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Did That Just Happen? Unbelievable Gaming Moments
In this engaging episode, we traverse the vast landscapes of gaming nostalgia and discovery, diving into titles that capture our hearts and minds. Join George and RGT as they reflect on their gaming journeys, sharing personal stories and discussing beloved classics like LEGO City Undercover, and diving deep into the sprawling world of Assassin's Creed Valhalla. We explore how our past experiences shape our current gaming choices, urging listeners to connect with their own memories and share the titles that made an impact.
As we revisit True Crime Streets of New York, we not only explore the cherished gameplay and what constituted the essence of enjoyable gaming but also focus on the community aspect that unites us all. Are we losing something crucial as we shift towards contemporary titles, or is there value in embracing both old and new? We raise questions and delve into nostalgic tales while encouraging vibrant exchanges among listeners. This episode serves as a catalyst for reflection, prompting you to think about your gaming past, present, and future. What role do those game titles play in the fabric of your gaming identity?
With an invitation for listeners to engage, we wrap up our thoughts for the week, leaving you with warm reflections on gaming, ever-exploring the delightful worlds created within the pixels and stories we cherish. Join the conversation and help us forge deeper connections through our shared love for gaming—after all, the joy of gaming is as much about the experiences lived as it is about the games played. Subscribe, share your stories, and let’s continue our journey together.
Hello and welcome to the Unofficial Controller Podcast, your weekly gaming podcast, episode number 259, I'm thinking with me, george, and this week joined by RGT Wyfrance. To my thong, how's it going?
Speaker 2:Yeah, not too bad thanks.
Speaker 1:Are you thong to my?
Speaker 2:wyfrance. Oh yeah, I'm a thong man, without a doubt.
Speaker 1:Right so I'm wyfrance. Yeah, right, okay, thong to, without a doubt. Right so I'm wife. Yeah, right, okay, thong to my wife-fronts.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:What were the only paints joke last week? I don't imagine anyone's hanging around.
Speaker 2:Have you had a good week, seven days in the UCP universe. Yeah, it's been good. Yeah, the same. As I always say it's been busy but productive. Again, I think, as a UCP behind the scenes, I've had a very productive week.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it's been good, excellente. I'm glad you're having a good week. I tried to float the UCP on the stock market. Got flatly refused in every single banking convention going. But I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Good, I think the question that well, the only question that needs to be asked right now that anyone even cares about, is what are the lottery numbers? No, actually that's not right. What have you been playing?
Speaker 2:social soccer. But there is a but to this. Hang on, just stop quivering your lip, just calm down. Got to top players, rank four. Thought right, I'm going for the top spot, number one player in the world. I'm going to be that week and then I just thought I'm done with it. I think it just come over me like an epiphany. I'm just done with it. I need to play something else. I can't. I've put 85 hours in this.
Speaker 1:That's classic OG Tom. That is, Get 90% of the job done, then go sit down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you have to play every day, you need to log in every day, and I thought I need a break from this. And I thought I need a break from this and I needed something completely opposite.
Speaker 1:Right after you were talking about valhalla, we're talking about open world game I thought right, I want something open world, but I want something chill open world, uh what?
Speaker 2:wow. So I went on premium and started flicking through and then the perfect game came up for me to play and I thought do you know what? I'll have a bit of that. I didn't actually put that London accent on, but yeah, I'll have a bit of that maybe you should.
Speaker 1:Why don't you speak like that, going forward?
Speaker 2:no, because it would be an insult to people who live in London. I can't do accents no one lives in london, don't they? No, they'll commute, oh right, um, but anyway, that game was lego city undercover, and I knew you'd react like this.
Speaker 1:But just wait, hang on though. I mean that game historically was much lauded, it was was the Wii U's only way to get a GTA-like experience. I mean, you're plumb in the barrel. But tell me, I've heard many good things about LEGO City Undercover. Any good?
Speaker 2:Do you know what? I'm really really enjoying it. I am really enjoying it. It's got. If you've played lego games and I do tend to say if you've played one, you've played them all you know what the lego format's gonna be. It's tend to be you go for the level you. You collect your lego bits. You'll find little puzzles, tricks you know to solve puzzles to then go on to the next bit. They're good in co-op, but they're just re-skinned in different, like jurassic park or harry potter bits and pieces. Yeah, now this has got some of that in it, but it is just. It's got that lego humor as well. You can't help giggling to the bits in the background, the funny one-liners, the cheesy jokes. It's quite funny, um, is it?
Speaker 2:funnier than the ucp oh no, nothing's funnier than the ucp. Um, funnier than the ucp, yeah, way funnier, um, but it's, it's like they call it legacy. But san francisco, you've got golden gate, bridge, you've got alcatraz, bits and pieces like that, and it is. It is. No, it is not a lego grand theft, a toned down, basic one. But it's the same premise. You can get in any car, you can explore, you can go up into the hills in the countryside, you can do bits of pieces, you can carry on the missions and the story and they've all got. You know, it's real. It's what I'd call. It's a bit like what know? There's this big fad at the moment cosy games. You know top ten cosy games.
Speaker 1:You are the king of the cosy game? No way. Yes, you are. You've got your foot in Harvestella slippers. You've got your Stardew Valley socks on.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't say Harvestella's a cosy game, a little bit, I suppose, rpg as well. So it's not quite.
Speaker 1:It is expeditions, a cozy game. Yes. It's farming sim a cozy game, yes yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't see them because no snowboard is not a cozy, no I don't think people would list these as cozy games, but I know where you're coming from. To us they probably are. But yeah, this is, and I had my day off and I played three or four hours on this and I can't wait to get back on and play again. It's really really good. Yes can't wait for the ponces you know, I'm playing a ps4 version. On ps5, the cut scenes are a well. Do you know what?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I know it was. It got Wii U.
Speaker 2:Yeah, wii U was that sort of crossover, weren't it? So it was that it was, but it's a bit like the Switch, I suppose. But yeah, I wouldn't be 100% with us on PS3. I think you might be right. I think they probably released it on both. But it plays really well. It's good fun it's. It's that it's not too aimed at a younger audience. That is too easy. But there's also little bits that make it a little bit harder. But it's not too hard. If you know what I mean, you can relax as he's. You can collect these super bricks and do these super builds. You can collect these. You'll see these little question marks. You get your tablet out and you have to go around and find the mystery out. It's all these little extra bits and I just think it's really well done. It's a shame they haven't never done an under lego, under lego city, undercover too, really what's the song?
Speaker 1:gangbusters?
Speaker 2:mate. Well, yes, on loads of platforms isn, isn't it? I mean, I even looked on CEX because I have got the Wii U copy, I believe. Obviously I just downloaded this for premium because I have premium, but I think on CEX I think the Wii U copy was £2. And I think it was about £5 on the PS4. So I mean, that's an affordable game, that's a good deal. That's pretty much what I've been playing, but, yeah, been enjoying that.
Speaker 1:so I don't think you'll hear much more sociable soccer news in the coming weeks you don't think you'll have like a surge as you drop down the titles where you think, oh, actually I need to get back on there and get us back in the top three european playoff.
Speaker 2:Going there, mate, oh I mean I don't know, I don't think so. I mean I really enjoyed it and for the money it is a great, great game. 80 hours was quite extensive for me to put in that that's obscene that for that game that is dirty disgusting and it didn't feel like I put 80 hours in, but you would.
Speaker 2:I'd play three or four matches and think, well, hold on, I'm three or four matches into the season and I'm already ranked 10th. I can get up here and play a few more, a few more. Anyway, I end up playing the 30 games, got fourth and I thought I reckon I'm finished top here. Then I thought, well, I need to improve the team a little bit. So I've got a weaker team than the top three. I need to improve the team a bit. But I thought this is going to take two more seasons, that's another 60 matches. And I just thought, oh, I can't do another 60 matches, I need to play something else. I'm going to get sacked from the UCP if every week I turn up saying, oh, we've been playing sociable soccer, I'm right, right, knock it on the. It's too late. This is the last week. Oh, I'll let you off.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's my p45 in a post, or well, I thought you were the boss. I don't know why I've just got away with sacking you, because I'm just oh just, a paid shill really these days oh right, or maybe your p45 when you took over the ucp. You did mandate that I had to stay on for a transitionary period.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that was a transitionary unlimited period.
Speaker 1:Well, I thought Bristolian Game was starting next week.
Speaker 2:But I just thought, I just thought. I just thought you'll go and I tell you you could go. Fine, anyway, let's get back on track here. We've gone wild, please. I just thought you'll go and I tell you you could go. Fine, happy with that. Anyway, let's get back on track, we've gone wild. Yes, what have you been? What have you been playing?
Speaker 1:come on, sit down, friend Valhalla. There's been a bit of that. Yeah, there has nothing really to report. Another county down, another two counties down.
Speaker 2:What hours are we in come on? What hours are we in come on what?
Speaker 1:hours are we in? I don't know. I haven't played that much more, but the missions seem to be getting quicker and quicker. So you know you're approaching the end game. I said to go to a county and instead of it taking eight hours, it's suddenly done in two.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you probably OP'd a bit as well, haven't you as well?
Speaker 1:no, you're not every time I've gone into a county two and ten levels underneath. I don't know how I'm going to do some of the northern territories which are like 290, which is clear, 100 above me. I think I'm gonna have to go to asgard, which I did not want to do, go into the spiritual realm to level up in there. I hate it in there, I detest it. Um, as I've got further in, the gates of hell have opened up as well, which is kind of like a Hades-like run that you do. You have your little camp in the sky in this dream world. You've got this camp in the sky and you jump down and you literally go through. It's like Hades and you get as far as you can, get the loot you can and get out.
Speaker 1:But that didn't really appeal to me because it was obviously still marred by the usual Assassin's Creed nonsense. One thing I forgot to mention last week it's still very much Assassin's Creed, because you sneak in a bush and you think, oh yeah, I'm going to come in here like a shadow, just dispose of you all, and you duck down in the first bush and then you go to leave that bush and all of a sudden Eivor jumps up and starts trying to climb a tree in front. Full view of a whole guard party and none of them notice oh, they notice, mate oh did I, what's that clown doing?
Speaker 1:hey, what are you doing? You shouldn't be here, obviously, as you're hanging, fighting with the controls. It goes from white to like they're just looking at you, to yellow they're definitely intrigued by you to red, and I'm still hanging there like that I, I, uh, I can't get I, I, I can't get down I don't know what the buttons are.
Speaker 1:You go from feeling like solid snake to feeling like shown your snake in about two seconds. Uh, it's a little bit embarrassing, to be fair. Um, but I'm still grinding through that. Spoilers for a 500, for a 500-year-old game. I got to the point where I rescued my brother, but he's been fed with that much drivel he's gone a bit crazy. It's probably true. It's probably been showed some Mason-like activity. I forget what they're called in there the Templars, that's it, and it's probably blown his mind. But the other game I've been playing, you know, wait long enough and they will come to you. Fs 25. Got mods landing like rain on a wedding day and it's starting to feel good. Got a good slew of maps out now.
Speaker 2:You got them internationals in there yet.
Speaker 1:No internationals yet. So I'm making do with case and new holland equipment. The new gear. I had an old massy I like to run the old gear, as you know in there and I had like an 80s, early 80s massy which was some, which was a mod, and I thought no, I'm not going to use this as the you know, come and go machine. I'm going to start using this. So I thought, well, I know I ain't got a lot of horsepower, but surely it can drag a cultivator around just slow time in the background, while I'm working on either end of the field plowing and whatnot. Anyway, I set this off. Oh no.
Speaker 1:And this poor old man said well, I did first of all attach it to the seeder and it just just went boop straight up in the air, popped a wheelie immediately. I was like, okay, I can't use that, so I'll use this cultivator. Uh well, the cultivator was managing forward progress of one mile an hour. That's how stressed this tractor was. I was like, no, fine, I'll use it. I'll use this at the farm shop for loading up materials onto my vehicles and then I'll leave it down there as like the forklift, because I normally buy a forklift and leave it in the shop so I can load things easier myself. I thought, oh no, it's got the quickie lifter on the pallet fork, so I'll leave it down there. I went and bought a 300K case large tractor. Went down there with cedar on the back of it, feeling like the boss. I thought case large tractor went down there with cedar on the back of it, feeling like the boss. You know thought, right now, jump in the massy and load it.
Speaker 1:Picked up the seed bag, drove up to the cedar and the seed bag on the max extension of the quickie lift was literally just poking its head up to where it needed to be. I was like, okay, that ain't gonna work. So I tried driving at it like a maniac to try and flip the bag over so it would unload. No, so I tried everything. In the end I sold the Massey, the quickie lift and the power fork and bought myself a 150 grand telehandler. And then, when I had the extension, just right, I could just get it over the top of this feeder and empty a bag of seed into it. I started pulling my hair out. What the hell is going on. Just get it over the top of this feeder and empty a bag of seed into it. I'll have to. I'll start pulling my hair out. What the hell is going on, but it's all part of the fun, but thoroughly enjoying that.
Speaker 1:Calmson Farm still is the best map in the game I'm waiting for I can't remember the name of that one that you and I played on 17 and 22. That's quite an enjoyable map. But Calmsston's come out of nowhere in the late year of the FS22 and got a release on 25, quite early. I'm just waiting for those tractors. But no one came here for that. So we've done that. We've done that. What's the other thing? I've been playing Calmston Farming Simulator, assassin's Creed, valhalla. I came in here pumped to tell you about something.
Speaker 1:Now I've totally forgotten what it was come on, you can remember push me, push me, push, put me under strain so we've ticked off f oh of course I know what it is I promised. Did I talk about this last week? Or did I say I need to get on to true crime streets of new york? Or or did last week? Did I regale?
Speaker 2:no, you said you need to get on it. I've gone on it, right. Um interesting, how is it for a game? We've spoken?
Speaker 1:off air, but let me pretend that we haven't. It is for for a PS2. And Luigi jumped in the comments, badabingster, hopped on the DMs in the Discord and started talking to me about it. You know it is one hell of a good-looking game for PS2. It really is. It's definitely a step above your GTAs in terms of the Definitely on the interior of the buildings, the fidelity of the textures and whatnot looks really good. Voice acting is strong.
Speaker 1:I don't want to go in too hard on the controlling of the person and controlling the vehicles because there is a leveling scheme within the game. So obviously at the minute I'm on like zero rank driving and I think as I level up within that the driving will become easier. Because I did notice I kind of went for a slow drive around new york and ended up mowing down about 30 people just because the car was uncontrollable and I've been doing everything I could to that point to be the good cop. You know I hadn't killed anybody during an arrest I one of the weird things about the game is that, uh like, if you shoot someone, shoot someone. That's bad juju, that's like naughty boy.
Speaker 1:If they've got a gun, you can shoot them and get away with it. It doesn't affect your karma. But if they've got a knife or just their own, they've got no weapon at all, but they're committing a crime or getting uppity. You're meant to arrest them without using lethal force. So I've done all this. But what I find humorous is non-lethal force involves kicking a man to the ground and then repeatedly kicking him on the floor until his health bar reaches zero, which I would presume would be death, and then you can cuff him. So you cuff a corpse and you get good karma for it. I don't know if he's technically still alive.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, kicking him till his health bar's gone, then arresting him sounds Non-lethal force, sounds a bit of a stretch.
Speaker 1:It's a video game, yeah, but yeah, there's some that will submit and then you can just cuff them while they're stood up. But if you get involved in a fracas with these guys, you have to beat them on the ground and the worst thing is you knock them to the ground and they stay down, but you can't cuff them, so you have to kick them in the bottom on the ground to erode the last pixels of their health bar, to the point in which I would concur they were dead, because, if I use the same logic, when I shoot someone they die when their health bar reaches zero, but these guys become cuffable when their health bar reaches zero.
Speaker 2:I would imagine they're very cuffable when their health bar reaches zero.
Speaker 1:But apparently they're alive. So you know, and I've got so much good karma that mowing down 30 people on Times Square was forgivable.
Speaker 2:I love game tropes.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I'm enjoying that. I'm quite looking forward to getting back on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've got me intrigued. You know obviously a lot of my stuff's in storage at the minute and I keep thinking, ooh.
Speaker 1:Just buy it again. Send me the manual, because I need a manual for mine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I've got to dig the console out to play it on.
Speaker 1:Nah, just buy the game and look at the back. Watch a YouTube video like OG Tom does Right.
Speaker 2:that's my homework for this week.
Speaker 1:I hope you're listening, og Tom, I love you really. You know I do, but that's it. So, yeah, I thought I'd recommend again. I did find it one of the more elusive PS2 games. You're not going to watch everyone wandering to CX on Saturday and pick it out, right, but I don't think you're going to wander to CX and find this. You find True Crime, streets of LA, but New York. To me it's been a bit elusive. Finally got one, but it was manual-less and now I like it that much, want the manual. I'm a weirdo, I know. Game gaming, gamers, game collecting, that's what you do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm. I find it intriguing. Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm thinking about busting the PS2 Slim out, having a weekend at Rachel's and just sort of sobbing around in my pants playing that. Having a weekend at Rachel's and just sort of slobbing around in my pants playing that, you know, take it as my only game, my only console, and then I'll be forced to play true crime streets. I've also, before we get into the news, I've summed across a YouTube video of a guy who said I'm only going to play PSP 30 days straight. I'm not going to watch any streaming services. The only things I'm going to watch are UMD movies and the only games I'm going to play are my physical collection of UMD games. To me it seems like this guy had a blast. I think he said like day 20 was a bit like oh God, another 10 days of this, but up until that point he was having the time of his life. You know he listed off the UMDs he'd watched.
Speaker 2:He listed off the games he'd been playing. There's a bit of MLB the show in there, so I was immediately like hello, friend. That's an interesting way of doing things. Yeah, I find that quite intriguing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, setting myself a challenge of like. Okay, I mean, I've got a few games I want to square away and no doubt, before they get squared away, we'll get a slew of new games to talk about and play through. But uh, listen to me complaining, it's hard life in it, podcasting, um. But I hope to have some spare time in the spring where I can dedicate to just only usp. You know, psp not it's unique selling points, the psp and just having. I think a month would be a long time, but I think a couple of weeks of like. I don't know if I can commit to not watching Netflix, though, because you know you better half puts the TV on.
Speaker 2:I'm quite intrigued by doing that as well.
Speaker 1:You know, maybe I could do it with something different, like 3DS or something yeah, I mean, I'm up for it, and maybe we can involve the community in it as well. We call it like Lent, do it around Easter or something, where you've got to go and pull out one of your old the joy of the PSP to me, though. I was like, right well, that can do movies, so that's a bonus. And it can play games, so that's awesome. Great little bit of kit. You can put a bit of music on it if you fancy it. I don't myself from using my phone for music, as I'm really in the depths, aren't I? What am I uploading to that jay-z versus lincoln park on loop on the psp?
Speaker 2:I've got that. I've got that holder for mine with the suction cup and the and the like dr octopus leg that comes off it so I can stick it on my bedside table and watch a movie about an inch from my face that looks like a 1980s vr headset wow, with all the ghosting artifacts that the psp screen gives you.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, it looks banging in the dark, though, you know, if you were like yeah, it's quite a little bit cute when it, when you're growing up or you did hotels at the time and I'm talking, you know, 2005, 2006, 2007 the psp must have felt like the hottest ticket in tech. Incredible, really, if you think about it. And so, yeah, I think maybe gaming lent we should, you know last to the party it sounds if Scotty doesn't hurry up back, he's going to end up playing OG, game Boy or worse. What are those little? Gaming watch One, gaming watch Two weeks, no you have to do it for 30 days, 30 days solid.
Speaker 2:One game and watch, and no Netflix.
Speaker 1:And no Netflix. No, I don't know what the equivalent would be. Maybe read a comic C-Facts, c-facts. I miss you, bamboozle. They had a a really great on the channel for cfax had a really great video game page called digitizer.
Speaker 2:Do you remember digitizer? Yeah, he's, he's, uh, uh, mr biffo, he's on youtube.
Speaker 1:Digitizer 2000 I knew you'd be somehow sexually involved with this chap oh no, no, I just I just watch his show. Yeah, he, that's sexual involvement in my eyes.
Speaker 2:Well, he was a script writer, weren't he? For a while he went on and written. Do you remember that?
Speaker 1:I'll tell you I'll burn off.
Speaker 2:He didn't write it, he wrote it. He did Great. Oh, he's from Suffolk. He's a professional podcaster now. Professional podcaster, yeah, whatever. Yeah, he went into movies now. Can you remember that dog that won Britain's Got Talent and I did a movie with the dog, didn't I the trick dog? Do you remember Pudsey or someone?
Speaker 1:Mate, if this happened on any of the mainstream terrestrial channels within the last 10 years, I have absolutely no idea well, anyway, he written.
Speaker 2:He wrote the script for that. I think he's a bit of a script writer. And then I think he bought the rights to digitize it back and then he does his youtube channel with paul and a few others going. I think ashen's been on there before and that and yeah I was saying that he got tight with ashen's yeah as far as he does. They go around do live shows as well in their sort of weird 90s humour, which is quite funny and, yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1:Do we need to get him on here?
Speaker 2:Oh, mr Biffo, yeah, yeah, it'd be good fun to have on here. I think, yeah, it'd be good fun. Let's see what you can do. Right, leave it with me.
Speaker 1:Another hero that you can meet. Ticking them off Guess what, shoehazing the news again. And on that note, it's time for the news. We've scoured the very darkest regions of the internet to bring you the latest stories First up. Now this one has me literally salivating. Grab this just seconds before going on air from our friends at Push Square. Now, boba Loba going brown. Just lift up the night vision for a second friend, because there's something there that's going to make your dreams come true. So before you dial zero who? You just sit down.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what this is, so I'm quite intrigued by it.
Speaker 1:Terminator 2D no Fate looks like a modern-day Mega Drive game for PS5 and PS4. With the subtitle, this Will Blow your Mind. I advise everyone, jump to YouTube and Google Terminator 2D no Fate trailer, because where the heck did this come from? Reef Entertainment has announced Terminator 2D no Fate, a modern Mega Drive style side-scrolling shooter based on the iconic 1991 movie. Mega Drive style side-scrolling shooter based on the iconic 1991 movie. And let me tell you as well, pixel art in this is a love letter to 1992 Amiga paint shop. I tell you it looks banging. The art style and gameplay very much reminds us of the classic Robocop vs Terminator game from 1993, which we played on a Sega's aforementioned system, but also available on Super Nintendo, master System, game Gear and even Game Boy. Get on the internet RGT while I finish up here, so then we can talk about what you've seen. Obviously, the presentation here is not limited by 16-bit consoles and while it's reminiscent of that classic retro look, it does things that simply would have not been possible on those old devices. Honestly, it looks incredible. Even more impressive is you'll be able to play as sarah connor, john connor and t800. The press release mentions there'll be multiple endings and game mode, so you have plenty of reason to replay this. Bitmap bureau is developing this, the uk-based team behind top notch 16-bit inspired titles like xeno crisis and final vendetta. The game's due out on the 5th of September for both PS5, ps4 and Xbox, from what I'm aware, and has shot straight to the top of our most wanted list. What a pleasure.
Speaker 1:On the Push Square, they also detail some of the collector's editions you can get. So Boba Loba is going deep brown. He's going to get the Day 1 edition, the exclusive online edition. He's going to get the day one edition, the exclusive online edition. He's going to get the collector's edition. Either which way, the perfect accompaniment to the DVD silver tin that's now rusting on most people's shelves. Rgt have you been in a position to now have absorbed all of this information?
Speaker 2:Oh, I like the look of this. I've just had a quick look. How good is that? Oh yeah, I like the look of this. I've just had a quick look. How good is that? Oh yeah, I like that.
Speaker 1:So a spot of breaking news. But let me tell you wow. If you're not familiar with this, imagine those classic Amiga games. I think it's a step above a Mega Drive game, if I'm honest, but certainly Super Nintendo, amiga level of production, quality in the graphics.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's got that really high-res 16-bit.
Speaker 1:Hand-drawn pixel art, but to another standard. There's bits in there. If you are driving, I'll summarise the trailer. It's a side-scrolling, but you know some of the highlights. We're watching the truck come off and into the into the rain catcher and you see a 16-bit t800 arnie. Pick up john connor and stick him on his bike.
Speaker 2:Then you've got a shooting level behind almost looked a bit like a twin stick the way they're aiming the gun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the right analog the sky scrolling sections. It almost, you know, looks like one of those 16-bit point-and-click adventures. You know you saw sarah connor working out in her room with the bed tips upside down doing the pull-ups and it's like wow, the level of detail that's gone into this to set it up. It's got that kind of sniff of super star wars on the snez about it. You know, in terms of it's the graphic, that's it. You know in terms of the graphic presentation.
Speaker 2:That's a good comparison. I was trying to think the animation of the characters, what that reminded me of, and you are bang on. That is very like Super Star Wars and the superintendent the way they run.
Speaker 1:Hopefully it's not as hard as Super Star.
Speaker 2:Wars. No, that's brutal, it's savage.
Speaker 1:That was one of the games that as a child made me bite my dog bone.
Speaker 2:Snes controller the one with the two canine marks two canine marks cleaning it and Super Star Wars.
Speaker 1:It and it's sequels were responsible for me ingesting more microplastic, before we even knew what microplastics were, than one could imagine, so I am literally blown away by that so did you say this was Reef Entertainment?
Speaker 2:did you say this was Reef Entertainment? Did you say someone did so? I recognise that name.
Speaker 1:Bitmap Bureau, and yeah, bitmap.
Speaker 2:Bureau Reef. Entertainment has announced the the game because Bitmap done like Xeno Crisis and that didn't they.
Speaker 1:Bitmap Bureau, developing it. So then, reef.
Speaker 2:Entertainment. Yeah, they've done a lot of these older games that they on, or newer games on all the systems as well, and they've brought them to a lot of different systems and a lot of their games are really good bitmap bureau. So, yeah, I would imagine this will be, this will be decent and licensed as well, which is amazing.
Speaker 1:The thing that made me smile was it was it came up with a continue screen right at the end of the video and there's this really great hand-drawn pixel art thumb from Arnie and if you click, yes, the thumb comes up as it sinks down into the metal. I mean, this is still some months away from release and they've nailed every high point. To me, even if this came out and all I did was buy and look at it, I think I'd feel pleased. But if there's a playable game under this work, is it going to be a physical or?
Speaker 1:yeah, if uh pop on to push square. I think pure xbox had it as breaking news as well, and they also list the physical editions that you get with the collection. So yeah, that tin. So yeah, that's Boba Loba. You can go brown again now, friend, and go about your business.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that sounds brilliant. I like the sound of that and I think that's nice. Going back I know we've had that Robocop game, some bits and pieces, but going back to these 80s and 90s films and toys.
Speaker 1:It feels like full circle, because we've got Streets of Rage 4, we've got the Cowabunga collection, we've got the Turtles. What was it called? I bloody love it. Shredder's Revenge, shredder's Revenge, that's it. You saved me from a community correction, thank you. Thank you, and you know it fits straight into that kind of hallmark of almost lost media where it looks like it was a game that was meant to come out, but never did.
Speaker 1:streets are for uh, the turtles that we got most recently, that I've already forgotten the name of, again, shredders revenge. Yet streets rage, for it's all kind of blending into that look and that iconic. But this one kind of has the artwork in that to me was more reminiscent of one of the 16-bit home computers, the ST or the Amiga, you know. They had those really beautiful hand-drawn… More colours and more… More colours. Yeah, it's oozing, oh God.
Speaker 2:These sort of games remind me of… they are like rose-tinted glasses games. This is how we remember these games looking the originals.
Speaker 1:The only way you could get more nostalgic and more of a 90s vibe is if you injected John Faschnew.
Speaker 2:On Games Master.
Speaker 1:No, wasn't he, the Gladiators guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was, but he also played a game on Games Master as well. Yes, a free-based Faschnew and injected the 80s guy. Yeah, he was, but he also played a game on GamesMarshals. Okay, yes.
Speaker 1:A free-based fashioner and injected. That's the only way you get in this 90s while watching Baywatch.
Speaker 2:Or plug your PS5 into a CRT.
Speaker 1:That's going to get you 60% of the way there. You're still going to have to cook up a bit of fashioner A wooga. Don't get any more noughties than that in the UK.
Speaker 2:What about Chris Akabusi?
Speaker 1:Now we're in very dangerous what I would call territory here, because I don't think it takes a scientist to work out that we're two white men and we're describing quite possibly a black gentleman that we may have confused with another black gentleman. I would say we should move on with this next bit of news before one of us says john barnes over on nintendo life.
Speaker 2:Um, we've got a story coming out. Well, it's just come out today, I believe. Yes, it is come out today. Um, random, it says send out the invites.
Speaker 1:Shuhei yoshida wants to take a trip to nintendo hq we can't have ucp news without having a bit of shuhei in it, can we no?
Speaker 2:no, and providing you've done the news that was inevitable. He's going to be in there friend of the show.
Speaker 1:I'm determined that one day he will acknowledge us hmm, probably with a lawsuit, but he's met his person. So why does he keep blanking us like that? One day, he will acknowledge us.
Speaker 2:Probably with a lawsuit. He's met us in person, so why does he keep blanking us? I mean, that probably explains a lot. Yeah, and the way he met us would answer a lot of questions. I mean, we're probably being watched, so we don't go nowhere near him. Well, actually you, not me. I was a bit more contained. Anyway, back to the story.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh gosh, we sure have heard a lot from former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida in recent weeks Since leaving Sony. The PS vet has been pretty candid in discussing his career interests and just about anything else you might want to know, and he wants an invite to Nintendo HQ. Thanks for the heads up Push Square. Go back to push square again. Okay, that makes it sound a little more demandy than it actually is.
Speaker 2:In a recent interview with japanese publication gamernejp, via google translate, yoshida confessed that he has never been to nintendo hq, saying that he would like to visit someday. As industry competitors in the past, it makes sense that the big n might not have been rolling out the red carpet for yoshida and co to enter the house of mario, but now that he's left his post, it's fair game right. As it turns out, yoshida never really saw two companies as rivals when he was head of the ps team and even had a good friendship with nintendo's yusuki sojiima. The pair shared the desire to promote and popularize indie games, yoshida told the japanese outlet, so the label of rival companies never crossed his mind. Apparently it's yet another sweet little nugget from the xps boss, who, in podcast appearances so far, has opened up about his disappointments with the switch to reveal, teased us all by talking about playing this uh snes playstation, and has been pretty open about his takes on the industry. What is he going to come out with next?
Speaker 1:Well, the big news is that he's going to be announcing his role as a rotating host on the UCP for the months of July to December.
Speaker 2:Is he really?
Speaker 1:Well, if he answers the email, it's laid bare for him. We're ready. Did you put on the?
Speaker 2:he answers the email it's, it's laid bare for him. We're ready. Did you put on the bottom of the email? If we don't hear a reply, then that means you're going to be doing it? I did, yeah, no, that's what I thought. Yeah, yeah, so so you've heard nothing and you're presuming he's on the show. He might well do.
Speaker 1:I mean he's, he's, he's what's wrong with logic at this point?
Speaker 2:no, you know. As far as on george logic, he's part of the team I've already got him a mug.
Speaker 1:Biohack the t-shirt. Next bit of news uh, I found this particularly interesting. A little snippet from bioware uh, dug this little gem up over on pure Xbox. Bioware co-founder recalls moronic Xbox advice that potentially ruined a franchise. Wow, this is a story penned by Fraser Gilbert yesterday. Jade Empire, before I weigh in, do you know much about that game? You got it in your hoard of Xbox plastic tat or no?
Speaker 2:I have got it but I haven't played it. But it was quite recommended to me by a few people.
Speaker 1:A great game. I say that I haven't touched it since it came out, but I had it original Xbox at launch. But the story goes back in the days of the original Xbox. Bioware treated it as sort as an Xbox exclusive in the form of Jade Empire, but it ended up releasing just a few months before the 360, and that may have ultimately prevented it from getting a sequel. That's what BioWare co-founder Greg Seshuk believes, at least, telling the my Perfect Podcast, my Perfect Console Pod. Oh, hang on a minute, hang on a minute. Come on, fella, come on fella no no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:We're the UCP unofficial controller podcast, and there's some cats out there called my Perfect Console. We've been talking for a while on Discord about finding the show's podcast nemesis MCP versus UCP. Now I can see this. Anyway, gamesradar picked up the stories. This has done the rounds, yet we're going to give the journalistic props to pure Xbox. I don't know why that.
Speaker 1:Xbox was responsible for dishing out absolutely moronic advice to release Jade Empire at the end of the OG generation rather than waiting to make it a 360 launch title. Here's a bit of what he had to say. Microsoft was like no, no, no, you should release. Release it now, right at the end of the cycle, because it's a great time. It was the worst advice, absolutely moronic advice from the from them and the stupidest thing ever. Ultimately, zesha believes that his team could have amped it up and got the game ready for the 360, instead suggesting that it would have been a way more successful product at the beginning of the cycle than the end. This is obviously not what happened, and even though Jade Empire proved popular with fans, it didn't do well enough to spark a sequel. At least it's still playable today, though it's backwards compatible on modern consoles, so dust off your Series X and slap it in.
Speaker 1:If you haven't Now RGT, what do you make of that news? Because Jade Empire empire without any shadow of a doubt had the what I would call a good news story of being the next bioware game after nazi republic one and two, which went down gangbusters, if you think about it, in the original xbox era. The sequel to that ended up being well, the pseudo sequel in a way. Same engine, similar stuff going on in the background was jade empire, a mythical chinese-based game, I believe from memory um, where you went around as the aforementioned I think they might have been jays as far as those, to be fair, maybe not creating corrections on the game I haven't played in over 20 years, but yeah, I remember it being equally as good as Knights of the Old Republic, feeling very rewarded.
Speaker 1:I haven't bounced onto that as well. It gave me something to play on the OG Xbox as it aged out and we moved to the 360, which I picked up on launch. I remember the last game I played on OG Xbox was Gun and it was absolutely great on there. But I suppose the root of this question is would it have done better if they'd actually pushed for it to be on 360? Because you can imagine Jade Empire Bioware that's big news. Yeah, add into that next gen shiny textures and you've got yourself what I would call a system seller yeah, I mean this.
Speaker 2:Nowadays that's quite a popular thing to do to release, re-release a game on a, on a, on a newer system, you know, especially one that people loved and thought, oh yeah, I'll play that again, I can play it with better graphics, bits and pieces. So yeah, I can understand that. And also because I mean that was a standalone game, wasn't it? They never did do a sequel, did they? To Jade Empire.
Speaker 1:No, Jade Empire never got a sequel.
Speaker 2:And when I first started collecting for the OG Xbox, I was trying to pick up the exclusives and it amazed me how many exclusives are on that system and are really good games and yet you've never heard from them again.
Speaker 1:Show favourite Blinks. At least Blinks got a sequel, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I mean I've got two or three at least two lined up as hidden gems for the OG Xbox, which I'd never heard of, and played them and thought why did this not get as good? It's such a good game, there's so many good games. Anyway, yeah, I think it's always something about getting a game that someone's loved on a previous system and remastering it. Obviously, at the moment, we're getting remasters from Sony coming out of our ears at the moment.
Speaker 1:This is like another level beyond that. I mean only coming out of our ears. At the moment. This is like a number, the level beyond that. I mean they were forced to almost go out to die. They were sent over the top for no apparent reason.
Speaker 1:Now, as an og xbox user, in that moment I was very grateful that it came out. There's a lot of the magazines were hyping it. It finally dropped. It was good, as he said, you know, thoroughly enjoyable was a bit of a looker as well, because obviously nights in public the Republic a lot of the time is dark or the environments are very washed out. Having played through at least 70% of Nights of the Republic 1 on Switch recently, yeah, she's looking tired, but Jade Empire still looks fresh. Um, do you think it was the fact it was them trying to launch their own gig in a way with Jade Empire? Star Wars is a different thing. You'll get people turn up from across the globe because you're launching a new Star Wars tippy cup, but those same people aren't going to turn up for Jade Empire, no matter how much they love Nazi Republic, because it's not got lightsabers in it.
Speaker 2:It's not that it's a new thing. It's not got that license link, it's not got lightsabers in it. That's not that it's a new thing. It's not got that licence link, it's not got that history to it. So I suppose, yeah, you're right, it is a new thing. I mean, it's still one I've got to play. So it's sort of intrigued me to play. You know, get on and play that.
Speaker 1:They're kind of weird in a way because they're turn-based, but they're not turn-based. You know that Knights of the Old Republic shtick where you're just sort of spinning your sabres in the air hoping that it hits something, yeah, and really there's nothing you can do, because in the background, much like I think Morrowind had a similar gameplay style it shows you animating, you swinging the sword, literally a dice roll in the background. You can clock in Morrowind, especially you. You swing in the sword, but literally a dice roll in the background. You can clock in Morrowind, especially, you can clock the guy clean round the head and it scores zero damage. Obviously, they fixed that for Oblivion. They kind of toned it down and made sure every shot did damage, regardless, I think even if it was just one. You felt like you were actually chipping the guy down a bit, yeah. But yeah, in the original Knights of the Republic of Morrowind especially, you could be flailing the weapon around, make contact with him, everything, nothing, not even a scratch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's a weird, weird way of doing that in combatting games. It is a strange one.
Speaker 1:I think both of those games might have benefited from not being dice roll jobs, to be honest, because the Nazi Republic is going to bring in what I would say a mainstream audience that probably are not very appreciative of that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so a mainstream game with a bit of a pod called gamer elements to it.
Speaker 1:And again, saying that what Star Wars, even in the mainstream? I suppose the prequels are out, so, but Star Wars have had like a dark time between Jedi and then obviously the prequels. I mean, could it be that, do they think Maybe only the hardcore will turn up? So we'll give them something hardcore set forth out, yeah, maybe. Or Phantom Menace. Then what about Jade Empire? What were they thinking there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know. I mean they'd obviously had success and thought well, let's do a fresh, new story, no license, let's go in and do a game and, like you say you enjoyed it. Everyone I spoke to who's played it said oh, you know, when I first got the OG Xbox, people said you've got to get Jade Empire.
Speaker 1:Oh, proper hidden gem in that regard. Yeah, I think, in terms of the Xbox top five of exclusives, og, obviously, I think for me Halo 1 surmounts Halo 2. But let's lob Halo 2 up there, because it was the poster child. You've got to lob pgr2 in there as well, because for me that's a game that they've just abandoned. I know there's licenses and whatnot, but make it backwards compatible, guys. Why not? It's your best driving game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've blown it almost abandoned that and then sort of replaced it with forza motorsport, didn't they?
Speaker 1:and replaced it with forza horizons. Yeah, forza motorsport is still your sim. Pgr always had that kind of. There was a while where pgr and forza operated alongside each other as stable mates. Scuderia, um yeah. And then what else we're going to lob in there? Jade empire, probably, and maybe. Uh, I know this is a bit controversial, but I've always had a love. Love relationship with grab by the ghoul is by rare.
Speaker 2:I think that's worth that's another one I've got and I'll tell you what I never realized red on that it's to mate.
Speaker 1:It took a kicking. At the time, I think everyone was expecting them to turn up with another Banjo-Kazooie Donkey Kong 64, jet Force. Gemini but they took the time to do a palate cleanse, and not forgetting that, in between the N64 GameCube days and the OG, xbox Rare became a totally different business. Oh yeah, so Xbox acquired the name and the rights to the franchises some of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were more Rare just in name at the time, weren't they?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but Grabbed by the Ghoul is a. I'm not saying it's the best game ever. I wouldn't even dare say such a. Even I wouldn't dare say such a shocking thing. But Grabbed by the Ghoul is definitely in contention for a hidden gem, if you've got that and you've not played it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've got that. Yeah, I bought it just because it looked intriguing. I bought it and I honestly didn't even know it was rare, I'd made it, but I bought that was cheap as well. I mean, a lot of these Xbox exclusives are. They're cheap games, they are, but I bought it just because I liked the cover and thought I've never heard of this. It almost looks like sort of a haunted house sort of thing, and it's literally that and it's dead fun.
Speaker 1:It's silly. It's not scary in any way, unless maybe there's the odd jump scare in it, but I don't really recall that. You walking around this mansion trying to get keys to get into the next room. It's definitely got shades of a classic, rare game about it, but it's also got shades of being on a new platform with a lot more storage capacity. It's got shades of them kind of running a little bit with a you know, a meaty bit of hardware. So some of the visual elements I remember the lighting being cool in the levels and generally just just a chuck-about game.
Speaker 1:It was never going to be 10 out of 10 best game ever. And I know we're all guilty of, especially in the past, waiting for a magazine review to come out. Scores less than a seven, done, it's in the bin, sparging bin, cancelling pre-order the lot, so yeah. And now obviously we canceling pre-order the lot, so yeah. And now obviously we're more mature, we realize seven is actually a fair score. Uh, and I think a lot of maybe the gaming sites and what's left of the magazines if there are any had a realignment in terms of a nine or a 10 is like a genre defining piece of kit, in a way to give a game a 10, which I think there's a few games out there across history that do deserve a 10, because they were just that iconic tentpole moment. They had flaws, for sure, but there was enough where it was like, yeah, forget the flaws, regardless of the flaws, and we'll mention them here it's got this problem, this problem, this problem, this is still a 10.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because it's changed the direction of gaming. Yeah, exactly, exactly, you know. You look at like Grand Theft Auto 3 and things like that. You know 3D although that wasn't the first 3D world, you know they tried doing something different and suddenly you just thought actually, this open world, this is how you do it, you know, and it was defined in a whole genre, you know so.
Speaker 1:Totally agree. Uncharted 2, maybe up in that territory. I don't quite think it deserves a 10. Last of Us 1 on PS3, I think that could qualify for a 10. As long as your PS3 didn't melt while the fan was going in overtime.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as long as your PS3 didn't melt while the fan was going.
Speaker 1:Yeah, as long as your ps3 didn't melt, but it was definitely a step above uncharted and definitely a really clear direction of something new happening yeah, it was also.
Speaker 2:I like that where it was. Yes, we can do uncharted. You can have your little comedy bits and your action movie. We could take this more serious and take it down a dark alley. We can use that engine, but take it down a dark place and you just suddenly think, oh, naughty dog can do that as well. That's uh, yeah, that's, that's the way of doing it. And not only do you know zombie games have been done, but we'll give you the emotional side. This is how it affects people. And then you think, oh, that's a new way of doing a game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was definitely a couple of echelons above uncharted in its storytelling, and uncharted was no way bad at all in its storytelling, in fact it was a masterclass. Especially yeah too. So then you get to the last was part one. You think this is definitely clear echelons above that and it changed the needle direction wise. It's a solid nine. Maybe a 10 on ps3 obviously subsequent releases I think you've got to road that down because it's not doing anything new. And then obviously Halo 1, or maybe Halo 3, but definitely Halo 1, I think, would qualify for definitely a 10 out of 10. It was doing large open spaces on consoles that had never been done before.
Speaker 1:Multiple, you know, not teammates, but AI-controlled co-pilots with you along the way every now and then as well. Yeah, and it felt it definitely felt new and fresh and it definitely had a feeling when I played it og, xbox launch of no one else has got anything like this. Ps2 can't do this. It had that, it had that feel of about it.
Speaker 2:I mean, I only played it. As I've said on it before, I've only played it recently, you know, in the last couple of years, and even playing it then, um, I played the first one on, I played the original on the og xbox and it was it. It had that movie quality where you wanted to know what happened, you wanted you know to progress the story, you needed to play it and get through to the next level.
Speaker 1:And that's what, yeah, halo is fantastic for what game would you like to lob out there as being a 10 out of 10, with your special barry norman critique head on? You know, using the same sort of metrics I've used for those games I just threw out there um.
Speaker 2:A couple come to mind, and I know people won't agree with me on this at all, but it's your opinion. They don't have to agree, you just know.
Speaker 1:Um and you're a podcaster, darling. You can, you?
Speaker 2:your opinion is is valid I don't know about that, um streets of rage, the original, the first one, um, I think, I think I see what you're doing there.
Speaker 2:It took, took beat-em-ups to a different place. It had fantastic music as well, music that wanted, you know, dance music. If you were a teenager at the time of your Mega Drive, that was music you were probably listening to in your bedroom and it was, you know. It sounded fantastic, it had great sound effects. It had the same game tropes you know you've got to go and rescue someone the city's under but it had great sound effects. It had the same game tropes. You know you've got to go and rescue someone the city's under, but it it had that more more realistic look that had the city that had the subway, that had, and I just think they they took the beat them up genre and went. This is what we can do. These are the tunes people want to listen to.
Speaker 1:These are the characters people would you not say that two was a 10 out of 10 and maybe 1 was, or did 1 push needle enough where 2 just rode on its coattails, because to me I feel like 2 did the heavy lifting. Yeah, I'm entitled to your opinion.
Speaker 2:Yeah, people will always say 2's the better game. If I pick the three Streets of Rage games on my shelf, well, 4 now. But I mean, you know, think of the era, the three Streets of Rage I always go to Streets of Rage 1 because that's the memories I have. Yes, I do every time because that's the memories I have. I know why people say Streets of Rage 2, but Streets of Rage 1 is my game because that's the-.
Speaker 2:See, I played them. But I still remember I had a Mars system. I got a Mega Drive. My friend said to me do you want to come round? I've got a beat-em-up game to play. And at the time I didn't even know really what a beat-em-up meant. And I went yeah, I can still see it as clear as day on my mind. On his little desk in his corner he had his mega drive and the music was playing and I went just start that again. So he started the game again. Then you got that title sequence, that music, and I just thought this is like a film, this is unbelievable. And then we sat there and played it, went home and went. Can I have some pocket money I need to buy streets of rage? Came and saved up, bought it, loved it no, no, no, I bought the mega.
Speaker 2:I then just got a Mega Drive after the Master System, so I got the Mega Drive, although the Master System version is still very good but the sound it's great on Game Gear as well, BTW, yeah yeah, exactly. So, yeah, there's that, and I think you'll probably know what I'm going to say. I've mentioned it a hundred times.
Speaker 1:You're probably is 10 out of 10 is Stardew Valley. Honestly, mate, I thought you were going to say Sociable Soccer and I was literally going to rip your throat out.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's not a 10 out of 10 game, it's your opinion, you're entitled to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sociable Soccer would be better.
Speaker 2:Stardew.
Speaker 1:Valley. I can get behind that.
Speaker 2:Stardew Valley, just for the completeness of the game, because it has everything. It has a the game, because it has everything as a story, as emotional as lives. I know us, I know it is a love letter to harvest moon, but it's took what harvest moon has done and just expanded everything it hasn't.
Speaker 1:No, have you, it has why?
Speaker 2:why? Why they expanded it when you've played? It come and talk to me every every little bit that harvest moon done, which is brilliant, and they started a genre every little bit they done. You can do more of that. One little individual thing on stardew it's expanded that whole world to almost make it endless sandbox and I love the game.
Speaker 1:I think it's brilliant so they're your two submissions yes, I think I mean you talked about uncharted.
Speaker 2:You know my lover uncharted last of us. You know my lover of last of us. I'm wearing last of us hat, but I mean for for the visual viewers. Um, so yeah, I think they're very close. Um, but I think, if, if I look to two certain games, I think for their genres or what they've done and what they introduced, and also, you've got to think it started with the constant free updates over 10 years, constantly uploading this guy and they're still doing updates now and it just expands the game and everyone has a different experience, everyone has a different farm.
Speaker 2:You know, whereas story games you all sort of play for the same story and talk about it. You know all your lives are different on here. Um, yeah, I just think it's brilliant. I mean my wife's on the bug. She's paid 200 hours plus on Stardew. Meerkat76, who's on our Discord, is a friend of mine. She's pushing 600 hours now and is going for the platinum and still loves this game and tries to play it as much as she can. You just think how many games can do that. How many games can say that? There's not many.
Speaker 2:No, I would say, you could probably count them on your hand yeah, and hence why I put that in there, and I've started five, six different farms. I've probably put 300 hours into it. Um, wait, yeah, I mean I'm a noob, but yeah. But, yeah, love it. Brilliant. And you always find new stuff out. There's always stuff you didn't know there. There's always stuff that you'll think, oh, I didn't see that, before you look up and think, oh, there's a whole new place there behind that tree. I didn't realise there was. You can go again and find something else and a new island and, yeah, superb.
Speaker 1:On one last note, I've been thinking recently about, you know, games of a generation, and I had these conversations with myself as I'm driving and I did think that I'd like to award Death Stranding a 10. I just think that that, for me, moved the needle. It was so well done and it was.
Speaker 2:There was no, no genre that stuck to. You know, kojima went, this is the game I'm making and it doesn't fit in any genre. And away you go.
Speaker 1:There's some elements in it when you get a little bit further, when you're doing the stealth and things where it does. You know it reeks of Metal Gear at times and it's like, oh God, let me just deliver the parcels, dude. But you know, for the most part, the seamless integration of the music, the way that kicks in at the right times with the right emotional weight as well. The storytelling is bold, it's big, it's bombastic, the scale of the levels is huge, the detail in the levels is massive. The story is all over the place but at the same time just pulls you in the right direction and by the end of it you've actually made sense of what's in front of you, kind of.
Speaker 1:I'm very excited for the sequel, by the way. I just don't think that comes soon enough, and I was reading that they're saying how the sequel's going to, kind of I don't know whether this is ever a good thing, but it's definitely going to subvert expectations of what the game's going to be and what it's going to do. So you know, I hear all this sort of hyperbole hyperbole and yeah, I'm very excited for that. I'm hoping, obviously, because Death Stranding 1 has already trodden 80% of the street. I couldn't ever give Death Stranding 2 a 10 out of 10. But I think the first game especially now retrospectively as I think about it more I think I've hailed it as my game the generation a couple of times but.
Speaker 1:I definitely put it up on that pedestal. Is there anything ps4 wise that you would want to award a celebratory 10 out of 10 to?
Speaker 2:was there anything within that pile of games that moved the needle so far for you that were like, yeah, this is some um, I mean well, you, well me and you both bought and played a lot of games on that generation, um and and how, from a sort of a not as much a rocky start, but a lot of people saying hardware weren't quite there and it wasn't as big a jump, ended up being, in my opinion, one of the greatest gaming generations ever. I think the amount of games we had in that generation especially on the PS4.
Speaker 1:High quality games yeah. Needle-pushing, genre-defining games yeah. I don't think that we've seen an era quite like that, since maybe the PS2.
Speaker 2:No, no, you're right, and yeah, it was fantastic and there was a lot of games. I played a lot of games about hours in 10 out of 10s. Um, I mean, uncharted 4 for me was absolutely superb. Um, could I go as far as a 10 out of 10? I'd be close. For me personally, um, I absolutely loved that game. Played for it two or three times. Graphically looked superb. Nolan North was always brilliant. Yeah, I think I always think with the Uncharted games, yes, number two is probably my favourite. I think. So good, mate, so good too, but you can see.
Speaker 1:If you go back to number one, you can see or even Golden Abyss probably my favourite.
Speaker 2:I think so good, mate, so good too, but you can see. If you go back to number one you can see. Or even Golden Abyss I know it's on the Vita, but you can see where they've almost like Stardew Valley did with Harvest Moon each little bit they've expanded it that bit more. So by the time you get to Uncharted 4, it's like this massive cinematic experience desert islands. You go to scotland, you know you're driving boats. You thought you know they take you all over the place, um, and I think it was just that climax to the story as well. They continued on, um, yeah, so I think uncharted 4 would be mighty close.
Speaker 2:Um, what else I'm trying to think? What else I played? I put a lot of time in. There was games. I put a lot of hours in, like the crew. No, it's not a 10 out of 10 game. Um, they did different things. I mean, having you team up with your mates and cruising around in a crew and playing the game story mode together was good, and having the whole map of america on was good, um, but yeah, I can't think. What about you? Ps4? What would you say? 10 out of 10s?
Speaker 1:yeah, death stranding. I think that might be where it starts and stops. Like I say, with my provision of the rules that I put in place. Did it move the needle? Like I feel like my sort of 10 out of 10 for last of us on ps3 specifically only ps3 is a little edgy. Did it move the needle? I think that he did, but I can imagine a lot of people would say, well, hang on a minute, that's a bit strong, yeah, but for me it was a needle mover, much as halo one was a needle mover, much as maybe metropolis street racer on the dreamcast was a needle move because it did something that you've never really seen before yeah, I think you have to look at the game and think has there been a game like this come previously?
Speaker 2:if there was, did it do it anywhere as good as this game? No, um, and that's when I think you have to say and you look at last of us yes, there's been zombie games. Have they played like that? No, have they played it out in a really emotional story with great actors? No. So then you start thinking, oh, this is probably out there on its own, which to me is definitely a 10 out of 10 yeah, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1:If you're listening now and you want to chime in, you let us know, either on the emails unofficialcontrollerpodcastcom. Questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcastcom. Questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcastcom. Or you can join our Discord, where you can join the conversation, where no doubt there's a bevy of people right now listing off their 10 out of 10 genre-defining games. Or you can message us by DM on Instagram, twitter or that thing called Blue Sky. Call it Twitter. I think all the cool kids are calling it X.
Speaker 1:I think that's the limit of our socials, rgt. So if you want to get in contact with us, feel free to reach out the dm. If you want to get involved deeper in the conversation and with the community, I'd recommend you join discord. Navigate to any of the socials or even the episode you're listening to, scroll down and there should be a little link tree there. Take you to all the places where you can continue the fun. When you finish listening to this episode, don't panic. It's all free and will continue to be free, as is this show, but if you did want to support us and tell you what, we're blown away by the support that we get. There are tiers of support that we're not going to bore you with, but one of those tiers means that you get read out on every show and it's time for us to pay our dues. Rgt, I do believe.
Speaker 2:Although I will just mention sorry to jump in we have tweaked the tiers.
Speaker 1:We have tweaked the tiers. They've only got better for you guys.
Speaker 2:So we thought we'd make it a bit more. So you get a bit more at the lower tiers, um, and you get a bit more at the higher tiers. So it's more for you guys really just to show that we appreciate you, um, and also it gets the lower tiers more involved. That was the idea as well, so we can get you, you know, as far as young glorious chat, as far as, um, the zoom meetups, let's get you all involved. You know, let's all do that together, all right. So, um, did you want me just to quickly read out the new tiers?
Speaker 1:you are the social guru. Community hero that's a bold title to give me when the UCP is dead and buried 2000 years from now. They won't remember me, they won't remember the UCP. But I'll tell you who they will remember. That steaming slab of beef RGT steaming slab of beef. I don't know if that's a compliment, but it was meant to be that's just actually made me a bit hungry, if I'm honest. So I'm also very hungry, so you go first, ed.
Speaker 2:Oh no, you want to do the tears, all right I'll just yeah, we, we, we aren't going to continue to keep reading the tears out. If anyone wants to know, just let us know. Discord and I can. I can reprint them. They're in the unglorious, you can have a check. But I'll read about now just because we've changed them. But then we'll settle down on those. But anyway, three dollar tier is now reddit and every show, access to unglorious chat and the quarterly zoom meetup may I add as well to the international nature of this show.
Speaker 1:Obviously we've got they're on a little rest at the moment we've got american co-hosts. Because of the way the show is put out and handled, everything is in dollars. So if you're listening in the UK and you think $3, don't worry, mate, that's £1.25. Yes, yeah, even 10 books is only £7.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, it's just the way that we're, you know, with our podcast providers, bits and pieces. That's the way it's done in dollars, but anyway, $3, read it on every show. Access to the unglorious chat, which is our little extra chat room um, which now has all subscribers in, and quarterly zoom meetup. That's our meetup. We do every three, four months, um, now all of you can come on that. Uh, five dollars right on every show. Access to unglorious chat, quarterly zoom meetup and a small item of yearly art merch. Then when we do our yearly art merch, um, we change it. You know, pretty much every 12, 12 to 14 months you'll get a little piece of merchandise.
Speaker 1:For that, um eight dollars can I just say yes, we've got next. It's gonna blow your socks off. If you haven't got a sub in for this next piece of album art, now's the time. If you've lapsed and I have no beef with anyone who's lapsed, so I always ask you what the hell are you doing supporting the show in the first place? But let me tell you, if you've lapsed, that's all cool, but let me tell you, now you are I sound like a qvc person. You are gonna want to get yourself front and center, because this is possibly the best album art we have ever ever released, and you're going to want this on a T-shirt. You're going to want it on a mug, you're going to want it tattooed on your main vein?
Speaker 2:Steady fella.
Speaker 1:I realise what main vein is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, anyway, I'll save you there. Yeah, anyway, no, we've had a sneak peek today and it is absolutely superb. So keep, keep, keep watching for that. Um, anyway, eight dollars spread out every show, access to our glorious chat, quarterly zoom. Meet up a small item of yearly art merch and then you'll also get a yearly art merch mug with the new artwork painted on or printed on, however they do it. It's going to look good on a mug, this. Oh mate. I can't wait for this BCW.
Speaker 1:when you do the merch run, please put an extra one down for me.
Speaker 2:Oh, I will do, don't worry, I have no.
Speaker 1:UCP merch.
Speaker 2:Well, apart from my t-shirts, you have t-shirts.
Speaker 1:They're crew shirts though.
Speaker 2:Okay, oh, I like the word crew shirts. Oh yeah, um, ten dollars read out on every show. Access from glorious chat. Quarterly zoom. Meet up a small item of yearly art merch. Uh, yearly art merch mug, and plus, the pierre du existence is a yearly art merch t-shirt and they, I'm not overplaying it. This is gonna look superb on a t-shirt. This is gonna look superb get excited.
Speaker 1:If you're listening now and you've never supported us in any way, that's cool. But if you want to grab what's going to be the hottest piece of merch this side of merchville, uh, you better get on board. It's definitely the best piece of artwork we've ever put out. It's definitely got that nod to nostalgia. It's definitely got the fun factor. It's definitely something that's going to look absolutely awesome on a mug, t-shirt, fridge magnet, whatever the hell. Wherever the hell you want it, you're going to want this. So we're super excited. A good friend of the show is helping us with that. We're going to probably reveal a little bit more as we go over the next couple of weeks, but we are super excited to uh, present it to you.
Speaker 1:I am, I'm giddy at it. You know I can't believe it. The more I look at it, the more I just smile. So I'm I'm stoked. So if, if ever, there was a time, now is the time. If you fell off for whatever reason, we know, times are tight and you just want to get back in at the early level. What's the earliest level? You get a bit of art merch. Is it literally $3?
Speaker 2:Let me just look again. Yeah, $5. You get a small item of yearly art merch at $5.
Speaker 1:So that would be the equivalent of a fridge magnet historically.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've done fridge magnets we can do small wall.
Speaker 1:You know there'll be. I think the fridge magnets are kind of cool. They can go anywhere right.
Speaker 2:They're nice, aren't they? Yeah, and we've got the different ones.
Speaker 1:They are printed onto wood. Yeah, what's the company called RGT that makes them?
Speaker 2:It's a local company to me called the Wooden Postcard Company and they have have licenses from all sorts of things, from movies to artwork. They provide them to scottish museums, british museums. They print all their artwork off and supply them. They do, like I say, wooden postcards, wooden wall art, but they make these magnets for us and little fridge magnets and they're they're superb, they're really good. But yeah, check out wooden postcard company because they're very good and you know, little, locally run, family run business.
Speaker 1:You try to source locally where we can yeah, yeah, definitely local for the art merch physical, the wooden postcard or the fridge magnet. And then we use a farmerton stroke, lincolnshire based company for t-shirts. Yes, we do. Yeah, which has been good find by you there, rgt, because the quality of the shirts and the printing is second to none. That last run we did for Seanox and a few others of the Pasta Longhorn recording cupboard was phenomenal.
Speaker 2:But let me tell you, if you thought that was good.
Speaker 1:What we've got coming is light years ahead of it, so I'm so excited. It's probably some of the most exciting news that we've had in a long time. Yes, we've now. We've wet everyone's whistle yes we need to pay our dues. Rgt, do you want to begin?
Speaker 2:I certainly can, so we'll start on the list with senox from sweden.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much, senox thank to Seanox for everything that you do. I get Carlos the one man George Fan Club. Like I say, my ego demands we play it Cool. Carlos came along. He fulfilled that. He's a wonderful man, in fact. I believe he smells exactly like a strawberry.
Speaker 2:Definitely, definitely. Who's next. I will just say as well. Sorry we haven't put no dates on for the next Zoom meeting because we've been a bit waylaid behind the scenes with a new art merch and bits and pieces, but I will try and do that this week. And plus, if you hear us read these names, quite a few of these guys jump on names. Quite a few of these guys jump on you know, quite a few of these guys jump on when we have these on on the zoom chat.
Speaker 1:You can't do the zoom chat this weekend because I won't be able to do that no, nor can I.
Speaker 2:I won't be this weekend, but I will put on. I will put on dates this week because I'm determined to attend this one yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 2:We don't think we're due to sort of start march, middle of march, so we'll, we'll do it then, but anyway, sorry, uh, yeah, so if you're interested in that, and you do, and you do sub, quite a few of these people will join up so you'll meet them as well, so you hear their names every week and you'll have a chat with them, see their collections and it's very varied and it's great fun. Um, but anyway, next up we have firm returns. Thank, thank you very much indeed.
Speaker 1:Beautiful human, which means I get Trestles. New York we did an episode there. Live in New York. They continue to support us to this day.
Speaker 2:Next. Next we have the wonderful Badabinkster, who has.
Speaker 1:Hey everybody stand up, sir.
Speaker 2:He has reminded me this week that he said oh, he done me the artwork for the latest hidden gem. Then I've remembered that I'm about six hidden gems behind on the discord, so I do apologize to everyone. That had gone completely out of my mind. I haven't done it for ages. But bless him, he was. He always does our artwork for it looks superb. He does the cases he puts like recommended by by our GT on it. It looks really good. I will get them up to date as I go through. So I will get them back up.
Speaker 1:You better add that's your first official verbal warning.
Speaker 2:But just a thank you to Better Bigster. Really appreciate all your little artwork and bits you do mate.
Speaker 1:Thank you to everyone in the community all help us not just financially but in ways beyond our expectations, so we're very grateful to you, which means I get Tingle Tuna.
Speaker 1:He apparently really quite liked his personalised readout last week, where I basically got him to sit his missus down and preached his amazing skills. I've got a new one for you this week Tingle Tuna, bring in Mrs Tuna. I just want to confirm that the stickers on the games that he brings back with their original rrp. These games are decades old. At this point you know they're 50p, 25p. He's helping out charity shops by picking these things up. He showed me some games the other day he got. They're brand new out right, but somehow we had found them in a charity shop for between 20 and 50p. I'll be honest with you it would be a crime for him not to continue picking these and hiding them around the house. He's hiding them because he sees it as an investment and he doesn't want you to know how much he's squirreling, squirreling away. That was a tough one, squirreling, squirreling away.
Speaker 2:That was a tough one. Squirreling, yeah, I'm not even going to try that.
Speaker 1:Squirreling, squirreling, squirreling, no, I'm too bad If I went at it with aggression, but because I was nervous and I was picking between my words, you mean squirreling, I squirreled with him.
Speaker 2:You squirreled with whim. Right next up we have the wonderful Digital Monkery. He's never said anything about me living in his beard? No, I'm not surprised. I mean, it's probably weirded him out a bit.
Speaker 1:I'm disappointed, to be honest. I literally made myself the same size as a lice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, weird. Another one who does a lot for the community does our challenge accepted, does our screenshots, competitions and plus also he's got a really good youtube channel. Check out his youtube. He's just done he's just done a recent trip where he's been to sort of west midlands and he's he's picked up some awesome games. Check his collection out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, check out digital monger which means I get the legendary handsome as hell gaming guru got his name amongst the stars. He's the South's best kept secret. I think he's from the South.
Speaker 2:Yes, he's Southampton way.
Speaker 1:He's the North and the South's best kept secret. It's the gaming gram. Thank you, sir, and congratulations on your new job. I's the gaming gram, thank you sir.
Speaker 2:And congratulations on your new job. I hope it's going well for you. Yes, Next up we have the wonderful Bald Border.
Speaker 1:Which means I get.
Speaker 2:There we go, pssst.
Speaker 1:Go Bran Bovaloba.
Speaker 2:I love that accent Go Bran, go Bran, it's Bran Bran, all Bran.
Speaker 1:All Bran, bran, all Bran.
Speaker 2:Next up I have the biggest guns in Nottingham. He was very pleased that we'd speak about his guns quite a lot, and when I mean guns I mean biceps. That is, your red headed stepson change hmm, oh, there's been a change.
Speaker 1:Sure, more casualties. Okay, fine, that's so cool. Watch them come back, though, eh, when they get a sniff of it, I almost want to put a deadline. If you're not subbed or back on by now, you ain't getting it you're mean you ain't getting it come on next up just so. Ginge knows a lovely son and that means I get the Lord of Darkness. Sure, he's a close friend. It's Harvey Retro.
Speaker 2:Lord of Darkness. Next up we have the wonderful Emma Sharp.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much, emma now, when I was young, I had a soft spot for Violet Berlin from the didn't we all from Bad Influence, and she also did Game Show TV or some drivel like that. Was it Dave or was it Bravo? And she also did game show TV or some drivel like that on. Was it Dave or was it Bravo? It was Bravo, bravo. But anyway, my fascination took me a little bit too far and I ended up hiding out because she's married to Gaz Top in real life. If you didn't know this, I know where this is going. Geez.
Speaker 1:So I found myself in Gazop's boot of his car, knowing that he would take me to Violet Balloon eventually, after a week away, with him living in his boot, I was surviving from the condensation that dripped on the insulator of his 318 Beamer and chewing on the foam insulation that was packed around the sliding aerial in the back there. We eventually arrived at his home, where I immediately made myself available, popped out the boot, but I'd lost weight during that week, so my clothes fell off. I thought it might be a good icebreaker with Violet, but it transpired it wasn't so. Ergo, therefore, I ended up with a restraining order, so I was allowed nowhere near Berlin.
Speaker 2:If it's the first time you're listening to the show, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:People ask for something special. I don't know if he ever asked whether we just did it. I think we just did it. Well, Scotty did it.
Speaker 2:I think Scotty started it, bless him. But now I feel committed to continuing it. I think we just did it Well, scotty did it.
Speaker 1:I think Scotty started it, bless him, but now I feel committed to continuing it. Who's next?
Speaker 2:They're getting quite elaborate. Next up we have Mumsy.
Speaker 1:Thanks, mumsy, which means I get the privilege of saying the RGPT fan club Best fan club ever. Thank you very much. G P T.
Speaker 2:Fan Club Best fan club ever. Thank you very much. So I get Pete Brocklehurst.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much, the only man that could knee a Breeze Block. Yeah, he plays keepy uppies with Breeze Blocks, that guy.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Which means I get love him or hate him, Billy Marmite, If your name's being read out and you're not in Discord which means I get love him or hate him, Billy Marmite, If your name's being read out, you're not in Discord you are missing out on some of your perks, by the way, so I do encourage you to further develop that. It's all there waiting for you, so it makes sense to come and hoover it up. So I'd like to see Billy Marmite.
Speaker 2:I mean, even if you're not really into that sort of social side. There's also other stuff on there, Like people are always swapping and buying games and bits and pieces, so you might end up scoring yourself. Don't forget the download section, where you can get all the music from the Christmas movie.
Speaker 1:You can get all the artwork we've ever done to this point. Yeah, there's a place to go and choose something that you want on a T-shirt. Very true, there's mobile wallpapers, there's all sorts, right? So there's plenty for your zero entry. You can join the Discord and not even sub and still get access to the vast majority of that, so please, do?
Speaker 2:What's next? Next we have Simon Pryke. Thank you again for your continued support. Simon, I know you're a very hardworking young man and I really appreciate it. Which means I get the luxury, here we go, of climaxing this is his requirement I don't know if the requirement was for you to climax, but he said, to say in a sexual way yeah, that might be a different thing, but anyway, where you go, if that's how you get to the, the way of doing it then it takes a couple of strokes.
Speaker 1:I'm not not machine, you know. Just give me a minute. Okay, here we go. I'm so sorry about this, keeping the blood in it boom. I found it again it was nasty, it was quick. It kind of sprung up on me out of nowhere, that did. It was like, oh, it was quick. It kind of sprung up on me out of nowhere, that did. It was like, oh, it was coming, but I didn't want it. But at the same time I kind of knew I was contractually obliged to do it.
Speaker 2:Anyway, thanks everyone on the list. What part of?
Speaker 1:what I said there was outrageous. Was any of that outrageous?
Speaker 2:I'm not even commenting on it.
Speaker 1:so we haven't been pulled up by the podcast provider or YouTube yet, so I feel it fits safely within the boundaries of PG.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say you're bordering PG if maybe just stepping a toe over. But yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 1:What's the point of having rules if you don't push into the limit?
Speaker 2:Well, that is very true.
Speaker 1:Right. So I guess at this point and thank you to everybody I know we muck about, but we only do that because we think that's what you want Some of you have ordered us to do that. So if you want a super straight readout, you let us know. I suppose the only thing left on the table after my rather vicious explosion is what you hoping to play there, me old rgt um, it'll be legacy undercover.
Speaker 2:Um, and I still haven't played my new evercade games.
Speaker 1:I had another two evercade games turn up this week send them to me on on message or whatever technological thing. You sent them on me. That ugh, this Evercade filth. I'm surrounded by it.
Speaker 2:But then you're so intrigued when I get a new game. I know I am Ah Doth, protest too much.
Speaker 1:Maybe for Christmas you can get me an Evercade.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, no worries, yeah Would you want a? Handheld console yeah no, no, no.
Speaker 1:I want the handheld. I've thought about this with the Evercade. I don't want another system under the telly, frankly no, but if you've got me the handheld, I think I could get into that. Does that play all the games, though? Is it the same as the desktop version?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've got the handhelds, which is two versions. You've got the handhelds, which is two versions.
Speaker 1:You've got the home console, two versions.
Speaker 2:Oh, so get me the best home version of the handheld. Then please, yeah. And you've got an arcade machine, which is the alpha. And you've got which one? Was I going to say? Oh yeah. And you've got the Super Retros, which are under a different name, but they come packed in with Capcom games and stuff. They play the cartridges as well. No different name. But they come packed in with like capcom games and stuff. They play the cartridges as well.
Speaker 1:I don't want any of that. I want that now. Yeah, well, that is a handheld, but a sort of game boy. No, I don't want that. I want the evercade handheld. Okay, better one of the two as well, don't, don't, don't, don't try and skank you want.
Speaker 2:the versus are with tape mode built into it so you can turn it the other way up and play your vertical shooters. Yeah, you get a little grip for it, double grip. What games are you going to get? Me Looks like a cow's udder. I don't know what games would you like, because you get many games. Some of the collections have up to sort of 10, 14 games on.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll take the Soul Reaver one that you just got, and then I'll raise you. They've got a Bitmap Bros one, haven't they?
Speaker 2:I think so I mean there's like 70 cartridges out there, so there's a lot of games out there.
Speaker 1:I'm sure when I last looked there was a Bitmap Bros one on there, because that would probably have like Speedball 2, x 2.
Speaker 2:Uh, yeah, that's what I'd like yeah, okay, leave it with me, then I'll start saving very good yeah what would you like for christmas?
Speaker 1:just your love. There's more chance of me getting an evercade.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. Well, you know I'm not a demanded child that just wants the most expensive thing. Just attention and a cuddle would do. But there you go. That ain't going to happen.
Speaker 1:Why are you saying the Evercade's the most expensive thing, Because if you want I could up it. I mean, I'm also looking for a Steam Deck.
Speaker 2:And you're saying for Christmas and we're in February.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm giving you time. Oh thanks, ten months Well nine now, really Great.
Speaker 2:Let me just get back, because this is going to cost me too much money.
Speaker 1:I'll get back to it on PotentMirror, no, just slide. 50 quid away a month and I think you should be golden.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, no worries, you almost sound disgusted as only 50.
Speaker 1:You've changed I expected more Well, I told you I'm leaning into this heel persona now.
Speaker 2:The Jaded George eh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did George. Everyone wanted Jaded George. That's what they got.
Speaker 2:Yeah, great Thanks, community. I've got to deal with this. I don't have to live with it.
Speaker 1:You don't know what I do. Why do you get to sit in the light and I have to sit in the dark? Is this to a visual metaphor for my evilness and your kindness?
Speaker 2:We've said, the UCP funds can only afford one lightbulb at a time. It's my month to have it. You can have the lightbulb next month.
Speaker 1:I always seem to be sat in the dark. Yeah, although it's angling in with my beard, it's making me look super chiseled, although, no doubt, if this is blown up on YouTube, I look an absolute. I hate YouTube. Up yours YouTube it does stretch you a little bit, doesn't it? 250 so many episodes were performed naked. Now I have to put clothes on to record mascara a lot yeah, angle me beard, you know, fade me eyebrow in all that but anyway, yeah, I need to get back my evercade.
Speaker 2:So I've got the legacy legacy cane collection, I've got that, so I want to get into that and play that. Um should be playing some evercade this saturday night when I've got a friend come around, so we're going to set light into a few of those and a few beers. So I don't know if I'll remember many of the games, but we will have a good go. Probably not. But what about you? What are you hoping to plan, george?
Speaker 1:uh, like I say, I'm still pursuing Valhalla. I've been kicking the switch around again lately, but I've just been playing the Dickie games on there. Wrestle Empire didn't bring it up at the top end for that reason. I did go into sale though not mention this out loud and I picked up the Dooms. So I've got Doom 1 and 2, doom 3, doom N64, doom Eternal.
Speaker 2:Nice, Doom, Eternal Nice. What is it? A lot of complete package or individual? No, they.
Speaker 1:Just I was scrolling through the store and they had them all on there and you know obviously the home computing 286, versions 1 and 2, they were like £1.99 for the package Doom 3.
Speaker 2:Spend a ten and get the lot you know?
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, it was that it was spend a tenner, get the lot. You know? Yeah, exactly it was that it was spend the tenner and get everything, bar internal, which was another at the time in the sale.
Speaker 2:I think it was roughly like 6.29, 6.99, something like that Ain't a lot, is it really Not a lot? I?
Speaker 1:was like, right, you've gone 90% of the way. Yeah, you've overdoomed, I've overdoomed, but the one that the latest one or the penultimate one, whichever, was last on Switch, it was still the proper books and I was like, no, on Switch, you're going to have to wait because I'm pushing it with Doom. Is it Doom or Doom Eternal? I think I'm pushing it with that. It's hailed as a great port, but my god. So I picked up those. I picked up a few bits in the sale. I think I got need for speed rivals. The black it's got a mainly black case. Yeah, it might be rivals with an orange car on the front. There's one that got ported to the switch anyway. It's one way you kind of get like a whole city or something to prowl around. It's's very much like Burnout Paradise, which I've also got on the Switch, which is great. I had that on. Did I have that on the Vita? I think I did and it was great on there. It might have been that all need for speed. So I've obviously it had Payback.
Speaker 2:No, not rivals, I think on the vita, didn't they?
Speaker 1:I believe, I can't remember no, I can't, and I'm pretty sure it's burnout paradise that I've got on there you've made some good purchases on your switch end to.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I was looking at it the other day.
Speaker 1:I, at some point in time last year, updated the. Are you okay?
Speaker 2:no, I'm just laughing because I keep thinking you've you've probably filled your card up and you're gonna have to buy a new memory card I bought a one terabyte card last summer, I think it was you hadn't filled that it's it.
Speaker 1:I'm now back, my god what on a switch, yeah but what I love about that is like that wafer-thin slice of sand.
Speaker 2:Oh, you will have so many games on there.
Speaker 1:Has so many games on. Yeah, I'm still carrying it around in this little carry case with a load of the cards sort of in the card holder in the little carry case, and I think to myself, why have I got them in?
Speaker 2:there. I mean, in one way you've done a great job because you buy on sales. You've filled this one terabyte up with games. You can go on holiday not worrying about losing your cards your little game cartridges.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're right, because I tell you what. I've got Assassin's Creed You've just taken a switch. Two Brotherhood and Revelations. I've got Assassin's Creed. I've got Black Flag and Rogue. I've got Bioshock 1, 2, and 3. I 1, 2 and 3. I don't want to go too heavy because I know that some of them I've got the card for and I can't quite remember.
Speaker 2:But I've got, obviously, the Dooms. I've got loads of tat on there. Great selection on there just to have a pick for on holiday or when you're away for a couple of days.
Speaker 1:Exactly just a big solid game and the thing is, the portal's great, but it kind of feels a little bit I don't think it is, but it feels a little bit more fragile than the Switch. And also the Switch is something you can pick up.
Speaker 2:It's a bit smaller. You can chuck in a backpack.
Speaker 1:You look at your Mrs Facebook marketplace because I wouldn't go on there and you see like Switch 60 quid. You're like yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's true, it's almost disposable at this point. Yeah, definitely, it's almost disposable at this point?
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely. So, yeah, I'm all for that, and so we've done Valhalla. Probably going to play some more Farmer Simulator tonight and over the weekend I'm hoping. I'm itching to kind of get back on True Crime Streets of New York as well. Oh yes, I'm so positively motivated by my experience on that, Although something did click in my head. I feel like I've I really feel like I've played this game before.
Speaker 2:It's weird, isn't it, when things click like that and you can't think why.
Speaker 1:Now I don't know whether it's got a very similar loop to True Crime Streets of LA and therefore I'm just remembering it, or whether I actually ponied up and got True Crime Streets of LA and therefore I'm just remembering it, or whether I actually ponied up and got True Crime Streets of LA and was disappointed, then hopped straight back on Rejection Pony and got myself a slice of the sequel.
Speaker 1:I don't know, maybe I didn't have a lot of disposable funds back then because I was a young father. But yeah, we'll see. I think that draws us to the end. Is there any more information? You want to leave with the beloved audience before we go any heads up, or are you, are, you are we, did we leave nothing on?
Speaker 2:the um. Just if anyone is interested in the subs and you want to know the subs list again and you're not on discord I mean I'm on instagram and stuff I can dm you over just dm me and I'll dm you over a tears list if you're interested.
Speaker 1:Um, if you haven't seen them or got it on your podcast provider, just let me know and if you're sat in the background and you've waited this whole time to get involved or talk on the discord, or or even sub to us Now. Now is the time, and for $3, which is the equivalent of like £1.80 a month, which, I'll be honest, you blow on tat, you know you do, and you've probably got that money down the back of the sofa. Don't leave us hanging. If you're thinking about it, kick every objection out the way and come join the family, because that is what it's like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1:Well, on that rather profound note, that's all we have time for this week. Listeners, always thank you for your time. We look forward to the pleasure of speaking to you again next week. Until then, happy gaming. Remember, there's nothing wrong with being given an unofficial controller. It's what you do with it that counts. See you RGT Later Outro Music.