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It's a perfect Friday on... It's nearly March.

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Nearly March. The fucking year is disappeared.

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We're nearly into the third month of this year.

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I know. That was weird. Sorry, it's WhatsApp.

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Go on. Yeah, we are. What was you about to show

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me? You were about to show me a photo. Oh, yeah.

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You went, have you seen this? This is official

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image of... The new God of War. Hmm. Hmm. What?

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Is that fucking... Is that... Well, you know

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who it is. They've announced who it is, but...

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Floki the Bud Builder. No, it's not him. It looks

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like him, though, doesn't it? It does. It's Thingamabob,

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isn't it? Who? Geyser out of Sons of Anarchy.

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Opie. Oh, it is. Oh, it is. Yeah. Oh, that's

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the series. That really threw me because I thought

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that was a game announcement. I was like, why

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is Atreus so fucking young? That is going to

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look really cool. He plays a good Kratos by the

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look of him. You don't like that? You don't think

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he's muscly enough? You're just putting thoughts

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in my head now. I just looked at it and was taken

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back because I thought, oh, that's not real.

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It's real. Game wards have tweeted it out. IGN

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have put it and said, Brian's video is God of

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War first look. So it must be real. I'm interested

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to hear the voice. Yeah, it's hard to get a...

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You can't really make a judgment on one still

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image. You need to see him in fluid movement.

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Is he just walking slowly or is he jogging through

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the woods? How is he going to play that character?

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Especially in that time period as well. That

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section of Kratos' life is a very, very weathered,

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weathered god. And, yeah. It's kind of like you,

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really. He's just done. He's just done. He's

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just mentally checked out. He can still crack

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it out, but just done. It's fair enough. Yeah,

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I'm looking forward to that. I suppose there's

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not a date or anything, is there? I don't think

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so. No. That will probably lead quite a nice

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segue into the next thing that I would like to

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talk about because obviously it's been two weeks

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and I would like to get your thoughts, please,

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because I'm sure we'll have different viewpoints

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or maybe even the same, which might be interesting,

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on God of War, Sons of Sparta. So I played it

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for about an hour. Yeah. I haven't played it

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since. That's not because I didn't like it. You

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play Saturn because you're forcing yourself to.

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I just wasn't in the mood. I was tired. Couldn't

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be bothered. I had no interest in gaming, but

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I felt like I had to play it. So I forced myself

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to play it, and I was just clicking buttons and

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shit. But it's all right. It's one of them games

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where it's going to start off shit, because they

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always do. That's how Metroidvanias play. They

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start off shit, and then they get really good

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because you get all new abilities and weapons.

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All sorts of crazy shit. I'm assuming that's

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going to be the case with that. But I just haven't

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got round back to playing it, to be honest with

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you. Yeah. But I know you... I tried to refund

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it the same day I fucking played it. I put about

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an hour, an hour and a half into it. And to be

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fair, it felt exactly the same way as you. I

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felt like I was playing it because I had to play

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it because it was God of War. And then I realised...

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just before I switched it off, which was the

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reason why I switched it off, I was like, I'm

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not interested in anything that's going on here.

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I was like, I know what's happening so far, but

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I was like, I am not into it. I was like, I'm

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so bored. And I don't think that's a reflection

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on the game itself. I think it's just, number

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one, I don't know, Metroidvania is just not for

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me. Not for me. And then number two, yeah, just

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the mindset of it. Because I feel like it was

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so... Like, unexpected. You go, ah, he's got

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a War Thunder's bar. It's in Metroidvania. See

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you later. And everyone was like, oh, what? So

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buy it and then, yeah. Yeah, it's not like Steam,

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man, because I played an hour and a half and

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they refused to refund me. Well, you clicked

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that download button, didn't you? I know. Well,

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no, it starts downloading fucking automatically

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for me. But yeah, it is what it is. You know

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what I mean? Chalk it off as a lost. Fucking

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just pull the 35 quid out of the patron. It's

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only score, isn't it? No, I'm pretty sure it

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was... No, it was. 25. Was it 25? I think it

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was 25 then. At least, yeah, at least 25. Yeah.

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Fuck it. Here's what it is. Are you going to

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Google it? I have to. I swear it was 25 quid.

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You might be right. I'm just going to have a

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little look. I feel like they want that little

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extra fiver on top to smooth it out. I wonder,

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because obviously I know you'll end up playing

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it properly. I'm going to look at how long it

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takes. Well, no, I've seen a lot of people put

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a lot of hours into it. A surprising amount.

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Thank you for your purchase. It was, you were

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right, £24 .99. £24 .99? £4 .17 tax. There we

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go. Okay. Yeah, because I know it had some controversy,

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didn't it? Because the mode to be able to play

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it online, split screen, co -op, was locked behind.

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You had to finish the game first. Why are you

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frowning? No, I'm listening. You've not heard

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that? No. So to play it co -op. you had to finish

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the game and then it unlocked the mode that allowed

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you to play a co -op. Fucking shit, innit? That's

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exactly what everyone said. So everyone kicked

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off about it and then they've reverted it and

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now you can play it with your mate. from the

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get -go. Makes zero sense. Makes no sense. Who

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decided that? Makes no sense, because I saw someone

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say, and it was a very good point, they were

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like, I wanted to play this with my wife. I was

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like, now I have to complete the game on my own

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to then play the game again immediately after

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with my wife. It was like, it's not going to

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have the same effect as if I'm playing it for

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the first time. Takes away all the fun moments,

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doesn't it? Of course it does, because you already

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know what's going to happen. Finger me. That's

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a very, very stupid thing to do, but they reverted

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it. But whoever's idea it was, whoever sat in

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a boardroom and thought, let's make people play

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it first, and then they can play it again with

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their mate, needs a bullet in the head. That's

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just so dumb. It's such a dumb thing to do. But

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there you go. You got Crimson Desert. I'm actually

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really, really aroused for that now. I knew you

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would be. And I watched an hour -long video of

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someone saying how much this game is saying they're

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going to put out and whether or not they'll be

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able to keep up with it. But then they also made

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a cool contrast of it's not a GTA 6 in that it

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doesn't have the same... you must be this good.

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Like with GTA 6, every single person in the world

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that is interested in that game has an expectation

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from Rockstar and it is perfection. You either

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give me perfect or you fuck off. That's just

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expected because of previous games. Whereas Crimson

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Desert, obviously you've got Black Desert Online,

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which is a massive MMO, but also monetary wise,

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a bit of a pay to win. But they don't have the

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same standard as, the likes of GTA 6 but there's

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just so much shit you can do in that game by

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the looks of it so much shit and that mech suit

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that you hated apparently you don't even use

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it for like it's only for specific aspects of

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the game you're not using it all the time that's

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what aroused me about it I thought it was just

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going to be constantly jumping in and out of

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that and I was like this just doesn't make sense

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so I'm just going to ignore it entirely if I

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can as long as I haven't got enemies fighting

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me and shit like that it's not going to put me

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off yeah I'm pretty sure Yeah, from what they

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said. Even if they made it more like, I don't

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know, a bit steampunk or something. It's fucking

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bright blue like it came out of Cyberpunk. It's

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stupid. Yeah, and I think you can change the

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colour of it. Same with the mechanical dragon.

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I think you can ride real dragons as well. Yeah,

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you can, yeah. You can have a dragon mount that

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you can ride. Yeah, cool. Whenever you want.

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The Battle Robot is a pilotable late -game mechanical

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mount engineered by dwarves that allows for high

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-destruction combat. It features a machine gun,

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lock -on missiles, jump jets, and an EMP blast,

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functioning similarly to the rideable dragon

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as a powerful, limited -time tool for traversal

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and combat. I think that's what it was. It's

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like a super ability. Yeah, it's very limited,

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but it's not a super ability that you're allowed

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to pull out whenever you want. I think that's

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what they said. They were like, you're not going

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to be able to use this whenever you want. It's

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for very specific aspects of the game, which,

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fair enough, because if there was anything that

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I was going to pull out of that game, I like

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the mech, but I don't think the mech fits in.

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Do you not think it's stupid, though? You know

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the bit that I don't like about the game? From

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everything that I've seen... And you will probably

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not agree, I don't like the fucking glide mechanic

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they have, where you turn into that weird black

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cloud. I like that. I don't like it. You look

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like a raven. Yeah, for me, I think that doesn't

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suit, but I don't know the law of the game. But

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it suits more than a bright blue mech, surely.

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I don't know, though, because, yeah, the bright

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blue, yeah, make it rust colour or gold or silver

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or something like that. Make it look like the

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dwarves built it underground. But you can. Out

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of pipes and shit. But you can. I think the blue

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is just where they... It's still got machine

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guns on it. Well, yeah. But you've got a big

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mechanical dragon flying around. Yeah, drop me

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out of that as well. Give me the real dragon.

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I don't need any mechanical shit. You know, you've

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got fucking people carrying buckets around and

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milking cows and farming. And then here we go.

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It's just like Pokemon with guns. It's a very

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weird... Oh, it's Pokemon Day, by the way, as

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well. Pokemon's 30th anniversary. Anyway, I think

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I just don't know what you're supposed to be

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doing. No, to be honest, I've watched a few clips

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of it. I haven't watched too much of it because

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I just want to just go in and play it. I don't

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want to know all the mechanics. I just want to

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go in and see what it does. It just looks good.

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It looks like it's got Game of Thrones art. It

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feels very Game of Thrones -y. And I'm into Game

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of Thrones at the moment. I think the video that

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I watched, for the life of me, I cannot remember

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who it was. But they were obviously paid to do

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this video because they didn't say a single negative

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thing about any of it. They were just fucking

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choking on the cock of Crimson Desert. It's amazing.

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even things like saying how this is the best

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-looking game that's ever been made. I was like,

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well, that's wrong for a start. I can see with

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my own eyes that it's great. Visually, it looks

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fantastic, but let's not be calling it the goat

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of fucking visuals. They were just saying all

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manner of positive things, which not everything's

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perfect. There's going to be some things wrong

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with it, and it really bothers me that we...

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the thing that me and Mark spoke about with them

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saying that there's going to be no microtransactions

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on launch. Oh, God. Because that was it. It was

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when Mark come round for the pod, me and him

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watched this video. And then I was like, good,

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now we can fucking talk about it. And yeah, the

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geezer that did the video actually interviewed

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the... the creative director the director someone

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that was at the fucking pinnacle of the creation

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of crimson desert and there was like a panel

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on this podcast and they were asking those questions

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and then obviously they've said that this is

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a 70 quid game whatever you buy the game You

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own the game, you play the game. That's it. There

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is nothing else. So obviously, as a result of

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that, they've run away with that. Oh, they've

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said there's no microtransactions, there'll be

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no shop, blah, blah, blah. And then once it was

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posted, the same person they'd interviewed went

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on to X and said underneath this, I said at launch.

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You think, right, well, launch is only one fucking

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day. So what, day two you're going to release

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the shop, a month later? But then... Are they

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not Japanese or Chinese developers? And a lot

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of this stuff gets lost in translation, so they

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very well could mean... No, this was an English...

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Not English, but this was an American. This wasn't

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an Asian person. Even then, that could very well

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just mean in terms of expansions, which is a

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different microtransaction. Yeah, Pearl Abyss

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is the... Is that a macro transaction? Pearl

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Abyss is the developer and the publisher of it.

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Yeah, Black Desert Online. um black desert mobile

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that's what they've made um doki v no i know

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i dear but obviously black desert online is very

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pay to win i've heard so that's the that's the

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difficult one is when you've already got a model

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like that and crimson desert is Not very similar

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to Black Desert, but obviously there's heavy,

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heavy inspiration there. There's a lot of eyes

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on it, which means a lot of wallets. There is

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a lot of eyes on it. But this is a fully offline

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game. Yes, that's what I mean. So in terms of

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microtransactions, other than cosmetics, I don't

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really see how you're going to be able to really

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fuck that up. The thing is, microtransactions

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are just like... I feel like I'm so in the middle

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with them because some of them I just think,

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whatever. And then say if they want to put loads

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of cosmetics in that game, who cares? Yeah. Unless

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they're like, buy this to get five plus speed

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or something. Unless adding things like that

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is shit. But if it's just like clothes, who cares?

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If people want to buy it, they buy it. If they

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don't, they don't. No one's forcing you. It doesn't

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change the game. It's solely to make your experience.

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more tailored to you if you want these things

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but yeah I don't know man I think people cry

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about microtransactions a lot when in reality

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they don't really matter too too much like Dragon's

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Dogma they got dragged over the coals for having

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them fucking them port crystals and stuff in

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there but you get abundance of them like if you're

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buying them you're a sucker the only time you

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would ever buy them is if you've just booted

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up the game and gone oh I'll buy loads of these

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you don't fucking need to buy them they're for

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people that have got Like, far too much money

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and just want, yeah, I'm just going to buy 1

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,000 of them. That's me sorted. But fine, let

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them. That'll fund the next game. I don't care.

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It's a whale, isn't it? Let them do what they

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want to do. But like you say, when they have

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microtransactions in that change the game, then

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that's different gravy. And I'm fine with expansions.

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Like, bring them on, all games. I love expansions.

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Yeah, expansions deals, yeah. Never, never. I

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mean, I'm in the same category as you in... As

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long as it doesn't provide a combat effect. But

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even then, in a single player game that's offline,

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who gives a fuck? Again, talking to Mark, him

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playing Resident Evil, you can buy a pack that

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gives you an unlimited rocket launcher and that's

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how he's platinum the fucking game because you've

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got to do multiple playthroughs. It's like two

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quid. That's funny. You know what I mean? That

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completely breaks the game. However... It's not

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harming anyone. Who gives a fuck? If that was

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then, I don't know, if that was Outlast Trials

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or Dead by Daylight and now I'm running around

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as a killer with a fucking rocket launcher, yeah,

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we've got a problem because it's not fair. Yeah,

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well, you've paid to win and that's the problem.

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Paid to win is shit, but anything else, whatever,

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man, who cares? I feel like that kind of stuff

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in an offline game is no different to old school

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games when you'd get cheats. when you could manually

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input the cheats or like Ratchet and Clank when

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it would have the cheats in the settings and

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you could unlock them doing certain things and

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then you can play the game however you want and

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most of the time like unlimited health or unlimited

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ammo you go right well I've ruined the game that's

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fun for five minutes but you've ruined your game

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you know what I mean you haven't you haven't

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fucked anything else up I feel like there is

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a line though like Assassin's Creed they started

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adding like XP boosters and shit like that once

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again I know it's a single -player game, but

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then it really felt like they'd really made the

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levelling up so slow. Yeah, to force you. To

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make you go, oh, I could just buy that. That's

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the difference. But even though it's a single

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-player game, you're just like, you've deliberately

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made a problem and selling me the solution. Yeah,

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you want to put cosmetics in, that's sweet. You

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crack on, but yeah, don't force me into, oh,

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look. This boss is too hard. And conveniently,

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there's a deal on the shop at the moment for

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fucking 95 % off on your first purchase. And

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you go, all right, yeah, of course there is.

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This deal is for the people that work full -time

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jobs. So 99 % of people then that have been able

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to pay you off a £70 game. Yeah, them tired people

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that get home and don't want to grind out because

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you've made the levelling so slow. Yeah, those

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kinds of people. That's a curated thing that

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they've made. That's not a... That's not a friendly

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microtransaction. There's a difference. I've

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always wondered, especially now that we talk

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about it, if there's any law surrounding that.

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Obviously, there's certain laws when it comes

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to gambling and stuff, where things like loot

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boxes... And stuff like that can be banned because

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they're seen as a version of gambling, which

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essentially they are. I mean, fucking opening

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Pokemon packs is a version of gambling, especially

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if you're looking to trade and sell. And I've

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always wondered if... For what we've just said,

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if there's any sort of restriction around that,

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because realistically, in a single -player game

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or even an online game, you can restrict to whatever

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the fuck you want. The ultimate downfall of it

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is that people refuse to play your game anymore,

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so you lose your player base. Thus, no point

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in having the game. But is it illegal? Is that

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an illegal thing to do? Like you just said, let

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me bring in a load of XP boosters and then completely

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obliterate the XP gain without those boosters.

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It feels legal. It feels like it should be. It

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feels like it should be, but isn't. I feel like

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that isn't an illegal thing. EA have been arrested

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over. I feel like that. Well, that's why they

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got forced to do the pack probabilities on FIFA

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and that, wasn't it? Because it was just like,

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they're so heavily weighted. into the negative

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is that why that's done yeah yeah they had to

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they never used to because a lot of gacha games

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do that now as well the destiny um rising does

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that i think i think they all have to do it because

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you're not you're not telling people the chance

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to win so people haven't actually got a percentage

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there's no percentile chance you're just throwing

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money at it yeah i suppose by law gambling law

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they have to honour that percentage if there's

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no percentage to honour they can do whatever

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the fuck they want I guess yeah if you put out

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a box or you put out a pack or something and

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you go right there's a 0 .00001 % chance that

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you'll pack whatever but you go but there's a

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chance yeah and you can say on the cover yeah

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yeah it's very very lucrative very lucrative

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I feel like it's a I feel like it's a great way

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to create additional revenue for a game. But

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at the same time, it's a very dangerous way to

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create additional revenue because you get to

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the point where, like with Call of Duty, where

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you think, right, your values and artistic direction

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have gone skew because you're seeing the money.

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That's why you end up with Nicki Minaj and Beavers

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and Butthead and all this fucking family guy,

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all this weird shit in a game that at its roots

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is nothing like this. We speak about it all the

00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:10.740
time. Fortnite does it really well because that's

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that type of game to do that weird shit. Even

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then, I feel like it's gone too, too, too far.

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Because obviously back in the day, back in my

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day, you'd buy an expansion. That's how games

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made additional money is you'd bring out a game

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and then in, well, COD, zombies and zombie maps.

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That was the big thing when I was in secondary

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school, playing COD. Oh, have you got the latest

00:21:38.819 --> 00:21:40.460
map? Have you got fucking such and such? And

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that's how you'd go home and you'd fucking spend

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five quid, whatever it was, for an additional

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map. And then that's how they'd make their dough.

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And then you had skins come in for guns. And

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then, yeah, that's how... People are suckers

00:21:55.539 --> 00:21:57.140
for it. I was a sucker for it. I used to play

00:21:57.140 --> 00:21:59.900
COD with Royce and Clarky and that. Mate, we'd

00:21:59.900 --> 00:22:02.059
get so excited when the store updated. What's

00:22:02.059 --> 00:22:03.559
in there? What's in there? Oh, I'm buying that.

00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:05.160
And we'd just get like, look at this. Look what

00:22:05.160 --> 00:22:08.119
this gun does. It's just stupid. It's like, that

00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:11.539
cost me 18 quid. Just stop thinking about, oh,

00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:14.640
it's just a score. It's only a score. It's fucking

00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:17.740
20 quid. It's a lot of money for fuck all that

00:22:17.740 --> 00:22:21.059
I don't own no more. It doesn't even exist. Oh,

00:22:21.059 --> 00:22:24.420
yeah. Shit, yeah. I find that mad. That's crazy.

00:22:25.860 --> 00:22:28.740
That has to be illegal. That is what I hope is

00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:31.440
illegal. You've taken away something that I own.

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They'll get you in the fine print though, don't

00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:36.380
they? It'll be like, oh, you're only lending

00:22:36.380 --> 00:22:40.079
you this. This is still our property. You can't

00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:41.759
fuck with it. That's why a lot of people want

00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:44.319
to go, they only want physical games, but even

00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:45.720
then they got you on the physical game because

00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:48.099
you go, that disc is just a key. Yeah, you have

00:22:48.099 --> 00:22:50.079
to download the thing still, yeah. That's just

00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:53.480
a CD key that you've got there, mate. Yeah. yeah

00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:55.720
market transactions I think they can work but

00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:59.319
they have to be very specific for example is

00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:01.680
it Elite Dangerous you're playing yes you bought

00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:03.680
yourself a ship for your birthday yes cool man

00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:07.089
yeah Are you angry about that? No. No, exactly.

00:23:07.450 --> 00:23:10.109
It's not inherently a bad thing. I bought a ship

00:23:10.109 --> 00:23:13.890
that's fully kitted out. But also, you can buy

00:23:13.890 --> 00:23:17.210
that specific ship in -game with in -game money

00:23:17.210 --> 00:23:19.210
that you can earn pretty fucking rapidly. It's

00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:21.470
just the difference is I've got mine a lot sooner

00:23:21.470 --> 00:23:24.869
and it's fully kitted out. So it's whatever you

00:23:24.869 --> 00:23:27.750
want. But once again, though, that's a choice,

00:23:27.829 --> 00:23:30.119
isn't it? You didn't have to do that. No. Like

00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:32.579
the option, that's another thing. If the option's

00:23:32.579 --> 00:23:34.480
there to get the thing that's in the shop, but

00:23:34.480 --> 00:23:36.880
you've got to spend time doing it, then that's

00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.279
a choice. Same as the World of Warcraft stuff.

00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:42.480
I mean, it's probably a bit far -fetched, but

00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:45.880
didn't you say to me before, there's people that

00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:48.299
used to just grind out subscriptions. Yeah, people

00:23:48.299 --> 00:23:51.279
still do. So, you know, it's earnable. Yeah,

00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:53.960
yeah. Like Fortnite, I think they had a very

00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:55.240
good thing. I don't know if they still do it.

00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:57.069
I imagine they do. What, with the Battle Pass?

00:23:57.329 --> 00:23:59.150
Yeah, you can earn a new Battle Pass just by

00:23:59.150 --> 00:24:00.829
levelling up the Battle Pass that you own. So

00:24:00.829 --> 00:24:02.910
you can buy one if you wanted to and never buy

00:24:02.910 --> 00:24:05.410
nothing else. Just always have the Battle Pass.

00:24:05.529 --> 00:24:08.369
That's a fair thing to do. Fucking Steph with

00:24:08.369 --> 00:24:13.190
something like Dreamlight, their premium currency

00:24:13.190 --> 00:24:16.509
is Moonstones. And obviously they've got a season

00:24:16.509 --> 00:24:18.250
pass and shit like that. We worked it out the

00:24:18.250 --> 00:24:20.369
other day. She's got something ridiculous like

00:24:20.369 --> 00:24:25.190
130 -odd quids worth of Moonstones. Like, it's

00:24:25.190 --> 00:24:28.670
crazy how much currency, premium currency is

00:24:28.670 --> 00:24:31.769
there. But yeah, what Fortnite did with that.

00:24:31.829 --> 00:24:34.569
And then, sure enough, most people, most games

00:24:34.569 --> 00:24:37.309
that had a Battle Pass followed the same suit.

00:24:37.690 --> 00:24:39.970
Some were quite fucking sneaky where it was like,

00:24:39.990 --> 00:24:43.430
we'll only give you enough to buy the pass again.

00:24:43.529 --> 00:24:45.589
But if you buy something else, then you can't,

00:24:45.589 --> 00:24:47.250
you ain't going to have enough. We'll just leave

00:24:47.250 --> 00:24:49.509
you like 100 coins short. And then the cheapest

00:24:49.509 --> 00:24:53.240
packs are Fiverr. Or yeah, exactly like... Steph

00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:55.380
spoke about it quite a lot because I think it

00:24:55.380 --> 00:24:58.960
was Dreamlight or it was Palia that got done

00:24:58.960 --> 00:25:00.819
over for it or people were kicking off about

00:25:00.819 --> 00:25:05.000
it. And it happens a lot in stores where they'll

00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:08.619
put something up for a certain price, but then

00:25:08.619 --> 00:25:12.200
the currency that it requires... For you to buy

00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:14.839
the currency, there is no exact. It's either

00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:17.019
you buy the lesser or you have to buy the fucking

00:25:17.019 --> 00:25:19.440
bigger one and then be left over. One times out

00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:22.160
of ten, you have to buy the £15 .99 one and the

00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:24.819
£7 .99 one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how it goes.

00:25:25.140 --> 00:25:27.319
Yeah, that's, yeah. And that's why they do it.

00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:29.559
That's exactly why they do it. It's the same

00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:31.180
as barbers, man. That's why they always want

00:25:31.180 --> 00:25:33.119
you to pay cash because if you pay card, you're

00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:35.519
not tipping. If you pay by cash, they're like,

00:25:35.619 --> 00:25:37.720
keep the quid, mate. Keep the couple of quid,

00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:40.509
whatever. Yeah. That's why they do it. It was

00:25:40.509 --> 00:25:42.829
smart business, but you're dickheads. I need

00:25:42.829 --> 00:25:44.789
to go to the barber's and get my hair done. Yeah,

00:25:44.789 --> 00:25:46.809
I don't. Yeah, I know you don't. I've done mine

00:25:46.809 --> 00:25:49.069
last night. I found that out when they did my

00:25:49.069 --> 00:25:50.450
beard once, and I'm not going to let them do

00:25:50.450 --> 00:25:52.150
my beard anymore because I don't like it, but

00:25:52.150 --> 00:25:55.349
it added on like an extra 12 quid. Oh, yeah,

00:25:55.369 --> 00:25:57.390
mate. Fuck that. And I was like, where the fuck's

00:25:57.390 --> 00:25:59.069
that come from? You haven't done anything. You've

00:25:59.069 --> 00:26:02.549
just shortened it. I'm bold as my ass. And I

00:26:02.549 --> 00:26:04.930
fucking went into the barber's when I first shaved

00:26:04.930 --> 00:26:06.349
my head, and I was like, can you trim my beard?

00:26:06.410 --> 00:26:07.650
He was like, yeah, it's 15 quid. I was like,

00:26:07.690 --> 00:26:10.410
pfft. fuck off mate I was like that's three quid

00:26:10.410 --> 00:26:12.690
less than my haircut yeah yeah you can get fucked

00:26:12.690 --> 00:26:15.369
that's just for my beard man no chance yeah and

00:26:15.369 --> 00:26:17.630
the worst thing is is that when it's your hair

00:26:17.630 --> 00:26:20.829
if they fuck it up bang a hat on it's sweet mine

00:26:20.829 --> 00:26:23.049
my hair's a mess at the moment because I ain't

00:26:23.049 --> 00:26:24.349
got it cut so I'm just wearing a hat everywhere

00:26:24.349 --> 00:26:27.049
sweet don't matter I'm in a job where I can do

00:26:27.049 --> 00:26:31.150
that but you fuck the beard up what am I gonna

00:26:31.150 --> 00:26:32.950
do you have to shave it off and a lot of twat

00:26:32.950 --> 00:26:35.680
yes Yes, yes, yes. Look at all my chins. Yeah.

00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:38.559
To be fair, I haven't shaved since I lost the

00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:41.059
weight. So I'd be, because last time I did it

00:26:41.059 --> 00:26:42.299
was when we went to a wedding and I had like

00:26:42.299 --> 00:26:45.000
four chins and I hadn't shaved for a long time.

00:26:45.059 --> 00:26:46.619
I was like, where the fuck has that come from?

00:26:46.660 --> 00:26:49.119
I was like, that's horrible. I was like, I don't

00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:51.940
like that. I don't like that at all. Whereas

00:26:51.940 --> 00:26:57.180
now it's different. Yeah. Microtransactions,

00:26:57.180 --> 00:27:01.099
good, bad. That's that question solved and abolished.

00:27:01.660 --> 00:27:03.480
I haven't really played any games, man. I've

00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:06.559
played Mugenics for about 30 hours now. I finished

00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:09.180
Act 1, so I've unlocked Act 2. That's far too

00:27:09.180 --> 00:27:12.539
hard for me. I might give up. No, I won't. I've

00:27:12.539 --> 00:27:15.900
got some frustrating mechanics behind it. There

00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:18.299
was people in the Discord that were talking about

00:27:18.299 --> 00:27:21.880
Mugenics. There was a guy in here called Flade.

00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:27.720
He was a really cool guy. Miles, I think it was

00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:31.099
Miles, he was like, is anyone playing Mugenics?

00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:33.359
And I wanted to jump in and say, I'm not but

00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:37.339
fucking ashes. And then, yeah, Flay jumped in

00:27:37.339 --> 00:27:39.160
and then was saying a couple of things that he

00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:44.200
wasn't particularly happy with. I wonder if I

00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:49.240
just type in... Meow. Mugen. It must fucking...

00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:53.980
Here we go. yeah he said uh anyone else enjoying

00:27:53.980 --> 00:27:57.099
eugenics uh flade said yeah i really like the

00:27:57.099 --> 00:27:59.579
strategy game part but the meta progression got

00:27:59.579 --> 00:28:02.119
a bit annoying good game but i'm annoyed or maybe

00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:03.920
i'm just a bit peeved about it being like an

00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:06.440
extraction game or whatever you would call it

00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:09.640
uh miles said i'd definitely call it a roguelite

00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:13.890
i think what i've learned is as far as the breeding

00:28:13.890 --> 00:28:16.809
part of the meta progression is not make it or

00:28:16.809 --> 00:28:19.470
break it like it feels like it should be but

00:28:19.470 --> 00:28:22.410
i'm an absolute shill for the dev so i'll love

00:28:22.410 --> 00:28:26.089
it regardless and then he said uh yeah but what

00:28:26.089 --> 00:28:29.049
really annoys me about about other than the breeding

00:28:29.049 --> 00:28:31.529
being a bit mid is the fact that the gold uh

00:28:31.529 --> 00:28:34.710
gold in runs is the same currency you use for

00:28:34.710 --> 00:28:36.890
furniture i would much rather the money was just

00:28:36.890 --> 00:28:39.089
in the runs and you get a currency for the house

00:28:39.089 --> 00:28:41.609
um when you killed a kill bosses or something.

00:28:41.750 --> 00:28:44.109
I have no idea what any of this means. Does this

00:28:44.109 --> 00:28:46.890
make sense to you? Yeah, yeah. I know exactly

00:28:46.890 --> 00:28:48.829
what they're talking about. Is this a gripe at

00:28:48.829 --> 00:28:54.549
all? No? Well, yeah, it can be. It's not a gripe

00:28:54.549 --> 00:28:58.069
I'd have. Miles said, there's a few other dumb

00:28:58.069 --> 00:29:00.109
things I hope they balance out, like the items

00:29:00.109 --> 00:29:02.210
it auto -trashes when you don't have room is

00:29:02.210 --> 00:29:04.029
really annoying. That is annoying. I feel like

00:29:04.029 --> 00:29:05.970
it always seems to bin the best items if you

00:29:05.970 --> 00:29:09.000
aren't careful. Well, yeah, but you just have

00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:12.339
to transfer them out of the bin. I see. So what's

00:29:12.339 --> 00:29:15.160
Miles Winding about? Because when you do a run,

00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:17.079
you come back with loads of items and you've

00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:20.519
got your item storage. And then whatever's left

00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:24.240
in your items from the run you just did will

00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:28.259
go in the bin unless you transfer what ones you

00:29:28.259 --> 00:29:30.940
want. So transfer the ones you want and then

00:29:30.940 --> 00:29:33.140
you won't lose any of the ones you want. Dickhead.

00:29:34.269 --> 00:29:38.630
I mean, but no, it's a really good game. Obviously,

00:29:38.789 --> 00:29:40.990
one of the guys there, being a shill for the

00:29:40.990 --> 00:29:43.109
dev, probably knows a lot about the binding of

00:29:43.109 --> 00:29:47.049
Isaac. But the meta progression and all that,

00:29:47.109 --> 00:29:51.250
it's good. I don't really like the cat breeding

00:29:51.250 --> 00:29:53.309
because it just gets a bit busy in there. There's

00:29:53.309 --> 00:29:55.029
too many fucking cats and I'm trying to pick

00:29:55.029 --> 00:29:57.890
poo up and I can't because I'm throwing cats

00:29:57.890 --> 00:30:00.609
around. Tommy was laughing his head off yesterday

00:30:00.609 --> 00:30:04.420
because I was throwing cats out. They all make

00:30:04.420 --> 00:30:07.000
noises. There's a button on the main menu that

00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:08.980
just says meow and you can click it. It's like

00:30:08.980 --> 00:30:12.259
start, options, meow, exit game. You just click

00:30:12.259 --> 00:30:15.240
meow, it just meows. I like that. Yeah, it's

00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:19.579
quirky. You'd like the comedy of it because it's

00:30:19.579 --> 00:30:21.700
stupid. What's it like in comparison to something

00:30:21.700 --> 00:30:24.920
like Cult of the Lamb? Nothing like Cult of the

00:30:24.920 --> 00:30:27.210
Lamb. I liked Cult of the Lamb. Yeah, a couple

00:30:27.210 --> 00:30:28.549
of them's good. It's nothing like that. It's

00:30:28.549 --> 00:30:31.109
turn -based and you have to... Basically, if

00:30:31.109 --> 00:30:34.650
I put it in layman's terms, you get cats, you

00:30:34.650 --> 00:30:36.349
look at their stats, you go, well, that cat's

00:30:36.349 --> 00:30:39.529
got really good stats for fighting. So let's

00:30:39.529 --> 00:30:41.650
get a female cat and a male cat that have both

00:30:41.650 --> 00:30:43.690
got really good fighting stats. Then we get a

00:30:43.690 --> 00:30:45.650
good fighting kitten. Then we get a good fighting

00:30:45.650 --> 00:30:47.849
kitten. So then when we go on the run, we'll

00:30:47.849 --> 00:30:50.180
make that one the fucking melee character. And

00:30:50.180 --> 00:30:52.400
then we go, oh, that one's really good at manner.

00:30:52.460 --> 00:30:55.059
That one's good at range. But it's all luck -based

00:30:55.059 --> 00:30:56.579
because you can't force them to fuck. You have

00:30:56.579 --> 00:30:58.279
to put them in that when you rest at the end

00:30:58.279 --> 00:31:00.440
of the day, some cats fuck, some cats fight,

00:31:00.579 --> 00:31:03.180
some cats die, all sorts of crazy shit goes on.

00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:08.180
And then you take them kittens, or they have

00:31:08.180 --> 00:31:09.839
to get a bit older first, but then you take them

00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:12.160
out and then you fight with them. And then you

00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:13.839
pick up items and then you bring the items home

00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:16.039
and then you take some items out on your next

00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:18.309
run and then you just go and go and go. What

00:31:18.309 --> 00:31:20.930
I don't like about it is every time you finish

00:31:20.930 --> 00:31:23.609
a run, instead of just letting you play to the

00:31:23.609 --> 00:31:25.470
end of the game, it's like, oh no, you've now

00:31:25.470 --> 00:31:27.569
unlocked the next level, so then you have to

00:31:27.569 --> 00:31:30.329
go back and then do it all again to get to the

00:31:30.329 --> 00:31:32.029
next level until you've unlocked the entire game

00:31:32.029 --> 00:31:33.670
and then you'll be able to go through the whole

00:31:33.670 --> 00:31:35.869
thing in one seamless hit. So when you've got

00:31:35.869 --> 00:31:37.569
really good cats, because you can only use them

00:31:37.569 --> 00:31:40.190
once on one run, once that run's gone, they're

00:31:40.190 --> 00:31:42.890
retired. Right. So they can still fuck. So you've

00:31:42.890 --> 00:31:44.869
got really powerful cats that can fuck that make

00:31:44.869 --> 00:31:49.000
even more powerful kittens. Yeah. so yeah that's

00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.859
basically the the game um but yeah then it's

00:31:52.859 --> 00:31:54.660
really frustrating when you've got like because

00:31:54.660 --> 00:31:57.640
the game's like deliberately balanced poorly

00:31:57.640 --> 00:32:00.400
so you can just be like stupidly overpowered

00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:02.640
the best one i ever had i had basically a cat

00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:05.700
almost with infinite range that had an ability

00:32:05.700 --> 00:32:08.799
that used mana that basically covered the entire

00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:12.779
map with like arrows every time it killed a cat

00:32:13.899 --> 00:32:15.920
every time it killed an enemy, it gave me all

00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:18.460
my mana back. So I could almost infinitely just

00:32:18.460 --> 00:32:21.200
shoot everyone on the map over and over again

00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:25.259
until it missed and just not do anything. And

00:32:25.259 --> 00:32:29.279
I was like, I could just win. But, you know,

00:32:29.339 --> 00:32:31.619
I wasn't allowed to. Because I finished and it

00:32:31.619 --> 00:32:33.119
was like, I have to start again until we've won

00:32:33.119 --> 00:32:35.339
the whole game. But the game's great. Clever

00:32:35.339 --> 00:32:38.440
mechanic. The game's fantastic. But it's just,

00:32:38.539 --> 00:32:40.720
I've got a real low. I put the PlayStation on

00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:42.559
yesterday and I was like... I can't bother to

00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:44.799
play anything. I put Steam Deck on, played Eugenics

00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:45.980
for a bit. I was like, I can't bother to play

00:32:45.980 --> 00:32:48.640
this either. I can't be bothered. I did start

00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:54.460
Baldur's Gate though. One. On the PC. I knew

00:32:54.460 --> 00:32:57.460
I wasn't ready for it. But I just started, I

00:32:57.460 --> 00:32:59.059
just finished fucking Divinity Original. Too

00:32:59.059 --> 00:33:00.880
much brain power. Yeah, it was like a hundred

00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:03.579
odd hours that. Yeah. And I'm going on to fucking

00:33:03.579 --> 00:33:06.140
Baldur's Gate one. And obviously that game came

00:33:06.140 --> 00:33:08.980
out in like 98 or something stupid. Yeah. So

00:33:08.980 --> 00:33:14.349
it's like, it's. punishingly hard which is fine

00:33:14.349 --> 00:33:17.250
but it's like you have to fucking know what you're

00:33:17.250 --> 00:33:20.269
doing and I was just like I'm not it's not the

00:33:20.269 --> 00:33:22.289
type of game to have a rough day and then come

00:33:22.289 --> 00:33:24.549
home and go let me sit down and fucking switch

00:33:24.549 --> 00:33:27.289
my brain back on not just that it's because I'm

00:33:27.289 --> 00:33:29.089
not used to sitting in a chair playing computer

00:33:29.089 --> 00:33:32.470
so that's also like I'd rather just sit on the

00:33:32.470 --> 00:33:35.589
sofa and eat crisps but I'm sitting in a chair

00:33:35.589 --> 00:33:39.329
using a mouse. Obviously, this is why I love

00:33:39.329 --> 00:33:42.589
the fucking rest that I've got for the laptop,

00:33:42.789 --> 00:33:45.250
because I can now just sit on the sofa and be

00:33:45.250 --> 00:33:48.349
no different to how I'm sat now. Where did you

00:33:48.349 --> 00:33:51.250
put the mouse, though? I'll show you when we're

00:33:51.250 --> 00:33:54.809
done. So the laptop sits on it, and it literally,

00:33:54.890 --> 00:33:57.700
it will take up. probably this section and then

00:33:57.700 --> 00:34:00.519
where the mug is so the mouse sits here it's

00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:03.180
got space and then it's even got a holder for

00:34:03.180 --> 00:34:06.779
your phone to sit like that um and then yeah

00:34:06.779 --> 00:34:09.980
and it's got um cushions either side of it so

00:34:09.980 --> 00:34:12.599
it's not like horrible it's like beanbag cushions

00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:14.820
and yeah you can just sit there just it's the

00:34:14.820 --> 00:34:16.559
best thing i fucking ever bought because it means

00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:18.340
that i don't have to sit here while steph's in

00:34:18.340 --> 00:34:20.659
there i can just go and join her and just crack

00:34:20.659 --> 00:34:24.800
on it's it's great it's like probably for as

00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:28.719
long as we've been together one of the main things

00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:31.679
i've wanted to do and that's be able to like

00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:33.940
she can play her games and i can play mine but

00:34:33.940 --> 00:34:36.019
we can be in the same room but not me fucking

00:34:36.019 --> 00:34:38.760
facing the back of her or just be in separate

00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:41.539
rooms it's it's comfortably yeah that's the big

00:34:41.539 --> 00:34:44.000
one i love it because i was looking for ages

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:45.920
i was like i need a desk i need something that

00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:47.639
i work and sit on the sofa and then it fucking

00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:50.769
sit over me and then i was like Maybe a tray.

00:34:50.969 --> 00:34:53.110
I was like, surely, surely they do a fucking

00:34:53.110 --> 00:34:56.190
laptop tray. And then it was like, I think it

00:34:56.190 --> 00:34:57.829
was like 20 quid off of Amazon. It's the best

00:34:57.829 --> 00:35:01.889
fucking 20 quid I've ever spent. I like this,

00:35:02.269 --> 00:35:05.210
this laptop. Once this pod is done, we'll be

00:35:05.210 --> 00:35:07.230
unplugged and we'll be fucking straight back

00:35:07.230 --> 00:35:08.829
over there. And that is when it will stay until

00:35:08.829 --> 00:35:11.750
next Friday. Yeah, that makes sense. It's perfect.

00:35:11.869 --> 00:35:13.570
Obviously, you can't do it with a PC. When I

00:35:13.570 --> 00:35:16.090
was doing it, yeah. Yeah, but I've got a laptop,

00:35:16.190 --> 00:35:18.289
haven't I? When I was using the laptop, I was

00:35:18.289 --> 00:35:20.650
like sitting on the sofa and then using the small

00:35:20.650 --> 00:35:24.289
little armrests. It just hurts my shoulder. It's

00:35:24.289 --> 00:35:27.110
just fucking crap. I'll send you the link and

00:35:27.110 --> 00:35:28.750
I'll show you. Yeah, I'll check it out, man.

00:35:28.889 --> 00:35:31.070
It's just so comfy. I can use the laptop because

00:35:31.070 --> 00:35:33.230
it's all cross -safe, all that Steam shit. So

00:35:33.230 --> 00:35:35.010
if I can just jump on Baldur's Gate on the laptop

00:35:35.010 --> 00:35:37.010
as opposed to sitting at the computer, I'd much

00:35:37.010 --> 00:35:42.809
prefer that. Honestly, it's so nice. Last time

00:35:42.809 --> 00:35:44.530
I spoke to you about Elite Dangerous, I was on

00:35:44.530 --> 00:35:48.789
my way to the California Nebula, which was a

00:35:48.789 --> 00:35:51.750
long, long, long way away. Deep, deep space.

00:35:52.769 --> 00:35:56.920
And what I'm doing... So I managed to wrangle

00:35:56.920 --> 00:35:59.860
Leon into playing it. His ADHD just needed a

00:35:59.860 --> 00:36:01.719
slight tickle, and then sure enough, he was fucking

00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:03.980
all over it. He's now got the early access for

00:36:03.980 --> 00:36:05.980
the midnight expansion for WoW, so he's firmly

00:36:05.980 --> 00:36:11.579
on that, which I will be today as well. Is that

00:36:11.579 --> 00:36:14.980
out today, is it? Yeah, so early access came

00:36:14.980 --> 00:36:20.239
out 11 o 'clock last night. So he stayed up with

00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:24.159
John playing that until whenever. college today

00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:27.239
he's not a child alright he's a fully grown adult

00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:29.579
but he's becoming a plumber so there's a bit

00:36:29.579 --> 00:36:32.219
of college involved I don't know what excuse

00:36:32.219 --> 00:36:35.000
he gave but he got out of college early and then

00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:39.119
he was logged back on this cracking on but yeah

00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:41.780
I got him into Elite Dangerous John tried it

00:36:41.780 --> 00:36:46.400
Ahmed tried it from the guild and me and Leon

00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:48.460
are the only people that managed to stay John

00:36:48.460 --> 00:36:50.909
had a fucking meltdown Trying to play it. I was

00:36:50.909 --> 00:36:54.130
like he is not going to enjoy this. Because it's

00:36:54.130 --> 00:36:59.829
just so. Keybind heavy man. There's a million

00:36:59.829 --> 00:37:01.610
different things. That you can do in this shit.

00:37:01.650 --> 00:37:03.650
That I don't even know how you can do yet. Like

00:37:03.650 --> 00:37:06.289
if you're dogfighting. You can target specific

00:37:06.289 --> 00:37:09.110
areas of the ship. Like the thrusters or the

00:37:09.110 --> 00:37:11.289
guns. And shit like that. I have no idea how

00:37:11.289 --> 00:37:14.250
to do that. Even when you're assigning weapons.

00:37:14.369 --> 00:37:18.320
And all that bullshit. So yeah, me and Leon are

00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:20.579
the only people that have managed to stay with

00:37:20.579 --> 00:37:23.000
it. But Leon has a completely different play

00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:26.179
style to me. He's big into mining. And I thought

00:37:26.179 --> 00:37:28.800
I was balling with the exploration because you

00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:30.820
can go and get all the data and then sell it

00:37:30.820 --> 00:37:32.679
on and blah, blah, blah, like scan planets and

00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:35.719
shit. That motherfucker starts mining and then

00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:37.159
he's sending me pictures through where he's like,

00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:40.000
oh yeah, look, I just made 53 million. I go,

00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:42.420
what? I'm getting gassed if I get 200 grand off

00:37:42.420 --> 00:37:44.619
of selling a fucking planet. This cunt's making

00:37:44.619 --> 00:37:47.480
53 million. And then he sent me a picture. What

00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:50.619
did you say? Selling a planet? Yeah. What do

00:37:50.619 --> 00:37:53.039
you mean selling a planet? So it's a one of one

00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:57.059
of our own Milky Way galaxy, right? Yeah. And

00:37:57.059 --> 00:38:00.539
that means that it's something ridiculous like

00:38:00.539 --> 00:38:03.619
0 .00 % of it has been discovered, much like

00:38:03.619 --> 00:38:06.789
No Man's Sky. So obviously a lot of it's procedurally

00:38:06.789 --> 00:38:09.590
generated, but it is a one -of -one of our currently

00:38:09.590 --> 00:38:16.730
known galaxy. So as someone who's maining exploration,

00:38:17.210 --> 00:38:21.750
you go and you fly through the galaxy and you

00:38:21.750 --> 00:38:24.429
go to different systems and you can discover

00:38:24.429 --> 00:38:27.530
brand new planets. And when you discover these

00:38:27.530 --> 00:38:31.090
planets, you can scan them. And what it means

00:38:31.090 --> 00:38:34.159
is you basically fly close enough to them. And

00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:36.659
then if you have the right scanner equipped,

00:38:36.860 --> 00:38:41.460
you go into almost like this overhead drone view

00:38:41.460 --> 00:38:45.400
where you shoot probes at the planet. And when

00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:48.659
it hits the planet, it sends out a ring and covers

00:38:48.659 --> 00:38:52.119
a certain area of the planet. And each planet

00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:56.119
you do, it tells you the amount of probes you

00:38:56.119 --> 00:38:59.539
can send for it to 100 % cover this planet. And

00:38:59.539 --> 00:39:02.579
if you get it in that amount or less, you get

00:39:02.579 --> 00:39:06.699
more. um data for it that you can sell you can

00:39:06.699 --> 00:39:10.260
go over it's infinite um and that's how you sell

00:39:10.260 --> 00:39:13.440
the data you can also land on some of these planets

00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:17.440
and then get out and scan like the fauna um and

00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:20.099
shit like that and see what's going on like no

00:39:20.099 --> 00:39:25.099
man's sky just a lot more sim um that looks so

00:39:25.099 --> 00:39:28.920
cool yeah that's part of the dlc which i've got

00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:31.860
you've got it now yeah yeah yeah so you can you

00:39:31.860 --> 00:39:36.690
can go out and look at that yeah you can dogfight

00:39:36.690 --> 00:39:39.090
in the canyons in the planets and shit like that

00:39:39.090 --> 00:39:43.190
there was a guy that yeah yeah and I know everything

00:39:43.190 --> 00:39:44.769
I know exactly what that is you look at that

00:39:44.769 --> 00:39:46.070
image and you go I don't know what the fuck that

00:39:46.070 --> 00:39:50.570
is but I know what that is yeah mate if you was

00:39:50.570 --> 00:39:52.389
in your space era and you had the patience to

00:39:52.389 --> 00:39:54.650
actually learn it you'd be all over it I guarantee

00:39:54.650 --> 00:39:56.829
you you'd be fucking all over it the problem

00:39:56.829 --> 00:40:00.949
with it is that it doesn't hold your hand And

00:40:00.949 --> 00:40:04.090
there is so much stuff. I have barely scratched

00:40:04.090 --> 00:40:06.309
the surface on that game. But it's very, very

00:40:06.309 --> 00:40:08.809
chilled out. If you want to be chilled out playing

00:40:08.809 --> 00:40:12.409
it. What the fuck is that? I've no idea. I've

00:40:12.409 --> 00:40:15.469
no idea. I think maybe that's called like a Fargoid

00:40:15.469 --> 00:40:18.829
or something. There's like alien life form. Alright.

00:40:19.590 --> 00:40:23.030
What's that smell? Smells like my space is coming

00:40:23.030 --> 00:40:27.550
back. This looks sick. I got it for four quid

00:40:27.550 --> 00:40:30.929
off of... It's called Loaded now, isn't it, with

00:40:30.929 --> 00:40:34.250
that formerly known as CD keys. It looks so good.

00:40:34.550 --> 00:40:36.630
Yeah, it is. It's really good. But I wouldn't

00:40:36.630 --> 00:40:38.309
have been interested if you couldn't get out

00:40:38.309 --> 00:40:40.550
of the ship, but that's like a newish thing.

00:40:40.710 --> 00:40:42.989
Yeah, I picked up the DLC for, I think it was

00:40:42.989 --> 00:40:46.670
a Fiverr. And yeah, you can get out of the ship.

00:40:48.090 --> 00:40:50.090
There's whole missions and shit that you can

00:40:50.090 --> 00:40:53.219
do. You can make it so that you're... predominantly

00:40:53.219 --> 00:40:55.840
your whole thing is jumping to different planets

00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:58.639
and getting off the ships. Even something as

00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:01.300
simple as docking at a station, you can do it

00:41:01.300 --> 00:41:04.099
automatically and that's always nice. I used

00:41:04.099 --> 00:41:05.599
to always like doing that in No Man's Sky, just

00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:11.599
fucking full boring to a spaceport and then it

00:41:11.599 --> 00:41:14.800
catching you and then automatically landing you.

00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:18.500
On this, you can't do that. You have to be at

00:41:18.500 --> 00:41:21.480
a certain speed and shit and you have to... even

00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:23.400
something as simple as if i'm going to a space

00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:27.900
spaceport you have to be within 7 .5 kilometers

00:41:27.900 --> 00:41:30.519
of the spaceport and then you have to manually

00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:34.820
request docking with the controllers in the spaceport

00:41:34.820 --> 00:41:36.920
and then if they give you access you can then

00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:40.840
fucking land and shit like that uh but yeah so

00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:43.260
so leon's earning a shit ton of money with his

00:41:43.260 --> 00:41:45.389
mate he's got a friend that plays it You know

00:41:45.389 --> 00:41:46.590
what I mean? He's got a friend that's in the

00:41:46.590 --> 00:41:48.849
know. Kind of like when you jumped on WOW, you've

00:41:48.849 --> 00:41:50.369
already got a mate that knows what he's doing.

00:41:50.550 --> 00:41:52.409
It's the same with Leon. So he's got a mate who

00:41:52.409 --> 00:41:54.170
knows how to make a shit ton of money. So that's

00:41:54.170 --> 00:41:57.429
what they've been doing. Whereas me, I've been

00:41:57.429 --> 00:42:01.869
floating around space. I don't have the same

00:42:01.869 --> 00:42:03.769
issue that I first had with the fuel rats where

00:42:03.769 --> 00:42:06.230
I run out of fuel because I now have a fuel scoop.

00:42:06.510 --> 00:42:11.829
Fuel rats. So I suck fuel off of stars. And my

00:42:11.829 --> 00:42:15.570
old ship... That's a funny sentence. My old ship,

00:42:15.570 --> 00:42:18.230
it took quite a while to do it because I couldn't

00:42:18.230 --> 00:42:20.750
get a decent fuel scoop on it. So every ship

00:42:20.750 --> 00:42:23.449
has a certain class limit. And this was quite

00:42:23.449 --> 00:42:27.389
a low -grade ship. This one I've got now... Oh,

00:42:27.429 --> 00:42:30.190
boy. Boy, boy, boy, I've gone from like it taking

00:42:30.190 --> 00:42:33.590
me a solid five minutes to fuel up to 30 seconds.

00:42:34.090 --> 00:42:37.050
And what I didn't realise, I've been flying around

00:42:37.050 --> 00:42:40.030
the sun like a dickhead trying to stay at a certain

00:42:40.030 --> 00:42:42.070
level so I don't burn up but I'm still sucking

00:42:42.070 --> 00:42:45.349
fuel. Didn't realise you can just turn your thrusters

00:42:45.349 --> 00:42:47.269
off and then just hover at a certain fucking

00:42:47.269 --> 00:42:50.829
distance away. So I can just sit there like an

00:42:50.829 --> 00:42:53.269
alien life form, just go whoop, give me that

00:42:53.269 --> 00:42:57.519
and off I'll go. So I've been traversing. Like

00:42:57.519 --> 00:42:59.940
I say, I made it to the California nebula because

00:42:59.940 --> 00:43:03.059
on the overall map, it looked fucking sick. It's

00:43:03.059 --> 00:43:05.780
just this big red nebula thing. I got there.

00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:08.039
Leon was like, oh shit, what does it look like?

00:43:08.179 --> 00:43:10.500
It looks exactly the same as anywhere else because

00:43:10.500 --> 00:43:12.059
I didn't realise that when you're actually in

00:43:12.059 --> 00:43:14.380
the nebula, you don't see all that red shit because

00:43:14.380 --> 00:43:17.880
obviously the nebula's fucking huge. So if you

00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:20.559
zoom out, it looks all dusty and cool, but when

00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:22.599
you're actually in it, you don't see that because

00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:25.309
you're in it. Well, it's like a fucking... It's

00:43:25.309 --> 00:43:27.829
like fog, isn't it? Yeah. You can't really see

00:43:27.829 --> 00:43:29.969
fog or clouds. That's exactly what it's fucking

00:43:29.969 --> 00:43:33.630
like. So now I am making my way to the centre

00:43:33.630 --> 00:43:37.090
of the galaxy, which is fucking miles away. So

00:43:37.090 --> 00:43:40.349
from where I was to the California nebula, when

00:43:40.349 --> 00:43:45.030
I plotted my route, it was like 68 jumps that

00:43:45.030 --> 00:43:47.329
I had to make, which took me a while because

00:43:47.329 --> 00:43:49.010
when I was jumping, I was also scanning planets

00:43:49.010 --> 00:43:50.989
while I was doing it. This one now to the centre

00:43:50.989 --> 00:43:55.869
of the galaxy with... my uprated ship and it

00:43:55.869 --> 00:44:01.030
can jump like five times as far. 660 jumps I

00:44:01.030 --> 00:44:04.849
have to make is what I need to do. Yeah, that's

00:44:04.849 --> 00:44:07.530
a bit mental. It's mad, but I'm self -sufficient.

00:44:07.750 --> 00:44:10.090
I can keep myself fueled up. I can keep going.

00:44:10.309 --> 00:44:12.489
I'm sweet. The problem that I've got is with

00:44:12.489 --> 00:44:16.849
the data, not everywhere will buy it off of me,

00:44:16.889 --> 00:44:18.710
which is what I discovered. So it's something

00:44:18.710 --> 00:44:21.789
like 95 % of the spaceports that you go to will

00:44:21.789 --> 00:44:24.429
be able to buy the data. Fucking ask me how long

00:44:24.429 --> 00:44:26.329
it took me to find a place, because when you're

00:44:26.329 --> 00:44:29.989
in deep space, half of them don't want it. So

00:44:29.989 --> 00:44:31.590
I was sat there with all this gear, and if you

00:44:31.590 --> 00:44:33.530
die, if someone blows you up, because I'm playing

00:44:33.530 --> 00:44:35.469
in open play as well, you can play in a closed

00:44:35.469 --> 00:44:37.590
server and shit like that, but I want the danger.

00:44:38.130 --> 00:44:42.869
I want someone to be able to blow me up. If you

00:44:42.869 --> 00:44:44.929
get blown up before you've sold your data, you

00:44:44.929 --> 00:44:48.750
lose all of it. So I was very conscious that

00:44:48.750 --> 00:44:51.210
I was sitting on a lot of money. And yeah, I

00:44:51.210 --> 00:44:53.050
eventually sold it. And now I'm heading to the

00:44:53.050 --> 00:44:54.889
center of the galaxy because it's just this big,

00:44:55.010 --> 00:44:59.489
that's where Earth is pretty much. So I want

00:44:59.489 --> 00:45:02.809
to maybe get there. Well, here's a review from

00:45:02.809 --> 00:45:06.690
the 4th of February. I'm roughly a thousand hours

00:45:06.690 --> 00:45:09.150
into it. Elite Dangerous now and look forward

00:45:09.150 --> 00:45:10.929
to a thousand more. That's what they're all like.

00:45:11.090 --> 00:45:13.250
A friend got me to try this game years ago and

00:45:13.250 --> 00:45:14.849
I had nothing good to say at first. The menus

00:45:14.849 --> 00:45:17.070
and controls were so complicated. I crashed into

00:45:17.070 --> 00:45:18.949
many stations and planets. It was a horrible,

00:45:18.989 --> 00:45:21.550
frustrating experience. There was a steep, complex

00:45:21.550 --> 00:45:23.570
learning curve for just about every activity.

00:45:23.849 --> 00:45:26.130
I struggled picking up the game even with a veteran

00:45:26.130 --> 00:45:28.769
teaching me the ropes. I would have uninstalled

00:45:28.769 --> 00:45:30.389
it and asked for a refund if it wasn't for my

00:45:30.389 --> 00:45:33.019
friend. I always remember being a crew member

00:45:33.019 --> 00:45:35.739
in his Anaconda, brackets, big spaceship, and

00:45:35.739 --> 00:45:38.280
using his turrets to shoot NPC pirates or using

00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:40.599
his fighter for the first time. Seeing my first

00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:44.699
jump, first landing on a planet, first Thargoid.

00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:48.400
Thargoid. Thargoid. Alien Xeno with amazing audio

00:45:48.400 --> 00:45:53.500
giving me chills. Being part of the AX, or A10,

00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:58.199
I guess that is, or 11, or 9. What's X1? Nine,

00:45:58.219 --> 00:46:00.039
isn't it? I don't know. I think, yeah, that's

00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:01.739
nine. It's because of the wrong person on numerals.

00:46:01.940 --> 00:46:05.019
A9 killing several titans and taking weeks to

00:46:05.019 --> 00:46:07.719
explore the black. The most fun I ever had in

00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:09.599
this game was probably upgrading from my sidewinder

00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:12.519
to a fully equipped vulture. That's when I truly

00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:14.539
got into Elite Dangerous. The engines, acceleration

00:46:14.539 --> 00:46:18.320
audio, new cockpit and big large gun hardpoint

00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:21.719
all felt very epic. Cons. Game is very hard to

00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:23.199
pick up as a new player, especially if you're

00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:25.559
learning everything by yourself. You'll need

00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:27.699
to watch hours of guides on YouTube and read

00:46:27.699 --> 00:46:30.980
forums and Reddit. Engineering, enhance your

00:46:30.980 --> 00:46:33.239
ships. It's extremely grindy. It's much better

00:46:33.239 --> 00:46:35.000
now than it used to be, but still pretty bad,

00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:36.880
time -consuming and boring. It's not something

00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:38.320
you can skip if you want to do any kind of in

00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:41.210
-game combat or exploration. Have to use a lot

00:46:41.210 --> 00:46:43.190
of third -party websites to find current or live

00:46:43.190 --> 00:46:45.369
information out of the game. Example, if you

00:46:45.369 --> 00:46:46.869
have a ship full of cargo to sell, you need to

00:46:46.869 --> 00:46:48.630
go on a website and find the closest location

00:46:48.630 --> 00:46:50.530
that pays the most for your cargo to be efficient.

00:46:51.230 --> 00:46:53.289
Don't have to, but you seriously handicap yourself

00:46:53.289 --> 00:46:57.110
if you don't. On -foot combat is not well done

00:46:57.110 --> 00:46:58.929
and bots are bad. I haven't tried it since the

00:46:58.929 --> 00:47:01.769
latest AI bot update, though. One of the biggest

00:47:01.769 --> 00:47:03.610
downsides when I picked up the game was the disappointment

00:47:03.610 --> 00:47:06.849
of not being able to have ship interiors or to

00:47:06.849 --> 00:47:08.690
walk around the cockpit. I don't want to see

00:47:08.690 --> 00:47:10.869
fuel tank cargo and get lost in my ship, but

00:47:10.869 --> 00:47:13.769
at least being able to walk in and out of ship

00:47:13.769 --> 00:47:15.610
versus loading screen from circle on the ground,

00:47:15.690 --> 00:47:17.389
teleporting to my seat, it's immersion breaking

00:47:17.389 --> 00:47:19.849
in a game that is incredibly immersive. Pros,

00:47:20.110 --> 00:47:24.420
communities such as the fuel rats. fleet com

00:47:24.420 --> 00:47:27.719
a9 etc the players getting together making massive

00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:30.219
efforts and game changing communities is one

00:47:30.219 --> 00:47:31.739
of the best part of the game as of this review

00:47:31.739 --> 00:47:34.000
i'm very very far in the black with roughly 10

00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.360
000 other commanders exploring as part of distant

00:47:36.360 --> 00:47:40.239
world dw3 it's a live sandbox game every single

00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:42.179
little thing you do affects and changes the galaxy

00:47:42.179 --> 00:47:45.460
example if you help pirates enough they can take

00:47:45.460 --> 00:47:48.019
over a federation system if you trade with a

00:47:48.019 --> 00:47:50.320
small and broke faction enough they grow an economy

00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:54.119
and so on another one is if we didn't get together

00:47:54.119 --> 00:47:57.260
to push back the Thargoil Titans a lot more,

00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:01.280
NPCs would have died, et cetera, and humanity

00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:04.059
would have had to come to an end. Unlike FDev

00:48:04.059 --> 00:48:08.579
had let this happen. I imagine that's the developers.

00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:10.800
Yeah, yeah. Thankfully, we defeated them and

00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:12.500
pushed them out of the bubble where humans mostly

00:48:12.500 --> 00:48:14.940
are. Game's absolutely gorgeous. Graphics are

00:48:14.940 --> 00:48:17.739
amazing. Ships, guns, Xenos, stars, galaxy, everything

00:48:17.739 --> 00:48:19.920
is highly detailed and so nice, especially for

00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:23.110
a game that's 10 years old. endless activities

00:48:23.110 --> 00:48:25.269
you can play for thousands of hours just trading

00:48:25.269 --> 00:48:27.030
and mining if you want you can do ship combat

00:48:27.030 --> 00:48:29.769
on foot combat x biology land on planets scan

00:48:29.769 --> 00:48:32.909
life forms scan planets explore the galaxy find

00:48:32.909 --> 00:48:34.909
never explored systems by other players and have

00:48:34.909 --> 00:48:36.969
your name marked on the systems as first discovered

00:48:36.969 --> 00:48:41.409
slv racing and so much more one of the funniest

00:48:41.409 --> 00:48:43.590
things when i started was to fly a dolphin ship

00:48:43.590 --> 00:48:46.809
and transport npcs around the galaxy may it be

00:48:46.809 --> 00:48:50.550
as the transportation like a bus or taxi or sightseeing

00:48:50.550 --> 00:48:52.570
like a cruise ship and don't forget this liner

00:48:52.570 --> 00:48:54.650
is in the top one percent of all liners out there

00:48:54.650 --> 00:48:59.030
big selection of ships and freedom tuning game

00:48:59.030 --> 00:49:01.849
i'll just just screw over the end game is 10

00:49:01.849 --> 00:49:04.030
years old still getting updates no subscription

00:49:04.030 --> 00:49:07.530
to play You can play solo in private groups or

00:49:07.530 --> 00:49:10.110
in the open online, basically your own solo instance,

00:49:10.469 --> 00:49:13.789
but with bots. One server, the whole player base

00:49:13.789 --> 00:49:16.170
is connected to only one galaxy. The galaxy is

00:49:16.170 --> 00:49:18.050
extremely large and somewhat tries to replicate

00:49:18.050 --> 00:49:20.309
reality. Pick any direction and travel for weeks

00:49:20.309 --> 00:49:23.849
in real life and you'd have discovered 0 .00001

00:49:23.849 --> 00:49:26.739
% of the map, if not less. Too long, didn't read.

00:49:26.940 --> 00:49:28.900
I wish I'd seen that at the beginning. It's an

00:49:28.900 --> 00:49:31.559
epic game if you love space sci -fi games, but

00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:32.800
there's a steep learning curve. You can play

00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:34.519
for over 10 ,000 hours and still have things

00:49:34.519 --> 00:49:36.800
to do and discover. Hope this was a helpful review.

00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:40.980
It's like... There's people on here with a stupid

00:49:40.980 --> 00:49:44.320
amount of hours, like 3 ,500. Because it's very

00:49:44.320 --> 00:49:48.440
addictive. It's like DayZ, but space. But you're

00:49:48.440 --> 00:49:50.719
not fucking dying all the time and then respawning

00:49:50.719 --> 00:49:53.239
with absolutely nothing. But I like DayZ. Yeah.

00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:57.449
It's... It doesn't hold your hand. The audio

00:49:57.449 --> 00:50:02.050
is great. Yeah, there are things that I would

00:50:02.050 --> 00:50:05.690
like, like I would like a 3D, I would like a

00:50:05.690 --> 00:50:09.949
third -person view, which you don't have unless

00:50:09.949 --> 00:50:12.690
you're in photography mode, which is no good

00:50:12.690 --> 00:50:16.969
for fucking actual gameplay. But there's very

00:50:16.969 --> 00:50:22.510
few, like fucking, I'm currently, one of the

00:50:22.510 --> 00:50:25.940
things, I'm currently trying to learn is how

00:50:25.940 --> 00:50:29.320
to use a collapsed neutron star to fucking send

00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:32.480
me over space. To send me to different areas

00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:35.639
of space. And only specific ships can do that.

00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:40.159
And my one can. Also, I've gone from a sidewinder

00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:42.039
is the free ship that you get at the very beginning.

00:50:42.900 --> 00:50:46.219
It's WAF, but it's free. I've gone from that

00:50:46.219 --> 00:50:48.659
to I can't even remember the ship that I bought

00:50:48.659 --> 00:50:52.059
to the ship that I now have. The ship I now have,

00:50:52.179 --> 00:50:58.170
right? It has a fucking rover on it and another

00:50:58.170 --> 00:51:00.010
thing. So if I land on a planet, I've got two

00:51:00.010 --> 00:51:03.250
vehicles that I can fucking go out in. I've got

00:51:03.250 --> 00:51:06.869
my own fighter ship. tucked away on the underbelly

00:51:06.869 --> 00:51:09.590
of the ship so if i start getting attacked i've

00:51:09.590 --> 00:51:12.570
also hired a crew member that's ai so i've got

00:51:12.570 --> 00:51:14.449
a pilot on that so if i start getting attacked

00:51:14.449 --> 00:51:16.829
i can just look down and fucking send out this

00:51:16.829 --> 00:51:19.889
fighter pilot that will fight for me and stay

00:51:19.889 --> 00:51:22.010
within range and i can give it commands and shit

00:51:22.010 --> 00:51:23.489
like that i don't know what the commands are

00:51:23.489 --> 00:51:25.070
i don't know what they're macro to i'd have to

00:51:25.070 --> 00:51:29.309
have a look and then i've gone from having the

00:51:29.309 --> 00:51:32.199
ship that i was using that had two laser cannons,

00:51:32.340 --> 00:51:34.320
gimbaled laser cannons, so you didn't really

00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.280
have to aim, and then two multi -cannons for

00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:39.320
once you take down the shield, you can then blow

00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:41.400
them up. Again, they were gimbaled, so I didn't

00:51:41.400 --> 00:51:44.460
have to do a lot. I've now got seven of those.

00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:48.539
So I've got two lasers, and then I've got five

00:51:48.539 --> 00:51:52.860
hard, I've got five cannons now. And I haven't

00:51:52.860 --> 00:51:55.199
killed a single thing because I haven't encountered

00:51:55.199 --> 00:51:57.579
anyone yet. But I'm an exploration geezer. You

00:51:57.579 --> 00:51:59.199
don't know how to fire them, do you? No, I do.

00:51:59.300 --> 00:52:01.820
I've set them all up. I've set them all up, but

00:52:01.820 --> 00:52:04.920
I haven't used them yet. Because I'm pure exploration.

00:52:05.059 --> 00:52:07.380
But I was like, I've got the hard points. I was

00:52:07.380 --> 00:52:09.440
like, I need to defend myself if something happens.

00:52:09.679 --> 00:52:12.840
And so fuck it. Let's fully kid it out. And it's

00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:15.840
just, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. I'll

00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:18.559
send the two little lasers out. Because obviously

00:52:18.559 --> 00:52:22.489
you can just fire willy -nilly. And then I was

00:52:22.489 --> 00:52:24.570
like, let's see what five cannons look like.

00:52:24.929 --> 00:52:28.889
It's fucking D -Day. I'm sure there's some other

00:52:28.889 --> 00:52:31.369
mad shit there. This is just scratching the surface.

00:52:31.730 --> 00:52:34.590
But the fact that this is an exploration ship

00:52:34.590 --> 00:52:38.190
and I'm just sending fucking hell out into space.

00:52:38.309 --> 00:52:40.610
I'm like, I want to see what that does to a ship.

00:52:40.789 --> 00:52:44.210
I want to see what happens with that. But there's

00:52:44.210 --> 00:52:48.889
all sorts of shit, man. It's so incredibly in

00:52:48.889 --> 00:52:52.949
-depth. It's mental. It really is that make or

00:52:52.949 --> 00:52:57.829
break. If you like space and have the time to

00:52:57.829 --> 00:53:00.389
work out what it is the fuck that you're doing,

00:53:00.630 --> 00:53:03.369
then it's really, really good. It sounds very

00:53:03.369 --> 00:53:08.130
much like a grown -up No Man's Sky. That's exactly

00:53:08.130 --> 00:53:10.989
what it is. Because No Man's Sky, as I said before,

00:53:11.130 --> 00:53:13.510
the biggest thing that lets it down for me is

00:53:13.510 --> 00:53:16.170
just I want to be able to actually shoot things

00:53:16.170 --> 00:53:19.630
and raid planet... settlements and stuff but

00:53:19.630 --> 00:53:21.269
you can't you just shoot something and then fucking

00:53:21.269 --> 00:53:23.769
robots come out yeah that's a bit well there's

00:53:23.769 --> 00:53:26.429
entire missions that are that there's entire

00:53:26.429 --> 00:53:29.809
missions of go and breach this settlement go

00:53:29.809 --> 00:53:33.389
and retrieve such and such like on foot and then

00:53:33.389 --> 00:53:35.389
like they said in that review there's fucking

00:53:35.389 --> 00:53:37.750
missions where you're transporting NPCs I saw

00:53:37.750 --> 00:53:40.670
a vendor where you could buy slaves don't know

00:53:40.670 --> 00:53:42.530
what that is but I'm sure there's something to

00:53:42.530 --> 00:53:46.449
do with slavery there's there's shit where they'd

00:53:46.449 --> 00:53:48.849
like go and get me such and such and you'll have

00:53:48.849 --> 00:53:51.489
to go and find a system that sells whatever it

00:53:51.489 --> 00:53:56.409
is the story is completely community driven like

00:53:56.409 --> 00:53:58.710
they said in that review the entire thing and

00:53:58.710 --> 00:54:01.010
when I first looked at it years ago I was like

00:54:01.010 --> 00:54:02.829
I have no idea what this is this was back when

00:54:02.829 --> 00:54:05.050
I was still on Facebook and I remember joining

00:54:05.050 --> 00:54:08.010
a load of things with it and every now and then

00:54:08.010 --> 00:54:10.849
I'd see it pop up where it'd be like an event

00:54:11.289 --> 00:54:13.909
And it's like, oh, 10 ,000 people have been fighting

00:54:13.909 --> 00:54:15.610
for such and such. And I'd think, what the fuck

00:54:15.610 --> 00:54:17.130
are they on about? Now that I play the game,

00:54:17.469 --> 00:54:20.909
it genuinely is. It's 10 ,000 people in a system,

00:54:20.969 --> 00:54:23.670
obviously trying to take a faction back or something.

00:54:23.809 --> 00:54:29.170
And they're just fighting. It's bonkers. I haven't,

00:54:29.170 --> 00:54:31.070
other than the Fuel Rats, I haven't encountered

00:54:31.070 --> 00:54:34.949
a single other player, which is fine because

00:54:34.949 --> 00:54:38.630
I'm in deep space in the Milky Way galaxy. That's

00:54:38.630 --> 00:54:40.639
the whole point. It'd be terrifying if you did

00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:42.579
that. Yeah, because I don't know if they're going

00:54:42.579 --> 00:54:45.139
to try and kill me or what. I have no idea. Obviously,

00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:48.820
if you die, you just get to respawn in another

00:54:48.820 --> 00:54:53.119
system and buy back your ship. Again, the ship

00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:55.159
that I bought, because I bought it, it doesn't

00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:57.019
cost me anything to bring it back. But all the

00:54:57.019 --> 00:54:58.460
hard points and everything I've added onto it,

00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:02.659
it does, blah, blah, blah. Very fun. It's cost

00:55:02.659 --> 00:55:05.900
me fucking four quid. It's the best four quid

00:55:05.900 --> 00:55:10.500
I've spent for a sim. It's mad. It's mad, mad,

00:55:10.539 --> 00:55:13.320
mad. Just be aware, if you're listening to this

00:55:13.320 --> 00:55:16.280
thinking, I'll give it a go, it's a fucking sim,

00:55:16.420 --> 00:55:19.059
all right? I've seen people play it with flight

00:55:19.059 --> 00:55:22.139
controls and all that shit, and it looks incredible,

00:55:22.380 --> 00:55:25.780
but it is a steep, steep, steep learning curve.

00:55:26.019 --> 00:55:28.519
It's like Gran Turismo for driving games. Yeah,

00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:31.940
it needs a lot of, I've looked at a lot of guides,

00:55:32.179 --> 00:55:36.230
and, well, not so much guides, more... I've come

00:55:36.230 --> 00:55:38.789
across something, have no idea what I'm doing,

00:55:38.889 --> 00:55:41.690
so I've Googled it to work it out and typically

00:55:41.690 --> 00:55:44.409
gone to Reddit or a forum. I like doing that.

00:55:44.489 --> 00:55:46.369
I like games where you have to look stuff up.

00:55:46.409 --> 00:55:48.690
I don't know why, I just always have. I like

00:55:48.690 --> 00:55:51.429
looking things up because then you just, I don't

00:55:51.429 --> 00:55:52.610
know, it gives you something to do when you're

00:55:52.610 --> 00:55:55.429
having a poo. Yeah, literally that, yeah. Rather

00:55:55.429 --> 00:55:58.829
than fucking watch a YouTube video, I'll read

00:55:58.829 --> 00:56:01.710
this guide. And there's something, I've got it.

00:56:02.090 --> 00:56:04.769
key bound to x if you press x it kills all your

00:56:04.769 --> 00:56:08.309
thrusters so and then if i if you press the mouse

00:56:08.309 --> 00:56:10.909
wheel in it changes you so you've got your view

00:56:10.909 --> 00:56:13.989
your camera view like if i'm in the cockpit where

00:56:13.989 --> 00:56:16.389
i'm controlling the ship and move it around if

00:56:16.389 --> 00:56:19.449
i press the scroll wheel in it stops me from

00:56:19.449 --> 00:56:21.170
moving the ship around and i can look around

00:56:21.170 --> 00:56:23.650
my own cockpit and there's something very cool

00:56:23.650 --> 00:56:26.650
about if you push it over to the right I'm suddenly

00:56:26.650 --> 00:56:28.789
yawing and I'm just fucking spinning around.

00:56:28.909 --> 00:56:31.530
If I click that in, it immediately stops it because

00:56:31.530 --> 00:56:35.469
I've locked the controls. And there's just something

00:56:35.469 --> 00:56:39.889
satisfying about being able to do that. Yeah,

00:56:39.949 --> 00:56:42.530
very... A game that I didn't think that I would

00:56:42.530 --> 00:56:45.489
enjoy, but very much enjoy it. Have you seen

00:56:45.489 --> 00:56:49.369
anything on Marathon? The server slam this weekend.

00:56:49.829 --> 00:56:52.170
Who gives a fuck? I've watched a lot of stuff

00:56:52.170 --> 00:56:55.159
on it. Who gives a fuck? I'm just like, what

00:56:55.159 --> 00:57:00.820
do you do this for, man? I don't even like the

00:57:00.820 --> 00:57:03.960
art style. Everything's square. It's like Minecraft.

00:57:04.500 --> 00:57:06.940
Yeah, the art style's horrible. It's bright colours.

00:57:07.019 --> 00:57:11.400
It looks stupid. The name's stupid. Everything's

00:57:11.400 --> 00:57:15.739
fucking square. Yeah. And it's just, oh, I don't

00:57:15.739 --> 00:57:18.699
know, man. The cinematics and everything, fantastic.

00:57:19.179 --> 00:57:22.750
But the game itself... Just doesn't look... Should

00:57:22.750 --> 00:57:27.510
have just made Destiny 3, man. Yep. Or just abolish

00:57:27.510 --> 00:57:30.409
Destiny 2 and just make Destiny and just have

00:57:30.409 --> 00:57:34.170
it like the World of Warcraft of space FPS loot.

00:57:34.210 --> 00:57:36.849
Or like what they've done with fucking Overwatch.

00:57:37.190 --> 00:57:39.309
It isn't Overwatch 2 anymore. It's just Overwatch.

00:57:39.590 --> 00:57:41.289
Which is how they should do it. Just combine

00:57:41.289 --> 00:57:43.909
it. If they want to have a continuation of the

00:57:43.909 --> 00:57:46.210
product and then you can just reiterate it. You

00:57:46.210 --> 00:57:49.369
can rebrand it again in 10 years and just be

00:57:49.369 --> 00:57:52.019
like... This is like the next gen of it, but

00:57:52.019 --> 00:57:55.579
it's still Destiny. It's just the upgraded version.

00:57:55.780 --> 00:57:59.920
Do you know what I mean? I don't. Fair enough

00:57:59.920 --> 00:58:03.429
for going in a different direction. Nah, man.

00:58:03.489 --> 00:58:06.130
Fuck them. They had the world in their fucking

00:58:06.130 --> 00:58:09.909
hand. They had the market cornered of space fucking

00:58:09.909 --> 00:58:11.809
looter shooters. Nothing's getting close to it.

00:58:11.909 --> 00:58:13.829
They could have expanded on it. They could have

00:58:13.829 --> 00:58:16.289
let you fly your ships instead of just loading

00:58:16.289 --> 00:58:18.090
screen. Even if you just got to fly a ship in

00:58:18.090 --> 00:58:20.550
the loading screen. They could have made things

00:58:20.550 --> 00:58:24.030
much better. Much more quality of life stuff

00:58:24.030 --> 00:58:26.170
because that game came out fucking years ago.

00:58:26.590 --> 00:58:30.929
I don't think it was time to turn your back on

00:58:30.929 --> 00:58:33.269
Destiny. I think it was time to have a drastic

00:58:33.269 --> 00:58:36.889
shake -up of how the game played or go in a different

00:58:36.889 --> 00:58:40.650
direction with the game itself rather than creating...

00:58:40.650 --> 00:58:42.869
Because it feels like so much resources have

00:58:42.869 --> 00:58:45.550
gone into Marathon as well. Well, it has, yeah.

00:58:45.750 --> 00:58:48.090
And I just don't believe that it's going to get

00:58:48.090 --> 00:58:52.199
the anticipated... No, it's not, mate. People

00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:54.659
are fuming about it still. I think you're going

00:58:54.659 --> 00:58:55.980
to get a lot of people playing it on release.

00:58:56.059 --> 00:58:57.619
I don't think it's going to last. Well, we'll

00:58:57.619 --> 00:58:59.079
find out this weekend because it's Serviceland

00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:00.840
this weekend and people will... I've already

00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:03.880
just seen someone say I've uninstalled it. You

00:59:03.880 --> 00:59:06.260
see what I mean? People that want to play Destiny

00:59:06.260 --> 00:59:09.820
want to play more Destiny. I had a friend on

00:59:09.820 --> 00:59:12.199
my friend list that had like 15 ,000 hours on

00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:14.840
it. Yeah. That's all he played. He had a PS5

00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:17.300
just to play Destiny. That's all he fucking played.

00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:19.780
We've all been there. Like you with World of

00:59:19.780 --> 00:59:22.059
Warcraft, obviously you move away now, but there's

00:59:22.059 --> 00:59:24.199
people that only ever play World of Warcraft.

00:59:24.360 --> 00:59:27.219
They'll buy a whole PC, best PC in the world,

00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:29.320
just to play World of Warcraft. There's people

00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:32.039
like that for Destiny, and they're the ones that...

00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:34.960
There's a reason Sony bought them. We were both

00:59:34.960 --> 00:59:38.199
there. Steph made me dinner and brought it to

00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:40.780
me like a scene out of South Park because I refused

00:59:40.780 --> 00:59:43.599
to get up and move because I was playing Destiny.

00:59:43.900 --> 00:59:49.579
It was like a 16 -hour non -stop play. That game

00:59:49.579 --> 00:59:52.429
had me. And it was a great game. And the best

00:59:52.429 --> 00:59:55.570
thing about it is that it felt and feels so good.

00:59:55.630 --> 00:59:57.710
It still does feel amazing. The gunplay of it.

00:59:57.730 --> 01:00:01.170
And it's the same feelings that I have towards

01:00:01.170 --> 01:00:04.670
The Division. The Division still feels and is

01:00:04.670 --> 01:00:08.150
an amazing game and has a very, very dedicated

01:00:08.150 --> 01:00:11.610
player base. When The Division 3 comes out, that's

01:00:11.610 --> 01:00:14.610
going to be great because it's just such a fucking

01:00:14.610 --> 01:00:18.130
cool game. And if I was still with The Curve,

01:00:18.170 --> 01:00:19.650
I'd probably still be playing it. But I'm too

01:00:19.650 --> 01:00:22.369
behind. There's other things like WoW that take

01:00:22.369 --> 01:00:27.130
up my time. But something like Marathon, it's

01:00:27.130 --> 01:00:29.769
just... I remember when I first see the announcement

01:00:29.769 --> 01:00:31.469
trailer for it and I was like, this game looks

01:00:31.469 --> 01:00:33.170
sick. Like, what is this? And then you see the

01:00:33.170 --> 01:00:35.329
gameplay and then it fucking comes up on screen

01:00:35.329 --> 01:00:39.769
where it's like an extraction fucking shooter,

01:00:39.829 --> 01:00:42.570
whatever the fuck it is. Battle Royale. What

01:00:42.570 --> 01:00:45.530
even the fuck is it? Extraction shooter. That's

01:00:45.530 --> 01:00:47.559
exactly what it is. Extraction shooter. It's

01:00:47.559 --> 01:00:49.539
just... They obviously started making this when

01:00:49.539 --> 01:00:51.800
Tarkov blew up in the stratosphere. It was like,

01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:54.039
Tarkov is the next big thing. Everyone was talking

01:00:54.039 --> 01:00:55.860
about Tarkov. Let's make an extraction shooter.

01:00:56.320 --> 01:00:58.940
And now extraction shooters are big, but they're

01:00:58.940 --> 01:01:01.940
not the battle royale. No, they're not. Unfortunately

01:01:01.940 --> 01:01:03.840
as well, if you're going into the extraction

01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:05.739
shooters, you've got to now compete with Ark

01:01:05.739 --> 01:01:09.480
Raiders. Yeah. A very, very difficult game to

01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:11.380
compete with. I don't know if Ark Raiders is

01:01:11.380 --> 01:01:13.420
still as popular as it... It's still very popular,

01:01:13.579 --> 01:01:15.969
yeah. Obviously, well, I'm not... I'm not linked

01:01:15.969 --> 01:01:22.289
into the zeitgeist of that world. Zeitgeist?

01:01:22.309 --> 01:01:24.110
What the fuck does that mean? You pulled that

01:01:24.110 --> 01:01:26.369
out of the fucking bag, didn't you? What does

01:01:26.369 --> 01:01:29.449
that mean? Zeitgeist. It's like the general...

01:01:29.449 --> 01:01:40.010
I like those two words. Zeitgeist. German for

01:01:40.010 --> 01:01:43.500
spirit of the times. dominant cultural intellectual

01:01:43.500 --> 01:01:46.099
ethical and political climate of a specific era

01:01:46.099 --> 01:01:49.119
the defining spirit collective mindset i see

01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:51.119
what you're saying collective mindset so it's

01:01:51.119 --> 01:01:53.880
like a hive mind in it zeitgeist yeah right i

01:01:53.880 --> 01:01:56.360
called it zeitgeist but zeitgeist yeah nabbed

01:01:56.360 --> 01:01:59.420
it yeah it's the the yeah the the hive mind the

01:01:59.420 --> 01:02:02.659
the current consensus of the of the general public

01:02:02.659 --> 01:02:05.500
some might say the zeitgeist the zeitgeist yeah

01:02:05.500 --> 01:02:09.820
so there's the general zeitgeist of is that marathon

01:02:09.820 --> 01:02:13.440
is going to be shit. We got there in the end.

01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:16.300
It's shit. It already is shit. It's going to

01:02:16.300 --> 01:02:18.619
be shit. It was shit when they fucking nicked

01:02:18.619 --> 01:02:20.239
the art and it was dead and buried from then,

01:02:20.280 --> 01:02:22.460
really. There was no coming back from it. And

01:02:22.460 --> 01:02:25.019
then they delayed it for... It's going to be

01:02:25.019 --> 01:02:27.699
another Concord. Yeah, it is, mate. And the newest

01:02:27.699 --> 01:02:30.079
Concord that just came out and fucking died,

01:02:30.219 --> 01:02:32.659
whatever that one was called. Yeah. What was

01:02:32.659 --> 01:02:34.059
that one? It was a new Concord that had done

01:02:34.059 --> 01:02:35.739
even worse, wasn't there? What was that called?

01:02:36.179 --> 01:02:38.159
Was it? It was like, we only need a really small

01:02:38.159 --> 01:02:40.239
player base to keep us going. And then they were

01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:42.199
like, oh, yeah, this ain't working. Pulled a

01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:46.039
plug. What fucking one was that? I know because

01:02:46.039 --> 01:02:52.000
you had the one that was 2024 that absolutely

01:02:52.000 --> 01:03:01.000
flopped. What one are you on about? Sony's Concord

01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:03.840
is playable again thanks to fan -made custom

01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:06.980
servers. Is that what you're talking about? No,

01:03:06.980 --> 01:03:08.739
no, no, no. There was another game that came

01:03:08.739 --> 01:03:12.400
out recently and it just went... I don't know

01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:13.760
what one you're on about, mate. Oh, it was the

01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:16.380
one that fucking... Geoff Keighley kept fucking

01:03:16.380 --> 01:03:18.900
bigging up on the Game Awards. And he was like,

01:03:18.940 --> 01:03:22.159
you're not going to believe this. What was the

01:03:22.159 --> 01:03:23.940
game that Geoff Keighley bigged up at the Game

01:03:23.940 --> 01:03:28.090
Awards and then died? What a thing to say to

01:03:28.090 --> 01:03:35.949
Google. What? I'm trying to... High guard. Oh,

01:03:35.969 --> 01:03:38.769
high guard. Yeah, that's dead. Yes, yes. High

01:03:38.769 --> 01:03:41.389
guard. Yeah, yeah. Because he had that as the

01:03:41.389 --> 01:03:43.250
final announcement. You're not going to believe

01:03:43.250 --> 01:03:46.429
your mind. Yeah. And then it's dead. And they

01:03:46.429 --> 01:03:48.750
were like, yeah, yeah, we don't need a massive

01:03:48.750 --> 01:03:50.969
player count to be successful. And then they

01:03:50.969 --> 01:03:53.670
had like 10, 15 ,000 players and they were like,

01:03:53.690 --> 01:03:58.139
yeah. Yeah, I saw High Guard pop up on Steam

01:03:58.139 --> 01:04:00.739
and I thought, what is that? I was like, I haven't

01:04:00.739 --> 01:04:02.619
seen anything to do with that. And then, yeah,

01:04:02.679 --> 01:04:05.960
I know exactly what you're talking about. Not

01:04:05.960 --> 01:04:09.579
good. It is, yeah. There's less than 20 staff

01:04:09.579 --> 01:04:12.239
remaining at the studio now. Oh, that's nice.

01:04:12.820 --> 01:04:14.920
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's dead. But

01:04:14.920 --> 01:04:18.820
not nice for them people and anyone related to

01:04:18.820 --> 01:04:21.500
Concord or any of that stuff. But there is a

01:04:21.500 --> 01:04:24.349
positive to take from it. And it's, look at these

01:04:24.349 --> 01:04:27.369
games that are literally dying on release because

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you're not fucking putting the time and effort

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in. Not the developers, so to speak, the people

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that release the game before it's ready, it's

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not finished. Yeah, but also you're not listening

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to, you're not reading what the current player

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base wants. Customer's always right. Yeah, I

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was talking to fucking Armit about this the other

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day in the office. He was talking about Star

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Wars. And I was like, they just refused to make...

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I was like, fucking pod racers. Who wants...

01:04:58.230 --> 01:05:00.150
Yes, it looks cool, but who the fuck wants that?

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Who's asking for that? No one wants that. I said,

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out of the entire universe of Star Wars, I said,

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all the shit that you could do. I was like, bring

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fucking Battlefront back. Because he was saying

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how fun that was. I was like, just fucking bring

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that back. Like, you had it. You had the fucking

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world in the palm of your hands and you fucked

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it with loot boxes. You let your wallets get

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in the way. You know what I mean? You couldn't

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see the bigger picture of, right, I could have

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100 grand now or I could have fucking a million

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in five years. I think I'm going to take that.

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Like, you couldn't see the overall scope of it.

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Yeah, and I feel like that's what happens. Fucking

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extraction shooters and battle royales, fuck

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them off. Fuck them off. There's already too

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many of them. This is exactly what happened with

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Battle Royales. Exactly what happened. Every

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cunt thought, let me jump on that bandwagon.

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No, be unique. Make something fucking cool. Or,

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if you're like Bungie, where you already have

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something incredible and no competitor, just

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go back to your roots and build something special.

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Don't do what Assassin's Creed's doing. and doing

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all that weird shit. I pray to God that Assassin's

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Creed Hex is cool and fucking gritty. But I know

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it's not going to be. I know it's not going to

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be. You know what I mean? Of course they will.

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That franchise is dead in the water, bro. Take

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the fucking name away and it'll be like... Yeah,

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it's sad when developers put all that time and

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effort into a game and then it flops. But at

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the same time... That's what happens when you

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make... Why am I seeing... I've just clicked

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on it. Why am I seeing a geezer fucking run across

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the map that looks like it's taken straight out

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of fucking Respawn's catalogue on a horse and

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then there's a geezer with a fucking alien shotgun?

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Oh, no. What's going on? It's just terrible.

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It's shit, but it's also positive because people

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will be... I suppose it isn't positive, but I

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think people will be more sceptical about dumping

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unlimited funds into... shit games so i hope

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people get better games rather than this fucking

01:07:05.329 --> 01:07:08.769
hero shooter slop wait for light no fire yeah

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we won't make a segment about it but fucking

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wait for that because that's going to be sick

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yeah hopefully i hope so fuck off see you later