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S11E06: Starfield... Never heard of it · The Year Of Shame Challenge

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  Hello and welcome to the year of SHARE 2023.
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  And now let's go balls deep and meet this week's presenters.
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  Hello, hello and welcome to episode six of the Year of Shame
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  podcast. I'm your host Kevin McPherson,
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  and with me this month is Ross Grieve.
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  Hi Ross. Hello.
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  And sigh, Stevens. Hi.
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  Sigh, Hey. How's it going?
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  Not too bad. Thanks.
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  How's everyone been doing this month?
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  Apart from wasting away in a puddle of sweat, not too
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  sharpie. How you doing, man?
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  Yeah, likewise. It's not fucking Bill for this
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  weather in Scotland. No, it's not a usual thing is
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  that I'm unfortunate because my office or whatever called this
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  is at the top of the house, so it's usually really, really warm
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  and plus you've got to close all the skylights, so it's vacant in
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  here. So is that your excuse for
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  falling asleep every Friday then, Is it?
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  Absolutely, yes. That that's an alcohol.
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  You have little little slippers and you're a little paid.
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  So I was having this conversation with Dave the other
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  day that you saw all these sort of high end setups with nice
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  monitors, dual mounts and LED lights.
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  What you really need is a clip on USB fan under the desk to
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  keep your notes cool. You don't have that.
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  Yeah, I've actually, I've got a squirt fan.
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  Wait, that's. Well, Jesus, the the the wife
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  got is it because like where my office is?
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  So I've got my outside office and the sun basically rises and
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  beams in the window all day. And obviously because I needed
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  to prep it for winter, it's fully insulated so it retains a
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  heat like fuck. So yeah, she she came home with
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  this little fan that squirts water as well as blows, blows a
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  breeze on you. And you've got this under the
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  desk, yeah? Mid middesk I prefer.
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  I prefer getting blasted in the face gap.
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  Don't search that on the Internet, please.
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  I don't need that coming out again.
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  Things as Boss is going to look up in the Open dictionary, We're
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  back again this month. We've got a few questions to
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  ease ourself into the podcast. Before we go for that, I've got
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  one correction for for last month's podcast.
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  Any house. It turns out I actually didn't
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  use a joker. I had a gift.
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  That's Bill They Chad. No fucking way you're getting
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  away with that. It was it was I messaged made to
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  mine. Alan Hughes to I game share with
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  Al to say you know. I owe you money for this game.
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  What's the cost? Which version of Jedi Survivor
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  did you get? And its response is no great.
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  Yeah, I was buying it anyway. Enjoy.
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  Fuck off. That's like fucking winning the
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  lottery, friend. That, that's it.
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  I bought a new Twitch and it had three free games with.
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  So I played that and that. That Shenanigans, Shenanigans.
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  Like the fucking Tesco worker gifted me a game after I gave
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  him four we quid for. It I I this needs to go up all
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  like that's. I'll screenshot the messages and
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  put it to a poll Has that. We will let the community decide
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  that I'm calling bullshit somebody, somebody just really
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  wants to play something else that's covered.
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  It's in, doesn't it? It's not Starfield at all, is
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  it? You shut your her mouth anyhow.
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  We have the first question this month from Brian Riley, the
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  summary here who will be very soon.
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  It's here rainy season to get through first, so if you have
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  any tips on how to stay cool, Fortunately cool beer is off the
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  menu. Too many comments about no over
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  extent waste I. Mean Speak for yourself.
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  Beer is not off the menu. It's never off the menu.
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  And the best the best beer is an open one.
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  I think we've already established Don't Ask Me or
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  Ross, we're just like we're just fucking pure melt in at the
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  moment. Yeah, I mean, I Anchor covered
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  that quite well in the last with my squirty face fan.
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  Yeah, and then the desk fan, perfectly squirty faced.
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  If it's on the desk, squirty, bold.
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  I don't know. What about you start?
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  How are you keeping cool? Fucking not.
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  As I just said, I'm pure fucking melting.
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  It's like, I don't don't. I don't do this heat at all.
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  Tell you one thing I have been doing though, because working
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  from home the kids paddling pool is like 2 feet away from my my
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  little Hut. So I just take my shoes and
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  socks off and go stand on that for 5 minutes like through the
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  day. That is a really good way to
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  cool down. It's really tempting to set on
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  it though. It's got like a little little
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  pillow type bit and a cup holder.
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  It's like just just crying for you to sit down with a beer but
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  don't drink during the working day.
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  I mean, I work, I work work from a laptop from home.
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  So I mean potentially I could just get a table and sit in it,
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  I suppose. Not put it in a bag or
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  something, for fuck's sake. Following on from that is a
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  related question from Serena Hayward.
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  What's your favorite season? Not fucking summer, I think
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  we've established that I'm not cut out for summer.
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  It's. Autumn for me.
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  To be fair up here, we only have two fucking seasons, Winter and
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  the 6th of July. So.
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  For four day summers are the best I, I, I I'm going to go in
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  there way, way autumn because it's not not as cold as it can
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  be and quite like Halloween. That's, well, automatic.
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  Also, you know, a few years ago, autumn used to be the time when
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  every fucking game under the sun was released, because everything
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  used to get released in September.
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  That's true. Or either that or the run up to
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  Christmas you'd have like release after release and.
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  Yeah, that was always a good gaming month.
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  Think September's looking quite, quite bulky this year as well,
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  though. That will come on to that.
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  Moving on from that onto size piles, how they doing mate?
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  Yeah my piles are doing quite well in the heat.
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  It's. I've not had a busy gaming
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  month. I went balls deep on.
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  We talked about last month XCOM 2.
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  So I went completely balls deep and like trying to do every
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  little aspect of it and it's. Did you play it, Ross, because
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  you were thinking about doing XCOM as well?
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  I'll be honest, I loaded it up, but I started playing something
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  else which will come on to. Well, when you first started, is
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  it really overwhelming? It's like, because it's like
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  everything happens all at once. And I had the War of the Chosen
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  DLC. Well, you didn't start that
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  first, did you? Yeah, it's.
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  It's like just because it wasn't so overbearing to start with,
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  when you if you've got the War of the Chosen DLC and you hit
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  play, it overlays the War of the Chosen from the very start.
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  So even though the DLC was released after the game or near
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  the tail into the game to extend the life of the game if you
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  start it and the game at the same time.
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  It overlays it so it's like it tries to do everything at once.
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  So you've got the aspect of the aliens attacking you normally,
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  but you've also got these free elites that can randomly rock up
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  to any mission that you're on, which pretty much in the early
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  stages game, the only tactic is to run the fuck away.
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  Yeah, it's Mummy Dave, not Dave S old Dave.
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  Different Dave, too many fucking Daves.
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  And he, he had played a couple of months back and he.
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  Warned me about that exact thing, so I made sure not to
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  touch that, but I mean, I don't know what else actually changes.
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  Technically there's a gate, it's a standalone game and so that
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  you have free elites, all with different skills and different
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  strengths and weaknesses. So you have to like kind of
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  change your setup and your squad setup to be able to take them
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  on. It's just the basic, it was way
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  of extended the game, but it's brutal when you first begin
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  because they just rock up and it's like you are so not
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  prepared for it tactically, strength wise, skill size,
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  ability wise and weapon wise you just can't cope with them.
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  So it was really, really brutal to start with and of course
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  everything on the maps live almost from the get go because
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  you're effectively walking into the war where XCOM one was
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  gradual. Yeah, it came.
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  The kicking off. Yeah, it's like it's like you've
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  just been dropped into the middle of the war, so
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  everything's against you to start with.
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  But once you get to a certain point, it starts becoming easier
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  as your skills go up. So it becomes XCOM, you know and
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  love. But yeah, I completed that when
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  start finish on that this month. And because I did that,
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  everything else I played wasn't a huge game.
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  So I downloaded, I don't know if I downloaded it last month for
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  to be this month for Idol Slayer because Matthew Moore kept
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  popping up on my screen. On my Steam notifications that
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  he was playing it and it's just an RPG endless runner version of
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  a venture capitalist. But it kills a few minutes, does
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  you like resetting everything and then building it all back up
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  again. Played Supercard as I always do.
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  That was just the pics of the board are skewed at the moment
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  so if you think in male cards and female cards.
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  You want to be drawing new tears, male to female, 2:00 to
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  1:00, but it's actually the up way round which is really making
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  the game hard at the moment. Disney Dream like got another
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  look in. I saw the credits roll on that
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  with the new update, so that's pretty much on the back burner
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  for the rest of the year now. I dusted out the the old VR
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  after we spoke about it the last couple of months and I put some
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  time into Pistol Whip, which is great, great fun.
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  It's just basically John Wick to music.
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  I also picked, well, I didn't pick up.
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  I had it on the thing already. It was Angry Birds, Isle of
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  Pigs, which is exactly what it says on the tin.
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  You know, it's basically a first person version of Angry Birds.
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  Can you see your legs in it? Yeah, you can't actually see the
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  legs. That's that's fine.
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  You know, it's like, I mean, technically you are a catapult.
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  So if you've got catapult with legs, it's, I'd assume because
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  the catapult's standing still upright, it must have legs.
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  At least one leg. At least one is a white.
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  Cat bald in Angry Birds, don't they?
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  I I think so. I've never zoomed the camera
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  around to actually have a look at myself to see what sort of
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  catapult I am. And I've also been I put some
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  time into FTL, which to be fair, I'm really fucking shit at.
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  I think I've played it for about 25 hours now from when I picked
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  up years and years ago, and I think I've got to the very last
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  screen once, but it's a good palate cleanser and it whiles
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  away half an hour if you haven't got time to start a game or
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  anything like that. So that's what I played.
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  I dabbled in a few games, which I think will probably be what I
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  pick up going forward for next month.
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  Detroit become human. Not here to that.
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  What's that? That's a good game.
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  Yeah, it's a kind of who made it off the top of my head, but it's
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  very it reminds me of Heavy Rain in that your actions have
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  consequences. And it's it's graphically.
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  Very, very nice. It's like you can tell who the
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  actual actors are. The one of the actors is the guy
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  from he plays the Doctor on Grey's Anatomy.
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  So the graphically it's really fucking nice story wise seems OK
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  at the moment. I just think it needs I need to
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  have some time to focus on it, which I didn't have because of
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  XCOM. So I might go back to that next
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  month. Yeah, I'd recommend that.
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  That was. I really enjoyed it and it's a
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  Quantic dream you're looking at who also published.
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  Developed heavyly actually. So that's why it seems so
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  familiar as well. I dabbled in Amazing American
• 12:42
  Circus, which is effectively a deck builder with an
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  unsurprising theme of a circus. So you basically draw cards,
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  maybe not clown or trapezi or something like that.
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  You have to do certain things in the circus to make the crowd go
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  wild. Etc.
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  Etc. Not sure how I think about that.
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  It's kind of like a weird combination.
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  Lego Builders Journey, which is basically a Lego building SIM
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  with a story thrown in there somewhere.
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  Motorsport Manager, which is effectively a Formula One team
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  manager, which I turned off because it felt like it could be
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  a huge time sink. I'm gonna SEC.
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  Did you say you played a Lego game?
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  Yes. Who are you and what have you
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  done with say? So I I remember certain runs in
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  earlier episodes that you really didn't like Lego games.
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  It's not the it's not the Lego like Lego Star Wars, the Lego
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  Indiana Jones, It's not that comical one.
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  It's basically a Lego building SIM.
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  It's like you have get given a little puzzle and the Lego
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  pieces, you've got to put the Lego pieces into the screen to
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  make some of the puzzle effectively.
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  So it's a little bit more relaxing and a little bit less.
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  Childish comedy and dot collecting.
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  There's no dot collecting at all.
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  It's just basically solve this puzzle using the pieces of Lego.
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  So it's it's slightly different. Yeah, Motorsport manager, I just
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  think it's going to be a huge time sink.
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  It's gone up, but it's one of those things that you can you
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  can pick up and play, but you won't be very good at it.
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  You have to spend. It's a bit like Football Manager
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  where you have to spend hours to be able to get really good at
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  it. Don't know if I've got time or
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  want to have time to do that. I also dabbled and these games
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  I'm on the verge of literally deleting off the pile because of
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  reasons. First two is Crash Bandicoot 2
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  and Crash Bandicoot 3 from the Insane Trilogy, and I think it's
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  the same reason that you Russ that had it that the controls.
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  Just doesn't work properly. No, it's because the
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  technologies have gone so much that it feels like everything's
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  too sensitive and or not sensitive enough when it needs
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  to be or you. You you think you've got just
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  that little extra pixel to lean off the edge, but you haven't,
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  so you fucking drop, yeah? Then you die.
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  It's. Just like it's more frustrating
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  than ever. And Ghost and Goblin's
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  resurrection, which I thought was effectively A resurrection
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  of Ghost and goblin, which I fucking loved when I was
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  younger. But it's just been made hard for
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  being hard's sake. There's no, like, pattern.
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  Remember, you know, like before in Ghost in Commons you used to
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  play. You've got to know when the body
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  was going to appear and where you have to be to trigger it or
• 15:34
  trigger something else that you needed.
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  And that's just seems to be. Pointy stick to kill him, Yeah,
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  before they go. It's just like it's been made a
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  lot more random and it's been made a lot harder and it's just
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  like it's it feels unfair, kills rather than dying because you
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  fucked up. So that's on the PFS being
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  deleted and I did delete a beat cop because that was just
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  fucking take 8 bit fetch question Evil Genius 2 because I
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  lost that from Games Pass because they took it off last
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  month and I deleted FIFA 22. Why would you do that?
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  Because you two are the big FIFA boys here.
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  One I. We've had some.
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  I. I never I didn't really get into
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  playing FIFA 22 and FIFA 20. Three's out and he's on Game
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  Pass. So what I used to do was like if
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  something like that happened, I would basically delete it off
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  the original from a pile and just fake upgrade to the the new
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  version. But also FIFA 22 had a huge
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  amount of fucking problems with FIFA this month with my boy who
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  to cut a Long story short, basically had his account banned
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  from the transfer market because of unauthorized app usage.
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  Which got escalated to a full transfer ban, and when
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  questioned by EA, they looked into it and actually admitted
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  that there was no unauthorized app or suspected activity on the
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  account. So they basically got transfer
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  ban on him for nothing. And they recommended basically
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  resetting the passwords just to make sure everything was fine.
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  Did that and they went great. That's been done.
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  We've deleted your club as a precaution and it was like whoa
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  whoa whoa, what the fuck? So basically, thank you.
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  He lost everything that he'd spent the last eight months
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  earning and it's like it wasn't just like rewards that he done
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  in game on FIFA Ultimate Team. It was also real life currency
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  that he bought FIFA points with as well and spent.
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  And all the cars that he got from that they just basically
• 17:39
  deleted when they deleted the club and I've now been going
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  around the houses with them. I want to put out my 9th
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  customer advisor. Basically going through the same
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  story over and over again where they basically sit around and
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  say I'll just reset your password and your account will
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  be secure. Great, but the content you just
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  fucking stole from me by deleting the club?
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  What's going to do that? And I'm sure there's something
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  in the terms and conditions to say they can probably fuck you
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  over like that anyway. Basically, what you're saying is
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  EA screwed over a kid. I can't believe anyone would
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  ever believe that they would do that.
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  I know if that sort of story got out, if you could put that into
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  a story and it's like if he is the, I mean he's 10.
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  And if he had downloaded an app and like think he was going to
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  get free coins or something like that genuinely by mistake or
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  genuinely on purpose, it would have been a case of, look, you
• 18:32
  can't use that, you're fucked up and you've lost this because of
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  it. But the fact that that's the
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  reason they put a ban on him, but then when they investigated,
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  they said there was no unauthorized app usage at all on
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  the account. It's like, well, why the fuck
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  did you put the transfer ban on then?
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  But we're going to let that go. But then when they deleted the
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  club, it's just kind of like, for fuck's sake, that's a lot of
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  money to be losing. And it's like, if they're doing
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  that, I'm not going to be the only person they've done it to
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  and I probably won't be the last person that they've done it to.
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  But it's just fucking awful that they can do that.
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  And as I say, the terms and conditions probably have it
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  somewhere that they can screw you over like that.
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  Yeah, I mean, I I think you need to take it further, get it all
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  over social media, make it known.
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  I mean, everyone knows the cunts anyway, but.
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  Yeah. Make it extra loud.
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  What makes it worse is that he he I know that I'm going to end
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  up buying EA Football Club because that'll be the next game
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  he wants because all of his friends have got it.
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  And it's a big social thing for him at his age.
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  So it's kind of like, as much as it pains me because they're
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  cunts, I know I'm going to still be putting money in their
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  fucking bank at some point. That's the thing.
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  I think we discussed this point last month.
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  There's not no real workable alternative to FIFA, is there?
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  I I know there's that Kanami E football, but.
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  It's, you know, it's tired. Yeah, yeah.
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  And it's like I was like he's 10 and he's going to go where his
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  friends are, you know. So it's like all of his friends
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  to haven't had any problems with FIFA, FIFA by EA Football Club.
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  He's going to be, he's not going to want to be Billy, no mates on
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  some random football game. He's going to want to go on site
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  as well and. Peer pressures and past.
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  Yeah, that's probably where I'm going to end up going, but
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  that's me for the month after. We've just made the Two Hour
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  Fucking Podcast with my ramblings.
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  Well, you just just before we move on, I've got one little
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  question. Sorry.
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  Yes. You said you said Idol Slayer,
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  Is that a new? New game.
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  Yeah, 100% brand new game. That's absolutely.
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  So is that your? No, because it's absolutely
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  fucking free on Steam. Does that count?
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  No, I've not spent any money on games.
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  It's like free games account. So it's like when I thought it
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  was free, I was like, Oh yeah, I've just had that to the
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  account and then it's like fucking.
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  Does that mean I can play starfield when that comes
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  because that's technically free? Coming the fuck is it free?
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  Because it's on Game Pass that's not free.
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  If you've already paid for Game Pass last year, I mean.
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  My game passes says. Fucking. 2026.
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  I think. I think that's a bit of a cop
• 21:24
  out there, mates like. That is a book.
• 21:26
  The whole game passing. I pay for my Game Pass last
• 21:29
  year. It's a bullshit 2023 fucking
• 21:32
  loophole. That is bullshit.
• 21:34
  I'm not. I'm not saying it's not a
• 21:36
  bullshit thing. Next you're going to be saying
• 21:38
  that you know, if it was a 2022 game, but I did the game pass
• 21:41
  this year. You know, is that a 2023 game?
• 21:45
  That's fucking bullshit as well. I fucking hate that rule too.
• 21:48
  It's like, Oh well, it's easy. It was released in 2017, but now
• 21:52
  it's putting put on Game Pass. It's like bullshit.
• 21:54
  You still pay for this fucking subscription.
• 21:55
  If you didn't pay for that subscription, you wouldn't have
• 21:57
  access to that game. Full stop.
• 21:59
  So I was like, yeah, I don't like fucking Game Pass.
• 22:02
  I'm in a fucking shitty mood if you don't guest as well.
• 22:06
  I don't know. Like, I think that's another
• 22:08
  poll man. Yeah, I think that's going to
• 22:11
  have to go to the community. You've got more fucking polls
• 22:13
  than next door's decorators. I mean, I'm just saying I'm not
• 22:19
  playing any Games with Gold that are getting added.
• 22:21
  They are free. Or you got to say that's part of
• 22:24
  your subscription as well. I'll put it another way, I'm not
• 22:26
  playing any of the Amazon Prime shit that I'm buying, not buying
• 22:29
  that. Is clicking still a
• 22:31
  subscription? You still have to subscribe to
• 22:34
  Prime. It's an added extra, but.
• 22:36
  Yeah, it's still a fucking subscription.
• 22:38
  This is genuinely a free game. This is like Epic.
• 22:42
  It's like the Epic Games every Friday.
• 22:45
  That's a free. Yeah, don't play them either.
• 22:47
  You don't have to have a subscription for them.
• 22:49
  You don't have to subscribe to them.
• 22:50
  Granted, most of them are fucking awful, but you
• 22:53
  technically don't need to have a subscription for it.
• 22:55
  They just give you stuff. And technically, Idol Slayer is
• 22:58
  one of those ones away. It's just it gives you stuff.
• 23:00
  It's no different to playing fucking scrooble scramble on a
• 23:04
  browser. So so basically what you're
• 23:06
  saying is this is your gift for the Usi my?
• 23:10
  Gift for the year from food I gift to myself for myself for.
• 23:13
  Fuck off Fucking steam, I think you're saying I fucking It's
• 23:17
  gifted to you. Steam You are really fucking
• 23:19
  spoiling us for these games. Anyway, getting back on to
• 23:23
  something approaching the track. I've slid back into a little bit
• 23:28
  of Cod Modern Warfare 2, did more stuff on the.
• 23:36
  Season pass. Just because I'm a bit of a
• 23:37
  masochist like that and I figured out a way to get enough
• 23:41
  points to get the next one because I was enjoying this one
• 23:43
  relatively pain free. So I've done that.
• 23:47
  That's cool. The new map is the it's like a
• 23:50
  small island Amsterdam map. It's really cool.
• 23:54
  That's quite interesting at the minute.
• 23:55
  It's a couple of new guns as well and they've scaled back the
• 23:59
  like extra paid season as well, called A Black Cell which is
• 24:03
  just. Yeah, another way of scapping
• 24:05
  money off people. Other than that, I've been
• 24:08
  playing the original Lego Batman coop with my daughter.
• 24:13
  She loves playing the Lego games on coop.
• 24:16
  So we've been making it, making our way to those.
• 24:19
  We've done the Marvel ones, we're up the Batman ones now,
• 24:23
  still playing, dying like 2 with Dave, another mate.
• 24:26
  That's that. Game's just going to go on and
• 24:27
  on. Yeah, I think we'll be hearing
• 24:29
  about that every month. Yeah.
• 24:32
  And Jedi Survivor is just getting better and better.
• 24:35
  It's that's just a huge game. There's so much there to do and
• 24:39
  see and the the the trouble is it's so detailed and you know
• 24:44
  there's so many little things and characters you can speak,
• 24:47
  speak to. It's so easy just to go off on a
• 24:50
  huge tangent, just running around exploring, see where this
• 24:53
  goes, that goes, talking to people.
• 24:56
  And then you spend the next 20 minutes trying to backtrack,
• 24:58
  find your way to whenever you were you meant to be going.
• 25:01
  An hour ago. And it's just one of those games
• 25:03
  where exploring is as much fun as doing the actual missions and
• 25:07
  stuff. You get to run a bit of a
• 25:08
  lifesaver. Yeah, that's taken it most of my
• 25:12
  time. That, and there may have been
• 25:14
  some drunken FIFA matches with Ross Grieve at some point.
• 25:21
  Available on Twitch for anyone who wants to watch Have Cry.
• 25:24
  Well, the the latter ones were. The the earlier ones where Ross
• 25:30
  gets canned three in a row. It was rather unfortunate did
• 25:35
  not stream them. I wonder why.
• 25:38
  No, they were streamed because we had an audience.
• 25:40
  It was just I didn't realize I had to click a box that says I
• 25:44
  get to keep those streams, so. You.
• 25:48
  Know for for everyone's airport, everyone sees.
• 25:52
  I mean, I didn't get beat. Was that before or after the the
• 25:56
  third swing nil t.A.T.u and? Yeah, that to to be fair, you
• 26:00
  absolutely destroyed me that first night.
• 26:04
  I think was that a week later when we both weren't as drunk as
• 26:09
  we were on Friday when we initially done it.
• 26:12
  And you were just drunk as I I. I definitely redeemed myself and
• 26:19
  nearly pulled that first season back to not not.
• 26:23
  What was it? The No Content goal difference?
• 26:25
  No it it. Was was it point or some
• 26:29
  something? Yes.
• 26:31
  It it was one goal in it I think and Nick did an injury term and
• 26:36
  yeah, but so so we we're one season each at the at the
• 26:39
  moment. So we'll we'll need if we'll
• 26:40
  need to find find time to get in that that third and final season
• 26:44
  I I just. Remember that's producing an
• 26:46
  abstinence from alcohol to secure a win on that.
• 26:49
  Yeah, I just, I just remember the buso was getting off Neil
• 26:52
  after we've done Sheffield United versus Sheffield
• 26:54
  Wednesday. Yes, he wasn't happy.
• 27:00
  Second one wasn't his butt but still yeah, that was that was a
• 27:03
  good laugh. Always enjoy about FIFA.
• 27:06
  Now it doesn't it doesn't sound like the type because it really
• 27:10
  brings out the the proper sweary Scotsman and me.
• 27:13
  But yeah, no that was that was good fun.
• 27:15
  So what else have you been playing a part from?
• 27:18
  FIFA mate relatively quiet month to be honest like compared to
• 27:23
  usual for myself are. You going up to games for
• 27:26
  Gamerscore? I've not even looked at the
• 27:28
  Gamer Score leaderboard this month to be honest.
• 27:31
  I've done 22 games that I've like finished and got Max points
• 27:36
  out of, but that was both of them were like hang ups that
• 27:39
  were half done. So I started the month off with
• 27:42
  that manager, the not A. Shark one, yeah.
• 27:46
  Basically, Jaws the game. I never got on with that.
• 27:50
  I tried it when it first came out because I because I bought
• 27:52
  it. But I yeah, it's.
• 27:54
  Not winning any awards. That's alright.
• 27:59
  Yeah. Yeah, that.
• 28:01
  So that that was on Game Pass and they put up the notice.
• 28:05
  I think it was coming off on the 15th of the month and I'd put
• 28:08
  maybe fucking 10 hours or something in it already and I
• 28:10
  was like, right, Might as well finish it.
• 28:13
  Yeah, I I noticed that it had come off and I was just like oh
• 28:17
  fuck it, I missed it. And then I realized that I'd
• 28:19
  actually bought it years ago on Xbox for my boy because he was
• 28:24
  mad on sharks at the time. And it was one of those amazing
• 28:28
  ones that if you bought it on the Xbox you could got the PC
• 28:32
  copy for free. So that's on my list to to play.
• 28:36
  Yeah, they're clear anywhere stuff.
• 28:38
  Yeah, it's like, I mean. Like like I say, it's it's not
• 28:41
  it's not winning any awards. I heard it's moments of fun.
• 28:44
  I mean basically swimming up to a beach and eating people
• 28:49
  feeling that kind of thing. It did get very, very.
• 28:52
  Repetitive. Yeah, there is DLC.
• 28:55
  I've not not done that. Because that could cause laser
• 28:58
  beans on your head and. Even in the main game, it's like
• 29:02
  I think by the end I was a fucking sparkly shock, like gave
• 29:07
  off electric and so not exactly grounded in reality, but.
• 29:14
  Yeah it was it was alright I got got the full gamers score right
• 29:18
  yet so that's rinsed done just in time for it coming off of
• 29:23
  game pass after that I had noticed a Neil, Mr. Mr. Baron he
• 29:29
  he had been playing Fallout New Vegas and I kind of got jealous
• 29:33
  because I looked at it and I was like I've I've still got the DLC
• 29:37
  for New Vegas to play so I went went and we downloaded it loaded
• 29:41
  it up and. My my king.
• 29:44
  The heart sunk when I realized that I last played that before
• 29:48
  cloud saves. What a thing.
• 29:50
  So my my Fallout New Vegas save is on a hard drive that went
• 29:54
  into game or game station something like that fucking
• 29:58
  years ago. And I did not have have it in me
• 30:01
  to restart because that was like a fucking 200 and odd hour play
• 30:04
  through which was just gone. So look at that.
• 30:08
  Fallout 76 looked at the map and went what the fuck?
• 30:12
  It was just little bit icons so turn that Off made-up Fallout 4
• 30:17
  and that was fine. Thankfully my save was still
• 30:20
  intact and and it was just the Nuclear World DLC that had to
• 30:24
  finish off in that. So I went through, done all
• 30:26
  that, really really enjoyed that again.
• 30:28
  Kind of gave me that that niggle to play more Fallout.
• 30:33
  But we stopped there because pretty much the day after I
• 30:38
  finished Fallout I may have used my Joker.
• 30:42
  What's that gonna be? There's Diablo in it.
• 30:48
  It was always going to be Diablo.
• 30:50
  So was this peer pressure or did you voluntarily jump?
• 30:53
  I about both. I mean, I was always going to
• 30:56
  get Diablo and really like Diablo 3, but I think there was
• 31:03
  a lot of the the, the formal coming in here.
• 31:06
  Everyone was talking about it, everyone was getting it.
• 31:08
  And I was like, no, I need to, I need to, I need to jump on that
• 31:11
  because that's that's going to be the type of game that, you
• 31:13
  know, it's got coop, so people are going to be playing through
• 31:16
  it together, yadda yadda. And the result is I've put
• 31:21
  almost three days in it since it came out.
• 31:25
  For how long? It's been like 2-2 weeks, so
• 31:29
  7072 hours in three weeks. Too, but in granted the vast
• 31:35
  majority that was the fucking first week it came out because
• 31:38
  it came out and then decided I didn't want to work the next
• 31:42
  day, so I just put in for the day off to play Diablo.
• 31:46
  You actually put that on the form or was that implied?
• 31:50
  I just said I need the day off. Nobody asked any questions.
• 31:55
  Yeah, and then I might have done the same for the Thursday.
• 31:59
  So I've got two, I've got two days pretty much solid player,
• 32:01
  which is very rare for me these days especially during the day
• 32:04
  game game time. And yeah I've I've managed to
• 32:08
  get through the the sort of campaign but that's when Diablo
• 32:10
  really like opens up. You've got you know you you're
• 32:14
  maybe at a push level 50 by the the end of the campaign then you
• 32:17
  can progress and go through the world tiers so on a tier tier 3
• 32:23
  now. Occasionally dropping back and
• 32:26
  running some cool stuff with Monty.
• 32:29
  I think we're Kneel on one night as well, just in a better run.
• 32:33
  So yeah, it's good. I'm not 100% convinced that the
• 32:40
  best use of a joker. That was good to be my next
• 32:42
  question because I've seen a number of different people that
• 32:47
  were a bit either underwhelmed or a bit blase about it after
• 32:52
  buying it. Yeah.
• 32:55
  Is is it worth it or is it overhyped or do?
• 32:59
  You have Joker remorse. Yeah, it's one of these hard
• 33:04
  ones. I mean, no, no regrets in terms
• 33:08
  of time spent, but when it comes to the fact that it has as the
• 33:13
  only game I can buy this year, I I'm kind on the fence right now,
• 33:18
  especially after what we've seen.
• 33:21
  In the last month about games that are coming out, we'll get
• 33:26
  to that when we get there. But yeah, I'm enjoying it.
• 33:32
  I've just, I have kind of slowed down and playing it now because
• 33:36
  it it does get really quite repetitive.
• 33:39
  I mean, everyone knows that if you played Diablo it gets to
• 33:42
  that point. I mean, I'm running a
• 33:44
  Necromancer and the way I've got it built like all around.
• 33:48
  Exploding corpses. So pretty much every bottle is
• 33:51
  running whole day Rattle RB as corpses appear and just explode
• 33:56
  things to the point that I was going to my bed at night.
• 33:58
  Shut my eyes and I could just see corpses exploding.
• 34:01
  Not in like a serial killer kind of way.
• 34:03
  Just like as I could see in my my sort of closed eye vision was
• 34:07
  Diablo. Like a Friday night in Glasgow's
• 34:10
  East End kind of works. Boom, boom.
• 34:15
  Yeah, So. We'll see.
• 34:17
  I mean, I'm not going to sack it off, not by any means.
• 34:19
  As I say, there's plenty of Co-op to be had there and I
• 34:21
  think it'll, it'll be better with Co-op.
• 34:25
  I just yeah. There's there's a could you now
• 34:30
  is there enough of the game, And I'm sure there is because of the
• 34:32
  way that Diablo's built with the tiers system that when certain
• 34:38
  games come out in September, can you just like stick your head in
• 34:41
  this and go La La La La, la. I can't see you because you can.
• 34:46
  Jump into Diablo world and ignore all of the noise about
• 34:50
  everything else. Hopefully.
• 34:55
  Is it fun on single player dovos?
• 34:58
  It is, yeah. As I say, the the one thing is
• 35:01
  that this sort of repetitive nature of it.
• 35:03
  I mean, I ran through the last sort of three acts and I could
• 35:08
  almost do it with my eyes shut because you're you're pressing
• 35:12
  forward, running through a dungeon.
• 35:14
  And every bottle is the same. It's like 334 button presses to
• 35:18
  destroy everything because you get to a point where you're
• 35:20
  pretty much invincible. Occasionally you only move away
• 35:23
  and pop a health portion or whatever.
• 35:25
  I think what I need to do is either switch up the character I
• 35:30
  have, like try a totally different approach, maybe
• 35:34
  something a bit more like hacking slash based just to mix
• 35:37
  it up because it is getting a bit stale.
• 35:40
  Just. Basically being an autopilot, I
• 35:42
  could probably fucking play it while watching something and and
• 35:47
  not really notice what was going on.
• 35:49
  Because I did wonder whether it was going to be entertaining
• 35:53
  replaying it on a single player basis, because that's probably
• 35:57
  what you're going to be doing in September when Starfield comes
• 35:59
  out. What?
• 36:00
  Do you mean, do you mean all my friends will leave me?
• 36:03
  Yes. Yes they will.
• 36:05
  Heartbeat. Oh, you got dates of table.
• 36:08
  That's some of the reasons why I think I've been able to like,
• 36:10
  avoid dropping on Diablo, because that's what I had on
• 36:13
  Diablo 3 was the whole getting to the point of being
• 36:16
  overpowered. That I used to know that you
• 36:19
  used to run it run into a dungeon push square twice, X
• 36:22
  once, triangle three times, square twice, and it's like
• 36:26
  dungeon done. And I played Diablo after I had
• 36:30
  a shoulder up and I literally played that game one handed.
• 36:34
  And it's just like. Yeah, I can.
• 36:35
  I can see how to be honest. That's, yeah.
• 36:38
  It was one of those. It was one of, we always used to
• 36:41
  like one handed game in midlife game I was like especially like
• 36:44
  people that got to the stage of their lives where they'd had
• 36:46
  kids and they were like ball feeding and what game can I play
• 36:48
  one handed? And Diablo was big on that, that
• 36:52
  you can and it's like that's kind of what put me off.
• 36:55
  Diablo 4 is like if it was more the same, it's just like it just
• 36:58
  becomes a button pressing exercise.
• 37:01
  And how do you get around that unless you say you change the
• 37:04
  character up? Yeah, the only the only real
• 37:07
  issue with doing that is it's like going back to the start and
• 37:10
  like you know, doing your characters, you've then got to
• 37:12
  go through the whole rigmarole of unlocking all the abilities
• 37:14
  and everything again, at which point you become super powered
• 37:17
  and it's like exactly where you were before.
• 37:20
  So yeah, I mean it's not like I. Was in that point then you must
• 37:23
  have spent the time on the original character going up a
• 37:26
  few more tears and. Yeah, yeah.
• 37:30
  And it's like to to put it like if I was on Year of Shame last
• 37:33
  year and I bought Eldon Ring, I knew when I played Eldon Ring
• 37:37
  that that was fucking awesome. And I mean that was, that was
• 37:41
  my, I'd say that was my game of the year last year.
• 37:44
  I can't say that I feel the same way about Diablo this year.
• 37:48
  I wouldn't put it in. I mean it might might creep in
• 37:51
  in the top five. Based on stuff I've played, but
• 37:56
  I've definitely I've, I've had more enjoyment out all our games
• 37:58
  so far this year I'll put. It up.
• 38:00
  Do you realize if Cath McCall is listening to this podcast this
• 38:03
  month, she has just put a fucking hit out on you for that
• 38:05
  comment? It's a good game.
• 38:10
  I'm not. I'm not saying it's not.
• 38:11
  I just, as I said, I don't know if it was the right choice of a
• 38:14
  joker. OK.
• 38:17
  So on that buyers remorse, we'll move forward with few questions.
• 38:20
  We've got another question from Serena.
• 38:23
  But because it's such a good question, I thought we'll give
• 38:25
  her two questions. If you had a team of developers,
• 38:29
  four years of life and work to build the game, what type of
• 38:33
  game would you make? It must be an original concept.
• 38:36
  Are there any original games anymore?
• 38:38
  What would you do to us? Well, that was my likes.
• 38:42
  Is there some, is there an original concept that is so
• 38:46
  fucking? That makes three of us, because
• 38:48
  that was my question as well. Is there What was the last
• 38:50
  original concept game? That was released.
• 38:54
  I mean there's obviously there's there's there's like new ideas
• 38:57
  you can put in existing existing games and stuff.
• 39:01
  I mean, I'm probably going to it's going to be a cop out
• 39:06
  because all all I've ever wanted since seen Mandalorian as a Star
• 39:11
  Wars bounty hunter game. Fine.
• 39:14
  It doesn't even have to be Star Wars.
• 39:15
  I want a bounty hunter game where I can fuck a bit space and
• 39:17
  be a bounty hunter. Wait, kill armor?
• 39:21
  Jet packs? After that maybe coming your way
• 39:25
  mate, what would you say it's? A really hard question.
• 39:28
  It's like I spent more time trying to think of when the last
• 39:32
  original concept was on a game and anyone I could really think
• 39:35
  of. Because it's like I discounted
• 39:38
  like new ideas into original concepts.
• 39:41
  Like the last one I could think of was Rocket League.
• 39:44
  That was probably the one that I remember.
• 39:46
  But I can think of that was like completely new, Never been done
• 39:49
  before, basically football with fucking cars.
• 39:53
  Surely they copy and Top Gear, aren't they?
• 39:57
  That's what it is. Glorify Top Gear football.
• 39:59
  It's like they. Yes, it reduced gravity.
• 40:04
  In reduced, I mean technically then it was that not DLC for
• 40:08
  Forza at some point as well. I wasn't not part of Forza
• 40:12
  Motorsport. One of the was it third or
• 40:14
  fourth one that would the Top Gear got involved in it.
• 40:18
  OK, there was there was a top get out of.
• 40:20
  But leaving off the original concept, what game would you
• 40:23
  make? Fuck.
• 40:24
  Those if I knew that I would be owning big bucks in a video game
• 40:29
  company instead of making podcasts about video games.
• 40:32
  Kind of like the idea of like the bounty hunter Star Wars.
• 40:34
  I've always wanted to. I'm like, I loved Mass Effect
• 40:38
  and I've always wanted Mass Effect to be in an MMO world.
• 40:43
  So like it never ends. That would be really appealing
• 40:47
  to me. See the the problem with Mmos is
• 40:50
  that they all they all end up being the same.
• 40:52
  You've got a quest. Go kill any of these fuckers.
• 40:54
  Pick up this, go here, go there, go there.
• 40:57
  I'd I'd prefer something more more akin to Mass Effect where
• 41:01
  it's got start and end. You've got your story.
• 41:04
  That's. Yeah, just give me a fucking
• 41:08
  mangalorian game for fox sake. I mean, for me it's gotta be
• 41:12
  something like sort of modern interpretation of.
• 41:17
  Afterburner in 3D. I know what I'm describing is
• 41:23
  dangerously close to Ace Combat 7, but.
• 41:26
  But yes. Yes, more of that.
• 41:28
  I love that game. I could play that so much.
• 41:30
  It was just good fun, particularly with the realistic
• 41:33
  planes and that as well, you know, let's go, a game of the
• 41:36
  new Maverick film that that would be pretty cool.
• 41:40
  Yeah. So we're not much in terms of
• 41:43
  ideas, but you know that. So the next question is from
• 41:51
  Stuart Ravage. Other than Russ Abbott,
• 41:54
  obviously, who is your favorite comedian or what game would you
• 41:57
  like them to voice a character in?
• 41:59
  I've got, I've got a couple of suggestions for this straight
• 42:01
  off the bat. I think that if you had like a
• 42:08
  Bilbu or a Jim Jeffrey's character.
• 42:13
  In a in a bar it. In a film, in a game.
• 42:17
  Rather. That would be just hilarious,
• 42:19
  you know? You've got this drunk, drunken
• 42:22
  idiot spoke to all sorts of hilarious nonsense in the
• 42:25
  corner. You'd listen to them more than
• 42:28
  you would actually listen to what the hell you're supposed to
• 42:30
  be doing in the game. Yeah, I agree with that 100%
• 42:34
  because I don't know about you guys spent so much time in the
• 42:37
  comedy club in GTA4. When they kind of did that where
• 42:41
  they had like a couple that they didn't do that they basically
• 42:45
  had a a rip the order of a couple of stand up comedy shows
• 42:49
  and had them in the game and I spent so long in those comedy
• 42:54
  bars listening to that. But yeah, I agree with that.
• 42:56
  I mean I've got, I was thinking Jim Jeffries too for a similar
• 42:59
  role. The other ones I was thinking of
• 43:01
  would be Rod Gilbert doing like he's ran in type monologues.
• 43:07
  Again, it would be in like a bar.
• 43:09
  Or alternatively, a Kevin Bridges Scottish character.
• 43:16
  No one would understand a fucking word of it.
• 43:19
  I mean, come on, come on for the Welsh gun.
• 43:25
  I've actually got let Roscoe, but I've actually got another
• 43:28
  thought on that. Actually, that might be just as
• 43:30
  funny. Yeah, I I quite like someone
• 43:35
  like Darryl Breen. Knowing that he's a gamer as
• 43:39
  well, so he maybe put some actual fucking effort in it
• 43:41
  rather than reading off a a trip sheet that game wise it's got to
• 43:47
  be fable. Fable's got, yeah, that level of
• 43:50
  humor. So yeah, that'll brain fable.
• 43:54
  The other thought I had was thinking back to Do you guys
• 43:59
  remember seeing the Higher Life game like a comic talking guns?
• 44:04
  And it'd be quite funny to have like a.
• 44:07
  A Jasper Carrot voice on one of those guns.
• 44:11
  Jasper. Carrot comedian.
• 44:14
  It's it's not these old people, does it?
• 44:17
  Absolutely. Sorry.
• 44:18
  Keep forgetting that. Yeah, Ross is only a bit of a
• 44:21
  Barbie by our standards. So you know, a lot of the jokes
• 44:24
  are going to go wish way above his head the.
• 44:27
  Other thing as well that we're probably forgetting with this
• 44:29
  question is that there's technically he became a stand up
• 44:32
  comedian, but you had Stephen marching in part pool.
• 44:37
  And I think that would be the sort of bar.
• 44:39
  Therefore you'd have to attain any of these options.
• 44:44
  OK, the next section we've got is the maybe showcases we've had
• 44:49
  over the last couple of weeks. For the first one, I'm going to
• 44:53
  hand over to Ross Grief, because he's probably the only one of us
• 44:56
  that actually owns all plays a PlayStation.
• 44:59
  I mean, I do, but I mean, it's all PlayStation Five stuff, I
• 45:04
  think. Obviously it was the SQL.
• 45:06
  Sorry, the PlayStation Showcase. Yeah, I mean what did they show
• 45:11
  off? Sneaky or remake, which wasn't
• 45:14
  the best Metal Gear Solid out of them all In my own opinion say
• 45:20
  if they were remake one, they should have went me Metal Gear
• 45:23
  Two possibly hard pass from me. Yes, that's not tickling anyone
• 45:30
  else's pickle. I, I, I I could see like a
• 45:33
  combined game would would be quite interesting, but it it's
• 45:37
  not, you know, essential. I think for my point of view it
• 45:41
  wouldn't make me buy a PlayStation.
• 45:43
  Yeah, next one that they kind of showed off was Bungee's next big
• 45:48
  hitter, which is Marathon and although it's obviously bungee
• 45:54
  owned by Sony as launching on other console console.
• 45:59
  The other console. I've not actually looked too
• 46:03
  much in it. Because I'll be, I'll be honest,
• 46:05
  Destiny isn't isn't marking the thing anyway.
• 46:07
  Yeah, I'm. Pretty much the same.
• 46:12
  I was just shocked that they're actually making a new game
• 46:14
  instead of flogging Destiny 2 for the next five years.
• 46:17
  Oh, that was that was another part.
• 46:18
  That is, there is another DLC coming for Destiny Two, I'm
• 46:22
  sure. At which point you buy you'll
• 46:23
  lose access to everything else. You're already fucking on.
• 46:25
  But. A better watch.
• 46:28
  I'm probably going to be walking a bit of a cross on my back
• 46:30
  after after saying that about Destiny.
• 46:32
  I know a lot of people have got a lot of time for.
• 46:34
  Destiny, they all just going to be gunning for you after that,
• 46:36
  mate. Yes, I mean the rest of the list
• 46:39
  that I've got here from the PlayStation showcase, they're
• 46:41
  all sequels, yeah, Diving right in and Hill Divers 2, which that
• 46:47
  that looked really fucking good. And I hope that is coming on
• 46:50
  Xbox and or PC, because I'm sure that is PC.
• 46:55
  And that effectively just looked like Starship Troopers the game.
• 46:59
  Like you've got people dropping in from space and big fuck off
• 47:02
  aliens that they're shooting and waves at that look really,
• 47:06
  really good. Allen Week too.
• 47:10
  Nice. Dragon's Dogma too.
• 47:12
  Really fucking nice. Spiderman.
• 47:14
  Spiderman. Can't believe I wrote Spiderman
• 47:16
  Spiderman Two. Which that's obviously the big
• 47:19
  the big Sony game of the year I'd I'd gather coming October.
• 47:25
  Not that any of other PlayStation.
• 47:27
  So yeah, that's right out. That will probably come out on
• 47:30
  PC as well, because Sony have got that thing with Steam at the
• 47:33
  moment where they're proprietary.
• 47:36
  Yeah, it's like a 40 year cycle though, yeah.
• 47:40
  You look at what the what they're releasing.
• 47:41
  So yeah, I I'm more than happy to hang off and get it on PC at
• 47:46
  some point. I I watched that.
• 47:50
  That looks nice, but yeah. It's not something that would
• 47:57
  make me go well. I really need the PS5I mean,
• 48:00
  I've still got the last one on the PS4 and that's it's about a
• 48:04
  tough slog to be honest. It's just like another one of
• 48:08
  those Assassin's Creed type games where you open the map and
• 48:11
  it's just full of fucking icons. That's what you want to see when
• 48:16
  you start a fucking game, isn't? It we've got a couple of
• 48:19
  questions to get through. We've got two from Julie Hazwet.
• 48:24
  And they are. Have you purged your piles of
• 48:26
  games you know you were never going to get to play since the
• 48:29
  challenge started, or what were they?
• 48:32
  Plus any that have been subject to a Purge or Order 66?
• 48:37
  Yeah, I mean pretty much any shovel where that I got free
• 48:41
  from either Amazon Prime or good old games that kind of shit.
• 48:46
  Not no like standard game in particular.
• 48:49
  Just a lot of this sort of end this stuff that looking through.
• 48:53
  You know, just wasn't for me for one reason or another.
• 49:01
  As I say nothing other than Crash Bandicoot, which I did
• 49:06
  sack off, but that was because I played that.
• 49:08
  That wasn't like just no chance in hell of doing it.
• 49:12
  Yeah, just crap I got rid of basically.
• 49:16
  What What would you give? For me mate, it's that money to
• 49:21
  again, I got my game and I played it and it was just the
• 49:26
  idea sounded fun, but there's something in the execution that
• 49:29
  didn't quite work. It just was one of those games
• 49:34
  that was going to be a grinder, not fun.
• 49:35
  So I sucked that off a while ago and so I'm not touching that if
• 49:39
  when it was going from Game Pass, which wasn't really an
• 49:43
  issue because I own the game but but still, it's just not for me.
• 49:48
  But hey. So I don't.
• 49:50
  Think I've actually purged yet, but like you guys, it's like
• 49:54
  I've played a game and gone that this one's not for me, but I've
• 49:57
  not purged it. It's like I'll give it another
• 50:00
  chance another day and not got back to it yet, but I probably
• 50:05
  will go back. But you know what sound that
• 50:07
  purge isn't? Doesn't sound like a bad thing.
• 50:09
  It might be something worthwhile doing now, but at the halfway
• 50:12
  stage, you know. I've realized, Alligin said
• 50:15
  that. Be a bad thing.
• 50:19
  We're halfway there, you know? That's the point.
• 50:22
  We're halfway there. We are halfway there.
• 50:24
  Fucking hell. I've still got that talking
• 50:27
  mind. For a second you were going to
• 50:29
  burst into Bon Jovi, then mate it.
• 50:31
  Did I was Spearing to it. It was in my head while I was
• 50:34
  there. I'm joking.
• 50:35
  I'm joking. I know who Bon Jovi is.
• 50:39
  Judy's got a second question, which is what game is your
• 50:42
  biggest? Why the hell did I buy that so
• 50:44
  far? I mean, I think I've, I've
• 50:46
  touched on that in two previous questions already.
• 50:51
  Diablo is the last question. No, I mean, we're not.
• 50:55
  We're not quite there with the Apple.
• 50:58
  My 100% why did I buy it was crashed by the The Insane
• 51:02
  trilogy. I'm not going to go in there
• 51:04
  again because we'll have that. So yeah, over at you, give or
• 51:08
  say. I actually.
• 51:11
  I've got a bit bit of wars because I bought the Turtles
• 51:16
  Cowabunga Collection, but it's it's a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde
• 51:20
  game in that I find myself at the loose end.
• 51:23
  So I thought, I'll have 5 or 10 minutes playing some of that and
• 51:26
  you put and then you just realize how many games are on
• 51:30
  there and how many turtle games there are in various formats.
• 51:35
  Some are good. Yeah, just shit.
• 51:39
  Yeah, there's no deny it. They are shit.
• 51:41
  But there are some really good ones.
• 51:42
  So it's yoyos between one held that.
• 51:45
  I buy that. Then you play one that's, you
• 51:48
  know, decent like Turtles in Time and then it's like, Oh
• 51:51
  yeah, that's it. It's good.
• 51:53
  It's good fun. But yeah, that's me.
• 51:58
  Think for me it's going to sound strange because I absolutely
• 52:02
  fucking love the game. It's also bugs me as well as
• 52:05
  Football Manager because I really want to play it, but I
• 52:09
  know for a fact that if I. Click on that game now that's
• 52:13
  the fucking year of shame done for me.
• 52:15
  As in I will not complete another game this year.
• 52:20
  So it's like I don't I I haven't got the heart to delete it off
• 52:26
  my account because I know I will go back to it at some point.
• 52:30
  It's just that fighting the urge to go back to it in these next
• 52:33
  six months is going to be incredibly hard because it is
• 52:38
  just. I can say just wait until the
• 52:41
  new season kicks off and then you'll have the draw to.
• 52:45
  That's not, I mean just. Make that one of your purge
• 52:48
  teams. You can come back to it.
• 52:51
  It's less likely to play it if it's not installed.
• 52:53
  I mean, it takes you a fucking month to download everything NN.
• 52:57
  Not so much now. I've got slightly faster
• 52:59
  Internet, so it's only two weeks It takes me to download shit
• 53:03
  now. They just give him the hamster
• 53:06
  in some speed in the wheel of that.
• 53:08
  No, he's moved off. He's moved off from dialup.
• 53:10
  I'm sure he's on like 5-5 hundred K now, OK?
• 53:15
  They're slowly catching up with us, you know, it's.
• 53:18
  Gotta be said though, that literally Football Manager is
• 53:22
  like the computer game equivalent of a Dementor from
• 53:25
  Harry Potter. You know?
• 53:26
  It just sucks the life out of you, see.
• 53:29
  I I quite enjoy it but it does. It's a huge time.
• 53:33
  Think it's not like you can just keep.
• 53:35
  Pushing continue game. You have to do other stuff into
• 53:37
  it and it's I know it's going to be a time sink and it's like I
• 53:40
  know that I've done it three years ago.
• 53:43
  I did it two years ago and I did it last year that I was making
• 53:46
  great progress on particles of Shame.
• 53:48
  And then around September, October time when the seasons
• 53:53
  kicked off and it's like, oh I like football again and oh I've
• 53:56
  got a computer game version of that and you hit play and that's
• 54:00
  the year fucking gone. You wait.
• 54:02
  You start on Friday. The next thing you know,
• 54:04
  everyone's getting up for Christmas Day.
• 54:06
  I mean, it is one of those games that I think has grown in
• 54:08
  popularity, not just because you can play at 1 old teams calls.
• 54:13
  Football Manager The apple. The apple is far too clicky for
• 54:18
  that control over there. A little bit too late to play
• 54:22
  that in teams calls. Thank you.
• 54:26
  Vampire Survivors was great. That made no noise.
• 54:32
  OK, moving on to the main concentration of interest this
• 54:37
  month, the Xbox Showcase. I mean, I know size confessed
• 54:43
  the other things that kept him awaited, but I'm sure Ross was
• 54:47
  watching it with me. Oh, of course.
• 54:50
  I think we we on. I think we were on a zoom
• 54:52
  together. One zoom, No zoom.
• 54:54
  That's fucking dead technology for COVID.
• 54:58
  We were on Discord. Dave Yes, these little discord
• 55:03
  night where we drank far too much for a Sunday, but so good
• 55:07
  we watched it. But the standout has got to be a
• 55:12
  starfield. What a game that looks awesome.
• 55:16
  Yeah, And just so you know, I've had the adoption papers through,
• 55:19
  so my great uncle Xbox has formally adopted me and he says
• 55:24
  he's looking at gifting that to me for my birthday.
• 55:27
  OK. Yeah, nice Starfield.
• 55:32
  Like, fucking phenomenal. For a spanning works here, I've
• 55:38
  watched this trailer and it looked amazing.
• 55:40
  And then there was one line in it.
• 55:42
  It's like from the game. It was sank along the lines of
• 55:45
  you're now part of this universe and we don't know what is out
• 55:49
  there, what to expect. And it's like, yes, we fucking
• 55:52
  do. It's Befest the game.
• 55:53
  It's free months of fucking more bugs than fucking Starship
• 55:55
  Troopers it. That's what we're going to have.
• 55:59
  We're going to be fine with this.
• 56:00
  It's like everyone's going to be moaning their shitty you little
• 56:02
  knickers off because it's so full of bugs.
• 56:04
  And then by December time they will have patched it.
• 56:08
  Steam Sale comes along, we get it cheap and it's no longer
• 56:11
  buggy as fuck. Happy days.
• 56:14
  But you're not going to need a Steam sale.
• 56:16
  It's on Game Pass. It's free.
• 56:19
  It's not free. We've had this conversation.
• 56:21
  You fucking subscribe to it? You cannot have that.
• 56:23
  You pay for Game Pass anyway. It's free, no?
• 56:26
  It it come out this year, it's like, oh the fucking game Pass
• 56:29
  legals. Well, we're not saying it's like
• 56:33
  we're we're playing it. It's obviously my rule set was
• 56:37
  nothing, nothing new on Game Pass from the sort of turn of
• 56:42
  the year. And that that's why I've got a
• 56:46
  new uncle. Is it gonna be those ones that
• 56:51
  stays there, or is it gonna drop off of Game Pass, leaving you in
• 56:54
  the shit in 80? No, no, that's, I mean, that's
• 56:57
  an Xbox One, yeah, that it's owned by Microsoft, so that
• 57:02
  ain't going anywhere. X 6th of September.
• 57:05
  So that's it's a good four months of FOMO, isn't it?
• 57:09
  On that? Yeah, I mean, thankfully it is
• 57:12
  solely a single player experience, which I think that
• 57:15
  does help like reduce because you're yeah, they're not sitting
• 57:19
  like on a you know a Friday night and everyone's fucking
• 57:22
  playing it and that will help take away this sort of urge.
• 57:27
  I think probably not. I'm probably gonna be fucking
• 57:30
  sat under my desk the. Only problem I can see is like
• 57:32
  when it was fucking Hogwarts legacy and every fucker was a
• 57:35
  wizard and showing the best bits of the game.
• 57:37
  Every other day on fucking twitch and shit.
• 57:39
  And it's like you don't need to play the game now.
• 57:41
  I've seen it. Thanks.
• 57:43
  And The thing is, there was such a big game that I can't see that
• 57:45
  there's going to be, you know, enough of, you know, an overflow
• 57:51
  of information just to stop you, you know?
• 57:55
  You know, there's got to be countless threads on Midleaf
• 57:57
  Gamer, and it's got to be people showing off the little deads.
• 58:01
  Well, they're getting updated and that's got to be the hard
• 58:03
  part, yeah. And there is gonna be a
• 58:06
  competition so you can build a penis shaped spacecraft the
• 58:09
  quickest that that is gonna happen.
• 58:11
  You know that's yeah, that's the media byproduct of giving gamers
• 58:17
  the ability to design the spacecraft.
• 58:18
  It's going to be who can get one looking like a cock serious.
• 58:22
  I get that. I wanna see the first Baron
• 58:24
  shaped fucking spaceship going into space there.
• 58:28
  Yeah, there's gotta be some fucking wacky, wacky designs out
• 58:31
  there. A lot of them are going to be a
• 58:34
  genital related. We know this.
• 58:37
  OK, moving on to another awesome game.
• 58:42
  Thankfully, it doesn't look like it's going to trouble us.
• 58:45
  Star Wars Outlaws 2024. Thank you.
• 58:50
  To be fair, I think we got really lucky.
• 58:52
  We a lot of the stuff that we've shown off and a lot of it was
• 58:56
  like. Comes up 2024, So the poor
• 58:59
  bastards that are doing this shit next year.
• 59:03
  Thoughts and prayers. Yeah.
• 59:06
  Star Wars look really, really good.
• 59:10
  I I got a lot of uncharted vibes from it.
• 59:15
  Yeah, I got that. Not not quite what I want from
• 59:18
  Star Wars, especially knowing that it's from the the team
• 59:23
  behind The Division I was expecting Slash hoping for.
• 59:27
  You know something? Four player, a coop, blah blah
• 59:30
  blah. And this looks purely single
• 59:33
  player experience. I'll probably learn nothing from
• 59:38
  doing your Ashame and buy it. They won next year.
• 59:41
  I I I saw the expanded trailer on the Ubisoft showcase as well
• 59:46
  and it was interesting. I don't if you any of you guys
• 59:49
  saw that there seem to be more choices you make on the first
• 59:53
  part. They showed you could have a
• 59:55
  choice to whether to bribe. Any people official or not, and
• 59:59
  I think that influenced the game going forward.
• 1:00:00
  That was quite interesting, that sort of dynamic of how you
• 1:00:04
  influence the story and I would influences your interactions
• 1:00:09
  with the Empire. Shit them all.
• 1:00:12
  Yeah, I definitely want that. I actually want that more than I
• 1:00:16
  want Survivor. You want books that make they're
• 1:00:19
  both awesome. There's a lot of similarities in
• 1:00:22
  this as well because there's like a little animal character.
• 1:00:26
  That you can control in the same way that you can with BD1 in the
• 1:00:31
  Jedi Survivor game. Yeah, got a bit of similarity
• 1:00:34
  that way, I. Mean I I do have to fit that.
• 1:00:36
  It might have been Survivor with a new skin painted over it, but
• 1:00:39
  I don't think it is. I think it might be just
• 1:00:42
  different enough. I mean, there's no like Sybil's
• 1:00:45
  hands all of the game, but women?
• 1:00:47
  And there's a lot of hate. I've seen a lot of sad twats.
• 1:00:54
  Posting because it was a female character, but I thought it was
• 1:00:56
  quite a good interesting twist on it, to be fair.
• 1:01:00
  Yeah, I mean especially for Star Wars, it's like game, even more
• 1:01:04
  so game wise. It's can even like short of, you
• 1:01:09
  know, nice old Republic where you created your own character,
• 1:01:12
  you've never really had a female lead I don't think.
• 1:01:16
  The story from Rogue One would be brilliant as as a single play
• 1:01:21
  game as well. Make it.
• 1:01:25
  Let's learn games. Make I'll go back and change my
• 1:01:27
  answer for one as a game. There you go.
• 1:01:28
  So the next game to grab everyone's attention was Fable.
• 1:01:34
  That looked interesting. Everyone's favorite Richard
• 1:01:39
  Dyoade that I thought that was a nice setup.
• 1:01:41
  I mean, obviously you didn't see anything to give away what it's
• 1:01:45
  really going to play like or anything, but the name fucking
• 1:01:48
  Fable alone was enough to, if I can, set Fireworks off
• 1:01:52
  everywhere. And it was total the Fable type
• 1:01:54
  humor as well, weren't it? Yeah, I mean, who The Who?
• 1:01:58
  The thought you'd get a wanker and a, I think Xbox
• 1:02:01
  presentation. But yeah, I as soon as I saw
• 1:02:05
  Fable and my concern is, I mean we're almost in get into the
• 1:02:10
  golden age of this Gen. I think with like graphically
• 1:02:14
  looking at these trailers, they seem to be like the next level
• 1:02:20
  up however. I almost don't want to believe
• 1:02:24
  it until I see it, because how many times have we been burned
• 1:02:27
  with, oh, this is in game footage and then it's not.
• 1:02:31
  It's the fucking QuickTime event that's fully rendered.
• 1:02:35
  It's not actually the game as such.
• 1:02:38
  Yeah, I think we what you've got to take an account Fable as
• 1:02:41
  playground games that are there and the I mean Forza Horizon is
• 1:02:47
  fucking beautiful. So I've got faith it's going to
• 1:02:51
  look awesome. I mean the one thing I will
• 1:02:54
  probably say is that that for me would be a day one purchase or a
• 1:02:58
  day one download from Game Pass. Game.
• 1:03:02
  Pass. Following on from that, we have
• 1:03:05
  Forza Motorsports 7 coming out October 10th on Game Pass.
• 1:03:11
  I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but it doesn't half look
• 1:03:14
  pretty. Does.
• 1:03:17
  I don't have the time to be tweaking everything.
• 1:03:20
  I don't need to be tweaking fucking suspension by one of a
• 1:03:24
  millimeter to get an extra of a second, often fucking that time.
• 1:03:29
  You don't have to just shuffle them out to the way drive into a
• 1:03:32
  cooler than leave them in a island.
• 1:03:34
  That's why I like Horizon, because it is just fucking pulls
• 1:03:37
  to the wall. Shut the fucker out the way.
• 1:03:39
  Yeah, our kid driving. Yeah, which?
• 1:03:44
  You can't really do with motor sport and I don't have the time
• 1:03:48
  to sync on. It's the same with Gran Turismo.
• 1:03:51
  I never had the time to tweak cars enough.
• 1:03:55
  It's on Game Pass. I mean, you can download it, try
• 1:03:58
  it, see how much you like it, and next you've got the DLC for
• 1:04:03
  Cyberpunk 2077, Phantom Liberty. This looks a bit good, doesn't
• 1:04:08
  it? I'd put that in contention for a
• 1:04:12
  joker if I hadn't. Who's the Joker?
• 1:04:14
  But here we are. There's, there's one saving
• 1:04:18
  grace I'll have for that. It'll probably take me till the
• 1:04:20
  end of September to finish my slide for 2077.
• 1:04:24
  I'm still halfway through. Yeah.
• 1:04:27
  I think part of that DLC reworks a lot of the mechanics and stuff
• 1:04:31
  and and the the original game. So a lot of people were saying
• 1:04:37
  if you haven't started that just don't bother.
• 1:04:39
  Wait until this this DLC drops because it's got to change a lot
• 1:04:43
  how it all works anyway, but yeah.
• 1:04:47
  Would not change the original game and make it different.
• 1:04:51
  Or you know, we do not see that again then.
• 1:04:53
  It's kind of make it better. Is that?
• 1:04:56
  It's gotta be amazing. You know what?
• 1:04:58
  I skipped that trailer because you fucking know the reason why.
• 1:05:02
  There's no legs in it. There's no feet.
• 1:05:04
  It can get the fuck in the bin. Are you sure?
• 1:05:07
  You can't see your legs in Cyberpunk.
• 1:05:09
  There we go. I mean, Google says so side, GPT
• 1:05:13
  says so. I don't know.
• 1:05:17
  Side Gpt's wrong. I I no, I don't know.
• 1:05:23
  For me, I'm out. It's not Dragons down side.
• 1:05:31
  OK, next you've got South of Midnight.
• 1:05:33
  I really like this the Southern Blues inspired trailer.
• 1:05:37
  Looked really good and funky. See see the the the problem with
• 1:05:42
  with watching that showcase is as it got further on I got more
• 1:05:45
  and more drunk and I didn't look at stuff past that.
• 1:05:50
  I didn't need to go back and watch it the next day.
• 1:05:51
  I just what's in my minds in my mind I don't see at the time I
• 1:05:57
  have I have it written down in a message somewhere that I said
• 1:06:00
  that looks really good but I think I think again that's a is
• 1:06:04
  a 2024. I think so, yeah.
• 1:06:06
  I couldn't see a date on it so I'm presuming it's 2024 if they
• 1:06:09
  haven't put a date in. I am watching trailers this
• 1:06:12
  afternoon, stone cold so when I don't fucking remember.
• 1:06:15
  It so we've got Payday 3 come out on the 21st of September on
• 1:06:19
  Game Pass. Ah, Speedy Two.
• 1:06:21
  Shit. See of Thieves Monkey Island DLC
• 1:06:26
  again 20th of July on Game Pass. Does anyone ever place you
• 1:06:29
  thieves apart from Dave? No.
• 1:06:30
  Is that just a DLC? I tried to see a face and I
• 1:06:34
  didn't get into it. And.
• 1:06:36
  The involved having to deal with fucking people.
• 1:06:38
  You've then got Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 that actually
• 1:06:41
  look pretty good. That looks amazing.
• 1:06:44
  Everyone will download that, fly over the house and then delete
• 1:06:48
  it. Play it on cloud where you don't
• 1:06:50
  even have to fucking download it and delete.
• 1:06:54
  It's even better. You've got Hellblade 2 Rockwork
• 1:06:57
  Revolution. Oh, Hellblade.
• 1:07:00
  Two in 2024. Hellblade 2, was that 2024?
• 1:07:06
  Yeah, which I'm really thankful for.
• 1:07:08
  Yeah, I really thought that was a groundbreaking game.
• 1:07:12
  The first one, the mental health aspect.
• 1:07:16
  And if you play it with headphones on, fucking it's just
• 1:07:19
  like you mind fuck. Yeah, phenomenal sound design in
• 1:07:25
  that game. Even the sound on the trailer
• 1:07:28
  was just. Creepy and unnerving, it was I.
• 1:07:31
  Watched that on my phone and they'd even managed to get its
• 1:07:33
  on your phones. Was able to like, bounce the
• 1:07:36
  sound around. Hey, going on from the Xbox
• 1:07:40
  Showcase, we've got a couple more questions from Neil
• 1:07:44
  Jarrett, Baron von Pleb. The Baron.
• 1:07:49
  Regret. It's a fact that we've all been
• 1:07:50
  there. If you could rewind six to seven
• 1:07:53
  months ago, what would you change?
• 1:07:56
  I wouldn't fucking sign up for you to assume.
• 1:07:58
  Yes. If I don't Starfield was coming
• 1:08:01
  up, I wouldn't have agreed to do it.
• 1:08:04
  I mean, I think we all knew Starfield was coming.
• 1:08:06
  Yeah, but we didn't know it was that good.
• 1:08:08
  We kind of like hoped it would have been like a We were going
• 1:08:12
  to release it next month, but we've want to put a bit more
• 1:08:14
  Polish because we love you, the fans.
• 1:08:16
  It'll be available in January. Yeah, I'd be happy if they did
• 1:08:20
  that. No.
• 1:08:22
  I, I, I I wish I'd just because apparently you're like to buy
• 1:08:26
  games the previous year. Like it doesn't count as a
• 1:08:28
  joker. So I wish I'd bought the apple
• 1:08:30
  last year. Just like bang the preorder and.
• 1:08:33
  OK, we've got a further question from Neil.
• 1:08:36
  Apart from the obvious by play more games, what rule would you
• 1:08:40
  like to make mandatory for any Year of Shame in the future?
• 1:08:45
  Oh, I think I've come off this. Fuck Game Pass right out the
• 1:08:49
  fucking window. Let's get back to old school.
• 1:08:52
  Make it a fucking challenge. None of this.
• 1:08:54
  Oh, it's a 2020 game. Or it's not.
• 1:08:56
  It's new. Fuck the shit.
• 1:08:58
  Right out. I would say to challenge each
• 1:09:01
  other to play a game because you know, you can look at everyone's
• 1:09:05
  game list. So you know, why don't you try
• 1:09:08
  this game. I've played that, it's great
• 1:09:10
  from their list. Well, you could, because then
• 1:09:15
  you could arrange to play a game because the other person is
• 1:09:17
  going to play the game that month as well, and then you go
• 1:09:20
  balls doing deep into it, killing aliens and the other
• 1:09:22
  person doesn't bother. Possibly.
• 1:09:24
  I'd just say no jokers, no gifts, fuck you or or as I say
• 1:09:31
  to that, you get a joker, but it's picked from the other hosts
• 1:09:35
  that. Would be pretty brutal when.
• 1:09:40
  Well, like we all got Barbie horsey adventure.
• 1:09:46
  I mean, technically I am doing no gifts and no joker because I
• 1:09:53
  was putting my joke aside from. The free game site apart from.
• 1:09:57
  The free games We've already established that free games are
• 1:10:00
  out. Free games do not find.
• 1:10:03
  Wait, wait, the the community will decide you're fate the.
• 1:10:07
  Community will not decide it's a free fucking game if.
• 1:10:11
  You're getting chucked in the fucking season.
• 1:10:13
  If people can fucking preorder DLC six months ago and play it,
• 1:10:17
  then a fuck old cost free game is allowed.
• 1:10:21
  To be fair, I have preordered DLC before the Year of Shame and
• 1:10:25
  I haven't played it. I think it's last year you know
• 1:10:28
  about, mate. Yeah, yeah, that's probably is.
• 1:10:31
  Who was it that did that again? It was.
• 1:10:33
  It was near, wasn't it? Yeah.
• 1:10:35
  The person asked the question. And it was Destiny, too.
• 1:10:39
  It was the Witch Queen DLC that he'd ordered.
• 1:10:42
  I'll tell you, the other rule that we could make mandatory for
• 1:10:45
  next year is if you buy a fucking game and use your joker,
• 1:10:48
  you can't claim it as a gift one month later.
• 1:10:54
  OK, So what if we missed going backwards this month?
• 1:11:00
  The first thing I'm going to say is, but I've not missed it at
• 1:11:03
  all, is some friends of ours who play in Power Wash Simulator.
• 1:11:08
  Now why the hell you would buy a Power Wash Simulator game?
• 1:11:13
  I mean, I want to know why. I want to know why it's on your
• 1:11:16
  list. Because it's been on Game Pass
• 1:11:18
  for fucking months. Gavin.
• 1:11:19
  Come on. Why?
• 1:11:22
  Why would you play a game? I can't be bothered power wash
• 1:11:26
  the car, let alone anything else virtually.
• 1:11:29
  Like we we all jumped on it and it was it was it chops that
• 1:11:32
  tried to get us on, so we all jumped on it.
• 1:11:34
  There was six years on it on Friday night and it went off for
• 1:11:38
  fucks. It was boring.
• 1:11:40
  We were washing our train and we were there for about 45 fucking
• 1:11:46
  minutes looking for dark on a virtual train.
• 1:11:51
  We eventually done it and I uninstalled it.
• 1:11:56
  That just sounds fucking. Awful.
• 1:12:00
  Next you've got the game that's been everywhere on social media.
• 1:12:03
  It's Street Fighter Six. I mean, I have watched some
• 1:12:08
  people playing this, watching the game where, yeah, having a
• 1:12:13
  slap about. I think it was more Watty than
• 1:12:15
  Dave last time I talked to him. I don't think he'd even want a
• 1:12:18
  game on it. Yeah, I remember playing, what,
• 1:12:23
  Street Fighter Five? Not four for the one on Xbox.
• 1:12:27
  That wasn't a fun night. Yeah, he's he's fucking shut up.
• 1:12:29
  I mean to be fair, watching him and Dave fighting that out,
• 1:12:33
  there was a few close fights on Street Fighter 4I.
• 1:12:36
  I never got round to watching the Street Fighter Six stream.
• 1:12:39
  But yeah they they're that I I've got a few good fights on
• 1:12:44
  four anyway. So yeah, more of that please.
• 1:12:47
  And then maybe come round and watch it at some point.
• 1:12:49
  Definitely not one that I'll be buying them.
• 1:12:50
  Don't think I feel like I've missed it because by the time
• 1:12:52
  we've brought this challenge, Street Fighter Six, Super Bowls
• 1:12:55
  Deep Mega Super Championship Championship Edition be out.
• 1:13:00
  I mean, next you've got Diablo 4, but two of us haven't missed
• 1:13:05
  it. One of us has misusing his Joker
• 1:13:08
  on it, so. I I thought, don't know what
• 1:13:10
  you're talking about at the at the I've not played Diablo 4,
• 1:13:14
  I'm sure that'll. Be it was just the beater, was
• 1:13:16
  it? Yeah, 44.
• 1:13:21
  I mean, next you've got Layers of Fears, Alien, Dark Descent,
• 1:13:25
  Crash Team Rumble, and Final Fantasy 16.
• 1:13:28
  They were missing those, no? Or just no, no and no no.
• 1:13:34
  I mean layers of fears. Definitely not because I'm a
• 1:13:36
  fucking chip bag and Final Fantasies apparently doing quite
• 1:13:39
  well. But doesn't doesn't appeal with
• 1:13:42
  me. And of course anything with
• 1:13:45
  Crash in it has put Ross and Say off recently, so.
• 1:13:49
  A foot crush button. OK, looking ahead to what's
• 1:13:52
  coming out soon, we'll be now to the Game Pass.
• 1:13:56
  We've got Exoprimal on July 14th.
• 1:14:00
  That looks OK. I quite like look at that, looks
• 1:14:03
  good, you shoot. Your dinosaur game.
• 1:14:06
  Yeah. Shoot you explode your dinosaur
• 1:14:09
  game. Shoot you, shoot your Dinosaur
• 1:14:11
  Met game. They'll be there in four months,
• 1:14:14
  at six months time. You've got Jagged Alliance Three
• 1:14:17
  come around PC in July 14th again.
• 1:14:20
  Oh, literally never heard of that until right now.
• 1:14:23
  Jagged Alliance used to be a really good PC sort of term
• 1:14:26
  based strategy game like Mercenaries and stuff, and then
• 1:14:30
  you've got Loaded DLC for WWE2K23 in July and August is.
• 1:14:37
  That the Super oiled edition, Yeah.
• 1:14:40
  Probably, yeah, now with extra spandex.
• 1:14:42
  Madden 24. Which almost no one will be
• 1:14:45
  interested in. Which will be like Madden 23 and
• 1:14:49
  22 and 21. It's a typical EA roster update
• 1:14:55
  game, isn't it? Yeah.
• 1:14:59
  It's the annual fundraiser, isn't it?
• 1:15:01
  Yeah, Doesn't they have like a story mode in it this year?
• 1:15:04
  Do they? I know they did that a couple of
• 1:15:07
  years like they did with the FIFA game.
• 1:15:08
  So they had like a career mode where there was actually a
• 1:15:10
  single player story. Next you've got Armored Core 6,
• 1:15:14
  FISA Rubicon August 25th. I'm interested, yeah, I'm
• 1:15:19
  interested in that. I mean from software publishing
• 1:15:23
  it and well, we all know what they've done.
• 1:15:27
  Pretty sure that's the older ring team.
• 1:15:29
  Not working on that though. That's got a bit hard, this
• 1:15:32
  fucking balls. But it's also probably got to be
• 1:15:35
  really fucking good. That's it for me.
• 1:15:37
  I I I don't mind being challenged in games, but.
• 1:15:41
  Being hard for being hard's sake.
• 1:15:42
  I know that's a genre and a lot of people like it, but it just
• 1:15:46
  bores me. OK, next you've got Starfield at
• 1:15:49
  6th of September. What's that again?
• 1:15:52
  Starfield. 1st I'm hearing about.
• 1:15:56
  The one we were literally discussing 10 minutes ago for
• 1:16:00
  the Xbox Showcase. Yeah, the one that Monk was
• 1:16:03
  gifted me. No, no, I know nothing of this
• 1:16:07
  Field of star game that you're referring to.
• 1:16:10
  You know universe full of planets to explore, flyer craft.
• 1:16:14
  Which other craft down based pirates?
• 1:16:18
  No, no, move on. OK, now we've established size
• 1:16:23
  Korsakov syndrome. Is one of the game that comes on
• 1:16:27
  to Game Pass I think this month, which is a RPG retelling of the
• 1:16:33
  story of Pinocchio it seems. Which synopsis wise and
• 1:16:37
  screenshot wise looks. Interesting, don't know what
• 1:16:40
  trailer wise. Is that a life of is a Life of
• 1:16:43
  Pi? Life of Is it Life of Pi or life
• 1:16:45
  of P? Life of P That sounds a bit
• 1:16:47
  right. Although Life of Pi is not be
• 1:16:50
  interested. Yeah, that did look good.
• 1:16:53
  Moving on. OK, if you've stayed with us for
• 1:16:57
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• 1:17:00
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• 1:17:18
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• 1:17:21
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• 1:17:23
  Stu type things and notified us, so I'm guessing no one's used
• 1:17:27
  it. There you go then, and it's bye
• 1:17:30
  for me. Bye for me.
• 1:17:32
  And bye for them. Well, this is the end.
• 1:17:54
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