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Hello and welcome to the Unofficial Controller Podcast

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, your weekly gaming podcast , Episode 223

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, with me , George , and this week joined by RGT

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and he's

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back . Pop the Pyros , it's Triple

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S said these men are Lennon

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and McCartney . To my failed audition

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for the Quarrymen . Gentlemen , how's

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it going ?

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Very , very well , very well .

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It's going good . Good , gentlemen , can

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you feel it ? Can

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you feel it ? Hear your voice again ? It's lovely . There's a buzz in the air . There's electricity that's

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going through the air . It's going all the way from texas , all the way across

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the atlantic , all the way to the uk

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and everyone . You can hear the

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. It's a bit of a buzz

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and then it turns into a rumble and

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that rumble sounds like the people , the

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people are chanting . They are glad . All

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the millions and millions

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of

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Sam's fans are rejoicing

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because , finally , triple

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S has rejoined , rejoined and

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took his rightful place amongst you lads

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in the UCP

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podcast . Gentlemen , thank you for

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having me back .

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Listen , let's get caught up because PAX

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big games event

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over there . You went there as our

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roving reporter and then things went

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quiet . I employed Mouse

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, the Bounty Hunter , to go over and try

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and find out what's going on and I

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heard back that you'd kind of fell

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in with a tearaway Texan pastor

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with a checkered past and

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it transpired that he had sort of co-opted

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you into joining a cult . But

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Mouse mounted up , he got his little sidearm

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and he is a , a mouse , so it's a very small sidearm

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, probably , you know , unrecognisable

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to the human eye . He went in there and

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got you out . He bust you out . I

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do believe Ray was the getaway mobile . You're

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back with us now , safe in Mumsy's

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bosom . All

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I can say is you've been missed , not only

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here in the Discord and

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everywhere else . Welcome

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back on a genuine note . You've been missed not

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only here in the Discord and everywhere else . Welcome back

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On a genuine note , breaking the fourth wall . Sir , are

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you well ?

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I am absolutely fantastic . Yeah

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, this year's been just

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on a crazy note for me . So

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full transparency here . Like I was lured in , you know , I was lured in by

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the I guess you could say the lure of a Texan pastor

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who basically said you know what ? We're going to

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pay you more , absolutely

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more money than the Furkay

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Corporation . And you know me , money , money

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talks in all facets of life . So

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I said sir , said sir

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, I'm gonna jump on that horse and I'm gonna ride with you

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, I'm gonna ride with you . And he took me to

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this little strange place called el paso

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, texas , and not a whole lot there , there's a

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whole like a couple movie theaters . You can see the tumbleweeds

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. It's the . It's very stereotypical what

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you think of of texas and such like that

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. And you know everything

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was going well , they , we had a meeting , we sat

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down and you know it was about five

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hours into the meeting and such like that that

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I realized I was at a combine man . And

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the crazy thing is , you know , they

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wouldn't let me out for a little while . And

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next thing , you know , I got hooked on this thing

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called Sweet Baby Ray's . Have you heard about it ? It's a barbecue

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sauce really popular in the States . Anyways , got hooked on this thing

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called Sweet Baby Ray's . Have you heard about it ? It's a barbecue sauce really popular in the States

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. Anyways , got hooked on the Sweet Baby Ray's . They barbecued the heck out

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of some meat to briskets all the way around

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and everything like that Gained 10 pounds while

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I was there . And then this little mouse came , jumped

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over the wall , started slapping people

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left and right and said we got to get you out of here , we

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got to get you back to civilization . And

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I looked at that mouse and I said fivo . And he said no , that's my cousin . And I said all right

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, it doesn't matter , it really doesn't matter . Um , so me and him , I tilted out of here and

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I'm back . Guys , I am officially back

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in civilization . Left el paso behind

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, still took , took a bottle of sweet

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baby rays on the go and everything like that , plan

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on doing a nice little barbecue this

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weekend for Father's Day . But I digress

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, it's been a little bit of a up

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and down struggle and outside of that , you know

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, to break the fourth wall to let

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everyone in for a little bit In

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real life , outside of

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the Colts and all that kind of stuff

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I got laid off

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earlier this year of stuff

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like I . I got laid off this , this like earlier this year , and I was trying to figure out what what life

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looks like next . And you know what I was going to do . I

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had to put things on pause a little bit and try to

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reconfigure my life around and

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and such like that . And then you

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know , everything sort of aligned recently

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to where I got this , a lot of momentum

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back in in life and such like that . So we

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all fall down . I got back up and it's great

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being here with y'all guys , sir , it's been a

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while you don't need

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to apologize either .

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Within the story lore of the show which

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, if you're a new listener , you're probably thinking what

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the hell is going on here ? Well , there's 222

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episodes to go dig through . It's a

5:20

good law say

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it's good , it's above average , to

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be fair . I'm probably only selling

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it it's okay , alright , but what other

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podcaster's got law like this ? Yeah , breaking

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the fourth wall . It's good to have you back . Let's

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, let's not dwell on it . Let's , let's

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feast on the positives here . Dog got you

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out . You're back with us . To

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anyone wondering if this is a video game news show , it

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is , so let's just give

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people a heads up of what's going down . We've got some news

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coming up , which is the very hottest news

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. As always , we've got Ray . No

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other show's got a Ray . We've got a Stingray

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. Wait till the end of the episode to

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find out what he's looking like this week . But

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before all that starts , what we like to do is dig in and let you

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know what we've been playing . And because I'm all ears , I don't know

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whether he's been playing the tiger electronics game in that

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cult locked up on his bunk bed

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or what , but uh , triple

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s said what

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, sir , have you been playing

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?

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can I , before I dive into what I've been playing

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, can I ask you a question , like I just want to

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. I want to get your opinions ? Um

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, yeah , like yeah

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, for sure , for sure . Um , I know we have the news

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going on in search of that and I know we have

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the video game releases , but I I

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want to bring a topic to your y'all's attention

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because I want your opinion . Last

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year I touted that it was

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probably one of the best years ever

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as far as video game releases . I felt like , especially

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on the AAA level , it had a lot

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of stuff for a lot of people . You know there was a lot

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of variety there . I want your opinions

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, like how do you feel about this year so

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far in video games ? Do you feel like it's a

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slow year ? Do

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you , in video games , do you feel like it's a slow year ? Do you feel like it's very specialized ? Do you feel like this year has been like you've been feasting

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because a lot of games have come out for you ?

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I'm like I'm curious on how y'all feel about this year . Me personally , I

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feel like I've been scratching deeper and deeper into my backlog

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, which is no bad thing . I'm

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I'm struggling to kind

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of find a game that I've gravitated towards this

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year . You know , know , things are a little bit and

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this is no disrespect but you know , things are a little bit

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dicey when Georgie Boy is playing

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online games and Georgie Boy is playing

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Helldivers 2 . I mean , if

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you'd have took me back in time and said , oh , you're

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going to really start enjoying this online game , I'd

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have said no , absolutely not

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. But to be fair

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, I've had a really good grip on with that

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. In terms of this year , I do

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feel it's been a bit barren . Our own Stingray

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has turned up with barely a morsel

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in the boot from one week to the next . In terms of

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there's Indy kicking about , don't

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get me wrong . There always is , but wading through

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that sometimes is quite hard . Breaking

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the meniscus of that that there's not really

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been any . To

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say there's been no triple eight is completely wrong

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. To say there's been no sort of second

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party studio developments is also wrong

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, because we've seen stellar

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blade , we've seen lots

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of other games of that caliber come out

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but just haven't really hit for me

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. I think it'd be wrong to say in

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June . This year's a bit of a bust , but

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I'm

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just excited to see what comes

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out the back of it . Obviously we had the Xbox showcase

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and that had some things in there that kind of whet my appetite

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for things that are interesting . We'll

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get into that in the news , but I think they

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I'll be honest , I think

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they absolutely delivered . We've

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been saying for some time they need to turn

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up and show us something . They did . I

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mean it was a bit lacking in terms

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of , you know , nailed

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on release dates for some of the things that I saw

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which would have . That

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would have put the hype train through the roof if

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they'd done some , you know , like they did with Hi-Fi

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Rush , if they'd done a stealth drop on us , if they'd

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done something along those lines of a game of

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that calibre . We

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kind of know , on the edge of the

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industry , what has been going on

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and what games have got coming out , but

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you know , to have stealth drop

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for the masses , something of you know

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, of a good calibre , I

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think would have just put that whole thing into

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it . Chef's kiss yeah , I mean

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it was a chef's kiss . Chef

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Ramsay's not going to come along and tip the

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pan on the floor , is he ? And start

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swearing profanities at Xbox . That's

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a fact . But yeah , I

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was very happy with what I saw

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there . I think this year's probably

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going to be , you know something

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, where it's a bit more traditional , where we start grinding

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into the games so

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quarter three , quarter four , ready

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for that sort of holiday release season . I

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see that getting quite busy and congested

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there . I think we've probably quite rightly

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had a little bit of breathing

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space , I think , at the beginning

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, which has been good . It's allowed

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us all to kind of break the backs

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of our backlogs and hopefully

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arrive at

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the back end of the year with a slightly less embarrassing

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six foot high stack of games I still haven't played

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and a

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little bit of a hunger for more . I've

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I've totally dominated

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that whole conversation , so I want to spin it over

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to RGT .

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Do you feel the same way ? Rgt .

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I'm glad you brought this up , because I was going to speak about this on the show

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. Actually , I think a word for

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me this year so far is deflated . Ah

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, this

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week , especially the

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current gen , we've got the

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switch . We've got the PS five . We've

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got the switch . Yeah , well , it is

10:54

for that is for Nintendo .

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But yeah , hang on , hang on

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. I just want to need to pause you there , cause we

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just need to get said caught up . The

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, the , the switch is dead . Baby , it's

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not dead , it's

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on ice .

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I think you know I would probably

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call it life support . You

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know , like we know it's dead .

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It's just like no one wants to say it , RGT

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. What were you saying ? We ?

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just don't want to say it out loud my

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, my current three

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.

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You know , current gen consoles as such

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are the switch , ps5 and I've got a series x um

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. This week especially

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, I have got no passion

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to play those three whatsoever

12:21

. I have played them but I

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seem to have lost . The only thing that's piqued me a

12:25

bit was the xbox showcase . Um

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, watching that really got me a

12:29

bit excited for some games coming out , um

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, especially , you know , first

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party ones for microsoft

12:36

. But I just don't

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know . This year I think

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it's a combination of we knew this year was

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probably going to be a bit of a downer anyway

12:45

. Last year we were exceptionally

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spoiled and

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I think the two of those collided

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is really , and I just

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find myself and I know it's probably

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not your thing , seb , but for

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me I've been more excited going

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back through back catalogues of PS3 , xbox

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360 , been loving them and

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that's what I've been sort

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of more excited to play . And we

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had this conversation last , not last week

13:12

, before cruising through

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PlayStation Premium Games Pass and

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it's just end up playing nothing . You're

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so spoilt for choice and I know this sounds

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a really stupid thing to moan about . There's too

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many things on there , but

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you just need that . That big

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bang and game you know is coming , you

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know , to get you excited for it , and especially

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with playstation at the moment , that isn't there

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, um , and

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then , even though the xbox showcase is really

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good , don't forget there's quite a few of these are 2025

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. So I

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and I just don't know , I just feel

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really drained of current gen

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at the moment and I , I just , you know

13:51

, I'm looking elsewhere to play

13:53

games at the moment to get excited for . And I just find

13:55

, especially , like I say , with

13:57

the ps3 , even ps4 , you've

13:59

got massive libraries there . You pick the games up for

14:01

next to nothing and I could dive into series

14:03

that I've never experienced before and

14:06

I've really been sort of swaying that . Well

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, I've actually been forcing myself to turn

14:10

on the ps5 and xbox series x , um

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, and I've gone two or three

14:14

weeks sometimes without even turning them on , you

14:17

know . So it's , yeah , it's , it's

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, it's a struggle this year , I'll put it that way and

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I do . I don't , like I say

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, I don't know whether it is because of last year , I've

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had a bit of burnout from having so many

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games I don't know , um , but

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yeah , I think , like I say , going back to what I said

14:32

, deflated I feel a bit this year with

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the whole situation and because it's been all the drama

14:37

as well the xbox and the closing

14:39

the studios and yes , it

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was a . You know it's not a nice thing , but that's all you hear on the

14:43

internet . It's all you see . It's not a nice thing , but that's all you hear on the internet . It's

14:45

all you see . And everything

14:48

seems quite negative at the moment . Even

14:53

the state of play was okay

14:55

, it was all right . I wouldn't say it was

14:57

inspirational , but I think just

14:59

to get me back on board a little bit , I

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think the Xbox showcase

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dragged me back up a little bit , but we

15:05

just need some positive things , I think this year .

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The fact that they've addressed every

15:10

issue I ever had with Flight Simulator

15:12

and they've added in those jobs has suddenly made

15:15

it the SnowRunner of the skies , and

15:17

I'm salivating like a starving pig

15:19

just to lick its earlobe .

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See , I'm glad you said that .

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You asked a question , so what's your take fresh out of the cult ? What ? What

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are you seeing here ?

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because you've got fresh eyes on this . You know , um , I've

15:34

been thinking , I've been thinking about this all year

15:36

because I've I too feel like

15:38

this year has been lacking , but I

15:41

I couldn't put my finger

15:43

on it until I start analyzing things outside

15:46

of the medium and I thought to myself I'm like

15:48

, okay , last year , I

15:50

think , was one of the best , if not the best

15:52

, video game release years ever

15:54

, and I think this year so

15:57

far , tv shows

15:59

is kind of having that same kind of like

16:01

oomph there and whereas

16:03

video games just kind of slid off . But because , like

16:05

tv shows , you got house of the dragon , you got um

16:07

the bear , all sorts of different oh

16:10

, it feels like every oh , fallout

16:12

was really good . Um , you

16:14

got that . Um , the boys is coming back this

16:16

week . As of this recording , I'm like it

16:18

feels like every single week we are getting

16:20

a banger , um , a banger of

16:22

high quality on tv shows and

16:24

I looked at that and I

16:27

analyzed okay , right

16:29

now in video games it feels like netflix

16:31

. It feels like we have a lot of choices but

16:34

none of those choices feel high

16:36

premium choices . You know like , yeah

16:38

, it's either . It's either like

16:40

very much a acquired

16:42

taste sort of thing to where , like a lot of the games

16:45

that have come out so far , and whether it be stiller

16:47

blade , whether it be yakuza

16:49

, like a dragon and I love the first like

16:52

like a dragon . But infinite wealth is

16:54

the same game with just a little bit of a different

16:56

spin to it . Um , final fantasy

16:58

7 , part 2 um

17:00

, there's a lot of um , oh , um

17:03

, grand blue fantasy , persona 3

17:05

all those games have a very anime

17:07

like way of storytelling . If

17:09

you're really not , you have to be in the mood for that

17:11

and you also have to be like a

17:13

fan of that style of storytelling if you're

17:16

looking for something different besides

17:18

prince of persia and dragon's dogma

17:20

, which dragon's dogma really doesn't tell a very

17:22

cohesive story at all . It's

17:25

more about , like it's a very much a ps3

17:27

rpg .

17:28

So unless you're into those sort of things , you're

17:30

very much starved on the triple a side of the

17:32

fence and yeah

17:34

, I think what I found as well and , like

17:37

I said , I know I'm saying I'm complaining

17:40

because there is , if you've got the

17:42

subscription packages , there's thousands

17:44

of games to play . But I feel like there's thousands of games to play but I feel

17:46

like there's loads of games being thrown

17:48

at me but nothing is sticking and I

17:50

just can't find that game that

17:52

grabs me . And I don't know whether

17:54

that is because of last year , because of all the

17:56

AAA goodness we had , or whether

17:59

it's just me . I'm

18:01

just in a bit of a funk at the moment with the games .

18:03

I think this far into this current gen

18:05

, we're just expecting that game that sits

18:08

us on our backsides . I was also

18:10

doing some sort of timeline

18:13

research and if we go

18:15

back to the ps4's launch , if

18:17

we map that to the ps5

18:20

, we wouldn't even have had red dead 2

18:22

yet . You , you know , and that although

18:24

Xbox and Sony claim we're halfway

18:26

through the life cycle of this machine

18:29

, I say , hmm

18:31

well , there's lots of good things

18:33

to come yet . Obviously , you know we've

18:35

got some big games out there on the horizon that we're

18:37

just waiting to sort of solidify and come down the pipe

18:40

. But I just feel like we're maybe

18:42

calling it a bit too early . The PS4

18:45

had sort of cross-gen games

18:47

and Xbox was the same

18:49

, and

18:53

I really feel like now we're starting to enter its stride and although we feel like we're probably

18:55

not seeing everything this gen's got to offer

18:57

, I think by the time the holidays

18:59

come around and we start pumping into

19:01

2025 , I

19:03

think we're going to have some really exciting stories

19:06

. I think the news thread

19:08

is quiet as well , which is

19:10

also kind of it brings people's

19:12

spirits down a little bit the whole industry's

19:15

kind of one cog back

19:17

on the gearbox , because they're just kind of waiting

19:19

. I see a lot of the same news stories being regurgitated

19:22

. I see a lot of rumors getting

19:24

spanned into stuff with no credibility

19:26

behind them and

19:29

I see lots of sort of narratives

19:32

about game design and production

19:34

length and budgets and other bits and

19:36

bobs and that

19:38

seems to kind of be not

19:41

making excuses for the industry

19:44

but certainly has

19:46

paved the way for the place we find ourselves

19:48

in at the moment , which is just this kind of window

19:50

of nothingness . Last year was

19:52

so good and I should imagine a lot

19:54

of games that maybe were going to come out

19:56

last year took a look at the release cycle

19:58

and went , oh crikey , call it , give

20:01

it 12 months under the incubation and we'll come out

20:03

Christmas next year . Because

20:05

we just can't compete with some of these . And

20:07

I don't blame them , yeah for sure

20:09

not . Hopefully . That means that they'll be leaving

20:11

that sort of cross-gen thing behind . I think

20:14

the user install base the PS5

20:16

and Series X is

20:18

kind of there or thereabouts . I

20:21

think the Switch 2 probably can't come quick enough . We've

20:23

all talked about the Series S holding things back

20:25

and the kind of Switch being

20:27

the powerhouse of sales machine . It is

20:30

as well . It's probably had an impact

20:32

on the sort of games that we're seeing .

20:34

it's got to be scalable so

20:38

I want to follow up on something you just said

20:40

, and I think that's a very intriguing thought

20:42

. I do think a lot of games got out of the way

20:44

of 2023 , especially

20:47

and uh , in 20 . But like , this

20:50

is their window , man , because next year , like

20:53

nintendo's coming back full scale

20:55

with that switch to and with their large

20:57

lineup , and then even

21:00

more so I nintendo's gonna sell what they're gonna

21:02

sell , but gta 5

21:04

I mean gta 6 is a

21:06

monster . That , yeah , that game

21:08

is gonna suck up three months of

21:11

of that year and that's just minimum

21:13

. And then the holiday season it's going

21:15

to have that same reoccurring effect again , where

21:18

the people who didn't buy it at the beginning of the year

21:20

, in march well , it's looking like march

21:22

are probably going to buy that game towards

21:24

the end of the year as well .

21:25

So I'm like I can see that game . That

21:28

game is going to be phenomenal , no questions about

21:31

it . We've been waiting long enough to see what

21:33

a true next gen , because GTA five , as

21:35

great as it is to be able to play on PS4

21:37

, and PS5 and series X or whatever

21:40

, and the fridge , the gen before

21:42

that you 11 years

21:44

old .

21:45

11 years ago it came out .

21:46

All we've had is a shined up penny from that

21:48

all the way forward . So to think the lessons

21:50

they've learned from Red Dead , the lessons

21:52

that they've learned from the online space , what

21:54

that means in terms of what they can bring , and

21:59

we never saw them actually max out . I mean , we kind of did with Red Dead 2 . We

22:01

saw them kind of push that current gen , but

22:08

this gen , um , I feel like our red dead will be gta6 and that's coming early

22:10

part of next year , quarter one or two

22:12

, or h1 , if , depending on how you look at it

22:15

. Um , and I think that's literally

22:17

gonna absolutely kill

22:19

the industry , stone dead because no

22:22

one's going to be able to compete with that it . It's

22:24

going to be for sure , not absolute juggernaut and

22:26

it's going to take some big scalps along the

22:28

way , um , which I

22:30

think is a shame . So next year is going to

22:32

be interesting for sure . We'll see

22:34

who dare poke the periscope

22:36

up in the world that GTA six

22:38

dominates . Um , you're

22:40

going to be bright , you've got to be brave , but you've got

22:42

to be coming with something a little bit different . So that's

22:45

going to be super exciting

22:47

as well .

22:50

But to answer your initial question

22:52

, though I do think it is , I

22:54

think it's very much an acquired

22:57

taste here so far this year . I do think the

22:59

later half of the year we will get those what

23:02

I would call the HBO quality shows

23:04

and video games that we're missing in

23:07

Star Wars Outlaws , for instance

23:09

. I think this AC

23:11

Shadows is the first time I've been really

23:13

excited , or at least decently excited , about

23:16

Assassin's Creed in a very long time . Those

23:19

two look like they're going to be really good .

23:20

Let me just say about that , though I was pumped

23:22

for that . When I kind of saw that CGI reveal

23:25

trailer trailer I was like wow

23:27

is this the gameplay and

23:29

then I saw the gameplay and I was like , oh

23:31

god , it's foul hallow with it . It's foul

23:33

hallow with it . Oh god , it's foul

23:35

hallow with the ghost of shishima skin . This is

23:37

not why .

23:38

That's exactly . That's exactly how most

23:40

people felt about it . Um , I

23:42

felt very similar to where I

23:44

was just like , oh , I'm excited to see what they do with this

23:46

new setting . And then I saw the gameplay and I'm like , oh

23:48

, I know exactly what this game is

23:50

. I'm like I know

23:53

how most people are going to spend that 40

23:55

to 80 hours in that game . Just more

23:58

, come on , yeah , by

24:00

the two minutes that we saw in the gameplay trailer

24:02

, I feel the opposite kind

24:04

of happened with dragon age . Um

24:06

, was it vanguard ? I

24:09

think that's what it was . Yeah , you see the veil

24:11

guard or vanguard , but um , I feel the

24:13

opposite happened to where , like a lot of dragon

24:15

age fans saw the first trailer , where it was very

24:17

much like a goofy , almost

24:19

dungeon dragons type trailer , and

24:21

people were like , oh no , that's not dragon age

24:24

at all . And then they saw the gameplay and they were like , oh

24:26

, this is actually exciting . Yeah

24:28

, so I feel like it is

24:30

going to be a tale of two halves for the rest of this

24:32

year . Of course , you have , um , you

24:34

have what ? Um ? Flight simulator , flight simulator

24:37

, which looks like it'll be up your

24:39

alley , at least the previous

24:41

one .

24:42

That's the thing about flight sim . I had

24:44

them on a real cranky

24:46

old pentium or something

24:49

like that , like microsoft flight simulator 98

24:51

, and I I liked it . I played the wheels off

24:53

of it , to be fair , I mean , obviously I didn't

24:55

have a lot else going on . Um , but

24:58

last year's it was , and I kind of

25:00

said I predicted this online . Everyone's

25:03

going to go crazy for it . There's an episode where I say this everyone's

25:05

going to go crazy for it . There's an episode where I say this Everyone's going to go crazy for it

25:07

. They're going to get all over it . They're going to fly

25:09

a plane over their house . They're going to crash into their

25:11

house . They're going to crash into their mate's house . Then

25:13

they're going to delete it and it's a shame

25:15

because there's actually a grip of a game there . But

25:18

to bring Microsoft Flight Simulator

25:20

to console , there needed to be a little bit more

25:22

tickle under the chin for the console gamer . Those

25:25

jobs that we saw in there

25:27

means that it's right up rgt

25:30

and mine street in terms of the games that

25:32

we like to nerd out to a little

25:34

bit . We talk snow runner , farming simulator

25:36

to see the kind of agricultural

25:38

flying , to see the sort of delivery

25:40

flying to see the coast guard rescue

25:43

flying , to see the sort of tourist

25:45

, vip , uh

25:47

, private jet flying . I was like

25:49

, yeah , do you know what ? Even the hot air

25:51

balloon flying , there's enough

25:53

in it now right to grip

25:56

in a casual and make

25:58

them go . Hmm

26:00

, I've had . I've flown my plane into my friend's

26:02

house hilarious , what's next ? And

26:04

then take on like an oil rig delivery

26:06

mission again and again and again and

26:09

really enjoy that . I thought that

26:11

what they'd done . Considering the

26:13

scale of that game as well , I was absolutely

26:15

blown away by the fidelity graphically

26:17

of what we saw , those

26:19

hot airs . It was

26:21

close to or beyond photorealistic

26:24

at times in that trailer Now , whether that's

26:26

running on a Series X or HAL

26:29

9000 at Microsoft HQ and it'd

26:31

been ramped up to 11 on the graphic settings

26:33

and everything . I was pleased

26:35

to see that and , as I said earlier

26:37

, I'm pleased to see that they've

26:40

opened the gamut a little bit so it's more

26:42

enjoyable for a kid

26:44

. As an example , that's got Games Pass

26:46

. Who's bored of playing Fortnite or Grounded

26:49

or Sea of Thieves ? They've got a little bit of something

26:51

to get into now . Hopefully it's

26:53

not an absolutely killer install .

26:57

We're going to talk about the Xbox Showcase a little

26:59

later , right ?

27:01

No , this is the Xbox Showcase talk . We

27:03

had a solo episode last week

27:05

from the Mighty Bobby . He's not with us this week . He'll be

27:07

back with us next week , so

27:10

we kind of missed it . There was a discussion

27:12

in the Discord and we've kind of

27:14

probably glanced around the main points

27:17

. I would say you know , it's old news

27:19

.

27:19

At this point I

27:22

want to ask you all a question . Rgc

27:29

, this is your first xbox since the 360

27:32

right , or did you have a one um ?

27:33

I had one for a little while , but I sold

27:35

it on um because I was I understand

27:37

there was nothing on it there's nothing on it . I was predominantly

27:39

ps4 because it was just , you know , just

27:42

to be so many games on the ps4 , um

27:44

, but yeah , 360 and I've

27:46

got a series x this time around

27:48

okay .

27:49

So , george , you

27:51

have an xbox series x . Yeah

27:54

, I'm the next . Bizarrely , I

27:56

I actually have both too . I don't , I don't know

27:59

why , but um little

28:01

piggies oh yeah , for sure the gamer

28:03

piggies for sure . Um , my

28:05

question is it's like I . The reason why I asked

28:08

is like that xbox showcase does

28:10

that ? Did it feel like it validated

28:12

your purchase yet or do you feel like you still need

28:15

to see the ?

28:16

game . I'm out . I see the quality I finally

28:18

felt after that showcase , like

28:23

it it's , it's almost ready to be

28:25

deserved some respect . This gen , it's

28:27

kind of like , hmm , there's a stuff in there that

28:29

I kind of wanted to get into . We joked

28:31

before about Indiana Jones only being bought

28:33

by people over 40 . You're not wrong , you're

28:36

absolutely right . I did

28:38

say that , didn't I ? You did , and that's

28:40

probably one of the best quotes you've ever said , because it

28:42

nailed it on . For a while I was

28:44

thinking , oh yeah , they've done well to get this franchise

28:46

. But I'll be honest with you the

28:49

Indiana Jones franchise has been killed

28:51

, oh for sure . Any

28:53

prevailing interest in that is from

28:56

people that got into Star Wars

28:58

in the early 80s at best , who

29:00

were looking for supplementary media from

29:02

LucasArts , and stumbled across Indiana Jones

29:04

and went , yeah , this is flipping brilliant . I

29:07

know that's what I did , but no

29:10

young kids getting hyped up for

29:12

Indiana Jones .

29:15

No , absolutely not .

29:15

I didn't think the last movie was as bad as I thought

29:17

it was going to be . When I actually got to it

29:19

I actually liked it . It's

29:21

just nobody watched it . Nobody watched

29:24

it and I'll be honest with you . The

29:26

thing is , with it it was

29:29

like drinking water . You

29:31

sat down wanting to satiate your Indiana

29:33

Jones thirst . You picked up this glass

29:35

of this gorgeous-looking stuff . You

29:38

gulped it all down . It tasted

29:40

of nothing . Nothing happened

29:42

in that film , really . And the whole

29:45

sort of spoilers for a goodness

29:47

knows how old film now a year

29:50

, that whole

29:52

time travel element . I know we've

29:54

had some fantastical stuff in

29:57

Indiana Jones , but

30:00

hoo-wee , that was just an extra level

30:02

of turd to swallow

30:05

and chug down . I

30:08

balked it up a couple of times . I managed to keep

30:10

it down in the end and I came out feeling

30:12

like I'd seen an Indiana Jones film

30:14

. But pivot back to the game . I'm

30:19

quite excited to see it . It's nice . It's

30:21

been well put together . It's been put together

30:23

by people that have a very keen

30:25

eye for indiana jones , lore and machine

30:28

games does a really good job as well

30:30

, with wolfenstein and all that so exactly

30:32

, and the voice acting is

30:35

actually good . Um , in

30:37

the latest trailer I felt like indy's likeness

30:40

kind of had skewed

30:42

off a little bit from the original trailers that

30:44

I saw . It kind of looked like Harrison

30:47

Ford Light or they'd just got the stunt

30:49

double in or something for some facial

30:51

capture . I don't really know , but

30:53

I don't want to sort of stomp all over it

30:55

. I'm

30:58

still hoping for good things from that . So , yeah

31:00

, fingers crossed . Listen

31:03

, I'm curious . Oh

31:05

, before the episode gets away from us said

31:07

I've gotta know , because

31:10

this is actually more important . Okay

31:12

, what ?

31:13

you've been playing , oh , again . Um

31:15

, I I'm on

31:17

this , I'm on a simulator kick right now

31:19

.

31:20

Um , whoa , yeah you

31:22

laughed , you laughed , you

31:24

say sorry . Now you

31:26

naughty little boy

31:29

.

31:29

I am sorry simulators when they hit they really

31:31

hit um they really hit

31:33

.

31:33

So the thing is , this is why you tell me that the simulator

31:36

that really hit for you is dave the freaking diver

31:38

, and I'm sorry , but that's not what I call a sim

31:40

. So what's this ? No , no that's roguelike .

31:42

That's more of a roguelike , but um , I will

31:44

. So there's this game called

31:47

blockbuster inc . And basically

31:49

you are a you're

31:51

a head of a production studio from the ground . You're starting

31:54

it from the ground up and you are in

31:56

task with making a movie studio

31:58

that is the best movie studio in the world

32:00

so we saw that at

32:03

wsSD Live , did we not ?

32:04

RGT . Yes , we did , yeah , yeah , we got a preview

32:06

hands-on , didn't we ? Yeah , because I think they

32:08

had the developers on

32:11

a lot of voice chat , didn't they ? That's right

32:13

, Seb ? Let me ask you this question , though .

32:17

You've been playing this game , which I'm actually quite excited

32:19

to find out about , because I

32:21

was a massive fan of lionhead

32:24

or bullfrogs the movies . Were you

32:26

aware of that on the periphery before you got into this

32:28

? No , not even . Wow

32:32

, okay , well it's . I'm just being honest . This

32:35

is its spiritual successor

32:38

, so I'm quite hyped to hear what you've got

32:40

to say about it I feel

32:42

like it is a really cool concept

32:44

.

32:44

I didn't know it was already like a spiritual

32:47

successor or something else , so I I gave it credit

32:49

for being an original concept , but I

32:51

digress . I think the I

32:53

think on the surface level , this is a very fun game

32:55

. Now when you get into the minutiae of like

32:57

some of the crafting elements , I

33:00

think that needs a little bit of work , such

33:02

as like being able to put like desk

33:04

flushly against the wall so that you

33:06

can craft things like more efficiently and

33:08

effectively . I feel like that needs a little bit

33:10

more , but I feel like the concept

33:13

of you hiring directors , writers

33:15

, um actors

33:17

, etc . Etc . Is really

33:20

well done . I like that

33:22

. They there's a system management where you have to

33:24

manage everyone's happiness levels . I

33:26

I like the fact that

33:28

they expect certain things to be

33:30

catered to them , such as when they get bigger

33:32

, such as like housing , um are

33:34

like food and such like that . So there's different

33:36

, there's different ways you can keep them happy . I

33:39

do think , like some of the , I

33:41

feel like this feels like a 0.5

33:44

release as opposed , so

33:46

it almost feels like a beta release as opposed to a

33:49

1.0 . Again , because of some quality

33:51

of life issues , I do think if you

33:53

, if maybe the

33:55

housing market that you're able to like

33:57

rent for your , your talent doesn't

34:00

grow and expand . So when you , as you grow

34:02

and expand your roster , eventually

34:04

you're going to have to let people you've trained

34:06

or like had for a very long time go , because

34:08

there's no way of keeping everyone happy , because

34:11

there's only so much , there's only so

34:13

much housing in this game and I feel like that

34:15

that part kind of needs to be a little

34:17

reworked a little bit and also feel like there

34:19

needs to be more of an end game , because there's

34:21

only six studios that you're really competing against

34:24

. And I

34:26

started my , I started my

34:28

franchise in the 1920s

34:30

, um , and I went through that whole decade

34:33

into the 30s and by 1937

34:35

I was the number one studio and

34:37

I also had bought 90

34:39

of all the other five studios

34:42

, which allowed me to basically rake

34:44

in all the cash that they were raking in

34:46

, and you can completely own them , by the

34:48

way , which completely kills all the .

34:51

I guess this is like my anno

34:53

playthrough you've become very similar

34:55

, yeah I have

34:57

, I really have it , it's like power does to people I really have

34:59

. I bought like all the other studios and I owned everything .

35:01

I feel like I feel like walmart , low-key , where I just bought all the small businesses out

35:03

. Have I bought like all the other studios and I owned everything . I felt

35:05

like I felt like walmart , low-key , where I

35:07

just bought all the small businesses out and

35:09

I was like I am the king . Now if you

35:11

want to watch movies , you go through me and

35:13

and yeah , it's like

35:16

, uh , and by the 1920s

35:18

I'd unlocked what was it ? Crime films

35:20

, cop films , romance , um

35:23

, drama . So I uh basic basic

35:25

genres like westerns as well . So I

35:27

unlocked all the like , all those basic dramas

35:30

I hadn't even got to , like the superheroes

35:32

or the supernatural , or horror or

35:34

anything like that , and I already had

35:36

like 300

35:39

million dollars over the next studio

35:41

. And so I feel like if

35:43

you have to ratchet that difficulty

35:46

up to the highest to even get a challenge for this game

35:48

, do you produce a movie

35:51

in that game that you can

35:53

watch , or or not ? you

35:56

, you can , it's just you're not gonna want

35:58

to watch it because it's like it's almost

36:00

. It's almost like early

36:02

choppy stop motion that you can watch

36:04

the movie again . But it's like you're

36:07

watching the . You're watching characters that

36:09

don't have dialogue . You're also like

36:11

, so the stunts that you

36:13

do are very basic , so you can do like , oh

36:15

, you can make people fall down at

36:17

certain scenes so you can actually direct a whole

36:19

film . You can make them like fight each other

36:21

and there's a injury factor that

36:24

may or may not be involved , and then

36:26

so , like , you have different things that you can

36:28

like fully watch after

36:30

you produce the movie . It's just not . I

36:32

don't think it's compelling enough , unless

36:35

you just like I got a kick out of watching my guy

36:37

jump off of um jump off the set

36:39

you know , the movies had something very

36:41

similar if you just played it as a

36:45

sim , as you would .

36:47

It's not exactly a sim , but I

36:49

take your point . It's more like a managerial

36:53

style sort of strategy game

36:55

.

36:55

Yeah , it is very much .

36:57

I felt like this felt like

36:59

a mod of the Sims , to where

37:02

this is a very specific like

37:04

movie making mod of the Sims and that's

37:06

what the movies was like , and when YouTube

37:08

first was on the periphery , um

37:11

, it was full of Lionhead's

37:13

movies , things Cause you could take it out of

37:15

the game and you could go into create a section

37:18

where you are , you know the full suite

37:20

, and people were making replicas of star

37:22

Wars . A lot of people in the early

37:24

days of YouTube obviously didn't

37:26

have any animations , so

37:28

they were using the movies to kind of backfill

37:31

between scenes that they were creating and using

37:33

it for kind of special effects . So

37:36

you know , when I played it

37:38

, this is more hollow yeah .

37:39

This is very much more hollow than that .

37:40

When I played it and you set the AI

37:43

to create a movie within the simulation

37:45

element of it , you're right . When

37:47

you used to watch it it was just like this disconnected

37:50

mess of blah , blah , blah

37:52

, simish and all that sort of stuff

37:54

and it was like , oh crikey , that's a shame . I

37:56

used to sit and I didn't used to watch every film

37:59

. But when I reached a new era , like the 50s

38:01

or the 60s , and I'd pump every

38:03

single last book

38:05

and dime into this production

38:07

first ever color film , first

38:10

ever sci-fi , the whole lot and I'd be like

38:12

, yeah , boys hide all the best actors

38:14

. I felt like an absolute boss . I'll

38:16

go to the premiere . I'm gonna watch this .

38:20

Oh god , no you're

38:24

like what did I create , what did I do

38:27

?

38:27

I just thought there might be this moment of genius

38:29

where they made like the movie's version

38:32

of star wars and I'd have been like wow

38:34

, but I was a little bit younger then , I suppose

38:36

, and I guess my imagination ran away with me . Other

38:39

than creating your own maniacal movie empire

38:41

, what else have you been ? What else has been

38:43

sort of garnering your attention ?

38:45

so I'll . I'll plug two games real quick

38:47

because I don't want to take up all the time , but um

38:49

, bellatro is one that I

38:52

cannot get enough of . Everyone's

38:54

fired up about that dude love

38:56

bellatro . Um . So yeah , everyone's

38:59

heard about this game , you know it

39:01

comes with a pack of cards .

39:02

Seb , did you know ?

39:04

no , I do not . I will not begin the physical

39:06

edition , though , if I'll be honest , the

39:09

pack of cards is not enough to entice me . But

39:11

, um , yeah , that's , you know

39:13

, right now not having a triple

39:15

, a game that really has grabbed me so

39:17

far this year , other than yakus of , like a dragon , infinite

39:19

wealth , that bellatro and

39:22

v rising have y'all heard of v rising

39:24

the half bath not partaking in

39:26

it ? Okay , so , v rising

39:28

, you start off as a , basically you

39:30

start off as a vampire , one of the most weak

39:32

creatures , um , in

39:34

a middle , uh , in middle earth , basically

39:37

, and are the medieval era

39:39

, and basically you start off with

39:41

this weak vampire who you ? You

39:43

build a small little hut that

39:45

you establish as your castle , and

39:48

the really cool thing about this is

39:50

it's Diablo , except you

39:52

don't get stronger by just farming

39:54

the area and beating the same enemies

39:56

over and over again . You get far and you get

39:59

stronger by crafting . So

40:01

you craft , like as your castle goes

40:03

, you get more resources that you can basically

40:05

put on yourself like armor , weapons , gear

40:07

, the whole nine yards . Yeah

40:09

, so it . It is so inventive . And

40:12

not only that , there is boss

40:14

fights , just like Diablo , but like each

40:16

boss is very meticulous

40:18

and very like thorough , where they they

40:20

actually thought about like , oh , this

40:22

boss is like the naughty fisherman , and

40:25

the naughty fisherman is that you have

40:27

to be that specific boss in

40:29

order to craft the fishing rod and

40:31

you can't craft it any other way except

40:34

, like you have to beat him . And for every

40:36

one of those examples like there's a glass

40:38

blowing glass blowing boss , there

40:40

is a musketeer boss , there is pretty

40:42

much every almost

40:44

like most technological

40:47

advances you basically have

40:49

to beat a boss for , but they

40:51

make it fun and challenging and engaging because

40:53

each one of these bosses have their own movesets

40:55

, their , their own abilities , their own quirks , their

40:57

trash talk . You , they feel almost

40:59

like wrestlers , like actual , like old

41:01

school attitude era wrestlers , except

41:04

thrown into like a diablo style game

41:06

with diablo style move powers

41:08

. And yeah

41:10

, it's really . I think one of the more innovative

41:12

things about this game is like I'm not a crafting

41:15

person , but they made me into one . It's like they

41:17

, I , they made me care about crafting

41:20

a castle , they made me care about like kidnapping

41:23

these citizens and basically making them

41:25

into vampires , and I'm like , oh , you work for me , now

41:27

I'll equip you and you go

41:29

and you basically now I'll send you out

41:31

on missions like almost like um

41:33

, middle gear , solid five , you know you can

41:35

send off , like you send off people

41:38

to other parts of the map , like peace walker

41:40

, yeah , and peace walker . So it's like it's

41:42

very much like that , except , like in

41:45

this version , like you actually can send

41:47

them to the same parts of the map that you're going

41:49

in so you can run across your minions

41:52

while you're out and about and such that's something

41:54

that I've always ached for .

41:56

Um , last time I thought , oh , that would be cool

41:58

was when I was um playing

42:00

no man's sky and I sent a

42:02

load of my freighters off and I was like , oh , it'd be

42:05

really great to just stay

42:08

on board and let them do their little

42:10

freighter admissions while I kind of sit as a

42:12

passenger in the hangar bay watch it all going on

42:14

day to day . It was never going to happen . Admittedly

42:16

, it's a bit of a pipe dream . You have to make that game up in your head

42:18

. Yeah

42:26

, I like to see stuff that you've set off , a lot of these games , especially you know we're talking assassin's

42:28

creed , uh , revelations . Was it where you could collect people up and send them off

42:30

on missions ? I think it might start in brotherhood

42:32

, where you can I think it was brotherhood where they ? started . Yeah

42:34

, you sent your minions off to sort

42:36

of grind away for I don't

42:39

know craftable material

42:41

or collectibles that you could then use to

42:43

kind of buy stuff for your inventory

42:45

and weapon slots and things . But yeah

42:47

, I think that's . There needs to be more of that

42:49

. And , as you say , in an open world , when you stumble

42:52

across your minions doing your bidding , it's one

42:54

of those moments where your chest puffs up and you're like , yeah

42:56

, my boys .

42:58

And yeah , exactly , it's like I came across um . I came

43:00

across um , I was heading back to

43:02

my castle from like rating rating

43:05

, like a nearby town and such

43:07

, and my inventory was full . And I look

43:09

over to the right at this like mining

43:11

camp , and I just see everyone's just saying run

43:13

for your life . And I just see my

43:15

minion , damien , it basically just molly

43:17

whopping the whole , that whole little

43:19

like mining area and

43:23

and I get a kick out of it because damien's

43:25

like run , run , run

43:27

, you fools , yeah . And I was like

43:30

damien man , yeah . And then , um

43:33

, he looks over , he looks over , he's , and

43:35

like you can see him unequipped , his weapons as

43:37

such , and he's like master , and he does

43:39

a little bow , oh , wow , yeah

43:41

. And then he's like excuse me , sir , and then goes

43:43

back to going like just molly whopping

43:45

everyone back in the bandit camp .

43:47

still , so he's like playing this on .

43:49

Steam Deck . Yeah , I

43:51

played this on Steam Deck . They just released

43:53

it for PS5 , though this last week

43:56

. So you know a lot

43:58

of the people that I talked to like that

44:00

are also like games journalists . They've been

44:02

playing mostly on PS5 . But I've been

44:04

playing it on PS five , but I've been playing it on PS um

44:06

, pc and steam deck and it's phenomenal

44:08

. It's probably one of my favorite games I've played this

44:10

year on either platform . But yeah

44:13

, I here's another thing before before

44:15

. I , you know , throw the reins to

44:17

RGT and you about what you've been playing , did

44:20

you ? This has Castlevania integrations

44:22

into it as well . Like , oh

44:25

, yeah for sure , oh for sure . So

44:30

like , you can create like your castle , very much in the same theme as the

44:32

Dracula castle from Castlevania . You can

44:34

teleport your whole castle very much like Castlevania

44:36

. You can you run . Simon

44:39

Belmont is in this game as well , so

44:41

, and he's one of the bosses . He's

44:44

one of the bosses you can take down and defeat and

44:46

you can also unlock a lot of the gear , weapons

44:48

, designs and um

44:51

, and also like some of the cosmetics

44:53

from castlevania , so like is it worth

44:55

33 ? bucks . I

44:57

think it's the best game this year , so I would probably say

45:00

yes , but to

45:02

be honest , you have to . Here's my thing

45:04

you have to like diablo as far as like

45:06

the , as far as like the gameplay

45:08

goes of that , and then like , you

45:11

have to be okay with light crafting elements , because

45:13

the game is centered around you crafting

45:15

your castle materials , and

45:17

like your armor and gear because you're

45:20

. If you were to take off all your armor , you go

45:22

back to level zero , but each

45:25

armor piece you equipped adds . That's

45:27

how you level up your character .

45:30

Okay , that's interesting RGT in

45:34

fact one more question , Seb , Helldivers 2,

45:36

. Where you been ? I'm

45:39

not a multiplayer guy , very much I'm not

45:41

, you know me , I would rather stab

45:44

my firstborn in the eye than play a multiplayer game

45:46

. She's now blind , right , and

45:48

I'm all about the same way .

45:50

I'm about the same way about

45:52

multiplayer games . But yeah

45:54

, it's . I think this is the

45:56

greatest double a um

45:58

game this year and it

46:00

feels it's an indie game , but

46:02

slapping that playstation logo makes it feel triple

46:05

the way and I think that

46:07

studio should be very proud of what

46:09

they've done .

46:10

I just oh yeah , absolutely , even

46:12

just from a graphical fidelity point of view .

46:14

But bringing in that hell divers , one sweet gameplay

46:16

and making it 3d , yeah

46:20

, for me

46:22

it's like I I

46:24

don't like games that feel repetition

46:27

, where I feel the repetition to where I'm like

46:29

, oh , I'm just diving into the same place

46:31

over and over again and just doing

46:33

slightly different things . I

46:36

so that's the kind of thing that

46:38

turns me off about the game , but I do think it

46:40

is a really cool premise and

46:42

concept I

46:44

just I have I've been skirting

46:47

around the sort of position that you

46:49

just talked about , where it's like the same thing .

46:51

But I've been doing that to myself because there's a certain few

46:53

key missions I like . But when I dip

46:55

my toe in the water of all the other different kinds of

46:57

missions that are available on all the different planet

46:59

types that are available , it's like , hmm , I

47:02

ought to cut them some slack really and try it . And when you

47:04

do try some of the other missions which are slightly

47:06

longer in in play time , still

47:09

great rgt . Yes

47:12

, is michael elfwick coming today or not

47:14

?

47:15

no , not today .

47:16

It's about same today I

47:19

like I like how you pivoted

47:21

back to our recently rescued American

47:24

colleague .

47:29

RGT . What have you been playing , you little snake ? Like I was saying earlier , it's been

47:31

a bit of a struggle lately , but

47:35

I did have Board Border from Discord

47:37

.

47:37

You're not back on that , no .

47:39

No , hang on , hang on

47:41

. All right , I'll say now I'm not back on

47:43

that , but

47:46

I love that game so much . I

47:49

was in such a game funk the other day

47:51

. I got back from work . There

47:53

was nothing I wanted to play , so

47:56

I just laid on the couch and

47:58

started watching someone do a playthrough

48:00

of Harvest Stella .

48:02

Oh no , an absolute

48:04

Loser . I mean , what I would

48:07

say is you're

48:09

an addict . Yeah .

48:11

Yeah , that's a good way to describe it .

48:13

I watched about 40 minutes and I just thought what

48:15

am I doing ? I've put 130

48:18

hours in this game . Just get yourself together

48:20

, find something to play . This

48:23

is ridiculous .

48:23

In terms of sins , you're

48:26

absolved because someone spent far longer

48:28

on a oh

48:30

dude . I don't

48:32

know who's interested , but a

48:34

new ano game comes out next year

48:37

, based in the roman era anyway

48:39

, should we say about ?

48:40

ps5 hang on a

48:42

minute now I

48:44

like how in the Ubisoft showcase because

48:46

I think that was the Ubisoft showcase , right . It

48:48

was like I was watching . I

48:51

was around a couple of people and they were like , oh

48:53

my god , this is the . This is like the

48:55

Ubisoft announcement . They said they

48:57

were going to do a brand new IP . Everyone was excited

49:00

, the energy was palpable , and then Anno

49:02

came in and it was just like someone gut punched

49:04

everyone you

49:06

stood up like a statute

49:09

phallus , just rigid

49:11

. I did . You know what I did

49:13

. I said you know what I was just like . I

49:16

was that same person during summer game fest

49:18

when everyone was just like , oh my god , 2k

49:21

is gonna announce something . It's gonna be borderlands , it's

49:23

gonna be mafia . I'm so excited . And

49:25

then they announced civilization 7 and everyone's

49:27

like and I'm over

49:29

here for that . Yeah , and I'm over

49:31

here like 1692

49:34

hours into civilization

49:36

6 and I'm like the king the

49:39

king of the north is back . So

49:41

I I didn't feel that ano thing . I was just like

49:44

wait , wait , whoa , there's an audience for this

49:46

, y'all just aren't it .

49:47

You know , it's one guy from farmerton

49:49

, but he's all over it like a rash rgt

49:51

what five people love this game

49:53

. Man , it has respect

49:56

what else have you got snuck

49:58

back there , friend ?

49:59

anyway . Um yeah , so , being bored from

50:01

the discord , we had a bit of a game shed night here

50:03

in the shed . So we same

50:06

again . We thought what should we play ? What should we play ? And then we

50:08

thought , well , yeah , so me and Boarder from the Discord

50:10

, we had a bit of a game shed night here in the shed . So same

50:12

again . We thought what should we play ? What should we play ? And

50:14

then we thought , well , whenever we go to

50:16

the arcades , we always play . Well , I say always . We normally

50:18

play Virtuous Striker . So I thought , well , I'll put the Dreamcast one

50:21

on , see what it's like . And I mean it is nearly arcade

50:23

. perfect it is good on there , isn't it ? Oh , it's

50:25

so much fun . I mean he beat me every

50:27

game , but it's just so fun . And then

50:29

we said come on , let's play another old football game . So then

50:31

we said about the indoor mode on the old

50:33

FIFAs we used to play like five a side . So

50:36

we went to FIFA 98 on the N64

50:39

.

50:39

Tell me you didn't leave actual soccer on the shelf

50:41

.

50:49

Actual leave . Actual soccer on the shelf . Actual soccer stayed there . It didn't

50:51

even even , it didn't even get slipped out of the shelf . Just have a read

50:54

of it . Unbelievable , yeah , but saying that probably will next time

50:56

so I've actually forgot about it . I

50:58

forgot I had it . Um . So

51:00

, yeah , then we played fifa 98 indoor mode . That was

51:02

good fun . And then , yeah , we got

51:04

talking about Tony Hawks because he's a really

51:06

good skateboarder , big skateboarder , back in the

51:08

day . So we got talking about skateboard games and

51:10

he said he hadn't played Tony Hawks Underground . So

51:13

I was like you need to play that he hadn't

51:15

played . Thug Nope . So

51:17

we stuck that on and we ended up playing to the early

51:19

hours . We got halfway through the game and

51:22

I still love that game . It's still one of my favourite

51:24

Tony Hawk's series Underground the first

51:26

one Absolutely brilliant . So yeah , we had

51:28

great fun with that . I

51:30

said the other week , a couple of weeks

51:32

ago , when we recorded that I was going to try a big open

51:35

world game and I stopped

51:37

.

51:37

Hidden West .

51:38

Nope , fable

51:41

, I've done Fable . I

51:43

went for Avatar .

51:46

No , I've done fable . I went for Avatar . No , it'll be a soft one , I'm

51:48

done .

51:49

I'm done . I'm done with you . You're

51:51

fired , you're rehired because I can't live

51:53

without you , but for a moment there you were

51:55

toast hang on .

51:57

I haven't said my views on it yet oh

51:59

, go on oh no oh

52:03

no yeah yeah

52:08

graphically it's a banger on ps5 , and so

52:10

it's beautiful looking , it's just far

52:13

cry it's , yeah

52:15

, it's , it's , it's good looking .

52:17

Even my daughter came in I was playing and she said , oh

52:19

, look the , you know the forest and that looks

52:21

really good and colorful and graphically good

52:24

. Character models are pretty good , they're all

52:26

right , but it's

52:28

that uber soft thing for me . It's

52:31

they and tell

52:33

me if I'm wrong . Listeners , put it in community

52:36

corrections . I always find

52:38

, or nine times out of ten with an

52:40

uber soft game , they don't know how to start the

52:42

game . They don't pull you in from the

52:44

start . On any of their games watchdogs

52:46

, this Avatar game , some of the Assassin's

52:48

Creed there's nothing .

52:50

There's not that dramatic start to get you

52:52

hooked in listen to , kind

52:54

of pivot off that back to kind of something

52:56

Seb said earlier . I'm pumped for Star

52:59

Wars Outlaws , don't get me wrong . I feel

53:01

like I need it now . I feel like

53:03

that might be my kind of thing , I'm swinging

53:05

towards , but I

53:07

, like you , I'm I'm real

53:09

nervous that they're going to kind of cook that landing

53:12

and it's that first 20

53:14

minutes or that time between starting

53:16

the game and pressing

53:18

a button , which is the measure of a

53:20

good action game , I would say , or it's certainly

53:22

a measure of metric in the industry , but

53:25

I need that to be , I need that to be sweet

53:28

, I need that to be . I'm talking jedi

53:30

fallen order , kind of grab you by the seat of

53:32

your pants and drag you in .

53:34

You think of some of the best single player games that

53:36

you know have these great stories at the start

53:38

. You know your uncharted's last of us , spider-man

53:41

. That's that first hour . You play

53:43

where they know how to hook you in and you want to

53:45

play that game . You want to play more . You

53:47

want to learn more . You want to learn your environment

53:49

with ubisoft . They don't

53:52

seem to do that . I mean you play like I tried

53:54

playing that watchdogs legion

53:56

last year . Oh no , absolutely

53:59

shocking . There's no love or soul

54:01

in that game whatsoever . You

54:03

just get dropped in . Here's london where

54:05

you go . You know this .

54:06

There's nothing it's not enough anymore .

54:08

No and although this , this

54:11

was an okay start with avatar , with

54:13

the story , I sort of thought

54:15

, okay , I'll have a look , I'll have a look . But then

54:17

you're sort of in the world and

54:19

it's go and get this . He needs some medicine

54:22

, you need to break these trees to get your comeback

54:24

. Then you find a resistance base , then

54:27

you get a base and then you go out on a mission to break a

54:29

tart and after about two hours I was just like is

54:32

this what it's just gonna be for the whole game , just going

54:34

out and getting this and going out , and

54:36

I just thought , um , yeah

54:38

, I think I need more than

54:40

ever now . He's forbidden west now , I think

54:43

.

54:43

They call that the Ubisoft formula . It's

54:46

the same thing . Watch Dogs is the same thing

54:48

as Far Cry . Yeah .

54:51

And that's the thing that's making my

54:54

niche rattle together about

54:56

Outlaws . I

54:58

really want that to be good , but it's

55:02

basically going to be Avatar with a Star Wars

55:04

skin . It's basically going to be all their other stuff . I think you're going to be Avatar with a Star Wars

55:06

skin . It's basically going to be all their other stuff .

55:07

I think you're going to be right the

55:09

thing is .

55:10

I've started to see on the periphery some good

55:12

things being said about how it's actually

55:14

okay , but it's

55:17

a bit of a hot mess of loads of different ideas

55:19

and then that's maybe what's kind of holding

55:22

it back . It's a bit of a patchwork quilt which

55:24

you know , if

55:28

you find the kind of subsystem within

55:30

the game that you're into and you're into that little subsystem , you know what

55:32

it can rock . Look at me , assassin's Creed

55:34

3 , probably my favourite one and

55:37

I think that ship element

55:39

of it , which wasn't pivotal to the main story

55:41

, if memory serves , ended up being my

55:43

favourite element of the game . I

55:49

think that element of it is better than black flag in its entirety .

55:51

I don't care what anybody says , I will face

55:53

you down in the street . Um so if anyone's going to argue about ss's

55:55

creed that fiercely listen

55:58

.

55:59

I don't know why , but I would die on a hill for three

56:01

. Every what , every other . Every other game they

56:03

did I'm not even interested in , like

56:05

Black Flag . I grinded through that

56:07

like a dirty dog . I

56:09

didn't see anything that anybody

56:11

had sort of hyped up for being an enjoyable

56:14

aspect of it . Three came

56:16

in quiet American Revolution bait

56:18

and switch on the character at the beginning .

56:23

George , just be honest . Just

56:25

say you're ready to move over here . You

56:28

love baseball . Ac3 is your favorite

56:30

. You're , you're ready to to wave

56:32

to the american flag .

56:33

Man , to be honest when

56:36

I was at the baseball over the weekend I caught sight

56:38

of myself and I thought I look more american than

56:40

half of these americans . Yeah , probably

56:43

so . I promise I'm like

56:45

that sort of Iowa farmer

56:47

kind of . Look to me . I'm out there

56:49

on a great

56:51

big , stupid , ridiculously sized big tractor

56:54

pulling like four acres of plow behind me

56:56

. You're UCP George

56:59

III . Randy

57:01

, I

57:03

ain't messing around RGT . My goddamn

57:06

name will be randy , absolutely

57:08

all day long .

57:08

Randy mctruffle , the third

57:11

junior and now mctruffle

57:13

, is where you lost us . It's randy . If

57:15

you were having the name randy , your name would be jim

57:17

bob randy .

57:19

Jim bob right that

57:21

sounds like the description

57:23

of a horny teenager oh

57:26

, randy Jim Bob oh

57:28

, randy Jim Bob , again look at him . Trousers around

57:30

his ankles , bottom side on his hand . He just fell

57:33

over and cracked his head open on the roundabout

57:35

so , rgt , can I give

57:37

you some advice here ?

57:40

did you pay for Avatar or did

57:42

you rent it ?

57:43

no , it was a

57:45

present from my wife for my birthday .

57:48

Okay , okay , Be gentle Seth

57:50

.

57:50

No , no , I think that's completely understandable

57:53

. What I was going to say is next time you want to

57:55

try an Ubisoft game like

57:58

, spend the $20 a month to

58:00

do the Ubisoft Plus thing that

58:02

they have . So they have Ubisoft Plus , which is

58:04

basically their version of Game

58:06

Pass and play

58:09

everything you want , and cancel after a month

58:11

, and then you know . So

58:13

that's what a lot of people did with

58:15

earlier this year .

58:16

I think we've already got that roped in , haven't we , as

58:18

part of the premium tier ? I know

58:20

EA's on there and it seems to be full

58:22

.

58:23

Oh no , I think you're right . I think Ubisoft

58:25

is on there .

58:29

I don't think Avatar is , because I think it's still pay , and I don't

58:31

know whether Avatar is part of the Ubisoft Games

58:33

Pass .

58:34

if I'm honest no , not yet . So

58:36

Games Pass with Ubisoft . I think they have a one-year

58:39

clause , so after

58:41

one year it pretty much pops up . But

58:49

with Ubisoft Plus you can connect the Ubisoft Plus account with your Xbox

58:51

account .

58:51

I've done that , yeah , so basically , I

58:53

was collecting bizarre points off of the old Assassin's

58:56

Creed games as I went through and ended up being

58:58

able to buy a skin for Assassin's

59:01

Creed . What's the one in Paris

59:03

? It's actually really good .

59:06

Unity Syndicate or Unity yeah .

59:08

I ended up buying skins in Unity with

59:10

what I'd kind of scraped

59:12

out of the PS3 versions

59:15

of Assassin's Creed 1 , all

59:17

the way through Rogue as well .

59:19

An absolute desperate little man so

59:22

that's a cheaper way of like say , you don't

59:24

want to pay the $70 later

59:26

this year for star wars outlaws , just pay your 20

59:28

because it's automatically going to be on there . But

59:30

it's going to be on there that

59:33

they said day one , so I'm

59:35

, unless they change their mind and throw

59:37

that out of the window .

59:38

They said , like all , their day one , ubisoft

59:40

, things are going to be on there , so it's like I

59:43

usually do that with EA play

59:45

, you pay four pound for the month and

59:47

then they get the first 10 hours of the

59:49

AFC for for the free

59:51

Look at this dude Look at this dude

59:53

. And then cancel and it carries on when you actually

59:55

get the game . So I just do that , just get a headstart

59:58

and play early month early .

1:00:00

But I did that with Madden as well . But

1:00:02

yeah , so

1:00:04

I'm curious , George , where have you been playing ? Besides

1:00:06

, you know , Anno .

1:00:08

Sorry , I've still got two games left . Oh , my bad , sorry

1:00:10

, I'm sorry , I'm sorry , my bad .

1:00:13

He absorbs the limelight , doesn't he ? No

1:00:16

?

1:00:16

honestly , there was one good game

1:00:18

after all this I played , and it was Roller

1:00:20

Drone .

1:00:22

Oh , so fun .

1:00:28

That's roller drone . Oh , so fun . That's pretty cool . Actually I've had sort of 15

1:00:30

20 minutes .

1:00:31

Yeah , that's very well made good going that , really enjoying that . I felt like the tutorial was a little

1:00:33

bit obnoxious . Yeah

1:00:35

, it was like it really made

1:00:37

you play it , didn't it ? It's like god

1:00:39

, I think I might learn it quicker just playing the game , but I

1:00:41

can't even get there and I said it was

1:00:43

the first tutorial in a while since driver

1:00:46

.

1:00:46

Probably that made me think like , oh my god , I'm ever

1:00:48

gonna get yeah

1:00:51

, no , I I did feel that I

1:00:53

was sort of playing through it and enjoying

1:00:55

it so much . Suddenly the tutorial was over

1:00:57

and I was in the first competition and playing

1:01:00

, and I think I'm don't know where I am

1:01:02

now , but halfway through I think it's getting

1:01:04

tough , but it's so good , it's really addictive

1:01:06

and that's something that , um , because

1:01:08

we work scheduled at the moment , I can jump on for half

1:01:10

an hour .

1:01:11

Controls well .

1:01:12

Controls very well . Um . Took a lot

1:01:14

of inspiration from other games and really works

1:01:16

. Pays off . Really good , um .

1:01:19

And finally , close the studio down

1:01:21

. I was looking that up just now . I was just like was that

1:01:23

the studio that you got closed down , like last week ?

1:01:28

I hate that . Let's face it it's

1:01:30

a well put together game and it's certainly got its column inches when it launched

1:01:32

. But you know , financially it

1:01:35

didn't do the money .

1:01:37

No , no , but I mean I

1:01:40

felt like it at least had a shot though , because

1:01:42

I think they put that on PlayStation Plus way

1:01:45

too quickly though .

1:01:46

That's what I've downloaded it from . Downloaded

1:01:49

it from Plus .

1:01:50

So what's this last little gem

1:01:52

?

1:01:52

Well , this sort of sums up where I've been

1:01:54

with my gaming at the moment , and you two will find it hilarious

1:01:57

. So my gaming fun .

1:01:59

Emlyn Hughes' Soccer .

1:02:01

No , it dropped down to me with the Switch

1:02:03

laying on the bill bowman's rugby playing

1:02:05

sonic cd on sonic

1:02:08

origins is what I was playing , what

1:02:10

the hell yeah as

1:02:13

soon as I heard sonic , I was like man , this man's

1:02:15

, this man needs something .

1:02:16

He needs something bad an anima , anima

1:02:18

, even playing it on the switch oh

1:02:21

yeah , sonic origins .

1:02:22

That's another one um

1:02:24

. Rgt got me for my birthday .

1:02:26

Great game .

1:02:26

Wonderful game , yeah , best ever . But

1:02:30

I had very little memories of Sonic CD . So

1:02:33

I thought , well , I'm going to throw a Sonic CD up and out and

1:02:35

play that . So I've actually been quite enjoying

1:02:37

it . But yeah , it's just . I

1:02:39

got to that point where I thought there's nothing

1:02:41

else to play . I'm just going to play Sonic . I know it sounds

1:02:44

terrible and there's nothing else to play , because there is

1:02:46

, but nothing is grabbing me . So

1:02:48

I think it's going to have to finally be Forbidden

1:02:51

. West next week needs

1:02:54

something to pull me out of the funk , I think

1:02:56

yeah , you can get .

1:02:58

You can play that in anticipation for Lego

1:03:00

Horizon oh

1:03:02

wow , can

1:03:05

you ?

1:03:05

get me one of those baseball organs because

1:03:08

I could have been like

1:03:11

forbidden west . I'm excited now that you've

1:03:14

finished the first one , I think that , and

1:03:16

you've had quite the palate cleansers

1:03:18

. I think you're ready for that and I think you are

1:03:20

gonna get absolutely fished

1:03:23

in . I'm a bit nervous about

1:03:25

you not enjoying Avatar , because those

1:03:27

games are very similar .

1:03:31

There's a quality difference though .

1:03:33

There is a quality difference .

1:03:34

I'm sorry , the original . I mean , how old

1:03:36

is Horizon ? The first one now , what's

1:03:39

that ? Six , seven years , Seven years , yeah . Well , again

1:03:41

looking at the timeline of PS4 to .

1:03:44

PS5 , we wouldn't have had horizon

1:03:46

by now either ? No , she's .

1:03:48

That's crazy that first one is

1:03:50

a way better put together game than

1:03:52

avatar . I mean , they're

1:03:54

not on the same in same ballpark

1:03:57

, so oh yeah , I think I know what to expect

1:03:59

from forbidden west . I'm just looking

1:04:01

forward to the graphic upgrade and how you know

1:04:03

from what I've seen trailers and from what you've said , how

1:04:05

pretty it looks . Um , yeah , I'm

1:04:07

all in . I think I need this now .

1:04:09

So it's good . I . I mean

1:04:11

, I've maybe talked about this on the show

1:04:13

and I've talked about it to you off air

1:04:15

, but I got that game

1:04:17

the day it launched , installed it

1:04:19

and then didn't stop playing it until

1:04:22

I remember you hitting that hard . I played it all . I played , remember

1:04:24

you hitting that hard . I

1:04:26

played it all that Friday night . I played it all Saturday

1:04:28

, all Sunday bar for

1:04:30

two hours all Monday

1:04:32

. I had that game pretty

1:04:35

much done in a week and

1:04:37

it's not a small game . No it's

1:04:39

beefy . I went all

1:04:41

at it . I was a bit disappointed by the burning

1:04:43

shores , but then again I do find that

1:04:46

the DLC for horizon

1:04:49

games seems to come just a bit too

1:04:51

late . You kind of worked yourself out

1:04:53

the game . You've put it down , you've played

1:04:55

some other stuff . You've lost that muscle memory

1:04:57

, cause by the time you get to the end of forbidden West you're

1:05:00

doing some pretty out there stuff and

1:05:02

you're facing some pretty big

1:05:05

stuff

1:05:08

. Yeah , the enemies doing some pretty out there stuff and you're facing some pretty big stuff

1:05:10

. Yeah , enemies , there's definitely some . You're gonna have to use all of your different materials within

1:05:12

your arrows and your traps and all that sort of good

1:05:14

stuff . You've really got to be on it . And

1:05:16

then burning shores landed and I

1:05:18

was super excited because I'd really enjoyed

1:05:20

the world and I got into it much like I did

1:05:22

frozen wilds and it was like oh my god

1:05:24

, am I holding the ? Am I holding the controller upside

1:05:26

down ? What's happened to me ? I can't play this

1:05:29

. You had curb stomped , oh

1:05:31

my , everything was apex as well

1:05:33

in burning yeah , especially the frogs

1:05:35

man . Ah , we've spoken

1:05:37

about those on air , those frogs . The design's

1:05:40

amazing , but I absolutely hated them

1:05:42

. If I knew where they lived , I'd poison their food

1:05:44

but

1:05:46

yeah , I'm excited for you , rgt

1:05:49

, because I think , I think forbidden west is probably

1:05:51

the most underrated triple a game this

1:05:53

year , I mean of this generation oh

1:05:55

, they had the misfortune of launching at the same

1:05:57

time as elden elden ring

1:05:59

and the shame for that

1:06:02

is and no disrespect , because I know a lot

1:06:04

of people that I care for very deeply jumped

1:06:06

straight on the Elden Ring train or got

1:06:08

Horizon and then dropped it like a hot stone

1:06:10

to jump on Elden Ring and never came back and

1:06:12

I kind of knew at that moment

1:06:14

Elden Ring probably wasn't for me right then

1:06:16

. I've kind of been dabbling with it , which we'll get to

1:06:18

, but it

1:06:21

was such a great game and

1:06:25

it got literally stomped into the ground next to . Everyone went crazy for that . Even casuals

1:06:28

went and got Elden Ring and we're talking about

1:06:30

it around the water cooler where I was sat

1:06:32

talking to myself in the mirror about

1:06:35

Horizon Forbidden West , because no one else was

1:06:37

talking about it , I was thinking how can , how

1:06:39

are people ignoring this like this ?

1:06:42

This is the game we've been wanting . I

1:06:45

felt the exact same way and then like , um

1:06:47

, it's a shame , because the first game got the same treatment , with

1:06:49

um breath of the wild it did where

1:06:51

it just got completely swallowed

1:06:54

by the magnet , magnetism

1:06:56

of that game and I was like , no , no

1:06:58

horizon , you're gonna get horizon doll over

1:07:00

again . It became a verb .

1:07:05

Sadly Is it my turn now

1:07:07

Can . I talk about video games .

1:07:09

Yep certainly can .

1:07:10

Okay , what have I been playing ? I've been

1:07:13

playing the original Like a Dragon

1:07:15

. I'm over six . He's kind of

1:07:17

been my . I don't mention it every week

1:07:19

because it's something that's constantly going on in the

1:07:21

background . It's not issuing it's the first one

1:07:23

I've got Isshin on the shelf , but I refuse

1:07:25

to get to Bill on me and the FIFA and the UFC . Yeah , I refuse

1:07:27

to get to the next one until , because I've been an

1:07:30

avid fan of the story to this point and I

1:07:32

damn refuse to let it beat me . Rather

1:07:34

than I beat , you know , I want to beat . No , hang on a minute

1:07:36

. Anyway , that's

1:07:50

totally thrown me . To be honest , man , it

1:07:53

looks like through .

1:07:54

RGT as well .

1:07:55

Yakuza like a dragon

1:07:57

, whatever you call it . I'm really enjoying it . But

1:07:59

I checked my save file . I'm 60 hours deep

1:08:01

on this bad boy and I don't even think I'm halfway

1:08:03

through . I'm liking

1:08:06

all the side stuff . I'm liking all

1:08:08

the bits . I'm loving the stories

1:08:10

, as always the sort of sub stories

1:08:12

I've

1:08:16

found

1:08:18

lots of little bits , I can get my meat into .

1:08:20

By the way , I beat Like a Dragon about 90

1:08:22

hours . I think is when I rolled

1:08:24

credit . So it is a meaty game .

1:08:27

Oh , some two thirds of the way through . That

1:08:29

does give me some hope . I was speaking to Rowspacemunk in the Discord and he was like

1:08:32

it's a big game . I was

1:08:34

like I know this . Now I

1:08:36

really like although it's

1:08:38

not as deep as you kind of want it to be Ichiban

1:08:40

Holdings is like one of my favorite things , that's

1:08:43

so fun , so fun . Two

1:08:45

minutes . I'm going , I'm doing it and

1:08:48

holding down R2 just to sort of fast

1:08:50

forward , as they kind of work through the monies

1:08:53

and , like you know , it's

1:08:55

perfect , it's charming

1:08:57

, it really is . Yeah , it's got

1:08:59

that Yakuza-ness to it . I'm

1:09:01

still not completely sold on

1:09:03

the turn-based . I used

1:09:05

to find the actual fighting easier

1:09:08

because you could go in . I've talked about this on

1:09:10

air so I won't labour the point . But you could go in with

1:09:12

a million stamina royales in your pocket

1:09:14

and even if you weren't the right level , you could

1:09:16

literally just slowly beat

1:09:18

this dude , whatever boss it was

1:09:20

. You could beat him into the ground . With the

1:09:22

turn based that is not

1:09:24

happening . You've got to be the right like . So it's a proper

1:09:27

jrpg in that regard . You've got to be the right

1:09:29

level , you've got a and

1:09:31

the whole job specialization thing . To

1:09:33

me it's like oh god , gosh , you know what ? Add

1:09:35

another layer of complication if you want . Um

1:09:38

, you know see I love that

1:09:40

. I absolutely love that . Like you're changing

1:09:42

your job specialization , you're changing the job specialization

1:09:45

of the other people in your team , then you've got to level

1:09:47

the job specialization up . Then you've got to level

1:09:49

your weapon up , with all that niff-naff and traffic

1:09:51

trivia you've been around . Then you've

1:09:53

got to go see the weapon dude and he's got better

1:09:55

weapons and it's like , oh , when does this ever

1:09:58

end ? Whereas back

1:10:00

in the old school I could go in , rest

1:10:03

the controller on my leg and absolutely

1:10:05

annihilate the buttons and

1:10:08

it would normally result in me coming away

1:10:10

the victor feeling like I'd

1:10:12

lost . I'd got carpal tunnel and I'd lost

1:10:14

feeling in my fingers , but I didn't care . There

1:10:18

was that moment where you could turn it round

1:10:20

quickly , pause , go into

1:10:22

the sub menu , drink a stamina royale

1:10:24

and get back in there and do it all over again

1:10:26

. Now you kind of got to wait for

1:10:28

your turn or you've got to put them in . If you

1:10:30

play an auto , you've got to put them in a healing phase

1:10:32

. The in auto , you've got to put them in a healing phase . The AI isn't really good enough

1:10:34

. So you kind of the AI's good

1:10:36

enough , I suppose , in a street brawl , but

1:10:39

if you get into a boss battle . You've got to

1:10:41

live and make every single

1:10:43

move of your turn count

1:10:45

. You've got to be precise , yeah , you've

1:10:48

got to be right on it , and you've also got to

1:10:50

very quickly work out what these

1:10:52

guys Achilles heels are , cause quite often

1:10:54

you'll smash up against them like a , like

1:10:56

a tsunami against a cliff , and

1:10:59

it's every move you're pulling out

1:11:01

. It's like resist , resist

1:11:03

, resist . It's like what is

1:11:05

going to destabilize these guys . And

1:11:07

then one of the sub characters you'll do one of

1:11:09

their sort of out there moves and it'll put them into

1:11:12

a state of confusion or something , and then you

1:11:14

can really rally on these guys and start wailing

1:11:17

on them . But yeah , it's interesting

1:11:19

. I mean , it's certainly kind of boned

1:11:21

up my jrpg skills again in

1:11:24

a sort of pantheon . I didn't really want to be boning

1:11:26

them up in . You know , it's certainly got the persona

1:11:28

hat out and it's been like , oh crikey , I thought I was

1:11:30

playing yakuza , but now I'm 60

1:11:33

hours deep on a traditional JRPG

1:11:35

. I just want my life back .

1:11:37

It feels like Persona 5.5 .

1:11:39

It really does ? In that regard , it does

1:11:42

, but do you know what ? I'm enjoying it ? So I've always . For

1:11:45

probably most of this year I've just been quietly

1:11:47

grinding away on that . This

1:11:50

will make you laugh Once you beat the holdings , by the way this will make you laugh Once you beat the Holdings .

1:11:52

by the way . Like the game gets astronomically

1:11:54

easier because you become so rich that

1:11:57

, like a lot of the top gear , you can just buy , and

1:11:59

then that auto battles become a lot easier as

1:12:01

well . Yeah , well .

1:12:03

I'm I'm within the last

1:12:05

throes of being the top company

1:12:07

. I've do you know what as well ? I've really enjoyed

1:12:09

the sub story of that whole business arc

1:12:11

. You

1:12:15

know , where you're kind of like , there's a guy who's been running this sort of cartel

1:12:18

really , and he's been throwing these obstacles

1:12:20

in your way in terms of the shareholder

1:12:22

meetings and then it's , you know , these people

1:12:24

are actually in league with this dude and , yeah

1:12:27

, again , the storytelling in the game is

1:12:29

still

1:12:31

top tier .

1:12:34

Finish that off , because you do unlock a really cool

1:12:36

character afterwards that you can use in battle .

1:12:40

Yes , it

1:12:43

becomes easier afterwards . Well before I even move

1:12:46

on to issuing , I've got to play the man who erased

1:12:48

his name , which is digital only in the UK

1:12:50

. I was looking , I was toying with the idea

1:12:52

of getting a physical from PlayAsia , but I've

1:12:55

got every other physical release , so I'm probably

1:12:57

going to end up going down that road , but

1:13:00

I'll get the digital initially . I'm

1:13:03

quite excited for that because I believe it's only

1:13:05

about a 20-hour game , so that's going

1:13:07

to be a nice , almost palate cleanser

1:13:09

. This

1:13:11

is the one that was going to make you laugh . I've been playing Hell

1:13:13

. As soon as Portal comes out

1:13:15

, george Ghost grabs the gen previous

1:13:18

to the gen that he's got . So he's gone deep

1:13:21

. On the Vita he's got himself . I mean

1:13:23

, I had Helldivers before and I always

1:13:25

used to fritter around with it , I suppose

1:13:27

towards the end . But I'm all

1:13:29

in on it again now Helldivers 1 . On

1:13:38

the Vita , only on it again now . Helldivers one on the vita only . I'm not gonna play anywhere else

1:13:40

. Um , that's still enjoyable . The community is still really active for it . It's just

1:13:42

a nice little thing to have um been playing

1:13:45

helldivers 2 , jumped into

1:13:47

a mission with og tom , had

1:13:49

just a just a nice bit of old school

1:13:52

chat with him while we played . I

1:13:55

don't normally go on headset , but I

1:13:57

kind of saw that more as like a phone call , you

1:13:59

know , to a family member A sick

1:14:02

, poorly little , weirdo family member

1:14:04

, but you know , still

1:14:06

a family member . And what else have I been playing

1:14:08

? I

1:14:11

think that's probably it . To be honest , I've

1:14:14

still got Uncharted 4 , another playthrough

1:14:16

to finish . I've still got

1:14:18

. I really need to kind

1:14:20

of dust off Alan Wake 2 and just get

1:14:22

that last third of the game finished . There's

1:14:25

nothing wrong with it at all . It's just kind

1:14:28

of propped up at the wrong time and

1:14:32

F1

1:14:35

Manage is probably going to get deleted

1:14:37

. It's not the latest one . I've talked about this a couple

1:14:39

of episodes ago . It's like last year's version

1:14:42

, but it's so similar to the first . I've

1:14:44

tried to grind through another couple of grand prixs , but

1:14:46

I'm so done with it .

1:14:48

Um you just burned yourself out .

1:14:50

Huh , it's just so similar to

1:14:52

the first one . I should have just carried on playing that . Um , it's

1:14:54

a shame because it's just so similar to the first one . I should have just carried on playing that

1:14:56

. It's a shame because there's nothing fundamentally wrong for the game

1:14:58

, but as a yearly upgrade which is how they're

1:15:00

doing it now every year the new one

1:15:02

comes out , like EA or FC

1:15:05

or FIFA or whatever it's called , or

1:15:10

MLB even , which , I'll confess to you now , the latest MLB

1:15:13

looks great from an aesthetic point of view

1:15:15

. The menu is beautiful , the additions

1:15:17

to the gameplay that they've made are great , but

1:15:19

sadly it's too

1:15:22

many years on the bounce of mlb

1:15:24

for me to really even get out of triple

1:15:26

a . I'm like um , this

1:15:30

is , and every

1:15:32

year you kind of got to wipe your progress of

1:15:34

your previous game . Some of the old MLBs

1:15:36

, let you carry on . Import your character . These

1:15:39

new ones , since we've had the PS5

1:15:41

, that's a big no-no . So

1:15:43

every time you got to recreate yourself

1:15:45

, scan your face , you start yourself up

1:15:47

as this plucky 18-year-old again . It's

1:15:50

like maybe I've got some actual

1:15:53

physical time off at the back end of July

1:15:55

into August . Maybe at that point

1:15:57

, you know , I can maybe just unwind

1:15:59

into it . I still love the game , as

1:16:02

in baseball , and I do have a still like

1:16:05

the biggest soft spot for MLB

1:16:07

the gaming franchise . I think

1:16:09

it's great . But next

1:16:11

year maybe if I don't play

1:16:13

this one as much , because normally I'm

1:16:15

hundreds of hours in on a career mode road

1:16:17

to the show , but this year nowhere

1:16:20

near , and I'm wondering if I can just

1:16:22

sort of maybe not go as deep

1:16:24

this year . I can just sort of have it on

1:16:26

the periphery that next year

1:16:28

mlb 25 or

1:16:30

4 , whatever which way it rounds goes with the yearly

1:16:33

connotation . I can't remember . It's just one big MLB

1:16:35

game to me , but I'm hoping that I'm going

1:16:37

to arrive at that and be like , yes , something

1:16:40

new . They definitely need to refresh the pitcher

1:16:42

game . I know everyone rocks up to play MLB

1:16:45

just to hit big home runs and be the

1:16:47

big . Yeah , I'm the judge , but

1:16:49

I'll be honest

1:16:51

with you , I'm not into that . I'm into

1:16:54

the whole sort of pitcher . Slow

1:16:56

the pitch clock hasn't helped , but you know , slowing

1:16:58

the game down , doing the pitches , getting

1:17:00

some dirty inside-outside pitches

1:17:03

, you know just… the minutia of baseball

1:17:05

, the real grit of baseball

1:17:07

, it's not just to turn up and go wow

1:17:09

, mate , you hit the ball wheel far . There's

1:17:13

so much more going on at a granular

1:17:15

level in a game of baseball that really you can only

1:17:17

appreciate from the pitcher's

1:17:19

point of view . So , yeah

1:17:22

, that's due a definite rework

1:17:24

, the changes they've made to the menu and road

1:17:26

to the show . When you know classic

1:17:28

road to the show , you would always be in your changing

1:17:30

room sat there , you know , scratching your balls

1:17:32

, waiting for your next match . Now you could be on a

1:17:35

coach , you could be on a plane , you

1:17:40

could be in the team room , you could be in your

1:17:42

own bedroom , like those little things . It didn't cost them anything

1:17:44

to do , but it's added so much more variety to those inter-match

1:17:46

interstitials that it's like , oh

1:17:49

, I'm not even in the big

1:17:51

leagues getting the podcasts and the TV

1:17:53

shows and all that sort of AAA

1:17:55

extravaganza and it already

1:17:57

still feels pretty good . So

1:18:00

, yeah , I'm excited , hopefully

1:18:03

for next year and , like I say , a

1:18:05

bit more spare time on my hands to just mindlessly

1:18:08

plump away several

1:18:10

hundred hours into a baseball

1:18:12

career mode . Yeah

1:18:19

, I think I'll be ready in in 12 months time . Um , gentlemen , that

1:18:21

probably brings to the end my

1:18:23

, my gaming activity and

1:18:25

now we must pull on what

1:18:28

I call the big boy trousers . I'm

1:18:30

gonna button up my button down , pull

1:18:33

the tie up around my neck , as

1:18:36

I ask you , gentlemen , to look all journalistic

1:18:38

in what you're doing , because it's time for the news . I

1:18:45

don't you know that to me sounded newsy

1:18:48

, but well , the fans quite

1:18:50

retro but it was newsy if

1:18:53

you're below a certain age

1:18:55

, you might need to know that that's the sound

1:18:58

of the news wire coming in . We've scaled the very

1:19:00

darkest region of the internet to bring you the latest stories

1:19:02

first up . Ps digs

1:19:04

deep into its back

1:19:06

catalogue . This is quite the mouthful , but I'm going to go

1:19:08

for it . Are you ready ? Platform fans , rest

1:19:10

assured knowing that from 18th of June , you'll be able

1:19:12

to play every oh

1:19:15

, I'm going for punishments

1:19:17

Every single mainline

1:19:19

Jak and Daxter game on PS5 and PS4

1:19:21

, the release of the PSP platformer Daxter

1:19:24

. I will stand by this

1:19:26

, arguably one of the best entries

1:19:28

in the series . We'll round out the selection with Jak

1:19:30

and Daxter , the Precursor Legacy , jak 2

1:19:32

, jak 3 , jak X , combat Racing , already available . Jak selection with jack and dax of

1:19:34

the precursor legacy , jack 2 , jack 3 , jack x , combat racing , already available

1:19:37

. Jack and dax of the lost frontier . The

1:19:39

psp and ps2 epilogue , which

1:19:41

is actually super

1:19:43

hard to find on ps2 , not

1:19:45

so bad on psp , almost literally

1:19:47

impossible on ps2 launched

1:19:50

earlier this year , should be noted . The original trilogy

1:19:52

, along with jack x combat , combat Racing , are still tied

1:19:54

to Sony's old PS2 emulator , meaning

1:19:56

they don't play as well as they

1:19:58

necessarily should . Earlier

1:20:01

in the PS4 generation . The Japanese giant

1:20:03

ported a select number of PS2 titles to its

1:20:05

current-gen console , but the emulation

1:20:07

was sloppy and lacked quality and life improvements

1:20:09

. The firm's new PS2 emulator debuted

1:20:12

alongside the likes of Sky , sly

1:20:14

Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus , or

1:20:16

literally Sly as we would know

1:20:19

him . It includes quick saves and rewinds , so it's great

1:20:21

to see all the Jak and Daxter titles readily

1:20:23

available on current hardware . This is

1:20:25

the kind of preservation we want . We

1:20:27

also suspect all of the Sly Cooper games

1:20:29

will eventually make their way across , and we'd love

1:20:31

to see the Ratchet Clank series

1:20:33

follow , especially the larger Overlook

1:20:36

spin-off and I like

1:20:38

this one as well Secret Agent Clank

1:20:40

, which very few have actually played

1:20:42

. Now , off the back of this

1:20:44

, boys , let's

1:20:47

go old school Bonus . Bonus

1:20:52

news you probably

1:20:54

never played Ghost Hunter . Me and RGT are big fans of this game . Bonus news you probably never played Ghost

1:20:56

Hunter . Me and RGT are big fans of this game

1:20:59

. I saw this bit of news and thought

1:21:01

you are going to be all over this this

1:21:03

this was the

1:21:05

sort of game that made you wonder why you were

1:21:07

buying a PS3 back in the back in

1:21:09

the day . The visuals , the textures

1:21:12

, everything that Ghost Hunter is pumping

1:21:14

out on PS2 is phenomenal . Developed

1:21:16

by Cambridge Studio , the UK-based team

1:21:18

that would later be renamed Guerrilla Cambridge

1:21:21

, before being shut down following

1:21:23

the release of the PS Vita's excellent Killzone

1:21:25

Mercenary . I don't think that's what killed them . I

1:21:27

think RIGS VR killed them . If I'm honest

1:21:29

with you , it was published in the United States by

1:21:31

namco , such as was the mistreatment

1:21:33

of the title title by platform holder sony

1:21:35

. But it's actually a great little game , coming

1:21:38

to ps5 and ps4 as part of the ps premium

1:21:40

from the 18th of june . Now

1:21:43

the game is effectively a third person

1:21:45

shooter , although it's somewhat of a prehistoric one

1:21:47

. The title predates resident evil 4

1:21:49

and gears of war , so the combat is fiddly

1:21:51

and archaic . Movement Movement is ridiculously

1:21:54

restricted . While you're aiming , combat sees

1:21:56

you weakening ghosts before capturing them with

1:21:59

Ghostbusters style traps

1:22:01

and ecto-wands , for want of

1:22:03

a better word . But there's more to it . You can also control

1:22:05

a spirit to solve puzzles or lure

1:22:07

phantoms into specific positions . While

1:22:10

it received middling reviews at launch , this was

1:22:12

a forward thinking title with excellent presentation

1:22:14

, and it's one , ultimately , a lot of people

1:22:16

overlooked . The North American version was updated

1:22:19

to include a number of gameplay improvements and fixes

1:22:21

God damn , you , damn

1:22:23

, yankees . Compared to its European

1:22:25

counterpart , we've been struggling on with , quite

1:22:28

honestly , control-wise

1:22:30

treacle . This

1:22:33

is obviously a time when patches couldn't be issued , because

1:22:35

whatever shipped on the disc is what you

1:22:37

got , but we'd recommend this , given a go . To be

1:22:39

honest , it's one of the best looking PS2 titles upon

1:22:41

its release and still got lots

1:22:43

of interesting ideas , despite its ancient

1:22:45

and inconsistent gameplay . A single

1:22:47

playthrough will take you 10 hours , so you've got

1:22:49

the time and you're curious about

1:22:52

the subject matter and story , be sure

1:22:54

to check it out Now . Rgt , I

1:22:56

know there's

1:22:59

a lot of news to cover here , but basically I want to get

1:23:01

balls deep with Seb . Seb , have

1:23:03

you played Ghost Hunter ? Are you aware of it ? Is it on your

1:23:05

periphery ? Have you ever seen it before ? Or

1:23:09

is this a game that's got you going ? Hang

1:23:11

hold on . Hold my spectral

1:23:13

pint here , a second pal while I pick

1:23:15

up this ancient-looking control pad and

1:23:18

get myself a little bit ghost-huntery

1:23:20

.

1:23:21

See , I've heard of this game . I've never touched it . I

1:23:24

did not own a PS Vita until

1:23:27

later in life , so I didn't

1:23:29

get it . This is a PS2 . Oh , ps2

1:23:31

, my bad , yeah , but

1:23:33

no , I didn't touch this on the PS2

1:23:36

either . So I very much

1:23:38

, I'm glad game preservation

1:23:40

is coming through and I'm glad

1:23:43

the people who are jonesing

1:23:45

to replay this type of game is

1:23:47

going to be able to . But other than that , I

1:23:49

don't think I'm going to be touching this one . If I'm being honest

1:23:51

, there's too much out there right now .

1:23:54

I think it's good as well , because

1:23:56

with the new PS2 emulator you've got

1:23:58

your rewind as well and

1:24:00

a lot they've done with the PS1

1:24:03

titles they've been launching . I

1:24:05

have downloaded the

1:24:08

first Sly , which I think is just

1:24:10

Sly to us or Sly the Raccoon to us . I think it's

1:24:12

different .

1:24:12

I think it's Sly Raccoon to us , and

1:24:19

I think that our American cousins .

1:24:20

Oh , Sly Cooper , isn't it they call it .

1:24:21

Sly Cooper , thievius Raccoonus that's it

1:24:23

.

1:24:23

Yeah , so I have downloaded it . I've heard

1:24:25

good things . You've never

1:24:27

played Sly . No , I've downloaded

1:24:30

this one on the PS5 .

1:24:41

I downloaded this one on the ps5 . I've played slide back in the day , um , but I've heard good things about this um emulator with the rewind

1:24:43

and slightly improved textures and stuff . So I I don't know if it's true , but I've heard

1:24:45

that it's . It probably don't look that great , um , because obviously I

1:24:48

think the place where it looks best right now is probably

1:24:50

on that ps3 re-release

1:24:53

that went on the vita as well . Um

1:24:55

, the trilogy sly trilogy yeah

1:24:57

, was it called the h ? Sly hd ? They

1:25:00

, they batched hd , I believe . Yeah , games

1:25:02

, yeah , jack and daxter

1:25:04

sly . I think we even got

1:25:06

ratchet and clank .

1:25:07

Really , because that's that's on ps plus as well , which

1:25:09

is odd because you've got both , but I

1:25:11

suppose you're gaining with the rewind feature and

1:25:13

absolutely yeah

1:25:15

, but yeah , I'd be interested to give it a go so

1:25:18

I have a question how excited are

1:25:21

y'all to play astrobot later this year ?

1:25:24

I'm pumped for that yes , I can't my only

1:25:26

reservation , and me and rg talked about

1:25:28

this a couple of episodes ago and we'll

1:25:30

, we'll test the waters , we'll see what the cult has done

1:25:33

to you now . I

1:25:35

was excited to see it . I was , I was

1:25:37

kind of hyped , I'll be honest with

1:25:39

you , and when it showed up at the showcase

1:25:41

I was like yeah , yeah , yeah , we'll have

1:25:43

a piece of this . But having played

1:25:45

the playroom vr playroom

1:25:47

, uh , having played the

1:25:50

astrobot vr missions , having

1:25:53

played the PS5 launch

1:25:55

banger Astro Bot , a

1:25:58

lot of what I've already played , which

1:26:00

not everybody has played fair enough , is

1:26:04

in this game , from what I can see . So

1:26:07

it's going to be massive , according to them , the

1:26:09

biggest game they've ever made . So , no

1:26:11

doubt , recycling of ideas and textures

1:26:14

and bosses and things makes some level of sense

1:26:16

, especially if it's kind of a little

1:26:18

bit unknown to the mainstream .

1:26:20

And I think yeah , I think a lot of people's first time playing

1:26:22

it was on the PS5 . Because you either

1:26:25

played it on the VR , and if you didn't have the VR then

1:26:27

you sort of missed . So I suppose you

1:26:30

kind of missed those .

1:26:31

Yeah , they're sort of thinking it as their second

1:26:33

big game , the thing that

1:26:35

I wanted to ask you about Seb is

1:26:38

, in terms of spaceships , the

1:26:40

PS5 is the most butt-ugly

1:26:43

spaceship Every two rear-rits

1:26:45

retro blasters . Yeah , that

1:26:47

was a stretch and then fly into deep space

1:26:49

. What was your take on that ? Because , obviously , when

1:26:51

it came out of the sand without the faceplates

1:26:53

, the

1:26:58

PS5 looks pretty badass naked , with its fan hanging out . But as soon as it sort of booted

1:27:00

into space and the face plates attached and this

1:27:03

cumbersome white brick

1:27:05

clumsily made its way through this

1:27:07

warp portal , I was thinking , my God , boys

1:27:09

, you've really

1:27:11

blown the farm .

1:27:12

What was your thoughts on that

1:27:14

element . I I don't like that element

1:27:17

at all . I , I think that is . I

1:27:19

think it is ugly as a spaceship , for sure

1:27:21

it was a stretch to make

1:27:23

that look like a spaceship yeah , I

1:27:25

will . I will say the like him

1:27:27

actually like having a tie fighter , which

1:27:30

is basically the ps5 controller and

1:27:32

navigating like that is absolutely beautiful

1:27:35

. That was fire .

1:27:36

And considering the haptics we got from the first

1:27:39

game , to imagine that thing transforming

1:27:41

in your hands and you feeling the plates move and whatnot

1:27:43

, which is certainly within its capabilities to replicate

1:27:46

. I am very excited to see that

1:27:48

.

1:27:48

It's one thing sorry to go back , but

1:27:51

when I did play Avatar , it's one thing I will say

1:27:53

the haptics's not pretty good in that game

1:27:55

with the adaptive triggers for

1:27:57

. But that was the batman limit . But they did

1:27:59

incorporate that , which I didn't think they would , because

1:28:01

a lot of developers missed that .

1:28:03

So ubisoft does a good job at doing

1:28:05

that , though .

1:28:05

Yeah , just wait till you've played forbidden

1:28:08

west , till you talk to me about haptic

1:28:10

triggers .

1:28:11

Oh , pal for sure

1:28:13

, yeah , sorry , carry on

1:28:15

no , I was just gonna say I'm

1:28:17

like I'm hearing good things about astrobot . It's um

1:28:19

. They're saying they're gonna have um like playstation

1:28:21

themed bonus worlds as

1:28:23

well , and then they're also they're

1:28:26

probably looking at 80 different levels

1:28:28

in this game , so I think that's

1:28:31

that's well .

1:28:31

This is that we've not just heard this . I do believe

1:28:34

this is confirmed in hands-on previews . So

1:28:36

you know , give it to me

1:28:38

. I just and

1:28:40

there's nothing wrong with like a greatest hits montage

1:28:43

of some of your previous stages , but I

1:28:45

kind of want that to be on the very back

1:28:47

edge of minimum . I'll be honest

1:28:49

.

1:28:49

Well , george , to be honest , let's be . Let's be

1:28:52

serious here for a second . You remember ? Remember how no

1:28:54

one played the Wii U and

1:28:57

so the Switch just re-released all the Wii

1:29:00

U stuff .

1:29:00

No , don't do this , don't do this , don't

1:29:03

do this . Vr is the same way

1:29:05

. You don't like no one's playing it . My

1:29:08

other grip with Astro Bot is when

1:29:10

the VR launched , sony put out a statement

1:29:12

and I've been scouring the internet and I want someone

1:29:14

, maybe in the Discord , to find it for me . But every

1:29:17

game that we release going forward

1:29:19

is going to have a VR element . So when I heard Astro

1:29:22

Bot , I was like bam , cannot

1:29:24

wait to see . Even

1:29:26

if it's like Concrete Genie and it's hidden in

1:29:28

a submenu somewhere , you put the headset

1:29:30

on and you wave a bloody paintbrush around , I'll

1:29:35

take it .

1:29:36

Right now I'm starving so just like Pastor

1:29:38

. Longhorn tripped me into the

1:29:40

cult just like Pastor

1:29:42

Longhorn tripped me into the cult Pastor

1:29:45

.

1:29:45

Longhorn mumsy right down new

1:29:48

law .

1:29:49

New law Pastor .

1:29:52

Longhorn . Hey , I'm

1:29:54

Jeff , my boy , coming to

1:29:56

you on my knee .

1:29:57

I'll show you what a cult's all about

1:30:01

you have drinking the Kool-Aid

1:30:03

that is PlayStation VR . They

1:30:06

have lied to you two times

1:30:08

, two times in two separate generations

1:30:10

. They basically came out with a

1:30:12

VR component and they

1:30:14

haven't supported it .

1:30:15

The thing is , what gets me is , in

1:30:19

a way , right okay , last time I

1:30:21

got kicked in the ghoulies

1:30:23

like this by a business , it was Xbox with the

1:30:25

Kinect and I'll be honest with you , I never

1:30:27

felt so humiliated

1:30:29

in my life as that

1:30:31

guy that was clumsily stumbling around

1:30:33

his living room that he'd hastily rearranged so

1:30:35

the connect could even see his face , let alone

1:30:37

his hands . Um , to

1:30:40

get this thing playing now

1:30:42

I I ddt'd

1:30:44

that through a

1:30:48

flaming , exploding table covered in fluorescent

1:30:50

light tubes . I was that done with . It was like no

1:30:52

xbox , you've had your go now . That's

1:30:54

it , you're done . Sony

1:30:57

have kind of done it to me twice and I'm forgiving

1:30:59

them only because on

1:31:02

VR1 , I had some really standout

1:31:04

great experiences . On VR2

1:31:06

, I'll say this alone it's

1:31:09

a bit of a big ticket because you could probably

1:31:11

get a flight to somewhere quite gorgeous

1:31:13

in Europe and then go kayaking for real

1:31:16

. But kayak vr was worth

1:31:18

the entrance fee and I didn't need to get

1:31:20

wet , not like that . Uh

1:31:24

, I didn't need to get wet at

1:31:27

all and no man's

1:31:29

sky was the bridge that

1:31:32

shadowed between psvr1 and psvr2 and gave

1:31:34

me that warm feeling of like yeah , do you know what if I did ? And Sky was the bridge that shadowed between PSVR 1 and PSVR 2 and gave

1:31:36

me that warm feeling of like yeah , do you know

1:31:38

what ? If I did actually want to get stuck into

1:31:40

something ? There's a whole universe

1:31:43

to play through here , and

1:31:45

we've not even dusted off Resi

1:31:48

4 or Village in

1:31:50

terms of their VR modes as well . So

1:31:52

I mean , after Biohazard

1:31:55

in VR on VR1 , I mean enough's

1:31:57

enough . I mean , I don't mind a horror

1:31:59

game . I'm not someone that really gets that really

1:32:01

like scared by that . But in

1:32:03

VR , I don't care who you

1:32:05

are , that stuff is

1:32:08

terrifying .

1:32:09

Yeah , I'm a chicken , so I don't care In that Biohazard

1:32:11

game .

1:32:11

when that dude comes through the wall for the first time

1:32:14

, I literally I'd

1:32:16

only just eaten my sandwich and it was already

1:32:18

in my panties . I was like absolutely

1:32:25

terrifying . Uh

1:32:27

, and normally in the game you can kind of see

1:32:30

where a guy's gonna do a jump scare at you . You

1:32:32

know , the wall is kind of like a little

1:32:34

bit different texture . You're like , oh hey , started

1:32:36

a little bit yeah , there's a little bit of

1:32:38

going on here . Guys , are you kidding me

1:32:40

? Like ? Oh , here he is . I'm not scared

1:32:43

at all in vr , honestly

1:32:46

, this peripheral sound effect you know what was

1:32:48

that , what was this , what was

1:32:50

that ? And

1:32:52

I played it on the flat screen . He just ran down the corridor

1:32:54

play it on vr and I'm literally crawling

1:32:57

on my hands and knees terrified

1:32:59

. So there is a place for it . But yeah

1:33:01

, you're right , I've been done day two

1:33:03

times oh , for sure , for sure .

1:33:05

And to be fair , like I think vr

1:33:07

is a really cool concept

1:33:09

in games , I just don't . They

1:33:11

haven't shown you any respect as a vr gamer

1:33:14

especially when like any respect as a consumer

1:33:16

full stop oh no , for sure

1:33:18

not , especially considering like the two

1:33:20

bet , arguably the two best like titles

1:33:23

in vr today asgard's wrath

1:33:25

and um and half-life alex

1:33:27

aren't even available . Aren't even available on

1:33:29

this platform . And you paid what

1:33:31

? 500 or 600 for ?

1:33:33

this . I don't need you in here waving the books

1:33:35

about .

1:33:36

You know I'm not enough I think , I

1:33:38

think you can use the uh psvr2

1:33:40

for steam and steam oh , yeah , on pc

1:33:43

now , but your pc isn't that beefy enough

1:33:45

.

1:33:45

Yeah , but you need the adapter . You need the adapter

1:33:47

to make it work .

1:33:48

So it's gone . It's gone a little bit . The pc

1:33:50

boys are going to get hold of it . It's going to be a little little

1:33:52

bit like PSVR 1 with us with the breakout box

1:33:54

and all the other associated dribble . But

1:33:57

do you know what , in terms of a high def

1:34:00

VR headset that's

1:34:02

got some really nice bells and whistles in

1:34:04

it , they could do a hell of a lot worse

1:34:06

. I think if you're at the premium end of VR gaming

1:34:08

and you had the disposable income

1:34:10

and you were like , oh , actually I'll give this a try , I

1:34:12

don't think you'd be disappointed . The haptics in the

1:34:14

headset alone .

1:34:16

You know to simulate probably one of the most advanced

1:34:18

vr's there is sure in the market

1:34:20

yeah , outside of apple right

1:34:22

now .

1:34:23

Yeah , don't get me wrong , like the screens

1:34:25

probably could be better . I

1:34:27

suppose , in terms of if you've got money to literally

1:34:30

rinse , I'm sure there's something you could get . That would

1:34:32

be way better . And I know a lot of people

1:34:34

have moaned about the lenses and

1:34:38

the technology that's in the VR 2 . But

1:34:40

, to be honest , chuck the headset on and

1:34:43

I don't imagine there'd be many complaints

1:34:45

. Gentlemen

1:34:50

, what's this next bit of news ?

1:34:52

They came , they saw they

1:34:55

kicked its ass , but they

1:34:57

could have shown more Everyone

1:35:01

. It's time for the next news story . This

1:35:04

year's Xbox Gaming Showcase was

1:35:06

absolutely fantastic with the entire

1:35:08

two-hour runtime or

1:35:10

90-ish minutes if you exclude

1:35:12

the Call of Duty bit . But you know , most

1:35:14

of us did um , providing

1:35:16

some amazing reveals that

1:35:18

left us in absolute awe , and

1:35:21

apparently there was

1:35:23

more that could have been shown . Kind of funny's

1:35:25

. Host paris lily good guy , I met

1:35:27

him , by the way who has appeared on

1:35:30

xbox's showcase in the past

1:35:32

. Mentioned on the

1:35:34

rest was that Risteria . Risteria

1:35:37

yes era oh , reset era

1:35:39

, my bad reset era that he'd

1:35:41

spoken to multiple people at Xbox

1:35:44

about this , told you that showcase

1:35:46

was going to be good , he said . And

1:35:48

the wow thing is I had multiple

1:35:50

people at Xbox telling me there was so

1:35:52

much more that they could have shown , and Gamescom

1:35:55

is shaping up to be a big show

1:35:57

too . End quote . So

1:36:00

some of the games that we didn't see at the

1:36:02

Xbox showcase included Towerborn

1:36:04

, marvel's Blade , clockwork Revolution

1:36:07

, contraband , everwild and

1:36:09

a few others , and those are

1:36:11

just the first party titles that we

1:36:13

absolutely know about . Xbox

1:36:17

hadn't had a big showcase

1:36:19

at Gamescom for the past few years , so

1:36:21

here's hoping we might have another showcase

1:36:23

in store for us in late August

1:36:26

. In any case , there's

1:36:28

clarity a lot in the

1:36:30

pipeline at Xbox , bethesda

1:36:32

and Activision Blizzard right

1:36:34

now . So , gents , what

1:36:37

do you think about this story ?

1:36:38

I mean , we

1:36:40

talked at the beginning and you

1:36:43

know the Xbox Game Showcase

1:36:45

came along and I'll be honest with you

1:36:47

previously Sony had done

1:36:49

what we talked about . You can quote

1:36:51

it on air as saying by me and rgt

1:36:53

a good job . You know I

1:36:55

came off the showcase thinking , yeah , yeah

1:36:58

, that went , okay , I mean yeah , it's all right

1:37:00

yeah I expected there to be a little bit more

1:37:02

. I kind of wanted , maybe , a surprise . You

1:37:04

know , we had a few things lurking around in the background

1:37:06

that I expected to see . That didn't make

1:37:08

an appearance . It's like , okay , do you know

1:37:10

what ? They're just trying to keep their powder dry , keep

1:37:12

people's anticipation up . That's okay

1:37:15

. Maybe didn't want to drop just a CGI

1:37:17

trailer . So , yeah , okay

1:37:19

, fair enough . Then Xbox turned

1:37:21

up , opened its lunchbox and

1:37:24

they had everything in there

1:37:26

and it was . I'll be honest

1:37:28

with you , it was a pleasant surprise

1:37:31

. They managed to pull in not only their

1:37:33

own studios but some

1:37:35

of the periphery third-party studios that

1:37:38

also showed their games during

1:37:40

that time . That actually sort of swelled