We're back everyone!
I said I wake you up!
We're back.
The audio, the audio has been fixed.
Fixed.
We sorted that one out.
We apologize
for last week.
What had happened is
the fucking
audacity, which is what we record on
decided to go back to default
settings, which meant that everything
was being picked up through the laptop itself
and it just fucked it and I didn't catch it in time
so we recorded an hour and twenty and
blah blah blah. That's why it sounds shit.
We're back. We're back with some decent
microphones again.
As you can hear.
So yeah. Hello!
Welcome back everyone.
We're here.
We are. I apologize also
for the terrible, terrible
sound quality and thanks to everyone
that managed to make it through.
It was awful. It was awful. I listened to it
in the van on the way in with Mark
because he was like how did it go?
I said fucking. I said I was so angry because I said
it was such a good episode. I said we
fucked it on the audio.
So we listened to it
and made me even more angry
and he jumped out of the van.
I was like this sounds shit.
Yeah it was proper annoying
man. It was proper annoying but it was either
put that out or put nothing out so
we decided to put something
out. Exactly sir. We can crack on now.
We've just been enjoying our pizzas.
Yeah thanks for that.
We haven't been keeping up.
We did a couple of quizzes
and for the
was it from episode 15
up to episode 20?
Something like that. It was whoever lost
had to buy the other person pizza and
obviously we all got pizza
and I lost and I paid for it and we've
eaten half of it. Feeling
a bit chunky. Feeling very
full and content and we also got
caffeine to get us through.
And it's this
very little to talk about
but so much at the same time.
So much but you're not allowed. This is the problem.
I feel restricted. Just wrote
on the list it was my intro God of War
outro.
God of War is
just enveloped.
Oh thank Maggot
Patreons as well. Thank the Maggot
Patreons.
Yeah thanks everyone on
the Patreon for giving us your dough. You effectively
paid for this pizza. So this
cost us absolutely nothing really.
Thank you worms.
Yeah we appreciate
it.
Patreon.com forward slash what's the buttons.
If you want to give us some money
please, please
please give us some dough. He says I
got a square head.
You're so done in
by this isn't you.
Is this why you're quiet?
I'm just very full.
Ash is growing
he looks like Kratos.
Massive beard. All you need is
a red strip going down your fucking head
and you'll be there. Minus
the massive muscles that he's
got. And
for some reason Ash has decided to
grow his hair out and he's been doing this for
what seems like six months and there's about
fucking four weeks worth of growth on there.
And all I did was make a point of
when he took his hat off today
I went fuck me your head square.
And he's taken it to heart.
Can we just highlight
that's all he did. That's all
he did. Fuck me your head square.
What?
And then I said that's not very nice
for you. You've really hurt my feelings. And he went
SpongeBob SquareAsh, SpongeBob SquareAsh.
Then I cried
and he carried on laughing. You've taken
it a bit harder than I thought you really would. I thought you
knew. That's the thing. I thought I knew
I had a square head.
Oh wow.
Look what's done is done. I think
you should shave it. But
I come round here with swagger in
my step. Thinking I've had a
nice trim here. I look sharp
as a razor. Yeah. He's mugged
it right off. I feel
disgusted. At no point
did I say that you weren't swagger
or sharp as a razor. I got
a square head. Yes, I just pointed out the fact
that the side of your head
is square. There's right
angles on your head.
And he ran straight in the mirror. He's licking
his hands. He's
flattening it down. It's fashion bro.
He's going it's the hat. It's the hat. It's fashion.
Come on. It's fashion.
I'm just keeping up with the twands.
Shave that motherfucker off.
Nah bro. In honor of
God of War. Nah. Jim
likes my hair long so I'm going to give her one last
shot because I've already said to her once he gets
buzzed off again that's it. It's never coming back.
I'm not doing this again. Yeah.
How long are you going to keep your beard?
Are you going to keep growing that?
Through winter. And then what?
Through thimble winter.
Through thimble winter and then you're taking
it off. I don't know. I'll see.
I'll see how we go. So you're just going to keep growing it
as long as possible. Yeah.
Keep it growing. My mates growing a mustache for a
year. Yeah. For a full calendar year.
Sounds decent. Sounds going to be interesting to see.
Yeah. How that turns out.
Oh I've got a bit of a belly ache now after that piece.
I've been growing my hair for over a year.
Yeah I know but look how much hair you've got. If I grew my
hair for over a year it wouldn't be nowhere
near as long as that. You'd have stubble on your
head. I'd finally
get to stubble stage.
You're yearning for that
fringe. I've got a double crown. That's why
it looks bold. A double crown?
No it just is going bold. Yeah
and the double crown doesn't help.
Is that the McDonald's tick?
No.
You fucking arsehole.
Sorry. I don't know why I'm being so
I think it's because money's
left my bank account for someone
else and it's bugged me. Is that the McDonald's
logo? You said tick.
Yeah sorry.
You meant night tick. You're confused. But you've just
said I've got McDonald's logo on my head.
I'm going to make sure Jim listens to the listening
guy. Yeah yeah yeah sorry.
I apologise Dema.
She's going to kill me.
Nah it's all good. I don't take it seriously.
Right let's get, we're getting sidetracked here
because this podcast is about God of War.
Yeah and nothing else.
We've already decided because
it really ain't been out fucking long. Neither
of us, Ash is further
ahead than I am. I've got about seven hours.
Almost double. Yeah and you've got
13 and a bit 14 hours.
So
you're right. Yeah I'm just listening to
my own voice to make sure it's coming through my headset
and it is so we're good. Oh what did you turn it down?
Yeah I had it right down. Oh
okay. Um we're good?
Yeah. Right. Until
we listen back to this podcast and it's just you talking
to yourself and you can't hear me. I'll put the fucking
microphone through the
screen. I'll be so angry about it.
I want to double check. I think it would be a very funny
episode if it's just you talking and laughing
with no context as to what you're talking
about. It would sound fucking mental wouldn't it?
It would be great. Wait if you
I'm
paranoid
now. This is what it's going to be. Every episode
for probably like another 10 episodes are going to be
say something. Yes sir.
Yeah no we're good.
We're fine. Anyway God of War
we decided that we'd keep it
absolutely spoiler free. Um
we're trying desperately
to avoid spoilers. I've already
almost seen a couple.
Um and
there's people saying I've platinumed it already
and blah blah blah blah blah. So I'm just
trying to avoid as much shit
as possible. How? How have
people platinumed it? Because some people have already had it
for like a week. Oh fair. I was going to say because I'm
seeing a lot. I'm seeing like
there's a lot to platinum this. Yeah.
There's a lot of things I haven't done or even touched.
I haven't even looked at the trophies. I don't want to. No I
never do. I never do. Um
so in line with that we are
going to talk about God of War obviously
but we're not going to talk about anything that happens
really.
I don't even think talking about cut scenes and shit
because even though
I think most of it won't be
spoilers as such. I think
for viewing pleasure if you're
anticipating playing the game
I don't want to spoil it for you
because this game's fucking mental.
What we will do
next week providing we've both finished
it is at the end of the episode
we will cut off and say
you know goodbye
to you that haven't played God of War
or do not care for spoilers
and then we'll carry on and we'll
do a review and we'll talk about it
and just talk everything and get it all out in the open so at least
you've got more than enough time and understanding
to leave before we get onto the
topic. Exactly.
And I can't wait for it. So go ahead.
So I got the
Collector's Edition. It arrived.
I didn't take the day off work.
I stayed at work. Um and it
arrived before I actually got home.
Steph was lovely enough to open
it up and put the game on download
for me so it was ready for me to go straight
away when I got home. Um
that's lovely.
Collector's Edition is sick. It's
fucking awesome. I really like it.
Ash couldn't get hold of one. Well
no you could have. You could have but you
fucked it. I did exactly what I always do.
Yeah. And say I don't want something until I can't
get it and then I want it and I can't get it.
I was so angry
at you and for you. I was so
angry. So what happened is
I got the Collector's Edition. Um as most of you
already know I was fighting to get hold of the
Yacht Nile Edition and I
had the Playstation Direct
Store um
shortcutted onto
my phone. So I only had to
press one button and it would load it all up. So I was
doing that because it kept saying Yacht Nile
Edition coming soon coming soon. Then obviously
it's like well on the day of release they're going to be
fucking announced. So
all of that entire
day when I got a spare minute I was opening
it and nothing nothing nothing nothing.
And then um they
come out. The Yacht Nile Edition's come
out at 9 o'clock and they were
sold out by 30 seconds
past 9 o'clock.
They were gone like that.
They were just gone. Whereas the Collector's Editions
were still sat there and I had
that tab open for an hour.
Because I was humming and hiring over
it because I thought ah I could
buy one and
not not to resell but I could
buy one on the off chance that there's someone
I know who's been trying
to get hold of one and I can say oh look
I've got one here you can have it for retail.
Um and I
messaged Ash and I said Yacht Nile
Edition's gone. Collector's Edition's
still up. And he read it
said nothing. Nothing.
And then an hour later
he goes oh have you happen to see a Collector's
Edition can you buy it for me I've got the money.
Fuming.
Yeah.
Rip.
Rip to me. I was so angry. I was like why the
fuck didn't you say I could have bought you one
straight away. Because I just have everything I get.
I'll tell you why. It's ridiculous. I'll tell you why.
I'll tell you why. Because I didn't want one.
I wanted one but I couldn't afford it really.
I could but I couldn't afford it.
Right. And then what we just spoke about
what happens in the game
that cool stuff
with the stuff. Yeah.
And I was like I want
that. I need that. I want the stuff. I want the stuff.
Yeah. And now that you've seen the stuff.
And then shout out to
Lang Dogg. He boxed it all up
I arrived he was like come on me.
There it is. He let me unbox
it as if it was mine which is bittersweet.
But I appreciate the gesture.
I put it all back in its packets and everything.
Shout out to a friend of the show Sam
by the way. Tweeted
at Woster Buttons
earlier.
At Woster Button I suppose.
I don't know if it's a natural name.
He said
his still hasn't arrived after Amazon
promised it to him on Wednesday
with 5 angry
or 4 angry sweary faces.
And 1 angry not swearing face.
I don't know. He just said
I think he's just talking about God of War in general.
So spare a
thought for Sam.
No God of War. Oh my god.
None. That's pain.
Why has he done that then? But as I said to him
it's worth the wait. It is 100%
worth the wait. But so
limited information. Sam
is it the normal edition that you
bought or is it a special collector's or
Yacht-Nar edition? Because I'm trying to figure out
why you'd buy it from Amazon
if it was just the
game. When you could have just bought it off the
PlayStation store and pre-downloaded it.
Unless you're after disc. People like
the physicals man. I've only just
started going onto the digital only for
this reason. Just the ease of it.
I think it's a bit of a kick in the bollocks
having the steelbook
from the collector's edition
and there's no disc in it. I know we spoke
about this but the fact that they put in
the holes for you to put
discs in. That pisses
me off.
You've done everything you need to do but
I'll put the fucking disc in it. You've
left it. So I could put
Hannah Montana in there if I wanted to.
It's just bollocks. I'm sure
it's probably meant for if you have
the physical copy of Ragnarok and the physical
copy of the previous God of War
you can probably put them in the same
steelbook.
But yeah that fucking sucks. Why
I don't understand why Amazon would
what I'd surely
you can get some compensation for that. Especially
on a pre-order.
It's funny because when the PS5
has come about
I've pre-ordered my PS5 from Amazon
and I managed
to get another one on Argos
and just
because I could I bought it because I knew
someone would want it. So being the
nice guy I am I bought it asked around who wanted
it. Person
that wanted it.
I said alright no worries.
He gave me the money. Cool.
Release day comes. Oh I know
the person that wanted it. Release day comes.
His one turns up.
Mine doesn't.
He came around mine. Not even a proper
gamer really. He's got too
much money.
I passed him the PlayStation and mine
still hadn't arrived. Knowing that he
probably didn't even play it that night.
To be fair
to him he was like you can just have that one
if you want. But then I'm thinking like deal
or no do. I'm thinking well what if I swap
the box and my box is fucked.
Then I start thinking no if I do that
and I've got the shit one. Then you're like
what if my one turns up and it's broken. So yeah
anyway I gave him his mine turned up a day late and
mate the stress. I thought because I
was seeing it everywhere. All on Twitter, Instagram.
People saying that their
PlayStation was going missing.
Yeah yeah. People were stealing it and then they posted it.
Steph had the same thing when
the Nintendo Switch came out.
Because she
Kevin Kamwe
has passed away at the age of 66.
I don't know who that is. Batman.
Not Batman. Original Batman.
Cartoon Batman. Oh.
RIP it's just popped up.
That's a shame.
RIP Kevin Kamwe. Sorry.
Sorry. Steph with the Switch.
Okay. She
she pre-ordered it
and it was delayed.
It didn't show up.
She drove around
because she was obviously fucking angry
trying to find because she bought the
neon edition.
She couldn't find one for love nor money
and had to wait. I think
it was like a week or something. It was a while.
She had to wait for it. On a pre-order
as well. You're fucking
fuming about it. But shout out
to Game. I know that I was very very
like humming and harring about
them and if they were going to be shit.
But they really weren't.
So obviously I pre-ordered
the Ragnarok controller as well.
I need to show you that. It's fire.
Do you see that it says God of War Ragnarok
on the underside of it. It's fire. It looks
fucking. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
Yeah I didn't mean to.
I just got over excited. I told you it's what happens when you eat pizza.
It's more beautiful than my wife on our wedding day.
She's going to listen to the intro
and she's obviously not going to now.
She's going to listen to the rest of the fuck.
She will not listen to it now. I will not allow it.
That's to prove that she doesn't listen to it.
She would have a go at me if she did.
She wouldn't have a go at you. She'd eat your head
like a praying mantis.
Yeah. But it is so beautiful.
That controller
looks fucking sick. So
Game were really good in that.
They
sent me like four or five different emails
and then I got the tracking info and then
I got the text to say the hourly slot
and then I could see
a bit weird that the controller and the
game turned
up separately. So the controller
turned up first. I hadn't told Steph.
So the box turned up for the controller.
So she opened
it because she thought she was like I thought you'd been
gypped because the box turned
up really. The box turned up without a
controller in it. No, no, no, no.
The controller turned up first
and then the collector's edition of
God of War turned up separately. So she was
expecting God of War to turn up.
This tiny little box turns up
with just a controller in it. So she was like
I opened it because I thought you'd been mugged off.
And she was like when did you get this?
Come
with it, babe. She's like when did you buy this?
No, no, that was it. She said because she was like
I've looked at all the editions and she said
controller don't come with it, does it?
That would have been my first thing. Come with it, babe.
No, no, no. And she was like oh, so
that means now you've got two controllers so we can play
games together. She was like that's obviously why you did it
weren't it? And I was like yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's exactly
why. Yeah, that controller
looks fucking sick. And then the
collector's edition turned up quick time
turned up at like I think it was like 20
to 1 or something. So I was still out and about.
And yeah
fucking. It was a
momentous day, it's a momentous occasion.
And it just goes to show
how much God of War means to
people. I took two days off work
to get in as many hours as
I could because I want to plough through it.
I don't want to be spoiled on this. It means a lot to me.
The first one meant a lot to me. I actually spoke
to Corey Barlog
the creative director of the first
one. I think he
played part in this. I don't think he directed this
one but he was a big part.
I'm not sure on that but I believe that's the case.
And yeah, so
it means a lot to me. I took a couple
of days off. I don't want no spoilers. I ploughed
through as much as I could
as a family man. What is that? Is that your belly
or your arse? Sorry, that was my arse.
They won't hear that but we've drawn
attention to it now.
Congrats.
It's got a kick to it.
Carry on.
It means a lot. I've got as many
hours as I can. We should talk about God of War
because we haven't. What are
your feelings? Can I just quickly
say, for everyone listening
and for everyone that will listen in the future,
this man is sacrificing.
You've just heard him how much
this means to him. This man is
sacrificing his gameplay
experience because he's
so scared of
receiving spoilers of
the plot to God of War Ragnarok.
This man is avoiding all
side missions and beelining
the main story
just so he can complete
it and then return back to the game
and do all the explore. He's not even exploring.
He's not exploring.
He's just fucking straight
for the main campaign and get it out of the way
so there's nothing spoiled for him. I find
that mental because I was
sort of saying, yeah, I want to rush
through it real quick and everything and then once
I started playing, the first side quest that
popped up straight on it. I was like,
I ain't... I was like, for
the developers and for
myself, I said, I am going to explore
every fucking inch of this game and I'm going
to do everything.
But I suppose...
Chance of a play?
I think possibly, yeah. I think so.
I haven't looked at the trophies yet.
But yeah,
I reckon I might platinum
this one. Have you ever platinumed anything? No, I've never
been bothered. Be your first of a platinum.
It would be crazy, wouldn't it? God of War Ragnarok would be my first
platy if I can be bothered to do it.
But I just find it crazy. Maybe it's because
obviously my hour was
I don't have children. So
if I had two days
off, I would have sunk in more than fucking
14, 15 hours easily.
So obviously
I know your time is limited. So I guess
there's more. You're more prone for the spoilers
and I'm going to finish it probably quicker than you
will. So there's sort of like a little...
There's many reasons. Obviously
I don't get as much
spare time as you.
Because I've got responsibilities with the children
and stuff and that's fine.
Not a problem. So if
I get the opportunity to get through
it as quickly as possible to avoid the spoilers
because it will ruin the
experience for me if there's a spoiler. It really will.
I really want to see how this story
ends because this story is ending in this game.
They've said that themselves.
It's so story driven.
I'm so
fucking... Every time there's a cut
scene I'm excited.
My controller goes to the floor. I put it down so I can watch it.
Yeah and then a quick time event comes.
I fuck it. I fucked it.
But no, back to what you
asked. My opinions
on this game so far.
It's...
It's incredible. It's absolutely
incredible. I was playing it
on my setup
with my old telly.
And obviously
my Playstation being in a different
fucking building. I'm in there
on my iron and Steph was kept saying
she was like, I'll just bring it in
into the house, into the bedroom
and play it. But she was like
understandable if you don't want to.
And I
caved in after about 10 minutes.
I went fuck it. I said I don't like
this because she's missing out on this story
as well. So I said fuck it.
I'll bring it over. Her telly
compared to mine is fucking incredible.
It's ridiculous.
Sorry Steph. I apologise for
anything I've ever said about your telly because
she has told me, she said honestly
my telly's better than yours and
I've always gone, no it fucking ain't. It fucking is.
4K, HDR.
Like I know that's not a ground breaking thing
anymore. But this game
on this console, on this
telly looks fucking incredible.
Absolutely incredible. I've gone
for the quality
setting and not the performance.
Because I believe that the PS5
will not struggle to
run this on the performance side of it.
Confused. I'm 100% performance.
I don't know.
I can only deal with 60 FPS. Is it still 60?
Yeah. I'll stick it on the quality then.
Yeah.
Fucking 30 frames.
No, I need 60 at all times.
No, it helps with the rendering and stuff like that.
When there's more shit it ensures that those frames
stay up.
Which you might need on the PS4.
But I don't see the PlayStation 5
struggling and keeping up with FPS.
I've had it on quality the entire time
and I haven't had a single issue.
Normally when they have that option
if you put it on quality it frame
locks it to 30.
If they don't do that in this then I'll whack it down.
I don't believe so. I could be wrong.
However, I haven't noticed a difference.
So even if it is locking it to 30 frames per second
I haven't noticed a fucking difference.
I have played them on both
to see and it just looked better
in quality.
In terms of actual performance I don't notice
any fucking difference.
The reason I'm rushing
obviously I don't want spoilers, but people are
just not sensitive to other people.
Especially like the kids are on YouTube
watching whatever.
And then they'll just be on the thumbnails
it'll just show you something.
You spoiled it?
Yeah, spoiled something. I didn't know they was in it.
I didn't know this was happening.
It's just like brilliant, thanks very much.
So it takes away that moment.
So that's why I'm trying to get through it.
Even on Twitter today someone's posted
what we spoke about.
Luckily obviously I've already seen that.
So I watched it again
because it was just, I gassed.
So I watched it again. And the lads that I was working
with today, they don't play this stuff.
So I was like, look at this. Look how cool this is.
And even they were like,
wow, that's sick.
So cool.
But if I hadn't seen that
or if I hadn't played that already, that would have
infuriated me. I wouldn't have watched it, but I would have been
ruined just by seeing it.
It's going to sound so weird listening back to this
because obviously we're talking about shit
that we know about, but don't want anyone
else who doesn't know.
So talking about it
they're not going to fucking understand it.
It's a fucking minefield.
But I know the scene that you're talking about.
And I think
I haven't watched a cut scene
like that
in a game that has made me
completely forget
about my surroundings.
Anything that, what I'm fucking
sat on. What, if it's night
or day outside, I was so focused
on the telly
and being so immersed in what I was
what my eyeballs were
fucking seeing. And I haven't
had that for such
a long time. Probably
maybe The Last of Us
Part 2 was the last time I had anything
remotely similar to that
type of, it was like watching a movie.
And it was.
And then it fucking went to game play and
it was still the same fucking graphics like I'm playing
in a movie. It was just mental but
and that wasn't even
far in. It's like fucking out.
Shout out to Ryan
Hurst as well. How
good is he? His voice.
His fucking sick isn't it. His voice.
And I swear they've cast him. They've made
him look a bit like him as well.
And he's so big man.
He's massive. He's so big.
He dwarfs Kratos. He's fucking huge.
He's so fucking huge.
You seem like a calm
man. Yeah. Some people want to go
and some people aim to look like someone
like Kratos. I'm aiming
for Thor. Oh yeah. It's a lot easier
to look like Thor. I want to look like Thor.
That geezer is fucking
he's awesome man.
He's fucking sick. We won't go into it
but yeah he is
I've seen a lot of people tweeting and stuff
as well saying the Thor in
this game is the best rendition of
Thor in any fictional version.
Yeah. I know obviously
it's his
that the god of war Thor
is the most accurate
as to what Thor
would look like.
And yeah Ryan Hurst
is just
voice acting is fucking sick.
And he basically looks like Thor in the
first place anyway. I mean he's a big
fucking geezer anyway. Big biker
anyway. It's just fucking
I think
Thor could
quite easily be my favourite
character in a game
of easily in the
top three I think. Because I
fucking love him man. I fucking love him.
He's sick. I'm all over it.
He's so good. And I've got his hammer.
These we've got a war like my
excitement level is like
troughed. I wasn't hyped
for it like I should have been.
I was excited for it.
I think that's just because we've grown up a bit
because I was the same. I was gassed for it
when it was announced and stuff. And then it started
petering off and then Warzone and Destiny
and all that. And I was like I'm not going to have time to play
this. But as soon as it come out, as soon as I load it up
and the main menu is like
dooo
That theme
kicks in. I'm like alright
I'm sitting forward. Where's my coffee?
Let's go.
I got immersed. Yeah I'm so immersed in it.
I literally can't wait to
finish this and go home and play it. I'm going to go in
and I get myself a pint of coffee
and I'm going to sit there and I'm going to
salatate my eyes and I'm going to
go. I might even finish it tonight.
As I say I know the game's
allegedly 30 to 40 hours.
I don't know if that includes
side quests. This is what I mean. But I
haven't done anything. Yeah because I've heard
I've heard 20 to 25
hours. But again
I've heard the same things that you've heard
and I don't know if the 40
hour mark is the cutscenes and everything
else involved.
But yeah I'll have it done by
Monday. It'll be done by Monday.
I still feel like there's a fair bit of what I'm doing.
I still feel like
I feel like I should be at
the end.
I'm thinking come on now it's got to be near
the end. I normally because obviously
and this ain't a spoiler at all but obviously you have
different skills don't you for your weapons.
I'm always guided sort of
by how far you've made it down
there. And I'm
seven hours in and I
would say that I've already
got quite a few of them unlocked.
And I feel like it unlocks a lot
quicker than the previous God of War.
They took forever to unlock all
of them. Whereas this time around it's
battering through them quite quick.
You keep nodding your head and smiling.
It's so difficult
to respond without
I'll tell you what one little gripe and it's
both a gripe and
a thank you.
It holds your hand a lot.
What
setting did you pick difficulty setting?
Well last God of
War I played
I started it on the hardest setting.
Quickly put it down a notch.
This one
I didn't go for the hardest setting. I didn't
go for the next hardest setting. I went for like
the middle one. You went balanced.
It's fucking hard. Yeah.
I've died way more times than I
thought I would. I thought I'd be balanced.
I looked in and it was like oh yeah good story
with a good combat challenge
and I was like oh it's fine. Let's bash them out
out. No worries. Yeah no.
No bro. I've been getting some enemies
have been whooping. Yeah I've been getting
slapped up.
It's perfect.
It's the perfect balance because it's
hard enough. But the most difficult
setting is give me God of War.
Is what it's called. And did you see that
once you pick that you can
go down in difficulty but for that entire
playthrough you cannot go back up to it.
So once you pick if you pick
the hardest difficulty and after half hour you go
fuck this is too difficult. Then put it on
balanced and then after a couple more hours
you go fuck it. I'll give it another crack
at the hardest setting. You can't.
Well that's why I platinum the first one
because I hate it when
trophies are tied to
that. It doesn't matter. As far as I know on this one
doesn't matter what difficulty you complete it on.
And the accessibility
features on this are crazy.
There's a setting where you can get
if you're struggling with a mini boss
or maybe even a main boss
if you're struggling with a boss it will give you
boss checkpoints while you're fighting them.
So you haven't got to keep fighting them over and over again if you die.
I won't put that on unless
I'm fucking struggling. Which I shouldn't
be.
The back to the holding hand thing
that I was on about. You
noticed you might not
have had it though because you're only doing the
main story. Or you
might have run into it. Atreus
and Mimir
give you hints and basically
tell you what they did.
You missed some loot.
They've done it a lot more this time.
There's been a couple of puzzles where I've been
sort of like stuck on.
And then Atreus just like straight up says
it's that thing over there.
Why don't you try doing this very
specific thing. I'm not giving you the answer but
I've exactly told you what to do. I was talking to
Steph about it while I was like playing it.
And I was like yeah
and she pointed it out. She was like it does hold your hand
quite a bit. And then literally as she said it
Atreus was like pointing at something.
He's like let's go over there.
And it's like oh yeah. And you can
turn that off. But I don't want
to because I actually quite like it. No I massively
like it. Because some puzzles I'm so
not frustrating but I'm like
I can't even see what I'm supposed
to be interacting with. Yeah because what I
Why don't you hit that wind
turbine. What fucking wind turbine?
You're telling me and I can't see one.
I did one puzzle.
I come up to it and
for the first time I sat there
looking around and I couldn't figure out what
to do. And I was like I can't Google
this. No.
I have to do this. And it started stressing
me out because I was like I could probably
Google it but I was like I'm going to hit some
spoiler. So I was like I can't
Google this luckily Atreus was coming
in clutch and Mamiya were fucking
pointed me in the right direction. It's nice though.
It's handholding in that respect but not
really. But not in the combat. Makes it more organic
as well. It's not like a hint text box has
popped out. Yeah yeah. They're like oh maybe
try this. Also I just Googled it. You are
right. Putting it in quality mode does
lock it to 30 frames per second.
But I
I can't notice it. I just
can't play F30FPS anymore. So when
I jump back onto it I might
switch over to performance and really take a
look and see how it plays.
But it said that on the PS5 in
performance mode it still upscales
all the graphics. So
it will still look phenomenal.
So I'll do that. I want to stop this
podcast right now. I'm going to do it. Look at
him. He's nuts isn't he?
I'm getting a Ryan Hurst tattoo.
He's fucking sick.
He was so good in Sons of Anarchy as well.
And Christopher Judge. Oh my God.
Yeah man. His voice.
It's just he doesn't say that that much
does he? No no no. Anyway let's
stop now because we're going to
get carried away and I could just say so much
stuff. We'll save it for next week.
We could just run riot with God of War stuff.
It's your show. So you
do you. But I don't know what else
to talk about. We've got it all written down.
God of War isn't it? I know. It's just God of War shit.
We filled it up with some other shit.
Oh this is a cool
one. I know you've never played
it. But control number two.
Control two.
Has been announced.
Fucking
sick game. Control
is a fucking awesome game.
Genre defining.
The gameplay on it is fucking sick. You'd love
it so much. I'm so annoyed that you won't play it.
Just because you can't get immersed in it.
No it's just not really.
It looks like I was filming you then.
It's just not really for me. I've seen
it and I've heard good things about it.
But it just doesn't really interest me. I think you would
really enjoy it. Even the gameplay
alone feels really fucking
cool.
Remedy have come out and they've
got fucking loads of projects.
Loads of
things in the oven.
And one of them.
It was said as a
multiplayer aspect.
Like sequel to
control two. And they've
now said it's a
sequel. So I'm
excited for that. There's absolutely no
release date. Remedy
have come out and they've said obviously it takes
a lot of time. So we haven't
really got anything to give you. Which in
turn means I haven't really got a lot that I can give you.
However for the people that are listening if
you play control and you really liked it get excited.
Because control two is going to be fucking sick.
I didn't want to double back but I'm going to.
How the fuck have they made God of War Ragnarok
in four and a half years?
Like this is where
I think that. I don't know
where else come from. You must have said something that spiked
this fort. But
when people are like
the same animations. Look at the
wood. Look at the wood on
just the graphics on it man.
The attention to detail.
You can see the grain
in the wood. Yes.
It's mental. But not
that. When I say the same
animations and things that people
are moaning about. Does that
they've already got the blueprint
for what they made originally in God of War. Yeah.
So they've got the foundation
so they can make the game
a hundred times quicker
surely. Like they have. Because
there's no way starting from scratch
with nothing. No pre-
rendered animations like they had
and using completely new ones. Would they make this
in four and a half years? No. God of War
the one they made must have took the
2018 version must have took longer. Four and a half
years. Definitely. I would imagine.
Who's whinging about having the same animation? Oh they had
before the game came out didn't they? The other one was going out.
It's literally the same
people in God of War.
I'd prefer that. No I'm saying
what animations
would you want them to- what so
Kratos is going to be swinging an axe
a certain way and then in the next
game he's going to be swinging it completely
differently with a different armour. People were complaining
about they got in the boat the same way and stuff like that.
Well of course they fucking did because
they're the same people doing the same
shit. They're not going to start
changing that. But these people that moan
my question to them is would you not
rather have a game of this standard
this length, this quality every four and a half
years and have a
few of the same animations or would you rather
go do you know all that stuff we've done
scrap that. We're going to
start again. It's going to take eight years.
I haven't got that many years left
we had this discussion. I might not see
the next one. These are the same people
that claim Fortnite is their main
game. Shut up Fortnite.
Go fuck themselves. Stop adding Star Wars
skins you mugs. I ain't got the money for it.
People that are whinging about God of War
they're the same people that whinged about
The Last of Us Part 2. They're just whinging
for the sake of having something to whinge about.
There'll be some dumb prick
at the end of God of War in a
week, two weeks time on the PlayStation
forums, on Facebook where we're going
I didn't think the story was actually that
good. I preferred the other God of War.
And they can suck a dick because they'll be talking
absolute shit. There's always people that are going to
do it. I had it today didn't I? I told you I blocked
someone. Yeah. Because he called me a very
rude name which I won't repeat.
And he said it's exactly
the same as all the other God of Wars.
Well no it's not is it? If it was exactly
the same as all the other ones it would be a completely
different game. Yeah. Might be similar
to the last one. Obviously
it's the same story, same characters.
Nothing like the other 46 of them.
What did they want? If he,
he, she, whoever the fuck they are
are listening to this podcast. Not that they probably
aren't. They won't. They're blocked now anyway.
If they are they can go fuck themselves. Because
you're talking out your arse. Yeah. Again
just whinging for the sake of whinging.
Anyway we've gone back to God of War. Let's move on Soz.
Maybe I don't want to
move on. I'm sorry. We have to.
Save it for next week. We'll go buck wild.
This is what people want. This is what they
want to be thinking about. Oh God of War.
We got um
the, oh yeah.
There's not really much
to talk about on it though. It's just I wanted your
opinion on it. The Razor controller. Razor
have announced that they're
bringing out a
customizable controller
for the PS5 specifically.
And I can't remember what it's called.
It's something V2.
And it's got a price tag of $250.
Which is about
220 something quid.
I think.
Worth it?
I don't know.
I know nothing about it. Razor's new
PS5 controller costs half as much as
the console itself.
Yeah, but so does the PlayStation
controller. The one that they're bringing out.
PC
game. Razor has announced the new high
end PS5 gamepad to compete with luxury
offerings. Like Sony's upcoming
Dual Sense Edge.
Or Microsoft's Xbox Elite
controller on PC. Razor's
Wolverine V2 Pro.
Has an eye water in $250
price tag and includes the
requisite rear paddle buttons
and swappable thumb pads. While also
boasting
mecha tactile button switches
and hyper speed wireless
through a special dongle. Presumably
to cut back on input latency
?
I mean, it essentially sounds
like a scuf control.
And I suppose it just comes
down to personal preference. Do you prefer
scuf? Do you prefer PlayStation?
Or do you prefer this? I mean
it's an interesting looking
It looks fucking horrible, doesn't it?
Design. It doesn't look
like my cup of tea. Stop bringing out controllers
with the fucking analogue
sticks on separate fucking
corners of the controller.
The left hand fucking analogue
stick is at the top left corner.
And the right hand is at the
bottom right corner. It doesn't feel
good to play. As much as
people going, yeah, nah, it's the best
controller. No, it's not. It's not.
It looks like an Xbox controller.
And they're fucking grim. It's an odd
design, isn't it?
Is that a real picture of it?
It's an odd design. It looks awful,
doesn't it? Well, just on that picture alone, no, it's
not worth it. There's no curves to it.
If I saw that on your mantelpiece,
I'd destroy your mantelpiece. It's grim, isn't it?
Get that gremlin off there. That's
disgusting. How much was that?
I don't want to look at it. Burn it. How much was that
Christmas cracker filler? You go, oh, it's 250 quid.
Fucking hell.
Way too much money. I'll swap
you for this paper clip. I think we're going to
see a lot of custom controllers coming out,
people trying to compete with things like
SCUF controllers, trying to
sort of breach into that
market, because I think with
especially the new Call of Duty, there's
going to be quite a few people with
the new... Can you use
the... You can use the SCUF controller on PS5,
can't you? Yeah.
If it's for PS5,
the one I've got, which my friend kindly
gifted to me, was
a PS4 one.
I can use it for
PS5, but only for PS4 games. Yeah, yeah.
So there will be people with the
controllers that they can't actually use on the new console.
So it sort of makes sense that
there will be more companies bringing out
controllers for the new
for the current, like, new generation
of consoles.
But they all do
the same fucking thing.
You know what I mean? Yeah, it's just personal preference.
Who wants to plug a dongle in for their fucking controller?
Who's worried about
the input latency that much?
All the sweaty Call of Duty players.
Which I am.
I'm not good enough to be
that sweaty.
I'd like to be, I'm just not good enough.
So I'll try my very best.
I would like to have a SCUF controller, because
when I used the PS4 one
on the PS5, I was
notably better.
But yeah, like, I'm not...
250 quid's worth of better?
I'm not buying, like, the price of a
caravan holiday.
For a controller.
I've never been on a caravan holiday.
Yeah, they're alright, man.
You snob.
No, I just don't want to sit in a fucking shed in a garden.
You don't, do you?
You just sleep in there, you go out and do other stuff.
Yeah, I know.
I might be having that. I live in the countryside, but I wouldn't do that.
It's the journey, not the destination, bro.
Fuck the journey.
With a caravan on the back.
I went on the VR the other day.
Congrats.
This is the next topic, by the way.
Terrible transition.
It was shit.
Everything that I said in the...
I went on the VR the same day
that we recorded
our fucking shambles of episode 20.
Yeah, SpongeBob version.
SpongeBob SquareHead.
Fuck off.
I played on my VR
for that episode.
And yeah, everything that I said in that episode about the VR,
not that you'll be able to fucking hear it,
was right.
It was fucking awful. It took us about an hour
to set the fucking thing up.
Plugging all the wires in.
Like an old style switchboard.
Putting all sorts of fucking cables
into the back of the telly and the back of the PlayStation.
We've got to plug this box into this box
and this cable's got to go here.
The controllers aren't charged.
Sony didn't provide two different controllers
like two chargers for two different controllers.
So I've got to now charge one
and then the other.
Oh wait, this fucking cable isn't compatible with this
even though it is, but it actually isn't.
It doesn't work, but it doesn't tell you that it doesn't work.
It just doesn't work. So you've got to put a different control,
different cable in. It was fucking nightmare.
Once we got it set up,
headset weren't working.
Turn it all on, headset kept disconnecting.
Kept flicking on, flicking off.
Constantly. It was the cable plugging in
from the little shitty box you get.
It wasn't telling me that though.
So it knew there was a problem
and it didn't decide to tell me that.
So we were wrapping our heads around trying to figure out
what the fuck's going on.
Anyway, sorted that out.
Boring.
It's boring.
It's not, it's
I remembered exactly why I stopped playing it.
Because it is just boring.
It's nauseating.
We played a bit of Beat Saber.
I got a sweat on.
It was alright.
And you look like a twat.
Really.
It just went straight back in the box.
I was so over it that
we fought for a minute
when it weren't working that the headset itself was
fucked. And I just didn't care.
That's when I was fine.
I said I don't use it, just put it back in the box
and throw it in the bin. I'm just not interested in it.
And then I had a quick look on eBay.
You can pick one up for like 60 quid.
Like the full headset and everything.
So if you, I'm pointing at you,
wanted to try it,
you can have it for, why are you smiling?
Just carry on.
Just listening to you rant.
It's just stupid. You'll have to try it someday.
You'll have to try it out and
you can understand why I think it's shit.
I'm laughing
because Jem's typing.
And Reese said my hair looks square and
laughed at my hair.
And then I said, pain.
And look at this fucking
greasy hairball. Show me that picture.
When did you take a picture
of me? 8 seconds ago.
And that's what you're
listening to. Hagrid.
We'll take Hagrid.
He's a love, he's a love to you. I was expecting
her to go a lot harsher than that.
Yeah, no. Weak.
Hagrid. Yes, weak.
You gotta do better than that. I was expecting
you to come out with some fucking banter.
I was gonna, you know, like a tennis racket.
Bang, straight back at you.
Open net and she's missed.
Yeah, you've won. That's upsetting.
Cheers, babe. Thank you.
VR, shit. Not interested.
I'm sure there's a market for it someday.
Just a long, long, long way off, I think.
I mean, it nearly caught us because we were looking through
the store for like different
things on. If you want to buy a music
pack on Beatsay because they've added quite a few,
the cheapest one was like
7 quid, 8 quid
for like 4 songs. That's mental.
It's far too much money. I was
annoyed by that. But we nearly got sucked
into buying other shit. Beatsaber's good, though.
Beatsaber is fun.
Yeah, yeah, I liked it.
What is he?
Ah.
She's retained
herself. Yeah, I've had that one
before. You look like Joe Wilkinson.
Yeah, I've had that before. He's a
funny geezer, though. Ah, he's ledge.
The last one I've had is that I look like that geezer from
Undateables. I've never
seen it.
I'm going to have to find it. That's cracking.
Let me find him. Well, let's not do it now.
No, because the next bit's yours.
Warzone 2.0 and DMZ.
Warzone 2.0
and DMZ. Another reason
why I'm rushing through God of War, but not really.
Warzone comes out Wednesday.
So I'm very excited.
No, you look more like
a warzone. Warzone comes out Wednesday.
So I've got Thursday
off. So I'm going to have a good crack at that.
You've got Thursday off? Yeah,
I'm a big fan of Warzone. Were you booking all this time off
all this shit?
Well, because this is my
hobby. This is my second job, bro. I need
to get the information out for
the pod on Fridays.
I don't want a cold slice. No, don't
do it, man. I don't want a slice of pizza, but it's
cold. Sorry, I'm looking forward
to that. They had... F***ing stupid
... Sorry.
It's attacking a pizza box. Go on,
Carver. Thank you.
They had streams
a couple
of days ago to reveal
DMZ and Warzone.
Well, not really reveal
Warzone. We've already seen it, but they've changed a lot
of things. Anyway, they
revealed DMZ there, but it was just terrible.
I was expecting like a Call of Duty event
where they were going to be showing everything,
explaining everything. They just went, nah,
here's a bunch of streamers all in a room.
They're going to stream it. We're not going to tell you
anything about DMZ.
They're just going to play it. And they're running
around trying to play it like Call of Duty.
Bro, such a cheap market.
Let's get the streamers to do it.
But they did it well at
the Call of Duty event when they showed
Warzone 2, but they had a panel
there. They was explaining it. They was cutting to Twitch
streamers while they was there.
It was done really well. That's what I thought they were doing
again, but this time they were just like,
go watch the streamers. They're streaming it.
But they're playing it
like Warzone. It's not like that.
You're supposed to be sneaking about taking
people out slowly. You know, like Tarkov.
Yeah, they won't do that though. No, they're like
bunny hopping around corners. Streamers are all over for
the kill. I'm fucking so sick of
streamers, man. I'm so fucking
done with them in this type of shit.
They all play exactly the same way.
They all get angry over the same shit.
Stop using streamers
as a marketing ploy to fucking
especially on something like DMZ
when you need info
because otherwise it will just flop.
What has she said?
You're smiling.
Yeah, I don't know where she's gone with that one.
What is she saying?
Where has she gone with that?
I don't know. Is it because
of my thick eyebrows? I don't know.
I've got thicker eyebrows than you, so I thought I wondered.
No, your eyebrows are further
apart than mine. I have to pluck this.
I shave it.
You shave it?
You fucking idiot.
How often do you have to shave it?
Actually, no, to be fair, going by
how quickly the hair on your head grows.
I'm sure the hair on your eyebrow...
It's only the top of my head that struggles, man.
Give me a break. So how often do you have to shave your monobrow then?
I don't know. Whenever I feel like it.
Does it not grow back thick?
Yeah.
See, that's why you don't shave it.
When is that ever going to be a problem to me?
Unless I'm stranded on a desert island
with no razor,
when am I ever going to go, oh no, look at this terrible
monobrow I can't get rid of?
What are you doing with a razor?
Like a bic? What do you think I use?
Like an electric shaver.
No, I'm a man.
I shave with razors.
What do you mean you're a man? You shave with razors?
That's what we do, isn't it?
I use an electric?
Yeah, that's fine.
I just find it weird that you
shave your eyebrows.
Why? You do. I pluck mine.
That's weirder. Mine's the weirdest, quicker.
It's more efficient. It is not quicker.
I go, I'm done.
You're like, boing. Yeah, but I pluck it.
I don't pluck it that often, but it's only ever a couple.
I go, ding ding ding ding ding.
That's what that picture is pointing
in front of, is my eyebrows. It's not.
Because you can't even see in that picture.
The best part of it... It's a fucking random woman.
Yeah, it's a terrible one. She should have left it where it was.
With the other dudes. She's not doing
very good at this at all. Yes, but what was
funny is I see what she googled, and she
googled, Big Bushy Celebs.
That was funny.
What do you mean? Big Bushy Celebs?
Big. So she's making fun of my weight?
Big, no. Big Bushy.
This is ridiculous.
Yeah, it's what terrible episode.
Back to DMZ. Yeah, so
they let all the streamers do it, and
yeah, I didn't really give out any
information. It looks
a little bit half-baked.
There was supposed to, from what
we was told a while ago,
what the leaks were, there's supposed to be
like an economy system, so whatever you took out
of the DMZ
and took back, you could like
sell on a marketplace like
World of Warcraft, etc, etc,
and you could use your credits that you've
earned from... Because you're going around, you're looting.
You're looting things like screwdrivers
and toothpaste and whatever else.
And you're selling it.
So that currency can be
bought to buy blah-de-blah. But we didn't
see any of this market and stuff
if it's even in there.
If they don't do stuff like that
very quickly and give it a reason to
play, it will be dead. Because
at the moment, all that is in there
is the odd weapon skin
and XP. People will just play Warzone
because all the weapon skins are null and void
and no one will care about them because they'll be buying
things from the store and putting skins on.
I feel like it's a bit of a pointless
addition to the game. I don't think it is. I think it's
the right addition. But they
have to do it properly. And if that
is all that's coming out is what we saw,
then I don't think it's going to be good. But I just feel like
that's trying to bundle it all into
one place. They're just hedging their bets
because I think
the... I don't really know how
you'd describe it. The Tarkov style
shooter, extraction
shooter, whatever it is.
That's going to be the next Battle Royale. That's going to be the next
big thing. Things like Warzone
don't have an infinite shelf
life. They just don't.
And eventually you'll have
your player base go from let's say
a million people to two hundred thousand
because the two hundred thousand people
are the hardcore ones that
are always fighting for that win
and consistently get wins. And
the other eight hundred thousand are just playing
it casually and
got bored of it.
That's what will happen. So
I can see why they'd bring out
something like DMZ because you're right. Things like
Escape from Tarkov are
quite popular and getting
ever even more popular.
So I can see
it's just they're jumping into something, into
the unknown. And it might pay off,
it might not. If it doesn't pay off, it don't really fucking
matter because they've already made a serious amount of dough.
It's not like they're going to bankrupt them.
But I think in turn,
because they have something like Warzone,
they're not going to be able to plumb as much time
into DMZ because they've got a cash cow
right there that's producing consistently
and will do into
the near and
distant future, not forever.
It's quite sad really because
the multiplayer
Call of Duty, as much as there's a
player base, it's dead. Call of Duty
multiplayer will be dead. Games like that
are dead because Battle Royale
has come in
and it has cannibalized
100% all of the multiplayer
games because anyone that plays
them and plays them consistently and
enjoys them, now wants to play
Battle Royale. So it's stolen all of
them players. Yeah, look at things like
Ground War. People aren't even playing
the objective, they're just jumping in there to try and get as
many kills as possible, treating it
like a TDM, which they
now treat like a Battle Royale.
You're just trying to fucking kill everyone.
You're not paying attention. Overwatch 2,
people aren't paying attention to
it's an objective based game.
And people are not paying attention to
that and just want to get as many kills
as possible. Or if they're a
healer, they're still trying to get as many kills
as possible. And quite often do. They come out with
more damage than their attacking players.
Yeah, of course they do. But that's because they're
so used to that style of game
and it will get
to a point where
games like that start catering towards
that because that's all that people want
to fucking do is just keep killing each other and
treating it like a Battle Royale. It's quite
clear with the new Call of Duty, they've tried
to slow
it down. So the biggest
comparison I can make is
what Rockstar did
with Red Dead Redemption 2.
Did you play Red Dead 2? Yeah.
So they slowed it right down. They made it
all very deliberate. Everything
laboured. I played a bit
of Red Dead 2. You open drawers
if you want to get an item up.
You pick the item up. There's an animation
for everything. Rather than just going over it, it goes
clink in your eye. Yeah, no, you actually have to do it all.
Exactly. So they've done that with this.
You can't
bunny hop around corners. You can jump around corners, but you can't
bunny hop no more. You can't slide cancel.
Made it a bit more real. Like when you're going to
loot now. In Warzone you used to open the chest
all the loot used to just spit out all over the floor.
Now you have to go into the box,
take the items individually.
You've got backpacks.
You've only got limited amount of space.
So you could carry
six grenades
if you want. Like 12 semtexes
or something. Whereas before you was always limited
to two. Yeah, they've slowed it down.
So they've slowed it down. They're deliberately doing that
because I feel like they're trying to make it
more of a military shooter.
And they're trying
to cater to the DMZ.
I think they're trying to transition
in some way. Well, they've just taken inspiration
from things like PUBG. Of course.
With the bag space and everything like that.
More Tarkov. Because Tarkov has got that.
Obviously, they're
trying to make...
I think they're trying to have something to fall back on
or they're trying to think, well,
if Tarkov becomes successful
we've got this and we can build upon
this mode. And we can
nick... If Tarkov becomes
the next battle royale and there's loads
of Tarkov type games around,
they'll know that Call of Duty already has one
and they'll just plummet all their resources into that quick.
Let's make this massive. Because we've
already built it. It's there.
The new Warzone map
is built
for DMZ. What everyone said
who's a Warzone player, the whole thing
it's got AI on it now in Warzone.
All that stuff is built
for a DMZ mode.
Not Warzone. Not saying Warzone's not going to be good
but it's built with DMZ in mind. So
they think that the priorities are shifting.
So I like the idea.
I just hope it doesn't die like Hazard Zone
did in Battlefield. I just don't know the community
is geared for that. Not if
they're going to run around jumping around like they did. I don't know if they're
set for that. You...
It's such a different style
of gameplay.
Especially something like Escape
from Tarkov. It isn't just
running around and killing everything
as quickly as possible and trying to get the most
kills and blah blah blah.
It is tactical.
It gives you that edge.
You don't want to lose your stuff.
I think things like Warzone, and quite
a few battle royales, have
numbed people to that.
And have made it easier.
So it is just about running around and shooting.
And fucking bunny-opping everywhere.
That realism of it.
I think
a lot of people will be turned away from it.
Like turned off.
Because they just won't want to fucking have to deal with that.
And I think there will be a lot of people
that just won't be able to play it.
Because they just can't.
They're just not used to that style of
gameplay. It's not fast paced enough.
It's why so many people
don't play PUBG.
Because you're in a 40 minute game.
And you might not see anyone.
Until the very very end.
And then you get shot in the head.
That suits some people. That suits me.
It fucking suited me and Mark. We loved it.
I like, like me and Clarky always say
we like military shooters.
It hasn't got to be ultra realistic.
Ultra realism. Like armor.
It hasn't got to go down that road.
But I like, the thing is
people complaining about Warzone
the way it is now. Because they can't
bunny hop around corners and slide counts and stuff.
And they're saying the skill gap's gone.
It's not the skill gap. You can just
you've either got a scuff controller.
So it's a lot easier for you to do this. You're on PC.
Or
you've got so much time on your hands
you can just like, you've got the finger
power to constantly
un-chilled man. I'd rather be
the skill gap. You are
better at controlling recoil than me.
You've got better positioning awareness than me.
You're better at reading the map
than me in terms of getting the
most advantageous position
on the map. Not
I can jump around a corner. I can slide
in. That's not skill gap to me.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. People
this new cod, loads of people
are whinging about that skill gap
and how
and like skill based match
making. If you don't like skill based
match making then you're a shit gamer.
If you're whinging because you're
not being placed with people that are of a
lower grade skill than
you are and you're complaining
because you've now got to go
and you have to fight people
who are the same if not slightly
better than you. So there's now
a challenge that's been introduced and you're
complaining about that. Why the fuck are you
on a multiplayer game?
I have, I have, I have to screw
you on SBMM. Why?
Why? Because
I think he's got his pros.
I think what you said has merit.
But
every now and again it's good to
go in and just be the best player and
stomp and I get that's not fair
on people that aren't as good as you.
But guess what? If I'm
trying to get better, say I'm playing Call of Duty
constantly and that's the only game I play
multiplayer and I want to get better.
I'm like, I dedicate all my
spare time to getting better at Call of Duty. And
I'm getting better. I'm getting better. I'm
getting better. I'm getting better. Put thousands
of hours in. How do I know I'm getting
better? I won't.
Because I'm always playing people
at my level. So you can never
see signs of improvement. Well then you need to introduce a rank
system. Yeah, absolutely.
Because there is none.
There can't be, if you, if that's
correct what you're saying, 100%.
But if you're just playing pubs because there is no ranked
and there isn't in COD, which they are adding
by the way. But yeah,
because they've never had that. So yeah
you never feel at the end of it getting better.
I'll tell you what the, one of the big issues
is with something like having a ranked
lobby is that you may have people
whatever the fucking ranks, let's say
grandmasters the top top
of a ranked lobby. There's absolutely
nothing stopping you from being top
of the ranked lobby and then joining
an unranked lobby. And then
you're with people that don't even
play ranked. They're just casual gamers.
Apex predators playing pubs. And then you're fucking
slaughtering. There needs to be some sort
of form of system to prevent that
from happening. I agree.
But Call of Duty
World War did that.
Maybe just be more flexible with the
school based match. Call of Duty World War
did that. They had boot camp. You remember that?
No I didn't play them once. Boot camp.
So you thought level one
to, I believe it was either level
one to ten or level one to twenty.
That was it. So
the games that you played, the TDMs
the kill
whatever it fucking was.
You, the highest level
that you would be placed with is someone who's level twenty.
Once they surpassed that
or whatever level it was, they, those
people would then be put into the open
lobbies. And then it's fucking everyone v everyone.
But those boot camps
were only for new
players. So you had a decent
amount of time to be able
to get to grips with the game, see how you are
what guns you like, all that type of shit.
And then after X amount
of rank ups, you were
then thrown into the open
world, the open lobbies and you
could play with everyone.
And that was sort of
quite a unique way to be able to
one, let people get used to the fucking
game without being slaughtered constantly.
And two,
decide what
they're decent at.
And give them a chance. You see what I
mean? If you could introduce something like that
just to allow, maybe not
stop the decent players coming into
every lobby, but definitely allow
the lower ranking people
to
get to fucking grips with themselves and
then throw them into the deep end.
It is a hard one to balance
because, for example,
Warzone, I was
pretty good at it. I was
in the top 0.1%
for kills at one point. I don't know if I ended up
there. And I never really
was particularly good. I was just
probably a bit campy and stuff.
Sometimes we ran about,
sometimes we camped. We did what we did.
But either way, I
was pretty good. But I'd say I was better than
average. Not much better than average, but I was better than
average. And
consistently, I'd
get a lot of kills and
we'd get a fair few wins.
But then you stop playing it for a while,
you go back,
and I'm getting shit on
all the time. I can't do nothing.
So I think, how about the people that
play once a week,
full-time jobs,
don't get any time to themselves,
might jump on once a week. They're not going to want to play
that because they're coming on and they're getting
spanked all over the place.
So that is where I think, yes, skill-based matchmaking
works because if I turn
the game on and I'm playing against people
that are just sliding around corners, jumping,
and I'm just tunnel visioned,
I'm just camped in a corner,
whatever, that's not going
to be appealing. So they'll lose a lot of player base.
So there does need to be a
skill-based matchmaking in some degree.
And like you say, I think rank mode is the answer,
but then, as you say, they'll just jump into
pubs. But I don't know,
at least you've got the opportunity to
not just get smacked
about all the time. I think I'm more annoyed because the
amount of streamers that are whinging about it.
Oh yeah, I think you're
just annoyed in general because you're an angry man.
Anyway,
your show, but I feel like we've wrapped up Warzone
DMZ. We have pretty much wrapped up.
The fucking podcast pretty much.
I'm desperate for a piss.
Yeah, I've really needed a piss. I think Steph's looking out the window.
I think she's like, where's my
partner? She just text me.
Hurry up!
Saying, are we still recording?
She's going to let the dog out.
She's like, I don't want the dog to bark and ruin the podcast.
Like a dog barking is
going to ruin this recording.
I've checked it a million
times throughout this podcast, but I'm still
paranoid that it's not recording through the fucking
microphones.
I'm quitting
this podcast if we
end this episode and I play it back
and it's all fucking wavy and
whistly. You might not even hear this shit.
What should I say?
I'll do your job
for you because you're busy.
Next subject is what we've been playing.
It is just what we've been playing and it's a very,
very simple one. It's God of War.
That's also what we've been playing tonight.
I've just been waiting.
Also, I've been playing Daisy.
You've been playing Daisy? Yeah. Leading up to
God of War, I was getting
annoyed on Call of Duty.
What was that like at the moment?
I was getting bored of levelling guns up. I love watching
Daisy on YouTube. I feel like
watching Daisy's episodes on
YouTube is better than watching The Walking
Dead.
It's genuinely a better
experience.
It's genuinely a better experience
because The Walking Dead is very
stale. Anyway, I had an urge,
had an itch to play it. I jumped
on, ran around for
about 15-20 minutes in the pitch black,
found a road, followed it,
went down to a house, found some beans,
ate them,
carried on running,
couldn't find anything for ages, saw another
man, chased him. I couldn't
find him. He disappeared. Started
raining, got really cold,
got swarmed by zombies, died,
turned it off.
I thought I had a bloody good time.
Genuinely. That is the Daisy experience.
And it's something about it. It's so
unique. Just running around with
fuck all on trying to find a can
of tuna. It's so unique.
Honestly, what a game that really
is. It's like my guilty pleasure.
It's a game I always go back to and
just, I know what I'm doing,
but not to the level like the YouTubers
do. I ain't got a fucking clue. I have,
but not to the level like Clarkie got
really good at it. I went at work
because there's an app you can download
that's got all the maps on it.
All the map is in, you can't just pull
up a map on Daisy. There's no maps.
You have to look at road signs.
Clarkie had all the maps
on his phone. He's at work
on his lunch break. He was planning out his
routes, where he was,
getting into it, writing things down.
That's the sort of level I like getting into sometimes.
I could barely understand
how to save the game and keep your
character for when you logged back in.
I could barely understand
that. I think it's one of them where if
you can play that shit on console and be
good at it, you fucking, you're good at
everything. I wish I could find that clip
because I ain't got a fucking clue. It's been deleted
for some reason. I think it was on the PS4.
I know the clip you were on. I will never
ever, ever forget as long as I live.
Ran into a building.
Me and Clarkie. It's really
long building. It's one floor,
long building. Loads of rooms on the
left. I'm at the end of the
building in the room on the left looking
for stuff. Obviously, there's
proximity chat in Daisy.
We're geared. We've got like
army gear on. We've been playing these characters
for a while. We finally found each other, which is a mission on
its own. Trying to find each other is
almost impossible for us.
So we've been to the army base. We've got guns.
We've got bullets. We've got army gear.
We're pretty geared.
And it takes a long time to get to
that point. And I'm
looting. Clarkie's keeping watch
at the door. He's like, oh shit, someone's here.
The door opens
and obviously
say when you die in Daisy,
we're not in a party chat. So when you die
in Daisy, your voice
just cuts off because
you're dead. It's
pretty cool. Anyway, I'm thinking, I see
Clarkie. Oh, someone's here.
Clarkie goes, hello, mate.
You're right. Whoa, whoa, whoa. He's got a gut.
And then I hear the gun
shot.
He's got a gut. No, he said
he's got a gut. Don't shoot. And then he
shoots him and he's dead. And as soon
as I heard that, I was like, fuck.
Oh, fuck. I've lost him on my own.
Yeah. So I panicked. What do I do?
Logged out.
Takes 15 seconds. I sat
in that room. Your character sits down
while he's logging out. 14, 13,
12. I can hear him
running around. I got out.
I got Clarkie on the party chat.
He's like, he fucking shot me.
No, no. That's what he said.
That's what he said. Sorry. He's got a
gun. Oh, he shot me.
And then he was
dead. He shot me.
He shot me.
I wish I still had that on video. It's the funniest
thing I've ever seen. I would
if I could get to grips with that game, I would
be just like that person. I'd be kill on sight.
Oh, yeah. That's what they do. I try
to make friends, but that's not the way to play.
Anyway, one day we will
take you into the wilderness
of Daisy because it is so good.
Yeah. The last time I played
it, the only person I come across
put a rope around my neck and just
dragged me around. Yeah.
I'm just fucking turning it off. I'm sick of this.
You can take you as prisoners.
I couldn't get out of it. I didn't know what was going on.
I was running with a couple of people. I don't know who they
was. South African dude and some other
guy I was playing with for a while.
They were trying to teach me the game and stuff.
One day
they were chasing him. Found this guy
in a town running around. He was chasing
him. They caught up with him. They pointed
the gun at him like, put this
rope around you
or whatever. He put the rope around him. He put tape over
his mouth. He put tape over someone's mouth
and they were trying to talk. It muffles their voice. Yeah.
They got a cycle helmet on. You can't hear them
through their mic. It's weird, man.
Yeah. That was like
where you're from.
He was like South Africa. He was like
alright. Me too.
All right. South African
is like that Mala just saved your life.
He's like let me look in your
pockets. He's
had a look in all his inventory. He's like, you know what?
We're just going to take this and we're going to let you live.
Literally let him live because he saved South African as well.
Oh great game.
It's crazy, isn't it? I'll have to jump into it.
It's really fun. It really is fun.
Clark is the daisy guru.
So I'll have to have him walk us through it.
But yeah daisy and
Godawar. Hopefully Godawar will be finished by
Sunday night. I'd like to finish
it tonight and then it will never
finish because I'll be keep going for platinum.
I will have it finished by Monday.
I can assure you of this. It will be done.
I just can't wait till all the stories
are done and we can just talk openly about it.
I agree. We're going to leave it there.
Oh God.
This pizza is fucking
killing me.
This is disgusting.
And annoyingly these are decent farts
that are exiting my asshole
and the microphones won't pick them up as well as I can hear them.
Never waste.
Right we're fucking off.
See you later.
Uro.