Bing-bong we're on.
Waf-waf-waf-waf-waf-waf-waf-waf-waf!
Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!
Ding!
Bong.
Oh, you've won a competition.
I have.
Well, you've won a competition, I'll say the What's the Buttons has won a competition,
because that's the hand that was under.
I screamed.
You have won a competition.
I screamed.
It...
Fantastic.
Absolutely fantastic.
Genuinely, not just trying to get up your arse,
but genuinely fantastic screenshot.
Thank you, thank you.
I loved it.
I'm a big fan.
Thank you, thank you.
Tell the folks.
So, Kingdom Come Deliverance put a...
Well, let's just read it, shall we?
Because it makes it a lot better if I just read it, because...
Go on then.
...then I am not making it up, and I am just talking to feel space while I find the post.
Here it is.
Find the tweet.
Oh.
So, Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, a picture is worth a thousand words, or perhaps a fine reward.
Show us your best KCD2 screenshot by replying to this tweet, and 10 of you shall claim victory.
Fortune favors the brave.
Take your shot.
And I posted on the 27th of February, and...
There it is.
It's a beautiful picture.
It's him standing in front of a burning building with two dead bodies in front of him.
I put him in front of the fire so he's more like a silhouette of the man rather than, you know,
what it is, contrast, you got it, you got it.
Top notch.
Yeah, it's a good picture.
It's on our Instagram if you want to go and have a look.
Yes, it's on the Instagram.
And they replied just like, congratulations, you're one of our winners.
We'll message you shortly, check your inbox, and reply to us.
There is over 1.2 thousand entries into that competition, and we managed to snag it.
One of the lucky 10.
I didn't initially see the tweet.
I was just sitting there talking to Jem, and then I got a weird symbol come up, which is like an envelope,
but it was like a...
It's not a symbol I ever really see, so I didn't notice, which was obviously a DM on Twitter,
which you don't get very often, or we don't, because we're small fry.
Small.
And it just said, hey, I'm Gabby, the senior community manager behind KCD2.
And that was like all I saw when I scrolled down.
Gabby!
And then the next bit was congrats, and I just screamed.
Jem was like, what's going on?
I was like, I've won something!
Yeah, it's weird, isn't it?
She was hugging me, she was jumping around, she didn't even know what I'd won.
She didn't know what was going on.
She was just happy because I was happy.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, because I've never won anything in my life.
Like literally, I was just like, I'm so unworthy.
Well, what did you win?
I don't know, a goody bag.
Because I tried to look at the photo, and I think that was a steelbook.
Where was the fucking...
I've got it on mine as well, so you don't have to lean over.
Because I sent it all to Steph.
I was like, that's just fucking won something.
So what have we got?
So we got a...
So that's a beanie, Kingdom Come Deliverance beanie.
That looks like a steelbook.
And then that looks like a bag, a drawstring bag.
Yes.
What do you call that?
We've all got cool emblems on the back of it.
And then I'm going to guess that that's either a tea towel or a map.
That's a cloth map of the Major City of Goodwood.
Oh, that is it.
And you missed the little necklace that's on the bag.
I'm guessing it's a necklace.
Necklace on the bag?
Yeah, a little pendant.
Oh, yeah, shit, yeah, yeah, in the corner.
Yeah, yeah.
I wonder.
But I don't know if that's all the stuff that's in it, or if there's more, or if that's all of it.
I wonder if it's worth anything.
Yeah, well, I don't think you can buy this stuff necessarily.
Probably not, no.
I don't know, you might be able to, but it's just cool that, you know...
The thing is, I don't want to sound ungrateful, because I'm certainly not.
I think I've already got that map in the collector's edition.
But I didn't get the hat or the steel book.
The steel book, I'm gasped for, because that's beautiful.
It'd be quite cool if it was a steel book with the game included as well.
That'd be quite interesting.
I'll just give it to you.
I'll keep the steel book.
I'll give you the game though.
Not that you'd ever fucking play it, so it'd be a waste, but...
It's...
But yeah, I'll give you the game, but the steel case is fucking lovely.
Yeah, yeah, it's a nice steel book.
So yeah, it's not even that.
It's just about getting some recognition from a company.
A game that you love and you've really enjoyed and still enjoy playing.
And then they've recognized you and gone, yeah, the image that you've captured
from this game that we've created that you love, we love that too.
Here's some fucking prizes for it.
You summed it up a lot better than I could.
It's just, I don't know, it's just a nice feeling.
And yeah, it really made me think about sitting down and properly doing
my top 10 favorite games all the time because I'm pretty sure that's going to be on there.
It really is something else, that story and that is like, you know,
when games are like getting you gassed and then you want to cry and you want to scream
and it's just like last of us level story.
But it's so good.
And obviously, following it through from the first one, so...
So did you get the 10?
Did you get a 10 on a list?
I haven't done it now.
No, no, I haven't done it.
I need to sit down and do it properly, but I will definitely do it.
So where would, so obviously we won't go through, won't come up with an entire list,
but obviously I know a fair amount of what would be on your list anyway.
So obviously, obviously the witch is there.
Cyberpunk is also there.
Does Destiny make it on there?
No.
No, okay, scratch that off.
So then, so then you've got Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, obviously Baldur's Gate 3.
Where does Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 fall on in terms of the scale of those four games
I just mentioned?
Is it better than any of them or is it still below?
This is why it's tricky man, because like Baldur's Gate is just like the pinnacle of gaming,
I think.
I don't even know if that could ever be topped to be honest with you.
Then, like The Witcher 3 was number one for so long, but then it's all recency bias, right?
Because you know, these games I used to play in my childhood, like Zelda, Wokorino, Atom and all them ones.
They're so good, but you know, I don't play them anymore obviously.
So you got a lot of recency bias, but it's a tough one man, because The Witcher 3 is like soured to me over time.
No.
It used to be my favorite game of all time, but yeah, I don't know.
As things have come out, like I don't know, it pushed Witcher 3 close I think.
So probably, it'd probably be in the top three.
I don't know, maybe.
That's what I mean. I want to sit down and like write down stuff and go through all my library and think of all the games of the past and stuff.
I want to do it properly.
That's what you want from a...
I feel like if you go over the span of a decade, so if you go from...
If I give you a list of ten games that are my favorite and then in five years time or ten years, that list is still the same, then something's gone wrong.
Because there should be always contenders to squeeze in on that list.
And like you just said, when you ask someone what's their favorite game, straight away, they're going to think in the last couple years what they played.
As opposed to what did they play 20 years ago that was really fucking enjoyable, because you're such a different person.
Like when I first started playing Ratchet and Clank, I love that shit.
That's my favorite genre, one of my favorite genres of all time.
But to experience it now is wildly different to when I was a kid.
Wildly different. The nostalgic feel is incredibly different.
So trying to throw that on a list, you almost want two separate ones.
You almost want like your top ten classics and then your top ten relevant games of this era.
Because if you're trying to compare fucking PS5 games to games that were fucking running in 64-bit, it's a bit fucking difficult to do that.
It's hard because a lot of games inherently are shit.
But because you played them at a shitty part of your life or they got you through a shitty part of your life,
or they've just got a fond memory because you had fond memories of that time in your life,
things matter more than just the game. Like The Witcher 3, I was going for a bit of a shitty patch when I was playing that and that made me feel good.
So that's like a big driving force for why I love The Witcher 3 so much.
And not just feel good, it took me out of the shit and it made me concentrate on what was going on in the game.
You know what games are supposed to do. Take you out of the reality you're in and plop you in somewhere else.
So you're immersed, you're not thinking about all the other crap.
I always feel bad for, well not feel bad, but you ever meet those people and we know a fair few of them, they just don't game.
There's no gaming whatsoever. They go to work, they come home, they might watch some telly, do some DIY, whatever.
There's no gaming, there's no nothing. They don't do nothing.
And I always feel like you're missing out. You are missing out because there is...
Because those are the same people where...
It sounds really fucking...
I'm not trying to include everyone in this category that doesn't game, but you get a lot of people that aren't in that world that look upon gaming
as if it's something childish and inherently a waste of time.
But like you've just said, the emotions that are attached to gaming and like you just said,
the dark, dark places that you get pulled out of from playing a fucking game is incredible.
It's something that I haven't experienced in any other format of media other than music.
That emotional turmoil that you get through gaming.
And I always feel like people that don't game whatsoever always think like, are you not curious to get involved?
Why do you see it as something that's childish when it's just another form of...
If anything, it's more engaging than any other form of entertainment.
Do you see what I mean?
It definitely is. I think the only other thing that may do that is books.
If you can get engrossed in a book, you can't forget your surroundings.
I mean, it happens a lot. I'll be reading away and I'll be at work and Matt will have the radio on or whatnot.
And I'll be reading and I'm reading, I'm reading, I'm reading.
And then all of a sudden my brain is like there's like a little switch and it goes...
And then I'm tuned into what the radio is fucking saying.
And I'm trying to like get back into the reading mode, but I'm reading words.
They're not going in my head. I can just hear the fucking radio.
It's weird. I have to like get into a trance of reading.
Then it just blocks all that other sound out.
So when you can get into that flow state of reading, then you're engrossed, right?
That's why I like reading in silence, but it's very rare.
I get fucking silence, but yeah, that's the only other form.
I mean, films would never do that for me.
I mean, I could watch a film, love a film or a series or whatnot, but you're never like...
You're never in it either. You're just watching it, I think.
But yeah, reading, you're concentrating.
Playing games, you're concentrating. You're making active decisions.
So yeah, I don't think anything else even comes close.
So a lot more goes into it than just the quality of the game.
And that's why there's so many different top 10 games out there for people
because people will love fucking Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy VII,
but the original one because it's the one that they remember from being a child
and having apple pie with their mums and dads and stuff rather than...
You know what I mean? Like good memories.
And it will bring them back to that when they play it.
I wonder how terribly biased some of the lists would be
if I just typed in top 10 best video games.
Ocarina of Time will be up there.
Probably like 98, 99 that is.
From sources across the web. What is that? Is that a top?
That just says video games.
Just got Metacritic.
Yeah, best games of all time. Metacritic, here we go straight away.
So very interesting.
So we have number one.
Let's know. Yeah, number one. Legend of Zelda.
Ocarina of Time.
What does that get? 98?
99.
Is it that good? Is it that good?
Did you never play it?
No, I've never touched Zelda.
But once again, a lot of people would have been young playing that, like 12s and shit.
1998s when that come out.
So a lot of people were young playing that.
So it's different when you're a kid at that age because say like,
I don't know, GTA San Andreas or Zelda or anything of that ilk.
When I played them games, they're the only games I fucking had.
I'd have a couple, but you don't get another game to your birthday or Christmas or whatnot, is it?
So you make the most of it.
And I don't feel like boredom hits you the way it hits you as an adult.
Or the repetitiveness of a game, you know, like mechanics that didn't grind you down when you were a kid.
You died. You just be like, all right, I'll try again.
Now I'm like fucking hell.
Your time is more valuable now.
Exactly.
And then you got right.
Number two, Soul Calibur with a 98 score.
Number three is Grand Theft Auto V.
98 score.
I'll only do the top 10.
Number four, Super Mario Galaxy.
Number five is Super Mario Galaxy 2.
And then number six is Breath of the Wild.
It's quite cool.
Seven, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.
Number eight is Perfect Dark.
Never heard of it.
If you're not, it was like GoldenEye, but different.
Okay.
And then number nine, Red Dead Redemption 2.
And then number 10 is Grand Theft Auto 4.
Wow.
What a weird list.
Yeah.
Well, like I say, that's...
Bioshock says number 17.
Fucking Baldur's Gate 3, 21.
Yeah, but these will be like, these are like mainly built up around critics scores, right?
The thing is, is that the scores as well, you're talking.
So you go 99, 98, 98.
And then basically from...
What is that?
Basically from like 12th place all the way down is more or less the same score.
97s and 96s.
So it's a very tight pool.
Games are a lot more highly critiqued now than they ever used to be.
So the older games like, you know, Ocarina of Time and stuff, they were generationals.
But if that came out now with the leap of, you know, because that was like the first kind of open-worldy kind of thing.
It was like 3D open world, whole scowy world.
It was like a proper adventure.
So that was like groundbreaking.
But if something like that come out today, it wouldn't still hit the heights, even if it hit all the right notes that Zelda did.
Yeah.
It's just a different world we live in now.
It's the games that walk to the rest of gaming could run.
Exactly.
And you look at the critiques of a lot of them scores will be from the critics, but you look at things like Days Gone and you'll look at the critics scores to the user score.
It'll be vastly different.
I know we've done this before, but let me just feed my curiosity and look at Days Gone.
Yeah, 71.
You can fuck right off.
Yeah, because it yeah, based on critic reviews is 71.
But then an 8.5 for user score.
So in here, 71 or 85 is the difference between.
Yeah, and I think like we said last week a lot of mainstream games media is kind of dying out and they're going to the everyman person now, you know, so at the beginning of the game, you'll feel like you've already played this game.
Then it will let you go for a while only to only for only to return with reinforcements and lots of bugs.
However, Days Gone has a couple of pleasant moments that can't be denied.
Get fucked.
Fantastico game.
We've got Split Fiction come out yesterday or today.
I think it was yesterday.
Same creators as it takes to.
And another one.
The other one.
No way out.
Very, very cool.
One thing that I really like about it is obviously it's branded as a co-op and then best played as couch co-op.
And if you buy the game only one person has to buy the game.
I heard that, you know, I forgot about that.
Because it comes with a friend code inside so that you can just send that to someone else very smart, which I think is perfect because it's not you can buy on Amazon for 38 quid.
So it's not going to cost you an arm and a leg.
I think the campaign if you really stretch out is maybe like 20 odd hours.
If that I think if you do it normally, it's like 17 hours, which for me, I think is fine.
Because they're very fun games.
How long?
17 hours.
Yeah, that's a lot really for a couch co-op game.
I'd say that's quite a bit and for a game that's 30 odd quid.
But I haven't any videos or anything that popped up.
I've stayed away from them because I'm going to play the game.
And I know that I'm going to like it regardless.
There's something there's something about those those co-op games that I really enjoy.
I feel like it's.
Does it play on the nostalgia?
Yeah, a little bit, but it's also like that that old school style of gaming but in the new world in terms of tech and playability and things like that.
So it's like it's got this much fresher feel to it, but at the same time old school that makes sense weird weird way of because you don't you don't get fucking couch cops anymore.
Or co-op games games at a split screen anymore.
That's not that's not really a done thing, which would make sense because there's not a lot of games that are on the market now that are coming out the wood suit that that sort of style.
But it's nice to in in in the world that we've got now with all these games that shit like that still still shines through and is very very popular when it does come out couch.
Cop is a necessity for a parent because I never really understood the necessity of couch cop because I only ever play on my own unless you know,
we're going back pre internet days and your mates come and you want to play car course or pvp with each other.
Don't look at my screen.
You're a dickhead, but now with the kids like for example PlayStation Plus games this month for like Sonic something and t.h.
Mutant Ninja Turtles, you know, I love I looked at both of them and they're both two players.
So I was like download download and then the kids come home from school.
You say I was like we two new games and bang they're playing two new games, you know together and it's nice because they get to play and you know t.h.
Mutant Ninja Turtles free player.
I can play as well.
Yeah, it's cool.
It's great.
It's great to play games with your kids is cool man.
So yeah, I you know the old school Co-op games like Xbox Halo and stuff.
You can't beat it.
But nowadays it's more modern than this internet.
So couch Co-op kind of goes by the by but unless you play like bouldersgate when of course it is included because bouldersgate does everything 100% correctly and everything they ever do and say I've got my game put far too many hours of it in it in the last week.
Go on goes by the name of Monster Hunter.
Oh God.
Yeah, I was off work Monday Tuesday not because of that.
Yeah, but so I bought it but because I finished KCD actually I finished Kingdom of Condolence.
Is that something you can replay or is it once it's done?
It's done.
I hundred percent you can replay hundred percent.
I probably will apply it not for a long time.
I will play it again on the same save file because it's getting like free expansions and I've got an expansion pass with the collector edition.
Yep, and they do loads of free updates.
I got a barber shop coming in the next update and loads of other little bits and bobs.
They do free loads of free DLCs as well.
But yeah, I didn't even realize I got I got an ending.
I didn't know there was multiple endings, but there is but yeah fucking 10 out of 10 hundred percent of 10 out of 10 absolutely unbelievable and I and bear in mind I done very little in terms of side content are pretty much.
I did you know, I did a fair bit but no probably like three hours of side stuff and that game took me like 80 hours.
No campaign and it's just one unbelievable game.
But yeah, I bought Monster Hunter and contrastly I finished a campaign 12 hours.
But Monster Hunter is not that kind of game.
The the game you roll in Monster Hunter history, which I didn't realize because I played Monster Hunter world and finished it.
I never realized because once I roll credits on what's on the world, I think they ever played it again.
But what I didn't realize was that Monster Hunter games once they roll credits, that's when the game starts.
So you roll credits and then you know, the game carries on but I thought it was the end obviously naturally who wouldn't the credits rolled.
Yeah, I thought this was just you know, post game messing about shit.
Turns out there's loads more chapters to do and the monsters get harder.
So there's a thing called low rank, which is you know, easy mode is this wild to you talking about.
Yeah, which is easy mode.
And then once you roll credits you get to high rank, which is fucking hard part.
So they call before you roll credits first the tutorial.
So all them years ago, I thought I completed Monster Hunter world.
I hadn't I just done the tutorial.
So yeah, I blitzed through that and mate, they've always wanted to love Monster Hunter games, but they've never like really clicked for me.
But I've always read and it's always said the same thing.
Once the game will click for you, it you click to you in, do you know what I mean?
And yeah, this game is clicked for me, bro.
I've put in, you know, I've put in I think like 35, 36 hours since since Sunday.
No, since since is it Sunday Monday.
So in five days, yeah, bearing in mind I was off Monday, Tuesday.
Yeah, I wasn't here.
I just had to start.
Yeah, but in five days you put in over 24 hours worth of you put in over a day almost two days.
Yeah, good.
And it's great.
I love it.
Yeah, that's dedication.
So I've been playing like a lot more than I should and I'm yeah, I'm addicted bro.
Like I can't I can't put into words.
What do you do?
Just fucking hunt monster because I played Monster Hunter years ago.
Are you talking?
I still remember whatever one it let me fucking Google it because I want to find out what it was whatever one I was playing.
Monster Monster Hunter Rise Monster Hunter Sunbreak Monster Hunter World Monster Hunter.
I'm to fucking freedom, you know, I fuck knows.
Yeah, I will find it.
I remember like cooking meat and shit like that and having a making a big fuck off sword and I was kind of too young to really understand what was going on.
So the first monster game I played I fucking hated it.
I think it was on like the PSP or something and it was like all different zones and you just chase this monster about this is fucking shit.
What is this like 9095?
What is this crap?
But now I get it and it's like what's modernized now and it's it's kind of like open world.
But mission based but it's it's hard to get into because it's like it's like you kind of they kind of treat you like you already know shit.
Yeah, and a lot of stuff.
They just don't really explain but I got those fucking loads of Monster Hunter fucking hundreds.
That's the ones is that that's do I remember that case?
Is that the fucking la la la la la?
I think that is the one is it was the yeah first Monster Hunter first one is one piece to the 2004 literally just Monster Hunter PS2.
Yeah, that's the first one.
Yeah, that's the that's the one that's the one that I played.
I watched someone playing it is on YouTube just because I'm addicted.
Yeah, he just wake up in bed.
Yeah, yeah, you literally you just wake up all the nostalgia that comes from it.
Yeah, you literally just wake up and then you're doing the tutorial and then I really didn't make it that far like say because 2004 I would have been what fucking hell like seven.
It's seven eight years old.
This is a madness for life.
Just it's just fuck off monsters that you're fighting and then you go I'm going to cut your fucking tail off and then we'll cross the sword at fucking time.
I'm going to take your bones out of your fucking flesh and I'm going to make something out of it and then I'm going to get more powerful and then I'm going to upgrade it and then we're going to fuck more.
Now we're going to cook your flesh.
That's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to fucking cook it you horrible can't but it's like it's open world.
So like monsters can interact with one another so like and I'm not talking like oh, they'll just you know, they'll eat they'll see each other and they'll do damage.
I mean they're interacting brother.
I mean a dragon will come down fucking swoop down pick the monster up that you're say you're fighting a little thing, but it's still big compared to you swoop down and fucking grab the cunt take it off electrocute it drop it down in front of you and it will be fucking it'll be a sandstorm come in and this is all just dynamic bro.
This is no scripted shit.
This is just dynamic stuff is the most cinematic shit you'll ever see.
But it's just addictive as fuck by just smashing monsters up man and then making shit and then doing it again and again and again.
What weapons do you use?
I'm currently using a long sword.
You can have two weapons.
You've got a mount in this game.
I think it's our first time ever.
Then you can store another weapon on your mount so you can just quickly whip up your mount and get your other sword off.
We have a weapon.
I use the jaw blades and the long sword, but the weapons are just made for you basically when I was playing.
I was just thinking you'd love these weapons.
They're just massive.
Yeah, they're huge.
Yeah, you got fucking gunlance.
You've got fucking heavy bow gun light bow gun switch axe fucking massive hammers sword and shield just fucking Spears just everything about every single weapon.
You craft is you know, it looks different and you can get different gems to slot in them and there's just so much it can be as deep as you want or as shallow as you want.
Yeah, I mean it's kind of up to you how you want to play it.
But I plan on sticking with it and just just grinding out as much as I possibly can and and doing all the hard monsters that they had because they always had new monsters in just little little just random DLCs.
And then they'll do big expansions and they'll add more monsters and yeah, they just keep pumping them out and you just keep slaying them brother.
That's that's my plan.
I'm just going to keep killing monsters.
It's got the old mixed bag of reviews on it.
I was only on the computer and it's team.
Yes, the performance is bad.
They are literally the first one very immersive game.
You can cook a well done steak on your GPU while you play and the hot blast of air from your PC fans truly make you feel like you're in the desert.
Keep a bag of sand by your desk and periodically toss handfuls of it into the air to really complete the experience.
People are saying it's the best monster hunter ever made.
But yes on the PC is not optimized properly.
Yeah, it seems to happen quite a lot with PC where games come out and then they're not optimized well and then a later patch has to come out and that really fucks up the reviews for it because it's like it's not the it's not the game itself that you're
that you've got a problem with is the is the optimization of it.
It's the hardware behind it rather than the game reviews stick with it and then it will be it'll be like nothing ever happened in a month.
Yeah, and it's like times the little bit.
But yes, fun fact is it's the best of fastest selling Capcom game of all time.
So it actually sold 8 million in 24 hours or something or 48 hours.
Yeah, best selling Capcom game not even just Monster Hunter is pretty much a statistics another sales record six hours ago from Ghosts Who Games.
Monster Hunter Wilds hit sales record with biggest physical PS5 game launch in Japan.
Yeah, fast selling title ever continues to rack up sales, especially in its home country of Japan.
It's age of Thursday, 6th of March at Monster Hunter Wilds racked up over 601,000 physical sales on the PS5 from its launch date of 28th of February up to 2nd of March.
And then, yeah, for reference, the record for the biggest physical launch of a PS5 game was previously held by Square Enix's Final Fantasy 16,
which sold over 336,000 copies when it launched en route to achieve in just under 430,000 sales in that year.
Monster Hunter Wilds sales figures also dwarfed all other entries with the next highest seller being Yu-Gi-Oh!
Early Days Collection at over 49,000 copies and Wizardry Gaiden 5 Trials at just under 12,000.
Yeah, that's crazy. That is crazy, isn't it?
8 million in 48 hours or something stupid.
Monster Hunter Wilds' physical launch numbers in its heartland in Japan are certainly impressive.
It's worth noting that it sold significantly less than its predecessors, namely 2021's Monster Hunter Rise and 2018's Monster Hunter World.
Monster Hunter Rise sold over 1.3 million physical copies on its main platform in the Nintendo Switch,
while Monster Hunter World sold over 1.35 million copies in just its first three days of release in Japan.
That's so many copies, man.
Monster Hunter Wilds surpasses 8 million units sold in three days and is the fastest Capcom game to do so.
Start is much stronger than the 5 million Monster Hunter World shipped in 2018.
When was it? This was from six hours ago, sir.
This was three days ago.
Oh, weird. Different sources. Either way, very fucking impressive.
Could you imagine releasing a podcast episode and you look on the analytics and there's 1.3 million people.
What the fuck? Where does that come from?
It's very impressive, more impressive that we're in March now and you've already had that Splitgate or whatever it's called.
Splitfiction.
Yeah, so that's reviewed very well.
So you've got KCD 2, Monster Hunter Wilds and that already three games that could be nominated for fucking Game of the Year.
And it doesn't matter what you do because if GTA comes out, it's pointless.
It's over for you guys.
And it's sad that that is the case, but it should probably is, isn't it?
That's exactly what's going to happen.
Three months in and you've already got three Game of the Year contenders.
We're going good this year. We're eating well.
So you have Monster Hunter Wilds. So here are I will go through a couple of the games that are coming out this year.
I apologize because the list that I've got doesn't actually tell me which ones have come out and which ones haven't.
But I'm sure we can work it out.
So you've got Monster Hunter Wilds, Assassin's Creed Shadows and then Splitfiction, Tales of the Shire, which was one that I was interested in and then was no longer interested in.
It's like if Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing took a trip to the Shire of Lord of the Rings.
So it doesn't sound like my cup of tea, but maybe I'll look into it.
Death Stranding 2 is apparently set for this year as well.
Well, so we got the Outer Worlds 2, Atomfall. Atomfall looks quite cool.
Borderlands 4. Hell is Us.
Yeah, I vowed.
There are some big games that have come out and that are coming out.
I'm still really interested to see how Elden Ring Night Rain does.
Dying Light the Beast as well.
That's one I'm fucking interested in.
We both played that last one, didn't we?
That was a sick game.
What, Dying Light?
Yes.
The second game where you're sitting like that going up in that lift and shit.
Yeah, Dying Light was fucking real good game.
Real fucking good.
So yeah, 2025 is eating well.
It's definitely fucking, but you're right.
If I love that GTA 6 just isn't on this list either.
No.
Is that telling?
Well, they had a meeting the other day that they said, no, it's still very much on course to come out this year.
That's going to be wild.
Yeah, the fact that we're still on trailer one.
Trailer one and that was not last November, the November before or whatever it was.
So them trailers better start rolling out soon if their code that's coming out in like October November time.
What's the point?
Where's the marketing?
Well, they don't need it.
I know they don't fucking need to worry about marketing at all.
I don't know a single person that is anywhere in the world of gaming that doesn't know about GTA 6.
I wish we lived in a world where we could do both outcomes and see what does better.
Like just shadow dropping GTA one day just be like yes out.
Good luck.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's what they did.
I'd love it.
Genuinely, I wouldn't be surprised.
Amazing, wouldn't it?
Imagine how many people were calling sick if they done it on Sunday night.
100% I'd be gone.
I would be gone.
It's mad.
If it if I reckon genuinely if I rolled up to work and then check my phone and then got a notification saying that GTA 6 has been released whilst I was on my way to work.
I would I would go home sick.
100% that migraine card would be pulled so fucking quick.
I gotta go.
I've got to go my head.
I'm fucked.
Stinky log is online.
See you later.
I'll be straight gone 100% and even if I got called out who gives a fuck who cares?
GTA bro watch out fuck it.
Yeah, I'll wait for it.
See you later.
Everyone's gone.
Why the fuck?
I'll have two days off, please.
No worries.
You would do that.
That's the type of game that I would book holiday for all day.
You have to and you get rejected because everyone else has booked it off.
Oh, I say it goes how much that's going to because I was GTA 5.
Fingers looking at their sales.
It's going to be 210 million copies just a few minutes.
I'm pretty sure I account for fucking free of them and all.
Yes.
I mean how many of them are like multi-platform?
Here's three pairs for fucking bang on the PS 5.
Stupid.
Yeah, an Xbox and Xbox in the second best.
Is the second best-selling video game of all time with 210 million copies
shipped and one of the most financially successful entertainment products of all time.
What is the highest selling then?
It's got to be another GTA in it.
I'll have a look.
It says with over 8.5 billion dollars in worldwide revenue.
It's successor Grand Theft Auto 5.
Sorry.
The best-selling game of all time is Minecraft.
Six.
Sorry.
Minecraft selling over 300 million copies.
Minecraft.
Yeah, really.
Yeah, never played it.
Grand Theft Auto 5 210 million Tetris.
We sports.
PUBG Super Mario Bros Red Dead Redemption 2 Overwatch The Witcher 3
Ark Survival Evolved.
Ark Survival.
Yeah, my top selling that's mental Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Animal Crossing New Horizons
Elder Scrolls Skyrim and Call of Duty Modern Warfare.
I always find it crazy how you look at a list like that.
And then there's always the games are near the top where you either just haven't played them
or you played them and you're just so uninterested in them.
Just shocked like what?
No, you think how like Ark Survival.
I look at anything that I ever say from that game and I always think this looks janky as shit.
Like it looks so.
It's the ice cream van.
I know you fucking buzzing around at like 6 o'clock last night.
Oh, I'm not a fucking 6 p.m.
Yeah, always weird.
Like like say it always looks so janky when I look at it and the UI looks horrible and everything.
But it's obviously got a massive cult following.
There must be something about it that's appealing just not for me.
Gaze at work is the only game he plays.
Literally bought a PSVR just to play it.
Yeah, just so he can fucking have a screen in his face.
He's fucking bought a laptop to play.
He's bought a portal to play it.
He's out.
Just just fucking loves it man.
Just fucking loves it.
He hates it.
It's like it's like everyone with their favorite game.
They hate it.
Yeah, we like Destiny.
I hate it.
I'm fucking sick of this guy.
Yeah, what World of Warcraft you hate it, but you love it.
You hate that you love it.
World of Warcraft.
Before we go into any more games, let's just shout out the big dog for doing your run.
I forgot about that.
I just remembered congrats.
What my 10k for completing your run and Mark.
I see Mark in the picture.
Yeah, well done egg boy.
Yeah, we were fucking.
Spider pig.
We were.
Spider ham.
All blistered up all blistered up and fucking congrats ready to go.
It's a good thing.
So we got we got in May.
We're running through Colchester Zoo.
Interesting route.
It's a bit quite cool.
It's doing a 10k.
Very interesting and then fucking I've got an ultra marathon in October.
Wow.
That's going to be nice and fun.
Yeah, little medals.
How far is an ultra?
I mean technically anything over a marathon is classed as an ultra, but the I think this
is one of the smallest altruists.
You can do is like a really intermediate if 30 miles 31 miles to store 30 just the 30
miles.
It's 50 kilometers sounds way better.
If you say 50 kilometers, yeah ultra marathon.
So does it I think I think 30 miles sounds better because 50k don't like I used to run
2k or two and a half k every morning when I was in the gym and I didn't think that that
was that far.
So, you know, yeah, it's not doing that 25 times.
Ain't that bad but 30 miles sounds horrific to me.
They're running 30 miles.
Yeah, that's that's you know, how long did it take you?
You little run.
55 minutes.
It weren't a PB for me.
It was a I had an awful run.
It really weren't fucking it weren't great.
I ran in a running new shoes just blistered to fuck and we made the mistake because first
event we ever did was the Rudolph run at South End and that was just a fun little charity
thing. They do every Christmas you get a medal and all that shit.
But this one was like a proper proper run.
No, I mean Thames water were there hanging out hand now goody bags like proper and there
was loads of people there and we were right at the back.
So it was like raring to go and once it finally went obviously there's like 500 people in
front of us.
So they're all bunched up.
So for the first mile you can't fucking run.
I was walking faster than I was running because there's so many people and it just fucking
it just set the tone for the race.
So I spent the whole thing trying to overtake people but it was good.
I'm glad I went I got another fucking medal under under my belt and more importantly doing
it for charity stem cells, right?
That's the one in October.
Yeah, I'm doing a half marathon in October.
You were wearing a stem cells t-shirt.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because I could spreading awareness.
Yeah, because they sent me they sent when I signed up for the half marathon one.
You actually have to set reach a target in terms of donations so that you can run the
race and I fucking blew that out of the water and they sent me like a running vest with
Anthony Nolan and all that shit on it and then sent me a t-shirt alongside it and then
that vest they sent me was actually slightly too small.
So I asked him for another one.
They I think they fucked up because they just sent me two more t-shirts.
So I was like fuck it.
I'll just wear them in my events because they're quite nice.
But yeah, there's nothing to do with gaming whatsoever.
No, it doesn't matter.
It's very important.
Very important thing and I think you should put the link on Instagram or Twitter.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've got like say I've I've I've I've reached the target so I can do the race.
But obviously I still want to get more money.
So I was like closer because it's not till October and it was January was when I started
the fundraising.
So I was like, I'll get a little bit closer and then I'll start fucking tapping people
up again.
And then yeah, so decent congratulations.
Thank you.
Well done.
Thank you.
Noble cause I respect it completely lost where we were going in terms of gaming.
Probably just moaning about saying.
What a Warcraft grab me by the bollocks unsurprisingly new season started new raids new Raider new
zone new quest new campaign new everything bloody bloody bloody bloody bloody blah and
most of us are all playing a new character.
Is it not an expansion?
No, no, no expansion at then if not new all of that stuff.
Yeah, all of that stuff and then they add in a patch that adds all of that new stuff
again on top of that runs.
Is this like pre expansion season or so?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
This is just a continuation of the expansion expansion comes out.
You don't get all the story and everything at once you get you get the bulk of it and
then obviously a raid season one and then the mythic plus dungeon pools and all of that
and obviously a season season runs for however long I can't remember and then you end up
with another patch where they do a shitload of changes and then you end up getting a new
zone.
A new raid comes out to continue on the story a new mythic plus dungeon pool everything
resets so yeah, it's fucking good man.
It's really good.
It's called undermine and it's all about goblins and it's like typical the right the raid is
a casino pretty much and it's it's chaotically fantastic.
Really very fun we we started it on Wednesday night and for the first time ever I was playing
as a tank so quite an imperative role absolutely shitting myself and it went really fucking
well and it's just crazy man.
It's a fun fun fucking right but it's hectic.
There's one point where in between bosses you go get from point A to point B and there's
just goblins drifting around in cars and shit like that but if they hit you they literally
turn you into mulch and I swear to fuck those things were targeted it was taking us like
maybe 15 20 minutes worth of just trying to get through these fucking goblins of Jesus
Christ.
It was just a chaotic mess which like John said fits the tone of the raid really really
well you're not this mega casino and there's fucking greedy goblins everywhere and they're
in it for themselves and don't care about anyone else and blah and you're just trying
to fucking sift through all that shit.
But yeah real good fun really really good.
I won't I won't bore everyone else with it because there's a lot of shit I could talk
about but no one's gonna fucking understand why is that I'm talking about.
Well what I will say is you go from the end of the season and you get a low where basically
no one's online because everyone's done everything they want to do and they're chilling out and
then when a new season starts it's just fucking everyone's online.
So you log in and the guild will be like fucking 30 odd people online and then everyone's in
the discord everyone's chatting so it's like it's like everyone went into hibernation and
it happens every season and then comes straight back but yeah really interesting because a
lot of people are playing stuff that they've never played before and just changing it up
so it's nice I'm really really enjoying it.
It's decent.
It's funny because remember when we made a whole discord for new world.
I feel like I feel like we should speak to Connor and say maybe is there a way to just
rebrand that to like what's the buttons or something.
Yeah of course there is.
Just having a what's the buttons discord because otherwise it's pretty much useless and I went
on to I actually went on to new world a little while ago like a couple of weeks ago and a
lot of people are still in the clan.
I'm literally just looking to see if I can who's is anyone actually in.
I think it's just you and me and the couple.
I know there's still quite a few still a few people in there that I don't know that are
still in that server.
And yeah I went on it and it said that I could be the governor.
Oh what because I haven't been active for that long.
So it just said only only take it take it over.
I fucking took it mate and then I turn it off and uninstalled the game.
Yeah.
It'll be up for someone else soon because I put it on either shame because I fucking
loved that game.
What an ADHD fucking rip we had on that one.
Oh it's called what's the buttons company.
I mean you could still just use that.
Yeah.
Join the discord for an extra tenner a month.
I'm joking.
Join the fucking discord.
It's easy way to just just communicate on a whim like WhatsApp.
Just a chat.
You want to hit us up bro.
Obviously you have to join this course to change all the names of names of that shit.
Yeah.
But yeah I'd be more than allowed to use this chord properly.
I know how to use it but it's still a bit finicky.
But I've been one up for people jumping in and just have a little chat because there's
nothing I like more than talking about nerdy bollocks every day all day if I could which
is why I'm in the complete wrong job.
So give us more money so we can make this work.
We're gonna have more money we're gonna fuck off and do the Patreon.
Where the real money is.
Where it's all at.
Sweet.
Cheers for listening everyone.
See you later.
Oogro.
Alright.