Unofficial Controller Podcast
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Unofficial Controller Podcast
The day the PG era died
Gaming nostalgia collides with future tech as George and RGT dive into their latest gaming adventures across generations. From RGT's stealth takedowns in Dishonored to George rediscovering Breath of the Wild's charm years after release, the duo explores what makes these games enduring classics worth revisiting.
The conversation takes an exciting turn when they examine the latest industry bombshell: Nintendo Switch 2's predicted $400-$499 price tag. Despite the steep increase from the original's $279 launch price, analysts anticipate it becoming the biggest console launch in history. Our hosts dissect what this means for Nintendo's strategy, how they might handle backward compatibility, and whether the new hardware can recapture the original's "wow factor" in a marketplace that now takes its hybrid concept for granted.
Meanwhile, Sony's strategic partnership with People Can Fly (developers of Bulletstorm) to revive an existing PlayStation IP sparks enthusiastic speculation. Could we be seeing the return of SOCOM, Resistance, or Killzone? The hosts propose that following Helldivers 2's collaborative multiplayer success, a team-based tactical shooter might be exactly what PlayStation needs.
Between serious gaming discussions, the episode delivers the show's signature humor—from comparing classic games to reminiscing about ridiculous car mods from the 90s (remember anti-static strips?), proving once again why The Unofficial Controller Podcast remains gaming's most authentic conversation.
Join the community on Discord, Reddit, or social media, and share your own gaming adventures with the hosts. Whether you're team George or team RGT, there's always room for one more at the UCP table.
Hello and welcome to the Unofficial Controller Podcast, your weekly gaming podcast Episode number. As night follows day, episode number 261. With me, george, and this week joined by RGT. Large piece to my small one. How's it going, sir?
Speaker 2:Very well, yeah, very well indeed. How about you? Very well, yeah, very well indeed. How about you?
Speaker 1:I am literally right now living my best life. I've had a couple of don't know where that was going to go.
Speaker 1:I was worried yeah, I am as well. I was about to take us off on a tangent that you know, in an alternate universe somewhere. We just got cancelled, but right now I'm having a great day. At the time of recording it's a Saturday, not our usual Thursday, no, so I'm very chillaxed. I've had the day to wind down. I need to remember that this new era is heel George, jaded Georgeorge. So, um, not only have I had a good day, I hate you wow, that's.
Speaker 2:That's a strong start, um is it? Are you having a good day because you've realized you hate me, or?
Speaker 1:I don't actually hate you, it's just part of the jaded persona I know, but I thought what?
Speaker 2:let's skipping to the bottom of this.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, you've already bottomed it right out within the very depths of where I'm at. I don't hate you. I just don't like you at all. Dislike me, yeah.
Speaker 2:You just dislike me. Okay, we'll deal with that. It's the only way it's up, oh wow.
Speaker 1:This has got classic written all over it. I was going to call it a gangbanger, but I don't feel that's probably the right word to use A bit early for that term, but yeah, okay, wheeling, mrs RGT. Anyway, this is the 18-plus era. No, is it? I don't. No, is it?
Speaker 2:I don't know anymore. I don't know if we've jumped up to an 18 plus yet, but you might be taking it then.
Speaker 1:To be honest, I've fingered round the edge but I've not gone in. Rgt Contractually You're obliged To bring Jaded George Once a month. A hidden gem yeah, do we have one today. No, you're obliged to bring JD George once a month. A hidden gem yeah, do we have one today.
Speaker 2:No, I have got one which is nearly ready, but no, that's not yet. I like to try and space them four weekly, so you wait until the four weeks are up and then you'll get your hidden gem.
Speaker 1:Until then, Okay, you will wait. You tell me the reality I perceive and I'll tell you the reality that's actually happening. And I've waited four weeks. I know I have no, no, no. It can't have been four weeks since I crouched on that floor and sang.
Speaker 2:RGT. Yet that is Well, I think it'll be next week, I think it is Okay. Yeah, it's next week. Next week, I think it is Okay. Yeah, it's next week. That's four weeks since we had fired up.
Speaker 1:If this is your first time tuning in, don't you panic. This is, as I mentioned at the top of the show, a weekly gaming podcast. We've got the insults out of the way. Everyone's living their best life and you know. Welcome is all I can say Without any further ado, because I think we've got to the position where I've got to ask you what have you been?
Speaker 2:playing A little bit boring. To be honest, this week I basically played a little bit more Lego City Undercover.
Speaker 1:I basically played a little bit more Lego City Undercover. Anyone that survived my rather hokey-cokey, rough-ass intro has just arrived at the point where they've decided that enough's enough.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, yeah, to be honest, I don't blame them. I don't blame them. I'm in podcast and I dropped straight into Lego City Undercover for the third week on the trot Absolute animal, yeah, yeah. So I played a bit more of that. It's basically just been time restraints, really, because I've really enjoyed it. I just really want to sit down and play, although me and, as I did promise last week, me and Mrs RGT have downloaded Firewatch and she's playing that tonight as we're recording this. So we have got some drinks ready and we're going to play Firewatch.
Speaker 1:No pressure, Mrs RGT, but the assembled world will be watching you find your way through the first few hours of Firewatch.
Speaker 2:Yep, and I've also played some more Dishonored, done a few more missions on there. I'm really enjoying that yeah.
Speaker 1:Tell me about your Dishonored. Done a few more missions on there. I'm really enjoying that. Yeah, Tell me about your Dishonored experience.
Speaker 2:Well, I played some more. I think it was yesterday or the day before, but anyway I had to find this woman to speak to within sort of the city, but obviously you're a wanted man so you had to go rather stealthily through the city and I'm still learning the mechanics. Um, but I must say, for a ps3 game and I am playing on ps3 hardware on a modern tv looks really good and sometimes you find, with especially the older games, I mean my tv, 65 inch, so it can sometimes make things look a bit pixabay tv, obviously, um, six and a half, 65, yeah oh, right, yeah I mean six and a half I'm over the moon
Speaker 2:with, but, um, yeah, but, but this looks really good. This does look really good and plays really well, I mean, I suppose as well, apart from if you have like melee combat sort of hand-to-hand. You are sort of stealthily moving around, you're not going quite slow at times. But yes, I've been doing this mission there but I've sort of gone off on a tangent and been finding these sort of hidden treasures and the I can't remember what they're called like the, the little sort of urns you find with the drinks in that you can take. I can't remember what they're bloody called now, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Crafties, yeah, crafties, yeah, I've been finding a free bruise but, yeah, just been loving it stealthily, sort of creeping up, taking a few people out. Um, I did have one error which made the family laugh, which was um, there was some so many army guys ran by this boat near the harbor which was moored up, and I thought, right, wait till that one walk off. Then, oh, matey, there he's getting it. So, crept up behind the crate, there he was done. I thought, right, well, I'm gonna hide the body because the other guy's gonna see the body when he comes back wait.
Speaker 1:Oh, you decided he was getting it what? Just because he was on his own and it was an easy stealth takedown yeah, made me feel a bigger boy, you know.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, yeah, I just thought you.
Speaker 1:I just thought you said you saw a guy there stood on his own, he's's getting it, which sounded like a zip, and I didn't know.
Speaker 2:No, no, those are behind me. So then I thought I'll carry his body, get rid of him, right? Yeah, I threw him over forgetting that the boat was moored next to the jetty. I threw him over, forgetting that the boat was moored next to the jetty, which ended up with him being wedged with his legs doing a V-shape sticking up in the air, which I couldn't resolve. So, luckily enough, when his mate came back, he didn't actually notice these pair of trousers and boots. You've got to love stealth video game.
Speaker 2:That's that sort of ragdoll mechanics where when you drop them they're just complete ragdoll.
Speaker 1:It's a combination of if you're like Last of Us, for an example, if you're sneaking around and your colleague is just basically standing up in full view, sitting down, knocks a can in front of you, knocks the bin over they're fine, can't be heard. You look at a pebble and it's like what was that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we'd better investigate. The thing was I had a bit of a first world modern gamer problem. I thought George is going to love this. I'm going to screenshot it. What button screenshot on PS3? So I paused it. What's screenshot on a? Yeah, you don't get screenshots on a PS3.
Speaker 1:So that was nearly going to.
Speaker 2:Actually there is a way in there Is there.
Speaker 1:I could have sworn there was a button combination, but I might have just been I don't know a bit too near an open glue pipe Community corrections, community corrections.
Speaker 2:If there's one, let us know.
Speaker 1:I thought, at least on some titles, there was a button combination you could press to take a screenshot on PS3, but I could be misremembering it.
Speaker 2:I actually reached for the top right of the D-pad, sort of like looking for that share button, and I was like, oh yeah, but yeah, so anyway, really really enjoying that so far. I want to have some more time with it, and I know I always say this when I play PS3, but for a game that's £1, £1.50, I mean you can't go far wrong, really, can you? No, why are these games so cheap? And if you're a collector, get them now. Because there's so many heavy hitters on the 360 or PS3.
Speaker 1:To be fair, within reason, still quite the beautiful-looking game Like Dishonored's a great example, really nice art style, really well executed. The levels have been formulated to make it look as good as it can at any one moment. And I just think to myself like wow. And I know there's this big hubbub on the internet now. I've seen a million videos pop up on my YouTube feed about why did graphics look better 20 years ago than they do now? I always think that's a strong thing to say, and I was watching the digital foundry video. They made some good points about how oh well, back then it was all kind of fake lighting, fake this, you know, make it look as good as we can with what we're doing.
Speaker 1:Now we've moved to a place where we're trying to effectively do it in real time, real time lighting, real time, this real time that so there are times where it does look like fundamentally, you could argue it does look worse, but we're on the transition to a place where it looks better and we're in that sort of gawky teenage phase, aren't we? You know, one minute, you you feel like a kid and your voice breaks and you sound like Pavarotti. You know it's we're in. I think the consoles are in that moment right now where we're just in that transitional period, where we're entering a better time. But the bumps along the road have been pretty, pretty rough. So, yeah, ps3 to me, xbox 360, included within this, still look absolutely stellar. If I found myself locked in a room with a PlayStation three and a Lego city undercover, I guess I'd be pretty dismayed. But if there was a city undercover, I guess I'd be, uh, pretty dismayed. But if there was a another game there, um, I'd be stoked.
Speaker 1:I mean, I often yeah to the ps3 and feel pretty blown away by it, to be honest yeah, and I think you're right.
Speaker 2:I think a lot, especially nowadays. We, you know it's realism, realism, ray tracing realism. They've got to look as real as possible. Ps3 360 area that wasn't really a possible thing. Some games tried to get as realistic faces and bits and pieces, so you had to go stylistic and the thing is that's all sort of back in. You look at indie games and bits and pieces. Now that look is in. So I think it was sort of you know, when it was at its highest.
Speaker 2:I suppose that stylistic sort of look in games and I just think they look fantastic. I mean, I love the look of Bioshocks. When I played them they were awesome and this is almost. It almost looks like it's made in the same engine, you know. It's got that same look of the characters, but just in this sort of open world sort of city and it does you know it's a steampunk city. And and world sort of city, and it does you know it's a steampunk city. And I think you know when the game's done it right, when you're in there and you feel like you're in a steampunk city, you know all these little black alleys and corridors and bits and pieces. Really good, yeah, so so far good. Um, and if I can complete the game, I'll definitely jump on to number two, I think on the ps4. So that's a definite must for me. Um, and the only other thing I have been playing is what I'm not going to say, which is my hidden gem.
Speaker 1:So I've been playing Comes in lording it up with this drivel. Okay, fair play to you, old boy, fair play to you, old bean Drivel.
Speaker 2:Come on then. What have you been playing?
Speaker 1:Oh well, first of all, two things. Let me stand up, spin my chair around like the cool kid in Neighbours. Mm, yeah, I've done it, but it feels uncomfortable now, but I've now committed to it, Right? First of all, by the way, to the video viewers, yes, I have driven all the way to Liverpool to make sure I can get Boba Loba's cap. I couldn't find my glasses, but I've grown the beard. I'm going Bran. Right, I'm going Bran. That's what I'm doing, Bran. Yeah, I'm styling myself on Boba Loba. He is a Discord moderator, but I tell you what he's a devilishly handsome man.
Speaker 2:And a finely dressed man as well, A finely dressed coiffured man and a finely tattooed man as well.
Speaker 1:He's starting to get inked up. Yep, I'm a bit scared. First tattoo I had was a compass and some fountain pen ink during GCSE history.
Speaker 1:I'd be worried if you said that you've still got that why do you think I'd ever get undressed in front of you? Yeah I did one because because you know, for the law of the show, we live together like burt and ernie you do sleep fully dressed, which is a little odd. But sat next to each other playing our respective handouts which one's Bert, which one's Ernie oh, I don't even know.
Speaker 1:I identify as both of them. At most times in my life I should imagine, uh right, where we're going to start, because yesterday I was, uh back at the main residence, as you can see him here, aka the Mike Brewer pictures, aka the gold disc record from a boy band days, but I have left that alone for a while. But I jumped straight back in. I'm at the section where I went up to Jorvik. I've done that. That is starting to feel a little bit Assassin's Creed-y at the moment. Go here, do this, pick this up. Oh, look, look, it's all the way over there. Guess where you got to go? I bet I know where I've got to do when I finish this. Oh, the way back again. Oh, is there any much more of this? Anyway, I've gone back to see Ramvi.
Speaker 1:Had a little uh altercation with my brother. Ramvi's a little devil actually, because she's like oh, we have this thing where these people are disagreeing. Can you do it straight away? Avor goes, it's not my place, that's my brother's place, sigurd's place. She said our sigurd won't come out of his bedroom, so he goes.
Speaker 1:Okay, I didn't have a choice in it. So he sits down and starts to hear this injunction between these two characters just as I make my decision inconsideridered. Oh, look at you. You didn't hang around straight in my seat. Huh, I'm like, wow, you're really trying to make me hate you. I had an option to sleep with your wife, my brother's wife, and I turned it down because I was trying to be good. I slaughtered someone because they said that I wasn't doing the right thing and they pushed me into having to fight them, and then I offered them a chance to get out of it, and then he wouldn't take it, so I had to kill him. I have done some devilish things for you and now you come out giving me this. Please give me a character I can like.
Speaker 1:I thought you were going to say he's now face down in the river, but If there was an option to have slit his throat in that moment, it would have been done. I'm not even joking. That's our story. Gone River, I'm not even bothered. Bring in Ranvi. Yeah, he's out the question. Now we can get, but to be honest, I don't think you're that much of a looker loves. He pushed your look and I've said politely no, but every time I talk to you now it's talk about us. No, I'm sleeping with the butcher's sister. Okay, we've covered this in episodes.
Speaker 2:Is he still cutting the hog up on the bench? That? Hog that must be the finest. That must be like chicken liver pate by now, Mate.
Speaker 1:it must be the finest sliced ham. You must be able to hold it up and look through it. It's that thin.
Speaker 2:Oh man.
Speaker 1:No, mate, it's better than that. It's like Billy Bear ham, but on the cheap it's like Aldi penny ham. It's like what even is this? Probably Bulls foreskin, or something, god knows, with bloody pork flavouring on it. Anyway, you distract me completely. Anyway, so that's Assassin's Creed. I've been, bizarrely, I've had the switch by my bedside and I've been kind of waking up and playing through Breath of the Wild. I think I've waited long enough for the hype to die down.
Speaker 2:You kept this quiet, you crafty little dog.
Speaker 1:I'm full of secrets, I'm full of surprises. Oh God, that will not come across well on the audio show, will it? They'll be like oh god, turn it down, george. What are you doing, pal? We came here for the dulcet tones, jaded, george, not this guy, one one super brew dog. Is that what this is? I thought it was glue. Uh, yes, I've been quite enjoying that, to be honest. Um, there's one thing you can say about it for the most part is is it can be a pretty lonely experience, can't?
Speaker 1:um and I think that aids to the storytelling, exactly, yeah and uh, yeah. I mean I don't think it will ever be my favorite as older, because that notch has already been wealth and firmly put in the bedpost and I think it's a nostalgia and time of your life and where you were and what you were doing at that moment.
Speaker 1:So Ocarina of Time will kind of always be my special place. I had linked to the past on SNES, but you know it's just a game to me. But Ocarina of Time kind of transcended it, a bit like Shenmue did or Halo 1 did for me, where it became more to me than it was, even though it's not. If that makes sense, All those listening are like, yeah, that didn't make sense, but we kind of get what you mean. It becomes more than the sum of its parts because you invent almost a law in your mind. You make excuses for the game's poor graphics. You're like, oh no, no, that's part of the aura that surrounds him. It's not just the rendering field, it's here for a reason.
Speaker 2:I do like, yeah, you're right there. I mean it does have to chug yourself along at times, but I do like the art style that they had chosen for Link and the characters. I mean I know you've Rise of the Wild, you mean?
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm? Yeah, there's a moment. There was a couple of moments. I was playing it the other day and I stood on one of those tall pillar things. I don't even know the name. This just shows how much attention I'm playing as I blast through it. Really, skip, skip, skip, dialogue, not interested.
Speaker 2:Do all your towers first, then do all your shrines, then do all your stamina, then do your hearts. There you go.
Speaker 1:That's the order I played in oh wow, okay, someone played it with a guide no, I did, yeah, I did actually.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did play it shame on you.
Speaker 1:I'm just going through it as organically as possible.
Speaker 2:I even had do?
Speaker 1:I say this yeah, you do.
Speaker 2:Let's face it now the meat, the, the, the, the sausages, out the flies well, I had my um gold edition limited edition guide um opened up and I had a because the pages will keep shutting. So I I bought one of those um cook down to the oven in the kitchen so I'd have a little pull-out table next to me with the guide on with the pages clicked open. So I knew where I was.
Speaker 1:The thing is at that point are you playing the game or are you just merely a tool for the guide to play the game? Is the guide playing the game at that point and you're just its?
Speaker 2:hammer. Well, no, because I didn't follow the guide. Step, play the game. Is the guide playing the game at that point and you're just it's. Well, no, because I didn't. I didn't follow the guide step by step. What I done I I done one tower. Use the guide for the you know to find how to do a tower. Then, once I've done that, I thought, right, I'm gonna find all the towers. I spent 15 hours finding all these towers, unlocking the map and then I thought, right, shrines. So then I would look to try and find where the shrines were in the guidebook and then go and do all the shrines, but I didn't use their. I'd worked the shrines out myself. I didn't use the guidebook to tell me because let me tell you from my point of view.
Speaker 1:What you've described is somehow the guide subconsciously controlled you to buy a relaxing gamer chair, so you went and got the cookbook stand, I bet you it, laid back like this on the chair. Let me just lay here like this, and you kind of you didn't know it, but it was using you.
Speaker 2:It laid there, like Kate Winslet in Titanic.
Speaker 1:Now. And I just Take me like one of your gamer guides RGT yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, pretty much this is all sea devil. But yeah, I mean, I spent what 120 hours in that game.
Speaker 1:Well, before we move past that, we were talking about the graphics in the art style and one of the times I was at one of these towers and the angle of the camera the in-game camera was just I'd kind of rolled around, or I'd maybe rolled it around where I could see link's face, and I just sat there and actually do you know what that looks? Great, the art style, the lines. It looked like a cartoon and for that reason I did actually doth my cap to it. I thought, yep.
Speaker 2:I like some of the lighting as well, like when you do a shrine and that sort of blue light comes out. It looks really good. You know, for the power of the system, Some of the lighting was brilliant in that game.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and mate, I'm playing this solely in handheld as well.
Speaker 2:So I played on the big screen. I didn't play in handheld mode at all, so it'll be interesting to see what it's like.
Speaker 1:I'm just kind of laid on the couch with my feet up, head on a pillow. It's totally the not right way to play it and, like I say, I'm skipping it like skip, skip, skip, skip. I don't know why I'm being so obtuse to it. I just want to. I just want to be in the world and enjoy it from being the thing with that game is you can play it like that.
Speaker 2:You can just go off and I mean I was hardly doing any of the story tropes for hours and hours and hours and hours. You know I'd go off on a tangent for 30 hours just off doing a side mission which would drag you somewhere else, and then you'd find this hidden bit and then you'd get some cork seeds and then you go back and change it. You know, it was really, really good. You just get lost in that world, so lost, and that was brilliant um, and it has that.
Speaker 1:It has that kind of otherworldly element to it, the ruins, the sort of sniff of a history before very high technology that obviously went before with your I don't know what they call it now. What's that tablet thing?
Speaker 2:I've skipped it the Sheikah Slate. You got it, baby. The.
Speaker 1:Sheikah Slate. Yeah, I mean I'm on board for all of it. I like the kind of hints at it and I think it's played well enough. I'm excited to get through it. I think I've let the hype die down. Heck. It's even had a sequel and now I'm playing it. I mean I played it on the Wii U, I own it for the Wii U and I think I did actually start a playthrough just to be. You've always got to be. I've always found in myself what's the most obtuse thing I can do. Oh yeah, I'll play Breath of the Wild on the Wii U. Why I sat there, like why you're literally trapped in this room what's the point when I knew the game had got me was.
Speaker 2:You know, when you go to the, I can never remember what it's called. The first chapel, place the statue when you first gain your stamina or hearts, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1:Yes yes, sir.
Speaker 2:I used to always come back to that one. So I'd go off, do a load of shrines, collect stuff for hours and hours and hours and I'd come back to change it for stamina. Or once I'd come back to change it for stamina, or once I'd filled my stamina up hearts and I'd always say to myself this is where it all began and I'd felt like I'd gone off on a massive mission because I'd been gone for 20, 30 hours and you'd come back and think that seems ages ago I was here and then you'd go off again on your missions again and I just thought that's really encapsulated that almost loneliness, but you're on a single-player mission in this big world.
Speaker 1:I thought they really nailed that I can totally identify with that. I mean, when I play Assassin's Creed I could fast travel, but for the majority of the time I sail there all the way there and all the way back. It's only in very recent missions where I've been like, yeah, I'm just going to fast travel, but it doesn't stop there, by the way.
Speaker 2:I've played more. I was just going to say, do you?
Speaker 1:play preferable to headphones on. Yeah, I have been.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Because it's got very, very good audio in that, so like, for instance, if you drop water in and the water sound effects are almost a lot of 3D sound. It's really good, really clever.
Speaker 1:I'm playing it with some time ago I got hold of some I can't remember where, it was Curry's, and I was looking for some Bluetooth headphones from Aveda and I saw these kind of such a nerd, saw these Sony ones. I've got a Sony Aveda, I've got Sony headphones. It's a sort of chill UI, you little dog.
Speaker 2:Not that they're not. I would do the same as well.
Speaker 1:But it was either that or some unknown brand to me. I always see these JBL ones and I'm like I don't even recognize you as a brand.
Speaker 1:Eat it, eat it, come at me. Anyway, I recognize Sony as a brand that's been making audio equipment for a long time and I appreciate what they're doing and it is normally easy. I've got some JBL stuff, don't get me wrong. I think I've got a little Bluetooth speaker by them. It's good quality, don't get me wrong. But I wanted Sony, let's face it and the WCH-510s. I think they are. I think they're a 20-quid pair of headphones but they are great. They're not over-ear, they're on-ear, but they've got these nice little leather cups and the sound quality for the price is really good. So I can hardly recommend them to anyone. I think they're on Amazon I'm not getting paid for this, by the way.
Speaker 2:I normally just use my Pulse, put the dongle in and you switch dock and away you go.
Speaker 1:Ah, yeah, there is that option. I normally if I'm going to use the pulse. I haven't got time to muck around with moving the dongle. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, I just stick the wire in it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you can Either or can't you.
Speaker 1:Either or but, sir, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, sir. Please, sir, do you want some more? Yeah, you dirty devil. So there's been some farming simulator updates. Got through to December and the price of canola peaked, so I hired a truck and trailer. I'm not buying anymore, I'm being savvy and I took it down at the highest market peak.
Speaker 2:oh, yeah, yeah oh yeah, that's the listeners heart listen your excitement after 261 episodes.
Speaker 1:If that works out yet, shame on you.
Speaker 2:That's just your little face going well. I'm in December and Nick and Ola I was pumped.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and obviously now back in the day, seasons was something that PC users had and console owners always dreamed of, and now it's like baked into the game and it does add things. It's not perpetually summer, which is obviously a little bit unrealistic. Oh, it's tough. Oh, I thought you were shouting to someone saying he's playing that game again, mumsy.
Speaker 2:No, I was just trying to cough, but then I forgot. We're on video as well.
Speaker 1:We're video now, which means I have to get washed, dressed and changed every time we want to film.
Speaker 2:There's no one bath a month day for you.
Speaker 1:No, I miss the dirty days of audio only. I really do.
Speaker 2:From Dirty George to Jaded George.
Speaker 1:Dirty Jaded George. We never were made. We were never made for video. I mean, we've got faces? Definitely not. We've got faces. Not even a mother could love. Definitely not. Mine never did. No, explains a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love you.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a step up from hating me. I don't know why I said that I felt this strange urge for compassion and now I completely regret it. Yeah, you hate me again. As a friend of mine once said, what are you looking for? What are you looking for? Are you looking for me to care? Well, I tell you what it's between shit and syphilis in the dictionary. Oh right, sympathy, yeah, nice, Thanks, mate. Yeah, cheers for that. That's your swords, anyway, I think I. Oh right.
Speaker 2:Sympathy. Yeah, nice Thanks mate. Yeah, cheers for that.
Speaker 1:That's your swords. Anyway, I think I've committed quite some sins on the way into episode 261. Some forgivable, some not. I mean there's like 16 UCP, hail Marys, pg era, og. Tom literally just turned in his grave. He's like what the hell is that? Then he sat up like the Undertaker.
Speaker 2:Due to Phil's going to do it for nothing, just to get the bleeps in.
Speaker 1:Jusufil's six foot under, if anyone wants to go sniff out that little bit of lore, oh my.
Speaker 2:God, that's going back.
Speaker 1:I forgot about him I ain't well, things you say under pressure in front of a microphone um, where were we? Farming simulator, right? Um, yeah, the season's had something to it, definitely, and I've got, I'm doing all the things I can do to get maximum yield. But it does leave you kind of a little bit kind of skipping days now because I'm like well, there's nothing I can do. I've planted all my fields, like I'm not just going to drive around the yard doing busy work, because like why would you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a bit like that winter in star dude is you can't really plant anything, so you're sort of wandering around looking for something to do for a day, literally, mate and I'm.
Speaker 1:I'm walking around like why am I doing this? It's like better go back to bed. When do you want to wake up? Zero eight hundred the next morning. Turn around, click on the sleep button. What do you want to do? Zero eight hundred the next morning. Please turn around. What do you want to do? I want to sleep, um, and then I had a moment where I checked the crops and then I thought why am I doing this? I should have done it on the map. They said I walked to the field. No explanation, really, rgt.
Speaker 2:Pass some time, I suppose. But guess what? Guess what, guess what.
Speaker 1:Guess what, guess what.
Speaker 2:There's more what Farm and Simulator no another game Thank God, All right. Crack on Indiana.
Speaker 1:Jones on the PS Premium section. Been playing it on the Portal.
Speaker 2:Is that the PS2 game?
Speaker 1:Well, it's spiked in value. Obviously because I've got the rubbish one. Yeah, because as soon as it started up I was like, oh, I don't know, Bloody hell.
Speaker 2:I don't know, bloody hell.
Speaker 1:I don't remember it looking this good. And then it started and I was like, yeah, this isn't the abomination I own. This looks great. Yeah, I did dabble with that. I thought you'd be all over it because it's very uncharted. Yeah, I did dabble with that. I thought you'd be all over it because it's very uncharted yeah, I did a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2:I just played the first half an hour. I had a little dabble on it. Where did you get to you do the first bit? You sort of go through that cave area, don't you? And then you come down. Do you fight some Germans, if I remember rightly.
Speaker 1:I can't quite remember I don't think you really fight them. You kind of plays a cut scene where you dodge him and you leg it and then you end up somewhere else, don't you, or yeah?
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, I think I got just as far as that part, but um I've got a little further and I'm kind of looking forward to going back to it. If I'm honest with you, it's enjoyable. It's definitely a game of its time. I did a little bit of research because there were some bits where I was hammering the buttons and I was thinking man alive. I don't remember PS2 games employing such weird kind of mechanisms Transpires it was on the Wii. Yeah, that's why you got to waggle, because you've been running yeah. So, yeah, I mean it's enjoyable. It looks good. They've got a good indie voice over. Um, generally, I'm kind of enjoying it. It's a nice little bit of soft fun to go back to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, um, rachel's lost. I've been coming up to bed I'll be up in a minute, babe. I'm just, uh, oh, not sims, just gonna finish my sims. And I'm like, okay, boom, wake up the next morning. Like, oh, there she is. But like what time did she crawl in her bed? Um, there was a moment of mourning as well, because her original sim passed. And she said I've been watching over the top of the switch or whatever. And she says, oh, what do you think I should put on a gravestone? And I said, oh, my love for you faded as your ass grew Because, literally, she designed this character and this sim just ended up with a derriere so large it almost needed to be carried around in a separate trolley. I don't know what's going on with the grass. I don't know what's going on with that game. It was obscene. She's got all that lower weight junk going on. No wonder she bloody passed on. But yeah, I find that to be a very unusual game, very unusual Kind of like. It's got this voyeuristic element to it.
Speaker 2:It's almost got like a sadistic element to it. It's a very odd concept, isn't it? Yeah, I mean, I got into playing them on the ps2 originally and I think I played the first couple, but sort of novelty war for me really like sims and pets or whatever it was no, I played the sims and then there was sims 2, I believe I think, but I put a lot more hours in the original sims cap was new.
Speaker 2:I'd never played anything like that. Uh, me and my friend played it and it was quite good fun and I think I started sims 2 and well, this is much the same again, do I really want to sink all these hours into this and then sort of faded away from it? But there is that side to it.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's all the same, I can't believe it. Do you want to play a bit of FIFA, brian? Let's do it. What one?
Speaker 2:18, 19, 20, 21,. Point taken, point taken um, um. But there's always that side to it where, if you look back now and people still do it, there's always that sinister sort of godlike side to it where people play out and think I could brick these in a room and set fire to them. I could put these in a swim and taunt the ladder out, see how long they last to swim. You know, there's almost that. There's that sinister side to it where people get that God complex.
Speaker 1:I tell you what I've never seen a lady descend into panic so quickly as she did. She's dying, she's dying, she's dying.
Speaker 2:Clear.
Speaker 1:She's dying.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let it happen.
Speaker 1:Nothing you can do, just let it happen. Yeah, it's for the best, it really it really is. Yeah, it is. Let her go, let's just let her slip away, um, just let her just, just let her fade, just just let her fade away, that's it, close your eyes.
Speaker 2:It's okay, there you go.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, to think that because of this last forever on YouTube and obviously we pay the podcast To make these shows last forever that could be something that someone hears For the last time, me shushing them off. Tragic If you're still Just gripping on to the fabric of reality, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:And that's the last thing they hear.
Speaker 1:Well, with all that said and done, friend, I think we've committed enough sins in there to last a lifetime. But hopefully you've enjoyed our gaming catch-up for the past week and don't forget, if you want to share a little bit more news about what you've been playing, you can message us on questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcastcom, or you could email us there. Yeah, get professional, george, and I'm trying, I'm trying, uh. Or you can message us on instagram or twitter, aka x. In fact, let's have a push towards that, and we've also been beavering away behind the scenes, not just on a website which is coming soon, the longest website reveal in history. But guess what? For all the cool, cool kids who are too cool for Discord, too cool for Instagram, too cool for the internet, too cool for all that other rigmarole, we've got a Reddit page.
Speaker 1:I don't quite know how you get to it. I think it's UCP, but you'll find it. If you search hard enough and if you're clever enough to find it, you can literally be the coolest kid on the street. One man found it, Badabinkster. He organically found it and he's made his way there.
Speaker 2:So basically, it's just me and him talking at the moment, if anyone, else.
Speaker 1:that's because I've been keeping it secret while I've been trying to build it together, trying to get my karma up, so it actually let me host a page. I don't understand it, but you know, I felt like I needed to spread myself out there a little bit before I dived in, uh, but I'm there and it's there and hopefully you'll enjoy that. So if you're too cool for all the other places, there's Reddit, we're on YouTube, feel free. I've seen some great comment today from MK Carl.
Speaker 1:I think, his username was where my face when you mentioned sociable soccer, and I managed to screenshot it at the perfect moment and I sent it to you and I just looked dead.
Speaker 2:I just looked absolutely dead, no interest whatsoever, whatsoever. It was just that complete disappointment.
Speaker 1:In me it's always the audio listeners, the OG audio listeners. We love you, keep doing what you're doing, but to those new kids who are looking at the YouTube, there's a little bit of visual entertainment for you as well, no doubt also. Does George really the audio listeners? Does George kids who are looking at the YouTube there's a little bit of visual entertainment for you as well, no doubt Also the audio listeners? Does George really have a picture of Mike Brewer on his wall?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he does. Yeah, he certainly does, does he?
Speaker 1:really have a gold record from his boy band era.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:He does. Why isn't he more famous? God knows, I was the fat guy with the farmer shirt in the background that, just basically I wasn't allowed to see. Shotty too hotty, shotty too hotty. Look, you know, it was the early aughts.
Speaker 2:You've got to make a living, haven't you Exactly I?
Speaker 1:certainly wanted to make it through my voice. I think everyone who's heard the RGT theme tune knows, yeah, you lost that there's no aughty tune on here, son.
Speaker 1:Good enough for a gold record, exactly you know, I'm not telling you what country it's in, okay, but North Korea, give them out. We've scoured and I've got down on my hands in these this week, and I've scoured the very darkest regions of the internet, much like blood on a crime scene. It's not the first time. It won't be the last. Scoured the very darkest regions of the internet to bring you the latest stories First up. That's bonus news. I don't know why I'm doing that, because we ain't got any of that this week. Playstation employees. Hang on a minute. I keep slipping back into old George. I'm having too much fun. I'm jaded. George, we've got a whole fan base, the one-man fan club came.
Speaker 2:You've got more for jaded George than you have for the original George.
Speaker 1:It's only one, but 250 episodes of being happy George, 10 episodes of being jaded George, bang, bang, club, bang, fan club. Okay, so I'm going to calm it down. I'm sorry. I'm sorry sir, I'm sorry sir.
Speaker 2:Sorry, sir.
Speaker 1:Here's the first bit of news. Yeah, it's our friends over at Push Square. They've crept out the woodwork with this bad boy. It's a story by the infamous Liam Croft over on there. It's PlayStation employs Bullet storm dev to make new ps5 game based on sony ip oh yeah, people can fly.
Speaker 1:The team behind shooters like bullet storm and outriders has announced it's entered into agreement with playstation to produce a new game based on a current pre-existing sony ip. No other details have been confirmed other than its code name. Project delta the technical speak confirms people can fly has entered production of a prototype of a new video game code named project delta, the product based on intellectual property rights belonging to the publisher. Currently, the studio is also collaborated with microsoft on the development of gears of war War E-Day it's a flashback to your Pleasure Dome days, rgt.
Speaker 1:Details pertaining to what the Sony IP the developer is working on haven't been shared, though, given its background, the chances of some kind of shooter are fairly high. This could bring the possibility of a new Killzone game Return of Resistance or, my personal opinion based on the Delta codename, although that might be throwing us off a SOCOM title. Or maybe, maybe another MAG, aka Massive Action Game that, if you remember, flopped because they launched it the day Sony got hacked and then didn't come back online for a record amount of time and during that time Mag literally died. It didn't even get the chance to do a Concorde. It literally had its throat cut by its own parents' hacking scenario.
Speaker 1:What we do know is the project's based on a current Sony IP, so make of that what you will. We'll get into this in the rub in a moment, but people can fly. As a polish developer that was founded in 2002 and is best known for bullet storm, it also made outriders, gears of war judgment and contributed to a number of other projects, like the save the world portion of fortnite rgt. What's your gut feeling telling you about that, friend?
Speaker 2:That's interesting. I mean, they've had their fingers in quite a few pies there, haven't they? To be fair, I mean they've dabbled.
Speaker 1:They have dabbled. Yeah, I mean, the clean answer is like a leper on a cookery course, but I'm sure you're looking for something a little bit more sexual.
Speaker 2:No, not at all. No, I was just using the business term. Oh wow, yeah. So okay, you're taking that down an octave, but anyway, no, I think that's quite interesting. I mean, there's people have been, you know, especially resistance fans have been asking for a new resistance game for a long time.
Speaker 1:I mean, we're in a dialogue here. I can't see it being that and I can't see it being Killzone. Maybe it will be. I just kind of feel like if it's a resistance, that'll be interesting to me because that's been rested for the longer time. Killzone we got a ps4 um game full one yeah something along those lines.
Speaker 1:Um, and you know, that was great in itself, although I didn't really click with it. I quite like the original resistance and I think it's a good franchise. But I just feel, like sony, probably they used to be the king of the realistic shooter. In fact it was actually. I had more. What you've been playing I forgot. I did deny I did it's because we talked about it off air. I totally forgot about it. We'll come back to that. Maybe Try and remind me and we'll come back to that.
Speaker 1:But the weekend as well, I had a little ps2 session. I was playing some socom and I was thinking to myself yeah, although I've never played this online now or back in the day, it's pretty competent in terms of you know, you're realistic. Well, no, I take that back. It's not realistic. It's actually been in afghanistan itself. It's a it's a pseudo want to be realistic game. That was really around sort of squad formations and doing things as a team.
Speaker 1:I feel like there's a really good moment where that could come back, I think out of all the titles, if you're going to make it an online shooter, if that's what they're doing, socom is ripe for that moment, almost like a Helldivers moment where you're in a helo, much like the original SOCOM. You get your briefing and you drop down. It's kind of almost procedurally generated levels Go in, get this, get out, get out. Do that, hold off this point, do that point, defend. It feels very hell divery and I think if you slap the socom name on, that helo comes down, dusts off, you jump out. I don't think you need to jump out in the air. You don't need that fortnight warzone moment. I think it could land. You can have all the grit in your face as you climb out. I think there's there's a lot to be said for that. And then you're working as a team towards objectives, like you do in hell divers. I think there's a space for that I think you might be right now.
Speaker 2:I mean maybe I mean sony were caught a bit on the hop for hell divers. I don't think they expected it to be half as successful as it was, absolutely maybe they're now. They're now thinking hold on, we've hit on something here, you know. Maybe that's you know. Rather than go down that first-person sort of competitional shooter route, let's do what we did with Helldivers and that sort of third-person sci-fi sort of. I mean, obviously SOCOM won't, but it seems to really hit off and people seem to love the way it worked. It's the collaboration effort.
Speaker 1:It's the collaboration effort, it's the working together rather than against. I think that made helldivers special for me. I've I've not been online for years, but it was always. Even when you were working as a team on cod, there was always that griefing element right either by the people you were facing or people on your own team who didn't think you were good enough to be on their team, sort of thing. Whereas helldivers there was an element of people not thinking you were good enough. But for the most part, from what I saw, people were willing to work with you, to have a great experience, and the friendliness and kindness of some of the games that I had really kind of made me think maybe I've got this wrong. Maybe online's changed. It's an interesting one. Just to play Devil's Adv rgt, you know, what do you think they could do with? Like a new killzone game? How would you like to see that sort of show now?
Speaker 2:so how many did they do in the end of those four, three, four?
Speaker 1:I think it's a trilogy, isn't there one, two and three on uh? One was on ps2. If you're lucky enough to get the box on PS3, you get 1, 2 and 3 on there. I think there was a much like Resistance. I think Killzone got a PSP spin-off title. I think it was that isometric one as well.
Speaker 2:Liberation, was it Something along?
Speaker 1:In my eyes. I know it looks really crude, but in some ways it's actually probably the better. That's strong. I take that back. It's certainly got the ability to stand on its own two feet, but obviously they're not going to do that. But you know, killzone could be good, but Resistance I have a soft spot for, because I always thought the first game was really really well done. It looks old now though, by the way. Really, I mean, I played it during probably covid, and I think I thought I loved every moment of it, but even then I was thinking this looks a bit rough at times, looks a bit PS2.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I mean especially the first one. It was quite early, wasn't it? Well, it was a release title, wasn't it? Yeah, it was, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Impressive for its moment. But very quickly the hardware and the industry kind of put a rocket up that generation's backside and things got very good looking very quick.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was a very brown early game, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:I think so, and that was my first takeaway was it was almost in black and white, which kind of suited it wasn't, but it kind of had that black and white sepia feel to it, because it was obviously set in an alternate Second World War-type timeline, which was always quite interesting. Yeah, is there any more you want to do on that, or do you want to hit me up?
Speaker 2:No, I think it's interesting and, like I say, I think you've probably hit the nail on the head with maybe going down that online search Project Delta sounds like something Bobolay would use as a codename for I mean, make up your own sort of solution for that, but yeah. Yeah, drop it in the Discord. Yeah, no, I think you're hitting out on it there. I think there could be a SOCOM, could be an online you know, team-based shooter. I think that could be rather good, really Interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll move on. You've scoured the very darkest range of the internet. What have you found?
Speaker 2:This is over on Pure Xbox, the title being Random. Oreo Xbox Series S owner shows off their monstrosity of a console. I have a crazy thing, he says, and this is brought to us by Fraser Gilbert Right, get ready for this. Oh, I'm ready. This isn't April Fool's.
Speaker 2:A couple of years ago, xbox partnered with Oreo to release a very special Oreo Xbox Series S as part of a sweepstake on social media, and it's believed that only three of them exist in the world, so they're very rare to come across. However, this week, a social media post has gone viral from someone who apparently owns the oreo xbox series s and is keen to find out how much it could be sold for. They've received over 1400 likes and almost 600 comments in the last 24 hours alone, with many suggesting they should keep it to growing value as long as possible. Here's what they had to say in their post to an Xbox Series XS fan group.
Speaker 2:I have this crazy thing, microsoft Series S Oreo edition. That is very rare, as I learned. How much do you think it's worth on the second-hand market Mine being one at a competition and is brand new, never used since then? Thank you, and here's a look at it. So obviously we're an audio show, you can't. But if you go over to Pure Xbox and look up this story, it's courtesy of someone who shared the image over on Reddit and it is a massive Oreo being dipped in some massive cream.
Speaker 2:It's a case, isn't it basically for a Series S there's a Series S tucked in the middle there, as part of the cream filling, I would imagine. But I suppose the good thing about using the S is you ain't got to use the disk drive of you, so you ain't got to find a little slot. My concern is heat management, but what do I know? Yeah, disk drive of you, so you could, you could, you know, you ain't got to find a little slot, so my concern is heat management.
Speaker 1:But what do I know?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean it's a big oreo.
Speaker 2:I'll give them that and even even even the controller's got the splashy cream up the sides of it. So, um, if you haven't steady valor, if you haven't noticed, the xbox series s is actually sandwiched in the middle of the giant Oreo here, and we're assuming it does actually work, unlike many of the other custom Xbox consoles. Will you behave yourself, george? Over the years have just been for display. As big Xbox fans, we'd really be looking to keep this, but if the deal ends up being too good to be true, we can certainly understand why you'd part with it. Sure, it might be a monstrosity in some people's eyes, but the unique design and rare availability of the Oreo Xbox Series S makes it a very cool collector's item for anyone who comes across one. What do you think?
Speaker 1:Well, first of all, before we discuss our own opinions, I'd welcome anybody on any of the social medias that follows us or in any way intrigued by us or is listening right now. If you've got a custom console, I want to see it. I want to see it. What you've done, is it something you've won? Is it a skin? Have you clagged on one of those normandy armor sets? You're crazy, have you? Wow, um, I want to see every single variation of your custom consoles that you've got. I keep my stock, even down to the faceplates, baby. I've never put a skin on. I've been tempted even the Nokia faceplate eras. I've been tempted to skin a console, not like, you know, like a rat or anything like that. I mean, put a decal on it or whatever. Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to go full Arthur Morgan at it Like, yeah, this will fetch a pretty penny. None of that, although I have also took consoles apart and not been able to put them back together.
Speaker 2:Don't go down that route. Oh, that network controller's got a bag of bits somewhere.
Speaker 1:I remember when I was a young lad I took apart an Atari ST and everyone had Mega Drives and I was so bummed out so I took apart my classic Atari one-button sort of hold-it-in-the-palmy-hand joystick, and then my mum came in. She was like oh, what are you doing?
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm making a joypad LAUGHTER making a joypad she probably just looked aghast as she saw like four hours worth of work of her slugging her guts out just evaporate out the window as her little stupid son took apart his prized possession and probably ended up crying because it looked like a circuit board with sellotape on it, because it was. And now I like as a grown man who has kids and sees him doing stupid stuff and I see my wages just evaporate out the window, I'm like, oh, stay calm, stay calm yeah, yeah, definitely, I've tried.
Speaker 2:I've tried to reskin in a controller before and then thought, yeah, I don't know where this pile of screws go, or you put it back together. It's very loose and you've still got a pile of screws next year. I weren't made for this sort of work I got listen. I've reskinned the psp and if you haven't, you did actually, and that is a tough job to do if you haven't got a pile of screws at the end of it.
Speaker 1:I say to you, sir, you're not doing it right. Yeah, I literally was full ocd with this. Uh, I was gonna say you know that's not right. Well, it kind of is uh, all the screws out, laid them all out, reversed everything, and still have screws left. What's happening to me? I'm a trade weapons engineer, but I don't know how to. I can't even put a joypad back together, oh God. Back to this, though.
Speaker 1:Obviously, all seriousness aside, we would love to see pictures of your custom controllers. I think Digital Monker is a dab hand. He sent me a GoldenEye controller that he'd made himself an N64 one Lovely little paint job. I know over the years he's made his custom uh consoles, but we want to see everybody else's. Um, what you got, what you're playing with? Any embarrassing? Uh, I tried to mod or fix my own equipment and ended up with some broken screws. Or or maybe mum walked in on you in an embarrassing moment and it wasn't you trying to make a joypad out of an atari. I want to hear all of it. You know, we're that kind of characters now, just just warts and all not those warts, well, maybe well, yeah, yeah, put them in the dms um put an emoji over it, yeah but now I think these sort of rare I mean uh, microsoft does this quite a lot, don't they?
Speaker 2:and you know, when they see the funny side, especially with the Series X, and people said it had got a fridge, so they made the actual Series X fridge, yeah, and you could buy, you know. And a toaster, yeah, and a toaster which prints the Xbox sort of into your toaster. And I did based youtubers buy them from america and then wondered why they nearly set the kitchen alight with them because they were putting them through the standard power supply, which is quite amusing. I saw that quite a lot, yeah, um, but personally I mean I quite like these unusual consoles, not? You say that it's a bit of a rarity. That's quite nice to have and if you're a collector like us we are that's quite a smart little rare piece to have in there. I know you've got a massive Oreo on your shelf, but then again, if someone come in with silly money, would you sort of go.
Speaker 1:Oh listen, if I posted that up and some sheik came in and said I'd get a million bucks for it, I'd be like listen, pal, take it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'll fly it over tomorrow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, literally we'll quit work and fly this over tomorrow. Chance would be a fine thing, but let's face it, it didn't happen. Yeah, I like the fun side of Xbox and Microsoft. It's always nice to see. I think I'll tell you what I'm not so enamoured with those. Hate me, if you like, right, I don't really care at this point, but these console jackets that Microsoft came out with, where you kind of wrap a parka coat around your Xbox.
Speaker 2:You sort of zip it up. Sort of weird, isn't it they?
Speaker 1:look all right, but there's absolutely no way I could put one on my Series X in good conscience and not think it was literally cooking itself. I know it's genuine, I know it's officially designed and everyone's going to get in there and tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. But there's just something fundamentally wrong about that. A tight fitting deckle I can get on board with, but that thick jacket that you wrap around, oh, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know I suppose I suppose with, especially with a series x, it's like a top based exhaust in it. I know people think in the modern consoles the fans cool things. They don't. They suck the hot air out. They're more of an exhaust rather than a coolant. So I suppose all that hot air is going out the top anyway. But I'm with you on that. There's something feels really wrong about actually putting a winter park coat on it. Yeah, I know what you mean. Obviously they've tested it and it's fine and they work and it's quite. And I suppose it is quite a nice idea that you can buy these different sort of I don't know what you'd call them.
Speaker 1:Well, they are skin, I think I want to take this moment actually to pour a little bit of shade on sony, because they're still in the in the era now where they could literally offer up the face platesates of their consoles, even the limited edition ones they could put out there, and I find that they're not really that readily available. I want to walk into Argos and pick up a Spider-Man skin, a Spider-Man set of faceplates. I want to pick up some Last of Us faceplates, but no, no, no, no, no. Got to get the old console for that mate plates.
Speaker 2:But no, no, no, no, no, gotta get the old console for that mate. Yeah, I think it was like mine. I've got the, I can't remember I'm looking at mine now I think crimson red, yeah, crimson red, I've got on mine and then I sort of done the leds inside and I've done the light up led playstation symbol as well.
Speaker 1:A bit of a madness. But you can make the lad, put the max power down, but you can't make the max power put the lad down if, if I could put twin tailpipes Last page of Max Power, by the way, is the only reason I bought it.
Speaker 2:Ooh yeah, if I could put twin cherry bombs on that, I would, but no. So when you turn on your playstation, you go.
Speaker 1:LED flashing gear knob.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, without doubt.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's already got under neons on it, so and I always used to giggle when I got in my mate's cars and they'd literally ran the amp cables just across the carpet. It's not even that hard to put it under. Yeah, it's not even that hard to run it down the side sill. What are you doing? Careful where you get it, boys. Careful where you get it. Got the amp cable down there.
Speaker 2:Oh right, so we've all got to literally hover. Yeah, Don't spill your KFC cola, because we'll short out, we'll short out, suck out. But we'll be fine because we've got rubber tyres. It's a Faraday cage, so don't worry.
Speaker 1:Did we talk about this on air or not? Those little strips that come down the back of your car?
Speaker 2:I don't think we did, but we've sort of spun into it on a tangent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're here now, aren't we Before kind of the proper car modding scene.
Speaker 2:We're showing our age a bit, aren't?
Speaker 1:we my dad told me about this Before the proper car modding scene in the 90s. Yeah, whatever, there were. Literally the only mods you could get for your car were comedy ones, weren't they Like fingers that were door guards, looked like you'd trap your hands in the door. And then there was this rage of these anti-static well, anti-car sickness, anti-car sickness yeah, like rubber strips you would sort of bolt to your chassis and they would come down and make contact with the ground and earth the vehicle. So you didn't get car sick.
Speaker 2:Oh, my dad was desperate to get them.
Speaker 1:How that affected your inner ear and your brain's perception to work out levels is beyond me. But you know, earthing the static that'll do it, cowboy That'll do it.
Speaker 2:I can remember Dad coming back from the workman's club and saying yeah, I've got to get these stripped. Barry's got them on his Cortina. Kids don't get sick anymore. Honestly, they're a new thing. They're unbelievable. I need a pair to put on the Fiat Uno. Need a pair for the Fiat Uno, Because Barry had them on his red Cortina with his GX Hazard wheel.
Speaker 1:Your dad was just wanting to fit in and he had to justify something to miss his RGT. Yeah, but I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2:Two of these strips hanging off the back of a beige Freedor D-Ridge Fiat Uno didn't help. It didn't help, it was beige.
Speaker 1:Just looks like a couple of overgrown canines scraping off the floor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so you've got to be careful there. You've got a couple of cable ties hanging off the back. Care if you don't catch them.
Speaker 1:Some of them had like little white motifs of a little earthing diamond.
Speaker 2:Or red reflectors. Others had red reflectors. Oh little red dot stick red reflectors on the ball. Yeah, he would drive along at night and he'd go look at that Renault 5 in front. He's got them, look, but his kids aren't sick.
Speaker 1:I tell you what the Gen Zers they're just like. Listen to these boomers. But you know, such is life. Let's draw a line under what's starting off as show me your modded console when it became.
Speaker 1:That offers an Oreo and ended up as Show me your dad's gash mods. If you want to show us M on Discord, we're all ears. If you want to start up a Reddit thread on the UCP Reddit page, feel free to throw that on there as well. It's literally a free-for-all on the Reddit, literally. So go knock yourself out. Nintendo Life has a story and it's a point that I think I might have raised, or maybe not, because I don't think I was on the Switch 2 episode, but when I was listening to it, when I was doing the editing and driving around listening to the episode, I wasn't on because I'm a good egg, not like you, yes, and I listened to the ones that even I'm not on.
Speaker 2:Why bother, I don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can tell yeah. Yeah, yeah, I can tell yeah. Obviously, when the Switch 2 launched, us being the cutting-edge news show that we are, we covered it quite quickly afterwards and we hope we brought you some great news and some great opinions on that by you and Scotty, by the way and if you're out there, scotty, we're thinking of you, we're looking forward to welcoming you back on your return. But Nintendo Life, yes, we've done the Holy Trinity Push, square, pure Xbox and Nintendo Life, father, son and the Holy Ghost. Switch 2, predicted to cost $400 or more, it could also be the biggest console launch ever, says Liam Doolin, who's Nintendo Life's Pope, canon and Bishop.
Speaker 1:As far as I'm concerned, big fan of the show, switch 2 is on the horizon. Analysis, analysis. I see ANA and ANAL on a letter and I suddenly start panicking, need to clear my search history, but in this moment I'm safe. It's analysts are predicting to be the biggest console launch ever in the history, as well as the priciest Nintendo machine to date. Bloomberg has spoken to multiple analysts who regularly communicate with the company and its software and hardware partners, and it's believed it could come with a price price tag of 400 or more. Don't say jd george didn't tell you. So the us tariff might also complicate the picture and pressure nintendo's margins.
Speaker 1:The tokyo-based industry watcher circantoto expects this don't let the rains down in Africa. Expects a system to sell boatloads in its opening month, regardless of the price, noting how an exciting line-up of games Can be expected across the current and next generation Nintendo systems this year. Here's a quote. Why are you gay? We can expect a great software line-up in year one from the Nintendo Mario Kart and 3D Mario that's a reference to a meme, by the way, I've not got an issue with any of it Mario after eight years, the Pokemon Legends, za and Metroid Prime 4. There will also be third-party support from day one, most probably including blockbusters like Call of Duty. Macquarie Capital analyst Hiroshi Yamashina has also chimed in. My God, this is like something I've written. They're suggesting.
Speaker 2:Told you he was a fan of the show.
Speaker 1:Told you he was a fan of the show.
Speaker 2:He's a bit of a chime.
Speaker 1:Suggesting the Switch will be priced between $399 and $499. And Toyo Securities analyst Hideka Yasuda estimates it could go as high as $499. Nintendo is believed to have a first-date inventory of around six to eight million Crikey boys. I tell you what you better hope it's good. That's one hell of a pile of boxes. I suppose you'd be given to the homeless for a living. Could establish new hardware as the biggest console launch ever. Nintendo is expected to share more details about the price and release it at the Switch 2 during its April broadcast.
Speaker 1:Latest predictions follow a similar story in February details about the price and release it at the switch to during its april broadcast. The latest predictions follow a similar story in february, suggesting the switch to would be about 400 rgt. What's your take on this? Because I'm starting to think that for the switch to the kind of tech that's being muted, the kind of undiscountable price that Nintendo probably need it to be to compete with the big boys, it's got to be 450 plus. Now I'm talking dollars, pounds and euros. You know how these things normally average out, but I can't see any other way that could be less.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I said on the Switch 2 show about I thought that would be about £449, something like that £500, I think that's. But then again they'll sell them.
Speaker 1:Inflation time to move on, They'll sell them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they'll sell them. They will sell them. I'm thinking more of a personal side. Please be £450.
Speaker 1:more of a personal side of it, please be 450. Oh listen, yeah listen. What's 50 quid really between you and a massive Japanese software conglomerate Software and hardware conglomerate, I mean really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, but then again you can afford it, yeah, but then you can get 8,050 quids and that's going to be a big difference. So yeah, huge yeah. And I think you know we know limited things about it, we know leaks that we've seen, I think for what tech we're assuming it's being, I think, 450s roundabout. I mean, what did the original Switch launch at?
Speaker 1:Was it 3? It was either 299 or 399. Tell you what? Let's get the facts here.
Speaker 2:I think it was some. Yeah, I think for some reason I keep thinking like 379 or something. I think it was Something along them lines. So you know for the step up.
Speaker 1:Launched in the UK at 309.
Speaker 2:309? Mm, Mm.
Speaker 1:So I know you've got inflation 279 299 actually never ask Google anything. You've got to actually then go searching for the right answer.
Speaker 2:It launched in the UK at 279 wow, so it's a big difference between the one and the two. I know you've got inflation there over the 7-8 years, whatever, but yeah, so, like you say, well, the tech's a little bit more up to date, isn't it?
Speaker 1:And you know they're probably thinking they're going to have to stretch this one out equally as long as the first Switch. They'll probably have to spec it a bit because they know they're in for the long haul. I don't really know quite what they're thinking, because they can get away with blue murder. And one thing I would say is, when the Switch launched let's not forget it was off the back of the wii u and no one really expected anything. Obviously, they did the trailer and picked up some hype people on board with it pretty quickly.
Speaker 1:Um, and then, from there, the games, everything took off. I mean, a lot of it was rehash wii u titles. So they're gonna have to pull a flanker this time in terms of the games. They're gonna have to literally go to the locker and come up with something pretty new and cool. Um, that's a bit harsh, I know it is, but for the majority of it's true rgt, if I may say so. So hopefully, during this time they have been incubating some, some newer and fresher ideas that are literally going to rock the switch to as it comes out the gates. There's also, you know, a really vast installed user base and there's some very vocal switch owners normally men on uh on youtube, normally got a weak beard, probably a soya milk sort of scenario. But um rgt. You shake your head and say, oh, how dare you. But you're only saying it because it's true.
Speaker 2:I didn't shake my head. I just closed my eyes and just thought where's this going?
Speaker 1:JD George just says it how it is, I've gathered.
Speaker 1:There's one thing about the Switch, though, and this is one thing I will say about it is it's actually brought in a lot more gamers Exclusively. Historically, gaming is seen as a man's area, but I see the Switch as being a feeder drug for quite a lot of females to actually feel safe and welcome and comfortable to come into the gaming environment. It's not offensive, it's not big, it's not, and by that I mean it's diminutive to hold. It's not offensive, it's not big, it's not, and by that I mean it's diminutive to hold. It's not, you know, in your face or overly macho. It's got an almost kind of like friendly aesthetic to it, especially the light, and I think that element is what's actually really broadened off the user within this.
Speaker 1:At the other end, obviously, we've got those aforementioned gentlemen. They're running six-hour-long podcasts about I don't know the lore of Pokemon, and then you come all the way to the other end and you've got the cool girls playing Dreamlight Valley, et cetera, things like that you know animal crossing, and they've really done a good job of becoming a more socially acceptable gaming environment it's definitely more of a platform for everyone.
Speaker 2:you know exactly kids enjoy the kids games on it. Oh, you know, loads of kids all have switches. But then you've got there's quite a few um, female, um youtubers I follow who are Switch content, do all cozy games and things like that. There's a lot of that. Then you've got the other side with Nintendo Life and Switch Up and that side of games Marathon Gaming, marathon Gaming Obviously he's the number one Switch guy.
Speaker 1:He is the number one Switch guy.
Speaker 2:But it covers. They've done a great job. There's a lot of content on that system. There's a lot of games on there, um, and it does cover a very wide range. So it is something for everyone, um, and it's really got. I was speaking to you today. I mean mrs rgt was a very, very gamer, sort of on her phone bit of iPad occasionally played a bit of Jak and Daxter and didn't really play a lot but Switch Lite and Stardew Valley and there we go. That's a new hobby for her.
Speaker 1:I know this sounds a bit odd, but it's the least threatening console.
Speaker 2:And it's handheld and you know it's literally. And also it's got that brilliant thing where you can just turn it on, do your three buttons, bang, you're straight back in the game. You know, yeah, there's no complicated interfaces.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, the Switch comes with a dock and I feel like, yeah, if you want to go a stage further and play it on your telly, fine. But that can be a bit intimidating to people. I know that sounds a bit strange to you or me, because we're quite happy to you. Know, rag the telly out, rip all this HDMI out and go at it like a backstreet guy pulling someone's intestines out. We're not that bothered, we'll go full ham on the back of it. But to a younger kid or a female, that might be like, oh, I don't really know about the back of my telly and email, um, that might be like, oh, I don't really know about the back of my telly. And that's not to insult the ladies. You know, I know the vast majority of you are very switched on and tech savvy and everything.
Speaker 2:But we're talking the broader demographic here yeah, and newer gamers, and especially even for parents who aren't gamers.
Speaker 2:The switch is just the fail safe, because you can just say yep, there's your switch you don't need literally there yeah, you don't need to put it on the telly, they don't need to take over the TV where dad's trying to watch the news. You know there's your switch where you go and yeah, they've, they've covered all angles with it. They definitely have. But, yeah, switch to. You know that's that hard second album minute. You know so it's going to. It's going to be interesting to see. Um, yeah, I think, the actual format of the platform. They've smashed it. I think with what they've done for the handheld, with the dock, you can put it straight on your TV. We take it for granted now, but when it first came out, that was something very different.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. You know it's a handheld and it's a console and you just pop it in and it's on your telly. It's amazing. So if they have taken the right steps by, they've always been slightly behind nintendo. Do you know what I mean it's? You know, with even going back as far as the wii and you're still plugging av cables in your telly. Do you know I mean it's? They didn't make that jump. But if with this they've gone 4k, they've made it that bit bigger. It's got more memory, it can run bigger and better games. If they've done all that and just telling them you know this hasn't got to be dramatically different. The format works and then people are in with that format, will buy this is this not gonna be?
Speaker 1:do you fear for a nintendo that's just trapped, reiterating on the switch because they don't try something crazy again though?
Speaker 2:um, I don't know. I was talking to someone when I was at work the other day and I sort of compared this to Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, whereas when the first one come out.
Speaker 2:That's the only thing that worried me. The first one come out and it was just like wow, this is really different and they smashed it out of the park. Now the second one. You've got to try and be bigger and better, but you still got to have the essence of what made that first one special. That's right. So, and although I love tears of the kingdom and I put equally as much amount of time in tears of the kingdom, breath of the wild is still my favorite because I had that wow factor from that first come out. Now the switch to we've seen, yes, we've seen the dock. Yes, we've seen you can take out, we've seen all that, so that that wow factor's gone. So it needs to be quite special with the upgrades to make it that bit better. Do you know what I mean? So this it'll be interesting to see. I'm looking forward to it. Yes, I will be hopefully be, a day one, a doctor of it, because I'm quite excited for it. But we'll see if it still has that wow impact.
Speaker 1:I think it's got. I think it's got. I think it's got every chance, especially if you are locked in the Nintendo ecosystem.
Speaker 2:You've been looking for that for years and it's backward compatible, which is another side to that which you think 99.9%.
Speaker 1:I mean we don't know if that's low yet or whether there is an element of some games that won't run. We just don't know. Do we need more clarification?
Speaker 2:and it's going to be like switch sports. You put your joy-con in your leg thing. For switch sports the joy-con's bigger. It's not going to fit. It's more likely going to be stuff like that.
Speaker 1:I think that's what gaffer tape's for?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean, do I want a gaffer tape, a joy-con, two to my thigh?
Speaker 1:took it in a took it in your sock like a switchblade.
Speaker 2:Oh, hang on, that's a t-shirt idea yeah, badabinks, they get on that, uh yeah, so I think it's mostly going to be bits and pieces like that where you interact or you have extra accessories that have to fit the joy cons in which won't fit now. So, and also they're probably rubbing their hands together, means you have to do nintendo switch sports 2, which will release with only three activities on, and then over about five years we'll just put one activity a year don't forget.
Speaker 1:Don't forget my son, as father follows, son follows father. He's got all his stuff collected and displayed for his. He was an avid switch collector before he got his Xbox. Bless his cotton socks. Such a good lad. And one of the things he's got on the shelf is his officially branded ready to go leg strap, still boxed, unsealed, because he just tucks it in his sock because he's gangster there, just tucks it in his sock because he's gangster. That's how he rolls. That's how he rolls switchblade in his sock, yeah.
Speaker 2:But I think about 450.
Speaker 1:Imagine getting patted down in a club and the bouncer's like hey, brian, bit of help over here. Mate, what's in your sock he's packing? Lift your trouser leg up. Mate. What's in your sock he's packing Right? Lift your trouser leg up, mate Bloody hell.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a Zelda Joy-Con. It's a Zelda Joy-Con Right. Since Johnny's got a Zelda Joy-Con, I can get these. They're limited edition.
Speaker 1:They're pinning down, we'll have it yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, offensive weapon. Mason, I can't see it's a bit harsh for the youth club.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a little strong. But yeah, I think, why do you get the killer lines now? Why do I write the script where you get the killer lines? I'm JD George. No one's meant to like me.
Speaker 2:That's because I write them now. You're right, that's the literal difference, isn't it?
Speaker 1:When you're writing for yourself, you make yourself the hero. When someone else is writing for you, you become the enemy. What's that Batman quote? I don't live long enough to be a hero, or whatever it is. Someone tell me in community corrections.
Speaker 2:I normally know what it is, but right now I don't know anymore. Should we go back to Switch 2? I don't think I'm done with it. Yeah, no, I think 450.
Speaker 1:I think 500 is a push, but let's be honest, I'll sell it.
Speaker 2:279 felt steep back in the day. Yeah, you are right.
Speaker 1:You are right, and as I saw a sticker on a game the other day WrestleMania 2000, 49-99. Welcome to the year 1999. I mean, wow, yeah, welcome to the year 1999.
Speaker 2:I mean, wow, yeah, no, it's true, it's true. So whatever happens, it's going to sell gangbusters. I mean, they're expecting to sell what? 20 million in the first year, which is just crazy.
Speaker 1:Got an eight million stockpile ready to go. They're coming out on the war footing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's going to be a bang in that, isn't it?
Speaker 1:I wonder how long they'll concurrently run the two systems back-to-back with each other, or there'll be just a hard line for them and they'll go no. Switch 2, end of story now. Yeah, it's interesting Because they're leaving behind such a huge audience, it would seem insane not for them to go kind of cross-party cross-.
Speaker 2:It would seem insane not for them to go kind of cross party, cross platform for a while. It's a bit like playstation did with a ps4 and drag it along till enough people had a ps5.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, yeah, pull them along with it because hang on a minute we're leaving probably the largest skew of consumers we've ever ever had and we're going to switch to that. Switch to. There's a lot of switches in there. We we going to switch to that Switch 2? There's a lot of Switches in there. Are we going to switch to the Switch 2 and just draw a line down on them like a guillotine? I mean that doesn't make any business sense.
Speaker 2:No, no, I think it's going to be a bit of a slow transition over two or three years, I think.
Speaker 1:I tell you what there's several years' worth of content for Digital Foundry there, if they do have that cross-gen thing running.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that'll be interesting.
Speaker 1:They could retire off that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All the kids on the run-up to Christmas just like how bad is it going to be on me Switch One. Oh God 720p Mario running around without a face or it's half hanging off as it's trying to render it.
Speaker 2:yeah, I can see it now don't they see it as we know?
Speaker 1:CPS1 oh god, oh god, oh god it's a blur.
Speaker 2:Mum, I need a switch too.
Speaker 1:It's just a blur, it's a mess well, there's another way of actually driving your people to your next console while also selling tat on your first console. Ooh, that's not a good look, is it?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:If a family-based, friendly console all of a sudden almost ships you a zombie-like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they've got like eight Switches in the house and they go right. You can't use that anymore. In the new game you need eight Switch 2s, I'm afraid oh.
Speaker 1:Or they don't upgrade the game and the difference between the Switch 1 and Switch 2 is literally the little noggin on the cart, which means you can't play it.
Speaker 2:Ooh, a bit like 3DS, oh dear, doesn't fit.
Speaker 1:It's all right. Get the original Switch version. Hang on, these graphics are the same. Oh, are they? It's a launch game for the Switch version. Hang on, these graphics are the same. Oh, are they? It's a launch game for the Switch too. Why is it? Save money, get it on the Switch.
Speaker 2:So why are they launching with Breath of the Wild again?
Speaker 1:Breath of the Wild 4K's coming dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it will do. Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 1:That's been doing the rounds behind the scenes for a while. So if that comes as a free upgrade, literally, what's become of you, nintendo? Is that the news? I think we're there on me, I think I think we are. Yeah, um, oh, I had some wrap up what you been playing, didn't.
Speaker 2:I. I do believe this will be on a PlayStation D. You like that?
Speaker 1:PlayStation Dub, baby, dub, double. Do the double Be a double, be a stub. Yeah, so, as people know, I've been enjoying a little bit of True Crime Streets in New York. I was playing it the other day and I just thought to myself, because when you load up the game, it runs through these scenes of their incarnation of New York and it's got this heat haze on it. I'm playing it on component and then forcing progressive scam. It's one of the PS2 games that will let you do it and it's one hell of a looker and I was thinking I don't remember LA looking this good. I mean, this looks almost like PS3. If someone had told me before GTA 3 had launched this was GTA 3, I'd be like, wow, okay, wow, I mean GTA 4, sorry, wow, okay. This is impressive.
Speaker 1:I didn't realise that, even had that progressive scan on it, I didn't realise you could even do it yeah and you can force it widescreen, you can do all sorts of stuff with it and it kind of rolls through just these windowed sections. It's got the black bars on True Crime Streets, new York. It looks really good. I thought to myself I'm enjoying this, it looks great. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh. Let me get True Crime Streets of Laydown off the shelf.
Speaker 2:Pop the console open Was that a backward step by any chance, George.
Speaker 1:Let me take you on a journey friend. Let me take you on a journey friend. I slapped it in the console, closed it. I thought it loaded up and I was like, oh, this is. This is kind of fresh actually yeah maybe I did. Maybe I did. Went into the options, I thought, well, just make sure I can put it on surround sound because my system supports Prologic 2 as well. So I found that and I'm like oh, I'll put that on as I do on True Crime Streets, new York, and it works really well.
Speaker 2:Full experience.
Speaker 1:Full experience, and that was in the options. I found a section that said progressive scan. I thought, wow, I'll have a bit of that. So I selected it. But yeah, see this in its full incarnation. Started a new game. Boom uploaded this. Well, we're like dog sick.
Speaker 1:If I'm honest with you, what I can say about True Crime Streets of New York is the textures are solid, even though they're a bit blurry. They look good In this. They hadn't bothered with texture If they had, it was like some it's off, microsoft paint, um, and, and christopher walk-in did the famous intro, but about I don't know nine tenths of the way through it it just sort of cut off and went to a loading screen. It's almost so the game had got bored of its own drivel. Then it loaded into the section where you meet your female boss, and it was late at night, so you know, probably could pin it on a couple of things, to be fair, and I thought, no, no, no, hang on a second.
Speaker 1:What's going on here? What? I'm all for inclusion, but I don't remember him having a female voice. I then noticed that none of the words were matching up with the characters, and then I realised that the whole audio track was probably about three seconds behind the video. Ooh, I thought this isn't right, this isn't right. And then, before that cutscene had a chance to finish, the game got bored of its own cutscene and skipped itself again, so it might have progressive scan, but it can't quite keep up with herself on progressive scan.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm the only guy that's nerdy enough to have two true crime streets of LA. Wow.
Speaker 2:I mean, I know you go all in on things, but my Christ son, so I thought, maybe, maybe, maybe.
Speaker 1:Maybe there were two different versions, maybe I've got the early release version that needed patching and this snuck through. And I looked at the early release version that needed patching and this snuck through. And I looked at the disc as I took it out of the console. It is play warm but not unplayable. I thought maybe that's it. So I got this other game out, looked on the back of it literally brand new. There was a couple of fingerprints on it where someone had picked it up and probably thrown it back in the box after about two seconds. That's probably why it's mint Pop after about two seconds. That's probably why it's mint. Popped it back in the machine, loaded it all back up again.
Speaker 2:Why did I try to play it on progressive scan and thought nope and put it back in the box?
Speaker 1:I think that's what happened, pal, because you know it transpired to me. The disc wasn't skipped, there was nothing wrong with the print run. This is how the game is. And at that moment I yacked into a bag. I yacked into a bag, threw the game console, threw the console, threw the game into the sick bag, threw it to one side and went back to True Crime Streets in New York, which is actually good. I did play a little bit of LA and I mentioned to you before how disappointing the mechanic was, where I had to literally beat someone to death and then cuff them. In True Crime Streets of LA, they don't even bother with the cuffing, you just pound them into the ground until they die and that's considered good cop. If you shoot them, even though it's the same result, that's bad cop, some would argue a bully is much more merciful than beating someone into a bloody pulp on the streets of LA.
Speaker 1:But there you go, rgt. We've done what you've been playing. Yes, we've done the news. We've done what you've been playing again. And now we're at the moment where some would say it's time for us to thank our supporters who pay to support the show on a monthly basis. Don't panic, don't panic. And then you're like oh, they're one of these chancers. And we're not those chancers at all. We're just good lads just trying to make the show pay its own way a little bit. So we don't get bankrupt, are you good?
Speaker 1:Yeah, ccj is nothing, mate.
Speaker 2:To me.
Speaker 1:I wear them like medals you spend your whole life wondering what they are and then you get one and you don't want it. I haven't got one FYI, but depends how long this show rumbles on for I suppose probably a straining order or six and on tag, but no CCJ. But you guys are very kind. The show will always be free. Everywhere that you need to interact with us is free. There is a section on Discord for people that pay, where they can get together with like-minded friends and have a little private area, but every other section of it is free.
Speaker 1:The Reddit is free. The website will be free. The show is free. The reddit is free. The website will be free. The show is free. It's on youtube, it's everywhere, and it's not as though you're just paying for nothing. We're not one of those shows that just absorbs money and kicks you in the backside. We've um, you get merch. We've done some bits recently where, even if you missed the early adopters, I've honored my commitment to you and we've sent you a t-shirt and all that good stuff. And, just so you know, we've got a new wave of artwork coming. It's a whole rebrand of the show.
Speaker 1:We're very excited about it, very very excited about it and we're very excited to share a little bit more um without giving too much away. Uh, our good friend of the show, harvey retro, has been trying to do a little bit more of his artistry and we've had him prepare some stuff for us very professionally. That's towards a rebrand.
Speaker 1:So if you want to see what he's about, he's got an absolutely gangbusters YouTube channel called Enigmatic Productions and he's also got an Instagram page now called Edward Harvey Art, where he's putting up some of his professional work, and I encourage you, if you're listening, and you've got your own show or you know someone who's got a little bit of something going on, or you've got a business or whatever, I think he would sell himself out to anyone With class, though he's the sort of guy that leaves an after eight on the side when he's done.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 1:Although, to be fair, I thought it was an after-rate. It was dark but it was kind of a square package.
Speaker 2:It was minty but it was very rubbery, so I'm not exactly sure it was an after-rate but in my mind I like to imagine Did it have sort of a slimy texture, or was it more?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like chewing gum that just wouldn't ever kind of bend, really.
Speaker 2:I had one of them. I could not blow a bubble with it. I blew and blew and it was the toughest.
Speaker 1:I think if you put it on your lips and pushed really hard, I think oh, wow. Yeah, you can blow a bubble with it if you try hard enough. Jam it between the gap on your front teeth and just blow like an absolute hooligan.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I nearly passed out last time, but I'll give it a go.
Speaker 1:So he's the sort of character that's classy enough to leave an after eight on your bedside afterwards. So Edward Harvey Hart, check him out, please do. Friend of the show, he's got some good stuff going on over there and he's also starting to indulge some more of his kind of filmic wants and needs. He put up an answer phone message the other day which was very humorous.
Speaker 1:He put up an answer phone message the other day, which was very humorous when you can say the word Cliff Richard Boob and Ginster Slice within 30 seconds of each other, you know you're onto something pretty solid, without a doubt.
Speaker 2:That was funny, it was brilliant. He's perfect for this show.
Speaker 1:And I'll be honest with you, I did message him and say a little bit too close to comfort mate, because I've left those messages. I did message him and say a little bit too close to comfort mate, because I've left those messages, I've left those messages. So, yeah, very excited, we're thinking April. We're hoping we can get our acting order to do that at once. So, rgt, the man behind the scenes, the executive producer, will be reaching out to you soon to find out wants and needs.
Speaker 2:No doubt, rgt yes, yes, we've done all the spreadsheets and bits and pieces. We know who's getting what and who wants what. We've had a couple of people actually upgrade to get a few bits, which is fantastic and thank you, listen, you know we appreciate everyone, from three dollars to ten dollars, but, yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 1:And don't forget, it's dollars. Okay, no disrespect to the American listeners, but it's not real money, it's Monopoly. Okay, so you're paying us $3. It literally probably translates to well, being serious now, it probably translates to about $2.75. It's not quite the £3 that you think it is when you click on it.
Speaker 1:It's all done in dollars. We're a worldwide show, so we need to be accessible by everybody, and the worldwide currency is dollars. So that's what we charge you in, Don't worry, because it does do the exchange rate, so you do pay slightly less, and for that there's a myriad of things you can get in at $3, and you can go all the way up to what? Is it $8 or $10, RGT $10,.
Speaker 2:Yeah, $3 to $10. Yeah $3, $5, $8, and $10. We've tried to do it so everyone's including everything. But as you go up the grades you just get a little bit more merch as you go along there's been a reorganisation to make it slightly more. Yeah, so basically, even if you're $3, you get Unglorious Chat, you get the Zoom meetup right from the get-go. So everyone's involved in that and basically as the money goes up you get that little bit extra merch as you go along.
Speaker 1:Now, we were going to do a Zoom chat today, but for a fair reason and well, for a myriad of reasons it fell through. I'm suggesting that next time we do a a live recording yeah, we did chat about this, so yeah, on of an episode and you guys will be in the background, but we'll also pull you into interact so you can get that moment where you can tell mumsy that you're a radio star.
Speaker 1:I forgot. We're on youtube now, so you're a video star as well. Yeah, it doesn't really. You get to be on your favorite show, so hopefully that should encourage a few more of you. I know, look, you're all busy lives and we're. You're a video star as well. It doesn't really you get to be on your favourite show, so hopefully that should encourage a few more of you. I know, look, you're all busy lives and we're all trying to organise stuff. It's a bit like herding cats at times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we had sort of you know, I think sometimes we have up to sort of seven or eight. This time we had about two or three and we thought, well, I'd rather do it so we have the people, more people on. You know it's good enough that you've done it, so let's try and do it when more people can be there. I know them three weren't able to go on there and I'm sorry about that. But if we can do it where we have more of us on, then we're still giving you that little bit of reward of being on there Absolutely, and we'll do a show out of it and you can come on the show and we'll interact with you with the news and bits and pieces.
Speaker 1:So you'll see me say hello and welcome to an official controller podcast and you can all cringe behind yourselves as we do it. Don't worry, if you haven't got studio quality gear, it does not matter, we'll make it one way or the other.
Speaker 2:We'll get it right in the edit.
Speaker 1:You can do it on your phone If you haven't got a cat picture of a soiled medical glove on a piece of grass is equally as fine. I don't know where that came from, rgt. I really have no idea.
Speaker 2:No, I don't know where that came from. He said it. Yes, it weren't you, that was JJ George. Yeah, I'm a method actor.
Speaker 1:I'm a method actor. It takes me a couple of hours to come down. It takes me a couple of hours to come up.
Speaker 2:Okay, I have heard.
Speaker 1:Simmer down. Sorry, I'm excited, this week I can tell yeah, I am, I'm excited. Someone would think you just sort of bum-rushed a couple of cans of crafty.
Speaker 2:I'm professional, darling, I would not do that. Oh, hang on, we're video now, aren't we?
Speaker 1:Yeah, sorry that was apple juice, very thick apple juice.
Speaker 2:You were talking about Nintendo and in the background there's me shotgun on a Get a hazy pile of.
Speaker 1:Gagging on it Like a Viking on a horn, it's just pouring down the side of your beard While you're chatting all. I can hear is RGT what I was drinking? A can of drink. The podcast users just thought that you'd gone down, I was drinking a can of drink.
Speaker 2:You'd gone down south. That's your mind. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:If I'd been, driving down the A423, I'd have been like hang on a minute rewind.
Speaker 2:What just went on there? That's the perfect sound of drinking a can of beer Going brown. Anyway, right onto the list. You started last week, so I think it's my turn to start this week.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So I will start with Seanox. Thank you very much, seanox from Sweden. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1:The show's own Viking Vikingra, which means I get the most beautiful man.
Speaker 2:He is beautiful actually I will give him that.
Speaker 1:There's many people out there that have numerous fan clubs, but I don't need thousands, I need one, a one-man army. He he's built like a robot. He's cybernetic. He's literally got the podcast wide into his skin. He sees through youtube videos of us. Only his interaction, his interpretation of the world is one big unofficial controller podcast video. Yeah, he has no idea what his own family look like, because he looks at them and it kind of just blurs my new face on them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's probably just your face, because it's the one man George fan club.
Speaker 1:I don't know what I was thinking. I'm sorry, carlos, you're right, everyone in his world looks like me.
Speaker 2:Poor bloke Jeez.
Speaker 1:When he looks in the mirror, he sees me.
Speaker 2:Oh, I said the shiver down my spine. If you need to chat, carlos, just let me know um. Next up, we have the wonderful firm returns. Thank you very much for all your help and everything thank you very much.
Speaker 1:Appreciate you, yes, uh, which means I get to um thank the wonderful trestles, new yorker place where we filmed. You keep talking about ASMR, but we did an actual ASMR show in there with some of the best food in New York. So thank you again to you guys for that and supporting us to this day.
Speaker 2:Then we've got Badabingstar. Thank you very much, young man. Everybody stand down. Yes.
Speaker 1:Everybody sit down, sir Badabingster. Bonjour, no, como stai? Si prego, non ci amale De nulla. Stammi bene, badabingster. Stammi bene.
Speaker 2:Anyway, see you next after that.
Speaker 1:Okay. So Now there's an image. I have to admit. Here we go of a statue of the perfect man.
Speaker 2:And I know who that would be.
Speaker 1:It's Tingle Tuna. Every single element of his proportions is perfect in every way. It's not too big, it's not too small. Some areas are big. Some areas are perfect in every single way. His face, hewn in marble as it is, and I've seen, he's now sporting what I would call probably one of the most devilishly dishy, handsome moustaches I have ever seen a man wear. I pray you've been able to hold down Mrs Snow. You're not holding her down. Keep her at bay with a razor, because that thing needs to survive. You'd look almost like a suave aversion of Nigel Havers.
Speaker 2:Well, I was going to say I haven't been this aroused since Magnum.
Speaker 1:What the ice cream?
Speaker 2:Yeah and PI Okay who's next? Anyway, right, that's out of the way. Next we have the wonderful Digital Monkery. He's a bit of the Discord police. He's a bit of the old challenge accepted. He's a bit of the old screenshot competition. Yeah. He keeps us going behind the scenes bless him. So yeah, thank you very much, as always.
Speaker 1:Without him, it would be a true free-for-all in the Discord and it would be chaos, exactly which means I get. Now I don't know why he calls himself the Gaminggram, because this guy brings so much gaming goodness and handsomeness that he should be called the Gamingkilogram.
Speaker 2:Very good. Next up we have the wonderful board board, board, border, bald border because I've got the wrong head of hair.
Speaker 1:So work that one out for yourselves yeah, bald border.
Speaker 2:Thank you very much, as always which means I get, I've come here we go. I couldn't find.
Speaker 1:Here we go I couldn't find your specs, but I've come dressed as him. Look at this, look at the attention to detail that I've gone to Come on.
Speaker 2:It's a bit creepy now, but carry on.
Speaker 1:He's looking around in his room now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Is he in my cupboard? I'm sure he's recording in my cupboard.
Speaker 1:Why have I got a picture of my brewery in my cupboard?
Speaker 2:Yeah, why has he got my gold LP?
Speaker 1:From his boy band-aid. He's in North Korea, why, I don't know. Going brown Boba Loba who is? The true sheriff of the Discord, so we are very grateful for everything you do beyond the scenes.
Speaker 2:And I still apologise for last week for not saying actually, boba, I just sat here and said Gurn Bran, which I forgot to add your name on, which probably creeped a few people out.
Speaker 1:You want to say it twice, just to make sure it's right.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:Just pay forward a bit no, not that You've already said just pay forward a bit, no, not that You've already said that more times than necessary.
Speaker 2:Oh, right, okay, Say what then?
Speaker 1:Say his actual name. What Gernbrand? Oh my God.
Speaker 2:Boba, boba.
Speaker 1:Boba Countryman Sandman or something. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2:The Sandman.
Speaker 1:Now this next gentleman.
Speaker 2:I don't believe it's me.
Speaker 1:I want this please.
Speaker 2:Oh, we're changing the order again. I know what's going to happen when you change this order, and that's going to be me on filth again, isn't it? I don't know that bloody will be, I know it. There we go.
Speaker 1:After this, I want you to bump the record until it's back exactly where you want it. Okay. I want you to bump the record till it's back exactly where you want it. Okay, if it means me doing another one on the bounce.
Speaker 1:I'll do it, okay, okay, I want this because most men would turn up to what I would call a pot noodle family, which is, aka just add dad, just add wage, okay, it's all we provided for you. You've just got to turn up, okay. And if they saw a red-headed stepson they'd run a mile. I didn't. I love this kid. I drew him into my bosom like one of my own. I love you, ginge, for everything you do for the show, for everything you do for us, your supporter. You're such a handsome devil. I wish I could say I helped 50% contribute you, but I 100% helped raise your son and I'm super proud of you. Wow, that's Ginge, my boy. In a way he's the second one-man army, but he plays it cool.
Speaker 2:He's sort of the undercover.
Speaker 1:He's the muscle.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:See what I'm doing there.
Speaker 2:If you know he's not Dan, you're not coming in.
Speaker 1:What if it's Andrew?
Speaker 2:Step back from George. Please Step back from George. Please Step back from George, please. Thank you, don't touch his face there you go Dad, there you go yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I saw a bidding war on. I saw a bidding war In my imagination. It was a bidding war.
Speaker 2:I was going to say you might want to tell the truth, not actually what you imagined.
Speaker 1:I think DM was sending a sweat warm, but George touched was sending a sweat-worn but George touched. George UCP t-shirt from.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, I did see that, yeah.
Speaker 1:Timeless Gaming Convention. Hopefully he's sending it to Carl so he can wear it. I don't know. You tell me I've got the squeakiest chair ever today.
Speaker 2:I gathered that yeah Can you hear it. I can hear it yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm bouncing around on it like a kid with adhd after a couple of cans of like panda pop. If I'm honest with you, is that not okay?
Speaker 2:anyway. Next we've got harvey retro, the lord of the show's conscience as all, yes uh, thank you very much, and obviously, thank you for everything you've done as well, because it is absolutely superb. I know we keep saying it each week, but it'll be worth the wait, so thank you.
Speaker 1:Which means I get oh dear. Always to the point, always looking dressed to the nines, especially in her official UCP T-shirt, Emma Sharp.
Speaker 2:Thank you, emma. Then we have got. Well, I don't know where he is at the moment.
Speaker 1:Well, up a pew I want this to be a long one you always say that and you're always disappointed.
Speaker 2:Um, I have no idea where he is. We have asked, we have messaged and I know I said this last week. You know we speak regularly but he never tells us his location. And I keep saying to him you know, are you near here? Are you near there? Are you near that place? No, he says no, I'm not. He says how many times I have to tell you every week? All I can say is I'm nowhere near, ber. Thank you, greg.
Speaker 1:Not many people can say this, but that means I get to have mumsy Again, and then I get Join the queue.
Speaker 2:And I get speaking of queues, I get the RGT fan club and I'll thank all of you, all of you. Thank you very much, mum and Dad.
Speaker 1:I'm not jealous. I think in the lore of the show, this is what led me to become JD George.
Speaker 2:What my fame and popularity.
Speaker 1:Your ever rising fame and popularity.
Speaker 2:Me sort of slowly leaving you behind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, me bent prostrate on the ground and you using me as a step to raise yourself upon yeah, shame that right, you're up next ah, ok. Well, this man once kneed a mini, an original, I'm not saying a new mini, an original mini got thrown at him in a car accident. Came careering off an embankment where we were walking Pete Brocklehurst just saw it just flicked it to the knee. Boom, back up on the road. No questions, he's a tough boy, isn't he? He's nails. He's a tough boy, he is nails.
Speaker 2:Next. Then we have Billy Marmite. Thank you very much again, Billy. Your support is always always appreciated.
Speaker 1:Good for your brain.
Speaker 2:Marmite yeah, it is apparently I hate Marmite, but that says it all, You're right.
Speaker 1:He's putting himself in a bagger again. What did you give me? Oh, mate, this isn't right. Someone got the keyboard out again. So who do I get? Tell you what? He rides a bike. His name's Simon Pryke.
Speaker 2:It took you quite a while to come up with that, didn't it?
Speaker 1:There were several rips, I could have gone.
Speaker 2:I know and I was I actually had a little drip of sweat just run down my forehead. I was thinking, please God, no.
Speaker 1:It was like that marsh in Lord of the Rings where they're like, oh, don't get too close, and I was like, oh, crikey, just focus on the light, keep walking, keep walking.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, well done. And see, this has ended up where I didn't want it to be again.
Speaker 1:I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it Full force, if you want. I probably don't say full force, no, I'm saying it, it's the girth master of the show. No arguments from me, and that's why it's very easy, very, very easy, for me to just slip into. No, what am I thinking? No one ever slips into him, he slips into me. That's Hankanky, jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:We're going to be banned, I think Anyway.
Speaker 1:Is this the show that jumped the shark? I mean it's 261 in. Probably that happened in episode three One, the pilot.
Speaker 2:First part of the pilot, first ten minutes of the pilot.
Speaker 1:I tell you what years to come there'll be like a YouTube documentary documenting the fall of the show just remember this moment and this will be. I would love someone who's actually talented enough to put together like an almost mockumentary rise and fall of the ucp. Uh, oh, I'll go so far as said almost painful, like a two hour long sit down, eat popcorn, like wow, is that conspiracy theory? So I never knew. Um, yeah, I would pay. I think I'll pay an hour and 20 I think might be enough.
Speaker 2:It might be stretching it and and that's going to be a stretch, I mean.
Speaker 1:Dude, if you think about the hours of content we've put out, I know a lot of it was audio, but my God Well yeah, you're probably looking 500 hours, aren't you? Easily more. Imagine some of the Seb bangers we've had on.
Speaker 2:That's like three of those. It's a noise shift.
Speaker 1:It's like Lord of the Rings extended edition. I sometimes get halfway through a show with Seb and I wake up and I'm like where am I? What's going?
Speaker 2:on. I'm late for work.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm all for content, but what the hell's happening here. Wake up, I've got my mic imprinted.
Speaker 2:I've got a Goldieam turned up from Zoom.
Speaker 1:Bless him he'll be back soon as well, and if anyone wants an update, we always try and keep the show open. I've had time out the show. Rgt's had time out the show.
Speaker 1:RGT's had time out the show. Og Tom is perpetually on time out from the show, but everyone obviously that's ever been a host is always welcome back and we do try and keep a carousel to stop the skill fade and to keep it interesting for you guys as well. It's not easy to sit in here and talk. Well, actually it probably is to be fair, but there needs to be some level of something in the background. So you know, hopefully you enjoy all the hosts and you know we'll be back to a rotation very soon.
Speaker 1:But everyone deserves a holiday and everyone you know gives to the show but also has a lot of other things going on in their lives as well. So we're always very grateful to all our hosts. Og Tom F's in the chat. He's doing well. Just an update from you guys just to let you know everything's going well. If you know a bit of the non-law reality behind the show, he's doing great, so that's good news. Bobby, he's just very busy at the moment outside of the show, so we wish him the best and hope everything's going okay for him and the beautiful Eva. Seb's just had a rotation where he's just had other stuff going on work, commitments et cetera, so he's just took some time out from the show but ready to welcome back the king of the Indies, triple S and Scottyty. You know he pulled an absolute shift back end last year into this.
Speaker 1:So it's time for him just to sit down and dedicate to his own life a little bit, but we're exactly very excited to welcome him back. Uh and rgt ever the glutton for punishment. Here you are again, my friend, I'm kind of contractually obliged to turn up a little bit more than most, I would say.
Speaker 2:Yeah, occasionally.
Speaker 1:Yeah, occasionally, you know, every now and then, I have some time out and there will be some moments where, again, I sometimes address this up as law, but this is reality I'm getting married this year, so there will be some mid-July moments where I'm off air, I'm afraid, but hopefully we can record some bits, before or after, it depends how busy you are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've got a few ideas brewing at me, so it's going to be some good stuff.
Speaker 1:We've made a pretty strong commitment that we need to have a bloody good reason not to put some content out these days. So we're always here for you. I see this show as that shoulder to cry on on a Monday morning when you wake up and you think, oh god, not again. You know I can't face this anymore. At least I've got the boys to walk me to work, drive me to work on the bus, in the car, on the skateboard, in the hover bike, whatever it is you're doing. If it's in the year 2050, you're probably on the surface of Mars looking back at that distant blue marble thinking, oh, did they actually record this drivel down there? Fair play to you, boy. Fair play to you son. My great-great-grandson wants to get to know his grandfather that he never even knew a little bit better. So he's come to YouTube to have a look at him past his prime and then also start the family search. Was he in a North Korean boy band?
Speaker 2:Yeah, my great-great-grandad was a.
Speaker 1:Is he the illegitimate son of Mike Brewer?
Speaker 2:Hmm.
Speaker 1:Why doesn't his sign light up? All the conspiracy theories for the show are now unloved. Rgt. We've arrived, Actually, rewind to everyone's thoughts Did I. It sounded like you're reversing the ASMR sound of you drinking a can of Crafty.
Speaker 2:You love that sound.
Speaker 1:And that's where it's coming from. Listen, I just want to take a moment to thank everybody that listens, everybody that watches. Please take the time to tell a friend, drop a comment, a like or something on any of the content, no matter where you find it. If you want to show us how much you love us or you don't want to give us any money, you want to be one of the free ones, one of the silent but violent, as we call you. That's not on the Discord, but we know listens every week, you're alright? Rgt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sorry, bought went down the wrong hole.
Speaker 1:I'm leaving, I'm not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just leave that one there, just carry on what you were saying. Thanks, thank all the listeners.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we thank you very much, but if you're silent and violent and you don't want to pay, listen. A like or a comment on a video costs nothing. And we super appreciate that because it's going to help us with the visibility.
Speaker 2:Yeah, even a little review or something on your podcast supplier a little review is brilliant.
Speaker 1:Just take two minutes out and do you know what?
Speaker 2:Yeah it makes a big difference.
Speaker 1:If I see a wave of good reviews and I mean 100 plus we'll pick the best one. We'll find you and we'll send you a T-shirt and mug, as that sounds.
Speaker 2:Yeah, without a doubt.
Speaker 1:So get busy With that. All said and done. Once again, thank you to everyone that helps support the show. Thank you to everyone that talks on the Discord. Thank you to everyone that comments on Instagram, twitter, blue Mountain or whatever it's called. Blue Sky yeah, that place. Yeah Went down gangbusters guys, absolutely brilliant there. Reddit, whatever I don't care, just want to. Let's just grow the show. Let's keep it going. Let's just grow the show. Let's keep it going. We need more love. Basically, I'm lonely. I know RGT is.
Speaker 2:Desperately.
Speaker 1:Desperately.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, desperately, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, I am yeah.
Speaker 1:Don't back up on that. No, back up on it now for the audio listeners, which leaves me with only one thing to say.
Speaker 2:That's a big inhale there.
Speaker 1:Interplay RGT this gaming week. Well stuff Lego City Undercover.
Speaker 2:Why am I Cornish? I said Lego.
Speaker 1:City Undercover, not Lego City, me lover.
Speaker 2:And that's Cornish as well. Terrible Cut over to a Suffolk accent. No well, from tonight, actually, we'll start the other way around. We're going to be playing Fireworks.
Speaker 1:It's one of those moments, RGT, where it's like those images are the same.
Speaker 2:That's not. It's very different Really. Oh yeah yeah, so I watched tonight as of recording the show, so we'll be playing that Question. Are you listening to me.
Speaker 1:I am listening to you. You reminded me, I don't know how. Do you remember when, for a while, I tried to get you called Rimguard Thomas?
Speaker 2:Oh, I've still called that.
Speaker 1:Thank you, I'm still shouted that what was the one I came up with the other day, I think, when we were off air um, I can't remember, and I'm quite glad I can't, because it's probably gonna be another insult oh, it was so good though someone has me in their phone as Rimguard, even where his partner said who the hell is that?
Speaker 2:I was ringing him and it come up with Rimguard. So his wife's questioning him who the hell is that? Oh, it's Tom. Why do you call him that? It's a bit of a long story, but yeah, he goes bib, bib and he's going. Oh, rimguard, do you call him that? Oh, it's a bit of a long story, but yeah, he goes beep, beep and he's gone. Oh, I'm Redguard. Yeah, cheers for that, yeah anyway, what are you playing?
Speaker 2:well, before I was really interrupted, I was saying that tonight after the show we'll be playing Firewatch me and Mrs RGT, or she'll be playing Firewatch, and I'll be playing Firewatch me and Mrs RGT, or she'll be playing Firewatch, and I'll be sitting and probably drinking.
Speaker 1:So you're just going to drink yourself into an absolute coma on the sofa while she plays gaming to appease you and be that ultimate wife that you want her to be the trophy wife, the gamer wife.
Speaker 2:Yes, and then I will do this in your way. I'll play some more Lego City Undercover, and then I will be playing some more dishonoured.
Speaker 1:Why are you from?
Speaker 2:Suffolk. Oh, you're a jeez, don't you wink at me, you datty little boy. Some more dishonoured.
Speaker 1:Of all the things we've said that kind of took me hang on a minute I'm a very spinal cord that I don't know. Of all the things we've said that kind of took me Hang on a minute, I'm a very spinal cord that.
Speaker 2:I don't know why. And I did. What did I? I downloaded something on my Switch the other day and I cannot remember what it was. It's that interesting. I saw it on SwitchUp. So it's a game on the Switch I'm going to be playing, but I think we're completely soured what I'm going to be playing. So, anyway, let's just go over to say what are you hoping to play?
Speaker 1:I've absolutely no idea at this point, mate. I should probably stumble in now and play a little bit of.
Speaker 2:Arm Intimulator no you don't know.
Speaker 1:I'm back home, so the big screen's to be shared, so it might be some Valhalla. Maybe I'm just going to watch beautiful Rachel play Sims 4 all night beautiful Rachel plays Sims 4 all night.
Speaker 2:Has she started talking?
Speaker 1:like a bit. No, thank God.
Speaker 2:That won't be long.
Speaker 1:Well, before we started recording, she said, oh, is Sims 4 on here? I said, oh, no, babe, Is there any way I can play it? I said, well, I think you can stream from the PS4 at yours, but I don't know how healthy that would be. I'll tell you what. I'll download it on here. And, as I did, I just watched the PS5. It kind of just looked pro as well. It was like wait.
Speaker 2:You what? Whoa whoa, whoa you what? Yeah, hey George, what's this what?
Speaker 1:Oh, you're doing the impression of the console. Yeah, yeah, sorry, I thought my mic had come unplugged, or?
Speaker 2:something. No, no, it's your console. Just look at it. You just turned it around.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I don't think it was as innocent as that it was a bit more like mate, we're done.
Speaker 2:Oh, power's gone off on it.
Speaker 1:Valhalla's been a stretch. Okay, farming simulators have been a stretch, but this Absolutely no. All this extra horsepower that's one thing I noticed. Okay, we've played on that PS4 Pro at Hearst. We've played Death Stranding, gta V, all of it right. Never really broke that much of a sweat. I've always kept it quite clean so the fans kicked in. It's not been too obnoxious. Sims 4 really, oh my god what is that then?
Speaker 1:I've no idea. The game's constantly on PS4 Pro. It's constantly hanging, constantly crashing, constantly booting back to the front menu. Oh it's. I bet she's having a great experience. This is great on here Is it brilliant.
Speaker 2:What's that smell of burning? It's even killed the spider, it's killed itself, like your BS3, I suspect the killer of consoles.
Speaker 1:So yeah, tonight, maybe a bit of that, I think. To be honest, honest, if I'm being absolutely honest, I might just kick back and watch a movie. I've been exhausted, I've had a hell of a week. I didn't even think I was going to make it to Friday at one point, but somehow I did it. It's the weekend now. We're halfway through it. I'm about to wake up with a Sunday blues. Luckily I don't live with the premises high enough to sort that job out and next week's, for all intents and purposes, looking like even worse than this one. So yeah, to everyone out there working the 9-5 grind. I see you, I see you.
Speaker 1:And that's why the show will always be free and we'll always do our absolute level best to make sure it's in your rotation Sunday, ready for your Monday, and we'll always try and give you as much as we can, depending on the content that's out there at that moment, to make sure that we can go as far into that week as possible. So you've always got your two friends, three, four, five, six friends there, always on the low key, ready to go. And don't forget, if you've only just found this, you've got one hell of a back catalogue to work through.
Speaker 1:So you'll never be lonely again, definitely. You know there's always another day, right, and that's what this show's all about. Uh, and and really rgt, that draws us up, I suppose during the week I'm probably going to have a little bit more zelda. I've always got a little bit of rest in the empire on the go, but I don't like to bring that up every week. Um, I don't think I'm going to play any ps2 tonight because it's just a bit obnoxious, if I'm honest, to modern gamers eyes. That's they're not mine, by the way and um, yeah, just maybe have a little bit of dabble later in the week, as I've got some late nights this week. So probably try and maybe grab five minutes on the portal and continue my Indiana Jones experience. See if I can get that canola ready for harvest. Yeah, you got anything more to impart to the listener on GT, or the viewer, I should say.
Speaker 2:Oh, the viewer now? Yeah, no, I think that's about it. Really, to be honest, I think we've covered most things. Yeah, just like I say thanks to everyone, thanks for listening, for listening and you know, thanks for everyone who subs, and yeah, all your support and brilliant. And, like I say, if you could just leave us a little review or a little like here and there or comment on youtube, it really helps the old algorithm.
Speaker 1:So, uh, yeah, thank you very much literally costs nothing, all right, and if you do enough of them, maybe you'll get a t-shirt, maybe you'll get a mug maybe you'll get an actual physical handhold from me, but that's all we have time for this week. Listeners, as always, thank you for your time. I 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 official controller. It's what you do with it that counts. See you, rgt later.