That's good to go, straight off the bat. We're
in. Bing, bong, boom. Bing, bong, boom, boom,
boom. This feels like, because you're the first
person that's sat on the other end of the desk
since I moved it, it feels like a weird job interview.
Tell me, why do you want to join the podcast?
I didn't interview you, did I? No, you didn't.
What did you? No, you didn't. No, Royce did.
Who did I interview? Royce did my little interview.
I interviewed someone. Who did I interview, man?
Who was there? Many years ago. Who was there
with you? Archie? No, Ollie. Ollie. Did you interview
Ollie? What a fucking waste of time. Mate, he
had the best interview I've ever seen. Really?
He was fucking, he smashed it out of the park.
Yeah, but he had the gift of the gab though,
didn't he? Little pikey. I actually really like
Ollie, man. I've got a lot of time for Ollie.
I like Ollie. He's a Wally though. Ollie the
Wally. Nice kid, though. Good lad. Zero relevance.
He's a good lad. To podcasts. No, no, I don't
know why. It's because you were saying you were
interviewing me. Just give me a little Friday
throwback, didn't it? Yep. That's about it, really.
Know what I mean? I think I should start so we
don't start on... So we can, you know, start
on a negative and then head up positive. Yeah.
Start with the shit and end with the good. Yeah,
sorry, Sam. Oh, yes. Oh, my God. How could I
have the entire week? I forgot that you were
fucking doing that. What did we say last episode?
You know the excitement that you just had that
you were not ill anymore? This is the same excitement.
Because what did we say last episode? Didn't
you say that you were going to play it through
and through? Did you play it through and through?
Fuck no, bro. Yes, baby! I've been ill for starters,
but I have played it. Yeah. Oh, shit, innit?
I'll be honest, and I feel really bad because
Sam actually messaged us on WhatsApp. On WhatsApp?
On the Patreon? No, on Twitter. Oh, did he? And
he said that he was like, you know, he's proud
of me, man. He said, fair play for giving Granblue
fantasy really a go, mate. Main quest is brilliant
and the battles get better and better. It gets
darker too, so don't worry, lol. Main quest is
like 15 to 20 hours, so well worth it. Let me
know how it goes on the next pod. I said I should
report back with my findings on Friday. I always
feel terrible for Sam because he's so supportive.
of the podcast and offers us so much insight
into gaming like his his reviews and information
that he gives and things like that like you can
tell this guy is a serious gamer so whenever
he recommends a game or something like that and
you play it i think yeah like fucking decent
shit and and grand blue fantasy was just one
of those but i just couldn't because i feel like
the gameplay itself is all right but After the
podcast last week, what did we do? Just before
you left, I went on YouTube and then found all
the quips of all the weird anime shit that gets
said. And Ash was like, surely this ain't what
they really like. Confirm? Yeah, I can confirm.
Let's go, team! Yeah. I mean, it's not... The
game isn't inherently bad, right? Let me put
that right. I'm not saying the game's shit or
the game's bad. But... I can't get with that
shit. That's not my, that's not my jam. Do you
know what I mean? It's like when we were playing
Final Fantasy fucking 16 or whatever it was.
We both played it and smashed it. It was loving
it. And then it was just like, come on, this
is ending, bro. It's getting a bit much now.
And it's like, I'll travel across here to talk
to this person and then, it's the same shit they
did in the MMO except it's not an MMO. Just fucking
constant back and forth. And just, instead of
saying, oh, Rhys, would you mind picking up that
cup for me? The amount of dialogue just to ask
that simple question in these games is far too
much. And I haven't got the patience for that.
Unless it's meaningful dialogue, I don't want
to hear it. And yeah, the start of the game was
just boring. I didn't find it interesting. The
enemies, I was hitting them and they were just
not even reacting to me hitting them, if you
know what I mean. The dragon was cool. that comes
up I don't know if you remember you're on an
airship and then the dragon comes up Bahamut
or whatever it is which is cool but then as with
all these sort of games I find like Final Fantasy
included the boss is cool I love the boss but
it just takes 45 minutes to kill it it's just
like yeah I get it you do four moves and I just
press square triangle square triangle triangle
triangle triangle triangle and we just do this
until it's over but it's just too much if you
know i mean i know i'm gonna beat you you're
just wasting my time yeah this is too easy and
this is not a challenge exactly and that and
that bores me so that happened right at the beginning
and then the story i didn't give enough time
to actually understand exactly what's going on
but it's all that instant right go and talk to
this person and then talk to this person then
talk to this person then talk to this person
does this and this person does that and i'm just
like boring i need more fun before i get to this
boring shit um so yeah in the end i was just
skipping dialogue which i never do i was like
skip skip skip skip skip get me to the fun part
not even that i went one step further something
i never ever do i'm skipping cut scenes bro because
you get into a cut scene and it says you press
a button skip and it comes up basically a synopsis
of what is happening in the cutscene. Yeah, I
was doing the same shit. So I was like, nothing
interesting, skip. No fighting, skip. And I took
a quest on, went into a forest, attacked these
monsters. Fine. And then I went to get another
quest and it was like something similar. I was
back in the same forest, in the same arena, fighting
the same people. I was like, fuck this. I can't
continue on. Did you like how positive all the
characters are all the fucking time with everything
that you do? Because I don't like that style.
It's so annoying. And that's why I'm saying like,
I think you have to be well into anime to vibe
with that. And I, we've discussed it before,
I'm only really into like Berserk, which is like
really... Not even just the tone being dark,
but the aesthetic of it is like dark. Do you
know what I mean? It's the equivalent of Final
Fantasy Online to World of Warcraft, like the
Darklands or whatever you want to call it. There's
no... It's just pure colour and sparkles. And
I like my anime dark. Like Cyberpunk, bloody
and mental. It's just fucking cringe is what
it was. It was very, very... Like when you...
I'm just having a quick look at the reviews and...
I mean, this person has 154 hours on record,
and it's very positive reviews. 35 ,000 of them.
But I do think that it's not the game, it's me.
It is us, yeah, 100%. Because you're trying to
put a triangle shape into a square hole. We just
aren't anime. I mean, I'm not an anime fan, full
stop. I just don't find it interesting. It doesn't
entice me. But you are, to a degree. You have
to enjoy it. You loved Edge Runners, didn't you?
Yeah, yeah. Maybe... So you're like me. It has
to be a very specific anime. Yeah, I like it
with a bit of grit. Exactly. Like I said, when
I played Granblue Fantasy and then stopped playing
it, it's just so... sorry to our friends over
the water. It's just so fucking American. It's
so, it's so like Japanese turned American. It's
so fucking happy and positive and we can save
the world. Shut the fuck up. Good job. Yeah,
I hated that. Great hit. Yeah, shut the fuck
up. Just shut up. Oh, it was close. Yeah, it's
so annoying, man. It's so annoying. And then,
yeah, I didn't remember the synopsis thing until
you just mentioned it, but I was doing that.
where it just gave you a fucking brief thing
of everything that had gone on. Yeah, fuck the
cut scenes off. They were shit. Just not our
cup of tea, which is a shame because it says
it's got very positive reviews and I'm sure it's
absolutely fine. But it's just not okay for us.
I think, as I say, going back, I think that's
mainly why I didn't really play Final Fantasy
VII when I was a kid because a lot of people
have got nostalgia for it. Final Fantasy 7 and
I haven't got that hence why I smashed through
remake before Rebirth came out and I played Rebirth
it was amazing but I haven't got that nostalgia
for the characters I'm just like it's alright
it's a good game but yeah I never touched Final
Fantasy obviously I don't have I don't have any
of that but it's all very similar in that yeah
let's go guys if I'm perfectly honest I don't
understand why the fuck people like Final Fantasy
as much as they do I really don't get it Because
they're anime fans. I'm not saying it's bad at
all. I just don't... And I'm sure it'll be the
same way when people look at me with something
like World of Warcraft. I just don't... I don't
understand it at all. I don't like the aesthetic.
I don't like the way everything looks. I don't
like the combat styles of it. I just don't like
it. I think that's why I did Vibe with Final
Fantasy XVI more. Because it took a much more
serious tone. It was much more like... cut and
dry and and well straight to the point in terms
of he still had the nonsense he questioned that
but it was more serious whereas final fantasy
is always like i don't know girls swinging around
with umbrellas and short skirts when they fire
flowers at people and i'm just like it's not
for me man i just thought they when we played
that the minute that i found out you could get
that that talisman thing that just made all of
all of your abilities combos So you could just
keep spamming Square as much as you wanted and
then you could have that paired with the other
one where it automatically dodges for you. And
I was like, well, that's just immediately sucked
all the fun out of it. I mean, the combat weren't
fucking difficult in the first place, but now
you've just made it even easier. And then a six
-hour cutscene in between fucking quests. It
was just, fuck me. Not my cup of tea. Yeah, that's
the problem. As I say, I think them sort of games,
they are... If you like them, you like them.
If you don't, you don't. That's a burn from Final
Fantasy Online. I shouldn't have to put 100 hours
plus into a game for it to be enjoyable. There
is no way in hell that that should be a good
thing. The trouble is, though, I think it's harder
for us because we're pushing, or me personally,
because I'm not MMO anyway, you are, so you understand
it more than me, but pushing through... a game
style and story they don't like anyway whereas
the people that like Final Fantasy will probably
vibe with that a lot more like I like I like
my games I like my MMOs or fantasy games with
orcs and goblins and elves and all that sort
of traditional stuff where these have got humans
little tiny humans and people with cat ears and
then the massive blue guys or whatever they are
and that was it I like my there's no orcs and
I like all that sort of stuff there's none of
that so whilst I think the game's alright and
I can see why people like it it's harder for
us to get through that slog because that's not
our jam what a fucking slog and it is a slog
and we nearly got there as well which is the
most painful part we did nearly get there and
it was just too much hatred too much but I'm
sorry Sam I might go back to it but it's more
likely I'll bring it back to us he's never going
back you don't need to bring that back to us
I promise you that you can bin that do whatever
you want with it I genuinely don't care about
that game whatsoever I'll put it in a box and
it'll keep it warm for you keep it as a fucking
relic it's of no no benefit to me whatsoever
so yeah sorry about that Sam I might go back
to it mate but right now he's not he's not he's
dripping honey down in your ears Sam he is not
going back to this game just give me my eyes
were flickering I was like I can't handle this
no more there's just no no chance whatsoever
sorry it must be bad if I'm skipping cut scenes
and dialogue because I don't do that ever you
know I'm investment number 10 I'm headphones
on music up I'm listening to everything trying
to absorb what's going on I could not have been
less interested and that's you know sorry Sam
it's not your fault it's my bad but I'll give
it a go yeah sorry so we can ask for now we can
make you play a game we'll make Sam play a game
I don't know if there will be that many games
that he hasn't fucking played that we have play
FIFA 2006 Get the platinum. And then see what
that's like. Yeah, just for balance. Get back
to us. Just named a random feature. I threw in
more hours into Death Stranding, as is my weekly
homework. Kind of the only thing that I actually
sunk hours into this week has been fucking busy
and tired. And still fun. Still very fun. I've
got my motorbike. I'm whizzing around on that.
Did I get... Did I get fucking swallowed the
first time? Nah. Well, I did this time. The whales,
whatever the fuck happens there. I was trying
to avoid these BTs. Basically, I got to the unit
where the motorbike is, but I hadn't unlocked
the generator yet, so I couldn't charge the thing
up. Had to head over to some science lab thing
with a load of shit. I was fucking stacked up
high, man. I was wobbling all over the fucking
gaff. It made me walk through a forest. And when
you get to the forest, it's like crazy windy.
And there was just BTs everywhere. It was quite
a distance. And I just knew the minute I saw
the fucking, the route line go through a channel
of forest, I was like, well, I'm obviously going
to get fucking clobbered there. I must ask, are
you playing Death Strand in Director's Cut or
Death Strand in? Do you know? Because I didn't
realise that the Director's Cut is like a completely
different game. It's the same game, but there's
so much more in it. It's mental. I'm playing
the Director's Cut. Yeah, so apparently I watched
a video the other day because I didn't know it
was even a thing. And they're like, if you're
going to play this, you can't play the other
one. It's night and day. Like quality of life
improvements, obviously just general updates
and like the equipment that's added in it. It's
like a completely different game. So there might
be stuff I don't even know. Yeah, because I believe,
I had the PS4 version and then for an extra tenner
you could upgrade to the PS5 version and I believe
that gave you the director's cut and that is
what I'm playing but yeah I headed into that
forest and then sure enough loads of fucking
BTs have popped up everywhere weird ghost people
hanging about and I was avoiding them like the
fucking plague and I was doing decent with it
but they were just everywhere man I'm pretty
sure it was intended for me to get into some
form of combat um because i just could not avoid
them and then sure enough one of them grabbed
hold of me and i couldn't bat the hands away
quick enough and then i was swallowed and then
all of a sudden everything's just fucking turned
black um and then there's this fucking whale
swimming around trying to eat me and then like
like rocks flying up into the air and i can climb
them to fucking get away from the whale and i
was like The only reason I sort of know what's
going on is because we'd spoken about it. I was
like, if I was completely fresh to this, I was
like, I ain't got a fucking clue what is going
on. And it took me a good sort of like 20 seconds
of panic in this black water to realise that
all you've got to do is get out of it. It's just
run away from it, which is exactly what I did.
I'm playing the direct score, yeah. But what
I was, I was, I was fuming because I had all
this shit and it was degrading because of the
timefall, which was very annoying. And it was,
I was maybe like 400 meters, which in game terms
is maybe like a fucking 30 second walk from where
I needed to be. And then, yeah, sure enough,
this, this, this whale pops up, hit me and knocked
all my shit flying. Everything just spread out
fucking everywhere. I was fuming. and then I
was like well I could see that the ring I could
see the ring had an area so I was like I'll get
past that and see what happens and I got out
of that and then sure enough it all fucking disappears
and everyone's all happy and lovely so I went
back to my stuff which was then fucked I then
had to because you got that repair spray and
I didn't realise that you well can you use it
while you've got all your gear on yeah how well
I don't know I know you can because you can well
I need to learn how because I I had to take all
my shit off and spray it on the floor Well, maybe.
All I know is that there's an option that you
can face it backwards. So you can, while you're
walking, you can just turn it around and it'll
just go on his back. Oh, I'm going to have to
learn, see about that. Because I took all my
gear off and I had to spray it all individually,
put that back on, delivered whatever the fuck
I needed to deliver. Another, another. Like a
chiral link was then done. I've now added someone
else to the chiral network. And then I think
like as a reward or whatever, I got the blueprint
to make a generator, which obviously recharges
shit. So I then went back, got them on a bike,
recharged stuff. I was like, oh, this is much
easier. I got some fucking laser gun where I
can stun people. Yeah, see, I don't think that's
in the normal game. Oh, I got a gun that can
stun people, basically. It might have been. It's
a big old laser fucking machine gun thing. and
then just fucking incapacitates everyone. So
that was quite fun because I had a quest to basically
test that out. And it's fine, but I get what
you mean when you say the game is not designed
around combat. It just isn't. I've got a grenade
with my poo in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a poo
grenade that I can throw at BTs. I forgot about
that. Yeah, I forgot I had that as well, so I
haven't used that. Finally, Hit a point where
I'm now able to carry more shit. I got like the
XO leg thingies. They're quite cool. I like them.
And then I didn't realize that the... I can't
remember what they're called. These weird crystals
that you can pick up. And if you get a thousand
of them or whatever the weight is, it makes you
lighter because they levitate or something. So
yeah, I got my motorbike. Was fucking around
with that. And then now... I can't remember what
it was. I've got like, the guy said it's like
the biggest, the longest delivery that I've ever
been given is what I now need to do. Delivering
to Hartman or something like that. Some shit
like that. Which seems quite cool. Yeah, man.
It's still going pretty well. Good, man. I'm
glad you're enjoying it. I wish I had that level
of enjoyment with it. And I'm hoping... The director's
cut is just a different experience. I'm also
hoping that Death Stranding 2 is going to have
the Kingdom Come Deliverance treatment where,
like, Kingdom Come Deliverance 1, Death Stranding
1, they were received well. Nothing major. They're
well. Like, sevens, eights, you know, they're
okay games. And then KZD2 just went... It had
a vision and it didn't deviate from that vision.
It expanded on everything and made everything
amazing and I'm hoping that's what they'll do
with this. I'm excited for it because obviously
in Death Stranding 2 you see that there's like
a little kid which is obviously your fucking
BB. Is the link that I would make there that
somehow you've... Or is it? I don't know. Be
careful because it is Kojima. Now let me just
tell you a little story about what Kojima did
when I was young. Metal Gear Solid 1 came out
on the PlayStation. Absolutely mental game. Everyone
loved it. It was like just critically acclaimed
across the board. And then Metal Gear Solid 2
was announced and then it was just, yeah, just
more of the same but bigger and better and bang,
bang, bang. All the trailers are coming out.
Solid Snake sneaking around in boxes doing rah,
rah, rah. And then the game comes out and you
start and you're Solid Snake on a ship do this
thing and then the ship goes down. Solid Snake
drowns or Goes under the water, shall we say.
And then bang, you play the game as a completely
different character. And everyone was like, what?
What? Well, they killed him. No, they didn't.
But you still play the game as a whole different
character. And all the trailers, all the marketing,
this geezer was never mentioned once. It was
all Snake. So when, you know, imagine doing that
now. Like, you're talking about The Last of Us,
Joe and Ellie kind of levels. Oh, you'd lose
your shit, wouldn't you? What the f*** have you
done to like a beloved character? and don't get
me wrong he's still in it and he's still sick
and blah blah blah but he is like you know I've
told you before put your control in a different
control he is like break the fourth wall genius
one of the most amazing developers of all time
so yeah I would that is what naturally everyone's
presumption would go to so that's probably why
it isn't but yeah I agree I think it is but it's
Kojima man so you can never be sure it's a slow
burner for me which I'm quite enjoying I'm enjoying
the game whilst I'm playing it and I'm getting
excited to play it whilst I'm not playing it
but not to a level where I feel like I need to
keep I just want to constantly play it I'm quite
happy maybe jumping on it like once or twice
a week for a couple of hours and then that's
it so I only played it once last week and that
was on Sunday, I think. And yeah, just for a
couple of hours in, like two, maybe three hours
in. And that was enough for me. After that, I
was like, all right, yeah, sweet, I'm done for
a minute. So yeah, it's just going to be one
of those types. But yeah, still having a good
time with it, which is decent. Yeah, I think
that was your plan anyway, so nothing's changed
in that respect. Yeah. I did play, I actually
booted up the old girl this week. Steam Deck
came out. booted her up done all the updates
played a couple of hours of I say a couple of
hours probably played less than an hour of Deep
Rock Galactic but the you know roguelike kind
of one but I was ill so I was just looking for
a fix of something couldn't really take over
the telly but yeah I was just looking for it
just thinking what an amazing marvellous piece
of kit and then I put it back in this box and
that's just probably what's going to keep happening
it's terrible isn't it Isn't that weird? I don't
know why I do it. Everything's at your fingertips,
and you just go, nah. I just like having it,
man. I just like having it. Yeah, yeah. It's
one of those FOMO things, isn't it? You go, well,
I've got that, but thanks very much. See you
later. The thing is, for me, it's like I've never
really been on Steam, so there's always been
games, and it's like, come into Steam, early
access. I'm like, fuck's sake, you can't play.
So the Steam Deck does give me the advantage
of buying things early, like Hades 2, I love.
That's in early access. Yeah, but I'll probably
boot that out tonight. Or I'll play Baldur's
Gate. I'll tell you what I'm not playing. Granblue.
Yeah, Granblue Fantasy is not getting a fucking
look in at all. But yeah, other than that, I've
played Baldur's Gate again this week because
I'd done, on my first playthrough, I'd done Act
1. As far as I know, I never think I possibly
could in Act 1. And then when I got to Act 2,
it was all like dark and... and you needed a
lantern around you at all times. And I was like,
fuck this, I hate this. And I just beelined the
main story in that zone. So when I got to Act
3, I feel like there's a lot of stuff that I
missed or couldn't do because I was severely
under -leveled. So yeah, Act 2 is going to be
like a whole new game for me, bits I've never
even seen. So yeah, I'm looking forward to smashing
through that. And the game's completely different
anyway. I'm playing as a different character,
a different race. Playing the Dark Urge path,
which is mental. Just resting and I wake up and
I've slaughtered people in my sleep. That is
weird. It's crazy, man. Game's mental. Absolutely
mental. Best game ever, obviously. Yeah, that's
all I've done, really. I've been ill, though.
Didn't No Man's Sky come out with a fat update?
Yeah, some archaeological update. Yeah, like
Lost Titan type shit. You can create your own
light. Museum of dinosaur bones and shit. Fossils
and... I bet... I feel like it would be crazy
to jump in that game now because of the last
time that I played it. Everything is just...
I was fucking obsessed with that game. Obsessed
with it. You remember my fleet, man? I had that
fucking massive ship and I was like... An armada.
I absolutely loved having a fleet. like calling
in your fucking yeah cool and then everything
just fucking spawns in like five seconds later
and it's just a whole like mini empire of ships
and for some reason like even they didn't they
didn't do anything unless you sent them out on
missions i felt like safe i don't know why like
flying into my fucking hangar and then there's
just like loads of and then getting the the living
ships and all and going through all the fucking
rigmarole sorting that out that was good fun
man Fucking loved it. Another 100 hours in there
if you want it now. I wonder, because I was playing
that on PlayStation, weren't I? Yeah. I wonder
if I could see how many fucking hours that I
put into that. Do you just search it? No, I think
you have to go on your game library. No man's
sky. Let me have a look. I've already got it.
Why won't you just show me? I just wanted to
see if it fucking... If it would show me. I don't
know if it shows you on the app. Well, you just...
It does. Does it? Well, if it's in your recently
played. Oh, right. Is it going to do me like
that where it doesn't fucking... Well, I'm on
recently played games and I can't see my played
games. No, man, it's got to... No, yeah, it ain't
going to fucking show me. That's pathetic. It's
pathetic behaviour. I just wanted to see. Well,
they're not letting you, bruv. Hundreds of hours
either way. It gave me a little buzz that I can't
wait for Light No Fire. That's going to be so
fucking... That's going to be good, that. But
still, very, very little information on that.
By little, you mean none? Yes. Yes, a trailer,
and then that is basically it. There's fucking
literally nothing. And it's so annoying. Because
I really want to see the main premise of it.
Because it kind of looks a bit like Entrouded
meets Ark. Obviously thrown in with System of
No Man's Sky. I'm watching the trailer now. Oh,
the nostalgia from just fucking seeing the trailer
of it. And the little bunny people that you can
be. And all that weird shit. And then there's
fucking... kingfishers that are flying around.
I want it. I want to be a part of it. And it's
just fucking infuriating that there's just nothing
here, man. Release date, nothing. Oh, God. It's
a game about adventure, building, survival. It's
one of the only survival types that I will really
get along with. You know what I mean? Yes. Yes,
you will. I really want to buy... Rise of the
Ronin. And I've got it on my wish list, but I
refuse to pay them. We're going back to that,
yeah. Yeah, well, that's what I want. It's on
my wish list, man, but I'm not paying 70 bones
for it. Do you know what I mean? It's just not
happening. 70 quid? 69 .99, baby. There's no
fucking chance. Still got them mixed reviews,
though. I mean, that is on... Oh, yeah, because
we looked at this last time and it was just fucking...
optimization issues wasn't it on pc a lot of
people are playing it now and and what's the
word gushing over it oh you're telling me that
is that off the back i mean assassin's creed
shadows is doing really well selling well but
i don't think uh i still see a lot of discourse
on it people are not happy people are happy it's
just this is i think that's just assassin's creed
for the eternity now like you're always going
to be split Some people are going to love it,
some people are going to hate it. Yeah, agreed.
If we both had an Assassin's Creed game, say
Assassin's Creed Shadows, and it was what you
wanted, create your own character of players
one, rah -rah -rah, perfect game, and there was
no Animus, I would love it. You would prefer
the Animus. I want the Animus, yeah. So it's
split regardless, because at this point you just
need to make two separate titles. Why don't you
buy Rise of the Ronin off of eBay? Because I'm
just impatient and then when I want it, I want
it now. Yeah, but you could have it now. No,
I have it tomorrow. Yeah, but... That's too long.
Yeah, but if you were to buy it now, then you
would have it... By the time, like, I know what
you mean, you want it instantly, but by the time
it rocks up, you've got no choice but to wait
anyway. So, like, you could get it on eBay now
for 30 quid. Yeah, and I can get it on Pelé Station
store for 70. and I've got it now that's mental
isn't it that it's 70 quid on Playstation although
this is why I put this is why this is a pro tip
for anyone that does what I do yeah wishlisting
shit because I've got Rise of the Ronin wishlisted
on my Playstation account £69 .99, Rise of the
Ronin. I also have Rise of the Ronin, the digital
deluxe edition, which listed on my PlayStation
account, and that's £52 .79. Nice. 34 % off of
the original £80 asking price. So, you know,
I'm more willing to pay that than I am the 70
quid for the shit. But yeah, I don't know. I'm
waiting. I'm waiting on that. I'm sitting on
it. I've got other stuff to do, man. My gaming
habits, I must say, have changed over the...
You reckon? Yes, for sure. Because I... The old
me, bang, I'd have had AC Jealous. I'd have had
that before any reviews came out. I'd have pre
-ordered the shit out of it. I can't think off
the top of my head, but there's been a lot of
games. Veil Guard, I would have pre -ordered
that. All these games, man, I would have just
been on them just because I get excited at new
games, new experiences. But now I sit on them,
man, and I'm like, no, I'll put them on my wish
list and I'll wait for sales because I've got
Baldur's Gate, bro. That game will keep me entertained
forever. we've been over it before it's just
fucking expensive man well it is expensive and
the price that games go down to I mean I wish
this did Valgaard and then come out as a PlayStation
Plus game like three months later I would be
fuming if I'd paid full price for that yeah yeah
you'd almost feel like entitled to a fucking
compensation off of that if you buy a game full
price and it's from the playstation store I want
it fucking I want compensation off if you're
throwing it for free in three months please it's
dirty behaviour but they needed to get them players
up man so yeah I quite often just sit on games
now and wait at least wait for reviews and it
also helps that back in the day if I wanted a
game I'd be like if I really wanted it I'd take
a day off I'd go down and buy it physical I was
always physical physical where now as I'm like
right well I'll just download it so it's already
downloaded ready to go when I get in from work
because I've pre -ordered it rah rah rah thing
is man you've got fucking things like Game Pass
and all I'm just having a quick look to see that
Atom 4 I want to try yeah that looks good it
looks good but I also saw that it's got some
janky Some jankiness to it. It's got mostly positive
reviews sort of like Fallout styled developer
and publishers of rebellion I've never heard
of them. Fallout in London or England by the
looks of it. Yeah, yeah. A nuclear disaster has
left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall,
a new survival action game. We'll see you explore,
scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through
beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.
Someone said a little over eight hours of gameplay
to... Oh. Oh. What's happened? A little over
eight hours of gameplay to beat the game is kind
of sad. Oh, that's pathetic. Eight hours? No,
I'm not going to do the other endings. The mystery
was good in the beginning. Now there's no reason
to go back and do the other endings. I'm just
going to watch them. If you're interested in
this game, just wait for it to go on sale. Yeah,
it's not a bad game, but somehow very bland.
Tries to be Fallout in some places. Stalker in
others. Stalker? Sick game. Forgot about that.
poor man's bioshock when it comes to equipment
weapon variety is okay but there are no real
upgrades to them just some better visuals and
basic stat increases story is bland multiple
choices really only matter once you get to the
end of the game you can do all arcs without losing
access to others for most of the game factions
are extremely bland all roaming factions slash
enemies are just primitive raiders basic fallout
raiders uh enclave but british and with less
power and totally not just feral ghouls we promise
let me yes all the raiders go oi what the bloody
hell are you doing that that i hate i hate that
when when you have like an english adaptation
of something and it's always that isn't it fucking
all right governor yeah no let's have some fucking
different shit in there i mean i feel like I
want to say that I heard a lot of northern accents
in the trailer for this. I want to say that.
Games that have English people, they tend to
either have that, all right, governor, how you
doing, sunshine? Or they have the northern, like,
the Jon Snow accent. Kind of gritty northern.
Yeah, there's never just a normal English game.
You don't get no Essex boys in there. No, definitely
not. Fucking definitely not. It's been a long,
long time since I actually looked on Game Pass
to see if there was anything decent. Because
with Assassin's Creed Shadows, if you wanted
to play it on PC, it only cost you 15 quid because
you just go through Ubisoft Connect. But then
you've got to play it on PC. And I don't want
to play it on PC. They announced Indiana Jones
is coming to PlayStation. in a couple of weeks
yeah did we we kind of knew that was going to
happen though yeah yeah i think starford will
be eventually as well yeah i think they're all
coming man xbox are just folding in that respect
and just well we'll just play our system then
don't worry about the games well yeah the thing
is man i don't even i wouldn't even say that
it's folding i think it's just smart business
you go little i've released this game if anything
it's the more mature thing to do because they're
failing They have no option. People don't buy
their console anymore. Yeah, but PlayStation
aren't doing much fucking better in terms of
actual games that they're coming out with. Have
a look at PlayStation 5 sales compared to Xbox
sales. Oh, yeah, no. Yeah, yeah. Hardware -wise,
they may as well just fucking... They're more
or less the same shit. If you're going to do
flagship games like Starfield, Indiana Jones
and the like... And then just sell them on Xbox.
If your Xboxes aren't selling, them games aren't
selling. So fucking get them out on other consoles.
Because I'll probably buy Indiana Jones. I won't
buy it full price because I've changed. But I'll
play that eventually. But I would not go and
buy Xbox to play that. I will never do that again
for Xbox. Dead to me. I will buy a Nintendo Switch
2 though, I think. Did you see Nintendo Switch
Direct? No, when was that? Yesterday. Oh, yeah,
no, I missed it. Go on then, give us some. No,
this one's just for Nintendo Switch 1. The Nintendo
Switch 2 Direct is actually next week, which
is spicy. They've announced, I don't know, just
typical Nintendo games, really. Nothing that
really speaks to me. But they have created a
new feature called Virtual Game Cards. What's
that? I don't really know. Let me Google it then.
I think, well, I do know, but it's still very
confusing. So if you've got a Switch and I've
got a Switch, I can lend you a game. But I haven't
got that game while you're playing it, if you
know what I mean. So I've lent you my virtual
game card. So it's like I've took the game out
of my system and put it in your system. So virtual
game card for Switch and Switch 2. Purchase a
digital game and load it as a digital game card.
Load a digital game card on a second system up
to two systems. Lend out games to Switch family
group members via local wireless. um available
in system update in april i'm going to imagine
local wireless is maybe in like the same country
same city imagine if we're just sitting here
i can send it to you um note that there has to
be some sort of physical handshake with the other
console at least once before so if you have multiple
consoles in the same house or family nearby it
shouldn't be an issue but if you have someone
living in the east coast of the us and you're
on the west then you won't be able to do this
so it would basically be you'd have to come here
and then interact whatever and then yeah I mean
that's quite I mean I mean Microsoft have been
doing that for a while with Game Share it's Nintendo
man I feel like they're innovative and they're
always also a little bit behind yeah but that's
not innovation it's cool don't get me wrong that
is cool but what so what does that mean you then
buy the game I don't have to fucking buy it because
you can you can share it to me like gameshare
basically i can lend it to you but i can't play
it oh so it's nothing like gameshare then i can
while you while you're playing the game i have
no access to it it's like that's what i said
it is they gave an example of or someone did
if it wasn't them the game the physical game
is in your switch you've took that physical game
out of your switch and put it in yours so there
i can no longer play because it's not in mine
and then when you give that back then i can play
it you feels me they'll let players share their
digital games with another console family group
members in the same way they might swap a physical
cartridge yeah yeah yeah exactly what you just
said here's how it works once the feature becomes
available um any digital purchase made will be
added to the associated switch as a virtual game
card by default any registered users on the main
console can play the game just as they would
with any other digital purchase but there's obviously
more to it than that virtual game cards are managed
on a separate screen with players able to choose
whether they're considered loaded or ejected
an ejected virtual game card can firstly be played
on a second switch that's owned by the same main
account holder with users able to freely eject
and load cartridges between up to two owned machines
nintendo notes local communication with the other
console is required to enable the feature for
the first time it's that it's that bit local
communication i don't know how local you're talking
are you talking in the same On the same Wi -Fi
network? I don't imagine so. Local play normally
means... Means local, as in fucking next to each
other. Yeah, sitting on the same couch playing
couch cart. However, virtual game cards can also
be lent to anyone within a Nintendo account family
group, which can support up to eight Nintendo
account users. Again, this initially requires
the lending user to connect to the family group
member's console locally, after which it's simply
a case of choosing the title being lent. So...
Yeah, so I would imagine you'd be able to connect
as a family and then fuck off. And then you can...
Only one game at a time can be lent to each member
within a family group and only for a total of
14 days. After the two weeks comes to an end,
a virtual game card will be automatically returned
to its original owner. Expect the virtual game
card system to feature in much the same way on
Switch 2. Now, you fucking watch. You watch this,
Prince Among Men, right? Here's the virtual card.
14 days and I'll have that game back, please.
For an extra two quid a month. We'll extend that
to 60 days. Or for five pounds, you can have
it indefinitely. I think, I don't know if it
says it there, but I presume that after 14 days,
you can just send it back to them if you want.
It's just a way of me not giving you a game you
can keep forever after I've played it. Do you
know what I mean? Yeah, it's also a way to introduce
another tiny microtransaction to extend that.
Much like how you pay for Amazon Prime, get the
video with it, and then for an extra £2 .99,
you can get rid of the ads when there were no
ads, but now there's suddenly ads. Almost like
when I bought my Kindle, my reading system. It
cost me like 30 quid to get the Kindle that has
no ads on the screen. no ads please I'm trying
to read I don't want fucking adverts popping
up yeah thank you very much the sneaky fuckers
where everything's fucking housebound so like
Netflix and all of that is fucking is it knows
like now we can't watch Netflix and shit because
it knows that we ain't fucking living in the
same place where we were pathetic behaviour it's
interesting it's cool something that Steph will
thoroughly enjoy though Yeah, yeah, I think it's
decent because obviously Steph's got two Switches.
We're definitely going to end up getting the
Switch 2. You can't not. That's not what I meant.
But something that Steph Wood is going to enjoy
is they've released an app as well. So there's
a Nintendo app you can download now. And every
single day, they post stuff on there about games,
new games, rah -da -rah -da -rah. Every day up
until Nintendo Switch 2 comes out, they're going
to be releasing Nintendo Switch 2 news. But what
I am getting to is today... They announced on
there a Zelda live -action film coming next year.
Oh, very cool. Yes. That is very cool. So...
My Nintendo. I believe that is the name. Is that
what it's called? Have you got it? No, I didn't
look at it. I just watched the direct. But yeah,
so they've made a big announcement on there today
that the Zelda film or a live action Zelda film
will be out next year. Kind of big news. My Nintendo
is not in the West. Nintendo's new app gave us
another look at the... Do we get access to it?
We will eventually. Confirmation comes... Be
aware of this hub... But the big news, yeah,
literally... Are you sure you didn't write these
fucking articles? Because it's just saying the
same shit that you literally just fucking said.
Nintendo and Sony Pictures first made the massive
announcement about a live -action Legend of Zelda
in November 2023. Yeah, cool. And then, yeah,
there's an app, blah, blah, blah. Who the fuck
is going to play Link? Hold on. Oh, is it actually
the name? The Legend of Zelda movie in a... With
Wes Ball, the Maze Runner, Kingdom of the Planet
of the Apes, set to direct, and Avi Arad and
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto producing. We know
next to nothing about the movie itself, though.
Ball has said he wants it to be live -action
Miyazaki. Miyazaki? Miyazaki? Referencing beloved
filmmaker... Miyazaki? Yeah. The Elden Ring man.
I'd imagine so. Hayao Miyazaki. I'll copy that.
The director of Studio Ghibli and creator of
myriad anime classics such as My Neighbor Totoro,
Howl's Moving Castle, and Spirited Away. Spirited
Away? Still plans for the Zelda movie to be a
serious adaptation. that feels real and has made
clear he doesn't intend to use so much motion
capture in the grounded film. Have you seen Spirited
Away? No, mate. No. Sick. Very good film. Very
weird. Miyazaki, he... Oh, yeah, he's just...
I mean, I don't know anything about this person,
so forgive me if anyone's listening and I sound
very, like... I'm grateful as to who this person
is. I'm sure they're fantastic. He's a Japanese
animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co
-founded Studio Ghibli and serves as its honorary
chairman. So he's not the Mizaki that I know.
No, but I'm sure in that world he is top tier.
But yeah, there's no info yet as to who would...
I don't know who you would have... casting as...
This is what I mean. Who the fuck has come out
with Jason Statham or Chris Pratt? Chris Pratt,
I swear to God. That's what I would find annoying
is when you get gaming adaptations like that
when they turn them into live action but then
you get not non -serious actors but really...
high -end, like you've seen them before. They're
quite comedic type. Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen.
I just feel like it kind of pulls away. I feel
like with that kind of shit, you want not unknown
actors, but a little bit. I think you have to
go unknown with something like that because he's
going to have long hair and big ears. You can't
go and stick elf ears on Jason Statham and long
hair. No. It has to be a geezer that looks the
part. Do you know what I mean? Just give it to
fucking... But I mean, fucking World of War...
Just give it to Henry Cavill. Just give everything
to Henry Cavill. World of Warcraft had fucking
Ragnar in it. Did it? Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah. I've
seen it. So... That good film? I really liked
it. I reckon you would like it, yeah. Yeah, I
reckon I would. I reckon you would like it. I
did watch a film this week. I'll talk about it
on the Patreon. Go for it. Right, yeah, no, there's
nothing else. So, hopefully... When is that next
weekend? What? The Nintendo... Yeah, no, next
week. I think they said second, I believe. That's
going to be all Switch 2 stuff, so I presume
Switch 2 games. Hopefully a fucking release date.
Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I can't fucking... Obviously
it's not going to tell me straight away, is it?
All right. Yeah, sweet. So hopefully we'll have
a little bit more info on that when we go back
next week. I would have helped if I took Nintendo.
2nd of April. 2nd of April. There you go. Wednesday,
April 2nd at 2 o 'clock UK time. So we'll be
able to fucking talk about that next week. Oh,
yeah. Right. We're going to go and do the Patreon
now then. Sweet. Find out about Ash's movie.
Yeah, love you. See you later, everyone. Ooroo.
Ooroo.