WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.440 Poddies, podcasties, episode 157, I think. What 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:09.199 are you smiling about? Just them no -look challenges. 00:00:09.619 --> 00:00:12.900 It's quite funny. They're funny. You can't look 00:00:12.900 --> 00:00:14.679 at each other at the same time or you spit your 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:17.320 water in each other's face. Nice. Love it. Anyway, 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:21.960 Zos. You're good. You're good. Ashport, Collector's 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:23.780 Edition. Oh, wait. Is Gem going to listen? Does 00:00:23.780 --> 00:00:28.079 she know? No. She does now. She doesn't listen 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:31.359 to this. She does. Nah, she ain't going to listen 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:33.340 to it. I promise you she does listen to it. But 00:00:33.340 --> 00:00:36.039 funnily enough, when I was shitting out of shit, 00:00:36.299 --> 00:00:41.060 they messaged me saying, arriving tomorrow. So 00:00:41.060 --> 00:00:47.479 that's exciting. What's the statue of? Do you 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:49.420 want to tell them what collector's edition it 00:00:49.420 --> 00:00:53.369 is? It's the Elden Ring Night Rain. When you're 00:00:53.369 --> 00:00:55.030 listening to this, you can still get it for the 00:00:55.030 --> 00:00:59.969 low price of £69 .95 down from £180. It's very 00:00:59.969 --> 00:01:02.289 good. And you get the game, obviously. You get 00:01:02.289 --> 00:01:05.230 a steel bookcase. You get that sick statue. Even 00:01:05.230 --> 00:01:07.310 the fact that you get the game. So you're getting 00:01:07.310 --> 00:01:09.989 the statue for like 20 quid. Yeah. You get the 00:01:09.989 --> 00:01:13.209 steel book. You get some fucking stickers and 00:01:13.209 --> 00:01:17.290 fucking cards and all sorts of shit. But I'm 00:01:17.290 --> 00:01:18.969 only interested in the statue and the game, to 00:01:18.969 --> 00:01:21.689 be honest with you. But you know how we do. I 00:01:21.689 --> 00:01:24.689 love fucking statues and figures and shit. Everyone 00:01:24.689 --> 00:01:27.969 loves statues. The only gripe I've got with it 00:01:27.969 --> 00:01:31.349 is obviously it's not got any colour. What do 00:01:31.349 --> 00:01:33.430 you mean? Well, the statue's not got any colour. 00:01:34.090 --> 00:01:37.950 Is it not? It's just grey. Isn't it? Look at 00:01:37.950 --> 00:01:40.709 it. What do you mean is it not? You bought it. 00:01:40.790 --> 00:01:43.010 I don't know. I'm colour blind, you cunt. Well, 00:01:43.030 --> 00:01:47.390 exactly. So you're perfect. You can't see any 00:01:47.390 --> 00:01:50.760 colour. That's great for me. He just looks cool. 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:52.500 I wouldn't want him colourful. He's a fucking 00:01:52.500 --> 00:01:55.459 knight. I need to have a look. Why would you 00:01:55.459 --> 00:01:57.799 want pink and yellow and blue and green on him? 00:01:57.859 --> 00:02:04.659 He looks sick. He is cool. It's like Melania. 00:02:05.950 --> 00:02:07.989 He's got the same helmet. There must be some 00:02:07.989 --> 00:02:10.310 kind of lore. Yeah, he's one of the geezers you 00:02:10.310 --> 00:02:12.770 play in Night Rain. He's got a fucking long -ass 00:02:12.770 --> 00:02:15.949 sword as well, man. Yep. Long -ass sword. I'm 00:02:15.949 --> 00:02:17.629 looking forward to playing it. They just announced 00:02:17.629 --> 00:02:20.150 a little fucking expansion -y DLC thing the other 00:02:20.150 --> 00:02:22.849 day. Yeah. Still haven't played it. And I didn't 00:02:22.849 --> 00:02:24.150 realise, but you can actually play it offline 00:02:24.150 --> 00:02:27.229 and solo. That's cool. It's not like an online 00:02:27.229 --> 00:02:29.710 -only game forever. It's very rare that you get 00:02:29.710 --> 00:02:31.729 a game now where you can play it offline. Yeah, 00:02:31.750 --> 00:02:34.319 I know. Very, very rare. So, yeah, I knew it 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:36.099 would be a game I'd play eventually. How much 00:02:36.099 --> 00:02:37.840 I'll play it, I don't know, but I only really 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:40.479 bought it for the statue. Yeah, statue's fucking 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:43.159 cool, especially when it's that cheap. Why would 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:46.919 you not? You can go with... Mesmer. Mesmer. Mesmer 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:50.340 the Impaler. Who's also a very sick statue. Did 00:02:50.340 --> 00:02:51.900 you get that? Did you get the collect edition 00:02:51.900 --> 00:02:53.300 that you did, didn't you? It's still in the box. 00:02:53.340 --> 00:02:54.919 It never come out, has it? Yeah, it's nice in 00:02:54.919 --> 00:02:56.500 the box. I just look at yours every time I come 00:02:56.500 --> 00:02:57.719 round here, so I don't need to get mine out. 00:02:57.860 --> 00:02:59.900 I remember putting it together because the top 00:02:59.900 --> 00:03:02.979 bit obviously is detached from the... from the 00:03:02.979 --> 00:03:06.759 rest of the pole arm and it's like a really thin 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:11.199 metal rod and it's really fucking stiff to get 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:13.479 it clipped all the way down so like when I first 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:17.599 did it there was a very definitive gap there 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:19.460 showing the metal bar and I was like I can't 00:03:19.460 --> 00:03:22.259 have that that needs to go all the way down and 00:03:22.259 --> 00:03:24.960 I was like I swear to fuck if I snap this I was 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:27.699 like I'm going to be pissed luckily I didn't 00:03:27.699 --> 00:03:29.599 but now it must remain there forever because 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:31.360 I'm not taking the fucker off that's the fear 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:34.580 isn't it stay exactly where it is please yep 00:03:34.580 --> 00:03:37.819 that's just mad that it wasn't that long ago 00:03:37.819 --> 00:03:40.620 when we were just didn't have collector's editions 00:03:40.620 --> 00:03:43.120 of stuff especially me I just didn't have anything 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:48.120 and then the old ADHD, ADD, DDDD kicks in. You 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:49.939 go, I need a collector's edition for everything. 00:03:50.379 --> 00:03:53.280 Yeah, that's what I do now. If there's a game 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:54.800 that I'm really excited for, I look at the collector's 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.439 edition and just see what it offers. The first 00:03:57.439 --> 00:03:59.240 game I ever bought a collector's edition of was 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.539 Fallout 4 with the Pip -Boy. The Pip -Boy. They 00:04:01.539 --> 00:04:03.580 just re -released another Pip -Boy, didn't they? 00:04:03.659 --> 00:04:05.340 It looked very fucking cool. You were talking 00:04:05.340 --> 00:04:06.879 to Connor about that the other day. Yeah, he 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:10.080 sent it to me. Yeah, cool bit of kit. And then, 00:04:10.099 --> 00:04:12.060 yeah, after that, I didn't buy one for fucking 00:04:12.060 --> 00:04:15.939 years and years and years. One we avoided was 00:04:15.939 --> 00:04:18.740 Starfield. Yeah, we swerved that. We fucking 00:04:18.740 --> 00:04:21.860 did a good number swerving that. I mean, you 00:04:21.860 --> 00:04:24.319 still bought a whole console for it. Yeah, I 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:26.360 know. Funny enough, I was thinking about it yesterday. 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.040 I was like, there's no point even selling it. 00:04:29.100 --> 00:04:31.300 No one wants an Xbox. No, they don't. It's fucking 00:04:31.300 --> 00:04:34.740 pointless. Yeah. Yeah, I don't really know anyone 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:37.680 that plays on an Xbox. Well, apologies if you're 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:39.379 listening and you play on an Xbox. There's nothing 00:04:39.379 --> 00:04:42.220 wrong with it. No, there is. It's shit. Yeah, 00:04:42.220 --> 00:04:44.589 no, yeah. Sort your life out. Get a PlayStation, 00:04:44.910 --> 00:04:46.730 man. If you're going to get an Xbox, just play 00:04:46.730 --> 00:04:49.449 on PC. Unless Xbox want to sponsor us, and then 00:04:49.449 --> 00:04:51.589 in which case, Xbox is by far the best console. 00:04:51.889 --> 00:04:55.870 Yeah, by far the best. Not even close. Well, 00:04:56.990 --> 00:04:59.170 there won't even be a console in the next iteration. 00:04:59.649 --> 00:05:01.149 That's how genius they are. They're just making 00:05:01.149 --> 00:05:03.550 a PC, pretty much. Shout out Microsoft, man. 00:05:03.910 --> 00:05:05.990 More people need to hear about the might of Microsoft. 00:05:06.110 --> 00:05:08.269 Yeah, yeah. If you haven't heard of Microsoft, 00:05:08.509 --> 00:05:11.910 tune in. We'll tell you more about Microsoft. 00:05:12.129 --> 00:05:17.769 The Midnight Expansion releases 2nd March. For 00:05:17.769 --> 00:05:20.120 WoW. I might have just seen a collector's edition 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:22.319 for that. I just went on Amazon because it's 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.600 fucking Black Friday, isn't it? So I just went 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:26.300 on there and went collector's editions. There 00:05:26.300 --> 00:05:28.360 is indeed, and there is no statue or anything. 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:30.360 It's very rare that the collector's editions 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:33.800 for World of Warcraft expansions release a statue. 00:05:34.379 --> 00:05:37.600 So The War Within had a statue with it, which 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.319 was very, very cool, like a dwarf on a griffon. 00:05:41.220 --> 00:05:44.040 But this expansion hasn't got a statue because 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:48.430 I was going to get it. He's cool. Yeah. I can't 00:05:48.430 --> 00:05:50.949 remember his name, but he is cool. It's shaping 00:05:50.949 --> 00:05:54.170 up to be a good expansion because the housing 00:05:54.170 --> 00:05:59.470 that goes live on the pre -patch, so that's on 00:05:59.470 --> 00:06:02.329 the 2nd of December, I think. So that's around 00:06:02.329 --> 00:06:05.110 the corner. And if you pre -order the expansion, 00:06:05.329 --> 00:06:08.930 you get access to the player housing from the 00:06:08.930 --> 00:06:13.649 2nd. So that's going to be good. So I still haven't 00:06:13.649 --> 00:06:16.779 bought it, so obviously I will. because i i need 00:06:16.779 --> 00:06:19.199 to give myself a little house and decorate it 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:23.139 and all that shit but yeah it's it's it's it's 00:06:23.139 --> 00:06:25.639 looking good baby it's looking good so you get 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:29.040 for physical stuff you get the midnight hardcover 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:33.779 art book midnight collector's pen and a replica 00:06:33.779 --> 00:06:38.350 of the dark heart yes that is the one And they 00:06:38.350 --> 00:06:41.189 do look pretty fucking cool, whatever they are. 00:06:41.350 --> 00:06:44.930 Yeah. Them things. Yeah, it's a cool collector's 00:06:44.930 --> 00:06:46.629 edition. It's just I would have preferred to 00:06:46.629 --> 00:06:49.170 have a statue of some kind. Yeah, mostly it's 00:06:49.170 --> 00:06:51.670 just digital shit. Just looking at this makes 00:06:51.670 --> 00:06:54.610 me want to buy it and therefore play WoW. Yeah, 00:06:54.629 --> 00:06:57.350 yeah. Which is not what I want to be doing right 00:06:57.350 --> 00:07:00.610 now. And one of the, so they're doing so many 00:07:00.610 --> 00:07:03.569 class changes, like fucking loads. And I don't 00:07:03.569 --> 00:07:06.379 want to use the terms dumbing down. Because I 00:07:06.379 --> 00:07:07.759 don't think they are dumbing down the classes, 00:07:07.819 --> 00:07:09.259 but they're getting rid of a lot of the button 00:07:09.259 --> 00:07:12.860 blow. Obviously, for some grand plan that eventually 00:07:12.860 --> 00:07:16.579 is going to come to console. That's the route 00:07:16.579 --> 00:07:20.680 that they're trying to work out. So with that, 00:07:20.699 --> 00:07:23.879 there's patch notes. The beta's active, so everyone's 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:25.980 been playing that. There's tier lists of what 00:07:25.980 --> 00:07:28.620 classes are best, blah, blah, blah. And listening 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:30.439 to tier lists in a beta is a load of bollocks 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:32.819 because it's a beta and everything's going to 00:07:32.819 --> 00:07:36.339 change anyway. But one of the most exciting things 00:07:36.339 --> 00:07:39.480 I'm looking forward to is the specialisation 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.360 of a hunter. So you have beast mastery, marksmanship 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:47.579 and survival. So survival is a melee specialisation. 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:50.959 It's all centred around fucking explosives and... 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:56.720 your pet doing damage and fucking using two -handed 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:58.759 weapons and shit like that. Always been a cool 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:01.639 class fantasy. But the one thing I didn't like 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:04.079 about it was the fact that you're restricted 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:07.819 to using two -handed weapons. I'm not a massive 00:08:07.819 --> 00:08:10.220 fan of them. I like my dual -wielded weapons. 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:17.500 In the Midnight expansion, they are allowing 00:08:17.500 --> 00:08:20.300 survival hunters to use two one -handed weapons. 00:08:21.149 --> 00:08:23.529 which is just a fucking supreme bit of class 00:08:23.529 --> 00:08:26.430 fantasy. So I am going to main one of them purely 00:08:26.430 --> 00:08:29.089 for that because there's so few classes where 00:08:29.089 --> 00:08:32.149 you get to use a dual wield like weapons unless 00:08:32.149 --> 00:08:34.970 you're a rogue, which I don't like playing them 00:08:34.970 --> 00:08:37.950 anymore. So I'm fucking, I'm all over it. I'm 00:08:37.950 --> 00:08:40.610 excited for it. Cannot wait. Good. I'm going 00:08:40.610 --> 00:08:42.210 to book holiday for it. I feel like I want to 00:08:42.210 --> 00:08:46.159 buy that. What is that? Crimson Desert. That 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:48.879 looks fucking sick. Yeah. That's a sick collect. 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.039 That is a sick collect. And we don't even play 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:53.340 Crimson Desert. That is fucking sick. Because 00:08:53.340 --> 00:08:55.639 it's not out yet. It's not the online one. Oh, 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:57.720 right. Oh. You know that really cool looking 00:08:57.720 --> 00:08:59.240 game that's coming out in March. Yeah, yeah. 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:01.000 Sorry, I thought you meant the fucking online 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:02.580 one. That's Black Desert online. Yeah, yeah, 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:05.220 yeah. This is the same universe. Funnily enough, 00:09:05.460 --> 00:09:07.360 I remember Mark talked to me about that and he 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:09.200 said he was quite interested by it. Mate, the 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.620 game is fucking sick. If they pull through everything 00:09:11.620 --> 00:09:14.799 that they've said they're doing. Well, it wasn't 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:17.539 that long ago they did a big gameplay reveal, 00:09:17.740 --> 00:09:19.620 didn't they? Of like half an hour or some shit 00:09:19.620 --> 00:09:22.139 like that of them playing it. And it did look 00:09:22.139 --> 00:09:24.519 very, very good. It was cool as fuck. Has that 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:26.759 got a release date? Yeah, March. Oh, that comes 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:29.039 out March as well? Yeah, it looks fucking sick, 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:31.299 man. March. Look at it, bro. Look, you can fly 00:09:31.299 --> 00:09:35.480 dragons and shit, man. Open world RPG. Fucking 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.639 dragons and horses and swords and fucking bears 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:47.299 and mechs? Well, that's a bit out there, isn't 00:09:47.299 --> 00:09:50.659 it? I don't know about that. Why is there mechs? 00:09:50.779 --> 00:09:55.720 Why is there mechs in there? Your face. Dragons 00:09:55.720 --> 00:10:00.519 and horses and fucking mechs. It looks cool as 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:02.279 fuck, though, man. It's one of them games that, 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:05.220 it's like Baldur's Gate, man. Or even The Witcher 00:10:05.220 --> 00:10:07.820 3. It'd be like, I really want to buy the collector's 00:10:07.820 --> 00:10:08.960 edition, but I don't know if I'm going to like 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.000 the game. so I don't really want to risk it. 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:12.460 And then the game comes out, and I'm like, this 00:10:12.460 --> 00:10:14.059 is sick, and I've already got the game, but I 00:10:14.059 --> 00:10:15.340 want to buy a collector's edition, and then they're 00:10:15.340 --> 00:10:17.779 worth £1 ,000. And here I am, three, four years 00:10:17.779 --> 00:10:19.820 later, still looking every day. In the game Crimson 00:10:19.820 --> 00:10:22.960 Desert, the robots are powerful dwarf -engineered 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.379 mechs that players can pilot in the later stages 00:10:25.379 --> 00:10:28.320 of the game. These battle robots are equipped 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:30.700 with weapons like machine guns, rockets, and 00:10:30.700 --> 00:10:33.299 an EMP blast, and are intended as a reward for 00:10:33.299 --> 00:10:34.960 player progression. However, they have limited 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.259 fuel, preventing continuous use. That's fucking 00:10:37.259 --> 00:10:41.129 stupid. pilotable dwarven engineered battle robots 00:10:41.129 --> 00:10:43.169 or mechs that sounded cool until you started 00:10:43.169 --> 00:10:45.190 saying they're fucking machine guns they provide 00:10:45.190 --> 00:10:48.049 a significant power spike capable of overwhelming 00:10:48.049 --> 00:10:52.289 even large animal enemies like dragons i will 00:10:52.289 --> 00:10:55.250 never use them limited fuel supply and piloting 00:10:55.250 --> 00:10:57.230 these robots is presented as a reward for player 00:10:57.230 --> 00:11:00.409 players progression through the game seems about 00:11:00.409 --> 00:11:04.000 seems weird I don't like that. It can't mix my 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:05.080 fantasy with my sci -fi. I was going to say, 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:07.279 that's your... That's pissed me off. That's a 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:08.460 fucking... That actually pissed me off. Yeah, 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:10.320 that's a needle in the brain for you, isn't it? 00:11:10.340 --> 00:11:13.000 I can't have guns in a fucking game of swords. 00:11:13.179 --> 00:11:15.600 It doesn't work in my brain. Yeah. The only thing 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:19.240 that works in is Warhammer. Yeah, agreed. Agreed. 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:22.679 Well, that's... I won't fucking ramble on about 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:24.919 it, but that is one of the gripes with this new 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:28.059 survival hunter change, is that one of the abilities 00:11:28.059 --> 00:11:31.539 is just straight up called Blunderbuss. or is 00:11:31.539 --> 00:11:35.220 it blunderbuss or is it fucking boomstick? And 00:11:35.220 --> 00:11:38.580 you shoot like three shots with a boomstick, 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.539 so a shotgun. And everyone's like, it's a fucking 00:11:41.539 --> 00:11:44.679 melee class. It's got nothing to do with guns. 00:11:45.340 --> 00:11:46.960 Everyone's like, why the fuck are we putting 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:49.720 out a gun halfway through a rotation? It just 00:11:49.720 --> 00:11:54.259 looks ridiculous. So yeah, I'm with you to be 00:11:54.259 --> 00:11:57.679 fair. If I'm flying around on dragons and I'm 00:11:57.679 --> 00:12:00.779 putting swords through people's necks, I don't 00:12:00.779 --> 00:12:03.899 want to turn into a power armour. No, I don't 00:12:03.899 --> 00:12:06.340 want robots with guns, but it just throws me 00:12:06.340 --> 00:12:08.759 off, like my immersion. I don't want to do that. 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:12.059 Yeah, that seems really weird. I'm seeing... 00:12:12.059 --> 00:12:17.080 That is really weird. Maybe the lore side of 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:20.460 it will make sense, but it does look odd looking 00:12:20.460 --> 00:12:25.879 at photos on Google where I'm seeing someone 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:28.159 floating around in a mech suit. That's really 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:30.990 odd. I don't think I'm a fan of that, you know? 00:12:32.029 --> 00:12:35.129 No, it's fucking stupid. Look at the same photo 00:12:35.129 --> 00:12:38.809 you looked at. Raptor, dragon, bear, mech. They're 00:12:38.809 --> 00:12:42.309 all blue and shit. It just looks so out of whack, 00:12:42.429 --> 00:12:45.769 doesn't it? Yeah. Why have they done that? I 00:12:45.769 --> 00:12:48.610 don't understand why that's a thing. He looks 00:12:48.610 --> 00:12:52.529 cool, though. Can't wait to fight him. When's 00:12:52.529 --> 00:12:56.990 it actually? March, man. March. I'm looking at 00:12:56.990 --> 00:13:01.539 it. 19. March 19th. For Mac OS, PlayStation 5, 00:13:01.659 --> 00:13:04.320 Windows, and Xbox Series X and S, pre -orders 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:05.879 are currently available for the various editions 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:11.519 of the game. I can understand the Dwarven creations 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:13.659 and stuff, and I can get behind the mechanical 00:13:13.659 --> 00:13:15.519 dragon and stuff, but as soon as you add machine 00:13:15.519 --> 00:13:18.179 guns, I'm like, this is ridiculous. I can get 00:13:18.179 --> 00:13:20.679 behind the mechanics, but not bright blue robots 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:23.759 and fucking shit. Fuck's sake. It's a bit mad, 00:13:23.899 --> 00:13:27.019 isn't it? Because you kind of think, okay, well, 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.279 if you're going to have a world like that and 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:33.460 then introduce mechs that can fly around with 00:13:33.460 --> 00:13:37.159 Gatling guns and EMP blasts as well, never mind 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:40.360 the Gatling guns, EMP blasts, that's even more 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:45.419 high -tech than a Gatling gun, then surely you 00:13:45.419 --> 00:13:47.980 might as well end up including the thing of floating 00:13:47.980 --> 00:13:52.000 cities. And ships. Might as well get a spaceship, 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:55.340 man. Yeah. Like, how far are we? Why have we 00:13:55.340 --> 00:13:57.159 just stopped at mechs? Well, it's just ruined 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:58.600 that game for me. I wasn't looking forward to 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:00.700 that. I'm not interested now. Genuinely, it's 00:14:00.700 --> 00:14:04.419 fucking off. Hopefully they take them out. I 00:14:04.419 --> 00:14:06.039 don't think they will. No, of course they won't. 00:14:06.500 --> 00:14:09.120 For fuck's sake, man. It's stupid. I want more 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.940 info on these fucking robots. No, I don't. They've 00:14:11.940 --> 00:14:17.019 ruined it. What gaming news has there even been 00:14:17.019 --> 00:14:19.879 this week? Fucking seen nothing. I ain't played 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:21.899 nothing. I played the Steam Deck a little bit. 00:14:21.940 --> 00:14:24.080 Oh, I did actually put DayZ on because Clarky's 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:26.100 been flirting with me over it. Oh, come play 00:14:26.100 --> 00:14:29.580 DayZ. I love DayZ. I love DayZ. So I loaded it 00:14:29.580 --> 00:14:32.639 up. I still had a really high level character. 00:14:32.840 --> 00:14:35.159 Well, not level, loads of gear. Loaded it up. 00:14:35.159 --> 00:14:37.440 It just loaded me as some woman. I realised I 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:39.399 didn't have my gear anymore. So I just ran into 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:41.960 a house, stabbed myself in the neck and turned 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:50.399 it off. I'm just scrolling through to see if 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.600 there's anything that's crazy. I'm not seeing 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:59.840 anything. I did see, however, a clip of the DLC 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:02.779 from Assassin's Creed Shadows. And they were 00:15:02.779 --> 00:15:05.320 being chased by a Titan from Attack on Titan. 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:08.940 Oh, why? And someone said, is this a mod? And 00:15:08.940 --> 00:15:10.580 everyone was like, no, this is actually in the 00:15:10.580 --> 00:15:14.070 DLC. I went, what? So let me get the YouTube 00:15:14.070 --> 00:15:16.669 up and we'll have a fucking look. Why do games 00:15:16.669 --> 00:15:19.090 keep making these terrible decisions? You've 00:15:19.090 --> 00:15:21.909 seen the leaks of Black Ops 7 with the Logan 00:15:21.909 --> 00:15:24.870 Paul skin. Oh, fuck off. Have you not seen that? 00:15:24.929 --> 00:15:28.149 Let me show you that. No fucking way. There's 00:15:28.149 --> 00:15:34.649 no way that's real. Come on. Logan Paul. Let's 00:15:34.649 --> 00:15:39.659 have a look. It's a leak. But it's been leaked 00:15:39.659 --> 00:15:44.679 from some very trustworthy sources. Yeah, Logan 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:49.340 Paul operator found in Black Ops 7 files. And 00:15:49.340 --> 00:15:53.700 there is your current operator, brother. There 00:15:53.700 --> 00:15:55.600 you go. Do you want another photo where he's 00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:58.179 in a different outfit? I'll show you. Not really, 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:00.679 bro. I'll show you, look. Come on, little gang. 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:02.779 Look, he's got his fucking, he's got his blue 00:16:02.779 --> 00:16:06.559 eyes and everything, bro. I suppose the only 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:09.519 defense I would give Call of Duty is the fact 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.299 that it's Logan Paul, but he is a wrestler. So 00:16:12.299 --> 00:16:15.899 maybe that's the part of it. You know the thing 00:16:15.899 --> 00:16:17.820 where I don't defend it is when they put out 00:16:17.820 --> 00:16:19.899 that statement about a week after Battlefield 00:16:19.899 --> 00:16:22.879 and said they're going for more realism. We get 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:26.779 it. Here's Logan Paul. Let me find that realism 00:16:26.779 --> 00:16:32.299 statement. Let's read that one out. Realistic 00:16:32.299 --> 00:16:35.139 core duties in space with double jumps, wall 00:16:35.139 --> 00:16:41.539 jumps and Logan Paul. Here we go. First off, 00:16:41.659 --> 00:16:44.230 thank you. Call of Duty has always been fuelled 00:16:44.230 --> 00:16:46.289 by the community. Every match, every clip, every 00:16:46.289 --> 00:16:48.210 bit of feedback. You've shaped this franchise 00:16:48.210 --> 00:16:50.649 right alongside us. We know there's been a lot 00:16:50.649 --> 00:16:52.690 of conversation recently about the identity of 00:16:52.690 --> 00:16:55.009 Call of Duty. Some of you have said we've drifted 00:16:55.009 --> 00:16:57.470 from what made Call of Duty unique in the first 00:16:57.470 --> 00:17:00.649 place. Immersive, intense, visceral and in many 00:17:00.649 --> 00:17:03.110 ways grounded. That feedback hits home and we 00:17:03.110 --> 00:17:06.220 take it seriously. So here's your Logan Paul 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:08.759 operator skin. He's a real person, so it's real. 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:12.559 That's ridiculous. They're assassinating themselves. 00:17:12.940 --> 00:17:15.640 What the fuck would you do that for? People already 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.220 just fucking had enough of Black Ops 7. This 00:17:18.220 --> 00:17:21.099 is just shit. People getting shot through walls, 00:17:21.259 --> 00:17:22.740 not because it's a glitch, just because there's 00:17:22.740 --> 00:17:25.059 a gun that can shoot through walls. It's like, 00:17:25.099 --> 00:17:28.000 what? No one wants to play this, bro. If you 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:29.920 want to make games like this, go and make a fucking 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:32.980 completely different game. Keep Core Duty as 00:17:32.980 --> 00:17:36.130 Core Duty used to be. I don't mind skins in games 00:17:36.130 --> 00:17:38.869 if you want to pay for them, but if it's like 00:17:38.869 --> 00:17:41.130 Battlefield skins, I wouldn't pay for any of 00:17:41.130 --> 00:17:44.990 them skins, but I wouldn't be necessarily massively 00:17:44.990 --> 00:17:47.529 against a fucking, I don't know, Bruce Willis 00:17:47.529 --> 00:17:49.250 or something in Battlefield, you know, as long 00:17:49.250 --> 00:17:52.019 as it's not fucking Krusty the Clown. Do you 00:17:52.019 --> 00:17:53.480 know what I mean? There has to be like a level 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.259 of understanding where it's like, okay, this 00:17:56.259 --> 00:17:58.880 is fucking Rambo. This is Bruce Willis. These 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.779 are like real action heroes. I kind of get them. 00:18:02.140 --> 00:18:04.279 But when you're like, say, just throwing in like 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:06.259 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and fucking... 00:18:06.259 --> 00:18:08.039 Beavis and Buttered. Yeah, and all that shit. 00:18:08.259 --> 00:18:10.539 It's just a bit... Nicki Minaj. Yeah, it's a 00:18:10.539 --> 00:18:12.819 little bit... What the fuck is going on here? 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.039 Like, I get that it's a moneymaker. I do understand 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.400 that. And you think like, from a business point, 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:21.529 we need to make some money here. But at the same 00:18:21.529 --> 00:18:25.369 time, when most of your fan base are screaming, 00:18:25.470 --> 00:18:28.829 going, just fucking give us some realism, you 00:18:28.829 --> 00:18:31.529 have to sit there and think, all right, maybe, 00:18:31.750 --> 00:18:34.269 maybe we should do that. Especially if you've 00:18:34.269 --> 00:18:37.349 just put out a statement saying that you've heard 00:18:37.349 --> 00:18:40.390 the feedback and we listen and we take it seriously. 00:18:40.569 --> 00:18:42.329 Don't release a fucking... I mean, I know they 00:18:42.329 --> 00:18:44.529 haven't released it. I know that it's been leaked. 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:46.880 Blah, blah, blah. But I feel like that sort of 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:50.680 shit is contracted. It's done. So you can't go 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:52.660 back on that. I feel a lot of that sort of stuff. 00:18:53.819 --> 00:18:56.839 Like Logan Paulskins and whatever else. This 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:59.579 fucking Logan Paulskins leak. It's more like, 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.140 hey, leak this and we'll see what people's reaction 00:19:02.140 --> 00:19:05.039 is. And if it's not that bad, we'll put it out. 00:19:05.140 --> 00:19:08.220 If it's terrible, then we'll just not. Yeah, 00:19:08.220 --> 00:19:10.720 a lot of people, yeah. Because you could get 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:13.019 some serious fucking PR stunts going with that 00:19:13.019 --> 00:19:14.480 and make yourself look really good, where you 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:16.579 go, oh, fucking hell, someone's leaked that there's 00:19:16.579 --> 00:19:20.980 a Spongebob skin coming. Oh, God. See the uproar 00:19:20.980 --> 00:19:22.599 and then come out as a statement and go, we are 00:19:22.599 --> 00:19:25.680 not doing this. This is not us. This is exactly 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:27.240 what fucking West Ham do. This is what I was 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:28.559 trying to tell to your fucking mate the other 00:19:28.559 --> 00:19:29.980 day when he was talking about, oh, fantastic. 00:19:30.660 --> 00:19:33.920 West Ham's board, it's not even a secret, they 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:35.819 have deliberately leaked so much information 00:19:35.819 --> 00:19:39.359 to... gauge fan reaction before they make a decision 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:43.480 on so many different things even so much as to 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:48.160 leak the potential transfer of a footballer who 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:52.400 then the fans kicked up such a stink we didn't 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:54.900 sign him and even the player himself was like 00:19:54.900 --> 00:19:57.599 I know why I didn't get signed because the fucking 00:19:57.599 --> 00:19:59.589 fans hated me and didn't want me to come But 00:19:59.589 --> 00:20:02.130 they deliberately leak that information. It's 00:20:02.130 --> 00:20:04.950 just, yeah. See, that to me says, from a football 00:20:04.950 --> 00:20:08.309 point, from a gaming point, from any industry 00:20:08.309 --> 00:20:15.089 that relies on public consumerism, I always feel 00:20:15.089 --> 00:20:17.569 like if you're at a point where you have to leak 00:20:17.569 --> 00:20:21.890 information to gauge your audience, then you're 00:20:21.890 --> 00:20:25.710 doing it wrong. You're too far removed from your 00:20:25.710 --> 00:20:28.680 audience. Because you think, right, well... you 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:33.900 should know. If you're in charge of that, if 00:20:33.900 --> 00:20:36.680 you're in charge of West Ham, you should know 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:38.660 what the fans want because you're in fucking 00:20:38.660 --> 00:20:41.380 charge. Why are you leaking the information to 00:20:41.380 --> 00:20:44.319 get a reaction? You should already know because 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:46.019 you're the one that's fucking running their club. 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:49.319 That's the same with games and everything like 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:52.480 that. You shouldn't have to leak. Leaking should 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:56.019 be bad. You should be more worried about it damaging 00:20:56.019 --> 00:20:59.019 what you're doing rather than using it as a decision 00:20:59.019 --> 00:21:02.680 maker. Absolutely. But people leak stuff on purpose. 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:07.720 And here's the Attack on Titan mission. Oh, it's... 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.400 It's full -on fucking Attack on Titan. You understand 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:17.279 what I mean? That's fucking mental. That is mental. 00:21:17.619 --> 00:21:20.460 That's... I was thinking... Do you know what? 00:21:20.539 --> 00:21:21.859 I was thinking about buying that the other day. 00:21:22.190 --> 00:21:24.230 Because it was on sale and I thought, oh, is 00:21:24.230 --> 00:21:27.809 it that bad? Yeah. And now I'm never buying it. 00:21:27.890 --> 00:21:30.269 Yeah, I mean, there's them running away and then 00:21:30.269 --> 00:21:32.710 I haven't seen the whole thing, but I saw enough 00:21:32.710 --> 00:21:34.329 and thought, no, this is fucking ridiculous. 00:21:35.130 --> 00:21:38.829 That's an actual mission. How does that fit into 00:21:38.829 --> 00:21:43.430 Assassin's Creed Shadows? So stupid. Where's 00:21:43.430 --> 00:21:46.170 that fitting in? It's so stupid. And the fact 00:21:46.170 --> 00:21:48.190 that, even the fact that the graphics of the 00:21:48.190 --> 00:21:51.369 Titan look really shit. Look how poor that is 00:21:51.369 --> 00:21:53.289 when he smashes through the pillar. The frame 00:21:53.289 --> 00:21:55.730 rate's so bad. It's like a video that's been 00:21:55.730 --> 00:21:58.210 recorded in the cinema. Like, it doesn't look... 00:21:58.210 --> 00:22:00.390 It looks terrible. The running animation of the 00:22:00.390 --> 00:22:02.930 geezer is fucking terrible. Look at him. That's... 00:22:02.930 --> 00:22:07.710 That's waffling. Absolutely waffling. That's 00:22:07.710 --> 00:22:11.069 really... That's really... Someone's first comment, 00:22:11.170 --> 00:22:13.190 Ubisoft, what the fuck is this? Someone said, 00:22:13.230 --> 00:22:15.369 a damn mockery is what it is. Disrespect the 00:22:15.369 --> 00:22:23.680 fuck out of Attack on Titan. Who asked for that? 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:28.599 Nobody, obviously. This is what I mean. Who sits 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:31.119 in the room and goes, yeah, brainstorm. Attack 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:33.420 on Titan crossover in Assassin's Creed Shadows 00:22:33.420 --> 00:22:34.839 in the Samurai. You know everyone wanted this 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:38.000 Japanese game and even that we still didn't land 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:40.660 it properly and people were unhappy. Maybe this 00:22:40.660 --> 00:22:44.140 will bring them back. Fire that guy or girl, 00:22:44.180 --> 00:22:45.960 whoever brought up this Attack on Titan thing 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:48.950 and fire the people that agreed with them. that 00:22:48.950 --> 00:22:51.569 went, yeah, that's it, we'll do that. It's... 00:22:51.569 --> 00:22:58.529 I don't... Obviously... Yeah, maybe because you're 00:22:58.529 --> 00:23:04.289 in Japan or is it China where it's set? Assassin's 00:23:04.289 --> 00:23:07.269 Creed Shadows. Yeah, but that doesn't mean necessarily 00:23:07.269 --> 00:23:09.250 all the Chinese or Japanese gamers are going 00:23:09.250 --> 00:23:11.670 to buy Assassin's Creed because it's set in the 00:23:11.670 --> 00:23:15.650 East. That's just... Ubisoft is a French company. 00:23:16.190 --> 00:23:18.369 It's got nothing to do with fucking things, only 00:23:18.369 --> 00:23:23.750 the setting. I can't imagine Ghost of Tsushima 00:23:23.750 --> 00:23:26.789 sold mad over there. We're talking more like 00:23:26.789 --> 00:23:29.630 Black Myth Wukong. That's not set in China or 00:23:29.630 --> 00:23:31.670 nothing, but it's a fucking amazing game. I still 00:23:31.670 --> 00:23:33.289 say it's one of the best games I've played in 00:23:33.289 --> 00:23:35.069 the last few years. But why would you do that? 00:23:35.450 --> 00:23:36.769 That's what I mean. That's what I don't understand. 00:23:36.769 --> 00:23:39.789 All it does is further back up my standpoint 00:23:39.789 --> 00:23:42.849 on Assassin's Creed, where you go, well, Assassin's 00:23:42.849 --> 00:23:46.019 Creed died with Ezio. Assassin's Creed after 00:23:46.019 --> 00:23:48.759 Ezio should have been changed to something else. 00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:50.220 They should have fucking gone down a different 00:23:50.220 --> 00:23:53.940 avenue. I get like the newer ones. A lot of people 00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:56.880 liked them. A lot of people liked Origins. Fucking 00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:59.779 whatever. You're wrong. Alright? You're wrong 00:23:59.779 --> 00:24:02.539 because they're not Assassin's Creed. After fucking 00:24:02.539 --> 00:24:07.000 Ezio was gone, they died. I can tell you without 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:09.039 even being an Assassin's Creed fan, I like the 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:12.099 games, but I'm not huge, how to bring everyone 00:24:12.099 --> 00:24:17.250 back in... Two words. Not two words. Let me just 00:24:17.250 --> 00:24:20.769 say shit. Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake, 00:24:21.190 --> 00:24:23.309 like proper remake. But that's coming. Well, 00:24:23.390 --> 00:24:25.410 there you go. Well, that gets all the fans that 00:24:25.410 --> 00:24:27.710 like Assassin's Creed back because I never played 00:24:27.710 --> 00:24:29.109 it, but I know that's one of the most popular 00:24:29.109 --> 00:24:30.730 games. It's fucking good. I can't wait for it. 00:24:30.829 --> 00:24:35.069 So bring that back and then piggyback off of 00:24:35.069 --> 00:24:37.549 that, go back to that formula of Assassin's Creed 00:24:37.549 --> 00:24:40.940 while that's fresh in people's minds. Ditch this 00:24:40.940 --> 00:24:43.500 fucking open world fucking... I love the open 00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:46.599 worldness of games, but Assassin's Creed, since 00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:48.839 they've done that, just turned every enemy into 00:24:48.839 --> 00:24:52.339 a fucking bullet sponge with massive health bars. 00:24:52.500 --> 00:24:54.359 There's no rhyme or reason. The whole point of 00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:56.319 being an assassin was to be able to one -shot 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:59.680 enemies. I know you can put settings on to change 00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:01.200 it, but it should just be the dynamic that the 00:25:01.200 --> 00:25:04.660 actual game is. You can one fucking shot anybody 00:25:04.660 --> 00:25:06.859 if you stealth kill them. That was the whole 00:25:06.859 --> 00:25:09.619 point. I still remember the first time I ever 00:25:09.619 --> 00:25:12.039 saw Assassin's Creed 1 trailer. Do you know how 00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:13.839 many times I watched that fucking trailer and 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:16.420 been diving off into that thing? The white cloak, 00:25:16.519 --> 00:25:18.000 the way he pulls it up as he's running through 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:21.279 the town square. That was amazing. Don't get 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:24.190 me wrong. I fucking hate Assassin's Creed with 00:25:24.190 --> 00:25:27.470 the bullshit fucking Anomaly, fucking Desmond 00:25:27.470 --> 00:25:30.130 Miles crap. I hated that. I know you loved that 00:25:30.130 --> 00:25:31.869 part of it. I did. That was the worst part of 00:25:31.869 --> 00:25:33.630 it for me. As soon as I could get out in the 00:25:33.630 --> 00:25:37.250 Animus, I got back in. But the actual Assassin 00:25:37.250 --> 00:25:41.369 part of the game is so fucking cool with the 00:25:41.369 --> 00:25:43.779 hidden blade and that. And they've ruined it 00:25:43.779 --> 00:25:47.339 by trying to conform to all this open world shit 00:25:47.339 --> 00:25:50.259 and monetising fucking experience points and 00:25:50.259 --> 00:25:52.559 experience boosters. And they go, well, it's 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:54.880 just for the fucking everyday man that doesn't 00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:56.799 get to play. No, no, no. Just let them play the 00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:58.779 game how they want. You know what I mean? I hate 00:25:58.779 --> 00:26:02.019 all that. Well, apparently around March 2026 00:26:02.019 --> 00:26:06.049 is when the supposed Black Flag remake. is due 00:26:06.049 --> 00:26:08.349 to release i don't think they they haven't actually 00:26:08.349 --> 00:26:11.390 announced it says uh ubisoft's highly anticipated 00:26:11.390 --> 00:26:13.609 assassin's creed black flag remake will launch 00:26:13.609 --> 00:26:15.910 in just a few months time a fresh report has 00:26:15.910 --> 00:26:18.910 claimed this morning ubisoft revealed its latest 00:26:18.910 --> 00:26:21.430 financial results and laid out a slate of upcoming 00:26:21.430 --> 00:26:24.049 games set to arrive before the end of its current 00:26:24.049 --> 00:26:28.640 financial year on march 31st 2026 One title due 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:31.200 for launch remained unannounced in Ubisoft's 00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:33.640 official presentation, but a new Insider Gaming 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:39.900 report has now stated that this not -so -mysterious 00:26:39.900 --> 00:26:42.359 project is the new version of Black Flag, which 00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:43.980 is scheduled to arrive during the week of March 00:26:43.980 --> 00:26:47.359 23, 2026. Assassin's Creed Black Flag was fucking 00:26:47.359 --> 00:26:51.519 great. Steph doesn't like the ship mechanics, 00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:55.140 and a lot of people, it was very Marmite. I fucking 00:26:55.140 --> 00:26:56.980 love them. Especially when I was hunting down 00:26:56.980 --> 00:26:59.140 a Portuguese man -of -war. Just some fat fucking 00:26:59.140 --> 00:27:03.180 ship. Legendary ships. And I liked having a fleet 00:27:03.180 --> 00:27:05.740 and stuff like that. I liked that aspect. Pirates 00:27:05.740 --> 00:27:08.759 are always cool. Yeah, and the shanties? Sea 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:11.920 shanties. Sea shanties. They were great. The 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:14.559 only gripe I actually had about the game was 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:17.480 the fact that in the last mission was when you 00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:20.259 got the whip. where you could hang, where you 00:27:20.259 --> 00:27:22.059 could noose people and shit like that. I just 00:27:22.059 --> 00:27:23.940 didn't know that was a thing. Yeah, right towards 00:27:23.940 --> 00:27:26.640 the end, you got that as a weapon and it was 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:28.819 one of those, it was that typical like, that 00:27:28.819 --> 00:27:31.740 era of the game where right towards the end you 00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:33.480 get the massively overpowered weapon but you 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:36.059 only get to use it for 10 minutes. Like having 00:27:36.059 --> 00:27:39.240 mechs in Crimson Desert. So, it was quite, it 00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:48.240 was, No. Trauma. So, yeah. And always, I'm excited 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:51.400 for it because it's a remake rather than a remaster. 00:27:51.539 --> 00:27:53.460 That's what I was going to say. Is it actually 00:27:53.460 --> 00:27:55.759 a remake from the ground up like Final Fantasy 00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:59.980 is, or is it a textured up, more polished version? 00:27:59.980 --> 00:28:02.019 Probably it's a remake. If it's a remake like 00:28:02.019 --> 00:28:03.859 Final Fantasy, it's going to be crazy. And also, 00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:07.019 I've never... I've played like 20 minutes of 00:28:07.019 --> 00:28:11.599 it somewhere, somehow, but I... Yeah, I'd like 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:13.259 to actually play that all the way through. So 00:28:13.259 --> 00:28:15.180 it says, alongside visual and gameplay upgrades 00:28:15.180 --> 00:28:17.420 to bring... So obviously nothing's been announced, 00:28:17.500 --> 00:28:20.779 but people are good at what they do. Alongside 00:28:20.779 --> 00:28:22.660 visual and gameplay upgrades to bring the game 00:28:22.660 --> 00:28:24.740 closer to Assassin's Creed Shadow's level of 00:28:24.740 --> 00:28:27.680 fidelity and more RPG -like focus, a recent report 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:30.039 detailed plans for the game to feature all new 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:33.000 content and missions for its pirate hero, Edward 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:35.599 Kenway. At the same time, however, Black Flag's 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:37.359 modern -day gameplay sections have apparently 00:28:37.359 --> 00:28:41.700 been excised? Something that many fans aren't 00:28:41.700 --> 00:28:46.700 happy about. Excised? Weird word. It's believed 00:28:46.700 --> 00:28:48.859 that work on the new Black Flag remake has been 00:28:48.859 --> 00:28:51.660 spearheaded by Ubisoft Singapore, which previously 00:28:51.660 --> 00:28:54.599 launched the long -delayed Skull & Bones, a game 00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:58.759 that began life as an offshoot of Black Flag's 00:28:58.759 --> 00:29:07.140 maritime gameplay. No. If you had anything to 00:29:07.140 --> 00:29:10.049 do with Skull & Bones... fucking change industry 00:29:10.049 --> 00:29:14.569 I don't like that I don't like that at all the 00:29:14.569 --> 00:29:17.250 thing is with Skull and Bones I've never played 00:29:17.250 --> 00:29:20.109 it but I imagine and I saw a lot of people's 00:29:20.109 --> 00:29:23.049 problems with it were just the very obviously 00:29:23.049 --> 00:29:28.380 glaring issue of I'm a pirate But I can't board 00:29:28.380 --> 00:29:31.640 ships. Yeah, I can't walk around my ship. I can't 00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:34.619 board my ship. I can't get off my ship. I can't 00:29:34.619 --> 00:29:37.839 drive into people and then swing over like they 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:41.220 do. So it's just a boat -to -boat combat game. 00:29:41.220 --> 00:29:43.839 It's war of tanks, but with boats. Exactly. Which 00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:47.119 is no good. That just screams that they put all 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:50.619 their eggs in skull and bones. It was shit. And 00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:53.700 then they've gone, fuck. Okay, well... Let's 00:29:53.700 --> 00:29:57.059 remake. We're pirates now. We're in pirate mindset. 00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:00.119 So we made a new pirate game and it was waft. 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:02.240 So let's just do what everyone said when Skull 00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:04.920 & Bones come out and fucking remake Black Flag. 00:30:05.039 --> 00:30:06.900 Because that's what everyone was saying. Wasn't 00:30:06.900 --> 00:30:12.039 Skull & Bones the first quadruple A game? Is 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:14.119 that what it was branded as? That's what Ubisoft 00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:16.700 called it, wasn't it? A quadruple A game. Yeah, 00:30:16.700 --> 00:30:18.119 but Ubisoft don't know what they're talking about. 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.019 They barely make fucking double A games. Let 00:30:22.019 --> 00:30:24.680 alone quadruple. What even is a quadruple? There 00:30:24.680 --> 00:30:29.819 you go. The term Ubisoft AAAA game refers to 00:30:29.819 --> 00:30:32.019 the company's attempt to label the naval combat 00:30:32.019 --> 00:30:36.000 game Skull & Bones as a quadruple A title. Ubisoft 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:41.039 CEO Yesgwit Guillemot. used this term to justify 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:43.839 its $70 price point, suggesting it offered a 00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:46.000 larger and more expansive experience than typical 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:48.720 AAA games. The label was met with scepticism 00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:50.980 and criticism, particularly since Skull & Bones 00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:52.660 had a long and troubled development and received 00:30:52.660 --> 00:30:57.400 mixed player reactions. It was awful. You can't 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:00.319 use the fact that it's a quadruple A game to 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.599 justify a $70 price tag. But they memed themselves. 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:07.339 This was yesterday, funnily enough. this article 00:31:07.339 --> 00:31:11.180 fucking every game now $70 Ubisoft game 17 years 00:31:11.180 --> 00:31:13.359 in development it's got a new update some this 00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:15.480 is from comicbook .com some games take years 00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:17.480 to make others stretch long enough to become 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:20.240 gaming legends discovered more for the development 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:22.660 limbo than any promised innovation Hollow Knight 00:31:22.660 --> 00:31:25.799 Silksong and Metroid Prime 4 Beyond are just 00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:27.599 two recent games that took off development with 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:29.420 little to no information from their respective 00:31:29.420 --> 00:31:33.640 studios Ubisoft has a similar project in 17 years. 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.559 Oh, fuck, I didn't realise that. After its initial 00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:39.759 reveal, Ubisoft's most persistent enigma has 00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:42.559 resurfaced once again. Not with a trailer, gameplay 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:44.079 demo or release date, but with something else. 00:31:44.180 --> 00:31:47.420 New job listings. Oh, that's beyond good and 00:31:47.420 --> 00:31:49.700 evil, too. That's got nothing to do with fucking... 00:31:49.700 --> 00:31:51.859 I remember seeing that trailer. That was mad, 00:31:52.059 --> 00:31:54.539 you know. That's nothing to do with fucking... 00:31:54.539 --> 00:31:58.180 with Skull and Bones, so that was just misleading, 00:31:58.740 --> 00:32:01.980 wasn't it? Let me ask Google a question. Can 00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:04.559 you get out of your boat and board other boats 00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:17.259 now on Skull & Bones? Yes or no? Leaving your 00:32:17.259 --> 00:32:19.319 ship in game, Skull & Bones players cannot leave 00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:21.240 their ship and explore on foot or in the open 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:24.880 sea or on most islands. So, yeah, no. I thought 00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:26.539 that was what they were... I thought that's what 00:32:26.539 --> 00:32:28.609 they did, but... That's what they were supposed 00:32:28.609 --> 00:32:31.569 to be then doing because it was such a bad reception. 00:32:32.809 --> 00:32:36.009 An awful reception. It was awful. It really was 00:32:36.009 --> 00:32:38.710 bad and it was consistently shit. So you had 00:32:38.710 --> 00:32:41.490 Starfield, then you had Scud and Bones. It's 00:32:41.490 --> 00:32:44.609 just so poor. This year's been good though. So 00:32:44.609 --> 00:32:47.890 we've pulled it back. We've pulled it back with 00:32:47.890 --> 00:32:50.769 some fucking corkers. Because last week we did 00:32:50.769 --> 00:32:54.519 our Game of the Year stuff, didn't we? And I'm 00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:56.640 very excited for many of them games. There was 00:32:56.640 --> 00:32:59.579 no quadruple games on the Game of the Year sections. 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.279 No. I apologise. I don't think there's been a 00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:05.779 quadruple game since. There never has been. They've 00:33:05.779 --> 00:33:07.480 made themselves a meme with that. That's what 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:09.920 people call it. Oh, is this a fucking... I guess 00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:14.200 GTA 6 would be a quadruple A game. Yeah, if there 00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:16.759 was ever one, that would be the only one. Yeah, 00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:20.059 that would be... We should go back to GTA fucking 00:33:20.059 --> 00:33:27.039 5. No, GTA 4 with Nico. Nico Bellic. Even the 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:30.039 fine details in that when you get under the hood 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:32.079 and fuck about with the nitty gritty, even some 00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:34.599 of the stuff in that is still much more than 00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:38.240 games now are doing. And that game is old as 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:41.839 balls. Even in Red Dead 2, man. You think that? 00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:44.960 The details in that is fucking astronomical. 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:49.539 And then people sit there and they go, why is 00:33:49.539 --> 00:33:52.839 GTA 6 delayed? blah blah blah but then the same 00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:54.900 people that were coming over the fact that there 00:33:54.900 --> 00:33:57.559 was bubbles in the beer in the trailer oh my 00:33:57.559 --> 00:34:04.619 god the drinks are carbonated shut up man fucks 00:34:04.619 --> 00:34:09.960 yeah it's not I don't know why we got onto that 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:12.260 conversation what the fuck were we talking about 00:34:12.260 --> 00:34:16.039 I was talking about Attack on Titan Yeah. Second 00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:17.880 Titan and Assassin's Creed Shadows. That's put 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:20.059 me off of getting it. I'd completely forgot that 00:34:20.059 --> 00:34:22.460 that game existed until the other day when I 00:34:22.460 --> 00:34:25.039 was like, fuck yeah. I fully forgot that that 00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:28.019 game was a thing. It just got completely overshadowed. 00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:34.219 Excuse the pun. By so many other games. Did that 00:34:34.219 --> 00:34:36.739 come out along the same time as Kingdom Come 00:34:36.739 --> 00:34:40.559 Deliverance 2? Quite possibly. I think it may 00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:44.409 have done. Yeah. I remember there being a time 00:34:44.409 --> 00:34:45.949 where there was loads of games that we were all 00:34:45.949 --> 00:34:47.630 getting different ones. You were getting Rise 00:34:47.630 --> 00:34:49.389 of the Ronin and I was getting something else. 00:34:49.610 --> 00:34:51.730 And neither of us ended up getting... Rise of 00:34:51.730 --> 00:34:54.090 the Ronin's another one. That's another one. 00:34:54.110 --> 00:34:56.510 That's good, though. I played the demo of that. 00:34:56.590 --> 00:34:58.630 I thought it was really good. And I think it's 00:34:58.630 --> 00:35:00.230 one of them... We spoke about it before. I think 00:35:00.230 --> 00:35:02.050 it's one of them games that now is received as... 00:35:02.050 --> 00:35:03.889 Oh, no, that's actually quite a good game. But 00:35:03.889 --> 00:35:06.829 it just came out at such a bad time. Yeah, Rise 00:35:06.829 --> 00:35:09.349 of the Ronin. I fully forgot. That's like a Souls 00:35:09.349 --> 00:35:12.739 -like open world samurai... Fucking game. It's 00:35:12.739 --> 00:35:15.360 pretty good, man. I was enjoying the demo. It's 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:16.800 on my wish list, so when it goes cheap enough, 00:35:16.860 --> 00:35:19.239 I'll snag it. It's 30 % on fucking Steam. That's 00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:23.139 not enough. I need it on PS5. Unless I get the 00:35:23.139 --> 00:35:26.159 Steam box. I need it on PS5 and even now. Yeah, 00:35:26.179 --> 00:35:28.079 mixed reviews still on... I fucking know, it's 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:31.860 only got 215 reviews, recent reviews on Steam, 00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:36.340 which by Steam standards is not a lot. Yeah, 00:35:36.360 --> 00:35:41.630 maybe. I probably won't. I'm... Games with combat 00:35:41.630 --> 00:35:43.809 like that, I'm just very switched off from it 00:35:43.809 --> 00:35:46.070 at the moment. That's why Where Winds Meet has 00:35:46.070 --> 00:35:47.909 been a game that I've actually deleted off my 00:35:47.909 --> 00:35:49.789 PlayStation now because I was thinking about 00:35:49.789 --> 00:35:52.610 it not long after last week and I was like, I'm 00:35:52.610 --> 00:35:54.909 just not going to play it. I just won't touch 00:35:54.909 --> 00:35:58.070 it. I can't be arsed for that style of combat 00:35:58.070 --> 00:36:02.190 at the moment. My brain isn't braining enough 00:36:02.190 --> 00:36:04.449 for that. I need to switch Outer Worlds 2 on, 00:36:04.550 --> 00:36:07.070 do a little bit of dialogue and then come off. 00:36:07.469 --> 00:36:09.989 Well, this is exactly why, funnily enough, I 00:36:09.989 --> 00:36:12.510 don't think I've played a PlayStation 5 game 00:36:12.510 --> 00:36:15.289 for more than 10 minutes for about three weeks, 00:36:15.469 --> 00:36:18.670 believe it or not. The most I can muster is an 00:36:18.670 --> 00:36:21.230 hour on the Steam Deck an evening. Gaming podcast. 00:36:21.869 --> 00:36:25.489 I'm just fucked. I'm so tired, bro. And I just 00:36:25.489 --> 00:36:27.210 get into that stage where now I just want to 00:36:27.210 --> 00:36:31.190 sit there, eat some Pringles and some Smarties 00:36:31.190 --> 00:36:35.110 and some chocolate. I literally... And some Haribo. 00:36:35.889 --> 00:36:38.369 Wednesday. And some biscuits. Wednesday. Yeah, 00:36:38.389 --> 00:36:41.710 no, I'm with you. And just watch some shit. Wednesday, 00:36:41.710 --> 00:36:45.969 I got home, went for a run, and then I was like, 00:36:46.130 --> 00:36:51.090 I was like, Steph's at work late. So I was like, 00:36:51.110 --> 00:36:55.670 I'll play Outer Worlds until the wee hours of 00:36:55.670 --> 00:36:58.030 the morning, until I need to go to bed at nine 00:36:58.030 --> 00:37:02.269 o 'clock. And all I did was sit there on the 00:37:02.269 --> 00:37:04.050 sofa. I'm pretty sure I sent you a fucking voice 00:37:04.050 --> 00:37:06.480 note. Where I was like, I could be gaming right 00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:08.800 now, and I'm thinking about gaming, and I'm excited 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:10.840 to do some gaming, but I'm going to sit here 00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:14.360 and watch telly instead. I'm just edging myself 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:16.579 about the idea that I can do some gaming right 00:37:16.579 --> 00:37:19.559 now, but I'm not going to. It was like when you 00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:21.400 were a kid and you got a new game, and you'd 00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:23.739 just sit there and get home and then not immediately 00:37:23.739 --> 00:37:27.239 play the game. Was you like that? No, I didn't. 00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:30.440 Maybe it's just me, man. Maybe it's me, because 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:33.000 I can think about it all day. I'm like that now. 00:37:33.059 --> 00:37:34.679 I'm so excited. I'm like that now. And then get 00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:38.199 home and go, nah, I'm still excited, but I'm 00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:40.159 going to do other things. The amount of games 00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:42.400 I've got on Steam now that I've never played, 00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:44.760 I've just bought them when they're cheap. I actually 00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:47.519 have played a new game this week, actually. Prince 00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:52.360 of Persia, the Steam Deck fucking side -scrolling 00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:53.980 one that you said you'd hate. Oh, yeah, yeah, 00:37:54.059 --> 00:37:57.590 yeah. Metroidvania, yeah, I've got that. I played 00:37:57.590 --> 00:38:00.110 it for about 20 minutes. They're remaking Sands 00:38:00.110 --> 00:38:02.289 of Time. Yeah, I know. That's going to be fucking 00:38:02.289 --> 00:38:04.510 sick. We've heard this. Your favourite game of 00:38:04.510 --> 00:38:07.849 all time? Hands down. Hands fucking down. I love 00:38:07.849 --> 00:38:11.210 it. Absolutely love it. Leave it there because 00:38:11.210 --> 00:38:14.869 I'm fucking tired. Fucking hell. Sorry, guys. 00:38:15.289 --> 00:38:18.949 I am tired too. It was about that. They got what 00:38:18.949 --> 00:38:22.730 they wanted. Yeah. Anything else? Any other news? 00:38:22.750 --> 00:38:25.340 I don't think there's any other news. Well, if 00:38:25.340 --> 00:38:26.619 there is any other news, we'll put it on the 00:38:26.619 --> 00:38:29.460 Patreon behind a paywall. Give them something 00:38:29.460 --> 00:38:31.400 to listen to for once. You've got to understand, 00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:33.280 we've just finished work, man, and I haven't 00:38:33.280 --> 00:38:35.860 had dinner. I've got to drive home yet. We've 00:38:35.860 --> 00:38:37.760 all just got in. We haven't pooed. We haven't 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:40.679 bathed. I have pooed. We haven't bathed or showered. 00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:44.119 We're just slugging it out just for you. It's 00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:45.980 a lot of effort. It's for you lot. We've been 00:38:45.980 --> 00:38:48.019 doing this for like three years now. Yeah, and 00:38:48.019 --> 00:38:50.159 we've got nothing from it. I'm fucking sick of 00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:53.559 it. Yeah, it's well inconvenient. This is the 00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:55.500 last ever episode. It is proper inconvenient, 00:38:55.699 --> 00:38:57.139 isn't it? Yeah, it is inconvenient. I don't enjoy 00:38:57.139 --> 00:38:58.820 this anymore. Yeah, fuck, it's the last ever 00:38:58.820 --> 00:39:00.639 episode. I don't get that bubbly feeling that 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:02.900 we got in the first week. No, let's sack it off. 00:39:03.019 --> 00:39:05.579 Three years on, I can't be arsed. Microsoft sniffing 00:39:05.579 --> 00:39:08.139 around us. If you're interested, hit us up. You 00:39:08.139 --> 00:39:12.679 can buy it. Yeah. See you later. Hooray. Hooray.