We're on. Hello. Welcome to episode 483 of What's the Buttons podcast.
Now sick, sick, can...
You go. Yep.
Oh god, I've developed a cough on the way here.
So pollen, you get done in by pollen? I get hay fever, I've never had a cough over it though.
Well that can be what I was going to say, I was going to say it's our sixth consecutive year at the time it's gone for me to take the piss like that.
I apologise, carry on. So it is a numbered episode, I can't remember what number it is. 45.
45th episode. I'm back, thanks for filling in last week Steph.
I haven't finished the episode, I have listened to a lot of it, very good as usual.
Fantastic. Your list so you can...
It's our list dickhead because half of it is your kind of shit as well.
Is there any homework and stuff we need to talk about? I don't know, where have I been, what have I been doing?
Why weren't I here last week? I was on a course, I passed.
You passed it. Thanks for caring.
Hooray. Yay.
Well yeah, you sent me the list so...
I sent you the list but I don't know if I want to go with the meat and bones of it.
I think this is the first list you've ever done.
No it ain't dickhead, I've done a few.
This is the first decent list that I've done.
I don't think you have. I have.
I have, you're talking out of your skinny arse.
You are a liar.
This is all stuff that we can all talk about as well.
Which is good. Which is decent.
I haven't just picked stuff that only I know about.
If anything, half of the shit on here you'll probably know more about it than I will.
Especially the Star Wars bit.
Well yeah, that's all me.
But I feel like I want to open up with Redfall just because for some reason they keep popping up on our Instagram feed.
Have you noticed that?
No. Play Redfall is their account.
I don't want to.
And I downloaded Redfall on Game Pass obviously because it's free.
I wasn't one of those suckers that paid 70 bones for the day one release of it.
And I haven't actually played it because after seeing the reviews and the multiple multiple videos I've watched from it, I don't want to go anywhere near it.
It looks fucking awful.
It says something about it considering you've paid nothing for it and still don't want to play it.
I don't want to go anywhere near it. It looks fucking wank.
Really really poor.
This goes against everything we spoke about the other day when we said we don't listen to reviews, meet you and wind up.
Yeah, but this is also I know this goes completely against everything we said, but I'm not joking.
Every single review that I've watched and I've watched about 10 so far are all negative saying the same amount of stuff and the gameplay speaks for itself.
It's disappointing with how it's fair in considering this was classed as a triple A game.
It's made by Arcane Studios, the same people that made games like Dishonored.
They don't they don't make shit games.
They're known for making some decent stuff and Redfall was one of these games that's hyped up to be the next big thing.
And it looks awful, like really, really poor.
The game design is terrible.
The lack of NPCs is like a ghost town.
But there was a thing where IGN did like a hands on thing sort of before it come out and everyone was ripping them saying that the person that was playing this was shit at playing video games because their aim was off.
They were awful.
Turns out from the multiple reviews I've watched and the multiple bits of gameplay that I've watched, it wasn't actually the IGN person that was terrible.
It was the game itself because it's got no aim assist.
It's basically got nothing to help you in terms of of shooting creatures and they dart around like motherfuckers.
So it's impossible to land a shot.
So it's just apparently it's just a horrible game to play.
It looks really, really bland and boring.
I'm not impressed.
It looks really bad.
I would be really annoyed if I'd paid full price for it.
But apparently, according to Arkane, this is going to be their most supported game they've ever made and that they have no intention of of letting it go.
Now, if it was me, I'd just go fuck this.
We messed up back to the drawing board.
We'll come up with something else because it looks terrible.
Maybe they're looking for the No Man's Sky Redemption arc.
Well, this is well, again, this isn't don't get it confused.
This isn't Cyberpunk Terrible where they've managed to fix it after various amounts of patches and things like that.
This looks this looks so poor.
I can't even even the story from what I've seen.
I can't understand how you can you can sort this one out.
There's no cut scenes in it.
Do you know that?
I know I've seen all the reviews.
It's awful.
They look stinky.
It doesn't look good.
No cut scenes.
It's all those still images, even even there's like holograms that you you can talk to throughout the game.
And even they don't actually move.
They just stand in a still position with dialogue.
But you have to stay there watching them.
They don't they disappear and they're imperative to the story.
It just seems very poor.
It's very, very, very poor.
It looks shit.
There's a class because obviously they've got different classes.
The stealth class, you would have seen that they send out a crow to sort of mark enemies and tell you what's going on.
But in a mind, it's a stealth class with the skill tree.
If you level up that crow, when you send out, it identifies enemies and attacks them.
And in doing so alerts every single enemy around that enemy that they're being attacked, thus diminishing the stealth aspect.
It's very well designed.
It doesn't look good.
Also, you can't cycle through the weapons properly.
No, like Destiny does it.
You hold down triangle, whatever gives you a third weapon.
You tap it. It goes to your primary and your secondary.
Yeah, this doesn't do that.
So, again, in the IGN gameplay footage, people were having a dig because there was one clip where they were inside a building and the guy swapped from, I think it was an assault rifle to a sniper rifle.
And everyone was like, why the fuck you done that?
Everyone was digging the person out thinking that they didn't know how to play an FPS.
But what it was is you can't cycle through to your third weapon.
So they've obviously pressed whatever the button is triangle to cycle to go to their next weapon, wanting it to be their shotgun.
And it had to cycle through the sniper first.
And in the midst of panic, you're going to go, fuck it.
It's a gun. Let me fire it.
So it just really doesn't.
It doesn't bode well at all.
You watched skill ups review, didn't you?
I watched that's the first one that I watched.
Yeah, that was that was so far the most in depth one that I've seen so far.
All the reviews I've seen have been scathing.
Like how bad it is.
Even people that are quote unquote Xbox fanboys.
Yeah, just the stealth kill animation is hilarious.
Graphics. I'm not a graphics whore.
Yeah, you just you just hit him in the back.
No animation.
They just flopped. They ragdoll on the floor.
It's great. I wouldn't even call it ragdoll.
It's funny. Spasm.
Can't smash windows.
It's very bland.
The graphics are awful and I don't care for graphics, but they're awful in this day and age.
The gameplay style.
Stories really short.
They're not even any story.
The audio books you have to stand next to.
You can't just walk off and let them play.
Yep.
It just looks pants.
It just looks really shit.
The same enemies.
Which is crazy because Dishonored was really good.
Prey was really good.
There's no mechanics in the actual boss fights, either.
Deathloop was good.
And then they've come and released this stinker.
Which it ties in quite well with with another thing that's on our little well-made list in that.
Starfield is the only other AAA game that's set to release from Xbox or Microsoft this year.
So and that is just them too.
That's it.
So myself included and the skill up did talk about it as well in that starting to get a little bit jittery with how Starfield is going to play out.
Not saying that it's going to be like Redfall where it's that awful.
But if if you've got two AAA games that you're releasing and one of them has released like that, then and that's not even an ambitious game.
What the fuck is Starfield going to be like?
I'm really hoping that it'll be fantastic like we all think it will be.
But it's yeah, even you're making faces.
Yeah, only because obviously Redfall is 30 FPS as well, which is grim.
It's unforgivable.
It shouldn't be allowed.
It shouldn't even be a thing.
And the Starfield presentation, what we've seen, that looked like it was 30 FPS.
So now we've Redfall releasing.
You're starting to think maybe Starfield will release in that state.
30 FPS in any game is unacceptable nowadays.
You don't need 30 FPS anymore.
So that's a concern.
But I think whatever they decide to do, they have to use this as a lesson.
And if it needs to be delayed further, you have to delay it because that's what they've got left in the tank.
And Bethesda haven't got the greatest track record for un-buggy games.
The bugs tend to work in their favor. It's kind of like the Bethesda charm.
But nowadays people have had enough of it.
Yeah, I feel like when you think of Bethesda, the bugs go hand in hand with that name.
And yeah, they are sort of I think they've lent a lot into their buggy ways.
Fallout obviously is fucking littered Skyrim.
And you're right, some of them are hilarious.
But again, I agree.
2023, the state of gaming right now and our capabilities, people don't want fucking bugs anymore.
The odd one or two, yeah, maybe.
But you don't want to be paying 70 quid for a brand new game and then it be buggy to shit,
especially if it's an open world game like Starfield is going to be.
You don't want bugs. It's going to be very, very annoying.
Well, I think they're fucked.
I hope not because it is my most anticipated end of the year.
Or you think Starfield is going to be done?
No, I think Redfall has fucked Starfield up.
I don't think it will be released now this year.
I think it's, which is probably a good thing, but I think they have to because this by no means association
has put so much pressure on Starfield now to deliver.
There's nothing else really coming out.
Triple A or otherwise, there's nothing that I can think of.
The only reason I bought a fucking Xbox was for that Starfield.
And that was over a year ago, nearly coming up to a year now.
And I bought it for Starfield and it's still ain't fucking released.
And here we are on the cusp of disaster.
It's a very dangerous situation to be in because like we said, me and Steph were talking on the last episode.
About the almost lack of difference now between consoles and that it is a lot of exclusives
and what cloud services they can offer and things like that.
When you have the exclusives that Sony has compared to what is currently being released over on the Xbox side of things.
The bar is not being set very high.
If Redfall is your triple A release, then because it is Redfall exclusive.
It's not is it? It's not on PlayStation.
Is it exclusive to to Microsoft? Yeah, so I believe so.
So if that's your if that's your benchmark for your twenty twenty three exclusive,
Sony doesn't really have to work too hard to bump over that.
And with the lack of difference between PS5 and Xbox, Xbox X, Series X.
Yes. God, it's almost like we're a gaming podcast.
People do look at things like exclusives.
And when you're coming out with stuff like that, I wouldn't be surprised if people start turning away from something like
if they have to choose between an Xbox and a PlayStation, these are the type of things that will make that decision for them.
Because it's one of the only benefits of having either console is the exclusives.
Yeah, I feel well, that's the only reason I bought the Xbox was for Starfield.
So yeah, yeah, you wouldn't have it if you had it on fucking PlayStation.
But there is a state of play or whatever the Xbox variation of that is called coming up for Starfield next month, I believe.
So we'll find out exactly what the crack is.
And Phil Spencer was on the kind of funny podcast or X cast or whatever they call it.
And he got asked if Starfield is going to be 30 FPS yesterday.
And he said he will let Todd Howard reveal this.
So, you know, I've read I want to steal his thunder.
Not that 60 FPS should be something to cheer about nowadays.
Or he's just don't want to tell us because it's very imagine that bragging that your games in 60 frames per second.
I think it should be if this if it turns out that this is 30 FPS, then I think it's fucked.
It's going to be a very difficult one to overcome because no one.
The fallout over it being a red for being 30 FPS was embarrassing and rightly so because it just shouldn't happen nowadays.
Not on the new consoles.
It just looks dirty.
I can't I snobbishly.
I can't play 30 FPS anymore.
So if Starfield comes out like that, I'll be distraught because that is my most anticipated game of the year.
And yeah, I love Bethesda games, rightly or wrongly.
I feel like 30 frames per second takes away from the immersion of what you're playing because once you notice that it's 30 frames per second, it's so janky.
It's so horrible.
Like when I played God of War and I had it on 30 frames per second and admittedly, I wasn't massively noticing it until I swapped over to 60 frames per second.
And it was like, fuck me.
This is playing so much better.
Why you wouldn't put there must be something.
There must be a reason why some games are locked out to just 30 frames per second.
I'm not technically minded to understand it.
There was a reason for it.
And it was explained once on a by a developer who was explaining it for the Batman game, maybe not the Batman game, you know, the Batman world game Arkham Knights or whatever.
Yeah, Carmen Boy is cool.
So now that and he was saying why why a 30 FPS is used.
It's something to do with rendering and disappearing and bloody, bloody, blah.
And how much harder it is to put 60 FPS in is not just this flick of a switch, which obviously it's not.
There's a lot more to it than, of course, everyone who's not a game developer would understand.
Well, on the same account of that, if it's that fucking hard, why is everyone doing it?
You know, there's a reason all these developers are making 60 FPS.
So when you can't match that, unfortunately, you need to look at yourselves.
Surely the hardware is there in it.
What is there is tried and tested.
We can we can have quality mode or performance mode.
We can have 60 frames per second solidly throughout a game.
So I don't know.
To me, it just feels like it's a rushed kind of.
It's fucking dirty, dirty, dirty bastards.
We get away from that fucking shit game.
Yeah, I won't be playing it anyway.
I didn't want to play it.
Regardless, if that had reviewed a 10 out of 10, I probably still want to play it.
That's a lie.
It's free on Game Pass.
I probably would have.
I was semi tempted.
I'm just not interested.
I'll give zero fucks.
I feel sorry for the developers.
I can't regardless of whether it's their fault, not their fault.
I don't care.
I don't like seeing people get shit on.
Don't shit on developers is what it is.
Move on with your lives.
It's sunny.
Go and touch grass.
Yes, I'm only saying that because this is not Star Wars Jedi Survivor and it's not Star
Field.
If it was, I'd be very, very upset.
I wouldn't be touching grass.
I wouldn't be abusing developers, but I'd be sitting in a quiet room walking back and
forth sobbing uncontrollably.
It puts Microsoft in a sticky sticky situation.
I can like I'm reading here on about Microsoft wanting to buy Blizzard, Activision, whatever
they're fucking.
I think they're still they're still calling themselves separate, but obviously that partnership
there.
And I know I wrote it down, but it is interesting when you when you properly go into it that
that purchase was blocked by the UK.
So Microsoft wanted to buy Blizzard and Activision was blocked by the UK for fear of cloud gaming.
And we spoke about that a couple of times on the pod and bear with me the fear of cloud
gaming in that the exclusives that Activision, Blizzard and Microsoft carry the the UK.
I don't know what the governing body is called, but they feared that with though that gaming
catalog, if they were to make those games exclusive, it would mean that the competition
for other cloud gaming services would be diminished and that would stop innovation in competitors.
So that's why they blocked they've blocked Microsoft from buying Activision and Blizzard
because because they fear the UK fears that it would put a stop to innovation on cloud
gaming, which is odd.
It's very odd.
This wouldn't have come about if Sony didn't object to in the first place.
I wouldn't have thought so.
What object to Microsoft buying them?
No, it's only you've put up a bloody good fight, rightly or wrongly to stop it.
And we have basically even though Microsoft said Call of Duty will never be exclusive
to Xbox, they still don't want it.
They've essentially monopolized the biggest FPS game there is.
So to be honest, I don't care if I'm quite frank with you.
I don't like the idea of all these companies buying up all these things anyway, because
the only reason I've had to buy an Xbox is because Microsoft bought Profesla and that's
the only way I can play Starfield.
So the only reason I bought that is for that reason.
So I don't like this purchase in bollocks.
I know Sony have bought Bungie.
So they own Destiny, which is a reason why I'd have to buy the next PlayStation and I'd
have to buy the next Xbox because fucking Microsoft owned Profesla.
So then you do care then?
Yeah, I care.
But I care that I don't want them to do it.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
It's too late for that.
So it doesn't matter.
I don't care that much for Call of Duty.
It was going to stay multi-platform anyway.
Yeah, but it's not just Call of Duty.
What else is it?
Diablo.
Oh yeah, I know.
But yes, let's be frank.
I can give a fuck.
Overwatch.
There's multiple games there.
No, there's cool games.
Don't get me wrong.
But the thing is with Xbox, they don't want what I don't think they don't.
They don't want all these exclusive things.
I just think they want, they just want subscriptions.
That's all they want.
That's all they care about.
They don't want people to buy Xbox.
These Xboxes will cease to exist before PlayStation will.
You reckon?
Yeah.
Because Xbox don't care about the consoles.
They care about subscriptions.
You can already play fucking Xbox games through your telly without an Xbox.
So do you know what I mean?
How do you do that?
Through cloud.
All you need is an Xbox control, a game pass subscription and a telly that can do it and
bang you can play.
Don't get me wrong.
I wouldn't do it that way because it's probably shit.
But they don't care about the consoles anymore.
What they care about is everyone paying X amount a month for the rest of their lives
subscribed to Microsoft.
So that I don't know their reasonings behind trying to monopolize all this stuff, but that
is probably the reason.
If they put everything on their game pass, then everyone will just buy that, won't they?
I don't think they care for consoles.
I don't know.
I don't know what the answer is.
Just fuck off buying everything.
You greedy cunts.
All of you.
I just want to play my games without having to choose between what console I buy or not.
That goes for you and all Nintendo.
You're a bunch of cunts as well.
You're all a bunch of cunts.
I just want everything on one system.
It's not going to happen.
I know it's not.
It's annoying.
You're not listening.
You're not listening to anything.
What do you want about?
If you had only one console, there'd be no innovation.
There'd be no competition.
There'd be nothing new.
There'd be no fight for anything.
No difference because it's all on one console.
This is false.
Of course it's not.
It is.
It isn't.
It is.
Of course there'd be fights for everything because still games need to be made.
Games need to be bought.
Yes.
So the developers would have to outdo each other with their games.
Consoles outdoing consoles is not helping anybody.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, but consoles and services outdoes other things.
If you had, say, you merged Microsoft and Sony together, so there goes Xbox Game Pass
and there goes PlayStation Plus.
You've now only got one thing that you subscribe to.
Well now there's absolutely no difference in what you're subscribing to.
So therefore, the things that Sony offers and the things that Microsoft offer, there
wouldn't be a difference because it's all the same thing.
So if it's shit, it's shit.
Where are you going to go?
It's the only thing that there is.
Yes, I know.
I know that's how innovation works.
I know you need competitors, but I'm not thinking like that.
I'm thinking it's fucking annoying having to buy three different consoles just because
I like Zelda and Pokemon, just because I like Bethesda games and Sony has always got the
big hitters.
So, you know, I don't have to buy all three, but that is my hobby.
I play computer games.
So yes, I do.
If I want to play the games I want to play, it's very fucking frustrating.
What are you going to do with your Xbox if Starfield comes out and is capped at 30 frames
a second and it's not nearly as good as we hoped?
Same thing I do with everything else.
Just keep it.
I don't throw things away.
I don't sell things.
I just hoard stuff.
Keep it in the corner?
Yeah, it'll just sit there.
My boy will just carry on drawing on it.
Is he drawing on it?
Yeah.
What do you mean?
I come home and there's bits of pen on it.
He just draws on it.
That's great.
Is what it is.
Not doing it no harm.
A two turn on and all the chalk comes puffing out of the fucking vents.
It just makes it a bit more colorful.
Lovely.
I care not.
I just want to play all the sick games on whatever platform I have to.
I don't care that Microsoft aren't buying Activision at the moment.
I don't care that Microsoft are buying Activision.
I care whatever happens, zero.
Until it affects me, then I'll have the hump.
Up until that point, do what you like.
This is for big business, big wigs to argue about and stop moaning about who monopolizing
this.
Do you know what I mean?
Sony are going out purchasing loads of different fucking companies.
Microsoft are doing the same, but then all of a sudden when it's a big company, they've
all got something to say about it.
I don't give a fuck, to be honest with you.
It's a shitting competition, isn't it?
Who can fuck over who the best?
Exactly.
Who cares?
I think Sony are just embarrassed because Xbox have been like, oh, we're putting Call
of Duty on Nintendo for the next 10 years.
They've just signed this deal that lets them have it for the next 10 years and we're not
going to take it off the consoles.
Why don't you do the same?
And Sony are just embarrassed to deal with them or something.
I don't know.
That's all I get from it, but who cares, man?
Who really cares?
As long as you can play the games you want to play, who gives a shit?
This is for the big wigs and the money, man.
That's what it's about.
A gaming podcast brought to you by Reese and Ash.
Yeah.
But who cares, man?
Who cares?
Who cares about this, man?
Who cares?
Shall we talk about something that you do care about then?
What's next on the list?
What are you doing on your phone just scrolling through fucking Sudoku or something?
You've been sat here.
What?
Looking at your list.
Talk about Star Wars.
Okay.
What do you want to know?
I want to know everything because I haven't seen anything on it.
I've stayed completely away from it.
At the end, it's very good.
It's 10 out of 10.
I've already given it a 10 out of 10.
It's the way it goes.
It's S tier.
It's S plus.
It's everything I could have ever wanted in war.
I was concerned, but once again, I did what I did on God of War and I absolutely speed
run the story because whenever the kids are on YouTube, all I'm getting is thumbnails
popping up of Star Wars stuff and I'm getting spoiled left, right and center.
I got spoiled yesterday on something and I've already finished the game.
I just haven't done the side stuff.
So that upset me, but yes, it's better in every single possible conceivable way.
The graphics are better.
The game plays better.
It looks very familiar on the surface when you haven't played it, but the feeling of
everything is amplified by 10.
The haptic feedback is great.
The lightsaber swinging and it feels powerful.
It felt long.
It did feel long, but I loved it.
So I wanted it to never end.
Is it one of those where there's going to be a third one?
Oh yeah.
It's a trilogy for sure.
I've already said that before this even come out.
It's such a weird way to play games.
Well the way I play.
Yeah, yeah.
I can't get my head around it.
It will annoy me more if I get spoiled.
I feel like you're missing out.
I'm not because I've got so much more game to go and play now.
I'm not going to do it all.
I'm going to platinum it.
Yeah, but what if them side missions make the story more rich?
Well they will.
I'm going to go and get them.
That's what I'm saying.
It's pointless now because you've already finished the main story.
So they can't make it more rich, can they?
Because you've already done it.
No, they can supplement it.
They're going to make it more rich.
They're their own side pieces.
You know what I mean?
For example, Star Wars 1 or Jedi Fallen Order if you will.
Spoilers.
If I had known that fucking Darth Vader was going to turn up in that game before it happened,
that would have had zero impact for me.
When Darth Vader turned up in that game, I fucking screamed.
I stood up.
I dropped the control.
I was gassed.
If I saw that before that moment, it wouldn't have had that impact.
I'd be like, oh, this is that bit.
What do you mean?
It would completely ruin it for me.
But what do you mean?
How can I explain that any better?
I'm talking about side missions.
Are you talking about if you saw it spoiled for you?
You said you don't know why I play that way and I'm explaining why I play that way.
I rushed the story because of what I just said.
If Darth Vader had turned up in the first one like he did and I knew he was coming,
I'd have been like, oh, it's this bit.
But not knowing and when he did turn up, I went nuts.
I was not expecting it.
I was like, oh my God.
It made it a memorable moment for me, a very exciting moment.
If I'm watching, if I'm sitting there and I look up on YouTube and I see Darth Maul
versus Cal Kester, someone will be like...
So don't go on fucking YouTube while you're playing it then.
I'm not.
The kids are on YouTube and it just pops up.
Why are they watching Star Wars?
They're not.
It's just on YouTube, you knobhead.
They use the same YouTube as you do.
Yeah.
That's why.
That's your problem then.
Whatever.
You should have a media silence for a week before these games come out.
That's what I did.
Is it?
I wasn't on YouTube.
I wasn't on my damn YouTube.
Well, then you should...
But like the week before, you should litter your feeds with like, I don't know, fucking
Peppa Pig and F1 and then your algorithms is going to be Peppa Pig and F1 for the next
week and then when you played it, you can then start banging on the fucking Cal Kester
stuff.
I didn't go on TikTok.
I didn't go on Twitter.
I didn't go on Instagram.
I didn't go on YouTube for the whole time that I waited till I finished this game.
So I did exactly that.
But if I saw what I saw before it happened, I'd have been devastated.
There's loads of things like that in this game.
So none of that happened.
So it's not my fault, like you said, because none of it happened.
I avoided it all.
I finished the story.
Very happy, very content.
And now I can go and do the side stuff.
Game of the year?
It's a lot better than Hogwarts Legacy.
Is it game of the year though?
No, because Zelda comes out next week.
Oh, you're fucking obsessed with this shit.
It's not going to be Zelda.
What is then?
It's not going to be Zelda.
What is then?
Why would it be Zelda?
It's not.
It's just not going to happen.
Okay.
Well, you're adamant there's going to be Hogwarts Legacy, which is very funny.
It ain't going to be Redfall.
There's nothing else popping out.
Exactly.
I feel like it wouldn't be Hogwarts Legacy.
You put a £50 bet on this one.
I feel like it wouldn't be Hogwarts Legacy if it didn't have three separate fucking release
dates till you get reminded throughout the entire year that this game exists.
Because right now, no one's talking about Hogwarts Legacy.
It's done.
No one's interested.
But has it come out yet on the PS4?
Is it out yet?
I think so.
I think it came out last week or so.
Right.
So then you've still got Switch it is coming out on.
So you get to revamp that game of the year goodness.
Did you get an update today, I believe, or yesterday?
No one cares.
That's the problem.
I just don't...
I don't know.
Like I say, it was a good game.
I enjoyed it for what it was.
It was very good game.
I really enjoyed it to be fair.
I just I said from day one, it's never going to be game of the year.
Never.
I just don't see Zelda being game of the year.
Why?
It's one of the biggest games on the planet.
I know.
It's one of them once every fucking 10 years almost games.
So no, it's as big as GTA style, that sort of shit.
I can't see how it won't be gaming it.
I just can't.
All them previews are coming out saying this shit is mental.
We've played it.
This shit is actually going to blow your brains.
Did it win game of the year when it came out last time?
Breath of the Wild?
I'm sure it probably did.
I have no idea.
I have absolutely no idea.
It might be gobsmacked if it didn't.
When does it release?
What?
In Tears of the Kingdom?
Yeah.
Friday?
It is Friday.
Steph's got a Switch in and she's refusing to fucking use it.
Until what?
Until that comes out.
Yeah.
Well, I sort of said her birthday.
Which is when?
8th of June.
Yeah, 8th of June.
2007 game of the year winner was Breath of the Wild.
It was Breath of the Wild.
Like, listen, ready?
Breath of the Wild beat Super Mario Odyssey as well as Horizon Zero Dawn, Persona 5 and
PUBG 2.
PUBG was a contender in 2017.
Fuck me.
It's a weird catalogue of games.
It won three awards including game of the year.
It's won 189 total awards.
It does look good, doesn't it?
It's gonna win game of the year.
I don't want it to.
I would prefer it to be Star Wars and I'd probably prefer it to be Starfield, one of
the two, because I'm more interested in them.
It's not gonna be Starfield.
No, it probably isn't.
And it's not gonna be Star Wars and it's not gonna be Harry Potter fucking legacy Hogwarts
shit.
It's gonna be Zelda, I'm telling you.
I'm so scared.
It's gonna be.
I'm so scared for Starfield.
You're scared?
I'm fucking terrified.
I can't wait for that game.
I'm fucking, I'm dreading the fact that-
It's your space orgasm.
I know it is.
It's everything you could ever want from a space game.
It's your accessible star citizen.
That is what this is for you.
It looks fucking, it looks good.
And I'm just really nervous because when you got Bethesda that are heading that, it just
seems very, it seems very odd.
You know what I mean?
Is space their thing?
I don't want Skyrim in space.
I don't want it to feel anything like Skyrim.
It's gonna feel like Skyrim and Fallout.
I don't want it to feel like that in space.
That's tough.
They have to, they're, ah.
They're gonna innovate.
Of course they are.
As long as it's not terrible.
As long as it's a seven out of ten.
I can deal with it man.
Like, yeah.
As long as it feels like a Bethesda game and it's open world, which it obviously is, it's
open fucking universe.
And yeah, you've just got that little bit of Bethesda replay value.
That's all I'm really bothered about.
I'm not expecting fucking miracles, but at the same point they need to pull out miracles
at this point because otherwise fucking Microsoft's fucked.
Is it a single player?
It's a mess, yeah.
It's a single player game.
They're my favourite games man.
But Outer Worlds.
Yeah, I didn't like that.
You didn't like that?
No.
Do you want to be a fan of that one?
It was trash.
Which was a shame because I really fucking.
I really liked Outer Worlds.
Yeah, well I really rate the Obsidian, the company that made it, I rate them highly.
They made Fallout New Vegas, which is fucking incredible.
So yeah, I just thought it was so janky and woofy.
I'll give it a good old go as well.
It was janky and woofy.
Yeah, it was weird.
Very woofy.
Why was it Obsidian that made New Vegas and that then?
What happened there?
I don't get that.
I think Bethesda contracted it out to them.
Third party did it.
We have that, we can't be bothered.
But do you know what I'm realising now that it really hurts me?
Go on.
There's no Star Wars games.
There's not enough.
No.
Like where, like May the 4th be with you.
Was yesterday.
That's when you get all the good deals.
All cheap games, cheap fucking collectibles.
Assigned Mandalorian.
Prices.
And then there's all these fucking, all these like sales and obviously Fortnite's got the
Anakin skin.
You had a deal as well.
You got some decent shit.
Yeah I got some stuff.
No they weren't deals.
They were just fucking releases on pre-order.
No the fucking one that you picked up it was like 8 quid.
Oh yeah that's just me being fucking smart as fuck.
You didn't even know it was 8 quid did it?
Yeah I did.
No you didn't.
Yes I did.
No you didn't.
What are you on about?
You, it had a price tag on it for 15.
I looked on the website.
Yeah.
To see what, if they had any cheap Star Wars figures.
Go on.
That said 8 pound.
So I went there.
Said 15 pound.
I went up to two and said how much is this?
They said it's 15 pound.
I said it says 8 pound on the website.
They said yeah you're right it's 8 pound.
I said thank you I'll have it.
So I knew it was 8 pound.
I wasn't the one who bought it.
And what I should have done is buy all of them and then put them online for 20 quid.
You should have done.
I know but I'm not scum.
But you didn't.
Anyway, yes there's no Star Wars games and that makes me angry.
Where is my live service Star Wars game?
What's that noise?
I don't know it's a magpie.
You have a live service.
No not that one.
Not that one.
Well until that one dies they're not going to have another one.
Well they need to.
They're missing out on fucking.
Like Battlefront 2.
It's a travesty that they cancelled that.
Because that would have been an absolute fuck.
If they didn't put all them stupid loot boxes in and just kept slowly adding every now and
again like every season.
This is what EA does.
Yeah but why didn't they do a battle pass system and every season release a new hero.
Because battle passes are fucking sickening.
I'm sick of those fucking things.
You might be.
Here's a full price game and then for £10.99 here's more shit.
Well they don't need to make it full price.
If they made that free, free to play just like Destiny.
They could have easily gone oh right well now Battlefront 2 is free to play.
Here's a season pass.
Every season we're going to release a new hero.
And here's loads of cosmetics for the heroes you've already got.
Blah de blah.
That's my wet fantasy dream.
I want that.
I want Star Wars.
I will buy all the cosmetics.
I will play the game until it's dead.
Just give me that.
This is what you want.
You want an amalgamation of Destiny meets World of Warcraft in Star Wars.
Battlefront 2.
No Battlefront 2 is not that though.
Battlefront 2 is not that.
Battlefront 2 is just Call of Duty dressed in Star Wars.
No it's not.
It's Battlefield.
Same fucking thing basically.
What is that blasphemy?
Oh it is now isn't it?
We both played the last Battlefield.
It ain't fucking nothing special.
They've lost their touch.
But that's just a first person shooter with some cosmetics.
You're telling me if Destiny.
So imagine Destiny as it is.
Yeah as it is.
But rather than it being absolutely what it is, it's Star Wars with the Star Wars lore
and the different fucking lightsabers and the blasters and all that type of shit.
I don't care.
Why?
I don't care if it's fucking Tetris with Star Wars skin.
If it's live service I'm in.
Yes but this is what I'm saying though.
If you had something like Destiny but it was completely Star Wars.
What I'm saying is I'm happy with Battlefront 2.
That was fine.
Yes but you could do better than Battlefront 2 because it's just a fucking first person
shooter with a lightsaber in it.
It is.
It's nothing special.
It's completely different.
It's got all the heroes that you have to pick but you have to get the points to be able
to get them and then you can turn a tide in the battles.
Yes but this is what I'm saying though.
It's been done.
Done to death.
You don't need it.
Whereas if you had like the Star Wars MMORPG, if you had a very very recent new fucking
graphics, the whole lot like that that you could play on console you'd be all over it.
If you had Destiny but it was Star Wars you'd be all fucking over it.
The closest thing that we've got to a live service fucking Star Wars game is Fortnite.
It's fucking stupid.
At the moment there's the fucking Star Wars event on there.
So you've got fucking Anakin, you've got Padme, you've got all the old Star Wars skins that
I've got anyway.
And you can go down, you drop on a map, it's Fortnite, it's Battle Royale but you can go
in these little rifts with Darth Maul and Obi Wan.
You can get force powers and come out of a lightsaber.
I mean you can find blasters on the floor.
It's basically just Star Wars in Fortnite at the moment.
But that will go and then it'll be nothing left again.
The closest live service is Star Wars The Old Republic.
You know this, you've played it.
We've both played this.
But it didn't hold you the same way that it would if it was fucking brand new.
That game would hold me by the penis and pull me along at whatever pace it liked if it was
on the PlayStation.
I can't play but I am going to say this, I am going to give it another go.
You could set up a controller.
For two reasons.
One, I want more Star Wars.
I need more Star Wars.
I need a Star Wars I can go and play every single day.
Three reasons.
Two, I've finished Jedi Survivor and I want more.
So there's four reasons.
Three, I forgot what my fourth reason was.
My third reason, Darth Malgus, the character that I've just pre-ordered.
He is my Black Series figure that I've just pre-ordered.
He is like the main guy, the main Sith Lord from that.
So I want to see what that's all about.
Four, is I watched all the cutscenes for the expansion announcements all the way through.
From the game announcement.
What for Old Republic?
For every single thing.
Obviously, it's not representative of the product itself.
It's a cinematic.
Fuck me.
Cinematics are cool though, aren't they?
If I could do naughty things to that, I would.
It is the best fucking lightsaber.
These little fucking couple of minute trailers that have got stories in it that are better
than some games I've played.
It's getting me moist all around my crotch.
This is why I can't understand why it hasn't...
Why?
Why has this thing not been fucking beefed up?
You haven't even got to make a new game.
Just Star Wars, the Old Republic and just fucking beef the graphics up and then throw
a load of money into it because the money has to be there.
This is fucking Star Wars.
How is it not being funded to its fucking eyeballs with nerds, you sweaty little cunts?
I think now we are going to see...
There's a lot of Star Wars games in production at the moment.
There's Real Time Strategy 1.
There's another Respawn game, which is who makes Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor, but
that's a first person shooter.
There is a Real Time Strategy game.
There's a game from Quantic Dreams, which is Detroit Become Human.
So it's one of them.
Very good fucking game.
So there's going to be a Star Wars version of that.
There's so many...
There's Knights of the Old Republic remake.
Hopefully that's the easel of the day.
I think there's two actual shooters.
I think now, obviously recently EA have lost their 10 year fucking...
Fuck them.
They've lost their 10 year contract with Star Wars or exclusivity rights to make Star Wars
games.
So now it's a free throw.
Oh, you've got the Ubisoft Open World one, which Assassin's Creed is great for me.
I quite like Valhalla and stuff like that.
It's not great, but whatever.
Stick that in a Star Wars world.
Give me all them little islands I can go to, but in a fucking spaceship and as planets,
then I'm fucking all over that.
I just want to be in a Star Wars world running around with a lightsaber doing stuff.
So I think we're going to see the next big MMO.
We're going to see the next big live service game soon.
Why is Star Wars The Old Republic not that fucking live service massive Star Wars game?
Surely it's everything that you want.
Everything's there.
I can't understand.
This is coming from an outside point of view of someone who isn't into Star Wars.
Well, I can't tell you that because I don't know MMOs.
I don't know the history of the game, but what I can tell you from what I've read, it
is just built on such an old system.
It just feels like it's just breaking at the seams at all times.
But I say, there's a lot of people that fucking love it.
There's a lot of people that started in 2022.
I love all them videos.
I played Star Wars The Old Republic in 2023.
Let's watch this.
They love it.
You know what I mean?
So it's there.
It's something to play, but I just need to just play Star Wars at all times, basically
is what I'm saying.
So just give me any Star Wars games and I'll buy them.
I'll play them and I'll love them.
Card games, strategy games, puzzle games, shooting games, football games.
I don't care what it is.
Star Wars it and I'm in.
Easy money.
I'm just fucking I'm sorry.
I'm trying to Google why this MMORPG is not bigger than it should have been.
Well, then it should be.
So they announced an update yesterday.
Come up on my thing, but I don't know anything about it.
So I don't I can't have an opinion.
But Knights of the Old Republic, MMO.
We estimated the daily player count of so was the old public's 223,811 with a total
player base of 11,779,000.
It's not terrible.
It's not awful, no.
But you know, it now says the last 30 days on steam, it's had 5,852 average players.
So I don't know.
I don't know if it's doing well.
I don't know if it's doing terribly.
It must be doing something if they're still updating it after all these years.
Do you mean there must be something going on?
I'm going to try it again.
I'm going to jump back in and we'll see if I can, you know, get involved.
I think it's still it's still alive because there's nothing else like it at the moment.
I agree.
If if something else come out that was very similar to it, if you if you took the the
world that is World of Warcraft and just completely turned it to Star Wars, but kept the same
mechanics, the raids, how it all works and things like that, it would be fucking huge.
It would be massive.
No one's telling me that you can't do that when you've got the Elder Scrolls online.
Yeah.
On console.
Yeah.
On all consoles, on on PC, on laptops, whatever.
It's doable.
You can play World of Warcraft with a controller now.
You can do it quite successfully.
Loads of people do it now.
You can map the buttons up.
There's add ons for it.
Like it's a supported thing now, which never used to be.
And I've seen how it works and it isn't fucking that complicated.
So not too many toolbar buttons to press.
No, no, no.
It's weird, but it is majorly doable.
So I agree.
I just why?
Why is this not possible?
I don't know if it's had something to do with this 10 year lapse that EA have had it for
10 years where no one's been able to do anything.
That's why I think there's so many projects in the world now.
I think you're just going to.
It's Disney owned now.
They're just going to churn it out.
So have they?
So EA.
So is it EA owned the rights?
Yeah.
To create only only EA could create Star Wars games for 10 years and they created fuck all.
So what?
Battlefront 1, Battlefront 2.
Who the fuck give it to them?
Squadrons.
I don't know.
Some Wally.
I don't know who started on fucking squadrons.
Absolute waste of time.
All they've done that's been productive, I guess, is fall in order and now Jedi survival.
Let's respawn.
I feel like that in itself is cornering the market.
Having one one developer have the rights to an entire franchise that they didn't even
create.
How much have they wasted that?
So much.
They could have like they had FIFA, you know, they had all the branding for, you know, no
other football game could have all the licenses.
They had that in the palm of their hands and they've shit that out of the bed.
Now it's not called FIFA no more.
It won't be.
And they've had Star Wars where they could have really nailed that down and just been
like the front runner.
They could have created.
I mean, they tried to create the live service game Battlefront 2 and it could have been
the apex legends for Star Wars.
They fucked it with the loot boxes.
And then when they when they restored the faith, they fucking abandoned it.
They've abandoned it and they're not making Battlefront 3.
They've said that because they put all their eggs into the battlefield 2042, which also
fucking died.
So it's just like, what are you doing?
You could have now people's outrage about Battlefront 2 because they see the mods for
Battlefront 2 on the on the computer crazy.
I can't do them because I'm not on the computer, but they've got all the characters, all the
characters that they could have released.
You think one of these a month.
I'm telling you, man, this is why Skyrim still massive because their mods, modern communities
are fucking crazy with the shit that they can do.
It's incredible.
That's what I mean, man.
They could have season past this shit up much like Apex and they could have had their little
fucking they got greedy money making and they fucked it because that hot.
They don't care about the about the fan base.
As long as that shit's making money, they don't give a fuck.
And it would have made money.
That's what you care about.
Yeah, but they don't they aren't prepared to take the risk because it's easy cash loot
boxes.
It's just fucking gambling.
I don't agree with loot boxes.
Yeah, but it's not though, because it's gone.
It's dead.
It's not easy money.
They could have had money, money, money at the time.
They thought it was easy money because that's why they've done it.
But they've just gone and fucked it.
Why?
Twats.
The increase.
Star Wars isn't even in my top 10 of things to do in this kind of world, but I can respect
it entirely.
And even I know that if you if you had a current MMORPG for Star Wars, I'd be on that shit.
I'd be all over it.
The entire universe.
If you could fly spaceships and shit like that, not like how Destiny has it, where it
is effectively loading into one fucking map constantly.
Good God, it makes me want to put a bullet in my head.
It's fucking annoying.
Why is that a thing?
Fuck you.
It's so stupid.
Anyway, if you had it so that it was it was streamlined and it was huge.
Imagine something like No Man's Sky.
But it's you get out.
It's Star Wars, bro.
You get out and you you aren't Anakin, but you can fucking look like Anakin, Anakin,
Anakin.
There's transmogs for it.
You know, I mean, you the possibilities with it are crazy.
Why?
I'm well, we know why.
But I'm really hoping that once this is all said and done and have nothing to do with
Star Wars, that we will see some mental stuff of it, because how the fuck has no one tried
to milk that cash cow?
If everyone's so concerned with making as much money as possible, Star Wars is where
it's at.
You can one IP in the world.
You can come on number two.
You can fucking rinse it for anything you want.
Rinse me.
I'm not going to rinse me anything.
You do anything you want.
Pick me up.
So I pick me up, turn me upside down, shake my pockets.
I'm begging you.
Yeah, look, look at something like Elder Scrolls.
Look at something like World of Warcraft and go, oh, let's do something in the Star Wars
universe kind of like this type of thing.
If you had Elder Scrolls online, but it was Star Wars.
Fuck me.
You'd be wetting yourself.
I'd like cross play.
Because obviously Elder Scrolls online isn't fucking cross play, which I find pathetic.
But if you had something like that, I don't care how much money is.
I'm having it because you know it's fucking sick.
I want it.
Please, mummy.
That's what we want.
That's what I want.
And I'm hoping it's on its way.
It has to be.
I know you know how you get like a TV show or a movie or stuff or something that you
like and go, yeah, that'll be a really cool game and blah, blah, blah.
We've all done it with loads of shit.
I feel like Star Wars is one of the only things where you can truly go, yeah, this would make
a sick game.
This bit would make a sick game and that bit and this bit and this bit and it genuinely
would.
You go, that would be sick.
That'd be sick.
Let's do that.
Let's make that.
Why?
Star Wars is the go and it forever will be.
So I'm just waiting.
I'm biding my time.
I'm doing all my Star Wars in on all my Star Warsy games.
There's a wasp that's just flown into the podcast room.
I'm going to jump on the MMO at some point in the distant near distant future.
That laptop's going to need some updating.
Probably after I've platinum survivor.
Wipe the dust off of that.
Yeah.
And then that is getting fucking, that's getting done.
Because I was really enjoying what I was playing with it.
I don't know why I ended up stopping playing it.
I was enjoying it.
Was it because of your wrist?
No, it wasn't that.
It was actually all right on there.
It was just getting a bit overwhelming.
I didn't really know what I was doing.
I was getting a bit confused.
Yeah.
But that's how all MMOs are though.
You don't know what the fuck's happening until you've got to sink your time into it.
Yeah.
It's a very good story apparently.
The stories in that are like, because it is essentially Cotor 3, which they didn't get,
we didn't get.
So that is essentially what it is.
So I'm all for it.
I read a thread on Reddit and it was asking why people still play the old Republic.
And yeah, like 90% of the people that answered said the story and the arcs and things like
that are within the story, just how good it really is.
I mean, a lot of people said it's just addiction.
Yeah.
But yeah, I've heard that the story is good.
It's definitely worth whacking the laptop back on and having a little fiddle with it.
I will fiddle the shit out of it.
Like I say, there's going to be some updating that needs doing.
That's fine.
I can play Jedi Survivor in the meantime.
That's absolutely fine.
Jedi Survivor for me is set up in a way where Fault in Order wasn't really, where you can
just fuck about and jump down and just slice some shit up.
Just pretend you're just fucking the Jedi wandering about.
Whereas the other one was more like, there's a lot more puzzles in the other one.
This one's a bit more puzzle-like, which is good.
And yeah, it's just, you can just go around fucking chopping up droids and stormtroopers
and that.
There's dismemberment in this one finally.
So you can chop off their fucking arms and legs.
Makes perfect sense.
Yeah.
It was stupid in the, in Fault in Order where lightsabers aren't cutting through people.
Yeah.
The little bit that I played, I didn't like that.
It wasn't very realistic.
But yeah, in this one it's, yeah, you're fucking, you're fucking chopping legs and arms off.
I say realistic is a fucking lightsaber.
Yeah.
I tried to get you a graded Cal Kestis Black series.
Wow.
I tried to get Holder one for you and, um, just don't love you enough.
This is so expensive.
He's sick though.
Well Connor got you something for your birthday and I thought I'm not having it.
I'm not having him, him weaseling in.
He's already fucked up my trotty and now he's going to take, he's going to take my friends
away from me.
I said I'm not having it.
And I was trying to scratch my head.
I got Asher General Grievous Funko Pop.
It'll do.
But I was like, Oh, maybe I'll have a look and see if there's any cheap graded black
series knocking around.
And there ain't, there just isn't.
It's not a thing.
No.
It's a thing that's done.
So I must say thanks to Connor.
Cause what he got me was pretty shockingly spectacular.
If I'm perfect, I'm sure it was cool.
I was not expecting that.
And yeah, he got me a Darth Maul, um, but, uh, Funko Pop, but he's got, he's got, he's
holding a dark saber man.
It's cool.
So sick.
It's very cool.
And obviously the Lang dog's got me a General Grievous, which I'm also very grateful for
cause he is also a very sick thing, very sick figure.
Um, so yeah, I'm just, I've, I've been very spoiled in that respect.
Um, apart from, from my wife, she won't listen to this.
So fuck her.
We'll talk about that on the exclusive.
Yeah.
Uh, well I'll say it then.
Yeah.
I'll say so.
Um, yeah.
Oh God.
That's your outro.
See you next week losers.
See you later.
Bye.
Thank you very much.