Ding dong the podcast's on.
I'm back.
He's back.
Ladies and gentlemen, he's back.
I'm back.
Oh, my God.
In what will this be?
Episode 98 in fucking two weeks, it will be 100 episodes.
And then a month after that, we would have been doing it for two years.
It's gone quick.
Two years.
I mean, I think in real terms, because of delays and shit like that,
I think we're probably at the two year mark or near it by a couple of weeks.
However, that's very, very exciting.
Do you know the date when we started?
Well, just look at the episode.
Just scroll back through the fucking 90 odd episodes on on Les Spottes Vey.
Here we go.
We released our first episode on the 24th of June, 2022.
24th of June.
So 10 days, we would have technically been doing it for a year.
Two years.
I can still remember what job I was doing as well the day after we did it.
Well, no, not the day after the day.
Yeah, no, because we released it on the Monday, the day that we released it.
Yeah.
I remember where I was sitting and how excited I was.
It's ridiculous.
I remember telling everyone going, oh, we're going to do a podcast.
And it's like such a such a fucking curve ball to throw at someone
when you've showed no interest in podcasting whatsoever.
Here you go.
So I always wanted to do when well, when podcasts become a thing,
I didn't think about it before podcasts existed.
Well, I say that I actually did in a weird way because I don't know if I told you,
I've always said my business idea was to create a game in radio station.
Radio station.
Yeah.
But this is essentially it, but not essentially.
Yeah, because remember when we did the fucking spider chart or whatever it fucking was,
radio station was one of the things and I was like, we ain't got the money for
fucking radio station podcasting is just way easier, man.
Oh, yeah.
But it's such a fucking saturated world.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Definitely.
Plus we're shit.
I don't think we are, man.
I think we're all right.
No, yeah, we hit all the fucking heavy subjects,
all the showcases and shit like that.
Speaking of, obviously, I haven't fucking spoken to you at all since you had the
summer game fest fucking Ubisoft forward, the Xbox showcase, the state of play.
I know we spoke about the state of play.
We can leave that shit show fucking away.
Loads of shit, man.
That Xbox showcase was fucking double decent.
I can't remember it.
It hit me with some big hitters.
I can't remember.
See, that's what I mean.
There was that fucking what was it called?
The one with that the art style was really cool with that person riding the big old
catfish through the swamp and there was a fucking alligator and they had to get away.
I can't remember the name of the game.
Not Fable, no?
No, no, no, it wasn't Fable.
It was a brand new brand new title.
I mean, obviously you saw Fable and a bit of gameplay.
Gears of War.
Fucking what do you call it with Snake?
Metal Gear.
Metal Gear Solid.
That ain't Xbox only though.
I know, but fucking popped up still because there was a lot of shit that was popping up
where it weren't just Xbox only, but they were like me and Steph noticed they weren't
putting like PlayStation or.
They wouldn't.
It's their showcase.
I thought that.
I was like, yeah, you're not going to fucking bother doing that.
I saw a lot of on Call of Duty Black Ops 6, which obviously I haven't spoken to you about.
That's when I turn it off.
As soon as Call of Duty is like now it's time for Call of Duty.
I was like, no, you're not interested in it, no?
Well, it's not that I'll probably buy it because I buy every card in every FIFA, but I don't
care about watching it because what is it going to be?
I'll tell you what it's going to be.
People shooting each other.
That's all I need to know.
Oh, look, there's an M16 this time.
There's an M16 with a grenade launcher on it.
What more can you do?
You know what I mean?
I don't really care.
You don't buy it for the campaign.
I play the campaigns, but you don't buy it for the multiplayer.
So can you shoot people?
Yes.
All right.
I'll probably buy it.
309 gigabytes.
Probably won't buy it.
That's how big it's apparently meant to be.
309 gigabytes.
Let's just fucking shoot it.
I spoke to Steph, but I had a long, long whinge about it on the podcast, but you're
going to fucking hear another whinge for five seconds.
One of the comments about it was, it's 2024.
Have people not got external hard drives?
No.
I should fucking have to have one.
I shouldn't have to have a fucking external hard drive if I want more than one game on
my PlayStation, please.
I don't understand why that's such a hard thing to fucking ask for.
No other game is doing that.
So no.
Fuck them.
309 gigs.
Fuck them.
I've got the hump.
So this is not going to be pretty.
I'm going to try and be...
Be optimistic.
How's things going with the Steam Deck?
You know who has bought a Steam Deck?
Who?
Connor.
Has he?
He has.
Good lad.
He's in Peak District at the moment.
I don't know if he brought it with him, but he bought the same one that you have,
the OLED with the fucking, with the bigger screen and the blah, blah, blah, blah, blahs.
Because he was like, I've been thinking about maybe buying the Steam Deck.
I said, fucking podcast influenced you, didn't it?
He's like, no, of course not.
I said, of course it fucking did.
Last five episodes is all he's spoken about.
It's so fucking good, man.
I don't want to go off on it again, but it really is so good.
It's good, isn't it?
I haven't played it too, too much.
No?
No, I've been drawing, haven't I?
Yeah.
So that's mainly what I've been doing.
Oh, I drew your boy yesterday, didn't I?
I mean, it's not very good, but it's the best I could do.
Ah, there he is.
Oh, you drew our little Kratos, did you?
Kratos, yeah.
Oh, that's cool.
I mean, it's not great, but it's all right.
Fat beards.
Yeah.
He's very hard to draw.
I couldn't draw his eyes, man, but obviously that's my magnum opus.
Yeah, very cool.
The samurai.
But you know what it looks like?
The samurai?
Yeah.
If you ever seen...
I don't know what the fucking...
You ever seen that black and white face normally on a meme or something like that?
I think the fucking Discord normally has a couple of them.
Let me see if I can fucking have a look.
This is terrible for podcast sake.
Where is it?
I filled a void.
I've been doing a 30-day drawing challenge.
I'm trying to get better at drawing because I used to love drawing when I was little.
So I'm trying to improve so I can look back on day one, on day 30, and see the improvement.
I mean, I'm not really seeing much improvement.
It looks all right, but it's a hard, hard thing to grasp.
But I very much respect artists.
I can't find it, but I'll find it eventually, and then I'll show you, and it'll be funny.
Yeah, I'm a terrible, terrible drawer.
Absolutely awful.
I went to Hobbycraft and I bought a couple of pencils, a rubber, pencil sharpener, a couple of pens.
You're very quiet, by the way.
50 quid it cost me.
50 quid.
For some pens?
Some pens, some pencils, and a rubber, and a pencil sharpener, and a little fucking book to draw in.
Well, what kind of pencils did you buy?
The decent ones?
I don't fucking know, bro.
I don't look at prices.
I just whack them on and go, yeah, I'll have it.
And if it's too much, I'm too embarrassed to say anything, so I'll just pay it anyway.
Just pay it.
There you go.
Thank you.
Yeah, but yeah, I'm very impressed by other artists.
So I would do, does that, because where I went through that long stint of reading graphic novels,
one of the main selling points of a graphic novel is the graphic.
The illustrations are very, very nice to look at.
Do you feel like that would give you, with your drawing, a sense of almost understanding?
You go, yeah, this stuff is sick because I know drawing's hard.
Yeah, maybe.
I mean, I like art, mainly gaming art.
I love going on Twitter and seeing people drawing pictures of Radar and Blad, Blade,
whatever you call the wolf guy.
I mean, there's so many cool artists for Elden Ring.
I was actually inspired by, funnily enough, there's a guy,
that had chronicled his first ever Elden Ring playthrough in art form.
And every time he'd done something cool, he drew in this book and painted it.
It was the most magnificent thing I've ever seen.
I've never seen art like it.
And he's so shy and embarrassed by it.
I'm like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen.
I would buy this if you sold it.
You know what I mean?
It's incredible.
And I was like, that art that he's done in that,
if I could be a percent as good as him, I'd be happy.
There's something about Elden Ring art and cyberpunk art.
It's just that those were the two main things that we saw at Comic Con,
was a lot of Elden Ring prints and paintings and things like that.
And a few cyberpunk things.
And there was something about seeing the, like the bold fucking yellows and shit from
cyberpunk that like just instantly draws you to that shit.
Cause like this is so vibrant.
I love it.
And then Elden Ring just, it just looks sick all the time, doesn't it?
Yeah.
It's very cool.
I need to go back to other craft and get some fucking some utensils.
I've been using my boy's Lego as a ruler, which isn't ideal.
I need to get one in compasses.
You remember the old compasses?
Yeah.
Draw a circle.
Cause the circle I drew around my samurai is not a circle.
And I just couldn't be bothered to rub it out.
So yeah, but I'm loving it.
I'm trying to, there's been so many days.
I think maybe the samurai one was the day, which is probably my best bit yet.
It's probably the day that I least wanted to draw as well.
I was just like, I've got the amp.
I'm tired and I can't be bothered.
And I still did it and I was very happy with the results.
So I'm just trying to hit days.
It's nice for a bit of fucking progression, man.
Cause I feel like that kind of shit, even for your own mental state,
that, that innate discipline to even if you're feeling shit,
to do it like, like with me fucking running at the moment,
I'm going to have to run after this podcast.
I don't want to.
However, I've lost over a stone and I like it.
So I'm going to carry on doing it.
It's good.
It's good to, it's good to make yourself or commit to say and see it through.
Yeah.
Cause too many times myself, I say I'm going to do X, Y and Z and I don't follow through with it.
So when you actually say you're going to do say and do it is a great mentality.
Feel like that with fucking games as well, man.
Like with playing play tail Requiem at the moment,
like I'm having a lot of fun, but at the same time, I'm like,
I'm probably not even halfway through.
However, it's like, I'm like pushing myself to finish it because I know the story is going to be good.
That makes sense.
You know, even games where they're, you know, you've got a long not slog,
but you've got a long time playing through trying to hype yourself up to keep pushing on that,
on that game because it's, it's, it's going to be fucking good.
Much like, um, days gone.
How many times are that all God of war multiple times trying to play that red dead?
I know is going to be the next one because I haven't done red dead too.
Don't look at me like that.
What have you not?
I haven't completed it.
No, no, but I've maybe put in maybe something like six hours into red dead too.
But I can't even tell you.
And then obviously, especially off the back of Mark currently trying to platinum it.
And he's saying it's, it's the best game he's ever played to the point where he's like GTA
six, they need to do something seriously special because this is, this is crazy.
I mean, mechanically, it probably is one of the best, most impressive games ever made.
Yeah.
The sheer level of detail in it.
Don't get me wrong.
A lot of the detail you need to look for to see the detail.
But it is there.
If you think, oh, X, Y, Z and look for it, it will be there.
And you know what?
One of the one of the most ridiculous things that is the reason that's put me off of playing
it and playing it through to the end is the same shit that I ran into with No Man's Sky.
It's the same shit I ran into with Valheim in shrouded.
Any survival type of game is the survival aspect of it.
And even something as simple as in Red Dead 2, the keeping your body warm and all that bollocks.
I fucking hate it.
But I know for a fact that after a couple of hours, that shit becomes mundane like in
No Man's Sky where it's not, where it's not even an afterthought because you don't have
to worry about it.
I never once in Red Dead 2 done anything like that in the whole time I played it.
I never once, I put on an outfit that I liked and I kept it on the entire game.
I never once thought I'm too hot, too cold.
I didn't even, I'll be honest with you, I didn't even know that was a thing.
So that's how little that matters.
Which is ridiculous because that's the main thing that stopped me from fucking playing
what is notoriously one of the best games ever made across and that opinion is held
over like 90% of people that fucking game.
Matt, you know Matt, he doesn't play computer games.
He played that till completion.
He doesn't play computer games, ever.
So yeah, it's an incredible game.
But yeah, that sort of shit.
If you're worried about that, I genuinely didn't even know that existed.
Maybe I should fucking jump onto it, man.
And the food and that, that's just literal health.
Like you don't have to keep, I know there's like health meters, but that is just your
health, like how hard your health bar is or something.
I don't fucking know.
I never once thought of any survival mechanic in it, but I liked, there's something really
satisfying about Red Dead and it's hard because I think it divided a lot of players on it
because you either love it or you hate it.
And that's the realism part.
And that's what I hope GTA goes with because in Red Dead, my most favorite thing of doing
was just like just trotting about and then just setting up a camp because you can camp
anywhere.
Set up your little camp and then you can sit by the fire.
You can pour yourself a coffee.
You can do a bit of fishing.
But it's the ambiance, the sounds, all the, you've got your headphones when you turn it
up, you can hear all the birds and the rain.
It's nice, yeah.
Oh, it's just the, it's the most immersive game I think I've ever played.
I think they should go down that route with GTA 6.
We don't, I don't want it to be fuck around-y, but too far to the point where you almost
like Saints Row type stupidness.
I want, I told you, I want them to put fuel in cars, but I think their fear of that
is because it'll piss people off.
But I think you have to.
Well, we come up with a fantastic idea of the fucking real estate thing.
We can't rule the great ideas.
I know where you can fucking buy and sell housing, including online and shit like that
and create a market which many, many games have done.
Final Fantasy does that.
We've been able to buy a house and fucking sell it on and shit like that.
Has a whole ecosystem based on it.
I just feel it'd be nice to have some.
I'll tell you what would be nice.
It should just get some fucking information on it, please.
That would be quite handy.
Trailer 2.
If we had more than one trailer and some fucking information as to what happens in this game
at all.
Fuck the trailer.
Just show some gameplay, man.
Just give me some ink.
Just give me something.
I need to, I need to say as well, all these fucking summer game fest and all these showcases
and that, can we please just destroy all trailers and just show gameplay?
I don't care what the cinematics look like, man.
I'm so sick of it.
You're still burnt from fucking Concord.
That was shit for starters.
That was rubbish.
But then you're looking at Dragon Age and that and the trailer was fucking...
Looks incredible, don't it?
People went mental over it.
No, angry.
Angry because the art was like, this ain't Dragon Age.
Then they showed gameplay and it was like, oh yeah, this is Dragon Age.
But the trailer was like, oh, cartoony shit.
I liked the trailer.
No, but yeah, you would.
But are you a Dragon Age fan?
No.
Exactly.
So Dragon Age fan.
I like Dragon Age.
I'm not a hardcore fan boy, but I was like, I ain't fucking Dragon Age.
Just show gameplay.
I suppose it'd be like showing a wow trailer in anime style.
That's exactly what it was.
I'm going with the same fucking wow as it.
Stop it.
This is so off the tone of Dragon Age that it was like, it's laughable.
It was like a comedy sketch.
What is this shit?
Just show gameplay.
No one gives a fuck about cinematics.
You know what I mean?
Trailers are, you see the Diablo trailer.
Yeah, it's mad.
That trailer is fucking...
It's mad.
When me and Steph were watching it, it popped up like Diablo at the beginning.
And I was like, oh fuck it, I'm not interested.
Skipped through it.
And I skipped through to the exact point where she's looking full face at the camera,
just screaming.
So I was like, skip back, skip back.
What's going on?
So all the way back.
But their cinematics are incredible.
They are fucking mental.
When her arm splits apart and the fucking tendons and shit.
I think it's different though.
I think when the game's already out and you're doing DLCs and that's different.
Everyone knows what's happening.
You already know what's happening.
When the game's not out, show us what the fuck we're doing, man.
Like you spoke about the other day, the Assassin's Creed gameplay trailer was mad.
I don't need some beefed up cinematic.
Just show me that.
That trailer was so fucking well.
That gameplay showcase was done so fucking well.
They...
Oh, that looks good.
I nearly bought that.
I don't know how many times that collector's edition, man.
I've had to pull myself away from it just solely because I don't know where I'll put it.
But I'm obviously, as you know, in the middle of fucking moving house and shit like that.
And the thought run past my mind.
I was like, well, the Elden Ring collector's edition has already been paid for.
No worries.
Essentially, I paid for that so long ago that it's now free.
All right.
Whereas the Assassin's Creed shadows is coming from game.
So they don't charge you until like seven days before, which is November.
So I was like, I might need that money.
But at the same time, when I saw that fucking gameplay, I was like, hmm.
Like this has put me in some turmoil here.
The only way that I thought about doing it was just to buy it on PayPal
and then just put the money in PayPal.
So when they take the money, it's really in there.
Yeah. So you don't go worry about it.
He's not paying it off, but it's just sitting in there, you know?
But yeah, I'll stop myself just because I haven't got the room for it.
Really.
We've all look after it for you.
Old Mesmer turning up or whatever his name is.
Yeah, Mesmer.
Yeah, I just don't know where he's going, let alone fucking that other statue.
But I can't I can't wait to delve into Elden Ring again.
You know, I really can't just I just wanted to make sure that it was updated and everything.
And literally it was half nine in the evening or something like that.
And because of the time I have to go for work, I'm normally in bed asleep.
I sort of like quarter past half ten.
So it's coming up in my bedtime.
I was getting ready and the thought just popped in my head.
I was like, what if you haven't killed Moog?
I was like, what if you haven't done it?
Because obviously I know that I've done multiple playthroughs.
I was like, what if you're in a playthrough where you just didn't bother doing it?
So I had no had to turn on the PlayStation, fucking have a look,
log in, figure out the fucking buttons again, do some Googling.
Yeah, no, sure enough, I've killed the cunt and the fucking site of grace is there with
the fucking hand dripping out the egg sack thingy.
So I'm ready.
I'm ready to delve into that.
I can't wait.
Yeah, it's going to be guess I I've been doing a lot of invasions on there
when I have been playing it and I'm getting warped.
No, I used to be able to take on two on one quite regularly.
But now I'm getting and they're all fucking spamming me, you know,
and they come over and they're like doing that with their weapons.
Fuck off.
You just ganked me.
I couldn't get away.
Um, I got a toilet.
Oh, no worries, mate.
Okay, he's been in the toilet and he's back.
Oh, fucking hell.
Completely lost track again of what we were talking about.
Cinematic trailers now.
Cinematic trailers, how they look visually fucking amazing most of the time,
but they they it's like when mobile games like Clash of Clans or some shit
throw out a trailer and it looks absolutely mental.
And then it's just like a two button fucking side scroll a mobile game.
Yep.
Like Clash of Clans and then fucking.
Is it just Clash of Clans?
What's what's the?
Oh, I can't remember what it's called,
but there's one where the trailers and everything look really fucking cool,
but it's just like the most basic cookie cutter game that you could think of.
Yeah.
Um, I was just looking through Twitter to see what games are talking about
because that will remind me of stuff.
Uh, I don't know if you know Darf Microtransaction is.
Who?
Darf Microtransaction.
No.
He's a ginger geezer with long hair.
You might have seen him on YouTube.
That guy, he's fucking.
I've never seen him in my life.
He's from Alaska.
He's big, big Diablo guy.
Yeah.
Here he is.
Big Diablo guy.
Yeah.
Anyway, he's, he's currently been playing.
There's a bit of a picture of him.
He's been playing, um, Elden Ring.
Yeah.
On stream.
How's he getting on?
I don't know.
But my point is he, he announced he was doing it and he said, uh,
for every, every time he dies,
he gives a $5 sub.
He died 109 times on his first day, $545 down the shitter.
But it's genius, genius, genius, genius marketing because he's
gifting subs to himself.
Do you know what I mean?
So whilst he's gifting subs, but they're subbed to him.
Yeah.
It kind of gets the money back.
You know what I mean?
So it's very cool.
Plus he's pulling in fucking loads of people to try and get some fucking subs.
Exactly.
Exactly. But my reason for saying that he's just tweeted Elden Ring might
be the best game I've ever played.
And I do not say that lightly.
Of course it is.
Elden Ring's fucking fantastic.
Yeah.
It's, it's, uh, it's very good.
And I am very excited to, to go into unknown territory in the, in the DLC
and just have that initial thing where you just, because I haven't really explored.
There's a lot of places in Elden Ring.
So I've only done one playthrough.
There's a lot of places that I never really looked through.
Mainly I'd say that tree where Milena was, I ran through that.
Uh huh.
I didn't want none of that smoke.
I didn't really explore, you know, the place with the dragons when it was whirling around.
I didn't really explore that because that got fucking well hard.
Then that Godskin duo pissed me off so much.
I just had enough of that place.
I was fucking proper worried about the Godskin duo.
And then when I come across them, fucking one tapped them.
I can't wait till you see the Mimic tier not being as powerful as it once was.
You ain't finishing this DLC, but I'm telling you now.
I am.
And, um, who else didn't?
The, the snowy area.
Didn't really explore that too, too much.
Yeah. I didn't really fuck around.
Only because when the blizzards kicked in, you couldn't see shit.
Didn't know where the fuck, and then you had those invisible fucking, um,
things that would fuck you up.
I remember, I remember going across some ice and then a dragon just up here.
I was like, no, no, not interested.
Um, and there was, uh, and the, and the mountains of that were all the giants.
Well, I didn't explore that much either.
There's a lot of places I never really explored.
Uh, and then where I am at the moment, uh, bowling around that, yeah,
Nockron city, you know, where all the minotaurs were.
Yeah.
And then it was like the Elks, the dead fucking deers.
Underground bit, wasn't it?
Yeah.
There's like dead deers and you can like fight the spirits of them.
So it's all very weird and I don't know what's going on, but I just like exploring places.
And, um, yeah, so I'm looking forward to a completely fresh place, uh, where there's
new weapons and new stuff to find and yeah, it's going to be great.
Plus we've already paid for it.
So we have already paid for it.
It's free at this point.
It's just, it's just so, it's so scary and lonely when you're in the thick of it.
A lot of people have played it.
Um, so I've seen a lot of YouTube videos of the popular, uh, Elden Ring and Dark Souls,
uh, players that I've watched over the years say what their thoughts are, but I, I, I'm
too scared to like watch it because I don't want any spoilers.
Yeah.
So I've, I've clicked on them multiple times and then just turn them off really quickly.
Yeah.
Because I'm scared.
Uh, there was a World of Warcraft announcement on one of these showcases and, uh, I really
got excited because I thought they were going to announce PlayStation.
I've re on the Xbox showcase when it popped up because I, I got very, very
hyped.
I like, I had, I had fucking goosebumps, um, because they showed the vanilla trailer at
the beginning and I looked at Steph.
I said, what the fuck is this?
I was like, what is this?
I said, I said, there's no way they're about to announce that's coming to Xbox.
There's no fucking way.
And then the Burning Crusade trailer rolled in and then the fucking role for the Lich King,
Mr. Pandaria and so on and so on and so on.
Um, and then, yeah, it was just, as it kept going, once it hit like the sort of Shadow
Lands, it like trailers with Sylvanas and stuff like that.
I was like, no, this is the fucking Dragon Soul saga guaranteed.
And then, yeah, sure enough, it was just fucking hyping up for the war within and then the
Dragon Soul saga after it and shit like that, which was still cool.
But I was, I was like a bit annoyed after it because I was like, fuck, I thought that
was going to be something.
I was like, why are you showing that?
Why?
We don't need to see that everyone.
Everyone who's playing World of Warcraft knows there's an expansion coming out.
Don't worry about that.
We didn't need to see that.
I, I do think it will come eventually though.
It will.
Of course it will.
They are, they are working very, very hard at the moment to make the game far more accessible
for brand new players.
And they're throwing in a lot of new stuff.
And not only are they trying to make it a lot better for new players, they're also aware
of how shit it is for new players at the moment, which I feel like is like the first step in
recognizing your problems is accepting them and fucking speaking on them.
And it's, it's exciting to see what they're going, going to do.
The war within looks fucking incredible and all the shit that they're doing and the hero
talents and blah, blah, blah, blah.
Everyone's got fucking better access except for me.
But yeah, it's, it's shaping up to be something, something really good at the moment.
We're in a bit of a low state because you've got coming out in August 28th, I think or
28th or 26th of August, something like that.
And so the between now and then nothing's really important.
That makes sense because you know that in a couple of months time, every, all your hard
work and everything that you're currently doing, you're going to be able to do it.
And everything you're currently doing is going to be made redundant.
So now seems to be the time to sort of just like level up different characters and fuck
around, which is pretty much what I'm doing.
Because I was saying to myself, I was like, not even going to bother playing it that much
and just play other games.
But the addiction kicks in and I'm like, no, I need to just need to log in just to see
some stuff.
Have you seen all the stuff about Destiny, Destiny 2?
Yeah, I've seen bits and bits and bits and bits because it's the end of the fucking.
I saw the cinematic for the ending.
Very, very cool.
But haven't they like announced another expansion basically?
Yeah, well, kind of.
I didn't see that, but they announced like the future.
Yeah, like a new a new foe or some shit like that.
It's made me sad because everyone's saying it's like the best thing Destiny's ever done.
Destiny 1, Destiny 2.
And what they did was really cool, actually.
So obviously they had the raid and the raids in Destiny are like nothing like any other
raids in any other game.
But I find them far too complex for my trivia because the community is far too toxic to
new players trying to learn to facilitate.
And also people use such fucking technical jargon that people don't understand.
It was like, have you got this on?
Have you got that weapon?
Have you got this?
You know, I have to go back to the vault and you have to.
It's just too much fucking about.
I'd rather it be like the raids in World of Warcraft and fucking any other MMO.
Just fairly straightforward.
Yeah.
But we've like.
Move here and don't stand in this shit and attack.
Yeah, yeah.
Hard enough, but I don't need all these fucking jumping puzzles and crap.
Nevertheless, a raid was done.
It took the longest time any raids ever took in Destiny 1 or Destiny 2 in terms of like
first clears.
So they have the world first race.
So everyone, all the streamers were racing.
And then people were in uproar because people were like figuring out the mechanics of each
encounter.
And then they was turning their screen off of the game and just letting themselves be seen.
Also turning the audio off of their voices so they can't hear.
So other streamers can't find out what they're doing.
Yeah.
So that was happening.
And then at the end, like, I don't know how long it took 15, 16 hours.
People were fucked by their eyes were like, oh, it's crazy.
But at the end of it, when the first clear happened and Destiny announced the world's
first clear has been done.
As soon as that happened, it unlocked a final stand mission for all players in the world
for Destiny.
You could queue for it.
And it was essentially the witnesses, the big bad, the witness.
However, I haven't seen it, but the witness at the end of the raid escapes.
And then the final stand is available for all players because the first clear happened.
The witnesses ran away and then everyone got the opportunity.
But they had to wait for that for it to be unlocked.
Very fucking cool.
And it was a big community base and I was watching it all on Twitter unfold and people
were so gassed and that.
And I feel devastated that I was not part of that.
I've missed it entirely.
Yeah.
You know where Elden Ring was like a cultural thing at one point.
There, if you weren't in that fucking loop or what loop you fucking missed out on.
Exactly.
So where I've missed out on that myself, I don't feel like it will have the same impact
because I say these things are being unlocked as people were doing it.
Yeah.
And people were getting all gassed and that.
And I feel like of all the years I've put into Destiny to have missed that solely really
down to their own fault, really the way they've been is a bit devastating.
And I feel that's the only bit of Destiny I don't own.
And I don't think I ever will now.
Because everyone said that it's like the best expansion that they've ever done.
The storytelling and everything in this expansion is meant to be top tier, which you would expect
because it's the penultimate.
This is the magnum opus of everything.
This is the finisher.
So you would need to fucking hit it right.
I know a fair amount of what goes down in like the final moments because my TikTok was
just fucking flooded with it.
But I can understand you on that one.
That's an experience that you're not going to get the same anywhere else.
Especially after all the money and time and hours I've spent on that fucking game
and investment into each expansion to then miss essentially the best one.
I also think it's weird though where you build it up saying like this is it, this is the end.
This is with 10 years have led to this and we're finishing it.
And then when it finishes straight away, you announce that here's the next bit.
They always said that this was the end of the light and dark saga.
So there was always going to be more.
But in what shape that's going to take, I don't know.
Because it's going to be a tough sell now and it to be like, right, that's X amount
of years done.
Let's start a new storyline right at the beginning.
And you know it's going to be fucking God knows how many years till that's it's conclusion.
I'm so out of the loop with Destiny Lore and the DLCs and the timeline.
Like last time I played was with you for like five minutes and the fucking,
is it not the Cabal?
Who's the other people that are now your friends, but were originally your fucking enemies?
Yeah, yeah, it is the Cabal.
Is it the Cabal?
Yeah, they're your fucking allies that are like, some of them are,
you can interact with.
And I'm like, what the fuck is this?
Like, I don't understand any of this.
Wherever that was, everything that's happened in between then and now, I've got no idea.
The initial Destiny 2 base game was fighting the Cabal.
It was the main villain was a Cabal leader.
This makes me want to play it so bad.
But yeah, like I say, I'm sad, man, because I missed the boat and I feel like,
and the raids, man, I've only ever completed like two, three raids because they're so,
they're hard to commit to, like that period of time for me to have to commit to something.
I've got to learn it.
I've got to learn it with, I have to get lucky and five like-minded,
cool individuals that ain't twats.
Because there's always one in there going, I'm fucking out.
I'll just do it on my own.
And it's just like, it's all like, it always comes down to two people need to do this.
One person needs to do that.
And whatever group you're put in, if you fuck it up, everyone knows it was you that fucked it up.
It's such a small group to work with where something like, wow,
where you can go up to like 20 odd people.
What it takes is for you to shoot the wrong symbol or something.
And then you fucked it.
And you fucked it.
And everyone's like, oh, you fucking, you shot the moon instead of the star.
I'm like, I'm sorry.
And then you have to start the whole encounter again.
And it's stressful.
I don't need stress while playing my games, man.
I feel like how you feel with Destiny 2 and where you don't play it at all.
And then you fucking, you start looking into it again and seeing things.
You start getting hyped up and go, oh, fucking maybe I'll jump back into it.
And then you do jump back into it.
And then you realize why you jumped out of it.
I feel like my version of that is something like The Division 2,
where I love that game so much.
But at the same time, there's a reason why you stop playing it.
And then you leave such a large gap of not playing where you almost forget those reasons.
And then they almost immediately fucking come flooding back the minute you jump back in.
Because you go one bit of bullshit.
And then you go, yep, this is fucking why I stopped playing it.
See you later.
I've had enough.
Because The Division fucking loved it.
The Division 2, I really liked it.
I'm glad that The Division 3 is in development.
But God, I wish Division 2 was still relevant to the point where you're going on Reddit,
searching that.
Is Division 2 worth playing in 2024?
It's like just in the hopes that loads of people are like, yeah, it's fucking sick.
And then you don't see that.
You don't see any of that.
And you go, oh, come on.
Yeah, it makes me sad, man.
It does make me sad.
I also see, this is another thing I don't understand.
Like we watched AC Shadows, the gameplay trailer.
And we're both texting each other.
Just so I'm like, fucking hell, this is what we wanted.
This is gas.
Well, all right.
So then tell me why I then go on Twitter and everyone's like, that looks fucking shit.
Classic Ubisoft slop.
I'm just like, have we just watched the same shit?
That seems-
Remember, don't pre-order anything.
Which is fine.
But you cannot say that seems like same Ubisoft slop.
That couldn't be further apart from anything Ubisoft I've seen in years.
That was possibly the best thing I've ever seen Ubisoft come out with.
It was mad.
It was mental.
It was absolutely mental.
People were saying the combat looked like AC Origins and I was like, are you fucking divvy?
It looks nothing like any Assassin's Creed combat I've ever seen.
Like I said to Steph, I see the health bar and immediately thought this is going to be shit.
Because for some reason, me, health bars and Assassin's Creed, the three of us don't mix.
I don't like seeing them in Assassin's Creed.
I thought this is going to be- and that was my thought.
I was like, this is going to be some Origins Odyssey Valhalla bullshit.
Because you're expecting bullet sponges.
Exactly.
But once the combat fucking ensues, oh my god.
Fucking incredible.
And you know what one of the things that popped into my head was,
I remember you with Valhalla saying that you found the combat ridiculous
because you're going against some of these hulking huge people
and you're able to just fling them around or whatever.
Or you're hitting people and they're fucking bouncing off the ground and shit like that.
When Yasuki started hitting people with his cudgel and things like that,
and there's blood splatter and everything and all that shit,
my thought was, is it going to be too much bouncing around and shit?
And I felt like from what I saw, it was that almost perfect middle ground of,
yes, I'm hitting someone with a fucking massive mace.
There should be a bit of bounce to their head hitting the fucking floor.
But there weren't too much.
There's a perfect amount.
It was visceral, one on one brutal combat, which is what this is my favourite kind of combat.
I know it's not for everyone, people just swaling on people and that.
But I like more waiting for them to attack and parrying and all that sort of stuff and blocking.
Like, it goes to Tsushima, it's very intimate one on one.
I mean, if you get caught with three, four people around you, you might be in trouble.
And that's how I like it because it's more realistic.
In Valhalla, you just, I'll hit you and then I'll hit you and then I'll hit you.
Then you're fucking, no way, fucking spinny thing.
And then she's cutting the bamboo because the fucking,
there's a bit of realism in the fucking environment that you're in and shit like that.
She's, when she fucking, when she went prone and then is prone in through the water,
the first thing I said to Stefan, it was almost comical, was I went,
well, that's not fucking realistic.
And literally as the sentence left my mouth, there comes the fucking straw.
There goes the bamboo straw so she can fucking breathe.
I was like, oh my God, perfect.
I was like, that makes perfect fucking sense.
And then, and then she's, she's knocking out the lantern.
So there's fucking an obscured vision because now it's a little bit darker.
So she's able to get closer to the enemy and then fucking assassinate him.
Oh my God.
It just, it, it looks so clean and fluid.
And that is exactly, that is exactly what I wanted from Assassin's Creed Shadows.
It, for me, it's shaping up to be possibly a game of the year for me,
which I joked around with Steph, because it was like, every time we see something like this,
we always sit there and go, it's good we go over the year.
But genuinely that if what I saw is maintained throughout the game, mental, absolutely mental.
If it, if it's, yeah, if it stays like that and it is,
that's a realistic representation of a mission, then it's perfect.
It's perfect because what they need that they need to define balance of the open world, ra ra.
But they also need them, them crafted missions.
So like where obviously you can choose which way you want to go in with who that's fine.
But then it's still, it seems like it's like a linear environment, right?
As opposed to here's this target in this compound in the open world, go and attack it,
which is cool in its own right.
When you craft it the way it seems to have been where it's a streamlined,
it's a streamlined mission in the open world.
Yeah.
I'm presuming this open world.
Then that is more finely tuned and crafted for each character in which way you want to approach it.
So then it has more room for opportunity.
Like Steph said, when that geezer is about to walk in and she jumps up there.
I mean, yeah, it's this cinema is unrealistic, but it's cool as fuck.
It's cool as fuck.
And it is like, it's how you would expect them to react in a film.
Well, it's unrealistic in a point of how quickly she was able to get up there,
but it's not unrealistic in the actual action of hiding up there.
I don't know if that makes sense.
Yeah. That kind of shit probably could happen, but the actual act of fucking
quickly zipping up there is, but you're playing a game at the end of the day.
Yeah, exactly.
Um, but it, it, it just didn't, I don't know where all the hatred is being aimed towards.
I don't really understand it.
Like you say, I don't know if we was all watching the same fucking gameplay.
We definitely wasn't because as I say, people were saying it looked like the same old shit.
And I, not one part of that made me think this looks like this even looks like Ubisoft.
This looks like fucking Ghost of Shima, which isn't a bad thing.
No.
It's setting, it's setting a Japanese environment.
Of course it's going to look similar to Ghost of Shima.
There's going to be a comparison.
People are pulling them up on the most stupidest shit.
People getting so angry about, well, well, it's not accurate because they've got fucking,
they've got these cherry blossoms growing in the winter.
And I'm just like, Oh my Christ.
Yeah.
You know, one, this a work in progress.
Get over it.
Yeah.
Two, calm yourself down.
Do you know what I mean?
Calm yourself down.
I was equally upset about Star Wars Outlaws.
Uh, because whilst I loved every second of the training, it looked fantastic.
All the YouTube videos started coming out after it saying.
They've played it and don't get too gassed.
Oh really?
I don't like it.
They're saying like, like all the little stealth sequences and that they're very like,
don't get spotted or it's game over kind of thing.
It's not like an option and it was all very, it doesn't, it's more linear than it's proclaiming
to be and all this shit.
But once again, take it with a pinch of salt, but when a lot of people are saying the same
shit, it's a bit, it's a bit worrisome, especially when, you know,
me and Star Wars, come on, give me a break, man.
Give me a break.
Give me a good Star Wars game.
They're, they're, they're toying with a very, a very sensitive fan base.
And that I am.
I feel like, I feel like Star Wars fans are very, um, nerdy.
Oh, massive.
We're starved as well.
Much like yourself and Lord of the Rings, we're starved, man.
Yeah.
I saw a little fucking, um, steal from riders of the riders of Rohirrim.
Um, and that looks very fucking cool.
And Peter Jackson is now, um, helping to direct that as well.
Very cool.
He's now involved with that.
Um, so that looks, that looks more increasingly entertaining.
Um, so we're, we're, we're eating good by the looks of it, man.
We're doing decent, got Elden Ring fucking this month.
Next month, it doesn't fucking matter.
And the month after that, it doesn't matter because we've got Elden Ring this month.
Yeah.
That's as simple as that.
It will do the exact same bullshit that it did when it come out and it will just flood
the rest of the year.
That's fine with me.
Simple as that.
Here comes the fucking TikTok edits.
Here comes all the clips.
Here comes all the broken tellies.
This is exactly what will happen.
Everyone will be fucking gassed.
And the DLC will release flawlessly.
It will be incredible.
And then you'll get an absolute fucking burst of people going, this is how DLC is supposed
to be done.
Which will be true.
Yeah.
100%.
And it will be my first ever FromSoftware DLC.
I'm jealous for you.
I get to experience that.
I can't wait.
And it's in a collector's edition, a collector's edition for a DLC.
It's going to be gas.
It's going to be sick.
I just want to know what the, what the, what the, what the fuck is going on.
The main bosses.
Who that is?
It's not going to be Mesmer.
Because it's not Mesmer.
They never, they never make the fucking statue or the people person they show the most the
main fucking boss.
It's something else.
And I can't wait to see what it is.
It's going to be Melania, isn't it?
It's going to be the whole, the main bitch.
Well, Melania's dead.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean shit in video games, does it?
She's going to come back in some fucking form.
There's a flower, isn't she?
Fucking burst out and then we're going to, ah, ah, ah.
Fucking big old battle.
Yeah.
Sadly like that.
I'm pretty sure that was like Star Wars, you know?
It was Star Wars.
Oh yeah.
So that's fucking.
That's it.
Really?
Patreon time, baby.
Yeah, I think it is Patreon time.
Pa, pa, Patreon time.
That's good.
Cause I need to make a phone call.
Okay. No worries.
Well, see you later everyone.
Uro.
Alright.