am I there you go that's the start welcome to
yeah fuck it well he didn't even sound check
no I know that's what scared me oh god no I can
see the little blips we're cool that's good enough
for me yeah are we cool yeah I'm cool yeah I
think we're cool sorry I'm used to I'm used to
John's deep Chinese voice he's very well spoken
well done John that was a great episode it was
a bit long I started nodding off but That was
mainly the subject matter of being World of Warcraft.
But it was nice to hear someone with actual brains
on the pod. Yeah. As opposed to us two. Well,
I wouldn't go as far as brains. He's just fucking
well -spoken. I did say to him, I said, Ash said
that you've got a posh voice. And he was like,
no, I don't. And I don't hear it personally.
But you'd hear him all the time, wouldn't you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the fucking time. It was,
funnily enough, I had a go at him yesterday because
he's got no patience. So he's a very, very calm,
lovely guy in person. Behind a screen, he is
a cunt. He is proper. He has zero, zero patience.
And we won't talk about WoW, but he was obviously
involved in that. Basically, the dungeon we were
doing, the tank was brand, brand, brand new.
I looked at their achievements and they had like
50 points, which is like one. So unless it was
just some random person on a fucking random account,
I don't know. to the untrained eye it's a brand
new account and obviously they didn't really
know what they were doing so rather than being
helpful John as the healer who was having to
basically pick up all the mess that the tank
was leaving what are you doing? have you never
played before? leave! just fucking flaming the
poor cunt And yeah, I had to explain to John
that he's got no gaming patience whatsoever because
he freaks out and kicks off constantly. You know,
people with really bad road rage, like instantaneous
road rage. Your phone. Yeah, that's fine. I wonder
why you went silent. No, check Bilbo the bonsai.
Still there? What the fuck? What do you mean,
check it? Check it. For what? It's gone. It's
just fucked up. No, no, no. To water it. It doesn't
look in great shape, mate. It's not doing great
because it's winter. It doesn't look great. It
looks like it's... No, I pruned it at the wrong
time. I pruned it just heading into winter because
it had a lot of growth on it. But I've over pruned
it. So I'm... Trust me, I've been down this rodeo
before. I've had this thing for like five years.
Four or five years. So I know... It may look
creepy. Poor Bilbo. No, think of it as a London
plane. Okay. It's just been pollarded. That's
what I've done. I mean, a lot of the leaves have
fallen off. It will come back. Trust me, we'll
be sitting here. Earmark this. What's the fucking
date? Earmark this for the 6th of February. You
come back here on the 6th of June. Or whatever
Friday is in June. That thing will be flourishing.
And if it's not there, I'll delete this bit.
It's not looking good, bruv. No. It's fine. It's
fine. Let it crack on. Let it crack on. Sorry.
Anyway, yeah. I don't know what I was talking
about. I was talking about John. I was disappointed
because I was listening and you were like, oh
yeah, the juicy stuff on the Patreon. You're
going to reveal all the group chat stuff and
then you never did. What? Talking about the group
chat and what goes on in the group chat or the
Discord, all the mad stuff that you put in there
that was like... Who was? You two. I don't remember
talking about that. Yeah, well, it was an hour
and fucking 45 minutes long. I don't remember
talking about that at all. We spoke about ghost
stories and shit like that. Oh, yeah, that was
it. Yeah, it was fucking... It got a bit dark
for me. Why? Oh, because it's just like, oh,
I saw a light flicker and I went, ooh, but fuck
off. Do you know what I mean? Oh, get a grip.
It was good. No. It was. It was. You're just
annoyed because you couldn't tell your fucking
story. I guarantee you've got a couple. I've
got one. Exactly. There you go. Well, what if
I went, no, I don't want to hear it. It's boring.
It is boring. That's why I ain't saying it. Well,
you're assuming that it's boring, but I bet it
ain't. Well, it's pretty sure. Leave that for
the patron. More ghost stories available. Fucking.
Ubisoft laid off all their people again. Prince
of Persia remake is dead in the water. Ashes
of Creation is also seemingly dead in the water.
Is that Ubisoft? No, no, no. I'm just talking
about just gaming industries losing all their
fucking people. Bit mad. But it's okay because
there's an Assassin's Creed crossover with The
Division. So that solved that problem at Ubisoft.
Yeah. Assassin's Creed skins in The Division
2. Woo! And then what is it I'm seeing about
they released an anniversary edition or something
of The Division 1 with all of the DLCs or was
it The Division 2? I can't remember which one.
And there's no upgrades to it whatsoever. It's
literally just the base game and all of the additional
content for the... for what seems like the same
price as if you were just to just buy it normally
anyway anyway that sounds great that sounds fabulous
what the fuck are they doing I said in the discord
because everyone was talking about Ubisoft I
wouldn't be surprised if in the next couple of
years they're gone oh I I fully agree that reminds
me before I forget did you know HBO Max are merging
with Netflix are they yeah that's cool that's
really cool I knew I'd forget that's why I jumped
in but it's gonna push the Netflix price up of
course it is but it's only I think it's only
like a quid or something but I think HBO don't
they do like Game of Thrones and fucking all
that shit I think that's worth it because there's
so much Last of Us was on there all the good
shit's on HBO yeah yeah no that's not bad I'm
just fucking sick of prices being ramped up I
know it's mad isn't it but yeah couple years
I reckon they're not here anymore Yeah, I had
that realisation yesterday. I was laying there
watching YouTube and I was just like, I've crossed
that threshold now where I definitely can't go
back to ads. Sorry, this is a completely different
conversation. I thought we were going to talk
about Ubisoft, but I forgot. You're talking about
subscription services and stuff. It just popped
in my head that I couldn't. Remember that autism
thing that we were talking about? Yeah, I told
you. Mate. You know, I've just come back from
physio. The geezer showed me a video on YouTube
of how to take my foot up. And an advert popped
up for 50 seconds. And I went, NHS don't pay
for fucking premium, no? And he was like, oh,
have you got it? I went, yeah. And he was like,
I've never used it. I said, I'm telling you.
I was like, 20 quid a month. I've got my whole
family on it. I was like, it's worth it all day
long. And he was like, oh, I'll have to look
into it. The amount of people that don't have
YouTube premium. Because it just feels dirty.
Of course it does. until you're doing it yeah
but then it's not very well advertised because
I don't think I didn't know that you got that
YouTube music app and shit as well so like that
changes everything well I think you get YouTube
music anyway but it's obviously a shitter version
without the premium yeah well I don't know can
you you won't be you'll be like Spotify you get
free Spotify but you can just shuffle shit you
can't actually like listen to albums I don't
understand the point of it are you using YouTube
music more than Spotify now no because I haven't
I got really excited one night and then just
liked loads of songs and then I need to remember
what other songs are missing from Spotify that
I wanted. Because I've never made a list because
I didn't think it was possible to get this technology.
So yeah, Ubisoft, eh? No, no, I want to talk
about YouTube now quickly. So how are you enjoying
the fucking ad -less? It's great. That's what
I'm saying. I don't think I could ever go back.
See what I mean? The other day... I just got
out of the bath or something. I walked in. Tommy
had YouTube on. And an advert popped up. And
I wasn't even looking. I was like, what the fuck
is that? I was like, what's happened? Give me
that control. Yeah. Ah, you've logged into the
wrong profile. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's get that
back on. Let's get back on premium. Yeah. We're
not paupers, son. Fuck that. We laugh at people
like that. We throw shit in buckets out window
at them people. We're premium members. Always
remember, Simba, we don't go to that dark area.
It's awful. It really is awful. Yeah, it is.
It's one of the few fucking subscriptions that
I'll firmly, firmly stand by. And it's a problem.
What's mad is that it's a problem that they created
as fucking themselves because they never used
to have adverts. Oh, yeah, they create the problem
and then sell the solution. Yeah. Business 101.
What's worse is that the cunts that when you
click on a website like a news bulletin or something,
any website, and then cookies pop up. I'm starting
to see now that if you want to ignore the cookies,
sometimes you have to pay for it. You have to
pay for the privilege to ignore. It's like £3
.99. It popped up. It was a gaming thing from
like The Guardian or some shit. It's always the
news outlets. Yeah, and it was like, if you want
to continue reading, pay £5 .99. No, Google it
somewhere else. Yeah, get fucked. They ain't
reading your article for a fiver. No chance.
Yeah. Yeah, no, it's good, that YouTube. I actually
listened. On the way here, I had a YouTube D
&D law thing going on in the background. But
I was just like, YouTube, click the hour -long
video, lock my phone, put it in my pocket. Woo!
It's great, isn't it? It's fucking great, mate.
It's fucking... It's game -changing. It's an
absolute game -changer. I think it's on par.
I think Amazon Prime's a good deal as well. It's
a good sub. Because you get the TV and you get
the next day delivery. And sometimes you get
more discounts as well. Yeah. I think that's
a good old deal. There's not many great subs
out there. I think Netflix is a bit of a con.
You just get the telly, didn't you? Do you know
what I mean? Yeah, I think Netflix used to be
decent when there weren't that many others knocking
around. It used to be fucking £5 .99 a month.
Now you're looking at like £17 and shit. It's
quite the price hike, isn't it? It's a bit stupid.
But yeah, Ubisoft, not good. Not good at all.
New game out today. I would buy it. I probably
will buy it. Fuck. It's called Nioh 3. Oh, yeah,
Nioh. Yeah, I've been playing a demo of it. It's
fucking 7 out of 10. Suck my balls. It's not.
That's Steam review. IGN 9 out of 10, 4 .5 review.
Amazing game. Yeah, it's good, man. It's really
fucking good. I love Nioh 1. I love Nioh 2. I
would never recommend someone like you play it
because it's just too hard and you get too frustrated.
I'm sorry. Yeah, but it's not like Elden Ring.
Elden Ring is a different beast. Annoyed and
frustrated like Remnant 2 that you didn't finish.
I got to the final boss. But I did. Yeah, but
the trouble... Shall we pause it? Is that Jay?
Yeah. Right. I don't know where we left. I don't
know what we were talking about. What were we
talking about? Neo, probably. Neo. Neo, Neo,
Neo. Yeah, it's too hard for you, I said. And
you said, no, it's not. All I do is see it as
a challenge, but I'm not interested in it whatsoever.
No, that's good, because you do it. But it's
still different now. They've changed the formula
a little bit. It's more like open -y, world -y,
but not. It's like open field, I think they're
calling it. So it keeps the little, the neo formula,
but it's, yeah, it's more open world now than
it's not. Is it a Souls -like? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was like one of the first iterations of Souls
-like. Oh, so I'd be sweet then. because you
haven't played any souls just played Elden Ring
exactly one of the hardest ones out there absolutely
fucking go play fucking Dark Souls 1 do you know
what it is right I think I've come to the conclusion
go on and I've nailed it and no one can tell
me any different because it's fact because I
know because I've done them all the difficulty
in games like Dark Souls 1 which is notoriously
hard. It's not the difficulty of it, because
it's hard, but I wouldn't say it's no harder
than Elden Ring. Yeah. The difficulty is every
time you die... You've got to run all the way
back. You have to run for like five minutes.
That's the... Because you're just like, I can't
be bothered to keep doing this. And isn't it
like when you're phasing through into a boss,
you can still be attacked while you're phasing
through? Yeah, you can still get hit. And also
like... You lose all your fucking potions because
you're trying to run past enemies all the time
as well to get to the fucking boss again. Whereas
in like Elden Ring, get the stakes of Mario or
whatever it is and you can just walk back into
the boss room. That's like, if that was in all
the hard games, it'd make it more fun because
the difficulty is not in the challenge. The difficulty
is in the monotonous of having to keep doing
the same thing over and over again. I remember
when we first started playing Elden Ring and
I remember you saying that. The stakes of Marica.
That's it. When you was like, fucking hell, we
never used to get this. We used to have a fucking
spawn right outside the boss. Because wasn't
it even Bloodborne didn't have that? No, no,
all of them haven't. That's the only one that's
ever had like a... I think the checkpoints have
gradually gotten closer and closer to the boss
room. Yeah. But having them literally pretty
much outside the boss gate is just a game changer.
It's like, I'm playing a lot of Hades 2 on the
Steam Deck. And I'm sure you're aware it's like
a roguelike, so you fight all the way to the
boss and blah, blah, blah. But the trouble is,
and it's great, and there's two sides to the
game, so I'm on the second half now. I've managed
to kill the fucking final boss on the first half
of the game fucking loads of times. But initially,
when you first get there, you get one crack at
it. And if you die, you're like, I've learned
nothing. I've got to fucking fight tooth and
nail for 40 minutes to try and get back. to that
boss to learn more about him. So it's like, the
fun is in the roguelike challenge in that respect.
But you're not, if I could just bang my head
against that boss over and over again, eventually
I'd get it down to a T. But saying that, Radan
was a cunt. So that's not strictly true. Both
times. Yeah, both times. But more so the second.
So yeah, I think the challenge is more. The monotonous
shit. Whereas I think Nioh is kind of leaned
towards... Well, something I've just said is
that it feels like the game wants you to win.
What does? Nioh 3. Oh, mate, it's fucking hard,
mate. The first boss in Nioh that I fought, I
got him down to like, you know, you can't see,
but the size of my penis health bar left. Yeah,
that's nice. Which is like a centimetre. Yeah,
it's decent. Yeah, I got him down to that and
I was like, sweet. And then I didn't even get
him a quarter of the way down for the next 10
attempts. I was like, how have I almost fluked
that? And now it's the hardest thing I've ever
dealt with. But then when I killed him, I got
that. Yes. Yeah. Because Neo's like, it's an
amalgamation of Elden Ring slash Soulslike plus
Diablo because it has all the difficulty. of
of a souls like game but it also has the random
loot of a diablo game so it's like a great yeah
great combination it sounds cool that's very
fucking good you'd love it if you played it but
i just i'm just not i'm not in the mindset no
no you have to be in the mood and also i'm not
really in the mood for it i'm just getting a
bit of fomo but i still need to finish divinity
and i'm on the final final section of that game
now so i uh so i have to push through with that
but Too addicted to the Steam Deck. What I do
is I put Steam Deck on to warm me up for the
PlayStation. Put that on, I have a couple of
runs of Hades, a couple of runs of Binding of
Isaac, a couple of runs of Nuclear Throne, and
then I go and play Divinity. But nine times out
of ten, I get so hooked on Hades, I just can't
turn it off. And I spend my entire night playing
that. It's fucking sick. So, yeah. I'm loving
how much I've put into the Steam Deck. I must
have put in fucking 200 hours in the last couple
of months, whereas I hadn't put that in its lifetime.
Steph's using my Steam Deck now. It's the best
thing ever, man. Do you hear the Steam machine
has been delayed? Oh, is it? Well, I read that.
I woke up to that article this morning, but it
was just a headline. I think they're umming and
ahhing about the price point and the RAM or something.
Yeah, because crypto and AI has fucked it all
up for everyone. So it's now parts of... way
way more expensive than they used to be um let's
have a look so this is direct from steam themselves
um before we die when will these be launching
When we announced these products in November,
we planned on being able to share specific pricing
and launch dates by now. This is directly from
Steam. But the memory and storage shortages you've
likely heard about across the industry have rapidly
increased since then. The limited availability
and growing prices of these critical components
mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule
and pricing, especially around Steam Machine
and Steam Frame. Our goal, once Steam Frame was
the VR... thing i swear there was i think that's
what it was um our goal of shipping all free
products in the first half of the year has not
changed but we have to work to do land on concrete
pricing and launch um dates that we can confidently
announce being mindful of how quickly the circumstances
around both of those things can change it's it's
a very because it's it's because of um ai because
of how much computing power it takes, and you
now have entire manufacturers who produce RAM
selling solely to people, to companies that develop
AI. I don't know. You're talking foreign to me.
I don't even know what RAM is. RAM's like a...
Let me get a fucking... RAM. I kind of know,
but I don't really know. Do you know what I mean?
I don't really understand. Here we go. RAM explained
for dummies. Perfect. Is your computer's, phone's,
or tablet's short -term memory. It acts as a
lightning -fast temporary workspace where the
processor, the CPU, stores data for active, immediate
tasks like running apps, browser tabs, or games.
More RAM allows for smoother multitasking, while
less RAM causes lag. It is volatile, meaning
everything is erased when the... device shuts
down which is basically the thing that makes
everything else run um so yeah the the the creating
ai uses a lot of computing power uses a lot of
ram um and because of that the prices of ram
is through the fucking roof i'm talking like
um i won't go into the specific types of ram
um so we'll just bundle it all together but you
would say let's say we'll pay 500 quid standard
for this this certain type of ram well it's now
1500 because of the demand. Much in the same
way as when the PS5 come out, they couldn't make
enough for the demand. So anyone who had a PS5
could sell it for fucking 900 quid. It's supply
and demand. It's the same as the Steam Deck.
When that first came out, no one could get one.
But the problem you've got now is that some companies,
like I said a minute ago, that make RAM, some
of them are only selling specifically to AI developers.
Therefore, they're taking themselves away from
the fucking consumer market of us peasants because
they know they're going to make more money selling
directly to the companies that make AI. Thus,
any other company that sells RAM to everyone
else, the price is going to fucking go up because
there's less of it. So, basically anything that
involves fucking games and visual. is going to
get more expensive because of AI. That's why
a lot of people in sort of our world really detest
it. Because number one, it makes people a lot
lazier. It's a helpful tool, but I fear in the
same way that Connor fears that a lot of people
are just switching their brains off because they
know they can just fucking ask AI to do most
of their shit for it. I just did that NEBOSH
exam. 100 % I could have done the entire thing
in AI if I wanted to and that's an exam with
a 40 % pass rate. People don't pass that easily.
It's my second time doing it. I know for a fact
that I can rewrite AI so that it doesn't come
up on a checker and that I could have just fucking
breezed through that but I didn't because what's
the point in me having the fucking qualification
if and when I get it? And that's the same thing
for a lot of people that use AI. You see it with
artwork, with fucking games themselves. People
kicking off saying they won't play a game because
it's got AI in it. Cutscenes, movies, fucking...
You know how many lore videos I've seen? 4Wow,
Star Wars, Warhammer. And then you see in the
description, AI created. And you go, right, it's
bollocks then. It's bollocks. This isn't real.
And then let alone the people that see videos
where they look so real and they're convinced
that it's real. Jay showed Jesus a video of someone
being knocked out and it looked so real until
the geezer just carried on floating off into
the sky but for a point Jesus was like oh my
god he's been proper battered no it's fake like
what you're watching is fake but that's the danger
though isn't it because you can show people real
stuff and they think it's AI that wouldn't happen
it's too far fetched the lions become very very
blurred but going back to gaming that's why That's
why you get shortages is why Steam's obviously
having to delay certain things and revisit the
price point. The difficulty of it is that everyone
talks about this AI bubble. So we're currently
in the bubble of how AI is and what it's doing
in terms of RAM prices. But a lot of people sit
there and say, well, that has to pop eventually.
Because in this day and age, most markets rely
on some form of computer. It's a big, big part
of our world. So if you fuck with that, at some
point, it's got to break down and crumble and
then reset. So people say that this bubble that
we're in will eventually pop and then reset itself
and go back to normal. So the difficulty I'd
imagine that Steam have is if they turn around
and they go, all right, well, the Steam machine
was going to cost 900 quid, but because of what's
going on, it's now going to cost 1 ,200 quid.
They then start selling it at that and then RAM
prices plummet back to what they used to be.
you'll then have to drop the price. Say you then
drop it back down to its original. Well, every
other fucker who bought one off the bat is going
to sit there and go, hold on, which is exactly
what I did when I bought the Steam Deck and then
they put it on fucking sale. I bought it from
Steam and then they put it on sale and I messaged
them and said, well, I've just bought this and
now you put it on sale. Can I have the fucking
difference? And they told me to fuck off. It
doesn't sound like Steam. They're getting sued,
aren't they? Are they? They got a lawsuit against
them for, would you believe it, unfair prices.
What? Yeah. Absolutely outrageous. What? They've
got the fairest prices in the market. They're
the best. They're the benchmark. Against Valve.
Yeah, here we go. No, I don't want to sign into
that. Valve Corporation will face a £656 million
lawsuit in the UK over alleged unfair prices
on its global online store following a tribunal
ruling that the case could continue. The gaming
giant is being accused of abusing its market
dominance by imposing... restrictive terms on
the game publishers and locking players into
using steam the world's largest distribution
platform for pc gaming the legal action was brought
by digital rights campaigner vicky shotbolt in
2024 on behalf of up to 14 million steam users
across the uk who could be in line for compensation
if she wins what the lawsuit alleges Valve forces
game publishers to sign up to conditions which
prevents them from selling their titles earlier
or for less on rival platforms. So like GOG and
Origin. Rivals. Not really. Not really. It's
not really, is it? Sainsbury's Rivals is Londis.
It claims that as Valve requires users to buy
all additional content through Steam, If they've
bought the initial game through the platform,
it is essentially locking in users to continue
making purchases there. Well, yeah, because it's
a launcher. It's their launcher. They're basically,
everyone, every single person I've seen comment
on this has basically just said, well, Steam
will not lose this. No. Because Steam is probably
the only company that I can think of, especially
in the gaming industry, where people that use
it are actually like, no, they're good. Like,
everyone else will moan about Sony and fucking
Microsoft and that, but everyone's like, no,
Steam's good. Steam does good prices, fucking
great sales, never really have any issues with
it. Fantastic customer service, apart from your
thing, but, you know, whatever. Yeah, but that's
just fucking greedy for me. Fucking, you know,
sending out free chargers and replacing Steam
decks for free and all sorts of shit. Like, Steam
are the best. But it... Obviously, little research
has been done, but... Is it not the same circumstance
with other launchers that if you buy a game on
another launcher that you can't fucking buy DLC?
You wouldn't be able to go on to, say, GOG, buy
Elder Scrolls. Well, Elder Scrolls Online is
different because it's a fucking account base.
But let's say Borderlands 4 on GOG and then buy
DLC for it on Steam and then download it on GOG.
You wouldn't be able to do that, I assume. No,
of course you can't. So it's the same. what the
people that are whinging are the same people
that just what pick the platform you want to
play on and play it on there how far do you go
i've bought this ps5 game but i can't play it
on my xbox one or my xbox s x i'm locked into
the sony ecosystem damn it well yeah don't get
me wrong in in some instances like with elden
ring for example I have a shitload of stuff on
the PlayStation version. I have a shitload of
stuff on the PC version. It would be lovely if
I could just merge the two and then either pick
whether I play it on PlayStation or I play it
on PC. That would be great. But I understand
it at the same time because they're not the same
server. But I don't... How many people are pissed
off with having to play games through Steam?
Mate, the amount of games I've bought twice.
Because I've got it on PlayStation, but I think,
oh, this is great for Steam Deck. Do you know
what I mean? I bought Divinity 2 again on Steam
Deck. Not that I need it, but because it came
in a bundle with Divinity 1, it was only a couple
of quid more. I was like, fuck it. I'm going
to play Divinity 1 on Steam Deck, so I'll...
I'll buy the bundle because I might want to play
Div 2 again and I'll play it on the Steam Deck.
Yeah. Fucking hell, man. People need to get a
grip. According to VG Insights, over 19 ,000
games were released on the platform in 2025 alone,
generating a revenue of £8 .6 billion. The company
has also branched out into creating its own hardware
such as the Steam Deck in 2022, a portable handheld
gaming computer, blah, blah, blah. Valve recently
announced... It was also releasing a new console
rival to Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation in the
Steam machine designed to allow gamers to play
PC games on their TV. I don't really know what
the purpose of that lawsuit is. has enabled Steam
to charge an excessive commission of up to 30%,
making UK consumers pay too much for purchasing
PC games and add -on content. What? Have you
seen the Sony store? Actually, no, scratch that.
Have you seen the Nintendo store? Oh, that's
the worst. That is the worst, and there's no
fucking depreciation on that store whatsoever.
It's shit. How are you going to sit there and
say excessive commission? Of up to 30%. What?
Steam's always the place I go to where it's the
cheapest. Exactly. I get excited for Steam sales.
I go on Steam on my phone, look through it and
be like, I'm probably never going to play any
of these, but they're like 68p. Yeah. So I'm
going to buy like 20 quids worth of games. Gem
got me fucking vouchers for Christmas, 60 quid
worth of Steam vouchers. I got 18 games. For
60 quid. 18 games. I don't understand where...
Here we go. What could happen if Valve, if they
lose? Valve suspend service in the UK. Prices
go up if they lose their 30 % cut. They should
turn the tap off. um all their sales valve lost
eat the cost and keep on trucking and then someone
said i dare any other company to just make a
comprehensive game launcher take a five to ten
percent cut and try to compete as a consumer
i want that but no one is i think um I think
Valve has a solid case and likely will win. And
as a Brit, I'm a tad embarrassed it's coming
from us, especially at a time where so many people
I've spoken to are leaving PlayStation and Xbox
behind for PC gaming due to the silliness of
those companies. My biggest fear, and I got it
from a comment, was people saying, well, the
easiest thing, if they wanted to shut it all
down, would just be like, well, Steam's not available
in the UK. Yeah, that's what the first one says.
Valve suspends service in the UK. Cheers. But
at the same time, from what I just read in that
previous article, they make close to £9 billion
a year, or last year, from just us alone. Nerds.
Fucking shitload of money. We're such a small
island. What a bunch of losers. And we've spent
billions on this service that we hate so much.
Oh, fuck the government. We've got no food or
heating. But we've got games. Who's ringing me?
Why is he... Look, Jamie, I know... Hey, no,
no, no. This is my time. No, look, I know you're
about... You know, you're about... don't let
him know I'm here see what he says he's gonna
interrupt my podcast don't let him know I'm here
I'm gonna have to pause it again this fucking
I'm gonna make him pay for the patron because
of this this is the last time that is the last
time that I'm pausing this podcast it ain't happening
again and I already know that we're gonna have
to wrap it up eventually before Steph comes home
and the dogs go fucking mental because she's
probably on her way home yeah I'm not part of
that group of people in the UK that are complaining
about fucking Steam. Good. And I don't really
buy a whole lot for Steam. I do. But that's fucking
it. I'm a Steam whore. Oh, that reminds me. Go
on. There's a game coming out. Crimson Desert?
Oh, no, not that. Fucking robot shit. Piss me
off. Ruined it for me, that did. And it looks
so good. And then they're like, by the way, here's
some cyborgs. It's ridiculous. I don't understand
what you find ridiculous about it. Because it
doesn't make any sense. I need to be immersed.
I'm not immersed in that if I'm like doing that
and then all of a sudden I'm in some fucking
submarine. This is ridiculous. There's a game
coming out on Tuesday called Mugenics. Mugenics?
Yeah. M -E -W -G -E -N -I -C -S. Mugenics. I've
been very excited for this for very long. It's
basically... It looks like Cult of the Lamb.
Yeah, no, but it ain't. So it's like The Binding
of Isaac, which I've had thousands and thousands
and thousands of hours in over PlayStation, PC,
Steam, my proudest Platinum. It's basically their
next game. Mugenics is a roguelike meowster piece.
Only Edmund and Tyler are capable of taking a
concept as offensive as watching cats bang and
turning it into a polished, deep and endlessly
replayable indie game hit. While the game's striking
Flash -era visual style might be a bit grating
to a younger audience, those alive for the internet's
golden era will appreciate the nostalgia in this
game's presentation. So it sounds like it's hitting
its demographic perfectly, if you're fucking
interested. Old cunts. So if you can stomach
the rotten humour throughout Mugenics, prepare
to feast on a feline smorgasbord that will leave
you feeling bloated and satisfied for months
to come. Yeah, so it's like a turn -based...
It's like Baldur's Gate, but with cats. But with
cats, fuck it. Yeah, that's the only problem
is I don't like cats. Yeah. But then I suppose
it don't really matter. Well, yeah, you're playing
a game. You're not fucking owning the cat, are
you? Yeah. But it's cool because you get cats
and then they can shag and then they get like
baby cats and then they get like different perks
and then you can send them out to battle. It's
a cool looking game. It sounds so like Pokemon.
Basically, yeah. But with cats. Basically, it
doesn't matter what it is. It's the man that
made Bind of Isaac, so it doesn't fucking matter.
So yeah, there's a lot of people excited for
that, including me. I'm seeing that people don't
have high expectations for Crimson Desert. Yeah,
well, it's because it looks too good to be true,
doesn't it? I just can't shake my gut feeling
on this one. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I just
think I'll be disappointed. Crimson Desert promises
the world, but how much will it deliver? That's
what worries me. But I think Resident Evil Requiem
is out soon as well, isn't it? I keep seeing
shit for that. That looks pretty fucking good,
but I'm scared. I know, I know. Maybe we should
force ourselves eventually to... Well, that's
a ping. A ping, a thing. I've played a lot of
scary games, man. I've played Resident Evil 7,
I've played Resident Evil 6, I've played Resident
Evil 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Manus has sent me a list
of games that he's aiming to get finished. Who
is? Mark, started and finished this year. Bald.
He is bald. I'm also bald. Assassin's Creed Shadows.
Shit. Resident Evil 3. Resident Evil 4. Sick.
Metro Exodus. Good. Black Myth Wukong. Amazing.
Which he's near the end, but for some reason
hasn't finished. The best goated game. Little
Nightmares 2, which is sick. Not played. Really,
you should put... I mean, he needs to play the
first Little Nightmares and then Little Nightmares
2. And then, to be fair, Mark, because you're
listening, Little Nightmares 3. uh came out a
couple months ago and that is more co -op than
single player so it's better to play with someone
so could probably play that with taylor i'd quite
like to play with steph to be fair rise of the
tomb raider shadow of the tomb raider bioshock
bioshock 2 dead space horizon zero dawn and undisputed
it's undisputed a boxing game that was one of
the free to play free games from playstation
but he's into boxing isn't he so there's a nice
there's a nice mixture that is a nice mixture
um i'm not so sure on the assassin's creed shadows
there's not one that i would like to jump into
you know i mean i don't really fancy that one
same as i tried metro exodus boy i tried i just
can't It's another one, man. As you get older,
you have to be in the mood for games. I'm only
in the mood for games when I'm in the mood for
them. I think that's what it was. If I were to
try and play and finish Bloodborne, I couldn't
finish this podcast and then just go switch it
on because I'm in the mood for gaming. I feel
like, yeah, you have to be. I have to want to
hate myself to play games like that and I feel
like the setting of Metro Exodus is the same.
It's miserable. Yeah, it's like I need to want
to be miserable for entertainment purposes rather
than actually be miserable. So I think maybe
that's just where I've gone wrong. I'm hoping
that something like Metro is the same shit that
I had with Days Gone where I've tried and tried
and tried and I don't like it and then eventually
it clicks and I'm like, this is the best fucking
thing ever. Now I see what everyone's on about.
fair I only got to the second biome on Metro
Exodus and then I give up because it was brutally
fucking dark and just it was a it was a grind
wasn't it and I'm just like once again it's one
of them I'm just not in the mood for it ironically
though and interestingly enough that was a weird
experience because for some reason I got Metro
Exodus and it just let me randomly download the
season pass fair enough for free And I remember
it being a bug. And everyone was like, I've got
a season pass. And they were like, yeah, whoopsie.
That was a mistake. You know, those that have
got it can keep it. But wasn't that sweet? Coolio.
Coolio. Never finished it. You all right? Got
itchy nose, man. Sound like a fucking drug addict.
Haven't seen the Steam Deck in the office. No,
and you won't. No? No, because it's precious.
It's portability. It's not going to get battered
in there. Well, I don't know. Well, maybe not.
It's portability into... When am I going to play
it? I don't take breaks. Yeah, no, to be fair,
I agree. Plus, I feel like that would be taken.
Even though you're on a break, there's something
about pulling out a Steam Deck and going, what
the fuck are you doing? Yeah, but there shouldn't
be though, should there? I've read a couple of
times, but for like five minutes, I'm like, no
one else is reading. I read it. When I was up
there last week, I started reading my book and
everyone around me took the piss. They were like,
are you fucking reading? I went, yeah. And they
were like, I'm on my break, I'm having a read.
And they were like, they're so gay. I'm fucking
reading. I love reading, man. I'm reading a book.
Reading's goated. I'm enjoying it, man. I'm into
it. Any other sort of gaming? I'm trying to think
of anything that we've missed because obviously
it's been a week or two since she was last on
the pod. Me and Steph are still cracking on through
Uncharted. She's playing Palia a lot at the moment
and actually downloaded it on the Steam Deck
now. What the fuck's Palia? It's... How do I
describe Palia? It's free to play. Sort of like
a survival -esque... It's one of them. I can
see it already. I know exactly what game it is
from that picture. I already know exactly what
you're going to say, but it's not what the picture
makes it look like. You're going to say that
that's like Zelda. No, I'm going to say it's
like Genshin Impact. Genshin Impact. It's not.
it's not at all um there's actually like basically
no combat in it other than hunting so it's not
it's not i mean it's not my cup of tea but it's
a very very very popular game i mean it's free
um and she's playing that a lot so it's a cozy
game yeah she actually said she was like um play
uncharted without me if you want to to get through
it i said no this is a trial that we must get
through together because I want us both to experience
the story. And yeah, the first one was fucking
great. Second one's very much the same. I don't
think I ever played the third one. What? I know.
So I'm excited to get through to that. And then...
Which one's the one we climbed up the train?
That's the second one. That's sick. It's Uncharted
2, yeah. Yeah, it's cool. Which is exactly what
I remember. I knew that I'd never played Uncharted
1. And I didn't... obviously didn't know any
of it but uncharted 2 i did play um and yeah
there's a lot of stuff even though it was so
long ago when i played it where i'm like oh yeah
i know this happened and i know and yeah i remembered
the the train was the main thing that stuck with
me um because i think at that time when it first
come out and you start playing it you know when
you have that sort of like where you think everything
looks mega mega crisp and perfect and this game
feels amazing where in like By today's standards,
yeah, it feels a bit janky. Like some of the
climbing can be a bit fucking annoying and blah,
blah, blah. And yeah, it's just a fun game. Plus,
they're only like 10 hours long. Yes, that does
help. Yeah, fuck it, we're done. That's sweet.
It's Patreon time. See you later. All right.