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Go, go, go, go.

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Let's go.

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It's me.

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Not Ashley.

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He's away again.

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It's not Steph either.

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It's fucking Connor.

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Oh, hello.

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Oh, here I am.

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What's the buttons?

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It's really warm and sweaty.

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Fucking awful.

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It's really warm and sweaty.

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Ah, mate, if you're listening to this, hello.

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Hello, mate.

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Oh, Jesus Christ.

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That was bizarre, but yeah.

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We have a...

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Special request.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's more or less,

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it's just someone else has done the legwork for us.

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Big daddy, Sam Parks.

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On conversation with one of the patrons

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has given us a little list that they would like to

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hear us talk about.

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So we're gonna go through the list,

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considering, like he said, it's halfway through the year.

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So...

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Which is mental.

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What have we got?

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We've got best soundtrack, best DLC, best hidden gem,

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best lead character, best antagonist,

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best performance slash quality, best gameplay slash combat,

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biggest letdown and then most anticipated

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for the second half of 2024.

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What are you saying then?

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I know you're gonna say best DLC is gonna be

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Shadow of the Erdry,

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because that's probably the biggest DLC that's been released

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this year. Yeah.

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Well, okay.

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So I would say best soundtrack and best DLC

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will be Shadow of the Erdry,

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because the soundtrack that goes along with

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the boss fights in Eldenby are just incredible in the DLC.

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There's nothing quite like a Souls game

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or Bloodborne soundtrack when it comes to fighting bosses.

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It's just so...

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But also the soundtrack from when you're fighting

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Radahn console,

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it's just so...

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I love it so much, but at the same time,

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I fucking hate it.

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I was gonna say, you must hate it, considering.

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The amount of times I heard that fucking soundtrack.

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From the top.

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But it's just...

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Oh, it's so good.

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The effort that they go in with their soundtrack,

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I would say the same with The Last of Us.

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Very, very, very good soundtrack.

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Games like Hi-Fi Rush and...

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It's difficult to say sometimes,

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because you can't...

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I often don't think about the soundtrack sometimes.

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I know it is very important.

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I think we've spoke about it before,

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and you and Steph have spoke about it before,

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that sometimes I don't even think about it till afterwards.

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Well, me, yeah.

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You're in it, and you're like...

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You know you're feeling it,

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but you don't think about it till afterwards.

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Well, me and Steph did a whole episode

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talking about soundtracks,

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because like you just said,

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I think they are so underlooked,

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because when a soundtrack is spot on,

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the beauty and the curse of it being so good

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is that you do not notice it.

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Yeah, you're too far in the moment.

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When a soundtrack is so good,

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it becomes part of that moment,

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and therefore you forget about the soundtrack.

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it's on a video on the TikTok or an Instagram,

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and you're like,

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oh, it's from that, is it?

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And you're like,

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oh, let me just throw on the soundtrack.

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Because you think like,

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if you had something like Lord of the Rings,

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and you took the fucking soundtrack out of that,

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you've taken away half of the magic.

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It's pretty much.

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And it's the same with a lot of games.

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When we jumped in the van,

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and all of a sudden the Shire was playing on the old blutom.

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He's just love it.

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Love it.

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What's going on there?

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We need to do that at some point though.

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We need to do that fucking.

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Sit down for the extended edition.

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Yeah, 100%.

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It's just trying to decipher a good soundtrack

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to a bad soundtrack.

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I just find it so difficult.

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Yeah, it's tough.

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I remember like,

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everyone puts effort into soundtracks.

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It's the element of picking the best,

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what the best soundtrack is of this year,

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when this list isn't the best for me,

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because I haven't really played a lot of games

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that have come out this year, to be honest.

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And I can't think of anything

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that's necessarily come out this year

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that I'm specifically would say about soundtracks.

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For me at least.

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Apart from, yeah, you've lifted off

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good and gone, you know, Eldering Ertree.

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Well, I mean, like you said,

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well, I said before we hit record.

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I mean, if you really,

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if you wanted to just make it easy,

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you can go with the last part to Remastered.

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Yeah, true.

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Because that come out fucking in,

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what do you say, January.

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So that technically counts as fucking this year.

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That's good enough.

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Ridiculous, Remastered, yeah,

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the game that just came out.

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We were flicking through the PlayStation Store

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the other day, me and Steph trying to find some,

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just looking at the deals and shit.

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And yeah, part two Remastered was on there.

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And Steph was like, they remastered that.

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Already.

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And I was like, yeah.

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I said, fuck knows what they did.

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When you do the side.

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But that's about 45 quid still.

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I think it was a tenner because I've got a PS5

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and I already have the game and blah, blah, blah, blah.

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I'm still not paying that to fucking play it again.

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Ridiculous.

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So Elder Ring DLC wins that one for me anyway.

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And then what we got, we got.

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Best game so far this year.

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Oh shit, yeah, we fucking skipped two.

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Skipped that one.

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It's because he had a big best console paragraph.

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Best console so far.

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So we got best game.

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Best game of this year so far?

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Well, that's, again, depends.

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Is that the best game this year?

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Which I don't feel like there's been so many drops thus far.

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Best game this year.

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I have a list here of all the games that did release.

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I've already flicked through it,

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but I just want to flick through it again

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to see if there's anything that sparked.

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I don't even remember what's dropped so far this year.

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Quite a lot to be fair, but it's.

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Like brand new, not like, oh, you go to Elder Ring.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 was a big one.

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Biggest let down.

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Grand Blue Fantasy, Rielink, that was very good.

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Suicide Squad, again, Helldivers 2.

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Yeah, but I very much enjoyed Helldivers 2,

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but then it dropped off.

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And then it's got the resurgence again.

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Yeah, but does that diminish it from being the best game?

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But then is it the best game for you,

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or is it the best game of this year?

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Because it's definitely not going to be the best game of this year,

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but of the games that I've played this year that came out this year,

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it's probably one of the ones that I've enjoyed the most thus far.

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I would.

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Get these fucking cables off me.

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The.

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Aren't you playing the Formatode?

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Yes.

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See, that'll come out fucking March.

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Yes, but that's coming up later.

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Oh, sorry.

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I do apologize.

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The Outlast Trials and all.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh, OK.

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That's a that's such a subjective question.

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Criteria.

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What's your best game?

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Is it going to be your best single player game of this year?

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And I would probably say that my best single player game of current years

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so far is probably the Thaumatode as I'm playing it now.

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I haven't put too much time into it because I'm doing other bits

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and pieces, but at the same time, that would probably

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be my best single player game so far.

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In terms of co-op experience, I would definitely say Helldivers 2

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is has been my favorite game for co-operative play this year.

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But the only problem with that is it's a heavy grind.

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See, now I would offer a spin on it of.

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Oh, fucking hell.

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What's the game of the year expectation for 2024?

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Well, when did when did Enshrow did come out in early access and all?

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Was that this year?

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Was that that was February, January, February time.

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Somewhere around there.

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Somewhere around there.

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But again, again, that was another co-op experience game, not.

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But I wouldn't say this.

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This is where this is where it's going to get interesting because

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the waters are going to be very muddy this year.

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I'm I'm getting old, getting old and crusty.

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Twenty seven and old.

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And you haven't got crazy.

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You're all right.

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I feel like where.

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I'm still able to sinking a lot of time into gaming

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and addiction, if you will, and very grateful for the ability to be able to do that.

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Very much fucking helps where Steph is like a massive gamer.

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So to her before, arguably, she's probably more of a gamer than I am in terms of

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games played and interest because she absorbs a lot of information like a fucking sponge.

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Whereas I don't character names and things like that.

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I'm very difficult.

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Complete. I'm done.

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Yeah.

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Whereas where was Steph?

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But that's just that's just how we're different gamers.

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Steph can't finish a game.

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So no, but I can't finish a game either.

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Really tough.

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It depends on the game.

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True.

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And it's.

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When I was younger, you were you were able to play any sort of game you wanted.

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You had all the time in the world.

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Wasn't an issue.

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And gaming was also a lot cheaper.

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Whereas now, but at the same time, you're but you think you've got a house.

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I'm very, very nearly finished buying my house.

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Mark's in the same position as me.

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Fucking Ash has got his own place.

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Darrell's got his own place.

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Darrell's got his own place and like people have their own families and shit.

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And we're busy with work.

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So when it comes to gaming, you almost have to start cherry picking what you're jumping into.

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Because your time is very limited.

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I'd say there's a difference because when you're a kid and like you're asking mom or dad or whoever

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to get you a game is that you feel like you need to commit to that.

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If you pick up like that's someone else's money versus now,

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you know, we're adults and we have adult money to buy.

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Yeah.

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To buy adult things.

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The point that I'm trying to make is that when I was younger, gaming was...

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You could just do it all night and in summer.

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It was very exciting because you played with a shit load of people.

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All your friends.

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It was an absolute laugh.

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Blah, blah, blah.

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Best time of your life.

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And then you grow older and then those moments start to slowly slip away

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because everyone's just getting on with their life and that they happen less frequently.

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So I would probably say that the likes of Outlast Trials is probably the best game

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that I have played this year for the pure and simple fact that it is an absolutely terrifying,

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hilarious game.

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But me and Mark had...

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We haven't played it for ages, but the time that we were sinking in and the same with you and me

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with Entrouded was incredible because it gave you...

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The commitment.

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Yeah, and it gave you that hint of when you was younger and you were able to play with

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your mates and just have a fucking laugh.

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Looking at the time ago, it's 11 o'clock.

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Are we staying on?

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Yeah, we went back to...

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What was it?

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Like two, three in the morning one hour?

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Just stayed up and then straight back on it in the morning at like fucking nine o'clock.

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It was a Friday night.

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We went and we stayed on for a bit and it was like, yeah.

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And then looked at times at half three and went, okay, let's crack on.

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So Entrouded, it's still in early access.

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Very good game.

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Haven't played it for a while and kind of waiting for it to come out on full release.

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Let it develop itself a little bit more and then...

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Because by that point, it'd be like a brand new game when you jump in.

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And Outlast Trials, just because me and Mark had so much fun on that game and it is such a

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fun game, but scary at the same time.

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And the clips that I've got saved, I haven't experienced shit like that.

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They're all quite funny.

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Horror games, especially co-op horror games.

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Yeah, man.

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Because what else was it?

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What was that fucking...

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You did Escape the Backrooms when you came round to mine.

307
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Yeah, but the one before that, what was the other one?

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What was it called?

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Everyone was fucking playing it.

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I can't remember the fucking name of it.

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Fuck, yeah.

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Lethal Company.

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Lethal Company.

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Games like...

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I am completely wrapped up in the MMO aspect of where I'm playing the game.

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I want there to be a durable end game and I want there to be a goal for me to achieve.

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That is a constant.

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So once I feel like I'm getting right to the end, they throw something else in that just

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fucking moves the goalpost.

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I hate it, but I love it at the same time.

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And games like Lethal Company and Outlast Trials, Dead by Daylight, games like that,

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they don't necessarily have that aspect to them.

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So therefore, most of the time, I don't find them fun, but they're not on your own.

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But when you're playing with people, they're fucking brilliant.

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Someone that you can't...

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There is no end game because you know you're going to fuck...

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Like Lethal Company, you'll know you're going to fuck up before you get too deep,

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which for a lot of the other games, everything else that seems to be popping up is fucking

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building games that your survival builders...

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Like, what was it?

331
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Once Human.

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I'm so fucking sick of survival builders.

333
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I'd rather just...

334
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Yeah, but remove the building.

335
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I'll tell you what I want.

336
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I just have...

337
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You give me a survival builder that is absolutely fine.

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They have their place and I can understand, much like Battle Royale,

339
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where every cunt is trying to fucking make one.

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I get it.

341
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However, what I want is give me the ability to turn off the fucking survival aspect of it

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in terms of I need to eat food and drink water, otherwise I'm going to die.

343
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And then with the building, for fuck's sake,

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if you want me to put up a shed and a kiln and all of that shit, let me just have a preset.

345
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Yeah.

346
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You must have a house with a bed in it.

347
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Okay, but don't make me put up all of the walls and the roof and then place the bed.

348
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Just give me a...

349
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Give me a prefab that I just need to click a button to say...

350
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Yeah, give me a prefab of a house.

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Place that house there, much like how No Man's Sky does it when you're making your own camp,

352
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like your own settlement, where it's just like...

353
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It doesn't give you the option on where to place it or anything.

354
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It just says you need the materials to make this to increase it, go and do it.

355
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Give me something like that because I don't want to, but then also give me the option

356
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to be able to edit those buildings so that if I want to change things, I can.

357
00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:23,400
Yeah.

358
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But for fuck's sake, stop making great games that could be fantastic and then...

359
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Great games that are all building games.

360
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It's like...

361
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It just seems soppy.

362
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What can we do to make this game attractive?

363
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Oh, here's an easy one.

364
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Building.

365
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What is it?

366
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Seven Days to Die went to its full release finally, recently.

367
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Yeah.

368
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But again, that's another one that has building mechanics.

369
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It's zombie survival, but then has building mechanics.

370
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I don't want it.

371
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And it's just like that's kind of the base building aspect is kind of a huge part of it

372
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because you're meant to build a base that you can defend.

373
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Yeah, straight away I'm switched off.

374
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It looks good.

375
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It looks a lot better because I remember playing it when it was alphas, betas,

376
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whatever fucking pre-release.

377
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Now they finally made it a full thing and I'm just like, I can't,

378
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I don't want to go back to it because I can't be asked.

379
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I don't want to do base building.

380
00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,920
But that's where it sort of like worked with you and me on enshrouded where.

381
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I don't mind.

382
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I come from a Minecraft background as a, as a teen.

383
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Yeah.

384
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I'm not interested in the building.

385
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So you do the building.

386
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I can build stuff, but I don't mind doing it.

387
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And I come from a grinding background.

388
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So I will go and do that and you fucking build.

389
00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,560
Then you come back and go, what's this mansion?

390
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What's yours?

391
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You said the, the formative.

392
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Oh, um,

393
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Farmatage.

394
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Formatose.

395
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I don't know if that's probably my best single player game so far this year.

396
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Um, I was also going to probably dash it slightly into hidden gem of this year,

397
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but I would probably.

398
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Yeah.

399
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Equally do.

400
00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:51,160
Um, a little cutesy hidden gem was that big kitty little city game.

401
00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:51,880
I was like, yeah.

402
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That I quite enjoy it as, as off the back of like playing something like, um,

403
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Untitled Goose game.

404
00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,640
And it was just, it was like a chill little thing that I could just go home and

405
00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:02,360
dick about with.

406
00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,640
And even like, even Alicia's playing it and she finds it quite cute.

407
00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:09,640
See, and it's, you know, it was only like, I caught it on sale for like less than 10

408
00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,200
pound or whatever it was, like very, very cheap sort of game.

409
00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:16,200
That's probably what eight hours sort of playtime.

410
00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,000
Yep.

411
00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:23,400
And it was very, not very, um, it was advertised, but it never really was a big deal.

412
00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,800
And I can't really think of anything else hugely.

413
00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:27,080
That's been out.

414
00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:30,520
But formatose was one of the ones I didn't really know anything about till I saw

415
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steam sales on it.

416
00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,040
And I thought, oh, that looks all right.

417
00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:34,680
And clicked on it.

418
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Click through it.

419
00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,560
And went, oh, it's turn, but like combat's turn-based.

420
00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:43,160
But then the actual gameplay of it's kind of like telltale games where it's like

421
00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:44,840
every choice you make matters.

422
00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:45,320
Yeah.

423
00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,720
Everyone will remember this and all that stuff.

424
00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,600
And if you pick certain options, you can't follow through with it.

425
00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:55,240
And I need to, I probably should look who makes it because it's very similar to a game

426
00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,360
came out or not similar, but it's got the same sort of vein as Vampyr.

427
00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:03,160
If you ever remember that came out quite a few years back.

428
00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,320
And instead of it obviously being a vampire, you're essentially a magician.

429
00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:12,120
You can essentially read emotions and things like that.

430
00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:16,360
You can touch objects and you can read information about people from them.

431
00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:19,480
And you determine people's secrets and flaws.

432
00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:24,760
Double dagger studio is who made little kitty big city.

433
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And it is overwhelmingly positive reviews on steam.

434
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95% overwhelmingly positive.

435
00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:33,960
It's currently 20 pounds.

436
00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:35,480
That's not so good.

437
00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:37,160
20 pounds on there.

438
00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:39,960
Little kitty big city is an adorable entertaining journey

439
00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,600
for a delightful world that's just the right size.

440
00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:45,900
Yeah.

441
00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,600
Almost like, yeah, well, yeah, like you say, untitled.

442
00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,240
It's got the same sort of vein, but it's a cat and it's, you know,

443
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it's a different sort of style, but it's chaos and just exploration as a cat.

444
00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,640
And doing some pieces is not necessarily as in-depth as like stray, but,

445
00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:05,560
you know, I love straight man.

446
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Just want a little chill, straight with some chill game to play then.

447
00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,760
You know, it was quite pleasant for an easy little thing to do in a few hours

448
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or, you know, on a steam deck or anything.

449
00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,280
That's again, kind of one of the reasons I picked up film attached.

450
00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,800
So I looked at it and thought that might be playable on a steam deck.

451
00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:24,680
Yeah.

452
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I have played it on the steam deck.

453
00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:26,440
Yeah.

454
00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:31,800
Because I've managed to put a few hours on it on the PC, but it was more up my street.

455
00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:37,080
Because I like, I like turn-based combat games and some that I have to think a little bit about

456
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because then I've got, you know, it's peaceful.

457
00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:40,520
It's calm.

458
00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,040
It's not no high stress bollocks going on.

459
00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,560
And at the same time, you've got the RPG element of, you know, you build your,

460
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your stats out and you collect, um, saluters, they call them.

461
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It basically means, um,

462
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um, uh, it's like a guest or like invader almost.

463
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And they're like, um, these weird demon type creatures that you,

464
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you as a Thorna-Turge have a connection to, and you can start picking up more and more

465
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as, as your story goes through and it's your, you've got the, the floor of pride and you're,

466
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you know, essentially leaning into that thinking that you're this very powerful magician and you're

467
00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,640
just building up through your everything that's going on.

468
00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:28,120
You, what is it?

469
00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:33,640
It's in, um, set in 1905 in Warsaw.

470
00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,280
So you play as Victor Schulsky.

471
00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:37,640
Victor Schulsky.

472
00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:42,760
The only thing I say bad about is the fucking, the voice acting is a bit like,

473
00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,920
you know, when someone's putting on an accent, like Eastern European accent,

474
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and there's a few that are like blatantly American.

475
00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:50,760
You think, oh,

476
00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,800
the American, the fucking Eastern European accent.

477
00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,560
You know, you meant to be Polish or Russian and you've got some American going.

478
00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:02,680
That, um, my, my hidden gem would be Grand Blue Fantasy Relink.

479
00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:05,000
That long title.

480
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:05,160
Yeah.

481
00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:12,760
Just a fun, just a fun game, the fucking, um, with that, uh, anime style, um,

482
00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:17,000
uh, artwork, which isn't, isn't really something that I go for,

483
00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:23,320
but the lovely colors and the fucking, the, the, the numbers and the killing things.

484
00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,240
The things that make ADHD feel good.

485
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:25,400
Yeah.

486
00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,880
But it, it, it was a fun game.

487
00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:32,200
Um, and there weren't really much said about it.

488
00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:37,080
Um, it was actually Sam, um, that, that put me onto it.

489
00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:37,240
Yeah.

490
00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:41,400
I was going to say without that bit, Sam having mentioned it, I don't think any of us would have

491
00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:41,720
No.

492
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,320
had any, any idea of it.

493
00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:47,880
Got your own fucking team that you get to swap in and out with different characters that all

494
00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,240
do their own different things.

495
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,200
Um, and you just fucking shit up.

496
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:53,720
It's just great fun.

497
00:20:53,720 --> 00:21:01,160
The only bit that I didn't like about it was it was so fucking, oh, it was so anime.

498
00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:03,240
Oh, I hated it.

499
00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:04,920
I hate Japanese anime.

500
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:06,040
It was just so cringy.

501
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,240
It was so fucking cringy.

502
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,200
Let's go team.

503
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:11,640
We can do this together.

504
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,000
Oh, fuck off.

505
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,040
The very, very Asian inspired.

506
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:16,360
Yeah.

507
00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:17,400
No, I like, yeah.

508
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,040
It's like, oh, fuck you.

509
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:20,920
Like, come on team.

510
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:21,400
Let's go.

511
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,640
Throwing the peace sign up into the fucking camera after you've just beheaded someone

512
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:26,600
like weird shit like that.

513
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:27,320
Nice.

514
00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:27,640
Yeah.

515
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,600
I was like, no, that's not that it's pissing me off.

516
00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:31,880
Stop doing that.

517
00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:32,280
It's annoying.

518
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:33,400
Nice cock, bro.

519
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:34,200
Nice cock.

520
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:35,480
I just, I just don't want to.

521
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:40,040
That was the only bit that fucking made me nearly go like, I can't be asked for this

522
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:44,600
because it was just every cut cut scene, like the game plan and everything was great.

523
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:45,400
Very fun.

524
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,560
Very, very, um, very fluid.

525
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:53,720
Um, anyone that's that's interested by that or wants to have a quick Google.

526
00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:58,040
I recommend looking into it because it is, it is a fun game, but the,

527
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:03,880
God, it's almost American without digging out America.

528
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:04,280
Yeah.

529
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:05,640
It's too positive.

530
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,600
That's the problem.

531
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:07,320
It's too positive.

532
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,160
I don't like it.

533
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:10,440
Everything's positive.

534
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,720
We're killing things for very little reason.

535
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,560
Reality of the situation is murderers.

536
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:16,440
We're murderers.

537
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,200
Murderers with fucking sparkly swords.

538
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:20,920
There's no need for us to be so positive.

539
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:21,320
I hate it.

540
00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:23,000
But other than that, it was right.

541
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:24,840
So there's your fucking hidden gems.

542
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:26,840
Pricks.

543
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:29,400
He doesn't like it.

544
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,360
Best lead character.

545
00:22:30,360 --> 00:22:31,720
I haven't got a clue, you know.

546
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,960
Um, I really don't know.

547
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,800
For this year, I can't think of anything.

548
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:44,200
I can't think of a heavily, you know, dedicated lead character in any of the games that come out this year.

549
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:50,120
I'd probably, I'd probably again, throw another spin on it of the best lead character.

550
00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:52,120
Spin around.

551
00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:57,320
You're going to throw back to the old remaster, Last of Us Remaster.

552
00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,560
No, I ain't going to the remaster.

553
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:05,480
I was going to, I was going to say something like Helldivers 2.

554
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:07,720
It's me because I'm going to say something like Helldivers 2.

555
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,000
Because I'm the lead character.

556
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:09,640
Yeah.

557
00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,160
Because Helldivers 2 is, there is no lead character.

558
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:18,920
It puts you in that position where, which is very alien to most gamers in that the person

559
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,680
that you are playing is nothing.

560
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:21,560
They're all porn.

561
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:22,360
You're expendable.

562
00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:23,800
You're meat for the grinder.

563
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:27,000
You are, you are just part of an army and you're on the front lines.

564
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,240
And it took a while for people to realize that the character that you're actually playing,

565
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,240
every time they die, they die.

566
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:34,040
You're not you.

567
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,560
You're just a faceless.

568
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,480
I know that you're coming back in the same gear and everything, but look past that.

569
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:43,800
The person that you're coming back as isn't, isn't your character.

570
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:44,280
Isn't you.

571
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:44,520
Yeah.

572
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,200
They are, they are a different person.

573
00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:46,840
And I find that-

574
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,520
You are a drone in the system.

575
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:53,880
I find that interesting in, in terms of like lead character.

576
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,440
Because it is you.

577
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:04,040
And when you really get into the role play of it, which so many people did.

578
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:04,680
Yeah.

579
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:05,560
Absolutely fantastic.

580
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,760
We saw a few at Comic-Con, didn't we?

581
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:08,920
Yeah.

582
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:09,880
Dressed up as Helldivers.

583
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:10,440
Yeah.

584
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:11,880
It is its own little like-

585
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:15,720
Well, just seeing the clips of people like becoming the best voice actors in the world

586
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:18,920
because their character is going to die and stuff.

587
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:23,080
Like, and it means nothing because you do just respawn, but it's not called respawning.

588
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,440
No, it's reinforcements.

589
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:25,240
Reinforcements.

590
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:31,320
And it's, it's, it's just seeing people evolve into,

591
00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:35,880
into these amazing actors because they've suddenly fucking-

592
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:36,680
Commitment to the bit.

593
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:36,920
Yeah.

594
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,880
They got on attachment to their fucking, to their character.

595
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,280
And if it dies, it's like, no, you're going to fucking die.

596
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:42,520
Yeah.

597
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,240
I, I, I like that shit.

598
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:52,200
Um, and Helldivers 2 definitely made everyone do that, but I can only speak so much on that

599
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:56,760
sort of category of best lead because I just haven't played that much this year.

600
00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,360
I can't think again, I can't think of a lot that's come out this year.

601
00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:01,480
That's come out this year.

602
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:05,480
That's been dedicated to having like individual lead characters.

603
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,160
Like I'd say playing Thorne, but I look at the character and go,

604
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,520
no, he's pretty throwaway.

605
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,840
Generic white male with, you know, powers.

606
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:15,720
Superpowers.

607
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:21,000
Like, yeah, you know, he's got personality and he's got backstory and trauma and everything,

608
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:26,760
but it ultimately hits that, oh, you know, generic white male in media, you know,

609
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:32,200
dark background and all that bollocks that it's not, you know, it's not like, I dunno,

610
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:37,800
Arthur Morgan from Red Dead 2 was a good character with, you know, fleshed out and,

611
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,680
or, you know, obviously,

612
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:41,480
Joel and Ellie.

613
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:47,160
Joel and Ellie and like Geralt or, you know, you look back to older, older, um,

614
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:50,280
games that have been out and trying to think of a few.

615
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:51,080
Snake.

616
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:51,320
Yes.

617
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:52,040
Snake.

618
00:25:52,040 --> 00:26:00,120
And, um, like even like Commander Shepard or from Mass Effect or

619
00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:01,160
Desmond Miles.

620
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,160
Master Chief from like Halo, Desmond Miles, you know,

621
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:06,200
There's loads.

622
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,080
Their list is absolutely endless of characters.

623
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,160
There's so many, but again, this year so far, I don't feel like there's,

624
00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:19,320
you know, maybe when, um, AC Shadows comes out that, you know,

625
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:23,880
they might be interesting lead characters, but I know it's meant to be like the duo rather than.

626
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:25,560
Yeah, Suki and Naoe.

627
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,920
That, you know, is that going to be one of them is going to be better than the other?

628
00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:35,720
Because even, even like in the last couple of Assassin's Creed games where they say like,

629
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:43,800
you know, pick between, um, Cassandra or Alexios and, or pick the gender of Aval, like, you know,

630
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:48,840
you know, even though I wouldn't say they're fantastic lead characters.

631
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:50,440
No, no.

632
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:52,680
Yeah, agreed.

633
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,120
I mean, Assassin's Creed Mirage was fucking, or Basim.

634
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:56,920
Basim.

635
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,800
Wasn't a bad, um, a bad lead character.

636
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:00,840
Was it this year?

637
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:01,720
Basim, yeah.

638
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:02,520
Was it?

639
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:03,160
Yeah.

640
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,200
I just fucking.

641
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:07,160
Non-believer.

642
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:07,720
Non-believer.

643
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:08,440
Don't believe me.

644
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:09,160
No, I believe you.

645
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,120
I just, the way I didn't play it and it didn't really appeal to me.

646
00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:14,120
It didn't appeal to many people because it was shit.

647
00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:15,960
So, you know, it just fucking came and went.

648
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,240
Like a lot of games that just come and go and it's like, oh, there was an Assassin's

649
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,240
Creed release this year and there's going to be another one.

650
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,960
Much like with best lead character, best antagonist.

651
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,240
I ain't got a fucking clue.

652
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,160
Yeah, I haven't got the scoop here.

653
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:27,640
Who's.

654
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:28,760
Best antagonist.

655
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:31,080
Fucking hell.

656
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,760
I can't even think, like even.

657
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:34,760
Best antagonist.

658
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:39,560
Who would be a best antagonist in any game currently or in recent time?

659
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:44,840
I can't even think because even though like, is it is that a collective group?

660
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,640
Because it's like going back to like Mass Effect, you could turn around and say the

661
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:53,160
Reapers or the elusive man, you know, they're antagonists, but are they the best?

662
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:55,080
You know, they're definitely up there.

663
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:55,640
Yeah.

664
00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:00,840
Because I don't feel like I've known in a long time, you know, maybe say technically.

665
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,720
Abby is an antagonist, but also a lot of people are antagonists.

666
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:09,800
Abby is an antagonist, but also a lead.

667
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,080
Yeah.

668
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:11,240
Yeah.

669
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:14,840
Because she's an antagonist for the first half and then so it changes.

670
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:21,640
But then even in games like that, like the original last of us, was there a true antagonist?

671
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,920
I know there was like that David guy who.

672
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:25,880
Not really.

673
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,400
Tries to get hold of Ellie and.

674
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:27,640
Yeah.

675
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:28,120
No.

676
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:34,440
And you know, yeah, it's good emphasis on an evil character, but sometimes antagonists

677
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:40,520
in games are very sort of quite two dimensional that, you know, you know, they're the big bad

678
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:41,960
and they're, they're meant to be expendable.

679
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:43,480
They're there to serve a purpose.

680
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:44,760
They're there to serve a purpose.

681
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:45,400
They're not there.

682
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,960
Like I'm trying to think of someone.

683
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:48,360
I think.

684
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,040
Almost like Hatham from AC3.

685
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:53,160
Yeah.

686
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,080
Where technically he's a good guy.

687
00:28:55,080 --> 00:29:00,920
Well, you start, he's a lead and then he turns into a villain and then, you know,

688
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:06,440
you see both sides of it because I feel like the best thing for antagonists is seeing the

689
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,280
reality of their decisions and understanding why they're a villain.

690
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:13,640
You know, maybe for other games like Dutch.

691
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:15,400
Far Cry.

692
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:15,800
Five.

693
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:17,960
Which one was five?

694
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,080
The one with, I had to Google it, Joseph Seed.

695
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,200
That was the one where.

696
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:25,240
Was that the American one?

697
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,200
The American one in like.

698
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,440
I feel like Far Cry does it.

699
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,640
I feel like Far Cry does villains well, to be fair.

700
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,400
Far Cry does do villains very well.

701
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,040
Three.

702
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:41,320
Joseph Seed was like the crazy preacher man that fucking wanted everyone to go to Rapture.

703
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:41,480
Yeah.

704
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:46,120
Because then you had the guy, the one that Troy Baker voiced, the one that was in like Asia.

705
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,840
I feel like he was a decent villain.

706
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:49,240
Yeah.

707
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,720
I didn't play the game, but I feel like he was a decent villain.

708
00:29:51,720 --> 00:30:00,440
And then the one before that, that was on the island, like with the Hispanic or whichever it was.

709
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,280
I forget his name, but he was a good villain.

710
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,480
But then it all, the game got a bit weird at that point anyway.

711
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,520
Far Cry five was, oh, that was so good.

712
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:14,040
But then maybe you could say also like God of War Ragnarok.

713
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,560
But again, it's not this year.

714
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,800
So like Odin and Thor.

715
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:23,560
But again, I'm still waiting for that game to come out on PC so I can bloody play it.

716
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:24,200
Yeah.

717
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,520
But even then you query on Thor.

718
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:28,520
Odin, yes.

719
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:30,040
It's hard to say.

720
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:37,240
I feel like certain game media on villains is a lot more difficult than sort of films and movies.

721
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:44,520
Because if you want to talk about a good antagonist, you go like Negan from Walking Dead.

722
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:45,800
100%.

723
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:50,360
But even then he turned antagonist into fucking good character.

724
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:50,600
Yeah.

725
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:58,680
So can you think of someone who's actually just a genuinely good antagonist and stays the Joker?

726
00:30:58,680 --> 00:30:59,320
Yeah.

727
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:00,920
A very good antagonist.

728
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:01,720
Done very well.

729
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:08,520
But someone that is just straight up a dick, but a very good dick.

730
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:10,760
The best dick.

731
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:12,600
Oh, the best dick.

732
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:14,360
Big, tasty, slender dick.

733
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:15,960
Who's...

734
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,320
Save that for the Patreon.

735
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,760
Who's taking that old fucking big wombo?

736
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:22,920
Mumbo number five.

737
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:26,920
Yeah, it's hard to say for, especially for this year as well,

738
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,440
because I can't feel like there's that many games that have come out with good villains.

739
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:37,960
I think the best antagonist has got to be someone who makes you genuinely hate them as well.

740
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:38,200
Yeah.

741
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,840
Not like how Ash would be like, oh, I love them because he wants to be the bad guy and

742
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,600
fucking everything with them.

743
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:49,080
No, someone where they genuinely make you seethe at the telly or PC or whatever.

744
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,080
Like, I fucking hate you.

745
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:52,120
Yeah, like what they do with...

746
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:57,720
That's what I kind of lent with when they did Abby, because in those moments you're like,

747
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,080
I fucking hate this person because of what they've done.

748
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,880
And then it flipped.

749
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:09,480
Like if you didn't switch to her perspective, you would always hate her.

750
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:11,400
Okay, so she's the best antagonist then.

751
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:16,520
Or no, Naughty Dog are the best antagonist there because they made us hate her for no reason.

752
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,600
There was no need for us to hate her.

753
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:20,520
It was Ellie all along.

754
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,280
Joel's the best antagonist.

755
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:22,780
Joel.

756
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:23,820
The best.

757
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:25,560
The dead antagonist.

758
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:26,200
He's a villain.

759
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:27,400
Spoilers for what the gang's been out for.

760
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:28,680
Technically is, to be fair.

761
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:32,520
What else have we got?

762
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:33,560
What was the fucking...

763
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,600
I can't think for this year so far of what's come out.

764
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,160
I can't feel of anything that's an decent antagonist.

765
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,280
Best performance and quality is Elden Ring, hands down.

766
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:43,560
Shadow of the Urch.

767
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:44,520
Long enough making it.

768
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,200
Yeah, hands down.

769
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,400
It's going to go for the best combat and gameplay as well because...

770
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,280
Yeah, there's nothing...

771
00:32:53,080 --> 00:33:01,960
I say combat, Dragon's Dogma did combat good, but the climbing and scaling and jumping around and

772
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:07,240
the team cohesion thing where all your pawns can do different things was very good.

773
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,440
But you're probably on par with Elden Ring.

774
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,880
So it's got the secret sauce in terms of fucking...

775
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,840
Elden Ring is a absolute powerhouse in any category.

776
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,000
Or Soulsborne from Soft.

777
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,720
They've got that special sauce in terms of that.

778
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,000
It's that hip-boxes man.

779
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:23,720
You're tired, mate.

780
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:24,680
Your eyes are watering.

781
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:25,720
I just had a little yawn.

782
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:27,640
Crying.

783
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:28,140
Crying.

784
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:29,800
You're looking at me and you're crying.

785
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:32,040
I just want to get this shit over with.

786
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,680
All right, all right.

787
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:35,180
Fucking...

788
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:47,160
Their gameplay and combat mechanics and the very unique ways that you can engage

789
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,880
in the game are what make it fantastic.

790
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:56,920
The only bit that I don't massively like about it is that you don't necessarily have

791
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,840
the freedom to just chop and change.

792
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,480
You have to think about what you're doing.

793
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:07,080
I mean, you can change your point system around and redelegate everything,

794
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,080
but only a limited number of times.

795
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,440
You can't keep doing it, which I find somewhat annoying.

796
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,520
Your answer for that is to just max yourself out

797
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,360
and then you can just level everything up and then you can use whatever you want.

798
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,760
But then that just takes all of the fun out of the game.

799
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:23,320
It's just long.

800
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,520
It's just a grind for something to then realise that I'm bored now.

801
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,200
Yeah, I can't be arsed.

802
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:34,520
Dragon's Dogma did do that well because you could be whatever vocations class you wanted to be.

803
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,360
The only problem is you had to level them up.

804
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,560
So if you were a really good fighter and then you all of a sudden want to be the wizard,

805
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,440
or the sword, whatever it is, you had to level that up.

806
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,960
So if you were in a tough area, you were just going to get stomped.

807
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:51,080
But ultimately you had that freedom to chop and change.

808
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:55,400
So I appreciate when games allow that, that you can go,

809
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,680
well, you can re-spec for free or if you don't like it, just tab out,

810
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,320
take your points out of it and re-spec them.

811
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:06,840
I forget what game it was recently that I was playing or a recent release that...

812
00:35:07,720 --> 00:35:08,600
Was it Entralled?

813
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,000
Yeah, Entralled allowed you to go back.

814
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,360
I think that was literally what I was thinking of.

815
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,760
Entralled allowed you to go back and if you didn't like your

816
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:19,160
layout of your skill tree, you could go back for very minimal and reset it.

817
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,000
I think you had to pace something towards it.

818
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,040
But yeah, you could do it as many times as you wanted.

819
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,000
It wasn't an issue.

820
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,920
It offers up the freedom of choice in playthroughs that means you're not

821
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:35,240
fucking locked in and don't need to start a new one or load an old save,

822
00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:39,560
which works well for people who don't have a lot of time to focus on video games.

823
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:45,720
I don't want to have to go back and scrap my level 60, 70 fucking character to

824
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,160
then start fresh because I fucked up the build.

825
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:54,760
I've had it before in Elden Ring where I decided to change to a Faith and Dex build

826
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,280
and I just didn't like it.

827
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:57,720
I did not like it.

828
00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:02,600
So I was like, well, I've put in all the effort to change everything and then change the weapons

829
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,200
and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

830
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,920
And now I don't like it because I liked what I liked before.

831
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,680
So now I've got to fucking change it all back to what it used to be and fucking 12.

832
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,280
So it's too much of a cost.

833
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,360
It's too much aggro to do that.

834
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,480
But yeah, that Elden Ring takes the fucking...

835
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,280
takes the old slice of cake or that fucking hell.

836
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:21,320
It's going to be...

837
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:22,520
I feel like it's going to...

838
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,000
Unless something comes and blows out of the water.

839
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,760
I know it can't necessarily get Game of the Year, but it probably could get Game of the

840
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,200
Year under Shadow of the Erd tree specific.

841
00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:35,000
I don't know.

842
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,200
Can I do...

843
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:37,160
That's what I mean.

844
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,120
I don't know if they can.

845
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:42,840
I don't know if they can, but I feel like it would be an easy one to say, well, yeah,

846
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,120
it's probably going to be that.

847
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,600
Can I DLC?

848
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,040
There we go.

849
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,000
Win Game of the Year.

850
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:50,200
Let's have a look.

851
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,000
Oh, the Elden Ring subreddit.

852
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,360
Yeah, of course.

853
00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:56,920
I could even be nominated for Game of the Year.

854
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,120
Yes, and I believe Shadow of the Erd tree will win it this year.

855
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:01,960
I'm so hyped.

856
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,360
NAR Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will win and well deserved.

857
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:09,880
Let's see.

858
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:11,720
Yes, they can.

859
00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:16,360
According to the Game Awards FAQ page, the Game Awards recognises that many games are

860
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,920
ongoing services that evolve over time with new content, features and improvements.

861
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,520
Games released in previous years are eligible in all reward categories,

862
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:26,680
all award categories, sorry.

863
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,480
So long as the jury feels their inclusion is merited due to new content,

864
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,560
improvements or service updates.

865
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:39,240
In addition, the best ongoing game category specifically recognises titles that continue

866
00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:42,360
to provide value to customers.

867
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:48,120
Best ongoing game is No Man's Sky, hands down is the best ongoing game.

868
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,920
Yeah, because they haven't stopped since they released.

869
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:54,360
Haven't stopped and every single update they've done has been free.

870
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:59,480
However, I do believe that if Elden Ring Shadow of the Erd tree is nominated for Game of the

871
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,720
Year, then it will win Game of the Year.

872
00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:05,320
Much like it did fucking last time it was nominated because the...

873
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:13,080
I don't feel this year's loadout so far has been enough to top the fact of how huge that came out.

874
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:21,480
I don't physically see how you can play that DLC and then play anything else and then think

875
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:23,080
that anything else is going to beat it.

876
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,280
I'm just flicking through now and I'm going back through even games that have dropped,

877
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:33,240
that have come out so far that I'm looking through and going there's nothing on here that can

878
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:36,280
stand up to it and there's an assortment on here.

879
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,520
You know, even while I'm in May now, I'm back in June.

880
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:42,520
I just lost it.

881
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:51,160
You know, Destiny 2 Final Shape, Star Wars Hunters, but that's again a mobile game.

882
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:55,160
Crap God.

883
00:38:55,160 --> 00:39:04,520
Crap God. The Elden Ring Shadow of the Erd tree, July, Final Fantasy, blah blah blah.

884
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:11,640
Even then Once Human, like that wasn't enough.

885
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:16,200
And then some of it's weird because some of the list is games that have already been out

886
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:20,520
and they're releasing on certain platforms like it's just said here Darkest Dungeon 2,

887
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,280
PS5, PS4, Switch.

888
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:26,840
I don't think that I don't know if that counts though if it's just being released on.

889
00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:29,960
Yeah, that's what I mean where it gets a little bit awkward.

890
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,320
Star Wars Bounty Hunter, today.

891
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:43,560
Star Wars Outlaws, but then it's received a lot of fucking bad, bad, bad criticism from its latest

892
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:47,880
like gameplay and shit where it just doesn't look what was promised.

893
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:52,680
Which Ubisoft, that's unlike Ubisoft to do that.

894
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:57,080
Back at it again, August 30th Star Wars Outlaws currently apparently.

895
00:39:59,080 --> 00:39:59,960
Yeah, it's close.

896
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,240
Even I'm not even that interested.

897
00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:03,960
Not really.

898
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:09,800
Like I do like Star Wars and I very much enjoyed the Cal Kestis saga so far.

899
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:16,680
Fallen Order and whatever it is.

900
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,160
Jedi Survivor.

901
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:26,040
Enjoyed them but I haven't followed Outlaws at all and it's not because it's a woman but just

902
00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,480
because you know it's not really appealed.

903
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,360
Yeah, it doesn't interest you.

904
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:33,640
There's other things that I've known.

905
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,960
I'd wonder if it would be day one on Game Pass because then you just fucking buy Game Pass

906
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:40,760
and then play that.

907
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:41,880
Yeah, probably.

908
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:42,920
Make life a lot easier.

909
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:47,000
September Space Marine 2.

910
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:49,160
Yes please.

911
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:53,880
No knowledge on Space Marine.

912
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:54,440
It's co-op.

913
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,680
It has a co-op function.

914
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,360
Isn't it, it's quite gory isn't it?

915
00:40:58,360 --> 00:40:59,000
Yes.

916
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,080
I think I saw the trailer for it.

917
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:05,880
Essentially they released Space Marine 1 was what I played across when I was on holiday.

918
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,560
Is that your most anticipated?

919
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:13,320
I feel so far I feel like for the rest of this year it probably is my most anticipated because...

920
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:14,040
When does that come out?

921
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,800
September 9th.

922
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:20,280
September 9th.

923
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,800
Basically you go around being a big super power human.

924
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:28,120
You don't have like super powers in terms of you can shoot fucking lightning out your bollocks but

925
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:29,320
you're...

926
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,400
The best superpower ever lightning out my nutsack.

927
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:39,400
But you're transhuman so you've been genetically modified to be faster, stronger,

928
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,400
fucking more durable and you're just a super soldier and you go around killing the emperor's enemies.

929
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:50,040
And this time it's a big Xenos invasion by the Tyranids who are basically like a bug,

930
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,240
insectoid swarmage.

931
00:41:53,240 --> 00:42:01,960
The last game basically you started you were Captain Titus of the Ultramarines, the blue ones.

932
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:09,480
Then the big blueberry smurfs and you were fighting orcs on whatever planet and then it turns out

933
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,240
there was a chaos invasion then you're fighting chaos space marines which are basically the

934
00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:20,360
inverse of you but they've got like fuckery going on like mystic mind powers and fucking whatever.

935
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,400
Yeah well mystic megs have come down and get fucked up.

936
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,040
Yeah and there was a big chaos plot line so I don't know what the follow-up in this one's

937
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:35,000
gonna be but there was co-op in the last game and there's gonna be co-op in this game both

938
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:42,760
as a onslaught style one I think which is a one to three player co-op campaign but also a 6v6.

939
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,080
This is a trailer for one of the weapons.

940
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:55,000
Yeah so there should be yeah they're doing customization as well so you can make your

941
00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:01,000
little man and I imagine they'll do like loyalists versus traitors so they'll do chaos versus

942
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:06,040
non-chaos so you'll be able to do customization for each they'll probably have different special

943
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:10,520
loadouts and everything but looks very gory shoot lots of stuff and kill things basically

944
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:17,160
basically just looks like like left for dead type shit sort of I feel like um the game didn't

945
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,360
necessarily the first game didn't necessarily play like left for dead but I imagine that the

946
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:26,840
co-op will probably play fairly similar to something left for dead it's mostly just hoard on

947
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:31,400
the slot yeah you've got objective you've probably got objectives and mission based things you need

948
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:36,760
to do but it'll be this is massive speculation because I'm I'm loosey goosey following it but I

949
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,520
know I'm gonna play it because there's no point me being like oh I'm gonna probably will then

950
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:45,240
I'm gonna learn every trailer and everything but it probably we can probably get a few people

951
00:43:45,240 --> 00:43:50,440
because I imagine my power is gonna want to or might play it Sam if you're wondering why we're

952
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:54,600
not talking about the best console is because I can't be asked simple as that I can't bother

953
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:59,640
because the best console who fucking knows it's gonna well it would just be steam fucking you know

954
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:05,080
but it would be it would be steam deck for it but I can't be bothered to talk about it again again

955
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:12,600
for the fucking 20th episode a combination has the best exclusives xbox is xbox and has loads of

956
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:19,000
games on it pc's the best but it's not a console yeah and steam decks the middle ground but fucking

957
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:25,560
battery shit so yeah you got switch somewhere which is the has its own thing its own little

958
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:31,800
niche with cutie games and fucking zelda so yeah if that sums it up and then if you're playing on

959
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:37,320
anything else what the fuck yeah what else would you be playing on I don't know what else would you

960
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,560
be playing on your grow up grow up and fuck your mobile phone your fucking mobile game the switch

961
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:47,240
doesn't doesn't just do cutesy games but I know I know it's definitely got the now it's improved

962
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:51,800
because they're actually putting games on it whereas before it's run at 10 frames whereas

963
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:56,360
before it was all very very specific Nintendo games so you had like animal crossing and yeah

964
00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:01,160
yeah all that you know I'm not looks I'm not that's what you want to say yeah that's what you want to

965
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:08,600
say is yeah that's what you want that's what you want no I know I know you mean I knew I

966
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,920
well a lot of my friends got switches at one point or another I didn't I didn't have anything that I

967
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:19,240
wanted to play on it so that was that it has its niche Pokemon for me Pokemon was my go-to for

968
00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:24,600
ever wanting a switch was just be able to play Pokemon on it um here you go here's the big one

969
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:32,040
for November and it's not Assassin's Creed Shadow farming sim 25 squirrel with a gun

970
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:37,480
let's go he's around there as well that's it there's literally everything else that's coming out

971
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:47,320
apart from Mario and Luigi Brothership on Switch November 7th I with the the Mario franchise um

972
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:53,000
and I I perfectly perfectly perfectly understand why everyone loves Mario now there is maybe one

973
00:45:53,000 --> 00:46:01,080
more I couldn't give a fuck about the Mario wham where you know I don't care it doesn't I don't

974
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:07,320
know the Mario extended universe I'm just not interested in it whatsoever as a as a as a kid

975
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:15,880
I very much was I just didn't grow out of it but just my interest in in Mario fucking Yoshi

976
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:23,000
Donkey Kong it all dissipated I wasn't a mar- a Nintendo kid growing up so that's that's that for

977
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:28,280
me what were you then I didn't I just didn't I basically a lot of the stuff rocks and sticks

978
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:33,640
outside yeah fucking lighter well I had a Sega and then hand me down PlayStation 1 and then that was

979
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:38,840
pretty my that was off you went PlayStation 1 2 and you have a day I didn't have a DS or anything

980
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:45,160
I think I did I have someone give me one and then didn't have a lot on it and then so I didn't play

981
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:50,040
it a lot never really had Pokemon the only times I played Pokemon was like my sister's boyfriend at

982
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:56,520
the time and then yeah he took it back off me like after he let me play the fucking Star Zone

983
00:46:56,520 --> 00:47:01,640
he was like oh yeah all right I'll have that no thanks it's pretty much see you later you got

984
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:11,480
games on your phone you got games sir yeah the uh the only other option which I only found about

985
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:20,440
about recently is Stalker 2 Heart of Chernobyl that rings a bell so Stalker came out however

986
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:27,400
fucking long ago um essentially is a follow-up of what happened in Chernobyl and the the reactor

987
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:33,560
meltdown and then it's basically post the post-apocalyptic radiation nonsense and yeah yeah I

988
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:40,120
don't really everyone rants and raves about it and it's like the proto metro games like the ones that

989
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:46,760
were available before or the one that set the tone for that sort of like Russian-esque oh yeah I'm

990
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:52,760
looking at it now yeah there's a new one coming out apparently that I saw a thing about and I'm

991
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:57,160
interested because an upcoming first-person shooter survival horror video game developed and published

992
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:03,640
by Ukrainian game developer GSC um GSC game world it will be the fourth game released in the Stalker

993
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:09,400
video game series as well as the first Stalker blah blah blah blah blah blah blah will Stalker

994
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:15,400
2 ever come out available November 20th but yeah if it plays anything like the metro games which I

995
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:22,040
massively enjoyed yeah that I'll be up for it so if you let me shoot mutants and fucking

996
00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:29,160
irradiated people with an ak then yeah I'm up for it um final one no building mechanics no

997
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:34,920
building thank fuck final one most anticipated for the second half of 2024 I think I've covered

998
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:42,280
that what are you what are you looking for the war within hands down the next dlc the next expansion

999
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:49,320
for world of warcraft um and it is uh Chris Metzen's it's the Chris Metzen expansion um who

1000
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:54,200
is the law father of world of warcraft who left for a period and that's when everything went to

1001
00:48:54,200 --> 00:49:01,640
shit and now he's come back and that is where you have the world saga um the world soul saga uh where

1002
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:09,560
they um uh blizzcon or whatever they announced like the next four expansions which they've never

1003
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:14,600
done and they're running with the idea that they will be a little bit shorter but release quicker

1004
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:22,680
so yeah the first edition of that is the war within um and it just looks very fucking good

1005
00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:27,480
man dragonfly it was sick definitely had a resurgence in wow because of that they're doing

1006
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:33,640
us so much with a game with classic um seasons of discovery there's talks of classic plus coming

1007
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:39,720
about and all this all this testing bollocks so they're actively trying to pull more people in by

1008
00:49:39,720 --> 00:49:48,280
doing new and unique things and then yeah just with the war within the um the shit that they're

1009
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:55,080
doing for new and returning players is so much better than what they've done previously and the

1010
00:49:55,080 --> 00:50:00,360
way that they're making the game is just so much more fun and enjoyable for people who don't have

1011
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:05,560
hours and hours and hours yeah and it's a nice reset from what they're doing because they're

1012
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:13,320
coming away from um from dragonfly there it's the beginning of a new story almost but at the same

1013
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:18,520
time it's harping on from old shit that's happened that even i fucking missed out on because i won't

1014
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:25,400
plan at the time um is it enough to bring me back well it's world of warcraft is actually completely

1015
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:31,240
free all of it including all the expansions until the fourth of august so you've got two days

1016
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:36,760
completely i think i've already got all that bollocks anyway yeah probably probably so it

1017
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:41,960
doesn't help me but for anyone else who wants to come play with race and have them scream at you

1018
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:46,440
no point right towards the end of the expansion with the new one coming out in a fucking month

1019
00:50:46,440 --> 00:50:57,640
there's absolutely no point in in trying to jump in or there is but i don't know to be fair maybe

1020
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:02,280
because at least that way that way in terms of dungeons and raids and things like that they're

1021
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:08,280
all completely brand new so you could almost jump back in catch up get your bearings sort of figure

1022
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:12,680
out what's going on and then the next expansion comes out and then you can play that and then you

1023
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:17,480
know what's going on straight away with that expansion there's still lore involved there

1024
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:23,080
that you won't fucking understand in terms of story however the zones and everything else the

1025
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:31,800
the crafting systems and all of that shit would all be brand new to everyone um so yeah i suppose

1026
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,160
i suppose i'll take that back it probably is a good time to jump in now because everything you're

1027
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:40,680
doing right now doesn't fucking matter so you don't need to be overwhelmed because it literally

1028
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:45,000
it literally doesn't matter it's not it's not like when we first played it and i said none

1029
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,640
none of the old dlc's like expansions matter and you just got to get to the end one dragonfly

1030
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:54,200
well now the end one's fucking over it really doesn't matter they've made it a lot quicker to

1031
00:51:54,200 --> 00:52:01,800
level up um and it i feel like it would just give you time to really figure out what is going on

1032
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:06,840
and then not get overwhelmed because like i say if i throw this currency at you this fucking mechanic

1033
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:12,520
this thing and that thing it it doesn't so fast about that it's more like i don't want to go into

1034
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:17,240
raids and shit oh we just did it the wrong way this guy's fucking shit he doesn't know what he's

1035
00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:21,400
doing like yeah i don't know what i'm doing we did we did the wrong way we rushed it too much

1036
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:25,560
fucking bum rush through it boys i don't know what i'm doing yeah we did it far we did it far too

1037
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:32,760
quick i've i have since learned um to honor a different way of leveling up and that is just

1038
00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:37,000
through leveling up through different zones rather than just spam in dungeons because you learn your

1039
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:41,560
class so much better um and you get to actually enjoy a lot of the zones which is what i'm

1040
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:47,160
currently doing um and i feel like if you were to come back that's exactly what we would do we would

1041
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:52,360
make different characters i wouldn't recommend that you make a tank class either because of just

1042
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:59,640
how much responsibility there is involved on that same with a healer be a fucking dps and then just

1043
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:04,600
roll through but yeah now would probably be a decent time to jump back in just because of that

1044
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:09,560
reason that it's not so overwhelming but that is the that is the thing that i'm anticipating

1045
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:14,520
because you won't stop fucking talking about it he's so excited i'm just ready for it he's ready

1046
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:18,520
for it he's just ready for it because also the guild comes back because everyone's on hiatus

1047
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:22,360
everyone's doing other things yeah because they don't need to be playing because there's no

1048
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:26,760
they already finished all the content in one month there's no goal to achieve here no one's

1049
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:32,680
interested i mean unless you're like proper hardcore for it no one's no one's wanting it so

1050
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:39,240
now is is just alt testing let me make a character i've never played before it doesn't matter and

1051
00:53:39,240 --> 00:53:45,640
that's exactly what i'm doing i'm just trying to find what i want to main for for this expansion um

1052
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:52,600
and yeah that's that that's that biggest letdown for you so far this year oh shit yeah on a on an

1053
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:59,240
end note because mine was probably dragon's dogma i enjoyed it but it took a very it took a lot of

1054
00:53:59,240 --> 00:54:05,720
effort for me to get out of that like initial fucking walking sim stage where biggest letdown

1055
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:10,840
and yeah and then obviously i was like oh i realized now that i'm hitting end game and i need a lot

1056
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:17,160
more shit and i can't be asked and i haven't gone back since and i've since bought a lot of older

1057
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:21,960
games on steam sale and wanted to play them instead you know i really don't know what the biggest

1058
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:30,040
letdown is i really don't know the last of us part two remastered because it just wasn't required

1059
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:33,800
it just taking the wasn't needed it's just a fucking money grab that was pointless what a

1060
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:38,520
fucking waste of time there was absolutely no need for that ever there you go there's your biggest

1061
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:44,440
fucking shitter there's your biggest shitter right well thanks sam for the suggestions thank you it's

1062
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:49,000
very good mate you've got a whole episode out of it love that dedicated to you big boy thanks see

1063
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,040
you later