Poddies, podcasties, episode 157, I think. What
are you smiling about? Just them no -look challenges.
It's quite funny. They're funny. You can't look
at each other at the same time or you spit your
water in each other's face. Nice. Love it. Anyway,
Zos. You're good. You're good. Ashport, Collector's
Edition. Oh, wait. Is Gem going to listen? Does
she know? No. She does now. She doesn't listen
to this. She does. Nah, she ain't going to listen
to it. I promise you she does listen to it. But
funnily enough, when I was shitting out of shit,
they messaged me saying, arriving tomorrow. So
that's exciting. What's the statue of? Do you
want to tell them what collector's edition it
is? It's the Elden Ring Night Rain. When you're
listening to this, you can still get it for the
low price of £69 .95 down from £180. It's very
good. And you get the game, obviously. You get
a steel bookcase. You get that sick statue. Even
the fact that you get the game. So you're getting
the statue for like 20 quid. Yeah. You get the
steel book. You get some fucking stickers and
fucking cards and all sorts of shit. But I'm
only interested in the statue and the game, to
be honest with you. But you know how we do. I
love fucking statues and figures and shit. Everyone
loves statues. The only gripe I've got with it
is obviously it's not got any colour. What do
you mean? Well, the statue's not got any colour.
Is it not? It's just grey. Isn't it? Look at
it. What do you mean is it not? You bought it.
I don't know. I'm colour blind, you cunt. Well,
exactly. So you're perfect. You can't see any
colour. That's great for me. He just looks cool.
I wouldn't want him colourful. He's a fucking
knight. I need to have a look. Why would you
want pink and yellow and blue and green on him?
He looks sick. He is cool. It's like Melania.
He's got the same helmet. There must be some
kind of lore. Yeah, he's one of the geezers you
play in Night Rain. He's got a fucking long -ass
sword as well, man. Yep. Long -ass sword. I'm
looking forward to playing it. They just announced
a little fucking expansion -y DLC thing the other
day. Yeah. Still haven't played it. And I didn't
realise, but you can actually play it offline
and solo. That's cool. It's not like an online
-only game forever. It's very rare that you get
a game now where you can play it offline. Yeah,
I know. Very, very rare. So, yeah, I knew it
would be a game I'd play eventually. How much
I'll play it, I don't know, but I only really
bought it for the statue. Yeah, statue's fucking
cool, especially when it's that cheap. Why would
you not? You can go with... Mesmer. Mesmer. Mesmer
the Impaler. Who's also a very sick statue. Did
you get that? Did you get the collect edition
that you did, didn't you? It's still in the box.
It never come out, has it? Yeah, it's nice in
the box. I just look at yours every time I come
round here, so I don't need to get mine out.
I remember putting it together because the top
bit obviously is detached from the... from the
rest of the pole arm and it's like a really thin
metal rod and it's really fucking stiff to get
it clipped all the way down so like when I first
did it there was a very definitive gap there
showing the metal bar and I was like I can't
have that that needs to go all the way down and
I was like I swear to fuck if I snap this I was
like I'm going to be pissed luckily I didn't
but now it must remain there forever because
I'm not taking the fucker off that's the fear
isn't it stay exactly where it is please yep
that's just mad that it wasn't that long ago
when we were just didn't have collector's editions
of stuff especially me I just didn't have anything
and then the old ADHD, ADD, DDDD kicks in. You
go, I need a collector's edition for everything.
Yeah, that's what I do now. If there's a game
that I'm really excited for, I look at the collector's
edition and just see what it offers. The first
game I ever bought a collector's edition of was
Fallout 4 with the Pip -Boy. The Pip -Boy. They
just re -released another Pip -Boy, didn't they?
It looked very fucking cool. You were talking
to Connor about that the other day. Yeah, he
sent it to me. Yeah, cool bit of kit. And then,
yeah, after that, I didn't buy one for fucking
years and years and years. One we avoided was
Starfield. Yeah, we swerved that. We fucking
did a good number swerving that. I mean, you
still bought a whole console for it. Yeah, I
know. Funny enough, I was thinking about it yesterday.
I was like, there's no point even selling it.
No one wants an Xbox. No, they don't. It's fucking
pointless. Yeah. Yeah, I don't really know anyone
that plays on an Xbox. Well, apologies if you're
listening and you play on an Xbox. There's nothing
wrong with it. No, there is. It's shit. Yeah,
no, yeah. Sort your life out. Get a PlayStation,
man. If you're going to get an Xbox, just play
on PC. Unless Xbox want to sponsor us, and then
in which case, Xbox is by far the best console.
Yeah, by far the best. Not even close. Well,
there won't even be a console in the next iteration.
That's how genius they are. They're just making
a PC, pretty much. Shout out Microsoft, man.
More people need to hear about the might of Microsoft.
Yeah, yeah. If you haven't heard of Microsoft,
tune in. We'll tell you more about Microsoft.
The Midnight Expansion releases 2nd March. For
WoW. I might have just seen a collector's edition
for that. I just went on Amazon because it's
fucking Black Friday, isn't it? So I just went
on there and went collector's editions. There
is indeed, and there is no statue or anything.
It's very rare that the collector's editions
for World of Warcraft expansions release a statue.
So The War Within had a statue with it, which
was very, very cool, like a dwarf on a griffon.
But this expansion hasn't got a statue because
I was going to get it. He's cool. Yeah. I can't
remember his name, but he is cool. It's shaping
up to be a good expansion because the housing
that goes live on the pre -patch, so that's on
the 2nd of December, I think. So that's around
the corner. And if you pre -order the expansion,
you get access to the player housing from the
2nd. So that's going to be good. So I still haven't
bought it, so obviously I will. because i i need
to give myself a little house and decorate it
and all that shit but yeah it's it's it's it's
looking good baby it's looking good so you get
for physical stuff you get the midnight hardcover
art book midnight collector's pen and a replica
of the dark heart yes that is the one And they
do look pretty fucking cool, whatever they are.
Yeah. Them things. Yeah, it's a cool collector's
edition. It's just I would have preferred to
have a statue of some kind. Yeah, mostly it's
just digital shit. Just looking at this makes
me want to buy it and therefore play WoW. Yeah,
yeah. Which is not what I want to be doing right
now. And one of the, so they're doing so many
class changes, like fucking loads. And I don't
want to use the terms dumbing down. Because I
don't think they are dumbing down the classes,
but they're getting rid of a lot of the button
blow. Obviously, for some grand plan that eventually
is going to come to console. That's the route
that they're trying to work out. So with that,
there's patch notes. The beta's active, so everyone's
been playing that. There's tier lists of what
classes are best, blah, blah, blah. And listening
to tier lists in a beta is a load of bollocks
because it's a beta and everything's going to
change anyway. But one of the most exciting things
I'm looking forward to is the specialisation
of a hunter. So you have beast mastery, marksmanship
and survival. So survival is a melee specialisation.
It's all centred around fucking explosives and...
your pet doing damage and fucking using two -handed
weapons and shit like that. Always been a cool
class fantasy. But the one thing I didn't like
about it was the fact that you're restricted
to using two -handed weapons. I'm not a massive
fan of them. I like my dual -wielded weapons.
In the Midnight expansion, they are allowing
survival hunters to use two one -handed weapons.
which is just a fucking supreme bit of class
fantasy. So I am going to main one of them purely
for that because there's so few classes where
you get to use a dual wield like weapons unless
you're a rogue, which I don't like playing them
anymore. So I'm fucking, I'm all over it. I'm
excited for it. Cannot wait. Good. I'm going
to book holiday for it. I feel like I want to
buy that. What is that? Crimson Desert. That
looks fucking sick. Yeah. That's a sick collect.
That is a sick collect. And we don't even play
Crimson Desert. That is fucking sick. Because
it's not out yet. It's not the online one. Oh,
right. Oh. You know that really cool looking
game that's coming out in March. Yeah, yeah.
Sorry, I thought you meant the fucking online
one. That's Black Desert online. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. This is the same universe. Funnily enough,
I remember Mark talked to me about that and he
said he was quite interested by it. Mate, the
game is fucking sick. If they pull through everything
that they've said they're doing. Well, it wasn't
that long ago they did a big gameplay reveal,
didn't they? Of like half an hour or some shit
like that of them playing it. And it did look
very, very good. It was cool as fuck. Has that
got a release date? Yeah, March. Oh, that comes
out March as well? Yeah, it looks fucking sick,
man. March. Look at it, bro. Look, you can fly
dragons and shit, man. Open world RPG. Fucking
dragons and horses and swords and fucking bears
and mechs? Well, that's a bit out there, isn't
it? I don't know about that. Why is there mechs?
Why is there mechs in there? Your face. Dragons
and horses and fucking mechs. It looks cool as
fuck, though, man. It's one of them games that,
it's like Baldur's Gate, man. Or even The Witcher
3. It'd be like, I really want to buy the collector's
edition, but I don't know if I'm going to like
the game. so I don't really want to risk it.
And then the game comes out, and I'm like, this
is sick, and I've already got the game, but I
want to buy a collector's edition, and then they're
worth £1 ,000. And here I am, three, four years
later, still looking every day. In the game Crimson
Desert, the robots are powerful dwarf -engineered
mechs that players can pilot in the later stages
of the game. These battle robots are equipped
with weapons like machine guns, rockets, and
an EMP blast, and are intended as a reward for
player progression. However, they have limited
fuel, preventing continuous use. That's fucking
stupid. pilotable dwarven engineered battle robots
or mechs that sounded cool until you started
saying they're fucking machine guns they provide
a significant power spike capable of overwhelming
even large animal enemies like dragons i will
never use them limited fuel supply and piloting
these robots is presented as a reward for player
players progression through the game seems about
seems weird I don't like that. It can't mix my
fantasy with my sci -fi. I was going to say,
that's your... That's pissed me off. That's a
fucking... That actually pissed me off. Yeah,
that's a needle in the brain for you, isn't it?
I can't have guns in a fucking game of swords.
It doesn't work in my brain. Yeah. The only thing
that works in is Warhammer. Yeah, agreed. Agreed.
Well, that's... I won't fucking ramble on about
it, but that is one of the gripes with this new
survival hunter change, is that one of the abilities
is just straight up called Blunderbuss. or is
it blunderbuss or is it fucking boomstick? And
you shoot like three shots with a boomstick,
so a shotgun. And everyone's like, it's a fucking
melee class. It's got nothing to do with guns.
Everyone's like, why the fuck are we putting
out a gun halfway through a rotation? It just
looks ridiculous. So yeah, I'm with you to be
fair. If I'm flying around on dragons and I'm
putting swords through people's necks, I don't
want to turn into a power armour. No, I don't
want robots with guns, but it just throws me
off, like my immersion. I don't want to do that.
Yeah, that seems really weird. I'm seeing...
That is really weird. Maybe the lore side of
it will make sense, but it does look odd looking
at photos on Google where I'm seeing someone
floating around in a mech suit. That's really
odd. I don't think I'm a fan of that, you know?
No, it's fucking stupid. Look at the same photo
you looked at. Raptor, dragon, bear, mech. They're
all blue and shit. It just looks so out of whack,
doesn't it? Yeah. Why have they done that? I
don't understand why that's a thing. He looks
cool, though. Can't wait to fight him. When's
it actually? March, man. March. I'm looking at
it. 19. March 19th. For Mac OS, PlayStation 5,
Windows, and Xbox Series X and S, pre -orders
are currently available for the various editions
of the game. I can understand the Dwarven creations
and stuff, and I can get behind the mechanical
dragon and stuff, but as soon as you add machine
guns, I'm like, this is ridiculous. I can get
behind the mechanics, but not bright blue robots
and fucking shit. Fuck's sake. It's a bit mad,
isn't it? Because you kind of think, okay, well,
if you're going to have a world like that and
then introduce mechs that can fly around with
Gatling guns and EMP blasts as well, never mind
the Gatling guns, EMP blasts, that's even more
high -tech than a Gatling gun, then surely you
might as well end up including the thing of floating
cities. And ships. Might as well get a spaceship,
man. Yeah. Like, how far are we? Why have we
just stopped at mechs? Well, it's just ruined
that game for me. I wasn't looking forward to
that. I'm not interested now. Genuinely, it's
fucking off. Hopefully they take them out. I
don't think they will. No, of course they won't.
For fuck's sake, man. It's stupid. I want more
info on these fucking robots. No, I don't. They've
ruined it. What gaming news has there even been
this week? Fucking seen nothing. I ain't played
nothing. I played the Steam Deck a little bit.
Oh, I did actually put DayZ on because Clarky's
been flirting with me over it. Oh, come play
DayZ. I love DayZ. I love DayZ. So I loaded it
up. I still had a really high level character.
Well, not level, loads of gear. Loaded it up.
It just loaded me as some woman. I realised I
didn't have my gear anymore. So I just ran into
a house, stabbed myself in the neck and turned
it off. I'm just scrolling through to see if
there's anything that's crazy. I'm not seeing
anything. I did see, however, a clip of the DLC
from Assassin's Creed Shadows. And they were
being chased by a Titan from Attack on Titan.
Oh, why? And someone said, is this a mod? And
everyone was like, no, this is actually in the
DLC. I went, what? So let me get the YouTube
up and we'll have a fucking look. Why do games
keep making these terrible decisions? You've
seen the leaks of Black Ops 7 with the Logan
Paul skin. Oh, fuck off. Have you not seen that?
Let me show you that. No fucking way. There's
no way that's real. Come on. Logan Paul. Let's
have a look. It's a leak. But it's been leaked
from some very trustworthy sources. Yeah, Logan
Paul operator found in Black Ops 7 files. And
there is your current operator, brother. There
you go. Do you want another photo where he's
in a different outfit? I'll show you. Not really,
bro. I'll show you, look. Come on, little gang.
Look, he's got his fucking, he's got his blue
eyes and everything, bro. I suppose the only
defense I would give Call of Duty is the fact
that it's Logan Paul, but he is a wrestler. So
maybe that's the part of it. You know the thing
where I don't defend it is when they put out
that statement about a week after Battlefield
and said they're going for more realism. We get
it. Here's Logan Paul. Let me find that realism
statement. Let's read that one out. Realistic
core duties in space with double jumps, wall
jumps and Logan Paul. Here we go. First off,
thank you. Call of Duty has always been fuelled
by the community. Every match, every clip, every
bit of feedback. You've shaped this franchise
right alongside us. We know there's been a lot
of conversation recently about the identity of
Call of Duty. Some of you have said we've drifted
from what made Call of Duty unique in the first
place. Immersive, intense, visceral and in many
ways grounded. That feedback hits home and we
take it seriously. So here's your Logan Paul
operator skin. He's a real person, so it's real.
That's ridiculous. They're assassinating themselves.
What the fuck would you do that for? People already
just fucking had enough of Black Ops 7. This
is just shit. People getting shot through walls,
not because it's a glitch, just because there's
a gun that can shoot through walls. It's like,
what? No one wants to play this, bro. If you
want to make games like this, go and make a fucking
completely different game. Keep Core Duty as
Core Duty used to be. I don't mind skins in games
if you want to pay for them, but if it's like
Battlefield skins, I wouldn't pay for any of
them skins, but I wouldn't be necessarily massively
against a fucking, I don't know, Bruce Willis
or something in Battlefield, you know, as long
as it's not fucking Krusty the Clown. Do you
know what I mean? There has to be like a level
of understanding where it's like, okay, this
is fucking Rambo. This is Bruce Willis. These
are like real action heroes. I kind of get them.
But when you're like, say, just throwing in like
the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and fucking...
Beavis and Buttered. Yeah, and all that shit.
It's just a bit... Nicki Minaj. Yeah, it's a
little bit... What the fuck is going on here?
Like, I get that it's a moneymaker. I do understand
that. And you think like, from a business point,
we need to make some money here. But at the same
time, when most of your fan base are screaming,
going, just fucking give us some realism, you
have to sit there and think, all right, maybe,
maybe we should do that. Especially if you've
just put out a statement saying that you've heard
the feedback and we listen and we take it seriously.
Don't release a fucking... I mean, I know they
haven't released it. I know that it's been leaked.
Blah, blah, blah. But I feel like that sort of
shit is contracted. It's done. So you can't go
back on that. I feel a lot of that sort of stuff.
Like Logan Paulskins and whatever else. This
fucking Logan Paulskins leak. It's more like,
hey, leak this and we'll see what people's reaction
is. And if it's not that bad, we'll put it out.
If it's terrible, then we'll just not. Yeah,
a lot of people, yeah. Because you could get
some serious fucking PR stunts going with that
and make yourself look really good, where you
go, oh, fucking hell, someone's leaked that there's
a Spongebob skin coming. Oh, God. See the uproar
and then come out as a statement and go, we are
not doing this. This is not us. This is exactly
what fucking West Ham do. This is what I was
trying to tell to your fucking mate the other
day when he was talking about, oh, fantastic.
West Ham's board, it's not even a secret, they
have deliberately leaked so much information
to... gauge fan reaction before they make a decision
on so many different things even so much as to
leak the potential transfer of a footballer who
then the fans kicked up such a stink we didn't
sign him and even the player himself was like
I know why I didn't get signed because the fucking
fans hated me and didn't want me to come But
they deliberately leak that information. It's
just, yeah. See, that to me says, from a football
point, from a gaming point, from any industry
that relies on public consumerism, I always feel
like if you're at a point where you have to leak
information to gauge your audience, then you're
doing it wrong. You're too far removed from your
audience. Because you think, right, well... you
should know. If you're in charge of that, if
you're in charge of West Ham, you should know
what the fans want because you're in fucking
charge. Why are you leaking the information to
get a reaction? You should already know because
you're the one that's fucking running their club.
That's the same with games and everything like
that. You shouldn't have to leak. Leaking should
be bad. You should be more worried about it damaging
what you're doing rather than using it as a decision
maker. Absolutely. But people leak stuff on purpose.
And here's the Attack on Titan mission. Oh, it's...
It's full -on fucking Attack on Titan. You understand
what I mean? That's fucking mental. That is mental.
That's... I was thinking... Do you know what?
I was thinking about buying that the other day.
Because it was on sale and I thought, oh, is
it that bad? Yeah. And now I'm never buying it.
Yeah, I mean, there's them running away and then
I haven't seen the whole thing, but I saw enough
and thought, no, this is fucking ridiculous.
That's an actual mission. How does that fit into
Assassin's Creed Shadows? So stupid. Where's
that fitting in? It's so stupid. And the fact
that, even the fact that the graphics of the
Titan look really shit. Look how poor that is
when he smashes through the pillar. The frame
rate's so bad. It's like a video that's been
recorded in the cinema. Like, it doesn't look...
It looks terrible. The running animation of the
geezer is fucking terrible. Look at him. That's...
That's waffling. Absolutely waffling. That's
really... That's really... Someone's first comment,
Ubisoft, what the fuck is this? Someone said,
a damn mockery is what it is. Disrespect the
fuck out of Attack on Titan. Who asked for that?
Nobody, obviously. This is what I mean. Who sits
in the room and goes, yeah, brainstorm. Attack
on Titan crossover in Assassin's Creed Shadows
in the Samurai. You know everyone wanted this
Japanese game and even that we still didn't land
it properly and people were unhappy. Maybe this
will bring them back. Fire that guy or girl,
whoever brought up this Attack on Titan thing
and fire the people that agreed with them. that
went, yeah, that's it, we'll do that. It's...
I don't... Obviously... Yeah, maybe because you're
in Japan or is it China where it's set? Assassin's
Creed Shadows. Yeah, but that doesn't mean necessarily
all the Chinese or Japanese gamers are going
to buy Assassin's Creed because it's set in the
East. That's just... Ubisoft is a French company.
It's got nothing to do with fucking things, only
the setting. I can't imagine Ghost of Tsushima
sold mad over there. We're talking more like
Black Myth Wukong. That's not set in China or
nothing, but it's a fucking amazing game. I still
say it's one of the best games I've played in
the last few years. But why would you do that?
That's what I mean. That's what I don't understand.
All it does is further back up my standpoint
on Assassin's Creed, where you go, well, Assassin's
Creed died with Ezio. Assassin's Creed after
Ezio should have been changed to something else.
They should have fucking gone down a different
avenue. I get like the newer ones. A lot of people
liked them. A lot of people liked Origins. Fucking
whatever. You're wrong. Alright? You're wrong
because they're not Assassin's Creed. After fucking
Ezio was gone, they died. I can tell you without
even being an Assassin's Creed fan, I like the
games, but I'm not huge, how to bring everyone
back in... Two words. Not two words. Let me just
say shit. Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake,
like proper remake. But that's coming. Well,
there you go. Well, that gets all the fans that
like Assassin's Creed back because I never played
it, but I know that's one of the most popular
games. It's fucking good. I can't wait for it.
So bring that back and then piggyback off of
that, go back to that formula of Assassin's Creed
while that's fresh in people's minds. Ditch this
fucking open world fucking... I love the open
worldness of games, but Assassin's Creed, since
they've done that, just turned every enemy into
a fucking bullet sponge with massive health bars.
There's no rhyme or reason. The whole point of
being an assassin was to be able to one -shot
enemies. I know you can put settings on to change
it, but it should just be the dynamic that the
actual game is. You can one fucking shot anybody
if you stealth kill them. That was the whole
point. I still remember the first time I ever
saw Assassin's Creed 1 trailer. Do you know how
many times I watched that fucking trailer and
been diving off into that thing? The white cloak,
the way he pulls it up as he's running through
the town square. That was amazing. Don't get
me wrong. I fucking hate Assassin's Creed with
the bullshit fucking Anomaly, fucking Desmond
Miles crap. I hated that. I know you loved that
part of it. I did. That was the worst part of
it for me. As soon as I could get out in the
Animus, I got back in. But the actual Assassin
part of the game is so fucking cool with the
hidden blade and that. And they've ruined it
by trying to conform to all this open world shit
and monetising fucking experience points and
experience boosters. And they go, well, it's
just for the fucking everyday man that doesn't
get to play. No, no, no. Just let them play the
game how they want. You know what I mean? I hate
all that. Well, apparently around March 2026
is when the supposed Black Flag remake. is due
to release i don't think they they haven't actually
announced it says uh ubisoft's highly anticipated
assassin's creed black flag remake will launch
in just a few months time a fresh report has
claimed this morning ubisoft revealed its latest
financial results and laid out a slate of upcoming
games set to arrive before the end of its current
financial year on march 31st 2026 One title due
for launch remained unannounced in Ubisoft's
official presentation, but a new Insider Gaming
report has now stated that this not -so -mysterious
project is the new version of Black Flag, which
is scheduled to arrive during the week of March
23, 2026. Assassin's Creed Black Flag was fucking
great. Steph doesn't like the ship mechanics,
and a lot of people, it was very Marmite. I fucking
love them. Especially when I was hunting down
a Portuguese man -of -war. Just some fat fucking
ship. Legendary ships. And I liked having a fleet
and stuff like that. I liked that aspect. Pirates
are always cool. Yeah, and the shanties? Sea
shanties. Sea shanties. They were great. The
only gripe I actually had about the game was
the fact that in the last mission was when you
got the whip. where you could hang, where you
could noose people and shit like that. I just
didn't know that was a thing. Yeah, right towards
the end, you got that as a weapon and it was
one of those, it was that typical like, that
era of the game where right towards the end you
get the massively overpowered weapon but you
only get to use it for 10 minutes. Like having
mechs in Crimson Desert. So, it was quite, it
was, No. Trauma. So, yeah. And always, I'm excited
for it because it's a remake rather than a remaster.
That's what I was going to say. Is it actually
a remake from the ground up like Final Fantasy
is, or is it a textured up, more polished version?
Probably it's a remake. If it's a remake like
Final Fantasy, it's going to be crazy. And also,
I've never... I've played like 20 minutes of
it somewhere, somehow, but I... Yeah, I'd like
to actually play that all the way through. So
it says, alongside visual and gameplay upgrades
to bring... So obviously nothing's been announced,
but people are good at what they do. Alongside
visual and gameplay upgrades to bring the game
closer to Assassin's Creed Shadow's level of
fidelity and more RPG -like focus, a recent report
detailed plans for the game to feature all new
content and missions for its pirate hero, Edward
Kenway. At the same time, however, Black Flag's
modern -day gameplay sections have apparently
been excised? Something that many fans aren't
happy about. Excised? Weird word. It's believed
that work on the new Black Flag remake has been
spearheaded by Ubisoft Singapore, which previously
launched the long -delayed Skull & Bones, a game
that began life as an offshoot of Black Flag's
maritime gameplay. No. If you had anything to
do with Skull & Bones... fucking change industry
I don't like that I don't like that at all the
thing is with Skull and Bones I've never played
it but I imagine and I saw a lot of people's
problems with it were just the very obviously
glaring issue of I'm a pirate But I can't board
ships. Yeah, I can't walk around my ship. I can't
board my ship. I can't get off my ship. I can't
drive into people and then swing over like they
do. So it's just a boat -to -boat combat game.
It's war of tanks, but with boats. Exactly. Which
is no good. That just screams that they put all
their eggs in skull and bones. It was shit. And
then they've gone, fuck. Okay, well... Let's
remake. We're pirates now. We're in pirate mindset.
So we made a new pirate game and it was waft.
So let's just do what everyone said when Skull
& Bones come out and fucking remake Black Flag.
Because that's what everyone was saying. Wasn't
Skull & Bones the first quadruple A game? Is
that what it was branded as? That's what Ubisoft
called it, wasn't it? A quadruple A game. Yeah,
but Ubisoft don't know what they're talking about.
They barely make fucking double A games. Let
alone quadruple. What even is a quadruple? There
you go. The term Ubisoft AAAA game refers to
the company's attempt to label the naval combat
game Skull & Bones as a quadruple A title. Ubisoft
CEO Yesgwit Guillemot. used this term to justify
its $70 price point, suggesting it offered a
larger and more expansive experience than typical
AAA games. The label was met with scepticism
and criticism, particularly since Skull & Bones
had a long and troubled development and received
mixed player reactions. It was awful. You can't
use the fact that it's a quadruple A game to
justify a $70 price tag. But they memed themselves.
This was yesterday, funnily enough. this article
fucking every game now $70 Ubisoft game 17 years
in development it's got a new update some this
is from comicbook .com some games take years
to make others stretch long enough to become
gaming legends discovered more for the development
limbo than any promised innovation Hollow Knight
Silksong and Metroid Prime 4 Beyond are just
two recent games that took off development with
little to no information from their respective
studios Ubisoft has a similar project in 17 years.
Oh, fuck, I didn't realise that. After its initial
reveal, Ubisoft's most persistent enigma has
resurfaced once again. Not with a trailer, gameplay
demo or release date, but with something else.
New job listings. Oh, that's beyond good and
evil, too. That's got nothing to do with fucking...
I remember seeing that trailer. That was mad,
you know. That's nothing to do with fucking...
with Skull and Bones, so that was just misleading,
wasn't it? Let me ask Google a question. Can
you get out of your boat and board other boats
now on Skull & Bones? Yes or no? Leaving your
ship in game, Skull & Bones players cannot leave
their ship and explore on foot or in the open
sea or on most islands. So, yeah, no. I thought
that was what they were... I thought that's what
they did, but... That's what they were supposed
to be then doing because it was such a bad reception.
An awful reception. It was awful. It really was
bad and it was consistently shit. So you had
Starfield, then you had Scud and Bones. It's
just so poor. This year's been good though. So
we've pulled it back. We've pulled it back with
some fucking corkers. Because last week we did
our Game of the Year stuff, didn't we? And I'm
very excited for many of them games. There was
no quadruple games on the Game of the Year sections.
No. I apologise. I don't think there's been a
quadruple game since. There never has been. They've
made themselves a meme with that. That's what
people call it. Oh, is this a fucking... I guess
GTA 6 would be a quadruple A game. Yeah, if there
was ever one, that would be the only one. Yeah,
that would be... We should go back to GTA fucking
5. No, GTA 4 with Nico. Nico Bellic. Even the
fine details in that when you get under the hood
and fuck about with the nitty gritty, even some
of the stuff in that is still much more than
games now are doing. And that game is old as
balls. Even in Red Dead 2, man. You think that?
The details in that is fucking astronomical.
And then people sit there and they go, why is
GTA 6 delayed? blah blah blah but then the same
people that were coming over the fact that there
was bubbles in the beer in the trailer oh my
god the drinks are carbonated shut up man fucks
yeah it's not I don't know why we got onto that
conversation what the fuck were we talking about
I was talking about Attack on Titan Yeah. Second
Titan and Assassin's Creed Shadows. That's put
me off of getting it. I'd completely forgot that
that game existed until the other day when I
was like, fuck yeah. I fully forgot that that
game was a thing. It just got completely overshadowed.
Excuse the pun. By so many other games. Did that
come out along the same time as Kingdom Come
Deliverance 2? Quite possibly. I think it may
have done. Yeah. I remember there being a time
where there was loads of games that we were all
getting different ones. You were getting Rise
of the Ronin and I was getting something else.
And neither of us ended up getting... Rise of
the Ronin's another one. That's another one.
That's good, though. I played the demo of that.
I thought it was really good. And I think it's
one of them... We spoke about it before. I think
it's one of them games that now is received as...
Oh, no, that's actually quite a good game. But
it just came out at such a bad time. Yeah, Rise
of the Ronin. I fully forgot. That's like a Souls
-like open world samurai... Fucking game. It's
pretty good, man. I was enjoying the demo. It's
on my wish list, so when it goes cheap enough,
I'll snag it. It's 30 % on fucking Steam. That's
not enough. I need it on PS5. Unless I get the
Steam box. I need it on PS5 and even now. Yeah,
mixed reviews still on... I fucking know, it's
only got 215 reviews, recent reviews on Steam,
which by Steam standards is not a lot. Yeah,
maybe. I probably won't. I'm... Games with combat
like that, I'm just very switched off from it
at the moment. That's why Where Winds Meet has
been a game that I've actually deleted off my
PlayStation now because I was thinking about
it not long after last week and I was like, I'm
just not going to play it. I just won't touch
it. I can't be arsed for that style of combat
at the moment. My brain isn't braining enough
for that. I need to switch Outer Worlds 2 on,
do a little bit of dialogue and then come off.
Well, this is exactly why, funnily enough, I
don't think I've played a PlayStation 5 game
for more than 10 minutes for about three weeks,
believe it or not. The most I can muster is an
hour on the Steam Deck an evening. Gaming podcast.
I'm just fucked. I'm so tired, bro. And I just
get into that stage where now I just want to
sit there, eat some Pringles and some Smarties
and some chocolate. I literally... And some Haribo.
Wednesday. And some biscuits. Wednesday. Yeah,
no, I'm with you. And just watch some shit. Wednesday,
I got home, went for a run, and then I was like,
I was like, Steph's at work late. So I was like,
I'll play Outer Worlds until the wee hours of
the morning, until I need to go to bed at nine
o 'clock. And all I did was sit there on the
sofa. I'm pretty sure I sent you a fucking voice
note. Where I was like, I could be gaming right
now, and I'm thinking about gaming, and I'm excited
to do some gaming, but I'm going to sit here
and watch telly instead. I'm just edging myself
about the idea that I can do some gaming right
now, but I'm not going to. It was like when you
were a kid and you got a new game, and you'd
just sit there and get home and then not immediately
play the game. Was you like that? No, I didn't.
Maybe it's just me, man. Maybe it's me, because
I can think about it all day. I'm like that now.
I'm so excited. I'm like that now. And then get
home and go, nah, I'm still excited, but I'm
going to do other things. The amount of games
I've got on Steam now that I've never played,
I've just bought them when they're cheap. I actually
have played a new game this week, actually. Prince
of Persia, the Steam Deck fucking side -scrolling
one that you said you'd hate. Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Metroidvania, yeah, I've got that. I played
it for about 20 minutes. They're remaking Sands
of Time. Yeah, I know. That's going to be fucking
sick. We've heard this. Your favourite game of
all time? Hands down. Hands fucking down. I love
it. Absolutely love it. Leave it there because
I'm fucking tired. Fucking hell. Sorry, guys.
I am tired too. It was about that. They got what
they wanted. Yeah. Anything else? Any other news?
I don't think there's any other news. Well, if
there is any other news, we'll put it on the
Patreon behind a paywall. Give them something
to listen to for once. You've got to understand,
we've just finished work, man, and I haven't
had dinner. I've got to drive home yet. We've
all just got in. We haven't pooed. We haven't
bathed. I have pooed. We haven't bathed or showered.
We're just slugging it out just for you. It's
a lot of effort. It's for you lot. We've been
doing this for like three years now. Yeah, and
we've got nothing from it. I'm fucking sick of
it. Yeah, it's well inconvenient. This is the
last ever episode. It is proper inconvenient,
isn't it? Yeah, it is inconvenient. I don't enjoy
this anymore. Yeah, fuck, it's the last ever
episode. I don't get that bubbly feeling that
we got in the first week. No, let's sack it off.
Three years on, I can't be arsed. Microsoft sniffing
around us. If you're interested, hit us up. You
can buy it. Yeah. See you later. Hooray. Hooray.