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Simplicity vs Complexity in the Gaming Arena
What happens when gaming meets politics, underwater adventures, and a quirky pastor? Join the UCP as they unravel the delightful chaos of their latest episode, where they explore everything from Pastor Longhorn's antics in the MAGA movement to RGT's immersive journey in the alternate 1970s world of "Under the Waves." Get ready for a hearty mix of satire, storytelling, and gaming insights that are bound to keep you entertained from start to finish.
Ever wondered if simplicity could be the downfall of a promising boxing video game? Our critical take on "Undisputed" might just ruffle some feathers as we dissect its intuitive controls and realistic mechanics, contrasting them with its limited features. From there, we hop on a nostalgic train with the "Trine" series, praising its latest installment while reflecting on its charming evolution. And don't miss our dive into the vibrant world of "Bomb Rush Cyberfunk," where rollerblades meet skateboards in a cyberpunk frenzy.
Finally, we journey through the virtual reality landscape and gaming graphics evolution, comparing 8K textures and AI possibilities in games like Skyrim. We chat about personal gaming experiences, from "City Skylines" to console upgrades, wrapping up with festive reflections and gratitude for our quirky community. Whether you're a long-time listener or new to our unique world, there's a little something for everyone to enjoy in this whimsical episode.
George and Seb rolling down the road, rgt, riding shotgun, a heavy load, pastor Longhorn, waiting to unfold An El Paso Texas tale's been told. One arm big a sight to see, el Paso Texas tales been told. One arm being a sight to see. Pastor, preach, preach, set you free, do-do-do-do-do. George and Seth, they've been the need. Just a pastor's sideboard, yeah, just a couple of them for the wash, just past this sideboard here, just uh, I'll put that in for the wash.
Speaker 2:Um, what else? Oh, I need to rearrange the screens. Yeah, I can do that. Huh, I remember when I used to host a video game podcast. I'm glad. I'm glad I joined the cult.
Speaker 3:RGT, rgt George.
Speaker 2:How you doing, Dude. I thought you left the cult. I mean you crawled. I mean I don't know what's happening happening here, but you crawled out under the smallest gap under the fence that's ever been made, and you know. Fair play to you. Then you snuck back in as a tumbleweed to the edge of the fence. Maybe a week later you appeared as pasta's laundry basket. Now I've had my medications checked and triple checked. I've even halved my Kool-Aid consumption. I love you, Pastor, and are you real?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've seen the light. I thought, right, I'm going to stamp up the 20,000.
Speaker 2:I'm in, I'm back, I make mistakes, but it's a bit of a shame you didn't rejoin the day I was manning the phone line, because we had a deal where 4,000 pounds or dollars got you the full package. It's what we signed.
Speaker 3:OG Tom up to yeah, and then, because I left it a bit late, I had to pay the 20 because pastor said I've been a very, very naughty boy so I've just spent two weeks in his special room, um, so that's why he's only just seen me now. But I've recovered, so I'm back out doing chores and that now.
Speaker 2:So what you've recovered or you've recovered from pastor's special room.
Speaker 3:I've recovered from his special room, but he made me see the light where did he put it? We'll discuss this another time.
Speaker 2:Um, that's not safe for on there hello and welcome to the official controller podcast, your weekly gaming podcast, episode number 248. I said it last week, I'll say it again how does a show this mediocre last this long? I guess it's survival of the worstest. It's me, george, this week, joined by rgt, who's rgt to my very vicious std. How's it going?
Speaker 3:that's an intro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm very, I'm very good this is how we do things now in the pg15 era. We're a little bit faster than loose. There was no swears. Yeah, very edgy, a little edging to an edgy, I think yeah, rgt, king of the edge lords. Um, so you've been off, which is wonderful. Uh, you missed the whole. Uh pastor joined trump on the MAGA bandwagon. Some say his association with a dodgy cult leader from El Paso, texas, is what got him the presidency.
Speaker 3:Pastor is a powerful man.
Speaker 2:He's very powerful. He's more powerful than an Xbox Series X wired up to Sellafield. That's how powerful. This is Age-appropriate joke. I don't even know if that's even around anymore, but do you know what? Your wiki search history just went through the roof RGT. Yes, let's stand on ceremony here, as I ask you, and I expect an exhaustive list here. What have you been playing?
Speaker 3:Well, I've been playing mostly PS5. I haven't really played much else, but I played a game and I'll be surprised if you haven't played this and if you haven't played this.
Speaker 2:Is this, is this, is this my.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:It's not now, it's not this, no, it's not this. What's this?
Speaker 3:This is a little game.
Speaker 2:Is it this? No, is it this?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Is it Boone? No, is it doomed? No, okay, all right, just patience.
Speaker 3:You don't know how long I've waited. I do, yeah, this is a game that I saw on PlayStation Premium and I'd seen a trailer for maybe a year ago and then forgot about the trailer and I thought, ooh, I'm going to delve into this and had such a good time with this game Really. Yeah, story RGT may have got a little bit choked with this story. It was, yeah, quite strong. It's a little game called Under the Waves.
Speaker 1:Hmm.
Speaker 2:Now, I haven't played it, but in my perusal of PS, whatever it was, was it Premium? Is it PlayStation Premium?
Speaker 3:I think it's on. It might not be on the others, but it's on the PlayStation Plus format.
Speaker 2:I've seen it. I remember all the jazz hands about it when it launched and it's piqued my interest a couple of times, but I've never dialed zero on that bad boy. Tell me what it feels like to dial zero on making. Was it making waves Under the waves?
Speaker 3:Same difference. Yeah, exactly, should have probably been called that.
Speaker 2:It's one thing this podcast isn't doing.
Speaker 3:I didn't realise that was published by Quantic Dream.
Speaker 2:I do recall that, but yeah, I don't think they had a hand in making it, though did they. They just literally published it, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:But you can see why they published it because it's down there sort of narrative, story, tell and game. Basically, you start off as a guy who's gone. It's almost like a sort of a parallel world set in the 70s. So you're working for an oil firm under the sea and you live in this life pod under the sea, but obviously the technology obviously isn't there to do that but is there in this era. If you know what've that starts a rise and that you've gone down there because you've had trouble in your personal life with your partner, family, et cetera.
Speaker 3:Um, and it's that brilliant crossover that you can tell he's a troubled man, he's got issues, um, which is brilliantly acted, um, but then you'll have to go out and do your routine jobs each day. So you get in your submarine, you'll have to go out and take samples and do bits and it's. It's that sort of crossover where it's like a cell, shaded art style characters when you're in your life pod, but when you're out it's quite even the fish, that cell show. But it's, you know, it's really nice graphics when you're under the water, the sunlight coming through, and it really feels it really. I did really feel isolated and alone.
Speaker 3:It's very immersive and you can do basic upgrades to your submarine. You can do upgrades to your life pod. It's very, very light on that side of things for upgrades, but it's there, you know, you can do it and you can go off and check out the undersea wildlife and, um, and it's just, and it obviously comes to a climax with a story which won't there'll be no spoilers um, there's two endings to this story and it is. It's a very emotional roller coaster of what he's been through, but alongside that, you've got a job to do and it's so. I found it so well balanced. It doesn't overstay us. Welcome. I'd platinum the game and done it in 15 hours.
Speaker 2:Oh, my big head simmer down.
Speaker 3:Oh no, no, I'm not like Ging. He's. What was he on now? 608 platinums. You're speaking of my son. I'll rip your throat clean now. I'm not speaking ill, I mean. The bloke's a legend and he's got guns wide under my head.
Speaker 2:He has, so I don't need to make threats. My boy's capable of looking after himself. He's my red-headed stepson. For anyone out there wondering who Ginge is, he's been a long-time lover of mine, although to then suggest these, my son would argue till you better take over.
Speaker 3:Yes. Anyway, back to the game. But yeah, I think it's right up your street. I think you would really like this game for the narrative side, for the actual. You know, when I was playing I was thinking of you playing this game because I thought you would love the exploration. It's not a massive underwater map but it's good enough for you to explore, um, and you can find hidden wrecks, like an old galleon which is hidden away that you've got to try and get to. A u-boat. You'll find planes that have gone down or helicopters, and you can then, and you can get out of your submarine and then swim and you have to find, make sure you've got enough air. You can find treasures, you can find um. You can also like it's also a environmental side to it, so there's obviously a lot of plastic in the sea that you can collect and greta thunberg on a solar-powered jet ski.
Speaker 2:Yeah pretty much.
Speaker 3:Is she in it? No, you can even come up to the surface in your submarine and have a look and you can see where you are in the ocean and that Is the oil riggable for you, or is the oil rig?
Speaker 2:what's the score with that?
Speaker 3:No, it's like the machines that they use and the pipe work they use to pump the oil out is under the water and you have your life pod and have to maintain it. But there's different areas.
Speaker 2:So it's all down on the seafloor.
Speaker 3:Yeah, all on the seafloor and there's different areas you can explore and find and different sections of this company that you work for, where they've got these bases that you can enter in and try and fix things that have gone wrong. And and they've nailed that that underwater side. When you get out of your submarine and you're swimming around, um, you do feel like you're in a big ocean and you've just got your torch and it's in the dark under the water and you think, oh, this is quite eerie. Actually, this does feel a bit.
Speaker 3:Hmm, you know, although there isn't that side to jump scares or anything, you do feel like, oh, if anything jumps out of this, you know, and it's got this added mechanic where, when you come to the metal floors in these bases, you can press triangle and land on them and then you can walk around on these floors, but you're heavy, like you're underwater, and you can then carry out tasks and fix machines and bits. Um, but yeah, definitely worth a playthrough. Um, like I said, I remember this. The trailer's looking really good at this, and then that just faded one.
Speaker 2:I forgot all about it yeah, we had it in either sting race boot or past the stock yes, we did yeah you know we flagged it for success early doors, that you know it looked great and um, it's a bit of a guilty kind of confession that I just haven't got around to it really, which you know I feel bad for, but um, yes, very, very good.
Speaker 3:Um, I I had a couple of little glitches, nothing major with it, um, but I don't think it's that. You know it's. It's not an action oriented game, so it's. It was just a couple of bits where I was doing action where I got stuck, I think, and I had to relaunch the game but you're too much of a Twitch gamer these days for a heavy story narrative game like that yeah, yeah, you big big man around town.
Speaker 2:Um, that's making waves. What, what, what else you got for me, sir? That's under the waves. Um, fine, making waves actually was an itv, royal navy soldier soldier attempt that failed miserably. Yeah, they had about eight episodes filmed. They only aired three of them probably tells you everything you need to know about making waves. Uh, yeah, it's not very complimentary, really there's no howards white um, make that music and it actually says the name.
Speaker 2:It's one of those classic BBC songs that has the name in it. You can Howard's Way, howard's Way, yeah what a show that was and EastEnders has its name in the title as well, does it? There's lyrics for the EastEnders song didn't they release it at once? Probably, probably. Letitia Dean in a skimpy. Don't ruin this for me, because that wasn't a suggestion.
Speaker 3:it was a fantasy, oh okay, I'm sure we can knock it up. An IOI.
Speaker 2:Listen, we'll get her on the show next week. Letitia Dean is from Lincolnshire. Now is she. She took her big London money and bought herself a massive house in Lincolnshire for £2.83 Farman right back to what a big blare hang on a minute is this is this now? No, no, okay. Sometime, no, hang on a minute. Is this now no, okay?
Speaker 3:Sometime. No, I can't remember if I said it on any other shows but on launch, I bought Undisputed what that fighting game?
Speaker 2:That's what.
Speaker 3:Scott has been rapping on about. Yeah, I think he's got a bit lost in his grandeur with that game because he's wait, let's just give it the background.
Speaker 2:We first played this at wsd live.
Speaker 3:Yes, we did we were quite.
Speaker 2:It was in an early build but we were relatively enamored with it with our first hands on definitely felt like there was some deepness to it. It had that fight night feel where the the fighters had weight and heft and the punches landed in a good way. The duck and weave and dodge mechanic felt good. Um, scott is a massive fan of it. Probably played it through six or seven times, maybe more. Tell me where the wheels fell off for you. So this is a polar opposite view of Undisputed the boxing game. Give me your polar opposite then, rgt.
Speaker 3:It's very bare bones. It's a very bare bones game, the build we played, although we just had to have one fight in an arena. You know, yeah, we did. We did say the controls are very good and the controls are very good, probably some of the best controls I've played in a fighting game the way you use for your hooks and it's almost like a like Skate 3 did with using analog sticks for doing your tricks.
Speaker 2:Okay. Well, with that in mind, I'm a big fan of the Fight Night series, the one that premiered on 360 and made its way onto PS3 uh, fight Night Round 3, or something that had that similar feel to it. But how does this? How is this different?
Speaker 3:I think it's good, also with a dual sense, feels really tight. Technical vibrations are good. You feel you know when you've hooked someone, you feel like you've hooked someone, nice, they've done that. That feels good.
Speaker 3:Where this falls off is how basic this game is. You've got like probably four or five arenas you can fight in which have no realistic balance to who your player your, your player, your fighter is. Yeah, um, your training is just a push of a button. So you will come up with your training, your training screen, and then you'll see that when you're not training, you'll either have your stamina or your weight go up and down. So you just put the opposite one on, so you, you right, right, and then you go into training and then you'll have a certain degree of training schedules you can do and you just click a button. I'll get that up, right, I'll get that up, get my punch up, get my up, click, click, click, click, click. Next fight, which will be in an arena. It doesn't really mean anything to a crowd that doesn't really feel like a real crowd to then when you're fighting.
Speaker 2:What? Because they're not interested in some unknown boxer making his way to his first arena match.
Speaker 3:Well you fight a lot in gyms to start with, and then you're just in these strange arenas that don't really feel like they should be in a real If you want realistic boxing arenas like a Madison Square Garden or something, none of those are in there. There's just these generic areas.
Speaker 3:And then when you do fight, it's quite an easy game. It's easy to get the technique, it's easy to work it out. In a way though you can't just go in hack and slash style, just throwing punches you do have to block and throw a punch block because you have your stamina for your punches, which they all have, your UFCs they all have when you is blocking like a button, and then you use one of the analogs to move your gloves up or down, depending on whether you want to block body or head shots or is it more?
Speaker 2:detailed than that. What's the score with the blocking?
Speaker 3:No, you can, I can't remember. It's just a while ago. I played it. I remember if it's left and right you can block. So you can do your head and your body in opposites and down and you can block as the shots come in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's something I remember from WSD Live actually, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3:So that's pretty good. But then say, you're in the corner. Nine times out of ten you'll have TKOs. Very rarely do you get a one-punch knockout It'll always be a TKO. Right punch knockout it'll always be a TKO. So you'll put someone down in the corner and then suddenly you'll have a generic cutscene where he's getting up from his waist up to his head in the middle of the ring. They always get up in the middle of the ring. So, and then the characters, your characters as well. It looks a bit PS3-y. It's not what's wrong with that.
Speaker 2:Well it's not making a PS5 sweat. You never know, with a PS5, it's probably melting inside, well, yeah, so it's a shame Scott is actually out polishing, don't get me wrong Because I think he would, he would, he would hay make you through the wall for such comments. I.
Speaker 3:I think, more for us. We played, we've been following the game, we played the early build and we're excited for this because it really looked like an in-depth, proper tactical fight and we had to. You know, in this you have you have a trainer and someone who sorts out your publicity, and you have three people and all you do is, when you get more money, just upgrade them, or you can upgrade their little stats themselves. There's no depth to it, it's a very shallow game.
Speaker 2:Could that not be argued that? You know my beloved MLB, outside of the matches, outside of the games, it maybe does feel a bit bare-bones. I'll be honest, training is one-button press, unless you want to do the minigame and I hate the minigames. Do you think if they'd gone down the route that you're kind of yearning for, that it might have been? Is it better to implement something that's not that deep? Well, if that's the um suspicion no, it's not even that. If that's kind of what you're intimating to tell me, or is it just super frustrating because you see, this had so much potential?
Speaker 3:I think it's because even when you're in your I'd done Cruiserweight and then you just have, you have generic people so far up and then your top 10 is just random people from history, you know, johnny nelson, rocky marciano and all these. So you don't really feel. You feel like you're a sort of fantasy game. You're not really in a career because you're fighting these people from 30 years ago and then on top of that you're fighting in arenas where you can't really sort of get your own home arena. Well, I'd like to have wembleyembley or something like that. I'd work my way up and then if I'm champion, I'm fighting Wembley. You know you can't have none of that. You just feel like it's. It almost feels like they took on more than they could actually create and I think they've gone with this more bare bones side to it. There was definitely potential there. I think definitely potential there.
Speaker 2:I think that game's been cooking for a while though RGT. I don't know whether it's funding, I don't know whether it's developer savviness or whatnot, but you know, we initially first played that at WASD 22, eh yeah, 18 months ago, right, and it felt exciting and fresh, and they had some licensed boxers in there. They had the Gypsy King, didn't they, I think, was who we chose to brawl, as Does it feel like it's come on since then.
Speaker 3:No, I mean we got a bit of a whiff because when we played it there was four screens set up. I don't know if that was running off a PC or an Xbox controller. We had a go. It was a a punch bag. Yeah, they had a punch bag next to it. You know a punch bag. You could actually hit a physical punch bag and they just had people with non-disputed shirts getting people to hit a punch bag. Then when we asked questions about the game, I was like, oh, we don't really know, we're just here to sort of do the punch bag. And you thought, well, you really need some people here with knowledge of the game and we can ask some questions and speak about it on the show. And I thought then there's something not right here and I just think this game I mean I paid. This is the worst thing. I bought a digital copy of this.
Speaker 3:I've seen the price mate, but it was 65 pounds and on the PS Store they only had the DLC version. You could not buy a standard version for £65.
Speaker 2:That's why I've absolutely swerved that bad boy.
Speaker 3:Now my friend Speedy Wheels. If you're listening, I've said this to you before mate, do not buy this game yet, because he loves boxing games. I said, dude, this game, wait until it'll be £20. How is Speedy Wheels? It's good, yes, it's good. Bless him. Yeah, he's good, but he's been wanting this game. Him and his brother have been wanting this game for a long while and I said I'll buy it first. What's his brother's name? I'm going to be embarrassed now. I nickname that kind of that rivals speedy wheels.
Speaker 2:Let me think about that one.
Speaker 3:I'll come back to you on it. Fine, next week's show you don't have until next week, I'm gonna need it. Um, anyway, I it's. I said to him this is a 20 pound game, you can have fun with it. You can knock some people out. For me, I played through the game. I became champion within 12 hours. One and done, I'm finished with it do you think that this is?
Speaker 2:they've got the game out now. They've got the concept proven on the engine. They've got the concept proven on some basic mini games to pump your character and some basic sort of boxing career simulation aspects up in the manager, up in the pr, up in this. Up in that. They've got the names. They've probably spent a lot of money getting the licensed names attached to this to give it that gravitas that they want. Hence the 65 to 85 bucks entry price. I don't begrudging that. But do you think this is a little bit? Is this a little bit of an early adopter concept proof? And then when we get Undisputed 2, it's going to be the full fleshed out beast that you so desire maybe.
Speaker 3:I mean, I was thinking along the lines of we spoke similarly about hogwarts legacy and they very nearly got it right, and then we'll if well, that's an if. Now the second one, um, they take that next level. But I think that was a lot closer to being the final. You know, the final item we want, rather than Undisputed, I think Undisputed's is it better than boxing games I've played on a PS3, ps4, like UFC or anything like that? No, it's not.
Speaker 2:I mean, for instance, if you imagine Stacking up against, like Fight Night Round 3, is it better than that or not? Because it was very basic. Okay, it's not better than that. Okay, no, wow.
Speaker 3:Fight Night games. You felt like you were a fighter trying to make a career. This feels a bit like I say it's a bit fantasy. You've just got random fighters from the past that are in there. Oh, champions, you know, don't get me wrong, but you're in 2024 trying to win a world title and you're fighting rocky marciano from you know 1950s, whenever it was, you know, and you decide well, it's a bit weird. Then when you do knock a bang, you get the generic same land in the middle of the ring trying to get up. They'll do a four count, then they'll do a six count, then they'll do a nine count, then they'll do a six count, then they'll do a nine count, and then you'll do that and then they won't get up no more. And after you've done that 10 times, you're like this is getting a bit repetitive, there's no depth to it. There's no depth to the game. This is to me. I mean you could buy it for a little while. I don't know if it still was when it for PS5 for £44.99.
Speaker 2:That feels like, although based on what you've told me, that still sounds a bit steep. But that feels like the price that's in the ballpark. That would go home at that, yeah.
Speaker 3:I said to Speedy Wheels wait till. This is a £20 game. You'll get £20 worth of enjoyment out of this game.
Speaker 2:Have you had £20 worth of enjoyment out of it?
Speaker 3:I've had £20 worth of enjoyment out of it. I've had £20 worth of enjoyment, not £65.
Speaker 2:I haven't. There's no taking that to see yet. Let's park your Day of the Jackal-like assassination on this period. Let's park that there for one moment. Yes.
Speaker 3:What else have you got to tell us about? Well, hang on. Is this? No, oh, jeez. Okay, this is going to go on. As you know, I've been a bit poorly lately, so I did start on my game. I normally play when I was poorly because there was a new update to it, which was Stardew Valley, with the 1.6 update. So I started a new farm on there and have put 100 hounds in.
Speaker 2:It's a new farm farm. I think most listeners are reeling from the fact that your throat herpes from past a schlong has caused you to take some time out. I don't know what a schlong is. I just hear you sort of. I hear you requesting it on a night time. Quite often I presume it's some sort of religious procedure.
Speaker 3:Apparently, yeah, apparently, it's what we have to do for the Great Ascension.
Speaker 2:Well, the only reason why I thought it was a medical, no, a religious procedure is because you kept saying let me get down on my knees, pastor, let me get me down. And I was assuming it was some sort of prayer.
Speaker 3:Yeah, similar, similar. But the good thing is he does have a lot of strepsil drip, so I was fine.
Speaker 2:I was fine, my throat wasn't too sore, so I don't know if my ears are playing up, because I thought you said he had a strepsil drip he does.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's all the singing, you see, for the choir.
Speaker 2:What did you think I meant? Just pumping the pure heart of a locket just oozing, Constantly oozing down.
Speaker 3:I found the singing voice. Anyway, back to Stargate.
Speaker 2:I went down one road and was like, yeah, that's naughty. And then I went down that road, thinking innocent, but actually do you know what? And genuinely ended up being a little bit naughty Fuck it.
Speaker 3:I know everyone will say on the Discord it's because I'm back the show's gone down again.
Speaker 2:Yeah all this sex talk, the swear words I didn't swear last week, not one time. I don't think I was inappropriate in any way. Some would say you're Sid James to my hattie jakes, and it's not.
Speaker 3:There's not a lot of people going to know who you're talking about there.
Speaker 2:Deep cut tingle tole 2 just sat bolt upright. Did he say I did yikes, I did tingle?
Speaker 3:anyway, I don't know how we got to that from Stardew, but yes, so Stardew 1.6. I've been playing that with all the well. That's the last update that's ever happened so we can construct a new game.
Speaker 2:Never say never, because I think you said that about 1.5. Probably I'm moving on to Haunted Chocolatier. Now, guys, Don't you just back off?
Speaker 3:all right.
Speaker 2:Stardew's done. I've come back to Stardew.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, very good, loads added into it. I started a new Riverland farm and absolutely thoroughly loved it. As always, absolutely brilliant. So I'm still plugging away on there. Yeah, really, really good.
Speaker 2:Loads of little hidden extras and extra bits and extra areas. So you've put hours and hours and hours into this game. Yeah, you've got.
Speaker 3:And also, I might add, every update is free and I've never paid for a DLC.
Speaker 2:No, that's one good thing you can say about him with that game, and you've still found enjoyment in it. Then, with these new features, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3:I mean, before I started playing the 1.6, I thought do I really want to start another farm again, do you really? And then I turned it on. Music starts, it gets you a bit. And I suddenly thought, do you know what? Yeah, come on, let's try a new farm. And then yeah, yeah, let's get the uh community center done, let's get the mines done. Um, and just started working my way through and loved it. And then, before you know, I've got a. I've now got a, a large barn with 100 kegs in brewing wines. I've got another one with a hundred jam preserved jars in, um, yeah, so, um, yeah, I'm all over this. Brilliant, I've got making honey.
Speaker 2:You see, I flirted with stardew but never got to the kind of industrialization end of it you know where you're wearing the wines and the beers yeah it's some people make vast empires on this game.
Speaker 3:I mean, just just Google Best Farms on Stardew or put it in YouTube and you will see some people have put 2,000 hours in and they're making millions, you know, and that's all, beautifully landscaped and orchards and paths. You know it's amazing what people do. But then again I do the same myself. I've put all these stone paths in and I've got these because I'm more of an island area, so I've got different islands with different things on and, yeah, just absolutely wonderful. So, yeah, I've been really enjoying that. I think I did look. I've put in total. I think I've put 270 hours in on a PS5 in total, or PS4, ps5. And I think I've put about. Well, I've put about 130 in on the switch, but I think Mrs RGT's probably about 200 on the switch on her farm.
Speaker 3:Someone get her a boyfriend. That's insane. Well, that's what I said. You know she hadn't spoke to me for three years, so you know You've been in Texas. Yeah, she doesn't notice me if I do ring her up. Do you think the marriage is annulled now or I don't know what the past has been doing to me.
Speaker 2:I hope so You'll never walk again, boy.
Speaker 3:No, it is hard and walking Right. I've also been playing some Trine 5. I'm a big fan of the Trine games. Is this no? You've played some games boy yeah, have you've played some games? Boy yeah, I've ever played, trying any other trying game I've played trying one, two and three.
Speaker 3:I haven't played four yeah, three was a bit disappointing because they they cut it halfway through, didn't they? You can't actually complete that because they ran out of funding. But four's good, and then I did buy. I thought that was going to be the end, so I bought they. They done a lot of collection packs, so I bought that. And then Mrs RGT bought me Trine 5. So I thought I was going to have a go on that. Yeah, I'm back in the Trine world doing all the puzzles with your three characters To be honest.
Speaker 2:I first stumbled across Trine I think it was a Wii U launch game on the digital store.
Speaker 3:Oh, was it really? I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:I think it might have been, and OG Tom and me got Wii U's and he kind of it was a Wii U game to be fair.
Speaker 2:He sold me on the principle that it was this sort of game-changing game and you draw these squares in the air and to be honest, I'd seen all that game after writing about 30 minutes. But you know there's been a soft spot for trying. It's a the ones that I've played. It's been. It gets challenging for sure, but it it's like a little, almost like a little bit of a cozy adventure game. You know you've got a lot of puzzles.
Speaker 3:I think you've got a lot of puzzles, you know, and I was explaining because, um, mrs archer t was saying to me when I was playing last night, and she was saying, you know what draws you into trying and what do you like about it? They all look so similar. And I said so I explained to her. There was a, there was an area where, um, you had to pull down um this like chain, and then you had to release the water to spin this wheel to get through the door, to open, to get through. So I said, but I said, if you use um, the feast name, the lady who has the ropes and and the archery, yeah, if you use her to put, you can pull down the, the, the chain with the rope, but then obviously, when you change character, it goes back up.
Speaker 3:So then you use the wizard to make a box, then you use the rope to hook the chain to pull it down and then the water will then come out. So then you use the wizard to make a box, then you use the rope to hook the chain to pull it down and then the water will then come out. So then you use the knight with his shield to deflect the water onto the spinning wheel to open the gate. She's like oh, is that what you mean? I said he had a puzzle, so you have to use all three characters to work it's.
Speaker 2:This is the latest one. It's an evolution of the mechanics found in the first four. What, what else have they added to make me go? Oh, maybe I should get Trine 5?.
Speaker 3:I think 3 and 4, they tried to expand it a bit, which I don't think they'd done too successfully. Almost 3 was almost like walking around a board game, a 3D board game, and then you'd done the levels from in them and I think they struggled a bit and they tried to add different scenarios. In this is I think they've tried to take this back to 1 and 2 and do a proper trying game with the three characters they've continued the story on. Now they're trying freer heroes and this is your standard mystical fantasy game.
Speaker 2:The trying story is something that probably doesn't need to exist, but they persist on putting it in there, don't they? Yeah, they do, yes.
Speaker 3:You have a narrator and he reads a lot of storybook again. You've got upgrades again in this so you can upgrade your characters, so they can. You know, eventually the wizard will be able to conjure two or three more things rather than one at a time, and you can do the night strength or extra things you can do, like jump high, and you can upgrade as you go. It's it's the usual trying game, but it's good. It's back to the basics. It's really good again. I think it's pretty cheap, to be honest, on ps5 graphically to often find Trines in the sale.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I found them in the sale on PS4 in like 2016. I think I got the first one or two or maybe three. Again, I've got no real complaints. I just it never really grabbed me as much as I thought it would do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's. I don't know why I think I'm trying to think when I first played Trine 1. Didn't we get Trine 1 as PS Plus on the PS4 as a monthly?
Speaker 2:game. I think maybe that's what started me off with. Oh, I forgot about Trine. Yes, and I played the first one and then I bought the other ones or something like that.
Speaker 3:maybe I can't remember, and I loved the first one so much I played through again and platinumed it, and then I platinumed two and then I fell off a bit with three, all the controversy and a bit of the balls up they done with that game, and I fell off a bit and then eventually did get four and played through, didn't platinum. I found them quite check, they're really getting challenged in that. And now obviously I've now tried five, but that has taken it back to that early one too, one too and I think, I mean I think a physical copy of this game is less than 20 bucks. I think you're talking 15, 18 bucks for this game, which is a good game for them.
Speaker 2:It wouldn't dare to be any more than that, though, would it surely not, and show its face around here no, no, I mean it's, but it's yeah, it's worth a play.
Speaker 3:I've really enjoyed that um, and what I play. I haven't played too much of that yet because I've been sort of dabbling with this other game, which is oh what? Now you're not ready.
Speaker 2:I've come up with a new bit for it as well, just while we've been chatting. Sometimes I feel like I got no games. Doom, doom, doom, rgt. Yeah, like I got no games. Doom, doom, doom, rgtf is like the Lone Ranger Ooh like it Riding on down, bring hidden gems to me you could be in Pastor's.
Speaker 2:Choir at this rate. That's for you. Youtube, youtube. I have to get you on the old stretch and drip, mumsy, if you're watching, you know, I know I'm in texas, but I still love you, mumsy. That's our one viewer, thank you. Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe the hours, the hours we've done on audio and since we've come across to YouTube, I just feel like we are nothing on here. If you're watching, start subscribing, start liking videos. Make us look like we're something on here, like you've made us look amazing on all the audio areas we can be Spotify, apple Podcasts, amazon, youtube, music, all those places where you've made us look like kings. Make us feel like kings here. Definitely, please, please, yeah, so anyway after that rip snorter.
Speaker 2:we get to the point in time where you have, for probably as often as a solar eclipse, now brought in a hidden gem for you. To he's cheeky that boy? Oh yes, he is. He's woken from his full bodysuit traction that he's been in.
Speaker 3:Oh, I've told you.
Speaker 2:And he's come out with a hidden gem. Now, if you'll need to the show and this is your first episode, I'm sorry, but we play a guessing game, rgt. Are we going to play the guessing game today.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, we are. Bear in mind. This is a very modern game and I said to you off air that everyone's probably going to go. That's not it, jim. We're all playing it. Have you not played this? Where have you been so? So bear that in mind, if it's.
Speaker 2:Astrobot, I don't think I can officially sack you, but you'd be sacked oh you wouldn't bring that in here.
Speaker 3:It's game of the year have you heard of that, have you? I thought that was like a little indie game, is it not? I told you I'd heard of that and on air public defrocking of RGT. Oh, there we are, Astro Bot.
Speaker 2:It's not. That, though, is it? No, it's not. Oh, thank God, Because I can't do this show on my own Right this was.
Speaker 3:I'll tell you when it came out. This came out in well, I think it was Switch and PC August 2023, and then all other consoles from PS4, ps5, xbox One, xbox Series, blah, blah, blah. September of last year, this was developed and published by the same people who was Team Reptile.
Speaker 2:I didn't know what you were going to say there. Okay, Team Reptile Right.
Speaker 3:I'd say it's probably sort of it's sort of action, almost platformer, with a bit of sport in there as well. Sport, it's a love letter to an older game. Is it Wind? No, it's not Wind, no. Um, you can pick this up pretty cheap. You can pick this up physical copy 15 to 20 bucks. Like I say, it is a love letter to an older game which was on the Dreamcast Almost.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's almost a successor. I don't know the name of it, but the Jet Set Radio clone yes.
Speaker 3:What's that called? Again, bomb Funk. I've got to remember myself now. Bomb Funk, cyber Rush. Bomb Rush, cyber Funk. There we go. How is?
Speaker 2:it Because I think this would qualify as a hidden gem. I think it's gone under the radar a little bit. Yeah, it piqued my interest, but again, I never downloaded it.
Speaker 3:From when I first started playing, I saw the graphics I thought this is jet set radio. Yeah, how is this not jet set radio? It looks really good. Them graphics look good in in a 4k style, you know, raised up. They look really nice, a bit similar to what was the one that we played, like the rollerblade game. You shoot people. Even that sort of style looked really good. Oh, roller dome, yeah, roller dome. Um drone or something. Drone, yeah, um. So graphics are really good. Little bit of story at the start which lures you into why you've joined this. This gang, um, music is absolutely parcel delivery gang or something.
Speaker 2:Is that what it is?
Speaker 3:no, you, you start off in like a police cell and this guy's escaping. And then you you say, if you let me escape, I'll, you know, I'll help you, I'll be an asset to you. So he helps you escape. And then you have to escape. That's not the tutorial. You escape this police station and then something quite major happens to you um, I don't want to spoil the story and then you end up then joining his his uh gang and then you have to go around and start bringing down these other gangs. There's one main gang, the real top knot, almost like a sort of thing. There's one big main. Did you call them top knots? No, top, you know, top gang. I didn't say top knots, but the good thing is corrections.
Speaker 3:If he said it's got that it's got that real cool because you start off you're sort of using roller blades and bits, but then later, as you then join the gang, you're on a skateboard, so you've got them real nice tight skateboard controls not as in-depth as atomy hawks as yet, as how far I'm into it but you can do these tricks and bits and pieces, grinds and stuff, and then you have to go around tagging over the other gang's tags, but the soundtrack, that urban dance soundtrack, is phenomenal and the thing is as well, all gangs have their little dance. So I'm in the early stages at the moment, tagging this area where I am in this city real sort of cyberpunk, cell, shaded city and this gang we're taking down at the moment they're all like body poppers and break dancers and this music's going and whenever you see them they're doing their, their dance, and they're so iconic from that era. But also when, when you're in cut scenes, the people are talking to you, all have their own dance, so they'll just be bopping along while they're talking to you doing their dance and it's so addictive, it's almost it's not a rhythm game, but it feels like it should be. But for how cheap this game is.
Speaker 3:If I say to Ro Space Mo. He's a Discord member who's going for a full Dreamcast collection. If you love Jet Set Radio or Jet Grind Radio. Was that the second one or was that the? I can't remember. Did they call it differently in the States?
Speaker 2:I think the name difference is a Regional thing, isn't it A? Localisation thing maybe, but I do believe that we have Jet Set.
Speaker 3:Jet Set Radio, I think If you like that game.
Speaker 2:The pseudo sequel that made it to Xbox. Not Jet Grind Radio, was it Jet Set Radio 2? Hmm, yeah, so on all that is now I'm sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, have a look. Community corrections put it in our Discord. But if you love that game, then you've got to play this. You will love it. It's not a massive open-world, in-depth AAA game, but it's just got that arcade-y skateboard style.
Speaker 2:Just on the hop, I've come up with a new scoring mechanism. Og Tom is addicted to good graphics. How?
Speaker 3:many OG Toms out of five. Are you going to give it for graphics?
Speaker 2:Oh, it depends what you see as good graphics you see. If you're looking forK forbidden west, no, that's irrelevant. Within its own wheelhouse, within the game of itself, do the graphics serve the game well enough or not?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, what are we giving this?
Speaker 2:What is the rating system? How many OG Toms out of five are you going to give it for graphics?
Speaker 3:I'd give it a four out of five. Og Tom.
Speaker 2:Okay, and in terms of soundtrack and sound effects, how many um slopes, games room, aka dj slopes, are you going to give this out?
Speaker 3:five for sound five christ, I love the soundtrack.
Speaker 2:Okay, and then and for the game mechanics, we're going to use our beloved friend and rarely co-host, but mainly friend of the show. He's a developer himself. It's Mike Rouse. How many Mike Rouses are you going to give this out of five for its gameplay? Give it three, okay, so an overall rating, which we're going to call how many? How many rays are you going to give this out of five? Overall? Three and a half, three and a half rays out of five. How have you got to? So I've averaged it out I've averaged it out.
Speaker 3:I've done a four, five and a three but I think overall experience I'll give it a three and a half I like we've done there.
Speaker 2:You must don't check out, but I'm on board for it. So, yeah, I probably should have been a four, but there we go. So it's three and a half raise, yeah, but it's got a four. Og tom for graphics, it's got a five. Dj slopes, yeah, for sound, yeah, and it's got. How many mike rouses? Was it three for gameplay? You might rouses?
Speaker 3:I think probably on technically. On average you'd probably say four out of five, but you want to.
Speaker 2:You want to kick it when it's shinies. You want to get it down three and a half, which is the equivalent of a seven, which I think is a great score. That's right, it's shinies.
Speaker 3:You want to get it down three and a half, which is the equivalent of a seven, which I think is a great score. I'll just get the title right it's Bomb Rush Cyberpunk. It's called Bomb Rush Cyberpunk. I'm playing it on the PS5. I think it's available on the Switch and PC and bits and pieces, I think. If you look at reviews, I think there's been a lot of 10 out of 10s and four and a half out of fives and it's quite highly rated. But I think that is more with the nostalgia of chipset radio. If you play this you would think that then developers made this game.
Speaker 2:Really Okay.
Speaker 3:It's that close and how much is it? You can, I think I paid. I did look on Amazon again. I bought from from amazon and I couldn't find it on there as of recording this, but I bought it about a week ago and that was 18 bucks. So, um, reasonable, I think you can pick it up. You'll find some other games, smaller game stores online selling between 12 and 20 bucks, but for a physical so you are, and if you're between 15 20 bucks you can pick this up for, and it's worth that.
Speaker 2:Just for that arcade jet set radio, feel, I think is it like a special edition, or is it just like a vanilla release?
Speaker 3:um, I thought it was the standard edition I got, but then when I opened up they'd put in a whole load of sort of urban street scale stickers in their pack of stickers inside. Wow, yeah, no manual, but you've just got the stickers and the disc inside.
Speaker 2:It's a nice little tap. I presume you've stuck those stickers everywhere, or have you left them sealed and untouched Just because Seal Master Elliot might be listening.
Speaker 3:They are sealed and untouched. Plus, I haven't got a skateboard to stick them on. I think you'd probably stick them on, so I think you probably stick them on your dog I could do. I don't know if I'd stay on.
Speaker 2:I don't think it matters anymore. No, no, I use all my video game tap yeah, stickers everywhere stickers everywhere. I'm wiping my hands on a Pikmin tea towel. You know that kind of that kind of is there anything else that's?
Speaker 2:thank you for bringing that to my attention. It's that. Is there anything else that's? Thank you for bringing that to my attention? It's. That is a definition of a hidden gem, a game that, even though it's in the zeitgeist, technically I think it's overlooked and I do believe you know from looking at our Discord, it's never been brought up before, so I'd say, the reason I thought everyone might have been fine, everyone not been playing, it was because I'd sort of penciled this in for the show and thought, right, I'll do this as my hidden gem.
Speaker 3:We need one.
Speaker 2:Oh sorry mate.
Speaker 3:And then I was watching a famous YouTuber who brought it up as one of the games he's been playing. I thought, oh, everyone's going to be playing it, but obviously it appears that maybe people aren't so good.
Speaker 2:I think, to be honest, Jet Set Radio, as much as it's known to gamers, it's a game that originally started on the Dreamcast which, as we know, probably struggled for market penetration from the get-go. So you know, it's whispered about, isn't it? Jet Set Radio and its initial carnation and then Jet Grind Radio. Something tells me is the xbox pseudo sequel. Yes, yeah, and that again, no disrespect to xbox, but the original xbox was probably owned by me and three or four others around the world and although I appreciate it for what it was and I like the continuity from dreamcast to that, um, I would say in terms of copies sold, again low. So, like Jet Set Radio has this kind of everyone knows about it but maybe not many people have played it and therefore producing a pseudo-frequel of said game has left it a little bit in the weeds. But it sounds to me like people are sleeping on this and they shouldn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like I say, think if, if you're a fan of those earlier games, then I think it's a must play I think, if I may even if you're slightly intrigued by the art style, because it's certainly unusual in in many ways, they get it. Um rgt's brought in some wonderful ways that you can acquire this said title, and I think you should um get deep in there and try and find it good. Yeah, definitely another great suggestion. Um looking forward to reading about that on the discord. Excellent stuff, um. Is there anything else? You've uh dipped your fingers across no, that's pretty it.
Speaker 3:So I think we need to find out what young George has been twiddling his thumbs across this week. Well, hmm, Hmm. Hmm, hmm, doesn't sound good.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know if you were listening last week. I know you only listened to the episode you're on oh without a doubt. Yeah, but just to fill you in some backstory, I acquired a PS5 Pro.
Speaker 3:Oh, I knew that it's only a matter of time before you get one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mrs RGT's already messaged to make sure it'll fit in the same space as your OG PS5. She was a bit frustrated we were getting the red covers, because she's like I've got my pro here and so now I can tell her then that George has promised me that your Barmier PS5 Pro Play this episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice, I'll look forward to getting that then If you're actually getting that, Obviously I'm going to be really gutted and disappointed if I don't.
Speaker 3:But you've promised me I'm getting it.
Speaker 2:This is karma for basically stealing a master system from your parents' present stash, playing the wheels off of it.
Speaker 3:You never forget this, do you?
Speaker 2:I don't want anyone to forget. That to me is the biggest insight into your character going sneaking around, fiddling about under the tree, feeling your dad's presence behind you. You know, have you done that once?
Speaker 3:Well, one Christmas, I mean I bet you think that's enough.
Speaker 2:Last Christmas you snuck under the tree and took all the mirrors that was destined for me. Yeah, that's you, that is so that would be Karma Coming Home. Anyway, I gave it a review last week. I've been playing more of that, basically Horizon OG, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mate, Mate.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've heard some very good things about that.
Speaker 2:Did you?
Speaker 3:play the game again or did you do the £10?
Speaker 2:I did the £10 thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I did.
Speaker 2:I don't know how many copies of Horizon Zero Dawn one man needs to own. I think I'm at the upper threshold of acceptable, because I've got the original release, I've got the game of the year release, I've got the Dark Horse comic release. Do I need the PS5? You're going to buy it, aren't you dude? In 12 months, if I see it in CEX for like 4 quid, it's a no brainer, it's a no brainer.
Speaker 3:if I see it in CEX for like four quid, it's a no-brainer, it's a no-brainer.
Speaker 2:But until I see it in CEX for four quid, it ain't happening. But I'll give you my word as a man, I'll buy it if it's less than 20 quid, if it's 20, why do you do this to me?
Speaker 3:You've just ordered it.
Speaker 2:40 quid it's on its way. No, I thought the £10 upgrade path was sweet. I liked it. It was a good idea.
Speaker 3:No, it's not.
Speaker 2:It worked well for Last of Us, part II, and it worked equally as well for this. This, to me, though, is one hell of an upgrade. At times, I think I preferred maybe the art style of the first one more, because it's been lost in its chase of the forbidden west aesthetic, um, but hey, it looks great, um. My only complaint is this will be like my third or fourth time up the mountain there's a zero dawn and it's a bit like. Well, I said to Seb last week, I'm in the third act now, and it's a bit it's wearing a little bit thin. It may have done that, yeah, kind of.
Speaker 2:I was at the bit most recently, as a point of reference for anyone who's played it. I was at the bit where you race back to your birthplace for want of a better word, um, birthplace, for want of a better word, um and you have to fight um a corrupted thunder jaw at the gate, and I got there, and I was like this again hang on, where's that piece of scenery? You can't get to. Let me stand here, and literally for half an hour where this dude down with like 50 arrows.
Speaker 2:sit down, rebuild my whole quiver again, keep delivering them into him. All the other guys, all the ai guys, are running around achieving absolutely nothing and I'm just getting flung all over the place. Yeah, my merry sweet time, protected by the thinnest bamboo post in the city of life, but do you know what Thunderjaw? He can't get near me and his laser fire can't penetrate this seemingly impenetrable barrier. I'm a proper glitch monkey. I have to admit I'm willing to stand on that rock that's one pixel too high for the enemy's hit count. I'm that guy that will cheese or Benny Hill any moment that I can 1,500 arrows later.
Speaker 3:And he that will cheese, or Benny Hill, any moment that I can, 1,500 arrows.
Speaker 2:Later he rolled up and he's down. He was down, yeah, it was glorious. And I thought, oh yeah, I could do with that because I want some more of the. I don't know what the name is, but I call them the.
Speaker 3:Oh, like the electrical charge ones.
Speaker 2:No, the ones that kind of go in and they pull the things off the creature.
Speaker 3:Oh, they blast the armour off, don't they? Yeah, they make that noise like they remind me of the missiles that.
Speaker 2:Jango Fett uses. Yeah, they you know, that noise and all the armour blows off.
Speaker 3:I know what you mean. That's brilliant, that one.
Speaker 2:They're like sonic mines or something and you fire those in and it's like.
Speaker 3:Yeah, boom, and then all the armour comes off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're good, I love those, One of those I can't remember what creature it was now, but something pretty sizeable. And I've just got these arrows and I've got quite a large quiver for it and I just fired them into this thing and don't kill them. And I just fired him into this thing and don't kill him. So then you see this like wastrel skinny, almost like Christian Bale in the. Machinist type version of the creature sort of cutting round Christian Bale in the Machinist. And you see it with all its mates, just its little wife.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just its guts missing, its guns gone. It wants to be friends with them, but it's barely out left of it. Yeah, that's one of the funnest ways to play it.
Speaker 3:How do you find? Then tell me performance-wise, you're playing this on a Pro. Yeah, so are you hitting 4K60, or?
Speaker 2:I've only got a 4K60 telly. It's one of the reasons why I thought I'd pump for the pro, because, since you know, I got the, I got the my tv when the ps4 pro came out it was like oh yeah, I better get one with hdr, better get one that's 4k capable. Better get this. Better get that, better get the other. Oh yes, let's make it perfect for that. Like it never wants to push the telly to its limits never once. And and the base ps5? It didn't either.
Speaker 2:Yeah I'll be honest a lot of the time it's 30 fps the way I've won it with the graphics. Yeah, now I arrive at the ps5 pro. I don't need to worry about the graphics of the frame rate or any of that. I can stick it at max settings. I can push my tv now to 460, the maximum it can do at 4K. Hdr looks pretty as hell, but there's a little bit of horsepower left in the tank there because technically that could go. With the correct TV and the VRR engaged, this thing could go up to 120 FPS technically right. So yeah, I feel like 4K60 is a happy medium. Finally, my TV what, eight years on, is singing in its max voice.
Speaker 3:But the Pro is running well at 4K60?. Yeah really well Looks good.
Speaker 2:To me that's its sweet spot. It's finally hit that promised 4K60, no question or within reason, and I feel like anything above that, that vi, vrr, etc. Starting to wander into a place where it's not there yet, you know, so yeah I was going to ask you change something a little bit.
Speaker 3:Have you tried your vr2 on it yet? I have the immortal kayak I was going to say, because apparently I was reading a review of the kayak update they've done. Apparently it's got 8k textures. Yeah, what I saw on the tv looked phenomenal. Does it look like that when you're in it? There's the lighting and the rocks look absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 2:It's always look pretty. Don't forget that this is the most played get my most played game in vr. So, yeah, I have seen behind the curtain and I know there's a guy there blowing smoke through a horn and pulling on a piano key to use the Wizard of Oz phase. I've seen every facet of the game, front and back, so there aren't really any surprises. But, yes, textures have seen an improvement, although it was always locked to a high frame rate that feels smoother, although it was always locked to a high frame rate, that feels smoother.
Speaker 2:Some of the changes have been made along the way since I last played it. Seeing the hands now in front of you and you're more physically there because they've given you arms and things that are attached to this, and your shadow plays out more as a realistic torso, if memory serves serves. When I first played it, you just saw a reflection, a shadow of like a hat, and that was it. Um, so that felt good. Um, generally, as soon as I turned it on, I knew it was sharper, but it's not something you can put your finger on. Um, yeah, you start off in the menus based around the swimming pool and as soon, and that's often where I'll spend most of my time just tearing up and down the swimming pool in this game and as soon as it loaded up I thought, oh yeah, we've seen an upgrade here. Now I'll be struggling to say, oh yeah, 8k textures and this, that and the other I would be struggling to put it into words as specific as that, but definitely an overarching better experience when I watch this video.
Speaker 3:obviously it's on youtube, so it's going to be shrunken down somewhat and, you know, compressed, but yeah, what it looked like to me. Can you remember when the ps5 and Series X launched and then Unreal done that gameplay sort of demo show and all how they do this new lighting on rocks, and there was a girl running through an area, a rocky area, and then they'd shoot how they made it in triangles, the rocks that I saw in this cut and the lighting looked similar to that, and that's when I thought, wow, they're at that level now.
Speaker 2:Especially in the VR. No, not quite. No, and I don't think we've seen a game that I don't believe and I need to go look at that video again. That's a pretty good shout, that RGT. I don't think we've seen a game get even close to that. Unreal 5 tech demo.
Speaker 3:Well, the thing is, I think the problem is because the games, as the systems go on, uh only they're learning these consoles and pushing them a little bit, a little bit more. I think we are creeping towards it, but we haven't noticed. Because I think when you play a lot of forbidden west or you know forbidden west, know Forbidden West, even on a base PS5, is probably one of the best looking games on the newer systems, without a doubt. It looks so good, yeah, and once you're in it for a while you get used to it. But then when you do go back to an earlier game, you think, oh, hold on a minute. You know there has been changes. So I don't know if we're not noticing we're creeping towards it rather than suddenly, there you are.
Speaker 2:I mean, the only thing that disappoints me with that is straight out the gates. We had that video. We had the Unreal 5 Matrix tech demo video, if you recall, and they were hitting some amazing visuals.
Speaker 3:I'm playing that Matrix one. I'm thinking this is unbelievable.
Speaker 2:I wasn't so sold on the facial textures and captures. No, but it was the city scenery that I liked, but the city scenery and the exterior shots and the general traffic and stuff like that it felt it looked unbelievable.
Speaker 3:Did you ever see, just quickly, did you ever see the guy who actually hacked that Matrix demo and added in AI to all the characters in it so you could use a VR headset and a microphone and walk up and talk to people in the streets? He hacked it and made it like a VR experience. Did you ever see that video he'd done of that was actually? It was quite basic you're talking, but they would notice you and you would talk to anyone in the streets on that demo. And that's when I started thinking this is getting a bit too realistic.
Speaker 3:Now, if they could do that in a game, obviously a big full game would be a completely different story. Yeah, rather than a 10 minute, but as a work of um, you know, a work of, could you do that? You know an experiment? Yeah, that was. That was quite eerie. Sometimes they started to repeat themselves a bit, but even so, just to actually, you know, interact with these ais was was. Yeah, that was quite scary on that matrix, but yeah, no, I've just wondered, I've seen a few on that note.
Speaker 2:Actually, let's go down that road for a minute. I've seen a few where they've implemented ai learning into skyrim so you can ask them the basic skyrim questions and it's all voice they've created. So it's, you know, fully done, um, but then you can just free will use an ai with these skyrim characters and again, like that, the visuals of Skyrim aren't going to set anyone's eyes alight anymore, but the things that they were talking about and the way the AI kind of remembered and dropped things in that, to me that's scary. But is that not the perfect thing for your NPCs now, If you just give them a little bit of an AI window to say here's some words that you might say this is your main character. If he comes along, you talk to him about this, that the other, if you're this far in the story, they're going to bring this up, and then all the gaps you fill in.
Speaker 2:I've often thought that about VR. You know when your character that you're playing is voiced. Well, I first saw it when I played Skyrim VR on the PSVR one. Your words should come up like a script and then you read them out. So instead of pressing enter, you read out what's on the screen, so you play your role.
Speaker 3:It's almost, it's almost heading towards that, ready to play one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, almost when you go and you see the Farl or whatever his name is, varl or whatever his bloody name is, and you're waffling on to him. I always tried to do it, so I was reading it out, but then you have to press enter as well, where it would have been cool if the mic starts and you read out line one that's my option. Well, what are you doing here? What about these dragons? And line one that's my option. You know well, what are you doing here, what about these dragons? And then when you stop talking, it kind of presses enter for you.
Speaker 2:So you're reading the lines you haven't. You can't free wheel into it like I don't like your hair and I think your missus smells of cheese. You can't do that. I've played a lot of skyrim and then you read the line and then when you stop talking, that's when it's submitted, and obviously he then assumes that you've read that line, so he reacts to that line. It could be simple, but then also like imagine how much more grounded in the universe if you've said all the lines yourself or all the way through this quest, you've said this, this and this.
Speaker 3:That's that next step of immersion, isn't it?
Speaker 2:well, it's that next step of immersion. But the cost of entry for that is free. You could do even on flat screen, because all the controllers got mics in now, so you just like. Oh yes, I'm here to see you, bar.
Speaker 3:Oh really good to see you, old boy. Yeah, yeah, no, that's, that's a good idea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good idea patent that, because that'll be in a game next year and heralded as a thing and I'll miss my next big paycheck. I would love to go back through all 248 episodes and pull out all my game and gameplay ideas and then present them back to me. I don't know.
Speaker 3:In the early days, you used to do loads of them, your gameplay ideas, yeah Right, what we need is a game.
Speaker 2:Just desperate right? Yeah, please make this game I mean I willed Gold Rush the game into existence and it ended up being.
Speaker 2:I'll say it again If that ad had multiplayer element to it, that would have been okay. But a single-player game of that where you're digging the hole, you're loading the vehicle, you're driving the vehicle, you're manning the it's too much. Whereas if I could have been driving the dump truck and you could have been loading it like Farming Simulator or Snowbrunner, that would have felt awesome. But no, it was a one player busy game that kind of scratched the itch, but never really did so.
Speaker 2:Anyway, back to what I've been playing. Parking all that to one side, I've mainly been playing a lot of City Skylines remastered for PS4, straight PS5, really enjoying that, setting my own challenges. I could put the taxis right up until every single person had left my town. And, mate, I got in so much financial trouble. Obviously right, because I had a massive city, almost 30,000.
Speaker 2:And I don't know why, but I took Umbridge to it. I was like, no, the way you've done these buildings it's messy. I kind of don't want to deal with this anymore. So I ranked up the um, the taxes. They paid them for a while. I built up a little bit of a cash pot and they all left, and then I had to get a bailout. I took three loans back to back, brought the taxes down, started to bring them back in, and what I learned was that they then knocked the building down, the deserted building that was there, and then pop up something and I actually managed to change the kind of style of my town by forcing it into a bit of a restart, which was great, oh, no way.
Speaker 2:Not like totally, but certainly managed to morph some areas into different buildings, because some of the buildings they were putting up they were making it look messy, and I was moving to the next echelon and I didn't want them. I was moving to the next echelon and I didn't want them. I didn't want a dirty little townhouses around there. Oh boy, I didn't want any of that. You've changed. I know, my love, it's what? Uh, it's what podcasting for me and uh, joining the court will do for you.
Speaker 3:That's your dictatorship in Hano. I know you're a like a maniacal mayor?
Speaker 2:Yeah, pretty much. So yeah, I've been really enjoying that. I mean, I know you, I don't know if you have you got it City Skylines In your bulk library somewhere?
Speaker 3:Yeah, because we had that as a PS4 game, didn't we on Plus?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's where I took it, that's where I mainly I've always been tempted with these sort of city-builder games. I remember playing SimCity back in the day and I thought it's got all the bits in it that you I'm just worried they've gone too complicated and too in depth and I don't know if I can do it that's what I thought shitty sidelines, that's what I thought shitty skidelines was like.
Speaker 2:right, that's not what Shitty Skylines is like. Shitty Skylines is very Seb kind of corrected me last week. Oh, I see it more as a cosy game because I was complaining about how it wasn't deep enough.
Speaker 3:All right, Jay.
Speaker 2:And he went no, no, I see it more like a cosy game. And that's when the light bulb went on in my head. I was listening to the show yesterday and I thought I heard in my voice was listening to the show, not, uh, yesterday and I thought I could. I heard in my voice, like you've had this moment of realization there, boy, and it was like I have. It's like a cozy game. Literally is a cozy game.
Speaker 2:You can go in the taxis and mess about with them, but if you don't want to, you don't have to. You can build flat roads on a flat town. If that's what you want to do, you don't have to mess around with the topography or anything like that. It can be as simple as the original sim city. Or if you really want to get into the weeds, it can be complicated. Um, but on my first playthrough, I think I I had a little bit of a play around in sandbox. Just, I prefer that to tutorials. Now, on these, like city builders or whatever, I had the same problem with Anno. They try to add a story on them. They block you going through the tech tree. Oh, first you need to rescue Uncle Bob. He's fallen out of a boat.
Speaker 2:I don't care, I want to build Dreadnoughts and man of Wars and raise hell on these people. I don't necessarily want to rescue Bob from his fishing misadventure, so I get stuck into the sandbox mode and I had one quick go and it failed and I was like, yeah, I know what I did wrong. Um, then I had another go and I've basically been iterating on that since. And yeah, it's, it's rewarded and very affordable. It's in the sale as well, rgt it's. It's on switch too, although if the city gets too large it starts to really bog down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, big time. So you have to. Really, it's a one square map only on Switch and you're done, but you can get a lot in there. You can get a lot in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you said that too A little sip of Kool-Aid for myself there. Yeah, I thoroughly recommend it. I also I've been reading some disparaging things about the latest farming simulator too. Um, it's a bit broken. There's no real mods for it at the moment. Is that? What's that? 25, I think it is. Yeah, 24, 25, 24, I can't remember now. Anyway, it's all the rage, it's on the store, it's on the downloads, it's in the top 10. It's all that.
Speaker 2:And I was just thinking, nah, I'm going to get it. There's only going to be three maps, none of which I'm going to want to play. I'm waiting for seeing a UK map mod drop oakfield or what's that other one we played a lot calverston, calverston, yeah, I think. Yeah, if that draw cordwell, if that drops, then I'm probably going to be all over it, but until then, I'm I'm happy because, yeah, there's been visual upgrades, but there's no real changes, actual changes to the mechanics. Like, I got a bit giddy because I saw that you could take your livestock cows as an example and you could build your own pens for them. Oh, wow, that's gonna be great. You know, you have to do some animal husbandry this time around. No, no, no, you can just do the fence where you like and it doesn't matter if you've got 200 cows. 250 might be the hard limit on farming simulator, but even if you've got 70, it only really shows 20 to 25 in the field, no matter how many you've got.
Speaker 3:That's a bit of immersion break For me. It is.
Speaker 2:You're building this farm, you want a big herd, but you only ever see 25 of them. They never make their way to the milking parlor. They don't do this, they don't do that, they don't do the other just a visual representation of what you've got.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's not even a true numeric visual representation of what you got. It's literally just here's some cows in the field and I know you've made defense pretty and all that and you've put it where you want it to go. Um, but that really not changing anything. Because I I I was reading some blurb about it and it mentioned dynamic pastures. Well, my imagination went poof, it was gone. Yeah, it was like oh, wow, you know, we're gonna have to rotate the fields that they're feeding on so the grass can regrow, possibly reseed it. That, to me, is a dynamic pasture. A dynamic pasture to me is not just moving the fence. That's garbage. Um, so I'm waiting for some mods, the, the, the mud deformation they've brought in. Um certainly has some appeal obviously like what snow runner?
Speaker 3:is it someone like that?
Speaker 2:not even close. There's probably one inch depth of deformable mud in the game.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Whereas in Snow Runner you've got a good six inches, haven't you? Maybe more, yeah, and it looks good, doesn't it?
Speaker 3:It really does the water effects and that look really good on there.
Speaker 2:The mud morphs around the tyres and you can spin it up onto the vehicle and you can see it oozing off the tyres. And you know Mudrunner and Snowrunner in particular have nailed that bit on. But even here, when it's absolutely chucking it down and you're in a field, a little bit of mud on the tyre. You know it's not what we want. So I'm excited to see where they go with it next. I'll probably end up picking it up because you know what I'm like. I do love a good farming game, but I've been playing 22 again and I've just been enjoying that. I've, like, got back to basics. I started it on the medium mode.
Speaker 3:It's a bit like me with Star doing it. That's your little comfort game you go back to yeah kind of.
Speaker 2:I've gone back there. I've gone and got all like the old school British 90s machinery. I've parked it in the yard. I've limited myself to three or four fields, very small, because often I'll start playing it. I'll have this massive field and I get half way through ploughing it and I'm like my god, that's been like five hours of my life, that's a lot.
Speaker 2:So at the minute, at the minute, I'm just sort of doing some silage. I want to build up all the supplies. I need hay, haylage, um, I probably need to get the pallets and the feed from the store. Um, I need to get some straw. So I need to plant, grow and harvest some corn. So I've got that in the bank and I've got straw for the bedding I want to build up.
Speaker 2:I just want to farm casually in the background to build up the supplies. I need to get me my livestock and then I've got that groundswell of ingredients where I'm not panicking and having to nip to the farm shop to buy bale because my mixture of total feed ration is off, that kind of gimmick like. So I'm just making, I've got everything that I can in stock so I can just enjoy that element of it. Yeah, exactly, and I don't really want more than three or four fields. With that I can generate grass, haylage, I can do feed, I'm self sufficient in a very small footprint. If this is your first episode, you're probably like oh my god, oh my good god, he gets better, because I've been playing an awful lot of MLB again as well. What on Mainly Paul, but PS5. Yeah Right.
Speaker 3:Because didn't you have Switch Paul on that, didn't you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've got 22 on Switch, whereas I'm playing 24 or whatever is the latest version on PS ps5 and I still really love the game. Unfortunately, though, I'm in this really dark place of I've mentioned it before. I don't know if you were on the episode or whether I was moaning to seb about it but the sliders it's got these difficulty slides that follow you through your career and I'm like I'll have a good game or I'll have a good innings.
Speaker 2:Right, I see the slider move and I'm like my God. Then I have an innings where I can't I can't even pitch a sock, and it comes down. Then I have another good innings, so it goes up and I just it's doing, my head in right up and I just it's doing my head in right.
Speaker 3:I can't yeah, because that's almost. It's not letting you learn and get better at the game, is it? It's changing the game for your benefit.
Speaker 2:I'm right at the thick end, right of my knowledge, of my experience of the game, so it makes sense. I see the argument for you like you're not really learning. I've already learnt and I'm at the real thick end of where these sliders can be. Um, and it's doing my head in, but I keep playing it but I'm not actually progressing. I got called into the manager's office the other day again and he's like oh, you see, again there's two ways you can be a pitcher. But MLB is hard and fast on you just being a strikeout king. Everything you pitch, they can't hit and that's the end of it. It's like, well, I don't really want to play that way, but unless I play that way, you're basically framing me up as a failure each time. So I don't know, I mean this is very picky. I'm sure there's some Americans that are probably sat there going yeah, yeah, yeah. And again, I'm very peculiar because I play it like an rpg almost, where it's like a turn-based strategy game. Like I am that weird in the way that I play it. I know that and I know not many people are going to rock up and play as a pitcher. They're going to want to be doing the big hits. But yeah, it's a bit frustrating to me. The picture game's been ignored in there, um, but it is what it is. In terms of what else I've been playing, I think that might. I've been sort of kicking, daxed around. You know the psp game. Yeah, it's from a gaming era as well, like I'm on this bit.
Speaker 2:So you land, you crash. You do the first thing the hotel, I think, you do the second one and it's like a building site. And then I think there's another level and then you do this level where you're on a little motorbike and you have to, like, kill these weeds. But you've only got a certain amount of time. You've only got this small tank that you can fill up your weed killer with, and then, right up until the last 10 seconds, the weeds aren't highlighted on the map. So then you're revving around on this very hard to control speeder bike trying to remember where the last weed was that. Oh no, I missed it. I thought I dumped my weed sprayer on it, but then I actually it missed it by a pixel, so I thought I'd finished. But I've got brim, brim, brim and you're like brim brim. I don't know why.
Speaker 2:I'm back to this again, that's game design from an era exactly of that kind of PS2 era and it's like it's just that cold slap in the face each time I put it on, of like, oh yeah, I forgot, it's this bit, it's this. Oh god, please, no. I also. I want to give a shout out to this because I did find it quite interesting. I do need to go back to it using the portals remote cloud play feature that was announced a couple of weeks ago and, you know, very exciting too. I started playing that session skate game. Have you heard?
Speaker 2:of that yeah let me have a little bit more Kool-Aid. The pastor says, unless I drink six pints of his Kool-Aid a day and you can tell from the colour that's been on screen that it's got an interesting taste to it he would exercise me from the cult and he said it's the only way I can get on the Great Ascension to see Talaxial apparently it's all natural though it's in there all natural, though it's in there, all natural.
Speaker 3:So I think it's probably quite good for you in some respect.
Speaker 2:I don't know, mate. I was just reflecting on my life choices. To be honest, what's become of me?
Speaker 3:wow, kool-aid does that to you. Oh, very much yeah anyway, session Skate.
Speaker 2:It was there so I thought, why not? It's interesting. I don't know if I got the dexterity per se to be doing the flicks and kicks the way it was. What I found was I didn't have quite enough time to crouch, crouch up, ollie, because in the tutorial you kind of Ollie up some steps and then you Ollie back down the other side. I was struggling to get the speed, the crouch and the pop within the time frame and I kept hitting the steps, hitting the steps, getting half up, but the hitting the steps, hitting the steps, hitting the steps and getting off, but not quite in the steps. Um, I mean, in the end I nailed it. You know, don't get me wrong, but there was a few moments where I was like the time it takes to hold that down, push up, yeah, it's given me more believability in it, but it's also taking me out of it a bit because yeah, it sounds probably a bit too technical for its own good.
Speaker 2:I can't flip those steps. I don't know. I think maybe with some practice. But again, the problem is, as with all of these online free-to-play streaming game libraries there's that much there why are you going to waste another 30 seconds on that when you can just drop it like a hot stone and pick up the next thing straight away? And I then went and dived into cool borders, played that for half hour that netflix syndrome in it it is, and we and you know I'm guilty of falling into that- kind of wheelhouse and I almost pressed the button.
Speaker 2:And again I have to press the button on another because I'm fully paid up on there till 2026, so I don't really need to worry about it. But by the time the end of 2025 rolls around, the price will have gone up again, no doubt. So it's like oh, we'll take advantage of this deal now, black Friday. Oh, they know what they're doing with those deals. No, I'm not going to do it. I've got a year in the bag. I'll worry about it then. Was that a mistake?
Speaker 3:No, I don't think so. I've been looking back a lot over my subscriptions. I dropped Games Pass, just weren't using it. What was on there wasn't really warranting paying for it and as for down date, there wasn't anything coming out quick enough for me to. When did you?
Speaker 2:drop that Because I was wanting to get into the weeds, because I've got one period away Games Pass on it and obviously Flight sim and all that sort of good rigmarole. I guess you dropped it before that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I dropped it a few months ago now, and I just think.
Speaker 2:Did you have any physical games for it, because I know you like to play the physical games. Yeah, I've got a few physical games, and that's another.
Speaker 3:Another reason I dropped it because the games I liked playing on Games Pass was like Forza Horizon or Forza Motorsport, which I've bought and works out cheaper. If I'm only going to play them two games in a year, it's cheaper to buy them second hand from CEX than it is have a subscription for a year out on day and date stuff like indiana jones just about to drop right.
Speaker 3:So but it ain't just a moxoff thing I'm now thinking of doing. I'm now coming up for my renewal of my nintendo online. Um, me too, I haven't hardly touched a retro game on there this year. I've dabbled a little bit and I think what am I paying for this for? I don't do I need this or will? I regret not having all them games there, but then sometimes they're awkward to play, depending on your Wi-Fi, you know, and I'm just like no, I think that Then it's quite a good deal.
Speaker 2:But I don't know. It's a good deal and compared to the other manufacturers it feels like free money, right, because it's so much less and you do get similar perks. You're going to get cloud saves. You're going gonna get this, you're gonna get the other. You get the mario kart booster pack. You get the nez nez. Now nez nez play fine. D-pad. Two buttons shoulders fine, right, four buttons for the snare shoulders fine, as soon as you get to n64. To me, and that's the one I'd probably be most interested in. But the whole package falls apart in my eyes.
Speaker 2:Really, the n64 had a very peculiar way of controlling it and that controller was very specific to the entertainment value of that console and the playability of those games. When I first popped on there I thought, oh perfect, dark, I'll give that a go, or golden, I'll give that a go. It, or GoldenEye will give that a go. It was difficult to control, but I knew that if I had had the N64 official switch controller it'd be flawless, it'd be like playing it on the N64.
Speaker 2:So obviously, on the N64, you used to have to press that right shoulder button so you could go into an aim mode, right, right, where you can then move the cursor around the aimer around rather than moving your guy around, and it was holding that and trying to push forward and do all that while at the same and I was like no, this is just not built with this in mind and it is playing diabolically for that reason. So I don't know. I, like you, have looked at it and thought, yeah, do I kick it into the weeds or no. And it's like no, probably not, and I'm still hoping and praying for DK64 to drop on there. Now, I could have sworn it was promised to drop like this year. Yeah, I thought they said that was coming this year.
Speaker 2:But so far I've not seen it, Unless they've had any problems optimising it.
Speaker 2:If that drops any time soon, it will take me back to a very treasured memory of 1999 where I was playing that before going round to OG Tom's and Mumsy's at the big house for a New Year's Eve party and little Tom was there in his short trousers. There was me being a boy with a girlfriend and drinking beer and everything, and he was like oh hello uncle, no, not uncle, hello George, there's some law. No one expected coming out of the trees.
Speaker 2:And I was like have you got Donkey Kong 64? Oh no, I was like you need that. And Offy was usually scurry to beg his mum for money. Oh no, I was like you need that. And off he would usually scurry to beg his mum for money and do some jobs around the house. So he had enough shill to get these games I'd tell him to buy. He never regrets me telling him to buy Zelda or Ocarina of Time, but he probably regrets me telling him to buy a load of the other dribble that I told him was great. But he's done the dirty on me a few times. I bought a Wii U because he said so. I bought a 3DS because he said so, and probably a myriad of games. So if we get this together, we'll be this great team online. Okay, this game's awful, tom, it's terrible, it's awful.
Speaker 2:And I remember when we both hyped each other up obviously we were going to get Red Dead 2, because that's a no brainer, yeah. But then we did like an online session and we were trying to do the realistic go out, hunt skin, come back, eat your food on the campfire and we had a load of grifters come through and there was this lad. He was like I'm the best bare knuckle fight you've ever seen. Let's have a fight. And we were like no mate, we just want to sit down and drink coffee and, like, eat our food that we funded for. Then we're going to move to the next wooded area and hunt there and do some fishing. You know, we just want to live the wild west lifestyle. Anyway, it came in, he flipped the coffee pot upside down. He was giving it the billy big. He wanted to try and fight. They were trying to goad us out of the safe areas so he could hit us. Oh mate, it was diabolical yeah that's the moment ruined.
Speaker 2:It really is. And then I see these awesome videos of these cowboy gangs that kind of gathered up around Red Dead and I've seen these scenes where they've got them all lined up and you come like one guy comes down this like causeway and you've got like horsemen on the side and these guys gathered at the end, all looking ragtag with their cowboy gear, and I'm like that's the experience I wanted, yeah. But I ended up being grifted by a 14 year old offering to fight me in a field.
Speaker 2:Knocking a coffee at me end Knocking a coffee. At me end Knocking a coffee pot over him, making a complete hooligan of himself, an absolute dog, yeah, so that's the disconnect sometimes, but I feel like we've done a great catch-up with RGTF here A little bit of game and chat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it does me good to have seen you rise from what was basically looked like a carry-on movie bloke who had fallen out of his window. Basically, you wrapped in cast with your legs up and your arms up. What a mess. Yeah, pastor took advantage, I'll be fair. You know he had you signing all the fan mail because you couldn't move with your mouth.
Speaker 3:Fair enough. It's amazing what you can do with your mouth. Fair enough.
Speaker 2:It's amazing what you can do with your mouth when you need to. Well, what we're going to do is we're going to use our mouths to thank our loving subscribers. I'm going to walk them through the tiers, rgt, and I'm not talking the kind salt-impregnated H2O, I'm talking the levels of support you can put behind the show. Now I want you all to get excited because we've got our Christmas special coming up and if you're listening now and you want to get the Christmas vibe going on, we've got a whole back catalogue of Christmas-themed episodes. We've got the first one, which was the pharmacy christmas market episode, followed up by the episode called the aftermath. That's your year one christmas special.
Speaker 2:year two, I think, might have been the christmas carol yeah year three was the immortal retro man man penned by OG Tom, but then he exited stage left and left me and Mike Rouse with his magnum opus. I showed these tantrums. We're all capable of them. Oh yes, I'm probably the biggest Eva around. Wow, the moment you want a bit of support from your co-host, he kicks you in the balls wow, you're like the Mariah Carey gamer that physically hurt me. Fine, she's good at Christmas and so Retro man that physically hurt me.
Speaker 2:Fine, she's good at Christmas, exactly. And so Retro man. Then I'm trying to think what we did last year. We did a Bobby fairy tale of New York. So we've got lots of good content for you to dive into, and I implore you to, because nothing makes you. It isn't Christmas until you've listened to a UCP Christmas special. I'd say Definitely not what's your favourite Christmas special RGT?
Speaker 3:I love the Retro man. That was very well written by Tom. I enjoyed that and then, with my grace really dropping into character at the last minute, it was fantastic, wow, yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2:That was the hardest work episode I think I've ever done.
Speaker 3:That was good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I enjoyed that and that got flagged for copyright because I tried to sing Alan Jones' walking in the air genuinely got copyrighted on YouTube and the only thing I could think was because I sang walking in the air unbelievable and it was before I found my voice as well.
Speaker 2:Some could argue alright, alright, unbelievable. And it was before I found my voice as well. Some could argue All right, all right, anywho, right, let's talk the tiers RGT. These tiers are absolutely incredible. So for $3, you're going to get a readout on every show, just like these fine upstanding human beings are about to get. For $5, you're going to get a read on every show and art merch yearly, which is a refresher. The art we'll see how that works out might be in tune with a whole new vibe we've got going on.
Speaker 2:Um, eight dollars is going to get you a read out on every show, art merch yearly and access to the unglorious chat, which is a little private area on the discord for people that are paying members, where they can go and have a little private area on the discord for people that are paying members, where they can go and have a little bit of a private soiree. Um, if that floats your boat, that might be where you want to be. For $10. You're going to get a readout on every show. You're going to get art merch yearly. You're going to get access to the unglorious chat. Bear with me, I'm drowning in my own spittle and you're going to get access to the quarterly Zoom meeting which so far you have hosted. That like an absolute boss. Rgt. Yeah, went well. I popped in for three seconds while I was sat in the auditorium of the pharmacy. Let me get my law right of the cult office here in El Paso. That's the one the farmer to. No, let me get my law right Of the cult office here in El Paso.
Speaker 3:That's the one no farmer, no farmer, no.
Speaker 2:I mean this is totally done for the YouTube viewer. They're like that dude stood in front of a UK radiator and that guy's blatantly in his house somewhere in eastern England.
Speaker 3:Just imagine, use your imagination.
Speaker 2:In audio we could get away with blue murder. Now that you've demanded we come to video, you're making it very difficult for us, um, but we hope you still enjoy the effort that we put into it, into the law as an example, and we're trying to find new ways of making that work. I'm on with it. So I return to pastures new and old um for the next season when we get there um, anyway, I get slightly distracted. Access to the quarterly zoom meeting yep, now those that have joined some of the early adopters got what's called early adopter boxes.
Speaker 2:But I didn't want to leave anyone out there. No one puts a listener of the UCP in the corner. If you're one of the disaffected ones out there, you kind of feel like you don't fit in. You kind of feel like you're a gamer, but you know I don't game like those people. We're for you, we fight for the little man. I will never leave any single one of you behind um. You're welcome to reach out to me in the dms.
Speaker 2:I know from personal experience that podcasts can get you through tough times. If you've discovered this show and it's got you through a tough time, we've accomplished something right and that's what we're here for, but off the crux of that, there's a family waiting for you, should you want to dive in, should you be a gamer? We're all lonely weirdos. Probably spend a little bit too much time around searching for triple x videos on the internet and we don't get out like we ought to. Well, through the medium of the discord and the show, you can find friends that you can show to mumsy are real, not ai generated characters or that woman from OnlyFans that you've sent. If you've remortgaged a family home six times so you can see a corner of an areole, we're not going to disrespect you like that. We're going to give you a T-shirt, at least right.
Speaker 2:So the earlier doctors got cassette and all that rigmarole. They even got a packet of Skips RGT and I didn't want to leave anyone behind because I said no one puts a UCP listener in the corner. No one would dare because I would rip their throat clean out. You're part of our family now. Don't forget that. We're here for you, and if you want Daddy to come down and slap someone about for you verbally, I'll do it. I'll do it, yeah. So anyway, if you join now, we're going to Just want everyone to know where we're at. So if you join now, you're going to get a T-shirt, right? So if you join for $3, you're going to get a T-shirt. That's the price of one cup of coffee from some high-priced, high-street store.
Speaker 3:Ain't good. T-shirts.
Speaker 2:Just go without that and you're going to get yourself a fine quality t-shirt with a high quality print of your choice of that artwork selection going all the way back to series one. If you want to be part of that, go on the youtube, go on the uh apple or spotify. At the bottom there's a little thing that says support the show. Press that. You'll be transferred to our podcast hosts safe and secure subscription area. It's Buzzsprout, the world's biggest name in podcast hosting. I don't think there could be a safer way to interact with someone.
Speaker 2:We're not sending you off to Patreon or anything weird like that. We're going to funnel you in through the show, nice and safe. We appreciate you. Now, this is how we thank everyone that's helped us to this point and continues to help us, and we would be literally nothing but scum sub-scum, I would argue without you, dear listener.
Speaker 2:Now this list has evolved many times over time and I have the best list here. It's the best list you've ever seen, full of wonderful people. The first person is our swedish friend leading the charge. I think I said last time never in my wildest dreams did I ever see us getting one listener in sweden, let alone the people that are listening now. And we, we have a supporter from Sweden. It's the beautiful Seanox. If you're listening to this substandard episode, let me apologise and also beg you to reach out if your T-shirt has landed, because it's been sent and we're hoping that you've got it. We'd love to see a picture of you wearing it on Instagram With a great design choice as well, by the way. Or he went with the Pastor El.
Speaker 3:Paso. Yes, it turned out a good print. Now it looks really good.
Speaker 2:If we weren't flipping the scripts upside down and picking a new location for series, would it be series six?
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Then I'd probably have that as the album art, but flipping the script, or at least we think we are, yeah, so yeah, new artwork anyway, do you? And see you know, let us know if you got that, and thank you to you for no doubt I do believe in my mind. I closed my eyes and I see you as a one man recruitment. Army in Sweden. You're knocking on all the doors. Do do army in Sweden. You're knocking on all the doors. You're going in. Hello Jürgen, yes, how are you? Yeah, you're great. Do you like video games? No, yes, no, you do. Okay, now you're downloading the show to this person's phone. More of that, xenox, you're an absolute hero.
Speaker 3:And introduce them to the Boon DVD as well.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you what if people start watching Boon in Sweden? I'd say, granada Television owes us a fat check.
Speaker 1:I would imagine, so yes, who's next?
Speaker 3:We also have the one-man George fan club. Yes, carlos, the wonderful Carlos, yes.
Speaker 2:I don't think Carlos gets the respect he deserves deserves mainly because he's lumped in behind me, the tertiary weird of the UCP. But one thing I would say is I see you and I said I'm very grateful for the support I've been in since episode one and everyone hates me. I'm glad that one person has seen some element of something in me.
Speaker 3:And also I think Carlos is a great guy. He always joins in our Discord chats that we have as part of our tiers, and also his knowledge is really good, but he's not the ultimate gamer. You know, he's got all that retro, he's got arcades, he's got imports, he's got the proper Japanese version.
Speaker 2:He's not messing about, is he?
Speaker 3:No, he knows his stuff.
Speaker 2:You know there's gamers right, there's gamers that go tesco for their weekly shot. You know they're going to buy chicken dippers and frozen chips and they're probably going to get a little bit adventurous with a curry pot noodle for the dinner. Carlos, in that kind of gamer, carlos waitrose, carlos is sucking on wasabi beans. He's giving it the full salt bay. Oh, he is. Yeah, he is salt baying. His collection I don't know what the equivalent in video gaming would be it's a load of smashed up silicon chips from a calculator. He's just sprinkling them liberally across his gaming collection. Yeah, it's a very awesome collection. If I woke up tomorrow and I was Carlos, I would be a very happy man.
Speaker 3:Definitely. Who have we got next then, George?
Speaker 2:The Mighty Firm returns.
Speaker 3:Then we have the wonderful support from Trestles New York.
Speaker 2:I love you Trestles. I know you've had some staff movements, right, but I'll let it go. The food's still amazing. We'll go. Next time we're in New York RGT, we'll pop down there Without a doubt. I'm waiting for you, but you're waiting for me, so that means it's my turn to it's that awkward silence.
Speaker 3:Everybody stand up, sir, Tell your flag and spatter be it sterling or it's a dancer, I'll take it that was.
Speaker 2:Spatterbeetster yeah, that was his OG voice tape. He said Classic.
Speaker 3:Then we have the wonderful Tingle Tuna, another one who has a fantastic collection. He's a bit of a dark horse when it comes to his collection. Do you know?
Speaker 2:what? Not only is and I genuinely mean this not only is Tingle Tuna insanely handsome, but he's got such highbrow tastes he makes me feel like a peasant at the Lord's table. Oh yeah, I'm eating. I'm eating earthworms, and he's like quaffing some foie gras.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's the only way he rolls. Who have we got next?
Speaker 2:I want to come up with something for this guy, because he works his socks off with the mighty Boba Loba to make the Discord a welcoming place. He's organising competitions, he's doing this, he's doing that. He's all over it, over it right, like a rash, but in a good way, if ever that could be a thing. Let's imagine it is right. And he's woven himself into the fabric of the, the listeners. He's woven himself into the fabric of the discord. He's woven himself into the moderator role and I just I've said a few times on messages but I don't think I've done it on air properly digital monkery. No matter what life throws at you, you're right there in a discord. I don't know how to genuinely thank you enough. Um, absolutely, legend it's. It's hard to put it into words, sir, but in fact I forget that we're on youtube now, look. It's hard to put it into words, but you're a legend amongst men and we're very grateful and you support the show.
Speaker 3:I mean, yeah it's fantastic when you think you know we've we've tried in the past to organize and run things on that side of stuff ourself and it is a very hard job to do so for someone to come in who's a supporter as he is and for how many years he has, and to do all the things he does he's you know you just can't fake me now. Absolutely fantastic with his, with his little competitions and bits he does. I don't want to.
Speaker 2:I don't want to get too in the weeds, but but he's got some personal stuff going on. But I tell you what he's bulletproof, that boy. He just turns up regardless and he keeps doing it. So you know, I see you. Digital Monkery.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and if you ever meet him, he's a great, great lad.
Speaker 2:Come like a donkey. Some call him Tripod. I've heard.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I did hear that as well. But yeah, thanks for that mate. Next up we have Rose Spacemonk, the Dreamcast guy in town yeah, we have.
Speaker 2:That means I get the gaming gram. I'm glad I got to do it, so I made sure no one called him gram, or I just called him gram.
Speaker 3:There you go and then we've got the wonderful board border which means I get the beautiful going brown boba loba.
Speaker 2:border, which means I get the beautiful Going Brown Boba Loba.
Speaker 3:Going Brown. And then we've got Scotty, who's still on the list. What does that mean? What Going Brown?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm not saying, I'm here.
Speaker 2:I made it up, but I don't really know what it means I thought you were trying to be adult.
Speaker 3:funny, but anyway, yeah, scotty's still on here he knows what I was trying to read. He's actually a co-presenter and he's still chipping in looking at what I looked at. Yet Marathon Gaiman check him out on YouTube because his YouTube channel is wonderful.
Speaker 2:I think we might have to just refund his payments, to be fair, because he's literally I don't know what he's doing. But look, we're super grateful, which means I get the walking legend that is Sealmaster Elliot yeah, definitely a legend.
Speaker 3:Then I get your red headed step son Ginge such a strong, humble man, which means I get now.
Speaker 2:Everyone talk about pop, music, pop music. Everybody talk about music. Everyone's talking about apps. Right, and let me talk to you about one of the hottest females in existence, and that is the wonderful emma sharp. Not only is she navigating the apps like an absolute pro, is she on the apps? Confirmation, is she off the pro? Is she up the apps now?
Speaker 3:yeah, never, never been on them, so I'm still not sure why this is running every week.
Speaker 2:But yeah, sorry about this, emma, but yeah, just uh listen, og tom, we've been a little bit, you know, saucy on the el paso. Curious, yeah, and this is probably a more description of where AG Tom's at, he saw a female's name.
Speaker 3:It just made me laugh how quick he reacted to that. When you said Emma Sharp, and straight away is she on the app store.
Speaker 2:He's an animal, isn't he? He's an active animal.
Speaker 3:Easy fella.
Speaker 2:We need to protect Emma Sharp from his pedigree. So are we banning the app talk now? Because Seb asked me the story and I was like I don't even know anymore what the story is, but I've researched it and it started there we'll just see what each week brings.
Speaker 3:You know, we'll see is Emma Sharp.
Speaker 2:Do you think offended by that in any way?
Speaker 3:because if she is, I'd like to make you think that she is pop music, everybody pop music right next we have the legendary Harvey Retro who, by the way, I just watched one of his new videos on YouTube and me and my wife loves the videos he does at Christmas time when he looks through the old Littlewood catalogues. It is just such a nostalgia trip. Me and my wife loves the videos he does at.
Speaker 2:Christmas time when he looks through the old Littlewood catalogues, it is just such a nostalgia trip. Oh, the bloke's a legend first and foremost.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh, it's fantastic With a six-day dot.
Speaker 2:The guy's an absolute legend. I call him the Lord of Darkness, but he's so much more.
Speaker 3:Oh, he is when you watch his videos and you're sitting there flicking through these old catalogues and describe funny things in them and what's for sale and how cheap things are. It's like you're sitting with your mate watching it.
Speaker 2:That's the takeaway he's so friendly, so all-encompassing, and the thing that really sends it home is he's genuine. He's just a lovely human being, which means I get his stable mate Now. The other day I found myself just outside of Boston, in Lincolnshire, and it was then I looked up and I realised that nowhere near Berlin.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But I was somewhere near Boston.
Speaker 3:Yeah, maybe that could be his name for the new season, somewhere near Boston.
Speaker 2:If I had the technical prowess to change it, it'd already be changed.
Speaker 3:Well, next we have Mumsy. Thanks, Mumsy.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Mumsy, which means I get the second coming of the George fan club. So thank you to you.
Speaker 3:Can we? Sorry, that doesn't say it on the list. Can you just read that properly please?
Speaker 2:Yep, you're right. The Seb Fan Club.
Speaker 3:Can we just read that properly please?
Speaker 2:The Scotty Marathon Gaming Fan.
Speaker 3:Club. This is the last chance.
Speaker 2:The OG Tom RGT Mutual Appreciation Society. That's the.
Speaker 3:RGT Fan Club anyway. So next we have which is the Superior Fan Club, I might add. Next we have Pete Brocklehurst.
Speaker 2:Thank you is the superior thank that next we have Pete Brocklehurst. Thank you, pete. Such an ego, which means I get the immortal Billy Marmite love him, I hate him.
Speaker 3:Then we have the wonderful Simon Bright. Thank you, simon.
Speaker 2:Which means I you get it, you get it and this is going to take some being because last week Seb Valvenus up for this, but I'm feeling a little bit like because I'm contractually obliged, so one of us is to do this. So I'm feeling a little bit like I don't know what to do. It sounded like me when I first went into the pastor's room good god, and that's it, so thank you to everyone that supported us if you're even mildly curious and doing the same.
Speaker 2:There's a link, but don't worry if you just stumbled across the show. Nothing's paywall. There's no secret episodes. No, there's not really. There's no secret episodes. No, there's not really. There's no secret episode, nothing like that. Everything's available. All of the back catalogue is available.
Speaker 3:Yeah, download it all, have a listen.
Speaker 2:That actually is really helpful. When we get the subscribers joining, they fall in love with the show and they download everything, and I mean everything that we've ever done Boom.
Speaker 3:And we see when you do as well. We see when you do it's listen. Yeah, it makes a massive difference if any.
Speaker 2:If you've ever listened in the hope that you can make an impression on me, that's the sort of thing that makes a massive impression on me because it makes me realize, just for a moment.
Speaker 2:People are listening, people are caring, people are liking what we're doing sometimes in the world of content creation and we're at the ragged edge of what is considered. If there was a center of the world that was content population we saw. We're so far removed from that. We barely even know what it looks like. But we're on the ragged edge, the very edge of what that could be. And just getting a small pat of gratitude that you've gone in and you've downloaded and you can see that you're enjoying the show, and then you end up on the discord and you get brought into the family, a bit like the whole thing. It just blows me away. Still to this point and the thing that completely decimates me, down to the point where and I need to simmer down a bit here people are helping us to move the show along, with supporting us this way.
Speaker 3:And yeah, guys don't think that it don't matter, because it does, I know we play it all fast and loose, but we have a laugh, but it does mean a lot. There's a lot of work that goes into the show. You know it's come a hell of a long way. I'm a newbie compared to, you know, george, who's been here from day one. There's a lot of work goes in. So when you see a little bit of reward, come back and just someone downloading a back catalogue or someone doing the Discord, it's a massive win for us because suddenly it's all worthwhile doing it. So, yeah, thanks for everyone, whether. So yeah, thanks for everyone. Whether you download a back catalogue, whether you listen on Spotify or whether you watch us on YouTube, or whether you're one of our members, or whether you join in the Digital Munkery and set things up. We appreciate all of you. Thank you all so much.
Speaker 2:Oh, we will. As long as one person keeps listening, and that means on contract, you're obliged to keep popping these episodes out until at least Mumsy pops off this mortal coil, but then again, she's probably set a subscription up so it never ends. Yeah, it'll always be here for you. Yeah, every day you get in the car on a Monday, there'll be an episode to get you through something. We know some of you rely on that. You want that stability. You want those voices of those friends in the car in your headphones when you're trudging to work. On that monday morning we'll be there for you. Yeah, one way or the other there'll be something in your inbox. Yeah, that lift you. And really, you know, that's probably one of the books, the reason why we still continue so you know we're here for you and don't suffer in silence.
Speaker 2:Rgt. That brings us to the end, to the ragged edge of this episode. It's been a bit fast and loose because we just wanted to welcome you back, really Make sure that you're all right. It's been a bit of a sad time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's been a tough time. I'd just like to say thanks to everyone that sent me messages and that and people that knew I'd been poorly. I really appreciate that and people have been checking in and listening to the show Really appreciate that. Thank you all very, very much and it is wonderful to be back, even if I am in the red room. But there we go. That's the small price you have to pay for the show.
Speaker 2:Do you remember?
Speaker 3:is that a Minecraft deep cut or is that? I think that's 50 Shades of of gray and at the red room oh, because there's a red room in twin peaks as well oh, there was yeah but if you remember when we did the minecraft stream, yes, something went wrong, didn't it?
Speaker 2:and we ended up in that like weird room that I decorated with flowers and it was just hidden in the middle of nowhere Fantastic, I don't know how I found the time for all that you know, but it was a different time on it. That really leaves us to those show stalwarts, and if this is again your first episode you got this far, you probably should have gone off and downloaded some of the other episodes, because this is probably not your normal show. We've normally got news, a feature Gap, but, as I say, this was a nice, relaxed welcome back to our show yeah, a bit of a gamer, get a bit of a gamer.
Speaker 3:Chat one. I like those.
Speaker 2:What are you hoping to play?
Speaker 3:Be some more Try and Five Probably dip a bit more into my New Star Too Far probably be bouncing between those two. I'm very tempted now with City Skylines. You might have sold that to me. Do I get into that realm of city building games, do I?
Speaker 2:is it a deep hole?
Speaker 3:to fall in or do.
Speaker 2:I no, not. Well, it's as deep as you've got the meat for, okay, well, so if you, wanted, I wouldn't be playing that, as you've got the meat for Okay well.
Speaker 3:I won't be playing that very long then, but yeah, we'll, no, yeah, so I think that's probably going to be the main thrill I'm going to be playing this week. What about you, doug?
Speaker 2:Let me tell you about one of my quests to find a disc drive for my PS5 Pro so I can play the games that I want to play on my shelf.
Speaker 3:I would imagine they're fairly out of stock.
Speaker 2:Oh mate, there's some dude sat somewhere that's never had any intention of buying a PS5. He's probably got about eight of them in his room, all listed on eBay for like 200 quid.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of people got stuck with those, though, didn't they? Yeah, good luck with those, champ, because I'm buying that. Oh wait, I've got a big enough digital library to have to stress too much about that. I'm a bit annoyed that I can't play the Star Wars Outlaws like Rammel, but other than that, an Astro Bot's been left on the side, because I I'll get that physical. Yeah, well done. Bramiet can't play out any new cuts on there, can you? Yeah, well done. Yeah, well done, but I'm hoping that they'll become available between now and maybe January the 1st. So I'll look at, pick one of those up, yeah, and then basically just stop. They'll get a restock. They'll get a restock soon. I'm expecting anytime soon.
Speaker 2:I've been all over Reddit and I've been all over, like you know, retail spotter websites and things like that and they're they're slowly coming through. So I'm not playing no scalper for that, absolutely not.
Speaker 3:No, no, no.
Speaker 2:Next week. Oh, gt I bought myself a.
Speaker 3:This store has only cost me £1,432. Oh wow, yeah.
Speaker 2:One thing, a confession. I don't know if I mentioned this last week, but no, I don't think I did, because I think I got these on Saturday morning. I've been curious about this PlayLink thing, you know, and I grabbed myself a set of Black Friday. The day after Black Friday I grabbed myself a copy of the Explorer in-ear buds, right that have got the PlayLink technology in. I used them all Saturday and Sunday and like really enjoyed it you heard good things about them.
Speaker 3:I must admit I've Sunday and really enjoyed it. You heard good things about them. I must admit I've heard good things about them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, initially right, I couldn't get it to work. But do you know what? If you follow the instructions, it worked flawlessly first time. We don't follow instructions, do we? We know better than instructions. That box was also probably the most confusing box I've ever opened. I don't like it, wanting to open from the top, but there was like a little rip underneath that I only saw after I deconstructed the box from inside out With a black and decker. Basically, argentina Got a dremel out. I had it on my black and decker, that tool bench. You know that they brought out back in the day. What was that called the handy mate or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I know you want to, you could reel, yeah, you could use a blackened deck of power saw to cut through it.
Speaker 2:It's got the same cutting ability as a I don't know Bread knife, A bottle of lube.
Speaker 3:But it sounded good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, they sound good. Again, I'm a late adopter, um, so I know some people did struggle early doors, but since the portals had a few upgrades, and so have the headphones, and I've brought in an equalizer section for it, so I slapped them on base and, oh, that's good, that's a good, efficient and easy way to play it.
Speaker 3:And you know, just in your pocket, drop in your pocket. Then you've got to take your pulse for you. You know it's a good way of it. You know, just in your pocket, drop it in your pocket and you've got to take your pulse for your. You know it's a good way of playing.
Speaker 2:Well, normally I've been playing and no issues at all. I've been using the wire that comes with these, this headset, to plug into the bottom of the port and play that this is a good headset. And, yeah, it's basically just a stereo headset when you plug it in. And yeah, it's basically just a stereo headset when you plug it in. And so is the other one, but de-wiring that whole cell.
Speaker 3:Screenlined, isn't it Especially?
Speaker 2:if you're travelling and that it's brilliant Is another lift in the experience is what I was going to say. And one other thing and you might shout at me now and I don't know if really I should say this out loud, but I've had this really odd, very odd.
Speaker 1:Do you?
Speaker 3:want to do this on air. Yeah yeah, I'll do it on air.
Speaker 2:I'll change some bits so it doesn't sound as bad as it could do. Okay, I've had this really odd urge. Now I confess to having an urge a few episodes ago where I think I said to maybe Scotty that I'd been aware I'd independently had the thought, but then I noticed that you and Digital Monkery had done a video together. I'm not jealous, but I'll get over it when you talked about Final Fantasy IX and how you'd both independently picked it up recently, you had this little penchant to play through what me and og tom called rat boy, because you basically pay as rat boy.
Speaker 2:um, and that passed me by. But then I had this really overwhelming urge to play through final fantasy eight. Okay, and I can't shake that and I think, on completion of this episode, I'm going to go eat some food, then I'm going to get the Switch out, mmm.
Speaker 3:That's the Switch, huh.
Speaker 2:And I'm going to play Final Fantasy VIII.
Speaker 3:Nice.
Speaker 2:It's a game I've had a checkered past with. Oh, this is your time. Checkered past with.
Speaker 3:Oh, this is your time to rectify that.
Speaker 2:Exactly Rectify it. I will, and that's all I think I'm hoping to play, if I'm honest with you. So are we going to kick it to the outro? And, by the way, there's a new thing that we do now Is we join in with Pastor on the first two lines of his song, which I remember what they are. You were right, mumsy, he does only listen to the episodes he's on. Yeah, got another OG Tom. It's funny how they're both called Tom. No, it's all right. No, send me the Christmas card. I'm alright with that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay there's only money, you know.
Speaker 2:Don't worry if not she just basically said to me looks like there's a couple of quid in it yeah, that's all I've ever been.
Speaker 3:I think that's what Mumsy meant.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah okay, I'll have it then. I think that's what Mumsy meant. Oh, okay, she's not one for vulgar gestures, normally so.
Speaker 3:No, she must Just tell her to sell a token in the card, because they slide about in the envelope. So she's walked off.
Speaker 2:Oh okay, have you got anything to impart to the dear listener, or are you all out of love?
Speaker 3:No, just like I said before, really great to be back and thanks to everyone for your support when I was off let me say this on air, so it's officially recorded.
Speaker 2:I'm glad you are back, are you? Of course I am, you're dead say some stupid things. Sometimes you're part of the team. You know. We hadn't had the, we hadn't been able to rip down on the trike for a while bit of bent yeah, a bit of that, and it's just nice to have you back on find out what you've been up to.
Speaker 2:It does me good to know that you're on the mend and I'm sorry that you're nil, and you know you've had a bit of a trifecta at home, obviously, with Mrs RGT being a bit poorly as well. It's all come at once, hasn't it? So you know, I'm glad that you're back on the road and everything's gravy and it sounds like you've had some time for playing some games.
Speaker 2:And of course we miss you, you idiot. You're like a wounded chameleon, you know, when you get ill, you just scuttle off and we don't hear from you and it's like oh, he's rgt, all right, oh, he's ill. So you know, he's all lonesipped up and, uh, I don't know what he's doing, probably getting mrs rgt running around for him collecting in this and pouring lockets. I don't have to be ill. Well, stop being ill then.
Speaker 1:Well, stop being ill, then You're the one.
Speaker 2:I'm not ill. No, bless her Very much so, and she's. You know most of the point. You make her drive six hours down to Cornish holiday destination so you can play PSP. You end up getting ill and she's running around in a cast looking after you.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Let's just remember the great one here.
Speaker 3:Me, do you mean me? No, sorry, oh sorry, you mean Mrs RGT.
Speaker 2:Sorry, I'm trying to give you a moment to say thank you to your beloved wife for all the support that she gives you.
Speaker 3:You know I love her to bits. She's brilliant, she is Well why don't you tell her? I do tell her through the media with the show I love you. Mrs RGT, she's actually not here, so I was there about to do my voice but I forgot.
Speaker 2:We're being recorded to see me go oh, thank you, darling right, pastor's nailed the G string, so he's about in tune. So that's all we have time for this week. Listeners always thank you for your time and look forward to the pleasure of speaking to you again next week. Until then, happy gaming. Remember, there's nothing wrong with being given the unofficial controller. It's what you do with it that counts. See you RGT Later. George.
Speaker 1:George and Sarah rolling down the road.
Speaker 3:RGT riding shotgun on a I've got a heavy load.
Speaker 1:Pastor Longhorn waiting to unfold An El Paso, Texas tale's been told, One-armed being a sight to see. Pastor preach, preach, set you free. Georgian said they'd bend the knee. Rgt nodding yes, in glee. Join the cult in El Paso town when Pastor Longhorn's got his crown One arm high, the other down. We're the wildest show around. Sunday's hot, the desert air. Georgians said oh, feel the glare. Longhorn's words hang everywhere. Salvation found without a care. Sunday's hot, the desert air. Georgian said oh, feel the glare. Longhorn's words hang everywhere. Salvation found without a care. Rgt plays a sacred tune Underneath the El Paso moon. Longhorn grins from afternoon to the night. They'll see it soon. Join the cult in at our passo town when pastor longhorn's got his crown One high, the other down. We're the wildest show around. We're the wildest show around. I love you.