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I'm back. I'm a little bit under the weather.

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I was about to say with a bit of enthusiasm.

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Yeah, a little bit cold, a little bit dizzy.

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Apologies for my last three weeks.

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I'll give you a brief rundown.

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Last week, my wife was in hospital.

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A week before, Reece was running late at work.

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And the week before that was my daughter's birthday.

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So I'm not taking responsibility for any of them.

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And you're just gonna have to deal with it.

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But here I am.

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Here you are.

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We're here to talk about wonderful computer games again.

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Where do you want to start?

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Black Miff Wukong has won Golden Joystick Game of the Year Award.

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Has it won that, yeah?

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Yeah, and obviously that's not the big game award thing, I don't think.

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What was the ones that was announced, the nominations?

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Was that the joystick one?

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No, that was actual Game of the Year awards.

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Yeah, they... quite surprisingly, they had Balotaro in there,

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which is a poker roguelike game.

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Yeah, this is the fucking list that I'd say, you know?

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Yeah, so it's Astro Bot.

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Yep.

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Balotaro, or Balotro, if you will.

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Black Miff Wukong, Elden Ring Shadow of the Earth Tree,

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Metaphor Riefantazio.

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So was that...

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Oh, that's my bad then, because I've really...

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I thought that that was the actual Game of the Year awards,

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the big, big one.

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Yeah, that is.

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Oh, that is the big one.

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They had the nominees.

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For that one, right, OK.

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For the Game of the Year.

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Yeah, fair enough.

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So...

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Well, the Balotaro one, which is why I run it by...

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I was really, really confused by that,

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because I'd never seen anything of it.

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It's basically made by one person, much like Vampire Survivors.

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And I haven't played it.

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I've looked at a fair amount of shit for it.

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I know that Steam has something crazy,

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like 40,000 overwhelmingly positive reviews for it.

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And my mate at work, Jay, I was talking to him about it,

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because obviously it's about deck builders and shit like that.

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And he gets a hard on for that kind of stuff.

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He's absolutely addicted to it.

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He absolutely loves it.

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I understand.

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It's my favourite genre, one of them, the roguelike genre,

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which is what the Binding of Isaac is,

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and Into the Guns and all them other weird little games

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that I've played.

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Brotato, being a little bit of a...

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But yeah, whenever I've looked at it,

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because I've been aware of it since it came out,

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but it just looks like poker.

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So I don't really see...

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And I've watched videos and it still just looks like poker.

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So as far as I'm aware,

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because I've got Jay to explain it to me,

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it's you have your levels,

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and then you have your deck that you're able to build.

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And you basically have to...

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I think it's you have to reach a certain amount of points

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that you get by using your deck,

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but there's also jokers which enhance the deck

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and give you different abilities and shit like that.

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And yeah, when you lose, you lose everything.

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You lose the deck and you start all over again.

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That's a really, really fucking torn down, basic bitch...

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review of it.

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Yeah.

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I'm kidding.

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There must be some secret sauce in there.

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Just making people...

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Poker-themed, roguelike deck-building video game

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developed by Local Thunk and published by Playstack.

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It was blah, blah, blah.

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Let me have a look.

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Because it is difficult to actually...

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Because when you look at the reviews,

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most of them are like, game is good.

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So that's not helpful.

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If you need a reason to stay up late

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while continually challenging yourself to do better in a game

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than developer, Local Thunk has a card game for you called Bellatro,

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taking the simple concept of poker

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and turning it right on its frigging head.

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Local Thunk has put together a ridiculously addictive

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gaming experience that I literally had to pull away from

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to get this review done.

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I can't say that about a lot of games across my desk.

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Blah, blah, blah.

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If you can't tell what it is, let me break it down in a simple way.

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Bellatro is a card game that relies on buffs, upgrades

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and a simple backend system

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to drive an otherwise pedestrian poker game.

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I never knew this could be a thing with poker.

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Card games like poker are timeless,

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but now I must rethink how I play it.

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The base level gameplay design here starts with poker.

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You get your cards drawn,

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try to find your typical poker combinations,

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flushes, straights, pairs, etc.

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and go on from there.

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The on from their part is driven by upgrades, buffs

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and luck of the draw card multipliers.

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It's also the reason you'll be hooked to Bellatro.

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I could continue reading, but it's quite a long.

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It seems to go through the entire fucking.

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It's just an interesting poker game, and let's be honest,

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an interesting poker game that where the jokers are all different

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and there's different buffs and shit that you can you can do.

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I'm not. It's not my cup of tea.

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Well, I've got I've got a doubt work tomorrow

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where I hope to do very little because it's basically for the wins.

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So I'll be taking my steam deck with me.

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Maybe I'll grab it and have a little look and see what it's all about.

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Well, it's 12 quid, I think peanuts to big bowlers like us.

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So it is cheap, cheapo.

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But yeah, I plan on playing other things.

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But yeah, obviously, you don't need to ask my game of the year

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because I told you fucking months ago before this list came out.

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What? Fantasio?

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No, Black Miff Wukong was my game of the year.

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Was it? Yeah, yes.

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You think he's going to get it?

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No, I don't think it will win because we know what's going to win.

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Final Fantasy is going to win. Oh, really?

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I think the Final Fantasy fans are going to vote.

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I was going to say Shadow of the Oatree.

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Yeah, no, it's between them, too.

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But Final Fantasy fans, there's billions of them.

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Thing is, is that I feel like Shadow of the Oatree was an absolutely incredible.

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I would go further and say that it isn't a DLC because of how fucking large it was.

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But technically it is a DLC.

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And I kind of sit in the in the in the party of people

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saying it shouldn't be up for game of the year.

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It should be in the DLC category or the ongoing game category.

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In a sense.

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The trouble is with the ongoing game category is they're all multiplayer games.

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Like, yeah, it's just just a flat out multiplayer, proper multiplayer as well.

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Which again, with the ongoing fucking game category, you've got Destiny 2

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that's in there, which I feel like should be swapped out with World of Warcraft.

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But World of Warcraft is too old.

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I think I think there's an argument for both because it's it's

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it's it's better than most triple A games in its own riot.

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What? Shadow of the Oatree? DLC is better than most.

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Oh, yeah. But then you can't play it without owning Elden Ring.

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So it is still a DLC.

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It's like it's like it's like a song winning album of the year.

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It doesn't really make sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Because it's part of an album. This is part of a game.

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Yeah, yeah. This is I think they should just make an entirely new category

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for best expansion slash best DLC.

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Well, I think they do. I swear they do have a category.

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I don't think they do.

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And then the thing is, this is only been this is the first time it's ever happened.

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So where was Phantom Liberty last year?

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Because that should have won.

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Yeah. Should have been nominated because that game is now like

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people now consider that a masterpiece.

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Well, I don't understand is why Space Marine two

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hasn't got a fucking nomination there.

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That's another one, isn't it?

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It's very difficult to

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to speak on lists like this, because unless you've played

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every game that's on the list and then the games that you would like to be

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on the list is very difficult to read, because I could sit here and go,

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why the fuck is Astro Bots on there?

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I don't play it and I haven't played this one either.

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So it might be fucking one of the best games I'll ever play.

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Well, they were comparing it to like peak Mario.

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So it's going to be up there like with one of the best platform. Yeah.

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I've played four of these of the six nominees.

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Is Black Miff Wukong the best?

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Technically, no.

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But is it the best game this year?

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I think so, just because they come out of nowhere.

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This game just never ends.

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This got unlimited fucking like the endings, the secrets, the discovery.

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There's just absolute fucking masterpiece of a game.

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And oh, my God, one of my favorite games all the time.

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It's in my it'd be in my top 10 if I did it again.

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Metal 4, Ree Fantasio, I'm about 25, 30 hours in.

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I love the bones of it, but other things have grabbed me.

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So I'll have to go back to that at some point.

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But yeah, absolutely fantastic game.

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Final Fantasy Rebirth.

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I tried to get into it.

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It's just not for me.

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I smashed the Final Fantasy 7 remake out before this came out to try and,

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you know, lead into it.

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It just I don't know. I just burn out of it.

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I'll probably smash this out before the next one fucking comes out.

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But Final Fantasy, I say, I'll just be a vote of popularity

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and they'll probably win because it'll have more fans.

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But yeah, then you're left with the card game,

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Ballotaro and Shadow of the Oatree.

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So I think Final Fantasy 7 will win.

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I want Black Miff Wukong to win.

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And then if they don't win, then I'd like Ballotaro to win

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just because it's a brand new company.

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And imagine that winning game of the year will be pretty mind blowing.

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I'd like them to win just because it's one person that's made it.

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Shakes up the apple tree, doesn't it?

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Yeah, a little bit, especially when you've got other AAA developers

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that haven't even got a sniff at fucking nominations.

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You've got you've got one man, one band type shit.

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It's always good to see.

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Yeah, it's this.

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We'll see December 12th.

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It is so we will see in a couple of weeks.

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And we'll go from there.

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So what's the fucking difference between the Joycon and the joystick?

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Sorry, just a different show, I guess.

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Just because I saw nothing on that golden joysticks.

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Normally that pops up for me fucking around this time, but I saw nothing.

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1983, Helldivers won four awards.

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Final Fantasy wins four, Helldivers won three,

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Balotro and BlackWrath Wukong claim two each.

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So, yeah, I don't I don't actually know all the ins and outs of it.

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It just popped up.

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I've been really busy, so I haven't actually had the chance to check all this stuff.

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Bro, have you got to pull that mic closer to the camera?

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I was just losing my voice.

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Yeah, I've been really busy, so I know the chance to check all this stuff.

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But we'll have a look at some point.

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What have you been playing?

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I guess just World of Warcraft.

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Yeah. Yep. Fuck all.

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What happened to everybody on thing?

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Everyone's just just dead.

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Yeah, because of wow.

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The especially now because they've done a classic refresh.

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So they've they brought out classic again, but with they've refreshed the servers.

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So everyone's all back to fucking square one.

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They've done like a hard reset pretty much and then added a couple of other

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quality of life improvements to it.

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So everyone's just smack bang on that.

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I'm not particularly interested in it.

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I might give it a go, but I'm not massively into it.

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Obviously, I bought the Division two again the other day.

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So I'm yeah, I want to I've got a weird hankering to fucking jump into some horror games.

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You know, I mean, you know, when you get that we're on the same wavelength, that weird feeling.

251
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I am currently in my zombie apocalypse state.

252
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Yeah, I've transitioned.

253
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Have you looked at Stalker two?

254
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Yeah, I looked at that as Xbox only and PC only.

255
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Oh, is it? I didn't even know that I can play on Xbox.

256
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Right. It's on Game Pass.

257
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Yeah. But I think it's a timed exclusive.

258
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I think it comes out.

259
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I think it comes out. Well, it's three months exclusive and then it'll be on PlayStation.

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I think it's it's got a huge fan base stalker.

261
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It looks fantastic, but apparently it's going through a bit of that cyberpunk treatment.

262
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Yeah, it's got the mixed reviews and shit.

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So I might wait a bit and then hopefully if it comes out on PlayStation by then it will be

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the good version.

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Yeah.

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But if any any developer deserves a bit of time to sort it out, it's them.

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Because they were creating that game when all this because they're from Ukraine.

268
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Yeah, they've been dealing with all that shit that's happening over there.

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I think they even lost their studio and all sorts of stuff.

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I can't that's just guess.

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I'm sure I heard something like that, but they've been proper through the mill.

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So if anyone deserves a bit of time to try and sort their game out, it'll be there.

273
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But yeah, what I've seen and from stalker fans, they're gassed for it.

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I think it's like a it's like it's like fallout, but dark fallout and very hardcore.

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So I think in terms of like your first foray into Dark Souls or Eldoran Ring, just been like,

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well, this is hard.

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It's going to be like that.

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You're getting hit and thinking, fuck, like this is this is.

279
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Is it survival?

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I think not.

281
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Not in that respect is survival.

282
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But I don't think you have to like drink or do any of that sort of shit.

283
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It's just it's just like a I think it's open world.

284
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Go here and find stuff and shoot shit and let's do a quick little Google of that

285
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because I've seen a couple of kids.

286
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But yeah, for some reason, I hate horror games.

287
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I hate them.

288
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I detest them.

289
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I really don't like them, but I want to play them at the same time.

290
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I think if you're in that sort of zone, you should maybe pick up something cheaper,

291
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which is also fantastic.

292
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And I believe Connor, Connor is a huge fan of the series

293
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because I remember talking to him about it.

294
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Metro Exodus.

295
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Yeah, I've got Metro Exodus.

296
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You reckon I'll stick with that?

297
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Well, yeah, it's free quit.

298
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I know you've got it.

299
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It's fucking free quit on the board.

300
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I've got it played it for about half an hour and then put it down.

301
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It's just going to be another one of them.

302
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Stick to it type things in your defense.

303
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I guess I also done the same.

304
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I played it.

305
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I got I got through the first card game.

306
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A podcast I got through the first chapter.

307
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I think I did because it's open world, but in chapters,

308
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you get one open world and then another open world.

309
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But yeah, the actual game is this got a huge following as well.

310
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And that's all based around apocalyptic Russia or Ukraine.

311
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And they're all living in the metro tunnels and stuff like that.

312
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Yeah, horror elements to it.

313
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I might give that a download then.

314
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So you see what the correct.

315
00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:39,280
So right now, back to stalker two, we've got very positive

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is what the steam reviews on the last time I looked, they were mixed.

317
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And that's out of just shy of twenty thousand reviews, which is which is good.

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Discover the vast Chernobyl exclusion zone full of dangerous enemies,

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deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts.

320
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Unveil your own epic story as you make your way to the heart of Chernobyl.

321
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Make your choices wisely as they will determine your fate in the end.

322
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Spooky, very spooky.

323
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It also fucking some of these some of these reviews have a little look.

324
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Number one, atmosphere and sound amazing.

325
00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,520
A hundred out of ten bugs didn't find anything critical.

326
00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,600
Optimization. It's just bad.

327
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Waiting for patches.

328
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A life. There's no a life.

329
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I don't know what that is.

330
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Game just spawns enemies within 50 to 100 meters.

331
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Hope patches will make it work like in previous games,

332
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because without it, it's not stalker and the world is empty and lifeless.

333
00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,080
Without it, enemies are just sponges for bullets.

334
00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:42,480
Need rebalance for mags to kill a bloodsucker.

335
00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,760
Really. Other things to mention that I would like the devs to change.

336
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Night cycle is too short.

337
00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,600
No sleeping bags.

338
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It costs a fortune to repair weapons and suits.

339
00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:53,520
No dynamic shadows from the flashlight.

340
00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,080
Enemies just spam you with grenades all the time.

341
00:15:56,080 --> 00:16:01,040
Would be cool to have more food, less drink options and cook monster parts like in Gamma.

342
00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:03,680
Gamma is the mod.

343
00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,360
The mod that everyone's banging on about,

344
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because when I've seen anything about stalker 2, people have said Gamma is better, blah, blah, blah.

345
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And it's just a mod.

346
00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:17,120
Weapons slash suits condition goes down way too fast.

347
00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:24,640
When you sit at the campfire, you cannot eat, drink, open PDA slash inventory, etc.

348
00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:26,400
You get hungry every five to ten minutes.

349
00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:27,680
Obviously, do you have to?

350
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I hate that shit.

351
00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:36,000
I hate that shit.

352
00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:36,560
I hate it.

353
00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,120
You see, I quite like that stresses me out, but I like it.

354
00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:40,960
It gives me a good stress.

355
00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,760
It says for now, the game is medium, medium rare,

356
00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:45,520
waiting for the devs to cook it properly.

357
00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:47,840
And then it will be the game of the year for sure.

358
00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:48,320
Good game.

359
00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:50,160
My CPU is glowing in the dark now.

360
00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:51,920
Call itself Chernobyl's chosen one.

361
00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:59,520
I think when I was looking into this week, a lot of the old stalker games,

362
00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:04,960
they're like kind of got that Bethesda vibe where like Skyrim, it just lives through its mods.

363
00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,600
That's the stalker thing.

364
00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:12,400
And they've said that stalker 2 is going to have mods as well and on console.

365
00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,800
So what level of mods that will be, I imagine it'll be pretty impressive,

366
00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:19,440
considering what I'm looking at for Baldur's Gate mods.

367
00:17:19,440 --> 00:17:22,000
I was about to say Baldur's Gate's got fucking mods now.

368
00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000
Yeah, even for the console, they're very impressive.

369
00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,160
Xbox are a lot better for mods in all these games because,

370
00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:35,200
as I said before, Sony don't allow for asset changes because it gives people like,

371
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gives like a leak in their security kind of thing.

372
00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,400
They can get into different files and stuff if they do that.

373
00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,880
So it's more like altering a chair into a tank or something.

374
00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:49,280
You can't really do that on PlayStation.

375
00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:51,440
Whereas on Xbox, they're a lot more lenient.

376
00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:52,640
So maybe I will look at it.

377
00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:53,440
It's going to game pass.

378
00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:57,520
If I sub for a month and play it for a month, then I'll just see what it's like.

379
00:17:58,080 --> 00:17:59,120
So maybe I'll do that.

380
00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:01,120
But at the moment, you know where I am.

381
00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:03,120
I'm in DayZ, baby.

382
00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:03,600
Of course you are.

383
00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:06,800
There's a new map out which I purchased.

384
00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:11,280
The first new map in like 10 years or something crazy.

385
00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:12,320
It's called Sakal.

386
00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,120
And you would hate it.

387
00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:16,640
It's deadly.

388
00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:17,280
It's dangerous.

389
00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:18,240
It's scary.

390
00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:19,360
It's snowy.

391
00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:20,960
I've seen clips of it, yeah.

392
00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,440
Polar bears and shit.

393
00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,320
It's just, you're just cold, man.

394
00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:27,760
This is the cold that kills you.

395
00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,800
So you're constantly making fires and stuff.

396
00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:34,080
But to make a fire, you know, you need all these bits and bobs.

397
00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,920
But at the moment, me and Clarkie are running together.

398
00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,560
We've been running pretty much all week, the same characters.

399
00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:46,640
We've made it to like the island across a land bridge, which is dangerous.

400
00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,680
We've made it there and we're currently looting up military gear.

401
00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,880
We've come through some serious trials and tribulations.

402
00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,880
Clarkie almost died yesterday because we run out of bandages.

403
00:18:58,880 --> 00:18:59,920
Because this is the problem.

404
00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:05,680
You go to these high-end military areas to get the good guns and shit, right?

405
00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:09,280
But what you're not getting is the normal shit that you also need.

406
00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:10,480
So you need knives.

407
00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:14,000
Like to cut shit up, you need bandages and stuff like that.

408
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,040
So we're running out of supplies, basically.

409
00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,800
And Clarkie got whacked by a zombie and he started bleeding.

410
00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,600
And we had nothing to stop the bleeding.

411
00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,440
So he had to take his trousers off and cut them up into rags.

412
00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:29,920
Yeah.

413
00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:34,480
Because the rugs are not disinfected, that gave him a blood infection,

414
00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,120
which then I had to cure with almost all my medicine.

415
00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:42,640
So now we're kind of at a position where we're having to use all our blood.

416
00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:47,760
We're having to use all our bullets on the zombies because if we get tagged,

417
00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:52,160
we're fucked basically because we've got no medicine, no rags, no bandages,

418
00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:53,520
no disinfectant.

419
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:54,800
We're kind of just bollocksed.

420
00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,040
But yeah, that's the story that you tell.

421
00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:05,520
I managed to do something which Daisy tells you quite often in the loading screen that

422
00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,720
the most powerful weapon in Daisy is your voice.

423
00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,600
I was in a building.

424
00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:18,400
Clarkie was in another building and he screamed,

425
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,400
I'm being chased by another human.

426
00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,800
He said, I said, come in here, sir.

427
00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:23,760
So he ran upstairs.

428
00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:25,680
Obviously, this geezer didn't know I was there.

429
00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,400
Clarkie ran in and quickly I had a lockpick.

430
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:29,600
So I locked the door.

431
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,720
Just as I locked the door, the geezer tried the door, couldn't get in.

432
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,520
And then he pretended that he's gone.

433
00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:36,640
So he's like ran down the stairs.

434
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,480
But I know he sneaked back up because I can hear him shivering on the other side of the door.

435
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,400
And then I'm going, ooh, so I said to Clarkie,

436
00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,280
should I just shoot through the door with a shotgun to see if I can blow him up?

437
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:52,160
He's like, no, because you've only got one shot.

438
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,520
And if you miss, then you're fucked.

439
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,680
Then there's going to be problems.

440
00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,360
So I will play you the clip that ensued.

441
00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:02,000
Just have a shot.

442
00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:04,320
I'll skip to the good bit.

443
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:05,920
This is how it goes.

444
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:12,480
You're cold.

445
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,040
You're outside the door shivering, bro.

446
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:25,920
I know you're there.

447
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:30,960
He's just how you keep it.

448
00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:31,760
A stack of you, boss.

449
00:21:31,760 --> 00:21:32,800
I just need you to kill me.

450
00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,800
I don't want to be here.

451
00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,240
Well, you can kill yourself, bruv.

452
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:40,240
Yeah, I can.

453
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,400
But wouldn't it be more exciting to kill someone, I suppose?

454
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:45,200
You killed me.

455
00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:50,720
It'd be more exciting if you just killed yourself, bruv.

456
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:53,200
That's not exciting.

457
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:55,440
It's exciting for me.

458
00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:01,040
It gets my pickle tickled.

459
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,760
I'll do it outside the door.

460
00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:04,560
You listen.

461
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:05,280
I'm listening, bro.

462
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:06,480
I want to hear that blood gurgle.

463
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:08,720
Yeah, yeah, of course.

464
00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:11,760
What the fuck?

465
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:13,440
All right, one sec.

466
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:15,680
All right, you ready?

467
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:17,520
I love you, man.

468
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:19,760
Love you too.

469
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:20,240
One sec.

470
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:22,880
I've done this in ages.

471
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:23,360
All right, ready?

472
00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:24,560
Ready?

473
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:25,200
Peace and love.

474
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:27,280
Peace and love.

475
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:29,600
No hard feelings.

476
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:30,720
No hard feelings, bro.

477
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:32,320
Oh, no.

478
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,280
Is that him actually killing himself?

479
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,080
Yeah, he just stabbed himself in the throat.

480
00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,000
And then I opened the door.

481
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:42,640
He had nothing.

482
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,000
He was just a freshie.

483
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:44,960
But you don't know.

484
00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:45,680
And that's the thing.

485
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:47,680
I didn't know you could just stab yourself in the throat.

486
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,160
Yeah, you could suicide with any item.

487
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:51,120
Oh, is that how you do it?

488
00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:51,760
Yeah.

489
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,440
Yeah, and with this map, you start with a steak knife.

490
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,840
So you can, if you don't like where you've started, you can just...

491
00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:03,360
But yeah, none of me or Clarky both didn't know that he was a freshie.

492
00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:05,360
And also, I knew he was outside.

493
00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:08,080
And then you're like, why don't you just kill me?

494
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:09,280
One, why are you hiding then?

495
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,120
Because you don't know that we know you're there.

496
00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:13,120
Two, you don't know there's two of us in here.

497
00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:14,640
Three, I know what will normally happen.

498
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:15,520
I'll open that door.

499
00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:16,640
And then you shoot me.

500
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,440
Yeah, either that or there'll be another one of you at the end of the hallway.

501
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:22,080
So you just can't take risks in Daisy.

502
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:25,280
And I used my voice and got rid of the problem.

503
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,320
There's a guy I follow on TikTok and he plays a lot of Daisy

504
00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,840
and obviously sticks with that rule of you can't trust anyone.

505
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:41,520
And he makes a living just getting people to trust him

506
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,440
and going on these crazy adventures and all this mental shit.

507
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,880
And then at random points, he'll just turn around and fucking shoot people in the face.

508
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,680
Like there was one, I think it was a group of like four people.

509
00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:56,800
And it was that map because they were being attacked by a polar bear.

510
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,440
So there's like, there's four of them in a cluster.

511
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,800
This polar bear comes out of nowhere and starts attacking them all.

512
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,800
So obviously everyone's screaming, right?

513
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,160
This geezer runs to the side, turns around,

514
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,280
and there's three of them being mauled by a polar bear,

515
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,480
pulls out a gun and shoots one of them in the head, right?

516
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,400
And then goes back to fucking, oh my God, there's a fucking polar bear here.

517
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:21,520
All crazy.

518
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:24,320
They all blast the shit out of this polar bear, kill that.

519
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,200
And then turn around, they're like, oh my God.

520
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,760
And then he says, he's like, I don't know what his name was,

521
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,280
name was like Darren or something.

522
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,200
He's like, the polar bear got Darren.

523
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,960
And then they all fucking, they all believe it.

524
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,000
And then one by one, he just starts fucking popping them off as well.

525
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,200
I was like, what the fuck?

526
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:41,440
So you're so crazy.

527
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,840
That's the stories you get to tell in Daisy, man.

528
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:45,760
That's the beauty of it.

529
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:51,040
The amount of effort you go through to get yourself fully, fully geared up,

530
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,640
and then to even find a big group of people who are also geared up

531
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,520
and to build that trust, to then just turn around

532
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:00,000
and shoot someone in the face for no reason

533
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,720
and then probably kill yourself and then do it all over again.

534
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,960
I know that is true, but that's what makes the stakes so high.

535
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,720
And there's no other game that does it like that.

536
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,720
Because when you die, unless you've made a base

537
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:15,360
and you've got stuff stashed, you essentially lose everything.

538
00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:17,440
So there's nothing else that has the stakes that high.

539
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:18,320
Like a rogue-like.

540
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:19,600
Yeah, kind of, yeah.

541
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:20,560
Back to square one.

542
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:25,600
Yesterday, just before we logged off, me and Clark, we found a base, someone's base.

543
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:30,640
And for the first time, I put landmines down and grenades.

544
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:35,040
So I put two landmines down, two grenades on the floor.

545
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,520
Then I un-pinned a grenade, put that on the floor

546
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,640
and then sprinted away and blew up half of the barrier.

547
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,040
And then we just had enough bullets to just shoot the rest of the base out.

548
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:46,160
And we managed to break in.

549
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,600
So we did our first ever raid on a base, got in there.

550
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:51,520
It was fuck all in there.

551
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,720
There was a couple of boxes with some fuel and some axes and stuff.

552
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,840
He's obviously just getting that base sorted, got that up

553
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,720
and then he's got some base supplies he's going to continue to build.

554
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:01,760
But we've raided now.

555
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:07,760
So I was going to log out in his base, but then Clark, he advised me

556
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,000
that if I do that and he comes back and builds it again,

557
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,760
I'm stuck in there, which is true.

558
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,040
You would be stuck in there, yeah.

559
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,600
I watched the Geezy on YouTube yesterday.

560
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:20,560
He built like a wooden door that opens and closes in this barracks.

561
00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:24,640
And he's obviously got a combination lock on it and he's left it open.

562
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:29,920
And then he's like waited in this fucking little room next to the door.

563
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,840
Geezy's come in, gone straight upstairs.

564
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:33,440
He's just gone out, locked the door.

565
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,000
He's just like, you're my prisoner now.

566
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:37,280
There's literally nothing he can do.

567
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:38,560
You literally can't get out.

568
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,000
Unless you've got like eight grenades on you and 400 bullets.

569
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,920
Suppose you can't just punch the door, can you?

570
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,120
Because you'll do your wrists in.

571
00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:46,240
You'll make your hands bleed.

572
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,320
Like there's literally nothing you can do.

573
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,200
So he was like, he was just asking questions and he said,

574
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,000
if you can sing like Kermit the Frog, I'll let you out.

575
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,000
And he sang a whole song in the voice of Kermit the Frog.

576
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,360
And then he let him out and then they had a firefight and then he lost anyways.

577
00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:02,160
And he lost.

578
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:02,880
Down in.

579
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:04,000
Good fun, man.

580
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,160
And they're the stories that you get to tell and it's great fun.

581
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,560
Psychopathic.

582
00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:11,600
Yeah, but that's what an apocalypse would do to a man.

583
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:12,560
Yeah.

584
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:16,160
I suppose if you're eating human flesh and fucking chicken breasts.

585
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,760
And that's the last thing that happened to Clarky before this life.

586
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,520
He for some reason, thought it was okay to eat human fat.

587
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,040
And there's a lot of humans about at the moment because people are chopping them up

588
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:28,560
and using their bones to make knives.

589
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,840
So Clarky was finding these bits of human fat and eating them.

590
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,440
And thinking that was okay.

591
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:36,720
And what just eating them raw?

592
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,840
No, he's cooking them cooking them up until he developed a little.

593
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:42,000
Oh, the laughs.

594
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,120
Yeah, a little giggle.

595
00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:44,160
And he wondered why.

596
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:45,920
So he blew his own head off.

597
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,320
What happens if you continue with that?

598
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,320
It's just a brain disease.

599
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,960
I think it just gives away your position.

600
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,560
I don't know if it kills you over time or probably does.

601
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:57,760
He just put a bullet in his head.

602
00:27:58,480 --> 00:27:59,840
No, no, no, he did.

603
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,240
He pointed a gun at his head and then made me kill him.

604
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,120
He was even more sick.

605
00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:06,240
It was just disappointing because then when I killed him, I'd ruined all his clothes

606
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,280
because I'd stabbed them.

607
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:08,240
I couldn't even take them.

608
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:12,240
But yeah, that's just the fun the funsies of Daisy.

609
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:17,040
So I'm on my zombie, my zombie hype at the moment.

610
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:22,160
I'm currently reading World War Z, which is a very, very good book.

611
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:22,960
I must add.

612
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:24,880
I'm only about 50 pages in.

613
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:26,080
Have you ever seen the movie?

614
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:27,120
I haven't.

615
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:29,040
It's a good movie.

616
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,800
Yeah, I'm going to watch it this weekend.

617
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:32,240
It's got nothing to do with the book.

618
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,360
The movie is based on the book, but it's like not.

619
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,320
It's not nothing to do with it kind of thing.

620
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,360
I think it's, you know, takes inspiration from it.

621
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:46,080
But I know that Jem's watched it like 40 times.

622
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:47,200
It's one of her favorite films.

623
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,280
So I've caught bits of it like hundreds of times.

624
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,520
So I feel like I've seen it, but I know nothing about it.

625
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,320
But I'll be watching that this weekend.

626
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,360
So I'm looking forward to that.

627
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,160
And yeah, that's about all I've been playing, really.

628
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:05,680
I've maxed out my Rangor New World, got to level 65, done a few extra bits,

629
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,480
done this, got the horse speed maxed out.

630
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,480
And then, you know, I'm just waiting for the road map to see if.

631
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,160
They announced their road map.

632
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,520
No, have they?

633
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,080
I swear I saw a thing where it said that they'd.

634
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,120
Well, I've got tweet notifications on for them.

635
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:21,600
And they.

636
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:22,080
Oh, no, sorry.

637
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:26,960
They announced fucking a round of upcoming server merges.

638
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:28,160
Oh, yeah, I see that.

639
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:33,200
So, yeah, I'm waiting for I'm waiting to see if they're supporting it for the long term.

640
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,320
And if they are, then I will support it for the long term because I do really like it.

641
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,000
And if they're not going to support it for long term, then I'll just fuck it off.

642
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,600
You know what I did see the.

643
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:48,400
PlayStation portal beta announcement.

644
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:49,600
Did you see that?

645
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,400
I know a geyser at work was telling me today that it's got some steam capabilities,

646
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,080
streaming capability now.

647
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,480
If you if you have the.

648
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,200
I think it's the top tier of PlayStation plus whatever,

649
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,120
whatever fucking one is PlayStation plus premium.

650
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:14,720
Some bollocks you basically gain access to the beta of being able to stream.

651
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:20,720
It's like one hundred and twenty hundred and fifty something games from the cloud

652
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,880
without your PlayStation even being switched on.

653
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,920
And the likes of things like Ghost Tsushima, Horizon.

654
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,120
I've got the fucking I think some of the big.

655
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,360
Some of the big lists.

656
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:36,400
PlayStation.

657
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:38,000
Here we go.

658
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,840
The portal up portal update.

659
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,040
It is just over a year ago.

660
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:43,840
Blah, blah, blah.

661
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,680
Today we're pleased to announce a new system software update for PlayStation portal that

662
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:48,480
will begin releasing.

663
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:54,320
Starting later today, that it and it said, that's random.

664
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,400
This update will also include a beta version of a new feature that many fans have been

665
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,600
asking for support for cloud streaming on PlayStation portal.

666
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:06,240
When the update is live, PlayStation plus premium members will be able to participate

667
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:11,280
in a beta for cloud streaming on the portal, allowing select PS5 games in the PlayStation

668
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,720
plus game catalog to be streamed on the PlayStation.

669
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:20,000
And select PS5 games in the PlayStation plus game catalog to be streamed directly from

670
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:26,160
our servers, even without a PS5 console or even without a PS5 console.

671
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,120
I didn't read that bit.

672
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,560
So you won't even fucking if you really didn't want to, you don't even need a console

673
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:31,120
anymore.

674
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:38,000
Since cloud streaming is beta on PlayStation portal, the features available during the

675
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:43,520
beta period may change over time and may not reflect the final experience over one hundred

676
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:48,800
and twenty PS5 games from the PlayStation plus game catalog, including Dave the Diver.

677
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,960
I'm not about to read all hundred and fifty, but including David Diver, Ghost Tsushima,

678
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:58,320
Marvel, Spider-Man, Morales, Monster Hunter Rise and Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart.

679
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:05,200
And streaming up to 1080p 60 frames per second.

680
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:10,800
And I believe was it say their save data and game progress can be stored up to 100 gigabytes

681
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:15,440
and will be automatically synced with your PS5 console, making it easy to switch seamlessly

682
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,960
between local and streaming gameplay and between multiple devices.

683
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:23,920
So it would also carry the saves over, which is quite cool.

684
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:25,920
And where was it?

685
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:32,720
It did have the so to stream at 720p, it requires seven megabits per second worth of a connection.

686
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:37,280
And then to stream at 1080p, it requires 13 megabits per second.

687
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:42,080
I don't know what the average 5G hotspot is.

688
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,920
I'm sure I can Google that average.

689
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,560
Average 5G.

690
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,440
Hotspot speed.

691
00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:03,440
So it says the average 5G hotspot speed depends on the network provider and location, but it can

692
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:10,720
be around 150 to 200 megabits per second. Really? Yeah, fucking hell.

693
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:15,520
Average download speeds, 70 to 205 megabits per second.

694
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:22,480
And then the peak download speeds, 853.4 megabits per second plus.

695
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,880
So what that means is if you're on 5G and you've got the portal and you hotspot

696
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:33,840
and you're in a half decent area, you'll be able to stream to its absolute capability.

697
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:38,720
That's a step in the right direction, isn't it? But it's still streaming, isn't it?

698
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:39,440
I want one.

699
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,000
It's still going to be input lag, left, right and centre. I want one.

700
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:44,960
I want one.

701
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:50,160
But I also am waiting because I only would want, that was nice.

702
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:57,680
I'd only want one for the, to be able to play New World on the go, or games of that ilk.

703
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:02,720
But it all depends on input lag because whilst it doesn't matter too, too much if you're playing

704
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:08,320
single player games and you can play New World without fighting anyone, so that's fine.

705
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:13,440
But it's just very jarring if the input lag is obvious. I find it very unconsolable.

706
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:18,080
Depends how big the input lag is because I haven't actually seen much on the PlayStation

707
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,240
portal talking about fucking input lag, if I'm honest.

708
00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:27,600
Well, I've played the PlayStation portal, but this was obviously before this became a thing.

709
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:32,960
So it was essentially streaming from Matey Bob's PlayStation, which is on now at home.

710
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:38,480
And he's at work playing it, his PlayStation's at home. I tried playing,

711
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,120
he just booted up any old game, like Mortal Kombat as it was.

712
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,920
And the screen tear, like it was just, you know, it just, the pixels just disappear.

713
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,560
It's just a fucking mess. And I'm pressing X and he's just like not doing anything for a second,

714
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,840
which don't sound like a lot. That's a fucking lot when you press the button and nothing happens.

715
00:34:54,720 --> 00:34:59,120
But as I say, that's streaming from his PlayStation. This is streaming from the cloud.

716
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:04,240
So theoretically, this would be a lot better, but until you actually try it, it's hard to talk.

717
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,120
But it's a step in the right direction. Nevertheless,

718
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:16,960
in reality, what you want is the PlayStation portal to be able to access your library of games,

719
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:21,680
much like the Steam Deck. So I've got God of War Ragnarok on the PlayStation 5,

720
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:26,960
we've got PlayStation portal. I can stream it through the cloud or the PlayStation,

721
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:30,400
or I can just download it onto my portal and play it natively on there.

722
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,560
Yeah. But then you're not going to have the fucking,

723
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,000
you'd have to completely redesign the portal.

724
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,200
Well, this is what I mean, but that is how they should have designed it in the first place.

725
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:43,600
They should have made the Steam Deck, but in the PlayStation portal aspect. So you can access

726
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,120
your library and download the games onto it or stream them.

727
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:53,040
Yeah. But then you'd probably be throwing on another 100, 150 quid minimum onto that price.

728
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:57,440
In reality, it's not that expensive anyway. If I could have a PlayStation that I could download

729
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:04,000
my games onto and play on the go or at home while Jim's watching a film, I would buy it. 100%.

730
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:11,120
But at the same time, if you eliminated the input lag aspect of it, you wouldn't need that full stop

731
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:16,160
because you just fucking stream it. That's true. But then if you're not in a place of good internet,

732
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:20,880
it's useless. Useless bit of kit. If I took that to Ireland with me, it's no good to me.

733
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:26,800
Yeah. Yeah. I think it's good. It's definitely a step in the right direction. I just wish they'd

734
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:31,760
done what I'd say. I can see what they're doing, but at the same time, there has to be a point

735
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:38,800
where you go, right, OK, well, you're in 2024. Realistically, most of the world has decent

736
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:46,000
internet. I don't know if that's a fucking blasé statement or not, but you have to assume that

737
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:53,840
most people have access to decent internet to then almost come up with a product that

738
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:59,440
compensates for the people that don't have internet. At some point, you have to go with the masses.

739
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:04,320
And I feel like streaming is just that easier. Yeah, but it's not even that. It's like,

740
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:10,400
things like portals are for people that are going on trains or they're going on journeys,

741
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:15,040
like you're traveling, you're going on a plane journey. You want to take your portal with you.

742
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:19,680
It's useless. You can't get no fucking internet in the air. But the portal was never designed

743
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:24,160
for that though. This is a portable PlayStation. So the whole thing. Yeah, but that's not what it

744
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,600
was meant for. You remember when we did the first episode about it and we were like, what the fuck

745
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:33,120
is this? Why was no one asked for this? And we really fucking slated out. I've sort of had not

746
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:40,000
a 180 change, but a definite... He's had a 90. He's had a 90 degrees.

747
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:46,880
Yeah, only because there's been times where... Because a mate at work, Dean, he's got a portal.

748
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:50,160
And when we were on nights for a week, he had that with him every day and he was playing The

749
00:37:50,160 --> 00:38:00,080
Last of Us on it and FIFA and other games and it was playing perfectly fine. And I know Mark's got

750
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:05,040
one, Darrell's got one. And when I was talking to Darrell about his, he was saying how nice it is to,

751
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:09,520
even when he's at home, if it's just pure laziness of, he don't want to fucking get up out of bed.

752
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:15,200
He can play his portal there as long as the PlayStation's in rest mode. What would be great

753
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:19,680
is if you could turn the PlayStation... If you needed to have the PlayStation turned on to be

754
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:25,040
able to play the portal, which I believe you do, come up with something where I can turn the fucking

755
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:30,160
thing on when it's turned off. You know what I mean? On an app that's connected or whatever.

756
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:38,400
But there's been a couple of times when Steph's got back into Fortnite and obviously she plays

757
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:46,240
it on the Switch, but she plays it on the telly. And even then, if I'm not really feeling playing

758
00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:53,920
anything on PC, I don't want to take Steph away from doing what she's doing. But if I had another

759
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:59,200
console there where I could play the things that I want to play, you start to see more and more

760
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:05,680
the idea of, oh shit, it actually does have a purpose. And when it first come out, that was

761
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:13,040
its purpose, much like the Wii U. It was never framed as an addition to take out and about.

762
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,720
It was always, and I think that's why we got so fucking weirded out by it, because we were like,

763
00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:21,760
what the fuck is the point? It was not even meant to be taken on the road with you. That's just for

764
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:26,800
fucking, you can sit upstairs watching telly and I can sit downstairs playing fucking God of War.

765
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:32,320
I still think... I mean, yeah, that's fine. If that's the model that they've gone with and that's

766
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:36,400
what they're aiming for, I just think they're leaving so much money on the table. People are

767
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:43,440
always asking for like a new PSP or Vita or whatever they were called. So why would you not

768
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:49,280
just essentially just do that, but without the... Because you don't need to have discs anymore. You

769
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:55,760
don't need the little disc used to put in your Vitas and PlayStation portals and stuff. But to

770
00:39:55,760 --> 00:40:00,560
be able to download it onto your system, all you need is memory on that. That's all you need is

771
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,560
something to store it in. I don't know. I'm guessing the port doesn't have any memory.

772
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:12,080
It is just a streaming device. Yeah, there's nothing in it. It will have like very basics.

773
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:16,160
Oh, it will soon because you know what they'll do. They'll announce little

774
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,720
hard drive attachments to the fucking thing. 100%.

775
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:28,560
Well, I feel like the streaming side of it is... For me, I feel like that's the right direction to

776
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:32,240
go in just because it keeps the cost at it. I would imagine it would keep the cost down of it. And

777
00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:39,680
you're talking as if you don't have internet access to your phone 99% of the time.

778
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,880
I don't even have internet access here unless I'm on the Wi-Fi.

779
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,680
Yeah, but that's because you're here though. You're in a field.

780
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,840
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. There's places in London I go where I don't get internet on my phone.

781
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:54,400
And the place I'm at tomorrow, I couldn't play the portal because I don't get internet.

782
00:40:54,400 --> 00:41:01,360
I literally can't get internet on my phone. It's just nothing. I don't even get 3G or nothing.

783
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:09,200
And that's London. So, you know, that's very niche, but I guess I'm old school. I don't want

784
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:16,320
physical stuff to disappear. And I've also been burnt by streaming stuff. Quite recently, I was

785
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:25,440
playing Star Wars Force Unleashed on PlayStation 5 on that PlayStation Now thing. I was playing it

786
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:30,640
at home on my PlayStation Now shit. Yes, exactly. But I'm playing it at home.

787
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:35,920
Yeah. On my Wi-Fi. Yeah. On my PlayStation 5. And it's fucking terrible.

788
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:40,480
Yeah, there's a reason why PlayStation Now never, they tried so hard to make that take off and it

789
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:46,240
just didn't. But then that is, that will be their PlayStation cloud. That will be where their games

790
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:51,840
are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then why is the portal going to be an improvement on that after I've just

791
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:59,440
tried to play a PS3 game on a PS5? Probably because that's the market for it. Your PS5

792
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:05,280
sitting there is not designed to be for games to be streamed on it. Your PlayStation is there

793
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:10,720
because you can physically put games onto it and then play them from that. Yeah, I'm with you. The

794
00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:17,920
streaming should fucking work. But I'd have to imagine that if there's a dedicated separate

795
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:23,360
console for that, that you're going to plumb more money into making it work on that before you're

796
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,760
going to worry about making it work on your console. Because that's what the whole thing's

797
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:34,960
for. No one's bought a PS5 because they're just going to play PlayStation Now. If it works and

798
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:41,280
it works like 99% of the time, then yeah, I'm with you. Well, that'll be the proofs in the pudding.

799
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:48,160
Because if there is input lag or it keeps dropping, then it's just trash. At least they're beta testing

800
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:54,560
that to users. Do I think it's right to be beta testing that to people that are paying the fucking

801
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:58,800
top tier of PlayStation Plus? Bit weird because what's that going to do? Anyone that's got a

802
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:04,160
portal is now going to go, oh, fucking hell, let me pay the extra money and then I'll fucking

803
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:10,800
roll in this. But from a business idea, very, very smart. Because if I had a portal, I'd want to be

804
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:17,040
in on that. I would want to be able to stream those games, especially coming from a gaming podcast

805
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:23,600
point. It would be great to have one to be able to do that so that you could give an in-depth

806
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:31,440
review on it. But I would just hope that if you're going to have it like that, that you would listen

807
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:37,040
to what the people are saying and what should be done. And input lag will have to be priority

808
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:43,600
number one. Input lag and fucking buffering. If I'm streaming a game, I don't want it to buffer.

809
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:49,360
Well, that's essentially what it was doing to me. It was just all the pixels were just dying.

810
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:49,920
Shit. Really shit.

811
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:53,360
And then slowly like, you know when you're watching YouTube and your internet's terrible

812
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,280
and then it drops down to 480p. You can't see nothing.

813
00:43:55,280 --> 00:44:00,560
Yeah. That's exactly what happened when I played it all years ago. I think it was on PS4 is when

814
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:07,120
I first tried PlayStation now and it was terrible. You get enticed in by seeing that massive catalog

815
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:11,280
of games and all the old school games and shit. And you think, oh, fucking hell, this is sick.

816
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:17,280
I was just playing one of the Ratchet and Clank's and it was terrible. Really, really, really,

817
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,360
really bad. That's what I mean. When you get burnt by that, you're just put off by it. So

818
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:25,760
all these streaming services, because you can just play Xbox games for your telly. You don't

819
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:30,560
even need a fucking Xbox, but I'm burnt on the stream. So I'm thinking, you know, if you're

820
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:35,120
desperate and you don't have an Xbox and you want to play Starfield, then there's an option for you.

821
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:36,560
Whether it's good or not, I don't know.

822
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:40,960
Bro, you can play a game like so many games now through Netflix.

823
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,960
Yeah. GTA 7 and JAS.

824
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:43,920
And it always pops up.

825
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:51,120
That in itself is fucking wild. Just download them quick and fucking playing with your

826
00:44:51,120 --> 00:45:00,720
controller like it. Let's have a look. I just Googled input lag on the PlayStation portal.

827
00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:05,920
And I just want to see. In my opinion, the PlayStation port is a wonderful tool for

828
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:10,720
streaming games from the PS5 and it should work perfectly on a local network and acceptably

829
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:16,080
wherever we are within the range of a low and stable latency. However, the portal fails to

830
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:21,040
meet acceptable input lag standards on a local network. I'm talking about an input lag of at

831
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:28,400
least 50 to 60 milliseconds in the in the best case scenario, which as we both agree is noticeable.

832
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:35,680
Very noticeable when Lou first started playing games on Amazon Luna.

833
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:43,120
When you don't have the Amazon Luna controller to pair up with it and you're using a standard

834
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:49,200
Xbox controller, whatever the input lag is crazy because not only are you fucking streaming that

835
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:55,760
you're now on a wireless controller not specifically designed for those servers.

836
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,400
And then, you know, there's a problem because they came out with a controller dedicated for

837
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,720
those servers that had its own dedicated servers that it would link up to to reduce the input lag

838
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:14,960
that was still there. That is to be fair. I feel like if you can crack being able to stream a game

839
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:22,320
with next to no input lag whatsoever or barely noticeable input lag, then that opens up a whole

840
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:27,840
load of shit because even down to little things like watching live television and shit like that,

841
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:32,880
there's always a gap. There's input lag on everything.

842
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:37,600
For PlayStation 5, there's input lag on the control, but you don't notice it. It's impossible

843
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:42,800
to notice because it's minimal. But that's what they need to get it to. For it to be successful,

844
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:50,080
they need no input lag. They need PS5 level of input lag and they need the buffering to happen

845
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:55,520
once a year and be like, oh, this is fucking shit. But then never happen again for the year.

846
00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:01,120
That can't be consistent because your games are fucked. And, you know, let's get it right. Not

847
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:05,040
everyone wants to, but some people will want to play fucking Mortal Kombat online and stuff.

848
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:08,240
There'll be a lot of your library that's useless. If you want to play online gaming,

849
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:13,920
it's impossible with input lag. It's a very difficult thing to get right

850
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:20,720
because I know myself that if I were to get a PlayStation portal and there be that initial

851
00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:26,960
stuttering, the input lag and things like that, or it just not connecting to the PlayStation and all

852
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:34,480
of the above, it's going to switch me off relatively quick. And I feel like that is the most dangerous

853
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:43,120
thing for something like the portal and it going in the streaming direction is I think you're of

854
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:48,320
a day and age now where most people aren't just going to turn around and go, oh, well, you're

855
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:54,320
streaming it is what it is. Like what you just said, if I'm putting the money into it, albeit

856
00:47:54,320 --> 00:48:00,720
200 quid, still 200 quid for a fucking console that's cost me however much money they cost.

857
00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:08,320
I can't remember how much PS5 is. Then I want the fucking thing to work as it should.

858
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,800
Yeah. Or, you know, you got to be realistic and be a human about it and be like, all right,

859
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:17,920
I can accept issues, but they have to be once in a while. It can't be fucking every other day.

860
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:24,000
This game's just fucked. It's jittering. It's fucking the button input isn't working. Like

861
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:30,320
you know, it can't just be falling apart on the screen. It has to be working. And that's

862
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:34,160
where Steam Deck just does everything so well. Obviously I know you're downloading stuff onto it,

863
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:38,800
but when I connect it to the dock and then I press one button on my PlayStation,

864
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:42,560
my PlayStation controller is connected to the Steam Deck and there's no input lag.

865
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:49,280
And that's two completely different systems all working wirelessly. Fantastic. Yeah. So yeah,

866
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:56,000
it is possible when you are right. It's just old my, my old head with the streaming, but much like

867
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,240
I've always been, I'll only ever buy physical media. I haven't bought a fucking game in,

868
00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:04,720
I don't know how long now, just for ease. And I would never ever bought a Steam Deck in the past

869
00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:10,640
because I'll be like, I can't keep my games. But now I'm just like, I just love having it there.

870
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:15,680
And just, if I want it like tomorrow, I'm going to use it. So I will go on it. I'll look at my

871
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:19,920
library. I've obviously got everything I want on there now anyway. But if there's any new games,

872
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:24,560
I want like that, Baltaro, whatever, I'll download it tonight and it will be running fine tomorrow

873
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:28,400
because it doesn't need internet. It's just gone. Where you run into a problem is if you're,

874
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:33,360
if you're only access to games on the portal is through streaming and through what you've

875
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:41,120
already got on your PlayStation. If I'm not, I'm not paying for a game that I have to stream,

876
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:46,080
or I'm definitely not paying fucking full price for one. No, exactly that. If you're, if you're

877
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:50,320
going to throw, I don't know, let's for argument's sake, because you're talking about earlier,

878
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:54,480
stalker too, when that finally comes out on PlayStation, if you're then going to throw

879
00:49:55,040 --> 00:50:02,240
60 quid at me to be able to play it and stream it, it entirely depends on like you said, what,

880
00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:08,560
what it should be is okay, 60 quid for stalker. You buy this, it's now in your library. You can

881
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:13,440
download this on your PlayStation five, but you can now also stream it on your portal. That's how

882
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,800
it should be. It should be, if I purchase it, that's the direction I'd want to see it in. If

883
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:22,640
you're going to stick with the streaming side of things, let me buy the game, but then let me

884
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:26,560
simultaneously. Well, I suppose no, cause you already do because it has to be downloaded on

885
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:31,680
your, sorry, what the fuck am I saying? That is what it does now. You buy the game and so on.

886
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:35,840
You were just saying there that you don't need a PlayStation five console and you can just play the

887
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,680
games. So yeah. So that's where that would come into play. Yeah. You're right. Right. And what

888
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:45,840
you're saying, but it'd either have to be a huge cut price and just not a portal version, but a

889
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:51,280
streaming version. Well, I don't even know how you, how do you get around it? Exactly. Stalker two,

890
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:58,160
physical, digital stream only. How does that one work? Yeah. You're right. You know, you know,

891
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,600
what it'll be, it'll just be a subservice. It'll just be a subscription. It will be a subscription.

892
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:09,440
Yeah. Well, I can see this being, um, or games pass being Sony's way into game pass is, is by,

893
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:13,120
by implementing something like that. They've already got something like that. The highest

894
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:17,600
tier of PlayStation plus, which is, might be why they're leaning into that with the beta

895
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:21,200
might be a reason because that is what you're going to need to stream these games. It gives you

896
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:25,120
access. Are you going to be able to stream the new games that you want to play without buying them?

897
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:29,200
That's an interesting question. I have to wait and see on that. It is because that's a big outlay

898
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:32,880
to be able to do something like that. I'm not buying 60 quid if I can only stream a game.

899
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:37,040
And if I want to play on PS5, I've got to buy it. No, no chance. No chance.

900
00:51:37,040 --> 00:52:02,080
What's the, there we go. There's a piss. See you later everyone.