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S13E08: Quality Not Assured · The Year Of Shame Challenge

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  Hi, it's with a heavy heart I have some unfortunate news to
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  bring to you all before this episode begins.
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  This month's episode has suffered from some audio issues.
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  We record our audio via Discord and on the weekend of recording,
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  sadly Discord had some technical issues with their servers.
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  So as a disclaimer we thought it would be a good idea to let you
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  know the audio. This month required a lot of
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  editing as the server introduced a lot of micro stutters.
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  I've spent around 8 hours editing out the worst bits, but
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  only up to the one hour and 30 minute point.
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  Normally I could edit the entire show in around 2:00 six hours.
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  So rather than dump the rest of the episode, we decide to leave
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  in the odedited parts from the one hour and 30 minute point.
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  The audio is a bit choppy but kind of listenable.
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  We shall re answer the listeners questions on the next episode.
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  And also I believe at this present time two people have put
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  their names forward for the next season of the Year of Shame
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  challenge which is to begin January 2026.
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  So if you are thinking about all ones take the challenge next
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  year, feel free to contact any of us, perhaps leave a message
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  in the Year of Shame Challenge Facebook group.
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  So let us know. But once again, sorry about the
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  audio issues, but we hope you all still enjoy the show.
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  And with that we shall be back in December, fearless in your
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  pleasure and let the fun begin. For it started dependencies
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  loaded booting Series 13 of the Year of Shame challenge.
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  Please wait. Hi, and welcome to this month's
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  episode of Year of Shame Challenge Season 13, Episode 8.
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  It's been a very rainy Friday, but now we're on to Saturday.
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  We haven't had to jump on no arc or anything, so we're here to
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  recall. For your listening pleasure,
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  we've got Brian. How are you doing, Brian?
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  Hello, I'm good, I'm good. Glad to be back.
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  And of course, we've got Ben. How are you doing there, Ben?
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  Morning. Been so rainy, hasn't it?
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  I mean, we talked about it in the news as if it was going to
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  be, you know, floods everywhere. Perhaps there's some parts of
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  England that are flooded but we didn't see to get flooded.
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  But we are up on a bit up the hill.
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  How did you do that, Ben? Was it?
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  Did you get? Did you see it bad or?
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  We're, we're on a floodplain apparently when we were told
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  that we bought the house and they do.
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  There's a river that's slightly higher than us or further up
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  town. So if that does flood and go for
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  its banks, it does do a bit of damage to the town.
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  But I haven't seen anything. He did pretty well.
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  Yesterday I went to go and pick my son up from school when it
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  was absolutely torrential and there was effectively a a
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  running down the road next to me.
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  That still was a little weird to see.
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  But other than that we've been fine.
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  I've just got very sogggy doing that and the middles run.
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  Yeah, fantastic. Yeah, they do say if you end up
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  in like a bit of a deep water in the car, the best thing is just
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  to keep going because if you stop and it goes with your
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  exhaust pipe areas, damage is meant to happen allegedly, but
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  it's never happened to me. You just got to keep going.
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  And Brian, you've in a different situation.
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  You've been out there in Japan, I believe in some from of
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  earthquakes. Yeah, yeah, we had some
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  earthquakes here where the big earthquake was back in 2011 in
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  Fukushima or that effectively Fukushima.
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  They had another massive earthquake there.
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  And we had warnings of tsunami as well, thankfully.
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  None, none the right. They were expecting us.
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  It's crazy when it happens. Get away from the sea or from
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  the coast. Quite a lot of property in the
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  coast is dead cheap. Unfortunately.
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  Some of the property I want is along the coast.
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  Yeah, but it looks brilliant. The views are gorgeous.
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  But then you just. There's gonna be one day when
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  you don't want to see this. Don't be very near the sea.
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  But yeah, you know, it's OK. I.
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  Wonder what the insurance is like.
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  Is it a general thing over in Japan where house insurance and
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  in England everything's house insurance and bit content
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  insurance? Is it a similar scenario over
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  there to people? Not really are.
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  They're not that fussed about that kind of thing.
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  When they always have houses got destroyed especially, but they
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  the insurance companies came out and said if the house is
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  unlivable, we'll help. So houses got bent or twisted,
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  but they're still livable. And so they still have a roof
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  out. So you're OK, you could live.
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  So they wouldn't cover for that. If your house is document they
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  were supposed to pay out, but there was so much damage done
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  they couldn't afford, they couldn't do it.
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  So they couldn't supposed to help and they they helped quite
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  a bit, but a lot of people end up living in prefab houses
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  because they just push them up as quickly as possible.
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  We you get your house insurance, your contents and all that, but
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  it doesn't include or can cover quicks.
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  You can pay extra for it. It's just too expensive.
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  So most people they're going to get screwed.
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  This is a massive quake, but houses, how do you put this?
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  Houses are not as expensive as in the UK.
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  You pay for the land, so your land should still be there.
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  And people just tend to rebuild houses every 30 years anyway.
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  So there's a lot of houses that wouldn't, they get damaged by
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  the weather, they rebuild. We have a new thing in the past,
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  maybe the past 10 years, earthquake houses.
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  They're stealing cement or stealing, excuse me.
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  They they have tiny windows, really maybe wide and maybe 2
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  feet tall. So you'll see like rows of these
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  all on the on the House. It's just like a structural
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  rigidity and that nothing should happen.
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  It doesn't earthquake, but I don't know.
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  It's it is. Yeah.
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  They are dark inside. Yeah, imagine I was about to say
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  that. Can't be nice to live in.
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  I mean, it's safe, but it's like living in a box.
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  Yeah, it's a bit weird. It's I don't know I'd like to
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  buy a house, but you if you buy a house here, there's chances
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  are you're not going to have a very long questions are due to
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  have them make a quake at some point.
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  Yeah. So I think that best is to live
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  in an apartment. But some of those the older
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  apartments they're the earthquake proofing isn't as
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  good as the newer ones. So the new ones are really,
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  really expensive, but it's difficult if you want to buy
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  this over here that's. The thing is lands at a premium
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  anyway, isn't it? It's not a big country so
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  everything is so built up that everything goes up rather than
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  out. So if you want to land for a
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  house I assume it's kind of insane money versus having an
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  apartment regardless in the grand scheme.
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  Yeah, exactly. The there are a lot of people
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  have moved away. They're having a whole number of
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  people moving away from small villages anyway, Small villages
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  are dying. They're all moving to the
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  cities. So everybody wants to live near
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  a train station in a taller apartment, apartment block
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  that's been very big. So if you want to live in a
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  countryside, you can get property really, really cheap.
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  There are villages, let's say if you rent there for five years,
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  they'll give you a house because the house is 1.
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  Spirit just want people to move into the area and bring back,
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  especially we've got young children bring back like into
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  the towns. Yeah, realised how we use Yeah.
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  Yeah, but if you live in those, you you're like 2 hours away
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  from the nearest hospital. You could be an hour and a half
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  from the nearest supermarket. Is there mainly 30 people or 50
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  people, maybe 100 people living in the town or in that area and
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  just you can't have the same type of supermarkets near?
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  So get on with that. Found it funny.
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  It's just like it's all twisted, but it's kind of OK.
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  So you could drive a car in half because the engine still works
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  sort of thing. Our apartment block here is
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  earthquake proof recently, but after the 2011 earthquake, the
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  front door doesn't close properly.
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  It's doesn't seal perfectly. The windows are slightly off.
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  So you wonder, we had to come out and fix the windows.
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  The draft coming through it where my mother-in-law used to
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  live with Yeah, it's also skew. So it's not the windows aren't
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  properly the hole where the window is isn't properly square
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  or properly rectangular. The twisted bent.
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  I, my, my mother-in-law lived after the earthquake, the big
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  one, she couldn't open her windows because they're all just
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  jammed and they had to go and be fit together windows refit them.
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  So yeah, I don't know. Hopefully insurance are covered.
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  So. You prefer that work And it's
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  just like my windows, they work. My house is in one piece kind of
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  situ, isn't it? I mean, I suppose it's a
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  previous work. My wife's cousin's other house,
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  their floor is now because of the earthquake.
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  So people marble, people marble, that marble just roll across the
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  floor to the other side of the room.
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  It's just, yeah, he's up to take and they're they'll taking
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  choices. They just accept the things.
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  See episodes in. You probably think we should be
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  asking Brian questions first about weather and stuff before
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  we ask these questions. To be honest, Paul, it's just
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  like kind of Oh no, it's rained versus earthquake and my house
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  is wasted. You're OK?
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  I'm sorry. You mentioned arc at the start
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  there, but I think you talk about our craters because we
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  talked about that earlier that realise this.
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  He's got rain there. I didn't know what it was like.
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  No, but I know what our right is even more.
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  Thank you. Yeah.
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  So he's in this in every game as minded at the moment, the word
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  arc or whatever they all seem to be enjoying.
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  Of course we can't play it, but it just seems to be getting the
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  right kind of reception for sure Does our creators?
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  It doesn't do it. Keeps the interest going because
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  I'd like to play it. I hope it's going next year.
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  If it does make it to next year and all the interest doesn't
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  drop off, which often can happen with these live service games,
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  all of a sudden it's gone with into one.
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  So whatever will then you haven't wasted your money at
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  least so. Yeah, that's it.
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  I'm just far enough Steve in the background to see the concurrent
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  playlist. You can do that on there.
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  Is it gross or it's on all console?
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  Now it's cross-platform. Yeah, I mean for the finals is
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  cross-platform as well. I guess they've done the same
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  thing. It's also really loud.
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  Sorry. Why are we just concurrent
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  players? I'm sure it says somewhere it.
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  Usually does mean go on to Steam, it'll tell you how many
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  players are online, whatever. Total reviews in all languages
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  83,467 very positive. Yeah, so very positive Readings
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  out of 83,000 is 58. That's pretty impressive.
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  Yeah. Awards Game of the Year 9 ten
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  9.5910101099 yeah, I mean, game looks OK looking about six
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  weeks. You can do this.
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  Stop rocking. Yeah, that's true.
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  Doesn't. Add to your wish list.
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  Now walk away. How many were playing again,
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  Brian? 207,000.
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  Wow, that's pretty big numbers. That's not bad.
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  And that'll just be on Steam. That would include PlayStation
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  or Xbox. Just steam, Yeah, that's not
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  bad. Not bad, yeah.
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  Good for them. There's currently 8717 players
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  on team playing the finals at this point, which is their old
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  game. It's not sure how much it's
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  people shifted to it. Another good barometer is if you
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  go onto Twitch and you take a look, you know, you can do it
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  from like sending to descending on the amount of players on any
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  particular game at this particular time.
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  And that's usually a good barometer as how popular some it
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  really is. So yeah, if a lot of people are
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  on Twitch streaming it as well, that's another good sign.
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  Talking of the multiplayer games, which is they've meant to
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  have just updated player, is it player unknown?
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  Player unknown, but the call. Out.
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  Pub G Yeah, pub. G yeah, Pub G they've just
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  updated that so it's got a PlayStation 5 optimised mode and
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  I was actually watched him a little bit of a stream of it and
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  yeah, it looks great. I used to enjoy that.
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  I had a good sense of tension, did Pub G but I guess like with
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  most games, it's kind of like being surpassed a little bit.
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  People have dropped off of it, but yeah, it still looks to be
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  fairly popular. That Royale bandwagon, isn't it?
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  That's the only thing that came out over the last four to five
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  years is just ever improving versions of the same format sort
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  of thing to a degree, but obviously adapt to it.
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  But I mean pub G was one of those ones that went it was it
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  was a very, very close to Fortnight.
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  Wasn't it the same sort of time period from memory, But
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  Fortnight was kind of your comic violence, if you want to call it
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  that. I imagine they tried to.
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  And then the Pub G was very much it aims more the realism side of
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  it. OK, well, that much realism.
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  It was still ridiculous points from why I played it, but but it
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  was far closer to reality than Fortnite was.
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  So I think that's what kind of gave the the two sides of it
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  maybe. Yeah, yeah, I used to play that
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  and remember when he came to console I used to play on PCI,
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  think I paid about £8 for something at the time and on
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  fire Steam, I used to enjoy that.
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  Really good. I mean if you are going to sit
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  at a desk and play any sort of game, it really has to be them
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  kinds of games. Those big multiplayer games,
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  keyboard and mouse are essential.
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  I'm just going to make it absolutely smashed.
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  If you're on there with a controller then games used not
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  built for that kind of thing. So I played with the guys I
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  played the finals with. I'm on PC, so it's Dan.
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  I'm friends, I'm going he plays on PlayStation 5 and he is
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  exceptional. Like he is unbelievable compared
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  to me and just insane amounts of like assists, eliminations in
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  matches, achieving stuff. And he's like, I think he's not
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  platinum on the actual Rankster, which is unbelievable amounts of
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  time and effort. I'm nowhere near I think I'm
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  bronze, but on all our best sort of thing.
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  But he's playing on a console with a controller and still
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  does. Feminal Really, really does.
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  I always it's so hard though, isn't it?
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  When you're on, like when you're on the controller, it does seem
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  so difficult to to be able to do it, so you just can't.
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  The reactions are just not quite there.
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  The same are the. Sensitivity side of it, is it
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  amount you are physically logging that thing left to right
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  sort of thing where you're just relying on the polling rate of
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  an analogue stick. Otherwise aren't you for for
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  your positioning? But I mean they must they must
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  have a way of doing it as an algorithm that kind of makes it
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  as close to mouse as possible or polling rate is times whatever
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  it is for a controller versus a mouse or something.
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  But yeah, I mean he's not slow by any standards whatsoever.
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  So yeah, I kind of wish I could be as good as he is that I.
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  Think though that some of them actually give you some kind of
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  AM assist on console as well though.
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  You can turn it on Yes, there is there actually is there for the
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  PC version of it as well. But I mean, I mean finally, and
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  also as great as it is still littered with cheeks who have
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  the auto aiming and stuff and things anyway.
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  So I mean you don't need it. It's one of those things.
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  But if you're you, the idea is you learn the weapons like you
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  do with most of those games, obviously, but adapt for recoil,
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  you adapt for like reload times, fire times, all those sort of
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  things. So you kind of it's become less
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  of a thing. Auto aim seems like it's just
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  removes the fun from it. I imagine, to be honest.
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  We're a great deal of stuff and people are so good at it.
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  Yeah, that's the problem isn't, I mean, it's nice.
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  I remember on Fortnite to change that way they introduced it when
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  you first sign up for that. Now they've actually got like
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  boxing. So it's like that you play
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  against, which is nice because it gives you that like you can
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  build the confidence up because there's nothing worse than going
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  into one of these games and just being obliterated countless
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  times. I mean it's soul destroying.
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  You just don't get a chance to even like throw a few bullets at
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  these guys, bum, bum, bum and you're dead.
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  So it is nice to have like those, you know, build you into
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  the game, you know, build you up a little bit so, so you can get
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  a little bit of confidence because it's too easy to just
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  turn these games off, you know, which is a shame.
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  One game that did it right sadly it lasted about 5 minutes as a
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  release game before EA killed it.
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  Was that game Rocket Arena they bought out?
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  I think it was like 2-3 years ago and there would be noise
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  about it coming out. It was a multiplayer like arena
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  combat game. The idea was quite small arenas
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  but everyone had effectively rocket launches as their main
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  weapons in some way shape or form of a different styling or
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  character design or whatever it was.
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  But they had a model on that. But you would play against bots
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  and they would be very continuous, actually appearing
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  like a swarm type thing or you're a play against them with
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  different difficulties. And it really, it's one of those
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  things, I'm not great at first person or arena combat games,
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  but it really helped actually learn the dynamics and the
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  mechanics of the game. And when actually played online,
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  I got really quite good at it, which is frustrating.
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  It's one of the very few games that was an arena game that I
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  got decent at and could actually do amazingly well.
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  And then they killed the servers on it because they didn't get
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  enough people playing it, which is frustrating.
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  And that was cross play as well, which was decent.
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  So that kind of there. Was another one that came out
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  around Fortnite time. And if you got shot, you know,
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  like a lot of these games end up on the floor and you can sort of
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  like, you know, limp away and hope that someone's going to
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  come along and revive you, whatever.
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  And instead of you dying or limping away, it'd turn you into
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  a chicken. And then you got the chance to
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  sort of like run away. And if you'd run away for long
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  enough so he couldn't catch you as a chicken.
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  I can't remember the name of the game, but it was a bit World of
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  Warcraft looking, You know, all the graphics.
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  I remember the chimney bit. I remember I.
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  Cannot remember the name of the game.
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  No, OK. A guy that I used to listen to
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  his podcast unfortunately has passed away now.
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  I used to listen to his podcast. I can't remember his name as
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  well. Cranky Toss used to be a Cranky
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  Gamers. He used to play all the time and
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  you swear blind that it was a fantastic game.
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  He used to do quite a bit of streaming on Twitch.
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  So yeah, yeah. And he did look good.
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  I can't remember if I played it. I'm sure I played it maybe on
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  PlayStation or something. But we're on games again where
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  of course they've only got so much finances to thrill.
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  I mean, look at that. Amazon have decided they're
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  ending there. I.
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  Think it's yeah, they're RPG isn't it?
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  Yeah, they're big RPG and they've only just sort of like
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  updated it kind of fairly recently brought it to
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  PlayStation, etc. And they've got, but I wouldn't
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  quite say an infinite amount of money, but I dare say they've
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  got plenty of money if they wanted to keep it alive.
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  So it really must really must have fallen off a bit of a
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  Cliff. But from what I was reading on
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  Steam, the general complaint, but that game was wouldn't you'd
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  done like the main story and all the rest of it was very little
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  else to go back into to enjoy and do.
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  There was no like end game fun to like re to relive.
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  But they said when they cancelled it that actually
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  people are saying, well, you've you've kind of just fixed it and
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  made it all right. And we've all been really
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  enjoying, now you've listened to us, now you're getting rid of
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  it. So yeah, but you've got to be
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  careful jumping on boards with these multiplayer games as often
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  you can be left in a few months time with just the, well, no
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  one's playing it anymore. So which is a shed?
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  On release date sort of things when they first started doing
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  that, I played it and I think I spent money on some coins on it
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  to be able to get like an expansion pass.
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  I think it was like a tenner, but I didn't spend anything more
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  than that on it. It's a shame.
• 16:09
  I really just looked a couple of minutes ago.
• 16:11
  It's it's been delisted. It doesn't exist anymore.
• 16:13
  You can't go. I've tried actually bizarrely
• 16:15
  tried. I installed it and tried to log
• 16:16
  on. It won't even let you play
• 16:17
  against bots because it's still use their server I guess for
• 16:20
  intelligence or whatever. But I just looked online and
• 16:22
  electronic can't still have a working website for it.
• 16:25
  You can see it, but it's there. All the latest on Rocket Arena
• 16:27
  that doesn't exist anymore. So it's been dead for over a
• 16:30
  year and a half, but the website's still up telling you
• 16:31
  about the other. Is that coming?
• 16:33
  What's the rocket one that's super popular still?
• 16:37
  Some games you've seen inside the legs still.
• 16:39
  I mean Fortnite. I mean that's a licence to print
• 16:41
  money now surely? I mean the selling digital, I
• 16:44
  mean that's the only thing you can really buy and they can
• 16:46
  obviously buy a season pass, but digital items and people do buy
• 16:49
  them like a fashion thing, you know.
• 16:50
  And what I did say actually is that the Dunner Simpson map and
• 16:54
  I'm on Fortnite and that looked really fun actually.
• 16:56
  That's the sort of thing of. Course time.
• 16:57
  It's been interesting for me here in a long time.
• 17:00
  Yeah, it looks like you download it and I'll give it a go again.
• 17:03
  Yeah, that looks super fun. The graphics look Tess.
• 17:06
  So yeah, I might even download it and install it and give it
• 17:08
  another go. I.
• 17:09
  Mean it's the, it's the biggest IP, isn't it?
• 17:12
  It's that it's a monster IP for them.
• 17:13
  All we've got to do is, as you say, it's a print money thing
• 17:15
  now. It's just like we're going to
• 17:16
  deal. We'll find someone else to pay a
• 17:18
  couple of $1,000,000 to put them in as a sponsorship deal for it
• 17:20
  and get them in for six months. I mean, didn't even have Master
• 17:23
  Chief in it for a bit. That's right there.
• 17:26
  This might be going to bringing out something new, a new season.
• 17:28
  How do you get out there to all the families, All the kids are
• 17:32
  playing Fortnite, You know, let's advertise on there.
• 17:35
  Almost probably. I'm not sure who paid who but or
• 17:38
  if no one paid anybody, but it was beneficial to both parties
• 17:43
  for sure. It's interesting these games, a
• 17:45
  few games that are actually kind of breathing new life into them
• 17:48
  recently. I mean, a couple of days ago I
• 17:50
  read that was not expecting was an announcement on it was now
• 17:53
  one of the gaming websites was the World of Warcraft and yeah,
• 17:57
  how long has that been going? I started playing at day one, I
• 18:00
  pre-order and got for my birthday for my wife.
• 18:02
  Thousands upon thousands of hours into that game.
• 18:03
  It was pretty spectacular but I'm still 2-3 expansions behind
• 18:08
  where they are now. I stopped playing it because I
• 18:09
  just realised I had more to live for than just playing World of
• 18:12
  Warcraft, sadly, which was an upsetting time for me.
• 18:15
  But yeah, I looked at it like literally just come up now.
• 18:17
  They have literally just decided that the players can have homes.
• 18:20
  So whereas before you just be in one of the major cities and do
• 18:22
  things, apparently you've now got residences or something.
• 18:24
  I swear I read that a couple of days back and it's taken that
• 18:27
  long to get to it. So you can, yeah.
• 18:29
  I used to play quite a bit of World of Warcraft, really
• 18:31
  enjoyed it. I must have played it for a good
• 18:33
  four years or so. I remember getting four or five
• 18:35
  expansions, you know, new one each year or new one every eight
• 18:38
  months or whatever they used to come out, I reckon.
• 18:40
  Remember, I actually got, I'm playing World of Warcraft, you
• 18:44
  know, where someone had like stolen your account details.
• 18:46
  I must have clicked on some dodgy link or something because
• 18:49
  there were always people trying to sell gold in the chat or
• 18:51
  whatever. You know, there's always
• 18:53
  something. In there WTP gold.
• 18:55
  Yeah, and whatever, whatever. They got into my account and
• 18:58
  basically they rated the account and they just left you naked.
• 19:01
  So they pinched everything, anything that they could sell or
• 19:04
  cash in or do whatever, because that's what they have to do is
• 19:06
  to that's where they that, well, the currency was to buy and sell
• 19:09
  go. So you could go go buy all the
• 19:11
  items that you wanted to buy. Yeah, that's all I had, you
• 19:15
  know, excellent game. Yeah, a friend introduced me to
• 19:20
  that and it was one of the games, when you put it on, you
• 19:22
  realised almost instantly how good it was going to be.
• 19:25
  You know, when you won the ground, it really felt like that
• 19:28
  virtual world, you know, It was, it was fantastic.
• 19:32
  It was unbelievable even from the original game.
• 19:34
  I'm so glad they brought back that kind of the whether it was
• 19:36
  classic version of it as well that went back to before all the
• 19:39
  expansions of the player changes and the additions like that core
• 19:43
  gamer first started playing it. I mean my memory is terrible
• 19:45
  these days, but I can sort of remember getting it and as you
• 19:48
  got two of my best friends still now we've been my best friend
• 19:51
  since like junior slash senior school.
• 19:53
  We started playing it together and just throwing time into it
• 19:55
  and yeah, maybe just such an amazing game as you say.
• 19:57
  I remember the stupid thought. I can remember being literally
• 20:00
  an Orken pants just going around.
• 20:01
  The only thing you can kill is balls pretty much with a stick.
• 20:04
  She was going around just like hitting pigs with a stick for
• 20:07
  like 3 solid days to try and earn enough money to buy a crap
• 20:09
  wooden. I can remember that being some
• 20:11
  of the greatest times of gaming ever for me and as we got
• 20:14
  better, having like lands at my parents house and beside enough
• 20:18
  Tim. My friend worked at ACD case
• 20:20
  packing factory at the time in Swindon and he managed to get
• 20:24
  four boxes of the ECD cases, bring them home and an old door.
• 20:26
  We put it up in my room to make them like a bootleg desk.
• 20:30
  And then he sat on that and my parents went away for a week and
• 20:32
  he was just like to set up in my room for a week playing with a
• 20:35
  walk off on a desk on top of four CD cases.
• 20:36
  I think it was like the WRC game on PlayStation One or something,
• 20:39
  but you get the, so you get just the CD, like CD single cases you
• 20:43
  used to get years ago. The thing ones or the plastic.
• 20:45
  They have that for the advertiser on the front of it.
• 20:47
  They're going to all the shelves in the shop as displaced and you
• 20:49
  have four boxes of those of the same game.
• 20:51
  I don't even know how we got hold of them.
• 20:52
  There you go. That memory means nothing's
• 20:54
  nothing to anybody. But now you know.
• 20:56
  I remember. Getting it and it was like, so
• 20:58
  like early, not super early days Internet, but it was like
• 21:01
  broadband was kind of like just coming in ish, you know, it was
• 21:05
  that kind of time. I remember installing it.
• 21:07
  I can't remember how many. I think you're more than one
• 21:10
  CD-ROM. I could be wrong.
• 21:12
  It might even be in a DVD one actually, because it was quite a
• 21:14
  big game. World of Warcraft The original 1
• 21:16
  was 5 discs. Yeah, and it installed and then
• 21:20
  I had to do like some massive download as well, you know, to
• 21:23
  update because they were very keen on update.
• 21:25
  She'd log in sometimes to play that just be a random, the play
• 21:28
  on Friday night and just be some random update that you'd have to
• 21:30
  do on Friday night. The you stick.
• 21:32
  And the Internet was like, obviously their servers were
• 21:34
  going to be hammered, your internet's been hammered.
• 21:38
  So yeah, yeah, fantastic game. To get into servers.
• 21:42
  Yeah, I've actually, I've lost my account and it's tied to some
• 21:45
  old e-mail address that I had years ago.
• 21:47
  And I don't think it would make much difference if I started a
• 21:49
  new character. I'd use my old character because
• 21:51
  it'd be so behind the behind the times.
• 21:53
  In any case, fantastic fun. Have you played it, Brian?
• 21:55
  World of Warcraft. I'm going to be the contrary.
• 21:58
  I tried this. There's a demo I think you could
• 22:01
  do it start for. And I was like, oh.
• 22:03
  Yeah, there's a light version, right?
• 22:04
  Yeah. Like 25 times ultimate.
• 22:07
  I got frustrated. I remember having to just there
• 22:10
  was a button you best so you could keep running.
• 22:12
  He pressed that and just a character run because I needed
• 22:14
  to get to the next time. I'm spending an hour here with
• 22:17
  my characters running and I'm just not doing anything.
• 22:20
  Well, my friends, she got this. She was really high up another
• 22:23
  level. She was but she came looking for
• 22:25
  me and pick not fights but she was just laying waste to
• 22:28
  anybody. My just tried to get me levelled
• 22:31
  up but. Everyone had that friend.
• 22:34
  Everyone. There's at least one friend you
• 22:35
  had that was that, Yeah. I think I didn't like the paying
• 22:40
  money monthly to play a game. Really upsetting.
• 22:43
  Yeah, that's where Elder Scrolls Online works a little bit
• 22:46
  better, because Elder Scrolls Online you just buy the pack and
• 22:50
  you just play it. You don't even have to have the
• 22:51
  latest packs or anything, the latest upgrades, and it's free
• 22:55
  to play, which is really good, especially on PC it's totally
• 22:58
  free to play, whereas on PlayStation and Xbox, I imagine
• 23:02
  you need gold at least to play it on Xbox and, you know,
• 23:06
  PlayStation. Yeah, massively.
• 23:10
  Careful as if you listen to this, I know you played
• 23:12
  hundreds, possibly thousands of hours of ESO in your time and
• 23:16
  said it was really good and I tried it and never really got
• 23:17
  into it. There was that and the same game
• 23:19
  engine almost was the Star Wars one as well, wasn't it from
• 23:22
  memory? Was that right?
• 23:22
  I'm trying to think of us correct.
• 23:23
  There was a Star Wars what we play our online game as all that
• 23:25
  came up. I think that one was gone or
• 23:28
  it's very limited amount of people play it.
• 23:30
  I could be totally wrong but some of these games do keep
• 23:33
  going on forever and ever and ever you like.
• 23:35
  We've may not have heard of them, but it's probably still
• 23:37
  someone that's got a server active that might paying for so
• 23:41
  you probably can get online. The Old Republic was the one I'm
• 23:44
  thinking of as well was the Old Republic was a massive player
• 23:46
  online thing. It was kind of like Warcraft ESO
• 23:49
  but it was the Star Wars universe.
• 23:50
  That apparently was very good as well, but I completely missed
• 23:52
  the boat on that. But I know if anyone ever wants
• 23:54
  to play World of Warcraft, we can start for scratching.
• 23:58
  Yeah, well, they didn't wear room like I said like the light
• 24:00
  version, but it does give you, I think you got you can do
• 24:03
  whatever you like in it, but it's only to say like level 30.
• 24:06
  Yeah, 25 of the years I've just logged into my visit account and
• 24:09
  my original stuff is still there.
• 24:10
  Yes, Starter Edition, 25 levels. Yeah, which is pretty cool
• 24:13
  really. It suits.
• 24:14
  I mean, 25 levels, you'll probably go get upset level 10
• 24:17
  pretty quickly. Maybe levels 20 to 25 might take
• 24:20
  you a bit of a grind so you get a good feel for the game.
• 24:22
  I mean, you could get a dragon. Awesome.
• 24:24
  It could you at one point on the game, so you could fly which
• 24:26
  places and could you? I think you can teleport.
• 24:28
  Got you once you've been to certain areas.
• 24:30
  Yes, you can use the yeah, you see a map in you and you fly
• 24:33
  between 8:00 dots to get to another part of the map where it
• 24:35
  was. You have to go between places,
• 24:37
  almost like you can go as far somewhere in the direction
• 24:39
  first. Well, then got basically got
• 24:40
  another link to go somewhere else and you get it all that you
• 24:43
  know, map was huge. I remember being pretty big.
• 24:45
  They had so much money being pumped into that game.
• 24:47
  That was when I multiplayer on lines where they were
• 24:50
  introducing things that never been heard of before every sort
• 24:53
  of like year or every expansion, and it kept exciting.
• 24:56
  Whereas nowadays, all those new ideas back then are relatively
• 25:00
  just standard these days. So yeah, it was a real
• 25:02
  revolution at the time. Yeah, fantastic.
• 25:05
  Loved it. I didn't like paying for games
• 25:06
  monthly. No, but I was part of clan that
• 25:10
  played Rainbow 6. Yeah.
• 25:12
  I'll be paid for every monthly. It just caused my dad.
• 25:16
  I was paying monthly for a game and there was over.
• 25:18
  Yeah. Was it Rainbow 6 Siege or
• 25:20
  whatever? Remember another pre that's
• 25:22
  going back many years before 6 Ravenshield it was Reagan.
• 25:26
  Oh yeah, yeah. I remember 6:00 we we had our
• 25:30
  own clan and just we had favourite servers.
• 25:32
  We had nominee service going for that so people could play.
• 25:36
  OK, now for. What World of Warcraft?
• 25:38
  Yeah, that's if you buy it on a, if you buy it at once, it's
• 25:41
  that, otherwise it's a tenner a month, so.
• 25:44
  What I used to do with that particular game is there's
• 25:47
  always a way to get it slightly cheaper.
• 25:49
  And what I used to do is I would set up pay for the one month and
• 25:53
  then I would cancel the subscription because your month
• 25:55
  would still continue. So because what you might well
• 25:58
  find is that you don't play every weekend, so you might miss
• 26:00
  a weekend can the way the subscription might run out, so
• 26:02
  like on like a Wednesday or something.
• 26:04
  So you might as well at least wear and resub describe say like
• 26:07
  on the Saturday or the next time you're going to play it.
• 26:09
  So you might save like 7 days there and five days there.
• 26:12
  So you can end it with a couple of months.
• 26:13
  Not technically free, but if you're not playing it like
• 26:15
  paying for it, you know so. Yeah, the next big update
• 26:18
  apparently is December the 5th. When you get homesteads, they're
• 26:21
  calling it. When you do now get the homes to
• 26:24
  live in and you like to see in societies and stuff.
• 26:26
  When I've looked on YouTube, it kind of looks a bit retro to my
• 26:28
  eyes these days, but I mean the matter changed it.
• 26:30
  I would look to it for maybe say the past 12 months or so.
• 26:33
  Same engine, they just like strap some shaders and some ray
• 26:35
  tracing to it basically. Yeah, brilliant.
• 26:38
  Again, brilliant. So I guess we should potentially
• 26:40
  chat about what we've been watching.
• 26:41
  Have you have you been watching much, Brian?
• 26:42
  What's the movies? I watched the movie called The
• 26:44
  Witch. It's actually called The Witch
• 26:45
  Part 1 subversion say Korean science fiction action, mystery
• 26:50
  something OK from IMDb From the bright high school student with
• 26:53
  memory loss enters national talent show to show or to help
• 26:56
  her struggle For me, she finds her ordinary life flipped upside
• 26:58
  down by the certain arrival of mysterious strangers.
• 27:00
  I don't know. She's had memory loss.
• 27:02
  She was a witch. She was genetically modified.
• 27:04
  It's the movie is part of the movie gory.
• 27:07
  It's pretty good. There's lots of gunfights and
• 27:10
  whatever her she escaped from bad people basically and they're
• 27:14
  coming after. I don't usually watch Korean
• 27:16
  movies like this kept popping up on YouTube showing clips of it.
• 27:20
  There's some really good plot twists in it that I didn't see
• 27:22
  coming. Loads of bloods.
• 27:23
  The parts is set in rural Korea and it actually looks a lot like
• 27:27
  rural Japan. I thought that was quite cool.
• 27:29
  The 1st 2/3 of the movie are pretty slow.
• 27:31
  It does pick up after that she becomes really good.
• 27:33
  The slow part was quite good because you've got to see the
• 27:35
  characters and how they lived that type of thing.
• 27:37
  But it is I thought pretty good. I thought gory.
• 27:40
  I don't think Paul would think it was gory, but it was pretty
• 27:42
  good. They so I watched the first one
• 27:45
  so I'll just the witch Part 2. The movie is called the the
• 27:48
  other one and well it's not when you're as good.
• 27:50
  It's basically like a recession first movie and it's pretty
• 27:52
  boring to be honest. So I didn't like it.
• 27:54
  The actress in the first movie was excellent, like she's pretty
• 27:57
  much a noob in the first movie wasn't that famous and she's
• 28:00
  really good. She actually was like a movie.
• 28:02
  The actress what the which wasn't as you just couldn't get
• 28:05
  behind her, didn't like her as much.
• 28:06
  So there is a Part 3 coming out of it's next year.
• 28:09
  I'm hoping it's returned to the form of the first one, but I
• 28:12
  don't know. We'll see.
• 28:13
  They watched the movie called the mountain on not the
• 28:16
  mountain, the fountain of you. Have you seen this?
• 28:18
  Have you heard of it? I don't think so.
• 28:21
  It's a it's basically a wannabe new I get this year, maybe last
• 28:24
  year. So wannabe Indiana Jones, don't
• 28:27
  watch it. Hey, John Krasinski.
• 28:29
  Yeah, yeah, just look to do is Oh yeah.
• 28:31
  Chuck, even the office in the American office, he was good as
• 28:34
  a comedian, but basically he raised his eyebrows a lot.
• 28:36
  He doesn't have any charmer on screen presence.
• 28:38
  Not to call this movie off. It's basically some summer
• 28:41
  Sunday afternoon movie when you're hunger and there's no one
• 28:43
  there to watch. You watch, you see you're shame
• 28:45
  watching this movie. It is really bad.
• 28:48
  That's the only thing I put the rest, it's just it's really bad
• 28:52
  that the lines, the story steps, they're all they've been done
• 28:55
  100 * 2000 times before. There's nothing, very little,
• 28:58
  nothing original in the movie. I need to stop watching bad
• 29:00
  movies. Which brings me to the next next
• 29:03
  movie. Google check up another this The
• 29:07
  10 Best Science Fiction Movies You've Never Seen, and one of
• 29:10
  them was called The Fix. Have you heard of this?
• 29:12
  No good the story the story takes place in the future, but
• 29:16
  the air was toxic, so people have to buy breathers and stuff.
• 29:21
  This a model is she's advertising this new breather.
• 29:24
  She was getting affected with something and the movie is
• 29:27
  boring. It's you just have no interest
• 29:28
  in the characters at all. There's no no, no, no redeeming
• 29:31
  features and you just don't you don't like them.
• 29:33
  She gets affected. It makes her ugly, but it gives
• 29:35
  her superpowers, which suddenly she's able to she's able to fly
• 29:38
  and she's been described as a fairy even though she's become
• 29:40
  extremely don't watch her. She is, you know, it's pure,
• 29:44
  pure shit. I'll finish soon.
• 29:47
  I'll watch the latest season of all the best shows on TV.
• 29:50
  So horses, have you seen this? It's my medicine.
• 29:53
  I keep meaning to get into it. Yeah, you haven't.
• 29:55
  You haven't. Oh my God, Gary Old is it.
• 29:57
  That's got Gary Oldman. I know of it because you spoke
• 29:59
  about it before. Yeah, Yeah.
• 30:01
  He is superb. He plays Jackson Lamb it's an an
• 30:04
  old filthy boss of the source who are a group of MI 5 rejects.
• 30:09
  Basically it he's but like he's picking his toenails and farting
• 30:13
  speaking every place. He's absolutely horrible
• 30:15
  character and he looks like he'd enjoy himself.
• 30:16
  Like it's the characters, the interplay between them is
• 30:19
  amazing. The levels of despicability and
• 30:22
  deviousness in the story and the characters is just sublime.
• 30:25
  The fifth season just finished at the end they showed the sixth
• 30:28
  season for next season and we won't see for ages, but I'm
• 30:31
  already looking forward to it. Bring it.
• 30:33
  It's all based on books, a series of books.
• 30:36
  Apparently Mick Jagger likes this series of books.
• 30:38
  He loves it and he offered to write theme tune and sing the
• 30:41
  team sing the theme tune for the show.
• 30:44
  The theme tune is bloody good. I like it.
• 30:46
  I did read the first book on the series.
• 30:48
  It wasn't as good as the TV show.
• 30:50
  The TV shows seem to be more condensed.
• 30:52
  It's been done quite well, so I should try the other books, see
• 30:56
  what they're like. But definitely watch ATV show.
• 30:58
  It's brilliant. Excellent.
• 31:00
  Go watch that. Void the movies.
• 31:01
  Yeah, Yeah. And there's not many episodes in
• 31:03
  each season. That's definitely worth to
• 31:05
  watch. That's basically all I've
• 31:06
  watched. That's it.
• 31:07
  That's it. Yeah, that's all I've watched.
• 31:09
  Stripper bounce level forces. Thank you, I need to try and
• 31:11
  watch it. I'll just get Apple TV for a
• 31:13
  month or something and give it a go.
• 31:14
  Yeah, it is meant to be excellent.
• 31:15
  Everyone does read about it, I must admit.
• 31:17
  What have you been watching there, Ben?
• 31:19
  I'm going to go complete the opposite to just well compared
• 31:22
  to what you're watching brain rot to be honest with you I
• 31:24
  think is politically classified as if anyones a fan of big big
• 31:27
  band theory I've ever watched it before.
• 31:29
  Then do you go through The Big Bang phase of doing it all or
• 31:31
  not? Is it Chuck Law or the guy who
• 31:35
  in produced it and sort of like come up with it has done a show
• 31:38
  called Leanne on Netflix, which is kind of their follow on
• 31:42
  thing. They've made so completely
• 31:44
  different storyline that's based around sort of a woman in the
• 31:47
  50s called Leanne. It's a comedy thing, works in
• 31:49
  exactly the same way, same kind of mechanics of a programme, the
• 31:53
  same sort of level of entertainment and funny.
• 31:55
  My wife and I sat and just destroyed all 16 episodes of the
• 31:57
  first season of that in the space of about two weeks and it
• 31:59
  is really, really very good. So I was quite impressed.
• 32:02
  It's one of those things where big bad and such a success,
• 32:05
  you're like, is he actually going to succeed with this?
• 32:07
  Is it going to be good? And it really is.
• 32:09
  Leanne can't remember a surname now.
• 32:11
  Her real name is Leanne and she is a Texan lady who's also a
• 32:14
  comedian as well, an American comedian who's the lead cannot
• 32:16
  remember in it. It's also got, if you watch
• 32:18
  Whose Line Is It Anyway? Years ago.
• 32:19
  Ryan Style is her husband in it and he is unbelievable.
• 32:24
  He is still so amazing as a as a comedy character.
• 32:27
  He's really good. But yeah, the whole cast is
• 32:28
  great. And the lady from the from the
• 32:31
  Sun can't remember a name as well.
• 32:32
  She's in it. Oh, is that Kirsten?
• 32:35
  I'm just looking at the cast. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
• 32:37
  Kirsten Johnson for them. Yes, thank you.
• 32:39
  Member of. Yeah, yeah.
• 32:41
  So Liam Morgan. Yeah, the cast is brilliant and
• 32:43
  it's all. A lot of it is dead pan and it
• 32:45
  works so well in exactly the same way that The Big Bang
• 32:48
  Theory did. And we just really enjoy it.
• 32:50
  It's right. It's only like 2530 minutes an
• 32:52
  episode and you can just it and plough through a few of them
• 32:54
  while eating dinner or something.
• 32:55
  Really good. Really, really enjoyed watching
• 32:56
  that this month. Excellent.
• 32:58
  I think that's sort of been the only thing we've really watched
• 33:00
  on TV. It's been an insanely busy month
• 33:02
  for work for both of us. So TV has been pretty much
• 33:05
  either you're watching it when you're in bed on your phone or
• 33:08
  on a tablet or the TV like watching just minor stuff like,
• 33:10
  well, cruise videos because we're looking at doing another
• 33:12
  holiday at some point. But we've watched Chris Ramsey,
• 33:14
  the comedian watch one of his live shows.
• 33:16
  Just watch watch one like that was really good and I like Chris
• 33:19
  Ramsey anyway. And the really interesting
• 33:21
  actually we watched Russell Howard just before, I didn't
• 33:24
  realise before Covad, Russell Howard the comedian was meant to
• 33:26
  do a world tour and he had like 1518 different shows, books in
• 33:30
  like Australia, America, everything.
• 33:32
  And it just one day was just turned off like a week before
• 33:35
  they were gonna fly out and start.
• 33:37
  And he did. And he does a show and kind of a
• 33:39
  documentary almost that backs it up.
• 33:40
  So he does a show in England, which is his first one after we
• 33:43
  were released in this country to actually go out and do stuff
• 33:45
  again. But then he does like kind of a
• 33:47
  whole story that's like an hour and a half long of how he
• 33:49
  survives with the background of COVID and everything being shut
• 33:52
  down and then trying to do small shows and doing it for charity
• 33:54
  and doing remote stuff. And it's, it's amazing to watch,
• 33:57
  really, really cool. And he goes out to as in New
• 34:00
  Zealand was the only place that didn't like go on lockdown
• 34:02
  because they were so good with their how they did stuff or
• 34:05
  something like that, although completely different to the UK,
• 34:06
  put it that way. And they let him go out there
• 34:08
  and he lived in a hotel for two weeks in a room before he could
• 34:11
  go and do his shows. And he actually did his leg of
• 34:12
  the OR something, but really worth watching.
• 34:14
  I can't remember the name of it now.
• 34:15
  It's really frustrating me, but it's great.
• 34:18
  It's kind of a documentary and stuff.
• 34:19
  And at the end of it is I'm not going to ruin it, but it's worth
• 34:22
  watching. It's not like an hour, but it's
• 34:23
  quite cool because it shows. I know we're all told about how
• 34:25
  the the theatre and the live performance industry was just
• 34:28
  literally collapsing on itself over coded.
• 34:30
  And it shows how well he was trying to reverse that and how
• 34:33
  much work and effort it took. Really, really intriguing.
• 34:35
  Great quite a little bit a few points in it really is like a
• 34:37
  really lovely story and he's a really nice guy as well sort of
• 34:40
  thing as well. You kind of understand a bit
• 34:41
  more about him, which is is good.
• 34:43
  Watch this come the three major ones.
• 34:44
  Other than that. I've been watching quite a few
• 34:47
  bits, mainly because I've been really sort of busy with work
• 34:50
  and such like because it's that time of year now where I'm
• 34:52
  buying selling more than I'm doing the buy in.
• 34:55
  So of course we've got to list everything etcetera.
• 34:57
  So my brain is not quite being up to playing a game.
• 34:59
  I've been a bit too tight. So I've been watching more TV
• 35:01
  and films and I've been watching some good stuff.
• 35:03
  Actually, I watched a really good one, which sounds like it's
• 35:05
  totally like why you're going to bubble watching it sounds
• 35:08
  rubbish. It's a fell a some TV series
• 35:10
  called the chair company and it's about a guy who works for a
• 35:14
  company and they build big massive like malls, you know,
• 35:17
  like American sort of like big shopping centres.
• 35:19
  And he finds himself in so many bizarre situations.
• 35:24
  It's almost like Curb Your Enthusiasm, but with a really
• 35:27
  serious dark mystery situation going on underneath the rest of
• 35:32
  it. And the kind of he's trying to
• 35:34
  hunt down this chair company and who owns the chair companies
• 35:37
  because he's absolutely convinced the chair company has
• 35:41
  set him up. And the way that he reckons to
• 35:43
  set him up, I think it's like episode, I'm not spoiling too
• 35:47
  much now. He works in like a regular sort
• 35:48
  of American sort of office. He's like the boss or not the
• 35:52
  not the boss of the company, but he's like the boss of that
• 35:54
  department. He's like heading up this latest
• 35:56
  model that they're making and they have to do like a
• 35:57
  presentation on stage and they've been out and he's like
• 36:01
  sat down in one of these chairs and the chair collapses while
• 36:04
  he's on the stage. And he ends up inadvertently,
• 36:07
  because y'all come to like his aid inadvertently, he ends up
• 36:10
  looking at this woman's skirt, right.
• 36:12
  So it's not his fault. Like he's on the floor.
• 36:14
  Devil went over to in the air and so anyway, the turn this
• 36:17
  into a bit of an issue, you know, like say like about 5
• 36:19
  minutes later into it, you know, it's like the what we call the
• 36:23
  guys human resource sort of person comes along and says
• 36:26
  well, you did look up her skirt, you know, so we've got to really
• 36:29
  like look into this sort of thing, you know, and he's
• 36:32
  convinced it's like he's being set up and the bizarre
• 36:35
  situations he finds themselves. It's really good because it's
• 36:38
  keeping the mystery going. I probably watch four or five
• 36:40
  episodes now. It's a weekly thing so that I
• 36:42
  haven't watched the end of it, but I would highly recommend it.
• 36:45
  It's called the Check Company. I would definitely watch it.
• 36:47
  Oh, TV stuff I've been watching so, but yeah, you.
• 36:50
  Well, he's meant he he he's meant today, I believe so he'd
• 36:55
  been in another film recently, which I haven't watched, which
• 36:57
  is on the list to watch. I think he's called best friend
• 37:00
  or something where he's like these two guys end up being good
• 37:03
  buddies, but it's meant to be like an over undertone of over
• 37:06
  certain things going off in the background.
• 37:08
  I can't remember the name of the film, but it looks pretty good
• 37:11
  actually. I've watched friendship.
• 37:13
  That's it. Yeah, that's meant.
• 37:15
  That's meant to be a good film, so I will give that one to
• 37:18
  watch. What else have been watching?
• 37:19
  I watched the final Big Brother yesterday.
• 37:20
  I've watched pretty much all seven weeks of it.
• 37:22
  The guy that won it. I was spoiling this, but you
• 37:24
  probably will have it by the time I've edited this.
• 37:26
  You will if you've been watching it.
• 37:27
  Richard won the old guy and he's like 60 years old and he's like
• 37:31
  considered as like the oldest person so ever one Big Brother.
• 37:34
  A lot of people might find Big Brother a little bit rubbish
• 37:36
  here, but it's interesting. It's a good social experiment
• 37:39
  how all these people interact together etcetera.
• 37:41
  We have some really good people in this year actually made for a
• 37:43
  really good show. Well worth watching and of or
• 37:46
  else you guys might have watched this.
• 37:47
  I'm not sure. You might not have watched it
• 37:49
  Brian, but you might be able to get it over there and the
• 37:52
  Celebrity Traitors then you can get on BBC, you know, on the
• 37:56
  iPlayer. I'm not sure if you get iPlayer
• 37:57
  in Japan, but Celebrity Traitors, man, that was
• 38:00
  fantastic as well. Obviously, if you haven't seen
• 38:02
  that, I won't mentioned it won it, but it is so good all the
• 38:05
  way through. Well, we're watching and I
• 38:07
  watched. There's so many laugh out loud
• 38:09
  moments then guys don't take themselves seriously.
• 38:12
  It's really is entertaining. There's a lot of big names in
• 38:15
  there and there's a few like names you will have heard of
• 38:18
  that if you're in certain circles like Youtubers and
• 38:21
  whatnot, but yet really good. What else did I watch?
• 38:23
  I don't know if you guys have ever watched that on Netflix.
• 38:26
  Monsters, which is generally like a six parter.
• 38:29
  They're on a season 3. First one was about a Dharma.
• 38:33
  It was big serial killer in America used to like to eat
• 38:35
  people. The second one was about the
• 38:37
  Madendis brothers who killed the parents and they're still
• 38:39
  currently in prison. And the third one is about 1 of
• 38:42
  like meant to be like like the original serial killer, which a
• 38:46
  lot of the less serial killers had got interested in serial
• 38:50
  killing because of him and a guy called edgy and his thing.
• 38:54
  He like joy dead bodies and best interacting with them in various
• 38:57
  different ways, sexually, making soups out of their skin and all
• 39:02
  kinds of stuff. Really good.
• 39:03
  It takes you all the way through him from being like a kid
• 39:06
  through all this serial killing right through to being like an
• 39:08
  adult and into like his death. Fantastic, Well worth watching.
• 39:12
  It kind of got a bit Pooh poohed with the review news, the kind
• 39:15
  of said it's Oh no, it's not so good.
• 39:17
  It's a bit too much artistic licence and I've gone a little
• 39:21
  bit off piece with it, but I liked it.
• 39:23
  I thought it's really good. I didn't know enough about the
• 39:25
  serial killer to to kind of say, oh, that's a lot of roll rubbish
• 39:28
  already chatting there, you know.
• 39:29
  So it was it was an education for me.
• 39:31
  I thought it was good. But yeah, I've been watching
• 39:32
  quite a few films. I've watched some good films
• 39:34
  actually. I won't go too deep into them,
• 39:36
  but I watched a good one called Late Night With the Devil, which
• 39:39
  is about a show saying 9 in the 1970s.
• 39:41
  And he's supposed to like when he's general talk shows you it
• 39:45
  gets some various guests. But as it happens, it's hosted
• 39:48
  on Halloween. And so the theme of the guests
• 39:51
  is like, you know, talking about do some people that say they're
• 39:54
  being possessed and they have another guy on there is like a
• 39:56
  magician who's like considering that was an ex magician who says
• 40:00
  that he can see all these people that said they're possessed and
• 40:03
  all this, that and the other quite simple.
• 40:05
  They're all fair. It's all sleight of hand how
• 40:07
  they're doing. It's all a trick and he can tell
• 40:08
  you how they're doing it when they're doing it.
• 40:10
  And it goes on from there. But it's a really good film.
• 40:13
  Also in the studio. It's probably, I think it's
• 40:15
  quite a shortage film, probably about a 90 minute film, which
• 40:17
  can be quite nice these days. So many films are 2020 minutes
• 40:20
  and you get after a freeze think, well, I'm tired now.
• 40:23
  Well, I need a break or whatever, a 90 minute film to
• 40:26
  keep you going. So yeah, that was.
• 40:27
  Good. I watched the horror film called
• 40:29
  The Black Phone because Part 2 has just come out.
• 40:31
  So I've never really had any interested in watching the first
• 40:34
  one that till we started promoting the second one.
• 40:37
  That's a good film. It's about kids that are going
• 40:38
  disappearing that'd be kidnapped and disappearing in a
• 40:42
  neighbourhood. Obviously they've been kept in
• 40:44
  the usual in the basement and that's a good one.
• 40:46
  The kid that's in it who gets kidnapped, he kind of starts
• 40:50
  talking to all the dead kids that have been killed previous
• 40:53
  to him and they're tried to help him to a scare.
• 40:55
  Really good. What's Colin Farrell's latest
• 40:57
  Field and Ballad of a Small player?
• 40:59
  And that's basically he gets, you don't get that great
• 41:02
  reviews, but I quite like Colin Farrell and it was all about
• 41:04
  gambling. I don't mind watching like them
• 41:06
  kinds of films. I just like going to the casino
• 41:08
  years ago. I never used to spend much
• 41:10
  money. You could like go to the casino
• 41:12
  years ago and they keep you in there as long as possible.
• 41:14
  So they give you free sandwiches and free drinks.
• 41:16
  So I mean, they went for the free sandwiches and free drinks.
• 41:19
  So yeah, it'd make for the cheap night out.
• 41:23
  You could go in and sort of like, you know, maybe spend £20,
• 41:26
  play a bit of blackjack or whatever used about just one
• 41:28
  pound a time. So like with £20, you're going
• 41:31
  to be up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down.
• 41:33
  So you're probably going to last like an hour or so perhaps so
• 41:35
  because I only bet the minimum never used to go any anything
• 41:38
  serious. So.
• 41:39
  But yeah, anyway, so this film is basically is a party where
• 41:44
  all these bad debts are catching up with him.
• 41:45
  Not only that, but he's actually pretending to be like a Lord,
• 41:50
  you know, like a British Lord or whatever.
• 41:51
  But he's in Macau. So it's all setting up.
• 41:54
  I believe Macau was in Hong Kong and it's within there like
• 41:56
  massive sort of like gambling area and some of the things that
• 42:00
  he's going through because he's actually got under a person on
• 42:02
  his tail like a detective woman and she's been hurting me down
• 42:06
  because he'd RIP some people off in England and she's called him.
• 42:09
  She says basically if you don't sort this out with the next
• 42:11
  amount of days and the report is to the police and you'll pretty
• 42:13
  much spend the rest of your life in prison in, you know, in a
• 42:16
  Hong Kong prison, whatever, which doesn't sound very good.
• 42:18
  So, but it's about, it's not so like a 2442 hour period.
• 42:22
  I'd say the lighting in the direction of the film is
• 42:25
  fantastic, really good. I really enjoyed it.
• 42:28
  But as one of the best films I've watched, I've watched.
• 42:30
  It's a bit of a dumpy copy sort of things.
• 42:33
  It's not out I don't think to stream at the moment.
• 42:34
  I think you can see in the cinema and that's the film
• 42:37
  called Begonia and that's all about this these two conspiracy
• 42:41
  obsession guys and the kidnapped, this high-powered CEO
• 42:45
  of like a major company who kind of like make like a drug or
• 42:48
  something. Now these two it's both great
• 42:51
  actors are convinced that this woman is an alien, absolutely
• 42:55
  convinced this one's an alien. So the kidnapper take her to the
• 42:58
  basement, etcetera, and the shelled all her hair off because
• 43:00
  they say that the hair is like the aerial flight transmitting
• 43:04
  to like the other aliens and the stuff the kids are coming out
• 43:06
  with. Like you've lost the plot, mate.
• 43:10
  And then there's an underlying tale as well because the company
• 43:14
  or the CEO that they've kidnapped also used to make some
• 43:17
  particular drug which they've given to his mother and it had
• 43:21
  basically put his mother into a ends like a coma state.
• 43:24
  So you start to wonder whether these kids like just vibing off
• 43:27
  the bad vibes of what this person's done to his mother.
• 43:29
  So it's like, do all kinds of crazy thinking.
• 43:32
  I can, I won't tell you any more than that.
• 43:33
  And that's probably all in like the 1st 15 minutes or so.
• 43:37
  And I will say must watch film and absolutely must watch film.
• 43:41
  And he's also got another guy in there, which I actually watch on
• 43:44
  YouTube and he's a comedian and he's called Stavros.
• 43:48
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you watch it when he's going
• 43:51
  around and he's comedian. So he's trying to lose weight
• 43:53
  and stuff, but he gets on the scales at the end.
• 43:55
  He's got. No, he's, he absolutely doesn't
• 43:57
  care, You know, I mean, he's like he's always trying to lose
• 44:00
  weight, etcetera. And he's stabbing himself with
• 44:02
  his, with his injections that you can have, you know, for
• 44:05
  losing your weight, etcetera. It's a fantastic thing.
• 44:08
  But he's in the film, he pays a cop and he actually plays a
• 44:11
  fairly decent part in it too. He actually does an interview
• 44:13
  about it fairly recently where he says, well, the ring him up
• 44:15
  to be in this film and this is going to be a cop.
• 44:18
  And it is, of course. Yeah.
• 44:19
  You know, he figures he's going to get shot in like, first
• 44:21
  minute or something, or he's just like, in the background.
• 44:24
  But no, it plays like a pretty decent part is not a starring
• 44:28
  role, but he's in it for a good 1015 minutes or so, which is
• 44:31
  pretty big. And he's a good guy.
• 44:33
  I do enjoy stuff. I watched a new film called
• 44:36
  Waltzing with Brando as well, which is about Marlon Brando and
• 44:39
  he's played by Billy Zane. And I'll tell you what man, he
• 44:42
  looks just like Marlon Brando. The voice, I couldn't quite get
• 44:45
  into his voice at 1st and I'm thinking himself, actually
• 44:48
  you're thinking about Marlon Brando's if he's playing the
• 44:50
  Godfather. That's why you can't.
• 44:52
  You're not getting into his voice because you're expecting
• 44:53
  him to sound like a godfather where obviously Marlon Brando
• 44:56
  didn't sound like the Godfather. That's just the part he acted.
• 44:59
  But the other good thing that's. Amazing.
• 45:02
  Yeah, that's enough. He looked just like him and he
• 45:07
  also the guy that's in it as well, which I he's been, he's
• 45:10
  been he's drops off the red eyes, one of my favourite films
• 45:13
  all the time. And it's the guy Napoleon from
• 45:15
  Napoleon Dynamite. That's the guy that's in the
• 45:18
  film, which I think is one of the best films ever, Napoleon
• 45:21
  Dynamite. He's just an absolutely great
• 45:23
  film. Now, what I will say about the
• 45:25
  film, he's more of like almost like a history of he's based on
• 45:28
  a true story of the guy, the guy that the Napoleon Dynamite guy,
• 45:32
  he's been given a task to go find an island or design
• 45:35
  something on the island so that Marlon Brando can live along the
• 45:38
  lines of, you know, like, how can you say in like an
• 45:42
  environmentally friendly way? But this is like back in the 70s
• 45:45
  before it was, it's probably considered as a bit of a wacky
• 45:48
  idea to be environmentally friendly.
• 45:50
  But yeah, really good, good film.
• 45:52
  Well, still watch. I watched Ruth Man as well.
• 45:54
  I watched that yesterday, which is based on another true story.
• 45:57
  And that's about a guy who, what he was doing, he was going
• 46:00
  around in America because he was, he was going around
• 46:02
  breaking into places, going through the roof like back in
• 46:05
  the 80s or sometime. And he actually got caught, but
• 46:08
  he actually managed to him when he got caught, they give him
• 46:11
  some death, like about 128 years or something as a prison
• 46:14
  sentence and a car. You want to see his daughter,
• 46:16
  etcetera. So he actually managed to
• 46:17
  escape. And then he ends up living in
• 46:19
  Toys-R-Us. So when he's sure he's sort of
• 46:21
  like wandering around in Toys-R-Us and he ends up sort of
• 46:24
  entering out a little bit, but he's based on a true story.
• 46:27
  I would definitely recommend watching Roof might just inside
• 46:29
  the most interesting film, but it's definitely worth watching.
• 46:32
  I've watched another couple. I watched another film called
• 46:34
  Warfare, which is oddly in the best and another true story.
• 46:37
  I haven't been watching lot of true story films just seems to
• 46:39
  be they're all based on true stories and that's about they're
• 46:42
  in Iraq and you know, like a bad situation happens and they're
• 46:45
  basically taken over this particular house in Iraq.
• 46:48
  They've sort of invaded these people's houses in Iraq by
• 46:50
  stealth, but they start to notice that the Iraqi people
• 46:53
  around them, the bad guys at the time have actually sussed that
• 46:56
  they're using the house for reconnaissance.
• 46:58
  They figured it out, and they sort of figure out that they
• 47:01
  figured it out. All goes down from there.
• 47:03
  So, yeah, really good. But other than that, I've not
• 47:05
  really watched much else. But I seriously suggest watching
• 47:08
  that. Bigonia.
• 47:09
  Well worth watching, it's turns out.
• 47:11
  Yeah. Fantastic.
• 47:12
  I've watched Sorted Food on YouTube, Seasonal and The Dog
• 47:15
  Whisperer with my daughter and Top Dead Centre, which is a car
• 47:18
  channel. So that's actually that's as far
• 47:19
  as I'm going to it versus your movie escapade.
• 47:21
  I feel like I've actually learned something.
• 47:23
  Well, it's that kind of yeah, where they do release a quite a
• 47:25
  lot of good films, you know, stuff that's maybe come out in
• 47:27
  the summer. It's sort of like filtering now
• 47:30
  for winter stuff you can watch online or whatever.
• 47:32
  I mean, it's going to be is lots of good stuff out there at the
• 47:34
  moment. I mean, it's too much, isn't it?
• 47:36
  Let's be honest to watch all. But if I was going to suggest to
• 47:39
  watch two things, watch that Begonia and watch the Chair
• 47:41
  Company. They're both excellent.
• 47:43
  Both really, really good. So totally excellent intrigue
• 47:47
  stuff. So I guess it's are we down to
• 47:49
  what are we being playing? Yeah, yeah.
• 47:52
  Yeah, What have you been playing, Brian?
• 47:54
  Let me see, it's prick Tiomi. Was that our game?
• 47:59
  That was a game. I'll leave that to the last.
• 48:00
  Then let me see because next one I'll play play Tail Innocence.
• 48:05
  I think everybody knows it's the third person over the shoulder
• 48:07
  type game action adventure with stealth.
• 48:10
  The game is very pretty. The story is not something you
• 48:13
  often see because it's like set in plague written 13 hundreds
• 48:16
  France, something like that. You're a Lord's, you play a
• 48:19
  Lord's daughter. You and your younger brother
• 48:22
  watch the Inquisition kill your family and they're at the the
• 48:27
  Inquisition start chasing after you and your little brother and
• 48:30
  you basically have to outwit the Inquisition.
• 48:32
  You have to deal with swarms of rats at the same time.
• 48:34
  There's apparently swarms of rats brought the plague.
• 48:37
  I'm guessing that's what it's all about, but the it's mainly
• 48:40
  based on puzzles solving and stuff like that.
• 48:42
  You're trying to move the rats like light, so you're trying to
• 48:45
  move the small bit of combat and there's not a lot where you use
• 48:48
  the sling to try to get characters.
• 48:50
  You can avoid most of it if you really want.
• 48:52
  It is pretty good. I like this BM.
• 48:54
  There's no critic score. I think of wrote down as 82.
• 48:58
  The graphics and the animation are all really good.
• 49:00
  There was a few things that annoyed me at the game.
• 49:02
  You know, you play a game you're you have the main route down.
• 49:05
  Sometimes there's a side route where you can go and try and get
• 49:08
  pick up some extras. The game did not make it obvious
• 49:11
  which one was side route which was the main one because
• 49:13
  sometimes you go down the main route and the need also it cut
• 49:16
  off and you couldn't go back and go down the side route.
• 49:18
  And I like to explore in games. So I found it quite frustrating.
• 49:23
  Most of your upgrade material was off on these side routes.
• 49:25
  So I used to freak me out. But there is the main thing that
• 49:29
  nothing that annoyed me was this movement felt slow and clunky.
• 49:32
  I know like you party you're running with your tracking along
• 49:35
  your five year old younger brother.
• 49:37
  So you're running, but told him his hand, but it found it just
• 49:40
  felt slow and clunky, even when you're just running your own
• 49:44
  like running up a spiral staircase.
• 49:46
  You no matter what you were doing, you were just running
• 49:48
  into walls going around. You couldn't go up fluidly up
• 49:50
  this staircase. There's all the towers that
• 49:52
  spiral staircases. The last thing that it's really,
• 49:56
  really annoyed me was fucking French mines because it seems
• 50:00
  that they've taken over this. You know this invisible walls
• 50:02
  everywhere. You don't you you can't go down
• 50:05
  the street for no reason or the fact that there's an invisible
• 50:07
  wall. You can see all the way down the
• 50:08
  street, but you can't go down and it just these keep popping
• 50:11
  up all throughout the game and that really, really irritated
• 50:13
  me. I don't like invisible walls and
• 50:15
  games for the wall there. If you don't want me to go down
• 50:18
  there, but like some parts you you can jump over a tree and
• 50:22
  then later on you can't get past the Pebble in the road because
• 50:25
  there's a wall there. Well, that's there is.
• 50:27
  There was one section in the game.
• 50:29
  Oh God, you have to hide behind the carriages.
• 50:32
  Another character is pushing it and there's arrows being tried
• 50:35
  drawing you. I repeated that section easily
• 50:37
  the double digits because it's just frustrating.
• 50:39
  As I mentioned, the movement is slow, but you when you're trying
• 50:42
  to run and aim sling, it felt really awkward because the
• 50:46
  movement move more slow and it wasn't intuitive.
• 50:49
  So but once they got past that section, the rest of the game
• 50:51
  was good. There is an emotional moment as
• 50:55
  soon as that section is over, but because I'd repeated it 1516
• 50:59
  times, the emotion didn't really pay off.
• 51:01
  It was a bit annoying. You know, it was like, OK, just
• 51:04
  let me true, let me true. I don't care.
• 51:07
  But this is like, I'm so glad I've heard So what happened?
• 51:11
  I'm so glad it happened to him. What time the game recent
• 51:14
  chapter. It's called our home, not this
• 51:17
  final chapter. And I was really happy.
• 51:19
  I thought the game was quite good up to that point.
• 51:21
  The bit I'm on the person later on but I was really happy and
• 51:23
  then I checked to see how many chapters like the 17 chapters
• 51:26
  are. Fuck I've got more to go.
• 51:29
  But overall the game was good. It started introducing new
• 51:32
  mechanics, the story picked up, I was happy to play for it and I
• 51:35
  enjoyed this and I enjoyed it so much I downloaded the second
• 51:38
  game which is also my backlog. So I would recommend it.
• 51:42
  It is. It's actually quite good.
• 51:44
  If there is aside from the my 3 gripes, the game is quite good
• 51:48
  so I would suggest playing it. I played in the game called
• 51:50
  after party. You play as Milo and Lola.
• 51:54
  Do you know this game After party?
• 51:57
  You recently died, you end up in a hell and you're trying to get
• 52:01
  back at the hell and there's a loophole.
• 52:03
  If you can outdrink Satan, he'll gradually re entry to earth.
• 52:07
  Have you heard this game? It's basically pointing to it.
• 52:11
  It's not a kick start, I did it ages ago.
• 52:13
  I don't know, the people who did Oxen Free did this game.
• 52:17
  OK, Yeah. So it's a point, a bit like a
• 52:19
  point and click game. I had watched this during the
• 52:22
  lockdown and COVID watch somebody play on Twitch and I
• 52:25
  thought it looks really good. So when it came out on position
• 52:28
  that worker and like that I added my Larry download this.
• 52:31
  It's been on my decision for ages.
• 52:32
  So it looks the game tries to be funny, I think, but it's funny.
• 52:36
  It's constantly cracking jokes, but after the constantly,
• 52:38
  constantly trying to be funny and it's like all the time.
• 52:41
  It really, really been so great for a while.
• 52:44
  It's that's not the characters are voice cracking the whole
• 52:47
  time, just constant humour and teen angst.
• 52:50
  It's a bit like a movie. Do you remember that movie?
• 52:53
  Elliott Page and Michael Cera and Jennifer Garner?
• 52:57
  Young girl has a baby. Yeah.
• 53:01
  It's a bit like that, just constant attempts at humour.
• 53:03
  It's not really that good. It's I went looking for people's
• 53:08
  views on it and some guy I'm Metacritic.
• 53:10
  Just normal normal person. This is what you said about the
• 53:13
  game. In the game you only ever do two
• 53:15
  things. Either you walk left, you listen
• 53:17
  to a tonne of annoying dialogue, the game literally never shuts
• 53:19
  up and occasionally pick one of two replies which don't have any
• 53:23
  impact on anything. Or you walk right, listen to a
• 53:26
  tonne of annoying dialogue, the game literally never shuts up
• 53:28
  and occasionally pick one or two replies which don't have any
• 53:31
  impact on anything. Pretty much it to be honest.
• 53:33
  The game is point and click or you can use WAWASD keys.
• 53:38
  There are loads of mini games in this.
• 53:40
  The most annoying is this dance off if you've got to do it's you
• 53:43
  have to hit a series of colour buttons in order within a
• 53:46
  certain time and it's nearly impossible to do with the mouse
• 53:49
  to try and click on these. I tried to was was the keys.
• 53:51
  They didn't work at all. And eventually, after not many
• 53:53
  failures, the game actually prompted that you could use the
• 53:55
  arrow keys and it was the first time it had mentioned you could
• 53:59
  use the arrow keys in the whole game.
• 54:01
  Fucking 20 minutes trying to do this and now you tell me if
• 54:04
  there's oh, so I don't recommend this.
• 54:06
  Do not go near this game. There are no puzzles is the
• 54:11
  humour is annoying, the graphics are nice.
• 54:13
  So no no recommend. I am currently playing for
• 54:16
  spoken I think. Paul, you said you've played
• 54:19
  this. Yeah, I would say.
• 54:22
  Yeah, it's a 2023 role-playing game.
• 54:25
  It's not that old and it got blasted in reviews because of
• 54:30
  the I don't know, I don't think it's in the game.
• 54:32
  So she's not as annoying as the way.
• 54:34
  Well the weight of you said the main character is really really
• 54:37
  annoying. Don't think she's as annoying as
• 54:39
  they made out and they but the game has loads of fast moving
• 54:44
  and fluid movement over land or terrain traversals.
• 54:47
  What they said it has a mixed Metacritic 64.
• 54:51
  I'm only half which I think I'm about halfway through the game
• 54:53
  at the startup. Didn't realise I was still in
• 54:55
  the tutorial section like I want to explore and go running off
• 54:59
  once to one side and also need to hit into the wall or they'd
• 55:02
  actually just pick you up and drop you back where the game is
• 55:05
  playing the game wants you to be.
• 55:06
  The cutscenes are slightly annoying.
• 55:09
  They fin you hear all the stuff, the story going on the video
• 55:12
  sort of finished. You come back to your character
• 55:14
  and you it seems to just hold it feels like it's sticking.
• 55:17
  You want to get back into the flow game and I ended up holding
• 55:21
  the controller trying to loop hit all the buttons because I
• 55:23
  thought the PlayStation had crashed or just frozen.
• 55:26
  It was really it's frustrating you're losing being part of the
• 55:30
  game do like the game. After saying all that I do like
• 55:32
  the game there's loads of combat.
• 55:35
  Some of it gets repetitive, but you're graded on your combat, so
• 55:37
  you go from minus CB AM MDS. I've never had it yet, but you
• 55:42
  start to develop techniques for taking out different enemies and
• 55:44
  you can see your grading increasing, so it's quite good.
• 55:47
  I'd like, I like it. I'm I think I'm on chapter 5.
• 55:50
  I'm not sure. Maybe there isn't a total game,
• 55:52
  but I like the game. That's what I've played other
• 55:54
  than Trek to Yomi. Do you want to do that last or
• 55:56
  do you want me to talk about the first?
• 56:00
  For those who don't know, Trek to Yomi is a 2022 side scrolling
• 56:03
  action adventure developed by Flying Wild Hog and published by
• 56:08
  Devolver. He was set during the echo
• 56:10
  period of Fuel Japan. I'm reading all this in case.
• 56:13
  Amazing. The game follows the young
• 56:15
  swords man named Hiroki who, embarrassed, embarks on the
• 56:20
  quest for vengeance after his home village is burnt, leading
• 56:23
  into Yomi, the Japanese underworld and confronting the
• 56:26
  evils has passed. I didn't know Yomi was the
• 56:28
  underworld. I thought Yomi was a town or a
• 56:30
  person for a long time through this game before I realised
• 56:33
  this. I really didn't know that to ask
• 56:34
  my wife what? What is Yomi?
• 56:35
  He has a 72 on open critic. I think that's really wrong.
• 56:39
  Is should be way higher. Great.
• 56:41
  This game should be the game is good.
• 56:43
  It could be a game of the year if they fix two things for me.
• 56:47
  Anyway, I don't really like booking combo games and I know
• 56:51
  Paul, not Paul. Then you like this these games
• 56:53
  because you do the you like the skateboard games where you've
• 56:56
  got loads of and I can't. I get lost in them.
• 57:00
  So I pick two or three combinations and the work and
• 57:03
  I'll keep a stick with them. But so if this would be
• 57:06
  different than my, I might like to say more.
• 57:08
  The game is pretty good. The graphics are gorgeous.
• 57:11
  It's a curse style. Black and white is amazing.
• 57:14
  It looks so beautiful. The audio is great.
• 57:17
  The animation and character movements are just bliss.
• 57:19
  They have that all right. The one thing that really
• 57:22
  freaked me out is the parody mechanic.
• 57:24
  It's fucking impossible. I could not, I think in the
• 57:27
  entire game at once. And that's really, really bad.
• 57:29
  Like it's you get held back for parrying and that really like I
• 57:34
  only got it once in the entire game.
• 57:35
  There's a finisher move as well. You ended up killing all the
• 57:39
  people really quickly when I was in a fight I never saw them.
• 57:43
  It was a part when you hit somebody apparently enough they
• 57:46
  apparently put their head and look like they're really tired
• 57:49
  and you can finish moved in as well.
• 57:51
  I missed that during the whole game.
• 57:52
  I never got it in the the tutorial section.
• 57:55
  I never saw again. I don't I think there should be
• 57:57
  more I don't know how to fix it but like make it more obvious,
• 58:01
  but that you could it's available at the time other than
• 58:04
  that, the game's just silly. I thought I love it rate this
• 58:08
  really high. It's really smooth.
• 58:11
  The story, the fighting is really good apart from the parry
• 58:15
  parry action. But the story is intriguing.
• 58:17
  It kept me going the whole way through it and the king wasn't
• 58:21
  overly long. It didn't overstay it's welcome.
• 58:23
  I really enjoyed enjoyed it. So I will recommend that tell
• 58:26
  you what he wants to play. That's it.
• 58:27
  How about you guys hold you the next door, Ben?
• 58:31
  You're on board. OK, Yeah, I was like to talk to
• 58:33
  you and me as well because it was our game to play from last
• 58:37
  time, from last episode. I enjoyed it.
• 58:39
  I got into that situation where I put it on easy mode, which is
• 58:43
  great because I wanted to kind of play it and get it done,
• 58:46
  which was would have been like a four hour game.
• 58:49
  I thought it was just about right.
• 58:50
  It was 4 hours. I had to turn off a couple of
• 58:52
  settings on the game which was it was like a film effect
• 58:55
  doesn't it? As if you like watching some
• 58:57
  like 1935. Yeah, Green.
• 59:00
  Or something. Yeah, that did my head in.
• 59:02
  After a while I had to turn that off and I thought the game
• 59:05
  looked better for it. But I did like the philtre and
• 59:08
  I'm glad they actually had it on to begin with because it's not a
• 59:11
  philtre I would have turned on and tried.
• 59:12
  So I enjoyed it as a novelty for about 30 minutes and I had to
• 59:15
  turn off because it was kind of like, I found it a bit
• 59:16
  distracting, but I enjoyed it. I will say it was good.
• 59:19
  And I kind of in that mode though, where I picked up on
• 59:22
  certain moves where you could actually almost guarantee to
• 59:26
  like if you keep pressing this certain combination of moves,
• 59:28
  you can pretty much beat them down pretty quickly.
• 59:30
  But yeah, I enjoy it. I thought it was definitely well
• 59:32
  worth, well worth playing, definitely well worth the four
• 59:35
  or five hours of it took to play it.
• 59:36
  And it's always nice to finish again because so many games just
• 59:40
  don't ever get, never ever going to get finished because maybe
• 59:43
  obviously 1520, thirty hours long or longer, let's be honest.
• 59:47
  I mean, 30 hours is like maybe a medium these days for most
• 59:50
  games. So yeah, I really enjoyed it in
• 59:52
  that respect. It was a play day and I probably
• 59:54
  did it in maybe one or two. I don't think it was one
• 59:56
  session. I'm pretty certain it was over 2
• 59:58
  sessions, but it doesn't take any more than that.
• 1:00:00
  And eight, respect to my time, which is always nice.
• 1:00:03
  It wasn't full of rubbish. It was a good story.
• 1:00:06
  It just kept going and going and going.
• 1:00:07
  It was progressive, Yeah. Enjoy it.
• 1:00:09
  What did you reckon to it, Ben? I absolutely, and I just went
• 1:00:12
  all right and just chose it and didn't really think anything
• 1:00:15
  after that at all. But it wasn't.
• 1:00:17
  You started playing it kind of like, oh, it's maybe six hours,
• 1:00:19
  you'll give it a go and that six hours just disappeared.
• 1:00:22
  I think as Brian's already said, it's like the the storyline was
• 1:00:25
  great, the mechanics were great, the image quality and just the
• 1:00:29
  way it's put together is just amazing.
• 1:00:31
  Really, really good. I say the sepia tone style of it
• 1:00:34
  and everything was great. Really did set the scene.
• 1:00:36
  Probably one of my favourite games of the year.
• 1:00:37
  I think so definitely it's it's been an absolute cracker.
• 1:00:40
  Loved it. I'm so glad that we sort of just
• 1:00:42
  by fluke looked it up and found it there.
• 1:00:44
  That's something we all had. It's brilliant.
• 1:00:46
  I got caught in that position as well, but towards the end of it
• 1:00:48
  of that combo is pretty devastating.
• 1:00:50
  I'll just stick with that. Thanks.
• 1:00:52
  And you just managed to hack your way through some of the
• 1:00:54
  more difficult bits of the game. I know I didn't get everything.
• 1:00:56
  I didn't get all the little you can go as artefacts, can't you,
• 1:00:59
  as you go around? I think I've missed a few of
• 1:01:01
  those and I know you can play it in there's three different
• 1:01:03
  endings, isn't there? Or something from memory.
• 1:01:05
  I looked it up. I.
• 1:01:06
  Think so, yeah. So I am attempted to go and do
• 1:01:08
  it again when I don't have a need to keep completing.
• 1:01:11
  We have this year a little bit. I enjoy doing it again.
• 1:01:14
  I think definitely it was really cool.
• 1:01:16
  There some bits in there. I had a real want to get to that
• 1:01:20
  last boss. It's kind of like you're going
• 1:01:21
  to pay for that my friend. So I was really drawn into it.
• 1:01:24
  It was good, really. Very good.
• 1:01:26
  Yeah. So I've also like, right.
• 1:01:28
  I've been playing for spoken and I've played about 3 hours or so
• 1:01:32
  of the game. I'm at that point now where we'd
• 1:01:36
  like the stories being set, the world is opened up and you can
• 1:01:39
  actually just get on the game. I'm not always a big fan of
• 1:01:43
  winning two hour story saying scenarios.
• 1:01:45
  Sometimes I get a bit bored and generally do all the cutscenes
• 1:01:50
  that you find in these things you seem to like say in the
• 1:01:52
  singing. I mean you can't blame them that
• 1:01:54
  they're trying to get me involved in the game so they're
• 1:01:55
  doing the right thing. But you'll find you like do like
• 1:01:58
  2 minutes of action and then it's like a 4 minute cutscene, 4
• 1:02:01
  minutes of action and a 5 minute cutscene and I can't be doing
• 1:02:04
  with all in cutscenes which send me a bit bombed because after a
• 1:02:06
  while, but I'm finally at that point.
• 1:02:08
  What I will say about that for spoken.
• 1:02:09
  I can understand that it got a lot of hair to begin with, but a
• 1:02:12
  lot of these games I get a lot of hair.
• 1:02:14
  A lot of people haven't even played them.
• 1:02:15
  A lot of people just jump on the bump waggon and just hate for
• 1:02:17
  the sake of hair in it. But what I will say is that the
• 1:02:19
  graphics, they're absolutely fantastic.
• 1:02:22
  I'll say they're they're kind of like quite a stand out.
• 1:02:25
  I actually looked up about the game as well.
• 1:02:27
  And oddly enough, I've been playing to say I've been playing
• 1:02:29
  the only other game that's using that engine and it's called the
• 1:02:32
  Luminous engine. And allegedly they're no longer
• 1:02:34
  using this luminous engine. And the other game I'd actually
• 1:02:36
  played in the month as well, which I've been playing over the
• 1:02:38
  past few months is Final Fantasy 16, which is a similar kind of
• 1:02:42
  battle system to force spoken where you go in, you beat all
• 1:02:45
  the guys and then you get like a written at the end of our world.
• 1:02:49
  You've done like an air loss or whatever.
• 1:02:51
  And yeah, so I actually quite like it.
• 1:02:54
  I can I believe that for spoken as well.
• 1:02:56
  If you actually mainline the main story, it's only meant to
• 1:02:59
  be around about 12 hours long, which I find.
• 1:03:02
  Yeah, it's not meant to be very long game.
• 1:03:04
  I mean, if you do all the side quests etcetera, then you can
• 1:03:07
  really sort of, you know, it's massively padded out if you so
• 1:03:10
  desire. So, but the 12 hours is enough
• 1:03:12
  to make me want to play more of it because I like to finish a
• 1:03:15
  game. I like this the situation, you
• 1:03:16
  know the game ends and you think, oh wow, yeah, seeing the
• 1:03:19
  credit for all haven't I done well, yeah, I really enjoyed
• 1:03:21
  that. So I'm gonna I'm definitely
• 1:03:22
  gonna play more of that. Like I said, we're playing more
• 1:03:24
  of Final Fantasy 16. That's a similar sort of game as
• 1:03:26
  I mentioned, totally different storyline, but oddly enough is
• 1:03:29
  set in like a bit of a mediaeval world, But that's that's another
• 1:03:32
  game that does fault or in the respect of that has cutscenes
• 1:03:35
  all the time. You could walk in between doing
• 1:03:38
  like man missions. You could walk like, I don't
• 1:03:40
  know, for like 1 minute and you're getting a cutscene and
• 1:03:43
  you walk from every minute you get a cutscene.
• 1:03:45
  It's meant to be a big adventure game out to enjoy the adventure
• 1:03:48
  that wants to be totally given cutscenes all the time.
• 1:03:51
  I also played a little bit of Cyberbunk on PlayStation 5I
• 1:03:55
  mainly put that on. So basically have a look because
• 1:03:57
  I said it enhanced it more Pro the pro edition of PlayStation
• 1:04:00
  so far, but I'll give it a go. I downloaded it.
• 1:04:02
  I have actually got the game on Xbox as well and I'm mainly
• 1:04:05
  bought on Xbox. I've got on PlayStation due to
• 1:04:08
  PlayStation Plus. It's part of one of them games,
• 1:04:10
  so it didn't cost anything. I had bought it previously many
• 1:04:13
  years ago on PlayStation and finished on PlayStation 4.
• 1:04:16
  That sold the disc, which is one thing I enjoy doing playing it
• 1:04:18
  played it for free and selling. I usually buy it a second hand
• 1:04:20
  price, but I bought it on Xbox and it's still brand new.
• 1:04:23
  It's still sealed. It's actually here, not piled.
• 1:04:26
  In fact, it's underneath here. So it's not it's here.
• 1:04:28
  So so still brand new was still sealed, etcetera.
• 1:04:32
  And the reason I buy it on Xbox I bought on Xbox because I'm
• 1:04:34
  about, but I'm going to sell my Xbox series X because I just
• 1:04:37
  don't need it anymore. But the advantage of buying
• 1:04:39
  games on X? Is that the?
• 1:04:42
  The DLC, The DLC is always on the disc where if you buy the
• 1:04:48
  PlayStation version of the Ultimate Edition, yeah, the DLC
• 1:04:51
  is via a code. So once you've used your code,
• 1:04:54
  the disc is just a cyberpunk. It's not the Ultimate Edition
• 1:04:57
  anymore. I hate that kind of thing.
• 1:04:59
  So anyway, I haven't opened Cyberpunk because I'm one of
• 1:05:02
  them sorts of people wherever I buy it and I never get around to
• 1:05:05
  playing it. Just taking the wrapping off of
• 1:05:07
  the game on Cyberpunk can be valued by say like a fiver or
• 1:05:10
  maybe a little bit more. I've kept it sealed.
• 1:05:12
  So I'm just going to flog it and then in the new year when I can
• 1:05:15
  buy more games and no doubt and I have seen it before on sale,
• 1:05:18
  I'll just buy the DLC for the ultimate edition, which is
• 1:05:21
  probably going to be about £15 in a sale.
• 1:05:23
  I do actually have the game. I actually own it on PC as well,
• 1:05:25
  but I don't have the ultimate edition.
• 1:05:27
  I'm just about Scone. But the good thing about
• 1:05:29
  Cyberpunk, it's cross save, so but you're not going to lose
• 1:05:32
  your save, which is good, which is kind of important.
• 1:05:35
  It's one of them games. But the good thing is with the
• 1:05:37
  ultimate edition as well, even if you can just play the second
• 1:05:40
  deal, you can just play the deal.
• 1:05:42
  So you don't have to play all the way through the main story
• 1:05:44
  to play the DLC, which is a whole different story again.
• 1:05:46
  So that's yeah. So yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:49
  So if you change platform or whatever, you can just you can
• 1:05:52
  just jump straight into the second part of the game, which
• 1:05:55
  is cool. It gives you a certain amount of
• 1:05:57
  points so you can put them points back into your character
• 1:06:00
  so that you you'd have to rebuy the character being under
• 1:06:02
  levelled, etcetera. It does give you enough points
• 1:06:04
  to make it to make it playable. And I've only really played
• 1:06:07
  another game as well at Red SEC Battlefield 6, the free to play
• 1:06:10
  thing. Yeah, I quite enjoyed it.
• 1:06:12
  I turned off the cross-platform situation because I don't even
• 1:06:15
  plan against people with mouse and keyboard or a PlayStation.
• 1:06:18
  Although if it's anything like the Xbox, you can actually play
• 1:06:21
  with mouse and keyboard on an Xbox.
• 1:06:23
  You can plug them in and play on that, I believe.
• 1:06:25
  So that's an interesting way to play it.
• 1:06:27
  But that's also going to give you the best accuracy as a
• 1:06:29
  keyboard and the mouse. And I played it for about an
• 1:06:31
  hour or so. Obviously, I got absolutely bad.
• 1:06:35
  One thing that you can do is you can jump in the cars and be like
• 1:06:40
  the way you've got like a Gunter on back, etcetera, and you can
• 1:06:44
  be an absolute nuisance. So I like to do that kind of
• 1:06:46
  thing. So you get in into the car and
• 1:06:49
  you can drive around like an Amelia, you know, beeping your
• 1:06:51
  own everyone beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, and then trying to
• 1:06:54
  run everybody over. Obviously not your team.
• 1:06:55
  You know, you try to put down the other team and they're
• 1:06:58
  obviously try to shoot with you sort of thing and they'll go in
• 1:07:00
  a bit Zen and you'll try to run over them.
• 1:07:02
  So yeah, it was quite fun and it's so the graphics nicest.
• 1:07:05
  It was fast. PC would play it again.
• 1:07:08
  Can't see why not. I would definitely.
• 1:07:10
  I'm not desperate to play. I wouldn't.
• 1:07:11
  I would say I'm dead keen to like go up the ranks.
• 1:07:14
  But yeah, the small amount of time I played with it, I would
• 1:07:17
  say yeah, for a freebie, absolutely, why not?
• 1:07:19
  But it might want to buy the full game.
• 1:07:21
  Probably not so, but yeah. Well, So what have you been
• 1:07:24
  playing, Ben? Not to move away from my the
• 1:07:26
  usual Ben tactics. I've played a lot of Forza
• 1:07:29
  Motorsports 7 now down to the last championship.
• 1:07:32
  I've got to work through that and I will have completed it.
• 1:07:34
  My intention is to get that done before we get the end of
• 1:07:36
  December. Forza Horizon 5, I have the main
• 1:07:40
  game of that and I have the Hot Wheels and I have the rally
• 1:07:42
  expansions, which are two like 710 hour expansions for those.
• 1:07:46
  I finished both the expansions as well this month, which is
• 1:07:48
  quite cool. So now I have totally finished
• 1:07:51
  Horizon 5 ready for Horizon 6 next year, which is a big thing
• 1:07:54
  for me actually very, very enjoyable.
• 1:07:56
  I've got to a point where Horizon where I ran into a war a
• 1:07:58
  little bit with it as the the weekly festivals and seas and
• 1:08:01
  stuff, you have to keep doing it, which really dried up for me
• 1:08:04
  after a while because it got very samey.
• 1:08:06
  And it's a group of us, Kev Horsley and two other guys used
• 1:08:09
  to work with used to play it a lot like weekly and we just
• 1:08:11
  stopped and moved across to motorsport, I think it was.
• 1:08:13
  And that's where you've injected 200 odd hours into that instead.
• 1:08:16
  But the the Hot Wheels expansion was good fun, Really, really
• 1:08:19
  good. If you've played the Horizon
• 1:08:21
  three one that was decent, but towards the end of it just got
• 1:08:24
  ridiculous. The the difficulty wall just
• 1:08:26
  like went vertical and the last race was completely pathetic.
• 1:08:29
  Whereas the one on five has been done a lot better.
• 1:08:31
  There's more to it, more content and it just feels like a much
• 1:08:34
  more rounded DLC. Worked very much on its own
• 1:08:37
  separate from the game, which was cool.
• 1:08:39
  And the the rally adventure was very much the same again, six
• 1:08:42
  hours I think it was to finish it, but it was really quite
• 1:08:44
  good. It's a nice bridge between
• 1:08:46
  something like Dirt Rally and an arcade game.
• 1:08:48
  It was quite cool. So finished that, played seven
• 1:08:51
  Overcooked 2. My family decided we're going to
• 1:08:53
  start playing that game quite heavily.
• 1:08:55
  So we've been playing loads of that four player, which is
• 1:08:57
  quite, really quite nice Saturday afternoon gaming.
• 1:08:59
  Then my wife and I decided to get addicted to doing all the
• 1:09:01
  DLC's again on it on the Switch version.
• 1:09:04
  So everyone, you know, we've got one on our list if we start
• 1:09:07
  playing that. I've been quite up for it.
• 1:09:09
  It's still a great game. Really cool glass is on there.
• 1:09:11
  Minecraft Dungeons, I have finished that this month,
• 1:09:14
  probably the first game as well. My son is an age now where it's
• 1:09:17
  not kind of just like you're playing games with the kids
• 1:09:19
  because it's just fun for them enjoying it.
• 1:09:20
  He really wanted to finish it as well and we played it through it
• 1:09:22
  as a proper dungeon crawler and we've smashed through it.
• 1:09:24
  Think 1450 now was on record. I think this month.
• 1:09:27
  Think on that really good game actually like a childish Diablo,
• 1:09:30
  I suppose is the easiest way of putting it.
• 1:09:32
  But it does play really well and the progression and the weaponry
• 1:09:35
  and the kind of levelling up systems really cool on it.
• 1:09:37
  So that's one thing we discussed between the two of us is we want
• 1:09:41
  to get all you can get a DLC, everything packed for the
• 1:09:44
  PlayStation. I think it is you get all the
• 1:09:46
  different islands and stuff you can play I think is 17 lbs.
• 1:09:48
  We're going to buy that in January so we can keep going and
• 1:09:51
  do more on it. But as we got on there, played
• 1:09:52
  loads of the finals friends as well.
• 1:09:54
  That's nearly that will be two years in January that I've been
• 1:09:57
  playing that for and I still love it as much as I did day
• 1:09:59
  one. And I was talking about Arc
• 1:10:01
  earlier on a little bit. Arc is they're the same studio
• 1:10:04
  embark who made that and I can't really cannot wait to play Arc.
• 1:10:07
  I've got a few people who I know who are already playing it or we
• 1:10:09
  did play the finals with as well and said it's brilliant.
• 1:10:11
  So massively looking forward to playing that as well.
• 1:10:14
  Any other thing I've done as well which is probably a bit
• 1:10:16
  stupid to set my 360 up. And does anyone, do you guys
• 1:10:19
  ever hear of Project Gotham Racing?
• 1:10:21
  The old Xbox franchise? The last one on the Xbox and the
• 1:10:25
  original Xbox there was Project Gotham Racing one and two.
• 1:10:28
  A precursor to that was Metropolis St Racer, I want to
• 1:10:32
  say on the Dreamcast which was like this really amazing city
• 1:10:34
  racer. Then he made the other two on
• 1:10:36
  the Xbox, and then the 360 got PGR 3 and PGR four.
• 1:10:40
  I think that's right. That's a timeline.
• 1:10:42
  Yeah. So I found my disc for Project
• 1:10:44
  Golf in Racing Four and went, oh, wonder if I saved them in
• 1:10:46
  the cloud. Turns out it is.
• 1:10:48
  So I'm now playing that as well. So.
• 1:10:50
  And I cannot believe how good it looks for a game that must be
• 1:10:53
  nigh on 20 years old now. It plays so well, like the
• 1:10:56
  engine noises are great, the car models are great, the handling
• 1:10:59
  system's good and it's all based on qdos system.
• 1:11:02
  So you get it for drifting decent corners.
• 1:11:04
  So it's kind of like an elevated version of like force of those
• 1:11:07
  for you your skill points that's great still plays brilliantly.
• 1:11:10
  My old Xbox elite is still plugging along making shed
• 1:11:13
  tonnes of noise playing it quite happily.
• 1:11:15
  So that's cool. So I playing that one again.
• 1:11:17
  Maybe kind of sad really because bizarre creations They made one
• 1:11:19
  game after that, which is a game called blur, which was kind of
• 1:11:23
  mid PlayStation 3 slash Xbox Live and was on PC as well, and
• 1:11:27
  it was almost like Mario Kart meets project Gotham racing.
• 1:11:30
  So you have like open power apps and you do like proper circuit
• 1:11:33
  races and stuff was absolutely brilliant.
• 1:11:34
  And then they went out of business a year later, sadly,
• 1:11:36
  because it wasn't accepted that. So it's a shame that we'll never
• 1:11:38
  see a game. Project Gotham holds like a
• 1:11:40
  special place in what it did and how it transformed arcade races
• 1:11:44
  on consoles for me quite a lot. It's one of the reasons I got an
• 1:11:47
  Xbox 364 was you saw all the previews of how amazing the
• 1:11:51
  graphics looked on PGR three. If you go look on Google, it
• 1:11:53
  looks amazing still now like the car models for that that time
• 1:11:56
  period were exceptional. So yeah, I feel compelled now to
• 1:11:59
  play this and then probably go back and play all the the
• 1:12:01
  previous ones as well. So yeah, watch this space.
• 1:12:04
  I also found the disc for the original Forza Motorsport that
• 1:12:06
  that that could be on the cards as well.
• 1:12:08
  Yeah, based on a lot of racing games as normal for me, but I'm
• 1:12:11
  actually getting some finished, which is cool.
• 1:12:13
  That's me this month as far as games played.
• 1:12:16
  I've just looked up the finals on steam yeah and they got so
• 1:12:20
  much fancy or payout on store. Yeah, it's a free to play game
• 1:12:24
  and there is 3 different types of battle pass now.
• 1:12:26
  A little frustrating but you can play the whole season.
• 1:12:29
  I haven't paid for a penny for it for two years, let's put it
• 1:12:32
  that way, and I don't. Apart from it's all cosmetic
• 1:12:35
  stuff. In all fairness, you don't lose
• 1:12:36
  anything and you get points in the game which unlock the
• 1:12:39
  weapons and the peripheral kind of ancillary bits and you still
• 1:12:44
  do unlock stuff. I've made enough in this season
• 1:12:47
  points wise to unlock the season pass for the next season so then
• 1:12:51
  I will get all the stuff just because the fact just replaying
• 1:12:53
  it. So it's not a model that
• 1:12:55
  restricts success in the game at all.
• 1:12:58
  Okay that's good. Just couldn't believe the amount
• 1:13:00
  of free to play. That makes sense.
• 1:13:02
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, the price thing, that's
• 1:13:03
  you. Have to pay for it so.
• 1:13:05
  Yeah, that's 20 minutes. I just looked a minute ago, it
• 1:13:07
  was 2299 for the PC version unloaded and the new Xbox was
• 1:13:11
  like 28 or something as as as usual.
• 1:13:13
  The PlayStation, you can't buy it externally.
• 1:13:15
  They keep on the store, but I don't much I'll be on that but.
• 1:13:18
  The Xbox is a dead console now, isn't it?
• 1:13:20
  Yeah, I think they're in to me and keep the price somewhere.
• 1:13:23
  It's dead to me. I'm not building this.
• 1:13:25
  Yeah, I'm, I'm sad that we need this player.
• 1:13:30
  We need this. The vacuum that they're going to
• 1:13:32
  leave though the Xbox is currently about to be filled
• 1:13:35
  quite rapidly though, isn't it? By the new Steam Machine that's
• 1:13:38
  been announced. Absolutely.
• 1:13:40
  Isn't that a professional segue to the next topic?
• 1:13:45
  Moving on. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:13:47
  I mean, that's the machine. If they get the pricing right on
• 1:13:50
  that, they're absolutely going to kill it.
• 1:13:52
  If they can do that for about, I don't know, maybe for let's
• 1:13:55
  pretend we can do it for 399 that doesn't come with a
• 1:13:58
  controller and maybe like the bottom tier of storage, that's
• 1:14:01
  going to be a killer machine. And they generally speaking,
• 1:14:03
  when a new device is brought out, which obviously isn't
• 1:14:06
  applicable to a Steam machine is the library of games.
• 1:14:10
  Can I play my favourite game on it?
• 1:14:13
  You've got the largest library of games possible.
• 1:14:15
  Haven't you got Steam? You ain't going to get any
• 1:14:17
  bigger library than Steam. Plus all went back catalogue
• 1:14:20
  games that you can pick up 99 PS and all kind of stuff.
• 1:14:23
  You could have a wealth of games to play to play for a little and
• 1:14:25
  £20 if you went on loaded stroke CD keys or other places.
• 1:14:29
  And so yeah, so I think I did actually read as well that the
• 1:14:32
  Steam Deck had sold about four or 5 million units.
• 1:14:35
  Let's be honest, isn't bad all things things considered.
• 1:14:38
  And the good thing about Steam as well or Valve is they're
• 1:14:41
  probably known the guy that owns it, Gabe, he obviously, but also
• 1:14:44
  so he's he hasn't been ever tagged or labelled as a
• 1:14:48
  corporate, you know, corporate money grabber.
• 1:14:51
  He's always been kind of considered a little bit as
• 1:14:53
  giving to the community, you know, like a Steam Deck.
• 1:14:57
  He could have probably pumped another £200 on something or
• 1:14:59
  over £150 on something. People probably would have still
• 1:15:02
  bought it because at the time it was still actually considered as
• 1:15:05
  a relatively cheap handheld device, which actually worked as
• 1:15:08
  well, unlike some of these windows best devices where a lot
• 1:15:11
  of the performance has been sucked out of it because it's on
• 1:15:14
  it's it's running windows by default that's going to burn
• 1:15:17
  through processing power and battery power.
• 1:15:19
  Where's the steam Deck that punches so well above its wet so
• 1:15:23
  well above its where you want to play older games on that thing.
• 1:15:25
  You can definitely cook TTV. You can even say to work in like
• 1:15:28
  4K mode if you still desire because it looks scale so it'll
• 1:15:31
  display as 4K. So yeah, absolutely fantastic.
• 1:15:35
  And also if he does like a game pass out named it as game per
• 1:15:38
  pass. If he actually does a game pass
• 1:15:41
  and he actually does some kind of like, I don't know, you know,
• 1:15:43
  like it isn't have to be old games on steam, a Springfield of
• 1:15:46
  old spring clean of new spring clean of, you know, middling new
• 1:15:50
  games he could smash out of the park.
• 1:15:52
  He really could take away Xbox who were already saying their
• 1:15:56
  machine is going to be a premium machine or steam man, they're
• 1:15:58
  good. They're going to they're in that
• 1:16:00
  vacuum and they're going to suck up all in customers.
• 1:16:03
  And I think it really could take off in a big way this time
• 1:16:05
  around. I bet he sells a lot of unique
• 1:16:07
  if the price is right. If he comes in it's like 799.
• 1:16:11
  I'll try to pick one up at a second and price at some point
• 1:16:14
  or other buy ain't going to be a day one.
• 1:16:16
  But if he if he brought in a, say, 399, I'd be very tempted,
• 1:16:20
  very, very tempted to buy one. Gig one and a two terabyte
• 1:16:23
  version and there can be around that sort of money.
• 1:16:26
  Well, if you watch the IT depends which one you watched.
• 1:16:29
  I watched the digital founder one and the pet pretty much took
• 1:16:31
  it to bits during the presentation at valve and to
• 1:16:35
  extend the space. The storage is meant to be dead
• 1:16:37
  simple. You know, I don't think you even
• 1:16:39
  have to take it to bits much. I think it looks like it might
• 1:16:41
  be a panel on the side or something They can just change
• 1:16:44
  the hard drive over. I think this is you can increase
• 1:16:46
  the RAM as well. So if you want to open it up,
• 1:16:48
  you have to dig a little deeper to change the RAM.
• 1:16:50
  So you know, from like, say like it's 8 gigabytes, 16 gigabytes.
• 1:16:53
  Now people might say, oh, it doesn't sound very powerful, but
• 1:16:56
  it's meant to do 4K60 frames per second via upscaling, which
• 1:16:59
  everything seems to do. Even if you've got some of the
• 1:17:01
  most powerful graphics cards you know, you can struggle to.
• 1:17:04
  Get 60. Frames per second, yeah.
• 1:17:06
  So meant to be 6 times more powerful than the Steam Deck.
• 1:17:09
  And because it's so well optimised, which is what APC is
• 1:17:13
  suddenly lacking, is optimization because there's so
• 1:17:15
  many varieties of everything. Well then, yeah, I, I'm, I think
• 1:17:19
  it could be a big thing. I think it could be massive.
• 1:17:22
  Team OS on it as well, which is so insanely light.
• 1:17:25
  I think it's definitely got some legs on it.
• 1:17:26
  Absolutely. So I am watching it.
• 1:17:28
  I've got to mention earlier on D Brand, who make all the the
• 1:17:32
  covers for the PlayStation and everything they've got page,
• 1:17:34
  which is literally a notify me page at the minute, which is a
• 1:17:36
  limited edition Steam box, Steam Machine, which is the companion
• 1:17:40
  Cube from Portal. And it's like, yeah, please
• 1:17:42
  don't find me. That'd be cool.
• 1:17:45
  I'd tell you what, I'd be a really cool idea now that but on
• 1:17:49
  the front of that thing is a ^2 in this plane as humanly
• 1:17:52
  possible, right? It is just literally a cube.
• 1:17:54
  If you had some kind of like vinyl printer, I bet you could
• 1:17:57
  be doing some custom covers because it's just a sticker,
• 1:17:59
  right? It only going to be sending out
• 1:18:01
  someone like a rectangular sticker that can go on and be
• 1:18:04
  put round the cars and all the rest of it.
• 1:18:06
  Yeah, if you had a bit of a vinyl printer, I bet you could
• 1:18:09
  be on to making some easy money because the, you know, just
• 1:18:13
  selling the pretty much like a square or vinyl for it, doing
• 1:18:16
  custom ones for people as well. I bet you could do some really
• 1:18:18
  good money. And I bet if you had a 3D
• 1:18:20
  printer as well, could probably be printing off them covers and
• 1:18:22
  selling them as pop on covers. You know I bet as a good little
• 1:18:25
  home brew business to get out of that device.
• 1:18:27
  The brand behind already with that case for the the companion
• 1:18:30
  Cube, you can guarantee that they will be able to make those
• 1:18:32
  front panels and it'll be kind of like pay us X amount, give us
• 1:18:34
  your design, we'll do it as you said and stuff like that.
• 1:18:37
  Maybe there's no brain. Isn't it really for kind of
• 1:18:39
  making money? But it looks like such a cool
• 1:18:41
  little system. I mean, I watched a couple
• 1:18:42
  nights ago and it was like consoles pretty are much are in
• 1:18:45
  trouble there from anyone who's, I mean, if you've got a Steam
• 1:18:48
  deck, I mean, if you've got that on a steam deck, that's all you
• 1:18:49
  really need. I mean, the whole kind of
• 1:18:50
  thousands of pounds worth of gaming PC just pushes out the
• 1:18:53
  window. If you think about how powerful
• 1:18:54
  the Steam deck, as you said earlier, there's nothing I've
• 1:18:56
  tried on there that runs badly. Everything seems to just work
• 1:18:59
  and it shouldn't because at the end of the day, it's a pretty
• 1:19:01
  small AM DAPU unit in it. But you've had six times the
• 1:19:04
  power on that. You're up to mid level gaming PC
• 1:19:05
  territory at least. So you're punching around like
• 1:19:07
  40604070 roughly schedule sort of thing, which is is nuts.
• 1:19:11
  I mean how fast our DNA 3 is going to come from AMD because
• 1:19:14
  they'll be using a very similar course what the 1970 is and that
• 1:19:17
  is a powerhouse. It really is.
• 1:19:18
  So if they can make the most of that, fair play.
• 1:19:21
  I really don't. It's got 8 gig of VRAM which is
• 1:19:23
  what people were complaining about.
• 1:19:24
  It depends a lot. So much this.
• 1:19:25
  I mean, if they can, if they can do it all correctly, about 8
• 1:19:28
  gigabytes of VRAM, if it's used appropriately rather than wasted
• 1:19:31
  and the alleged listing do a lot of their own drivers, their
• 1:19:34
  side. So they're actually optimising
• 1:19:36
  these games and taking out, you know, the needs for all this
• 1:19:40
  extra, extra power. I mean, at the end of the day,
• 1:19:42
  most PCs are brute force in their way through a game.
• 1:19:46
  They're not optimised, they're brute force.
• 1:19:48
  And it's all about you having the biggest possible graphics
• 1:19:51
  card. The biggest possible process is
• 1:19:53
  to brute force your way through the unoptimized games.
• 1:19:56
  They optimised to a point that they can't optimise it perfectly
• 1:19:59
  for everything. Whereas Steam, man, this is this
• 1:20:01
  is what they're going to do. It's going to be optimised for
• 1:20:03
  all these games and a library of games you can about to pick
• 1:20:05
  from. And I'll tell you what I was
• 1:20:06
  thinking as well the other day. Now the Steam Deck, if you took
• 1:20:09
  off the controllers and took off the screen, I bet you could
• 1:20:12
  almost turn that into a signal. Packet size console.
• 1:20:15
  Yeah, and someone did that. They put one that screen on it.
• 1:20:18
  It was tiny, I thought. Well, I haven't seen that.
• 1:20:21
  I'd like to watch. I imagine it's on YouTube, but I
• 1:20:23
  mean that just goes to show you what can be done.
• 1:20:25
  Imagine that, you know, like a cigarette, cigarette size
• 1:20:28
  console. It's amazing, really, absolutely
• 1:20:30
  amazing. So yeah, I'll tell you what else
• 1:20:33
  I noticed as well. This month's games for
• 1:20:35
  PlayStation N1 of the games that detailed on there, I'd first
• 1:20:39
  heard about this game via the guys over on Vectrum Gamers.
• 1:20:43
  It was Stu that I played it and it's a game.
• 1:20:45
  It would not have appealed to me.
• 1:20:47
  It would not have struck me as one I should be playing and it
• 1:20:49
  comes with November games and it's called Thank goodness
• 1:20:52
  you're here. Take a look on steam.
• 1:20:54
  It gets mega reviews meant to be set in like England in a
• 1:20:57
  northern town called Barnsworth and you're like a travelling
• 1:21:00
  salesman, but the game is meant to be absolutely hilarious and
• 1:21:04
  reviews it gets on Steam suggested it's well worth
• 1:21:06
  plates. Overwhelmingly positive reviews
• 1:21:08
  on there. So like five, you know.
• 1:21:10
  Taking one, yes. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:21:13
  One of the guys at work was saying the same thing, he came
• 1:21:15
  out of nowhere, someone told him about it on a WhatsApp chat and
• 1:21:18
  he just bought it for like pennies or something and it's
• 1:21:20
  hilarious. So yeah, I've heard about it,
• 1:21:22
  but completely forgotten until you just mentioned.
• 1:21:24
  I think it's women games, a lot of people they'll they'll look
• 1:21:26
  and say, oh, it's just another rubbishy game just to cut out
• 1:21:29
  these small scams. But what we're saying is right
• 1:21:32
  with small scams are actually not different types of games
• 1:21:34
  I've played that still work. It works the deep and I thought
• 1:21:37
  that we're an excellent adventure game set on modern oil
• 1:21:40
  rig that's been taken over and the situations that evolve, you
• 1:21:44
  know, on there. Obviously it's a bit of a
• 1:21:46
  horror. So again, really, really good
• 1:21:48
  and the other games all look to be pretty good as well.
• 1:21:50
  Grand Theft Auto 5 people have obviously complained to the
• 1:21:53
  degree saying that well, how many times are going to give us
• 1:21:55
  this for free? Because I think it's been on and
• 1:21:57
  off the catalogue a few times. But so but anyway, we wait and
• 1:22:00
  see. But I mean there's another piece
• 1:22:01
  of news as well. What about Grand Theft Auto 6
• 1:22:03
  being pushed back? Always going to happen surely.
• 1:22:06
  I mean they keep getting, they keep getting accused of crush
• 1:22:09
  coding like in every game they do and there was a whole thing
• 1:22:12
  was it 2 weeks ago there was someone they tried to unionise
• 1:22:14
  or something and 14 people just don't work for them anymore,
• 1:22:18
  Something like that. 34 people. Oh, was it OK, It could be maybe
• 1:22:22
  a month. They had reached 250 members who
• 1:22:26
  were 250 members who wanted to be part of the union and once
• 1:22:30
  they hit that number in the UK they can be forced to be
• 1:22:32
  recognised by the company or something like that.
• 1:22:34
  So once they bring them below that number, you don't have to
• 1:22:37
  be recognised. So I'm not suspicious of that at
• 1:22:40
  all. I've never been a member of a
• 1:22:41
  union, but what is the big deal about being a member of union?
• 1:22:44
  Sure, it must be like almost an employee's right to be a member
• 1:22:47
  of a union if you so desire. What's?
• 1:22:50
  But the other side of it is kind of like you're allowed to have a
• 1:22:52
  voice. So it's the and I think that's
• 1:22:54
  where everything gets so wound up and crushed and the misshaped
• 1:22:57
  by it all is the kind of how much I should have as an
• 1:23:00
  employee and how much we should be giving you.
• 1:23:02
  And it's never, ever meet in the middle.
• 1:23:04
  I've dealt with people when I was at Royal Mail years and
• 1:23:07
  years ago when I was at college, I was just a collections driver
• 1:23:09
  and knew things or did it around college.
• 1:23:11
  All I did, picked up rural stuff, took it into Swindon Nail
• 1:23:13
  Centre, dropped it off, come home, that's all I did.
• 1:23:15
  And they, they had a strike under the union in Swindon.
• 1:23:18
  And to see the kind of how people come together when it's
• 1:23:22
  kind of like when they are happy was incredible.
• 1:23:24
  Aggressive in some cases, but quite incredible.
• 1:23:26
  You can see why they did it. It was around pay, work
• 1:23:28
  conditions, all that sort of thing.
• 1:23:29
  And that's people everything's everyone is entitled to have
• 1:23:32
  those conditions looked after in their job.
• 1:23:34
  I totally get that. But it's just the way that
• 1:23:36
  sometimes it can be thrown at its weight is thrown around in
• 1:23:38
  an incorrect manner. It's misused.
• 1:23:40
  As for anything. It's that whole power, like with
• 1:23:42
  great power comes great responsibility thing, isn't it
• 1:23:44
  to to use the quote because sometimes it's just like you do
• 1:23:46
  this all, we'll walk out and it could be a nothingness in some
• 1:23:49
  cases, I don't know. It's hard work.
• 1:23:50
  It's terrifying. It's kind of as terrifying to
• 1:23:51
  get into his politics really, to be honest with you, but it's
• 1:23:54
  hard it's you'd ask if you ask someone from either side, they
• 1:23:56
  are so polar opposite on why it's going bad.
• 1:23:59
  It's nuts. I.
• 1:24:00
  Think it's illegal in the UK to be in the union, but it's the I
• 1:24:04
  think it's what the game is coming out was supposed to come
• 1:24:07
  out a few months time or six months time.
• 1:24:09
  This is all going to be crunch. I'm guessing these the staff
• 1:24:12
  don't want to spend 80 hours a week do preparing.
• 1:24:15
  The Rockstar is notorious for crunch saying have read that too
• 1:24:19
  and the previous game. So I'm thinking they just want
• 1:24:22
  to have the rights protected, but I don't know, didn't GTA,
• 1:24:26
  well, GTA Boxer came out and said that they leaked projects
• 1:24:29
  on the Discord server, so that's why they were fired, yeah.
• 1:24:32
  Exactly. There's a reason why there, but
• 1:24:33
  it's kind yeah, I think obviously I think it's scary for
• 1:24:36
  a business to have someone go, we're going to start a union
• 1:24:38
  because it tips everything on its head.
• 1:24:40
  And I suppose for someone like Rockstar, when it's GTA 6 is
• 1:24:42
  basically that their money for the next what, 10-15 years if
• 1:24:46
  they get it right. So it puts a bad taste before it
• 1:24:48
  comes out. It's a big problem to have so.
• 1:24:51
  Did you hear about the amount whenever the legend was spent on
• 1:24:54
  GTA? You know, it's the Super seeds,
• 1:24:56
  like the most expensive movie by some kind of multiplied factor
• 1:24:59
  or something. It's mental.
• 1:25:01
  It's not like 2 billion is a figure I heard over.
• 1:25:04
  That's just, you know, Chinese rumour type thing where it's got
• 1:25:07
  bigger and bigger. This number is more and more
• 1:25:08
  people have spoken about it. But 2 billion, wow.
• 1:25:11
  You know, I mean 2 billion. Imagine if they lost all the
• 1:25:14
  day, what would you do? 2 billion.
• 1:25:16
  Imagine if I'm pretty sweet, right?
• 1:25:18
  If I mean, I wouldn't come down this kind of thing.
• 1:25:20
  Imagine if they got like ransomware, how much could you
• 1:25:24
  force that by hand? Imagine how much would you ask
• 1:25:26
  for? 100,000,200 million 300.
• 1:25:29
  Billion. Got I've got 2 billion invested
• 1:25:32
  in this. How much you willing to pay me?
• 1:25:34
  You know, imagine that. Did they get did?
• 1:25:39
  They they released early code, yeah.
• 1:25:42
  Oh yes. Yeah, they wouldn't pay up.
• 1:25:44
  They should. Have they should have run
• 1:25:46
  somewhere. Don't imagine that looking at
• 1:25:48
  the money would have taken them all.
• 1:25:49
  But on other news from them, they're bringing out a
• 1:25:52
  PlayStation 5 version of the original Red Dead Redemption.
• 1:25:55
  It's meant to be coming out soon, which would be quite nice.
• 1:25:57
  Obviously it's more just enhance, probably 6 frames per
• 1:25:59
  second. They haven't.
• 1:26:01
  It's not a remake, it's just not really well, whichever.
• 1:26:03
  I can never quite work out which is 1 where they've just enhanced
• 1:26:06
  it. Is it a remake?
• 1:26:06
  Remaster. Yeah, remaster.
• 1:26:09
  The remaster is they put pretty bits on it and remake as they
• 1:26:12
  ground up to it, sort of. That could be good because
• 1:26:14
  that's another game that I bought on Xbox freeze the Xbox
• 1:26:18
  because it's one of them games that you can if you bought an
• 1:26:21
  Xbox One, you pretty Xbox free series X.
• 1:26:24
  It give you the 60 frames. The four Ki think it's 30 frames
• 1:26:28
  per second version. So it's coming out on
• 1:26:31
  PlayStation, so PlayStation 5 enhanced.
• 1:26:34
  So it's already out on PlayStation.
• 1:26:36
  I believe PlayStation, but I think it's PlayStation 4
• 1:26:39
  version, but they're going to enhance its PlayStation 5, which
• 1:26:41
  is which is kind of nice because it is a game I would like to
• 1:26:43
  play and the key well, tempton is again, we've Red Dead
• 1:26:45
  Redemption 2 enhanced version on PlayStation 5, which I can't see
• 1:26:49
  why they've never released. I mean they never do anything
• 1:26:50
  for free in any case to them really.
• 1:26:52
  So, but I can't see why they've never ever, it happens that at
• 1:26:56
  30 frames per second, they're just asking people not to play
• 1:26:59
  almost in today's, you know, PlayStation community.
• 1:27:02
  So yeah, even if you put 60 frames per second patch on it, I
• 1:27:06
  don't think it broke the hearts to do like that.
• 1:27:07
  Can't be difficult to do really. Not from their point of view,
• 1:27:10
  surely. GTA4 was 100 million, GTA5 was
• 1:27:14
  200, and then GTA 6 is up to 2 billion.
• 1:27:19
  The thing underneath it says that they're potentially this
• 1:27:21
  shift back from May to November might cost them half a billion
• 1:27:24
  dollars. If you think about it as well,
• 1:27:26
  the amount of time GTA5 has been released, GTA 6 is potentially
• 1:27:30
  going to be in over 12 years in between making the next game and
• 1:27:34
  in 12 years time. I mean goodness knows I mean I'm
• 1:27:37
  like 50 up now I'll be like I'll be past retirement.
• 1:27:39
  You know, it's amazing really the amount of time that game is
• 1:27:42
  going to be useful or whatever, but I.
• 1:27:45
  Mean more time to play games. Yeah, it's it's got to be a
• 1:27:48
  game. They're obviously crafting it to
• 1:27:50
  the extreme out there because they know if any hair is jump on
• 1:27:54
  board and that and it'll get it gets a hit with going off man
• 1:27:58
  Yeah, I mean, that game, I wouldn't say it's going to bump,
• 1:28:00
  but it will knock big figures off big figures off their sales
• 1:28:03
  initially. So yeah, we wait and see.
• 1:28:06
  I mean, I played GTA5, I've never finished GTA5 and that's
• 1:28:10
  because I think I originally played on Xbox 360 got like a
• 1:28:13
  good portion of the way through I got to this point.
• 1:28:15
  I couldn't get past it where it got going like a helicopter and
• 1:28:18
  fly through the these hoops or something.
• 1:28:20
  Just couldn't do it. It just, I timed out with me
• 1:28:22
  every time, you know, I just couldn't quite make it through
• 1:28:24
  that section. And then I think I got on
• 1:28:26
  PlayStation 4. And then because I don't really
• 1:28:28
  played it quite, I don't play on Xbox 360, you kind of lose
• 1:28:31
  interest because it's the same story.
• 1:28:33
  So, yeah, so I don't know. But yeah, we wait and see.
• 1:28:36
  We talked about earlier the PS-5 prices in Japan, PS-5 sales in
• 1:28:40
  Japan haven't been as high as they would like.
• 1:28:43
  The prices and Amazon was ¥69,000, which works out to be
• 1:28:49
  about 340 sterling and it's going to drop to ¥55,000, which
• 1:28:55
  is 270. So you're going from 3:40 to 270
• 1:28:59
  sterling for the digital edition.
• 1:29:01
  So it's a saving of £70 which isn't bad for it's a Japanese
• 1:29:04
  language only. I don't know if you can flash
• 1:29:06
  them. Would you be able to fuck flash
• 1:29:07
  the buyers? Are they available?
• 1:29:09
  Yeah, I think you set, you set your country at the beginning,
• 1:29:11
  don't you? When you first turn on,
• 1:29:12
  generally you sort of say to whatever language because, I
• 1:29:14
  mean, if you buy a console in Europe, because we get the
• 1:29:17
  European version over here, you've obviously got Italian,
• 1:29:19
  French, German, whatever else, you know, anything you fancy,
• 1:29:23
  it'll be on there. So I guess I'll just take that
• 1:29:25
  part out. Yeah, imagine what it would be.
• 1:29:27
  Pretty might be firmware or something where it won't give
• 1:29:29
  you the language patch if you download to the wrong OS.
• 1:29:32
  It just goes, no, that's it. You can't do that, sorry.
• 1:29:35
  It's just compatible with this system or something?
• 1:29:37
  Yeah, I know I obviously you can speak the language over there,
• 1:29:39
  Brian, but for a non, well, better not Charlie, actually.
• 1:29:43
  Yeah, but from but from a totally 0 experienced Japanese.
• 1:29:47
  I mean, if I look at maybe say a little bit of French or German,
• 1:29:50
  I might I can't speak French or German other than the basics,
• 1:29:53
  but I might be able to sort of fumble my way through what
• 1:29:55
  something's saying on the screen or I can at least translate
• 1:29:58
  quite quickly on Google. But where does a Japanese
• 1:30:00
  writing that really is a total mystery, you know, to look at
• 1:30:04
  from an English and point of view, it's it is a it is a
• 1:30:07
  totally different look and style, isn't it?
• 1:30:09
  So you you really wouldn't want to have one of them consoles.
• 1:30:13
  No no I have two accounts on PlayStation.
• 1:30:15
  I don't have them UK. I've also got a local 1 some
• 1:30:18
  stage I buy games here on disc but they didn't want to give me
• 1:30:21
  grief over the fact the console says it's the UK console.
• 1:30:24
  So I've got a Japanese account, but if I go to PlayStation Store
• 1:30:28
  on on the my PlayStation, Despite that I have the link set
• 1:30:31
  of English, PlayStation Store only displays in Japanese.
• 1:30:34
  There's no option language on store.
• 1:30:36
  They they are quite limited. A lot of the apps over here the
• 1:30:39
  same problem as well. They only do they won't respond.
• 1:30:41
  They won't respect the OS of language in the phone.
• 1:30:43
  It's I think, but it frustrates me no, if I go looking on the
• 1:30:47
  Japanese store stuff, but I don't know.
• 1:30:50
  I guess if you try to use like I have to use work, I can set the,
• 1:30:54
  the laptop language to English, but I can't set office.
• 1:30:57
  So your word, Excel and PowerPoint, I can't change the
• 1:31:00
  languages and those they're all set.
• 1:31:01
  But it's really frustrating. I was really trying to trying to
• 1:31:06
  work in the operating office in a different language is really
• 1:31:09
  difficult. And half the time I've got
• 1:31:11
  because you know when you fuse Word or Excel, you know where
• 1:31:13
  all the options are. There's even the search button
• 1:31:15
  and nowadays to look for stuff, but when it's in the different,
• 1:31:18
  which is really fucking frustrating and difficult.
• 1:31:19
  So much so that I do most of my stuff now online and don't use
• 1:31:23
  office and more I had to try and use Japanese only PlayStation.
• 1:31:27
  If you're not fully fluent I think it'd be quite difficult.
• 1:31:30
  I don't know. The new games mail Japanese as
• 1:31:32
  well. OK, Craig, remember all this
• 1:31:35
  you've. Heard nothing, Craig.
• 1:31:36
  You've heard nothing. Just somebody's peeping around.
• 1:31:41
  Well, perfect timing. OK, done.
• 1:31:43
  Fantastic. Me too.
• 1:31:44
  Great. OK, so we got this.
• 1:31:46
  Is it this one thing to do that been released?
• 1:31:48
  Is that right stuff? Actually, I was just thinking
• 1:31:50
  about that PlayStation screen. I brought it up when we're
• 1:31:53
  talking about it. Oh yeah.
• 1:31:54
  It's really weird it's only a 1440P resolution panel.
• 1:31:57
  Yeah, it's what? What's the refresh rate?
• 1:31:59
  It's really high. Up to two, up to 240 apparently.
• 1:32:02
  But I. Don't have to go for pro games.
• 1:32:04
  Two games. It's, it's weird, isn't it?
• 1:32:06
  Because it kind of makes your point in the question again.
• 1:32:08
  It's just like, well, well, this 4K console then you've
• 1:32:11
  officially bought a screen out yourself that doesn't do 4K.
• 1:32:14
  Yeah. Well, Pacific relational should
• 1:32:16
  be up to 8 PK. Yeah, actually the pro exactly.
• 1:32:19
  So it's like quad high definition IPS for 2650 by 1440
• 1:32:24
  resolution so players can game a comfortable viewing distance
• 1:32:27
  from their desk. That's what they don't.
• 1:32:29
  Maybe that's. Why?
• 1:32:29
  You ever watch Optium tech on YouTube?
• 1:32:32
  He's a he's into PCPC on the peripherals he's printed his own
• 1:32:37
  mouse, gaming mouse. He does a lot of their reviews
• 1:32:39
  on and motors 4K stuff like that.
• 1:32:42
  But he does, he's big into FPS games.
• 1:32:46
  A lot of these monitors he goes for it tend to be really high
• 1:32:48
  refresh rates and going into 300 and something refresh rate, just
• 1:32:52
  try to get the edge and you're playing games like I don't know,
• 1:32:55
  I can see that type of refresh rate being good for PC gaming
• 1:32:57
  and. It's great for that.
• 1:32:59
  I mean, it's great in general. I mean, yeah, PC stuff.
• 1:33:01
  I mean, I can run again. My example I have is the finals,
• 1:33:04
  but I can hit 240 FPS and that no problem at all.
• 1:33:08
  And it does. I guess it makes a difference.
• 1:33:10
  I don't know. I'm too shy to and actually to
• 1:33:13
  make a difference. I don't have the reactions to
• 1:33:14
  that. I am an old person and and I'm
• 1:33:17
  struggle. But I mean, I imagine if you can
• 1:33:19
  do 240, apparently it's better for accuracy, better for gaming
• 1:33:22
  and it gives you an advantage because obviously everyone's not
• 1:33:24
  going to be running at 240 Hertz or 240 frames a second.
• 1:33:28
  But I mean it makes it. I don't know if it makes a
• 1:33:30
  difference or not. I did a game run smoothly for
• 1:33:32
  me, but it's part of it as well. But I'd rather hard lock it to
• 1:33:35
  something so it's like nice and silky moves rather than having
• 1:33:39
  peaks sort of thing. If if you will, but.
• 1:33:41
  Yeah, yeah, I agree with that totally.
• 1:33:43
  If you could take it on. Yeah, it's a lot to run
• 1:33:47
  something 240FPS all the time. I mean 5090 might do it but I
• 1:33:52
  don't have 3 grand to spend on a graphics card.
• 1:33:54
  But I mean I'll get I'll get 300 FPS but you get into a fight
• 1:33:57
  close range of lots of stuff around you that drops to mid 100
• 1:34:00
  and 5000 and 60 which means still not bad but it's not solid
• 1:34:04
  240 don't know. Yeah, it becomes German, doesn't
• 1:34:07
  it? Any kind of FPS on the PC.
• 1:34:12
  You could be up late years ago, up 60 frames per second, used to
• 1:34:15
  be like, you know, the thing to win for.
• 1:34:17
  And if you watch it drop down to 40 or 50 in a little place, it
• 1:34:20
  just send you a bit bonkers. You end up going into the
• 1:34:22
  settings, changing the graphics, messing about, changing line of
• 1:34:26
  this LOD line of distance, wherever it is and you just
• 1:34:30
  spend more time tweaking the game that you would actually
• 1:34:32
  play in the game. That's I mean, that's part of
• 1:34:34
  the fund of APC, right? It's tweaking.
• 1:34:36
  So I get it. I enjoy doing it, tweaking of a
• 1:34:38
  game. But yeah, it's not quite, not
• 1:34:41
  quite. I was looking at because I for
• 1:34:44
  my on my desk, I use ATV as a monitor.
• 1:34:47
  It's a 43 inch TV. It's 4K, not expensive, couple
• 1:34:50
  of £100 and it's absolutely perfect because I have to have
• 1:34:54
  multiple windows open for doing my buying and selling and such
• 1:34:56
  like. So it's the perfect size and 43.
• 1:34:59
  You might think it's too big, but it's actually just nice.
• 1:35:02
  And one thing that itis that I pondered doing the the 42 inch
• 1:35:07
  oil leads last year towards the end of the year when when the
• 1:35:11
  oil leads are going out and the new models coming in, they can
• 1:35:13
  drop drastically in the 42 inch version used to be quite
• 1:35:16
  expensive. And they've got the 40 version
• 1:35:18
  and the 48 inch version, which I think be a bit too big as a
• 1:35:21
  monitor for in on your desk, but you can work.
• 1:35:25
  But the problem is with OLED, you'll get your 144 frames per
• 1:35:29
  second, etcetera, which should be probably perfect for my knee
• 1:35:32
  if I was gaming on it. But the problem is I'm going to
• 1:35:34
  use it as an office tight screen as well.
• 1:35:37
  And if I don't want to burn in all my crazy text and all my
• 1:35:41
  windows are open for multiple hours during the day into the
• 1:35:44
  OLED. So and I actually was looking my
• 1:35:47
  TV that I use here is a Hisense. And for £250, which is almost
• 1:35:51
  like the perfect sort of price to me really, you can go get a
• 1:35:54
  43 inch Hisense and it's 144 Hertz as well.
• 1:35:58
  So for gaming, quite. Impressive.
• 1:36:00
  Yeah, it that's perfect. And plus I'm not going to burn
• 1:36:03
  no images into it. It's it'll either be IPS or LCD,
• 1:36:06
  whichever. But if they go one step further
• 1:36:10
  and make it mini RGB as well and mini LED, sorry, mini LED over
• 1:36:15
  there do believe they will now call mini LED RGB or something
• 1:36:20
  and it will then that would be even better because he starts to
• 1:36:22
  get that decent contrast as well.
• 1:36:24
  So I would probably, if I was getting I think a PC gaming,
• 1:36:27
  I'll probably spend £250 on that particular screen because 144
• 1:36:32
  Hertz, I'd said that's going to give me everything I could
• 1:36:34
  possibly want for the next few years.
• 1:36:36
  And 43 inch that really is takes up your vision.
• 1:36:40
  It's just right. Weeks back I showed the deal on
• 1:36:44
  I think there's a 40 ultra wide. So I've got a 34 ultra wide.
• 1:36:48
  They've got a 40 is with 165 Hertz refreshed on it, 289 lbs.
• 1:36:53
  I mean that is a big panel. I physically cannot fit it on my
• 1:36:56
  desk so I can't buy it because it'll just be ridiculous.
• 1:37:00
  That was a hell of a screen for not a lot of money.
• 1:37:01
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, there used to be top,
• 1:37:04
  top dollar that were like a thing to aspire to.
• 1:37:06
  We're getting a screen that big with that kind of hurts on it.
• 1:37:09
  That was. But you see, that's where like
• 1:37:11
  you were talking about 50 nineties as well.
• 1:37:13
  You go back, you go by these better monitors, Lynn, now you
• 1:37:16
  need a better graphics card. You probably need a better
• 1:37:18
  process it as well to push the graphics card, because if the
• 1:37:20
  process is a bottleneck, vice versa, it all gets a little bit
• 1:37:24
  bonkers, you know? So yeah, PC can be a very
• 1:37:28
  expensive experience if you want it to be.
• 1:37:30
  But then again, that's where there's the new Steam Machine
• 1:37:34
  might just come in and you know, yeah, absolutely.
• 1:37:44
  I thought about a lot of two more back in the thought about
• 1:37:47
  widescreen monitor that I used to came up my PlayStation.
• 1:37:51
  PlayStation will not respond. Will not respect widescreen
• 1:37:54
  monitors they just because as I said.
• 1:37:56
  No, it won't do ultra wide. No the Max the Max resolution it
• 1:38:00
  will do is is 1440 years. That's why Sony have said it at
• 1:38:05
  that 1440 years the widest you can get on if you're trying to
• 1:38:08
  ultra wide with extended to 3440.
• 1:38:10
  It's not a native resolution, they've said it to.
• 1:38:13
  Yeah, but. Showed up a nice black bar down
• 1:38:15
  your side. Yeah.
• 1:38:17
  That said, it took two years for the PC developers to actually
• 1:38:21
  start making games. Games that would run in ultra
• 1:38:23
  wide when I first got it when I was 40th birthday, so 3 odd
• 1:38:26
  years ago. Eventually the game's on that.
• 1:38:29
  So many games that didn't have it on their native and you have
• 1:38:31
  to do you have anything stretched or naffed up
• 1:38:34
  interfaces and stuff because it just couldn't work it out.
• 1:38:37
  I know Diablo, Diablo 2 Resurrected, Resurrected, sorry
• 1:38:41
  when they bought it out because it was coded off the original
• 1:38:44
  engine to all intents and purposes in the background.
• 1:38:46
  You couldn't run it ultra wide because the game it couldn't
• 1:38:49
  work out like you were, so it couldn't mob you.
• 1:38:51
  So they could run it in ultra white.
• 1:38:53
  They only run it in 1440 rather than ultra white, so the game
• 1:38:57
  physically couldn't support it. A lot of stuff now does support
• 1:38:59
  it and I'm very happy it does because Ultra wide is bloody
• 1:39:02
  amazing as far as gaming goes to the field of vision on stuff is
• 1:39:05
  incredible. Yeah.
• 1:39:07
  Immersion with us, yeah. Absolutely.
• 1:39:09
  So right. We're going next this year's,
• 1:39:11
  this year's, no this month's releases.
• 1:39:13
  Is that what we're looking at as far as stuff goes for for
• 1:39:16
  November? And so we are looking halfway
• 1:39:17
  through it. Yeah.
• 1:39:20
  I'm going through the Kotaku Bible for the month of what
• 1:39:23
  stuff they got coming out. There's a few things I'm looking
• 1:39:26
  at here, like with movies, to be honest with you, with me, it's
• 1:39:28
  just like the stuff that's there.
• 1:39:30
  I'm going, what the hell is that?
• 1:39:32
  A game called Quarantine Zone Last check which is PC only,
• 1:39:35
  which apparently is an indie hot press in zombie research
• 1:39:39
  something don't know. One of the games that's coming
• 1:39:41
  out on PlayStation and Xbox and PCs Siberia, the remastered
• 1:39:45
  version, which is a bit of a classic, yeah, a bit of a
• 1:39:48
  classic PC game. I didn't, I've never really
• 1:39:51
  played. It's a game that sort of passed
• 1:39:52
  me by, but based on watching on YouTube the remastered version
• 1:39:57
  and Al the vid Hanster etcetera, I think it'd be a sort of game I
• 1:40:00
  would like to have a go at. Long time ago, the original
• 1:40:04
  version long time ago and I lost my save, so I never went back to
• 1:40:08
  it. So that's that's the that's the
• 1:40:10
  worst thing you. Lose a save?
• 1:40:12
  Yeah. That's.
• 1:40:13
  My pet hair ace. Any loss of save just a
• 1:40:17
  nightmare. Football Manager came out as
• 1:40:19
  well, didn't it? But it's the beta version, so
• 1:40:22
  it's obviously, he said, a massively delayed launch as well
• 1:40:25
  because they cancelled last year.
• 1:40:29
  But yeah, Football Manager, but they're saying that it's, I know
• 1:40:32
  it's not right. You know, it's still not working
• 1:40:34
  as it should be really. But it's the beta version.
• 1:40:37
  So. But I think they were pretty
• 1:40:38
  much their arms were a little bit forced into release.
• 1:40:40
  And if they did release it, well, then you might as well
• 1:40:42
  miss another year because the football season will have
• 1:40:44
  finished. What's the point in releasing it
• 1:40:47
  so? They made massive noise about it
• 1:40:53
  and people I know who love spreadsheets that make lots of
• 1:40:56
  noise over it as well, because it's pretty much what it is.
• 1:40:59
  But I mean, yeah, I didn't realise it would come out as a
• 1:41:01
  beta state. That's a bit.
• 1:41:02
  Yeah, well, Kevin, the guy from the Chalk Game Podcast, Kevin
• 1:41:07
  Chapman, I couldn't remember his name earlier, he pretty much
• 1:41:11
  makes a living from doing Football Manager and streams and
• 1:41:14
  sort of like and for a whole year.
• 1:41:16
  So basically, you know, kind of cut.
• 1:41:19
  It's probably his income enough because he had to pivot onto
• 1:41:22
  doing other things, which he did.
• 1:41:23
  He started doing Lego building things, a few travel videos as
• 1:41:27
  well. And luckily that's, you know,
• 1:41:29
  seeing him through. I don't think he's gone without
• 1:41:31
  etcetera, but I think he's had a big hit.
• 1:41:33
  So he was absolutely buzzing that the game was coming out and
• 1:41:37
  one of the podcasts and then the following podcast, he were
• 1:41:39
  pretty much saying that, yeah, it isn't a bit of a big affairs
• 1:41:42
  and you can see what they're trying to do, but it's not kind
• 1:41:46
  of working perfectly. It sounds like as if they try to
• 1:41:48
  squeeze it so it works perfectly our console via control, but
• 1:41:54
  that's not translated so well to the PC guys because it's too
• 1:41:58
  clunky for them. Whereas the previously it was a
• 1:42:01
  bit clunky in a console because it wasn't really designed with a
• 1:42:04
  controller in mind. So they're kind of like, it is
• 1:42:07
  somewhere in the middle where I don't think, yeah, no one's
• 1:42:10
  really happy. And also they.
• 1:42:12
  Used to have. I heard they used to have two
• 1:42:14
  versions more or less. They had a PC, like a console
• 1:42:17
  version. What they've put out now is just
• 1:42:18
  the one version to try and get us both and everybody's a bit
• 1:42:22
  pissed. Yeah, that's the oldest saying
• 1:42:24
  the book. He can please some people, but
• 1:42:26
  he can't please all the people all of the time.
• 1:42:27
  Can. Yeah, Yeah, Somebody you can
• 1:42:29
  play some of the people some of the time.
• 1:42:31
  Yeah. So it seems like.
• 1:42:33
  Yeah, well, they've got to get it right on, but basically.
• 1:42:36
  Yeah, screwed. Up What were we doing?
• 1:42:40
  But easy to put together. That's probably not the back end
• 1:42:44
  of ends, but. What about that as well, the
• 1:42:46
  Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition? Did you hear about the
• 1:42:49
  controversy about that? What 4 round fallout?
• 1:42:51
  No, I didn't know. Yeah, well, the Fallout 4
• 1:42:54
  Anniversary editions just come out.
• 1:42:56
  If you already own the best version of the game, well then
• 1:43:00
  you can just buy what they call the creator Adam, which
• 1:43:03
  basically allows you to have extra different mods and such
• 1:43:06
  like to the game and you don't have to rebuy the DLC if you've
• 1:43:10
  already buy it. But people are complaining like
• 1:43:12
  mad saying it's broken. Obviously all the mods, you know
• 1:43:14
  like he's a big modding communities, the fallout
• 1:43:16
  communities. So they're all complaining about
• 1:43:18
  the mods. People are complaining about the
• 1:43:20
  price because if you want to buy the game now or grace where I
• 1:43:23
  would suggest because the game's been out for like 10 years or
• 1:43:27
  there about that. You could have probably bought
• 1:43:30
  this on loaded or CD keys like the complete edition of all
• 1:43:33
  downloads, excluding the new bit that just added on which is
• 1:43:36
  which is a creator mode for probably about £8 if not less.
• 1:43:40
  You know, because it's been out so long, maybe even a however,
• 1:43:44
  all of a sudden now it's 5999 and they haven't really changed
• 1:43:48
  a great deal. All they've done is added on my
• 1:43:50
  creator mode. You know, I mean, don't get me
• 1:43:52
  wrong, I know for them, I like the game.
• 1:43:55
  I think it's an excellent game and he plays brilliantly on a
• 1:43:57
  steam deck and I've no complaints about the game, but
• 1:44:00
  I'd be a bit myth if I if I was going to be buying it now and
• 1:44:03
  all of a sudden it's to quit, you know, even by previously
• 1:44:06
  like so yeah, sounds a bit of a shame.
• 1:44:08
  Is that as well? But the scene, so even Fallout
• 1:44:11
  76, which I think it's an excellent game, had a really
• 1:44:15
  rough launch etcetera. And they generally do with these
• 1:44:19
  Fallout games. They do the start off in chalk
• 1:44:23
  control controversy. I can't say a word.
• 1:44:25
  So the other start off like that, you know, they just do not
• 1:44:29
  do that. Everyone hates it to begin with.
• 1:44:31
  It's just not, you know, well optimised etcetera.
• 1:44:34
  So but yeah, but obviously they're actually shed loads of
• 1:44:38
  money off them them games now, because obviously the new
• 1:44:40
  Fallout season on T VS coming out, which I massively enjoyed
• 1:44:44
  Fallout and Amazon was amazing, absolutely amazing.
• 1:44:47
  What a show. I mean, you would think that how
• 1:44:50
  well could it translate to the screen that but perfectly,
• 1:44:54
  absolutely perfectly so. Yes, Walter Coggins was
• 1:44:57
  brilliant. Yeah, brilliant.
• 1:44:59
  Really good show. I'm just.
• 1:45:00
  I'm looking through the stuff that's coming out as a game in
• 1:45:02
  there called Egging On that seems to be a physics simulator
• 1:45:05
  around chicken eggs. I just went to go and do a
• 1:45:07
  search for it on YouTube and it's just like there's a world
• 1:45:09
  record of completing it in like 20 minutes or something already,
• 1:45:13
  you know? Oh, OK.
• 1:45:15
  I I'm looking through the list and there's a couple of guests
• 1:45:18
  come out for Switch 2 which kind of sums up Switch 2 at the
• 1:45:20
  moment really and Yakuza Kawami 1 and the use Yakuza Kawami 2
• 1:45:26
  which are those? I can't remember the name of the
• 1:45:29
  game, what series is it from now?
• 1:45:33
  The series basically. You know the Yakuza games well.
• 1:45:37
  Like a dragon. Yeah, like a Dragon, but it's
• 1:45:40
  the previous ones to them. I mean, really, they're not even
• 1:45:43
  new releases. All they're going to be is sort
• 1:45:46
  of like book breast, blah blah blah.
• 1:45:48
  That doesn't play very well. Switch to it's not getting
• 1:45:51
  anything any love, not any like dedicated twitch to games and
• 1:45:55
  it's. Kind of turned into this all
• 1:45:57
  work now machine, isn't it really a little bit?
• 1:46:00
  You will get you will get dips. So you're 34 into second games.
• 1:46:03
  Oh, fantastic. I'm glad I paid all that money
• 1:46:06
  for a new switch too. So you know, and I think people
• 1:46:09
  have also started to understand there's not a lot of real need
• 1:46:12
  to change from a switch to a switch to right now.
• 1:46:14
  Maybe in two or three years time when they've really got some
• 1:46:17
  that's switched, you know, they might bring out the new Zelda
• 1:46:20
  game or something. I say I'm sorry, guys.
• 1:46:23
  It was either, you know, be the best game possible ever on
• 1:46:26
  switch to the cap release on switch one.
• 1:46:28
  We're really, really sorry about that.
• 1:46:30
  That might be in two or three years time.
• 1:46:32
  The what? Nintendo what?
• 1:46:33
  Just do that right now. So that'd be the only time to
• 1:46:36
  really have to switch across to another machine.
• 1:46:39
  And even then, if you so decide, you could probably emulate the
• 1:46:42
  Switch to no problem in any case or whatever.
• 1:46:46
  It's a shame. I don't think they're getting
• 1:46:48
  treated particularly well with Switch to releases.
• 1:46:51
  I think they're being a bit shafted really.
• 1:46:55
  I keep thinking, oh, there's more Steve, there's more sorry,
• 1:46:58
  more switch to releases this month.
• 1:46:59
  I wonder, oh, it's just something else again.
• 1:47:01
  Like, OK, Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 phenomenal games, but come on,
• 1:47:06
  they're just very that's not even switch games.
• 1:47:08
  That's a E game. Yeah, let's go back even
• 1:47:10
  further. So it's it's just to be odd.
• 1:47:13
  It's a strange. It feels like it's lost as a
• 1:47:14
  console. I mean, I haven't heard of
• 1:47:16
  anything great come out. Every advertisement is Donkey
• 1:47:18
  Kong. It's still now it's like 3-4
• 1:47:20
  months later. Anything gone television is even
• 1:47:23
  Mario Kart, Donkey Kong, it's like, well, where's everything
• 1:47:25
  else? I mean, at least the Switch one
• 1:47:26
  came out and I had games that no one had ever heard of, but it
• 1:47:29
  was making use of the hardware. So like games like Arms and it
• 1:47:32
  was just like the arms on bungee cords thing and it was fighting
• 1:47:35
  game. But it was really decent because
• 1:47:36
  it just showed off what the Switch was.
• 1:47:38
  I know, yeah, it's a little bit disappointing.
• 1:47:40
  It kind of pushes me further away from wanting a Switch too,
• 1:47:43
  and goes to that whole just, yeah, an OLED thing because I've
• 1:47:46
  got a massive library of stuff that was great anyway.
• 1:47:48
  I mean, just play on a nicer screen.
• 1:47:50
  People are still complaining about the switch to in the
• 1:47:52
  respect of the screen. Although it is a very nice big
• 1:47:55
  screen. It's it's slurry.
• 1:47:57
  You know the, but I can't remember the correct phrase for
• 1:48:00
  the. All the time, yeah, they refresh
• 1:48:03
  and everything can the yeah, the refreshing.
• 1:48:06
  Yeah, it's pretty poor. And also the battery life, it's
• 1:48:09
  not very good at all. It's, it's almost, it's not step
• 1:48:11
  backwards, it's a step forward, but with other things being a
• 1:48:14
  step backwards, you know, it should have perhaps come out of
• 1:48:17
  an OLED screen, but perhaps it couldn't have been at that price
• 1:48:19
  point. And the battery life probably
• 1:48:21
  would have been better for an OLED screen.
• 1:48:23
  That's generally one of the advantages of an OLED screen is
• 1:48:26
  that you do get better battery performance.
• 1:48:29
  So you're not listening to Nintendo, but come on, give us
• 1:48:32
  some decent first party titles basically.
• 1:48:34
  I mean, Metroid I'm excited about.
• 1:48:36
  As long as they do a really good job of that, the new Metroid
• 1:48:38
  Prime game should be pretty amazing.
• 1:48:40
  I haven't played a Metroid Prime game that isn't fantastic.
• 1:48:43
  So I mean, that's been quite a big thing.
• 1:48:45
  But a lot of the stuff you see, and that's the only exciting
• 1:48:48
  thing I've had on my Nintendo announcements from YouTube in
• 1:48:50
  the last three months is is Metroid Prime.
• 1:48:53
  And it's just like, I can't wait for that to come out.
• 1:48:54
  That's been saying it's going to happen since Metroid Prime 3 on
• 1:48:57
  the Wii, so and hasn't. So thank goodness it is.
• 1:49:00
  But yeah, so it'll be disappointing for the Switch,
• 1:49:02
  too. I mean, hopefully we'll get to
• 1:49:04
  have a month where it looks exciting for it.
• 1:49:05
  Bless it, to be honest with you. But I mean, yeah.
• 1:49:09
  I won't knock the Nintendo in the respect of them being, you
• 1:49:13
  know, they do their own thing and they do their own thing very
• 1:49:16
  well. The Zelda games, Mario games, no
• 1:49:19
  complaints. I mean, even if they only ever
• 1:49:22
  released Zelda and Mario games on a switch to potentially it is
• 1:49:25
  worth buying just for them games, you know, for them
• 1:49:27
  exclusives. It's well worth buying in that
• 1:49:29
  respect. But yeah, it's not good, not not
• 1:49:32
  not exciting if I don't think release wise.
• 1:49:35
  What's the space? So if you don't reach 2, you're
• 1:49:42
  in luck still at this point. What was I just scroll past now.
• 1:49:46
  Oh, the last caretaker. That looked quite cool.
• 1:49:48
  I mean, did I send you the trailer with that?
• 1:49:50
  It's kind of like you're the last robot on Earth and you're
• 1:49:52
  on an oil rig and you're the last robot running and the last
• 1:49:56
  thing on earth effectively. And you tried to create things
• 1:49:59
  out of scrap, I think, to then create a rocket to start the
• 1:50:02
  world again sort of thing is the intention.
• 1:50:05
  It does look quite cool I think. Well, I've heard.
• 1:50:07
  I've heard of this reason. That's what you did.
• 1:50:09
  Send it. Yeah, it looks good.
• 1:50:11
  Yeah, it does look quite pretty. It's almost like a Portal style
• 1:50:13
  game. It's the kind of feeling I get
• 1:50:14
  from it. Portal meets Alex, the VR game
• 1:50:19
  that was on the Steam stuff. You kind of got to go around and
• 1:50:22
  you scraps and build things up. Oh yes, you did send this, yeah.
• 1:50:25
  And that's just being released as well, isn't it?
• 1:50:27
  The new Call of Duty game, Which I haven't delved into what what
• 1:50:32
  the controversy is, but allegedly the story like the
• 1:50:36
  campaign mode, not the camp. Yeah, the campaign mode.
• 1:50:38
  The story version is meant to be ridiculous.
• 1:50:41
  I'm not sure what's ridiculous about it, but this seems to have
• 1:50:44
  caused some uproar. So.
• 1:50:47
  Is it like 5 minutes long? I'm like all the ones I don't.
• 1:50:49
  Know he's probably, he's probably just ridiculous, yeah.
• 1:50:56
  The campaign is set in 2035 and follows a team of agents.
• 1:50:59
  Continuing narrative from previous titles, Players engaged
• 1:51:02
  in various missions to explore all the aftermath of the events
• 1:51:05
  of Black Ops 2K game. Thing has capitated 11 missions
• 1:51:08
  for the first time. It will feature shared
• 1:51:10
  progression system with multiplayer and zombie modes.
• 1:51:12
  It means the experience points gained in one will be shared in
• 1:51:15
  the other. Dynamic difficulty integration
• 1:51:17
  with multiplayer. The final mission of the
• 1:51:19
  campaign will transition into a multiplayer experience, allowing
• 1:51:21
  up to 32 players to participate in a shared environment.
• 1:51:24
  I mean, I mean, it doesn't sound horrendous.
• 1:51:26
  I mean, it's the fact that you all come together for a
• 1:51:28
  collaborative goal at the end of the career feels quite good.
• 1:51:32
  Yeah, I think it's more people complain, you know, that have
• 1:51:35
  played it. So I'm not sure how it plays
• 1:51:38
  out. It might be really wouldn't have
• 1:51:40
  seen or like, you know, a terrible voice acting.
• 1:51:42
  I don't know what the what the actual issue are, but I did
• 1:51:45
  flick by some Youtubes and stuff and they were moaning.
• 1:51:48
  But you know, you could tell a moment about type video sort of
• 1:51:51
  thing. Oh my God.
• 1:51:52
  OK yeah I just literally read the first line.
• 1:51:55
  Problems of fans are having a single player or technical ones
• 1:51:57
  mainly relating to the games across a bit screen always
• 1:52:00
  online nature. For example, when playing solo,
• 1:52:03
  you cannot pause the campaign at any point.
• 1:52:05
  Perhaps worse, there appears to be no checkpoint, no
• 1:52:08
  checkpointing at all, so if you die, you restart the mission
• 1:52:11
  completely. Yeah, I don't like that.
• 1:52:13
  Going back to the beginning, I like a checkpoint.
• 1:52:15
  You've got to have a checkpoint. I mean, I can sometimes commend
• 1:52:18
  the game because of the amount of checkpoints that's in a game.
• 1:52:21
  And so to have no checkpoints on a mission where you could get
• 1:52:23
  destroyed, I'm a bit like. I mean, that's no, no
• 1:52:27
  checkpoint. I mean, it's good, Yeah.
• 1:52:28
  Checkpoints kind of give you almost an element of tenseness
• 1:52:31
  to the game where you have to try and get to that checkpoint,
• 1:52:33
  otherwise you are screwed, which I think is is quite nice.
• 1:52:36
  Yeah, that's weird. It's a strange decision from
• 1:52:38
  their part to completely remove that.
• 1:52:40
  People are complaining about the lack of AI companions.
• 1:52:43
  Even when you're playing solo, you have to engage in the game's
• 1:52:46
  online lobbies to enter a campaign.
• 1:52:48
  The campaign itself has also come under fire.
• 1:52:50
  Activation made it no secret the game's story would be exploring
• 1:52:53
  some of the most more surreal territory, but players aren't
• 1:52:57
  too pleased with the actual missions and content.
• 1:52:59
  God knows what they've done, To be honest with you, it seems
• 1:53:02
  that in the worst ways possible, Battlefield has gone here.
• 1:53:05
  Here's Battlefield, but exceptionally good and up to
• 1:53:08
  date and could have gone. Look, we've all been on horse
• 1:53:11
  tranquillizers for the weekend, so that seems to be what they've
• 1:53:13
  gone with it. It used to be like that though,
• 1:53:16
  didn't it? Where one year wouldn't be good
• 1:53:18
  and then the next year the other one would be good and it would
• 1:53:21
  have a bit of a. Vice versa.
• 1:53:22
  Thing going off. Wasn't it Battlefield 3 was
• 1:53:24
  great and then Cobb was naff? Wasn't called the one where it
• 1:53:28
  was the Advanced Warfare 1 where it was futuristic?
• 1:53:30
  Weirdly enough that really sucked and then the next year
• 1:53:34
  Battlefield 4 was OK but not that much better than
• 1:53:37
  Battlefield 3 and then COD got it right.
• 1:53:39
  I can't remember I the problem is I've never really been
• 1:53:41
  invested enough in either of them.
• 1:53:43
  I like Battlefield but I haven't played a COD game.
• 1:53:46
  I really enjoyed it probably since Black Ops one.
• 1:53:48
  Maybe the single player stuff went downhill fast and that was
• 1:53:51
  more the draw for me than the the multiplayer side of it,
• 1:53:54
  which is probably people have probably shouted me about that
• 1:53:57
  because that's not an in the spirit of Call of Duty anymore.
• 1:53:59
  But have you ever? Have you both played the Call of
• 1:54:01
  Duty Modern Warfare there one. So COD4, the campaign on that
• 1:54:06
  was exceptional and so was Modern Warfare 2.
• 1:54:08
  Both really, really good. And that's still, that's still
• 1:54:11
  the pinnacle of Call of Duty games.
• 1:54:13
  I think for me, the Modern Warfare remake is meant to be
• 1:54:17
  decent, which I haven't played yet, I have to admit, but it's
• 1:54:19
  now available to us because of Game Pass.
• 1:54:23
  But yeah, I would go back and play the COD4 campaign again.
• 1:54:25
  I remember that being absolutely epic.
• 1:54:27
  The bit with the Guinea suit when you're going through
• 1:54:28
  Chernobyl and the grass and stuff was was amazing on.
• 1:54:31
  Yeah, I love those that series of games I did play online as
• 1:54:35
  well. The modding scene in the
• 1:54:37
  community was really good. We had one that's the reskinned
• 1:54:40
  the whole game as it was a Mosley with the Star Wars mostly
• 1:54:45
  mostly this one this the play this really we skinned the whole
• 1:54:49
  thing as as that time and it really cool wasn't German
• 1:54:52
  mothers to the I loved called back then and then went
• 1:54:56
  battlefield Battlefield 3, but after that sort of fell off
• 1:54:59
  another PC back into them yeah. Yeah, yeah, of Banjo Kazooie.
• 1:55:14
  They've now they've now new curve replayedly.
• 1:55:17
  I've got the original version, it's good.
• 1:55:19
  Yeah, me too. Yeah, it's a good game and.
• 1:55:21
  They seem to have remastered that now in 4K.
• 1:55:24
  So yeah, the the stupid thing is it's just like, oh, you get it
• 1:55:28
  for like 3 LB cheaper. If you own the original, you're
• 1:55:30
  like, oh come on, it's like it's a 25 LB game still.
• 1:55:33
  My most important question for that would be because I've not
• 1:55:37
  played extensively, I must have. Maybe I've put 6-7 hours into
• 1:55:39
  it. Can I use my original save?
• 1:55:42
  If I can't use my original save, I ain't going to buy it.
• 1:55:45
  I sort of thing I pick up on it from loaded or aware of CD keys
• 1:55:49
  from NBC 3 or 4 lbs in sale like 12 months time when it's dropped
• 1:55:54
  through the floor of the price. But if I got used my previous
• 1:55:56
  save, I'm just not going to do it.
• 1:55:58
  I'm not, I'm not got that big an incentive to stay all the way
• 1:56:01
  from the beginning. Again, you know it's not going
• 1:56:03
  to happen. I love Banjo Kazooie and Banjo
• 1:56:07
  Tooie off the N64 and I've got a decent way through it but never
• 1:56:11
  finished it, so I'd be exactly the same boat as you if it
• 1:56:13
  forces me to drop whatever it is 5-6 hours of game time now.
• 1:56:16
  You're all right. I just, I just won't bother
• 1:56:18
  going with it. I'll play it.
• 1:56:20
  The slightly worse graphics on the Steam Deck where it still
• 1:56:22
  looks lovely. Thanks.
• 1:56:22
  That'll do, yeah. And looks, yes, on the Steam
• 1:56:24
  Deck, he plays wonderfully. You can turn you can turn it up
• 1:56:27
  pretty high, no issues at all. These are a couple of these, a
• 1:56:31
  couple these a couple of games are on switch to this month as
• 1:56:34
  you've got hades still coming out, but I dare say that could
• 1:56:36
  have been on Switch 1. The new hail and high rule
• 1:56:40
  warriors that I don't like them kind of Zelda games are not a
• 1:56:44
  big fan of that wages killing in lots of mobs.
• 1:56:48
  Was it Dynasty Warriors? It's based off.
• 1:56:50
  That's right, isn't it? Yeah, I don't like that they're
• 1:56:52
  not Michael Patil, unfortunately, themselves to
• 1:56:54
  games. One game that's coming out on
• 1:56:56
  PlayStation, which was an Xbox exclusive, and I've played it on
• 1:56:59
  Xbox because I played it on Game Pass STALKER 2.
• 1:57:02
  How are Chernobyl's coming out on PlayStation 5, which is a
• 1:57:06
  game I would like to maybe get my teeth in.
• 1:57:09
  So it looks like my kind of game does that.
• 1:57:11
  I'd like to go back to those. I mean, I mean, we spoke about
• 1:57:13
  at the start of the year when they were really cheap for the
• 1:57:16
  pair or the first one or whatever it was.
• 1:57:17
  And I was like, oh, that's gutting.
• 1:57:19
  Because I remember playing it on the PC when it first came out
• 1:57:22
  and my machine was probably like, I don't know, a tenth of
• 1:57:24
  the power of what it is now when it's struggled so much with it.
• 1:57:27
  Their original engine was a bit of a mess, to be honest with
• 1:57:30
  you, and it wasn't even that great looking, but it murdered
• 1:57:32
  PCs all over the shot and crashed, and I never really put
• 1:57:35
  enough time into it. So I mean, the temptation to go
• 1:57:37
  back and play the original 1, whatever the shadow of this was
• 1:57:40
  the first one called. Is that shadow of your novel?
• 1:57:43
  Yeah. I've got them all on PlayStation
• 1:57:45
  five. There was a glitch when it first
• 1:57:47
  got released, it went to be £30 for all the three games but
• 1:57:50
  there were a glitch where you could get all three games for a
• 1:57:53
  tenner. It will like a hot UK deals or
• 1:57:55
  something. And it was like.
• 1:57:57
  For like about a 24 hour period. So you either buy it, you didn't
• 1:58:01
  and I go three games for like a tenner.
• 1:58:03
  So so but it did change that. But I believe now it's part of
• 1:58:07
  PlayStation Premium in any case now based on the amount of time
• 1:58:11
  I've put into them. But it just went well now with
• 1:58:15
  with the controller because like you, I've played it originally
• 1:58:17
  on the console. But it was meant to be a game
• 1:58:20
  where you really needed to do a lot of modding to get the best
• 1:58:22
  out of it. You know, if you wanted to play
• 1:58:24
  it today and enjoy it today and you wanted to do a lot of
• 1:58:27
  modding is, you know, on the list that you think looks good
• 1:58:30
  there, Brian? The main game I would love to
• 1:58:32
  play some that just came out is 1000 X Resist or 1000 times
• 1:58:37
  Resist. Yeah, it came out on PC last
• 1:58:40
  year. Other people's best of for the
• 1:58:43
  year it it looks good it's supposed to be amazing I really
• 1:58:47
  want to try it I'll. Think of that a quick Google,
• 1:58:49
  because it's a title or a name I'd have just passed me by if
• 1:58:52
  you never mentioned it. I've got enough memory now, but
• 1:58:58
  you play a character, does it? Apocalypse doesn't mean you
• 1:59:02
  playing a character. You're you're basically old
• 1:59:04
  clones. So you you're the only person
• 1:59:06
  who survived or you're the person who the original person
• 1:59:09
  was the only person who survived the actual calamity.
• 1:59:12
  And you've all got different roles each.
• 1:59:14
  So somebody might be the librarians like something else.
• 1:59:17
  And that's what their character is the role.
• 1:59:19
  I've no idea what happens the game, but everybody keeps raving
• 1:59:21
  that there's been a really good narrative story.
• 1:59:25
  Again, I'm really strictly to remember that.
• 1:59:27
  But I think the people who made this, it was during COVID, they
• 1:59:31
  were all all in the city and they together artists or actors
• 1:59:38
  from a theatre group, the script and all the voice acting.
• 1:59:40
  So the voice acting in the games.
• 1:59:42
  Yeah. I must admit, don't know much
• 1:59:44
  more. I'm watching it now on Steam
• 1:59:46
  because that's where it's it's available on PC and it gets
• 1:59:49
  overwhelming. The positive reviews, it came
• 1:59:51
  out like 7 PC originally like a year ago and the videos that
• 1:59:54
  they're showing, they say it's groundbreaking.
• 1:59:57
  It's a game I would never even have never even have entered my
• 2:00:01
  vision and to to like give it a go.
• 2:00:04
  So yeah, thanks for mentioning that.
• 2:00:05
  I would never ever considered that one.
• 2:00:07
  That does look good. I'll put on my I've got a bit of
• 2:00:09
  a listing of what I would like to play, you know, in in the
• 2:00:14
  beginning of next year. So yeah, 21st fantastic, yeah.
• 2:00:17
  Yeah, that's one game I really, really, really look.
• 2:00:19
  I'm look forward to being that. I was so upset when that wasn't
• 2:00:22
  on PlayStation. No, it wasn't on console, but
• 2:00:26
  I'm forgetting. Well, it's like 1699 on PCs, so
• 2:00:30
  potentially it's only like 1699 on PlayStation.
• 2:00:33
  I've not checked. I mean, I'll type in.
• 2:00:34
  Let's have a little look. It might be a pretty cheap game,
• 2:00:37
  which is always nice, isn't it? When they're releasing a game
• 2:00:40
  and it's, you know, it's not 4056.
• 2:00:42
  I mean, based on its reviews, if it's 1699, it's the sort of game
• 2:00:46
  you think, well, I'll give that a go, so let's type.
• 2:00:48
  It Yeah, yeah, I bet we're. Back for you that's.
• 2:00:50
  Good for $70. Yeah, 1599 on PlayStation.
• 2:00:54
  It's a number. You don't.
• 2:00:56
  Even mind buying it digitally, right?
• 2:00:58
  Yeah, that's good, good. Opposite end of the spectrum to
• 2:01:00
  Battlefield, which the guys at work said, oh, you should get
• 2:01:02
  Battlefield. It's it's brilliant, It's really
• 2:01:04
  good at. How much is it 6999?
• 2:01:07
  Sorry, that's not happening. I'm not spending £70 on a
• 2:01:09
  computer game. I can't do that.
• 2:01:13
  Paying £100 for GTA6, that's what they're.
• 2:01:15
  Talking about the first, I'll wait it out, Wait it out, to be
• 2:01:19
  honest. That would be such a great game
• 2:01:21
  to play. You know, we mentioned GTA 6
• 2:01:24
  being released end of next year, so anybody who's thinking about
• 2:01:28
  doing this next year, don't worry about 6027.
• 2:01:32
  So you won't have to worry about the form of missing out on GTA
• 2:01:35
  Six, Yeah? Next year you probably have last
• 2:01:43
  year to work off for the next 12 months.
• 2:01:46
  Yeah, that's, I don't know. That's about the only game I'm
• 2:01:49
  really looking forward to. It does look good.
• 2:01:52
  It was at the end of last month, which was a game called
• 2:01:53
  Recreation that was coming out, which is made by Three Fields
• 2:01:57
  Entertainment, who used to be part of the people who left
• 2:02:01
  Criterion Studios. They were all the guys that
• 2:02:04
  designed all the Burnout games, if you ever played them years
• 2:02:06
  ago. I loved Burnout.
• 2:02:08
  It was a quality, really, really good franchise and they've tried
• 2:02:11
  to make two games since and they've made Dangerous Driving,
• 2:02:14
  which was Nah and really disappointing, and this one
• 2:02:17
  promised an absolute load. It's taken 2 years to come out
• 2:02:20
  and it's come out and it's completely Nah, so I'm glad I've
• 2:02:23
  missed that one and didn't spend money on it.
• 2:02:24
  That was gutting, but good at the same time.
• 2:02:27
  That's a little application still RECK.
• 2:02:30
  Yeah, yeah, apparently it's good and it has all the kind of the
• 2:02:34
  good bits of burnout what it was, and it follows this with
• 2:02:37
  the proper style of a burnout game, but then it's completely
• 2:02:39
  flat after that, which is exactly the same problem that
• 2:02:42
  Dangerous Driving had. It was literally just, it played
• 2:02:45
  like an old burnout game from the GameCube.
• 2:02:47
  Great, but I'm not going to pay you current money for it.
• 2:02:49
  Shame really. They could have done something
• 2:02:51
  decent with it. Would either of you have been
• 2:02:52
  interested in The Outer Worlds too?
• 2:02:54
  Yeah, definitely the first one. I finished the first one, Loved
• 2:02:57
  it. Loved it.
• 2:02:58
  Yeah, yeah, really enjoyed it. It's well worth playing.
• 2:03:03
  I'm definitely want to play it, though.
• 2:03:04
  Thereby kind of getting Borderlands for our Wells to
• 2:03:06
  shoot. Issue is, you know, yeah,
• 2:03:09
  definitely. I can't wait to to play that.
• 2:03:12
  I just always get mixed up with the other wells.
• 2:03:15
  Yeah, I did all the time when it first came out.
• 2:03:17
  It's a totally different game as well, but allegedly a very, very
• 2:03:20
  good game. It's meant to entirely read The
• 2:03:23
  Outer Wild. I played this, finished it and I
• 2:03:26
  will never push that again. Again.
• 2:03:28
  It is the puzzle so difficult. It's really difficult.
• 2:03:32
  I also had a there's a section the game missed before as you
• 2:03:36
  have to drive, you have to fly a spacecraft through any area.
• 2:03:40
  Set it up to fly and not just the controls because every time
• 2:03:44
  you move to get the enemies would spot you attack you
• 2:03:47
  basically. But I actually, yeah,
• 2:03:49
  controller. So I fight the controller just
• 2:03:51
  like to try and get through this.
• 2:03:52
  So many times I did this, take controller blowing it to try and
• 2:03:56
  clean this go again. It took me ages to get finished
• 2:03:59
  that game. There is an expansion to it as
• 2:04:01
  well. It's supposed to be really,
• 2:04:02
  really good. But I keep saying really, really
• 2:04:04
  exceptionally good, but I'm not good here.
• 2:04:06
  It just it takes too much brain power for me.
• 2:04:12
  It was this month was that escape from Duck of whatever you
• 2:04:15
  said, but I haven't really looked into that much.
• 2:04:17
  I'm not sure when that came out, that is.
• 2:04:20
  I thought you said it was this month last but I could be wrong.
• 2:04:23
  Strangely enough, when I look through November, although my
• 2:04:26
  gaming radar is perhaps not as tuned as what would normally be
• 2:04:30
  if I was looking at whatever's coming next, you know, film of
• 2:04:35
  like I would be normally like in a regular year.
• 2:04:37
  It's not exactly an outstanding November, is it really?
• 2:04:40
  There seems to be a lot of indie stuff in there.
• 2:04:42
  Yeah, there's obviously some big titles, but I'm, I'm waiting
• 2:04:46
  through. I mean, I'm on your own games
• 2:04:48
  and they do put all the indie games and all the piece, all the
• 2:04:51
  little PC games as well. But I'm waiting through the
• 2:04:53
  listing them. I'm a little bit pushed to kind
• 2:04:56
  of pick some out that I'm, you know, desperately like, would
• 2:04:59
  want to play really. I mean the migration was kind of
• 2:05:02
  yeah, that was one last month, I think again, I sent you a
• 2:05:08
  trailer off. I think it was delayed till this
• 2:05:11
  month that Absalom, whatever it's called, which is like a
• 2:05:15
  rogue like beat him up game. So that looked pretty decent.
• 2:05:18
  And that was kind of a dot MU game made by Garcrus saying
• 2:05:21
  people who did all the street streets of rage remakes and
• 2:05:23
  stuff. So it's kind of part in but
• 2:05:26
  which looked quite good. But I mean there's yeah, the
• 2:05:29
  last two months there were some big titles in there, but
• 2:05:30
  otherwise it's basically just a rush of indie stuff.
• 2:05:33
  Luminous looks like good if you got music games as an Anno game
• 2:05:39
  again with a different number attached to it, yeah.
• 2:05:42
  I've seen quite a few of the regular Youtubers that I watch
• 2:05:45
  these pops up on their, you know, review feed or whatever,
• 2:05:47
  but it's not my sort of game so I haven't really bothered to
• 2:05:50
  look at it. But yeah, I imagine it's
• 2:05:53
  probably they are meant to be big games out of them, annual
• 2:05:55
  games. And that terminated CD game that
• 2:05:58
  was like a platformer, like proper retro style was going to
• 2:06:01
  be coming out this month and it's been delayed till December.
• 2:06:04
  Should we have never heard of like any like a retro pixel art
• 2:06:07
  game be delayed before? For quite a long time at least
• 2:06:09
  anyway. So that's moved from the 26th of
• 2:06:11
  this month of November out into December.
• 2:06:14
  Not quite sure why. I think we recorded last October
• 2:06:18
  5th, I think we recorded games. We released it next to be week
• 2:06:22
  to hit it myself but little like Mercy 3 came out after we did
• 2:06:26
  the last or did we talk at last time I think.
• 2:06:28
  We mentioned it was coming. I think it was out.
• 2:06:30
  That's what it takes. I think it's well it's quite
• 2:06:35
  short and the price is quite high so people aren't and so we
• 2:06:39
  intrigued someone happy with it sort of what was the the Silk
• 2:06:43
  song came out and was not quite low and game quite long yeah
• 2:06:47
  pricing on games is that being like a good kick enough so.
• 2:06:51
  Feels like pricing and dangerous.
• 2:06:52
  Giving us a kick in the nuts to be honest with you.
• 2:06:54
  That's the only bad thing about next year.
• 2:06:55
  Coming back and walking into the minefield trying to buy things
• 2:06:58
  in less than £50. But This is why as soon as I
• 2:07:02
  take the disc drive or stop selling physical games, I will
• 2:07:06
  be instantly back on the piece. Because the big advantage of
• 2:07:09
  games, console game for me is either, well, obviously got your
• 2:07:13
  game passes such like they can make it worth it.
• 2:07:15
  But if any games come out and they're trying to RIP me for £70
• 2:07:18
  and I cannot resell that game afterwards, that's the moment I
• 2:07:21
  said yeah, I'll get up, yeah, yeah, I'll go to PC and I'll pay
• 2:07:26
  Payless for it. Or I will have like a
• 2:07:29
  PlayStation, PlayStation Premium console, which will be literally
• 2:07:33
  just for playing the subscription and that'll be it.
• 2:07:36
  I won't be buying any games. It has to be a phenomenally good
• 2:07:39
  game, a phenomenally good price. Because that's the big advantage
• 2:07:41
  for me is the reselling of the game, you know.
• 2:07:44
  But if I, for example, put a bit of Stranding, so you can
• 2:07:46
  probably pick that up second and that for about £30 if you drop
• 2:07:50
  lucky. And you could probably play
• 2:07:52
  that, finish it and maybe even resell it for like a little bit
• 2:07:55
  of a profit on. So if you ask me to pay £70 one
• 2:07:58
  or £60, whatever it was, I'm not going to do it.
• 2:08:01
  Full stop it on principle, I'm not going to do it.
• 2:08:04
  Don't agree more yeah, it's just a bit mental really.
• 2:08:06
  I mean, I said, Oh yeah, I quite fancy the idea of a Series X
• 2:08:11
  purely because of that. I think is the fact that I can
• 2:08:13
  just get games again, quite cheap off of eBay and stuff and
• 2:08:17
  want to play stuff. But I mean, the Series S does a
• 2:08:19
  great job, but The thing is you are limited to having to buy off
• 2:08:22
  of off of the play off the Xbox store.
• 2:08:24
  Yeah, I mean game, as long as I keep Game pass, maybe it's a
• 2:08:27
  good investment still. But I mean, if I if the pricing
• 2:08:29
  on that sticks or goes up, then that could drive people to just
• 2:08:33
  ditching off Series SS and moving back towards that.
• 2:08:35
  The series S is a great little console as you get in pass
• 2:08:38
  machine I will not get in the slightest.
• 2:08:40
  And like I was saying I play boulders.
• 2:08:42
  I bought boulders get every time around launch time.
• 2:08:46
  It was on like one of the key sites and it was like 17 LB that
• 2:08:50
  now and work to it was like 17 quid when the just come out and
• 2:08:53
  they were very expensive at the time.
• 2:08:55
  And I bought it on that and I played it on the series X and
• 2:08:58
  it's 60 frames per second. But I've got a series, an Xbox
• 2:09:02
  series S upstairs in the bedroom and but it's only 30 frames per
• 2:09:06
  second is boulders get on that particular console.
• 2:09:08
  But because it's kind of a slow moving game.
• 2:09:11
  If you go and see ATV settings and you turn on so like the
• 2:09:13
  smooth settings, it balances out that 30 frames per second until
• 2:09:18
  like quite a smooth looking 60 frames per second.
• 2:09:20
  It's like a pursued or 60 frames per second.
• 2:09:22
  It takes away the judder and it looks perfectly good.
• 2:09:25
  It's not so good if you were playing a super fast-paced game,
• 2:09:29
  you put them smooth motion settings on it just start to
• 2:09:31
  know it's too much effect in and you know, because it can kind of
• 2:09:35
  keep up with itself. But but yeah, for like a slow
• 2:09:37
  game, perfect other way. So in the game, that's perfectly
• 2:09:40
  fine for a, you put the promotion settings on your TV,
• 2:09:44
  you turn all the way up. So it's sort of like, is it
• 2:09:48
  called interpolation or something?
• 2:09:50
  Yeah, there's a, there's a name Freeway, Yeah, where it's sort
• 2:09:53
  of like it does the frames or whatever.
• 2:09:55
  So. But yeah, absolutely.
• 2:09:57
  Cool. Yeah.
• 2:09:58
  I mean, it's a if it plays on something.
• 2:09:59
  OK, then keep going in with it. I've kind of got to that point
• 2:10:02
  now where it's like I could get Series X.
• 2:10:04
  Do we really need one that's hold out the same?
• 2:10:06
  I've got something with Game Pass.
• 2:10:07
  I think Game Pass is what's going to keep me on the hook.
• 2:10:09
  I'm wondering what the hell they're doing.
• 2:10:10
  I've got that. I've got that coverage until the
• 2:10:12
  end of next year and I'll make a decision based off that, I would
• 2:10:14
  imagine. So we'll see what happens.
• 2:10:16
  Cool. I think, yeah.
• 2:10:17
  Does that, does that, does that you tell us, does that cover us
• 2:10:19
  on the the monthly games? I think it probably does.
• 2:10:21
  Done it. I just say not.
• 2:10:22
  I need someone overall. No, I think it could have been.
• 2:10:26
  Well, I don't know. I mean, actually the problem is
• 2:10:29
  this is during COVID they spent a lot of money, didn't they, on
• 2:10:32
  hiring lots of people. So you can get all these games
• 2:10:34
  pumped out there. And then they actually become a
• 2:10:37
  bit of a proper really in the respect of their, you know, they
• 2:10:41
  employed all these extra stuff and now they don't really need
• 2:10:44
  them anymore. And now they have to like dump
• 2:10:46
  titles and all and stuff. So it might be waiting really to
• 2:10:49
  like, you know, another year or two before we start to see like
• 2:10:52
  nice big full schedules of AAA games.
• 2:10:55
  But there again, the problem is a AAA game.
• 2:10:57
  Remember we were talking about Grand Theft Auto 6 earlier.
• 2:11:00
  Listen, if someone told you it were going to cost 2 billion to
• 2:11:02
  make, you know, left 10 years ago, right?
• 2:11:05
  This is our dot top stupid, you idiot.
• 2:11:06
  What you want about £2 billion? Well, how much?
• 2:11:09
  You know, some of these games, man, it costs hundred to
• 2:11:11
  millions of pounds to make. Then it has to be, you know, it
• 2:11:15
  has to be a surefire. It's probably an offset, yeah.
• 2:11:18
  It's got to be offset by the price.
• 2:11:19
  It's got to make sure it works so.
• 2:11:21
  Yeah, you get them bad launches, man, the money that they must be
• 2:11:25
  losing on some of the and titles.
• 2:11:26
  But then again, it's the same for cinema, right?
• 2:11:29
  You know, they make good movies and bad movies and it all evens
• 2:11:32
  out in the end. But some of these studios,
• 2:11:34
  they're not. They ain't got, say, 10 games in
• 2:11:37
  production to even out the bad ones amongst the good ones.
• 2:11:40
  But as a film company, 10 different films coming out.
• 2:11:43
  Yeah, You know, six of them are good.
• 2:11:46
  Two of them are big hits, a couple of them are flops, you
• 2:11:49
  know, but they can't do that. Yeah, at one game we missed, the
• 2:11:52
  commanders are quick. Yeah.
• 2:11:56
  That's gusted. Yeah, that one.
• 2:11:59
  That's the only thing that Yeah, So what we've.
• 2:12:02
  Got is it Question Time, I think of time for you as well.
• 2:12:05
  Brian, what's 10:15 there for you?
• 2:12:07
  Yeah, that's the other dinner soon, Luke.
• 2:12:10
  Facebook. But young Trickyomi Luke J
• 2:12:13
  Knight mentioned that he loved the game so much he got the
• 2:12:14
  collector's edition, the physical edition of it.
• 2:12:17
  And that's about we had some questions, thought about crap
• 2:12:21
  from Stuart Ramage. Do you have a favourite book you
• 2:12:23
  can, would or didn't make a great game?
• 2:12:26
  He's remembers finishing The Hobbit on this old 48 K spectrum
• 2:12:29
  and also the first the first game completed.
• 2:12:32
  Still, it makes it how close it was to the book.
• 2:12:34
  And what do you can you think of any books that you'd like to see
• 2:12:37
  as a game being? Really quick enough kids books.
• 2:12:44
  So with my children for like bedtime and stuff.
• 2:12:47
  Goodness, I mean. I can't think funny.
• 2:12:49
  Yeah, I mean, David Bunnings books sometimes we have quite a
• 2:12:52
  dark storyline and all almost feels they would fit into kind
• 2:12:55
  of like almost a little nightmares sort of style of film
• 2:12:58
  or series sort of thing from the book side of it.
• 2:13:00
  I mean, I mean there's some of them they do make it into
• 2:13:02
  cartoons like it's almost here that stop motion animation for
• 2:13:06
  all of them sort of things how it would feel a little bit.
• 2:13:09
  But yeah, they're not going to be they're going to be too dark
• 2:13:11
  obviously and like nothing's to be over a 12 plus I would
• 2:13:12
  imagine. But I think they'd have quite a
• 2:13:14
  nice dark edge of like platform or like a Telltale style game.
• 2:13:17
  I think that would be the only thing really came to my mind
• 2:13:19
  straight away. Yeah, I remember 2 series well,
• 2:13:24
  two books that that was made into games, but these are quite
• 2:13:28
  old ones. And that was the if you guys
• 2:13:31
  where the fighting fantasy looks to wall like a fire top
• 2:13:33
  mountain, which came out many years ago.
• 2:13:35
  And then page turn is where you kind of like start off on Page 1
• 2:13:38
  and it says if you want to make a decision, you got a page 46
• 2:13:41
  reflects a page 46. So you might have to roll some
• 2:13:43
  dice to fight a monster. Then then books were amazing.
• 2:13:47
  This is before kind of the games.
• 2:13:49
  He's kind of like really fuelled, you know, the
• 2:13:51
  imagination and the possibility of going on like an adventure.
• 2:13:55
  And they did make that into a game.
• 2:13:58
  I think they did a Spectrum version, some bright that wasn't
• 2:14:00
  very good. And they've let have released
• 2:14:02
  the books into a game on Android and such like in the work.
• 2:14:05
  OK, but another one I remember that became the TV series and it
• 2:14:09
  was a game at the time as well, which was The Growing Pains of
• 2:14:13
  Adrian Mole. And if you remember that, yeah,
• 2:14:17
  which is a fantastic kids book. But like yourself, I go read
• 2:14:21
  enough books. And if I do read a book, it's
• 2:14:23
  generally a biography of some variety.
• 2:14:25
  I like to kind of like read like a true life sort of thing.
• 2:14:28
  But I did play The Hobbit on the spectrum as well.
• 2:14:30
  And and yeah, I mean a fantastic game.
• 2:14:33
  I spent a lot of hours on it not getting very far.
• 2:14:36
  And I do remember watching a YouTube on it and some guy
• 2:14:39
  completed it. And I think if you know all the
• 2:14:41
  right ways to go, think he did it in about and it went like a
• 2:14:44
  speed run, obviously a new way we're going.
• 2:14:46
  So technically is a bit of a speed run rate, but he did it in
• 2:14:48
  about 16 minutes. But what I can remember back in
• 2:14:51
  1983 when I played with that, that seemed like a limit,
• 2:14:54
  limitless open world adventure, that text adventure, you know,
• 2:14:58
  The Hobbit. So yeah, I mean, how things have
• 2:15:00
  changed. But the imagination of a young
• 2:15:02
  person back then, you know, it totally fed into it.
• 2:15:05
  Did all the older games and the covers as well and some of these
• 2:15:08
  games that they used to put out there, man yeah.
• 2:15:11
  And it isn't I mean a lot of the covers for them games as well
• 2:15:13
  will probably designed and made by the guys that were writing
• 2:15:17
  books, you know, the the book out people at the time.
• 2:15:21
  So he kind of like you could see the crossover between games and
• 2:15:24
  books, especially with the covers, the similar kind of
• 2:15:26
  fantasy out on the front. So yeah.
• 2:15:29
  Yeah, looks like I think of. I'd love to see Hitchhiker's
• 2:15:32
  Guide to the Galaxy. Yeah, to the Galaxy.
• 2:15:35
  Yeah, Done with. Not a test is the currently out.
• 2:15:39
  So yeah, graphics three. You have to be quick.
• 2:15:42
  I'd love to see that world World realised murder Boss, which is
• 2:15:46
  TV series. The season 1 was finished.
• 2:15:48
  I've just read I started with a trader on the Seal podcast
• 2:15:52
  mentioned the audio book is really good.
• 2:15:54
  So I picked up the audio books. I've read four of them or
• 2:15:57
  listened to four in the past month.
• 2:16:01
  Started weird listening to a different voice than the TV
• 2:16:03
  show, but it is quite good so I'd love to see it as ATV as a
• 2:16:09
  game. But yeah, I think that's about
• 2:16:11
  it really. I can't think of any others.
• 2:16:13
  It's. A difficult one really Well, I
• 2:16:14
  think you can probably think of example basically Wall.
• 2:16:20
  I think it's like, I don't think that at the end of the Tiger
• 2:16:24
  that Came to Tea really works as a computer game and that's kind
• 2:16:26
  of like kids books and stuff I had to read in the past.
• 2:16:29
  Well, I don't really like, I don't really commit to cobble to
• 2:16:31
  novels. My wife does you.
• 2:16:32
  She's going to answer this beautifully because she reads
• 2:16:34
  like 3-4 novels a month on a Kindle.
• 2:16:37
  But I mean I just can't. What was the other one we had on
• 2:16:39
  that? Was it TV series or their CVS to
• 2:16:42
  games? Wasn't it?
• 2:16:43
  Almost the same layers that there for some given licence
• 2:16:47
  onto the Witcher and recent release of Halo for the
• 2:16:51
  untwisted metal. Is there games to see believe it
• 2:16:55
  make it good TV series or if you turned into one is there any
• 2:16:59
  would you feel they shouldn't go anywhere near?
• 2:17:01
  I wish they had this well known. Wish they had left well known.
• 2:17:05
  Probably Halo the TV series I thought was bevel start to golf
• 2:17:08
  good before I realised it was Halo.
• 2:17:09
  I'm just watching a if I thought I could.
• 2:17:12
  Then it really went downhill to 32 seasons.
• 2:17:17
  I thought it got really weird. Something like AI can't think of
• 2:17:20
  a game. A game might because the TV
• 2:17:22
  series. All the way.
• 2:17:24
  These things take many. What seems great movie movie
• 2:17:28
  didn't get the best reception. I watched it years after it
• 2:17:31
  being released. So I thought it was actually OK
• 2:17:33
  because I understood the hate for the movie.
• 2:17:36
  So I wasn't expecting a 10 out of 10, but with expecting a
• 2:17:38
  three out of 10 movie that really I got a 7 out of 10
• 2:17:41
  movie. But that because it's a bit of a
• 2:17:43
  time travelling thing is the Assassin's Creed and the dark
• 2:17:46
  nature behind the character, he's going around sort of like,
• 2:17:49
  you know, rescuing situations and time travelling around.
• 2:17:53
  That could actually make quite a good.
• 2:17:55
  I don't think anyone would be and keen to invest in some of
• 2:17:59
  the Assassin's Creed movie being such a loss financially, but I
• 2:18:03
  think it could make a good TV series.
• 2:18:05
  There's enough different time zones in it where they can flip
• 2:18:08
  around and do different things. There's a lot to be had, you
• 2:18:12
  know, Really. Yeah, they could be quite
• 2:18:13
  complex pulling things. Just want everyone games go from
• 2:18:17
  two or three games and pull them all together as an hour of the
• 2:18:20
  other if we could get. Yeah.
• 2:18:24
  Yeah, recent version. No, no, I've not seen that
• 2:18:31
  letter. Yeah, I've seen it.
• 2:18:33
  I. Can't remember.
• 2:18:34
  My only thing I could think of was like kind of, I don't know
• 2:18:35
  if it's been considered already recently was Streets of Rage on
• 2:18:39
  the Mega Drive. There was kind of there was
• 2:18:41
  always I think about be quite a good series in my head.
• 2:18:43
  I don't understand why would it be like a good versus evil cops
• 2:18:47
  and Mr Rex, the Big boss and stuff like that.
• 2:18:49
  That's probably been made in 50 billion different ways for
• 2:18:53
  different series, but I thought that was quite cool.
• 2:18:55
  The reason it came straight to my mind is if you look at the
• 2:18:57
  Japanese front cover streets of H2, which is bare knuckle to in
• 2:19:01
  Japan, the main character is completely ripped off from
• 2:19:03
  Jean-Claude Van So he's just definitely played the lead role
• 2:19:06
  in it. Didn't signature split so we
• 2:19:09
  could cool? Yeah, that's one of those things
• 2:19:11
  I think we did quite well into. I say that it didn't St play
• 2:19:14
  when it went terribly so. And last question was when I put
• 2:19:18
  in the group saying that's what was it?
• 2:19:20
  Do any of you game on your phone?
• 2:19:24
  I used to game on the phone, but not quite in the respect of
• 2:19:27
  playing the apps or offers a kind of in the Google store.
• 2:19:31
  I'd use it for streaming before streaming was kind of popular
• 2:19:34
  before this theme that came out, I used to have like an it's kind
• 2:19:40
  of like a controller, but you could like pull it out to
• 2:19:43
  probably begin to even put a tablet in there, you know, like
• 2:19:45
  an 8 inch tablet. And that used to work really
• 2:19:48
  well. Used to get a bit of lag on the
• 2:19:50
  Bluetooth and obviously get a little bit like from streaming
• 2:19:53
  as well. And that used to work really
• 2:19:55
  well. So yeah, I used to be quite
• 2:19:56
  enjoy. I'd be happy to do gaming on
• 2:19:58
  that, but I haven't actually been playing the games from the
• 2:20:01
  store, which is suppose I really like a totally different bunch
• 2:20:05
  of games out there. There's tonne, there's tonnes on
• 2:20:07
  there isn't there? That's the problem.
• 2:20:08
  They're all mini game type things I suppose really it's
• 2:20:11
  kind of some of the games have moved across to it.
• 2:20:13
  They brought breakfast out on it a couple of years ago while
• 2:20:16
  Android and I tried to play that and it actually plays OK,
• 2:20:19
  believe it unbelievably. But obviously you are doing the
• 2:20:21
  whole kind of fun things and you can't.
• 2:20:23
  I've got had used to one of those things out of Razor key
• 2:20:25
  sheet, whatever it is, the thing that split apart to go around
• 2:20:27
  your phone. That was USBC, but there's the
• 2:20:30
  games on. There was loads of games that
• 2:20:31
  just wouldn't accept it existed. It wouldn't treat it as a
• 2:20:33
  Bluetooth or connected controller.
• 2:20:35
  So that made it a bit more difficult.
• 2:20:36
  Really trying to think anything else I played on it was kind of
• 2:20:39
  it's all stupid stuff like wordscapes and things like that.
• 2:20:42
  I end up getting dragged into and words with friends.
• 2:20:44
  I don't think I've ever really taken the phone as being a a
• 2:20:47
  games machine. I know when there was Unreal
• 2:20:49
  games or something came out years ago, there was the iPhone
• 2:20:52
  was the first one to do it with kind of a sword wielding and
• 2:20:54
  then that sort of error. I can remember playing stuff,
• 2:20:57
  but I can't remember being being too many games I tried to play
• 2:21:00
  on it. I know there are mobile versions
• 2:21:01
  of stuff, but it's just I've never wanted to.
• 2:21:04
  I just wrote down on our own console.
• 2:21:06
  But allegedly I think desk trendiness thing has been
• 2:21:09
  released on Android or or on iPhone one or the other or maybe
• 2:21:14
  even both. So which is you getting to a
• 2:21:16
  point really where, I mean, they're big games, but sometimes
• 2:21:20
  the problem can be really some of these big, big games is that
• 2:21:23
  they are kind of a big price. You might as well buy it on
• 2:21:26
  PlayStation. It could be cheaper to buy on
• 2:21:28
  PlayStation because it's been out on PlayStation for so long
• 2:21:31
  that you might as well just, you know, pay like by 12 lbs.
• 2:21:34
  You can give us a copy really and go from there.
• 2:21:38
  But yeah, I mean, it can be expensive gaming on there, but
• 2:21:40
  it is generally more words with friends.
• 2:21:42
  That kind of thing is what I used to.
• 2:21:44
  Mainly if I was nothing, you can pick up in between doing other
• 2:21:48
  things. You might be cooking something
• 2:21:50
  and you've got like a couple of minutes in between doing this or
• 2:21:53
  that. You do a couple of GAIL Goes a
• 2:21:55
  word with Friends. Yeah, I used to play Word feud.
• 2:21:58
  I preferred Word Feud. That used to be.
• 2:22:01
  I didn't. Yeah, excellent game now.
• 2:22:04
  Brilliant. I even paid.
• 2:22:05
  For you did. Yeah, I pay for it, but I think
• 2:22:08
  you're only small, like £1.29 or something and it was well worth
• 2:22:11
  it. The amount of hours I got out of
• 2:22:12
  that thing were amazing. Oh I have my Pokémon Go phase as
• 2:22:16
  well. Forgot my Pokémon Go.
• 2:22:19
  I have 22 games on my phone and I don't play any.
• 2:22:22
  I did play coffee golf a lot. I introduce that to the group,
• 2:22:26
  to a lot of people, but it's it since that I think I felt that I
• 2:22:30
  really played any. I've got bilateral.
• 2:22:32
  I installed both that just before but end of December, but
• 2:22:35
  I've failed it three times. But that's about it for me.
• 2:22:40
  Working on the phone. As a Stuart said he doesn't,
• 2:22:43
  there's a clear distinction of usually between his phone,
• 2:22:46
  tablets, PC and consoles. Yeah, just bloody bilateral so
• 2:22:52
  and I like, well, it's a, it's a paid for game, none of this
• 2:22:55
  crap, which is a race to the bottom.
• 2:22:57
  You get what you pay for. Yeah.
• 2:22:59
  So he's right there. I mean halfway.
• 2:23:02
  Go on. And we say we're clearly
• 2:23:03
  spoiled, right? Because we've got a games
• 2:23:05
  console, etcetera. But perhaps if that was your
• 2:23:07
  only source of gaming, which is possibly in some countries and
• 2:23:11
  such like, you know, there might be a choice between having a
• 2:23:13
  nice phone or a console, then, you know, it does.
• 2:23:17
  It's a true multimedia device, isn't it?
• 2:23:19
  The phone? Really.
• 2:23:20
  Yeah, it is completely. I mean, I think the problem is
• 2:23:22
  you say with this being spoiled, I don't look what comes out on a
• 2:23:25
  phone anymore. I mean I use Play Store to go
• 2:23:27
  and get a heart rate monitor or a piece of photo editing stuff
• 2:23:31
  or a 3D code scanner. That's that's what I use place
• 2:23:35
  for. I don't go and look at the games
• 2:23:37
  for any reason like that at all. Last thing I downloaded it was a
• 2:23:40
  race simulator app that I can turn my phone and my tablet into
• 2:23:43
  a race dash that then clicks on top of my G29 steering wheel.
• 2:23:46
  I downloaded that. I think that's the last 1.
• 2:23:48
  So it's it's purely necessity rather than actually being a
• 2:23:51
  want to do it. Yeah, I played Monument Valley
• 2:23:55
  about two weeks ago, waiting room, but that's about the last
• 2:23:58
  game I've played in months before that last play the game.
• 2:24:01
  That's a good game. It's a good game.
• 2:24:03
  I enjoyed Monument Valley when I played it probably maybe 12
• 2:24:06
  years ago or something. I think it first came out.
• 2:24:07
  It's quite an old ish game, although they do Monument Valley
• 2:24:11
  1-2 and three I think now. I think I've got money on
• 2:24:14
  probably 2 as well on my phone, but I'm not open to it.
• 2:24:17
  Just for me, a lot of the games I picked up because Google used
• 2:24:21
  to give away money on the yeah, yeah, yeah, that raises
• 2:24:25
  something. Yeah, survey stuff was really
• 2:24:28
  good, wasn't? It.
• 2:24:29
  Yeah, yeah, it doesn't work clear.
• 2:24:32
  I don't know if it exists anymore.
• 2:24:34
  Yeah. No, same as disappeared.
• 2:24:35
  Think it's pretty anything though, yeah?
• 2:24:38
  I've got a question as well. Yeah.
• 2:24:40
  Now, this is a term I've never heard of, so perhaps I've just
• 2:24:43
  been living under a rock for too long.
• 2:24:44
  I'm not too sure yet. Now, have you ever heard of this
• 2:24:47
  term? I've never heard of it before.
• 2:24:49
  Shrimping no. No, Oh God, I'm I'm worried I'm
• 2:24:53
  I've not heard this. Well.
• 2:24:55
  Put shrimps under someone's carpet before you move up
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  because you hate. That would be really terrible
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  thing to do. The cats have probably ever got
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  a cat. The cat would be happy.
• 2:25:04
  But. But yeah, but no shrimping.
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  It's a term I've never heard of, an A.
• 2:25:08
  You always assumed, oh, shrimp. Like, that's surely got some
• 2:25:12
  kind of sexual connotation to it.
• 2:25:14
  Do I do shrimp and or do I do shrimpy?
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  You know what's going on here. And I was surprised to learn.
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  And oddly enough, I definitely do it.
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  And Brian, I can't quite see the angle.
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  You might be doing it. So you might be shrimping right
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  now. Sure.
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  And Ben, you might be shrimping. I'm not too sure.
• 2:25:30
  So. And what it actually is is the
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  way that you anger yourself over the desk like a shrimp.
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  You know, I caught them like you're like this.
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  And that's it's all. It's all to do with posture.
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  So shrimping, yeah, is a term, if you take a look on like, it
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  shows you like shrimps at desks and now you're sort of hanging
• 2:25:48
  over the desk. And now it's just what I've
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  never heard of before. I was surprised that it had no,
• 2:25:53
  you know, dodgy connotations. And yeah, they I.
• 2:25:56
  AM. Ideally a shrimp in.
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  Yeah, easy. My bad back as well.
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  Whoever is listening, yeah, do not put the word up on the Urban
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  Dictionary because it means something totally different, no.
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  It's a totally different. There you go.
• 2:26:07
  It's like that was a, that was a totally different oh.
• 2:26:13
  This is not about Google search people.
• 2:26:15
  That's definitely for posture. My was definitely for posture.
• 2:26:18
  That sort of offended anybody, right?
• 2:26:20
  Because I accused him, he wasn't better direction.
• 2:26:22
  If he's going to break bread, what's happened?
• 2:26:26
  There's posture. Trust me, I'm.
• 2:26:29
  Sorry, Oh my fuck. It's got to do something that
• 2:26:38
  somebody else's something after somebody something in the.
• 2:26:44
  I thought I found like a clean Internet term.
• 2:26:47
  Honestly, today's soiled. Isn't it like every other word
• 2:26:50
  on the Internet? So.
• 2:26:53
  Yeah, and so the world comes again, and nothing is indeed
• 2:26:56
  sacred, so. Yeah.
• 2:26:58
  Oh God. Oh my, yeah, that is.
• 2:27:02
  I'd like to say thanks for sharing, but I'm not quite sure.
• 2:27:06
  But honestly, it is what cost you.
• 2:27:07
  If you look at up, there's plenty of pictures of a shrimp
• 2:27:09
  at a desk. All I want to know is who's
• 2:27:13
  behind the strip of what they're doing.
• 2:27:15
  Yeah. That's do not look that up
• 2:27:18
  anybody. Where is Messenger?
• 2:27:22
  No good looking at through that. There you go, the definitions in
• 2:27:25
  the group. Fantastic.
• 2:27:28
  Again, not sure what I'm saying, thank you or not.
• 2:27:31
  But Oh my God, I wish I'd knocked that up.
• 2:27:37
  That's into my day. I'm not sure what that is to be
• 2:27:39
  honest, but I'm thinking to it. OK, yeah, anyway.
• 2:27:45
  Quick, quick. I guess we've got to do the the
• 2:27:50
  game of the month as well. Whatever we're playing, we're
• 2:27:52
  down to like 2 games maybe now. There's there's five on there,
• 2:27:57
  but I have completely oh wow, sorry.
• 2:27:59
  It says Minecraft dungeons, which quite frankly, if it comes
• 2:28:01
  up again, I am still playing it and I recommend you do because
• 2:28:03
  it's great. So we should leave it on there
• 2:28:05
  anyway. So what have we got?
• 2:28:06
  We've got Detroit becoming human, Minecraft dungeons,
• 2:28:09
  overcooked, and is sack boys big adventure still left in.
• 2:28:12
  OK, cool. So I sure that.
• 2:28:14
  Sounds like a really dodgy name as well.
• 2:28:16
  What's that? Sack boys?
• 2:28:18
  Big adventure. Put it here.
• 2:28:24
  As I thought we saw in the boardroom, it's only now going
• 2:28:26
  what? Was that character in Fizz?
• 2:28:29
  Oh, Johnny Johnny, big bollocks or whatever.
• 2:28:32
  Yeah. Johnny Summit going.
• 2:28:34
  That's on it. Oh, what?
• 2:28:35
  Was this Mr Mr Gonerds? Buster Goner, But I actually
• 2:28:39
  came down to Sack Boy because it went slightly past into the next
• 2:28:42
  thing. I thought it was a big Detroit
• 2:28:43
  for a minute, but it is Sack Boy.
• 2:28:45
  Very good. So I should remove that from Z
• 2:28:47
  list? I've played a little bit of
• 2:28:48
  that, especially fun, as long as it doesn't overstate it's
• 2:28:51
  welcome because it seemed a little semi, but I was enjoying
• 2:28:56
  it when I played it in some hilarious moments where you got
• 2:28:58
  bowed on to things. He is like spinning round and
• 2:29:00
  spinning round, so yeah. I look forward to.
• 2:29:03
  It right, so we just need to go to Minecraft or.
• 2:29:15
  Just be buying Astrobot for a bit on the 1st of January
• 2:29:17
  because I'll be playing through that.
• 2:29:19
  Yeah, now what's next? Housekeeping.
• 2:29:22
  I believe so. Yeah.
• 2:29:24
  OK. So we can serve the housekeeping
• 2:29:26
  here. Thank you.
• 2:29:28
  And that was a good boy. Good, good boys, good boys.
• 2:29:35
  Who's a good boy? Needs to go to bed on you mate.
• 2:29:41
  Since 2:00 it must be 8 hours ago.
• 2:29:43
  Nine hours ago and I bet straight after.
• 2:29:47
  One thing you got dropping today, I think, on top of
• 2:29:49
  everything else. Oh, sorry, Carol.
• 2:29:53
  Yesterday I dismantled 2 beds, replaced them with two new beds
• 2:29:57
  and the muscles on my legs are sore from on my knees trying to
• 2:30:01
  put things together getting up. Once I get up with this chair, I
• 2:30:05
  don't think I'll sit down again. Paint them on muscles.
• 2:30:08
  All flat onto bed when you get there instead.
• 2:30:10
  Don't bend anything. That's it, yeah.
• 2:30:14
  One thing you want to say about is everybody, if you are
• 2:30:17
  listening, we are now 30 days away from the end of the year
• 2:30:20
  and we have survived this and you can see we haven't gone too
• 2:30:23
  far insane. So please, if you're interested
• 2:30:26
  in doing a Gear of Shame next year, please do jump on board or
• 2:30:29
  drop a message to one of us or send us a letter with a stamped
• 2:30:32
  addressed envelope or something like that and let us know if
• 2:30:34
  you'd like to be part of the crew for next year.
• 2:30:37
  I think we've all said it before and we've all said in in
• 2:30:40
  different posts, it's, it's great fun.
• 2:30:41
  It's been a really good laugh and it is a very, very good way
• 2:30:44
  to make some of your money as well you spent on games and
• 2:30:47
  realised ones you never had. So definitely worthwhile.
• 2:30:50
  Exactly. Yeah, Yeah.
• 2:30:51
  And it's, it's not difficult. You can see we do this so you
• 2:30:54
  don't have to be too, too professional.
• 2:30:56
  Oh. Come on, it's just like.
• 2:30:58
  Going it's just like going on a diet.
• 2:31:00
  When she do over the first week or so, it's plain sailing
• 2:31:03
  really. However, I have some better
• 2:31:04
  additional than every diet I've ever done, so I mean.
• 2:31:08
  Me too, OK. Good stuff, right?
• 2:31:12
  We should let Brian get to bed to be in so it's basically night
• 2:31:14
  for him and I need to go swimming and have some lunch.
• 2:31:17
  Not at the same time because my food will get wet, but yeah.
• 2:31:19
  Yeah. All right, so I'll say goodbye.
• 2:31:22
  Goodbye, everybody. I hope you have enjoyed this and
• 2:31:26
  apologies if you didn't. See you.
• 2:31:28
  See you next time, all. Right.
• 2:31:29
  Yeah. Absolutely.
• 2:31:30
  See you soon. Bye.
• 2:31:31
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• 2:31:32
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• 2:32:01
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