WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.160 What's the buttons podcast? In. I'm in. I've 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:11.019 pressed it. Good to go. Hello. I'm back. Question 00:00:11.019 --> 00:00:15.300 of the day. Have you ever exploded a stress ball 00:00:15.300 --> 00:00:17.760 in front of your boss and covered a computer 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:20.660 and yourself in sticky liquid? Do you want to 00:00:20.660 --> 00:00:22.359 tell them what kind of stress ball it was? It 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:24.100 wasn't just any stress ball. It was a bum bum. 00:00:24.140 --> 00:00:27.300 It was a bum. It was a bum in a bikini. Yeah. 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:32.189 Yeah, me and... me ash and and the director of 00:00:32.189 --> 00:00:35.750 the company we work for having probably one of 00:00:35.750 --> 00:00:37.649 the most serious conversations we could have 00:00:37.649 --> 00:00:42.630 outside of a formal setting and ash is sitting 00:00:42.630 --> 00:00:44.409 down next to me and then i just hear this like 00:00:44.409 --> 00:00:48.969 and i look like i just looked over and he's just 00:00:48.969 --> 00:00:53.030 covered in liquid all over the computer over 00:00:53.030 --> 00:00:56.890 the laptop all over your trousers the desk and 00:00:56.890 --> 00:01:00.210 it was the stress ball It's getting to you. It 00:01:00.210 --> 00:01:02.390 went pop. I've never seen that happen. And it 00:01:02.390 --> 00:01:05.129 was just so funny. It was very funny. But it 00:01:05.129 --> 00:01:07.469 was the moment of shock where it happened, it 00:01:07.469 --> 00:01:10.310 burst. And then I looked down and I didn't look 00:01:10.310 --> 00:01:13.409 up for a good five, ten seconds. The realisation 00:01:13.409 --> 00:01:15.930 of what had just happened. Yeah. And I think 00:01:15.930 --> 00:01:20.670 it took our director about two seconds to realise 00:01:20.670 --> 00:01:22.810 what happened because there was just silence. 00:01:23.170 --> 00:01:26.500 He just stopped talking and then nothing. I was 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:28.599 looking down and then he just kind of burst out 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:30.400 laughing, which made me feel better. I thought 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:32.340 you'd open up a can of drink and it just fizzed 00:01:32.340 --> 00:01:35.079 everywhere. But no, it was a stress ball of gooey 00:01:35.079 --> 00:01:38.540 liquid. And there was a lot of it in there. There 00:01:38.540 --> 00:01:40.620 was a hell of a lot. They managed to pack them 00:01:40.620 --> 00:01:44.819 fuckers about a litre's worth of goo in a... 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.239 pocket sized ball so safe to say I'm a bit stressed 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:51.319 at work at the moment no stress balls no more 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:54.340 stress balls but it's a good moment because no 00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:57.819 one was hurt and something I'll remember for 00:01:57.819 --> 00:02:00.120 the rest of my life yeah everyone's a winner 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.859 really yeah decent that's all I got anyway I 00:02:03.859 --> 00:02:10.699 know that Mark has been been waiting for this 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.000 um i don't think i ever officially announced 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:18.340 it but um today's like a weird one because it's 00:02:18.340 --> 00:02:20.460 friday the 13th but not like your traditional 00:02:20.460 --> 00:02:24.080 oh halloween time it's just a the 13th and it's 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:27.060 falling on a friday so i guess it's friday the 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:30.120 13th everyone as it was last month yeah yeah 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:33.020 that's why it's a bit it's a bit weird um but 00:02:33.020 --> 00:02:34.979 i said to myself because mark was talking about 00:02:34.979 --> 00:02:37.699 it um and i was like fuck it i was like you know 00:02:37.699 --> 00:02:41.639 what i'll play a horror game in in the spirit 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:47.219 of friday the 13th and i absolutely hate them 00:02:47.219 --> 00:02:49.780 with a passion i've always wanted to play them 00:02:49.780 --> 00:02:53.580 and play them through uh and get that bug but 00:02:53.580 --> 00:02:55.819 i fucking hate them so i've never done it and 00:02:55.819 --> 00:02:58.680 then i was going to buy a game called um visage 00:02:59.590 --> 00:03:02.009 Visage. Visage. It looks fucking terrifying. 00:03:02.110 --> 00:03:03.830 And Mark said to me, he was like, I've had that 00:03:03.830 --> 00:03:05.509 in my wishlist for ages and I still haven't bought 00:03:05.509 --> 00:03:07.050 it. So I was like, right, well, if you haven't 00:03:07.050 --> 00:03:10.650 bought it, then I know it's bad. And then it 00:03:10.650 --> 00:03:13.189 was, funnily enough, it was Mark and Steph. And 00:03:13.189 --> 00:03:14.789 they were like, haven't you got Resident Evil 00:03:14.789 --> 00:03:18.750 7 already on the PlayStation? And I was like, 00:03:18.770 --> 00:03:20.969 yeah, I do. So I was like, fuck it. I'll download 00:03:20.969 --> 00:03:25.189 that and give it a crack. I hate it. I hate it. 00:03:25.250 --> 00:03:29.550 I'm just under five hours in. I know at a push 00:03:29.550 --> 00:03:31.409 you can get the game done in six hours, but I'm 00:03:31.409 --> 00:03:33.409 not there yet. So it's about a 10 -hour game 00:03:33.409 --> 00:03:36.990 for me. So it's not very long, but it sucks. 00:03:37.430 --> 00:03:40.969 You say that. Where are you in the game? Because 00:03:40.969 --> 00:03:43.449 I can tell you right now if you're even close 00:03:43.449 --> 00:03:45.629 to getting to that time of being able to finish 00:03:45.629 --> 00:03:50.770 it. The mum with the long arms and legs. Oh, 00:03:50.810 --> 00:03:54.080 the spider bitch. Yeah, spider bitch. No, you're 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:57.280 fucking miles off it. You're miles off it still, 00:03:57.460 --> 00:04:02.199 bro. Miles. I can't do it. Well, no, I will do 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:03.500 it. I'm going to have to do it. But it's just 00:04:03.500 --> 00:04:08.080 horrible, man. It's really, really not nice. 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:12.520 But Mark keeps saying to me, you'll enjoy it. 00:04:12.539 --> 00:04:14.060 Once it's done, you'll enjoy it and you'll want 00:04:14.060 --> 00:04:15.419 to play another one and you'll want to play another 00:04:15.419 --> 00:04:17.420 one. And I can kind of see where you're coming 00:04:17.420 --> 00:04:22.050 from because once you get that frill. of it and 00:04:22.050 --> 00:04:24.250 you get over that hurdle of, I'm not going to 00:04:24.250 --> 00:04:27.089 get hurt. It's just a fucking, like the, the, 00:04:27.129 --> 00:04:31.029 the geezer with the chainsaw, the dad, I'm going 00:04:31.029 --> 00:04:32.910 to assume he's dead because when I last see him, 00:04:32.930 --> 00:04:35.689 he was just a pair of legs on the floor. So I 00:04:35.689 --> 00:04:37.310 don't, so I don't know if he's fully dead because 00:04:37.310 --> 00:04:38.850 I thought he was dead before that. And then he 00:04:38.850 --> 00:04:40.649 come out, I've killed him fucking three times. 00:04:41.170 --> 00:04:43.430 So I, so I don't know. I'm going to assume he 00:04:43.430 --> 00:04:45.850 comes back in some form of capacity. Fuck knows. 00:04:46.310 --> 00:04:50.230 Um, but, uh, I just remembered another bit you've 00:04:50.230 --> 00:04:53.629 got to do as well. You've got miles, bro. See, 00:04:53.709 --> 00:04:55.449 this is what I'm saying, because I spoke to Dean 00:04:55.449 --> 00:05:02.250 about it, fucking thingy Dean, and obviously 00:05:02.250 --> 00:05:04.550 he loves horrors, and he was saying, he was like, 00:05:04.670 --> 00:05:05.790 yeah, he's like, the problem with horrors is 00:05:05.790 --> 00:05:08.509 like, this day and age, they're not scary enough. 00:05:08.790 --> 00:05:10.790 He was like, they don't do anything for me. But 00:05:10.790 --> 00:05:13.100 he was like... Resident Evil 7 he was like that 00:05:13.100 --> 00:05:15.519 was pretty scary I mean if you're fucking saying 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.519 it's scary then then what the fuck Mark's also 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:20.920 said to me he asked me where I'm at and I told 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:23.139 him the spider bitch and he just said yeah have 00:05:23.139 --> 00:05:27.800 fun oh yeah great that's fantastic are you fighting 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:31.560 her or I'm about to she's a hard boss I've already 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.139 fought her because you fall into that pit and 00:05:34.139 --> 00:05:36.500 then she's sending like bugs at you and I've 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:39.939 fucked her up in there and then obviously You 00:05:39.939 --> 00:05:42.060 then see her long arm stretch out and grab the 00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:44.620 lamp and then fucking she disappears. And I remember 00:05:44.620 --> 00:05:48.279 seeing clips of her on TikTok and stuff. So I'm 00:05:48.279 --> 00:05:52.920 not completely oblivious to the outlay of the 00:05:52.920 --> 00:05:55.459 game. I know that somewhere towards the end, 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.860 you're in a boat with Mia. But I don't know all 00:05:59.860 --> 00:06:03.259 of it. I know there's different endings. But 00:06:03.259 --> 00:06:05.079 there's definitely a lot of shit that I'm doing 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:07.980 where I have never seen it before. So I honestly 00:06:07.980 --> 00:06:13.300 have... no idea what's happening but it's a weird 00:06:13.300 --> 00:06:19.560 one Jack that bit where you do kill him and he's 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:21.800 just a set of legs I can see how that would be 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:24.000 scary but once you realise you can just cheese 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:25.720 that encounter with the pillar that's in the 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.379 middle so I just kept fucking slowly moving around 00:06:28.379 --> 00:06:31.240 that and he couldn't attack me it weren't too 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:36.480 bad but he's not scary he just follows you whereas 00:06:37.579 --> 00:06:40.620 But the other things that are going to... Those 00:06:40.620 --> 00:06:44.720 fucking mould people things, those black things, 00:06:44.899 --> 00:06:47.199 I nearly lost my shit. You know when we first 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:48.720 played Elden Ring and I rung you up and I was 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:50.699 like, I cannot do this. I've had enough. That 00:06:50.699 --> 00:06:52.459 happened. Because it's about ten of the fucking 00:06:52.459 --> 00:06:55.180 things. I'm shit at aiming. And then I spoke 00:06:55.180 --> 00:06:56.660 to Mark about it and he was like, no. He was 00:06:56.660 --> 00:06:58.220 like, just run past them. He was like, you don't 00:06:58.220 --> 00:06:59.399 have to kill them. He was like, conserve your 00:06:59.399 --> 00:07:00.879 ammo. He was like, you don't have to kill everything. 00:07:01.060 --> 00:07:02.879 So you don't get anything for killing them. And 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:04.540 sure enough, that's what I did. When I went back, 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:07.689 I fucking... I killed that one that's in the 00:07:07.689 --> 00:07:10.410 container thing to get some keys. Got the spider 00:07:10.410 --> 00:07:12.990 key or whatever it was. And then just fucking 00:07:12.990 --> 00:07:15.870 ran through the furnace bit. And then unlocked 00:07:15.870 --> 00:07:18.470 the door and then boom, they disappear. So that 00:07:18.470 --> 00:07:23.709 was nice for me. I'm easing into it more. But 00:07:23.709 --> 00:07:28.730 it's just shit. It's really shit. I've got a 00:07:28.730 --> 00:07:31.649 shotgun. I've got a flamethrower. I've got a 00:07:31.649 --> 00:07:35.800 pistol. And I don't feel safe. You're never supposed 00:07:35.800 --> 00:07:38.319 to. I don't feel safe at all. It's just everything's 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:41.420 fucking... It's just anxiety. But whenever I'm 00:07:41.420 --> 00:07:44.620 playing it, I'm trying to relive the TikTok videos 00:07:44.620 --> 00:07:48.819 in my head to just give my mind a bit of comfort 00:07:48.819 --> 00:07:52.620 to try and remember scenes that were scary so 00:07:52.620 --> 00:07:55.300 that I'm not fucking scared when they come up. 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:58.839 And so far, it's not done me any service. It's 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.540 done me nothing. And Steph's away for five days. 00:08:02.089 --> 00:08:03.610 Yeah, there's no way you're playing it now, sure. 00:08:03.689 --> 00:08:05.310 There's no fucking way. Well, I'm going to have 00:08:05.310 --> 00:08:07.870 to. I played it on my own yesterday because I 00:08:07.870 --> 00:08:11.529 got to the mould, people. Kept fucking dying. 00:08:12.350 --> 00:08:14.629 And I was like, I cannot be bothered. I'm not 00:08:14.629 --> 00:08:16.930 doing this. And then I sat myself down and went, 00:08:16.949 --> 00:08:19.670 no, you need to... You can fucking ask Steph. 00:08:19.730 --> 00:08:22.569 I was getting well pissed off of it. And I turned 00:08:22.569 --> 00:08:24.370 it off and I said, no, I'll come back to it refreshed. 00:08:24.889 --> 00:08:26.649 And usually that's the point where I don't come 00:08:26.649 --> 00:08:29.050 back to it ever again. And I go, I'm safe. I 00:08:29.050 --> 00:08:32.110 can just play World of Warcraft. I'm busy. I've 00:08:32.110 --> 00:08:36.490 got things to do on there. I was like, no, let's 00:08:36.490 --> 00:08:40.850 continue. Let's keep going. And then, yeah, obviously, 00:08:40.909 --> 00:08:44.389 Manister gave me those tips. So I went back onto 00:08:44.389 --> 00:08:46.470 it. And then, yeah, when I got home yesterday, 00:08:46.669 --> 00:08:48.690 I didn't want to play it. I was like, I cannot 00:08:48.690 --> 00:08:52.269 be bothered. So I stuck about two and a bit hours 00:08:52.269 --> 00:08:58.450 into it of playing it. There's no way people 00:08:58.450 --> 00:09:01.480 play these for fun. They don't play them for 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.100 fun. Some people do. But they need help. Yeah, 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:08.899 I know. They need therapy. They need psychoanalysis. 00:09:09.580 --> 00:09:12.080 Because it's just, how are people enjoying this 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:15.779 shit? There's nothing fun about this. It's dark. 00:09:15.899 --> 00:09:18.799 It's scary. I feel alone. I'm playing it with 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:21.120 all the lights on and the radios turned on. I 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.100 need to feel safe. You don't even put headphones 00:09:23.100 --> 00:09:26.320 on. Nah, bro. I ain't fucking doing that. I ain't 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:28.320 doing that. That's the real thing. I'm not doing 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:30.600 that shit. It brought me back to the geezer when, 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:35.019 was it me and Steph that did an episode? It was 00:09:35.019 --> 00:09:38.059 me and John. When I was talking about that streamer 00:09:38.059 --> 00:09:40.940 that does a YouTube channel about his camper 00:09:40.940 --> 00:09:44.419 van and the life he lives out of his camper van. 00:09:44.580 --> 00:09:47.039 And then he did that one video where he live 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.460 streamed him playing fucking Slender Man in the 00:09:50.460 --> 00:09:53.240 middle of the woods with a headset on in the 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:55.860 middle of the night. And he only did it the once 00:09:55.860 --> 00:09:59.080 and I can fucking understand it. Yeah. Now he 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:02.220 just does the camping videos. Yeah, it's not 00:10:02.220 --> 00:10:05.559 the games don't scare me. The enemies don't scare 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:09.320 me. It's the fear of dread that I get. And I 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:11.259 don't know what I'm dreading because whenever 00:10:11.259 --> 00:10:14.080 anything pops up, I'm not like, oh, I nearly 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:17.480 died. Or, oh, you're terrifying to look at and 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:21.129 you're making me scared. It's the... The dread 00:10:21.129 --> 00:10:23.710 of the unknown. It's the anxiety. Yeah, it's 00:10:23.710 --> 00:10:26.309 like, especially the first person ones. When 00:10:26.309 --> 00:10:28.230 you're just walking along, you just feel like 00:10:28.230 --> 00:10:30.909 there's someone behind me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:10:31.029 --> 00:10:34.990 Whenever I open a door or I look in some cupboards 00:10:34.990 --> 00:10:37.169 or do something, I think I'm going to spin around 00:10:37.169 --> 00:10:40.309 and something's going to fucking grab me. That's 00:10:40.309 --> 00:10:43.409 the problem. It's more the fear than the dread 00:10:43.409 --> 00:10:46.029 as opposed to the actual scary bits. But it's 00:10:46.029 --> 00:10:49.090 just the initial fear. If I get jump scared... 00:10:49.450 --> 00:10:52.549 And then I die or whatever. I know the next time 00:10:52.549 --> 00:10:54.570 I'm sweet because I know exactly what's going 00:10:54.570 --> 00:10:56.970 to happen. Exactly. It's just the jump scare 00:10:56.970 --> 00:10:58.870 of it. There's nothing physically that I'm looking 00:10:58.870 --> 00:11:01.710 at where I think, oh, I'm terrified of what I'm 00:11:01.710 --> 00:11:04.009 seeing. I'm not. You've just scared me because 00:11:04.009 --> 00:11:05.970 you caught me off guard. But everything I'm looking 00:11:05.970 --> 00:11:09.870 at, like the spider bitch, she's grim, but she 00:11:09.870 --> 00:11:13.509 also looks kind of cool. I'm not scared of her. 00:11:15.750 --> 00:11:20.169 Yeah, it's just a fucking... It's a tough old 00:11:20.169 --> 00:11:24.710 game. Tough old game. Yeah. Speed run it. I'm 00:11:24.710 --> 00:11:26.230 not doing that. I'm going to finish this one 00:11:26.230 --> 00:11:27.909 and I'm not picking up another one. That's it. 00:11:28.149 --> 00:11:29.750 Just so I can sit there and say I've done it. 00:11:29.830 --> 00:11:31.389 The fact that I thought I'd be able to play it 00:11:31.389 --> 00:11:34.309 in VR when I first got it was madness. No way 00:11:34.309 --> 00:11:35.750 I could do that. That sort of shit would give 00:11:35.750 --> 00:11:38.049 people PTSD one day, man. You can't do that. 00:11:38.269 --> 00:11:43.250 I got as far as the ladders when you go downstairs. 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:48.039 in the crawl space or whatever it is no sorry 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.679 when you go when when you're the filming the 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:55.299 geezers in that vhs tape oh yeah and then they 00:11:55.299 --> 00:11:57.299 go downstairs and one of them's fucking his eyeballs 00:11:57.299 --> 00:11:59.419 and popped out of some shit i got as far as going 00:11:59.419 --> 00:12:01.659 down them stairs and that was it yeah down them 00:12:01.659 --> 00:12:06.000 ladders doing that in vr is fucking yeah it's 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:08.159 naughty yeah because i can imagine that bit when 00:12:08.730 --> 00:12:11.549 Mia comes up the stairs the first time in VR 00:12:11.549 --> 00:12:14.230 would be fucking terrifying it's horrible because 00:12:14.230 --> 00:12:17.950 it's like obviously it's full on first person 00:12:17.950 --> 00:12:23.070 as well so it's grim and unlike the game where 00:12:23.070 --> 00:12:26.870 you're playing it outside of VR you can fully 00:12:26.870 --> 00:12:33.009 fucking look round and everything so fuck doing 00:12:33.009 --> 00:12:34.909 it in VR you just have to shut your eyes that's 00:12:34.909 --> 00:12:37.690 what I was doing And then I was like, this isn't 00:12:37.690 --> 00:12:41.110 even remotely enjoyable. I'm not doing this. 00:12:41.190 --> 00:12:43.350 I've been watching, I'm on like part five of 00:12:43.350 --> 00:12:45.669 someone playing the new Resident Evil. Because 00:12:45.669 --> 00:12:48.870 I knew, I love the games and I've played most 00:12:48.870 --> 00:12:51.789 of them. But I'm just, I can't put myself through 00:12:51.789 --> 00:12:54.009 it. And I'm not, as I say, I'm not scared of 00:12:54.009 --> 00:12:56.429 it. It's the dread of playing it. And it's just 00:12:56.429 --> 00:12:59.389 weird. I'm not a scared man, but I don't like 00:12:59.389 --> 00:13:04.820 the uneasy feeling. So yeah, it's... I'm watching 00:13:04.820 --> 00:13:06.659 it and it doesn't bother me at all because I'm 00:13:06.659 --> 00:13:08.220 do you know what I think it is I think it's the 00:13:08.220 --> 00:13:11.500 vibration of the controllers because I know something's 00:13:11.500 --> 00:13:13.399 happening that's fine I know something's going 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:15.919 to come around this corner but because I know 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:18.779 I can watch a film nothing really ever makes 00:13:18.779 --> 00:13:21.019 me jump no matter how scary it is so I'm watching 00:13:21.019 --> 00:13:23.019 a scary film I'm anticipating it so I'm just 00:13:23.019 --> 00:13:26.440 waiting oh there it is oh god woo But when you 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:28.659 know something scary is going to happen in a 00:13:28.659 --> 00:13:30.620 game, you're waiting for it. But then that vibration 00:13:30.620 --> 00:13:33.279 gives you a physical sensation. And that's what 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:37.480 I think makes me anxious. The vibration itself 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.879 is not the thing. It's the physical along with 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:45.039 the visual as a combination makes me jump or 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:48.019 whatever. And, yeah, I don't like it. I said 00:13:48.019 --> 00:13:51.179 to Gem, I'll buy the new Resident Evil for her, 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:53.820 but you have to play it. I'll sit there and watch 00:13:53.820 --> 00:13:57.070 you play it. But she said no. Not that she's 00:13:57.070 --> 00:13:59.049 scared, she just hasn't got time. Because I'm 00:13:59.049 --> 00:14:02.149 a massive loser and she's an adult. But it's 00:14:02.149 --> 00:14:03.909 easier to watch someone else fucking play it. 00:14:03.970 --> 00:14:05.110 That's what I mean. Because you end up dealing 00:14:05.110 --> 00:14:06.970 with the shit. Exactly, but I'm still, it's no 00:14:06.970 --> 00:14:08.669 different. All I'm just doing is not holding 00:14:08.669 --> 00:14:10.450 the controller. It's exactly the same. I know, 00:14:10.490 --> 00:14:12.830 but you lose that sense of immersion. That's 00:14:12.830 --> 00:14:14.309 what I'm saying. It's because you're holding 00:14:14.309 --> 00:14:16.529 the controller and it's fucking vibrating. That's 00:14:16.529 --> 00:14:19.809 the physical part of it. Other than that, there's 00:14:19.809 --> 00:14:22.090 nothing. I could sit next to her and play with 00:14:22.090 --> 00:14:23.350 a controller that's not turned on. It wouldn't 00:14:23.350 --> 00:14:27.100 bother me. until it makes a vroom. The bit that 00:14:27.100 --> 00:14:29.580 gets me is when I'm being chased. When I'm being 00:14:29.580 --> 00:14:31.419 chased and I can't see what's chasing me and 00:14:31.419 --> 00:14:33.279 I can't turn around to have a look, that's what 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:36.639 gets me. I always, I panic. I go, oh my God, 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.840 oh my God, oh my God. And then fucking, yeah. 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.879 I think, but I also get enjoyment out of those 00:14:43.879 --> 00:14:46.259 moments because they're always funny because 00:14:46.259 --> 00:14:48.620 you get that burst of exhilaration and you're 00:14:48.620 --> 00:14:50.080 like, no, I'm sweet. It's like a constant up 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:52.340 and down. That's why I have so much fun playing 00:14:52.340 --> 00:14:55.519 Dead by Daylight. Because when you're getting 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:58.440 chased, it's fun. You're a screamer, though, 00:14:58.460 --> 00:15:01.279 aren't you? Yeah. When everything happens, I 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.940 don't make noises. Yeah, no, I'm flat out fucking 00:15:03.940 --> 00:15:07.639 loud as you like. I think because it helps me 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:10.720 find the funny side of it as well. But also throughout 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:13.759 just pure panic. But you do that in every game. 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:15.580 It doesn't matter if it's a fucking scary game 00:15:15.580 --> 00:15:17.559 or not. You'll be playing Battlefield and you'll 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:20.620 be like... Where the fuck are you coming from? 00:15:21.659 --> 00:15:26.850 Fucking hell. It's funny. It's vocal, man. It's 00:15:26.850 --> 00:15:29.769 funny when you do it. Vocal, vocal, man. Well, 00:15:29.870 --> 00:15:32.169 we expect that to be finished by next Friday 00:15:32.169 --> 00:15:34.830 then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I'll have it done. 00:15:34.970 --> 00:15:36.409 I will have it done. Well, you're going to have 00:15:36.409 --> 00:15:38.129 no excuses because you're off work, fucking. 00:15:38.909 --> 00:15:42.470 You get that shit done, man. Yeah, I've got Monday, 00:15:42.529 --> 00:15:44.549 Wednesday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. You'll 00:15:44.549 --> 00:15:46.960 bang through that. There's not... There's a fair 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:49.000 bit left, but... Eight in the morning with all 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:51.940 the curtains open, all the lights on, music blaring. 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:57.980 Yeah, I'll jump on it. Thunderstorm. Right. Dark 00:15:57.980 --> 00:16:00.840 clouds overhead. Fucking grim game. Black cat 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:02.820 staring through your window. I'll have it done. 00:16:02.980 --> 00:16:05.799 Don't you worry. Good. Well, I'm not playing 00:16:05.799 --> 00:16:09.240 nothing. Nothing. I keep trying and then I'm 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:10.620 like, do you know what? I'm not interested. You 00:16:10.620 --> 00:16:14.179 look fucking tired. I'm mentally fucked. Mentally 00:16:14.179 --> 00:16:17.889 fucked. But I just want Crimson Desert, man. 00:16:18.090 --> 00:16:20.870 That's all I can think about. Nothing's appeasing 00:16:20.870 --> 00:16:22.769 it. You kicked off because you saw jetpacks. 00:16:24.610 --> 00:16:28.330 Yeah, I'm not fond of that. I mean, I watched 00:16:28.330 --> 00:16:30.649 a slow motion of it and it looks like it's the 00:16:30.649 --> 00:16:35.789 York geezer. So I'm assuming the bird's got the 00:16:35.789 --> 00:16:38.470 fan or umbrella that she glides around with. 00:16:38.509 --> 00:16:40.730 He's got the jetpack and Matey Bob's got the 00:16:40.730 --> 00:16:44.539 crow fucking spin or whatever. Yeah. So, yeah, 00:16:44.620 --> 00:16:46.419 as long as I don't have to be the orc geezer 00:16:46.419 --> 00:16:48.539 all the time, it's not a big deal. It's just 00:16:48.539 --> 00:16:52.639 fucking stupid, isn't it? So stupid. It doesn't 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:55.519 even fit with, like, lore. Well, I suppose it's 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.460 their lore. Oh, yeah, I'm looking at the geezer. 00:16:57.820 --> 00:17:01.179 But if you could make it, like, I don't know, 00:17:01.220 --> 00:17:05.960 a jetpack, but it fitted with, like, fantasy. 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:11.019 It was, like, dwarven -made fucking... Made by 00:17:11.019 --> 00:17:14.400 flames and fire. It just looks like bright blue 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:18.799 fucking Spaceman jetpack. It's stupid. It pisses 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:20.960 me off, that shit. It ruins it. At least those 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:23.559 additional characters, you don't have to play 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:26.240 them. Yeah, as long as I don't have to play them 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:28.119 and I don't have to get in big robots. Someone 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:30.460 just said, what even is this game? Yeah, I've 00:17:30.460 --> 00:17:33.619 actually read that comment myself. Someone said, 00:17:33.660 --> 00:17:35.359 exactly what I've been craving in a game for 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:37.619 quite a while. Haven't seen anything that felt 00:17:37.619 --> 00:17:41.359 close to it. in years yeah but what even the 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:45.180 fuck is it like what is it I don't know that's 00:17:45.180 --> 00:17:51.640 the exciting part what is it's a action RPG guarantee 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:54.099 it's not even an RPG it's a single player open 00:17:54.099 --> 00:17:57.539 world action adventure game it's actually do 00:17:57.539 --> 00:17:59.460 you know the world's so big it's because it initially 00:17:59.460 --> 00:18:02.420 was made as an MMO yeah and then they pivoted 00:18:02.420 --> 00:18:07.009 from it yeah So I'm just hoping for some good 00:18:07.009 --> 00:18:16.470 old -fashioned fun times. I like existing in 00:18:16.470 --> 00:18:19.450 a world where you can just roam around and have 00:18:19.450 --> 00:18:22.990 random events and just feel like a badass, like 00:18:22.990 --> 00:18:27.150 Geralt, just killing shit, and then hop on a 00:18:27.150 --> 00:18:29.009 dragon and burn a city down. Yeah, but you can 00:18:29.009 --> 00:18:30.869 do that. That's what I mean. That's what I'm 00:18:30.869 --> 00:18:32.839 looking forward to. That's why I bought the... 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:37.299 Excuse me? That's why I bought the... Oh, yeah, 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:39.559 they don't know that, do they? I bought the... 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:43.579 I pre -ordered it yesterday. Yeah. On the PlayStation 00:18:43.579 --> 00:18:50.299 Store. Yes. Yes. Exactly. I did. Have you seen 00:18:50.299 --> 00:18:51.700 the collector's edition? It looks pretty cool, 00:18:51.779 --> 00:18:53.880 though. It's got a lot of diorama of a dragon 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:58.480 and that. Yeah, yeah. Reasonable as well. very 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:00.359 reasonable from a price point standard it's probably 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:02.299 pretty for what you're getting it's probably 00:19:02.299 --> 00:19:04.779 the cheapest collector's edition I've ever seen 00:19:04.779 --> 00:19:08.940 like the cheapest and that's why I bought it 00:19:08.940 --> 00:19:11.180 here comes the dogs about to kick off see they're 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:15.160 happy about it as well yeah like liking it to 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:17.920 sort of value for money in terms of Assassin's 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:20.279 Creed Mirage which is also the cheapest collector's 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:22.319 edition that I've ever bought and what surprised 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:25.849 me is that they're not They're not hard to come 00:19:25.849 --> 00:19:31.269 by. No. Which is quite unique for such a... And 00:19:31.269 --> 00:19:32.970 the best bit about that collector's edition as 00:19:32.970 --> 00:19:35.970 well is that investment purposes, it's going 00:19:35.970 --> 00:19:39.089 to go through the fucking roof. Probably, I think 00:19:39.089 --> 00:19:40.890 it's predicted that it's going to be more valuable 00:19:40.890 --> 00:19:43.569 than the Baldur's Gate free collector's edition. 00:19:43.829 --> 00:19:46.609 Yeah, true. So anyone that buys that collector's 00:19:46.609 --> 00:19:49.230 edition for Crimson Desert, 100%, that's a good 00:19:49.230 --> 00:19:51.769 investment. Very smart person. and thank god 00:19:51.769 --> 00:19:54.410 i got it for cost yeah yeah thank god it weren't 00:19:54.410 --> 00:19:58.930 mega expensive yeah and i just uh yeah i basically 00:19:58.930 --> 00:20:02.529 i got someone else to buy it for me um and i 00:20:02.529 --> 00:20:04.289 said look out of goodwill gesture you can keep 00:20:04.289 --> 00:20:06.569 the game yeah i'll download that myself yeah 00:20:06.569 --> 00:20:09.049 that's where we're at uh so yeah i'm looking 00:20:09.049 --> 00:20:13.430 forward to that um next friday well actually 00:20:13.430 --> 00:20:15.589 it's next thursday but it comes out at fucking 00:20:15.589 --> 00:20:19.099 10 o 'clock at night thanks thanks for that So, 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:20.680 yeah, it'll be next Friday. Yeah, 10 o 'clock 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:23.099 at night is fine. Just fucking boot it up. Crack 00:20:23.099 --> 00:20:25.740 on, mate. Fuck off, mate. I'm not fucking doing 00:20:25.740 --> 00:20:28.440 that. Are you mad, Rev? None of these cunts I 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:31.039 play WoW with keep doing that as well. What time 00:20:31.039 --> 00:20:33.500 do they get up in the morning? Yeah, yeah, I 00:20:33.500 --> 00:20:36.160 had this conversation this morning. Right, John, 00:20:36.339 --> 00:20:38.920 he went for a run this morning, complaining because 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:43.029 he was up so early. Half five he was up. Child's 00:20:43.029 --> 00:20:44.849 play. Yeah, it's ridiculous. That's fucking child's 00:20:44.849 --> 00:20:46.289 play. That's a lay -in. What time do you normally 00:20:46.289 --> 00:20:48.390 get up, mate? Half six. Fucking hell, that's 00:20:48.390 --> 00:20:51.650 a weekend lay -in. Yeah. That's tasty. Like, 00:20:51.650 --> 00:20:56.009 what the fuck? But they, especially John, he 00:20:56.009 --> 00:21:00.309 has a habit of fucking half nine at night. You 00:21:00.309 --> 00:21:03.349 want to play do some mythic? No. I'm in bed. 00:21:03.609 --> 00:21:07.490 Yeah. I'm in bed. Oh, I've just got home. Quarter 00:21:07.490 --> 00:21:10.390 past eight. You want to jump on? No, mate. No, 00:21:10.470 --> 00:21:13.079 I don't. I'm in my pyjamas. I ain't fucking doing 00:21:13.079 --> 00:21:16.859 anything else. I played for six hours while you 00:21:16.859 --> 00:21:18.819 were still at work, mate, because I work a normal 00:21:18.819 --> 00:21:23.160 time. I started to, I start to get a bit anxious 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:24.960 when it gets to like nine o 'clock. If I look 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:27.599 at my phone and it's like 9 .05, I'm like, oh, 00:21:27.740 --> 00:21:29.400 I ain't got long left. I need to turn this off. 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:32.440 If I'm still, if the PlayStation is still on 00:21:32.440 --> 00:21:34.539 at 10 o 'clock, I'm like, I fucked up. Yeah, 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:37.339 I'm exactly the same. Me and Steph are in a habit 00:21:37.339 --> 00:21:41.140 where when she comes home from work on a, On 00:21:41.140 --> 00:21:43.640 our later shifts, we have dinner and we watch 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:47.299 Daredevil. And we normally make it through one 00:21:47.299 --> 00:21:49.900 episode. But by the time we're sitting down and 00:21:49.900 --> 00:21:52.740 having dinner, it's like quarter to nine, nine 00:21:52.740 --> 00:21:55.339 o 'clock anyway. And then, yeah, every single 00:21:55.339 --> 00:21:57.380 time. I go, how much longer is left of this? 00:21:57.420 --> 00:22:00.559 Because it'll be like 35 minutes past nine. Oh, 00:22:00.579 --> 00:22:02.740 it's 20 minutes left. I go, no, I can't do this. 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:04.779 I did it last night. I went, nope, can't do it. 00:22:04.940 --> 00:22:06.339 And she was like, no, go on, just see what the 00:22:06.339 --> 00:22:08.559 next scene is. And then ended up finishing it. 00:22:09.180 --> 00:22:10.799 So I feel like my body's getting used to it, 00:22:10.819 --> 00:22:13.240 but I'm slowly fucking, I'm getting to bed and 00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:15.460 going to sleep, and it's like half ten, or I 00:22:15.460 --> 00:22:17.680 put my alarm on and it starts saying five hours 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:19.740 rather than six hours, and you go, oh, fuck. 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:22.599 It was not fucking when I went to Gem's dad's. 00:22:23.099 --> 00:22:25.299 We were dog -sitting, and we had the kids around 00:22:25.299 --> 00:22:27.779 there. There's nothing to do, obviously. You're 00:22:27.779 --> 00:22:29.799 around your in -laws' house. I ain't got no fucking 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:32.359 PlayStation with me or nothing, so I think I 00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:33.940 was reading or something, and she put Mobland 00:22:33.940 --> 00:22:37.910 on. And I was reading my Kindle and I kept looking 00:22:37.910 --> 00:22:39.630 up and I was like, oh, this is actually quite 00:22:39.630 --> 00:22:41.730 good. So I put it down, started watching it, 00:22:41.730 --> 00:22:44.089 watched a couple of episodes with her. And it 00:22:44.089 --> 00:22:46.670 was getting later and later and later. And I 00:22:46.670 --> 00:22:48.289 think we, I don't know how many episodes there 00:22:48.289 --> 00:22:50.970 were, like 10, say. And it got to like, we were 00:22:50.970 --> 00:22:53.529 like five in or something. And she was like, 00:22:53.589 --> 00:22:55.730 let's watch them all. I was like, are you fucking 00:22:55.730 --> 00:22:59.849 dizzy? We've got children upstairs asleep. Because 00:22:59.849 --> 00:23:01.970 I worked it out. If we watched the rest of these, 00:23:02.109 --> 00:23:03.490 we'd be going to bed at like four o 'clock in 00:23:03.490 --> 00:23:05.650 the morning. She was like, yeah, I'll get up 00:23:05.650 --> 00:23:07.170 with the kids. I was like, all right, fuck it 00:23:07.170 --> 00:23:10.369 then. All right then. So yeah, we banged out 00:23:10.369 --> 00:23:14.170 the entire series of Mobland in one evening and 00:23:14.170 --> 00:23:15.869 went to bed at about quarter to four, I think. 00:23:16.869 --> 00:23:19.450 And what time did you get up? To be fair, I got 00:23:19.450 --> 00:23:22.150 up about nine. No, decent. She got up a bit earlier. 00:23:22.329 --> 00:23:27.049 Yeah. Paid the price. Yeah, so I'm not adverse 00:23:27.049 --> 00:23:30.839 to it, you know. On Sunday nights, I really can 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:34.180 never sleep for some reason. So it's not unlike 00:23:34.180 --> 00:23:36.880 me to be still awake at like 12. You have the 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.500 Monday scaries. Sunday scaries. Sunday scaries, 00:23:40.500 --> 00:23:44.400 sorry. So, yeah, I'm normally still awake at 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:46.539 gone midnight. Sort of like when Countryfile 00:23:46.539 --> 00:23:50.200 comes on. You go, oh, fuck. Fuck, it's that time. 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:53.640 But I'm not doing anything active. You know what 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:55.240 I mean? I've turned the PlayStation off. The 00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:57.440 normal time I would. And I just get in bed and 00:23:57.440 --> 00:24:00.839 put YouTube on. And, yeah, and then I'm just 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:02.160 laying there for two hours. YouTube Premium. 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:04.380 Oh, yeah, obviously. YouTube Premium, advert 00:24:04.380 --> 00:24:06.859 free. I'm not a fucking scrubber. Have a listen 00:24:06.859 --> 00:24:10.079 to as much as you want. I'm not a fucking scrubber. 00:24:10.140 --> 00:24:16.319 Free of advertisement. Oh. Yeah. So, yeah, and 00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:19.160 sometimes on the Mondays I wake up fine. I'm, 00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:22.099 like, wide awake. And then other times I can 00:24:22.099 --> 00:24:23.859 go to bed at 8 o 'clock and I wake up feeling 00:24:23.859 --> 00:24:28.750 like a sack of shit. I want to... Because he 00:24:28.750 --> 00:24:30.930 doesn't pay for the patron, which I find pathetic. 00:24:31.109 --> 00:24:34.369 Also, Andrew wanted a shout out. And I won't 00:24:34.369 --> 00:24:35.970 say his last name because I won't want to dox 00:24:35.970 --> 00:24:37.990 him, but we both know Andrew. And on the phone 00:24:37.990 --> 00:24:39.569 to me, he was like, yeah, do a shout out for 00:24:39.569 --> 00:24:41.549 me on the podcast. And he was like, make sure 00:24:41.549 --> 00:24:45.309 it's not the patron. You tight cunt. I can say 00:24:45.309 --> 00:24:46.990 that because on this platform, I'm not in work. 00:24:52.029 --> 00:24:55.940 Can't hold that against me outside work. I don't 00:24:55.940 --> 00:24:57.599 know. I'm going to keep it in there. There's 00:24:57.599 --> 00:24:58.920 a little part of me that's like, maybe delete 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:00.319 that, but I'm going to keep that in there. He 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:03.519 knows it's in jest. The fucking general manager. 00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:07.400 You can't. He said it again. No, it's fine. It's 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:10.700 fine. But he knows. He knows the situation. £4 00:25:10.700 --> 00:25:12.720 .50, you can have the patron, man. You can have 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:14.599 access to that. You want a shout out? I did say 00:25:14.599 --> 00:25:16.339 to him, I said, you want a shout out, you pay 00:25:16.339 --> 00:25:18.180 for it. I need to speak to him, actually. I want 00:25:18.180 --> 00:25:22.599 to take him to the theatre. What? Yeah. So... 00:25:23.930 --> 00:25:27.769 I really like Game of Thrones. He really likes 00:25:27.769 --> 00:25:30.630 Game of Thrones. Yeah. One of the coolest stories 00:25:30.630 --> 00:25:34.710 in Game of Thrones. Oh, thingy Baratheon. Robert 00:25:34.710 --> 00:25:39.369 Baratheon. Robert Baratheon. And the way he won 00:25:39.369 --> 00:25:42.029 the throne. Yeah. But he's only coming in play 00:25:42.029 --> 00:25:45.049 form. Yeah. And I'm like, that's really shit. 00:25:45.170 --> 00:25:48.769 Yeah. But also, I know he'll love it. And I want 00:25:48.769 --> 00:25:51.049 to see it. He'll absolutely love it. I can see 00:25:51.049 --> 00:25:53.349 it now. I can see it now. But then I'm thinking, 00:25:53.450 --> 00:25:57.349 am I suited for that? Do they sell popcorn? He 00:25:57.349 --> 00:25:59.589 can lend you a cardigan if you're worried about 00:25:59.589 --> 00:26:02.589 appearance. Yeah, I might need cardigan. Yeah. 00:26:03.069 --> 00:26:04.710 What do you mean do they sell popcorn? What theatre 00:26:04.710 --> 00:26:06.210 is it in? Do you know? I don't know. I don't 00:26:06.210 --> 00:26:08.849 even know if it's made. I don't know. What do 00:26:08.849 --> 00:26:11.529 you do? Do you drink wine? Do you have them little 00:26:11.529 --> 00:26:13.769 eyeglasses you hold up to your eyes to watch? 00:26:13.930 --> 00:26:17.009 What do you do? Do you get them big foam fingers? 00:26:17.029 --> 00:26:20.769 I can help you on this because I too have been 00:26:20.769 --> 00:26:23.769 to the theatre. Me and Steph went and saw Hamilton. 00:26:24.170 --> 00:26:27.250 Is it going to be that sort of thing, or is it 00:26:27.250 --> 00:26:31.809 more a play? It's a theatre production, so it's 00:26:31.809 --> 00:26:36.589 the same shit. And this is how it went. Think 00:26:36.589 --> 00:26:41.269 cinema, but shitter chairs. Still comfy, but 00:26:41.269 --> 00:26:44.190 shitter. You've been to a Panto, haven't you? 00:26:45.009 --> 00:26:47.829 He's behind you. But you've been to that sort 00:26:47.829 --> 00:26:50.869 of thing, yeah? Same set -up. Exactly the same 00:26:50.869 --> 00:26:53.269 set -up. but it's not a pantomime. There's not 00:26:53.269 --> 00:26:55.009 fucking Harry Hill dancing around on the stage. 00:26:55.130 --> 00:27:00.650 This is Robert Baratheon. Food -wise, there should 00:27:00.650 --> 00:27:04.609 be a bar there that serves drinks, and then food, 00:27:04.730 --> 00:27:07.289 you're sort of at the mercy of... Every now and 00:27:07.289 --> 00:27:08.789 then, they'll put out a little ice cream stand 00:27:08.789 --> 00:27:11.109 thing, won't they? Or popcorn and shit like that. 00:27:11.150 --> 00:27:13.250 They do do popcorn. There's sweeties and stuff 00:27:13.250 --> 00:27:15.349 there, but be prepared to spend a pretty penny. 00:27:15.970 --> 00:27:18.650 Nachos. I don't know if you can get nachos and 00:27:18.650 --> 00:27:21.170 shit. What sort of establishment are they trying 00:27:21.170 --> 00:27:22.829 to run in? I don't know. Well, put it this way. 00:27:22.869 --> 00:27:25.009 Me and Steph sat through Hamilton, which is like 00:27:25.009 --> 00:27:28.289 three hours long, maybe four hours long, on a 00:27:28.289 --> 00:27:30.549 complimentary box of fucking chocolates where 00:27:30.549 --> 00:27:32.710 there was like four chocolates and a glass of 00:27:32.710 --> 00:27:34.849 champagne and neither of us drink. So we were 00:27:34.849 --> 00:27:37.690 severely dehydrated. It was not a fun experience. 00:27:37.769 --> 00:27:40.809 The play was great. The headache wasn't. We left 00:27:40.809 --> 00:27:43.920 that theatre feeling fucked. And that's where 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:45.559 we discovered Bleaker's after, which was like 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:47.000 the best burgers ever. I don't know whether it's 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:48.640 because they were really good or because we were 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:54.039 borderline dead. Same sort of thing. So that'll 00:27:54.039 --> 00:27:59.519 be fun. But also, he doesn't pay for this, so 00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:02.299 don't start taking him out on theatrical dates. 00:28:03.299 --> 00:28:05.940 You know what I mean? But I want to see it, man. 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:08.559 Yeah, no, that's sweet. That's sweet. Let him 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:10.500 fucking throw it on the card. Business meeting. 00:28:11.259 --> 00:28:13.339 It's an entertainer. It's an entertainer client. 00:28:13.579 --> 00:28:15.519 It's a mobilisation meeting. It's an entertainer 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.119 client. I'll be the client. You be the boss. 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:21.380 Yeah, bang a different high -vis on and crack 00:28:21.380 --> 00:28:24.700 on. Yeah, well, that's what I want to see. But 00:28:24.700 --> 00:28:26.160 yeah, he wanted to shout. I don't know where 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:28.339 I was going with that. That's where I was going. 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:36.529 Fucking Dean. I was chatting to him and he's 00:28:36.529 --> 00:28:39.549 obviously, I told you, he's slagging off Eldon 00:28:39.549 --> 00:28:43.529 Ring. Yeah, that's unacceptable. Heinous. So, 00:28:43.630 --> 00:28:47.990 I won't read through the entire conversation. 00:28:48.529 --> 00:28:50.309 Mark's just texted me. Probably going to do 10k 00:28:50.309 --> 00:28:52.089 tomorrow, man. Foot's been hurting today after 00:28:52.089 --> 00:28:56.630 yesterday's run. You fucking puss. Cheers, Spider 00:28:56.630 --> 00:28:59.269 -Ham. He's meant to run 10 miles with me tomorrow. 00:28:59.329 --> 00:29:01.980 Now he wants to run six. I'm going to have to 00:29:01.980 --> 00:29:05.759 run four before. I don't know who's worse, you 00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:10.599 or him. Both are atrocious. Why? Do something 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:14.559 else. Fucking run in. Just do something else. 00:29:14.819 --> 00:29:16.700 Look at the voice notes this geezer sent me. 00:29:16.700 --> 00:29:18.819 Go and do some paragliding or something cool. 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:23.720 Here we go. He was talking to me about Elden 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:25.759 Ring. He said, on a side note, I hated Elden 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:29.119 Ring. The dogs are playing around. Yeah, they've 00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:33.000 got the zoomies. Considering I put... Because 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:34.660 I said to him, I said, Elden Ring was sick. I 00:29:34.660 --> 00:29:35.859 said, you saying it weren't... Who's he going 00:29:35.859 --> 00:29:38.680 to mention Bloodborne? He said, considering I 00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:41.500 put I hated Elden Ring, I think I already answered 00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:43.019 the question. You're meant to be management. 00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:47.220 So I told him to fuck off my WhatsApp. And I 00:29:47.220 --> 00:29:49.839 said that he had a deadbeat opinion. He said, 00:29:49.940 --> 00:29:52.680 the world felt empty and easy as you can just 00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:55.299 grind to level up your stats. Plus, how can you 00:29:55.299 --> 00:29:57.619 go from the best combat system ever played... 00:29:58.279 --> 00:30:01.019 best combat system I've ever played from Sekiro 00:30:01.019 --> 00:30:04.079 back into the dodge and attack formula from Bloodborne. 00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:08.339 And I said, you are mental. To which he said, 00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:10.440 play Sekiro, then tell me Elden Ring is good. 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:13.299 And then I hit back with, empty and easy, it's 00:30:13.299 --> 00:30:15.460 one of the most fought out and interesting worlds 00:30:15.460 --> 00:30:18.839 ever created, you dumb cunt. And then he said, 00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:22.000 I got platinum in Bloodborne and Sekiro, nearly 00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:25.809 400 hours in Sekiro alone. The game was too easy 00:30:25.809 --> 00:30:28.190 for a man of my skill. The world was too open. 00:30:29.109 --> 00:30:31.950 I said, it's an open world. And then he tried 00:30:31.950 --> 00:30:33.990 to dig it out, saying that the previous titles 00:30:33.990 --> 00:30:36.230 weren't open world. I said, what, so that means 00:30:36.230 --> 00:30:37.970 that they can't, they just can't be innovative 00:30:37.970 --> 00:30:40.250 like that anymore? I thought Elden Ring was great. 00:30:40.630 --> 00:30:43.430 And I think his opinion means fuck all. His opinion 00:30:43.430 --> 00:30:45.710 held some weight, because he platinum Bloodborne 00:30:45.710 --> 00:30:48.210 and Sekiro, which is no mean feat. But then, 00:30:48.269 --> 00:30:52.130 I've also played and completed all of them, and 00:30:52.130 --> 00:30:56.289 I... Lay down the gauntlet to you, Dean Warwick. 00:30:56.809 --> 00:31:01.710 And I say, challenge Consort Radan and then come 00:31:01.710 --> 00:31:04.670 back with an opinion. That's it? Has he played 00:31:04.670 --> 00:31:06.289 Shadow of the Erdtree? Obviously not. I doubt 00:31:06.289 --> 00:31:08.910 he's even finished Elden Ring. The fucking thick 00:31:08.910 --> 00:31:11.890 prick. Let's have a look. Have a look. Oops. 00:31:11.970 --> 00:31:13.529 I did say to him, I said, have you finished it? 00:31:13.789 --> 00:31:16.269 What did he say? I think he said yes. Oh, well, 00:31:16.269 --> 00:31:18.309 there's your answer then. Yeah, but has he done 00:31:18.309 --> 00:31:20.750 the DLC? No chance. If he didn't like it, he's 00:31:20.750 --> 00:31:21.650 not going to. The DLC's a big old part of it. 00:31:23.110 --> 00:31:29.849 Where is he? What did he say? Did I say... I 00:31:29.849 --> 00:31:31.609 said, stop comparing it to anything. I said, 00:31:31.609 --> 00:31:33.369 mate, did you even finish the game? I don't think 00:31:33.369 --> 00:31:35.650 I actually listened to these. Yeah, when you 00:31:35.650 --> 00:31:38.190 go from, like, Bloodborne was similar to Elden 00:31:38.190 --> 00:31:40.410 Ring. It was more, it was semi -open, but it 00:31:40.410 --> 00:31:42.930 was more linear. It was a linear game, but, like, 00:31:42.950 --> 00:31:44.450 you could go through bits that would take you 00:31:44.450 --> 00:31:47.049 to other bits and rah -rah -rah, yeah? Sekiro 00:31:47.049 --> 00:31:49.869 basically switched up the formula. So it was, 00:31:49.990 --> 00:31:52.450 there's no levelling system. You either beat 00:31:52.450 --> 00:31:55.130 this fucking boss or you are stuck. There's no 00:31:55.130 --> 00:31:58.789 grinding, there's no stats. Like, plus it focused 00:31:58.789 --> 00:32:02.480 more on parry combat. The parrying and the combat 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:06.920 system in Sekiro was unbelievable. It is the 00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:09.839 best combat sword fighting game that I've ever 00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:13.779 played in my life. Then they basically did a 00:32:13.779 --> 00:32:16.819 360 and went back to that same dodge and attack 00:32:16.819 --> 00:32:20.279 fucking formula again. It's like in an open world 00:32:20.279 --> 00:32:23.200 setting, which made it just, it felt stale and 00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:26.920 old. Like it was just ridiculous. Fucking silly 00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:32.059 sausage. I mean, what he's saying is not, untrue 00:32:32.059 --> 00:32:35.779 but also fight consort are done and try and out 00:32:35.779 --> 00:32:39.420 level that dickhead it's not happening get good 00:32:39.420 --> 00:32:42.380 or you don't incredibly hard boss and there's 00:32:42.380 --> 00:32:46.019 a lot of things in that that is you know pass 00:32:46.019 --> 00:32:49.440 or don't pass you can't just beat the game without 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:53.640 beating certain bosses and yeah some of them 00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:56.700 are fucking tough as old boots me old son do 00:32:56.700 --> 00:33:01.039 you know what I mean how hard His prime consort, 00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:04.420 Radan, is widely considered one of the hardest 00:33:04.420 --> 00:33:08.740 bosses FromSoftware has ever created. He is exceptionally 00:33:08.740 --> 00:33:11.480 fast, aggressive, and has few openings featuring 00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:14.519 high damage, complex combos that often end in 00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:17.119 blinding, screen -fitting light explosions, particularly 00:33:17.119 --> 00:33:20.700 in Phase 2. Well, I've found Dean Warwick's Elden 00:33:20.700 --> 00:33:25.039 Ring. Mm -hmm. He has two trophies. Yes. What? 00:33:25.339 --> 00:33:30.250 Arrived at the round table hold. Yeah. and defeated 00:33:30.250 --> 00:33:32.670 marget the fellowman so he did the first boss 00:33:32.670 --> 00:33:34.930 and that was it that's it that's all he's done 00:33:34.930 --> 00:33:39.009 so he hasn't even finished it he has no opinion 00:33:39.009 --> 00:33:40.589 hasn't finished it he hasn't even got to the 00:33:40.589 --> 00:33:44.250 open world no i know he has no opinion what the 00:33:44.250 --> 00:33:48.410 fuck he hasn't even got part what so he did the 00:33:48.410 --> 00:33:50.549 first boss and then thought i've seen enough 00:33:51.419 --> 00:33:53.160 I'll tell you what happened. He probably got 00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:55.039 stuck on the tree sentinel for fucking a few 00:33:55.039 --> 00:33:57.140 hours and then worked out that you haven't actually 00:33:57.140 --> 00:33:58.940 got to kill him first fitting. No, he must know 00:33:58.940 --> 00:34:03.900 that because he's a veteran. What the fuck? See, 00:34:04.059 --> 00:34:06.700 now tell me that his opinions are valid. Now 00:34:06.700 --> 00:34:09.280 you tell me. Well, yeah, but then the same thing 00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:13.059 can apply. You can be a... Because he'll school 00:34:13.059 --> 00:34:17.320 me on Sekiro. He'll school me on Bloodborne. 00:34:18.269 --> 00:34:21.889 They are much harder games. Yeah, but how can 00:34:21.889 --> 00:34:23.869 you have only put in... How can you have put 00:34:23.869 --> 00:34:27.550 400 hours into Sekiro and then only put, what, 00:34:27.670 --> 00:34:30.750 two into Elden Ring? And then think, yeah, no, 00:34:30.869 --> 00:34:32.769 I've seen enough. Would you not be interested 00:34:32.769 --> 00:34:35.949 enough to see, especially with the hype that 00:34:35.949 --> 00:34:38.230 was surrounding Elden Ring, for good reasons, 00:34:38.269 --> 00:34:40.650 it was valid. Would you not look at that and 00:34:40.650 --> 00:34:42.630 go, yeah, no, maybe I need to... Like what I 00:34:42.630 --> 00:34:45.489 did. was getting my ass handed to me and then 00:34:45.489 --> 00:34:46.989 thought no I need to sit down and it's one of 00:34:46.989 --> 00:34:50.210 the best games I've ever played in my life he 00:34:50.210 --> 00:34:54.050 has beaten Bloodborne and Sekiro and Platinum 00:34:54.050 --> 00:34:56.650 and both so his opinion is valid a lot of people 00:34:56.650 --> 00:35:00.170 that love FromSoftware games don't like Elden 00:35:00.170 --> 00:35:02.760 Ring for the same reasons It's just the way it 00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:05.880 is, and their opinion is valid. I love Elden 00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:09.000 Ring just because it's a fucking amazing world, 00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:12.059 and there's not many games that truly do what 00:35:12.059 --> 00:35:14.599 it does in terms of every little nook and cranny 00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:17.099 can have something and be useful. It's not just, 00:35:17.179 --> 00:35:20.679 oh, you've collected one out of 20 letters, or 00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:23.619 you've found five pigs out of 40. It's like, 00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:25.880 oh, a fucking whole new weapon that I would never 00:35:25.880 --> 00:35:28.909 have found with different movesets. armor and 00:35:28.909 --> 00:35:31.650 spells and anything can be anywhere and that's 00:35:31.650 --> 00:35:33.449 exciting because it keeps you looking around 00:35:33.449 --> 00:35:36.750 on track whereas most games just get boring with 00:35:36.750 --> 00:35:39.889 collectibles so it's one of the best worlds for 00:35:39.889 --> 00:35:44.469 sure but if you've if I feel like he's got his 00:35:44.469 --> 00:35:47.670 opinion holds weight but if you haven't you haven't 00:35:47.670 --> 00:35:50.150 experienced even a percent of Elden Ring then 00:35:50.150 --> 00:35:52.090 you can't have an opinion on Elden Ring is what 00:35:52.090 --> 00:35:58.849 I would say so until you carry on this path tarnished 00:35:58.849 --> 00:36:02.650 then then unfortunately your Elden Ring opinion 00:36:02.650 --> 00:36:04.949 is invalid he hasn't even seen any of the shit 00:36:04.949 --> 00:36:07.690 that goes down in the round table man no I've 00:36:07.690 --> 00:36:11.019 seen nothing Margaret is literally like You can 00:36:11.019 --> 00:36:13.659 go and beat him within fucking 10 minutes if 00:36:13.659 --> 00:36:15.199 you want. You just sprint straight to the castle, 00:36:15.260 --> 00:36:18.579 job done. Margaret the Blood Omen. Yeah. And 00:36:18.579 --> 00:36:20.559 then after that, you go through the gate and 00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:22.639 then the world starts opening and then you think 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:25.000 you've done it and then it opens again and again 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:26.940 and again and again. And you're like, what the 00:36:26.940 --> 00:36:28.559 fuck is this? And then you go down an elevator 00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:29.940 and you're like, what the fuck is going on? Even 00:36:29.940 --> 00:36:34.389 the optional fucking bosses. Yeah. Bless you, 00:36:34.389 --> 00:36:38.469 Belle. That entire boss is just fully optional. 00:36:38.730 --> 00:36:41.710 That's a cunt. All of that, yeah, and the fucking, 00:36:41.829 --> 00:36:43.730 the mini -bosses you have to, well, not even 00:36:43.730 --> 00:36:45.409 mini -bosses, just full -on bosses that you have 00:36:45.409 --> 00:36:48.989 to fight on the way up there. Fucking hell. I 00:36:48.989 --> 00:36:51.630 hated that. One thing I don't like that FromSoftware's 00:36:51.630 --> 00:36:54.150 doing a lot in their most recent games in Elden 00:36:54.150 --> 00:36:57.630 Ring and the like. is they just constantly got 00:36:57.630 --> 00:37:00.909 bosses doing these fucking annoying delayed attacks 00:37:00.909 --> 00:37:03.750 they like wind up their attack and then you're 00:37:03.750 --> 00:37:06.090 just waiting just stand there waiting for any 00:37:06.090 --> 00:37:08.150 movement and then they like move halfway and 00:37:08.150 --> 00:37:10.530 then hit you they never used to do that you used 00:37:10.530 --> 00:37:12.150 to be able to time it properly i don't know how 00:37:12.150 --> 00:37:13.869 the fuck and people do don't get me wrong they've 00:37:13.869 --> 00:37:16.329 done no hit runs of elden ring and stuff but 00:37:16.329 --> 00:37:18.070 i don't know how you're supposed to time such 00:37:18.070 --> 00:37:20.730 so many delayed attacks it's like how people 00:37:20.730 --> 00:37:25.940 um do penalties yeah just fucking fake run up 00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:27.820 and then bang. Yeah, it's very, very annoying. 00:37:27.820 --> 00:37:30.539 I don't like them either. Lies of Pi, Lies of 00:37:30.539 --> 00:37:33.500 P or whatever was very, very bad. I know it's 00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:37.780 not from software. Pinocchio. Obviously, Inspo 00:37:37.780 --> 00:37:41.900 was particularly bad for delayed attacks because 00:37:41.900 --> 00:37:45.820 they're a cunt. They're an absolute cunt. I think 00:37:45.820 --> 00:37:48.719 that's part of the thing though with boss fights 00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:53.559 especially in Elden Ring for me is learning those 00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:56.590 boss mechanics. and getting it down to a fine 00:37:56.590 --> 00:38:00.050 art. The first phase of Consort Radon, I had 00:38:00.050 --> 00:38:01.389 down to a fucking tear. I could do it with my 00:38:01.389 --> 00:38:05.190 eyes closed. Second phase, I just limped my way 00:38:05.190 --> 00:38:07.769 through that. The second phase is a fucking joke. 00:38:08.030 --> 00:38:10.489 How people do a no -hit thing on that is beyond 00:38:10.489 --> 00:38:12.550 me. There's no rhyme or reason. There's shit 00:38:12.550 --> 00:38:15.090 everywhere. Yeah, everywhere. You dodge his attack, 00:38:15.230 --> 00:38:17.809 and then these fucking lightning beams come down. 00:38:17.849 --> 00:38:20.280 You're like... There's no, like, tell, oh, they're 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:21.539 going to come here. They just appear. They're 00:38:21.539 --> 00:38:23.139 just there. And you're like, what the fuck was 00:38:23.139 --> 00:38:25.000 I supposed to know? I honestly don't understand 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:27.239 how you're supposed to beat that. Yeah, it's 00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:29.780 ridiculous. And then what was even worse is that 00:38:29.780 --> 00:38:31.639 you get his weapons after, and they're shit. 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:35.639 It takes so much effort to get through that first 00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:38.079 half as well. Like, you have to lock the fuck 00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:40.920 in. And then you get there. And then the first 00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:43.219 attack kills you. And you're so demoralized. 00:38:43.260 --> 00:38:45.760 You're like, really? Because he's not like the 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:47.820 normal bosses where you can chug them down quick 00:38:47.820 --> 00:38:51.679 sharp and get to the second phase again. He is 00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:54.019 like, he's a meaty boss. He's got a lot of HP. 00:38:54.179 --> 00:38:58.420 And he has a straight up fucking, you get hugged 00:38:58.420 --> 00:39:01.429 by him twice, you're dead. That's it. Yeah. You're 00:39:01.429 --> 00:39:03.590 just fucking dead. Get that debuff and then they 00:39:03.590 --> 00:39:05.369 give you, she picks you up, gives you a little 00:39:05.369 --> 00:39:07.429 kiss and it's game over. Yeah. He sucks you in 00:39:07.429 --> 00:39:10.489 with his fucking ball of electricity or the lights 00:39:10.489 --> 00:39:13.170 or beams get you or his fucking whirlwind gets 00:39:13.170 --> 00:39:15.610 you. And then I swear they had an algorithm where, 00:39:15.769 --> 00:39:18.869 like I'd say, I had his first phase because I 00:39:18.869 --> 00:39:23.110 did it about a thousand times down to a fine 00:39:23.110 --> 00:39:26.989 art and just every now and then they'd introduce 00:39:26.989 --> 00:39:29.670 a move that I've never seen before. Or they'd 00:39:29.670 --> 00:39:33.429 swap around the move set. Yes, I agree. And it 00:39:33.429 --> 00:39:36.010 would completely throw me off. And I'd go, what 00:39:36.010 --> 00:39:39.369 the fuck? And then you wouldn't see it again 00:39:39.369 --> 00:39:42.110 for about an hour. And then it would slowly make 00:39:42.110 --> 00:39:49.070 its way back in round. Fuck me. Sucked. And Dean 00:39:49.070 --> 00:39:50.630 Warwick has never seen that and probably will 00:39:50.630 --> 00:39:52.590 never see it because he's a fucking puss. But 00:39:52.590 --> 00:39:56.400 then he also is a very stubborn man. I told him 00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:58.099 for years that Witcher 3 was the best game ever 00:39:58.099 --> 00:40:00.880 made. He poo -pooed it, poo -pooed it, poo -pooed 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:02.820 it. He played it, poo -pooed it. Told me how 00:40:02.820 --> 00:40:05.579 shit it was and how stupid I am. And then years 00:40:05.579 --> 00:40:08.079 after the fact, he's like, I got it so wrong. 00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:09.619 It's literally the best game I've ever played. 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:13.960 So until he really sets his mind to it. And let's 00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:16.860 have it right. Games like Elden Ring, you really 00:40:16.860 --> 00:40:18.440 have to be in the mood for that shit. Yeah, you 00:40:18.440 --> 00:40:21.579 can't just pick that up for a bit of fun. Especially 00:40:21.579 --> 00:40:24.840 when you go to fucking Caelid. Yeah, it's just... 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:26.760 Some horrible shit. You just have to be in the 00:40:26.760 --> 00:40:29.440 mood to lock the fuck in, man. And nine times 00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:32.940 out of ten now, I ain't. I ain't got it in me. 00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:35.739 I still want to buy the first Berserker Kazan. 00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:38.260 And I'm just like, I haven't got the energy to 00:40:38.260 --> 00:40:41.619 go through it. No, fuck that. I remember playing 00:40:41.619 --> 00:40:43.940 the demo for it. I loved it. I just can't be 00:40:43.940 --> 00:40:46.059 arsed. I loved the demo so much. I finished it. 00:40:46.099 --> 00:40:48.400 And I never finish demos, ever. I feel like... 00:40:48.750 --> 00:40:52.130 It's almost like, for me, From Software did the 00:40:52.130 --> 00:40:54.070 best possible thing, but also the worst thing, 00:40:54.170 --> 00:40:57.110 for me specifically, in that they made a game 00:40:57.110 --> 00:41:00.210 so incredibly good that it brought the likes 00:41:00.210 --> 00:41:03.849 of me into the fray who have never properly played 00:41:03.849 --> 00:41:06.909 a From Software game. And it was so incredibly 00:41:06.909 --> 00:41:09.570 good that I never want to play another one again. 00:41:10.130 --> 00:41:15.070 Ever. It took everything out of me. I mean, the 00:41:15.070 --> 00:41:18.050 fact that you... we almost had to put in training 00:41:18.050 --> 00:41:20.110 sessions to get back into the groove of things 00:41:20.110 --> 00:41:22.730 for Shadow of the Erdtree. It's bonkers. The 00:41:22.730 --> 00:41:24.969 fact that you've got a collector's edition for 00:41:24.969 --> 00:41:28.489 Shadow of the Erdtree is bonkers. The fact that 00:41:28.489 --> 00:41:31.530 they threw Prime Consort Rodan or even Commander 00:41:31.530 --> 00:41:34.849 Gaius. Did you do Commander Gaius? Gaius on a 00:41:34.849 --> 00:41:39.699 horse. On the fucking pig. Yeah, yeah. He's a 00:41:39.699 --> 00:41:41.940 fucker and all. He was the last thing I killed 00:41:41.940 --> 00:41:43.440 and then I turned it off and never returned. 00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:46.099 Yeah, because you can only find him if you go 00:41:46.099 --> 00:41:48.179 and emote at a random painting or something. 00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:50.679 Who's going to find that shit? Yeah, I finished 00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:54.500 the DLC and then everyone was saying that he's 00:41:54.500 --> 00:41:56.500 like the real end game because of how hard it 00:41:56.500 --> 00:42:00.639 is. Found him, kept dying, kept dying, finally 00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:03.480 killed him and then I was like, I'm done. I've 00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:05.659 done everything I want to do. I've completely 00:42:05.659 --> 00:42:08.159 finished. I tell a lie. I have played some stuff. 00:42:08.780 --> 00:42:15.099 I started playing... Go on. Dragon Age The Veil 00:42:15.099 --> 00:42:22.960 Guard. Okay, good. I packed that in rapid. Why? 00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:28.760 Oh, mate. It's so boring. Yeah. Don't get me 00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:31.300 wrong. I don't think it was met with good reviews. 00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:33.820 No, it wasn't, but it's improved and it was free. 00:42:34.059 --> 00:42:37.230 Remember it came out on fucking... Came out on 00:42:37.230 --> 00:42:39.469 PlayStation Plus like three months after it came 00:42:39.469 --> 00:42:43.110 out. Yeah. Now, don't get me wrong. It's disingenuous 00:42:43.110 --> 00:42:45.989 of me to say it's boring. It's not boring. One, 00:42:46.070 --> 00:42:49.010 I wasn't in the mood for it. You know, it's a 00:42:49.010 --> 00:42:53.150 biggish game. And two, it is everything everyone 00:42:53.150 --> 00:42:56.230 said. They just force feed the fucking dialogue 00:42:56.230 --> 00:42:59.409 to you like you're a child. Yeah. It's like... 00:42:59.409 --> 00:43:01.690 I remember that was one of the big, big problems, 00:43:01.789 --> 00:43:05.130 wasn't it? Honestly, it was like... oh we gotta 00:43:05.130 --> 00:43:08.550 watch out for the dark spawn and there's like 00:43:08.550 --> 00:43:11.610 the dark spawn yeah you mean them demonic alien 00:43:11.610 --> 00:43:13.989 fucks that come from the portal of the never 00:43:13.989 --> 00:43:16.849 region it's like like just give me some credit 00:43:16.849 --> 00:43:20.190 like let me work it out for myself oh whoa how 00:43:20.190 --> 00:43:21.969 are we gonna get through this door it looks like 00:43:21.969 --> 00:43:24.230 there's a big crack over there it's like just 00:43:24.230 --> 00:43:27.710 let me work it out man it's so shit so i got 00:43:27.710 --> 00:43:31.510 annoyed with that and bought avowed and how are 00:43:31.510 --> 00:43:33.050 you getting on with that i've stopped playing 00:43:33.050 --> 00:43:40.019 that That is shit. Really shit and boring. But 00:43:40.019 --> 00:43:42.219 once again, I'm doing that a disservice because 00:43:42.219 --> 00:43:44.340 the game itself... How much did that cost you? 00:43:44.539 --> 00:43:51.719 About 30 quid. But it's like... It's not bad, 00:43:51.780 --> 00:43:56.300 but it's really not captured my attention. It 00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:58.900 really needs to because it's, you'd probably 00:43:58.900 --> 00:44:01.820 quite like it because it's made by, it feels 00:44:01.820 --> 00:44:05.119 very, very out of world. Out of world. Because 00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:07.139 obviously it's obsidian. I was interested by 00:44:07.139 --> 00:44:08.980 it when I first see it and then I thought, nah. 00:44:09.139 --> 00:44:12.599 No, it's genuinely not bad, but it's just, you 00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.000 know, the reason it's, I don't like it, it's 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.960 not interactive enough. So what I mean by that 00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:20.739 is you'll go in a room and there'll be mountains 00:44:20.739 --> 00:44:24.340 of stuff everywhere. Bookcases, tables, fucking 00:44:24.340 --> 00:44:26.719 all sorts of shit. And there'll be like one item 00:44:26.719 --> 00:44:28.980 to pick up in there. Yeah. And that annoys me. 00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:31.539 And it glows. So you're like, I like to look 00:44:31.539 --> 00:44:33.079 around and my environment will be like, oh, what's 00:44:33.079 --> 00:44:34.539 this under here? Oh, look, there's a sword there. 00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:37.059 You don't get none of that. It's just very like, 00:44:37.179 --> 00:44:39.099 oh, he's one item in this massive fucking... 00:44:39.099 --> 00:44:41.380 Someone said, the excessive dialogue is nearly 00:44:41.380 --> 00:44:43.440 ruining the experience. I'm scared to engage 00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:45.719 with any NPC because I worry it will be a five 00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:47.960 minute, five minutes of trying to skip through 00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:49.800 unnecessary dialogue. That's how I feel with 00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:51.880 playing any Final Fantasy game. What game's that 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:53.960 talking about? Avowed. Yeah, see, that's another 00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:57.280 issue. And that's with Dragon Age as well. I 00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:59.280 never ever, you know how much I love the stories. 00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:02.199 I never skip shit. I find myself just tapping 00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:04.619 through shit. I'm like, this is boring me. And 00:45:04.619 --> 00:45:07.079 normally, even if it is boring me, I stick with 00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:09.260 it. I can't do it with this. I cannot do it. 00:45:09.300 --> 00:45:12.119 That's how I felt with Alan Wake. I was like, 00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:16.559 especially with Alan Wake 1, Alan Wake 2, I'm 00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:19.539 still fucking chugging through it. Backburning 00:45:19.539 --> 00:45:21.619 now because of Resident Evil. But even with the 00:45:21.619 --> 00:45:24.940 dialogue on that, I was a bit like, oh. Fucking 00:45:24.940 --> 00:45:29.780 boring. Never before has a game left me on a 00:45:29.780 --> 00:45:33.280 cliffhanger on the last game, only to go wrap 00:45:33.280 --> 00:45:35.400 it up with the next. It's like they got bored 00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:39.280 with their own story. This is for Dragon Age. 00:45:39.400 --> 00:45:41.440 The only issue I had is that the dialogue can 00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:43.760 get corny and sometimes repetitive or too modern, 00:45:43.820 --> 00:45:45.980 but overall I like the story, the journey, and 00:45:45.980 --> 00:45:49.699 I liked Rook, so it cancels out. The combat is 00:45:49.699 --> 00:45:52.619 fantastic, I'll give it that. The actual gameplay... 00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:55.679 Really good. Is it turn -based? No. No, it's 00:45:55.679 --> 00:45:58.219 not. No, it's just action RPG. The combat's really 00:45:58.219 --> 00:46:00.719 good. Character creation is amazing. My character 00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:04.519 looks sick. And the cut scenes that he's in and 00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:08.679 that, it feels very real. He was the character 00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:10.760 that was supposed to be made for the game. Perfect. 00:46:11.539 --> 00:46:14.599 But one of my big problems I don't really want 00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:17.239 to talk about on here. I'll just use the normal 00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:21.119 world. It is so woke. It is ridiculous. And it's 00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:23.949 like... I'm all for do what you want, but you 00:46:23.949 --> 00:46:26.789 are forcing this shit down my throat. I know 00:46:26.789 --> 00:46:29.010 it was a problem, and obviously me and you are 00:46:29.010 --> 00:46:31.050 on somewhat different sides of the table when 00:46:31.050 --> 00:46:32.690 it comes to that sort of shit, but even I agree 00:46:32.690 --> 00:46:35.949 that Dragon Age, when all of the clips, and I 00:46:35.949 --> 00:46:37.690 saw fucking loads of them when they first came 00:46:37.690 --> 00:46:41.969 out, it was fucking just shoving it down there, 00:46:42.030 --> 00:46:45.690 but also to its own detriment as well. Oh, yeah. 00:46:45.769 --> 00:46:50.980 Like, if you're going to... introduce that sort 00:46:50.980 --> 00:46:55.719 of um stance or not even stance just wording 00:46:55.719 --> 00:46:59.119 um then make it organic because there are ways 00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:01.840 to do that to make it fit in with the story and 00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:04.579 not feel like it's been fucking rammed in there 00:47:04.579 --> 00:47:08.940 what it felt like is um You know when you watch 00:47:08.940 --> 00:47:11.300 a YouTube video and even though you've got premiums 00:47:11.300 --> 00:47:13.739 so you don't have adverts anymore. Here's today's 00:47:13.739 --> 00:47:16.079 sponsor. Yeah. And then when you click on it 00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:18.840 it says jump ahead because it's fucking everyone 00:47:18.840 --> 00:47:22.380 always skips through it. It seems like that where 00:47:22.380 --> 00:47:24.360 it's like we're quick. We have to fucking get 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:27.079 this in here and then let people deal with it. 00:47:27.139 --> 00:47:29.019 Do what you need to do. I don't care. Live and 00:47:29.019 --> 00:47:30.679 let live. I don't give a fuck what you do in 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:32.719 your private lives. I don't give a monkeys. It's 00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:36.559 just not. You're force feeding something that 00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:40.750 is in into a fantasy game. It doesn't make sense. 00:47:41.010 --> 00:47:43.530 That's the problem. It doesn't make sense. The 00:47:43.530 --> 00:47:46.469 writing is so bad. Yeah, I don't even think it's 00:47:46.469 --> 00:47:47.769 the fact that it doesn't make sense. It's just 00:47:47.769 --> 00:47:51.969 boring. In this instance, on this game, the dialogue 00:47:51.969 --> 00:47:56.409 of it is just fucking boring. You know what I 00:47:56.409 --> 00:47:59.289 mean? You can keep it if it's interesting, but 00:47:59.289 --> 00:48:03.050 the writing of it, and that seems to be the consensus 00:48:03.050 --> 00:48:05.679 for... what most people think when it comes to 00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:08.340 this game is that just story wise and dialogue 00:48:08.340 --> 00:48:11.659 wise it's very very very boring the gameplay 00:48:11.659 --> 00:48:14.860 is fantastic the actual combat and the enemies 00:48:14.860 --> 00:48:17.739 and the graphics it's got mixed reviews and then 00:48:17.739 --> 00:48:23.320 Avowed is sort of again Avowed has somewhat decent 00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:26.880 reviews yeah like I say I don't I feel like I'm 00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:29.119 too burnt out to play anything like that I've 00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:31.889 come from Divinity Original Sin 2, which is on 00:48:31.889 --> 00:48:35.469 par with, like, Baldur's Gate type of game. Epic 00:48:35.469 --> 00:48:38.989 story, amazing, perfect, blah, blah, blah. I'm 00:48:38.989 --> 00:48:40.750 in this weird lull now where I'm like, oh, I'm 00:48:40.750 --> 00:48:42.909 waiting for Crimson Desert. Let's get a small 00:48:42.909 --> 00:48:45.210 little RPG to play just to tide me over. So I 00:48:45.210 --> 00:48:48.070 tried Dragon Age. That made me just fucking, 00:48:48.210 --> 00:48:50.650 I just couldn't handle it anymore. It wasn't 00:48:50.650 --> 00:48:52.929 in the mood, so I longed that off. But I still 00:48:52.929 --> 00:48:54.369 want to play something similar, so that's when 00:48:54.369 --> 00:48:56.769 I got Avowed, and that weren't tickling me. So 00:48:56.769 --> 00:48:58.570 I just give up. I feel like I probably would 00:48:58.570 --> 00:49:01.449 enjoy Avowed, but having not too long ago completed 00:49:01.449 --> 00:49:05.650 Outer Worlds 2, I just know that I wouldn't be 00:49:05.650 --> 00:49:08.710 as bothered as I probably would be. But it does 00:49:08.710 --> 00:49:11.070 look like a game that I would enjoy. It's not 00:49:11.070 --> 00:49:13.050 bad. It's not bad. I wouldn't say the gameplay's 00:49:13.050 --> 00:49:15.690 bad or anything's bad about it. I just wasn't 00:49:15.690 --> 00:49:18.429 interested. I found it very boring. And I'm starting 00:49:18.429 --> 00:49:22.429 to feel like I'm just more... I'm like a lazy 00:49:22.429 --> 00:49:25.389 gamer now. I feel like a little turn -based thing's 00:49:25.389 --> 00:49:27.710 more my thing. I can be methodical and I can 00:49:27.710 --> 00:49:30.949 just sit there and read. I think you're burnt 00:49:30.949 --> 00:49:34.389 out. I agree. That's what I think. I think you're 00:49:34.389 --> 00:49:36.829 capable of playing anything, but you're burnt 00:49:36.829 --> 00:49:41.349 out. I am very burnt out. Mentally, in the real 00:49:41.349 --> 00:49:44.150 world and game world. You need a rejuvenation. 00:49:44.449 --> 00:49:46.929 I need just to... Yeah, but that's what I'm... 00:49:46.929 --> 00:49:48.289 I'm worried that's going to happen with Crimson 00:49:48.289 --> 00:49:49.750 Desert. It's going to come out, but I'm not... 00:49:49.750 --> 00:49:53.030 I'm on this, but because I'm excited for it, 00:49:53.090 --> 00:49:56.250 nothing's filling the void. Welcome. to the world 00:49:56.250 --> 00:49:59.050 of management. Well, it's not that. It's just 00:49:59.050 --> 00:50:01.210 games. I get this every now and again. I have 00:50:01.210 --> 00:50:04.289 a lull, don't I? We all do. We've been doing 00:50:04.289 --> 00:50:06.730 this for over three years now and there's been 00:50:06.730 --> 00:50:08.849 multiple times. I remember there was a couple 00:50:08.849 --> 00:50:11.090 of episodes where we was like, we both hate gaming. 00:50:11.630 --> 00:50:13.329 It's a gaming podcast and we was like, you're 00:50:13.329 --> 00:50:15.190 not going to get any gaming out of this. I'm 00:50:15.190 --> 00:50:18.070 not feeling it at the moment and that's why I 00:50:18.070 --> 00:50:20.829 was like, I'll just get back on my space hype. 00:50:21.030 --> 00:50:23.780 But then I downloaded all the space games. I 00:50:23.780 --> 00:50:26.960 put Returnal on for probably 45 seconds and ran 00:50:26.960 --> 00:50:28.460 through, shot a few enemies and just turned it 00:50:28.460 --> 00:50:31.000 off. It's one of the worst feelings ever is when 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:33.420 you're a gamer and then there's no games whatsoever 00:50:33.420 --> 00:50:36.900 that are tickling you at all. You sit there and 00:50:36.900 --> 00:50:39.519 you just think, well, I can't do anything. What 00:50:39.519 --> 00:50:41.739 am I supposed to do? This is what people do that 00:50:41.739 --> 00:50:45.199 don't game. How boring. That's what you're right, 00:50:45.340 --> 00:50:48.719 because I'm forcing games on myself. Genuinely, 00:50:48.719 --> 00:50:51.980 I think I could suffer Dragon Age story just 00:50:51.980 --> 00:50:53.719 for the combat. The combat's great, and the enemy 00:50:53.719 --> 00:50:55.860 design and all that. It's all cool. I could suffer 00:50:55.860 --> 00:50:57.940 that and just think this is a good action game 00:50:57.940 --> 00:51:00.360 as opposed to an RPG and just kind of not really 00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:03.340 give a fuck about the rest of it. And Avowed 00:51:03.340 --> 00:51:06.000 is kind of my cup of tea. It's like Skyrim, essentially. 00:51:06.500 --> 00:51:08.519 They're the people that made Fallout New Vegas. 00:51:09.760 --> 00:51:12.599 So they've made some good RPGs in the past. And 00:51:12.599 --> 00:51:15.559 it feels very Obsidian -like, and I could easily 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:19.139 play that. But nothing I put on is making me 00:51:19.139 --> 00:51:23.219 interested. Nothing. I bought Slay the Spire 00:51:23.219 --> 00:51:27.099 2 the other day, which is very good. It's a game 00:51:27.099 --> 00:51:28.639 that I highly recommend to you, but you're never 00:51:28.639 --> 00:51:30.920 bothered with. The second one's finally came 00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:34.639 out. What did it come out to? 500, 600 ,000 concurrent 00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:38.260 players on Steam on the same time that Marathon 00:51:38.260 --> 00:51:42.210 had, like, 80. It's max peak. This little indie 00:51:42.210 --> 00:51:46.489 dev has just smashed it. Embarrassing. So then 00:51:46.489 --> 00:51:50.650 fucking stop gaming. What else can I do? Nothing. 00:51:50.989 --> 00:51:53.710 Let the buzz come back. Just stop. Read some 00:51:53.710 --> 00:51:55.789 books. That's what I have been doing. Read some 00:51:55.789 --> 00:51:58.210 books. You can't force the games. That's the 00:51:58.210 --> 00:52:01.170 problem. You can't force it. Because then it 00:52:01.170 --> 00:52:03.369 takes the fun out of it. But then I feel like 00:52:03.369 --> 00:52:05.130 I've got nothing to look forward to. Whenever 00:52:05.130 --> 00:52:07.590 I'm here, I'm like, I can't wait to get home 00:52:07.590 --> 00:52:10.429 and play such and such. Can't wait to stop. Yeah. 00:52:11.030 --> 00:52:14.590 But now I'm like, what am I going to do again? 00:52:15.030 --> 00:52:17.590 Yeah, I know what you mean. I know exactly what 00:52:17.590 --> 00:52:20.469 you mean. I know how you feel. Because I was 00:52:20.469 --> 00:52:23.630 like that not even a month ago. Yeah, and then 00:52:23.630 --> 00:52:27.530 you found that space game. Yeah, literally. Literally 00:52:27.530 --> 00:52:29.769 that. Was on a lull from well because it was 00:52:29.769 --> 00:52:31.750 off season and we were waiting for midnight. 00:52:33.110 --> 00:52:35.309 And then, yeah, I just wanted to find something 00:52:35.309 --> 00:52:40.150 that I could play. And then fucking Elite Dangerous 00:52:40.150 --> 00:52:42.670 comes out of the woodwork and it's fantastic. 00:52:43.050 --> 00:52:44.510 It's one extreme to the other because I'll be 00:52:44.510 --> 00:52:46.369 like this and then... And then you'll be all 00:52:46.369 --> 00:52:48.110 over everything. Next week I'll be like, I've 00:52:48.110 --> 00:52:49.710 got like five games that I want to play and I 00:52:49.710 --> 00:52:51.969 can't play them all and it's annoying me. But 00:52:51.969 --> 00:52:53.829 at the moment I'm just going to play nothing. 00:52:54.130 --> 00:52:57.260 Maybe I'll do some painting. Or go back to the 00:52:57.260 --> 00:53:02.199 drawing. We did the drawing. I drew that today. 00:53:02.980 --> 00:53:05.559 A middle finger. You can say it. Yeah, I couldn't 00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:07.159 think of what to say. A middle finger. I drew 00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:09.820 a middle finger today on a post -it note and 00:53:09.820 --> 00:53:12.900 put it on Lucy's desk. Yeah. And she said, oh, 00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:16.139 I forgot you were as good at drawing. So maybe 00:53:16.139 --> 00:53:18.059 I should go back to drawing because I am pretty 00:53:18.059 --> 00:53:22.960 fucking sick. Yeah. But no, I won't. Or Warhammer. 00:53:23.389 --> 00:53:24.909 Yeah, that's what I meant by painting. I'm not 00:53:24.909 --> 00:53:26.909 going to start painting pictures. No, painting 00:53:26.909 --> 00:53:30.429 Warhammer. But once again, I can only do that 00:53:30.429 --> 00:53:33.070 if I'm involved in my space theme. Boring. And 00:53:33.070 --> 00:53:35.210 I can't go into my space theme with Crimson Desert 00:53:35.210 --> 00:53:37.690 coming out next Friday. No, agreed. So I have 00:53:37.690 --> 00:53:39.690 to stay in my fantasy, but nothing's fantasising 00:53:39.690 --> 00:53:42.730 my fantasy. 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