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The unveiling of the season 6 artwork
What happens when two British gaming enthusiasts attempt to discuss their latest gaming adventures but keep getting derailed by their own bizarre sense of humor? You get Episode 265 of The Unofficial Controller Podcast, where hosts George and RGT deliver gaming insights wrapped in some of the most unexpected tangents you'll ever hear.
RGT takes us deep into his 60-hour journey through Xenoblade Chronicles X, sharing thoughtful analysis of how the game's structure reinforces its narrative of humanity struggling to establish itself on a new planet. Even seemingly mundane side quests contribute meaningfully to this theme, creating an immersive role-playing experience that doesn't feel like grinding. His early impressions of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown offer a concise breakdown of its challenging-but-fair combat system and satisfying Metroidvania elements.
Meanwhile, George shares his ongoing obsession with Farming Simulator 25, describing in almost poetic detail his virtual agricultural endeavors and dreams of expanding into lumberjacking. The hosts also discuss their disappointments with games like Road Craft and Expeditions, offering constructive criticism about missed opportunities in game design.
The highlight comes with the reveal of the podcast's new Season 6 artwork created by longtime supporter Harvey Retro. Inspired by The Goonies, this artwork features caricatures of all hosts and clearly delights George and RGT, whose genuine excitement provides a glimpse into the community-focused nature of the podcast.
Whether you're a hardcore gamer looking for thoughtful analysis or someone who appreciates unpredictable humor and tangents about "beige metros" and "fish tits," The Unofficial Controller Podcast delivers an entertaining experience unlike any other gaming show. Subscribe now and join the community that celebrates both gaming passion and the ridiculous conversations it inspires.
Hello and welcome to the Unofficial Controller Podcast, your weekly gaming podcast, episode number 265, with me, george and this week joined by RGT Hairy Cornflake to my hairless special K. How's it going?
Speaker 2:Very well, that's an unusual one.
Speaker 1:Well, obviously they can see today that I'm a hairless special K and you are a very hair suit gentleman with the stubble, the five o'clock shadow, just sort of coming through that sort of permatan. You got going on the turkey teeth that you got. If anyone's been a long time podcast listener, I implore you to jump on youtube and have a look at the, quite, quite honestly, the ripped sinew.
Speaker 2:It's like A ripped sinew. It's one thing I aren't. It's ripped.
Speaker 1:It's like walking through and seeing a shaved prize bull. When one looks, what are you laughing for?
Speaker 2:A shaved prize bull.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Wow, that's kind of what I see in you. You don't get these introductions at any other podcast, the strong shoulders, the kind of tapered haunches, the sort of strong barrel chest. The two little legs, tiny little legs, tiny, small. Looks like two bits of cotton taped to the bottom of an egg. Wow, uh what you've been busy at this week. Anyway, what you've been, uh any dramas unfold. Were you late to the vets for your inaugural shots?
Speaker 2:No, no, all good Been wormed been defleed.
Speaker 1:Really, I had to get deticked. The other day I had three in a private place. One of them I asked him to leave on because it was all engorged and swollen from the blood it had eaten and I thought to myself that looks, that looks a real deal, that I'm going to keep that you called it anything or? My chode.
Speaker 2:Oh cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my code.
Speaker 2:By the way, this is a game and podcast, by the way.
Speaker 1:First, name mike, last name hode wow, that's uh interesting, I hope.
Speaker 2:I hope mike's all right and keeps growing obviously been gorging himself on your this.
Speaker 1:yeah, like he's just stuck in the living daylights out. I mean I mean, ooh, this was a PG show, but we realise that we've been going that long that any kids that are listening to us are probably driving now, so we can relax a little bit.
Speaker 2:Well, a bit like Nintendo, they started off with the lovely colour Joy-Cons on the Switch 1, and then, as the demographic gets older, they make it a bit more of a classy-looking, more adult console with the Switch 2, and we've sort of done classy looking, more adult console with a switch too, and we've sort of done that. We started off with a nice hang on a minute.
Speaker 1:Based on that metric, what's the switch? Three gonna be like a walker it's gonna look like a gramophone.
Speaker 2:I just realized that doesn't work because it goes backwards.
Speaker 1:It's fine, I'm on board with it. I'm not gonna fight it, I'm just gonna ride it, yeah yeah, cool, but where were we anyway?
Speaker 1:are you going to tell me about your any issues or what you do? You do a question do you do a weekly food shop or you're a delivery kind of guy because I see you, donna, getting your bags for life, making sure in the they're in the boot of the car because you're very prepared person, I have to admit. So you've got maybe four of them. They're in the boot of the car because you're a very prepared person, I have to admit.
Speaker 2:So you've got maybe four of them. They are in the boot of the car yeah, they are, but it's loads, because Mrs RGT has a lot of bag for lives.
Speaker 1:Do you do the weekly shop, you and Mrs RGT, or do you get the delivery?
Speaker 2:No, we do a little weekly shop and then we do add in a sort of very well known meal supplier for two nights of the week who is it?
Speaker 1:because we might get sponsorship we use hello fresh.
Speaker 2:If you're listening hashtag no spawn strong chance, you're not.
Speaker 1:but if you are unlikely, why aren't we getting something we could do? A code Badabings could get the Italian menu.
Speaker 2:I would recommend the Cajun Spice Seabass. That is wonderful, that's very good.
Speaker 1:You could get a Brazilian.
Speaker 2:Oh, I've had that oh sorry food. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've had that oh sorry food.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I could get some Hungarian goulash.
Speaker 2:Oh, that'd suit you. That'd suit you. You're a goulash guy, george the goulash. Yeah, I can see that. I can see you gorging yourself on goulash.
Speaker 1:Is that what ghosts do for you? Is that what ghosts do when they go out for a drink? What?
Speaker 2:The goulalash. That is a dad joke there, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Well, I heard that dad bods are in, dad jokes are in. Dads are into something. I don't know what. If dad bods are in, then I are in. Dads are into something.
Speaker 2:I don't know what, but If dad bods are in, then I'm well in, I'm all right.
Speaker 1:You ain't got a dad bod. Do I have? Take your shirt off on air now.
Speaker 2:No way am I doing that.
Speaker 1:Big chest, strong chest, deep central ravine no Nipples like I don't know. Ten to two nipples are just pointing in like pretty weird.
Speaker 2:Like the eyes, they're called a Suffolk nip. Ten to seven Great big fish tits as well, with these little nicks yeah, that's why I'm not tapping my shirt off, especially with my the tagline as well. From work, I look ridiculous. I look like an extra from Benidorm. So sweet, I look like an extra from Benidorm. Just need the hanky on my head and I'm well away.
Speaker 1:Oh mate, so nothing like that to report. No, I just realised we've really crossed the Rubicon because within that story I realised I said the word fish tits.
Speaker 2:You just said it again.
Speaker 1:In for a penny, in for a pound.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:We came here for a serious yes, serious, super serious gaming update. I like your hat, by the way. Do you know what? I'd love to see you cosplaying, as, like the Raccoon City stars, I don't know, janitor.
Speaker 2:I've bought you a new hat, have you?
Speaker 1:yeah, I have hang on, I've got it is this the one you keep meaning to post?
Speaker 2:yeah, and I haven't yet, so it's still in the bag.
Speaker 1:So the super secret, super tease. Now I get to see it.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, you can see it. I think you'll like it. I think this is right up your street. Live on air, oh I think you'll like it.
Speaker 1:I think this is right up your street, live on air. Oh, mate 2025 just got a new hat and it's called the Toon Squad. I'm all over that.
Speaker 2:Space, jam Space.
Speaker 1:Jam. I'll be honest it would be no understatement to say I'm harder than granite right now. But what I want to really know is what have you been Xenogears in?
Speaker 2:Xenogears Blade and I have yeah Xenoblade.
Speaker 1:Xenoblade yeah.
Speaker 2:Xenoblade Chronicles I'm 60 hours in, oh, xenoblade, yeah. Little Bay Chronicles I'm 60 hours in now, I think Oof.
Speaker 1:Jeez Weeds.
Speaker 2:Level 29. Now on chapter eight. I think so I'm just over halfway.
Speaker 1:Wow. So what did you say to me off air? Was it 14, 15 chapters?
Speaker 2:I think so, yeah, I think it's about 15 chapters. So, um, and that's the old sort of premise where you, you do a chapter and then your next chapter is two or three levels above you, so you go off, do the side missions, level up, come back, um, but yeah, still absolutely loving it, still loving the world, still loving the quirkiness, still loving how odd some of the things are that you have no idea how you'd work out unless you googled them. Um, for instance, you'll have basic missions, like you have a in the area. You've got these sort of streets in the, in the industrial area, which will have um, um, where your blade headquarters is and blades the group. You're in the sort of protectors and the warriors sort of thing, and you have this thing called mission control and you go and just do basic missions. You're giggling. Why are you giggling? Get off your chest, shit. Come on, share with the class, come on, come on, get off your chest.
Speaker 1:But I see you when you're not on the show. You're driving around your mini metro that was my first car.
Speaker 2:It's beige, it was a mini metro, mine was blue.
Speaker 1:No, this one's beige. You're driving around and as you're driving around the streets of Suffolk, you feel like you're driving one of your scales and anyone stops you. You're like, yeah, I'm one of the blades. I don't know why I'm one of the blades and I think you'd have a bum bag on.
Speaker 2:You're not far off. Actually what You're not far off.
Speaker 1:With a Xeno blade key chain in it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But that's it, yeah, and a pocket of hand-dissed tissues.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that is it. That's how I rolled. Okay, tell me. I say say, here comes Zeno RGT again in his beige metro with the soundtrack, playing up the cassette player that I've recorded off of TV with a couple of the anti-sickness strips yeah, hanging off the back anywho, the car smells absolutely rotten, but you think you've sold it Anywho.
Speaker 1:The car smells absolutely rotten, but you think you've sold it by buying a new car. Magic tree, get the bag, bin the bag immediately. We need the full power of the new car. Are you the sort of guy that would get a magic tree and sit in the back with a neat triangle and just reveal your girth sort of one week at a time? Or are you just a just disrobe it?
Speaker 1:oh no, I'd like a slow reveal, you know, until you get the full, full beans I now that is the correct way to hang and display and sort of bring a magic tree into this world, but I have I have in the past been known to just fully deploy a full magic tree. I've done a car with three brand-new magic trees fully deployed. I tell you what it makes your eyes water.
Speaker 2:You must have been hallucinating by the time you got out. I think I probably was Got out listening to the Beatles. Here comes a walrus blaring out your car while you come out with your eyes spinning A full-branded dental psychedelic experience. Yeah what are you on George Magic trees man?
Speaker 1:That's great, yeah, and then the car still smells of dead animals, so you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, xenoblade Anyway yes.
Speaker 2:So I'll say a little quirky thing. So there's an area where you can log into the computer, do basic missions, where companies or people individually will list jobs that you can do. Then there's affinity missions or side missions. But anyway, sometimes you'll go to do affinity mission and that will say you can't do affinity mission until you've done basic mission, so-and-so. And this is where the weird little quirk is.
Speaker 2:So you'll then go to the machine, log in and then do ah, there's that mission I've got to do to then get onto this affinity mission. So you click it and that says right, go to speak to this person. You're going to speak to person, mission complete. And then it unlocks the affinity mission straight after and you think, well, did you really need to do that, I could have just walked up to him. And justlocks the affinity mission straight after and you think, well, did you really need to do that? I could have just walked up to them and just done the affinity mission straight off. It's little weird quirks like that, but some of the missions are pretty basic. You're in the city and you just do. They're almost like fetch quests. But where they're quite clever is because if you were trying to get humanity going again on a new planet, all these little jobs we'd need doing, and I sort of think of it like that.
Speaker 1:What's the worst little job that needs doing on this new planet? You know, are you digging a gully for the latrines, or is it not quite as brutal as that?
Speaker 2:No, not quite as brutal as that. I mean, I've had to taste the coffees in a coffee shop and the girl made it wrong so she ran off, so I had to speak to the boss and then go back and get her and get her job back. Yeah, it's pretty random, but I tell you what if you're starting a new civilisation, coffee's important.
Speaker 1:It is, it is, it's super important.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, I'm still really enjoying it. Do I feel like I've played 60 hours? No, I still, um, I'm still really enjoying it. Do I feel like I've played 60 hours? No, I still feel like I'm still learning as the game goes on. Do you know what I mean? I've, you know I'm, I'm at one with the combat. Now I'm not really just blindly trying to get that done. The combat, I think, is brilliant, superb.
Speaker 2:Um, the story is quite slow in a way, but it's a thin story because of it's the whole game, if that makes sense. You're on this habit and this planet trying to start up, trying to get the human race to keep going. So every little mission and side thing is to do with that. So you don't really feel like there's a main mission which there is. There's a main mission which there is You've got to try and find the life holds so that you can keep the city going because it's running out.
Speaker 2:That needs the life holds to keep continuing to go. That's just the main plan. That is the story and everything else just spins off as you're trying to find them and your battles with other life forms. But really good, like I say, a bit of a feat to get that on the switch, as I've said before. But yeah, I'm loving it. I want and I want to see the end game. I want to see how it all finishes and what happens and, yeah, I find it quite intriguing. And as you're going along, you'll meet a new, new um, alien races who are now sort of coming to live in the city with you and join as one and you can, and it's just all the different things you can do, like the mine, and then you can invest.
Speaker 1:Tell me about the mining, is that you going in a tunnel and literally whacking the wall?
Speaker 2:No, no, nothing as in-depth as that. You basically, like I said to you before, which has been mentioned on the Discord this week, the probes when you pop the probes in oh, for God's sake, the probes. When you pop the probes in, you can choose what you want to do, like a research probe, mine and probe, and then you can link probes up so then you get more in and if you're mining, you can then what you mine, you can then invest steady, you can then invest into these companies which are building uprated gear and uprated weapons and uprated bits, and then you can then purchase those because they're then producing more because you've invested in. There's so many little side bits like that on top of improving your skills, improving your arts, improving the skills and arts of the people you're with.
Speaker 1:Are you in a scale yet?
Speaker 2:I have a scale now, yes, but I've got two more chapters before it can fly, so I'm just riding it around like some sort of Tron motorbike at the moment. I'm going to see if I can make it beige and have some anti-six strips hanging off the back.
Speaker 1:I think that's got to be a UCP subscriber unlock for anyone playing Xenoblade Chronicles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, make it into a beige scale, but, yeah, without going over old ground. That's pretty much where I'm up to with it and still really enjoying it.
Speaker 1:Any other games on the locker in the low kit on the down low?
Speaker 2:I have gone on to EAFC because of our challenge accepted this month, which thank you very much to digital monkey for this and I don't mean that because I don't know if you've seen what the challenge is this? What is the challenge? This? Month the challenge this month is to go on either an old fifa game or eafc. You have to play as lincoln city and score as many goals past dip switchwich Town as you can.
Speaker 1:Did your munkers come through strong there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it got a bit dark because you're just saying I want you to feel pain scoring against a team you love.
Speaker 1:So your team? What's that? The Suffolk Harriers?
Speaker 2:Ipswich.
Speaker 1:Town. What's the connection with the Suffolk Harriers?
Speaker 2:Nothing, you've just made it up.
Speaker 1:Sounds like a good team, though, doesn't it?
Speaker 2:I think there's an Ipswich Harriers running club. I think I don't know about the Suffolk Harriers unless they're into Peregrine Falcons or something.
Speaker 1:I don't know, that's what they race. But anyway, so I've been on there, which is a bit of a misnomer, because it's not, and I won 36-0. Did you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think Ginge has done a 35-0. I think Zangief has done a 33-0. I think Badabinks has done an 11-0, because I think he was thinking of me. But yeah, so I might try and get a 40-0 over the weekend. Wow, Destroying my team. But yeah, I played that. And then also I started Prince of Persia, the Lost Crown.
Speaker 1:Pause a minute. Thank you, digital Monkery. That's a great idea and I'm glad to see people get involved, and it doesn't matter what version of FIFA, so I could play it on FIFA 95.
Speaker 2:As long as you play. You can play it on FIFA 95 as long as Ipswich and Lincoln are on there.
Speaker 1:They're not.
Speaker 2:Ipswich are. Lincoln won't be, I can assure you. They're probably in the Beezer Homes League then just playing with the local pub team. Anyway, why would I care? I know you don't. But yeah, you can play any version as long as you play standard match length and we just put them down to like beginner AI. So we put it down to beginner AI. So we put it down to beginner AI and then just go hell for as many goals as you can.
Speaker 1:I think even if I did that, I would still get beaten by the Suffolk Harriers.
Speaker 2:No, I think you'd be all right.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I think you'd be all right, have a go.
Speaker 1:So other than EAFC, some Xenoblade, is there anything else?
Speaker 2:Prince of Persia, the Lost Crown I've started.
Speaker 1:Sorry, sir. Yeah, how's that? What are you playing that on?
Speaker 2:PS5. Oh, I thought you'd have took it on the Switch. It was because it was on premium. So I downloaded it out of interest, because I know everyone I know who's played it has raved about it, so I've put about an hour and a half in. So far, really good, lovely graphics, looks really good. I love that style Because this is Ubisoft, isn't it as well?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Which I love it when they do these little off-piste games every now and then, don't they? And they always seem to master them. They've done that.
Speaker 1:What was the one I done as a hidden gem with the?
Speaker 2:submarine one. They've done that as well, didn't they? Song of the sea. Songs of the sea. Yes, you know they make these. They sort of just go off piece, make these brilliant little, almost indie title sort of games, don't know yeah, um, but yeah, so I've been um, I've been playing. That was only an hour and a half in um. Is it tough? Yes, is it fair? Yes, how is it tough?
Speaker 1:like a half in. Is it tough? Yes. Is it fair, yes. How is it tough? Like pixel perfect jumping? Or is it tough in some other way? What's the restriction here?
Speaker 2:It's tough when you almost have to learn each enemy as you go because they'll do like this special move that you can't. You can block them and you have three bars of health. You can block them on their normal sort of hard hits. But they're special moves. You have to either sort of learn how to either jump out of the way or slide out of the way so you don't get hit, and you have to learn patterns almost of each enemy, even though it's a bit of a Metroidvania as well. But the combat's really good, the platforming's really good, controls are really good. The platforming's really good. Uh, controls are really good, um, like first boss in sort of the sort of entry area.
Speaker 2:I suppose you'd say I um, I lost the first time but then learned his pattern and I thought I'll see where the game's going here. And then went through in the next section and there were some enemies there that were quite tough. They killed me and I thought, ah, then had another go and then worked out. So if you slide behind him, you can hit him from behind, bang, bang. Then I had no problem with him and you sort of progress through learning, learning as you go, and there's there's various different moves you can do. It's different special moves you can do, but that is quite nice to pick up and play. The checkpoints seem quite fairly spaced so you don't go back too far when you die.
Speaker 2:Um, yeah, I think it's really good that these setting and and the actors and sound effects sound similar to me of lara croft temple of osiris I know that was isometric. Yeah, that's that sort of almost sort of indie sort of style sound effects, if you know what I mean bizarrely, I was going to mention that game because I don't know why, but it gave me similar vibes yeah, definitely, but yeah, really loving that.
Speaker 2:That's nice because obviously xeno's a really big game. I haven't gone back to dishonored yet because obviously ps3 is going to be an xbox 360 is going to be my main console for a long while in may going forward so I'm keeping that to be my first one I crack on with. So Xeno's, that massive game. But an hour on Xeno you aren't going to do anything. You need two or three hours of time to even get anywhere. So it's nice to have this in the back burner. So if I do get half an hour an hour I can get a level through or a couple of levels through on on that. So, but yeah, so that's pretty much all I have been playing. So what about you? Or what have you been playing?
Speaker 1:I'm going to disappoint massively, because the only thing I've been obsessed with playing is farming simulator 25. I don't want to. I know everyone's just got like do you know what, george, we're done? You berate rgt for playinglade, but at least it's a proper gamers game. But I've been playing the wheels off of that.
Speaker 2:Just play what you like, it don't matter, do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I had to delete a fence, and then I decided to delete quite a few fences.
Speaker 2:Oh, is that for your field to get in?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so now I've got lots of these smaller fields corralled into bigger fields and I'm just on the grind at the minute trying to make enough money to buy a wood so in the wintertime I can go in there and do some lumberjacking nice little bit of extra revenue stream and then apart. That's literally all I've been doing. I came to November time again so I had to load up my trailers and cart my harvest down for peak price, took a couple of contract jobs on, which were great, but I decided to use my own equipment because you know I go old school. I said this job turned up with my tiny little combine, looked at the field and thought, oh no.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be here a while, boy I'm going to be here a long time because when I selected the field it came up with this massive John Deere with this great, big, wide header on it Probably could have done it in two turns. This truck that was part of the deal and this massive trailer. Of course I didn't want any of that, did I? I want an absolute weirdo. No, I'm going to handball it in the smallest trailer you can fit on one of these tractors and then the smallest, skinniest combine you could possibly imagine. It took me two days of hard grind to get that field complete. It was brutal and I got, I think, 30k for it and I was like this isn't worth it. This isn't worth it. Just need some ferry. The economy is a bit upside down compared to previous farms. You could do a job before and get like 60k in the back burner, but they don't seem to be around, especially on this map A bit more of a challenge map, then a bit of a graft map.
Speaker 1:A bit of a more realistic map, I suppose.
Speaker 2:Yeah, true.
Speaker 1:In readiness for this sort of realistic UK setting that it's trying to see around, I actually changed my currency from euros to pounds the other day so I could see exactly the same number with the pound logo. It made me feel ridiculous.
Speaker 2:If I'm honest with you, I meant to ask you about that. Do I get the C64 version and play on my Evercade Farming Simulator?
Speaker 1:I was looking at this. I think that anyone who can get hold of a copy of that Farming Simulator 16 bit should do so. I don't have a machine currently that it would even run on, and well, this is the 8-bit one. This is I know, and that's what I was going to say I think it looks gorgeous as 16 bit. It's almost like desert strike does farming simulator. It's perfect in every way. No disrespect to the c64 and equidistantly no disrespect to the Evercade. Absolutely not If you buy the C64 version for that.
Speaker 2:That's supposed to be pretty good. That's supposed to be decent.
Speaker 1:I'm not denying that it's good, but it looks awful.
Speaker 2:Are you being a graphics whore?
Speaker 1:A little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but some people like that. I quite like the aesthetic of it. That takes me back.
Speaker 1:If you want to do that, mate, you should. I think if they're, I'll get it I'll get it ordered.
Speaker 2:I'll get it ordered. So the thing I like what I said to you about it. They made that game and, unlike what most big companies would do, or triple a developers, they found out that these guys were making farm and seminar in the c64 and just went there. You go, guys, there's a licence Away. You go, don't worry about it, it's brilliant. We think it's awesome. You can have our name on it and you'd think how many would do that. Shut them down. Can't make that, you know. I think. Fair play to you. Well done, guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm a big fan and that's really it. I'm trying to think of anything else. Oh, I've downloaded. This is mainly to practice Alaskan Road Truckers.
Speaker 2:You did say you were going to download that.
Speaker 1:So I've downloaded that. So I'm maybe going to tear into that over the weekend. Assassin's Creed Valhalla's just fell out the rotation. It annoys me in a way because I was quite close to completion, but I'm just bored of it, bored to tears, it's too long.
Speaker 2:I did think you'd get to that stage. I got to that stage because they just get so much bloat on them some of them open world assassins, creeds and it's just been there, done it, and you think I've done this mission in the last game.
Speaker 1:I've done that mission already in this playthrough, which is even more insulting and I've given it.
Speaker 1:It's go. But you get there, thinly veiled story juxtaposition and then boom, go here, kill that person, come back. I know that's Assassin's Creed, but give me something else, give me something different, give me something world-building, but nothing. That probably draws us to a close RGT and we came here to show what you can grow. So we're going to bring up a picture of your polytunnel. What are you laughing at? Show what you grow. There's a section on the Discord. Some of it might be legal, Some of it might not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we might want to censor that.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, the loyal fans came here this week because today is the day that we unveil our new artwork. How excited are you for this RGT? Because I am pumped. Because are you pumped or you don't see?
Speaker 2:No, I am very pumped. I just want you to finish and be polite.
Speaker 1:Well, feel free to rip in now and tell me how pumped you are.
Speaker 2:No, I'm very pumped because obviously we've had this on the back burner for a little while now and I still remember, when you shooed me, the fantastic artwork that had been done, and I was just like, oh my God. And then, yeah, and especially with what it's linked to as well, everyone well, I say everyone my parents that I've shown were just like, oh my God, that is so-and-so, I won't spoil it yet. And I'm like, yep, that's what it is. They were like, who done that? That is fantastic. And I was like, yeah, I'm very proud of this one. This is superb. I love it.
Speaker 1:It is the perfect art.
Speaker 1:We may end up keeping it probably longer than we should do, but we're very happy of it very proud of it and our good, loyal friend, supporter of the show since the very early days, harvey Retro of the show. For since the very early days, harvey retro, um. He's kind of experimenting with um, getting more into his artistic side and indulging his artistic sensibilities as a way of earning a living and we uh support that a thousand percent. And he decided no, we got together to be fair and had a little chat. We've been looking for some new artwork and the stars aligned and without building it up too much, we do believe this is the greatest artwork we've ever had.
Speaker 1:it's going to look great mugs t-shirts that the Wooden Postcard Company are going to have great fun with this. So if you're not a sub, you want to wear this on a T-shirt. We recommend you do. This is the perfect album art. We've had the most perfect album art for T-shirts and displaying and wearing out in public that we've ever had, and we've had some bangers, but this is next level.
Speaker 1:In accompaniment of that, we've got the new youtube intro that will be, failing, I think this weekend I think we'll be able to bolt that all together, which is, yeah, very exciting. Um, and then also, if you're listening to this, just grab out your phone, have a little tap of your dash, because it should have the album artwork on that we're about to reveal. Now ucp town, which don't get excited about much. Last time I got excited was when I watched rgt have his ingrowing hair on his left buttock surgically removed by mumsy I remember that oh it was like.
Speaker 1:It was like christmas come early because it was a wet june, um one of those well for me it was just like a magician pulling one of them streams out of a hat.
Speaker 2:Just kept it coming. My God, it was long.
Speaker 1:Why do you get all the lines?
Speaker 2:I write it.
Speaker 1:You do and this new era is comedic genius. So what more can I say? To that end, shall we quit the fanfare?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Let's get it on. Let's get it on hopefully this is working for the YouTube video. So if it is great, if you're listening on the audio, uh, knock yourselves out. So this is a season six. Ucp art reveal.
Speaker 2:Oh, hang on a minute, this is uh yeah, you might just want to get rid of some of those. I mean.
Speaker 1:Oh, let me just find the folder. Um, uh, no, no, no, oh, let me just find the folder. No, no, what the hell's all this ramble?
Speaker 2:I don't know. That's a bit worrying, isn't it?
Speaker 1:You're not on Phil's computer, are you? I don't even know anymore. No, oh, it could be this one. Yeah, this is it Right. Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 2:I am now yeah.
Speaker 1:Are you steady? Oh yes, Are you holding on to someone that you love?
Speaker 2:Myself yep.
Speaker 1:Perfect co-host material. Oh yeah, to that end, then let me please unveil to you, very proud to unveil to you, the UCP artwork. For those that don't know, that looks a bit like me, that looks a little bit like rgt, that's definitely me we've got bobby gripping on seb and the immortal scott down there. Great new logo for this season. Obviously it's taking inspiration from taking inspiration from a great 80s movie, the goon if you are an audio listener only.
Speaker 2:Please just check the youtube out and you'll see all this and see what we're laughing at.
Speaker 1:Look at your phone. Yeah, yeah, the art should be on there. Yeah, uh, fingers crossed. Hopefully it all works. If not, check back next week. Yeah, as our gt says, check the youtube video. Yeah, but this is great to see. It's great to give back to the community. You wonder what we've been doing? Uh, we've got a few things in the pipeline that we're trying to pull together, um, this being one of them the season six relaunch, or launch. Here we are sitting atop some of the greatest artwork we've ever had. I personally can't wait to see this emblazoned on a t-shirt.
Speaker 2:It's gonna look good on the instagram, all the socials.
Speaker 1:Obviously, wherever you listen to your shows, this will be the art that pops up. Uh, we're very happy. We've been between art for a little while, obviously at the end of the uh poncebury era, no, past the longhorn era. Get your law right, george, what do you know? Nothing, although you've been here for pretty much every episode, but we're super excited. He's done an absolutely smashing job. He's incorporated some of the comedy of the show. Obviously you in, I'd argue, shorts, but gripping on for dear life to my leg, pulling the best face I think I've ever seen you pull. It almost looks like you're mid-Zangief there.
Speaker 2:That was full Zangief moment. There wasn't it? I'm pulling a full Zangief.
Speaker 1:A full Zangief. Yeah, no cap. So thank you very much to Harvey Retro. We hope that you like this as much as we do. It's going to form the sort of theme and the background and the ideas for everything that we've got going forward for season six, along with, obviously, your special folder and some of the things that we've got creeping around on the desktop. So rewind, get it up on your 100-inch plasma, 200-inch plasma Our listeners don't muck about our GT.
Speaker 2:No no 300-inch plasma.
Speaker 1:Get it up on your 300-inch plasma and have a little look-see. It looks great Some of the things that we've got planned. Obviously, get your big screen out and have a little look-see. It looks great, some of the things that we've got planned. Obviously, get your big screen out and have a little look around, yeah. Yeah, should have had my photos from Skinwalker Ranch as a folder on the desktop as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would have been a good one, but no, we've got plenty of new stuff hopefully coming. Once we get it all aligned and that, and some new ideas and um, we'll probably be asking you guys as well what you think and let us know. And you know, as we do, we do these different things very exciting I'm buzzing like that cucumber in mumsy's top drawer about this.
Speaker 1:I actually get in some really good vibes about where this is going. So again, thank you for all your support. Hopefully you're on board for the next steps and evolution of our journey. We're going to need the full roster back in before we can take the next step, so we're just waiting for some of our co-hosts to finish their extracurricular activities and then rejoin us on the hosting team. We're getting there. In the meantime, you're going to have to listen to the Dorset, which is a compliment. Dorset tones with me and RGT. We know you come for the Americans, but stick around. The Americans and Scotty are like the sexy side of the business now, aren't?
Speaker 1:they yeah yeah, every time I see a picture of Scotty I'm like damn he's handsome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that as well, especially when you see Seb and Bobby as well, and I just think, mmm, hey, good looking guys they are.
Speaker 1:I can't welcome. I can't wait to welcome them back into the bosom of the show, but always in our hearts. Boys, you're on the very front of the epic art that we've got going on. 10 points to the first person that spots OG Tom hidden in the smoke, conspiracy theories, top tip look for the quiff and work backwards.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a long quiff. That's going to take a lot of backwards looking, but you'll find it.
Speaker 1:You'll find it, hint, I'm looking at him looking at the reflection upon which he is.
Speaker 1:Work that one out. Good luck with that. Anyway, thank you again to Harvey Retro for this iconic, beautiful looking artwork. Thank you to everyone that's got us this far and we look forward to taking you on the next step of the journey. With all that said and done, I suppose the only other thing that we need to do now that we're at Tudera is to talk to them about your extra page RGT. Do you want to talk them through the tiers?
Speaker 2:No, I like to leave that all online so people can click and decide what they want to see of me. Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, with that we're back. The Miraculous desktop has disappeared. Let us know in the Discord if you're excited by any of that, none of that, some of that, all of it, or again, as I say, none of it. Knowing our look, our GT will have worked her guts out and it'll be. It'll be worth it. It's always worth it two listens, me and you three, because mumsy plus the spare iPad she keeps in the drawer so that no one ever uses anymore because it's too out of date but, yeah, four um to those that have supported us this far.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much, so looking forward to you getting your new artwork and getting your hands on all the good stuff that we've got coming out in the meantime. One of your perks is to get your name read out on every show and RGT. I believe it is my turn to start, so I'm going to go with Seanox, the fabulous Swedish meatball. He's delicious, he's full of surprises and he's the most prominent gamer in Sweden, without a doubt. Seanox, thank you for everything that you do. Who's next we have? It's better you announce it. It's less sigatistical, I think.
Speaker 2:One man. Do you want to pay him? There you go, Is that alright?
Speaker 1:Go prop. Please Pay for this. I want to see you.
Speaker 2:It's the one man, George fan club it's Carlos.
Speaker 1:Well, I take two bottles into the shower.
Speaker 2:But him and Scott were talking Neo Geo on the show today and Scott was showing a picture of a Neo Geo case of Turf Masters and I was just like I like Neo Geo talk.
Speaker 1:This is a bit of me. You know what gets me absolutely pissing wet through. It's either neo geo talk on the discord or sounds like I'm beating my meat. But I I'm just, I don't know. I'm clapping almost Gordon Ramsay style to emphasise how excited I am.
Speaker 2:That's the PG way gone. That's in the rear view mirror. Just see it fade in a way, yep.
Speaker 1:I want someone to do that meme. You know where the girlfriend's like looking angry at the guy and he's like or Caesar's six, and then it's like PG eras like that, yeah. Or 3DO talk. I want to get a 3DO collecting buddy. Mike Rouse put himself up for that.
Speaker 2:Have you got a 3DO yet? No, have you got any games yet?
Speaker 1:No, I'm looking for someone to go on the journey with me together hand in hand.
Speaker 2:Why have you not asked me?
Speaker 1:I'll be honest, I always assumed you'd be too busy with all that other ramble that you've got.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I am, but you could have asked.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's get this awkward moment out of the way.
Speaker 2:Come on, let's clear this up.
Speaker 1:RGT, would you like to be my special 3do collecting mate? No no like it looks like a solo one-man job again no, honestly, I would like 3DO.
Speaker 2:to be honest, there's something about the system.
Speaker 1:Imagine this Need for Speed. 3do Sprawled out Need for Speed.
Speaker 2:I know where this is going. Again, as soon as they say sprawled out.
Speaker 1:Daisy chaining on the floor. There's a joke for you. There's a console based.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you know your 3do, you'll know what a daisy chain is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and why me and rgt become 3do controllers on an evening. Yep, but that's what I want to talk. I want to talk 3do, panasonic, 3do. The og with the columns are in the corners. That's the one I want, that's the one I'm fired up for, that's the one I am literally drenched over. To me, the Neo Geo has always been a little bit sort of out there, a little bit more. I'm an arcade gamer, you know. Imagine meeting someone in 1992 that went to the arcades every weekend with their pocket money chewed in hundreds of pounds into Mortal Kombat, things like that. And then they came home and they've got Mega Drive sat there purring running, mortal Kombat 2, street Fighter 2 running on the SNES and over there some sort of way out there Neo Geo On its own tv on its.
Speaker 1:There must have been dudes during the 90s that had that full set I never knew anyone that had one.
Speaker 2:The only time I got to see a neo geo was when it was on games master. When they do it they do a competition on and I'm like where can I get one? And I think I saw one in the back of a magazine once for sale and it was like 600 pounds and it was like 200 pounds a game and I was like that ain't happening, that is not happening.
Speaker 2:But oh did I want one Because I was just like look at the graphics. Can they get any more realistic? We say it every gen, we say it every gen. We say every gen used to show my dad turf masters and my dad would be like it's like watching the open.
Speaker 1:It's unbelievable, and I'm like, yeah, that's got to be one of the games to have on it, though, to be fair, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do like that game.
Speaker 2:That is fantastic game. But yeah, I I always think Neo Geo and 3DO were very similar consoles one was disc, one was cartridge but they were the big, powerful, expensive version. You had all your mainstream consoles, if you've got one of those.
Speaker 1:They're the Ferrari Rolls Royce of consoles. If you had one then, or if you've got one now. You're the sort of cool character that wears a cravat like an open floral shirt just super cool, you're a connoisseur yeah, galois, or cafe creme with some miles in a tin oh yeah, miles Davis jazz in the background and just like a large carafe of brandy. Everything's set out. Everything is pristine as well like.
Speaker 2:Neo.
Speaker 1:Geo ends on and you've got all your 3DO gizmos down there, boxed accessories, the whole sort of thing. We've seen people make a drive collection but we don't see many per capita of these, just these fine, fine gamers with their. Obviously we got a bit distracted because we're in the middle of a readout but anyway, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, yes, thanks, thanks, carlos. And I know carlos has a few. I think he has avs and mvs cartridges. So yeah, yeah, what an absolute legend. But yes, thanks, carlos. So who we got next then?
Speaker 1:We've got the beautiful Sexy. Now, some days when you're finished you're soft, but this guy guarantees that you're going to get firm returns every single goddamn time.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:Feel a bit depleted. He just comes along, runs his credit cruncher baiting fingers across your leg and you're like oh, suddenly I feel not only financially superior, but my firmness returns.
Speaker 2:I'll quickly get off that. Thank you anyway. By the way, We'll now go on to Trestles in New York. Thank you very much, Trestles.
Speaker 1:This attitude is perfect right, just to see your awkwardness on display.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my awkwardness is coming around quicker and quicker every time.
Speaker 1:Everybody stand up, sir, stand me bene. Buongiorno, ciao a tutti. Buongiorno. Ciao a tutti Buongiorno.
Speaker 2:Get your chair, get your chair.
Speaker 1:Everybody sit down. Sir Sta mi bene, paderbingster sta mi bene.
Speaker 2:Thank you, paderbingster. Absolutely, that's that new fad of the AI figures. He made a figure of George and a figure of me during the week as of recording, which was very hilarious.
Speaker 1:With the daisy chain accessory.
Speaker 2:That would be good. That would be good. Ucp Caterpillar.
Speaker 1:Centipede. Yeah, don't go down that road, caterpillar.
Speaker 2:Centipede. Yeah, don't go down that road. Next up we have the gorgeous Tingle Tuner I love that If you think you're into Nintendo. No, you're not, You're not.
Speaker 1:He's in a smoking jacket, a fez, he has a cigarette in a cigarette holder and he's laid on a chaise lounge playing a 3DS.
Speaker 2:I always think of it as if you go into one of those 18th century gentlemen's clubs adorned with mahogany library, but there's no books in there, it's just Switch and 3DS. And then just a little purple velvet cushion just with a 3DS and a little holder sitting there on charge, ready for another JRPG adventure.
Speaker 1:A gentleman delivers it to him on a silver plate with white gloves.
Speaker 2:Yes, and then he just sits there, presses the button and the blinds go.
Speaker 1:No, I think he's closing 17th century French corn acres for him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then he just sparks up the café creme.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's on them as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he gently just caresses the ice cube in the brandy glass. Little soup, little puff, and then adventure starts. Did I go too far, do you think? Or Right, who's next? Your hand grip through a coffee creme did I go a bit overboard on that. You said the word just yeah, I got into character a bit, I think got into character a bit. I think He'll have to edit all this laughing out, it's going to go outrageous, just a little puff.
Speaker 2:Right, right. Who have we got next? Come on, get it together. Come on, come on, we can do this. Just a tiny little puff don't, because we're never going to do this right. Come on, get it together. Come on, come on, let's get a grip. Let's get a grip. Come, come on. We're professional gamers. It's a beautiful tray, come on. Oh God, deep breaths, deep breaths. Come on, come on.
Speaker 1:Here he is. He's riding in on a mule. That's what happens when a donkey makes love to a horse, but Digital Monk has managed to sort of train it. They're super intelligent, willing to work harder than the individual animals associate. So he's come in on a mule because he's deputy Discord Digital monkery.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank you very much, and even though I do moan about beating hips, which I'm enjoying this challenge, except because it's another one of them quick scores Get your scores in really good. So if you want to know about Challenge, accepted, jump on Discord. We have these little challenges each month. They're great fun. They're normally either high scores or different twists what Digit Monkey puts on the games, but yeah, they're great fun. So, yeah, come and say hi. Next up we have the wonderful Gaming Graham.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much, young man, which means I get to ride. I get to ride the ball bordering.
Speaker 2:Yes, wow, yes, and then I get I want this one. Go on then, god.
Speaker 1:No, fine, you take it.
Speaker 2:I want this one. It's like the terrible twos.
Speaker 1:Someone needs to crop the face that RGT just did. And that's what your angry neighbour looks like when you glass grass clip inside the bed um, anyway, come on, I've got to get a ahem pew cambran, the immortal boba loba yeah boba loba, thank you very much.
Speaker 2:I'll say it again most men run country mile Cumberland. The immortal Boba Loba, yeah, boba Loba, thank you very much.
Speaker 1:I'll say it again, most men run country mile from a red headed stepson. I ran a country mile into his loving arms. And they're big arms, strong arms as well. They're sort of arms you would normally use to carry strongest men in the world balls, the granite balls oh yeah. I'm glad you cleared that up. He basically caresses me. I only listen to the ones I'm on.
Speaker 2:I listen to you we know what one were you listening to mate your humour.
Speaker 1:Anything that has the word master or blaster in it is, quite honestly, don't get me don't.
Speaker 2:Don't say that again, because that's that's my kryptonite when we're on the show. That sets me off, though, because I'm thinking about that. I'm gonna laugh in a minute. Right, I'm getting it together, come on.
Speaker 1:Runs by the town no. Who's next? Because we need to give him props, don't we?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we have the wonderfully gorgeous Lord of Darkness and very talented Harvey Retro, the legend himself.
Speaker 1:Hang on, mate, just two secs. Oh, I've had a DM.
Speaker 2:Hmm.
Speaker 1:I sent my shop. She's in Canberra, capital of Australia. Oh right, she's wearing a leaked copy of the new artwork, blazoned across what can only be described as a crop top. Really, she's shaking hands with a koala bear. She's done well a koala bear.
Speaker 2:She's done well, because I only spoke to her last night, so she's got there quick.
Speaker 1:On the phone.
Speaker 2:No person.
Speaker 1:Okay, like Tina Fey, she's got herself body doubles.
Speaker 2:Ah, good call, Good way of doing it. Anyway, thank you, emma. I'm going to enjoy Canberra, but I'll probably see you tomorrow at work. Anyway, um, next up we have the wonderful greg, nowhere near berlin. Uh, fantastic, thank you, greg. Long time supporter of the show, been on the show and on the show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, developer in his own right, next Coming in like a piece of silk, sliding down a piece of freshly cooled glass. And I tell you what what a great looking derriere. Is this illegal? This Thank you, mum, mumsy, for everything that you do.
Speaker 2:I'm just going to carry on I didn't hear that and say thank you very much to all of you in the RGT fan club, much appreciated, as always.
Speaker 1:Wheeled in right now playing keepy uppies, happy sack with a cannonball. It's Pete Brocklehurst.
Speaker 2:I didn't think it'd be anyone else. Then we've got the awesome Billy Marmite.
Speaker 1:Thank, you very much. He changed his name by depot to Billy Bovril. Is he he's convinced no one's going to be able to tell the difference?
Speaker 2:No, you can. You can Bovril's really nice drink as well. But yeah, okay, billy Marmite slash.
Speaker 1:Brian Bovril.
Speaker 2:Brian Bovril, that's his brother.
Speaker 1:I guess there's going to be two of them now.
Speaker 2:And his sister Vicky Vegemite.
Speaker 1:Is that vegan?
Speaker 2:No idea, no idea, no idea. They asked one for community corrections. He's Vegemite vegan. Wow, we got all the questions here. Gamers, yeah. So who have we got next then?
Speaker 1:Good, that means I get Simon Pryke, a legend legend, who is a superhero. He's trike man. He can only ride three wheeled vehicles, but he does it better than anyone else.
Speaker 2:Aka the trike he's like the trike version of matt hoffman but he's got the extra stability of the third wheel. Yes, definitely helps.
Speaker 1:Normally you wouldn't want a third wheel kicking around, but in this instance, trike man, he proves that three is better than two.
Speaker 2:Yeah, more stable.
Speaker 1:Two heads are better than one.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:Double the pleasure, baby, triple the fun.
Speaker 2:And this unfortunately leaves me. I'm trying to just get over that. This leaves me with, I mean, do I just go tame or do I?
Speaker 1:No, I think what's the tamest. It's one of those ones this week, I think, where you've got the rage. I don't want to go too hard. It's one of those ones this week, I think, where you've got the rage.
Speaker 2:Okay, I don't want to go too hard.
Speaker 1:I'm not asking you to. You've got the rage.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But you've got enough stuff going on upstairs where you just boom, it's done, okay, it's that sense of relief. But then the clarity kicks in, that sense of relief. But then the clarity kicks in a little bit harder and a little bit more sort of real life than you wanted it to. So you've come in. You're literally tipsy on the idea of Fat Zangief in it. But it's like boom it's done, it's like boom it's done. It's almost work a day.
Speaker 2:So almost like a just a quick short, hard version.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but nothing that raises too much of an eyebrow. It's just one of those things that you've got to get. It's routine, but you still enjoy it.
Speaker 2:You get it out of the system, but it's quick and fun.
Speaker 1:It starts a bit aggressive and I think it very much turns into a whimper.
Speaker 2:Sounds very much like me in all aspects of my life.
Speaker 1:This shows fit for the bid, but we'll be back to normal next week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sorry about this, but let me just get this out of the way. Okay, thank you. Done In the bin, there we go.
Speaker 1:He had a wadded bit of tissue ready to go. That's literally it. Well, thank you this week yeah sorry, simon, I don't like this attitude era no, I feel uncomfortable you lent into it. To be honest, that's the thing.
Speaker 2:That's why I feel uncomfortable. It came too naturally to me. Wow, look, a couple of 13 year olds.
Speaker 1:It came too naturally to me. Wow, like a couple of 13-year-olds, they've gone from doing two-hour video game documentaries to this drivel. What the hell's happened to them, I'll be honest, we don't quite know. But we've got some nice things prepared in the background that we think we should be able to redeem ourselves. We are between series. Just bear with us. I promised you every single week we'd give you a show. Every single week you're going to have something to get you through, so you're going to find out why I switched from wheat to canola, and that's not an anti-thrush cream, that's a crop in FS25.
Speaker 1:That's good, dad. Thanks, I've done myself, though my RGT will literally take you to hell and back on a scale. We're pro gamers. Well, we do. Good impressions of a couple of guys that pretend to be pro gamers exactly?
Speaker 2:I ain't got a clue. I'm still sitting on a spectrum at home trying to load the cassettes up. That would make you a pro gamer in this era, though wouldn't it, though probably would yeah simmer down.
Speaker 1:So what are you playing? Instead, tell you what you're playing star wars, allies, whatever it's called on your mobile.
Speaker 2:That's harsh but now we have got some good stuff lined up and some good things written in the background, so once we can get it all together and, yeah, we think you're going to like it, so you're going to be very happy, yeah, and we'll be beating off a stream of new subs.
Speaker 1:So if you want to get in early with the exclusive stuff, you do it now. You make it happen and you make it happen fast. Yeah, yes, rgt, what are you hoping to?
Speaker 2:play obviously more Xenoblade. I'll skirt over that because people will be bored. They will, because this will be Harvest Stellar all over again. People are messaging me saying just finish the bloody game, for god's sake. I was sick of hearing of Harvest bloody Stellar. I said two bloodies. I do apologise. Phil cut the second one out, lean into it.
Speaker 1:Do it more. You want the swear, don't you? I said two bloodies. I do apologise, phil. Cut the second one out, lean into it. Do it more. You want the swear, don't you? Take it, strike me down with all your vengeance. It's your journey to the Attitude Era will have begun. You've ruined me, you want this and your friends on easy allies, a full battalion of my just just stroking an 18 certificate.
Speaker 2:You want this, don't you?
Speaker 1:a full battalion of car losses awaits them on the surface of the rebel moon, but yes, more.
Speaker 2:Zeno sister, he's still going on the surface of the rebel moon, but yes, more.
Speaker 1:Zeno.
Speaker 2:He's still going. More Zeno, yeah, I don't know how much longer I'll put into it.
Speaker 1:I would imagine that's a good 100-hour game, I would have thought you got a quick Zangief. Or is it a sort of drawn out tantric zangief, do you reckon?
Speaker 2:drawn out. I reckon, um, yeah, like I do. The thing is, apart from being told, one's a story mission, one's an infinity mission or one's a basic mission they all seem near enough the same. That all seems part of this growing that world, and I quite like that. You, I know it's an RPG, but you feel like you are role playing in this fight to keep humanity going. I quite like that. They've done that really well. Then there'll be me and Mrs RGT I must get on to finish fire watch, get that done and there'll be more Prince of Persia, the Lost Crane really enjoying that. If I get time I'll jump on the Evercade and I will also be on EAFC trying to get to 40 goals when I give my beloved Ipswich another good spanking.
Speaker 1:Yes, please.
Speaker 2:Yes, so Lincoln City rules Up the. What's your nickname? Imps? Is it up? Are you called Imps? I don't know. You should know.
Speaker 1:No, they're not. They're called the Brown Canal.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I'm not saying that. So what are you hoping to play? George, you knew me who's he. I just wondered if you would what you hope to play, george.
Speaker 1:You knew, we Jose. I just wondered if you would fall for that, but you didn't, because you're sharp.
Speaker 2:And I know you too well.
Speaker 1:You probably do. That's where all the fun's gone out of the show, because you know what's coming. What am I hoping to play? I very nearly bought MLB 25 and then didn't and bought Alaskan Road Truckers instead, so maybe I'll give that a go this afternoon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'd like to hear about that, what you think of that Alaskan Road Truckers.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's like a realistic sim, for sure. It's more like a trucker's lifestyle simulator. You've got to keep your levels up, you've got to not get cold. You've got to keep your levels up, you got to not get cold. You got to maintain the vehicle, you got to deliver the routes. Some are on tarmac, some are on snow. I'm expecting it to be possibly the worst game I've played this year, and I was excited for this mainly because the the premise is right up my street, but in reality we'll see um it looks like road.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that ain't gonna get bought I'm sorry, but they've gone a bit of a. I like the idea of it initially, but then when I saw it I just felt like they've gone completely down the wrong route, like I'm not really. I want more transport missions. I want more vehicles we recognize, I want more.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I sort of agree with you on that that feel like we've driven on a road and then we've got to go up a boggy track. A lot of this go eight miles in a boggy track. I know that's part of the appeal of snow runner, mud runner and but and again, I feel like mud runner was more edgy than SnowRunner. Snowrunner feels a bit it's more obtuse. Oh, it is definitely the Demon's Souls of driving games and I'm glad that that's our thing, that we coined, that's our, because I see that banded around now and I'm like that annoys me that, because that's literally something that we invented on air yeah, yeah, yeah exactly but now someone else gets the glory yeah, I see what you mean a road craft.
Speaker 2:To me it almost looks like a dlc of snow runner and that's exactly what it should have been.
Speaker 1:I mean we got some really great dlc from snowner. I mean I say really great, I ain't bought a dot of it. Maybe I did that. Farming expansion came close. I was like, yeah, that could be good. I was looking on my beloved Reddit, and if you're not on Reddit and you're not on the UCP, reddit the most exclusive place. That's where I'm spending my time now. So get Reddit downloaded on your phone and come looking for the UCP. If you search hard enough, you'll find it. Some say the best hidden things are the things you should be looking for. But Roadcraft, yeah, I don't know. It's a bit like Expeditions. I was initially interested, found out what it was and my interest tailed off very quickly.
Speaker 2:See, for me, yes, yes, they messed up the multiplayer, the actual single player. If you play that in single player, expeditions is I loved it, I thought it was fantastic. But as soon as you play that, you think, right, I'll expand now, or go on an expedition with my friend, which you think would be straight forward. And they just messed that multiplayer up and you just thought, oh no, just.
Speaker 1:I just think it would have been nice to have given us an open world environment and then we go out in the vehicles and we explore and find like, oh wow, look at this sort of I don't know gaelic stone circle that we found in the middle of nowhere. Oh, look at these. Oh look. Look over here, rgt. Look what I found in the middle of nowhere. Oh, look at these. Oh, look over here, rgt. Look what I found in this cave. Oh, look at all those paintings.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, that's what you mean. That's what you mean.
Speaker 1:Oh, we're going into wood. Oh, look out, we found a massive redwood tree that you can drive your vehicle through the middle of. Oh, that's incredible. Let me get some pictures. You're exploring, but more organically, and you're finding little geocaches of fuel and things and it's almost like how far can you get on your little sightseeing journey? And when you run out your vehicle?
Speaker 2:There is touches of that, but not as raw as what you'd want it.
Speaker 1:And that's really. You suddenly crest over into this new valley area that you've not been in before and there's a little track to test your vehicle on. Just cut through this wood and it's, you know, red for a beginner, yellow for intermediate and blue for like hard, and you can take your vehicles around there and they're different tests. Oh, that was cool what next.
Speaker 1:So I found the abandoned gold mine. You drive through and you find some little tunnels and it takes you up into another area plateau, and different areas are locked off with different machines and winches that you haven't got access to early doors. Tell me that's not more of an interesting game of premise than what we've got it is that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know what you mean and yes, it would be. Um, there's never been a game like that. Um, what they did do was very good. I love plotting, plotting my routes. I love finding had to go off piece to try and find a fuel to carry on. Is that jeopardy where you aren't going to make it? The problem is some of those missions were brutally hard single player they were almost made for multiplayer that you couldn't really play because you wouldn't get no progress from it, and it was just like oh hold on.
Speaker 2:We've had that in Snow yeah, but even snow runner with with us faults it. You could still play the standard game together once you've done the tutorial. You can't even do the standard game together in this, and then when you did, if you would stop and come out of the game, you'd go back and you just have to start again. It wouldn't even save your progress and you're just like, oh, this is terrible.
Speaker 1:Is that unforgivable?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was a shame because I put 120, 130 hours into Expeditions, really enjoyed it, couldn't wait for the multiplayer and just thought me and Speedy Wheels give it a go, and we'd both put a lot of hours in it and we're just like this isn't what we thought this would be. We thought we would just start a new game again but go and do the missions together. But it wasn't like that.
Speaker 1:It was almost like an afterthought hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Speedy wheels had a direct order to join as a sub last week so we can get the t-shirt and rep it, do all the good stuff. I've seen nothing. And this is a man you'd choose to cheat on me with Uh-huh. He better be worth it, speedy Will's.
Speaker 2:Oh, he is.
Speaker 1:My God, is he worth it? Golf ball through a garden house kind of guy, or?
Speaker 2:I'd say basketball. Just leave that little thought in your head. Anyway, what else you hope to play, josh? Farming simulator 25 oh yeah, yeah, we've done that one uh, oh yeah, have we alaskan road truckers?
Speaker 1:um, I don't know if I'll be able to resist temptation. I'm really frustrated. I meant to say it's at the top of the show. I'm really frustrated with ninty. I have this whole two factor authentication issue. So no internet I've had. No, they're quite happy to take my money and sell me games. They're quite happy to tell me how many gold points and silver points I've got. Now I can access my gold points because it's all done on the switch. Can I access my silver points? No, do I get an email from ninty saying that yes, you actually. I looked at the qualifying criteria, thought I am their perfect fodder for the switch too. Surely I get the email. No email, why, oh? Two-factor authentication is causing an issue. We'll send you an email. Your emails don't come through. Have you added this to your spam folder? I have. Have you checked your junk folder?
Speaker 1:I have do you do the two-factor authentication again.
Speaker 2:I can't so what's the issue there then? That's really strange.
Speaker 1:And it's really upset me to be fair, because I really wanted a Switch 2.
Speaker 2:You'll get one.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to get one in time for the wedding of the year and the honeymoon of the decade, am I?
Speaker 2:I'll give you mine.
Speaker 1:I'm getting my getting. I don't look your offer of mrs rgt is very generous.
Speaker 2:No, I meant the switch too. Oh, I don't want that. Oh, okay, well then I'll have the switch too on honeymoon in my suitcase.
Speaker 1:Yeah, actually no. The Switch 2 is yours and you deserve it and you've earned it. I'm just hoping that when they land in June they're going to be available in the shops yeah, I hope so.
Speaker 2:I mean I've, I've got a little ear to the ground on something else. So if that do crop up, that there's a chance I will, I will grab you one.
Speaker 1:So is it from very? No don't want it, then as gracious as ever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no problem, and now I've tried.
Speaker 1:But he's very the one that does things on the on the monthly download you can go to very, I think.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yeah I did.
Speaker 1:I did a search and it came up and I was like do I end up paying four grand for a Switch 2? Is there any place I can get one?
Speaker 2:for the launch on very or you'd be better off just buying it off of Scalper or eBay.
Speaker 1:I would. Actually it's cheaper. But don't do that. Don't buy off Scalpers.
Speaker 2:I think actually as well. Nintendo have been fighting back against them, haven't they? I think they've.
Speaker 1:They've tried, although I've seen quite a few listed.
Speaker 2:second, yeah, if they're genuine. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I've been a bit like oh, how dare you, it's too soon. Yeah, and do you know what I thought? With the focus of everyone switching to the Switch 2, I'll be able to walk into my local Argos and pick up a PS5 disc drive.
Speaker 2:No, why is there still no PS5 disc drives for the Pro?
Speaker 1:Some would argue it's a conspiracy theory, and I don't really care about what the ins and outs are, I just want one.
Speaker 2:Why is there not? I don't understand, boy, I don't know.
Speaker 1:You can get one on Amazon, but it's more than the £99 it should be. It's RIP's 99, which is agreed just to pay, admittedly, but I'm happy to when I want to, um, and I can't there's none on the ps store or anything every time I check it's out of stock. So amazon have got stock, but whether it's amazon or a store under amazon, yeah, it's probably store for over 100 um and the switch to.
Speaker 1:I thought I'd get lucky enough to get because I got an email from Amazon saying they're just free to buy now. So I went on the Amazon app and they'd already sold out of them on there. So Switch 2 was a no-go on there, Argos is a no-go. Very is a possibility, but it's not really. So yeah, fingers crossed, as if I'm not busy enough, I've got to find the time to ring Nintendo and have it out with them about my account on a phone call.
Speaker 1:I'm looking forward to that pain, if I'm honest with you.
Speaker 2:Just mention as well. You missed out on a Switch 2 because of it, and they might grace your palm with one, especially if they know who you are.
Speaker 1:That's that scupper, then, isn't it?
Speaker 2:I'll be looking, you just say you know, I don't know if you know who I am. I'm kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1:I've never wanted me, you or the show to lever off our success.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's time you did.
Speaker 1:It's immoral.
Speaker 2:I know, but you'll get switched too.
Speaker 1:My feelings are changing. No, it's still immoral. One of the things that binds us to our audience is the fact that we're paying, buying and going through the same pain. They are Now, whether that's a successful launch, a bugged launch, a great game that came out perfect from day one and we all enjoyed simultaneously. I mean, we do try and rush through them a little bit, so so we can just get ahead of you slightly, but um, for the majority, we're on the same journey.
Speaker 1:They are, and there's too, many shows that they talk about stuff that you can't get access to for six months and you know what connection have you got with that, other than like oh, listen to bigger boys play stuff we ain't got it's all good if you're playing together, because you can all chat about it on the discord and bits and pieces it gives us, then, that opportunity to have what I'd call water cooler moments with the guys on the discord, or we can have one on the show together, maybe at the same time as someone simultaneously having that moment in their version of the game that they're playing speaking of that 20th of April which is my birthday, by the way is the Norwich video game market, which a few of us are going to If any of you want to come along or live in the area. That's alright.
Speaker 2:Yes, as of recording, that is next weekend. So if anyone wants to go and come and say hi, or come and wander around some games, see what?
Speaker 1:we've got who's going.
Speaker 2:I believe well, me definitely, mrs RGT, the board boarder, his partner Boba Loba, hopefully, you.
Speaker 1:You don't want me there. I don't know if you've noticed this yet, but I'm about as I'm about as popular as the medieval brand of syphilis yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:That's a good analogy actually. Yeah, um, so I can say what you're there.
Speaker 1:Okay, you're the CEO. Yeah, they're not here for that, are they?
Speaker 2:But yeah, so I think Digital Muggery might be going as well. So you hear all these guys, hear their names.
Speaker 1:If he's going, he's got to turn up on a moped in a white tux, with a black shirt and a helmet that looks like a hollowed-out 10-pin bowling ball with a rose suspended within it.
Speaker 2:That's quite specific that.
Speaker 1:I've got very specific wants and needs.
Speaker 2:Really, I've never noticed. Yeah, anyway, if anyone fancies that, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's the only way he's allowed in the door.
Speaker 2:But yeah, norwich at the Forum and if you are going you can get tickets. So go online.
Speaker 1:Is the Forum the agricultural showground or is it somewhere else?
Speaker 2:Forum's in the city. I think it's the old Anglia TV building in the city, the big glass building. Correct me if I'm wrong where have anglian tv gone um, just to another building, I presume.
Speaker 1:But oh, okay just sort of moved house, you know I just didn't want to see a local tv station go down the swanee oh no, they're still going.
Speaker 2:It's just um, obviously. Then the building was left and they took it over and you can. There's different events and bits and pieces they do in there, and lovely building as well, very cool building for that.
Speaker 1:So I'm looking forward to that cool as in the scene or cool as in the air.
Speaker 2:Cons good both fair play to you.
Speaker 1:It's double cool I think I've literally I'm just aging into the dad joke. I, that's who I've become. Maybe we should go PG again.
Speaker 2:Hmm, see what the listeners think. Yeah, um, yeah.
Speaker 1:Cause I said I was drenched.
Speaker 2:Hmm, then we are still on air, by the way, so that's all we have time for this week.
Speaker 1:Sweet listeners, always thank you for your time. We look forward to the pleasure of speaking to you again next week. Until then, happy gaming and remember there's nothing wrong with being given an official controller. It's what you do with it that counts. See you RGT later, later.