I'm going to do it. It's my
intro. Uh hello everyone.
We're back again for episode
eleven. My name is Rhys Leng
Doggy Doggy. It feels ****
weird when I say it myself. I'm
not going to do that again. My
name is just Reese and with me,
I have the prince among men.
Hello. Do you know next week?
Yeah. It's going to be a 12th
episode which means we would
be talking about the quarter of
a year. How long it's been?
What's a strange journey it's
been? It's crazy. I was
thinking that the other day. I
was like, at least at least 10
hours spent just sat here
talking absolute waffle.
**** I love it. Uh today is the
release of Rings of Power and I
can't be more **** excited. I
want to get this hour out the
way. I want to be done with
this because I've been avoiding
spoilers all **** day all day.
Gandalf dies. I've I've I know
it's not true but I can't ****
wait. I cannot wait to two
whole episodes. A minimum of
two hours is sitting there
waiting for my viewing pleasure
and I'm all for it. So, what
food you're going to eat with
it? You can't watch something
like that and not eat stuff.
See, I don't know if I'm going
to have had dinner by then. I'm
not sure I might even treat
myself and go and get a kebab.
I'm not sure she doesn't hear
that. She's not going to hear
that until next week when she
listens to it. Sorry if we
hadn't had a had a kebab already
Steph. I apologize. So, I I
don't know but I agree. Snacks
will be needed because I will
be glued to the screen but I
I I need to be shoveling food
in my mouth while I'm doing it.
That's the problem I have.
Obviously, I'm trying to diet
properly. I'm back in the gym
trying to get myself ship shape.
Mm hmm. I struggle to watch
stuff. I'm not sure I'm going
to be able to do that. I just
get fidgety. Yeah, I normally
flick on my phone and Steph goes,
you're not **** watching it. I
go, I'm I'm listening. Yeah,
see, I can't do that because
that that annoys me. I'm on
Steph's side. That's
infuriating. Jem's like, oh,
should we watch something? Oh,
go on in. We watch that and
then she's sitting on her phone.
It infuriates me. Yeah, but
that's infuriating for you
because whatever you're
watching, you're interested in.
Yeah. So, if you're watching
something that you're interested
in and she was flicking on her
phone. Well, neither in or
there, is it? You wanted to
watch something else? Yeah.
Yeah, but I can listen. No,
it's not good enough. I won't
be doing it during rings of
power. That's all I'm saying.
I'll be eating and I'll be, my
phone will be away from me. I
might even put it in a different
room. I always think Doritos
are a good. I hate Doritos.
Ugh. I get out. I don't hate
them but they're never a crisp
that I'm going to pick up over
anything else. What's to go to
with salt and vinegar or or
discos, squares, anything salt
and vinegar is normally what I
go for. Discos, discos, I can
get behind. They are
flavoursome. Discos are delicious.
Delicious. So strange. We've
got our little list of things
that we're going to talk about.
First thing I want to talk
about or we want to talk about
is the uh new Assassin's Creed
that has been leaked and then
announced and we'll find out
what's going on in Assassin's
Creed Mirage. Mirage. I am
looking forward to finding out
some more info on it if I'm
honest because I think it could
be quite decent. I feel like
they're going back to their
roots is something that I'm I'm
paraphrasing is what I see and
that they're going to focus
less on the open world aspect
and more on the uh stealth
mission side of things which to
me is what Assassin's Creed
used to be like um and I'm all
for it. Let me read this from
Kotaku. Go for it. Um Ubisoft
officially reveals Assassin's
Creed Mirage after protagonist
leaks. So, what actually
happened was there was loads of
leaks and then Ubisoft
obviously just got a bit
annoyed and was like, yeah,
alright and they tweeted
basically saying, yeah, the
next game is called Assassin's
Creed Mirage. We'll show you
more next week. They probably
leaked it themselves. That's
what we're going to talk about
in a bit. A bit of artwork from
the long rumored Assassin's
Creed Mirage appeared to leak
late last night. Then this
morning, uh Ubisoft finally
confirmed that the game is
real. Maybe earlier than it had
intended to make the official
reveal. It's quite a leaky ship
over there. Like yesterday, a
piece of artwork that appeared
to be related to an upcoming
entry in Ubisoft's long running
stealth action series popped up
online sporting an Assassin's
Creed Mirage logo. It depicts a
white hooded figure staring
at the sword. The exact
context is unclear but it's
possible the leaked image is
tied to future DLC planned for
the just announced game.
Assassin's Creed Mirage
previously code named Rift is
the follow up to 2020s Vikings
themed Valhalla set in ninth
century Baghdad and originally
planned as an expansion to
Valhalla. Mirage will put Valhalla
supporting character Basim Ibn
Ishaq in the lead role. Feature
will be based primarily on
stealth gameplay. Many of these
deets. I hate that. I hate that
word. I hate that word. A
sixteen-year-old wrote this
article. These deets. No, many
of these details. I'm going to
say we're already uncovered by
Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier
in February. Jason Schreier, one
of the leakers that I've always
said is top tier and never
really gets anything wrong.
Um with Schreier saying that
Mirage is a game that would
uh purporting that the game
will land sometime in spring
2023. Now, between the leaked
image and Ubisoft's official
announcement tweet, we've got
our first glimpse of what Mirage
will look like and while it
isn't much yet, it at least
looks like a quintessential
Assassin's Creed. As you can
see from the images above which
you can't see, just Google them.
The leaked art shows our hooded
assassin equipped with a short
sword and the iconic hidden
blade. They're standing in what
appears to be a sandy crypt of
some sort preparing to face off
against the Mongol invaders.
What's also hazen over one of
the images is the text Forty
Thieves Quest which refers to a
Middle Eastern fable about a
prince taking revenge against
Mongol invaders. Mongol
invaders. The style of the
leaked image is identical to
the style Ubisoft had previously
used for promotional artwork
tied to DLC and other
Assassin's Creed games such as
Valhalla's the legacy of
Beowulf. That's very true. That
does look very similar. It's a
sort of image you'd see
somewhere in the middle of the
age. Some believe Ubisoft
itself accidentally leaked the
artwork through its store. On
the other hand, an exchange
Shryer had with someone on
Twitter suggests the link may
have been the work of some
external party. Either way,
Ubisoft is cracking down on the
leaked piece of artwork issuing
take down notices and scrubbing
it from the internet. Take down
notices. As fast as it can. You
know how that goes though. It's
out. It's already out and it's
not they aren't standing in
front of a little figure. It's
a massive motherfucker with a
Large
monument to the King's
headquarters of a nearby
When reached for comment, a Ubisoft representative simply pointed Kotaku to its official tweet as
confirmation of Mirage's existence. Mirage isn't the only Assassin's Creed game Ubisoft is working
on right now, the studio is also developing a live service project codenamed Infinity,
which will reportedly feature different but interconnected Assassin's Creed games,
with ongoing content updates adding more settings and timelines. However, other details have been
revealed about this project as of yet, it should say how other details have not been revealed,
I think it should say it doesn't say that. But yeah that was um...
An article. There was an article from Kotaku, I'm sorry I can't find the uh Levi Winslow um
yeah shout out to Kotaku and Levi Winslow for that article but yeah that's that's basically
what it's very very limited information they must be pissed because if they didn't
intentionally leak that themselves you must be annoyed if you weren't prepared to to announce
that until well saying that though they've got their thing on the 10th so if that was something
that they were gonna announce then it's not really too too much of an issue it's probably a leak
intentionally to drum up the interest for the presentation yeah i think it looks it does look
good um from the from the two images i've seen so your standpoint on Assassin's Creed Mirage from
what you've heard going back to the roots that excites you greatly yeah yeah because it it um
as we've discussed before the current Assassin's Creed games that are that are the latest ones that
are out being Valhalla origins they're they're not um they're they're very different to the original
Assassin's Creed and i'm not doubt i'm not saying that they're not good games because i know that
they are but it's not Assassin's Creed if that makes sense it should be labeled as something else
so if they're going to go back to the likes of Assassin's Creed 2, Brotherhood, Revelations,
Black Flag, they aren't the the older style then i'm all for it i think it could be quite good i
know you're a huge Assassin's Creed fan so that speaks to you whilst me on the other hand
i slip on the other side where i like where they've gone with the new ones not entirely
convinced on them but i think they're far too big way too big they are way too big um i think they
are well yeah unnecessarily large too many uh collectifons yeah and i also i know it's a uh
a common theme with people saying it but i agree that it should just be a separate entity they
should stick to Assassin's Creed while it was and then they these games i Valhalla it should just be
Valhalla yeah yeah you could take out all you got to do for Valhalla is slight tweaks to the story
and take the animus out and it's nothing to do with Assassin's Creed yeah yeah they were very
loosely holding on to the whole animus side of it towards towards the latest games it like you
like you just said you could quite easily cut that bit out the interesting part about it is i
slogged through Valhalla and i am obviously as we all know i'm a huge Vikings fan um shout out
Ragnar Lothbrok and um yeah i that was like i was the most excited i've been for an Assassin's Creed
game ever because there's never really been a Viking game that i could recall and uh that that
game probably took me three or four sittings to go through and when i say sittings i mean playing it
for a month stopping and then going back and i and it yeah it took me probably over a year to finish
that game yeah and it took me and i and i pretty much there were some times where i was messing
around with Cyprus and stuff but predominantly i'll beeline the quest and that game took me
i think it was 90 hours it's a long just to do the story but it wasn't like 90 hours of story it was
90 hours of bloat and and when the story was when it's like a main story and it was kicking off it
was really good yeah it just takes so long to get to to to the the juicy bits yeah yeah it was almost
um just too far over on the open world scale um because it it was they're off they are
fucking huge um and yeah that's the thing that put me off is that there's just too much shit to do
it it was there was too much shit and it's not a sandbox so it's not even like you could really
fuck around in the environment that you're in it was you are doing quests you are doing a specific
thing so you couldn't exactly much how like something like gta is massive but you can fuck
around on that so you can sort of warrant it being massive whereas things like assassin's creed
origins so huge you're just constantly doing side quests and eventually you lose track of
what it is that you're doing it's just i found it very difficult having put about 60 hours into
origins i found it very difficult to keep uh well keep awake almost like keep paying attention while
i'm playing it was very mind-numbing i do think they tried more with valhalla i think it's a bit
disservice to say that you couldn't mess about in it because you definitely could you could go and
raid any settlement you wanted you just pull up in your boat pull up on foot burn the village to
the ground plunder all the loot steal everything upgrade your little base there was a lot more to
it than origins um but once again it is just far too big and they the systems in place weren't
deep enough to keep you interested in it so it was very the tasks originally become like they're
interested in their fun but quickly they lose their novelty and become quite mundane and like
don't really want to do this again yeah for me anyway um and i think a lot of people
uh tread on that side of the water but obviously you're a big assassin's creed fan you've got
assassin's creed tattoos i am so it's going to be good for you to go back to what it is so what is
it that is exciting about going back to its roots because the the funny thing is i'm not a huge
assassin's creed fan i like valhalla and i like origins once again i'll reiterate i don't think
they should be assassin's creed games but you're massively into the animus part of it whereas i
love the animus part whereas myself when i was because i actually slogged through valhalla's
entire story whenever there was a part where you could get out the animus i was just getting
straight back in it i weren't exploring i weren't looking about i was just like get me back in the
game because they're so different worlds i don't want to play yeah but then they eventually merge
what i love about the animus side of it is that it's almost like you're running two different
stories and eventually they combine and they they mold together very very well um so i i liked
desmond as a character as well i enjoyed who he was and the the relationships and the storyline
that he gains from outside the animus and obviously when he becomes xeo when he's in
the animus i i i like that aspect and i think when you when you dull that down and don't really
pay attention to that it's no longer what assassin's creed is you see you see what i mean
when you because because assassin's creed one wasn't i started at assassin's creed two i've
played one but i started at two so two onwards is where is where my love for assassin's creed
began and it was very very animus based and then when you when you've got yourself into um
um origins and valhalla and i'm trying to remember the fucking one that's in between uh odyssey
odyssey that's one i just couldn't couldn't fucking think of arguably my favorite one
see i it's just it's just too much it's the the thing with something like assassin's creed two
or my other favorite revelations is that it's although it's um sort of open world it's a
little bit more linear so you you you know what you're doing it's not as easy to get distracted
and do something else and because it's not so huge if you were to get distracted it's not going to
take you fucking 10 years to get back to what you were doing and i like that and i prefer the uh the
parkour on the older games than the newer games i just prefer it i think it's better i think the
characters have more story to them i can see i hope they could carry on uh with the game that
they're doing at the moment or the game style in valhalla and origins and odyssey but obviously
just take the tag of assassin's creed off it because i like what they've made yeah yeah i'm
pretty sure they've made or they're making i'm i'm pretty sure i'm right in saying i make they're
making a star wars game um which if they put that formula into a star wars game i am all there
imagine the parkour style of it in star wars open world just how big they don't make they they make
open worlds they don't make open maps you know the odyssey is like the whole of greece it was
humongous it took 20 minutes to sail from one island to another it was mental and uh you know
i ended up fast traveling a lot because i got sick of doing the bloody boat stuff but i digress yeah
if they can emulate that into star wars oh my gosh i'm all you'll be away i will be away god
exciting stuff so i imagine you'll be tuning in for the assassin's creed reveal yeah yeah yeah
i'll be i'll be i'll be getting any info that i can and then when we come back for our 13th episode
i'll talk about it for five minutes because i will have inevitably forgotten everything that will be
mentioned so basim yeah he you don't know who he is then no not really i won't pretend that i do
spoilers for anyone that hasn't played valhalla turn it off uh if you're gonna play it i'm gonna
try and remember loosely because i'm struggling so there's did you play valhalla at all for about
an hour yeah so there's avor the main character i actually read the valhalla book as well that's
how into it i've got um there's avor who you play as and then he's got a brother he's not actually
his brother but he's like adopted brother called sigurd and then sigurd goes missing for a long
time and then he turns up with basim um who who is this character and he's all like yeah i've got
a hidden blade look at this and then i can't remember i'm pretty sure sigurd gives you a
hidden blade and basim's like no i don't feel right about that yeah don't be doing that yeah
he's like top cities cut your fingers off yeah because he's like take a finger and he was like
no i'm doing that we'll just use the blade with all my fingers because it because he
goes because he goes over the top rather than below yeah it doesn't take fingers
yeah why don't they think of that yeah it's dominant um so yeah that's that's that that
happens but the interesting thing is it's hard to remember exactly but there's like another whole
world in it so you've got the animus part of it you've got the valhalla part of it
or the england part of it i guess and then there's a whole other side to valhalla where you go and see
uh the witch doctor i can't remember what they're called seers i believe yeah and you drink a potion
and then you go into midgard basically you essentially kratos's world do you know i mean
you're living in the land of the gods yeah but you when you go in there you are um
uh how am i forgetting his name who's the leader of you know who's four's dad who's the main man
oh odin yeah yeah you so yeah you're you're the norse mythology man i had a brain fire i don't
yeah so you play as you play as uh odin basically and then um sigurd is someone else
and basim is loki so obviously as soon as he becomes loki you start to think well obviously
he's a bit he's a bit naughty he's a bit of a trickster um so yeah the story transpires anyway
um it's all a bit convoluted and confusing i never really understood what was going on
but the interesting part of it right which i never really understood
once the game finishes and you get out the animus yeah and where they've set up the animus
is the grave of evil all right so they've got all the little numbers around his grave and all that
stuff but basim turns up in a t-shirt not just his normal clothes but he's like an assassin
but i'm trying to think i can't remember whether what do you mean he rocks up in a t-shirt what him
himself yeah he's got jeans on and how is he in one thing and then exactly but i'm i'm trying to
think i'm pretty sure and how is he mirage yeah yeah but in mirage just like when he was young
apparently how he became an assassin and stuff that's his story but yeah i can't remember he
either i think what happens is they find the animus machine and then he gets like he he swaps
places with one of them then comes out the animus or something i can't remember it's very weird
yeah but yeah he turns up and then he's like hello evil old friend like leaning over his grave it's
weird you'd have to youtube it doesn't make any sense now i think about it but he's a cool
character he's a cool character i did want to see more from him yeah well now you've got an entire
fucking game coming that's going to be around him yeah don't get me wrong it's been a long time since
they've done an assassin's creed that was you know the old style so if they can uh push it forward
a bit into modern gaming then i think they they could have a really special game but the
assassin's creed games just became so stale that's why i didn't what a strange life cycle they have
so they started with their obviously their old one so so assassin's creed one and then have
developed it into assassin's creed now and it's been so long that they've now been able um
potentially obviously it's not confirmed um able to go back to their roots to make even more games
based off of something that they created to begin i find that type it's it looked like the same sort
of shit with fashion you know i mean how you can make something it goes out of date do something
else and you can go back to that in years because it'll then be back in date it's been so long it
will feel fresh yeah yeah i find that that's so strange because so many games do it world of
warcraft does it with their expansions they always end up returning to old shit it's quite a it's
quite a known thing to do i but i just find it baffling that with big heavy hitting games like
that or even call of duty you can have little slivers of the past but update them um and then
then be exciting how fucking fantastic is that wow yes yes i love it mom
mom caught the lamb hold on quickly what's um what sort of bees make milk
what what sort of bees make milk milk bees boobies
i'm just gonna chuck in a joke every week that's that's my that's my game plan anyway moving on
yeah carry on it's pathetic fucking boobies
yeah i finished it basically i finished i finished the game that takes six hours to complete i
finally did it got that under my belt it only took me two weeks but i've done it uh very fun
i got i got down to seven people in my cult and i finished with 29 i think we're in my cult by the
end very good game i thoroughly enjoyed it i probably won't even touch it again that'll be me
done i've done it now i think i i don't even think it's installed on the playstation anymore
i think i just deleted it straight away you're cut throat you ain't yeah because i'm done with it
i'm not gonna touch it again but i very very much enjoyed it even the um even making your little
base and all the weird shit you can put in it i enjoyed that i made it uh it was it becomes self
self-sufficient i had my farming plot was farming itself and putting itself it was harvesting
itself i loved it uh and it was just it got it to a good little state after connor's advice on
the uh the the uh rock refineries and the the lumber yards and all that shit and getting as
many as possible to make your life easier so i took his advice and it did make life easier and then
lo and behold i completed it not two hours later so i very much enjoyed it it's a good game ash
hasn't completed it yet well can we do a little spoiler review just tell me what happens at the
end kind of thing why well because i know i won't finish it so it's just the way i am well you will
finish it no i won't i'll never play again probably why that's just the way i'm with it now yeah
probably you've had your fun with it yeah yeah i don't if i'm the last to complete i'll give up on
it you you give give ten seconds one two three four you've got to leave if you haven't if you
want to be spoiled goodbye six seven eight nine ten did you get it right do you fight the devil
at the end you do fight the devil at the end you have the option to fight the devil at the end
so you kill all four of the little mini boss people some of the last one some of them are
quite fucking oh quickly um my game actually bugged out four times very fucking annoying
obviously the dungeons that you go into they have three tiers like three layers and then it's that
boss isn't it of that dungeon and i on the last tier is quite they're quite long tiers um especially
the last ones and obviously you have the different options of when you go up when you go up a level
you can i don't know you can go right and get yourself some fucking logs or you can go straight
and get a new follower blah blah blah anyway i was looking to build up my cult because i only had
seven people and every single fucking time i picked a follower bugged out i'd get to the follower
kill all the little minions that are in there bar one that would disappear and then i'd have to
fucking reload and then do the whole thing again and it happened four times took four times before
i realized just stop picking the fucking follower route very annoying but i digressed once you kill
all four of them the devil uh basically says he was like look i'm gonna sacrifice you now uh
as the ultimate the ultimate sacrifice i don't need you anymore see you later and you either bow
bend the knee or you refuse but naturally i refused because why would you not and then you fight
you know he's got his two little cronies next to him you fight both of them they're a good laugh
and then you fight the devil himself and it was quite a difficult fight and if you
defeat the two cronies and then start fighting the devil if you die you have to do the whole
thing all over again you have to beat those two again it took i think it was like two or three
attempts it took me to do it um but i on one of my attempts i got a god god-like a godly weapon
which is the highest tier weapon you can have they're quite rare to pop up and it did like
fucking 15 damage every hit which in cult of the lamb is quite a lot when the average is like 2.5
so i was hitting quite heavy i got lucky um and then that was it and then you can go back to your
uh little cult and you can crack on doing building them up and doing whatever you can go back into
the room with the devil but obviously the devil's not there there's a teleport in there that you
can't use anymore but other than that you can continue but what's the what's the point because
it's done well you know i mean people ain't gonna feed their selves unless they are fuck them they're
gonna eat each other i've had enough of them now they're done dead to me you may as well just
sacrifice yourself then and just let them everyone live happily ever after well i don't know what
happens when you sacrifice yourself because i haven't actually googled what happens when you
do bend the knee so i'm not sure because i'm sure most people will want to fight the devil
i'm not really sure what happens oh i would have bent the knee so i didn't have to fight a hard
final boss and just been like oh it's not it's not massively hard it's just you get wrapped up in
wanting to get it over with quickly and and like uh patience is key in those types of fights because
it follows the exact same um tactics it's the same attacks over and over again in a loop isn't it it's
like three different attacks so you know what's gonna happen it reminds me of uh guardians of
the galaxy when i thought i finished the game because i clicked the wrong thing in like 10
hours in the credits rolled and i was like wow that was an abrupt ending and then he rung me
up and i was like you didn't go to like the place where everything's gold he's like what i've finished
it i hugged my mom yeah it was the end yeah no yeah you got stuck on that that's the party scene
thing in it i would never have known if i didn't ask you i would have just gone that was a very
strange ending but it's it's done now never finished that game yeah you just watched the
fucking cut scenes i didn't even do that in the end well now i can't understand how you would
happily well not happily but how it took you a year to do valhalla but you won't even put the
effort in to do a fucking six hour campaign on is that because it's only like six hours you know
it's sort of pointless no it's just okay if you took all the combat out and i just had to run
around and then go to a cut scene and run around and do it because i thought the story was fantastic
and the bandit was just the combat was just so boring i really didn't enjoy it it did get a bit
a bit it's fun at first yeah i loved cult of the lamb very cool indie game i very much enjoyed it
but it's it very much is one of those games where once you've killed the final boss there is nothing
else to do kind of like elden ring i was talking about guardians of galaxy but yeah oh i thought
you're talking about cult of the lamb both brilliant games all three of these are brilliant games
by the way what what do you mean you're talking about guardians of galaxy when i said that i'd
rather just walk oh what you'd rather not have the no i like the combat in guardians of galaxy
so boring got so stale i didn't like the enemy types it was just to be fair you played on console
i played it on pc so it obviously would have played differently i even got to the point where
i put it on the easiest setting just so i could get through the combat that's pathetic so quick
yeah but not because it was hard just because i just wanted it done asap it was just waves of
enemies and then story and then waves of enemies and then story no there was nothing to it you
wouldn't have survived doing it on pc to be fair of your shitty wrist you wouldn't have been able
to do it just fuck you how about that oh god come on this is your show keep the fucking thing rolling
fucking show as well what you want about you wrote this list no no no what's the next when it's your
intro you do the topics and you go through it it is my next bit isn't it it's all your bits all
mine what are you bringing to this i'm charisma what are you bringing to this because i am flicking
through this list and there's nothing on here that is you red hot jokes you said that is nothing you
said that is enough that will work with that and i was all right come on let's get this podcast
started because i got fucking what's lord of the rings actually rings of power but i thought you
was going to add something to this what's 89 oh that's the spoiler net um need to make an apology
oliver final fantasy mmo oliver i said in the last episode that it was shit uh because i played it
for a couple of hours and it's not my cup of tea i'm now i think i'm now 60 plus hours in 60 you
tell this guy i don't do a lot uh yeah i'm 60 plus hours in i think um it's fantastic
it's fantastic what a brilliant mmo this is it's it's mecha i'm telling you now world of
warcraft could learn some serious fucking things from this game honestly it don't get me wrong some
of it's a bit a bit skew iffy uh but for the majority of it the combat's great uh the visuals
are great uh and i love the fact that you said you hated the visuals no but they grow on you
honestly they grow on you i'm gonna stop giving game reviews all together because i i shoot myself
in the foot because everyone who listens all 10 of you must probably sit there and think this guy
hates everything and then i come back next week and go i fucking love all of this so this is this
is it after this after this episode i'm not going to come on here anymore and say that this game
shit and that game shit without having given it at least 10 hours worth of gameplay i'll lend you
fifa 22 no don't give me that i don't want that i don't i don't want that except for fifa and cod
but i like cod and i do like fifa but i don't but with that in mind we've been over that before
can we jump on i've uh i'm gonna we're gonna i was thinking maybe we could give each other tasks for
the week force each other to play a game yeah but that's long though isn't it well no not
necessarily you tried that with mass effect yeah this is what i'm saying force you to play mass
effect or cyberpunk you've got to play one of them mass effect is oh jesus christ we can't all be
wrong you just got to get through it you just got to get through that first one it's like um star
wars what do you mean it's like star wars you just got to slog through it well it's not a slog for me
it's slogs for chumps like you slogs for people that don't like city effects it's just a worm
it's the bottom feeder worm yeah anyway final fantasy i won't talk about it for long but
one of my favorite things about it is that we call them alps in the mmo rpg world you might not
understand what yeah alternate alternate ability alternate character alternate character so you can
have more obviously more than one character in the games like world of warcraft if you wanted to be
a certain class say a warrior you had to make that character a warrior what a warrior then um
um but and if say you decided halfway through your leveling career you decided to change your
mind and go actually i want to be a priest you'd have to make a brand new character start all again
from level one final fantasy one character and you can fucking do it all you've got to level it all
up but it it levels up so quick but you can just switch on the fly you ain't got to fucking make
anything new and i love that i think that's fantastic so like the class i'm playing at the
moment it's called a lancer i like it but there's other classes that i've tried that are much more
fun so i don't have to worry about losing all my progress i can just switch have you used the
samurai yet i haven't unlocked it yet you unlock that at level 50 but that is what i'm going to be
jumping on the minute i get that i can't fucking wait because i haven't actually seen any in the
open world what is the difference what can't you use as what or can you only use certain weapons
yeah because so every class has specific weapons that they can only use in order for you to swap
your classes so as a lancer obviously i have a lance if i was to be um a a pugilist
yeah pug pugilist pugilist pugilist basically a fucking geezer that uses knuckle dusters i have
to put on the knuckle dusters and things like that so they do have specific gear and specific
weapons a samurai have a katana samurai has a big old fucking sword and i cannot wait so i've got to
get to 50 i'm 37 at the moment and yeah it's it's good fun oh a little bubble in my throat then
oliver it's very good fun uh and i will leave final fantasy on that because i could talk about
it for a very long time um what other bullshit we got last of us
you got a pitch in here you gotta fuck it because you you yes but we spoke and you said i haven't
seen anything on this listen it's your show to look at anything my show i reel off the
topic when it's your show you reel off the topics and i jump in i have just reeled off the topics
you didn't jump in what's fucking next well let's break this massive pause while i said why don't
you look whilst you're finishing talking then jump straight in i said last of us why aren't you
looking as well it's ridiculous i need a new co-host the only problem is we got nowhere to do it they're
putting nothing into this last of us bit i don't know anything i haven't bothered looking well
that's why you say next up the last of us and i go bang all right pause next up the last of us remake
absolutely crazy the reviews have come out not great i mean they're not bad what do you mean
you said it was 95 and 89 no you don't fucking listen do you getting on my tits sorry the last
of us remake the new one the remake of the first one i'm confused my boy i'm just saying myself now
the last of us remake has metacritic at 89 the last of us remaster and the last of us the original
on ps3 the last of us remastered being on ps4 is on metacritic at 95 right so the remake is six points
below the remaster on ps4 and the original so the remake was the cash grab well you said it
yeah the remake was the attempt at getting some more dough out of a game that needed to be left
alone now i've seen very little i've seen some screenshots and the odd bit of video footage
it looks better so it fucking should um i mean i've seen some complaints saying
they haven't completely changed the way the game plays um some of the combat feels better but still
it's you know it's the last of us so yeah the biggest complaint i see people have is the 70
pounds price tag it's fucking stupid and obviously people are buying it and people are buying the
the special collectors editions and the firefly might i reiterate that this is the guy that has a
last of us tattoo and a last of us bag so if he's not all for it then you must listen
oh yeah i'm not all for it at this point i've got tattoos of everything so don't really listen to me
that's just i just like getting them but it i don't know it's not i don't i really don't understand
sold out on amazon yeah this is what i mean it's popular i don't doubt that it's popular and i
don't doubt that it's that it isn't good but it was good to begin with so you've taken a game
that was already fantastic 65 quid is that's see that's just crazy for what for for better
graphics you know why you know why just but i don't understand i don't you do understand
they're making a last of a series they want them to go oh they want to catch series is fantastic
yeah let me get the game play the game oh it's on ps3 oh it's on ps4 i've got a ps5 well let me find
the nice shiny thing oh this is brilliant yeah you know that's what they're trying to achieve
you can see where they're going with it it just feels like but it's wasted resources released on
ps3 it's beers five we're two years into ps5 what's going on mum was what i don't get it i
really can't understand it i'm not gonna buy i'm gonna wait until it's in the bargain bucket and
even then i won't bother because there's nothing it's a single player campaign game so there is
nothing new so one and done the story has not been changed you may have changed aspects of the combat
the graphics may look better you may have changed the textures of the grass the rain may sound
heavier but it doesn't change the story of the game which is fantastic i'm not ripping the last
of us i'm ripping the fact that it did not need to be done what a waste of resources it has been
yeah they could have been heavily into production for something yeah i think the series is going to
be going to be great oh yeah i think that will be fantastic i cannot wait for it i just think that
on one hand i understand that there will be people who because obviously we're getting on in age i
know you're getting on further than i am but there will be people who are 14 15 16 whatever who
went the same age that i was when i first played the last of us and may want a slice of that but
want it with the updated graphics and everything so i understand that there may be a somewhat of a
market for it but it isn't it weren't something that needs that needed doing it really weren't
and especially for 70 quid what the fuck where does that come from 70 quid 65 yes but yeah but
if i go on the playstation store it'll be fucking 70 quid wouldn't it it's a lot of money like you
say just for textures and graphics and like i say there might be the odd improvement but then there'll
be people out there that have probably played the last of us on ps3 or ps4 multiple times i mean i
bought the last of us uh remaster for ps4 yes so did i so i played it i didn't finish it no
neither did i because i knew what was gonna happen exactly so i just played it i don't know why i
bought it you have so so you have you have the last of us the original ps3 and then you would
have had the people that bought it on ps4 because correct me if i'm wrong you couldn't play ps3
games on ps4 no so that i kind of understand you can play ps4 games on ps5 so did they
because i don't want to get it wrong was it you might not know either but was it ps3 and then
ps4 and then they remastered it or was it ps3 and then they remastered it for ps4 what do you mean
last was one last was one only came out on ps3 so then they remastered it for ps4
and now they came out right at the end of the console generation and now they've
they haven't remade it they've remastered it it's not a remake because nothing story wise has
changed you can't i don't think that you can change little tweaks do little tweaks of of the
combat and the graphics and then call that a remake you've remastered it to a degree i mean
yeah look at final fantasy 7 remake the whole thing bottom up like it's complete i don't know
if you've played it but obviously the comparisons meant i mean one game came out in probably like
90 99 the other one came out in fucking 2021 or whatever it was but yeah i don't know it's
the only thing that would have got me to buy this would have been uh if they'd incorporated the
multiplayer on it because i loved the multiplayer i know you didn't i loved it but yeah they're just
some people will play last of us over and over again i like i said about last of us
two and last was one they're one and done for me kind of like god of war once i've done i'm done i
platinumed it i went back and and mopped everything up because i loved it so much but i i wouldn't
it's a long way to go and start it again but having grown up i didn't like the multiplayer
when i was younger but there's like a 10 year gap so there's been games in the past or just just
general things that i used to hate i look at final fantasy last week well yeah now you love
no man sky obviously they've done a lot of work with that but it doesn't mean that maybe if i was
given the online like the multiplayer now but a ps5 version maybe i'd fucking love it so they've
i don't know why they've got rid of that market why you wouldn't just include the multiplayer
maybe because it costs a lot because you got to always have the service for it and blah blah
blah they are making the factions again but it's a completely different multiplayer component so
i don't know but obviously that's going to be separate anyway so yeah i i i don't um i'm not
ripping anyone who's paid the 65 quid the 70 quid or even more for the different editions you do
whatever you want is your money you're a gamer i'm i'm i'm with we've all got to stand together
but personally i just think it's a waste of money and a waste of time and i don't think my opinion
will change on that because i thought the original was amazing and it didn't need didn't need touching
leave it i i wholeheartedly agree i won't be buying it and i'll be honest with you and this isn't
because i don't like it if that was free on playstation plus i wouldn't i still wouldn't
play it no i wouldn't bother i've just got no interest the story's done i mean i know the story
yeah played the last of us two once again a fantastic game i literally probably would give
that 10 out of 10 i yeah faultless i'm surprised that game even exists the how fluid and everything
it is and the story is phenomenal um but i won't play again because there's no there's no reason
to there is there is no need to and i think i enjoy i enjoy the story more having it as a memory
than i do replaying it all over again it's the same i know people are different my one of my
friends has just got through watching all of game of thrones again love that yeah but for me once
i've watched that and i'm done you know i might watch the odd clip my my favorite i often watch
bits of ragnar lofbrok on vikings on youtube because i like it i wouldn't want to i wouldn't
want to sit through the whole series again because i know there's a load of dad episodes that are
just going to bore the shit out of me yeah i think you can i think you can watch through stuff again
because you can switch off and do other shit in the background and then you you you will know
if there's like i do it with lord of the rings i can happily sit there and watch all of them however
uh i films are different though to tv series yeah but you can watch that shit in the background
you can't fucking play a game in the background can you you have to sit there and really give
it your time to do it which i which is is um yeah he also watched breaking bad again for like the
third time i love breaking the thing is yeah the reason i can understand things like that because
obviously you know how it all folds up um so when you're watching it can you catch a lot of different
things that you did in the first time and each time he's watched he's caught more stuff and i
get that that's cool but like i suppose yeah you can watch that in the background you can not pay
much attention can be doing other things like friends fuck knows how many times i've watched
all of that just in the background just background no easy watching and yeah yeah and i enjoy that
but with games it's completely different you've got to give it your time and attention and i just
can't knowing how long the campaigns are for the last first one and part two it's a lot of time
to devote there and there's no quick you can't just blitz through that shit i know people like
try but it still takes a while it's a story driven game the whole point is to absorb the story and
get immersed in it so yeah you don't want to be burning through that that's that and it that is
that uh yeah next thing it's what it's what we've been playing sorry did i butt in on you fucking
no it's not no it's not just let me do it we had a question on twitter from one of our listeners
sam thank you sam thank you sam very much appreciated and in a nutshell we won't give
his user handle username or his username because we haven't got his permission yeah we're not there
we're not them people no but yeah thanks for the question his question in a nutshell was do you
prefer older games or newer games he gave an example of uh i'm not too clued up on final fantasy
but one of the final fantasies being a lot better than the newer ones yes he the the um it was
do you prefer older games that were essentially let's just read the question that's a good fucking
idea yeah let's do it pod chaps congrats on the 10th why thank you sam we appreciate it
be interesting to know on one of your future pods if you both prefer older quality games or modern
not so good ones i.e final fantasy has been crap since final fantasy 10 but some people prefer
newer because more modern quicker and better graphics etc so leng doggy dog where do you sit
with this it's such a difficult one it's it's so difficult i sat there with stef uh trying to
to really figure out what would be some good games to to add to that question the one that
stef come up with straight away and it is one that i will go with and obviously when we've spoken
about on this episode is assassin's creed 2 and then assassin's creed origins couldn't stand origins
fucking loved assassin's creed 2 now assassin's creed 2 come out in 2009 origins came out in 2017
so there's quite a big gap there and i'm only 25 so when i was 2009 i was a wee little kid
so i can't really go further back than that unfortunately and yeah i i me personally much
prefer assassin's creed 2 and the older ones compared to the new ones i won't say much about
it because we've just fucking spoken about it i'm trying desperately to think of other games
that i much preferred when they first come out well i'll take over what you think i mean i've
got one but yeah you crack on metal gear solid 1 metal gear solid 2 metal gear solid 3 all 10 out
of 10s fantastic best games you could ever play then metal gear solid 4 for ps3 big jump
not really great but it kind of followed on from them in terms of gameplay ps uh then
metal gear solid 5 whilst renowned for being game changing in the genre it just didn't have
the same feel because it went it went open world basically yeah and it seems that nowadays every
game has to be open world it has to be open world it has to have a hundred billion things to do
whereas you're looking at metal gear solid 1 2 and 3 very linear now obviously i was a lot younger
when i was playing these games and i had no money or source of income so i just played what i had
you know things are different then yeah but i probably played metal gear solid 1 2 and 3
especially metal gear solid 2 i must have played that game to completion
at least minimum 10 times i've done it on the hardest setting european extreme it was called
hardest setting european yeah there was there was normal hard extreme and european extreme
i've done it i think i'm pretty sure yeah european extreme you have to do the whole game without
getting spotted i've done that i literally you know and that's this is before the days of trophies
and achievements there's no proof of this but i know i did and i played it over and over and
over again but now with metal gear solid 5 i played it completed it didn't play again
i was just like that's that's that it's open world but there's something to be said for contained
linear stories as opposed to everything being ginormous open world because there's so many
eight times in open world games where you're just traveling from one place to another running back
to somewhere to hand this over or you just don't want all that i think i think in today's day and
age as a games developer i think you deserve some form of respect from having the bollocks to
bring out a game that isn't open world a game that you can that once it is done you are done
that's it you can't milk it for anything else i think it takes it like you just said everyone
wants to play an open world game they want shit to do so coming out of a game that has a 30 hour
campaign and then that's it and there will be no dlc that is the game done you can throw it away
after that i think it's yeah it's it's uh it's something that you don't see much of now and i
yeah i'm all for dlc yeah yeah um i'm gonna bring it up again mass effect trilogy all very linear
you know they're open in terms of you can go to open spaces you can travel to different planets
planets but in terms of it being open world is not there's always you know the story keeps going
because you're always you're going through the motions you're not like i said about valhalla
you're going through 10 15 hours of just shite until you get to the next story bit and then story
bit was always the best bit it was very good and exciting exciting to see where it went uh and mass
effect followed that trend until andromeda and obviously that got ridiculed for its bugs but
it went open world yeah it went massive it went you know you can travel anywhere go to this planet
fucking drive around open vast spaces of nothingness which potentially could end up doing what starfield
done uh does which is nerve-wracking but there you are um so yeah it's something to be said for
contained linear stories where the story just pulls you through rather than you chasing the story
all the time because the trouble i have with rpg's like that the only game that's ever done in my
opinion open world um perfectly like and i mean perfect is the witcher three which is why it's my
favorite game of all time um because there's the main story to follow and you can go and do the
side quests but you get confused with what's the side quests and what's the main quest because the
side quests are so good so important whereas most games you get sucked out of it because you're
following the main quest but then you're going to do 10 side quests they've just got no relevance
to anything you're doing yeah and you've got this really important task you're supposed to be
achieving i.e saving the world you've just gone and helped this woman find her chicken you know
i mean it's like it just seems stupid so it pulls you out of it a little bit whereas the witcher was
always like side quests obviously there are some dumb ones but the witcher was always like like
blurred the lines between main quest and side quests so you you'd get a bit confused and
everything felt important and that's the only game that i can ever say has done that perfectly it's
quite it's quite a difficult question to answer properly because there's there's so many different
genres of games and and titles where some of the first ever some of the first ones were shit and
the latest ones were good some of the latest versions of certain games are good and you know
i mean it's there's so much to choose from and it really does depend on i would probably go more
towards i prefer newer games to older games but that comes from a a graphics kind of place and
i just think that games now are so much better than previous games but they're only better
because of the games before them facts so first time i've ever agreed with you yeah but it makes
complete sense and i think you will always have people who say are 10 20 years older than myself
say the people who are who are who are late 30s early 40s whatever or even maybe slightly younger
that sit in a different gaming generation to me so like i've got a friend called neil who's more
than happy he's got a full-on arcade machine oh with like a billion games on it he's more than
happy to sit there and play on that and he does i'd find it boring as fuck but he loves it because
he's got all his childhood games on it so he's obsessed with it but if you gave me an arcade
machine that had the very first ratchet and clank on it the first god of war i'm not going to play
it i'm not interested in it i might play it for five minutes but then i'm going to go sit on my
ps5 because i prefer how games are now to how games used to be but like i say that's only because
of the games that were it's an impossible discussion because everything yes a question really really
it's uh everything appeals to different people so ie like zelda who played zelda games before
no but stef is a dirty dog absolutely fantastic zelda rocker in her time on n64 still the highest
rate game all time 99 on metacritic um fantastic i played that as a child just over and over again
i got stuck on the water temple for like six months genuinely i couldn't do it and there was
no like there was no cheats for me there was no internet i just i couldn't work out how to do it
you know but i got through it fantastic memories fantastic game same with majora's mask not so good
but still uh same concept applies and then you fast forward i don't know 15 20 years and you got
zelda breath of the wild yeah which is renowned for being once again game changing innovate
innovate innovative that one and um you're welcome yeah thanks dickhead but to me
i got bored of it it's too much nothingness but there people shout from the hills and that is a
huge huge rating on metacritic you know stef loves that game so much she can't bring herself to
complete it yeah no she has not completed i understand because she is she is literally at
the final bit but won't do it and for four years now i have begged her to complete it and it's the
same with um tomb raider she won't complete them because she loves them so much and i i envy them
i envy that sort of love and compassion when it comes to gaming and at the same time i find it so
fucking annoying because it's like you're missing out if you love the game so much do the developers
a favor and finish it so you can enjoy that story but i think i think it's she's not going to be
happy with me saying breath of the world's a bit mid well probably not i'm saying very little when
it comes to zelda because i i i've said in the past that i don't like it but i genuinely haven't
given it any time because i'm not on nintendo um they completely changed the formula with zelda
so zelda from my day like gameboy i mean i played it on the snes uh linked to the past i played it
on the nintendo 64 i was i didn't play on the nes although i did have a nes um they used to be
you'd go in you'd go around it'd be open world yeah but there was no it was like a general
direction but if you didn't listen to where the direction was and you forgot you'd be buggered
you know you just find your way you'd stumble about and you'd come into a dungeon and then
you'd find i don't know uh a bomb glove in that dungeon which is like the special item of that
dungeon and you'll need that bomb glove to carry on through the dungeon and you'll need that bomb
glove to kill the boss all right and then you'd then once you come out that dungeon there'd be
loads of places in the map that needed a bomb glove that you couldn't get to before so you
oh i remember that place i'll go down you know and that was the gameplay loop you go into another
dungeon for a hook shot so then you could fly over caverns you couldn't before in the open world
they took that out completely for a breath of the world and replaced it with like um
there's over like 100 shrines or something stupid more than that and they're just tiny
little puzzles you go in you do a bit and then you get some crappy reward nothing yeah and then
there's like the three or four big bosses but there's no it's just took away all the zelda like
they need if they incorporated the dungeons with breath of the world it would be for me 10 out of
10 yeah but i think with with games like you've said so yourself you got stuck at certain points
because you had nothing you didn't have the internet you didn't have there were no cheat
codes you right so you had to figure that shit out on your own games like that would not survive
now because you can just google everything so you have to come up with something else because
if you go oh fuck i can't get through this wall because i need a certain thing i don't know what
i need most people and you will get but you will get a fair decent amount of people that will
genuinely not bother googling anything and figure it out for themselves but most people and i probably
would throw myself into that category would give it five minutes and go oh fuck it i'll just google
it and it spoils that but i know what you mean you get something and it unlocks an entire half
of a map but that's not what i'm saying i'm not saying about that i'm saying they completely
changed the zelda formula so instead of having the dungeons they took that away and just made
a massive open world with virtually nothing in it it's very pretty it's very cool you can climb
anything you can do but there's not really a lot going on they completely changed the formula
it must have worked because of how popular it is yeah but it works for a certain fan well it
must work for a lot of people because to the point where you have a genshin impact which is
literally a carbon copy just yeah but then there's a lot of people that sit on my side of the fence
it's like this isn't the same with you as assassin's creed it's exactly the same yeah it's not zelda
it's an open world zelda with the a bit of zelda mechanics it's not zelda no more that's gonna be
fuming i know but these are facts but she probably didn't play the zelda's i played when i was a kid
no what's her what's her first zelda game breath of the world why are you asking me questions like
that when i don't know the answers well no i'm just i'm interested uh maybe i don't know i don't
think it was breath of the wild i don't because she's i she would have told me and i will get it
in the year for not fucking remembering because i have a very bad memory but she um there there
will be games before breath of the world that that zelda base that she'll love i mean they started
leaning away from the zelda formula probably ocarina of time ocarina of time was was fantastic
there's like the pinnacle of zelda i say but some people will dislike the direction they've gone
with it like myself and some people will be like this is amazing just depends the flute the ocarina
yeah she has one yeah that's from ocarina of time it's very cool and it actually works yeah i know
i like him i'm a huge fan of zelda and don't get me wrong i enjoyed breath of the world but i was
just like this isn't zelda for me same with you with assassin's creed but going back to what you
said about googling things i 100 fall in that category now back in the day i'd bang my head
against the wall being like if i don't do this myself i'll get no self-satisfaction but nowadays
where my time is more limited and i get you know maybe two hours a night on the playstation if
i'm lucky my time's valuable if i'm stuck on a puzzle and it takes me more than five minutes
and i'm like fuck this i'll just google it yeah because i haven't got time or patience with it
anyway but back in the day i'd bang my head against the wall until i got it you know
yeah so it's all changed it's all changed but yeah the the interesting to ask sam actually so if you
can let us know as you use the final fantasy example the the best example i can think of is
the final fantasy 7 to final fantasy 7 remake because if you played the original final fantasy
7 on the ps1 have you played the the remake on ps4 slash ps5 and what what one do you prefer
because you've got one that is like nostalgia and you played it when you were a kid and i didn't but
i know that's how people feel about it and it and it's lovely well you've got the remake does it
does the remake trump the original you know what do you prefer it's what you want to know i do want
to know your thoughts sam we want to know and we want to know the thoughts of other people because
i thought i thought that when you sent me the screenshot of the it was a tweet on it tweet yeah
i i thought ah one of ash's friends is asking a question and i asked him when we when we met at
the studio today i'll call it a studio wtbhq i asked him whether or not uh you were a friend sam
and he said no i like that i like that someone completely fucking random has asked us a question
and we've managed to feel about 15 minutes he is a friend now is he a friend now he's become my
friend he's become our friend he's a friend of the show oh sorry sam friend of the show sam
friend of the show listen to this right sam first friend of the show so what so in 200 episodes sam
will be the first friend of the show it'll be the very first friend of the show and the first 10
people to send connor's gonna be fucking fuming first 10 people to send us money i'm gonna get
towed does that mean if i send you some money no no i'm gonna get it done on my foot so it rubs off
on the palm of your hand but no really honestly thanks for your question sam um it's lovely to
uh have some engagement yeah have some engagement have some feedback have some conversation and it
gives us talking points rather than us scratching around in the dirt trying to think about
stuff to talk about yeah because that is what we do we open up the equivalent of an empty bin that
hasn't been washed and try and see if there's any scraps at the bottom and so far it's been working
so if you do want to send questions in like sam uh the twitter is at what's the button button um
and what's the instagram is at what's the buttons is it podcast yeah that's that's it at what's the
buttons podcast what's the button so if you got any questions feel free to send them to us um at
either of them we will be sure to uh talk about them we've also started putting up well i'll put
up one but i'll put up more uh reels on instagram little clips that we've gained and i would love it
if because we get more people that see them than we do our actual fucking posts that we've put on
instagram i would love for people to bombard that with comments telling ash to put on his fucking
mic when he does his clips so we can hear what he's saying and if people are screaming because
all of mine it's all allowed so everyone's screaming whereas on his can't hear fuck all
and it's annoying because i he messaged me he's like i've got this clip everyone was screaming
but you can't hear it that's what people want to hear man they want to hear the screaming when i
put some of mine up you'll understand because people go oh you sound like an idiot i'll tell
you i love it when you put yours up i'll be turning the volume down going fucking oh that's
annoying i wish there was no sound to this no i'm telling you now i'm telling you now people will
agree with it i don't think so but yeah once again thanks for your question sam we haven't really
answered it if i had to go and sit on one side of the fence do i prefer older games or newer games
i would say i prefer newer games i prefer newer games but i don't want to go over the whole thing
again but one more thing i will add is what older games suffer from is a lot of what i said on mass
effect one a lot of running about with nothing going on you know they've they've streamlined
that because the you need a lot of retention and especially in open world games i watched a
documentary once it was like they need something to happen or to see something or to be engaged
by something in an open world every like 45 seconds or something yeah and anything less than
that even if it's like a mountain over there or there's a fire over there there needs to be
something constantly engaging the player older games don't really hold that retention and it's
hard sometimes nostalgia is best left as nostalgia you go back and try and play an old game you're
like i agree i 100% agree world of warcraft classic does exactly that and i can't do it exactly
exactly so yeah i'd say i saw it with lang dog on that on the newer game side um but don't get me
wrong there's a lot of games i wish were remastered they might ruin it that's that then so we do what
we've been playing have you actually been playing anything yeah it's a staple it's a staple of the
podcast yeah but last week you haven't played anything and i don't know if you've played
anything this week well i've seen you pop online every now and then regardless we're talking about
it well what have you been playing call of duty right well that's that been done i've been playing
you saw my call of duty clip you saw you saw that triple kill sem text if you didn't see it go on
watch the buttons podcast on instagram and watch the clip yeah what's the clip i'll go for it
we had no chance of winning it was a 3v3 we was down the bottom of the cliff they was at the top
the circle was was about to move we will never know whether it pulled towards them up the mountain
or it pulled away down either way i don't see a way we win because if it pulls away we've got
to run out in front of them while they just beam us off the top of the cliff if it pulls to them
we've got to try and run uphill when they know there's only one way for us to get up there
i got beamed as you can see in the clip i'm down i'm i'm in trouble i'm not down but i'm in trouble
i threw a sem text i got a hit a hit marker it didn't break his armor it just hit it just hit
him the second one i threw came up with the big notification that it's stuck to this individual
this individual panicked this individual ran to his teammates screaming for help
unaware of the situation they said what's going boom victory royale a triple kill
sem text yeah they must have been fuming yeah you would be fucking fuming in my time of playing call
of duty and as as he stated it still says i don't know if these are facts but if you go on the
leaderboards on core duty it still says i'm in the top zero percent for kills and i i stopped
playing it for about a year um and i've probably thrown god say i say throw thousands yeah say i
throw one sem text a game i've probably thrown three thousand sem texes um and i've probably
got about five kills in the whole time and there's three of them there's three of them right there
yeah so yeah that was a it was a joyous occasion and many lulls were had this day uh what a victory
royale it was but yeah i've basically been playing core duty i i dabbled in destiny uh last friday i
believe or saturday had a little go got sucked right back into it but when the boys want to drop
into caldera unfortunately it's called not for vansk i'm there i'm dropping in with the boys
uh but when the boys aren't available i'm jumping back into destiny and i'm cruising on through
i love that i love the enthusiasm about you yes i'm final fantasy haven't touched the playstation
whatsoever and call of the lamb oh yeah and call of the lamb yeah i i i felt a duty to complete
call of the lamb because i promised everyone that i would so i did that quick time and then respect
that and then uh off the back of the last episode saying how i felt bad because i'd i'd i'd pulled
stef into eso again and then just dropped her there uh i went back to eso and am thoroughly
enjoying it i only play it when i'm when i'm with stef uh so so that i'm not missing out on anything
with her and she's not missing out on anything with me uh she's free to play it whenever she
fucking wants um and then in the other times i'm playing final fantasy trying to get hold of a
mount you gotta wait you gotta get about a good decent way through the main story and it took me
hours to realize that i was doing all sorts of side quests going where the fuck do i get one
of these mounts why didn't you just google it i did after about 20 hours um and some of the mounts
that you can buy oh i'm gonna spend some money you can be a snowman a full-on snowman with gloves
and everything and when you run you're in the snowman and when you run you lift up the snowman's
head and you're in it just fucking running it looks fantastic and there's just there's just
loads of shit how much how much are we talking it is 12 it's on sale at the moment about nine quid
so i'm i'm gonna be getting it and there's loads of other shit so it yeah it's not looking good
breath it's not looking good but they you have to pay a monthly subscription much like world of
warcraft and the bit i love about it is when i bought it got 30 days free hit level 30 they
gave me 15 days free as well so i've got another two weeks for free and i'm hoping that when i hit
say level 50 or 60 they give me some more game time there is a glitch at the moment which i read
a little bit about before i got back into like playing final fantasy and it said that players
were logging in and had uh millions worth of gold or they call it gil or jill whatever um and that
the final fantasy developers were praising people who were giving that money back to the creators
and they were rewarding them because obviously they're logging in and it's a nice community
in there going well this ain't mine anyway when i started playing about 10 hours in i had about
7 000 gold i logged in yesterday over a million wow i'm not gonna say fuck off
i'm gonna keep that dough i turned to stef and i went i've i've been given the glitch so where's
that come from then i don't know it's a it's a glitch or something what do they say when they're
praising people for giving it back how are they doing that i don't know they're because you can
obviously you can talk you can talk to support and i'd imagine because i haven't done it yet but on
world of warcraft they're called games masters and you can physically you used to be able to and you
still sort of can but they made it slightly more difficult but you used to be able to physically
talk to someone like a live chat and they could do whatever they fucking wanted with your account
they could make you float in the sky if they wanted to or just flat out kill you obviously
the abuse of power so i would imagine it's the same with final fantasy where you can just talk
to someone and i'd imagine you'd go i've logged in and i've got all this money that i didn't that's
not mine uh take it away so that sounds like an awful lot for where you're at in the game then
it is an awful lot when you when you um how much you average in a quest like a couple hundred
i'm sitting with the millies so you need to you need to look into
what rewards these these are getting for and in this cash back oh yeah i maybe i should have a
look just to see because they might give you the snowman may yeah maybe they give me a mount or
something like that or i just pay the 12 dollars and keep my millions and build upon that millions
million i'll find out i'll find out if it's worth it for me this time next week i'll be i'll be
upset because i've been banned let you pay a month subscription first then they'll ban me
other than that i haven't really been playing anything else i was going to before we started
the podcast but i haven't so i'll do it after is redownload battlefield haven't done that yet i
saw a clip of it today looks delicious it does look very good and i just want i just want in it
it was everyone in a lift going up classic battlefield and they had they put two shields
on the lift and obviously it was just full on fucking warfare when um when the lift doors
opened and the people that were in the lift were the ones that that were victorious and i just want
that sort of gameplay again and also i want i'd like a little bit more of an excuse to go on the
playstation and play with people like yourself and and mark and other people um because there
aren't many people that i play with on the laptop so something like battlefield is very much something
you can just pick up and drop whenever you want and like you say you always drop in with the boys
well we might be dropping in on battlefield yes sir and that is that that's me that's you that's us
that's everyone next week for our quarter of the year special our quarterly special
that's crazy seriously though a quarter of the year already it's mental isn't it i saw you
flicking through the little bits of paper from when we first sat down in the kitchen and thought
oh what we what can we do yeah we'll disclose them one day when we're massive it's absolute
mess you can see our spot was it a spider chart yeah yeah yeah you went to school a lot more
recently than me you should remember that shit no fucking i don't know you wrote it all i'm nearly
40 bro come on now you're not nearly 40 though i won't tell i won't say your age but you're not
near i'm old enough bro he remembers the old games hey i remember the neds bro you you weren't
even born i ain't got a fucking clue now he's confused with the neds and the sneds he doesn't
even know there was a difference no i don't yeah it's lost on me the neds you you put what are they
nintendo yeah yeah nintendo entertainment system and the super nintendo entertainment system
honestly i haven't been neds is like a gray box and you just lift the flap put the thing the cassette
in push it down shut the flap and then the snares used to just put the cartridge in the top much
like the n64 revolutionary it was revolutionary yeah oh there were the goats there were the goats
don't make them like that no more thank god true that corrupted game files and blowing in cartridges
i don't miss that uh well that's that then in it these episodes are getting fucking longer and
longer i love it yes mom it's fantastic mom right we're gonna fuck off yep that's everything right
goodbye bye bye you