Go on then mum, set us in, set the tail.
Am I on?
You're on, get us involved.
I don't know how I can top last week's with Darryl.
It was good, wasn't it?
I feel like I should hang my mic up.
No, definitely not.
I should take it on full time.
I, um, I both hate the fact of running a podcast and then us having to, well, I love,
I love having different people on the podcast.
I also hate not having you on the podcast.
Oh, that's sweet.
I also love it at the same time because I feel like there's, there's a, there's a gap in between.
So then we have even more to talk about because I don't know if you're aware,
ladies and gentlemen, me, me and Ash, we used to ring each other almost every single day.
And then we started doing a podcast and all communication stopped.
Every ounce of communication just ceased because we were like, we'll save it for the pod
radio silence.
So, and so unless we meet up on the podcast together, there's no conversation.
So that time when we had like a month's worth of a gap,
didn't see or talk to each other for a month.
And we still talk about normal stuff.
And then we realized, hold on, we saved the normal stuff for Patreon.
So we better off just not talking at all.
Yeah.
We'll just leave that that, um, that patron episode with Darrell was, uh, absolutely fantastic.
It was the best.
It was very enthralling.
Best I've heard.
I was, I was just interesting.
Glued.
Yeah.
If you, if you, if you're not aware, obviously we run a fucking patron alongside this where
we do a 30, 30 minutes plus.
Was definitely over for, it was like an hour.
Yeah.
It was longer than the main episode.
I think the longest patron we've done was like an hour and 12 minutes or some shit like that.
But yeah, every week we do an exclusive after this, um, patreon.com forward slash
what's the buttons, I believe.
Um, and yeah, Darrell, uh, who was on last week's episode did the patron with us and
he was in the army, um, and did close protection and all sorts of crazy shit.
So we were just talking about that, like in depth, but at the same time, I love that he was like,
look, I've signed an NDA.
Like I can only talk about so much.
And it was just very, very interesting.
I completely forgot in the moment that we was doing a podcast because obviously I talked
to Darrell and I know you do a hell of a lot.
We played D and D with the gaze.
You know what I mean?
Like we, we do a lot of stuff outside of the pods and work and all that shit.
Um, so we've spoken a hell of a lot about, about all of his stories and shit, but every
single time we talk about it, it's just so interesting.
Even the shit that I already know, it's just mega interesting.
I almost feel bad that that was a patron episode because so many people won't get to hear about
at the same time.
I like that it's the locks behind her behind a paywall because if to me, it just felt like
a bit of gold.
So it was very interesting that if you're going to pay for Patreon, that's probably the
only episode worth listening to and then I'd cancel because everything else is just about
poo piss and ice cream.
It was decent though.
It was good.
If there, if there's, um, that's definitely the one for way later down the line, if we
ever have, cause what we do every now and then is if for whatever reason, we can't actually
record a podcast episode, we throw out one of the patrons.
We throw out one of the patron episodes from months, months before, um, just sort of give
people a taste of it's called patron for the people.
So that is definitely on there for the fucking contender wherever in the, in the future,
whenever, um, if we have to call upon an episode to tide people over, that is 100% the episode
we're going with.
100% fantastic.
I listened to it again.
I've listened to it twice as well.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Uh, as soon as it come out and you said, oh, I'm mad episode.
So I listened to that.
And then I was talking to geysers at work about it and they were interested.
So I popped it on, on the way home and we listened to it again.
And I was just as enthralled as last time.
Yeah, it's very good.
Very good.
Well done, Darrell, you fucking prick.
And now I'll text him saying that was sick.
Very good.
Well done, man.
And then I listened to the Monday of so where he digged me out about a couple of things
and then I just say, you fat ginger cunt.
What's that?
I take it all back.
So he did say, so I asked text me, you weren't happy.
I said, yeah, I know.
You got to take the shots, man.
Big enough to give it big enough to take it.
How's, um, oh, fucking Lego D and D figures released, released the other day.
We were eager for them.
Yeah.
I've ordered 12.
Have you?
Yes.
Wow.
It's she won't hear this because obviously this will come out on Monday, but it's our
minus death anniversary tomorrow.
Congratulations.
And how long?
Six years.
And she obviously likes D and D and boulders gate and things like that.
And obviously where we play it.
And once I saw yours, obviously we all knew that we was all going to get them eventually.
And I was like, you know what?
Fuck it.
Let me buy 12, six for her, six for me.
If I fucking get one that she's got vice versa, then we can have a little swapsie
and then see, see who's got what.
But, um, fucking kudos to you for not getting a replica.
I mean, did you buy six?
Yeah.
So there's 12 to get.
I bought six and I only wanted three of them.
And I bagged the three that I wanted out of the six that I got, which was mental.
I can't believe it.
So I opened the first, I think, I think I opened the first two and they were Jaff rubbish.
Didn't want them.
Well, I mean, they're fine, but I didn't want them.
And, uh, no, it was the first one, I think.
And then I said to Jim, I was like, look, you open one and I'll tell you what one I want.
And originally I just said, I want the mind flare and she opened it and she was like,
oh no, sorry.
I was like, all right, don't worry.
And then she was like, oh, I really want to see you be happy.
I want to open it and see your happiness.
So I said, uh, we'll do some more of them.
She's like, no, I don't want to.
I was like, all right.
So I opened the next one.
I was like, you look for me.
And she went, I was like, yes, gas got the mind flare.
So happy.
And then I said, ah, she's like, oh, now I'm sad because I want the, now there's no excitement.
I was like, no, cause I want these two as well.
She banged the next two out.
Doesn't matter what the last one is.
Yeah.
Done.
So yeah, I was well happy with that.
The odds of that mad free, uh, the 12, I will, I will be using whatever I get next week at
fucking D and D 100%.
I'll bring my mind flare.
I'll bring ranches for companionship, but I've got my figure.
I just need to, uh, get Connor to glue it for start.
Yeah, I ain't fucking glued any of mine together or anything.
I literally just need them to glue it to the basis.
Done.
Is it not painted?
No, I don't care about painting it.
I don't need painting, bro.
I might leave it there for Connor to paint, but yeah, you don't need paint.
You can sort this out.
Darrell's painting his figures at the moment.
You know, Darrell's a fucking loser.
Yeah.
He done army shit, but he's a fucking loser.
He is a loser.
Let's have it right.
He's a big, big sweaty nerd.
He's just sitting in his room, oh fucking trees, I'm such a tree geezer.
And then he's painting figures cause he's got nothing else to do.
We went into, um, nerd base and that guy, it was quite busy in there.
He let out the biggest fart in front of all these people upstairs where there's
absolutely no soundproofing whatsoever.
I was like, you fucking animal.
There's only three things that geezer cares about.
And the, and the, all of these words, not his words, but this is how he says it.
So it'd be guns, testicles and puss.
That's all that geezer cares about.
He doesn't give a fuck if he's farting in front of a bunch of nerds.
He's so funny.
And I ate my's.
That's what I'm looking forward to.
Getting him to do that little run that he does.
That's fucking hilarious.
That is.
It should be good, man.
I'm fucking, um, space Marines too.
Yeah.
I was looking at that.
Yeah.
Early, early access or early release was yesterday, day before for NA and all that
shit, but Europe was yesterday and that releases on Monday, Tuesday.
Before it was out, man.
No, yes.
Out early.
Like if you paid the big edition, you got four days early.
So you can buy the big edition now and get it.
Yeah.
If you wanted to spell it, it's 85 quid or something like that.
Why are you looking at that?
No, I'm not buying it.
You're not buying it.
I will do, but not now.
I'm torn because it's cross play between Xbox and PC, not on PlayStation.
Everyone that's playing at the moment, um, IE Connor and Jay and his mate are on PC and Xbox.
Well, fuck Connor.
Fuck Jay.
I'm torn as to what I'm going to fucking grab it on.
Are you asking me if I'm getting it?
Is that what we're getting at?
Yeah.
That's the question.
Yeah.
Because the thing is like with, with, with Connor, I work with him five days a week.
You've had enough of him.
Most of the time I sit with him.
Yeah.
You've had enough of him.
Just say it.
You don't need to skirt around.
Sometimes I am sick of him.
There's sometimes in the morning where he hasn't even said anything to me and I just
look at him.
I go, you're already pissing me off.
Yeah.
That's just, I'm open with him about it.
I just say to him, I go, you're annoying me.
I don't know why, but you are just annoying me and he accepts it and he annoys me even
more.
That's friendship.
That's how, that's what happens.
You, you, you're with each other all the time.
You just like, I love this guy.
He's a geezer.
I love him dearly.
And then he'll just move in a certain way and you'll be like, well, that fucked me off.
Yeah, literally.
You'll scratch his head and you'll be like, why'd you do it like that?
You fucking idiot.
But you won't say that.
He borrowed some petrol out of the van and put the can back empty and I fucking livid.
Exactly.
It had no consequence to my day whatsoever, but I was still annoyed about it.
I was like, you fucking dirty cunt.
That's just how it goes, bro.
So yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do.
I haven't actually looked at a whole lot of, of space Marines because I just know I'm going
to buy it.
I know I'm going to buy it.
It looks really good.
It's got some amazing reviews and, um, what all I've seen of it, and this hasn't been
but what I get from it is I've heard that it's a 10 hour campaign.
So not too, too big.
Um, which is fine.
And normally gangs like that.
I'm like, yeah, I'll, I'll get it.
But, you know, it's pretty short, but when I look at that, all I see is gears of war.
So I just see sick gears of war multiplayer.
And I think is that, is there legs in that they've done a big roadmap of like loads of
shit for DLC or and all sorts of stuff.
So it's got a lot of legs and it's got good reviews.
So unfortunately not cross play between everyone.
That's going to hurt the multiplayer part of it, which is disappointing.
But I don't think they've ruled that out.
I don't think they've, they've, if the multiplayer is popping off and they need to bang that
because this can very quickly fill the niche that, uh, that helldivers two has left.
Cause people are jumping.
This is, this is what I was going to say is that I saw, um, a little meme of someone,
uh, it was like, we're going to let super earth burn.
And then they were like playing helldivers and they just closed the game, uninstalled
it and then open space.
I was like, that's exactly what's going to happen.
There's only one reason and one reason alone why I haven't already bought the super duper
version of this game.
And that is because once I go into this, I'm not going to be interested in black myth,
Wukong, boulders, gay, Dungeons and Dragons.
I'm going to be like, let's fucking play war.
Am I boys?
Yeah.
It's going to, I know, I know.
And even more so that gets me more hype for it as well is you just know that Henry
Cavill is just sitting there banging it out.
You know what I mean?
You just know that he is fucking know.
And if that, if that geezer, if Superman is fucking nerding that out, the witcher is
nerding that out, then he's, he's our, um, our almighty leader.
He is the leader of the nerds.
Man.
If, if, if there is a God, then it is Henry Cavill.
Simple as that.
The fact that that geezer missed the fucking call to be Superman because he was playing
world of warcraft.
You know what I mean?
I don't, he's a Donny.
He is the man.
He, um, he is everything that I wish I was.
And unfortunately I'm not, but yeah, ironically I was in a shop, uh, vape shop the other day.
Um, and it's a vape show.
I haven't been in a long time, but last time I was in there, he was kind of like mainly
vape.
So he's advertised as a vape shop.
It's called the vape shops.
But he just sold so many Pokemon cards and shit in there.
Um, and when I was into Pokemon, I was in there looking at his cards, talking to him
for far longer than my lotted lunch break.
Um, to be honest with you, but, um, yeah, uh, I did him on Pokemon go with friends on
there.
And I haven't been in there in so long, like two years, I think it was.
And then I went in there the other day, all the Pokemon stuff's gone.
You're selling Warhammer now.
Yeah, of course.
So now I'm in there just like, you're, you are, you're a cunt.
No, you're a cool guy.
Yeah, but a cunt at the same time.
Now I'm just looking at, you know, how expensive Warhammer is.
Oh yeah.
Do you have some of that shit?
I used to collect it when I was a kid, man.
Some of that shit is fucking mega, mega, mega, mega, mega, mega, mega.
He's got everything in there, like battleships, big battleship thing built and painted.
Like to have that, I'm going to easily spend a fortune on that stuff.
And that's why I haven't bought Warhammer.
It's dangerously scary because one of the, one of the things that we absolutely love
about collector's editions is the statues that we get from them.
That is basically Warhammer because you look at these statues and you go,
oh wow, the fucking details are amazing.
Look at this and the colors and rah rah rah.
Warhammer is that, the detailing that goes into those figures and the fucking painting
and the aesthetics and all that sort of shit.
They make some fucking mess.
The minute you get involved with that, where you actually know what you're looking at.
If you show me these figures and I actually know what they are and what they do, it's curtains.
Yep.
Bank account has a funeral.
You know what I mean?
It's just fucking ridiculous.
I'll have a look at Warhammer Space Marine on the PlayStation Store.
You know, the other episode that we did when we were talking about the star points
whatever on PlayStation where quickly like redeem them.
You know, I got like a fiver out of them.
Yeah. Fucking PlayStation Plus took that, didn't it?
No, no bastards.
So I'm not even fucking playing my PlayStation.
That's your fault as well.
Cause you was like, oh, just buy the monthly one bro.
And then just keep it running and fucking turn the PlayStation on since I bought that.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah. But then I'd know.
I told you to do that and then cancel it because you only wanted to do it for one specific
thing and you obviously haven't canceled it because you're a penis muncher.
Warhammer 240k.
Warhammer 240k Space Marine available on the 9th of the 9th.
You get it on fucking CD case for 40 quid.
No, I'm not interested in that shit.
I'm interested in the big boy.
You get the big boy edition for 60 quid.
I can't see the big boy.
Oh no, it's a PC.
Seven out of 10 on Steam.
Warhammer Space Marine 2.
There's no super duper edition on there.
Cause it might.
I don't know.
Someone.
Oh, we've got the pros and cons of we.
Here we go.
Someone's put pros impressive visuals with law, accurate art direction, the brutality
and bleakness of the 40k universe are masterfully conveyed.
Superb combat system that equally rewards skill resource conservation and the tactical
team orientated approach.
Solid variety of enemies, all of which have unique behaviors, move sets and abilities.
Bosses that evolve their move sets dynamically and are highly challenging on the harder
settings.
The 40k law is accurately trans transposed and faithful to the series canon.
Enjoyable, well written storyline compounded by plausible characters and interesting events.
And the cons AI companions aren't smart enough for complex objectives and can't be ordered
around or customized.
Balancing issues make some weapons redundant or useless.
Both of those things very easily fixable in a patch.
And then bugs and issues.
Rarely your character may be thrown in the air by bugged collisions after being hit in
melee.
And that is about it.
Content and replay value.
It took me around 16 hours to complete Space Marine 2 on angel of death difficulty with
two AI teammates taking extra time to explore all locations thoroughly after that operations
and PVP modes greatly extend the content with their high replay value.
The story is instead linear and there's no reason to replay it except achievements.
Do I recommend it?
Absolutely.
Even if you're not a 40k fan and just enjoy action games, this is a solid pick.
Even better if you have two friends to tag along.
The best experience is in co-op.
Oh my God, Darrell said he wanted to get it as well.
Did he?
Yeah, he was all over it.
Guess what game console he plays on?
Well, he barely fucking.
Well, yeah, but what?
Barely plays it, does he?
Here we go.
Visually and artistically, few games can equal the desolate beauty of Space Marine 2.
From the enormous, um, tyranid swarms laying waste to all to the iridescent distortions
of warp powers and the blasts of Cadian artillery.
Everything looks and sounds amazingly crisp.
Settings are varied and rich in detail with more than a few impressive landscapes.
Weapon sounds, dense effects and excellent voice acting only give
further emphasis to the action packed battles you'll engage in.
The gory finisher animations, different, different based on enemy faced and weapons,
weapons used add great emphasis to the destruction of tougher foes.
It looks very good.
People are saying very good things.
And then I think the I think the main campaign story and the co-op story are different.
I don't think I don't think that they're the same.
So it's got that going for it.
What are you looking at?
Just I just there's no way to buy it in in the UK.
Well, not on the PlayStation Store, no?
On any version other than the normal version.
It can't be this on the PlayStation Store, only in dollars.
When you click on it, you can't do that.
So I don't know why you can't get the good edition.
Weird.
Don't understand.
I don't know.
Well, you've only got to fucking wait.
I am an impatient fuck.
You only have to wait a weekend.
I don't want to wait a weekend.
Well, fucking tough tits.
Well, no.
You have to wait a weekend.
You got no fucking choice.
I guess I'm off next week.
So lovely, jubbly.
Yeah, you're right.
No, you can't buy the fucking the big boy edition for some reason.
I don't know why.
It's weird.
I know you can there.
Right there.
Ultra edition.
Well, how?
What?
You got the gold edition for 85.
How have you got that up on?
Because I'm not fucking stupid.
Show me.
Show me your phone.
There.
Right there.
Oh, how have you done this on the app?
Warhammer 2.
Why don't we show you every?
Look, what is it?
I'm what?
Space Marine.
Yeah, click that.
Clicked it.
Right.
Now, where it says PS5, click that.
Oh, yeah, because that's obvious.
Click the PS5 button.
Yes, of course it's obvious.
What?
So you click the PS5 button.
To literally anyone under the age of 50.
That's obvious.
Didn't know that.
Cool.
Gold edition for daily unlock.
And the smile on your face tells me that you genuinely didn't know that.
Of course I didn't.
Why would I spend the last 30 minutes doing this while you were rabbiting on?
I didn't hear a word you said, by the way.
I knew that you weren't listening.
That was more for the listeners rather than you.
And you missed out on that absolute gold reviewer shit.
I don't need to hear your shit to know that I will like it.
It's not my shit.
I was reading off of Steam.
Oh, yeah.
Ultramarine's champion pack.
What does the 95 quid one give you?
That's what I just said if you were listening.
The McCraggy?
McCrags?
McCrags chosen DLC.
He says and pass an Ultramarine's champion pack.
Get yours here today.
It looks very good.
I'm very, very excited.
What's going to happen is I'm going to get Space Marine 2 and then I'm all the way twisted back to sci-fi.
I'm like Planet Earth.
You're either in England or you're in Australia.
I'm either fantasy or I'm sci-fi.
I cannot be both at the same time.
You've been in fantasy for a while now.
Yeah, I know.
But we got Dungeons and Dragons next week.
I don't want to turn up there going, oh, I don't really care.
I just want to be on my fantasy thing.
I'm reading fantasy books.
I'm fantasy, fantasy, fantasy.
Plus, if I do that, then I'm like, oh, Star Wars again.
And then I'll be like, oh, Star Wars Outlaws.
And I'll be disappointed.
Star Wars Outlaws looks awful, doesn't it?
Although they have said they are like, they're going to sort the shit out.
Yeah, great.
That's what we wanted, wasn't it?
No, obviously not.
Fantastic from a AAA studio.
We're going to fix this.
Fantastic.
But yeah, I don't know.
I think your mileage might vary on that because I've seen a lot of people that are big Star Wars fans go,
no, this is actually really sick.
So, you know, if you just want a Star Wars game, then you might not really care.
But if you are Star Wars, you might be like, fucking hell, that's Han Solo's carbonite prison.
And be like, ah.
You got to be so careful with the fucking hate train because I feel like all it needs
is a couple of people to say something shit and then everyone snowballs and latches onto that.
And you only ever see a couple of clips because ultimately, myself included,
TikTok brain rot sets in for most people.
And we have the attention span of about 10 seconds.
So most of us won't bother watching full length reviews or live streams or any of that sort of shit
to actually see if true hands on with the game.
That's really that's a real thing, you know, because I sit there at night time.
So whenever I turn everything off, I always like what's the YouTube for them.
And I will literally put a video on for like if the video is not really interesting me
after about eight seconds, I turn it off.
Yeah.
It's mental.
And I'll skip forward through anything that's even minutely not interested in me.
It's crazy.
My attention span is gone.
Yeah, I'm actively trying to almost retrain my brain to actually fucking pay attention.
Like I've started I started watching The Walking Dead again.
God, that's a good way of doing it.
God almighty.
From the very beginning.
And I started yesterday.
And I actually put my phone across the other side of the bedroom just so I can fucking
pay attention properly because I find that I start watching the minute the minute that
I'm not remotely interested flicking on my phone, miss all of the law.
Every single little detail, all sorts of shit.
It's pathetic.
How many times did you go like that to get your phone and realize it was the other side of the room?
A couple.
Yeah.
Genuinely a couple.
It's absolutely pathetic.
Yeah, even down to sitting down having a shit.
I'm sat there for 40 minutes.
The poo was done in 30 seconds.
I'm sat there for 40 minutes because I'm fucking scrolling through TikTok.
If there's one if there's one series that does warrant looking at your phone is The
Walking Dead.
Jesus Christ, man.
There's nothing I don't think there's ever been a series like that I've given up on.
I gave up on Walking Dead.
I got to like season seven or so.
I just can't do it.
The minute the tiger rocked up.
I was like, I got further than that.
I was Eq's tiger.
I was like, yeah, no, I'm done.
Did you get to Negan?
Yeah, I got to Negan and fucking in battering Glennon and all that shit.
And then, yeah, like I say, after that fucking little pig, little pig, I just fucking switched
off, man.
I think when I was living with my mom, I think we we stopped Sky or some shit.
That's why I didn't really have a way to watch it.
And I was like, you know what?
I was like, I can't be asked anyway.
It was like, oh, here's a settlement.
We're surviving killing zombies.
And bad guy turns up.
Bad guy ruined settlement.
Yeah, exactly.
Some of us die.
It's boring.
We go and find another settlement, kill bad guy.
We're fine.
Surviving something that big.
Sometimes the acting and stuff is so bad.
So bad, bro.
Yeah, it's one of them.
I could never go back and watch it again.
Apparently, the Telltale games are really good.
Yeah, they're not.
They're not Walking Dead, though.
They're nothing to do with the Walking Dead.
They're like their own separate thing.
It's called a canon from the comics.
Oh, maybe.
But then the characters are nothing to do with the Walking Dead.
I played I played, I think, the first one of them.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's good.
Is this just a it's like the games that you like?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Pretty good.
Do you know the Rad Brad?
Sorry?
The Rad Brad on YouTube?
No.
He's one of the biggest gaming YouTube.
Oh, he's a bad actually.
The Rad Brad.
He he named his daughter after Clementine, which was the girl.
It's a very nice name.
It is.
Nice, nice name.
The Rad Brad.
I've been have you been seeing?
Have you been looking at any of the Black Ops 6 shit?
I haven't seen a thing.
I've heard of it and I just I'm just so like shut the fuck up.
I'm interested.
I'm proud of that looks so fucking sweaty and toxic and mind numbingly boring.
Oh, it just looks like it looks fucking
terrible.
Not the game itself, but I just know that it's just going to be so sweaty.
It's the same thing every time and it's like, oh, get hyped up,
Cod.
Yeah.
Oh, look, they've done this thing and wow, it's amazing.
Going comes out.
It's like shit.
And then the last one was the best game ever.
But when that came out, that was the shittest game ever.
So just I'll probably buy at some point.
I'll probably play Cod again.
But right now I've just got zero interest.
Cod is simply especially with the with the unfortunate downfall of Battlefield.
There is no other fucking alternative.
So if you want to play like a bog standard fucking first person shooter,
it's like, uh, like FIFA or fucking EA FC now and PES.
No one's playing PES, bro.
PES don't exist no more.
Exactly.
It's called This Is Football and it's a it's a constantly evolving online thing.
It's apparent, I think.
Exactly.
But there is a new football game that is being made that is supposed to rival FIFA.
But you're but you're trying to occupy a space where there's already a fucking penultimate.
I feel like there's no room.
It's a juggernaut.
Yeah.
All the licenses after 2042.
I feel like that that that battlefield just fucking so far behind.
But also they're incomparable as FPS is because just the movement alone.
Cod is so more fucking arcade arcade.
I hate Battlefield.
Almost more than any other game on the planet because I love Battlefield.
The last one come out and it was fun for a week and my ultimate game died for that.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 got canned for that.
They stopped everything for that shit.
And did they say they're gonna make a Battlefront 3?
No, they're gonna make another Battlefield.
Yeah.
I just want Star Wars Battlefront.
That's what I want.
Well, and as well, wasn't it fucking flying over the PlayStation as well?
I can't they were saying that they haven't got enough IPs or anything like that.
Fucking start remastering some shit and start making some new.
Give me Days Gone 2.
Yes, please.
When I read that article, all of the comments underneath it, that is going to every single one.
Fucking make Days Gone 2.
Why have we not done that?
Bring back Killzone.
There's your fucking.
It's just it's mainstream media, man.
They shit all over stuff.
Bring back the resistance.
You remember resistance fans love these games and they're the ones that matter.
Look at Concord.
Fuck.
Listen to fans and because they're the ones that are going to buy your stuff and then go,
oh, millions of people want Days Gone 2.
We should probably make that.
People I don't understand why no one can understand this.
Helldivers, Helldivers 2 was incredible when that first come out.
The buzz around that game and the community around it.
You felt like you was at war.
You know what I mean?
You was part of the fucking you're part of the movement there.
It's just cool.
That is just a big encompassing thing that gets players sucked into and social media
helped with that so much because and it was so fucking fun.
It was unique, man.
Yeah, very unique.
And then they did what every other fucking cunt does and they slowed down bringing out
fucking content.
Didn't bring out enough content and then when they did bring out content, it was so
fucking minute and shit and then they started nerfing guns and things like that.
So what you just did is you turn all of your player base fucking away from you and then
they had the whole shit with Sony and the PlayStation Network and not actually being
able to fucking purchase Helldivers 2 in like seventy five countries and all sorts of shit
like that and now you got Space Marine 2, which is just taking all that player base
and fucking plonk them there instead and.
No one was listening to the community there.
No one at all.
These are the people that are playing.
Yes, you've made this game.
Well done.
Fantastic.
As the player base, we're now telling you what you need to do to improve it because
we're the fucking consumer.
Listen to us.
This is what we want.
No one listens.
Game goes dead.
Fucking developers or companies, whatever.
Sony sits there and they go, oh, we don't know what's happened here.
Blah, blah, blah.
And it's the same shit with everything else.
Yes, you will sit in a screaming for certain things.
I would love another kill zone.
I fucking loved Killzone.
Absolutely fantastic.
We want another FPS.
Give me another division.
Give me another one of them.
Give me another fucking Killzone.
Give me another resistance.
Why the fuck we haven't picked that up is beyond me.
And then days gone to how much fucking money you would make with that.
But no, let's make a fucking skin, a skinning cod, a skinning fucking Fortnite.
You know, like it gets me wound up, man.
Gets me wound up, man.
I understand.
Because we're all part of the same community.
When you finally made me play Days Gone properly and Mark and anyone else that had actually played it,
brother, that is one of the best games I've ever played.
It's phenomenal.
It's a great game.
That was the first game in a very long time where I've picked that up and could not put it down.
I could not put it down and I paid attention to the story.
I paid attention to the fucking missions I was doing.
Fantastic.
And that's a game where I'd picked that up multiple times and never, never saw it through.
But then after that, brother, I was like, this is fucking incredible for that is the best zombie game I've ever played.
Days Gone was the reason I stopped listening so much to mainstream media and reviews because I booked the day.
I was so gassed that game.
I booked the day off for it.
And I remember Mortal Kombat.
I can't remember which one X I think came out the same day.
I'm not a big fighting fan, blah, blah, but I booked the day off and the reviews came out for Days Gone and they were shit, man.
They were like sixes and sevens and fives.
And I was just like, man.
So I went and bought Mortal Kombat and I was playing it and I was like, this is not what I booked the day off for.
I wanted Days Gone.
So I was on the internet and all I kept seeing was people on Reddit and shit just going, don't listen to them reviews, bro.
This game's sick.
I was like, fuck them, man.
So I went out and I bought it and I was like, I am not seeing the issue here.
What am I seeing?
What am I getting wrong for this not to be a really fucking nine out of 10 game?
This is phenomenal.
This is great.
I'm convinced that most reviewers get fucking under the table money to pump out certain reviews for certain things because there's just some scores and shit like that where you go.
I know you're talking bollocks and the fact that it all comes from one individual as well.
Look at Black Miff Wukong at the moment.
Well, that game is divvy, divvy money they've made.
Ridiculous.
Silly, silly money.
Like 27 million copies or some shit.
Ridiculous amounts of money.
And the reviews are like, they're all right, mediocre.
But the game is fucking phenomenal.
And everyone that plays it is like, this is so good.
But the reviews don't, don't get me wrong.
They're not bad reviews, but they're not correlating.
It's like something's going wrong here.
So you've got all the, I see, I just don't look at, I look at them, but I don't pay any attention to IGN, GameSpot, all them ones.
I look at like.
Reddit and Steam reviews is what I look at.
And Skill Up and ACG and people that I know are gamers that understand what we like because you're a gamer where I feel like a lot of people now are just, they're going into games and they're not playing the game and going, this is a really fun game.
I like the gameplay loop.
I like this thing.
They're going, hold on.
There's not enough women.
There's not, why is this one not transsexual?
Why is it?
It's just too much politics, politics shit in it rather than just going, the game's really fun.
They're going, it hasn't got like the black myth.
Wukong, where's all the women?
It's a game about fucking monkeys.
What you want about, what the fuck are you on about?
And I'll be honest with you.
There's more women in black myth Wukong than monkeys.
So if anything, where's the fucking monkeys?
Give me the monkeys.
I just don't understand.
I want monkeys.
And that's what I think people, the big reviewers are going in with now.
They're going in looking at what games are not included in the games rather than what
is actually in the game.
Right?
If there's a reason to be up in arms about something, then sure.
But there's no reason to pick faults at things that don't need picking at.
It pisses me off.
Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, I'm with you on it.
I'm with you on it.
Tell me how the game plays.
Tell me about the bugs.
Tell me about the fucking, the combat.
Tell me about the story, the depth, the fucking visuals, bloody, bloody, blah.
And I want to know about any other shit.
Just tell me about the game.
I want to know about the game.
I'm with you on that.
I used to, I used to be an absolute slave to reviews.
Same.
Absolute slave.
And if exactly the same as you were days gone, if I saw, if I was looking forward to a game
and then saw bad reviews, I wouldn't buy it because I'd think I'm wasting my money
rather than buying it myself and trying to work out whether I like this game or not.
And I feel like that has become so much more difficult to, to behave in that manner.
When a game is 70 quid and we're all fucking, we're all adults here.
We're all trying to live our life.
We're all in the same fucking world.
And it's 70 quid is 70 quid.
Whether, whether you fucking an X amount of money or whatever,
that's still a fair chunk of dough to be throwing at a game,
especially when it's going to take up two thirds of your fucking storage on your PlayStation.
So you can't, so it sounds so fucking old, but gone are the days where you could rock
up with 20 quid and then come away with three different games.
You're free for 20.
Like you can't, you can't do that anymore.
So you can't necessarily just buy games and test them.
And with the returns policies of that, especially from Sony,
you fucking void the return policy.
The minute you download the game.
I haven't even played the country, but if I download it, I can't fucking return it nine times
out of 10.
So trying to actually figure out if the game's for you or not is so much more difficult.
So then you're almost forced to look at reviews and
bro reviewers like IGN, they can go fuck themselves, man.
They're bullshit reviews.
You don't look at any of that sort of shit.
Like I say, Reddit and steam is, is, is my absolute go-to just because they're
they're direct from the fucking user.
100% Concord, for example, that has to be a record breaker for release to fucking closure.
And a big part of that is when you read the reviews, most people actually say the game's
not that bad, that the, the, the gun feel and the combat and everything actually isn't,
isn't bad at all.
But you can just tell so blatantly that the developers just tried to throw themselves
into that game. And what you ended up with is that you're playing characters that the
fucking don't fit the role that they're playing and people don't like that.
Yes, you're playing a first person shooter where it's, it's fantasy, but at the same time,
if, if I'm some big massive fuck, I shouldn't be able to bounce up and down the walls and
fucking be stealthy and shit like that.
You know what I mean?
There comes a point where it's like, no.
And the fact that that game come with a price tag of 40 quid in a world in a, in a, in an
area where every single one of those games is free to play with a decent store and cosmetics.
The fact that you're throwing a 40 quid price tag on that as a fucking slap in the face
because it's like, why the fuck am I going to pay 40 quid for that when I can just jump
on anything else?
The second thing that they fucked up on, which is probably the first thing, the announcement
trailer for that game was fucking incredible.
Yeah.
Absolutely incredible.
That has to be one of the best announcement trailers I've ever seen.
That was guardians of the galaxy and fucking game format other than the actual guardians
of the galaxy game that looked fantastic.
And then you fucked it right to the end by saying five V five fucking.
I was not expecting it to be a multiplayer.
No one was expecting that.
And no one asked for that either.
You're already in such a saturated market that they, they, they made it so that it's
a good market that they, they really, really could have done something real decent because
I've, it's very rare that you watch a trailer and gain some form of connection with the
characters in a fucking sub three minute trailer.
Yep.
And everyone fucking loved those characters.
I can't remember their names, forgive me, but they looked incredible and I understood
their personalities and I was excited for this cause I was like, what fucking, what
story is going to be portrayed here?
What the fuck?
I like this looks sick.
And then at the end you reveal that it's a five V five mode for a fucking genre of games
where there's a fucking billion of them all free to play.
That's like, oh yeah.
Shit rubbish.
And I feel like that was, I had the same consensus as every other fucker that watched
that trailer as well.
Yeah.
Cause you see that and you go, this is fucking sick.
And then lo and behold, what two weeks in to its release, I was dead.
It's like, oh, it's a game in space and they're fucking, oh, this is going to be great.
And then yeah, show game plan.
I was like, huh?
Yeah.
What the fuck?
Why is it arena shooter?
What's going on here?
What it was was, you know, in them fucking mobile games, when you see the adverse form
and they look fucking like raid shadow legends looks fucking sick.
And then, and then you see the actual game players like a fucking two bit top down.
Black myth, Wukong.
Yeah.
Really good.
I think I'm on the final or kind of the final boss.
I got to him last night and I was fighting them and they beat my ass a couple of times,
three, four times to be precise.
But I know that there's more after that, but it's like in a roundabout way.
It's not like, I think once I've done this, it's going to be credits.
And then it's like, oh, but then there's like a prologue kind of thing.
Go and do this.
If you've done this prerequisite.
So yes, it's a mixture of many games, man.
It's souls like it's, it's got a war.
It's secure row.
It's a ghost of Tsushima and it's unique in its own right as well.
He's very, very, very good.
I haven't got a clue what's going on.
As per.
Well, it's just, it's, it's Chinese like mythology and I don't know anything about it.
So it's one of them where once I finished the game, I'd like, cause it's all novelized.
So I'd like to read the novel.
So I actually have an understanding of what's going on because I think you'd get more out
of this game if you knew the law, if you knew who Wu Kong was, why he does it, why what he does.
Although don't get me wrong, I'm not blind.
I know where I'm going, why I'm doing it.
I know what you mean.
Yeah.
The actual law, law.
But there's a lot of things that's like, who are you and why are you now a problem?
Especially if there's a book explaining that.
Yeah.
And I know a lot of it's told in the journal, but I don't read the journal.
Because I don't, cause it's got, this is a pet peeve of mine and I don't know if anyone
else has this issue, but it was just my weird brain, but I hate games that when you kill
an enemy, I love it when they've got a log and you can click on it and it says, this is the enemy.
And this is what it does.
I love that.
And this has all got 3d models.
So you can click on anybody and then turn them around and look at them.
It's really good.
But I hate it when it says six of 24 or something like that.
Cause I'm like, well, I know, I know there's 24 enemies in this game.
Yeah.
And I want to know, I'd like to find out myself.
So I don't ever go on the journal, but I know that does a lot of the heavy lifting when it
comes to that stuff.
But yeah, I was, I was just as confused as you with this game, because I actually messaged
the guy on PlayStation about it that I knew was playing it and asked him because he's a big souls
fan, what he thinks of it.
And he said, it's really good.
He thinks I like it.
But what I always saw when I watched all the trailers, it just looked like a boss rush game
to me.
Just like boss after boss after boss.
And essentially it kind of is like there's open world zones, but it's, it's just, it's
a, but it's, it's a streamline chapter thing, chapter thing, but you can travel back to
anywhere you've been via like teleporting through the bonfire, if you like, site grace,
whatever you want to call it.
And yeah, there's big open maps and they're a lot bigger than, than you initially think.
Cause you, I've got lost so many times, missed so much stuff.
Cause I'm watching one of my favorite YouTubers play alongside me, but I always make sure I'm
ahead of him.
And the amount of times I've been watching his video and he's gone somewhere and found
something and started a new boss or something.
I was like, fuck.
So I had to pause the video, go on it myself, go to that area, do it before I can carry
on watching.
There's so much stuff to miss.
So many, so many things, which is the best cause then it rewards exploration, right?
And finding and discovery.
But yeah, there's just, there's loads of, there's loads of secret bosses and so many,
so many.
It's just like kill a mob, kill a mob, kill a mob.
Cause it's not, it's not a long campaign.
Bro, it's fucking, I've been playing it 40 odd hours.
Oh yeah.
I think, I think if you're, if you're streamlining it and shit, I think, I don't think it's that
long.
It's below 30 hours.
I don't know.
I don't, yeah, maybe I don't know, but I like to make sure I've been around every area.
Yeah.
That's if you're fucking beaming it, I guess.
I'd love to, cause I know that I'd enjoy it.
I'd enjoy it.
Cause I know that I'd enjoy it.
I just know I would, but I'd love to be able to say I'm going to buy it and I'm going to
play it, but I'm just not.
Because the season starts for wow.
Next week.
And then I'm gone.
So there's no point me getting space Marine then.
No, I get it because I really, I genuinely want to play space Marine.
I think, I think that looks sick for a week, but yeah, the, the, the season starts.
And with that, the Raiden starts and we're already scheduled in for fucking next Wednesday
is when we were first, we were doing Wednesdays and Sundays.
And so I just know that the in between of that is me trying to fucking gear up.
And I'm also, I'm also playing as a healer, this expansion as well.
So I'm far less expendable.
I'm, I'm creme de la creme.
I'm a necessity here and I can't fucking wait to be one.
It's fantastic.
I love it.
Yeah.
Woo Kong is one of the games where you're constantly unlocking stuff as well, which
is one of my favorite things.
So you get like 25 hours in and you're like, whoa, a whole new skill tree just unlocked
cause I've unlocked an ability that I didn't know I was going to unlock.
They're the best ones because I'm like, wow, now I can do this.
One of our mates that we're working with Roman, he very addictive personality,
much like ourselves.
And he downloaded Diablo immortal the other day.
He's a, he used to be a big time gamer.
But now he sort of said like, he's a very, very avid runner.
So he's like, if I start gaming, he was like, all of that goes out the window.
So he was like, I'll fucking stay away from it.
Cause I've been there before.
Um, and yeah, he downloaded Diablo immortal the other day and he texts me and he was like,
I'm 90 quid down.
This is a free to play game.
I'm 90 quid down.
And I don't know if I sort of like squashed his hopes and dreams with it.
Cause I've read in the reviews the other day of how it is still paid to win.
And went through and explained it to him.
And I was like, I said, I was like, he's like, you got to play it.
So you got to play it with me.
I was like, no.
I said, I've been down that road before.
I said, me and Steph went to fucking Lanzarote for three, three days and four nights or some
shit like that.
And I was like, we spent the entire time playing Diablo more.
I was like, I can tell you.
I said, I've had my fucking fix.
I said, and I hit that wall and I stopped playing after that because I refused to pay
any money for it.
And rightly so, man.
So shouldn't be paying money like that in game.
It's just a straight pay to win.
And after all these years, it's still a pay to win.
So I've read, I've went on Reddit.
I fucking explained it all to him and he hasn't hit that point yet.
So I was like, you let me know when you've hit that fucking paywall and you've got to
start spending big money and you tell me whether you're spending the money or if you just
fucking stopped.
So yeah, that's, that's, that's your fucking, that's your week, bro.
Yep.
Right.
Patron then.
Yeah.
This is where the good stuff is.
Yeah.
Next week.
Should be a next week.
I don't know what's going on.
Oh, it'll be rolling to fucking pre D and D, won't it?
Yeah.
Be the excitement episode.
Yeah.
Decent.
All right.
Catch everyone next week then.
See you later.
Uro.
All right.