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Our last episode
About Hogwarts legacy every episode we've done about Hogwarts legacy legacy so far
Fuck me. It's ridiculous in it's absolutely ridiculous every every fuck me
What I was gonna say is every episode that we've done about Hogwarts legacy
Has got like double the listenership that any other episode has so it's obviously firmly in the
Thermally what is going on? Fuck me firmly
in
the spotlight so I feel like
We might as well talk about it again
Yeah, because we've got even more to talk about that we do we do was I here last week? I
Don't know. I was thinking about this today. It all wrapped into one before
No, I think I was because isn't what we were fucking freezing to death what last week. Yeah. Mmm
Yeah, I think it was actually
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, baby. Yes
Yeah, great and it was us yeah, we did Hogwarts legacy and tears of the kingdom
Oh, yes, I would have trailer. So that was nice one
So we we've sunk in some more hours when it comes to Hogwarts legacy and I've stunk ups
I swear I swear what the fuck's happening to me
What is happening?
Sorry, it's cuz we're recording fucking my brains thrown off
So you stunk I've stunk
And you have and I liked it
Come home today and I was wearing an old t-shirt
And everyone everyone's got that t-shirt where you you just don't throw it away and you wear it
They do but yeah, you wear it. Well
You have that time if they have that t-shirt where it's so old that it smells absolutely fine until you start sweating in it
And then it really smells of sweat
And I decided for whatever reason to wear said t-shirt today to work and today I had to do a shitload of walking around
With my jacket on and my high-vibre and all that shit. So I was extra hot
So I was I was smelly and sweaty and I come home and I said to Steph don't come near me
I'm smelly and I'm sweaty and she was like, I can't smell you. I can't smell anything
Oh when you're talking out your ass because I can fucking smell it and then she smelt my armpit. She's like, that's fine
So I smell hers as well and I went oh, yeah, it's fine. So there must be a thing
I think it is a scientific thing. Yeah, you just learn to like this
I mean like I could once I got like really in there I could smell it but it didn't smell like really
Terrible. Once the nose was straight in the armpit. It was weird. I was like smells weird, but like it smells good
Yeah, great. Yeah, gross. This is what you tune in to listen to essentially like couples therapy
So, um, yeah and and there's been more hours sunk
Into the steam deck. So later on I'll throw not a massively in-depth review
but I feel like I've got my hands on it enough to
To talk a hell of a lot more than what we did when I first got it. So that'll be exciting
But going back to Hogwarts legacy, I think
Hours wise I know that a lot of people have sunk in way more hours than we have especially like
Like Mark's put in a shit ton of hours and there's people who have already platinum did and that type of shit
Fun fact, there's a person who platinum did in 60 hours, which is quite impressive
Yeah, that's weird. You must have just rinsed it though
It's as long there was also someone complaining that the story was too short
Oh, sorry that the game was too short itself, but they just be like the main story
It was what you fucking expect. It's an open world you silly prick
And I think that that kind of showed when you were at sort of like the 18 hour mark
And I was at maybe the 14 hour mark, but we were at very similar places in the story
Yeah, and it's not like I was going through it, but I think I was those quests seemed quite cool
So I was kind of leaning to that first and I have sort of
Been aware of that now and put the main story sort of on hold and cleared my list a little bit down
Yeah, I was getting sidetracked way more than because there's just so many quests
I know many this is what someone said they were like I liked how she said it
She just said it's as linear as you want it to be. Yeah, definitely
And that I think is so true because I know what we were saying the other day how at points
I found it quite overwhelming when you get and I don't mean overwhelming the sense of like
Oh, I'm overwhelmed, but I like that like oh, you know, I'm not like crumbling in a chair like but it was
Quite oh when you'd get the owl post like three or four at a time
And it's like hello meet me here. Oh, actually, I need to picture about this come and find me over here
You're like, whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Yeah. Well, where do you want me motherfuckers?
Yeah, and then you kind of it's like a kid in a toy shop
You're looking and you're like, oh so I can learn flippendo I can learn to send oh I can go and do this
And I can fly faster my broom all this it like it what I found and I think you did kind of find it, too
Is I'm then like skipping the dialogue because I'm excited to do this
But I'm also excited to do the thing after yeah, and like I really wanted
The room requirement in the room requirement. I wanted the animals
And so the second and obviously where I'd seen you get them
I knew that it would be speaking to dig and it was like I'm gonna dig right now
Yeah, so so I have I don't want to say like it's a negative because ultimately I think I'd rather be
Spoilt for choice and scratching about going
And I think the other thing that it does is it makes you think that you're further in than you are
Yeah, yeah, why yeah, and I think that becomes apparent when you do look at I feel like we haven't scratched the surface
No, like I ended up somewhere completely new the other day when I oh wait
Sorry to just bogot this conversation for a second. I
Found another glitch didn't I?
Steph keeps finding all when I play it is absolutely fine. I have no issues whatsoever
Steph plays it and there's glitches all over the gaff
Yeah, and I was so I was just like million about and I'd gone to I couldn't tell you where somewhere quite on the edge of the map
Actually, and anyway, I'm I don't know what it was. I did
I just turned around and I was it was suddenly first person wasn't it?
Yeah, it's what it looked like and I was like, I don't think this had first person
Turns out I was inside my own skirt
Yeah, I was like inside my body about waist height and she turned around and then it was big
The broom was coming out of the middle and I was looking straight at it
And then I tried to land I tried to like when I landed
Yep. No, I'm still completely inside myself and then I think I I was at so far
Which I will give them as annoying as it was because where I was there was no like flu flu flame
Which is if you don't know it's the like their version of fast traveling and obviously you unlock the locations
Yeah, it's called flu flames based on flu powder from Harry Potter
And yeah, I wasn't anywhere near a flu flame and I was quite enjoying just kind of
Exploring where I was because they've obviously they've got lots of little mini things and stuff
And yeah, so that the only bit that was truly frustrating is that it was like I was coming to the end of playing
I was about to come off and there was no way I was going to go back there just to pretty much end the game
Yeah, but what I will say is what I was getting to is so far any bug I've encountered apart from that controller vibration thing
You travel somewhere else and you're fine. I sort of out there and you're fine. So I will give them that
They did do a hot fix of various things like that. Just just little little fixes and tweaks and stuff
So maybe maybe half of them have been sorted because they had their they had their first update yesterday
Day before the first update. Okay. It was only a small one. Yeah, I was gonna say but an update an update. Nevertheless
Yeah, but I mean it's fine. I think well, well, it's like we thought we had one yesterday didn't we with the
You thought it was like it's just an invisible person with a blade. I can't do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Fucking mirrors and shit. It's just a massive sword floating around. I was like what the fuck
Trying to trying to crucio it and I was like what I can't hit this motherfucker
And then yeah, I quickly clocked on that if you look for a certain archway, it becomes visible
So yeah, fair play. Very clever. Yeah, because I really didn't make it seem like a glitch
And I'm sure that there'll be many other people that will also be thinking the exact same thing going what the fuck's wrong with this broken
Especially if you've had an experience like I have whereby I'm kind of
Expecting like I was quite shocked having been a dream like value player where I'm so low and ultimately
I just know just to just to defend dream like value for a moment
It is in early access. The whole point of what they've done is to allow essentially people to pay you to beta tests kind of
And you know, and it has been for the most part great and they are handed to him the list that they put out the other day of quality of life improvements
All different things is cracking anything about the crashing did immediately crash pretty much when I started playing it even the updated one
But fucking maybe said it technically isn't out yet. So we have to give them that but nevertheless it has set me up for a game
I just expect every game to fucking crash now or have bugs or whatever. And is that the whole point of it?
Did what? What? You're telling me they can't just fix the crashing issues at all. Yes, but it's it's the switches had the most problems
That must be getting that must be invested. Charlotte has a switch light hasn't crashed once. There are people who didn't completely deleted the game
Redownloaded it. I can't remember on which platforms and it was then fine and that could be the case. I don't know
I wouldn't necessarily trust the cloud save enough to delete because if I delete it and everything gets delete like the actual my progress is deleted
The cloud save doesn't work for whatever reason categorically will never pick it up again too far. I'm one of them people if I lose that
Whatever it comes out and it's like actually in order for you to fix this you will have to uninstall it
Well, no as fine as they can like if they have a cloud save feature that will keep my progress there
But if for whatever reason that like were to malfunction and they like really sorry, but it's gone
No, isn't it? Isn't it account bound? Don't have to log into an account to play it or just open up the game and it just opens
Up straight away. Yeah, you logged in it logs you in you just it's just an email address
I think alright, so yeah, you'd be absolutely fine. So you're your account. Yeah, but your account isn't isn't connected to switch to Nintendo
Oh, it's their own. What I'm talking about is the data that's on
Right, so like say take animal crossing for example that has cloud save as well, but people have lost their whole saves
How it's safe so we've really diverted from the the theme here, but never mind
Basically how they do it so I have like the Nintendo switch online this is I think I'm right here
The Nintendo switch online has a cloud saving feature
But animal crossing when you click on what's in my cloud animal crossing isn't there right right and that's because I believe
Animal crossing itself has its own cloud save
Yeah, yeah, that isn't within the usual thing and
Something there. I don't know why or what or when people are having this trouble
But I see I'm on a couple of the animal crossing groups on Facebook and discord and stuff
And yeah, sometimes people it's difficult obviously because you don't know the situation of why they lost it
But people all the time. Oh my god. I lost my switch. I lost my island like
It happens all the time. It's so odd because if it's on a separate launcher, I just find that odd
Okay, but could you imagine though
What I don't know
So you can only have where is like how we're playing legacy if you wanted to play breath of the wild you click your
Person on my switch lot on the switch. Yeah, you would click you you would load up breath of the wild
You would play your own game. Yeah, and what they've done with animal crossing is
No, you have one island per switch regardless of who's logged in you if you were to start up animal crossing
You would make a car. It's the same. It's always been the same
Same as the chip and stuff. Yeah, you know what I mean?
The DS game cartridge, whatever. Yeah, yeah
You there's only ever one town because it can I don't I believe if I'm right
As far as the DS when it was stored it was all stored on the cartridge
IE you take out. Oh, am I am I right? I don't know. I'm pretty sure so it's all started the cartridge
So if I play in on my DS, I eject the game. Oh, I forgot the bag
Oh, my mom asked me to get the bag and I forgot it. I'm just gonna come out. She's getting it now
She's getting the bag. Oh, she's gonna scream at you. Oh
She's gonna text me scared. You're worried what part of what's in the bag?
It was just a clear plastic bag, but she asked me to get it
Oh, yeah
So
Sorry everybody forgot to bag the bag I
Forgot to bag the bag with the bag. Oh
Shit, there's an Ikea bag hanging off the fence as well. Yeah, no, that's okay. That's the one she told me. Oh god
I'm terrible. Anyway, so
So yeah, so I take out the game and I can put it in your DS and play that game
Yeah that town. Yeah. Now. I'm pretty sure that with New Horizons
It's stored on the switch and I want to say
That if I eject that game and put it would put it in your switch
It would be a game for you. I think yeah, I think and that so if you think of it in that way
I don't think it can cope with creating like two worlds. It's like I don't know. I don't know honestly truly why
100% confidence, but I think that's why it's the same with quite a lot of games on
PlayStation or something like that if it hasn't got
Multiple different saves then it is one console one one game
Yeah, that's how it works and he do you can play on it
But whoever opens the island is there called the mayor? No
It's something like the resident
Whatever is whatever you president pimp motherfucker. You're the only one who can like edit and I'm crossing bitch
Top dog. I can't even remember the point. I was making to be honest. Oh about the crash syndrome
Yeah
So Hogwarts legacy
And yeah that first bug when I went into the rock really shocked me because I don't know why I was just expecting this like
super clean bug less game
But now I
Excites me like it makes me like fuck it. It don't matter. Does it really?
None of them have broken the gate apart from that as I say the contrast
Oh, and it wouldn't stop vibrating other than that. Nothing's nothing's stopped me
Yeah, and it has it's not shit. That's that's repetitive and really annoying
It's just very simply. Oh, I just fast travel to the closest flu flame
And then fly over back where I was in fucking five seconds
It's not an issue and it doesn't occur enough for it to be an issue
Obviously it is an issue
Happen to me, but yeah, really really fucking fun game ashes all hot under the collar now because we've got that bet on
For its big game of the year and he's like
Because he doesn't reckon it is and I reckon it will be there's 50 quid on the line here
I'm with that shall be honest. I reckon I'm gonna get it. I reckon I'm gonna get it. This game is very very good
It's very good
I
And so weird one really because I want to play it but at the same time. I'm happy to not play it
Like today you was out so I had every opportunity to sit there and play it didn't touch it
I'm really I was fucking around with audacity, but
Oh, yeah, but then that's okay
You don't think you necessarily need to be like obsessed with the game
I mean I'm not a fan of the game
I mean I'm not a fan of the game and I think it's a good game, but then that's okay
I don't think you necessarily need to be like obsessed with the game to enjoy it
Sometimes I think that's quite nice like I I feel like I can say it well
it's not like anything crazy, but I
I feel like when God of when you were coming to the end of Ragnarok I
Feel whether whether you and you probably will go no no it didn't but deep down
I felt like to me you rushed the last
What do you mean?
The last little bit of Ragnarok because it was a Thursday night, and it was getting late
And you wanted you wanted to talk about it on the pod and that you started playing it completely differently
And yes, you enjoy it you want to get to the end you want to see what happens I get
And I don't I don't mean you rush it like you didn't enjoy it or get the most out of it
For about four quests like side quests that I didn't that I didn't return to because I
I openly admit I can't be bothered I can't be bothered I'm not a returner to games
No, and this is the thing but had you I'm the same I am the same you second
I finished that main story bye
I'll tell you what it was it wasn't it wasn't the rushing to get it done. It was that area that I was in
I can't remember the dragon
Not fucking Dragon Isles
The place with the dragons there was so many side quests and stuff to do there
And the way that I would work that game is every area I went into I would do everything in the area
And when I got into that dragon area it was so fucking big and there was so much shit
And I just started just doing it doing it doing it doing it and I got towards the end of it
And I was just burnt out with it. I was like get me the fuck out of it. I was like I'm done
I'm done with this get me away from this and then you're so close to the end
The only other option you can go and do is go and because I'd already done all the other side missions
Is to carry on with that main story and then it was at that point where I was like I am right near the end
Fuck it. Let's just let's beeline the story
It was just I was just sick of that area lovely area really well made
But when you spent like four hours there like straight it's like oh I'm fucking leave me alone
I'm done with it. But yeah I'm not a returner to games especially if they're single player
I'm not I'm not interested in Platinum's I'm not interested in the trophies
And if I've finished the main story and done a decent chunk of the side because I'm not a beeliner
I won't just go straight for the story I like to do the side missions
But yeah, I'm also content with not doing all of them. Yeah, because they're side missions. I don't need to do them all
I think that sometimes I don't know like I find if there's absolutely no benefit
IE it's just they've put it in because they're like right. We've got an open world
We need to have at least two things that you can collect. You know, I mean something like that
They're like it's gotta be we've got I will hide in the back rooms and yeah the roofs
Yeah, and oh, I just which one now?
Assassin's Creed rather. I think it was the feathers you collect the feathers. Oh, it's actually too
Must be yeah, Mark's done that I quite liked it and I think I don't know if I got them all
But that when I finished I was like I want to collect more feathers
I liked it. I was like go look for some feathers, but most of the time I think
I think so I think like Tomb Raider they've done quite well because there's just enough where it doesn't like take the piss
I'm not collecting 999 whatever it is. It's literally maybe like 10 or like you collect salvage and that helps you with
upgrading your tools or something like that your weapons
When it's got a benefit, I like it. You know, I mean that or even like the what?
You're when you went it sounded like you were zipping up a bag
And yeah, I'll come up with the daily and keys in Hogwarts legacy
We won't say what you get but you get something cool. I think I've already spoken about what you get
But we'll know you've already found out don't you know, I already knew what it was though. Oh, I don't remember
Last week. I don't know what you got until you got it and then I went I don't know for your house chest
Yeah, I won't lie. I just YouTube the last two of them because I could not find the one I fuck it
But yeah, but like the Korok seeds in Breath of the Wild
They do get this is where it kind of mutes my last point because you do get stuff for them. You trade them for
Storage. Oh, I don't know you trade them for something you trade them for something
I can't remember what now. I can't remember what. But there were something but there's I think there's 900
Yeah. Oh, that's too far. And you have to do puzzles to get them. That's different though because obviously that's
That's like you just say you get storage or there's a that's more currency
Whereas say like with but not 900 seeds. No, I know. So shit ton. Yes. It's too many
But like with Hogwarts legacy, you have the the the pages from the books. Yeah, they're floating around and they get stuff
There's fucking loads of them
But I'm I'm almost certain that obviously you have those challenges the rewards you get from those challenges
Yeah, I'm almost certain you don't need to collect every single page to get all to get all of them challenges
No, I don't think so. Yeah, but it restarts each time. I know I know but obviously that bar goes back to zero that bar
There's only so many rewards like all of mine. I'm on the last ones
So yeah, but you're also the last one for the pages in Hogwarts, isn't it? Like 50 pages that probably is it? Yeah, and then it bumped up
But what I'm saying more. Yeah, but what I'm saying is that the rewards there was always five rewards
There's no more after five. So say you need ten pages for one then it goes up to 30 and then it goes to 50
Yeah, exactly. So by the one you need 30 you'd have needed 40 because it resets
What I'm saying is if you if there was 500 pages in the whole game and you only need 300 to unlock all the rewards
That's that to me that seemed why are you shaking your head?
Because I don't think that's that's not the case. I think that as many pages you can collect takes you to the end of the rewards
I don't think that's the case
300 pages, right? I'm gonna Google it. Okay, but I think so say
200 I'm not very good at math now. So 250 pages in total
You need 10 pages for the first one, then it goes back to zero. So that's 10 pages caught then you need
40 pages for the second one. So then you need so to get to the second one you needed to have collected 50 pages
Then it goes to like two sets of 50. So now technically you're at
150 pages. There's 150 in Hogwarts castle field guide pages. Yeah
And it was like 10 25 50 75 which adds up to probably 150 by the end of the
Because it resets doesn't it when it says out of a hundred pages you've already collected however many
I'm trying to find because I haven't I just want to find the field guide pages rewards
Puppy, puppy, puppy
Sorry I got you strapped by the door
Rewards here we go. I don't want to fucking know how to find them. I just want to know what I get for them motherfuckers
Well no don't
Well no because it's on there it's on the challenges you can see what you get. Oh okay
And it has decided to not tell me and just go to fucking why does it do this
I don't know
What was you saying?
That it will be as many as you collect will get you to the end of the challenge
I'll have to speak to mark about it because he's the one that's fucking doing it all
There are a total of 13 field guide page challenges in the game split into three separate sections
These sections are Hogsmeade Hogwarts and Highlands
Moving to Hogwarts portion this is obviously going to be similar to blah blah blah
But all in all encode there are five task tiers here making it an even more arduous endeavor
You'll be starting off easy with only two pages to collect then quickly ramping up to eight then 15 25 and last but not least
50 yes where I'm at do
This is a this is pretty mon this is a pretty monumental task and require you to search in every nook and cranny blah blah blah
Blah blah blah blah blah so that means if there's a hundred and fifty pages
In Hogwarts well 50 25 15 8 and 2 is not 150
So what I was saying is that it sounds like you don't need to collect them all to get all of the rewards
So therefore once you've got all the rewards if you don't feel if you yeah there's nothing forcing you to get them all unless it unless it's attached to a trophy
Whereas if it's a currency like with Zelda and you need to get all of them what they call again
Corrox seeds because there's a purpose for it then that makes it more annoying because then it's like I kind of need to do this
But at the same time I think it's exactly the same as what you just said there
There's not 900 seeds worth of upgrades and because it's so big and I think that's probably what they've done
It means that you're not scratching about revisiting all these different locations trying to find that last single page in the game
And these are because you've got like 40 pages grace to find which is a cool way to do it
And I think yeah, but at the same time you'll also have those people that won't feel that they've completed it until they do find every single page
Yeah, luckily neither of us are those people so that's after listening to this
All you motherfuckers can come and correct us on all of the wrong information that we've just spilled out because I have no doubt that I've been completely wrong about these few pages
Mark can tell me little Mark Manistoe he can tell me about all of it
He should come on Sunday and do like a special pod
What? Why would we do that?
Because people might want to hear Mark
That's not part of the schedule no one wants to hear Mark and his boring voice
He doesn't have a boring voice
He does and he knows it
You both have voices together the second you start talking you start talking like that
Big man
Yeah it would be a very interesting podcast to listen to because neither of you sound remotely like you normally sound
We do
You'd just be talking like that
That's not how we talk
It is go on you trust
Big man what's going on
Yeah but you talk like that you're playing steeply like oh no I died that kind of thing
What's that?
You definitely do
Why would you turn into proper Essex when you're with someone like Lois so
Don't say someone like Lois
What do you mean?
No I do I
Yes
You've been told this by other sources as well
Only by Roisin but then Roisin doesn't hear
Roisin is also posh as you like
Exactly anyway enough about me
GDPR of all my friends here
You're making me discoverable
Sorry I apologise
I'm in you know a secret here
Okay
So it's going well then
What is?
Hogwarts legacy is going well
I don't know when we will complete it I don't know who's going to complete it first
It'll be you because you can't bear
Oh that's what I've noticed about Rhys
I think that as much as he plays it cool he cannot bear if I'm in front of him
No I can't
No he's unreal
Like I think all I did was like open a door and he was like
Oh I've not opened that door yet I've not been there yet I've not seen that yet
Like right?
Yeah but I'm also better in combat than you are so I get through stuff a lot quicker
Oh you're an arsehole
Why? That's true
You're supposed to struggle a bit you're supposed to play it
Of course you are
You're supposed to use Wiggen Welds and shit man
Yeah but not all of them
No but I just don't like being watched I don't like being watched
What do you mean?
Look think about it you went to brush your teeth
I was sitting on the steam duck
When? No you're going just move just dodge look at the floor just roll
Just do that
No no
Oh what you're doing you've got no spatial awareness
And that is true
Bit bit bit bit
That was true
So tell me why when you walked away to spit toothpaste all over the bathroom floor
I've cleaned that up by the way
What today?
Yes if you go in that bathroom you'll notice that the floor was clean
Did you clean it up with your sock?
No
What did you clean it up with?
With a tissue and some spray
Hmm
Yes weren't expecting that were you?
No I wasn't just spitting that shit
Where it was cleared
Yeah good
I was sitting down having a fat shit and then I noticed it on the floor I went out
Why have you started pooing in there?
Because I was up there
Oh smelly
Well it won't be anymore
It was ages ago
Oh right no it's fine
One more time?
Oh your combat skills
Yeah you walked away and I did it in seconds because I knew you weren't watching me
Because you listened to what I told you to do
No
Yes
No
Listen look
No because it's like when I'm driving having you sat there going
Yeah but I don't even say anything
No you don't need to because you're breathing
At me
What do you mean I'm not even paying attention
Because I do something and you go
She drove into the house
Wait let me replay the audio
She drove into the house
Trying to show off
Goed in me all morning to reverse park and I said I don't like it I'm not comfortable and then here we are everybody listen
Oh that's horrible pull that away
Right you spoke over it wasn't it I'm listening to it as well it wasn't horrible
You tell me everybody
It must be my headphones
It's you so this is exactly when you have a pop at me
Very loud
For hearing stuff turn your headphones down then love
I can't there's no fucking bit I have to fiddle with them
Boo hoo right we'll hear the impact then
Go on then
I think we should
Oh hang on
There it was
Oh
That's the sound of the bumper hitting a step
Yeah I scuffed her
Never mind and then looted that one didn't she
Anyway but nevertheless we're getting far off
Back to it all it was is that I was sitting there quietly because
Back seat driving
Because I know you don't like being watched and all I did I was sitting on my steam deck so I was preoccupied doing something else anyway
No
And then what happened was I saw you somewhat struggling because you kept being fucking hit and you were obviously
You were staring at me
Not paying attention to the mechanics on the floor and you can't go
Mr Speaker
Because you were being hit by them every time and I can see you getting more and more frustrated by it and all
And I wasn't going to say anything I wanted to let you do it yourself
No you weren't
No you kept being attacked and all I did was go move back back back and then you saw the ring and then sure enough after that you didn't get fucking hit by it anymore
No yes I did yes I did because you said that at the start and I died like seven more times actually I was very tired
Yes but you weren't paying attention to mechanics
Tell me how you go away and I did it
Because I told you how to all the mechanics
Oh my god man I could not know what they are I know that the little bump was on the floor
You didn't because even when he
What's the time
Don't worry about that
What's the time
Half past
Right
I mean the timer how long have we been going for
Thirty four
Right okay
Why? No don't get wound up by it
I'm not getting wound up by it
This is an assumption about it I'm not getting wound up at all
All I'm saying is that I feel
No you said
I just pay attention to the mechanics
I don't pay attention to the mechanics I want to put on a t-shirt
Put on a plaque hang it above your desk yeah
I'm Rhys Langdon I pay attention to the mechanics
I'm also used to it because of World of Warcraft because of its own parity
Oh my god WoW isn't the only game in the world love
No but it has
Other games have mechanics
Other games how basic is fucking dodge
So why couldn't you do it then
Because you were watching me
And it's supposed to be hard I'm sorry
Did you sit there on Elden Ring dying for the millionth time going
Oh this is no no that's the whole point of the game
No no no no no no no no no no
Elden Ring is a different kettle of fish
We're upsetting the dog
Well just because you're shouting at me
You're shouting at me also
Now now look we're exposing ourselves here
Take that back though because Elden Ring is nothing like fucking Hogwarts legacy
No I'm not saying that it is
What I'm saying is if Elden Ring
Hardcore
If Elden Ring right
You didn't even die once because you were just
Bashing the shit out of every single enemy
Polishing them off like it was nothing
It wouldn't have the draw for you that it did
You are supposed to face a challenge
You are supposed to die
And then learn from what you did wrong
That is how it is supposed to work
But you did get fucked up by them spiders
Why why I don't understand
Why you're trying to make out like that's like
Ooh I'm better than you at the mechanics
Mate oh look you said it on tape
You started this conversation by going
Yeah but I'm better at combat than you
I don't get why you're putting the blame on me
Because I'm sitting behind you
Because you were staring
It's like backseat driving
But you watch me when I play
So I can't do the same thing
No you don't care
You don't normally care when I play
And then all of a sudden you're up on my grill
You're giving me tips
Of course I care when you play
Because it's interesting
You don't normally watch me play
I've spent like every time you play Hogwarts legacy
I'm sitting on the fucking bed
What do you think I'm doing
No you're playing wow and stuff
Like one day I play
Yeah exactly but you can look up
We'll crack on with it
And we'll see where we're standing
If multiplayer becomes a thing
I'll make sure I kick your ass on that as well
What do you mean as well
What have you ever kicked my ass on
Lots of things
Like
Can't name it Mario Kart
Oh wow no did you see the thing about Mario Kart
They call it rubber banding right
Yeah rubber banding
Yeah
And basically that's why
You're cracking when you're on your own
But then if you're whoever's the better player
Yeah
And this sounds really stupid to say whoever the better player is will win
But basically what happens is the reason why
A lot of the time someone's first and the other person's like 12
12th
Is all of the NPCs will increase their speed
To challenge the player in the front
It's great isn't it
But they leave behind anybody else
So because otherwise you just have an easy race
And then some people say no no no they fixed it on the Switch
And then someone else this fella who was saying it
Was like no because here's me and my wife
So is it actually an implemented thing by Nintendo
Or is it a bug
No it's a thing apparently
That was certainly prevalent in the first games
Which is why I've never won a single game of Mario Kart
Because a lot of racing games do do the rubber banding type thing
Like a catch up system
But then should it not be
Should be able to turn it off
Well no or rather just inclusive of the other players too
Have like maybe do like if there's eight NPCs
Have three that will keep up with you
Three that will keep up with them
Three that will keep up with that person
Well the idea of it's so like GTA
I know old
But GTA V on the racing missions on that
There's something called catch up mode
And basically when whoever's in first place
Everyone behind them is faster than them
Or not or just as fast as a little speed booster
To basically get them within range to where they could actually try and take
Take first position
Yeah
That's more fair but you can also turn it off if you want to
Obviously what Mario Kart does is so you know when you get the bullet
Yeah
And it's just insane
You'll never get that in first place
No yeah of course you wouldn't
Yeah they break it down
You never get the blue shell but you very rarely get red shells
And anything like that
You get all the shit stuff when you're in front like bananas
Yeah
But that makes sense though because you're in front
Of course yeah
But yeah green shells and stuff like that
It's kind of like tax in a way isn't it
You get taxed yeah yeah the better you're doing the more they're going to fucking take away from you
So it takes in more
Yeah yeah
Yeah great
They say video games don't prepare you for life
There you go
Yeah
Anyway that was episode 35
Yeah
So we took a little bit of that Steam Deck
For a little bit
For what?
So I've had a chance to play more of it
And I've had a hell of a lot more chance to play with it outside of the comforts of home
Which for me I know obviously you're very used to it
And a lot of other people that have a handheld console are
The ability to whip a console out while you're at work
Delicious
On some downtime whatever everyone's sitting around on their phone bored as fuck
And you can pull that out and play Shadow of War or Hi-Fi Rush
Oh no don't go through
I find that so it's so crazy
It's very odd especially to play something like Shadow of War
It's just a very fun game to be able to just crack out whenever you want
Very interesting
Yeah
So I've been doing that
It's a meaty game isn't it?
Yeah yeah I've been doing that a lot of work
And I think with the amount of hours I've been able to sink into the Steam Deck
There's some, I've discovered a lot of pros and a few cons to having a Steam Deck
That I feel like anyone who's listening to this if you're ever thinking about getting a Steam Deck or something like that
I can give you the hands on fucking review
I still think it's an absolutely fantastic console
I'm definitely playing the Steam Deck more than my laptop 100%
So like when the Steam Deck first turned up I went over a week without playing anything on it
Including World of Warcraft which I know doesn't sound like a great deal
But when you're used to playing it like fucking 8 hours a day
It's a big one
Obviously the storage is an issue but that's fixed by fucking money and has been fixed a little bit by me in terms of buying an SD card
The loading times from an SD card to the console itself is not that bad
It really isn't that bad
Is it like one of those ones where because you've not seen what it could be it kind of feels acceptable?
Yeah, it's kind of like if you're used to playing it
If you've only ever played in 30 frames per second you're not going to win so you can't play in 60 because you don't know what 60 is like
So I'm sure if I had a faster SSD then it might be different
But for now it really isn't an issue
The ability to just throw it in standby mid-game and then just pick it back up a couple of hours later and it being exactly the same
I find that crazy and obviously I know every console can do that now but to just have it in your hands I just find it
You're like an alien a little bit
What?
Just the concept of being able to just either like shut the lid like on a DS or whatever or just press the button
It's like a phenomenon to you which is cute
I find it so weird
It's something you haven't really experienced I suppose
Yeah, I find it so so so strange
One thing that I will make a note of is playing outside without an anti-glare screen
Really?
It's not hard but you obviously really notice like your fingerprints and shit like that
Obviously all the games I'm playing you don't have to use a touch screen but for UI purposes and hardware I do use a touch screen
Luckily I've got microfiber in the van and shit like that so I can clean it if I want to
But specifically like the first time I pulled it out when we was actually out on site and there was no shade or anything like that
I let Mark have a go on it and you couldn't really see all too well
I'll tell you what though
I'm fucking sorry
Whilst it's like ultimately unavoidable obviously the screen protector that you've put on it will have an effect
It's not quite a true case
But you can get an anti-glare screen protector
Maybe there's some cards then
For me not that much of an issue
If I'm perfectly honest just if I face away from the sun it's no different to how you have your phone
And you can just wound the brightness up
But that ties in quite well with what I was going to say next in that battery life
The battery on the Steam Deck is fucking awful
There's no questions about it
The battery on it is shocking
So your average apparently is 2 to 8 hours which is a massive fucking gap
It isn't
So especially playing something like High Fire Rush, Shadow of War
They default settings they will all run on 60 frames per second
Even on like high heavy fights and things like that it will stay at a solid 60 frames
Graphics wise it normally runs on like low to medium graphics
Which if you're on the big screen wouldn't look that good
But because you're on a small screen it looks decent
Especially the cutscenes in Shadow of War look really fucking good
They do I see I was looking at your shoulder
Even in High Fire Rush it all looks decent
So it's not an issue and that's coming from a graphics whore
For me I don't give a fuck it looks good so sweet
Same with Days Gone it looks good
But the battery gets eaten
Fuck me sorry I can't stop touching my penis
I've gotten used to it now I keep fiddling around
I tell you what it is it's because I'm wearing
Do you do it when Ash is sat there?
All the time it's because I'm wearing these boxes
For some reason they keep riding up so I spend loads of time doing that
And then like sorting my junk out
That's not what you were doing though you were playing with the ending or not
Playing with my foreskin there
For the last 10 minutes I've just been squeezing my foreskin
Reese
No one wants to know
Not under my trousers though so that makes it a little bit better
You're over trow
It's because I need a fidget
Yeah you do
That's not your willy
I need a thing I need a fidget spinner
My birthday's coming up
I have a fidget spinner
Yeah the battery's shit
It's just shit so it
And the whole
It needs a hell of a charger
So to combat
So I tried to charge it in the van
The van is not powerful enough
Or the charger itself is not powerful enough
To charge the steam deck
So I thought alright I'll get a power bank instead
Did a little bit of research
Nothing crazy
Found one on Amazon which was designed for the steam deck
And it had a clip on it
Where you could clip the battery in the back
Blah blah blah
It had a magnet turns out that magnet actually stops the fans from rotating
Not really something you want on a console
So
Decided to not get that one
Steph then found me
A power bank that wasn't going to cost me a fucking arm and a leg
So bought that
And
Gone
What was you going to say
I was going to say it was based on the fact that
I've had a couple of different power banks
With the switch and it's never ever been an issue
Yeah well this
Yeah
I was kind of going off of the
MAH and how powerful
How many recharges you get for
The whole thing
Well this power bank
It
Things did not go to plan
It's not it wasn't powerful enough
It was not powerful enough to power
The steam deck
The output wasn't high enough
The power bank was putting out 5 volts
Which is quite standard
Wasn't beefy enough to charge the steam deck
When you plugged it in it came up with a warning
Saying that it may actually in fact
Even in standby mode
The steam deck may drain quicker than it's
Being charged
So I did the test and when we were driving to work
With Mark I turned the steam deck off
Wasn't in standby I turned it fully off
Oh really?
Put it on charge to the power bank and after an hour it charged 4%
And how much is that taking the power bank down for?
About 20
Shit
Oh that's gross
So returned that
And did a little bit more research
And basically found out
That
So the steam deck will charge on
9 volts and 5 volts
But very very very slowly
The optimum is
45
So from the wall charger
To the steam deck is 45
Volts
And we found out that if you wanted to
Play the steam deck
And charge it
You need at least 15 volts
To do that
So we then went and found a power bank
I did I found an article
Which was
For power banks suggested
For the steam deck
Found the cheapest one it was like
I think it was like 50 quid
It was nearly 60 wasn't it
53 quid
And on Amazon
And looked at the reviews and just typed in steam deck
And sure enough the first one that came up was
Is this powerful enough
To charge the steam deck and the answer was like yes
I've pulled this specifically
For the steam deck and the next question was
Will this charge
Whilst playing and the person
Said yes and I have
I have tested it and it does
It does continue to charge while you're playing
And that power bank it does have a button
On the side you can press it and it tells you the voltage
And the amps and all that shit
And while it's charging from the USB-C it's charging
15 volts
Which is what you want so
The fact that I've now got that
Means that when I'm out and about and I want to
Play the steam deck I can
So
I'll be interested to see how many charges
You get out of the one
I don't think it's going to be a lot
So obviously the power bank itself hasn't
Optimized it hasn't woken up
So I put it on charge
While you was out
And I did
I think it was like from 50 something percent
Up to 100 and it took
I think the power bank is at like
63 percent
Something like that
So it's not bad
Because I'm wondering is it sort of extent where
Obviously for work it will be pretty much okay
Because it will probably be enough
For the time
That you play while at work
But I'm trying to think like so say if you were on
A long haul flight you've got
8 hours and obviously
No one's going to sit there for 8 hours solid
Like you're going to have a bit of food or watch a film
Or whatever but is it going to be the case
That so say you want to play it for
3 hours which is reasonable
Like would you get that
From that I think probably
But then it's whether you play those
First 3 hours have a bit of grub watch a bit of a
Film and then you're like oh I want to pick it up again
I can get solidly about an hour
And a half possibly 2 hours
At a push depending on the game I'm playing
Out of the Steam Deck on it's own
Which really isn't it's not great
But um
It's awful
The problem is that the games that are
On the Steam Deck are not optimized
For handheld
No exactly that's exactly what we were saying
They're optimized for something that you just plug in
They aren't designed for handheld
Is it dinner
So they're
You're working with something that is always going to be
Draining the battery but the fact that you have a power bank
That comes with it I reckon once the
Battery is fully settled in and all that
Shit I reckon I'll probably get
2 charges out of it
Which is decent
Certainly for what you need it for
What you're wanting from that
And like we said before with the battery protection
On the Steam Deck you can play it plugged in
And leave it plugged in
So if I'm at home I haven't got a
I can just plug the fucker in
Yes of course
So yeah I think
If you're thinking about getting a Steam Deck
Don't think of it like a Switch in terms of you'll be able
To sit there for hours and play it
Like a Switch you won't
The battery on it is awful you can
Fiddle around with the settings and things like that but
You're talking like half an hour
Extra is what you'll get
And really
It's not massively worth it
To lose a lot of the
Performance side of it for the sake of half an hour
Fuck it
Just lose the half hour just charge it again
Yeah and I wonder
I mean for someone like me if I had one
What I kind of found
With the Switch
Rightly or wrongly I know this won't be everyone's experience by a long shot
But I think some people would agree with me
When the Switch was announced
And everyone was like wow
So amazing
And then actually what I found was
So my sister's got a Switch Lite
And she will play it on the train
But whilst I would take my Switch with me
Not all the time
Because like I said I ended up at one point
I had a camera, a Mac
I feel like
Thief fodder
Robbed me
That kind of thing
Which would make me quite nervous but what I found with the Switch is
My particular journey at that time
I would have to change the train
So I'd have like
25 minutes on the first train
And then it was walk 5 minutes
To a 5 minute train
And then walk another 5 minutes to a 10 minute train
So I wasn't actually getting it out on the journey
So by the time
I was in a place where I
Was playing it
There'd be a wall charger anyway
Kind of thing
So I did do literally
Exactly what you've done
Got it
Loved it, playing it
Next thing I need, portable charger
Yeah and I think the case with mine would be
I don't get that much time
To play it either, you're talking like maybe
An hour out of the day while I am playing it
So for you, I think that
Your setup works quite alright
I could play it and then in the down time
Have it running off the power bank to charge it back up
And then when I whip it out again it'll have a bit more charge
And then the next time you want to play it you're home
I still think they're fucking cool
They're a really cool console
And it worked nice thing I think certainly
For yourself, you've got
The cons for you
Are minimal
For the pros
I can 100% see all the
Reviews and stuff that I saw
About it before I had the Steam Deck of people saying
I play this more than I do my PC now
Blah blah blah and I thought
How, how can you be doing that but
You're on the other side now
100% yeah because it's just fucking, it's good
We've got dinner haven't we
We have yeah
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We're going to have some dinner and then we're going to come back
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