:01,920 new digital fucking Xbox mental behavior. It's mental. And then you'll go, you can only use 464 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,760 certain fucking external hard drives for these. Yeah, you have to format everything. That external 465 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:11,920 hard drive that I've got for the PlayStation, which is a PlayStation branded external hard drive, 466 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:19,120 will not work with the PS5. It's for the PS4 though, isn't it? Yes. You cannot, you can put 467 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:25,600 any game you want on it, but you cannot play games from that hard drive on the PS5. That sucks. 468 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:31,920 Why? Why? Just to piss you off, I think. Just to piss me off. Yeah. Because just like Apple, 469 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:36,640 you have to have their specifically made fucking thing. Oh my God. 470 00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:43,520 I'm not having this argument with you on that. It's bollocks. 309 gig. Yeah. 471 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:50,960 You're still going to buy it though, aren't you? No. Oh, what? You're not now? No. Oh, really? 472 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,720 You've got to spend the entire thing for you, I think. I was never in the camp of unbuying this. 473 00:46:54,720 --> 00:47:00,240 What? You literally said that you were going to buy it. Well, yeah, but ignore that. What? 474 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:05,840 Very fickle. I was never in the... It's lucky I'm still here, really. My Call of Duty games. 475 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:13,040 I'm doing well. Oh, the time has passed. However, it's interesting, isn't it? It's 476 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:17,040 interesting. I go, I'm going to get that. Doesn't actually mean you're going to get it, does it? 477 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:26,880 Yeah, sure. I'm not going to buy it. Okay. Right. I'm definitely not going to buy it if it's over 478 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,800 300 gig. Okay. Well, I should buy it. Of course you will. Oh, there you go then. So at least we'll 479 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:35,920 hear about it. Of course you'll buy it. Brandon's already pre-ordered it. I mean, people love it. 480 00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:42,800 It looks very good. So you're out on the basis of gigabytes? Yeah. Fair enough. I'm not buying a 481 00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:48,960 game that's going to take me 17 days to download. What stories did you have? Not enough. What stories 482 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:56,960 did you have on it? The PS5, the first iteration of the PS5, which is what I have. Bearing in mind, 483 00:47:56,960 --> 00:48:06,800 the PS4 Pro released with a terabyte. The PS5 released with 800 gig. And the PlayStation system 484 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:13,600 itself takes up about a hundred gig of that. So that's fantastic. So I've got about three games 485 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:20,960 that I can play. So if I were to buy Call of Duty Black Ops 6 when that releases, that will take up 486 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:28,480 half of my storage on one game. You should get an external hard drive really. I should do really. 487 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:33,200 And then just suffer the slower loading screen because I've had to plug in an external hard 488 00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:38,400 drive. Or I could do what everyone else is telling me to do. Rip my PlayStation apart and spend 489 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:46,640 600 quid on an SSD. I'm not going to do that. No, I'm not going to do that. Sorry. I'm not doing it. 490 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:50,880 I'm not spending 70 quid on a game that I can't play. How long have you got to finish Plague Tale? 491 00:48:50,880 --> 00:49:00,240 27th. Of June? Of June. Oh, okay. So it's the 11th now. So I've got 16 days to do it. Nice. And I 492 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:05,200 will do it because I'm very, very interested in the story. Cool. It's very good so far. I must 493 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:09,840 admit I haven't followed it as closely this time. No, and that's upsetting. Well, something about it. 494 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:14,640 I don't know. I don't know. You've missed. You're out of touch. You've missed it. Where Plague Tale 495 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:23,840 Innocence was obviously all about the rats and Hugo and his fucking rats. Right. This, however, 496 00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:32,000 is going much more into the dark and sinister. There's something afoot here and I'm fine. 497 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:38,000 Because obviously I saw the screenshot, didn't I? Of something nasty. Of something nasty and fucking 498 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:45,200 horrific. And I'm slowly trying to work out exactly what happens there and who it happens to 499 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:52,320 because I don't know. So it's very interesting. Plague Tale Requiem, Plague Tale Innocence, 500 00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:59,680 fantastic games. Yeah, let's just hope that the end of Requiem isn't some bullshit mission where the 501 00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:03,840 fucking difficulty curve goes through the roof and makes me want to put my head through the fucking 502 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:09,360 telly. That's got to be a slight glitch. Something was off there with like some sort of hitbox. 503 00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:18,720 That was poor fucking game wizardry developing. You've got Reddit threads about it. That's when 504 00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:22,720 you know it's bad. When you can jump on Reddit and everyone's going, yep, this bullshit made me 505 00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:30,000 nearly want to quit this game. That's the only criticism I've got of fucking Plague Tale Innocence. 506 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,960 Yeah, that one bit. Is that one of those last missions is going to make you want to rip your 507 00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:40,960 fucking skull off. Sucked. I hated it. I was in such a foul mood after that. I was like, this 508 00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:45,520 game's so good. This game's so good. I fucking hate this game. This is shit. It was a rough one. 509 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,960 It was rough because you're not even fighting a boss. It's not even like you're getting the 510 00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:52,560 satisfaction of something like Elden Ring where you spent six hours fighting one boss and then 511 00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,200 you finally killed them. No, you're literally just trying to get through a fence. Yeah, I'm literally 512 00:50:55,200 --> 00:51:00,960 just trying to fucking walk next to a cart. Yeah. Well, I mean, maybe I'll pay a bit more attention 513 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:06,560 to the last half. Please do. Please do. Yeah. Right. That wraps us up then, doesn't it? 514 00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:10,880 It's been a pleasure. Nice. Thank you. Thanks for listening, everyone. Play the games that we 515 00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:17,120 recommend or don't. It has no bearing on us, but continue to listen. Yeah, I think it has a bearing. 516 00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:23,120 I'm good. I'd like to know what people are doing. Yes, please. Nosey bitch, really. Nosey. Right. 517 00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:41,520 See you later then, everyone. Uru. Uru.