It's always a struggle to start a podcast, but
point proven.
It's always a struggle to start a podcast intro when you don't have an intro.
And that is your fucking intro.
Me stuttering.
Beautiful. Hello. Hello.
How is everyone? Everyone's good.
No one's here. It's just you and me.
It's fucking freezing. Yeah.
I can't work out if the walls are blue or it's just like the air is so cold.
It's like a blue sheen.
It's a bit above the fucking boilers broken in this office.
So you can't heat the fucking place.
It's not in the sun. It's cold.
I can't be asked to bring the equipment up and blardy blardy blah.
So Steph is sitting in a coat.
I'm shivering.
Did you not want anything?
No, I'm all right, to be fair.
You have a feather stuck to your shoe.
I'm all right. I do have a feather stuck to my shoe.
Oh, don't touch it.
Iggy. Grim.
That means someone's looking down on you from above, apparently.
That's a white feather, though, isn't it?
What was that? Off white?
Grey. That's a pigeon feather. Right.
OK. That's an undercoat of a pigeon.
Fair enough. I need to burp one moment.
I really hope that didn't come out.
They won't hear that.
That sounded ridiculous.
That's because it came from the depths.
I've got a bit of hair that's just tickly.
We're here and we've been busy.
Oh, also, it's me. Hi.
Yeah, I was going to stop addressing it.
Oh, OK. It happens so fucking frequently.
I think everyone's got used to the fact that if Ash says,
I'll be here next week, he ain't going to be here next week.
So this is What's the Buttons with I'm Rhys Langdon,
with my co-host, Steph, who's also another co-host, Ash.
We now have two co-hosts.
Bless him. To be fair, he is busy.
He's doing a very important course.
We're doing all the best.
He's actually got his assessment on Monday.
I keep forgetting. I keep messaging him going, how'd it go?
It's like fucking Monday.
Still Monday. But let's delve into it.
We've we've had quite an exciting week in terms of gaming.
We have indeed. It's been quite a decent one.
Obviously, the the big one, Hogwarts Legacy, has just fucking taken over.
It's been crazy. I did end up pre-ordering it the day before.
You could get it three days early.
I just I just thought, fuck it, I'll do it.
And me and Steph have been
have been playing that alongside each other, basically taking turns and.
Yeah, kind of taking turns.
What do you mean?
We've got almost the same playtime.
We don't know. I'm two hours ahead of you.
Yeah. In the grand scheme of things, in a 140 hour long game.
I don't think two hours is that much of a difference.
I'll make up for it tonight because I.
I think, yeah, yesterday I played for, I think, about 20 minutes.
That was it. Yeah.
Maybe maybe 30.
Maybe even 40. I don't know.
It was split into like I played like 15 minutes in the morning
and then about 20 minutes before you got home.
But I've definitely got the itch, you know, in like
I get it when when I've been like binge watching a show or something.
And, you know, when you've like tripped into that, like, it's my life now.
I need to see it.
And yeah, I'm oh, God, I'm really, really.
Everyone's got that.
Everyone's got the edge.
And it's why we're not even that far into it, if I'm honest.
I don't. And yet it's weird how it feels that you feel
that you are, but then you realize that you're nowhere near. Yeah.
Yeah, we we will.
We will try our best to keep it spoiler free.
Not that I really think that I can actually spoil anything yet
in terms of story, but I will say spoiler warnings as per Ash's request.
It's like, yeah, you're really shit at spoilers. Yeah.
So if I feel like it's going to be a spoiler, I'll say spoiler, spoiler, spoiler.
And I'll tell you what we do.
If we talk about Hogwarts legacy first and then when we're done, note the time.
And we just put in the description.
If you don't want to hear about Hogwarts legacy, then skip to X time.
Yeah. You know what I mean?
We'll probably forget inevitably, but the idea is there.
And the idea is strong.
So Steph is a Hufflepuff.
Always. And I am a Ravenclaw,
which I wasn't expecting to get when I did the old sultry hat.
I thought I was going to get Gryffindor or Slytherin.
But no Ravenclaw, but I decided to stick with Ravenclaw.
Ravenclaw. Ravenclaw.
And it seems to be going pretty well so far.
One of the things I love about this game is the outfits.
Yeah. The gear.
Because your glasses just steamed up. Is that fucking cold?
Yeah. And I was laughing because I was looking down.
I'm not entirely sure the dog isn't frozen.
Clinging to life.
But yeah, we are. It's incredible.
Hogwarts Legacy has a transmogrification system,
which I'm very used to, and it's extremely cool.
It just basically means that when you get pieces of gear,
you retain that appearance and you can use it.
So a different cloak.
You pick up a cloak and it's light blue.
And then you get another cloak that's better and it's dark red.
Or you can change it to light blue.
And you also, once you pick up an item, you can sell it
and you still retain the appearance.
So don't feel like you need to hold any of that shit.
One of the funny bits about the transmogrification
is the fucking goggles that you can get and the hats.
They look so stupid. It's so funny.
The immersion is instantly broken when I'm into a cut scene
because it's just my dumb ass face with a big pink fucking top hat
with feathers poking out of it and some big snake eye goggles.
It looks so fucking stupid, but it's hilarious.
And I do still think that it does fit so well.
Yeah, because that type of shit is in the Hogwarts world,
in the wizarding world. It's very interesting.
I think I feel like there's going to be loads
of different types of gear already.
There's loads of different appearances that I've come across,
which is quite cool. Very vibrant colors.
And then you've got your very evil looking sinister gear.
Obviously, if you pre-ordered the deluxe edition,
you've got the...
Like the Dark Arts set, which I wore for about two minutes.
Yeah, I'm not even wearing it anymore.
Also, you can put your head up. That's a Google it.
You can put your head up whenever you want.
If you go into your gear and you hover over the cloak section,
you press triangle or whatever triangle is on your console
and it will flick your hood on. So it looks quite menacing.
Yeah, I haven't done that yet.
You don't have to take your hat off or anything to do it.
You can keep everything on and then just flick your hood on.
Oh, weird.
Yeah, so you ain't got to bother taking the hat on
because that would be fucking annoying.
And also you lose stats.
Oh, that's true. What if you just delete the hat for the time being?
Yeah, obviously you're wearing the hat,
but it removes the appearance of the hat.
Yeah.
That's like the garrison hat that you got at the start, the flat-clap looking one.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
It deleted my hair. I was like, I instantly look like a little boy,
which I didn't like it.
But no, I do like the character.
I think that I was saying to you, wasn't I,
like it surprised me how I think it's a...
And perhaps that's where it does downfall is the assumption
that these days you will be able to change, you know,
or even games like ESO and whatever,
where you can do your cheekbones, your jaw, your nose, your mouth, your eyes,
how close they are, how big they are, how far away, like all that stuff.
And I did think that the customization was quite basic,
but it does...
I don't really mind in the sense, like there's enough.
And I think that what you can't achieve necessarily facially,
you can bring it out with such a diverse range of COVID outfits and stuff.
Yeah, the cosmetics really...
Makes it more you.
I think that...
So when it comes to customizing characters and stuff,
that ability like Elden Ring to completely change your face
and if you're really good with it,
you can basically make yourself look like anyone you want.
I've never bothered with it.
I don't have the patience nor the creativity for it.
I can't be bothered.
So I'll always just use a preset, maybe change the facial hair,
maybe the other hair.
But in terms of changing your cheekbones
and the depth for your fucking nose bridge and all that type of stuff,
I know that Mark always makes the person look as ugly as possible
and fucked up as possible, which is always funny.
But I just don't bother with it.
So I didn't miss that in Hogwarts.
What I did miss is the hairstyles.
Hairstyles and I wish I could have had a beard.
But even...
But obviously I'm a child.
But what...
Okay, I can't say that I've ever used like...
Yeah, messed about with it loads and loads.
But I do appreciate when you're there and you think,
oh, I just wish that their chin was a bit different or anything.
And I can think the hat...
So what baffled me is...
And I can only think that if it is what I've read is true
and they did like a lot of motion capture,
because you'd think...
So you can pick 20 different eyebrows,
but you get the nose you get and you get the mouth you get,
which usually they tend to be ones that you can pick.
Yeah, you should be able to change those basics.
The main features of your face.
You should be able to fuck around with that.
And there was one, like when I was stuck with...
And I mean, I know it's not that deep, but you know,
the...
Of those two like faces that I liked,
and I liked the other one better,
but her nose was... I didn't like the nose.
Yeah.
So...
But what you can do is...
Which I was glad of, because I, as you know,
we were trying to pick this hair and I picked the hair.
It was all right.
And I was up in an ironbatch in about four different styles.
And then, yeah.
And obviously Reese had not long done his one
and struggled to find one that he really liked.
Although I love the one you have now.
I do think it fits you.
I like the hair. It's my hair, but I would have to say...
Yeah, but I would have liked to have had my hair, but tied up.
Yeah. Which I... Yeah.
There was no like turning button.
Yeah. It was all right.
But great.
But you can change it.
I might do the boof there.
But yeah. And I picked this hairstyle
and then every single woman we encountered had the same one.
I was like, nah.
And the first, the second I got to Hogsmeade,
it was like, yeah, yeah, Ollivander's in that.
Right. Get me to the hair salon.
Yeah.
And it's reasonable as well.
It's like 20 galleons to do your whole face.
I think you can change everything, which is nice
because some games, they lock in your face, don't they?
Yeah. You can't change anything at all.
Which I like because it's kind of like leaning into that whole wizard,
you know, where you can do stuff like that.
Like, yeah.
I just can't wait for like a broom, man.
I don't know at what point in the game you get that,
but neither of us have reached that point.
But I'm excited to get there.
It's making me want to fucking play it.
It's... Oh, not my day, is it?
No, you did say last night, didn't you?
Yeah, yeah.
After you hogged it.
Yeah, hogged it on my PS5.
Yeah.
It's funny how it's yours, isn't it, when it becomes yours and then...
Of course it's fucking mine.
I paid for the bastard.
That's mine.
So all of the things we share...
You see a ring on this finger?
Do you see a ring on this finger?
No, I don't, funny enough.
So it's mine.
Thank you.
I'll remember that.
For what?
Oh, the next time...
I want it.
Oh, hang on a minute.
So where are you going to sleep tonight?
In our bed?
No, well, do you see a ring on this finger?
It's my bed.
It's my bed, mate.
Off you go.
What we should have done...
In the Audi, since that's the only thing you own...
Is bought... No, it's not.
Well, the Volvo's half mine.
Well, it looks like a couple cars.
That don't belong to you either, though, does it, love?
Look.
Just be grateful that I'm letting you play it.
Simple as that.
That sounded way more dramatic than it needed to.
Don't give me that look.
You've got...
Spoiler, spoiler.
Oh, good one.
Spoiler.
If you don't want to hear this...
Is it a spoiler?
I don't know what you're about to say, do I?
I was going to talk about the houses.
What about the houses?
The quest?
Yeah.
Do you like?
I don't know.
It's your podcast.
I'm unsure if it's a spoiler or not.
So if you don't want to hear it, just skip forward about a minute.
But if not...
No, skip forward about five, because you're never going to make the point in a minute.
All right.
What was I going to say?
All right, spoiler, spoiler, spoiler, spoiler.
I was just going to make a note of the fact that you are also playing Hufflepuff,
which has the longest quest line out of all of them.
And I'm playing Ravenclaw, which has the shortest.
Right.
So effectively, I'm going to get done quicker than you are.
You're not though, because you fanny about.
No, I just do the side shit.
So do I.
That wasn't really a spoiler.
Really.
No, if anything, it's informative, because if you want the longer quests or whatever.
Go for Hufflepuff.
Well, and I think that's ultimately why they've done four saves,
so you can have a character in each house.
Yeah, but that must be so long to do that.
That's why everything's so skippable.
Yeah, but the quests aren't though.
I wouldn't imagine that the quest, maybe the intro, maybe if you've done it once,
maybe you have the option to skip it.
No, because obviously you've done it and I didn't skip it.
But you can skip, you can skip.
I got the dialogue and the cutscenes and all that shit.
Yeah.
It's triangle, triangle, triangle, triangle, triangle.
Yeah, but you still have to run through and do all the quests.
Yeah, but it's not that bad.
I suppose if you're dedicated to doing it, then you'd do it anyway.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Too bad I don't own it.
They can have it in six months.
Fine, because this is going to stop recording.
Then you're going to go, what's for dinner?
And I'll go, nothing.
Yeah, I'm a grown boy.
No, to be fair, it's quite fun seeing you play it and myself play it
because I think we have different play styles.
And like you say, we both play it differently in that I will
do any side quests that I come across.
I'm doing it.
I'm doing the side quests.
Whereas I think you don't do all the side quests immediately.
No, I left the goblin one because I wanted to go and do...
Well, no, I was coming off because you wanted to go on it.
So, yeah.
Otherwise, I probably would have done it.
I probably would have done it.
Yeah.
That's so fucking sour.
Why are you so sad?
You might need to pause this for me to give five minutes to calm down.
Otherwise, I'm just going to be salty.
You get to play it later.
Oh, I get to.
I get to, do I?
Thank you.
Yeah, because I'm on Steam Deck.
And then you've got Saturday.
I've got Sunday.
Like we're rotating.
Yeah, it is, yeah.
Well, come on then.
Maybe watch your words.
What are you going to say about it?
No, go on.
You can add something to it.
Oh, I suppose.
So we found a couple of bugs.
Oh, yeah.
I jumped down out of Hogsmeade Station into a rock.
Yep.
And I was caught inside the rock.
Yeah, that was funny.
Fully inside that rock.
Yeah, I could walk within the parameters of the rock, but I could not leave the rock.
Yep. But I was able to like, flew Flame out.
So I didn't have to like, it didn't crash the game or anything like that.
I was able to get out of it, but it was still annoying because I was like on my way to just
explore, you know what I mean?
I wanted to be in that area and then I was like, I ain't fucking running back there.
So there was that one.
And then I thought it might have just been having a moment, but then the exact same thing
happened to you.
The controllers.
Which is after the final duel of cross ones, the controller, which vibrates when you win,
doesn't stop vibrating.
And I tried going in the menu, coming out, then I tried traveling somewhere and it didn't
fix it.
So in the end, I quit and we went back in and I was able to save and everything like
that.
So you and then, yeah, when it happened to you, I just said like, bro, just quit, like
quit and come back.
But yeah, nothing would stop it.
Which I think is the fact that it's happened to you and I in exactly the same way.
That's got to be a bug.
It's just not canceling that.
Just turns your controller into a vibrator.
Yeah.
Handy in some cases, really.
No, it's not strong enough.
And what was the other one?
I definitely did get another one, but I can't remember what it was.
You got the doors loading in, the loading loading circles on the doors.
That's not a bug.
It's just a bit annoying.
There was another one that I had.
What was it?
There was there was one more, wasn't there?
I know, but I can't remember what it was.
Can't fucking remember.
Oh, it's so annoying.
It's a rock.
But there's not been it's not been nothing.
Nothing breaking.
Nothing crazy.
No, it's just a bit.
It's what you expect with it.
I suppose the fact that you get it.
We've had it three days early means that there will be no day one patch because
it hadn't fully released yet.
So, mate, you might find there'll be an update tomorrow.
No, come out today.
Today.
Oh, may well be.
You know what's going to happen, don't you?
It's going to be an update.
And there is no one would play it.
We'll see.
There might not be.
I don't see why there would be.
No, it's a bit late in it.
Possibly.
We'll see.
We'll find out after this.
I want to.
There's a there's a there's a few like
quality of life aspects of the game that I feel like would be better if they changed it.
So my biggest one is the map.
Oh, when you're inside Hogwarts.
When you're in when you're in Hogwarts and you're it.
It basically shows you the castle itself
and then all the different floors, but it doesn't actually outline the floors or the floor plan.
So you can't pinpoint exactly where you are, nor can you pinpoint where a flu flame actually is,
whether it's above you, below you, what room it's in, things like that.
And I just find that a bit.
It looks cool, but it's for a user purpose.
It's a bit annoying.
Yeah, I think it does tell you where they are, but you have to go.
But like if you're on that, it's at the side.
Yeah, it's almost like two two ways of accessing it.
You go on the side and then click and it does a drop down of where the flu flames are.
But if you don't know where like West Corridor is that where you want to go or not, that kind of thing.
Like I feel like it should have just an option, like just give me the flat floor that I'm on
and then have it as like a spin so you can see the other floors or something like that.
Yeah, also zooming out because you have to flip between the maps.
So you've got the Hogwarts.
Why not having a button to flick?
That annoys me.
You do.
R1.
R1 and L1 flicks between them.
No, I mean between Hogwarts, Hogsmeade and the world map.
There is.
No, because R1 changes it to quest and blah blah blah.
Maybe it's R2.
There is definitely a button to do it because I did it.
I'm talking back.
So for people that haven't looked at it, it goes Hogwarts and then you flick over to Hogsmeade
and then you flick over to the open world itself.
What it would be nice to be is if you could just zoom out.
So you say you're in Hogwarts on the Hogwarts map, you just zoom out of that map and then it
goes into the open world and then you can hover over Hogsmeade, zoom in on that and then boom,
you're in the Hogsmeade map and stuff like that is how quite a lot of games work.
These are all very small things for a very incredible game.
It's just little quality of life stuff that would be quite handy if it was slightly different.
However, when it comes to the maps and stuff like that, the mini map and the tracking it gives you
for the quest and stuff, the paths that it sets out for you to follow are extremely well done.
Yeah.
Extremely well done.
You cannot get lost.
No.
And they make it quite easy to understand whether it's telling you to go up or down the stairs.
Yeah, to fade out.
And then if that doesn't fucking work, there's like a compass you press up on the D pad
and it brings out a little spell book that flies away and that basically is your,
you follow that, that's your path.
So it's a very...
It makes up for the small...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's nothing, it's not fucking groundbreaking.
It's just a few little things that would be quite nice if you could change that.
And also I found that on the PlayStation, when you hit the pause menu
to go into your inventory or something like that, to get back out of it,
there is no button to just have a quick escape straight back to the game.
You have to go...
So you open the menu into the inventory, you press circle, you go back to the menu,
you press circle again, and then it takes you...
Like it takes a couple of seconds to actually get out of it.
And then just having a straight out.
Yeah, either I've missed it or it's not there.
You can't flick between quests without going in and changing it.
Yeah, what, tracking?
Yeah, like I wanted to know...
So it's like one of the ones where you're doing like a duel,
but then someone else has asked you to use incendio five times and dodge roll and attack 10 times.
And I wanted to see my counter, but it's still tracking that one.
You know, in so many other games, you can just flick between, can't you?
And when you pick up a quest, it automatically tracks that quest.
Yeah, no, bitch, offer the option.
Yeah, yeah.
Just have a little pump that comes up.
Just push our free to track or something like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, something like that, which I'm sure are very easy things
I feel like you could add in if I'm honest.
Yeah, but they won't.
They might do.
You never know.
But they're not, like I said, they're not major issues.
Not at all.
I did have I had a problem with the spells because you can only have four spells slotted.
And I was saying to Mark, why?
Because Mark was complaining that he had too many spells.
He couldn't you have to go in your spell book and then manually input them onto the
onto your spell casting bar.
And I said to him, it would have been good because some spells you have to hold down R2
and then press square circle, whatever to use them.
I said it would have been good if you could hold down R2 and then R1 and it would flick over
to another page of spells that you have binded.
I thought it does that.
And you can use them.
Then obviously I unlock the talents and in the talent system,
there is a section where you can have multiple
groups.
Yeah, yeah, you can have more than more than one group of spells that you can flick through
very easy on the on the D pad.
Which just makes life easier.
So it eliminated the whole me going, yeah, why can't you do this?
But obviously, I think Mark's reached it now, but Mark hadn't reached the point where you
could get talents yet.
Oh, OK.
So that's another thing that I thought needed a little bit of fixing, but doesn't.
The combat itself feels fucking great.
It is really cool.
It feels really, really good.
I know that when it first when the gameplay first come out, a lot of people who were
looking at the combat going, it looks a bit weird, but it feels really, really good.
It feels great, especially on the PS5, that haptic feedback from the trigger.
Oh, it feels great.
It feels really, really good.
It's nice.
I like it.
And the spells look fucking sick.
And I like the fact that they say them.
You're not just casting.
They're actually they're actually saying the spells themselves.
And actually, I love that when you do like Reveilleo like five times in a row, they
stop saying it.
It's not Reveilleo.
Like the fact that you use Reveilleo ahead of a lot.
It's like Evil Vision.
That was that was another quality of life thing where it would be good if you could
use Reveilleo while you're moving.
When you cast Reveilleo, if you're sprinting or even walking, you do person stops and
cast it and then continues movement.
It would be nice if you could just continue and then just fucking cast it while you're
going.
Yeah.
And the other thing I think on a similar vein is like I'm turns out in games that allow
you to like I will jump stairs and roll and stuff like that.
And they deliberately stumble to slow you down.
That combined with and I appreciate perhaps it's to do with like more real life immersion
or whatever.
But the again, I will jump.
I would jump off if it's like a first floor hole down to the second floor.
I just jump off.
I can't be asked to go downstairs.
And like, no, you can't.
You can't.
You can't get yourself any ledge.
You can't, you know, jump off of stuff in that in that way.
Yeah.
You can like in that bit where I think you're trying to get to Honeydukes and you can like
you fell off into the water.
It's like that.
It only lets you jump in instances where a human would live and be injured.
Like in the sense you could jump down 30 feet into a lake.
But if we jumped off the first floor onto the ground floor, you'd break your legs.
And so, yeah, I appreciate why.
But at the same time, I'm like, I'm just lazy.
I like that it regenerates your health.
And that if you if you're injured a lot of games, you have to heal yourself or you'll
just remain injured.
Whereas when you're out of combat, your health regenerates.
It goes back up.
So you haven't got a waste healing postings on it, which I think is quite cool.
It's quite a nice little just a nice little added feature for when you when you exit out
of combat that you haven't got to worry about healing yourself up again.
It will just do it quite quickly.
It's good.
It's been, you know, so far.
Yeah.
Bloody lovely.
Yeah.
I haven't actually seen that many.
I don't think I've seen any sport.
My phone's listening to all fucking see loads now.
I know you've seen a huge one.
I don't want to know.
Now I'm not bothered, actually.
I was just like, yeah, probably.
I've been seeing a lot of guides, a lot of guides and a lot of like hidden, hidden secrets
and features you didn't know about.
And any that any that I've sort of seen that I thought, oh, oh, like I've bookmarked them,
saved them so that I can come back and have a little look.
But yeah, so far, it's been an extremely good game.
Like I said to Ash, I got I made a bet with Ash 50 quid
that it will be game of the year.
Oh, right.
OK.
And I reckon I reckon it'll be game of the year.
I can't think of anything that's coming out that's going to top it.
And this is and this is what happened with Elden Ring come out first half of the year,
first quarter of the year.
Yeah.
And then remain top dog throughout the entire year.
Obviously, Ragnarok nearly took it off its pedestal, but so late.
Yeah, that's the problem.
That is a problem is it releases so late.
Sorry.
My fingers are frozen.
I'm just trying to hang on.
What are you searching?
I just want to say how house choice I want to what it gets you.
Here we go.
So this is how to choose a house.
What what you pick to choose the house, right?
Just because I wondered.
And obviously, we spoke about it a minute ago, didn't we?
So bravery.
What did you clear your curiosity?
Spoiler.
No, it's more of a guide.
OK, don't listen if you don't want to know how you pick a house.
No, to be fair, I completely forgot.
It just tells you it gives you the option to pick whatever you want anyway.
Yeah.
But it's literally it's all basically on the one that one question.
Yeah, you only get asked the one question.
Well, no, it asked it was like, are you excited to learn or something like that?
Well, anyway, yeah, you like school.
So bravery, Gryffindor, curiosity, Ravenclaw, loyalty, Hufflepuff, ambition, Slytherin.
And then it says about the Harry Potter fan club.
Oh, you're right.
It was like, yeah, in world world.
Well, I was Hufflepuff then anyway.
It's what Mark did.
He linked it up.
Yeah.
What?
So he he just was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm pretty sure it still gave you the option.
Oh, yeah.
And take the sorting hat quiz.
When you do the sorting hat in Hogwarts legacy, obviously it assigns you your house,
but it doesn't finalize it.
You have to finalize it.
But it does give you the option straight away if you want to pick another house.
So like me, when I got Ravenclaw, it said you don't have to.
You don't have to be Ravenclaw.
You can pick any of the other ones if you want.
And I just stuck with Ravenclaw.
Here you go.
It says important to note much of what you experience will be the same no matter which
house you choose.
The most important differences that you will encounter involve the following.
The house colors in cooperation to some of your gear will reflect your chosen house.
Exclusive access to your common room location and the flu flame fast travel point is not
accessible to other houses.
Extra socializing and introductions with the other fifth year students in your house.
And certain extra dialogue that may reference your house.
There does not appear to be any inherent bonuses, perks or exclusive companions that are locked
to one house.
In fact, regardless of your house, you'll be able to socialize, undertake quests and
even group up with fifth year students from each of the houses.
And some will have their own quest lines that don't rely on you being in the same house
as them.
So maybe it's not quest locked.
Like you were saying earlier.
Yeah.
While, okay, so this one just says while joining Gryffindor won't affect your story in any
notable way, you will have more chances to talk and get to know the fellow fifth year
Gryffindor students.
Gryffindor.
You may also spend time with Natty.
Oh, you're right.
You may also spend more time with Natty.
Yeah.
So I mean, that's cool.
So maybe at least you can.
Yeah.
And even Slytherin, if you want to be, if you want to dabble in Dark Arts, this isn't
a prerequisite to join Slytherin.
Oh, I forgot to say the.
Well, that's good.
If you pre-ordered it, you get access to the Dark Arts Arena, which is where you get to
test the Dark Arts spells at your will to see how they fare and all that type of shit.
Yeah.
It's open, but it doesn't notify you that it's open.
Oh.
And that is one of the videos that I saved on TikTok is a guide to show you where to
is you just go to it and then enter and start fucking shit up.
Oh.
And I don't, I think I feel like either me or you have been in the area.
Oh, you reckon?
I think so.
Yeah.
So we'll have a look.
We'll have a look at that and you can have a look at the old Dark Arts and I don't think
there's any quests involved in that thing.
I think there's a Dark Arts.
I think there's a, there's a quest, but I don't think in the arena, there's a, I don't
think in the arena, there's a, there's a quest.
Fair enough.
I'm not sure.
We'll find out when we end up over there.
I did just have a quick check about Tears of the Kingdom.
I think it's potentially, I have to look on Twitter to see if anyone actually got any.
I think there's potential that it just says expected stock 12th of May.
12th of May.
Well, that is the day it comes out.
Did they drop today then?
I don't know.
Literally two days ago.
Oh, that's a point.
That's, that'll tell you if anyone's got any in it.
Right.
Well, I'll talk and you.
Oh yeah, you talk.
So we're not in silence.
Basically there was a Nintendo Direct the other day and in it was a new trailer for
the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.
And at the same time they announced.
200 quid.
What someone's actually got one then.
There's loads on it.
Yeah.
So obviously it isn't the physical is it?
It'll be the whatever.
What do you mean?
No, I mean the collector's edition.
Yeah.
Collectors deluxe edition.
Obviously it's not, it's not a physical.
They don't have it.
No, yeah.
But they will.
It's the pre-order that you buy.
Arseholes.
That's how they do it.
That's what I know.
It's what they did with the, with the Yacht-Nar edition.
I know.
Just to be honest.
I don't trust that.
I don't trust it.
No, and just piss me off.
I don't want to give them any money.
I'd rather not have it.
195 quid.
Anyway.
So, yeah, so they released that the details of the collector's edition,
which is, I don't even know why I'm looking for the picture because I can actually do it from the read.
Sorry, they'll send it to you.
Oh, so you pay them now and then when it comes out on the 12th of May, they'll send it to you.
Ew.
No.
Fuck that.
But I'm, I'm kind of okay because it's, so obviously it's a box and then it's the usual case.
Then it's a steel book.
Four pins of which they've only revealed the first one.
They obviously haven't finished designing the last one.
Yeah.
Four pins in a nice box.
A metal poster and an art book.
And I can live without it.
You know what I mean?
I mean, I like it.
It's 109 in the UK.
It's $120.
109 pound in the UK.
And I like, I do like it, but I think I would rather have, so in Breath of the Wild,
oh, and other games, like other Zelda games, the amiibos gave you loads of stuff.
We can drive 260 miles.
Why?
Where is it in stock?
Forestside.
Yeah, but we can't pick it up though, can we?
No, but you can pre-order it and then when it comes out, we'll just have to drive up there and get it.
Why is that?
Because it's pre-order.
Yeah, but to why would it be?
Because it's the only one, there's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven stores at the moment.
That you can collect in store?
On Smith's.
Yeah, that you can collect in store.
But they're a while away.
Nuri.
Don't forget, I drove, do you remember?
Newton Abbey.
Oh my God.
Are these in Ireland?
Bangor's Northern Ireland.
Yeah, they're in Ireland.
We'll get Michelle to grab it.
No.
Oh no.
It's in Northern Ireland.
Sorry, it's not in Northern Ireland.
She doesn't live in Northern Ireland.
She lives in Ireland, the Republic.
So they're all Northern Ireland.
That's okay, because that's the UK, so we wouldn't, we should drive over.
We wouldn't even need your passport, bubs.
To take the van straight to Northern Ireland.
As if, I wonder if it'd let you.
No, it's not even, no, it's not even letting me add in it to basket.
Why?
Because they obviously don't have it.
Oh.
Yeah.
That's fucking stupid, innit?
It reckons I'm, oh right, yeah, no, it's not there.
Fucking pre-orders for shit, man.
It's so fucking stupid.
Yeah, but anyway, I'd rather have, so the Amiibo have, they have effects in the game.
Plus they look cool.
And I think I got every single Breath of the Wild one, of which there were,
one, two, there was two links as Eldar, two enemies and the four champions.
Right.
And then I didn't get, which I kind of wanted, the Zelda and Loftwing Amiibo that was released
when they released Skyward Sword on the Switch.
It's about 20 quid on eBay at the moment, but again, I can live.
And then, but they've announced so far one, Tears of the Kingdom link Amiibo so far.
But it's not anywhere.
Like it's just not anywhere.
And that will sell originally at the price that they choose to sell it for is normally like 12 pound.
Yeah.
And what I did when Breath of the Wild came out, I pre-ordered most of them, but I didn't get Zelda.
And then in the end, it was cheaper to buy someone selling a set of five.
I bought the set of five, kept Zelda and sold the other four that I already had.
And in the end, once I worked it out and I didn't overcharge, like I didn't inflate it, I just sold them.
Yeah.
Because all I wanted was to just, you know, sell them and have my complete set.
Yeah.
Yeah. And in the end I did because Zelda that was so rare at the time and I'm like,
the people's prices were gross and you can pick them up now.
You know what I mean?
You can pick, you can, you can.
Did it only release pre-orders on certain places?
Was it like Smith's toys and games?
It's only Smith's and games so far.
Right, that'll be one of them.
There's been nothing on Amazon UK and nothing on Nintendo Store UK either.
It reckons best buy game stop target in Walmart,
but it's not been on American Amazon or American Nintendo either.
That's so annoying.
But it's on Amazon Canada.
So lucky, lucky Canada.
Every fucking box that bought most of it, I guarantee you.
Oh, of course.
But yeah, honestly, I just want, I just want the Linkamibo, like so bad.
And any other consequent ones that come out.
But I feel like hopefully that will be slightly easier to get.
I don't know.
It's difficult to say.
But yeah, and obviously this is a new trailer and there's a lot more Sky stuff.
The Sky stuff.
Which is cool. Yeah, a lot more up in the air.
They've shown a vehicle, a vehicle on the ground and a vehicle in the sky.
Since the first time there's been a vehicle.
In Breath of the Wild, there's no, it's just horseback.
Yeah, yeah.
And obviously your glider, but that's a hand glider.
So yeah, there's like a vehicle in the sky.
They show, they show like all of the enemies from Breath of the Wild and the Blood Moon.
And what was it?
But the end, so you've got Zelda's voice and she's like, I don't think you can beat him
or something like that.
And then at the end, it shows Zelda falling and Link jumping after her.
But you don't really know why.
You can't really see.
There's this red thing, which is, I don't know if it's the same as like Climax, but
if it's the same as like Calamity and all of that stuff, I'm not sure.
And yeah, and she says something like, lend him your power, but you don't know who she's
talking to.
So it was a juicy trailer.
I was quite excited.
But I think ultimately I've still got to finish Breath of the Wild, which I will do,
which I will do.
Yeah, on the 11th of May.
Well, no, so what I'm wondering, so I've done pre-order on Amazon, but I may very well,
if it doesn't change in price and it's the same price on Nintendo Store, I might just
get it digitally.
Why?
Because then I can always have it.
Because at the minute, what do you mean?
Why are you putting that face?
Yeah, but what other games do you have inserted into the Switch?
All the other games that I have on?
No, no, yes, but what game is there a game that's always inserted into it anyway?
Because if you had it on physical, isn't it, that's less memory.
And if you don't ever put anything physical in the Switch anyway.
What do you mean?
I do.
No, no, no, no, I'm not saying I'm not saying that you don't ever play games that are
physical.
I'm saying you want to be able to take Zelda everywhere with you.
How often is there another game that's in the Switch when you're taking it around?
Is there a game in it now that's physical?
Yes, always.
Yeah, like so one to Switch, I have physical Mario Kart's physical.
Because originally I was buying everything physical because it was cheaper to buy it
on Amazon.
Yeah, because obviously I think maybe because it was so new, I don't know, Amazon will have
it for cheap.
Will you get your points from a pre-order?
Pardon?
Nintendo points.
Will you get Nintendo points on a pre-order?
Oh, don't you remember?
For the receipt.
Raging, no, you just click, you click X and say claim points.
But I didn't know that.
They didn't advertise that and they fucking expire.
So of the like 20 physical games I have, never claimed any points.
But to be honest, they're not really worth it.
It's like pence and it really quits.
You're talking I've probably maybe lost like 15 quid.
I got BP fucking rewards card.
I put hundreds through that card and I got like fucking 30 quid sitting on it.
Yeah, honestly, I was raging when I found that out.
But I don't know, I'll see because it's things like there's games I have that I'm always
like, oh, you'll have a little play of that.
And then I'm either like sat in bed or sat in a different room or whatever.
And you're like, oh, I forgot what I'm going to get.
Yeah.
And I have, I think that like it's changed from that preference of physical games
pertaining to the Switch has sort of like changed a bit because
I don't know, I just find it lately easier.
Everything is going digital anyway, especially when it comes to gaming.
They just got to work out how if it is possible to make games, that's a little bit smaller
to fit on.
But that's part and parcel of gaming, really.
Well, and larger storage is far more accessible.
Like what you've paid for a 200 gig card is a fraction of what I paid five years ago.
Yeah.
I mean, it just becomes more capable.
I mean, Middle Earth still took up 107 gig of that.
It's gross.
It's fucking low.
Switch games aren't that big.
Well, I think it was because that Middle Earth has all the DLC attached to it as well.
And there is like when I went to start it, there's like four different like campaign
type, like there was four different people that I could play.
So I mean, I could be entirely wrong because I've never actually played it.
So, but I'd imagine that's why it was so fucking gargantuous.
What a segue into the Steam Deck.
Yeah, I'm having a lot of fun.
Took it to work with me for the first time the other day.
And that is so surreal.
Sitting at work, sitting on a fucking train track, basically.
Playing Middle Earth Shadow of War.
Very, very peculiar.
Also discovered that my regular phone charger that I have in the van
was not powerful enough to charge the Steam Deck.
No, it was the van that's not powerful enough.
The port in the van, the wires, nothing.
It's what's at the other end of the wire.
Oh, the van itself then is not powerful enough to charge the Steam Deck,
which is just crazy.
It popped.
I plugged in and it popped up with a warning saying,
not enough power to charge this, mate.
You driving a lot?
No, it was turning on.
The van was turning on though.
Running.
It was running.
Probably, yeah, the output of the van is probably only like 50 or not.
It just went, no, I can't do this.
In fact, it even said there's a high chance that the battery will actually run down
because it won't charge it fast enough.
I was like, ah.
The Steam Deck ends up charging the van.
I was like, fair enough.
But yeah, it was just very fun.
Mark had a play on it so he could see if he likes it.
I reckon he'll end up getting one.
And yeah, it's been quite fun.
And I'm still getting used to that handheld console style of things,
which we've already resigned ourselves to talking more on that subject
in the exclusive episode.
So you fuckers will have to pay for that if you want to listen to us chat about more.
But what I will say is...
What for you putting a paywall in?
100%.
But what I will say is that it's very weird getting used to the fact that...
Where if I'm playing World of Warcraft or something like that,
if I'm in a dungeon, if I'm in the middle of a fucking cut scene on a PlayStation
and you need me to do something or I need to go somewhere or it's dinner or something like that.
Yeah, hang on a minute.
Just let me do this.
I'm not used to the idea of just hitting standby,
like just pressing the power button and it just pausing it.
And then I come back to it and it's absolutely fine.
Obviously, I know you can do that on the PlayStation.
You can bang it in rest mode and shit.
But yeah, it hits differently.
And I just haven't...
Like when we was waiting to take the dog out,
I was like, let me kill these two geezers.
Completely forgot that I could have just gone boop.
But I remembered after I killed them.
I was like, shit, I could have just...
So I did.
So it's a very cool bit of kit and I'm learning more and more the more I play it.
Yeah, I haven't really got a bad thing to say about it.
All the little needly bits that we first dealt with when we got it,
like the sound button being a bit iffy and sometimes a game not launching
seemed to have sorted themselves out.
The only bit that I'll add is that when you go into desktop mode,
you can update it through that.
So there are updates that you need to do on the Steam Deck,
but it doesn't notify you that you need to do them.
You just periodically have to go into the desktop mode to do it.
So I just have to keep on top of that.
But I'm quite good with keeping stuff up to date like laptops and shit like that.
So it's all right.
Nice.
It's all right.
It's quite decent.
So Days Gone hasn't grabbed you then?
No, Days Gone has, but then Hogwarts come out and then I...
Oh, of course.
It was like me when I was replaying Last of Us.
I still want to, but yeah.
Oh, that fucking came out today.
Yeah.
Of course it did because of the Super Bowl.
So we got that as well.
Maybe we watch it tomorrow night.
Yeah, because I've got to go to bed early today as well.
Yeah.
But I've only got Shadow of War on that because it was like free quid.
Sorry, the dog just for reference.
I wasn't talking to Reese, I was talking to the dog.
The dog's gone all...
What do you want to say?
Having a looky.
She wants to say nothing.
I might actually leave...
Oh, breath stinks.
I might actually leave it here, you know.
Oh, okay.
I'm really in the weirdness.
Wait, what were you even saying?
It's really cold.
I finished what I was saying.
Oh, you were saying about Last of Us.
I just said that I only got Shadow of War on the Steam Deck
because it was like free quid on the Steam Store.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have it,
so I probably would be playing Days Gone now.
Yeah, totally.
But they play really well.
The graphics are decent.
Even on Shadow of War, the graphics are set to like low quality
and it still looks real decent.
Oh, wow.
So...
Nice.
It's quite nice.
Yeah.
It's fucking freezing and I really need a wee.
So this is a little bit of a short episode,
but you ain't paying for it, so who cares?
True.
What time we at then?
47?
Oh, that's grand.
Yeah.
We've made...
We've more than made up for it in our other episodes.
It is so cold in here.
I can't get over how fucking freezing.
My hands are frozen.
This is grim.
Right.
We're going to fuck off.
I'm going to make another cup of tea.
We're going to film some more, record some more audio.
You're going to then play Hogwarts Legacy.
I'm going to sit on the steam deck.
We're going to have a lovely time, but ultimately we're going to be warm.
Yeah.
That's the best thing that we can hope for.
You're going to go, what's for dinner?
What's for dinner?
What if I make normal noodles and then we get like this...
Bang some Chinese.
Some Hong Kong.
Yeah.
Knowing us is going to be garlic chicken and all.
Let's figure that one out.
Okay.
See you later everyone.
It's been an absolute pleasure.
We will catch you next week and we will have more Hogwarts tales and
every other gaming bullshit that we might come up with.
See you later everyone.
Bye bye.