count me down
it's already recording
ah click clack I'm back
fucking hell this microphone is so cold
yeah I know it's cold in here
oh my god yeah but this is fucking freezing
you know when we move it into a different room we have to leave it to let it like acclimatise to a warmer area so it doesn't condensate
are you nervous I'm back your voice just cracked
it's been a while since I heard that
no it's just fucking throwing me by surprise hearing your voice on this podcast again
daddy's home
I'm back baby let's do this
yeah you know what I was doing
I was very conscious of the fact that we've got that star wars thing coming up soon
oh we'll get into that
oh rubbish
and I looked at getting hoodies sorted out
like what's the buttons hoodies
are you alright
yeah
we've only been here for an hour
and because I figured hoodies is better than t-shirts because it's in April isn't it
so it'll still be sort of hoody weather
can we make them yellow
well this is the thing I've already said to Steph we're going to have to change the logo
and by change I mean take out the background colour because it looks fucking awful on a hoodie because it's just a solid colour
which simple done
and I need your input on it obviously you'll have what's the buttons on the front the logo that we have but without the solid background colour
and then you have the option to put anything else you want anywhere else
I'm talking sleeves fucking back anywhere else on the front
Mark said maybe watch the buttons down the sleeve
I quite like that sound the idea of that but I'd have to see how it looked
and then you can either have it printed on or I was thinking about paying a little bit extra get it embroidered
embroidered on your hoodie
well I need input because we have to do something we can't walk around a convention that's perfect advertisement for free
well not free but still all them sweaty nerds are going to be reading us
well I was going to get a picket fence and just walk around what's the buttons what's the buttons
podcast it's a cosplay yeah what's the buttons cosplay yeah
what do you think I can hoodies is a good shout
well yeah I'd say so better than a t-shirt I guess
depends how hot it is in there doesn't it
oh yeah that's true yeah but um
I'm going to take it off and have it wrapped around my waist all day
now printed or embroidered
I mean I'm not I'm not that much of a tosser I mean just printed would do
well let's see if other people want to buy one if people want to buy one then yeah
I'm not doing it for the masses
fuck it let the money roll in and then we'll mass produce this shit
then you can get your poxy embroidered bollocks
I'll get one printed for you and then I'll get embroidered because I just like embroidered
well we'll have to see get some prototypes drawn up we'll have a look
we ain't got time for prototypes
maybe we have
leave it with me and I'll get it sorted
that could be a good one though
yeah well something we can look into
I'll get that done I'll get that done
anyway back to the little squirts
go on squirts
thanks for your money
oh
thanks to Steph for filling in once again
constantly
it's getting a bit embarrassing now I feel embarrassed
I tell you what's going to happen
a lot of this has been out of my control okay this hasn't
I haven't done this intentionally
when we finish this podcast I'm not actually going to bother saying that you'll be back here next week
because there's a high high high chance that you won't be
so it's easier just to say goodbye
it's not the end
no it's not the end
it will never be the end
it's not the end I'm just saying
I'm just saying
couldn't afford to buy me out of this
I could
did ya?
give me one of them coins you got in your wardrobe
I definitely could
we've got um Mark keeps trying to get underneath
do you think you could buy me out of this what are you saying?
how much do you reckon it would cost to get me out of here?
what do you mean?
you gonna buy me out of this car?
well it's only the cost of the equipment
what you'd want payment like is in a full on buyout clause
this is
this ain't fucking FIFA
this is our business
this is our future business
you want buying out of the
what do you think I'm just gonna breath
do you think I'm just gonna drop the mic and walk away
well yeah well
got unused to the position needing filling
I've had applicants come in and all sorts
fucking idiots
get the fuck out of here
punks
I'd have to buy you out proper would I?
I couldn't just go look you paid 50-50 on the equipment
here's your half
fuck off
what are you talking about?
the frown says something else
what the fuck are you talking about?
you think you could just drop me?
no I'm not saying that I want to or I could
I'm simply saying if the time come
where we're now on let's say
we say we're on week seven in a row
and you've gone ah Reese I'm really sorry but it's out of my hands
I can't come and then I finally snap
I get angry and I go look
just fuck off
here's X amount of money for your equipment costs so you're not out of pocket
here's your patrons
actually no I keep the patrons because I set it up
here's my patreon
see you later
you turn around and you go I'm gonna need more than that sonny
yeah
alright
this podcast was pretty much fucking
yeah and that's where I'd lose because you got more financial firepower
but then if I like I just hurt you
physically
so
I don't know I'm bigger than you now
now you've always been bigger than me
no no no no no no no
stronger than you faster than you
I don't know if you're stronger though
I don't know if you're stronger you may be able to hoik yourself up a tree but I don't know if you're stronger than me
I'm very good at biting
ooh
ankles
Ash is doing this weird thing with his beard
I see it
you have to remember for the people listening I haven't actually I work in the same company as Ash but I don't work in the same place so I don't see him at work
so I haven't seen this man for however long it's been
and I see a picture of his beard and his moustache and it's very impressive
it's got very big very thick it's nice we'll have to go through a beard care routine what do you do because what do you do you do anything to it or you leave it
you gotta look after it
yeah it's quite the process
yeah
I go to bed I woke up and it's grown a little bit more each day
you don't do anything with it your skin fucking feel horrible under that
no
maybe different skin for different people maybe something like that but other ways beards looking decent and then he's pulled up today looking like fucking captain jack sparrow
that's exactly what I got called this morning
yeah he's put all fucking braids in it and shit like that and whilst it looks good he's having a midlife crisis
gonna whack some guy liner on and paint a couple of me nails
yeah black
yeah yeah fuck it
you can't come here Mark
you've thrown me you've thrown me
why what for
why do you think I'm just gonna let this business walk away we're not a business yet but just mental
I don't know I nearly trademarked it
yeah that's what I'm starting to think I need to fucking I think I need to trademark it before you try and get me out of here
I think you could just drop me
don't be panicking
no I'm not panicking because I know I
I don't want you leaving here panicking thinking that this is this is a um
don't you worry
this is a mutiny
well starting to feel like
it's only because Mark's so desperate to get over it
starting to feel like there's some cloak and dagger shit going on here
Mark needs to get over here we've got a good thing going on with Steph
do we really need an ash
I mean
you're walking the fucking
you're walking a line that's rather thin
yeah did you send me a list
yeah I did
I haven't finished anyway you interrupted me
oh sorry go ahead
thanks Steph for all you're filling in
you've done a spectacular job as always
um
so yeah just 10 out of 10
you get a lot of brave reviews from everyone I know so
she's decent
so you need to stop going on it and let Steph run the show
I'm just feeling a bit bullied
what people are saying that to you are they
I know to be fair
people have heard quite a lot of people
have like said to me that they like it
they like the episodes with Steph
they enjoy it
don't be giving me that look
bruv you've just said the same thing
I'm only saying it because it's nice
don't mean it
what do you mean we're having a conversation
people like Steph I told you this would happen
they hear a female voice and they're all over it
plus they like it when we argue
me and Steph that is
well yeah thanks
they also love it when we argue
for all your fantastic help in stepping in
on such short notice although
once again I may reiterate
work commitments have been solely down to my absence
there's not really much I can do
other than not go to work and not feed my children
so failing that I would have been here
yeah maybe you have to look at the priorities
a little bit more
you know what I mean
if we're massively famous
oh can't be doing that
well fuck the kids then
kids can fuck off
fuck the job
don't matter then does it
should we talk about some games or some shit
yeah why not
hmm
alright I've started then shall I
what do you want on this list first
what do you want
oh actually no let me butt in quick
even though I'm the one speaking
you don't normally interrupt
I feel like I need to say that you should really go and fuck yourself
because if it wasn't for you
I wouldn't have got myself into collecting Pokemon cards
and not only is my bank account
rather angry because I'm now buying Pokemon cards
actually no scrap that start again
not the Pokemon cards
the fucking TikTok lives
do you know how much shit
how much shit I buy on TikTok live
that nostalgia geezer and banana merch
I keep buying shit
you know how many graded cards I have now
so many
another one's turning up tomorrow
I keep winning them off of eBay
I keep buying them off of banana
nostalgia hasn't got any in so the minute they're up there
fucking hell boy
I'm taking them
I got a Dialga that's currently being graded by Ace
literally as we speak it's being graded
they sent me the email going
we're looking at it now
oh I fucking love it
I've been in their streams lately
and I haven't seen you in the viewer section
so I thought you'd pack that in
no it's because I give up
because I'm not
I think nostalgia's prices are too fucking high now
you want six pound fifty for a pack of crowns
anything go fuck yourself
I ain't doing that
banana merch is cheaper
plus banana merch has slabs
and I'm only sort of interested in the graded cards at the moment
I want to get the other ones up by myself
about my sets
because I've got two folders now as well
so I've got my crown zenith folder and my silver tempest
so I'm only really wanting to get graded cards from TikTok at the moment
unless they're doing decent deals on the packs
which nostalgia, your boy Scott, just isn't doing
I'm not paying six pound fifty for crown zenith
it's mental
I don't think he charges six pound fifty
he does he does he does
and then his fucking silver tempest is four fifty
sometimes it's a fiver
which is about average
but I'm just not paying six fifty for some crown zenith
don't do it then
I don't
that's why you haven't seen me in the lives
alright
come fucking story
but eBay's where it's at
eBay's where it's at with graded cards
there's some fucking deals there
oh
that Lugia that he's after
from the silver tempest
I got a graded one
mint ten
for thirty quid
I don't know how they've got the willpower
to sit with all them packs in front of them
and not open them
I'd just be like
especially them well expensive ones
like the evolutions and stuff like that
there's like twenty five quid a pack
where you've got the proper old ones
a nine hundred quid booster box
yeah I'm just like
I couldn't help myself
if I was just bored on a Sunday
oh fuck it
I was going to open some packs
I thought when I first started watching them
I thought it was TikTok providing them
and then taking a cut of what they sell
it's not they buy them themselves
and then make however out of it
and I think that is so much money
to have put into it
to then sell
but then I think me and Steph spoke about
in the last pod
you do the numbers on what they've actually sold
and yeah
they make money out of it
they make some decent dough from all of it
but I'm with you on that one
I couldn't sit there every single night
don't forget to tap the screen guys
don't forget to like and share
come on I want candles in pigs arses on the chat
on the chat
come on guys
can we get the mods in
if you ain't tapping you're slacking
yeah
100k likes and I'll give away one fucking pack of Pokemon cards
me and Steph watched one night
and he got real angry
but you could tell that he was holding it back
because he fucking
he did his giveaway at 100k
and it was about 80 odd k
and he was like oh I think we should double it
I think we should double it to 200k
what do you think
and then obviously everyone's going no I'll do it at 100k
and then he was like we'll put a um we'll put a poll out
we'll put a poll out and everyone picked 100k
and then he got angry
gave out like two booster packs
and he's like see if we'd have gone to 200k
it would have been an ETB
he's getting all salty about it
because I don't know what they get for the likes
they must get something out of it
the likes
otherwise you wouldn't give a fuck
I think the likes just boost you up the
up the rankings
yeah
but I think you get paid for your position in the rankings
oh right
I think I don't really know how it works
I do like him he's my favourite he's a nice guy
he's alright
I've had some good bants with him
he's alright
I mean I hate that he calls me what's the button
what's the button on the chat
what's on the button
what's on the button was my favourite
or he just goes button the button
fucking it's what's the buttons dick
put a message in the chat for me please
I love that
it's such a fucking
it's addictive though isn't it
it is massively addictive
Pokemon cards is gambling
oh yeah
100%
that's why I've had to walk away from it
because my gambling past has been
have you stopped buying them
yeah I've stopped buying them yeah
because
yeah man it got a bit nuts
because I'm much like you like
my powers
my power put me on it
I just watched a movie
he linked me to it
because we was buying Pokemon packs and stuff
he linked me to it and I was watching it
I was like how do I go about buying a pack off this geezer then
and then bang I've opened one of the mystery boxes
and got like that Pikachu Ashford
yeah
and they were like oh sick card
and I was like oh that was a good one apparently
yeah I like it
yeah yeah good shit yeah that got that buzz
yeah
and then next thing you know
I'm on there my mates buying like three packs
I'm like fuck that give me one of those booster boxes
you know what I mean but then I can't stop
booster box come out hit hit hit hit
even I haven't bought a booster box yet
yeah and then yeah so I bought like two three booster boxes
so I'm looking at like
fuck it
you know what I mean
it gets nuts man
it's too much
too much
fuck me
but I added up all the value on my cards on that app so
I know what I want for them and I'll take them to
nerdbase
I've spoke to nerdbase already
oh have you
yeah about selling them so
what did they say
well yeah they said what they buy
because I wasn't sure if they actually bought
they just bought from wholesalers
no I think yeah because I because when I last went in there
that time where you didn't come even though I invited you
and there was two
it's almost as if I got kids
there was two no you had a go at me because you was like
why don't you fucking invite me and I went I did
remember that
yes
okay yes
there's two massive bins in there as you walk in just filled with loose Pokemon cards and then on the counter they've got
other like ones in the in the top loaders and shit like that and then they've got a couple of graded cards
so I don't know how much they buy like loose
because I've got fucking loads of cards that I'd be looking at either get rid of them or put them on eBay or some shit
they didn't they said they only really buy like hits basically they're not really interested in the crap
they got two folders there
filled with or not so filled anymore because people take them out but filled with
like full arts and V star all the decent cards and you can go through and they got individual prices on them
so I bought two that I'm gonna send off to get graded because graded they're worth like a hundred something quid
bought them for like eight pound
it also depends on who grades them is what they're worth
ace grading you want PSA but then you have to ship it to America
half of my half of my graded cards are PSA
some of them are MGC but ACE is ACE is the number one in the UK anyway
oh no that's the company I go for and I've had I've had disagreements with people in the chats on on live about that
because they're all like PSA PSA you've got to ship it to America
I don't want to send it to fucking America
but they're the leading company and you don't know that ACE won't be one day
Steph does that for a living right not Pokemon cards but she sends stuff all over the world
bookmarks and things like that so so the same type of packaging
and I've already said to her I cannot deal with the anxiety and the stress of sending out something that a card that I think is worth a lot of money
to a completely different country because there's shit because like the postal strikes and stuff that she sent out
at the beginning of January that still hasn't arrived to the person it was going to I was like I couldn't I couldn't have it
I was panicking about sending it to fucking up north just to ace grading you know what I mean I just couldn't it's not worth it
I think PSA had looked into it PSA had like an English branch for a little while early last year I think
they like opened up and they like joined with another company so they could have an English branch
and I think that all went tits up somewhere along the line and all I saw is people complaining saying their cards have just disappeared
now because the company's like liquidated so to speak they're just I think ace is just it's just the number one it's all I ever hear
there was another one tree frog was another one that me and Steph found which is a relatively new one
and it all depends on what you want because obviously ace grading doesn't do the subcategories on the on the slabs
it doesn't tell you how what score you've got for cornering or centering and things like that whereas there are a few that that do
but yeah I think grace is just grace ace is number one in the UK I ain't sending my shit to America for PSA it's just too much
hoorah next subject Pokemon yes all good well done congrats on your collection fuck that off thank you yeah Hogwarts
we've got to be careful though yeah alright like don't tell me about spoilers mate what I'm going to tell you about right now is I finished Harry Potter films
are you finished them yeah finish the other one last one the other one with the kids what you mean the kids watch them the kids would never watch them
they're so dark I was watching they're not that bad there's blood this piece someone gets their throat slit and then someone gets eaten by fucking snake
and it's dark bro there's no way my kids get scared by the clowns on YouTube and shit bro just normal clowns it's good in it
I will never ever ever ever watch like the first three ever again because they were a slog and that's like with Star Wars though I'll never watch those ones
that you made me watch again they were fucking the old old ones yeah man yeah and I can see why but once you're invested yeah to be honest they are a hard watch
but I get I get what you mean you wouldn't like Philosopher's Stone with them first two or three they're just too childish what you have to remember is that a lot of the people
that were watching that grew up with the films absolutely they were that age when they were watching absolutely I completely agree but they most certainly get better
if I had to pick my favorite one I would probably say either this will mean a lot to Steph okay choose wisely I'm sorry because I forgot what it's called
I'll say it's the one you might know the one where they get that head teacher in like the woman and she's like just constantly smiling but she like ruins the school
what prisoner of Azkaban is it prisoner I don't think I don't fucking know I don't know my Harry Potter movies very well Steph's gonna be fucking screaming
that's the one where they get the woman in and she like takes over the school and then she's just a tosser basically that is quite quite amusing but that was when it started getting good and then
I think that might be the one with the Triwizard Cup it might have been Goblet of Fire I think it's Goblet of Fire I don't know maybe whatever man they're good I liked I liked the Deathly Hallows part one part two
Half Blood Prince yeah man they like say the last three or four really good and then we're kind of a bit gutted us over to be honest with you because we really enjoyed watching them all
you got proper into it yeah obviously you have like Fantastic Beasts but it's not the same they don't get good reviews them either they're like meh don't bother
yeah a lot of the not spinoffs but the different interesting status here today on Hogwarts Dave grossed 200 no in the first two weeks 850 million dollars and in comparison the most successful Harry Potter film
Deathly Hallows part two the last one grossed like 295 million in the first two weeks that 50 quid that we've got riding is going to be going straight into my bank account when the fucking games of the year become announced
no game is going to win game of the year over Zelda it just won't happen it will it won't it will it will and we still even even Steph agreed with me on this one because Zelda is only Nintendo it won't do it it won't do it
they revolutionized gaming doesn't matter every game every open world games now got a fucking power glide don't matter the exclusives never fucking win it they never get it if God of War was on Xbox it would have won game of the year wouldn't have been Elden Ring
it would have been God of War and I think when you got Hogwarts legacy the controversy which I can't be asked to soil the podcast talking about it but the controversy surrounding it will those people that didn't give a fuck will now give a fuck just to piss other people off
so they'll just vote it as game of the year there's too much shit surrounding it for it to not be game of the year not chance just send me my 50 quid now and then we'll call it and I'll buy an ETB off of Scott
I don't even need to I know that money's in my back burner lovely graphs
ain't happening you think it's going to be Starfield or Zelda and it ain't it just ain't it definitely won't be Starfield
alright Mystic Meg
you watch
you watch I'm right with this
anyway Hogwarts legacy is a decent game man I enjoyed it
it's a good game you've completed it I've completed it Mark platinumed it yesterday the day before
he's platinumed it already
yeah
he's gone through that first bit three times
yeah he said it sucked
yeah I'll bet
he said the Merlin trials sucked as well doing all of them
yeah they're boring
yeah he's completely done with it which is decent he's thrown himself straight back into gaming and now he's got the same
I say he's turned to a bit of a gamer again
he's got the same problem that we had after we played Elden Ring where you sit there and go now what now what nothing else feels good what what am I going to do to the point where he's now thinking about getting Sekiro
the thing is with him I don't know him like I don't know fuck all about the geezer
yeah I don't know like how long he's been out of the gaming loop for but if he's been out as long as it sounds like he has he's got fucking vast catalog to pick from
he was out for a while but he what he's saying is that he's got so many games on the back burner that he's already got that he doesn't want to buy more games until he's done the ones that he's got but I keep saying to him goes to Tsushima still it's still like 50 odd quid 50 60 quid but I said it's worth the investment because it's such a good game and that comes with the directors cut as well or I said
you got PS5 huh
yeah yeah yeah or I said you want fucking challenge you go for Soulsborne you get Elden Ring or you get like say he keeps talking about or he was talking about today getting Sekiro shadows die twice and then I said you obviously you got you got blood born but he didn't really like that or he got angry at it if he wants something with a challenge then yeah 100% go down the Soulsborne route because then everything feels easy after that
Sekiro is more like I don't know man it's Sekiro is very good it's it's probably the easiest of all the Souls games I'd say personally he's he's downloaded the demo for WoLong Dynasty I have got that installed I am currently installed in it I should be installing that now really on Game Pass I pre-installed it the other day
well that will be a nice little one you'll be playing on console I'll be playing on this
I probably won't be playing it
I played the demo of it when it first come out and I quite liked it
you never played Nioh did you
no
yeah it's basically the Nioh successor for Nioh 1 Nioh 2 they're basically like Dark Souls games but Japan and they're just heavily influenced everything's fucking heavily influenced by them now
there's loot and there's shit like that
it looks good looks graphically pleasing upon the eye
it does it does look decent
but yeah no it looks alright I'll probably get around to playing it but I'm too caught up in other things right now
I know what you're fucking caught up on
I'm all tangled in a strand
so very quick to sum it off without giving cause Steph hasn't finished Hogwarts Legacy yet she's working her way through it
what would you rate it
oh so that's why you're worried about spoilers you don't care about the people just Steph
the people aren't gonna fucking scream at me if I spoil it
yeah you're scum you should be worrying about everybody
nah fuck em
see what I mean I have to put up with this clown
fuck em so what are you rating it
out of 10
8
an 8
yeah I think it's good I think there's a lot of things that are just a bit
bit
bit repetitive I mean there's a few things like the unforgivable curses for example
I'm just dashing that about in Hogwarts like have a look at this boss
yeah yeah
crucio and then the teachers just like I hope you're practicing your potions
I think the unforgivable curses as cool as they sound and as cool as they are
they don't really give off that unforgivable vibe
yeah
there seems no consequence to actually using them
that's what I think they should have done is with the unforgivable curses it'd be a very
very blatant with it like if you decide to use these there will be major consequences
for example if you use so I think what they should have gone down the road
it's easy for me to say I'm not a game developer but and they probably toyed with the idea
is if you use an unforgivable curse then you get a wanted system i.e. the dementors
will start coming and sniffing about and if you get caught you go Azkaban or something like that
you have to do something to get out you have to pay or whatever
but because there's no reason not to and it doesn't change literally anything
just why would I not use the most powerful broken spells in the game
yeah if you spec'd into having it so that when an enemy was cursed every time you attack them
it's shot off and cursed another enemy in the vicinity
and then you have a Vardakadavra will instantly kill anything that's cursed
that shit was so OP man
exactly and there's no reason not to use it but
and the fact you can use it on trolls and shit like that just one bang everything
it was I think another thing that I would agree with I'd probably give it an 8 out of 10
I thought it was a very good game I didn't like the dialogue
for the simple fact that the options that it gave you made absolutely zero influence on the story whatsoever
so I found myself a lot of the time skipping the dialogue because it was kind of like well
there is no point me getting to the- making a decision
because it's not gonna fucking do anything and I didn't like that
I thought what's the point in giving the player the ability to have a decision
when it doesn't do anything
it was kind of a weird one
zero impact
it was like I was trying to be as much of a dick as possible
yeah and it won't do anything
I was just any bad decision or dialogue choice I could go with I'd pick
and it'd be like it just made no sense because you'd be like
hello there can I help you and they'd be like
oh I've lost my book in the library could you please help me
and the only option is like absolutely or no no I haven't got time right now
I'd be like absolutely I'll go find your book
and there's always the same I've got your book
and then your option is keep the book give the book
and then all of a sudden you're just like now keep it for myself sucker
keep the book give the book or pay me for the book
yeah and it's just like well how come I'm just a dick now
why can't I just be a dick all the time why do I just have this weird option
but nevertheless it's a very fun game it was much better than I anticipated
and done a lot for Harry Potter franchise in general
I can imagine there's a lot of people like me that bought the game
didn't really know a lot about Harry Potter and they just go and watch the films
so I had to pay for them because they was all on Amazon
I had to rent every single one of them
love it
but you know I was invested I wanted to know about all this stuff
it's a good game
and it definitely helped with like I said things in the game and things in the films
I was like oh I know what that means and like for example
in the Harry Potter films where they go into like this little greenhouse thing
and Snape's in there and Voldemort's in there and something happens with the snake
and I actually found that on the game it's not hard to find but I went down there
and yeah you can I was like looking around and you can hear like the what do you call it
the snake speaking
the basilisk
yeah the parcel tongue
parcel tongue
yeah and you see the snake
it's cool man
I haven't seen it
I've seen video of it
yeah when you look down one of the corridors it quickly slivers past
oh really I haven't seen that
massive body yeah yeah
yeah I think it's it they did so well with it and the scenery looks absolutely fantastic
oh it's beautiful yeah
I didn't like the fact that and Steph pointed out that there's
um obviously there's a season change somewhat through
and that in turn changes the the scenery itself
and I think there's aspects like especially in Hogwarts
where it looks vastly different and really really really beautiful
but you're not forced to go there
there's quite a few places that look really fucking good
but there's no reason to go there if you aren't exploring
you miss out on some really really decent shit as I did
and Steph found some really cool looking stuff that I just hadn't come across
because we were playing the game completely differently
I was surprised because I thought about that midway through and I thought maybe when you finish the game
there'd be an option to just toggle what season you wanted it to be in at all times
and just change it as you please you know that'd make more sense
because they've put a lot of effort into creating all this land in all these different times a year
yeah and then you only see it once
yeah you start rewinding it and the day and night cycle is very cool
it's a very good game it is a very good game
what I did that massively enhanced the experience for me is about two hours in
I turned the minimap off completely and I turned off the tracking for like objectives
oh did you?
yeah so what I had, no because it's just all the same
if I just see the symbol
how did you find anything?
because I still had the tracking book thing
oh the book thing
so what I didn't understand was I got a minimap and then I'm just looking at the minimap
I'm just looking at the dots of where I'm going
but then I've got this ability to fucking summon a book to show me where I'm going
like magical book
yeah I didn't use that at all
so what is the point of having that if you can just look at the dots
and then I'm just looking at the radar all the time
yeah that's what I did pretty much
yeah exactly
I would have missed out on a lot
yeah exactly and I didn't want to do that
and also I like discovering things so if I'm like flying about
or I will sit down there, swoop down
but if I'm going past and I look at the map and it's a fucking Merlin Trial
I'm not interested, I won't go and look
yeah yeah yeah
but if I see something and I don't know what it is
I'll go down and have a little investigate
not knowing what I'm actually investigating is more interesting
so I turned that off and then yeah I just used it up on the D-pad to just follow the book
so I'd follow the book and then I'd go on the broomstick or whatever
and I'd just hover up in the air and I'd just go along following the book
but then if I see anything I'd just swoop down and have a butch
and it made it much better, much much better
fair play, fair play to you if you play it like that
it's more immersive
I know that Steph was putting on the accessibility option to have the bell visually ring when you do Reveleo
so that it makes it easier to identify what it's pinging off of
I thought mine was already on naturally
you hear the bell but you don't see the bell
oh right
so you put it on so it puts a ring and then you see a bell
because you're just getting sick of fucking hearing it
where the fuck is it supposed to go?
and I think I didn't like the fact that when you cast Reveleo you can't do it while you're fucking running
let me run and cast it, I can do it when I'm on the broom, doesn't slow me down
but when I'm running it makes me walk at a fast pace while I cast it and then I can continue running
it's just very annoying because you use Reveleo constantly
because it has like a two second window and then it's gone
I didn't use it that much because I wanted to find stuff on my own
no I used it all the time, yeah but that was the whole point of it though
yeah but it's annoying, yeah I used it every now and again
but nine times out of ten I just look about
because it just, things like that just take it out man
like if I can just go Reveleo and then I see where all the chests are
I like looking around for stuff
weird one, I think it's got the best running animation in any game I've ever seen
because normally running animations and jumping animations are just weird as fuck
very solid and yeah but they've got a very cool running animation
the cloaks were decent man
hood up, hood down, I'm all for that
I wish there was more colour in the cloaks
didn't rate the cosmetics, I don't like the hats, the hats are just awful
I couldn't find the right hat for me in the end
didn't wear any
what I was wearing was, did you do all the house sigils?
no, I had the same outfit on from the moment I turned the game on until the moment I finished it
and that was the dark wizard set, the skulls that move on it
because I did the house sigils, you've got to get 16 of them
and when you get it, it gives you a cloak
and that cloak looks very very cool and it's your, it'll be whatever your house's thing is
and every time you cast a spell it glows up, very fucking cool
who did you pick, what house?
I was Ravenclaw
why are you laughing?
pussy hole
who are you?
who do you think I am?
you're Slytherin
of course I am
you're dickhead, you're dickhead bro
man like Anakin
fuck Slytherin man
running around casting spells
little wetsies, you and fucking ominous and Sebastian, go fuck yourselves
ominous man, he's an interesting guy
little blind gazer with a fucking wand, that was very cool
I like that
he's walking around with a line, I like that, very smart
very good game man, I did like it a lot, I enjoyed it, I think
I think it's a surprise hit for me
Quidditch is coming to that DLC
some dataminers yesterday found potential DLC already
and it is Azkaban
yeah, you can't, so obviously they already teased Azkaban if you're Hufflepuff
yeah, there'll be a reason to pick the Hufflypuffs
yeah, otherwise why would you?
and yeah, that's not a spoiler by the way
if you haven't played Hufflepuff and you're like, oh you just ruined it for me, I haven't, I promise you
but yeah, I think with a game like that and a world like that
you cannot turn up the opportunity to throw out DLC
there's so many different avenues you can go down
and like I say, Quidditch is at the forefront of everyone's mind
Quidditch and Azkaban are the two main ones that people want to see
there's no way they do not put Quidditch in that game
and then maybe the, what was the cup called? The Triwizard Tournament
yeah, people are talking about that as well
there's so many different things that you can throw on that
same with Lord of the Rings, anything like that
there's so much lore and things that you can adapt and do however the fuck you want
I just want to be a dick, I just want to be Voldemort
I want to be able to kill NPCs, that's what I want to do
I just want to be able to, yeah, because I want to just be able to bow in a town
and be like, oh my god, Anakin the Evil Dark Wizard's here
and then I just go, Levioso, Repulso, Crucio, fucking Avrakadavra
that's my go-to, I want to lift you up with a force
I want to smash you against the house with a force
and I want to Crucio see you in a bit of pain
I want to laugh at you and then I'm going to go Avrakadavra and put you in misery
you want it like Red Dead Redemption where you can just walk into a town and if someone pisses you off
boom, bullet to the head, and I want to be a knobhead
and it's all kicked off
I'm a lovely guy in real life so I want to be a knobhead in computer games
that's my way of doing shit
I'll move you on that one, yeah it's good fun
yeah it's fun, I liked it
but it's a good game man, and if it had more choice and consequence
and more branching dialogue kind of thing
and Nagisa's voice wasn't such a fucking
it's annoying, wasn't it?
droney as hell man
then it would get more than an 8
but I think 8's fair and yeah I like it
it's a game that will live with me for a long time
because now I actually have a lot of understanding about Harry Potter now
and I've watched them all and I feel like you have to watch them
the old cult following of Harry Potter
yeah it's good man, it's good, I enjoyed it
I'm glad you liked it, I'm glad you had that little insight
it's decent for you
you're welcome
and then when your children are old enough
you can turn them onto it
and go look, sit down and fucking watch this
it'll be a while before they watch it
because even I was a couple of times
I was like Jim tell me when it's over, this is too much for me
I'll tell you what the darkest moment in Harry Potter for me was
go on
was fucking old Hermione erasing her parents memory of her
I was like that's a bit much, isn't it?
you didn't like that, no?
I was just like, out of everything that's just happened
I just felt it was a bit unnecessary
old Hermione
I don't really understand why she did it to be honest with you
but no, big fan of Harry Potter
I can now call myself a Potterhead if that's what they call themselves
I don't know, a pothead
go for it
lolz
you're up next big boy
what? I'm A?
yeah, high fire rush
high fire rush, nothing crazy
it's just a game that I got on the Steam Deck that I've had for ages
since I got the Steam Deck
and it's only a fucking 9 hour campaign
and I only just completed it
it's taken me a while
very very slow drips and drabs
but a very fun game
very very fun
so it comes from
Tango Gameworks
is who it comes from
which is
Tango Gameworks is a Japanese video game developer based in Tokyo
founded in March 2010 by Shinji Mikami
previously of Capcom
the company was acquired by Zenimax Media in October
that year after suffering financial issues
Tango developed the Evil Within
the Evil Within 2, Ghostwire Tokyo
and then yeah, high fire rush
they were
basically hosted by Bethesda
pretty much
so Tango Gameworks made the game
and then Bethesda were the people that went
alright we'll fucking distribute this one for you lads
you sit down, we'll deal with this
and it's one of those rare games
where they announced it and released it on the exact same day
there was no hype around it
no one knew it was happening
there was no advertising
absolutely nothing about this game
which is why a lot of people that will be listening
might not know what it is
and very fucking good
much like Vampire Survivors
very very good reviews
not as big as Vampire Survivors
but even the
the way that it plays
extremely unique
slash different combos and different moves
and stuff like that but it's to the beat of the music
there's a constant flow of music
and if you time your attacks
with the beat you do more damage
you build up a combo, you get rated on your combos
you get fucking currency for it
and shit like that
and yeah, just extremely fun
very good game
I'll give it probably a 9 out of 10
it was decent
I watched some stuff on it
I watched the press conference
and it got shadow dropped
I wish more games could be shadow dropped
but in reality it's just impossible
they can't shadow drop massive titles
because of...
it's impossible because
you couldn't sneak it out
because things like Collector's editions
Deluxe editions, all things like that
they've all got dates and street dates
they'd have to be in stores ready to go
and there's no way you can do that around the world
without someone going oh we've got this in store
this is a 9 hour campaign game
it's probably digital only as well
I think so, but you can
you can see
that it is a game that was just purely
made for the fun of it
it's just a fun game
it's quirky, I like the animations
the different characters, I like the dialogue
there's some funny things in it
and a lot of the
reviews of it and the feedback
that people left about the game said the exact same thing
that I've said, this is what happens
when you let game developers just do what they fucking want to do
just let them make a fun game
and it is good, genuinely
if it ever
I don't know if it is on console or not
I'm not 100% sure
but if you
I recommend playing it
100% because it doesn't require
that much of your time and it is fucking fun
really fun, very artistically
pleasing, yeah it looked very good
and it looked very good and played very well on the Steam Deck
very very very well
I loved it, 100%
and it's not one of those games where
once you've done the story that's it
it throws you back in and there's different things you can go back to
that were previously locked out
there's new cosmetics that you never had before
like you can't change your appearance
until you've completed the game
and then there's all this other shit that you can go and do
so it has a replayable aspect
up to a certain point
see if you really wanted to
you could probably push like 20-30
hours worth of gameplay out of it
overall, just very decent
it ain't fucking expensive
it really ain't a lot of money
so if you can get Hi-Fi Rush and fucking get it
I recommend it, it's decent
it's on Game Pass isn't it?
Hi-Fi Rush is on Game Pass yeah
so by not a lot of money it's free essentially
yeah
just go and get it for free
well I'm glad you enjoyed that
it was nice man
Elden Ring DLC announced this week
yeah
I jumped back in for literally
8 minutes
did you remember the buttons?
no, do you know what I did? I turned it on and went
what's the buttons?
nice
I spawned at the time because I remember
where I was, I was at the castle
and I was invading people over and over again
oh yeah, shit yeah
because that was the main pace to invade
yeah, exactly that, and I remember I accidentally picked up a weapon
which put my soul level too high
so I had to restart and get a new character and bladdy bladdy bladdy
yeah, fucking hell yeah
yeah I remember that one
so yeah I just joined in, I killed the big giant
outside the front
I ran around a bit and I was like
fuck yeah, I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing here
I'll turn it off
that was basically it
but when the DLCs say the DLCs
it's coming September the 6th
I'll get myself to like August
and I'll start putting some hours in getting back to
you're gonna have to, just to get
them fucking reflexes back
otherwise you're gonna be shit
but yeah like
they're weird man, they just
announced it on a Tuesday morning in the middle
no reason, you know a couple of days after
it's been out for a year
you'd think you'd do that on the
and they haven't even showed anything so they could easily have just said
yeah, year anniversary, here's to this
but they're just so random
and that's why I love them, just yeah
just a Tuesday morning I woke up and everyone's just bonkers
for Elden Ring DLC
it will be a very good DLC
what's about it is
all people really wanted to know
or a lot of people, was that it's just coming
yeah there was one
they are doing something because
people were like, where is it?
yeah that like I said to you when you
text me, for me I think
the gap's too long
in terms of DLC, I think you will get a certain
amount of people that will turn the game on
and much like you just did
will go, I ain't got fucking clue what's going on
I can't bother, I've moved on
but also it's that understanding
of that
like you said before, they're renowned
for making top class
DLC and games
so you have to
understand that From Software
will take their time
they don't release bullshit, they do it properly
so you will have to wait
and I think as much as yet
the gap is huge
with a game like Elden Ring, I think
that's where it's one of the few
scenarios where you're able to get away
with it because that game is fucking mental
that game's nuts
I'll be jumping on the DLC and I'll have to
do the same thing, I'll have to get on a couple of like
weeks before and just to fucking remember how to
play the game. It's fun though because you can
just, you can do what you want man, you can grind
out to be ready for the DLC, you can go
and do some invasions. They've got to do something
because me and many other people are
max level
everything's maxed out
so there is no more grinding for me
than I am there
I did the old rune farm
after like my fifth playthrough
I went oh fuck it, let's just farm some runes here
get ourselves all the way to the tippity top
of the world. No wonder you smashed through
so many fucking new game pluses if you're
fucking... The new game plus was a joke
though because by the time I had finished the
first playthrough
I was already way above
the level that you should have been
so when I did my second, well
you fucking remember it, the first gameplay
what like 50 plus hours, 60 plus
hours to do it, the second gameplay was under
6 hours because I just beelined the
bosses and then the third gameplay was even quicker
fourth even quicker
it just got silly because you were
slapping the shit out. If it wasn't there
one clip where I think I showed you I just let
my
my fucking mimic tier solo
a boss
because it's so overpowered
you just pop it out and there you go
have fun with that. A good thing about
From Software's DLCs
in the Souls games is they're like
they're good quality, it's like
proper expansions and
stuff that will be integrated
into the main game, there'll be new weapons
now you've got to think they've got all these little
weapon art things that they have
and the summons and there's a lot more for them
to think about. They'll all be integrated
so it just adds so much
more across the whole board
It's gonna be decent. It's gonna be
spicy. I wonder what the price tag will be
I don't know if it will fucking matter because we'll all get it anyway
It'll be worth it
whatever it is
Alright, finish up?
Finish up. I need a wee. Yeah I need a piss
wee, sorry
Erm
Grrrr
Destiny
Here we go
Daddy's home. We've lost him again
Oh god almighty. He went absolutely
can we just understand the absolute
silence
that we had from Destiny
in terms of you
when Lightfall was announced
even I got hyped for it and I
had zero interest for it and we spoke about
it quite a lot and we did
one or two episodes of the pod about it
talking about it and then boom
silence. Radio silence
completely. Nothing. Not even a sliver
of Destiny chat
whatsoever and then
it released
and now he's gone. Yeah the funny
thing is I haven't even been like hyped
for it. I haven't kept up to date with anything
Yeah I thought it was strange because
normally I get little tidbits from here and I had
absolutely nothing. I didn't even know that it had released
until you said I had
no fucking clue that Lightfall would come out
because I just weren't interested
The funny thing was I didn't
What happened was I was bored
I had nothing to play
but every now and again I just put the PlayStation on
just to see what the crack is. What's on the store
what's out. What my other friends are playing
because sometimes my friend list inspires me
to play something
and yeah
and then Destiny just went downloading update
and I looked and it was like a hundred gig
or something. I was like what the fuck
but what I think Destiny does is it
re-downloads the whole game
because it has to go through all the files again
because it's changing everything
and I was like shit it's Lightfall out
and then I looked and it was like oh yeah
24 hour downtime from tomorrow
because
Lightfall drops. I was like rasc...
So I had a little... I logged on
had a little look. I was like well this is overwhelming
and confusing. So I turned it off
The next day Lightfall dropped. I turned it on
It was like an hour wait to get in
and then as soon as it started up and I was in
Lightfall I was like oh here we go
and then I was just gassed
and yeah I've just been playing it and loving it
and I'm fully back in the ecosystem
of Destiny and
respect it. Working my way through the campaign
Respect to it
It sounds decent. It looks decent
I'm not interested in it
but I can appreciate it. It's not getting great
critical reviews from people
in the game space
A lot of people are upset
Why? Just through like
because of the story really
I think people are upset with the story not the gameplay
The gameplay is... they've changed
a lot like
they've got a thing now called
Guardian ranks
so before if you're seeing
people run around in the sandbox it'd be like
someone's like level 286
or whatever and there'd just be their season pass
level
but you've got no
so if I run into you
in a strike or just on the overworld
I've got no way of knowing really
how much you've played Destiny
other than you've just played a lot this season
now they've got a thing called Guardian ranks
so
if you just started Destiny for the first
ever time you'll be Guardian rank 1
obviously
and then the more stuff that you do
your Guardian rank will go up
but what it does as well is
it guides new players into actually what you should be doing
so it's like if you want to get to Guardian rank 2
you should do this, this, this
and this so it explains the story
and how to go places because it gets
well overwhelming if you just turn it on
even like me who hasn't played it for a while
It's horrible. It's just pop ups everywhere
It's fucking awful
horrendous. Yeah so that's always
been a problem with games like that because
you know you've got people that play it every day
every minute of the hour. I think Blizzard
got
I think they started to understand that
in that because obviously Blizzard
still have a hand in
Destiny
and that it is overwhelming
for new players to jump in
MMOs like that. It's fucking awful
It's overwhelming for players like me
Yes Grim, they changed it
with World of Warcraft made it so much more easily
accessible for new players and returning players
and now Destiny seems
to be doing the same thing because
I'm completely honest
I'd probably still be playing Destiny
if when I returned I weren't
so fucking overwhelmed with how much shit
and how it doesn't tell you what
you're doing, it's relevance
Part of the problem is
I don't want to take a break from the game most
of the time and play something else because I
know when I come back I'm still confused
Because it's an MMO that you don't want to. You don't want to do that shit
stuff but the thing is
now Guardian Rank is also
helpful so
when I logged in I'm
just automatically veteran, Guardian Rank
6 because it just totes up
I've done all these campaigns
I've done Strikes, I've done
Crucible, I've done Gambit, I've done
Iron Banner, I've done everything
really that there is to do. I've done Raids
so it totes up all that stuff and goes like
this geezer knows what he's doing so if I jump
into a Strike, people go, oh he's Guardian
Rank 6. You're not a noob. He's done
pretty much everything so he's not
going to just be useless if you know what I mean
But also if you go in and you're like
oh he's Guardian Rank 1, he's completely new
It's obvious, I can see straight away you're
completely new so you have an understanding
this geezer might need some help
or you just get kicked
because you're a noob. You can't kick people
in Destiny so deal with it
or leave. Yeah, nice
I don't know, it's so bad
Yeah so do I, but it's really helpful
It's a really good system they've implemented
and I'm a fan of it and each season
you can rank it up
so I'll start at 6 because I'm a veteran
and then it'll go from like
6 to 12 so it'll
guide you through the season and the
new seasonal events and you can level it up
and then each season it'll go back
to 6. And that's what you need, you just need that
guidance. Yeah so you know, so if you go in now
if I go in now and I see someone's Rank 10
I'll be like oh they've done a lot of this season stuff
Yeah because my problem with it was that
there was so much stuff to do
and you sit there and you go I don't want to fucking
waste my time doing half of this
shit because in the natural
aspect of an MMO
it is about gear, it is about your
level, it is about being ahead of everyone else
or if you don't keep up
you get left behind, simple as that. So if
you're new and you're
wanting to get to the same level as everyone else
spending multiple hours
tens of tens of hours
wasting your time
on a zone that's giving you absolutely
nothing current, then it's
you get annoyed because you're like
why have I fucking wasted my time with that one?
I'm not playing an MMO
to go and fuck around in a section
that was 4 expansions ago
I'm here because I want to
be on the current and then go and fuck around
with the old shit because I'll have time to do it
so it's nice that they're finally giving
some decent guidance on it and I look
forward to hearing more about
your endeavours in Lightfall
as time unfolds.
I know you're trying to get rid of me because you need a piss but so do I
so you're just going to have to suck it up. I'm not trying to get rid of you.
They've also done loadouts
so now you can just strip your loadouts on the fly
finally. So you can just go out
I'm going to switch to my boss killing loadout
that includes talents, well that is
it takes everything so yeah
it just equips all the items and the mods
which it should be because there's so much stuff that you can change on there.
We've also sorted all the mod system out
on the gear so it's one screen
now so you haven't got to fuck about going into
each helmet piece, arm piece
let it just go on the screen and you go
I want this, this, this, it's all there so you can
see right I've got that on that, that on that
rather than oh how the hell did it get into this.
Quality of life tweaks. Yeah all them sort of things.
They've also sorted out the weapon crafting
so you don't need to fuck about so many red border
weapons which is just the whole thing
in itself. There's just a lot of good
stuff like that which streamline
a lot of it if you know what I mean because there's a lot of
gumph, a lot of fluff
that they've sorted out and obviously they've
implemented a whole new subclass which is just
sick, you're like Spider-Man. Yeah the green
goblin shit.
Strand it's called. Strand. I haven't
unlocked it completely yet, I keep picking it up
and then it like is story
wise you know when the expansion finishes
I'll finally have it I think but very
good loving it I will give you my
thoughts next week
because I'll be here next week trust me but
yeah I also need a piss. You've heard it from him first
you've heard it from Ash here right now.
I need a piss, you need a piss and
we need to do a Patreon episode
and I'm going to try and get down to Boozer
if I get time to see my pal. That's it we've been
What's the Buttons, you've been What's the Buttons, everyone's What's the Buttons
are you going to that are you? Well it depends how long
this takes. I might follow you. Got a pal that's actually
escaped from Azkaban in real life. I might follow you
and come to that. Well we'll see. See you later.
Bro.