Howdy welcome to what's the buttons episode 6 is it episode 6? Yeah Wow
We are plodding along
Yeah, here we are. How's your week been? No, my name's Ashley is Reese Lang dog. Go on
We say fucking mess of an intro. You're so loud when you start your intros
I have to edit it straight away because I can see the fucking noise of it
Shoot up. Okay. Yeah, that's actually spit you got coming with that energy. Yeah, you're coming with that powerful energy
Yeah, and then we're slowly
We'll slowly drop down within the space of an hour to fuck all yeah, we all monotone fucking voice. Mmm
Mmm. Well, yeah, how you been what you've been up to anything exciting?
You know what? I've been up to no fucking no man's sky. I'm obsessed mum
I
Woke up in the morning. It's the first thing I think of I go to bed at night. I'm dreaming of it
I'm thinking about it. Just fucking mining copper
Stupid I love it. It's incredible. I'm obsessed mining copper. What an exciting thing to be thinking about
It's the best thing ever. I can't
I said it the last before we hit record
Don't listen to me when it comes to gaming advice or anything about games. I've decided I know fuck all I know nothing
Because all the games I've sat here and gone out shit you give it a week. I'll be playing FIFA. No, I mean
These games I've played for five minutes and gone on that this games wank and
Here I am
Playing them. No, I mean eating your humble pie. Oh
No, man, you know what's up next in yeah, what cyberpunk?
Hmm, even then I very nearly did buy it because you can you can pick it up for fucking 50p in the bargain bucket
I'm telling you now that game is sick. I probably will know you played it on ps4 didn't you?
Yeah, exactly. That's where the problem lies man. Honestly that game is that story in that game is like ten
I grabbed it on ps4 and then when I got my ps5 I downloaded it and it was still buggy to hell
So I went, you know what fuck it can't be bothered
But maybe I will have to revisit it because you've been right on everything so far and so is Steph
Don't let me down cyberpunk
So maybe I need to I need to need to pull my finger out and give it a little crack once
I've drilled myself in with no man's sky once I put in too many hours where to the point where I'm sick of it
which I really can't see it happening because
it's just fucking mental
When did you start playing it? I looked at your playtime when I got here was 14 hours. This game's crazy
What was it? It was last week when it literally it was after the podcast is what I downloaded it in
I've been like, yeah, but when did you start playing? I don't think start playing it to like
Tuesday Monday Tuesday, so I'm gonna that yeah, I've sunk in some some time fucking around with it
I won't lie. I mean 14 that it's not it's not a long time, but oh
It's quite a long time
We started Ash. Give me a load of a load of shit to get me going
Basically get what got through the intro
I've got a freighter
Massive fucking shit. Well, don't spoil it. We'll talk about later. I'm talking about it later. Anyway, right fine
So let's not let's not go too far into this fucking all over it. Well, I I had a wedding anniversary yesterday
Congratulations, thanks five years
What is five wood?
Sounds so wanked in it that would is wood it's supposed to show
Growth in love a strength would I mean, you know, it's not the strongest materials depending on you know
Tree tree wood pretty powerful
You can get a flimsy bit of plywood expensive now though. So I suppose it means a little bit more than
Than 10 years ago. It's decent. Well, she got a chopping board. So
You know, it's got our names on it. It's quite cute. I like that a chopping board. I got fuck all you got nothing
I got nothing nada. This needs to be normalized. Niche men deserve flowers as well
We want gifts on anniversaries and all types of shit. I wouldn't mind but I got in well
I'd ordered this the day before Amazon express delivery. I thought right rapid. I would get there
on the way home of
The day of the anniversary. I thought fucking got cards women love a card
Yeah, so I swung I swung the motor up on double yellows at a junction ran into a Nyssa. Yeah
Just just searching rapidly any fucking frantically searching for a card. She very nearly got
Congratulations, you're married card because I couldn't find nothing
In the end, I just felt for this had to settle for this dusty old anniversary. I literally had dust on it
It's the fault that count. Yeah. Anyway, I got that I scraped the dust off. I put a little message in there
I'll give it to her. She said
When'd you get this?
this morning
Trying to be all cocky and I tell me you lied. I said no go to South noon actually
So disorganized it's like fucking when you what why does it matter when I buy the card?
So there was dust on the card. Why don't you just say I got it ages ago? I got it so long ago
It's got dust on it. I cleaned that stuff that would have been smart
But I wasn't expecting to be attacked for my card purchase. Mmm, so I was like, well
Why does it matter when I got you the card? What matters is that the card is here? No, she's like no
No, you rushing around trying to get a car blah blah, but you know the the funny part of the story is
Up turns her present. Ah, lovely chop. Well, I was so lovely. I won't chop on it
Would you mind where's my fucking present?
Arrive jet on it. No, no, it's an ornament now. Oh fuck. Well, right the biggest ornament you can get a chopping board
Yeah, it was it was a it was a double-edged gift cuz we got a glass chopping board and I fucking hate it
I couldn't think of anything to use
And I thought well if I get a this one one, it's lovely to it's a great gift and free
We got a wooden chopping board. Mmm. No, it's just it's just an ornament now
But like I say, she's moaning at me about not getting a car till the afternoon
My present ain't even turned up yet. So I'm giftless. I fucking hate cards
I say this is Steph or don't if it's my birthday Christmas, especially Christmas fuck that fuck giving cards bad enough
I'm giving you presents for no reason let alone having to give you a card
But if you're gonna give me a card don't give it to me. Give me the money instead even you it was 50p
I'll kid you not my nan sits there and writes probably 150 cards every Christmas and then and then delivers them by post
It's just mental and it's depressing someone hands you a card
You know, there's money in it if I'm shaking that and there's nothing moving. I'm not interested
I might as well just love it in the bin. So that happens be careful. Yeah is if I open the card
Yeah, it's nice. I've got to sit there and pretend that it's lovely or if it's one of them cars where it literally says to Reese from
Stanley right where you put no effort in it fucking waste of time for both us still got to sit there and go
Thank you so much. Even though we both know that that cards going in the bin
Straight away that awkward thing when you open the card and like a tenner falls out and you don't look at
Yeah, you just look at their face. You're just focused on the right. Oh my god. What's this? Oh my god
There was a tenner in there. Oh, wow
And you didn't get me a present. So thank you for the money
There's a couple of cards. I keep like anniversary cards and shit like that. Like obviously stuff that me and Steph of
Wrote stuff in like quite nice nice little paragraphs and all that all that shite
But yeah, I've always hated if anything Steph's maybe warming me towards cards a little bit
But I don't know about you when when Steph or my mum or or someone goes to pick a card
They spend a good five minutes looking at the cards. I need a card for any occasion
First one I see you know, I mean like I'm like a mother's day or fucking anniversary card
I'm grabbing the first one that I see and I haven't gone wrong yet. I
Couldn't give a monkey's to be honest with you
It's just a card and I fucking matter yeah, you know the special ones go in a box
So we'll dig them out in 40 years and we'll have a right read for a while
Yeah, we'll keep these for the next 40 years. Shall we and then one day we'll go. Oh, that was nice
It's dusty old card. That's falling apart. We've had it in the loft. Brilliant
Ridiculous. Anyway, that's enough of that. No, it's gaming. I'm actually doing something tomorrow. I don't know what it is
She's surprising me for our anniversary. So I'm sure I'll have something to talk about next week
Anyway, come to the diner with me and step. I digress
That's a no
What?
We don't know what you're doing, yeah, I know I'm going early though and plus it's cherry shield tomorrow
So hopefully whatever we're doing we're back by four so I can watch Liverpool
I think always a non-league game championship starts tonight
football's on today boys
That's not professional is it I shouldn't do this
I've pretty much read it now. Let's have a look. What do you mean? It's our fucking podcast Huddersfield versus Burnley tonight 8 o'clock
No, I'm not a real
Not a real banger, but you know, I might have a little looksies anyway little butchers on the football what we got right
Kotor delayed pain. I
Don't know what this guy's on about. It's something to do with Star Wars
I won't sit here and rinse him and pretend that he's a like, you know, I mean take the piss because I
Empathize with him, but I don't understand what's going on. Well, it hurts Knights the Old Republic has been
Delayed slash cancelled. So there's a is a little report Jason Shrier leaked this the
Prolific leaker that I've said before he's very reliable
Doesn't tend to get anything right to be honest with you
I can't remember him getting a single thing wrong, which is even more concerning because if there is one time
I wish he was wrong. It's right now
please
This is on games radar comm
Star Wars Knights the Old Republic remake delayed indefinitely report says I know not another remake
Yeah, but it's not
Start it's not a remaster. It's a remake from the ground up. Is it the delay?
Reportedly comes from a disappointing demo and studio firings
Fireings firings have been they've been sacked off breath
The Star Wars not see old republic remake is reportedly in serious trouble and has been delayed indefinitely
It doesn't sound good. Does it?
No, it doesn't I should quote and unquote so people know is me talking and not do you know I mean I
Quote that's according to a new report from Bloomberg speaking to people familiar with the ongoing development of the remake at aspire media
Throughout July according to the report studio heads have been meeting with employees to inform them that the Knights the Old Republic remake is
Effectively on hold this is reportedly so that studio can search for new contracts and development opportunities
Unquote they've run out of money. It doesn't sound great quote in late June aspire media
Reportedly presented Sony and Lucasfilm with a vertical slice of the remake to represent their vision of the final project
In the meetings the following month studio heads told employees that the vertical slice wasn't where they wanted it to be and that
two studio heads design
Director Brad Prince up the princes and art director Jason Miner had both been fired from the company
Ultimately the fate of the Knights the Old Republic remake remains unclear according to the new report
It's claimed that aspire media originally wanted to release the remake announced in September
2021 by the end of 2022
Employees speaking as part of the report now believe that a more realistic release window is at some point in
2025
25
That's not happening. Is it there's also a belief that developer saber who was collaborating with aspire media on the remake project now might take
Over the game completely the Star Wars Knights the Old Republic remakes still slated to be a ps5 console launch
Exclusive, but we'll have to wait and see any further details about its ongoing development troubles
Unquote that doesn't sound very good. The problem is
So they've been working on it for quite I think three years
I see they've been working on this they announced in September. I jumped off the sofa when it when it when it was announced I was
pretty excited
But I knew this was coming because when you want when you want nice things and you in your hopes and things
It never happens. You know, you can't have nice things in this world. So there you go
But when they they're presenting their vertical slice
You know which I you know, I'm not a developer, but I would imagine that would be
You know a bit from the beginning a bit from the middle a bit from the end
Here's a vertical slice of the game going all the way through have a look see what you like
And they basically said what the fuck is this? No good
No, but they they're claiming that it was good and they were very excited about presenting it
So I'd love to know what it was that made them go. What what is yeah, obviously wasn't good
If they've gone and sacked everyone well
They haven't sucked everybody they've sucked a couple of people but I'm not being funny if they're bringing in another developer Sabre
It seems to me that they're just gonna be restarting it from scratch if it even gets restarted
But this game people have been crying out for the Kotor remake since I can remember it's you know
It's one of the pioneers of RPGs is probably the biggest
RPG to ever be made if you if you look into RPGs
As a whole a lot of this would have stemmed from Kotor
Which was made by Bioware in their in their prime we're talking Kotor 1 then Kotor 2 got made by Obsidian
I believe
But we're talking like Bioware at the peak of their powers
Nights of the old I'm sorry. I'm just having a look to
Before I start talking I want to be a little bit more
Informed about what I'm looking at. Hmm. What am I looking at?
What am I looking at? I'm so confused with the start with the Star Wars
Right, so you're confused because there's Star Wars Nights of the Old Republic also known as Kotor
But there's also the online MMO, which we were playing. Yeah, which is called Nights of the Old Republic
I think right. So so right. Okay, so
They're completely different
Right. I have reason see I never played Kotor before
Okay, and
So is it not an MMO? No, it's like Mass Effect. It's like an RPG choices dialogue
Combat I say turn based with a party of people. I understand
Okay, you know your classic Bioware your classic Mass Effect Dragon Age that sort of stuff
I get you I get you
And I never really played it but I'd heard so many good things, but I thought you know
It's old now. It's old. I think it came out on the Xbox the original Xbox possibly
and possibly Xbox 360
I think it might be the original Xbox. Anyway, I digress the
The game looks old. It looks janky and I was like, I don't want because I know it's coming out on VS
5 I don't want to ruin the experience by playing something
It's been ruined for you now. No, but then it came out on switch
It wasn't remade. It was like a port
But it was a pretty good port and I was like, you know what? I'm gonna crack on so I'm gonna get this
I'm gonna smash through it and then when the new one comes out
I've got something to compare it to you know, I mean, so I'll know how quirky the old things was
Etc etc. And I loved it on the switch. It was absolutely
10 out of 10 and this game is absolutely
Old as balls. I mean, you know when you're running through like barren worlds and you're like
This is what yeah, nothing going on here. Yeah, but despite that the story itself was
Fascinating. I mean the big twist in it. I obviously won't spoil it for anyone
It was very very obvious
But at the time when this came came out that twist wouldn't have been used that much
So it would have been quite shocking
So I put myself in the mindset of playing this back in I don't know whenever this came out 2000 and
10 I don't know probably a lot earlier than that. So yeah, I put myself on that self in that mindset and
Yeah, what what a fantastic game? So I was super excited for the the ps5 version
And I know a lot of people were and yeah, just a little bit
It's a little bit heartbreaking to see this because not only has it been 10 years since the last one
It's a little bit. It's a little bit heartbreaking to see this because not only has it been delayed indefinitely that to me that just screams
cancellation and I've read a lot of things this week on it and
Yeah, that is the vibe we're getting that if it does restart it will be restarted from scratch which puts it
You know, you're probably gonna get fallout 5 by the time this comes out if it ever does and as a huge Star Wars fan
This upsets me fuck off Center Park's email me every day
I'm already coming back bugger off. Yeah
Bugger off. Oh, well, they want don't know they just keep going. I want more of your money. Yeah, you're right
Ash you won't come back. Yeah, we know you've paid for a room, but the toilet paper isn't included
So when you turn up we'll charge you 20 quid per sheet because that's what we do
You don't throw that much shade at Center Park. It's all right. It's not as though
It's not as though haven't been you've never been the world. I was meant to go but we won't get into that drama
What I will ask those number one
Why does it have to be a remake of all the things in the Star Wars universe?
Story wise I'm not slating the game at all. Let's not get this twisted. I'm not about to sit here and rip the game apart
I haven't even fucking played it. So I sort of can't
I'm learning I'm developing I'm growing myself
So why a remake number one of all the things that you could do with Star Wars
Why why not just fucking do some do you got the bases do something else? You know, I mean and then to if
Money was becoming an issue, which I have no doubt. It probably was why not do a bit of crowdfunding
People go mental you if they turn around and said look Ash
Give us 20 quid and when this game comes out we would I don't know
Give you something
Don't know we fought this fruit. We'll give you we'll give you a lightsaber of of
Fucking know lightsaber. You say a 50 quid they give you something. They'll give you something right?
You're you would you would give them the money wouldn't you? Yeah, of course. Of course you would and I think
Everyone had a
Everyone who loves Star Wars would do the same so
What's the fucking remake and I think stop it?
I think this is an interesting decision in the first place to be given a spire
the
Nice the old Republic remake gig because a spire are only really known for porting games. They're not known for
Remaking games when you think of remaking I'm instantly thinking a lot blue point blue point being the remake
Remakers, I guess. Mmm. Resident Evil 2. Mmm. Resident Evil 3
Demon souls, you know just a couple off the top of my head and they're like
Top quality. Yeah, you know amazing. So when the spy I was already a little bit like
I give them give them some faith. I mean
Spire we're doing all right. They're doing Mass Effect and Dragon Age. So maybe they're a bit busy
But yeah, I mmm the reason they're remaking this is
As I've just said is if you talk to anyone about RPGs
anyone of my age
Not that I played it back then but this is like, you know, one of the starting points for proper
You know, this is where this is where Mass Effect and that stem from in Dragon Age
This is where these these games come from. This is the foundations is
Is the calm to remake this would bring a whole new sluice of fans come through the doors?
Do you know what I mean? This this would be incredible for people that have never experienced it
Especially how many new Star Wars fans there are yeah, and the Old Republic is not really a very explored
Time period in Star Wars media
Because the old public is long before the Star Wars films that you would have watched long long long before them is
It's essentially the founding of the Jedi
and the original Republic and stuff like that
So this is long before your Darth Vader's and your Luke Skywalker's
So it's like a whole history of Star Wars that they can explore and you you're looking at Resident Evil 2 and 3
Things like that if this does well more than they could remake Kotor 2 and then if that also sells well
Kotor 3 is you know, it's their game to make whatever they like I can understand it's never been made
So they can just create what they want and that history that hasn't been explored
They basically got a free rein to write whatever story they want
But it won't happen will it because it'll get to 2024 and they'll go yeah
We actually haven't been doing anything with this game. We just said that to keep everyone quiet. It's not gonna happen
I can understand why they said 2025 because I feel like with the amount of games where
How many games get fucking delayed every game gets delayed?
If you're looking forward to any game, it's gonna get delayed unless it's FIFA because no thought or effort goes into that being made
That is literally just a carbon copy of the one before it who hurt you did someone kick footballs at you and you're what it is
Right as I used to love FIFA and then when secondary school started all the people that used to bully me for being a nerd
Were the people that played FIFA and it stuck with me
So if you play FIFA, you're a bit of a dickhead in my eyes
You're just one of those types of people until I get to know you and then then you're probably a sound person
But before that point it's because I was bullied in school by the people that played FIFA
So fuck him. Fuck FIFA. Fuck mark. Let's bring that one back. Yeah, fuck him
Would it help if I took you outside and we played Wembley? I just think I just think it is and volleys
But I like I'm whack. I like playing football
This is the thing though three and in and I probably would like to play FIFA
Three and in and I probably would like playing the games, but I just oh they were so mean to me ash
So if you're listening, I won't start naming names
Maybe next episode when I get really annoyed about it if you're listening
Which you probably aren't if you are you know who you are. You can go fuck yourself. Don't kick footballs at people. It's not very nice
I've completely forgot what I was going on about. I just don't go. That was it. That was another
2025 because
What happens a game has a release date say I don't know
Fucking December of this year and then maybe in October that whatever developer goes. Oh, well
We've actually got to delay it
And then they end up getting death threats because of it like with cyberpunk and then look what happens
They release a game that's not even fucking finished because people are threatened to let a bomb the developers
All right
So I can understand why they would go with something like 2025 because that gives you enough of a scope to really
Try and sort something out. I just don't think it's gonna happen
You know, I just like to see me suffer. You just happy that I am not going to be happy
No, I don't want to see you suffer at all. Yes, you are. I just I just don't think that it's gonna happen because
It hasn't happened already
But it has been happening. They've been working on it for three years and they announced it and something has happened
We don't know exactly what?
from what I heard originally it was that they spent a lot of
money and resources and time
On the game, but they hadn't progressed far enough
So what they'd spent on say, I don't know how much a quarter of the game
Then them standards need to be kept up for the other three quarters. Do you understand? Maybe so their their projection was
Originally 2022 but the people that they're showing the game to are like nah
This ain't coming out for 2025. We can't afford to sustain that for another three years
We're gonna have to delay slash cancel
Indefinitely, whatever it may be
And and go from there, but I don't think the work per se from what I can understand
I don't think the work itself was bad. I just think they put so much resources in early doors
They're not gonna hit the window that investors want therefore. They're gonna have to be taken off that'll probably be what it is
You've got you got the people that are remaking this game are
die hard star wars fans
They're in the videos. They're very passionate. Yeah, they they want to give it the
Best crack that they can so they will put the effort into it
And then yeah when it comes to investors and the people who are
Giving you the money to do that. They probably don't even give a fuck about star wars
They've just seen the money they can make off of it. So when it comes to
It being released and it's in its development
They probably don't one care or understand that the people that are making that game actually
Want to put as much effort in as possible because they know what it means to the fans that are going to play it
So yeah investors have probably looked at that and I agree with you have probably gone
You ain't as far as you need to be sir
Fuck off and we'll get someone else in
Maybe greed there could be many answers and i'm sure the truth will out and i'll be interested to know
Fingers crossed something good comes from it because it's such a shame. It's a massive massive
humongous ip
To to just bin and can especially after putting three years of work in and I feel for the developers that have
Put their time and effort into making three years worth of stuff to essentially just be like well for nothing
This might end up being nothing now. Yeah, and and that's heartbreaking
Especially when you put your heart and soul into it
So yeah, I feel for them fingers crossed everybody's got the money to do that
everybody's all right and uh, we get something in the end of it, but
Coming from a heartbreak for me
um
Not necessarily a heartbreak for you. It's not a heartbreak at all as a huge lord of the rings fan
It looked wank
Gollum's been delayed surprise surprise. I think
They released that little that gameplay trailer was fucking awful, would it?
It was shite. Well, it weren't for me, but then you say that but
Correct me if i'm wrong. Mm-hmm
Was you not enjoying stray that you've just been playing? Yeah
Is there much difference in straying gollum? It's just a little bit of wandering about sneaking about difference. What's the difference?
well
stray is is
It's nothing like gollum for a start and it wasn't
I'm not talking about the the don't get confused style. I'm talking about the gameplay because we're shitting on it for saying
It looks a bit boring looks a bit bland
But then essentially from what i've seen of stray people only really are like ice is great because you're a cat
Other than the fact you're a fucking cat. It's good fun. It's yeah because you're a cat if you like cats
You're gonna like stray. Yeah. Yeah, that's what i'm saying. So correct me if i'm wrong
Was stray not the same as gollum in terms of the gameplay you just no
You're just sneaking about no, you're not doing nothing. You haven't played stray. No, i'm saying i've seen people rave about it
I've watched people play and i'm like, yes, you're a cat. Yes. Yes, you can meow. Yes. Yes, you can knock off plant pots
Yes, that's fucking it. So what is the no, there's a story there as well. What what the issue is stroke? Yeah
Hi, hello. No cat cat meow meow meow. Shut up. No, let me speak. It's rubbish. It's a bad game about cat
Listen, i'm not shitting on stray. Although it sounds like it. I'm just trying to i'm just trying to get a comparison game where we
Slash you are saying gollum looked shit. You all i'm seeing is very similar stuff
But you know stray but you don't like the look of gollum lies. You're a wet lettuce. You saw the gameplay trailer
Yeah of gollum
Did you like it? Did it look good other than other than the the scenery did that gameplay look good?
Did they show anything decent?
No, they didn't it looked janky for for the money that's behind it
And consider you're comparing gollum to a cat. You might as well be comparing him to a snail
They're two completely different things a cat can only do very very little meow and lick its own ass and knock fucking plant pots off
Of whatever whereas gollum is an entire humanoid can do various different things
And we've seen it in the movies and we know what he's capable of rather than just crawling around in the bushes doing fuck all
That's why we weren't impressed with it. And what they've done is they've done
They've listened they've listened to everyone go. What the fuck is this and they come out and they've gone. Oh
Apologies everyone. We've had to delay it for technical issues. It's because it looks wank and you know, it looks wank
They've done the right thing. They've listened to us and they've listened to everyone go. What the fuck is this stray is different and plus
Lest we forget stray is only like 20 quid
Whereas gollum you just know if it was released in that state
It's sort of a 50 quid price tag on it may be even higher. So
Stray is is and strays a very short campaign. It's only eight hours. There's a trophy to do it in under two hours
spoilers, yeah, but
It
Just wind me up. This is what it is. You wound me up now good. No, you know, I feel I got it in my head that
Fuck off
I'm not being funny though. They've delayed it by a couple of months, correct
Yeah
Yeah a couple of months it's not going to be enough to
To fix what we perceive to be the problems as boring gameplay and nothing going on
Mmm, if you want it to switch the entirety of the gameplay style, they need a year. They didn't show enough a a one minute
30 second or something little gameplay trailer. It was not enough. They did not show enough now, whether the the the questions you have is
Did they only do that because that's the only footage they had or did they only show that because they didn't want to show off
Everything else because it could be one or two if it's if it's the latter
then
This could be good. But if they've only shown us in a minute and a half's worth of gameplay because that's all they have
then that's a bit of a shocker, you know, I mean that's that's going to be a bit of a
A bit of a weird one. You know what? I'm not fucking hot for anyway
Yeah, fuck off. We've got no man's sky. What do you want?
From golem if it you say you're not hyped for it, but it's lord of the rings
It's your favorite thing if if they were to go right, you know what?
Fuck this race would you want us to make and it's it's gotta be about golem
What do you want them to do to make you go? Oh, actually, it's good
Because for me golem can't really do a lot anyway, and we discussed this saying he's not the right character
We don't think he's not gonna use the lord of the rings ip and you've got that
You've got that license to to do with as you please
And you've just gone with golem. I feel like I don't know
They're probably going to surprise us and be like actually wow
That was actually very good
I'll tell you what if you're flinging in remakes like everyone is and putting the effort in that you remember the old lord
Of the rings game. I cannot remember what it's called
But I remember playing it lots and lots and lots. You basically got to play all of them
I bet it was called lord of the rings. It probably was
I'm not going to take the time to fucking google it
But i'm sure a lot of people remember that game remake that motherfucker
And then incorporate a little bit of guardians the galaxy style of how that's played
You know, I mean the this golem
game
Who asked for it?
What if they go full mcu on it and they're like right we're going to do a golem game
And then they're going to do an aragorn game and then they're going to do a frodo game
It wouldn't work and they're all going to tie in no because it's it's too much effort just
No one asked for golem and even if people did ask for golem. No one asked for for him
At the end of his transformation you want to see it all if you're going to put it in a game
You want to be able to play as when you're a little hobbit?
Because no one really got to experience that I know it was in the movies. You see blah blah blah spoilers
sorry, um
But you could run with that a little bit and then and then gradually get to our fucking hell
Like i'm golem now now i'm gonna eat fish and fucking pickpocket. Wow
uh
It they just they just shut up
Fucking rambling i'm gonna play it when it comes out. I'll probably love it
But for now i'm just not excited about it at all. I don't even think they'll do pre-orders for it
Of course they will they'll pre-order anything. But what what can they do though? This is what I don't understand about the game
So all I saw
From my recollection is him sneaking around in bushes and and crawling through little holes and doing nothing. Yeah, is there gonna be like what?
It's hard to be so critical when you don't know we don't know what the premise of this game is
What is the story? What?
What do I do when i'm starting out? What is the end obviously they can't tell us all of that because then there's no point
Actually bringing out the game, but they they did not show enough
For people to get hyped about it
They should have and I hope they did expect the backlash that they got because what did they expect?
You know what I mean? What?
What did they want from us? Did they expect us to look at that one minute clip and go?
Fucking hell, that's incredible. I can't wait for that. I don't want anyone to you know, receive backlash over a game trailer
Yeah, you know no one deserves that but it is interesting to know why
No, but you want to excite your fans and no one was excited for it
Right, but maybe they're very pleased with what they've done and from the inside looking out
They might believe that that is going to excite people and you know, unfortunately, I don't think it did
So maybe they have to reevaluate it and don't get me wrong
This is the reason for trailers baiters tests of all kind you you put it out to the public get the feelers and
All right, the feedback weren't fantastic. Let's let's take a look at it and see what else we can do to really
Shake things up a bit
Yeah, and maybe they've done that but if that is the case and and there's a lot to work on then either
I don't believe three months is enough and that might expect another delay
Yeah, probably and um, we won't care
Well, no, I'll probably play when it comes out as well. Oh, yeah, I will play when it comes out
I just I just not I'm not losing sleep over it one thing for sure
They're not going to send us a fucking copy the way we've spoke about it
Fuck them. Yeah, why?
we'll never get a copy of a game to test because
We're not already famous
You only get that shit if you're famous, you know, I mean they don't give it to little developers
I still haven't got my alpha invite from fucking blizzard
You know, I'm at thousands of pounds. They've got for me means fuck all of them
If I had if I had a million followers though, this is false. This is false information false information
It's 100 false information. There's many youtubers out there that I've watched that have got like
1,000 2,000 subscribers and they get codes for games early. Well, we have a thousand downloads. Yeah, all right
Well, that's what i'm saying. You're the one shitting all over it. Not me. Well, you have to apply for these things
They don't just dish them out like candy. You have to go. Well, they do dish out like candy though
Is playstation beta?
I've got five
PlayStation beta updates to give away. Well, he's got four because one of them's coming to me allegedly
So yeah, holler at me on the socials. Yeah, which is
Fucking no, you know what it is. If you're listening to this, you know what the socials are clicked on the link
You know, I mean there's a link tree there. Just use it. Fucking hell. The instagram and the twitter are on there
I'm pretty sure the twitter is at what's the button
I think the is the link only for ps5 and the instagram is at what's the buttons podcast? I believe
What'd you say?
Is it there's a stupid question really because I know it's only for ps5 because it's a ps5 beta. What a knob. Yeah
Yeah, so yeah holo at us on there and you can snag yourself a beta code for the new update which incorporates folders for your games
Uh, wow, what was the resolution there putting it out?
1440p. Yeah, we're gonna do that so you can get yourself on them codes nice and early for support and what's the buttons podcast?
Wow
Ash told me about something that
Uh, well he peaked a bit of excitement and then I soon shut it down with one swift google about gta 6
I find it mental that I had to tell you on a friday that gta 6 had had news and you were like, huh?
What do you mean?
GTA 6 is like one of the biggest franchises in gaming history and you've lived under a rock clearly because it's been
Everywhere i've been playing no man's sky. This is your fault
I said this before we before we pressed record before that that red button got pressed
I said you fucked it for this podcast for the next couple of months because
Months because now i'm just gonna be playing no man's sky non-stop. You won't be playing it this time next week
I fucking will well, we'll see i'll bet you you watch you watch
I will i'll discover some planet with some mental shit on it and i'll go. Oh, this is crazy
Yeah, I didn't
To be fair though with the gta news because it's been so long
because gta 5 has been
Around for so long and people have been whinging about wanting gta 6 for so long any news about it does
does does go straight over my head because
I can't be asked ash said that it's coming out next month
He said gta 6 coming out last next month. I googled it and it says in but maybe in the next two years
Fucking hell, it's been in development for ages. And then even then it's been leaked that
That it's it's going to be a sort of bonnie and clied style, which I really like that
I think that's that's that sounds really cool
um
You get to play as a woman you get to play as a bloke
Sorry for the people that aren't playing as women but that's going to happen. You can just play as is it clied?
That's the man in bonnie and clied
It is clied in it
That one you get yeah, whatever but I I don't like the idea that apparently it's going to be set in miami
I think we did the same withMake crowd
You got to be in Reeth
America. Please don't don't shoot me over it. But just there's all these places that you could
explore. Miami seems like somewhere where it's been done. Yeah, but they're going back to Vice
City, aren't they? So of course it's gonna be again, again, not exploring new shit. Let's go
back to let's go back to something we've already done. Why don't need tried and tested, tried and
tested. It's been in this has been in development for years. You've had plenty of time. I don't know.
It's not all about you, you know. Oh, it's just, it will be fantastic when it comes out. I know it
will be anyway. I just it's gonna be delays. Female Latina protagonist. My hopes for that
is it's not tacked on Latina shit. Of course it will be because I hate if you want to do it,
do it properly. We're about to offend and no, no, if you want to do it, do it properly because I
know what they do. They just go down the classic tropes of like, uh, you know, what's the, what's
the words that Latina's use like, Hey, hombre, you know, it's like, don't just do that. They've said
do proper like translation. So like do proper Latina, get a proper Latina lady in to do our stuff
and then have like translation for certain bits. Not all of it. I believe that in what, what this
article was saying is that, uh, rock star themselves have decided to go down a different path and
almost reinvent themselves. They've said so themselves that they are known for being the,
the basically was it say, uh, playing on, on typical stereotypes and always going for the
cheap jokes and, and all that type of shit. And basically they're trying to rebrand themselves
and come away from that. So I'm hopeful for GTA six to be like what you just said. They'll put
the effort into that, that, that Latino background and, and things like that. I think, I think they'll
do it justice. It, they, I think they're, what they're doing is they're getting with the times
understanding that they can't just keep doing the same shit that they're doing because eventually
they're not going to be able to keep getting away with it. And I think they're modernizing themselves.
I don't think they're, I don't think they're going to stop doing everything they do in terms of the,
the shit that they make certain characters saying things like that. But I think it, it, it won't be
your typical like GTA five, GTA four style of, I think they will modernize it and it will be quite,
I think it'd be quite good. I wish they'd get away from, from their,
their comedy. I'd, I think it ruins it personally. I'd write, I'd like a greater tone. I don't like
it's some of it's so eccentric and over the top and silly. It's, and then some of it, some of it
suits, but I think a lot of it should be, you know, the premise of the game is, you know, you're
shooting your Robin, you're stealing. I'd like a bit of a darker GTA and leave that other shit to
Saints row, do all the comedy stuff. Um, but some of it is, yes, it's painfully cringy.
I think that I agree with you. They need to get away from that, that style of comedy, not completely,
but I think they need to maybe, maybe try something different, which I believe is, is, is the path that
they're going down if they're planning on reinventing themselves. And that's one of the things that
they'll have to do. And, and yeah, hopefully think of some different shit to do. I think it's just,
there's too many generic characters in this too many, like stereotypical over the top,
eccentric, and you're like, no, I want, you know, you're going to meet a nightclub owner. I mean,
he's just like way over the top, silly. Well, no, why don't we go down the grittier road where it's
like serious business? Like I know there's, there's a huge market for the funny silliness, but I'm,
I'm just a bit bored of that personally. One thing I'm somewhat concerned about is that in
this article, it says that, um, what they plan on doing is updating the game as it releases. Now I
get a little bit iffy when developers say that type of shit, because to me, it sounds like you're
going to release a game that's not 100% and then add in the other bits to the puzzle later on. Now
it can go one or two ways. You can either release a game and it'd be really, really fucking good,
but the content will only hold people for a week because they'll blitz through it as they naturally
will. And then they'll be bored and it will drop off or they will add a decent amount of content
and then update and keep that. You see what I mean? Whereas you had something like Elden Ring,
where fucking incredible game, everyone loved it, but there was no new content added.
So people sure enough sunk in shit ton of hours in a very small space of time and essentially
rinsed it and we've had nothing new. Well, all like battlefield prime example there game came out,
everyone loved it. They didn't add anything to it. So it died off. So when a developer says,
yeah, we're going to update it when it comes out and add more bits, we'll have to see.
I see on the other side of the fence. I think it's better this way. I think release an absolute
Titan like GTA. It just comes through and everyone avoids any, probably the year GTA releases,
people are like, I'd rather not release the game, our game. I'd rather wait, get GTA out of the way.
The absolute juggernaut that is comes in, bulldozing everything out of the way, ruining careers of game
developers because they've put their heart and soul into a game and they just happen to accidentally
drop their game in the same month as GTA. And it's just like, well, rip. Like Horizon. Exactly.
Exactly. Very bad luck. So I think if they release it and the trouble is we don't know whether they're
talking, are they talking single player or are they talking multiplayer? When they feel like,
I feel like they'll run with the same way they did with GTA five, where the single player will
come out and then, well, it took a while for the multiplayer to come out. It was about a year,
wasn't it? It was a while. Yeah. And even then when it came out, it was absolutely fucked.
Yeah. Most of the time looking at clouds, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah. Well that's still,
still now, but I think if they're going to go down that road, I think that's more exciting
because you get in. I mean, GTA is not a game you, you jump in and you go, right, there's
50 hours and I'm done. GTA. You can just mess around. Yeah. And just talking about it now makes
me want to play GTA. You should just stop it. Get out of my brain. So we did that. It was boring.
Nah. Yeah. It was boring. There was a new update yesterday. I don't give a fuck. Fuck GTA. GTA five's
done. Let's leave that alone. All right. All right, mum. It's not happening. Sorry. No, man. Um,
anyway, the, I think that's exciting that they're going to add stuff over time because then
you will get new content and it's not just going to be, oh, here's three new motorbikes, a plane,
and you know, a jet ski that shoots rockets out his ass is going to be a whole new map
somewhere else to go see, hopefully new stories. Um, and yeah, I think that's much more exciting
because then it, a steady stream of content over a period of time, hopefully they can transition
single player and multiplayer seamlessly because there's no, having no DLC for GTA five single
player or red dead to single plays just criminal waste waste. And I know why, because it's not
financially lucrative enough for them because no one's buying fucking shark cards on single
player. They all want it on fucking multiplayer. They want to rinse all the money they can see
the little busts. The single player DLC is, it's like, take a lot more time to create the stuff
that they need to create. Um, and when they can just make more money just by adding a few guns in
multiplayer. So pretty much, hopefully they're going to steer away from that and realise that
a lot of market they're missing out on of a single player games that people don't like
playing multiplayer. A lot of people don't like playing multiplayer. There's only certain games
that I actually enjoy playing multiplayer. It's only sometimes I'm even in the mood for competitive
multiplayer or co-op like apex legends. Exactly. I've gone off that. It's just had enough of like
the competitive nature. Cause it you start off going, Oh no, silly. I died. Oh dear. So, Oh fuck
sake. I died. It's a fucking hell. I can't deal with this game anymore. My ranking, my ranking has
gone down by one point. Exactly. And then it takes fucking seven hours to get it up again to one
point extra. Exactly. So you, it's difficult to balance the competitive side of myself because I
start off all relaxed and by the end of it, I'm, I've got a pillow and I'm headbutting it. Saving.
And my wife's like, you need to sort yourself out. And I'm like, yeah, I know, but I can't admit it.
It's I'm fine. Nothing wrong with me. I can deal with this. I, yeah. Byte marks in the control.
I think, I think it will be, it will obviously it's going to be good. I just, I don't know.
I find myself sitting and talking about games and trying to have a valid opinion on it when
it all becomes undone when that game comes out. Yeah. Cause you'll be all over it like a crash.
Yeah. Yeah. I'm somewhat too faced when it comes to games. I think of it, I'm just chatting shit
for the sake of the podcast. Everyone will be all over it. It doesn't matter what anyone says. This
is, I don't think there's a bigger game in history that has, or has the power that GTA has. I don't
name another game. Do you think that could come anywhere close to coming out and just causing
mass hysteria across the world? Simpson's hit and run. That's a good one. Yeah. 100%. I never
actually played that. Uh huh. You were. I'll say it again for the people in the back. I never
played it. You never played Simpson's hit and run. No. What about Simpson's skateboarding? No.
This is crazy. Why? What? You missed out on Simpson's hit and run. Are you a fan of the
Simpsons? No, of course you're not. Cause you're old and fucking crusty. You're not interested in
it are you? Let me fucking talk you wep, wep'em. I was going to call you a wet lettuce and I
realised you'd already called me that. So that's the thing. I say now I look stupid.
I like the Simpsons. I'm not as much of a fan as everybody else, but yeah, I do like the Simpsons.
Why I haven't played it. I've no idea. I don't know when it come out. I was probably playing
something grown up like Metal Gear Solid. See, see right there, see that's that, that's that
jockey FIFA mentality. I was playing something growing up. Fuck off. You shit all over me saying
you don't even like the Simpsons cause you're crusty. So I have just responded with the same
level of aggression you showed me. It's not aggression though, is it? It is, you're shitting
all over me. So I'm shitting back on you. It's disgusting. Smell it. What is this? I don't know.
I don't know what we're doing anymore. It's getting proper toilet water in it. Yeah. I said
this would happen at the beginning of the podcast that we'd, we'd, we'd slowly fizzle out over the
hour. We was talking about GTA. I don't know why we're talking about it. Let's get off GTA. I'm
fucking sick of talking about it. We weren't. We were talking about Simpsons. Yeah. I know you
never played it. You should do it. It's on fucking PS2, whatever. How am I supposed to play it then?
Is it PS2 or is it PS3? I'm pretty sure it's PS2. I can see the box saying Simpsons hit and run on
a PS2 case. I don't know why I never played it, but there will be a reason. I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what the reason was. I was probably a kid and I had no money. It's in, it's in nerd
base. Yeah, but you can't play it on PS5. So I don't know where to plan it. Another little plug
there for nerd base. Yeah. Why aren't you sponsoring us? You've fucking done anything with us. It's
ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Look at my Funko pops. Look at the money. The money invested is crazy.
I bought a board game from you. That's going very well. I mean, to be fair, then pop figures,
85% of them will come from online. They've come from eBay. Yeah. Thanks nerd base. Yeah. Thanks
nerd base for getting me into Funkos and then fucking turning me into eBay. Who got you into Funkos?
No, technically Steph got me my first Funko. No. Or was it Lucy? Lucy Steph's sister by the way.
Uh, I don't know. Either way, nerd base. Come on. Come on. There's about 10 people that listen to
this that live nowhere near you. 10 people. Think how much it can help you out. Don't disrespect us.
It's at least 12. We're going to hit a thousand downloads after this episode. We'll do a thousand
download special right now. Thanks very much guys. You're the best. Yeah. Thanks. Um,
that is mental though. It is pretty crazy. A thousand already. That's this. That's at least
a thousand hours. Well, not necessarily. Well, it is because it's down. They've downloaded it.
That doesn't mean no, they haven't. It doesn't mean that they've listened to an hour. It just
means they clicked on it and gone, what the fuck is this? And then clicked off. Well, let's not
get into it. Don't get into analytics. He does this. He does this. I get all hyped up about the
analytics and he shits on it. He goes, I'm a pessimist, not an optimist. It's not real though,
is it? No, yeah. Yeah. We're not even far. Just enjoy it. Enjoy it. This is fun. This is fun.
I'd be happy if there was just one person listening. I'm doing this. I know you fucking
wouldn't. I'm doing this for myself and I'm enjoying it. As long as I enjoy it,
I will continue to do so. Yeah. If something comes from it, fantastic. If it doesn't,
well, we had a bloody good ride, didn't we, son? I hope Dean enjoys this episode.
Listen to this one. Yeah. Yeah. Dean about to finish the greatest game of all time.
That what was you going to call him? Cause he will hurt you, bro. I was going to call him a weasel.
Yeah, not wise. He's not going to hurt me over the airwaves. Is he? No, but I know he live.
What did he call me? He called me a beautifully spoken nerdy gremlin.
He's about to finish the Witcher three, which I am a fan of. So congrats to him. He's pumped in
about a hundred hours. That is decent. The greatest game of all time. And he is, you know, he's, he's
plotting along there and he's done well. I can't wait to hear his thoughts on how that ends up.
Embrace your nerd. We are now the majority. So when you speak out in public about being a nerd
and you get bullied, there will be more nerds than there will bullies. You're safe. So embrace it.
If you're scared of being a nerd, never be scared. Be yourself. Yes.
We could have ended it there. What a rousing speech. That was
those people all around the lounge standing up. I sat up in my chair to say that. Uh, we, yeah.
You did actually. Yeah. I want to talk about no man's sky a little bit. Gordon. I'm obsessed.
I'm obsessed. This is the, what we've been playing this week part, by the way, this game is just,
I'm going to just put the mic down. Let you ramble. Oh my God. It's just incredible. I can't get over
that you can learn actual languages with these little fucking cretinous things and you can change
your appearance. There's capes need I say anymore. I will, but there's capes annoyingly when I play
with actually can't actually see my cape. I don't know why I've changed it to a backpack now because
I was sick of fucking being excited by it, but no one can see it. But the ships, the freighters,
colossus, exo crafts, the minerals, that's just mental. It's minecraft, but space.
He's genuinely put the mic down and he's just letting me ramble on. It's just, it's, it's,
it's, I was looking for something. I let my world of warcraft subscription run out.
I thought, fuck it. I can't be asked of it. I'll wait for dragon flight to come out. So I'm not
going to touch it. Therefore my laptop has remained shut. It only opens up for this podcast.
So I was looking for something to fill the void. I bought all the DLC for destiny. What a waste of
fucking money that was. It's not over. Destiny is not over. I bought it and then was playing it for
a little bit. And then I was playing with Ash and I went, no, let's play a bit of no man's sky.
And haven't looked back. Just been playing it nonstop. And like I say, I'm dreaming about it.
That little refiner, putting my copper in, getting chromatic metal out of it. You see,
I'm remembering all the little things. Oh, have you got, have you got the backpack refining yet?
Yeah. You made me get hold of it. Yeah. Very important. So much easier.
And then going all your little space stations and getting, filling up, filling up your exo suit,
getting more space in that just, oh, and the Sentinels, them fucking little things. They just
attack you for no reason because I've killed a fucking scarab. Leave me alone. Let me crack on
with my day because you're just going to get popped in the face with a bolt caster. Look at you. I'm
like a proud father. Hearing you reeling all these names off. It's so mental. And you get to,
what I find crazy is that it is huge. The game itself is massive. I don't think if you've never
played No Man's Sky, you cannot comprehend how big this game actually is. I don't understand how it
works. I really don't because it is the universe. And I'm not downplaying that. It is genuinely,
get a pic, get a map of, of the observable universe, print it off and have a look at it.
That is No Man's Sky. Every single little galaxy with their little planets and their moons,
and you genuinely discover them all and you get to actually name them. My base is called the log
house. His name, can I give out a PlayStation? His name's the stinky log. So that's why it's
called the log house. That is, that is the stinky log. And that is a capital T, a capital S and a
capital L. I was going to change, cause he's called the stinky log, I was going to change my, my
PlayStation name to the stinkier log. And then Clarkie was going to be the stinkiest log.
And we could still do that. It's perfect. Yeah, we could. It's one of the greatest names I've
ever heard, the stinky log. I remember, I remember asking you what your PlayStation name was and you
went, ah, and you paused. And I was like, what's he about to come out with, man? I was not expecting
the stinky log. I just, I'm all over this game and I really am. It is, and it feels good to play.
That's the, that's the, the best bit about it, especially the, just the fly and the ships and
shit takes actual hours. If you fuck up and you haven't got any, any fuel in your ship to warp
somewhere, that's it. Wherever you are, you're stuck there until you find something to, to,
you find another warp core. You know what I mean? Or just, ah,
It always seems to be something to do in No Man's Sky. My problem is I get paralysed because I'm
looking for X, Y and Z. I'll start looking for X, Y and Z, but I'll forget why I was looking for X,
Y and Z. So I'll collect them and be like, what was I doing with this stuff? And that happens to me
all the time. And I never really know what I'm doing. I'll just piss about for a bit, get a few
things, mess around. Yeah, but that's what makes it fun. I never know when I'm, I feel like I'm
doing stuff wrong all the time, but it's not a game where you can do anything wrong. Cause it's just
do what you like. There's no monitors monetisation in there. There's no egregious money grabbing
scheme. Where are they getting their money from? I did say this. Where, where is it coming from? I
can't understand. I retract everything I said from the last episode where I was like, because I was
talking shit again. Right. As usual. Where are they getting their dough from? Because this game is
mega. This is mental. They just released the freighter update, which is their 20th major
update since release. For free. For free. Every single one for free. Who is make, how are they
paying for this? I don't understand what they're doing. Cause I'd give them money. I'd give them money.
You want some money? They'll give you some money. Cause you deserve it. This game is-
companies like this, that you do wish there was some kind of way to pay them monetisation because
the X, the, the death star store, as we'll just call it. Cause I can't say anomaly. The anomaly.
I did it. Thank you. Thank you. Character development. The store in there, they've got a
special currency called quick silver, which as soon as you click on it, you're like, right,
where do I buy the quick silver? Where's the store? No, no, no, no, no. No, you just own it.
You just earn it. Oh, nanites. Where's the store? No, you just earn it. Credits. Yeah, you just earn
it. There's nothing in there for you to buy. And I would happily buy it. Yeah. But it's not even
like they, it's not even like it's a currency that you can't pay for and it takes fucking forever to
get hold of nanites is sort of like you've got your credits, which is your basically your pounds,
your dollars, whatever your fucking currency is. And then nanites is, is the next one up.
And then quick silver is like the top tier type shit. And you would expect that for something
like nanites is where you buy your vehicle upgrades and all that type of shit. And you
would think that, oh, these are going to be quite difficult to get hold of. They're not. They're
everywhere. They're not. And then credits, you can scan stuff. So you can, you land on a new planet
or whatever, and you've never been there before. You, you have to find out what minerals are in
what and, and basically what anything is. You can fucking scan a rock to find out what it is. And
you get currency for doing that. And Ash bought a little upgrade for his scanner that increased the
currency you get by like 9,000%. And I bought it as well. So now you can make some serious dough,
just looking at shit. You know what I mean? They don't make it difficult to get hold of the currency.
And I just, oh, it's just a very, I think I've never been able to put my finger on
what I like about it so much. And it obviously it was only in the last couple of years where I did
enjoy it. Cause it came out, it was fucking dog doo doo. So now, but I don't know what the,
what the recipe is because it's addictive and I don't know why I'm enjoying what I'm doing,
but I am. I like my, my main quest at the moment in my log, stinky log, in the stinky log,
in the stinky logs log is in my mighty stinky log is literally, it's basically just talking
around to me and said, yeah, in order for you to progress, just go out and have some fun,
go and search some shit. We'll get back to you when you've done enough, but we won't tell you
what you need to do. Just go out and fucking do some shit. That's the beautiful thing about it.
I love that. Is that you can just do whatever you like and there's no, well, there is goals.
You can follow them, but whatever the fuck ever that, you know, I should set your own goals.
That's what I enjoy the most. Cause I'm, I'm like, well, I want to build a proper base. I've built
a couple of little wacky ones, but I'm not fast. I want, I'm waiting for that perfect planet where
I'm like, this is the one that I, this is, this is the, this is the one. And there's many things
like that. I'm saving money for the right ship. I'm saving money for the right freighter. And I'm
just playing the game and every now and again, something like that looks good. Can I afford it?
Is it what I want? No, it's not. When that, when that moment comes and it has happened a couple of
times where you find something that you've been looking for, like, Oh yes, yes, yes, yes. That's
exciting. It's enjoyable. It lets off the, the fair moans if that's what it's called in your brain
and you're, you're enjoying it. It's a very satisfying gameplay loop. And yeah, what,
what a great experience and what a redemption arc from the shit they released.
Definitely. And I don't feel like you, I feel like when you, when you jump into open world type
games, I don't know about you, but I always feel like there's so much to do. I don't want to miss
out on anything. So I begin to rush things. I, I start doing the main story and then there's about
a billion side question and go, well, I want to do, I want to do them because I don't want to miss
out on anything, but I want to do the main story because I don't want to miss out on that, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah. So you end up getting overwhelmed and there have been games like
Assassin's Creed origins where I just put the controller down and went, no, I can't do this
because there's too much going on. I, I, I can't enjoy it because I've been given too much,
which sounds very strange. Like you say, paralysis from just having too much shit to do and no man's
sky, there are a billion and one different things to do, but I don't feel like I'm missing out on
anything because you can do whatever the fuck you want. If I want to go down on a planet
and I want to dig to the core, I can, if that's my priority to do that, I'm going to go and do that.
But if I want to go and sit in a space station looking at the little gecks, yeah, just, just,
just laughing at them. I can, no one's, no one's stopping me from doing that. I'm not missing out
on anything. And I think what me and Ash have decided to do, which I think will go in our
favour very well is not research it. Yeah. Not looking for anything. I'm not Googling what this
thing does or how I get hold of this. I'm just letting it let, I'm just, I'm just riding it to
see what happens. And I think that that is way more exciting than seeing any possibilities.
I prefer that. No, it is the best way to play. It's funny. You should say that about rushing
through games and stuff, because I was thinking about this with God of War the other day. I'm
actually nervous for that game coming out for that reason. I'm going to rush that motherfucker.
100%. That's what I hate. I don't want to rush it, but I will have to. We will. Because when
that game comes out, spoilers, yeah. Yeah. And you have to get through it because it just doesn't
take much for an Instagram post to just be like, I didn't know that was a boss. I didn't know that.
Who's that? Yeah. And she like that. And that infuriates me. So you either have to go completely
in the dark, cold Turkey, which now doing this podcast is an impossibility. Um, we have to keep
up with some sort of news, although you wouldn't believe that we do because we're fucking useless.
We've been quite relevant with what we're talking about. I mean, yeah, we have, but I mentioned
GGA six and you had no idea. And it kind of does the news. Don't get bigger than that. But, um,
yeah, I'm a bit concerned about that coming out and then me having a rush for it. Cause I don't
like rushing. You want to take your sweet time, didn't you? But there you go. Uh, yeah. No man's
sky is cracking. I think I'm enjoying it. It's especially for me. I've been playing it for quite
a few years on and off. So it's nice to jump in on multiplayer, which I've never done before,
like we were afraid and fly around and see the multi-play is very smooth as well. I was expecting
it to be very jittery and very good. You literally just join someone's session and there you are.
Yeah. It's very smooth. You're not like glitching around or jerking around. You're very smooth and
what you're doing and yeah, there's still so much to do on there. We haven't really scratched the
surface. Uh, so yeah, plenty to do. And it's the perfect game to see me through to, uh, starfield
next year. I agree to be fair. So joins the roster of game pass, hopefully. Um, so yeah,
I'm, I'm, I'm using that as a thing. And we've got to remember there'll be the summer 4.0 update,
which is the most exciting thing for no man's sky because that's when all the changes come through,
all the exciting updates coming, the big 4.0 update is, is coming and uh, what will be in there? Who
knows? I'm hoping for some, some people to fight that aren't sentinels. That's one of my main
things. That will be quite enjoyable. Um, but there's plenty of, there's plenty of things they
can improve upon and I'm sure they will, but to be fair, they've already given more than enough. So
God knows where they go from here. I don't know what their plans are, but shout out no man's sky
and Sean Murray and all the team. Cause wow. Thank you very much. Just don't do a season pass.
Please. I'd pay for that. I know. I know. And I would too, but that's sounds like they should
do a season. Please don't do that. Yeah. Well, well yeah, I guess this, well I opened it. So
I suppose I'll close it. This has been what's the buttons. You've been beautiful. Oh, ro. Oh, ro.