Game of the Year awards were fucking last night and in true fashion as as
Possibly one of the best gaming podcasts in the UK
We're here primed and ready for information on all of that straight off the bat
Finger on the pulse
Finger on the pulse. That's what we've got toast has popped up. We're already there with the fucking butter
We've already got toast before the breads got in. It's right there
So we're decent. I won't lie. I didn't watch the stream. I know you didn't watch the stream either. We're adult men
Where we have to get up earlier than most to go to one? Oh, I do you'll be different
But either way, we ain't got the fucking capacity. What time did it start like midnight or some shit?
It was still streaming when I was up
So I knew it weren't fucking I weren't gonna get a recap properly, but there's a
Oh, there's a lot of shit. I think 2024 has been a a rather shit year for gaming
in a sense of not not nearly as much as as
Previous years has come into the fray and I feel like that's because it's all been leading into 2025
Because some of the shit that's coming out
Supposedly next year is quite is quite top tier. So I'm excited for it
Thoughts
Yes
You're just waiting for me to fill some space. Yeah
Yes, I agree. No, I think this year's been alright
We've had Shadow of the Earth tree. We've had Black Mith Wukong
We have Dragon's Dogma I think early on
I need to work. I need to feel like I need to play Astrobots
If you're not aware spoilers Astrobot won game of the year, right? I'll openly admit it
I don't think that's right
Okay, but I haven't played the game now. I voted for
Shadow of the Earth tree
Controversially as a DLC. I was half and half between that and Black Mith Wukong
Now I can get over Astrobots winning game of the year fair enough because it is a good game
Otherwise, it wouldn't win game of the year. What I can't understand is how it won best action slash adventure
Yes
How does that work you explained to me how that one works which is why I must be missing something so therefore I need to
Play it because I can't understand
Why?
Against the games that it was against why it's done so unbelievably well, especially as a PlayStation exclusive
Yeah, I just I just want to work it out
Please is a platformer where you can go around and collect characters
From the PlayStation life, you know, but I don't I don't really see
Yeah, is that where they get the adventure parkers to me just looks like a platformer
I really don't I don't fucking if it's anything like the original Astrobot. It's just literally a platformer
I mean the trouble is I think it's still got that gimmicky tag to it
Which is why it's quite shocked that he's winning game of the year because it was initially like a
Given to you gift with yeah free already downloaded because it's there
It's their flagship almost isn't it in that it it replaced little big planet. It was more of like a
What you say like a hardware demo game? Yeah
Yeah
It was the game to show off the the any new features that were in like like when you first get your ps5
And it you play Astro bots
To for it to show off the controller
And then obviously a while ago. They went down the route of turning it into a fully fledged standalone game
That obviously does very very well again difficult to really shit on it
Because number one it probably doesn't deserve it and number two neither of us have fucking played it
So it's very hard to say why the fuck did it be I would have bought it because the kids love playing Astro bots
Right. That's one of the most played games that they play on my station, but I can't justify spending 50 60 quid on it
Because it's not too bad if it was too bad. It'd be fine
But because they can't play together they take it in turns and kids don't like taking turns. Nope
So I mean, I can't but when it comes down price, I'll definitely get for the kids
But yeah, that's always been like the the original one. It was good fun
I mean, it's always been like the original one. It was good fun
I mean it originally came from the VR didn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah VR game. Everyone went wild for it
And then yes, obviously transitioned into a tech demo and and
Yeah, that was really good as a platformer
So it's got all like the the the right platform in fun and the movement and stuff like that
And if they've enhanced that
When it came out, it was being compared to Super Mario 64. Mm-hmm
So if it's reaching them sort of levels, then I can understand it, but I guess it's hard to shake that
That's that tag of hardware. Well, we've got we've got game of the year Astro Bot
Yeah, and that'd be out Bellator black myth Wukong shadow of the Earth tree Final Fantasy rebirth and metaphor
Refantartio, okay, and then you got best game direction
Astro Bot won that which was up against the
Astro Bot won that which was up against Bellator black myth shadow the Earth tree rebirth and then metaphor
They're just all gonna be up against each other which I don't know how
best game direction
black myth Wukong surely
shadow the earth tree surely
You've played fucking metaphor. Did you like metaphor? I'm still playing it. I love it still playing it. It's fantastic best narrative
Metaphor has won that
best art direction metaphor
best score and music Final Fantasy
7 rebirth
best audio design
Senua's saga hellblade 2 fair play best performance
Molina
Juergens, yeah from hellblade. Yep
Innovation in accessibility Prince of Persia never played it game for impact neither
Can haven't played it best ongoing game of destiny to Diablo for Final Fantasy 14?
Fortnight and Helldivers 2 which one do you think got it?
Helldivers Helldivers 2 only cuz I know yeah Helldivers 2 Helldivers 2 was good. I
Wouldn't say it's the best ongoing game though
Because it did die
Somewhat of a death or was very close. It killed itself didn't it?
Yeah, I wouldn't say it's the best ongoing it went fucking stale when you got nothing for a very long time
But they have now they just they have now. Yeah
but also that that
You've got the stain of the fact that the developers
When the player base was just about fucking winning the war
They just cranked up the difficulty and made it impossible to win and then just fucking turn the scales completely back to
to to the automatons
So I feel like that that kind of your your
forcing the longevity of the game at that point and sort of spitting in the faces of your community
And obviously that's why a lot of people gave up obviously then you got the the PlayStation
Signing thingy majig that everyone was kicking off about the big one that everyone went mad about was when they know stuff
I mean, yeah, it's not enough in in-game weapons
People didn't like that. Why are you fucking nerfing that supposed to be why you nerfing that they say the same thing
We're saying cod. I mean, there's not a metaphor the world matters, but just let people have fun, man
It's just a fucking co-op game. Fuck me
Best communities best community support boulders gate free. Whoo best independent game, but large row
It's decent but large rows days talk about
Planet best debut indie game belato best mobile game belato
Best VR slash AR we don't care about
But it's the action capers best action game black myth wukong
Best action slash adventure is astrobots
best RPG metaphor best fighting game Tekken 8 best family game astrobot
best sim slash strategy game frostpunk 2 best sports is EA Sports FC 25
best multiplayer helldivers 2
Shocking kind of agree. It's shocking though. That was up against black ops 6 super Mario Party jamboree
Tekken 8 and then warhammer
Space Marine 2
That fantastic game. I mean just it's just
Best adaptation fallout
What the series? Yeah, yeah
Okay, and fallout knuckles like a dragon yakuza and then tomb raider were the ones it was up there obviously most anticipated game Grand Theft Auto 6
Why did we see nothing of Grand Theft Auto 6? You know the amount of memes and shit that I'm seeing
Where there was one?
It was what was the fucking name of the of that horror movie basically where there was like two people
sitting there and one of them was
Was active active vision and then the other one was like
Ubisoft or some shit like that and then they pass them looking down the corridor and they're like this evil demon there and it's just
Rockstars fucking logo sat there because they're coming man. Whatever they're fucking bringing that's gonna be
more but I
Disappointed that
Didn't really see anything from them. But the thing is they don't need that shit
Well, they can blow up the internet whenever they feel like it
They can just drop it on a random Thursday and everyone loses their heads these games
They need like that. They're big enough in their own rights
But to get the eyes they need the game awards to draw everyone in the Rockstar just go bang
And everyone's like what the fuck Rockstar could release a second trailer
at fucking free in the morning on a Thursday with no prior warning whatsoever and you can guarantee that shit will be
Blown up by four four in the morning or instantly within five minutes
It'll be fucking bang and then every cunts got a fucking article about it that you have to subscribe to to read it
Can you imagine what the world would be like if just like on a Tuesday night you got home and
They just shadow dropped it GTA 6
Because you know, I'd be successful in all
If you if you were Rockstar you could go through all the aggro of paying millions and millions of pounds to
Advertise it and to get it out there and blah blah blah, but you know full well that you could just go
There you go. Have it. See you later
It's just on there and and the shock of it and the people talking about it would do its own
And then and then you just need one Twitter post from Rockstar just saying we released it. It's the full stop done
job done
I'd love that man. I would absolutely love that. I remember when Eminem shadow dropped an album
But I was just I woke up one morning. It's come up with Spotify new
What I lost my mind because it's the excitement the unknown the unexpected
Apex Legends was a good one for just fucking shadow dropping just out of nowhere. Boom. Here's your game. It's a good marketing thing man
It is yeah. Yeah, it works and it's cheap
It's very cheap. It's free free have that
Best marketing to just drop it and then everyone just goes man. Yeah, imagine how many people didn't go into work Wednesday morning
Mmm, I know man. I remember I remember when apex legends come out and I remember complaining
Because I was like fucking out really another battle royale. This isn't what we wanted
We wanted fucking Titanfall and little did we know that that game would consume you for the next two three years
That shit just took over. It was fucking decent
Back to the game awards. I mean, I know you ain't fucking that bothered by it, but out of worlds, too
I'm excited for it. I think that looks fucking that looks good
and I like I like the fact that they they took the piss out of themselves in the trailer by saying that it's taken free times as
Long as it should have and they've in in outer worlds, too
They've implemented the things that should have been in the first game, but weren't and shit like that
I find that that sort of stuff where it's like you're you're taking the piss out of yourself because you know that this
This is the case. That's general gaming jargon. Yeah, and they were like from from the people that brought you
I think it was
Was it fallout free?
Yeah, fallout free, I think they called it like fallout free to New Vegas or some shit like that
Just funny man. It just looks cool. It looks decent. I'll definitely be playing that whenever it comes out and
Then that berserker game. I didn't see it. You didn't see I've seen it before. I have yeah this
I can't remember what exactly it was fucking called though, which is terrible because
Because we're a gaming podcast
They didn't release it that will shit at fucking in the middle of the night, maybe we'd be a bit more
Oh, yeah, we'll fuck the English. I guess with like an eight hour stream to fucking recap through it. Oh god, really
I cherry-picked the ones I was most interested in obviously. Yeah, go on. Well, obviously the witcher. Mm-hmm
You know me and how long has that been since the
Since fucking
I'm still living at home man when I was playing Witcher 3 so probably about
2013
2014 witcher 3 came out 18th of May 2015 2015 2015
So ten years next year and also thank God the last of us part two remasters going to PC
Thank fuck for that. The funny thing is with a witcher though is that this that that witcher still won't come out for another six seven years
You know that what which are for you don't reckon no. No, I know it's not they even announced the other day
That it's gone into full production. Like it's just started. Oh, is that not a fucking no that's 2025
No, that's just like by the way, we go we're making it. They said literally last week witcher 4 and they didn't call it that
But the witcher now is in full production. So they've gone past planning stage and all that shit
So now that it's in full, but so you remember cyberpunk got announced like seven eight years
And they had that trailer. Yeah, so this is this is a long long long the same with Rainbow six seed
I remember that or more recently not gaming related but
Warhammer with Henry Cavill where they announced the other day that that that they they had the talks and now they're gonna start
Producing it and you're not fucking hell you click baited me because I thought we were gonna get fucking something
I mean, that's still decent, but you dirty cunts, you know what you're fucking doing when you say that shit
So now it's just like can I stay alive long enough for the next witcher?
This is just what happens
Can I make it can I make another six seven years? Who knows? Well, it's like I don't I don't think
Yeah, we shouldn't expect the witcher for release date before 2025
It's like I'm adamant that GTA 6 isn't gonna release next year. I think it will but I understand your pessimism
But if it is gonna release and it's gonna be in the last quarter 100% I just don't I can't see it'll be
It'll be like fucking September time when it comes out September 10th. Yeah, and then fucking and then it will just absolutely
Decimate and then we'll all spend that Christmas playing GTA spend the rest of our lives
I
Haven't watched that trailer for it's been over a year now since I try no over a year
Fast I remember sitting on the on the city. Yeah talking about it. Yeah
And this like are doing a little deep dive with the alligator and fucking oh my god, man
We were saying our bit they think do another trailer till fucking the middle of the year. It's been a year
It's been a year. It's doing say no no sniff of anything
I wouldn't be surprised if in the next couple of weeks you get a random fucking trailer
That's just how powerful they are man. They can do what they like and it will shock the world
They don't they are their own platform. Yeah, of course. They are
I'm trying to find out the fucking um, it
Was like the first berserker or something
She's not the last berserker the first berserker Kazan
Is what it was that looked pretty fucking decent from what I watched it look very fucking gory very
Cut you in the face type shit. Yeah, I was excited for that
Was on the old fucking steamy weenie. I saw the
Game of Thrones trailer. I was weren't a fan man. I was was it was a mobile game. Is that a mobile game?
Dirty dirty cunts everywhere. That was a mobile game. I didn't even know
That was a mobile
Yeah, how did you say that at the end it was a mobile no, no, no, no, of course it fucking didn't
But me I googled it. No
Game of Thrones Kings Road or something. I think yeah. Yeah, and it had Jon Snow had all the fucking characters in it, man
Oh, here we go. Look at IGN two minutes ago. There we go straight feet finger on the pulse
Game of Thrones Kings Road announced a story driven action adventure RPG coming to mobile
Fuck you know soon as you get that you like I'm out
Where is the where is the fucking game of Thrones RPG?
Where is the biggest things in the history of television? Where is the the open world players around character?
We've characters died about because we've been over this before it's very difficult to do a fucking
Series or movie adaptation into a game and have it be successful
Very difficult, but you would have thought that something like Game of Thrones
Would be the type of thing that you try milk because they fucking milk it everywhere else
Look at Shadow of Mordor, how good was that game?
All you need is the setting you don't need all the shit. You just need the setting you need the white walkers
You need West was you need familiar locations that you can
Follow the specifics you've already got it all built out
You just need to put in the building blocks that is a very good comparison
You know because that game them two games shadow or shadow Mordor
I'm mental and I'm not even into Lord of the Rings the way you are, but I fucking I blitz them game
I love them and then they went and gone. Yeah that that'll do. We'll go make
We'll go make fucking the justice leave. Yeah, we pay and this is shutting down
It's nemesis system that you that you absolutely adore and everyone fucking loves and it's possibly one of the best gaming systems
It's ever been created ever. Yeah, we're gonna lock that away and never use it
Thanks. Yeah that annoyed me as well because also on the Game of Thrones trailer
It said Warner Bros at the bottom so that got me even more pissed off
It said Warner Bros at the bottom so that got me even more excited because I thought oh
Warner Bros are the ones that have got the nemesis system RPG game of thrones nemesis system now single my mother
Yeah, but I bow brilliant. Thanks for ruining everything again. Put the nemesis system on mobile. Yeah, brilliant. There you go
Yeah, nice one. Thanks so much
Well waste I mean I'm not too heartbroken because I didn't like the look of it. Anyway, I always find it weird when you're
You're playing as some random geezer that doesn't fit anywhere into the fucking setting
whatsoever
And you're just expected to you're almost relying on your love for those characters
That's been made through a series to get you through the rest of the game
Which is a bit disappointing
I mean the whole thing is disappointing. It's very disappointing. I didn't I genuinely didn't know that it was
A fucking I mean first berserker kazan says first berserker kazan is a hardcore action role-playing game
The player will become kazan the great general of the pel
pel los
empire
Who overcame death and sets out to reveal the incidents that led to his downfall and seek vengeance on his enemies
And that looks very
That looks very good man. Very gory very fucking i'm gonna take your head off. Yeah, it's decent. It's more than 800
Nexon's flagship ip with more than 800 million players worldwide set 800 years before the events of
dnf
What's dnf? What's what's 800 million players? The first berserker kazan is a hardcore action game
What's dnf? What's what's 800 million players? The first berserker kazan is a hardcore action rpg based on the dungeon fighter
Based on the dungeon fighter online in brackets dnf universe
nexon's flagship ip
With more than 800 million players worldwide
800 million I don't believe that
Dungeon fighter online. Let's google that then shall we?
800 million that's more than wow. That's more of a number than i've ever comprehended dungeon fighter online
Is only i'll get fucked get absolutely fucked. It's only about what do you mean the planet? What do you mean?
Dungeon fighter online known in south korea as dungeon and fighter is a multiplayer beat-em-up action role-playing game
developed and published for personal computers by neapol
um a south korean subsidiary of nexon and originally published by a hand game in
2005 a 6 out of 10 on steam a 78 metacritic
Uh, and this is what the game looks like the one that has 800 million players
It's absolute bollocks
It may have 800 million accounts
But definitely not 800 million
players
But yes based off of that, but the but the game itself actually looked pretty fucking
So it's almost like
So there's eight billion humans
So that's almost one eighth of the population of the world has played that plays this game
And yet it doesn't show up on any fucking lists whatsoever. Yeah
I find it hard to believe. Yeah, i'm excited for that. Have you did you say that you've got the
You've got the list of the games
That you've got i did have and then I went on that to look and it was
What else we got we got a naughty dog goes in goes intergalactic with intergalactic
uh fucking
What the fuck was the rest of it called? It was interesting something something or other. Um
the heretic profit
I think it looks really good. But also
You really didn't gain much from that trailer. It's an announcement trailer. There's very little there's no gameplay
There's no there's no info. Obviously we knew that naughty dog were working on a separate ip
Because when when when they were being relentlessly hounded about the last one things like that, um
Wasn't neil drukman come out and said we we've got other shit that we're working on as well
um
So this is this is that i'll be interested naughty dog hasn't let anyone down yet
So we'll see
Well, some people would argue that they have in the last of us too. A lot of people weren't happy with that. Yeah, that's true
Right, but I don't feel like I don't feel naughty dog has let me down. Um
so
again interesting it's just nice to see some fucking freshness from it rather than
I
Would I have liked another the last of us probably not if i'm honest because I also don't know how you can carry that on
really
Because I I wouldn't want to play ellie or abby again. You don't need to you could just do a new story in that universe
But yeah, I know you don't have to the same time. We don't you don't have to what was that fucking days gone thing
That I sent you as well the the what the fuck was that the the creators of that ben studio making basically siphon filter
I gather that was their big hitter back in like ps1 days
So you've got a bit of fucking first hand knowledge on it
I don't know if that's what it is says uh days gone team is making a military ps5 shooter a currently untitled stealth game
Yeah from the developers behind days gone 100 that'd be siphon filter then because siphon filter was like metal gear solid on the ps1
Like a b-tech version, but it was fucking amazing excited for that sort of shit
but again, we didn't hear anything in in the um
In the announcement for that slay the spire too. I'm excited for that. Yeah. Yeah the first
I I started reading into slay the spire because when I was thinking about
Obviously, i've got belatra on my phone
Reason i've got that it's number one because when we went over the nominations
I was like who the fuck is what is belatra and then looked into it and I was like
I didn't really see my seeing like my kind of game spoke to jay at work about it. He's been playing it
He loves it. Carl's been fucking
um
Playing it and he loves it
uh
I pay for an app on my phone called picture this
Is and it's like one pound 70 a week or some shit like that and i've been paying it for quite a long time
So I built up points
It was like i've got like 15 quid's worth of points that i'd built up. So the game costs a tenner
So I was like, oh fuck it. Let's let's give it a go and cost me nothing. I own slay the spire on my phone
Yeah, I bought that. Uh, yeah because I originally played it on the playstation
It's meant to be very good as a die-hard fan base. Yeah, i've finished it multiple times
But it's like one of them games you just play over and over again. Yeah, yeah different characters different decks blah blah blah
But I just said something really feels dirty about buying a game on your phone screaming. It felt horrible. I agree
It's just not a natural feeling you feel like you're being conned
Yeah, because I paid a tenner on the play store the game downloaded in about five seconds while you're playing it on your phone
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, see I was gonna buy it on the playstation, but then I thought well I got this bad boy
That's exactly why I was talking to you about it because uh, because this is what I didn't want to do. I thought
This game's been spoken about a lot
We don't we don't we're not in the same circle as it but a lot of people love it
Almost like dave the diver sort of vibes and vampire survivors another one man band indie
That is doing the rounds. Um
And I thought I don't want to get that on pc and I don't want to get it on playstation because I know
That I will not enjoy sitting there playing a fucking card game, but I thought
Where is a place where you can enjoy playing playing a simple little game that you can just pick up and put down your fucking phone man
Always in your hand always there
It's winter
The fields that we're in there's going to be a lot of sitting around doing fuck all in the next couple of months
It's just how it is
Maybe more so for me than you definitely not me
I got more on than I ever have
but um
Yeah, so I was like i'll buy it on my phone and yeah, that is that is the
the
Possibly the first game that i've bought
Through the play store and it felt fucking horrible for for whatever reason. I don't know why felt really weird foreign, isn't it?
I just feel like you buy stuff on your phone because you're so used to games on your phone being shit and free
Yeah, you feel like you're just being conned. Yeah, yeah shouldn't be paying for this because I was like what I think it's also
The fact that you can get it on every other platform
I was like wow
It's no different to anywhere else, but this just feels dirty, but it's good
I'd like to get it on playstation because I like the trophies
I'd like to get it on steam deck because I like the portability of it. I think well
I would get it on your phone. Yeah, and I think I will but I also would like to know how many hours I played
I've got a real hard on for watching my hours on a game go up speaking of which
I've got yours is probably not worth a wank to be honest. Are you talking about your playstation fucking wrapped? Yeah
Yeah, I haven't done mine yet, but I guarantee it ain't worth fuck all
Yeah, so I've done mine earlier if you want to quickly run through that go on. Why not?
I have in 2024. Do you want to join a guess or do you also want to me to tell you?
2024 of what I've played how many games different games?
32 54. Oh 37 on ps5 17 on ps4 or ps4 games. Mm-hmm
My first game this year. What was I playing on January the first?
January the first. Yeah, well elden ring weren't
There was it when did Elden ring come out last year? No, not this year last year
Last year shadow of the earth tree come out this year. No Elden ring come out like two three years
Yeah, shadow of the earth tree didn't come out until
Later, I don't know mate. Oh wait
No, I don't know oh of course it's daisy
From the very first start of my PSN account. I've played 260 games
Which is not a lot since I played 54 just this year
My top five games of the year daisy
Daisy's actually not on this list. What?
Really?
shadow of the earth tree
Yes, Elden ring is in at number four Elden rings there
Oh
is
is um
Is metaphor on there? Nope. Nope. Okay
Nope. Nope. Okay
Uh is is cod on there? That's number two 75 hours. Nice one is apex on there
It is not it is not okay, and daisy's not on there fucking ill
football manager
That's on pc. Fuck
Fuck so you've got number four football managers on pc. Yeah, yeah, Elden ring was 62 hours. Yeah
Cod was 75. So you're just missing three five and one
shit
Really? Why can't I think of anything that we've played?
Or that you've played
One of them was very recent
Oh now go on give them to me number three is new world
Yeah, 70 hours. Yeah. Yeah
number
Five is final fantasy online
61 hours
I'm not sure I thought we did that last year. That doesn't feel like this year. No, that was a this year thing
That's I feel yeah. Yeah how what a fucking what a what a great but shit time we had
Yeah
I feel that uh number one
170 hours
Feels slightly unfair because it's not even me minecraft
Great great fucking hell man. We'll do yours and then we'll do mine after i've just loaded mine
I've let the kids play minecraft for 170 hours this year. That's 170 hours worth of entertainment that you've had
They've had sorry. I will not be telling my wife that why do you think should we be angry at that?
What they've got the most played out of my playstation this year, I reckon
My gaming style was adventurer. I spent 29 percent of my game time dodging danger and picking fights in epic
Epic action adventure games
um
I've got you've got the the
2024
Gaming calendar for each month so we can go through this January my game of the month was gta online
Nice, I had 20 sessions
I'll go through all the hours of each one. Uh february was final fantasy online. So that was when we did that
March was dragons dogma
Oh shit. Yeah dragons dogma april was call of duty
May was core duty
June was elden ring nice. July was minecraft august was minecraft
September was warhammer space marine
October was new world november was daisy december's been metaphor. We fantasio
I love that we had been pining for a long time over waiting for the elden ring dlc
And then it comes out and you can just see how much we loved it by the fact that we just fucking rinsed it in a month
I'm done. I'm done with that. Thank you very much. All them all their messages of you from you
I've done this have you seen this? Yeah, that's what makes them games so good because they are literal adventures. Hold on quick
Hold on quick. Let me have a quick wee wee
Oh shit
In
2024 I played x amount of hours on the playstation 5
How many hours did I play 2024? I reckon you did
574 hours almost double 960 hours. Wow. I played for
I had
967 play sessions. Yeah, so that's on average like an hour of time. I turn it on and I played
54 games
I earned
274 trophies
Um
These are all the fucking trophies. I don't know one's interested in that shit. Uh, I made six new friends. That's cute
I scored i've done 15 campaigns. I don't know what that means
And that's it. That's that's mine done
It's very decent
Very admirable mark was telling me earlier that he's done his and he was saying that he was seeing people who had had like three
three four thousand hours
Of game time and I said to him I said I would love to just get my world of warcraft
Playtime because he worked out he was like it's like fucking 10 hours a day worth of play and I was like
I'm probably not too far off of that
To be fair a thousand hours is 41 days
That's basically what I've played. So yeah, essentially i've played for one. I was just over a month of this year
Yeah, i've just been playing well with gamers part of the fucking to be honest with you
I'm pretty disappointed with my numbers. Yeah, I try and squeeze in a good three four hours when the kids go to bed
You know, that's why i'm so fucking tired all the time. I can't let's see what I fucking got
Here we go. Uh
28 games I played
It's more than I suspected which is 22 ps5 and 6 ps4
Um, whoa you played to your heart's content
Well done my first game of the year was a true gem
Um, you're right. None of us are getting this is right
Nobody saves the world
Okay, I have no idea. I think it was a free game from the from the thingy and that was january 8th
Wow, so I didn't play anything until fucking
8th of january, uh, here we go
top five games
Let's go for it. Elden ring Elden ring is on there at number two. Well, that can't be right
I think it was like
30 hours
Blitzed it didn't you 30 hours play time. It's 15. Okay, cool
Callisto protocol i've seen you play no mate. No, no, I finished that now and all but no not callisto protocol stray
No stray didn't come out this year. Did it not? No, no
One of them is the same as what you had. Oh, obviously final fantasy. Is that number one? No final fantasy
Ain't on it played something longer than that
Final fantasy I played final fantasy on that didn't I I weren't I weren't on playstation final fantasy is not on your app rap
No, because I played on pc
Didn't I?
You're not gonna get any of them other than the one that we played together it's not it's not warhammer
Oh, I've ruined it
New world bro, oh, yeah, but new world's my number one remnant on there though remnants not on there because that weren't this year
I don't know. I've lost time man
New world 36 hours is my i've only got two trophies in new world, but that can't be right
But yeah, 36 hours. I thought I pumped a bit more but maybe not you got
number three is
Plague tale requiem. Oh, yes 29 hours put into that
Uh number four is the outlast trials. It was 20 hours thrown into that. I bet the other one's assassin's creed
Syndicate no not syndicate fucking
Mirage. Yeah, wasn't this year?
Uh, I'll give up. Yeah plague tale innocence
Oh, so the first one was the first one did 11 hours on that and then yeah, um plague tale requiem
Was after that it's not bad. Uh, your my gaming style is connoisseur
Action adventure you spent 29 of your game time playing an eclectic mix of games
cool, uh
Calendar here we go
January nobody saves the world. I played that for an hour
What a wasted month
February plague tale innocence. I played that for 11 hours
Fucking hell, and i'm a gamer. Jesus
Uh march was the outlast trials for 20 hours
Uh
Well, it says that but then hours logged is 27
You only played that's just what you played in that month though, isn't it?
Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Um april bioshock the collection
weird
May was plague tale requiem
june elden ring
Uh, and that says 47 hours that I got logged on there
and then july
Was elden ring and there's another 10 hours thrown on top of that
And then august was boulder's gate free
September
Yeah, september was a rough month september funco fusion
You want to know how many hours was logged on funco fusion one? Yeah
One I hated that game
You were pretending you loved it. I thought I loved it, but I just didn't darryl loves it. It looked shit
Everything about it looked shit. I can't save the game. How stupid absolutely abominable. Um, october was new world
November calisto protocol 13 hours thrown on that and then december. I don't uh, there is no game data for this month
Because I haven't actually I don't think I have actually played anything this month
in december
No
Yeah, I just think uh, you just need to broaden your horizons because all you do is play. Wow, really, isn't it?
Well, look here we go just for me. Uh,
We've got thanks for being a playstation plus member now keep it going these
These specially picked games based on your play profile
Skyrim not playing it demon souls. I'm not playing it. The last was part one not touching it resident evil 2
I'm not touching it assassins creed. Obviously. I'm not touching it returnal maybe
If it's cheap
So that's good. Um in how many hours did you play?
About 900 and something
I want to say you played
112
193
Hours is what I put in
With 124 play sessions
So and then what else we got? How many trophies did you get?
uh
300 or something. I got 166 trophies
That would do
uh
I don't care about trophy milestones
You got busy online social stats 59 multiplayer player hours eight parties joined
free share play sessions and free new friends
free share play who's share playing with
uh
Uh stream. Oh, sorry streams. No discord. Sorry discord
What do you mean you share who you share in the game with and what game was it new world?
A couple of people in the discord like leon
Like they'll play well with no shirts. That's no that's like when you let someone else play your game
your game from their own home
I didn't let anyone do that. So yeah, that's why it's weird that you've got i've been hacked
You scored how you score 13 campaigns
You uh, give a fuck about that
And then uh, what a year
There we go
What a year fantastic year. I definitely need to broaden the horizons on it. It's very it's very difficult because like after this podcast
I'll probably go on. Wow. Yeah, it's just what annoys me though. I just I talk we've had this discussion a thousand times
I want that I want to just be like, yeah, these are all great. I'm going back there
I just haven't got that and it pisses me off because
Guess what I did. I spent a hundred pound to buy a fucking path of exile two
To get the fucking beta and i've been banging that all week and guess who's had enough of it me
Is that what you did? Yeah, you fucking melt for a game. What did you do that for?
Because I wanted all the shiny shit. They've got you hook line and sinker. I wanted all the shiny shit. Fucking hell
How much have you paid on that? You kept that quiet?
Why have you kept that so quiet?
I haven't kept it quiet. You fucking have because you ain't told me anything of that. Normally you try and wrangle me in on that shit
Because I know what you're like you just moan about everything. Because it's exactly the same as fucking diablo
No, it's very good. All right, the game is very good high quality. It is early access like the game's fantastic
There's nothing wrong with it at all apart from it being early access. So you just go okay, well that's gonna be fixed
Um, but then i just whilst i'm doing it and i'm having a great time. I'm thinking why am I doing this?
What do you mean? Well, what is the point?
Much like diablo. What is the fucking point? I got a fucking I got sick drop fantastic. Yeah
Oh, i've got these gems. I can put these in a brilliant. I've got a fucking best in slot for my character. Great
What's the use of it because no because when the seasons come out, yeah
It's useless. Oh does it play the same format?
Yeah, which is bollocks stupid. So so what is the point?
And then you get all these stash tabs because parfaxon makes a lot of money from its stash tabs
You buy like a currency stash tab you buy this what's very cool is
You spend I don't think it was 100 quid it was like 80 quid 660 70. I don't know whatever it was
Because but they give you the equivalent of that money
That you've spent on it in currency for in game
So if you spend 70 quid on the game, they give you 70 pounds worth of
Currency so you can spend 70 quid worth of stuff, you know blah blah blah
And then they inflate the prices of everything else in the fucking shops and blah blah blah. They go on sale
Oh, they're actually very consumer friendly. Um
They actually oh that's what they're known for anyway
Well, you just paid 70 quid for an early access because I don't know how consumer friendly they really are
No one forced me. No one did force you but the option was there and it was 30 quid if you want to go early access
That's not a full fledged game for 30 quid. I think that's a good deal. In other words the demo
I was so into it. I even gifted someone two subs on twitch just to get a fucking pet
That's a new thing that they're doing. They're doing that with wow as well gift subs to strata. How about fuck off?
Just give me the fucking pet. That's what I thought about doing but then I got it anyway and then guess what?
I turned pets off because they're confusing me and I kept thinking they're enemies. So
Useless how does the talent system thing work?
Because that's the main thing I see from path of exile 2 is when you open up the talents and there's just that fucking big
Sprawl of shit easy. It is easy. Yeah, because they're not talents. They're just passives
Yeah, yeah passives, but you don't need to worry about it. Just go up five percent more damages
Well, yeah that one what happens if you pick the wrong one you can refund for cheap. See this would be my problem
I'd look at that and I'd go there is a there is a meta within here somewhere. So I need to follow that
Yeah, I know I know I can't like you could you have as much fun as you want play the whole game through from
From whatever to max level
Figuring out everything you want to do and then you'll hit a point where you'll go my character is shit compared to everyone else's
And then you'll realize all your talents are fucked and you go right now. I've got a change them
I'm doing really well. I'm like midway through act two
I've seen a lot of people even poe one fucking vet saying they're really struggling. It's really hard because it's slow
It's like it's not like Diablo and that is like slow combat like Elden Ring Dark Souls
Less enemies on the screen. So why do you why do you not see the point in what you're doing?
Because like I've just said when it when the seasons come out, what is the fucking point?
So you get all these stash tabs you put all your stuff in there. What's the fucking point?
This is this is the thing where I spoke to I speak to Steph about it. I did speak to Steph about it where
When Diablo 4 come out or when it was due to come out remember we spent a very long time multiple episodes
Trying to work out what the fuck the seasons meant because we couldn't comprehend it
And then I went to the discord and then fucking fucking connor was trying to explain it to me
Matt was trying to explain it all these fucking people astin
They were all trying to explain to me what the fuck the seasons mean and we deduced
From that it was that you make a character play the entire season and then that character gets thrown away
Into a server where it doesn't matter because you won't be playing on that server
And I turned around and said what a fucking stupid idea that sounds horrendous
And everyone that I spoke to was like no, it's the best fucking idea ever
It means that you get to play blah blah is refreshing and then what happened season come out
Every single one of those people hated it
Everyone hated it because that it just seems like such a weird
No, you go through you go through reddit or you go through anything like that and look at Diablo or
Parflexo and they all say the same thing. There's someone saying exactly what we're saying and they just get shit on them. Yeah, no
No, this is what keeps it fresh. This is this is the only way it keeps it fresh
But so but then what makes me because I this is what I'm trying to comprehend
What makes me now get all this cool shit drop?
Invest in it because you can trade and all that stuff on the website and trade for orbs and blah blah
What's the point in trading for something? That's going to be useless
In a month or two because i'm getting all this shit i'm buzzing and then oh well
That's the end of that. So now I have to create a new character and do the same campaign
Over again with just a few new maybe modifiers in it or whatever new system I have
But the campaign's exactly the same. What is that's just and and you you are someone who quite likes the role play aspect of it
how are you supposed to build a connection with the character that you're making and formulate some form of of
Storytelling through that character when after a month or two you've got a fucking bench it and then go again
Exactly. What the fuck's that? Why why I got I got swept up in the hype for it and uh,
I just forgot my my mentality and i've just fucking yeah, that's the end of that
It's absolutely fine because you'll make the same mistake again as will I at some point
It's gonna get uninstalled and i'm gonna reinstall bouldersgate again or cyberpunked. I don't know which one yet. Probably bouldersgate
Because I want to uh, I want to carry on. That's in january isn't it the update for bouldersgate?
Yeah, I just want to I started as solax then I before the dnd session I think and um before the original dnd
So I want to um, yeah, I want to I want to carry that on
Uh put a few mods on I think and uh a little play with that. I'm more excited for the
for the cross-platform
um
Multiplayer aspect of it or co-op that'll be quite interesting
makes life
Fun fun and exciting. Yes. Yes it does. Is that the end? Yeah. Fuck it. Why not? Why not? Fuck them
Um, I was gonna say have a good christmas, but I probably speak to you before then
Probably maybe you're here next week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, probably be here next week. We'll be here. We'll be back. Merry christmas
Blah blah blah. See you later everyone. Ooh