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Hello
Hello everyone, we're back
Yeah, this podcast it won't just be this episode won't just be about Pokemon. Don't be scared. Don't switch off
we are going to talk about other shit, but a
lot of it is gonna be Pokemon if I'm honest because
Yeah, ask give me a phone call and he said I'm gonna start buying some Pokemon cards and
Naturally everyone follows the prince among men. He's playing Pokemon go at the moment
and
Yeah, we there's fucking Pokemon everywhere
Eat my berry
And let me catch you and give me candy
Thanks to everyone patreon wise for giving us your dough. This will inevitably fund
I have a podcast equipment or Pokemon addiction to
Be fair. What is it for pound 99 per pack?
Roughly so everyone who's paying for the exclusives on the Jedi Club every single month you're paying for one Pokemon pack
So that's fucking awesome
Yeah, we got a little bit of feedback
From the last exclusive episode basically saying it was shit
Feedback yeah, I want to apologize you pay what you know, I mean you get what you pay for so
That is true it was awful
So we've come up we've come up with some some form plan that was that was actually mark that gave us that feedback
This is birthday on Monday. So happy birthday and that angle your card angle your present ain't gonna see
Other than that. Yeah, sweet. All right, what's going on?
This is a mess to you this is an absolute mess
happy birthday
Dear Markie
Happy birthday to you
This is awful in it
There you go. There you go. No, I saw about 20 listeners can hear that. That's great. That's fantastic
Well, that's patrons fucked off out the way
Get down the nitty-gritty. Yeah, boy. You poke them on get off the fucking Pokemon go so you can pay some attention
You're not paying man top
Look at him. What you been doing? I've been doing Pokemon wise. What's been what's the crack? What's been going on?
Chinese talk to me
Tell me at all. Well, how did it start?
How did it start tell me cuz you just rung me up randomly saying that you want to start collecting shiny Pokemon cards
I'll tell you how it started. Go on started a long time ago. Tell the galaxy far far away
Nice. It was
It was a couple of weeks ago. Mm-hmm
I was on nights. Yeah, and I had a night shift where I wasn't doing a great deal. It was a uncle
Sit about not a lot at the fuck all and I was like fuck it. I'm gonna get my switch out
So I got my switch out. I haven't got it out in a long time charged it up
I'm gonna buy a new game for it. Nice fucking Pokemon game fantastic. Oh Pokemon violet. Oh
Play Pokemon violet was I fucking love this game. This is great and
Then I thought do you know what's even better?
Pokemon cards because I used to like Pokemon cards. So I went and bought some Pokemon cards
Lo and behold, I only got fucking gold Mewtwo out of my first ever pack bang. The bug is there is inside me
I can't stop thinking about them all I go to sleep thinking about them and I wake up thinking about them at the moment
I've got poke genie Pokemon go Pokemon home Pokemon TCG live and Pokemon unite all of my old Pokemon cards
I have a Pokemon unit all on my phone. It's crazy in it
I've jumped on the Pokemon unite band by going as well and that games fucking sick. Yeah, it's cool
I love that shit man. Haven't lost a ranked match yet
Fucking love it. But um, the problem with Pope collecting Pokemon cards is that so there's
What was it like 86 different?
Expansion sets and I overall in the UK. There's just shy of ten thousand cards that you could collect
Um, cause naturally I saved all the websites to my phone so I can just fucking flick it
up whenever I want.
Um, Ash is going for the tactic of just collecting anything and fucking everything.
I'm going.
Your driveway looks like a testicle.
My driveway looks like a knob on my car.
Nob and balls.
Um, I've gone for the tactic of the first packs I see, that's the set that I'm going
to collect first.
So I've got the silver Tempest and I'm probably like halfway through.
I've got 165 cards I've got to get.
I haven't counted them, but I'm, I'm, I'm near the hundred mark.
So I'm getting there.
I've got the rarest card of the whole bunch and Ash Googled it before we come on air
and it was a nought point, was it nought point eight, six percent chance.
It's a trainer, yeah.
Candace Rainbow.
That was the trainer, was it?
It's fucking, it's mental.
Um, Ash is pulling cards that are worth more than the fucking everything he's buying.
So he's quits in.
My luck's been nuts to be fair.
I'm not normally quite lucky.
And he wants to grade, he's not sure about grading one of the cards is mew too.
We'll put a picture up of it on the Patreon so you can see what we're on about.
Um, but he doesn't know about getting it graded or not.
And I'm saying that he should because you ain't going to set it anytime soon.
And a grading might help, but you're scared about sending it off in case it comes up all
bent and fucked up or lost about sending it off.
Cause I don't know about how to package it efficiently.
And you know what?
Some people are like, they're throwing packages around.
Um, and also I don't want it to come back at a light up fucking like, oh yeah, it's
a shit one.
This is the tool and I'll just start attacking.
Yeah, but it can't be shit connected cause it's brand new.
It doesn't straight out of the pack.
It doesn't matter.
Of course it does.
It doesn't mean it's going to be good if it's, it's slightly bent.
If he's got a bend in it, if it's off center, if the card print is off center, that's just
a printing thing.
There's many things that won't just look at quality of it coming out of the pack and just
cause it's out of the pack don't mean it's not got like wear on it and stuff.
So it's going to be like Funko pops where you get the Funko app and you can, your collection
tells you how much it's roughly worth.
I like that too.
Yeah.
It's great.
Yeah.
This is free.
Yeah.
This is why it's free.
I'm having a sit.
Let's go.
My fucking you talk.
I've got to put the mic down quick.
My headset's all fucked.
Big RJ said to me, big Ryan, he said to me, he'd subscribe to the Patreon.
For six months.
Not that right.
My right.
He said he'd subscribe to the Patreon for six months.
If you made a public apology to beer drinkers for your outage, outrageous to be a drinkers.
What six months.
He won't subscribe for six months.
You'll fucking spend the money on booze.
Oh, there you go.
There you go.
What would you mean?
What's an apology for?
You fucked it.
For what?
He had one opportunity.
One shot like Eminem and you fucked it.
An apology for what?
For talking shit about beer drinkers.
Who is this geezer?
Ryan?
Whoa.
Is he in your gang?
He's my pal and he ain't happy.
Why is he not happy?
Because you talk shit about the beer drinkers.
Yeah, but so he's not happy because he knows I'm right.
Well, yeah, you are right.
But for this occasion, you can pretend that you're not so we can get six months of patient.
Does he even listen to this?
Yeah, he does actually.
He loves it.
And he still ain't subscribed.
So he's missing out on all the exclusive content.
He's missing out on at least half an hour every single week.
I've told him not to do it because it's shit.
Really, don't waste your money.
It's really not worth it.
That's great advertisement, isn't it?
That's fantastic.
So he wants a public apology or is this a podcast apology?
Because I know we know that I've got a habit of doing that.
Yeah, a public podcast apology, but we'll just leave it.
We'll do it next week.
We'll get some back and forth going.
You ain't here next week.
Oh, Ash isn't here next week.
I'm not here next week, by the way, guys.
Again, I've given him the fucking leeway to leave the podcast for a bit and every single
fucking opportunity.
Why are you always on nights?
I don't get it.
Big boys with big boy toys.
Yeah, it's bullshit.
It's absolute bollocks.
Got to do what I got to do.
How else am I going to pay for these Pokemon cards?
Sorry to Ash's family.
The old savings is going away on fucking plastic cards.
Speaking of savings, I nearly bought a Darth Vader lightsaber today.
Oh, so close.
But you know your problem with that?
If you'd have bought a Darth at Nerdbase, by the way, shout out to Nerdbase for the
million fucking time.
Please just answer my DMs, man.
I miss out on so much shit from your shop because you won't answer me.
Anyway, Connor would have a go at you for buying a lightsaber from that because all
you do is flick out his lightsaber that's 10 times better than anything you're going
to buy from there.
It's debatable.
It's not debatable.
Well, it is because he hasn't got actual Darth Vader lightsaber.
He's got a lightsaber that goes multi-coloured.
He's not actually Darth Vader's.
Yeah, but he can just make it red.
But it doesn't mean it's Darth Vader's lightsaber just because it's red.
That's not how it works.
Is it not?
They've all got different hilt.
Right.
Fucking hell.
I don't fucking know.
God, all the dark side users have got red.
Why did you get it?
Why are you scared?
It's like 250 quid.
Gemma wouldn't let you go away with that one.
She would.
Every time she wanted something, if I said no, she'd go, um, and she'd point at that
lightsaber and go, I think we will.
She'd take the box off the wardrobe and blow the dust off it and go, you got this, remember?
Yeah.
And I'd go, oh yeah, you have all the money.
So you didn't get that?
No.
You got one little, well, not even little, you got a Pokemon set on.
I got a little Pokemon box.
Some fat fucking Pokemon card.
It's only a score, yeah.
I got a big old Pokemon card.
A novelty sized Pokemon card.
Nowhere to put it.
I didn't want that.
I got a cool little pin.
Got a couple of packs.
Get this right.
I'm trying to collect all the silver Tempest ones and for some reason this geezer's gone
and bought loads of silver Tempest shit even though he ain't collecting the set.
Because they're everywhere.
It's the only pack that's everywhere.
I know.
And he said to me on the phone on the way home, he said, I don't know what I'm going
to do with all these ones that ain't shinies.
I ain't fucking interested in them.
I don't want them.
So I said, well, give them to me then.
And he went, absolutely not.
He said, pay for them.
I said, well, why?
Why would I pay for them?
I said, you don't want them.
I never said, this is where there was miscommunication.
I never said pay for them.
I said, I paid for them.
Yeah.
And then you said, you said pay me for them.
No, I didn't.
I never once said that.
So give them to me then.
You ain't going to use them.
No.
Why?
Because I'm going to keep them.
You just said you don't want them.
If you go in Nerdbase, they've got all their little cards that are worth money in their
little plastic boxes.
Yeah.
Tenors, twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties.
They've all been graded.
A lot of them.
That's what the plastic boxes are in the boxes they've been graded.
No.
If they've got a number on them, yes.
Not all of them have, but then they've got all the old shitters like them ones that I'm
talking about.
Pound here, pound there, pound there.
They're all worth like a pound each or something.
Man, I'm not giving away all them pounds.
I've got buckets of them.
Give it 20 years.
I'll be selling all them for pounds.
At least give me your duplicates.
Fuck you.
Why?
Because I like them.
I like them more than one.
You know what the problem is, yeah, is unlike a Funko prop, when I want something very specific,
you have to search it, you have to find it and you can just buy it.
That's it.
There's no mystery to it.
It's part of the fun of buying them though.
But when it comes to Pokemon cards, I like the, like much like you, I like pulling a
pack and getting random shit because I went onto eBay and Facebook marketplace and stuff
like that and I could buy the whole set for like a hundred and something quid.
And I just think that's a cop out, but I'm so, I was tempted, but you know, you know,
it ain't fun at all.
Boring.
And then they had the, they had little Marvel toys in Kinder eggs for a while.
Me and my mate, Ryan, a couple of other people, we was getting them and putting them up on
our rear view mirrors in our cars because they had little string bits on them.
I only needed the one more.
I think it was the Joker I needed.
Could have bought him off eBay for three quid.
But he didn't.
I should, bearing in mind Kinder eggs, like one pound, one pound 20 or whatever.
I must've spent 20 odd quid opening Kinder eggs.
I was buying up five, six in the morning, not even eating the chocolate, just opening
them and fucking popping the thing.
I was eating the chocolate, but not there.
And then I was like putting it back in his wrapping.
Sacrilege of your opening the Kinder and not eat it.
But yeah, eventually I got him and I've got the full set and I've still actually got the
full set.
You know what we've missed out on is the McDonald's Pokemon cards.
You know, they did a limited run.
It was like 20 different cards.
I didn't know that.
That's a set.
That's cool.
Do you look at anything I send you?
Great.
Sometimes.
That's just great.
I don't normally have a lot of shit in my...
Send you all the info you'd ever need on Pokemon cards.
I saw that.
Yeah.
It was a fucking, it was all over the place.
It was a mess.
It wasn't.
It was.
I couldn't believe it.
If you're looking for a side hustle, you're at work and you've got loads of spare time
and you want something to do, specifically Mark, get this right.
I was in Smith's Toys yesterday.
We was all walking around like a retail park and there's a JD and shit like that.
I wanted to get some shoes.
Anyway, on my way to JD Sports, I passed to Smith's Toys and like a moth to a flame, I
went straight in.
All the lads behind me, where the fuck's he going?
Oh, Mark's always going in Smith's Toys to look at fucking Pokemon cards.
They're all laughing at the back.
Sure enough, they're following.
All right?
Anyway, I'm walking through leading, as you do, because I know what I'm fucking looking
for.
I stumble across the Funko Pop aisle.
Anyway, I walk down it, start having a little butcher, seeing if there's anything decent
there ain't.
They're like, what are you fucking looking at this for?
Then Mark's like, oh, he collects them.
Some of them are quite expensive.
A couple of people I'm with, I didn't really understand it.
Anyway, sure enough, couldn't find the Pokemon cards.
They remembered what you said and they're behind the counter.
So I left them to it in that aisle and then went to look at the counter and I found them.
Anyway, I looked at the Pokemon cards I wanted.
I went back to the aisle.
They're all fucking picking them up, Googling them, looking at the prices, seeing which
ones they can flip, what ones they want.
There was a massive Blink 182 one for Mark and he was like, when I get paid, I'm coming
back for that.
Like that, in seconds.
Seconds they switched from what the fuck are these Funko Pops to, oh, I want to start
flipping them and collecting them.
It was sick.
That's how it gets you.
100%.
I don't know where I was going with that.
There was a bit there and I went off on a tangent.
I don't do that.
I like to keep holding my items so my children can benefit when I'm dead.
What's all this shit and then sell it at a boot sale and all my hard work has been for
nothing.
Yeah.
What's that Star Wars one you've got?
The expensive one.
What's it called?
What, the name of the character?
Yeah.
Anakin?
No.
The blue geyser.
Admiral Thrawn.
Yeah.
Funko Pops.
Admiral Thrawn.
See him on a little fucking garden table in a boot sale and wherever.
How much you want for this?
Like a fiver?
Of course.
Bit steep, love.
Bit steep.
There's something else in that for fiver.
Yeah.
What about this other Funko Pop?
Darth Vader.
Mustafar edition.
Okay.
It's all about this shit.
It's only worth anything to other people that want this type of shit.
Yeah.
Well, I'd say on that, it was either porn stars or hardcore porn stars or hardcore porn
or whatever it's called.
They said that Star Wars are the best collectibles to collect because Star Wars fans are nuts
and they overpay for everything.
So I suppose I fit in that category.
But is it overpaying if someone else will overpay what you've overpaid?
Of course not because then it's-
Of course not.
Because then it's like a make a profit.
But talk a big game, I don't sell anything.
No, but this is the trouble, isn't it?
But then it's kind of like investing, isn't it?
Because I can't imagine this stuff goes down in value.
The longer the time goes on, the rarer it becomes because others get destroyed and lost.
Yeah.
But then there's the stuff that gets vaulted and when you're talking about Funkos, the
shit that doesn't make anymore or the limited runs like the Mater or the fucking Comic Con
shit, stuff like that.
Even like the Queen, her Funko pop, when she popped the clogs, that thing was worth a fucking
fortune.
It's worth fuck all now.
It's gone back down.
But for that little period, they were all sold out everywhere.
They were worth a fucking mint.
Same with the Stranger Things stuff.
Hello, I was convention April.
That's going to have some expensive shit there and I'm ready for it.
Well, I'm not ready for it.
Pokemon is going to get in the way.
That's the trouble.
Now I'm just a collector.
I'm a collector of trinkets and baubles.
This is established.
It's what I am.
My wife calls it hoarding.
I call it collecting.
And yeah, but you don't get hold of random shit though.
What do you mean?
Well, you don't get hold of random shit.
I've been to your gaff as well.
It's not a hoarder's house.
It's not allowed to be.
It's all put in the wardrobe in the back.
But everything that you've got, look at the Ronin that you got.
It's all limited shit or it's all difficult stuff to get.
So it's worth some form of value.
Look at the Mewtwo.
It's worth over 50 quid.
You got that in the Elite box.
That's paid for the box straight away.
Everything else is of excess.
It's like fucking storage wars.
Five bucks for that.
25 bucks for that.
I just like having, that's why I'm not collecting sets.
I probably will eventually, but at the moment I just want to, I'm in the exciting mode where
I'll buy any set, any pack just to see what comes out of it.
What I'm doing is I'm collecting the Silver Tempest and whilst doing that, any duplicates
I get, I'm giving them to Steph and then any other duplicates of the duplicates, I'm giving
them to her sister.
So eventually, probably end up both searching for the same fucking color.
I wonder if some of these cards have got value because of their ability in the game, in the
competitive game.
Because people do do that.
They collect the full set and then they have a, because Steph was saying they get, they'll
have a set say it's in the sleeves, never touched, and then they got the exact same
set that is a playable set.
So they must have something.
It's a whole new world that I have never been a part of.
The guy that I've been talking to, who is in a vape shop and where I found a lot of
Pokemon stuff, he's selling Pokemon cards and I said to him, why are you selling Pokemon
cards in your vape shop?
And he said because when he had a baby, his wife said we need to sell this because we
need to make money.
Most people that vape are children.
Thanks.
Yeah, yeah that's cool isn't it?
And so yeah I asked him why and he said obviously his missus told him he had to sell his stuff
and I said but why, because he had boxes in there, like that Mewtwo box for example.
He had boxes like that and the elite trainer boxes and all that sort of stuff.
Why does it just hang around like a fucking fog?
This shit, look at it.
You made me do that.
Look at it.
My laptop's breathing in all this fucking weird gunky shit that's about to...
Yeah, anyway.
Grim.
So he said, I said why have you got all these unopened boxes if they're your collection?
He said he would buy, i.e. that Mewtwo box, that box you bought, whatever, he'd buy two
of them at the same time.
And just not open one?
He'd open one and then he'd put another one in his nan's loft.
Because that'd be worth throwing in X amount of years.
Because of that reason.
Yeah, because that's what they, when people were hunting for like one of the charizards,
it's all unopened packs.
Yeah, he got from like 15, 20 years ago.
So that's what he was doing.
So that's why.
And now he's selling all these unopened boxes and stuff.
And obviously he's got graded cards and stuff.
When I went in there, he literally just had a delivery of a box of three charizards he'd
sent off.
And one of them got a 10, which he was gassed about.
So yeah, it's just...
Well you should ask him then about getting a card graded.
I did ask him.
I was asking him.
He's...
I was too excited.
There's too many questions.
You know when you're so excited, you're asking questions before they've answered the question
you originally asked.
But yeah, he's got a quick turnaround because I was reading six months and stuff.
He got them back within 30 days.
So yeah.
That's decent.
It all depends on the value of the card, how much it costs to grade it.
Stuff like that.
Yeah, because I don't know what the general price is to get a card graded.
If anyone listening isn't familiar about what grading a card is, it's just basically the
condition of it, pretty much.
If it's got bends in it, if it's got scrapes, how the print is, like I said earlier.
Off center.
Yeah.
If you're trying to find out out of 10 how perfect your card is.
Well, my favorite Pokemon's Blastoise and he's got a Blastoise in a cabinet, graded.
It's graded three.
And I was looking at it and I was like, how is that three?
It looks immaculate.
He was like, I don't know.
I don't know how that is a three.
Because I'd imagine they're seeing things that you can't see.
Yeah.
It'll be under the fucking microscope and all that type of shit.
That's brand new out of a pack that he got it.
So it come out of a pack of three.
Some of them, I can see them now.
Some of them, they got a bend in them.
Exactly.
So it doesn't take much to, but I think I will get my Mewtwo graded, mainly just for
the collection look of it with the number on it and the name of it and all that sort
of stuff.
I think I wouldn't like to send somewhere.
I prefer to drive somewhere.
That's what I mean.
That's what I'm scared of.
And have it graded.
What a weird world that we've opened ourselves into.
It's exciting.
I like learning these sort of things.
It's exciting to me.
I was saying to Steph, it's no different to Funko Pops because before I started collecting
them, because I throw myself as a collector, I think.
You're welcome.
I'm pretty sure I took you under my wing and brought you into the world of collecting
boxes of characters with enormous heads and cards of little pocket monsters now.
Yeah.
It's nuts.
Thank you so much.
But even obviously when I first started doing that, when it came to Funko Pops, I had no
fucking clue.
I was just looking at the ones that I liked, but I didn't have any understanding about
what's worth what or anything like that.
And gradually over time, you learn just by looking at stuff, you know if it's worth anything.
If it's flocked, if it's a chase.
You won't know, but you can tell there's a chance.
There's a chance it might be worth something.
So that's worth picking up, walking around and Googling while you're walking around with
it.
Yeah.
You see something and you have a rough idea of if it's worth X amount of money, especially
when you start joining all the Funko groups like I have, you learn what people are after
and all that type of shit.
And I liked that.
Like I was saying to Mark today, I also liked the factor of getting something that loads
of people want and keeping hold of it.
Like a fucking dragon with its gold.
I don't know why I like doing that.
It's somewhat mean.
Yeah, but it's an investment.
That's how I see it.
I see all these as assets because I, monetary wise, not very rich, but if I sold all my
figures, my statues, my cards, you know, I could claw a lot more money back than I think
I have.
And that's like, and that's like Steph.
She has fucking loads of, of collector's edition statues and stuff from, from games and everyone
knows they're worth a fucking fortune straight away.
They're all limited edition.
They're gone.
I mean, the fucking, the even, even the hammer that I got with the God of War collector's
edition that that's worth the same, if not slightly more than the entire edition itself.
And that was from day one.
And then she's got, I got her for Christmas, the Evie and Jacob Frye collectible statues.
And that Evie is worth a fucking fortune because she's just impossible to get hold of.
So yeah, they're definitely investments, man.
Some people invest in gold, some people invest in fucking, you know, stocks and shit like
that.
We invest in plastic.
Gold goes down.
Funko's don't.
It's definitely not true.
It was a joke.
You knob.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, there's Pokemon.
Yeah.
So Pokemon, the world of Pokemon is just so fucking nerdy.
But everyone's got that same bond, man.
Who didn't, who didn't fucking touch Pokemon at some point?
When I was in nerd base earlier, I was having a little mooch about two geezers coming, two
big bearded gentlemen.
You thought you've took a wrong turn.
Yeah.
But you say exactly the same about you.
Probably.
Yeah.
But you two shouldn't be in here.
They bolt straight up to the Pokemon.
The geezer grabbed, I'm not joking, 20 to 30 packs.
What are the silver tempests?
Of just like multiple different Pokemon packs.
And his mate went, we ain't even looked around yet.
Don't worry about that.
Banged them straight down.
Bosch.
See you later.
Well, 30 odd packs of that and when that fake Coco set thing that I bought, he didn't pick
the right one up obviously because I got the good one.
But yeah, so you know, looks can be deceiving that they just come bowling in, grab loads
of Pokemon cards.
But I was in there a little bit too long.
So I started becoming uneasy because I think he thought this guy's case in the joint or
he's putting stuff in his pants or something.
I've done a couple of laps.
You was in there for like an hour.
Yeah, I've done a couple of laps and I was looking behind him because a lot of the Pokemon
stuff's behind him in the till.
They was having deliveries and he was opening boxes behind the till.
So it was really awkward.
I was having to like look over him to look at stuff and every now and again at my peripheral,
I could see him look up at me and I was like, this is becoming very awkward.
Yeah.
And that's just, that's a small till as well.
That's a small counter to be fucking.
I just had to grab my box.
It's a very awkward one because it's an L shaped counter and as you come in, literally
the front door, one side of the counter is to your left and then obviously it bends around
and the Pokemon cards are just in the fucking door.
So you can't, you can't stand there because you're blocking the door.
So it is awkward as fuck to, to ask the defraud.
I have to get used to the fact of being a grown man and it's like fucking buying cigarettes.
I have to go to the counter to get hold of them.
Excuse me, sir.
I was like saying yesterday at toilet Smith stores, I just want two packets of the silver
tempest.
I went out, I went out half nine last night or something stupid.
I had to get dressed to go out cause Jim wanted Gaviscon.
I was like, well, if I've got to go out to get Gaviscon, I'm getting myself something.
So I went right out the way to a whole supermarket just so I could get some Pokemon cards.
Yeah.
And when I went to the till, there was two ladies chatting between each till.
I said, are you open?
And she said, yeah, I'll put the Gaviscon down.
I put the Pokemon cards down.
She went, oh, Pokemon cards are still going.
Are they?
I said, yeah, yeah.
You'll be surprised.
Yeah.
She went for the kids.
I went, yeah.
She's like, what, what are they open again?
I was like, I picked the pack up.
I turned it around.
I squinted at it.
I was like, I don't know really.
I think there's some rare ones or saying, tried to play it cool.
So you lied.
Mark told me that, cause I said when we was walking around Smith's, I went, I went, how
am I going to go to a counter and ask someone for these fucking Pokemon cards?
He said, just lie and say they're for your kid or something like that.
I owned it.
I owned it instead.
But there's something, there's something weird about being in full high vis, filthy as fuck
from work, looking scruffy as anything, standing next to what I think was a four year old child
in line waiting to buy some Pokemon cards.
It was a very, very odd picture with an entourage of orange behind me waiting.
It just looked so out of place.
And I think we'll have to get used to that because it's going to be happening a lot.
I don't give a monkey.
I was just trying to save her the face really.
Cause she just presumed they were for the kids.
So I didn't want to go, oh, for me, you fucking bitch.
You fucking twat.
What silly prick you are.
They're obviously for me.
I don't want to cause her that embarrassment.
So I was, yeah, for the kids.
Yeah.
I mean, I am a child.
I'm a child.
I mean, I am a child at heart.
So I guess I got home and Gemma's like, oh, you're so cute.
And then I open up my box and then I open my, then I open Pokemon Go and I was playing
Pokemon whilst looking at my cards.
Me and Steph sit there together and we open it or she watches me open them up and I can,
I can see her, like she's so into it.
It's really fun.
Um, but like her face lights up when I hand her a pack, I go, you want to open this one?
She's like, really?
Really?
Yeah.
She's like, you know, she's nice about opening packs of cards.
Just exciting.
I don't know why.
Well, it's that buzz of getting that fucking them shiny ones and VMAX is all the secret
gallery ones.
They look fucking sick as well.
Like a magpie.
Anything shiny.
You don't know what you're going to get there.
Anyway, go on.
Star Wars is what I wanted to say.
I see an update from a reliable source because I've known that there's many Star Wars games
coming out and Ubisoft have one and they've been, they've been known to be making it for
a long time, but no one knows anything about it.
A very reliable source inside gaming has said the Ubisoft Star Wars game will boast a fully
open, seamless universe akin to that found in No Man's Sky.
In the game, players will be able to jump between systems, immersing themselves in a
vast galaxy bursting at the seams with activities.
End quote.
Now it sounds very, very, very exciting.
It also sounds very, very, very Ubisoft with the galaxy bursting at the seams of activities.
Sounds like bullshit.
Question marks everywhere.
Sounds like absolute bollocks.
Well, I hope it's not.
Bigger doesn't necessarily mean better, but an open world Star Wars game is basically
a fantasy for me.
So you've already got the president set with No Man's Sky, like you say, and that is, that
really is seamless other than when you're going through a black hole and stuff like
that, but even then it's not fucking the lone screen ain't massive.
You remember No Man's Sky when it first come out.
They were saying the same type of shit that there was all this stuff that couldn't even
see a fucking another player if you had the, if you had the 1% chance of actually meeting
someone.
Whereas now it's fantastic, incredible game.
It's come a long, long way.
Really fucking awesome game.
I don't think Ubisoft are up to that type of shit personally.
I think they talk a lot of shit.
I don't think they care that much either.
I think that you are wrong.
I think they are capable and they do care.
They put a lot of work into their games.
I feel like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, brilliant open world, just too long and too boring.
But the actual detail in Valhalla, Origins, Odyssey, the detail is crazy.
They're just very repetitive.
But I think what I really want is a Star Wars game.
You could, you could make it less repetitive by just simply being a bounty hunter and just
having endless amount of bounties to go and hunt and bring in and stuff like that.
Just that would make it.
And then you can only make, you can only do so many before it does become repetitive.
Not for me.
This is Star Wars.
No, but you don't know, but you fall into that trap of thinking that you won't get bored
because you love it.
But you can get bored.
And it's that fact that you love it so much and you would be so enveloped by a game like
that, that you would fucking rinse it because your heart wants to do that.
And eventually, well, quickly you'd get fucking bored.
But I don't think it's fair for someone like Ubisoft to come out and a game that you have
fuck all info on to just turn around to you and just say, oh yeah, this is, this is going
to be like No Man's Sky, massively open world.
You're going to fucking love it.
See you later.
There's a disappearance of the shadows for another year.
But they haven't said that.
That was Inside Gaming that said that.
That wasn't them.
Ubisoft.
Where they got their info from then?
I don't know.
Ubisoft have said nothing publicly.
Where they were.
They've obviously got their info from somewhere, ain't they?
Yeah.
Well, they probably have.
And just materialize out of nothing.
But there's one thing getting your source telling you this, that and the other.
And this is what they plan to do.
And it's another thing.
Ubisoft publicly coming out and saying the same thing.
You can't, you can't begrudge Ubisoft for someone leaking information.
Oh, fuck them.
They've done people dirty far to me.
No, no, no, no, no.
What's the one that's supposed that is supposed to be coming out this year?
Star Wars Jedi Survivor.
Man, I cannot wait.
When's the release date for that?
March.
Mm hmm.
Very, very excited for that.
And if things Star Wars related and I'm going to play it.
Have you pre-ordered it?
No, I'm not pre-ordering anything anymore.
What?
We're going downhill.
Brakes are broken.
Why?
Why don't you pre-order it?
Because I don't need to at the moment.
No.
I'll get it when it comes out.
I'll probably pre-order it the week of.
That'll be about it.
You've got to be careful nowadays, just in case something gets banged on Game Pass for
free.
You're like, ooh, but not my stuff.
Because Jedi Fallen Order is now on everything.
Me and Mark see.
PlayStation Plus and Game Pass and Steam, I think.
And you can play it for free.
Me and Mark see an advert the other day in the van and it was for PlayStation Plus and
it was saying that.
I think it was Hogwarts Legacy is going to be a part of PlayStation Plus.
That'd be pretty cool.
But I didn't know.
But I would imagine that that's the.
Dobby is a free elf.
That's right.
Yeah.
I would imagine that would be the tippity top of the tiers, which is like 20 something
quid.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't subscribe to the Max PlayStation.
I don't think anyone fucking does because of pointless.
Well, they're going to start bringing out day one releases like that.
Yeah.
Then somewhat worth it.
But even then, Game Pass is ten or a month or 12 pound a month for ultimate.
Yeah, I think I paid like eight quid.
So where's PlayStation should be kind of matching that really.
They won't know, will they?
Well, you know, there you go.
Voldemort, you're not my father.
You don't even watch Harry Potter.
What are you fucking on about?
I'm just guessing.
Talking shit.
Hagrid, get off my dog.
That's expensive shit, you know.
You want to start getting into collecting Harry Potter stuff.
Dumbledore, let go of my wand.
I don't want to talk too much about it because I'm saving.
Expelliarmus.
A lot of shit.
Yeah, that's one, isn't it?
Expelliarmus.
Yeah.
I'm talking about the invisible one.
You're doing fantastic.
Is that invisible?
Yeah.
Oh, talking about feedback.
I've had feedback.
Give me some.
People want the fucking quizzes back.
Who?
Why?
People.
You don't need to know names.
It's not all about you.
I've had people say they want the quizzes.
Are the quizzes coming back?
Any specific quizzes?
Just like even you get thumped.
What, football quizzes?
Just quizzes.
Anything.
General knowledge, football, games, whatever.
People like to hear two great minds pitted against each other.
These same people don't know the fucking struggle it is to get a quiz that is multiple choice.
Oh, you mugged me off for how long for that?
Saying, oh, you can't even fucking get a quiz.
It was so difficult to do because you can't just ask me a question and then not give me
a choice of answers because I'm fucked because we'd just be sitting here and listening to
you reel off questions and me going, oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know good with that.
If you just do general knowledge, it's easy.
No, I ain't.
I need multiple choice.
All right.
You ain't about to search one.
We've got half hour left and you're going to spend that half hour searching for a quiz.
No.
Well, watch this.
I'm watching.
General knowledge quiz with answers.
Here you go.
Right.
You ready?
Question one.
This is our first quiz of 2023.
Question one.
Go on.
In which part of your body would you find the cruciate ligament?
Your leg?
No.
The knee.
But this is exactly what I just.
What do you mean in your knee?
That's your leg, you dickhead.
It's your knee.
Your whole fucking leg.
I just said your leg.
Is it in your shin?
No, it's in your leg.
Is it in your shin?
Where's your knee?
Is it in your calf?
Where is your knee?
On your knee.
On your leg.
What is the name?
No, it's the most bollocks because you're doing the same.
You're doing exactly what I just said.
You can't fucking do.
You're asking questions with no multiple choices.
This is general knowledge bullshit.
Ask me another question.
General knowledge quiz with multiple choice answers.
Since you can't even manage a simple question like that.
Here we go then.
Multiple choice general knowledge quiz.
Question one.
What is the longest that an elephant has ever lived that we know of?
17 years, 49 years, 86 years or 142 years?
86 years.
We'll find out at the end.
How many rings are on the Olympic flag?
None, four, five or seven?
Is it four or five?
I think it's five.
I'm not big into the Olympics.
What is a tarsier?
A bird, a lizard, a primate?
A tarsier?
T-A-R-S-I-E-R.
What was the answer?
A bird, a lizard, a primate.
A bird?
How did Spider-Man get his powers?
Bitten by a radioactive spider?
Born with them?
Military government?
Spider motherfucker.
That spider grabbed hold of him and it munched on his little flesh.
In darts, what is the most points you can score of a single throw?
20, 50, 60, 100.
100?
I don't know darts.
What?
What is it?
100?
What is it?
60, triple 20.
You're a fucking idiot.
I'm sorry, I didn't know.
Sorry, I didn't know.
The fucking answer to a sport I have no idea about.
I don't know much about darts.
This is why the quizzes went.
This is why people liked them because you're an idiot.
Which of these animals does not appear in the Chinese zodiac?
Bear, dog, dragon, rabbit.
Bear?
Who are known as Brahmins?
Members of India's highest caste, surfers in California.
It's totally made up word.
What's this?
Made up, fuck it.
It's a made up word.
How many holes are on a standard bowling ball?
Two, three, five, ten.
Three.
Does coffee naturally contain caffeine?
No, no, no, no, motherfucker.
Why are you giving me that look?
I'm just looking at you.
Well, it ain't going to be two, is it?
Come on, I'm re-upping now.
It ain't going to be five, it ain't going to be ten.
Does coffee naturally contain caffeine or is it added later?
Naturally contains it, doesn't it?
What are the main colours on the flag of Spain?
Black and yellow, blue and white, green and white, red and yellow.
Red and yellow.
Give me the wink.
What is the name of this symbol?
Oh, we've got pictures, visual.
I'm sorry, what am I looking at?
Biltong, famrata, interbank, pilcro.
I don't know what I'm fucking looking at.
What symbol?
At the end of the question, there is a backwards P looking thing.
Yeah, that is a, obviously, that's a Biltong.
I think Biltong's dried meat.
In the nursery rhyme...
Biltong is, it's jerky.
Yeah.
In the nursery rhyme, how many blackbirds were baked in a pie?
411, 24, 99.
Oh, fucking 24, I don't know.
What is a pomelo?
A breed of dog, an old fashioned punching bag, the largest citrus fruit.
The largest citrus fruit, motherfucker.
Who killed Greedo?
Hannibal Lecter, Han Solo, Hermione Granger or Hercules?
Greedo?
Yeah.
Who's that?
Hannibal Lecter killed him, Han Solo killed him, Hermione Granger killed him or Hercules
killed him.
Greedo.
Why do I feel like I remember that name?
Because someone was talking about it not long ago.
Steph will be screaming at me when she listens to this because I guarantee it will be her
that was talking to me about it.
Greedo?
Hermione?
I don't know who Greedo is.
Well, I can tell you now that's wrong.
Well, let me Google Greedo.
It's Han Solo.
Are giant pandas a type of bear?
Yes or no?
No.
How many points in the letter X?
How many points...
Oh, he's that little green cunt with the fucking weird eyes.
Yeah, Han Solo shoots him.
How many points is the letter X worth in English language, Scrabble?
None, eight or 11?
11?
I don't know my Scrabble.
I'm not 60.
Whoever it is that asked for these quizzes, I hope you're fucking happy.
I really hope you're happy.
You've run out of time.
It was time?
He didn't say it was time.
Well, no, it's literally on the last question anyway.
So question one, how long does an elephant live for?
You said 86 years.
Yeah.
Ding.
Yes.
How many rings are on the Olympic flag?
I got that wrong.
It's seven.
You said five.
Ding.
It's not five because I Googled the Olympic flag.
Is it five?
The five rings represent Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe.
74% of users answered this correctly.
Okay.
52% of users answered the elephant question correctly.
Yeah.
What is a tazzie?
You said a bird.
I said a lizard.
It's a lizard, isn't it?
Primate.
Oh, it's a primate.
34% of users answered this correctly.
How did Spider-Man get his Remedio Active powers?
That's fucking Spider.
Spider.
You said Spider.
Ding.
78% of users answered this correctly.
I don't know what the fuck the other 22% were thinking.
Woke up with them after a strange dream apparently.
In darts, what's the most points you can throw with a single throw?
That's an absolute bollocks.
You said 100.
I wanted to say 180.
So why do they scream 180?
When do they do that?
Well, if they get 360s.
Yeah.
What does that add up to?
So it is literally just if they get 180.
How many darts do you throw in one?
Three.
Yeah.
So you get 360s.
One hundred and eighty.
Forty eight percent of users answered that correctly anyway, which was 60.
That's embarrassing.
Which of these animals does not appear in the Chinese zodiac?
You said bear.
Yeah.
Ding.
Nice.
No one is the bear.
60%.
Why wouldn't it be in there?
Fuck off the ramen.
Who are known as Brahmins?
You said it's a totally made up word.
Members of India's highest caste.
Great.
I've just offended that.
How many holes are on a standard bowling ball?
Three.
You said three.
It must be three.
I looked at you.
It must be three.
Ding.
Yeah.
76%.
Yeah.
I was getting it wrong.
What are the main colors on the flag of Spain?
I'm doing all right here so far.
You said red and yellow.
Yep.
Red and yellow, red and.
Yeah.
69% of users answered this correctly.
What is the name of this symbol?
You said Pilton.
It's Pilton.
It looks like the backwards patron sign.
It looks like a backwards P and there's only one word that begins with P. 30% of users
answered this correctly.
In the name, in the nursery rhyme, how many blackbirds were baked in a pie?
I said 24, didn't I?
Was it not?
So why did you wink at me then?
To throw you off.
Great.
After I've already answered it, thanks.
40% of users answered this correctly.
What was it?
It was a blackbird.
It was 24.
There you go then.
Ding, ding, ding.
I said 24.
You said 11.
I said 24.
You said 11.
Luckily this is recorded.
Well, we'll see, won't we?
What is a pomelo, a breed of dog or an old fashioned punching bag or the largest citrus
fruit?
You said the largest citrus fruit.
And it.
Ding.
Nice.
53%.
Nice.
Who killed Greedo?
Yeah, I've done.
I'm sorry.
You said Hermione Granger.
I don't know.
Someone else won my ticket to the Star Wars.
It was San Holo.
38% got that correct.
Are giant pandas a type of bear?
You said no.
They are a type of bear.
I didn't think they were a type of giant bear.
A giant panda is one of eight species in the family, Earth's a day.
It says, look it up.
Please tell me how many percent got that wrong?
56% answered that correctly.
I'm not that bad then.
I'm not that bad.
How many points is the letter X worth in English language scrabble?
You said eight.
No I didn't.
No you didn't.
No I didn't.
I said 11.
You said 11 and then the time run out.
Yeah.
If you'd said 11 and you hadn't gone and just let the quiz answer it for you, you'd
have had it right.
You've had to open your big mouth so now you've got it wrong.
What do you mean?
I said 11.
Yeah and it's eight.
Oh is it eight?
The time run out.
Is it eight?
So yeah you've done all right.
You've done all right.
Fair play.
Well done.
Yeah.
Well done.
Yeah.
So now people aren't going to want it now because I didn't get that high rate.
No I've actually done all right.
GG.
Fucking bullshit quiz.
We're going to have to go back to that then.
I'll tell you what.
We'll go back to doing a quiz and we'll throw it behind a paywall.
You're a fucking asshole.
We shall not do that because we're not scum.
All the crap content's behind the paywall so don't bother.
So are you good?
Yeah.
The person that had my van before me used to vape.
A vapist.
And the windscreen is caked in so much shit from where they're vaped in the van it's fucking
grim.
And I scraped it all off today.
So just be aware that that's going in your lungs yeah.
I'm just trying to look out for you.
So just be aware.
When you're blowing that shit around in this lovely room it's caking all my stuff in fucking
As a funny comedian once said I don't care if I'm going to die I'm going to die.
If a plane's going down sure I'll scream but I won't be the loudest.
Why?
Because I don't care.
Yeah but you might be the loudest.
I won't be.
Because I'll be like oh no I'm going to die.
So if a plane's going down and you're screaming you may well be the loudest person on that
plane that's screaming.
Why?
Mark said today that my voice bellows.
Yeah you are loud.
So I might be the loudest person screaming.
I might not be the person that cares the most.
I'm not loud.
You are definitely loud.
Alright well if I'm ever in a position where a plane's going down and I'm screaming this
conversation will pop into my head and I'll go uh just so I'm not the fucking loudest.
And that's the difference between us because this will pop in my head and I would purposely
be sure to make sure I'm the loudest fucking screaming.
Yeah because you're a knob.
I hope your plane goes down.
I'm too scared of them now.
It's just you on it.
I'm scared of the planes now.
There's not even a pilot.
You're on an automated plane.
You're scared of planes?
Yeah I just don't like the flying anymore man.
I used to love it when I was a kid.
And now yeah the last couple times I've been on a plane I just I'm very aware of the fact
that I could die.
It's because I'm high up.
I don't like the heights.
If I was doing 700 mile an hour on the floor.
You're not high up are you?
You're fucking astronomically high up.
You're so high up you're above the fucking clouds.
Yeah you're high man.
I'm talking like a good while before you splat to the ground if you'd have fall out the plane.
And I hate that shit.
Yeah but I think you'd pass out first wouldn't you?
No you wouldn't pass out when you're skydiving.
Yeah but that's because you're not gonna die.
If you're falling to your death and you know you're gonna die then I think you'd pass out.
I'm sure I've heard this somewhere before.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Oh you make yourself pass out.
Hold your breath.
Either way.
It's just panic isn't it?
You'll black out.
I panic.
Either way I'm gonna be the loudest screaming.
Anyway I want to talk a little bit about me completing a game.
And not a new game.
Or an old game.
Um me and Mark bought the quarry off the back of what we, yeah you've switched off for the
rest of this little section.
This is your bit.
You do your thing.
It's great.
You might as well go home then if I go talk about this bit you go home.
And I'll talk to the fans instead.
Off the back of what we spoke about last week and how me and Mark were playing the Dark
Anthology pictures series and the latest one was shite.
We bought the quarry which is made by the same people that make the Dark Anthology series.
But with a little twist.
So it's very similar but not.
And called the quarry.
It is a co-op.
Um answered questions and stuff.
Detroit.
Um story driven type game.
And we thought yep that'll be sick.
We'll play it together.
Fucking love it.
Came out originally with a 60 quid price tag.
Fuck that.
I'm never paying that for one of these games.
It dropped down to 20 quid on the Playstation store so we bought it right.
Anyway both downloaded it.
Found some time to play it.
He sends me an invite.
Right.
I accept.
I'm in his party.
I'm player two.
Right.
And we press start.
Cinematic loads up.
And it's two people in a car.
They're they're fucking driving through the woods on their way to summer camp in America.
And they get run off the road.
Some shit happens.
Anyway there's decisions that need to be made.
You get run off the road.
Now you can either avoid this log that you're going to drive into or you can fucking go
straight over it and it pops up slow motion and it's like steer left or continue straight.
Right.
Now Manastar put continue straight and I said steer left.
So it went 50 percent one way and 50 percent the other way.
And it went straight over.
It followed Mark's fucking decision.
Right.
Anyway some stuff happens.
Next decision that comes up.
We go we go 50 50 again.
It goes with Mark's decision.
The next decision that comes up.
We go 50 50 again.
It follows Mark's decision.
Next decision that comes up.
We both do what we both do the same thing and it follows the same follows what we put.
And after a little bit after like 10 minutes of doing it.
I was kicking off a bit and Steph Googled it for us.
And basically the quarry originally released as a single player game and then they added
the multiplayer feature later on.
Right.
But when you play multiplayer.
So there's two different things you can do.
I have a couch co-op.
So a LAN party essentially or full on online multiplayer.
Now you can have I think it was up to was up to like five five or six maybe seven people
playing at once.
Right.
And that percentage was of the answers.
So because it was just me and Mark that were playing it.
It follows the host when it when it goes to it.
It's a split majority.
So because it's just me and Mark playing anything that I answered meant absolutely nothing because
it would always follow his answer.
And what it doesn't tell you is that the multiplayer if you're not the host you don't get any of
the trophy progression.
You don't get any save data from it.
You are literally just watching this person play.
So I was fucking fuming because then I said to Mark said well there's no point me fucking
playing this.
I'm just watching you play this.
You know what I mean.
What what is the fucking point.
So we got annoyed of it.
I stopped playing.
And then what we decided to do was I sacked Mark off completely and me and Steph played
the couch co-op instead.
And we sat there one controller and there was multiple different characters.
I think there was like eight different people maybe a few more and you got to set which
characters you wanted to play.
So I played all the blokes.
She played all the women and it was very very good.
It was very good.
And it's about an eight hour campaign.
There's 12 chapters in all.
And it's basically about werewolves.
I know you like your wolves.
And all creepy shit.
It wasn't as as scary as I thought it was going to be.
But the story was quite good.
The face is all live motion capture.
So everyone looks the people that are acting it out.
They look like how what they do in real life.
But they can never get the faces like the facial movements correct.
So like one person like he's having a stroke the entire time.
Fucking some of it.
So weird.
But there's obviously things like everyone can live.
Everyone can die.
There's 186 different like routes that you can take in terms of how the story is going
to pan out, which is quite cool.
And then one feature that I thought was very cool is movie mode.
So obviously all these different outcomes you can go into this movie mode and it has
everyone survives.
Everyone dies or custom.
And in the custom mode you can decide how every single character behaves, whether they're
a dick, whether they're nice, whether they're apprehensive, things like that.
And it is a movie.
So it cuts out all the walking around and stuff in between cutscenes and you can just
watch how it pans out.
So we're watching the bit the one of everyone dies at the moment.
And it's it's it's good man.
There's a lot of dialogue because a lot of these games, if you want to see all the different
outcomes, you've got to replay them.
We've got to go back to every different chapter and you've got to answer the questions differently
and stuff like that.
So it's quite cool to introduce that.
And then another cool thing, it has six episodes of a podcast on the game.
So you can listen and cool.
I think bonafide.
And I thought that was quite cool.
Haven't listened to any of them.
They're in fact playing on one of the credits and me and Steph got very annoyed because
it was like, please shut the fuck up.
It won't let me skip.
Very good game.
I recommend it.
Mark's playing it on his own.
That's about it.
Right.
Cool.
I like the feature that you just said.
Very good.
One of the reasons that them games annoy me or they're not up my alley, so to speak, is
I like the choices and stuff, but I don't want to listen to the same gump over and over
and over again.
So if you get the opportunity to go back and just go straight to the meat and gravy, good,
good, good design choice.
I'm a fan.
I've watched the quarry.
I've seen it all before.
I watched the whole play for on YouTube.
Em loves it.
She's watched it multiple times.
She wanted a bedtime view ins.
What the quarry?
Yeah, she likes it.
It's the one that-
Oh, you're actually interested in this game?
Yeah, I wouldn't play it.
So why aren't your fucking face portray that?
Because-
You're sitting here just flicking through your phone.
I know exactly what you were talking about.
So what are you-
Absolutely no interest whatsoever in what I'm saying.
Just because you obviously can't multitask, mate.
I heard everything and I was interested-
What do you mean can't multitask?
For them listening, it's an audio representation, yeah?
For us, it's visual.
You know what I mean?
So you could just ignore that and they wouldn't know that I was looking at my phone.
I was also doing podcast research.
So let's jump to something that more people are interested in.
No, no, no.
You were talking about this.
Yeah, and then you just pissed me off.
You were talking about it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, because I'm going to show you what I was reading.
No, add your side to this.
I just did.
I want to know why Jem is night fucking watching the quarry.
What do you mean why?
What do you mean?
She likes it.
She likes scary stuff.
And she, what, she doesn't know about the dark anthology pictures?
No.
Fucking hell.
You need, please, when you go home, tell her about that because there's a whole other list
of games exactly the same, but different.
Yes, my lord.
Please.
Yes.
For her benefit.
Text it to me because I'll forget.
Ubisoft's Star Wars game reportedly comparable to No Man's Sky by Bespin Bulletin.
I'll just message her instead.
All right.
You'll be interested in this part.
Oh, sorry.
Will I?
Sorry.
I'll put my phone down.
I'm not an emotional wreck like you.
Oh, listen.
Neither am I.
I'm just saying this is what you do.
Yeah.
That's what I mean.
I'm not an emotional wreck like you.
Funko pops on nerd based Instagram.
They got some new shit.
I'll tell you that.
It was hours ago.
You could take in, as long as you're taking the information.
I'm taking it in.
Well then.
Go on.
Hello there and happy new year.
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What is this that you're talking about?
Star Wars.
It's been two years since Ubisoft and Lucasfilm announced that Massive Entertainment, the
studio behind Ubisoft's The Division franchise.
Nice.
Had started work on an untitled open mod Star Wars project and word on the game has been
quite ever since.
However, a new rumor regarding the game has arose today.
According to the outlet Insider Gaming, the upcoming untitled project from Ubisoft's Massive
Entertainment will be a fully open and seamless universe akin to No Man's Sky.
If you're unfamiliar with the title mentioned, No Man's Sky, the defining feature of the
game is that it is nearly every part of the galaxy, including stars, planets, creatures,
etc. are created through procedural generation using algorithms and random number generators,
which result in there being over 18 quintillion planets to explore within the game.
The outlet goes on to say that despite the vast world, at the core of the game will be
an in-depth, lengthy story which will be spearheaded by a fully customizable character that walks
a path chosen by the player.
Personally, I'm not that familiar with Insider Gaming's track record, sorry.
Not to be confused with Inside Gaming.
Maybe I've been confused by them too.
Thanks for pointing that out, Best Bin Bulletin.
And the only time I've truly given attention to the site is when freelancer Tom Henderson
writes an exclusive for the outlet as Henderson has a reliable track record.
If it is the same people as Tom Henderson writes for then it definitely has weight because
he is the goat.
However, this Ubisoft Star Wars article wasn't written by Henderson so I take this purely
as a rumour.
If true then Ubisoft's game sounds incredibly interesting and exciting and I'm sure the
comparison to No Man's Sky will pique people's interest.
So we've got Star Wars meets the Division meets No Man's Sky.
This rumour follows a tweet from Julian Garrity, a creative director at Ubisoft who shared
a tweet wishing followers a Happy New Year and claimed that 2023 would be massive for
massive entertainment pun intended and shared an image of the Star Wars logo.
Many fans have taken this to mean that the project will release this year which is highly
unlikely.
Massive Entertainment are currently still working on Avatar Frontiers of Pandora which
was delayed from a late 2022 release to sometime this year.
Personally, I believe the tweet references is the game officially being unveiled at some
point this year as the only word we've had from Ubisoft and Lucasfilm was in January
2021 when it was announced Massive Entertainment were working on an open world Star Wars project.
I personally do not expect to see the project release until late 2024 or 2025.
So yeah, that's just for letting you know that it was also made or being made by people
who made The Division because I know you love that game.
So The Division is quite possibly one of the best games that I've played.
It's a very big shame that it didn't hold its weight like how Destiny does in terms
of that replayability.
It finds it's still a big, very big game.
The playstyle of The Division, fucking awesome.
I love the idea of The Division, everything about it.
It just doesn't hold a lot of people for as long as it should, but you can't deny the
gameplay of it.
The gunfield, all of that is fantastic.
I love it.
No Man's Sky is fucking awesome.
We've already established that.
The idea of a Star Wars based game using the same type of system that No Man's Sky uses,
but with the type of combat and story that The Division uses makes any man, woman, child,
person fucking excited.
It makes the grown people's testicles tingle and it must be making your testicles tingle.
Anything Star Wars does things to me.
I'm excited.
It's a very tall order to fill.
It will consume any Star Wars medium.
It's very Starfield-esque.
I can't wait for that.
Starfield's gonna be fucking sick.
If this Star Wars is a flop, you have Starfield to fall back on.
I cannot wait for Starfield.
The whole reason I bought an Xbox, you know, eight, nine, ten months ago.
And we're gonna have it on day one, day release.
It's gonna be free for us.
It's gonna be sick.
The idea of what you've just said, because the coding behind how No Man's Sky does have
a never-ending universe of completely randomly generated stuff, it is extremely cool.
And like I say, that's such an, not old system, but No Man's Sky has been around for a while.
So it's nice to have another game that is potentially using that.
Well Starfield will.
Yeah, of course it will.
This is one of the things that, this is the game that I was thinking about and I couldn't
grab it earlier.
When I said I would like it to have a bounty system or something.
So when you're done with a game, because there's gonna be procedural planets with not a lot
on them as well.
But there'll be like the odd outpost or something.
But if you could just be like, all right, go to a bounty.
Yeah, there's a bounty in this guy, in this system.
And you fly to that system, that planet, that location, land there, break into a base, kill
the bounty, go and collect your credits, kidnapping, whatever it is you've got to do.
That gives so much replay value.
And I get what you're saying.
So then eventually that will get boring and I'm sure it will.
But if you're, if you, it's very cheap and easy for them to add different varieties of
randomized missions constantly for a while.
That keeps people coming back to the game.
It doesn't, it's not like creating a whole expansion, just adding the odd new mission
to a randomly generated location.
You can have repetitiveness as long as there's a reason to behind why you're grinding that
repetitiveness.
Yeah, credits to upgrade your ship or...
Yeah.
If there's a goal to what you're doing, then that is why you're able to hold that repetitiveness.
If you're, if you're a single player game with no multiplayer online aspect, then that
repetitiveness is...
Oh, who's ringing me?
This is the fucking Freemasons that are ringing me.
And I'm not, no, I don't want to cause I've told them to leave me alone.
Genuinely that's Freemasons.
I just thought of something.
I need to speak to Steph.
Well, I don't, but through the medium of, of podcasting, I'm speaking to you, Steph and
you cause you're in the room with me.
And Steph's literally over there.
Hello Steph.
The Zelda...
No, no, you were saving this.
Yeah, I am.
You were saving this.
I am saving what I'm going to talk about, but just quickly cause it's in my brain now.
Go on.
And I fuck it.
Yeah.
If you want to listen to my Zelda chat, you're going to subscribe to a Patreon.
We're at a point now where we can ask them to do this.
We don't have to carry on spilling everything.
There is a paywall for some content.
And if you want to hear more, you got to throw us a fucking fiver to listen to it.
By the way, Ryan and Matt, it was the master sword we were talking about earlier.
There you go.
That's not, that doesn't involve me, does it?
Well, no, cause I said Ryan and Matt, I thought that was quite clear.
Ryan and Matt, are they avid listeners?
Cause I ain't seen them pop up on the Patreon at all.
They're missing out on a whole variety of different stuff.
They are.
Yeah.
We're going to leave this episode here then, anyway.
That sounds exciting, what you talked about.
I have no doubt that we'll continue this in a different nether behind money.
The sweet buttery goodness of five pounds.
What number was this?
What episode number was this?
29 maybe?
Was this 29?
I think so.
Could be J.
Oh, we're approaching 30 I think.
Ooh, spicy.
This was episode 29.
And I'm going to miss episode 30.
And you're going to miss episode 30.
Every fucking milestone that we've done so far you've missed.
Suss about this.
Suss guys.
Great.
Catch us next week where we're talking about even more random bullshit.
I won't be.
And Steph will be filling in no doubt.
Unless she's busy.
I'm assuming that she's free and able.
If she isn't I'll have to drag my arse out of bed and I'll have to get here.
The podcast will go on.
Anyway, it's been fantastic.
Catch us on the Jedi club or the Patreon if you want to listen to another minimum half
an hour of us talking absolute random bullshit where we have actually planned something so
it's actually worth listening to this week.
Sort of.
I've thrown an idea out there and we're going to roll with it.
That's about as much planning as we do.
And I've said Zelda so.
Yeah, fantastic.
Anyway, we're fucking off.
See you later everyone.
Uro.
Bye bye.