Right, now we're back. No, we started. This is
it. This is the beginning. What we just recorded
got deleted, but it was nice. You want to gargle
for me again? I was about to sneeze. Oh, sorry.
You have to fill the gap while I wait. Looking
at the sun normally helps. I'm trying, but there
is none. There is literally no sun. It's going
to feel terrible if that sneeze goes away. We
all know that. It's going. It's going. Just one
big sniff and get rid of it. Yeah, it's gone
now. It's not coming. It's disgusting. It's absolutely
vile. That is perfect for The Last of Us or any
zombie -orientated thing for a sound effect.
Yes. Yes. So if any company's looking for voice
actors for zombies or undead... There you go.
Throw your money over here. Yeah, boy. Been up
to much? Done much? Not really. I think I played
a bit of Steam Deck. I played a lot of Steam
Deck, actually. Other than that, not really.
I played a bit of COD, a bit of Warzone. A bit
of Vodansk. A bit of Vodonsk. Vodonsk is. A bit
of PUBG. What was your part of PUBG? Yeah, a
little game on that. Fucking, I only managed
to win, waiting for Clarky to come on. First
game, downloaded it, went on solos, and Clarky
joined halfway through. This game's going on
forever. Fucking managed to win. My first ever
game. How many kills? Two or three. Yeah, it's
crazy. But I fucking... I think this is my first
ever chicken dinner. I even got an achievement
and everything. I was like, what the fuck? I
was gassed, man. I was so hyped. They're such
long games. Yeah. What was that, like a 40 -odd
minute game? I think it was more like... Yeah,
we're not far off, but half hour, 25 minutes.
Yeah, they're quite long. Yeah, I was pretty
gassed for that. But yeah, it's just a good old
time. The only thing I don't like about PUBG
is the controls are so weird. Proper strange,
isn't they? Yeah, weird controls. Swapping the
guns around and shit like that. I always preferred
the gun feel to PUBG, though. I always thought
it was quite nice. But trying to work out what
gun's fucking decent when you haven't played
it is a ball ache because of how long the games
are. Because you'll be picking up a gun and you'll
be like, I don't know if this is good or not.
Don't want to shoot it because I don't want people
to know I'm here. But then you might not see
someone for a full 20 minutes. It's just long.
Also, it's not simple to just change because
there's a lot of time you've collected attachments
for that gun. So it's like, well, I'll have to
stick with this now, won't I? Yeah, I remember
all of that fucking bollocks. I loved PUBG, man.
It was good fun. It was just the games were so
fucking long. Shit was heartbreaking. 45 minutes
into the end of the game and then you just die.
This was all for nothing. I feel you. Absolutely
nothing. Just looking through the games that
I've recently played. I played a bit of Death
Stranded. That bike is decent for terrain travel,
you know. For just floating down mountains. and
not giving a fuck it is perfect it makes my life
so much more easier um i also recently which
is quite shameful really because i'm i'm far
enough into a point where i should already be
doing this but i wasn't and that is um leaving
a lot of my cargo in the um like banks and shit
like that because i was carrying around mountains
of stuff obviously off the back of the last time
i played it when i essentially died and lost
all of my shit I was fuming and then luck would
have it that in my fit of rage and turning off
the playstation it didn't save so I loaded back
in and I was at the start in the base I can't
remember what it's called what's that base called
one of them and I had all my gear with me So
I flicked through. I was like, well, what can
I actually get rid of? I was carrying like three
pairs of fucking boots, which I know I need them.
But I was like, one extra pair will suffice for
now. I was carrying like six ladders. I don't
need six ladders. You know what I mean? I'll
get by with one. That's all I'm going to need.
So I threw six in the bank. And then I'm holding
all of this cargo that I'm going to either...
Because obviously you can... you can deliver
the cargo through any area that you're in that
allows you to deliver cargo you just lose out
on the likes that you get from it as opposed
to delivering it to like say fort city or or
wherever you need to go um so i was like you
know what fuck it i fuck the likes i'm just gonna
deliver it here because it had like five packages
and they were heavy man i was like fuck it i'm
just gonna deliver these so that offloaded a
load of shit and then um Yeah, I was just carrying
a lot of unnecessary stuff that I didn't need
to take with me. So lightened my load and it
made it far more enjoyable because rather than
just taking one step and having to lean to the
left or lean to the right, I could be in a full
sprint and be absolutely fine. So I was like,
yeah, this makes perfect sense. So I went back
to where a BT fucked me up, fucked that up, completed
that mission, and now I'm on my way all the way
over some... mega mountainous terrain. Like when
I looked on the map, it was like, oh, this is
the longest journey that you're going to do.
And fucking, I looked at the line on the map
and I was like, oh, it's far, but it's pretty
straight shot over. And then when I zoomed into
the map, I was like, oh no, the mountain, there
is a mountain in the way. I have to traverse
this mountain. So yeah, so I'm about halfway
up the fucking thing. with the bike somehow i'm
pretty sure up that mountain is where you meet
hartman i believe because i remember they're
climbing up a big snowy mountain no it's just
a geyser with a funky heart um i won't spoil
it he's called hartman for a reason i think that's
his name yeah i remember there's like a hot spring
at the top or something yeah so i'm doing that
i'm trying to gather my bearings back with um
with upgrading things that you build and bridges
and shit like that I'm trying to because I've
still like I'm ignoring it for now but I can't
shake that feeling of should I be ignoring all
of this or should I actually be upgrading stuff
it's like I don't know I really don't know as
long as I can build the thing that charges your
bike back up I don't really mind but I don't
think I'm that far enough in for it to be impactful
what I'm doing I think you'll have this wrapped
up by Christmas you're right We might get there.
We might get there. There'll be... Nice little
project though, isn't it? There's one play through
coming. I can feel it where I'm just going to
sink like 10 hours into it in one hit. And then
I'll either be hooked or I'll burn myself out
for a week or two. Red Dead. But something's
coming. I haven't touched Red Dead. What is it?
Tell me. No, no. Death Stranding. That's what
I'm saying. It's Death Stranding. I'll have a
time when I sit on it and I'll go, yeah, I'm...
I'm deep into this. This is decent. Like when
I first played it. So, yeah, it's going good
so far. It's just a very slow burner. Very slow
burner. That was really weird. Sexy, wasn't it?
I don't ever want to see you do that again. Eating
your vape. Have you heard of a little game called
Lords of the Fallen? Yes. Yes. They have revamped
the whole game. Pretty much, they've just done
so much stuff. They've done a lot of stuff to
rebuild, remake, regather back some players,
rah, rah, rah, rah, rah. Yeah, it's on, sad at
the moment, on PlayStation. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah. Cool, one of the cool things they've
done is seamless co -op across platform, fucking
yada, yada, yada. Mm -hmm, mm -hmm. But, which
is becoming a bit more of an industry standard
now, I see. Yep. They have added the ability
to play with a friend. Mm -hmm. So, My question
is, if I buy it, will you play with me? Do I
have to buy it as well? No. Oh, I don't have
to buy it? No, you can play it entirely for free.
And if you did buy the game, wherever you are
in the game, you can carry on. Is this a Soulsborne?
Yeah. Is this a Souls -like? But it's the only
Souls -like that's got seamless co -op where
you can play the whole game together. So you
level up individually as well. Level 20 and you're
level 3. Version 2 .0. And then I'm level 30
next time I come on. You'll still be level 3.
Play Lords of the Fallen Friends Pass. That's
the one. It's on Steam. They announced it yesterday
or it came out yesterday. Yeah, I'll play Lords
of the Fallen with you. I think it'll be a pretty
cool little... Who made it? CI Games. Yeah, I
played it, funnily enough, around one of my friend's
old boys in his 60s, 70s. He plays Dark Souls
a lot. I went round to his house. He thinks for
some reason, because we've got a podcast, he
thinks I'm something like God Tier Gamer. We
are not. No, but I suppose in comparison to old
boy there, he was stuck on a bit with a lot of
jumps and that, and I got him through it, and
he's like, I've been stuck on this for weeks.
I do it like first time, because, you know, hand
-eye coordination and younger, I guess. But that
was the only time I'd ever played like Laws of
Fallen. It was actually pretty cool. But the
difference is on that, like in Dark Souls, the
original Dark Souls stuff, you're kind of spoiled
with Elden Ring. But to jump in Dark Souls and
that, you had to sprint, which was, say, L3,
and then press L3 again when you wanted to jump.
It was so... janky and that's what Lords of Fallen
did one of their new things is they've got a
dedicated jump button and stuff now I've got
which it's weird that we're talking about it
because I've was playing the demo of fucking
Kazan oh yeah nice playing that because I was
I was flicking through trying to find another
game because we've pretty much wrapped up World
of Warcraft until the next patch. We got ahead
of the curve Sunday and then funnily enough reset
happened, did the raid on Wednesday, did it on
Heroic and just fucking cleared it all in one
night. So I think this Sunday we're going into
Mythic and that's just fucking around trying
to get the first two bosses down. We ain't got
the people or the mental capacity to do Mythic.
um so we've all sort of like wrapped it up a
little bit and we're all starting to look at
other other avenues of gaming and shit like that
and um so yeah i was looking for the playstation
yesterday and i was like they're like on the
store and i was like i might just fucking spend
full whack on a game i haven't done that in a
long time so i was looking at all sorts like
rise of the ronin um fucking kazan uh all these
different games i was like maybe maybe maybe
then i found myself in the demo section And then
realized you can demo half of those games. So
I was like, fuck it. I'll wham a demo on rather
than pay full whack and then hate it. I'll put
a demo on, which obviously with mega internet
prints is very, very easy. Download a demo in
like five minutes and then we're good to go.
So downloaded the Kazan demo. And I didn't realize
it was a Soulsborne. I had no idea until... I
hit one enemy and I was like, I know what this
is. I know how this gameplay works. I know what's
going on. I'm not putting myself through this
again. So did a little bit of demo and then I
was like, nah, it's great. It looks cool. It
feels very fun. And I was like, I'm not doing
this because I'm not getting, I wanted just a
nice adventure. Fucking keep me entertained.
I don't want to be putting my fist through the
telly. So I was like, I'm set to step. I'm not
doing this. This ain't happening. So stopped
it, deleted it. I actually downloaded the Star
Wars Outlaws demo. Haven't played that yet, but
it is downloaded and ready to have a little gander
at. So yeah, it's just funny that we're talking
about Lords of the Fallen because I did actually
look at that as well and looked at it and I was
like, I'm not doing it. But I will do it with
a friend. For free. For free. Which is cool as
well because they haven't just done that so I
can like... If you're not into it, I can just
go, don't worry about it. Give the friend pass
to someone else. You can just keep sharing it
with other people. Someone said, I've got the
Steam reviews up. And these are from the 24th
of March. So they're a little outdated. To be
fair, there's one here. This one's from... These
are all from today, to be fair. You probably
want the most recent ones because they've rebuilt
the game. Thanks for listening to your audience
and coming up with a new update. Art is great.
Gameplay is satisfying. Did not like how locking
on worked, making your dodge feel like trash.
Recommend. The game is seriously awesome. The
whole dual world thing with... with the umbral
realm is super cool and the combat feels really
smooth i love how you can switch between realms
to find secrets and fight different enemies the
bosses are tough but fair and the world design
is just beautiful totally totally worth playing
if you're into souls like games Someone said,
it's a mobile clunky game trying to copy Dark
Souls in a dark setting. Extremely unbalanced
on its mechanics after you figure that Lantern
Pool is extremely broken and trivialises half
the game. You can literally one -shot bosses
back -to -back without even seeing half their
animations. I'll be using that then. As someone
who played the original for like three minutes
and got that for three dollars and refunded it,
this is miles and worlds bound. World... world's
bounds better than the game it was it's so fun
to play you definitely need this so a couple
of oh here we go this person actually talks about
the update uh and they've got 85 hours into it
So, I streamed the game last night for about
six hours. Not one crash, not one frame drop,
not one disconnect. It ran flawlessly, performing
and looking better than ever. Cross -progression
working as intended. Cross -play stable, albeit
a bit slow to connect initially. And the overall
experience was stellar. A game you can literally
run from start to finish without anyone missing
out on progress in a Souls -like. CI and Hexworks
have not only pushed the technical boundaries
of the genre, they've also proven that they're
committed to their work, supporting it for years
after release, something that has earned them
a lot of respect from the community. The character
still feels a bit floaty and the endings have
stayed the same, but as a whole the game has
improved immensely. As it stands for now, Lords
of the Fallen is better than ever. Give it the
time and if you haven't already, you won't be
disappointed. And that is on the update 2 .0.
Yeah, I'm fucking keen for it because you can
buy it now for 16 quid off of Steam. But are
you buying it on PlayStation? Yeah. I don't know
how much it is on. 16 quid. Oh, is it 16 quid
on that? Yeah, that's what I was looking at it
on. Yeah, I'm game for it, man. If we can fucking...
Yeah. Yeah. We'll check it out. We'll check it
out, baby. 100%. Oh, this is how we're going
to look at it. It just looks like fucking...
It's not Elden Ring, so now we're going to have
to fucking jump in. Because I really like playing
Elden Ring with another person. Especially doing
the bosses and shit like that. It's good fun.
It's only downfall is it's not got a lot of seamless
co -op. Which is why I think Night Rain is going
to be cool. It's going to be good. Did you see
the new class that they've announced for Night
Rain? What was it fucking called? It's basically
just a massive strength build. I heard it. I
didn't see it. Just slashing and smacking the
fuck out of people. So that'll be me playing
that for the funsies. I think I want to be the
bird man. Yeah? He's a bird man. Little bird
man. Yeah, this looks good. Lords of the Fallen
looks fucking cool, man. I'm going for it. I
think for 16 quid, it's shit. It's shit. Yeah,
you can't make it 16 quid, fuck's sake. Yeah,
it's not the end of the world. Better paying
fucking 16 quid than the 50 quid for the original
price. Exactly. We'll take it. Why not? Jumping
off of that, I've been playing something that
I said I wouldn't play, but am playing. I'm pretty
sure in last week's episode, or maybe the week
before, I even spoke about it and said how it's
pissed me off and I don't want to play it. It's
not the last of us, is it? No, no, no, no, no,
no, no. It's RuneScape. No. Dragon Wilds. Okay.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've watched some shit
on that. That's what I've been playing. I've
been playing that today, mind you. Thoughts.
Give me thoughts, because I've seen some very
positive and some very negative, so I don't know
where to sit on it. So... Early access, isn't
it? It is early access. Is it free? It's not
free. It's one of those early accesses that you
have to pay for, which I'm not against, because
I did it through Enshrouded and really enjoyed
it. So initially what put me off of it is the
survival aspects of it. I hate it. I absolutely
hate it. And I hate base building. But I hated
that within Shrouded. But I absolutely loved
in Shrouded. And Connor loves base building.
So he built our base in Shrouded. So I let him
crack on with it. While Connor also wants to
play in RuneScape and is playing it. So obviously
you can join other people's servers. crack on
so i'll do the same allow wow connor to fucking
build the base so far you can see where it's
taken inspo off of other games we had a long
conversation about it the other day in our group
chat basically saying like um there's only so
much you can do with survivals in terms of inspiration
a lot of people just end up copying each other
and it It has to separate itself from everyone
else. I don't know whether this harps on from
nostalgia for it being a RuneScape game or what,
but so far I think I've put a couple of hours
in and it is fun. It is very fun. But I don't
feel like I'm in it enough to really see if it's
got a longevity to it. Does that make sense?
What I've seen... and what I watched it just
really reminded me of Valheim like pretty much
everything I think a lot of people were saying
a lot of the consensus about the game was they
really like it but they're not sure how supported
it's going to be is it going to be like a long
because obviously RuneScape has been out for
fucking yonks is it going to be like the next
big project for RuneScape where they support
it for years and then they start adding like
a MMO aspects to it where not necessarily the
whole world but in the towns there's loads of
other people yadda yadda yadda and if they do
something like that then they think it could
be really really good but they've got community
servers but obviously you have to join the community
servers yeah because it's The thing I find difficult
is if you're going to end, because obviously
something like RuneScape and old school RuneScape,
they are MMOs in their own respect. But I feel
like once you start throwing in survival mechanics
like Dragon Wilds, I feel like it's very difficult
to turn that into an MMO. because i don't know
there's just something about it where when you
put it on paper it sounds amazing i want base
building i want i want um i want there to be
survival mechanics i want to be able to craft
my own weapons have a durability meter um yada
yada yada and then throw the mmo aspects into
that it all sounds great but in practice it just
feels a bit yeah especially if you're like say
something like wow if you're in the state that
you're in now and then you're going and you're
raiding and shit like that but then you have
to worry about a water meter and a fucking health
meat like a food meter at the bottom and like
this has a has a rest meter so when that wears
down it has an impact on your stamina usage and
how much you can carry and shit like that but
at the same time they're very trivial i explained
um to some of the lads that survival light is
what you would want like no man's sky where those
survival aspects are trivial when you get to
a point that we got to because you you've got
so many resources to pull from to keep your oxygen
fed and all of that shit that you don't even
have to think about it and i'm pretty sure there
was even a thing where it just did it automatically
for you which in my head is sort of like right
well get rid of it get rid of it you don't need
that get rid of it but obviously runescape The
skill trees are all the same, so you've got your
mining, your fucking woodcutting, your cooking,
all of that sort of stuff, and you do level them
up and shit, so it makes sense in that regards.
Yeah, I just don't know how... Is it just another
survival? Just looks like Valheim, man, but with
RuneScape name on it. What it looks like to me
is like Enshrouded, which obviously you never
played, but it looks extremely similar to Enshrouded,
and then it's got... Like, so... Where it's got
touches of other games. Even things down to when
you get your woodcutting and your mining to level
11 or something. You get a spell respective for
either. So like the woodcutting one, you summon
an ethereal axe that you fire. uh trees and it
just instantly knocks them down and you can like
line them up so if you've got four trees in a
row it will cut through all of them rather than
you having to obviously you need runes to be
able to do that which is fine um and then with
the mining one uh it's on like a 30 second cooldown
or something you can summon this boulder that
just explodes these nodes around you um eso does
that where obviously with the cutting wood and
all that shit from the store, because I had them,
you can get the ones where rather than you cutting
the wood, it summons an ethereal wood cutting
axe that does it for you in front of you. It
looks very cool. So you can see whether they
took inspo from ESO for that or not, I don't
know, but it seems very, very similar. So yeah,
it's difficult to tell so far because I feel
like everyone is... Pretty similar with the ADHD
brain. We go, this is fucking sick. Sink 60 hours
into it and then you go, there's nothing left
to do. Especially when you're in early access
as well because you're like, this isn't a fully
fleshed out game. There's things that, quality
of life improvements that need to happen. There's
a lot there that could do with changing around.
So you think like, right, let me rinse this.
In Shrouded, it's a prime example. They've done
a shit ton of content updates since I last played
it. But I had my fix and did everything. Like
me and Connor literally did everything that you
could do. So got our money's worth out of it
and then didn't come back to it because we're
going to need to now. So will it suffer from
that? Possibly. I mean, it's difficult to tell.
Good on you, man, for having a go. That's what
matters. Well, I'm still having a go. I'm still
enjoying it. I'm still playing it. Good on you.
I see a video of it and I saw a little fucking,
a little. health meter a little food meter a
little all that meter and I thought that ain't
for him and then bang you've surprised me it's
not for me it isn't it isn't for me but at the
same time it is you know what I mean it's weird
I got RuneScape on my phone yeah fucking around
with old school RuneScape on my phone and there's
something about just cutting trees down it's
so mundane but there is something about it where
you go I quite enjoy this And it is that same
thing when you're playing Dragon Wild. You go,
this is quite nice. It's therapeutic, man. It
is therapeutic. And I do enjoy it. But then it's,
yeah, it's a difficult balance between rinsing
that and not enjoying it anymore and just taking
your time and enjoying it. Yeah. Thank you for
stroking my leg. You're welcome. Yeah, it's got
good reviews. Yeah, I think it's a mixed bag
at the moment. I think a lot of people are really
positive on it. A lot of people are like, oh,
it's just fucking... It's not RuneScape. I wanted
RuneScape in 3D. You can't please everybody,
man. It looks cool, though. I might check it
out at some point. You know how I am, brother.
I'm a Steam Deck geezer. That's all I do. I just
use Steam Deck now. It says the game is well
-developed, fun to play, but could use a ton
of updates, obviously, because it's early stage.
I will just mention a few things I dislike, but
I will still recommend playing it. Someone said,
if you have a server open, please add an option
to disable other players from removing your build.
I mean, what's the point to have an open server
when someone can easily join and delete all of
my builds in a matter of seconds? So you just
have to play with friends only or solo. You spend
most of your time getting water, food, sleeping
to stay alive but I'm trying to enjoy a game
and not feel like I'm clocked into this game
to stay alive. Please make it drain less resources
so I can breathe and enjoy the map and explore.
So far there's a shitload of water and stuff
around me. The ability to keep those meters up
at the moment doesn't seem too strenuous. If
you already have a basic magic system Please
add the teleport feature to a pad if you have
the runes via a teleport interface Having to
run back and get killed again without any resources
less weapon to fight to fight back But guess
I would have to grind some materials You guys
could implement more skills fishing hunting fletching
I can go on for skills server size should be
bigger than four It's pretty limited for PvP.
Movement feels off when clicking for PvP slash
skill systems like it's a queue. I don't know
what he's on about. When cutting trees, it falls
after some swings and you have to then cut the
tree on the ground and it splits into more trees
while they're all moving down the hill while
you're trying to chop and then get stuck in a
woodcutting animation looking dumb while trying
to chase down the tree. When you cut down a tree,
it falls, but it's not like in... Because in
Valheim, it splits into different logs, doesn't
it? I think when you cut a tree down, one of
those two, when you fell a tree. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Valheim, definitely. Yeah, when you do
it on this, you fell the tree, and then it just
lays down as one big tree, and then you have
to cut it up again. But then it cuts. So imagine
you have this one big log. You cut it. And then
it pops a section off. And then you've still
got this other bit of the tree. So you cut that
and it pops another section off. And then it
pops another section off. But then those individual
sections, you then have to cut them up to then
get wood. But like this person just said, they
roll. So they just keep fucking rolling away
from you. So you're cutting this, which takes
maybe like four or five hits. And then the other
four things behind you are just fucking rolled
away. So you have to go and get them. I feel
like... Whilst that makes sense, if I cut a tree
down, I need to fucking section it and blah,
blah, blah. I'm playing the game. Let me just
fucking blow it up into bits. And it makes for
moments. And that's what makes games. Because
that makes funny clips. And funny clips make
success. Yeah. I know what you're saying. It
is a good game. Yeah. I thought it was free.
But it's not. 25 bones. I just looked. 25 bones.
So, yeah, I haven't done any building on it yet.
I'm holding off on that as long as I fucking
can because I can't be arsed. But, yeah, seeing
a dragon. Oh, yeah, the dragon queen. It's quite
entertaining. Yeah, all in all, little game to
fuck around with. I'll take it. Know what I mean?
Well, I dropped 60 bones on Steam Deck stuff.
Did you? Yeah. Yeah, I fucking did, bro. No,
Binding of Isaac is a game that I platinumed
on PlayStation. Hardest platinum I've ever done.
One of the hardest ever made. No biggie. But
yeah, it's like the perfect Steam Deck game.
And there's a lot of expansions that came out
for it that I never actually played. So I thought,
fuck it, let's start it again. Yeah. With the
full package. Go on. Because it's the perfect
Steam Deck game. I agree. So I fucking did it.
So I bought that and I pumped like 10 hours in
in like two days. Pretty mental. Yeah, good.
Enjoying it. I fucking love it. Built for that
system. So good I took it to work, as you could
see. I did see. Have you coloured in the badge
on the front? No. Oh, you just get a coloured
badge on your case. It's just the case that come
with it, yeah. I did not. Standard white. Coolio.
It's alright. I also bought a game called...
Let me tell you. go on tell me let me tell you
and while i'm while i'm just gonna tell you i'm
gonna carry on talking uh So it doesn't just...
I wish the points balance on your Steam shop,
I wish it allowed you to buy games and shit rather
than just stickers and fucking start -up movies.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't half love
a start -up movie, bro. Yeah, but... I've got
so many and put it to random, so I get excited
when I turn it on. It's that... It's good, isn't
it? It's such a great little system. It's called
the Drover Forsaken Kin. Yeah. It's a game I've
had my eye on for quite some time. It's a game
I've got wishlisted on PlayStation and Steam.
And I figured, you know what? Fuck it. I'm playing
the Steam Deck. An action RPG that marries the
dark, grim tones of its genre with the mysticism
of... Celtic mythology. Encounter a society where
ancient restless spirits and divided factions
battle for dominance, uncover forgotten abilities
and unravel the secrets of a past shrouded in
mystery. Yeah. So I bought that. I haven't played
it yet because I've just been obsessed with Byron
and Isaac. There's cats. Yeah, there's probably
cats in it. There are cats in it. Just for clarity's
sake, I've just noticed Byron and Isaac has 640
achievements. It's quite a lot, isn't it? Yeah,
it's a fair few, brother. It's a lot of achievement.
Don't get me wrong. I'm probably not going to
get it more. But it's just such a great game.
You know, if you're just sitting about and you're
like, look, I ain't got time to be invested in
this RPG that I just bought. I haven't got time
to concentrate on Football Manager. I just want
to play something. I can just play. And then
if something happens, I can literally just quit
and continue later. Perfect. That's what you
want. And I loved it on PlayStation. And I love
it even more on Steam Deck. And I love the Steam
Deck. I just want to hug it. It's got good reviews,
this Drover. Oh, yes, it's a very well thought
of game. I don't think it's been out too long.
But it's one of them I didn't know whether I
wanted to play on the big screen on the PlayStation
or Steam Deck, but then I thought, well, fuck
it. If I want to play on the big screen, I can
just dock it anyway. Why not actually buy a game
that I'm going to spend a fair bit of time in
on the Steam Deck for once? Secret of Evermore
plus Baldur's Gate 1 and 2. This game is incredible.
The storytelling, the combat, the music, the
level design, the enemy design, everything is
peak. The game is so good, it's given me better
dreams. 10 out of 10. That's fucking... I'll
tell you what, speaking of dreams... Oh, fuck
it, I'll save it for the... No, no, here's a
little glimpse into what we talk about on Patreon.
I've got a dog. I've got a French Bulldog called
Vader. I had a dream that he jumped up on the
kitchen side and jumped out the window. When
he jumped out the window, he made a horrific
noise when he landed. Yeah. And obviously he
was very hurt. His knee, his bone was literally
coming out of his leg. Oh, nice. So in a panic,
I grabbed him and got on a pushbar, which I don't
own, cycled to a vet's or something. Yeah. On
the way there, my wheel slipped down a rabbit
hole or something and my bike slid down this
massive hole. Couldn't reach my bike. I had the
dog in one hand. An old man came along, gave
me his walking stick, and I hooked the bike up.
And then I carried on with the dog, and I went
into HMV. I said, can anyone fix my dog? Yeah.
It cost me 500 pounds, and they just slotted
his bone back in, and he was fine. And when I
got home, I said to Gem, 500 quid that cost me.
Yeah. She was like, well, it was only 100 pounds
in the vet. And I was like, yeah, that's right.
So I went back to HMV. I was like, you fucking
well overcharged me. She was like, yeah, well,
it's HMV. Of course it's going to be more expensive.
And that was it. And it was just such a strange
little dream. I had to get it out in the open
for others to enjoy. Yeah, well, you're in HMV,
mate. We sell CDs. Exactly. You want the veterinary
package. It's going to cost you more. That was
their attitude. Yeah. And I was like, well, it's
Sunday. I didn't think the vets were open on
Sunday. I'd pay 500 quid if one of my dogs. snap
their leg and its bone was hanging out and someone
said 500 quid i'll slot it back in they'll be
good as new i'll go it's 500 quid here's 600
quid get it done sharp absolutely but it was
the fact that i could have got it done for a
one that yeah i couldn't understand why i was
charged five times the amount but obviously different
uh different businesses different business models
is that not their speciality still they got the
job done i had i had a dream um I don't know,
probably all the talk. One of my mates that I
work with, Jay, he's having a baby in like a
month. So I keep saying to him, because I'm with
him almost every day, I keep saying to him, I
go, your life is going to change within the next
four weeks, maybe even sooner. I go, everything
changes. The reason why you're sat in this van
with me changes. Because you know what I mean?
You're going to work for your kid, not for you,
blah, blah, blah. And he's like, he's freaking
out, but he's not freaking out at the same time.
And when he's feeling decent and excited about
it, I drop that on him. I go, everything changes.
I go, you're tired now. You're coming in tired
now. You wait. When you're coming in, you're
covered in poo and shit like that. And yeah,
I keep fucking, keep talking to him about it.
And I had a dream where I was in bed and for
some reason, I had a little baby, a tiny baby.
And it grabbed hold of my finger with its foot
like a monkey. Really weird. And proper clenched
round my finger. And in that moment, I don't
think I've ever loved anything anymore in my
entire... I felt so warm and fuzzy. But at the
same time, I was like, I'm going to murder everything
for this. Everything dies except for this. And
then I woke up. And I remember laying there and
I was like, that was fucking weird. me and Steph
haven't got intentions of having kids yet. There's
no plans in place or anything like that. So I
was like, that's really odd. So now I feel like
a father. I've experienced it. So I don't need
to bother with it. You know what I mean? You've
completed it. I've done it. I don't need to worry
about doing that. And I said this to Jay. I said,
I've felt what you're about to feel. So it's
done. Tick that off the list. We just figured
while we're talking about dreams, that's the
dream that I had. It was fitting. It was fitting.
For a father to be here. Yeah, that's that. He
was trying to, because he's trying to figure
out a name for the baby. And he was trying to
go with Sky because his last name's Walker. Oh,
brilliant. Trying desperately for it, desperately.
And his missus at first was just like, that's
a really nice name. And then she tweaked. And
she was like, well, hold on. He nearly had it.
He nearly had it. I don't, even me, I don't think
I could do that. You don't reckon you could do
that, no? No, because it's just, it's too much,
isn't it? It's like, come on. It's quite Skywalker.
Yeah, yeah. That's quite nice. Yeah, I know it
is, because it's Skywalker, isn't it? It's like
having the surname Hitler and going, fuck it,
Adolf. You couldn't do it, could you? You couldn't.
Go fuck it, let's have a bit of fun with this.
That name's died out, hasn't it? You don't hear
of many little Adolphs, do you? That's probably
a name I've never heard. There was a podcast
I was listening to that was talking about that,
and they were talking about his tash. And they
were saying, like, that's ruined. He's based
on Charlie Chaplin, that. That tash is gone.
Yeah. No one can ever walk around with that and
be taken seriously. No. Ruined. My little Adolphs.
Yeah. How long we done? It's terrible, isn't
it? We were literally just scrolling through
the podcast, our page, before press and record.
And Ash was like, look how many episodes there
are. He was like, if this isn't consistent, then
I don't know what is. But this is why it's consistent.
It's because there's nothing to talk about. There's
no substance. There's nothing to it. It's absolute
wealth. We're playing D &D tomorrow. Yes! That's
exciting. Because... Not only do we get to get
the 30 XP, I mean, I'm probably not going to
get the 30 XP because I've been really horrible
to Connor since we did that session, proper digging
him out. I pulled him the other day in the yard.
I said, are you going to fucking give me that
30 XP or what? And then I said to him, he came
up to me, came up to the van, and I just looked
him dead in the eye. I said, I'm changing my
spells, and there's nothing you can do about
it. I said, I'm going to change them all. He
said, there's nothing you're going to do. He's
like, you can change them all when you level
up anyway. I said, even if I don't level up.
I said, I'm fucking... I had to flick through
my character sheet. Do you know how much useless
shit I've got? Loads, yeah. Me and Daryl were
at Stratford and we had loads of time to kill.
So I was just scrolling through my character
page. There is so much... Mending. Yeah. That's
going in the bin. That's a healing one though.
No. You want to know what mending does? Heals.
I'll tell you what mending does. We've been through
one hell of a battle. Yeah. Obviously, you're
at the back, right? Firing spells left, right
and centre. You've killed countless mobs. Ice
knife. We've all gone mental. Ice knife. But
what's happened is a stray arrow has hit you
in the shoulder. It's hit you in the shoulder.
It's gone through the shoulder straight out the
other side. Entry and exit wound, right? So,
you're fine. It's taken off five health. That's
close. It's a bit of a chunk, but you're right.
Now, I come up to you and I go, we can fix this.
I cast Mending. Thank you. It's a touching ability,
so I can't do it from range. And I've touched
the affected area. Thank you. Mending, right?
You feel absolutely no different. No different.
I know why. But the hole in your shirt, that's
fixed. Oh. What? That's fixed. Are you sure?
I've sorted out your shirt for you, mate. I thought...
No, no, no, no. You can think what you want,
but I've sorted out the hole in your shirt. I
thought mending gives you temporary hip points.
Nah, nah. The hole in your chest, I can't sort
that. But the hole in your shirt, no sewing kit
needed. I've casted mending on that. So that's
good. I'm glad that I've got that ability. Well...
I got Toll of the Dead. I got three cantrips
that all do the same fucking damage. So two of
them are fucking off and being replaced with
something else. I don't need them. I only ever
use Toll of the Dead to do damage. Well, here's
a time when mending would be good. Go on. I fucking
got a little bit of poison on a blade and I stabbed
this fucking orc up. And then it's like, oh,
that hurts and I poison. And then you sew his
shirt up and then the poison's just there. He
can't get rid of it. He's already been poisoned.
Yeah, I know. But he can't get the poison off
him. The liquid's just on him. Yeah. And you've
done the... Just take the shirt off. Yeah, but
no, no, no. Because you've sealed it tight to
him. No, right. No, it doesn't change the form
of the clothing. There must be something more
to it. No, it's bollocks. You don't believe me.
I've got it right here. You hold up. Because
it's the most pointless bullshit I've ever seen.
And that is... I think that's where you realise
that we've become... a little bit more qualified
in the act of D &D because I've gone from making
a character and just picking whatever sounds
cool to picking abilities that actually are cool,
like worth having. Like I said to Daryl, you
could get an ability where it's like, I'd say
like Goliath Slayer and it'll do like 1d4 damage
or you can get an ability that just says damage
and it'll be two d6s plus or whatever and do
one damage and then alicia will fire at someone
with a crossbow and do 46 damage yeah i feel
like i feel like her character is like well op
because there's no way we're that bad no i think
there is no because it's when it's just a crossbow
and you're just firing there shouldn't be that
much deviation in damage just very quickly Yes.
Cast at will. Yep. This spell repairs a single
break or tear in an object. So, sorry, I'm wrong.
I've touched your shirt and I've managed to sort
the hole out on the front of it, not the back.
Right. Right. But you're not looking D &D enough
into this. Such as a broken chain link, two halves
of a broken key, a torn cloak, or a leaking wineskin.
As long as the break or tear is no larger than
one foot in any dimension, you mend it, leaving
no trace of the former damage. This spell can
physically repair a magic item, but it can't
restore magic to an object. It's very niche.
Yes, but I feel like we're all not, but I've
listened to enough D &D to know there's times
when this sort of shit happens and you need it.
like a map that you needed gets torn and you're
like fuck and then you're like oh i've got that
fucking thing and then you're like boom and it's
an epic moment shit like that happens sacred
flames being fucked off i don't need that because
i got i got total dead and i got holy word sacred
flame does not need to be there might keep fucking
holy word because it's got plus six on the hit
so that would help but yeah there's there's there's
fluff in there that we don't need um light Again,
niche. We've all got fucking darkvision. You
touch one large or smaller object that isn't
being worn or carried by someone else. Until
the spell ends, the object sheds bright light.
Covering the object with something opaque blocks
the light. The spell ends if you cast it again.
But it has to be something that isn't being carried
or worn by someone else. Niche. So unless I want
to fucking... Light up my mace. We don't need
it. We've got dark visions. Exactly. So fuck
that off. Mending can fuck off and all. It's
going. Speaking of all this shit. Go on. Bowler's
Gate had its final patch. Yeah, Steph said they're
all good to go. Photo mode is fucking unbelievable.
They've added cross play, cross save, fucking
all the jing, jang, jongs. Eight new subclasses.
And would you believe it? if when I was having
a little peruse through what's been added subclass
-wise, if I didn't see me old baby Toll of the
Dead being added. And I was like, I fucking know
that spell. And I just thought it was really
cool that that is now in the game. Because it's
a fan favourite, apparently. So yeah, I'm already
through, you know, a quarter of the way through
Solax's adventure, so I guess I'll have to do
another one at some point. Woe is me. Well, where's
you? I definitely will be buying it on the computer.
You reckon, yeah? 100%. When, like, them big
mods come out that I can't play on PlayStation,
like the proper... Because I found out that the
mods that are... Because I'm following... I'm
in a Discord group with people that are making
an expansion called Road to Menza Baranzen, which
is where the drow come from, or the big capital
drow city in the Underdark, which is where I
come from. Solax and all Drow because they live
underground they're making that as an expansion
but them sort of mods the expansion mods they
will be coming on Nexus and not the in -game
mod thing so I have no choice but to try and
learn how to mod when that sort of stuff happens
yeah that's fun yeah that's fine I mean it'll
be a slow laborious process but my commitment
to boulder's gate is unwavering unfaltering and
never ending and undying just before we wrap
this episode up so we quickly um play devil's
advocate and search up the collector's edition
on ebay what's the point and see if you think
i haven't looked today have you looked today
i look every fucking day the cheapest one is
like 890 quid you actually look today i look
every single day i told you this do you not believe
me you think i make this up Every single day
I look. When you woke up in the morning and you
picked your phone up and you went straight to
Instagram or Twitter or whatever it is you go
to, I go straight to eBay. See if I can catch
an early bird. They're so expensive. It's ridiculous.
You can get the deluxe edition for 150 quid.
I know. I could have bought that when it came
out, but I don't want that. I want the... You
can get the box for 135 quid. I know. No game,
no extras. I know. I've read that one, mate.
Yeah, no games, no extras. Yeah, I know, bro.
I'm telling you, I've seen it all. Why are so
many people selling deluxe editions? Because
they try and trick you into thinking that you're
buying a collector's edition. Yeah. Oh, God,
yeah. Deluxe physical collector's edition. Yeah,
it's hard going. Yeah, it's tough, isn't it?
Yeah. And I had it. And you did. You had it in
the palm of your hand. I had it bagged. And you
squandered it. Well, I'll take some of the blame.
So there we go. All right. Over to the Patreon
we go. Yeah. See you later, everyone. Ooroo.
Ooroo.