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Unofficial Controller Podcast
We Launch A Second Channel, Revisit Resistance On PS3, And Debate The Future Of Gaming
Nostalgia just got teeth. We’re launching Flashback, a brand-new channel dedicated to jumping into specific months of gaming history—magazine covers, previews that never shipped, weird accessories, and those console wars that lit up schoolyards. Think time capsules you can listen to: March ’94 one week, 2006 the next, maybe 1979 after that. The main show stays free, and Sundays now bring double downloads. When Flashback drops, help us by downloading and leaving a quick review on Apple or Spotify to nudge the algorithm in our favor.
We also plug back into Resistance: Fall of Man on PS3 and find it still hits hard. It’s weighty, structured, and more Call of Duty than memory suggests, with a launch-era look that somehow charms rather than dates. A hardware detour follows: swapping an SSD into a PS3 Slim transformed load times and reminded us why The Last of Us still plays great on legacy hardware—before a fast cut to PS5 where lighting, physics, and micro-details turn key scenes into something else entirely. That back-to-back proves how far the medium has moved without diminishing what made the old stuff special.
On the news front, Dovetail’s Metro Rivals New York slams sim cred into arcade swagger: Crazy Taxi energy with trains in Unreal Engine 5, solo and four-player. Then Bitmap Bureau’s Terminator 2D: No Fate shows the smartest retro move of the year—beat the canonical story once, then remix key scenes to unlock new levels and paths. It’s a love letter to 16-bit action that solves the “short 2D game” complaint with built-in replay. We round out with the ROG Ally Xbox edition, handheld optimizations for big titles, and a frank look at how the industry might be pivoting toward enthusiasts through accessories, mid-gen upgrades, and tightly targeted hardware.
If you love retro with purpose, hardware talk with real stakes, and game design that respects your time, you’ll feel at home here. Subscribe, share this with a friend who still has their dog-eared mags, and when Flashback lands, drop a review—it genuinely helps. What month of gaming history should we time-jump to first?
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Hello and welcome to the unofficial controller podcast, your weekly gaming podcast, episode number two hundred and ninety. With me, George, and this week joined by RGT, best mate of Mags, to my still dressed in rags. How's it going? These are getting better ball a week, I think. Yeah, I keep uh what I've realized, the will inform that to keep you happy, is do myself an absolute injustice on the intro. Sets you up in a good way, makes for a good show.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, good point. Must admit, I'm I'm really enjoying these. I don't know if you're thinking off the cuff or pre-writing them, or I think there's a little bit of pre-writing going on in here, a little bit of homework.
SPEAKER_03:I also think you're looking very handsome today. I'm looking at a man in a Resident Evil hat, so he's he's obviously very gamer themed. Uh PS5 headset, some very nice looking, almost buddy Holly and the Crickets style glasses, but maybe a little touch of Elvis and Costello as well. Elvis Costello, he's got a look to him. Uh beautiful looking face. Matched in with a very delicate looking, if I may say. I I don't know what it is, but a black tea, no doubt some sort of gamer-related tea, because you're sitting down to do a podcast. It's brew dog, your other love in your life, alcohol.
SPEAKER_00:Hashtag not spawn. Um, yeah, gaming hat, beer t-shirt, need to say no more, RGT.
SPEAKER_03:Well, and and and I also had an email. I think me suggesting quite truthfully that you were Trevor Macdonald last week, um, you know, was on the edge. So um I apologise.
SPEAKER_00:Oh dear, did we have a uh complaint in the complaints department?
SPEAKER_03:No, I just thought I'd lob it in there to make us sound controversial.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, okay, yeah. Well I no one cared. Yeah, I'm not sure about we're controversial. Um maybe just sort of say you are maybe controversial a bit.
SPEAKER_03:Well, we we are in the era of the uh attitude era with the new G uh George. I was gonna give myself a whole I was gonna say the new G. I was about to give myself a whole new persona there. You'll just hang on for a minute.
SPEAKER_00:I thought this was a Scotty too shoty uh going on. I was probably about two seconds away from a new character creation suite.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, you're gonna be able to do it.
SPEAKER_00:The big G.
SPEAKER_03:Big G. Wow. Let the fans decide the lore of what that was gonna look like. Anyway, um obviously we had uh to all those uh Q tuned in, clued in and dropped out, as we say. Um we did a show with Mags on his Tuesday night game stream. We certainly did. Happy to say you you made us look brilliant, guys, because he got the highest amount of views he's ever had in his life. So uh that made us come away feeling.
SPEAKER_00:Level seven hype train, which was like we have no idea what's going on, but we're on that hype train. You made out like you knew what was happening, not a clue. I was just trying to be cool in front of Mags. He's a cool kid, so I was just trying to be cool, you know. Yeah, don't you know what a level seven hype train is, George? Oh my god, I don't know. No, I didn't have a clue, not a clue.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, well, you played it well, yeah, because uh I I was that guy. I had no uh to be honest, it felt a little bit like an alien abduction in the end. Uh things, lots of things were happening, I didn't know what was going on, but I had no control over it.
SPEAKER_00:I saw someone the next day who was watching live and said, Um, oh, it's incredible. I stayed to the end. You know, what does this level seven hype train mean? What does that mean for you guys? Or something absolutely no idea, not a clue. I was expecting the train to come across the screen. I don't know. Boop, boop, didn't know what was going on, but I was with it, I was down with it celebrating a lot.
SPEAKER_03:Mate, I had got my book out and was waiting for the mallard, you know. I had no idea what was going on. They talk about a hype train. There's no train with more hype than the mallard.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I've just finished playing Murder on the Orning Express. I thought it was like the second part or something, I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:Max comes in, he's trimmed his tash, he's poiro. He'd make a great poiro, wouldn't he? A Burnley Poirot, yeah. Yeah, I think so. I can see that. Anyway, we went on there, not for for shits and giggles, but also to and this is our chance to do the same to the to the devout listeners. You're gonna get an extra channel, ladies and gentlemen. Certainly are. Um you're gonna get a new channel. It's gonna be uh four episodes a month. Actually, that might work out. RGT you might get a week off every once in a while.
SPEAKER_00:Just add as well, us not replacing this channel, it's an extra channel as well. Oh, yes, yeah. We're not replacing this.
SPEAKER_03:No, no, no. This this look you're gonna get the UCP milkshake. It's free, it'll always be free. But guess what? RGT in the old G Dog just turned up.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you the G bit was alright, but the Dog. Yeah, I'm not you need to work with that, you need to practice that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. G Dog. G Dog and RGT have rocked up and slapped a massive helpin of cream, a dollop, a wad, all the way over the top of the UCP cream pie. That there sits and marinates, and on top of that, you say, Yeah, but George, what is it? What is it? What is it? What is it you're throwing at us? What is it? You you're dousing us in. Well, we're gonna douse you in an extra show a week. It's called Flashback. Well, that seems familiar. Yeah, we did a pilot, you liked it, we put some legs on it, we called it a show, now we're calling it a channel, and it's flashback. And what we're gonna do every week, we're gonna take a dog eared cornered mag a dog-eared magazine, we're gonna take that, we're gonna fold it, we're gonna dissect it. Well, I say we, RGT, is gonna dissect it, pick it apart, serve up the latest, hottest news of whatever it was in that moment, be it 1992, be it 2003, and we're gonna flip every week. You won't know what's going on. One week it'd be 92, the next week it'll be 2006, the week after that, it's probably 1979. But work with us, it's an enjoyable concept, and we think you're gonna love it. Little bit of a tweak, although I'm railing against it, but RGT says yes. Uh, we're gonna do it as a retrospective view on those times. So hang on a minute, George. What you're saying to me is every week I'm gonna get the UCP main show for free. Yes, yes, and then on top of that, oh yeah, you're gonna give me a whole nother show about video games, yeah. But retro ones, absolutely, but through the lens of the UCP style. So it's a little bit of a like the retrospectives, but done in a different way, RGT. I would like to say, would you agree with that?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I mean, if if you're a fan of the show and you're listening, um, you probably know sort of our formats, there's gonna be a similar format, but like George says, it's just gonna be those little snippets in time. So rather than us working on a weekly basis as we do at the moment, the latest news, these will be from random months of gaming history. Let's just see what was going on in March '94. What were we hoping to play? What we would have been playing, what were the latest news stories, you know, and just little grabs from time. And um, the more we write and the more we see how interesting that is, and looking back, and there'll be bits that you didn't know maybe were happening. You may be games that didn't come out you you'd never heard of, and that'd be new news to you, or there'll be bits you've forgotten about. Oh god, yeah, I remember that. I remember that accessory, I remember that game, I remember that controller. So that's that's these little snippets of real good look backs on nostalgia and and you know, and and what was about in them times.
SPEAKER_03:But yeah, those moments in time, you know, the Nintendo versus Sega Gaming Wars, you know, we can get we can bring you snippets of that when it was at its hottest, we can bring you ST versus Amiga, we can bring you Spectrum versus C64, we can do so you know, got some shows in the bag, RGT, which are scheduled for recording very soon. I'm gonna do a day of it, it's how we're gonna record it going forward. So that's that's very exciting. Um, because we're not time bound with the news, etc., we can just creep those out. Um very exciting times, just some last I's and to dot and T's to cross. I think that's the right way of saying it. Um, but looking for a November launch.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, November launch start of November launch. Um, you know, we're pretty much there. Artwork's done. Um, I have stuck that on the Discord, but if anyone wants me to do it again, just let us know and I'll chuck the artwork up. Um new soundtrack, new intro. So yeah, we're we're getting there and getting getting excited to launch it now. So it's uh it's gonna be good fun and also it's gonna be as well.
SPEAKER_03:New merch. Doing a merch run for the mag show. Maybe we should, if anyone wants to get in on that, it'd be the time, wouldn't it? Yeah, yeah, exactly. That is no um because it's like a new run, isn't it? We're gonna have all the new art on the t-shirts with a new show, new channel. Yep. Wanna get some stock?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so um yeah, yeah, there'll be there'll be new merch runs. Um and it's gonna be good for you guys because it's gonna be, you know, you're gonna be having a double download on a Sunday now, so it'll be two shows. So but all I'll say is, and I will say this closer to time, and I know we say out of this show as well, but when the show does launch, please make sure you download the vote streaming, and also if you could please on the very first show, give us a good review if you're on Apple or Spotify, whatever the you're on that does reviews, just leave us a nice little review because that really helps the algorithm and gets noticed and gets a download.
SPEAKER_03:So what I want to say, RGT, from an from an audio and podcasting point of view, we've literally got every hole filled. Because that's how we run yeah, you could have one ear each, couldn't you? We've only got two shows. Exactly. Everything else after that's just queuing up. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, yeah. So filling a face orgy. RGT. Yes.
SPEAKER_00:What have you been playing? Um funny enough, not a lot this week. I have I have delved back into a little bit more of Grand Bazaar, but nothing major to talk about, just a bit of farm and bit of plant and bits and beats, just not not much time. But what I have been playing, and you know what I've been playing, because I messaged you the other day and said I cannot put this game down at the moment. And I don't know whether I I'm really impressed by this game, and I don't know whether I should be impressed by this game, or I don't know. I don't know if people are gonna look at me and say, Why are you impressed by that? The launch title, you weirdo.
SPEAKER_03:Um are you are you are you are you looking to sell up your own TikTok channel because you're teasing me and I don't feel I'm ever gonna get the answer. What game, what game is this?
SPEAKER_00:I don't even know what a hype train is, so I ain't got a hope in hell of doing a TikTok or Tok Tick, whatever it is. Um I prefer just doing a a podcast or Ubook and Facebook. Um but this is resistance PS3 launch time.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, of course it is, yes. Yes, I I was listening to you talk to Scotty about this last week. Uh and yes, I was thinking. Yeah, we talked about he's right, and I I could felt your I could feel your excitement for it. I think is the second level Nottingham and the third level Grimsby, or is it the other way around?
SPEAKER_00:Like no, no, I think you're right. Yeah, it is Nottingham, Grimsby. I've I've gone through all those Somerset. Um I'm now in now, I'm now in London outskirts. I've only got two levels left and I've finished. Um it's very, very, very Halo-esque. It's you know, you've got that truck scene where you're you you know you're driving the truck through the shoe, very, very similar, but that's not that's not.
SPEAKER_03:I'll be honest, mate. It the the sort of vibes it gave me, I I do see the Halo connotations, but what I do see is I see it, I see a lot of COD in it.
SPEAKER_00:I really I I've never been really a COD player, so I could I couldn't I couldn't match those two up. But um it's it runs very well. It runs very smooth. I haven't noticed any frame drops or screen tears. I think maybe it's because of sp you know, I'm a bit in the action. Maybe there is and I haven't noticed it I think it looks good. You are right in a way. When when you actually stand and look at it, sometimes you think areas are a bit of an HD PS2 game, it's got that PS2 vibe going about it, but a very late PS2 game. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Um it's it's it's like Ghost Hunter or 24, it's got that feeling to it. It it feels a bit bambi-legged in places, I would say.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think that's a fair shout. Um, but uh also it does it still does look nice. Um it and I say it runs well, I like the story. Yes, it's early PS3, so it is very brown and beige. You're not gonna see a lot of colours there. Um, but like I said, I like the story and how the aliens have you know take humans and infect them and they're taking over the world, and you're this this sort of part infected American who's trying to fight back with the resistance. And and I like the way that each each area of the country that you go to is broken down to three key little levels that you go through your checkpoints to get to the next one. That's quite I know some games do that, but you don't tend to see that so much now, and I don't think you saw it too much then. So it's this sort of breakdown of the of the places you go, whether it's like I say, Nottingham or Grimsby or London, Bracknall, even you know, even had a good a really good shootout in Cheddar Gorge. Do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03:I forgot you go there.
SPEAKER_00:Although, um I did notice a couple of little things because obviously that was Americans making a British game, so like you've got jeeps, but they're left-hand drive. Well, no, there would be. Why is that? Because the Americans brought them. Oh, did they? I thought no, I know because some of the gear is some of the stuff you find is British, so I didn't know, but um, but anyway, it's very good. I've really enjoyed it. Um, it's you know it's a good game when I keep thinking when I get home from work, oh, let's just have a couple of hours on it here. Let's just have an hour and a half on it here. I've just worked out. This is how it got me, to be fair.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I'd recommend definitely not going straight into two day. Oh, really? Because I was gonna do that. Yeah, I wouldn't do that. I did that and I just bounced off it.
SPEAKER_00:I think it was just too much of the same, and I was like, Well, I should I really need to be getting back onto stick of truth, so I might just then hop onto that next, get that done, then maybe jump to it.
SPEAKER_03:Not even get it done, just have a couple of nights. Yeah, maybe uh four or four nights not playing that game. Yeah. I think it'd be because I finished it and then immediately picked up the controller and went straight into two, and it was not it didn't it won't write.
SPEAKER_00:No, sometimes you need that sort of palette cleanse, don't you? A bit of a bit of a clean area, something completely different. But yeah, I think for and I've said this before about many PS3 games I know, but if you if you're collecting for seventh gen or you got a PS3 and you haven't played resistance for how much that is, three bucks, I think it is, four bucks, just pick it up and have a go. It's a really solid little game and a good one for the collection. Bit of PS3 history being a launch title, you know. I remember I got this from my PS3, I got this and Motorstorm and always played Motor. I would have I just didn't play FPS games, I never really touched it. I just always played Motorstorm, but look back now and think, man, this would have this would have blown me away back in the day when I put this on.
SPEAKER_03:So is this was it the PS3 game that you picked up all those years ago, or is that long gone and it's a different version of Resistance that you pulled down off your no, it's the original one, it's the original one, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, that's sexy, isn't it? Yeah, I mean the PS3's my fat boy PS3 is in the graveyard on the shelf of spare consoles to be repaired, or parts um uh parts not working as is advertised, but the game's there, so yeah, that's the original original one I got. Is that all you've played? Yes, yes, unfortunately, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Well that's uh if I may, that's a good uh sort of turning point for me because I've got a bit of PS3 update for you if you if you've got the time to do it.
SPEAKER_00:Have you have you uh have you fixed the big no moderately?
SPEAKER_03:My um you know electrical guru uh cousin, he's had the PS3 for a while, he declared it unfixable unless you Frankenstein's it, and at that point you're buying another PS3 anyway, so kind of what's the point? Um, and you buy a working one to get yours working again, and it's yeah, sometimes you have to draw the line a bit, don't you?
SPEAKER_00:And think, hang on.
SPEAKER_03:I drew the line and I I said no. At this, as much as I want this machine to be working, there has a point, comes a point in time where I've got the PS5 set up, I've got the PS3 slim set up, and I've got the PS2 slim set, the PS2 fat set up. I don't really need to have the OG PS3 there. So, because if I'm gonna play a PS2 or a PS1 game, I'll play it on the PS2. If I'm gonna play a PS3 game. Or I might play the PS1 game on the PS3, but to be fair, I'll probably I want to play it with a wire, and that's weird, but that's what probably what I want to do.
SPEAKER_00:No, I get that, I get that as well. Yeah, similar to that.
SPEAKER_03:In came broken console, but within it is the beating heart of the infamous SSD I put in all those years ago. Um sadly, you have to format it to reinsert it to the new machine.
SPEAKER_00:So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:It does my kid in every time. Oh, I forgot. But it is what it is, it's part of living in that ecosystem. So I swapped it over. Took me a hot minute to get the 0286 fired up to the point where it could uh sort the memory stick out and get the PS3 update on there. I got a bit sweaty for a minute. I was like, oh my goodness, this is uh this is almost as complicated as getting on the Discord. I'm panicking, I'm sweating, I don't know what I'm doing. Uh but I'd like it's almost as complicated as a hype train level. Exactly. I took a breather, took a moment, I reread the instructions, I realized my mistake, I corrected it instantly, problem went away. All that sorted to trial it, of course. I don't know why, but I felt compelled to slap in Last of Us. Uh the update happened very quickly, the load, you know, it was all very, very quick, very snappy. The PS3 Slim is reacting very is reacting very nicely to having this SSD in it, I have to say. Um, and then played quite a good chunk of Last of Us. Obviously, I know the game inside out, so it's quite easy to sort of run through it and make it feel like a movie, really. Um so I kind of danced through that for a little while. Rachel came in and sat and watched the sort of PS3 technical showcase, which was pretty impressed with it, to be fair, and I was as well. Looked good. Um, off the back of that, we decided to start our yearly playthrough of The Last of Us, which we then quickly flipped to the PS5 version and ripped through that past the point we got to on the PS3 and even further, have to say, doing the OG back to back with the PS5 version, we were both a bit like yes, times have changed. This has come a long way, yeah. And it you know, when I played the reboot or the remaster of the remaster of the remaster whenever it came out this year, last year, whenever it was, it was impressive, but it was a bit like doing it that way, wow.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, because I think with rose tinted glasses on, you would technically remember the PS3 version, not the PS5 version. Exactly. You think, ah, actually, that's that isn't credit right now.
SPEAKER_03:Credit's due, mate. It was solid, it was playable, it was quick with the SSD in terms of loading and whatnot.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, it killed PS3 in a state.
SPEAKER_03:Exactly. It was the best presentation that you could get of Last of Us on the PS3, but it was night and day. There's something about the aesthetic of the PS3. I know I'm preaching to the choir in you, where I, you know, not only the outside of the console, but the graphics it's generate, the graphics it generates and the way it generates them, and the colour palette that that console particularly keen is keen on using. Very aesthetically pleasing to me. Uh, but the PS5 version, great, really playable. We enjoyed that. You know, the difference in the couch alone was night and day, you know, you walk in, your daughter's on the couch, and I when it loaded on the PS3, I was like, oh fair play to it, that looks good. Then an hour or so later, it loaded up on the PS5. I was like, Oh, no, that looks good, and even their weight on the bed, as Joel laid his kid down, or picked her up off the couch, or sat down on the couch, the couch deformed, and it was like oh wow. Whereas on the PS3, you're just sitting on what looks like concrete with the leather skin on it, yeah, yeah. So it's the little things that you're gonna do.
SPEAKER_00:That's what they wanted to do, but couldn't, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so it was super cool. Other than that, uh, I picked up Little King's story on the Vita, so I've kicked that around. Um, I am in two minds about it. I I'm trying to find the core of a good game in there. I think there is one, it's not quite the game I thought it was. I'll be honest with you. Um, I thought it was a bit more turn-based, but it's not. It's hack and slash also. It reminds me most of Pikmin, I would say, in terms of you kind of yeah, you you you have you're a king, you've been kicked out of your empire. You take a couple of advisors with you, and then this hardy troop of soldiers that sacrifice themselves to let you get to freedom. You've got like this little village you've arrived at, and it's your job to rebuild this into and it generates resources and you rebuild it to take your kingdom. At the minute, I'm the gameplay loop that I'm exposed to is kind of like make enlarging the area of scope around the town, building a barracks, building a farmer's uh the farmers don't work in the way you think they do, though. You get them to follow you round and dig at cracks in the ground to find you money. I would call them miners, but in this game, for some reason, whatever they're farmers, only bit of their money farmers. Bitcoin miners. Yeah, I don't know what they are anyway. Uh so that element is a little bit kind of maybe taking a little bit of like, well, it's not quite what I thought it was, but I'm I'm gonna persevere. It's a new game to me on the Vita, so I'm very pleased with it. Other than that, I've watched Rachel play an absolute acre of Persona 5.
SPEAKER_00:I've got how many hours is the lovely Rachel into that now? 40, 50?
SPEAKER_03:He's got to be knocking on for 50, I reckon. Um, basically, because I watched her put at least 10 hours into it on Sunday, I think.
SPEAKER_00:Wow, in one go, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Well done, Rachel. Well done.
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah, it's a lot of person though, I'll tell you that now. Uh as passenger princess, it's a hell of a lot of persona.
SPEAKER_00:That are you getting a bit persona doubt?
SPEAKER_03:Back to back to as well.
SPEAKER_00:Oh I don't even yeah. It's going back to the mission without getting in there. That's a tough job to do.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it just feels like we've been persistently playing persona for what feels like six months. You probably have though. Oh, and I didn't realise, but I didn't realise that I'd done this, but it's the Royale edition that I've got on P on Switch.
SPEAKER_00:All of it. What we look in, 100 hours.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, maybe more.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, that's a nervous laugh. Have I ever heard one of the things?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, well, that's how it feels. That's definitely how it feels. Um, trying to think what else. I don't think I've actually been on anything else. So much like you, I've got a lot going on. Got some renovations at the Pontabury Manor, and uh we've had the extra show this week with Mags as well, haven't we?
SPEAKER_00:So it's been a bit.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Uh but it's all good. I think that probably sums up our gaming experience for the week. So thank you for listening to that. Um, stay tuned to your socials for some flashback news.
SPEAKER_00:Oh before we go into the news. Oh, yes. I'd just like to say thank you very much to a new listener that we have in Brazil called Vinny.
SPEAKER_03:Hey Vinny.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Vinny is now uh walking around in Brazil in a UCP t-shirt. Doing us a turn and trying to promote us out there. So thank you very much, Vinny. I'm glad you got your t-shirt. Um, he did say thank you very much, so yeah, I'm glad you you're uh enjoying that. And um, and he's got a few flyers and a fridge magnet and some bits of tiny. What one's he got? G Goonies? Goonies one, yeah. He's got the Goonies one in white, he bought the white one, so he has the white one. Oh, that's fresh. And he's right into his retro gaming. Um, he's got some nice setups with emulation and arcades and bits. So uh hopefully you enjoy the show, Vinny. Hope your friends enjoy the show and welcome aboard. And if you ever feel inclined to jump on the Discord, come say hi in there.
SPEAKER_03:But yeah, definitely. We'll even make you a little Brazilian section if you want.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, there you go. We can do that.
SPEAKER_03:So uh, this is this is like destiny coming full circle because you've always said to me you're a fan of Brazilian.
SPEAKER_00:So I this is perfect. Yeah, he's perfect for me. As soon as he said he was for Brazil, I was like, I am a fan of Brazilian.
SPEAKER_03:Lovely, I'm a fan of Brazilian as well. Technologia. Okay, well, we've scoured the very darkest regions in the internet to bring you the latest stories. First up, not only do we have a new listener in Brazil, but guess what? An article here from Sammy Barker on Push Square. He says, Petro Rivals, New York takes train simworld and turns it into crazy taxi on PS5. George, this is news we didn't know we needed, sir. Please. Pray tell. You didn't do news about a simulation game?
SPEAKER_00:Wow.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, damn right. Me and me and Simmy Barker, uh Sami Barker, I call him Simmy. It's what his mates call him. Me and Simi Barker. Well, he calls he calls me G-Dug. That's where that new name came from. The G-Doo. So he calls me G-Dug, and I call him Simmy Barker. Um, yeah, he loves the Sim, as do I. Gotta wonder if we're cut from the same cloth. But anyway, in his uh blurb over on Push Square, he says, uh, in an announcement of almost certain devtail has made specifically for yours truly and me, Sammy. Metro Rivals New York is an all-new train sim world spin-off designed to capture the arcade feel, crazy taxi, and need for speed. If you're not a fan of the studio's main game, which requires you to operate trains precisely and follow the rules of the rails, this Unreal Engine 5 spin-off promises a Simcade alternative where you're racing trains in both single and multiplayer modes. Studio Co. CEO, Gemma Brown said, Metro Rivals New York feels gritty, fast-paced and full of energy. It keeps you on your toes and blends the attitude of New York with the thrill of a competitive Simcade racing experience. Think crazy taxi meets Need for Speed Underground. Oh we're listening, Gemma. According to the press release, the game will be set in the near future where the New York subway system is controlled by celebrities known as Tractines. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it the disservice. To rise, you'll need to hustle, complete jobs, and get cash, building your following, earn respect, and with it the prestige to challenge each titan for their territory. Outwit them, outdrive them, outshine them. Only then can you become the undisputed ruler of the underground. There'll be a full single player campaign as well as multiplayer for up to four participants. The game is also running an Unreal Engine 5 with Lumen and Nanites apart, so it should look the part. This is DovTail taking everything it's learned from Train Sim World and expanding it onto a new audience. For our taste, it's probably one of the most exciting announcements we've seen all year, and we can't wait for this to launch in 2026. It's particularly amusing that this is between this and Dench Attack, there's two completely different arcade stage style train games in development for PS5. All aboard RGT.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I mean, train sim sort of games have definitely never been in my wheelhouse. I do like certain sim games. Obviously, I play the wheels off expeditions and um uh uh say snow patrol. Uh sniff snow patrol say that anyway, yeah. Snow patrol runner. Um so I love those, but trains never really quite got me like that. So I suppose they do have a limited market for the simulation style. So going into arcade, I suppose they're trying to open up their audience a bit and get something a bit more arcadey, a bit more fun, bit more points based, I suppose.
SPEAKER_03:And I see a bit like that, but I also see it a bit like flashback as a thread back to the main game as well. Like, oh, I really enjoyed that. Maybe I'll give that a go. And I I bet you as well, true. The controls are going to be very similar, but you Get more leeway in how you execute it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Probably a bit more user-friendly instead of being behind two button presses. It's maybe just like go stop, door open, door close, go. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Bit of a bit of a score meter run and so you can see how you're doing and yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Well, some of the challenges in the actual main game are actually quite arcadey. Like when you pull up at the station, you've got to pull up in you've got to try and pull up at the right speed, but then at the right point to get all the doors open on the actual part of the platform. Yours truly rocks up at uh Grantham as an example, halfway up. So the first class passengers are getting in cattle class and having to walk all the way up the train to get into their you know luxury seats. Uh you pays your risks, you take your chances, I guess. Uh if you put me at the wheel of a train, it's not going to end very well, is it? Luckily, I didn't kill anyone, but uh yeah, some people's toast was a bit cold.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think this is interesting, and that's not you know, it's not often you see people who do these sort of sim titles to go down an arcade route. I mean, you can go. Is it focus who do Snow Runner and that? Is it focus entertainment?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, Giants is either the publisher or the developer and focus entertainment. It's one way or the other way around, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00:You can't really imagine them doing sort of an arcade sort of game, can you? So this is quite unique in a way, and it could really be kind of.
SPEAKER_03:I know they've dabbled in some ways with that more arcadey version of Farming Sim that the vlog that VR headsets, if you remember. Oh, okay, yeah, where everything was a little bit pared down, and obviously you get on the switch and on your mobile, you get like a real sort of Fisher Price, my first farming sim on there, which is why I've always been a bit cautious about picking it up on the switch because you normally get bummed off with the iPad version. Yeah, a bit of a football manager, yeah, and it's not the same, and you can't get any of the they're bringing out this special like switch edition of the latest version of Farming Sim, but once again, all the mods are walled off from you.
SPEAKER_00:So I can't I don't know, I don't know whether it's because they want to lock to lock their system down and not people messing about.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know whether it's that, or I don't know whether it's the switch maybe not being capable of running some of the mods because you know there's a bit of curation before they come from PC to Xbox and PS5. Maybe that level of curation is just a step too far. I don't know. One day we're gonna get them on um because no one's really done more for farming sim. You can take your dagger winning C D P and flush them down the toilet as far as I'm concerned. I'm the voice of Farm and Sim in the gaming community. RGT, what's this next bit of news?
SPEAKER_00:Well, the old G Dog is on form today.
SPEAKER_03:G Dog. Um we haven't been in this industry five years for me to stand on the fence anymore and say that I'm not into Farm and Sim. I bloody love it.
SPEAKER_00:Well, this is over on Nintendo Life. Um, this is by Ollie Reynolds again. Um this is one I'm excited about. I know you're excited about.
SPEAKER_03:I know this is one we've you know, we have watched just have a look, and it doesn't pump up more than a Swedish gentleman's pumper. Do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00:Yep, I do know what you mean. And this is Terminator 2D No Fate trailer dives into how you can change key movie scenes, but with one of George's life rules, you have to beat it first. So we go into Terminator 2D no fate already looks incredible.
SPEAKER_03:You can tell you're doing some writing for this show, can't you? Give yourself all the best lines. I'll be honest with you, I laughed arder in rehearsal. Well, that was absolutely mercenary.
SPEAKER_00:I loved it. I just had to slot that in there since I saw that. Oh, you did it twice? Yes. Um it looks incredible. But a new trailer from IGN Ball Fan Fest 2025 showcases the awesome feature. Can you giggle quietly, please? In which you can actually change key moments from the original story. You need to beat the game once first, during which you will experience the story from Judgment Day in its entirety. But once you've done that, you're free to mix things up. Doing so will actually open up new levels and opportunities. So, for example, instead of sparing the police that show up at the Cyber Dean, you can um eradicate there with a minigun. Brutal. Um, there's also a short clip in which the T1000 impowers Sarah Connor, which is obviously quite a departure from how the original movie plays out. We can't wait to see what kind of opportunities this might open up for the rest of the story. As long as it's executed well and it's not, you know, the walk and dead destinies, then we're all good. Um, turn out 2D, no fate, recently suffered a delay, but is still scheduled to launch this year on the 26th of November, 2025. Now, this is on Nintendo Life, like I say, a bit Ollie Reynolds. Get over to Nintendo Life, watch the trailer on there uh with one of the devs from Bitmap Bureau who goes through and shows you how these changes for some gameplay. Um it's only a short video, two and a half minutes, but definitely watch it. Me and George have watched it. And this game, if you like your 16-bit um art style and graphics, this game looks so well done. It looks as though it would have been a game made when Terminator 2 was out. It looks fantastic. Um, and I have admitted to George and confessed up that I do have the collector's edition pre-ordered for this.
SPEAKER_03:Let's circle back to that. Let's circle back to that. But first of all, let's start by saying every time I see this, it just gets better. They're bolting on something even more impressive. Like I know we got a delay, and we all got a bit bummed out, but the delay was to give us another gameplay feature, another mode, not just a polish, to give us this. Yeah, yeah. Delay it till delay it till 26 for all I care if you're gonna keep making it better and better and better like this. Absolutely unbelievable. Uh, I do want the game by the way, Bitmap Bureau. I'm not I'm not mucking up, I'm I'm mucking about there a little bit, but RGT every single time I see it, there's more shine, there's more spit, there's more polish, there's more iconic scenes from Terminator replicated in a 2D style that sort of triggers my sort of young self into thinking this is some sort of forgotten reality. And then I see this game and I see the gameplay footage, and I think, wow, that looks good. The gunplay looks solid, it's chunky. I see some of the hand-to-hand fighting in the levels, I see the way the levels are laid out, it's got that kind of alien three vibe, so it's kind of it looks right for the era, and then I see like the pixelated artwork and the way the still screens come in and slide out, and it it this thing is literal perfection in terms of capturing a moment in time and making it the best it could ever be as well. This new way of playing the game does intrigue me because obviously you have to f one caveat though, RGT, and uh you know, confirm this for me. You need to play the game all the way through before you access new fate mode.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, you have to beat it first, and then you can go back, which was your point about my phallus.
SPEAKER_03:Absolutely. If that's not what was intended, that's what was taken, by the way. Bit rude. Yeah, cool. Then the G-Dog. Me and Simmy, we are not taking prisoners now. Um, so you have to finish it. Great, I think that's great. So you play it through as it was intended, following as closely as possible the storyline, then you get to go through. And I don't know whether it's obviously more forgiving or not, because in different places you don't have to keep certain people alive because obviously the story changes, so it'd be interesting to let certain characters win. I think I almost saw the T1000 as a playable character as well, like him knifing Sarah Connor suggests to me maybe you play through as the as the bad guy as well, which would be really interesting.
SPEAKER_00:I think so, yeah. I think as well. I think um the problem you get with, and I see this a lot, I've got quite a lot of these uh sort of modern retro beat-em-ups and you know, remade beat-em-ups in the time. And you know, when they're only four or five levels like they were back in the day on your Mega Drive or your master system or your Super Nintendo, in the modern day, people are sort of saying, 'Well, it's 25 quid or it's 30 quid, and I've completed it in half an hour.' So this eliminates a bit of that because you've got the replayability. You can you don't, you know, it's giving you a reason to go back to play through those levels again.
SPEAKER_03:The era of people nailing through even a five-level 2D game. I just don't think the muscle memory's there anymore. You got your hardcores, they'll do it, but your general population, I think this is always true of those games, probably don't see past level two without a cheat. But they're okay with it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean, you know, they were talking about it on our Discord a few days ago, and uh, they were talking about the Lion King and stuff, and they were saying, Is it us? Or, you know, our games easier now than they were then. That's like, yeah, you've got to remember you probably had one game a year that cost you 40-50 quid, and because they couldn't make the games long, they made them hard. So you may only have four or five levels that took you weeks to get through them, you know.
SPEAKER_03:So thing is though, even like let's say you've come close a few times, you've got you got through the game, but then you died like right at the end, you're like, damn it, right? Thing is, online king, you can blow a run within the first two pixels of the game at the first level, you're oh restart the whole console now.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, a toughie. Yeah, it's uh yeah, yeah, that is tough. So I think like I say, with this, you've got that replayability to go back through, unlock different characters, change, change terminators, you know. I think it's brilliant, and then going back to the art style, it's very sympathetic to the age is trying to replicate from those 16-bit games, it looks phenomenal, also to the film as well, in the era that the film's set in. Yeah, it's from that sort of generation, and like I said before, it seems like you'd be playing a game from that era, you know, and it just oh that it does look like it's been coded on a mega drive or mega CD, but we know it hasn't, you know. And Bitmap Bureau so far looked as though they're on a winner with this. And I sort of when I knew they were involved, I thought, right, I'm gonna tap a punt on the on the collector's edition, it looks so nice.
SPEAKER_03:Um that's actually perfect RGT because I wanted to at the start I said I wanted to circle back to that. What's in it?
SPEAKER_00:I'm no Googling, so I can't remember.
SPEAKER_03:But what a gluttonous pig.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I just I just as soon as I saw it, I just thought, hmm, I think I want to uh get that just for you know, you sometimes see these games, especially these remade ones, and you just think I'd like something from that, whether it's a little figure or whether you get the even just a real smart steel tin with a T1000 on. I just thought, yeah, I'd like that on the shelf. I know I'm reducing my games, um, but I just thought, yeah, let's let's tat a pun because I don't think it's very expensive either, if I remember rightly, for what a collector's edition is. Um, you get uh obviously you get the game, you get um steel book, you get like a big coin, you get a big artwork of the Terminator in the fire, um, you get paperweight, you get uh uh collector's tin. Uh oh yeah, and the medal, which I've said. Yeah, so you get it in a nice set like that. Um, and I just thought, you know what, for the price, which is probably about nine pounds or nine bucks more than in a Nintendo Switch 2 game, I think I'll get the collector's edition. If you ban 80 bucks a Mario Kart, I'm gonna pay 90 bucks for a collector's edition of Terminator 2D.
SPEAKER_03:So And what platform are you getting it on? Switch 2 Nice You're thinking about it. As I draw ever closer to being a one-abode guy, I don't want to say this out loud, but I can see the switch getting I can see the switch getting dropped.
SPEAKER_00:Really? Yeah what dropped from the lineup, you mean?
SPEAKER_03:Dropped from the rotation, not on purpose, I just think if I'll sit down at home and I'll just want to play it on PS5, I just don't think I'll be like, oh put it on switch two. Switch two, as my my mind has not changed on it at all. It's iconic, it's amazing.
SPEAKER_00:But when you're at home in the rotation with the big boys, the the only thing I did think about changing to the PS5 version because I just wondered if they'd done anything with the haptics on the controller. Because if you've got a minigun in your Terminator 2 and that that that controller's, I think I quite like that on the dual sense.
SPEAKER_03:I think the thing is I was thinking this the other day, and sorry to go off topic, but I just want to go down this road for a minute. The dual sense, we know it's great, we know it's technically capable of many things, yeah, but it's not being used for many things. You talk of the minigun. When this was first shown, dual sense, and it is capable of this. When you're pulling the minigun, you'd be able to feel the minigun firing, but then you would also technically be able to feel the shell casings landing on the floor in your left hand, and they're not doing things like that. And I think it's a big shame.
SPEAKER_00:I think I I think it is a big shame. I I think there's more companies using it than we realise because sometimes I haven't noticed and then think, oh, hang on, they're using that trigger as a proper throttle feeling, or they're using you know, you can feel a brake shudder a bit, and you can feel it through the control. I think we get a we're a bit used to how much they have done, but you're right, they could do a lot more. So you could only not only feel not only could you feel the uh accelerator, you could also feel the back end of the car going out, and you could feel this, you could feel dirt flying up on your right. So there is all that they could do.
SPEAKER_03:Um they've definitely gone to a certain point. I think it's a bit of a lazy copy and paste from the developers, if I'm honest with you. Like they've made it for Xbox, they've made it for Switch, they've made it for for PS4, probably as well, and for PS5 in the current lineup the way it is, and it's easier just to drag and drop the vibration settings all the way up to the PS5 version and it'd be done. Yeah, yeah. And I think there's a lot of that going on. I think in the first party Sony games, you get to feel a little bit more of the effects. I still don't think they go in as all in as Astrobot showed they could, but certainly more. But I think some of the third part, and it's not a grind, I would do exactly the same if it was me, because there's no extra money other than the extra sales on the PS5 platform just because it's the majority platform. Yeah, and I don't think there's no extra sales to come from doing dual sense finesse, is there really?
SPEAKER_00:There would be, but a lot of people don't seem to speak about it. And I don't think I don't think enough people speak about the controller. And I've I know I I wax lyrical about it, but I I do love that controller, I think it's absolutely superb. If that was if most games utilise the dual sense, I mean it would be the platform to play most things on, other than if you want it on the go. But yeah, I know what you mean. So going back to Terminator 2D, I mean if I knew that they were going to utilize the uh JualSense, then I may think about swapping my collector's edition for the and then I talk about all this, and then I think, well, if I didn't have it on the Switch 2, I wouldn't be able to just walk out into the garden playing it, would I?
SPEAKER_03:Nope. So And this is something that's concerning me about MLB, because no doubt MLB 26 will get a Switch genuine, genuine Switch 2 port at that point. And I know I'm sat here in an MLB hat Sony one, and I know that it's a Sony franchise game, you can see where this is going. But I'm thinking about picking that game up on the Switch 2.
SPEAKER_00:I would I would wait for reviews because I was very similar to doing EAFC26, but I hung on, I'm glad I did, because and then bottlenecked it at 30 frames per second. For me, I have to.
SPEAKER_03:Now I I I heard you talk about this, but I don't think frame rate has ever really affected me in terms of the way I play MLB. Maybe not, it's a slower game, it's a slower sport, so I can understand the side of it where I don't I throw the ball, I don't need to worry about it being I don't need to worry about hitting it one bit.
SPEAKER_00:So the frame rate So if if the performance is smooth, then yeah, maybe switch two for you. Um I mean the switch two version of of EAFC26 looks near enough there for the PS5 every way, apart from that frame rate, and then when you do play EAFC 26 on the PS5, you think this is very smooth, it runs very well. I just think yeah, I'm glad I went with the PS5 version. Um so yeah, we've yeah, we've uh we've gone a bit off topic there.
SPEAKER_03:I think it's one to I think these things are ones to grab in the sale. Like I picked up Madden on Switch 2 the other day. I managed to get a moment on it. I have to say the recommendations for you is so out of whack now. I I I went on it the other day and I was like, this has got worse, not better. What is all this? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Games. I was like, why is this on here? Like kids' games and all sorts. I was like, what the hell? Really? Oh yeah. I don't know what this is. Anyway, while I was on there, I noticed that it'd gone in quite a harsh sale. I say harsh, it was down to 35 quid. I'm sure by Christmas it'll be two pounds. But I thought I'm gonna grab that now. Uh something to look forward to when I get maybe when I get the console back. Yeah, yeah. But it's quite nice to have that on the go, I will say. Uh last bit of news over on uh Pure Xbox, the place for all your good Xbox news, our good friend, as I always say, Fraser Gilbert there. Where would we be without him? He says multiple games are suddenly getting updated with a Rogue Alley Rogue or Rogue Xbox Alley optimizations. It's a bit of a bob boba-boba loba moment for me, Baseda Basetta. I don't know what it is, but it's a Rogue Xbox Alloy as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, happy Rogue Xbox Alloy Alley Day. Sorry, I fell backwards from the microphone there. Both versions of the new ACIS and Xbox handheld are officially releasing today in many regions across the world, as of uh whatever date today is RGT. It's Thursday as a recording.
SPEAKER_00:Uh 16th, is it?
SPEAKER_03:Something like that. Yep, 16th. Uh where did we get to? Releasing today in many regions across the world, and therefore it's no surprise to see developers and publishers highlighting their support for it.
SPEAKER_00:In fact, excuse me. He always sneezes when he comes around me. I think he's allergic to me. It's the glade, mate. I said we talked about it the week. I haven't got glade on this week. I've got haze. I've done both pits with haze this week.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, well, then by process of elimination, we know I'm allergic to haze.
SPEAKER_00:Well, that's Arctic Pine. Well, I'll alright, I'll try Blossom Garden next week. Oh god. It's cost me a fortune for these. It cost me three quid for two tins of mass.
SPEAKER_03:Donna must feel like she's bloody drowning in Lenora, pocket of Lenora or something.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, she's addicted to it. Yeah, she's snorting that absolutely mad. I'm trying to wean her off at the moment. Proper haze addict. Yeah. I feel a bit responsible for that. Never mind. Anywho.
SPEAKER_03:In fact, some are actually rolling out additional support for the device with Hogwarts Legacy being the first one we spotted yesterday. I tell you what, Hogwarts Legacy, fair play to you know, uh WB Games, it's always at the forefront of making this rule on everything, are they? Yeah. Unbelievable. Yeah. Um, so latest updates, give that a tweak so it runs even better on the Rogue Xbox Allo, which is unbelievable. Doom the Dark Ages didn't want to be left in the dark, so it's another one. It's had an update 2.2 uh for the game that adds multiple handheld PC optimizations for various devices, and it now has a handheld graphics preset in the menu. Everyone's going on the gaming on the go now, RGT. The patch notes mention it will be auto-detect your settings when playing on handheld and target the performance window of the Xbox Alley and Xbox Ally X, which is 720p and 30fps and 1080p and FPS respectively, when it's plugged in. For what it's worth, uh they've been doing some getting up to 100 fps in the default performance mode at 17 watts with the AMD FSR turned on, so don't read too much into those performance targets. And finally, if you ever needed uh to get this game updated, uh kind of fair play too well being. Uh Roblox is another game that's supported being advertised by the Rugatics Rogue Xbox Alley launch. That game will offer a smooth, optimized experience built for handheld play, including support for gamepad and touch controls. I'm not going to bore you with what they've said about Roblox because I'll be honest with you, if you're under 10 or someone that's attracted to under 10s, that's a game for you. If not, then uh we'll move on swiftly. RGT, as a big Roblox player. Um, what do you make of all the Xbox?
SPEAKER_00:Wow. Mate, honestly. Age week, you set out to destroy me, don't you?
SPEAKER_03:Wow. You're a 10-year-old. I don't know what you took from that, but I see you as the spirit with the spirit. Yeah, you play Robux the way it was intended, mate. Uh anyway, actually, while we're here, I just want to say about that game. I think that needs shutting down, if I'm honest with you. Yeah. It's lawless. And the fact that they're out there trying to get it running on everything, I don't think is a very good optic for them, if I'm being brutally honest.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, maybe sort of the security side of it out first, then get it running on everything. But yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, if your main target is a kid, get that sucker locked down like Nintendo would do. Yeah. Don't leave it open that way. Like, oh yeah, I know it's great that people can make their own version of Roblox within Roblox, and that's what it's all about, but there's got to be some limits. Not even Minecraft's that toxic, guys. No. Honestly. Parental warning. Yeah. Get all over that like a rash. Anyway, uh, we actually came here to discuss the Rogue Xbox Alloy. I mean, I can't get that to flow out of my mouth and make any sense. But the new handheld, basically from Xbox, let's not pussyfoot around here. I know there's a bit of a partnership here, but the vast majority of these are getting picked up right now by the Xbox uh aficionados, the hardcore enthusiast. Good to see that they're making those games a little bit more user-friendly for the people on there. Because one of the things that makes me nervous, not nervous at the an over-exaggeration. I'm not I'm not exactly fighting Germans on Omaha Beach, that's for sure. But one thing that makes me slightly hesitant about these handheld PCs is the amount of tweaking that one would need to do to get it doing what I want it to do. It's why I've always sort of gone to the console. Now these are like a hybrid experience, somewhere between a handheld and like a proper lockdown console handheld, and somewhere between the aforementioned PC handheld that we talked about. Do you think this is really a reflection of the Xbox brand, or is this a ROG Alloy with some coloured buttons? Uh, and where do you see this going?
SPEAKER_00:Um, it's definitely a Rogue Alloy with Xbox coloured buttons. Um, I think they've had very limited input into this because I mean, obviously, Rogue Alloy X, you know, that's the first thing you say in the title of the of the console.
SPEAKER_03:So absolutely it is.
SPEAKER_00:Um, so it is their, you know, it's their Xbox liveried version of their new handheld. Um I've I always find it quite it's hard to explain. You see PC handheld games, uh gaming devices, and you think these are a new thing. When you look at the sale figures, you realise they're not. Um I think the last version of the Rogue Alloy uh sold a million if that um in its lifespan up till now, which compared to other handheld devices is nowhere near. Yes, I know it's a PC. Um, so it's probably aiming at a different market and demographic. But um I was surprised with Xbox going this route, but I would imagine with someone else making this PC, them slapping their name on to see, look, let's just test the water here, let's see what if an Xbox handheld is gonna work, then because I knew they were gonna make their own. I think they've sort of canned that for now, see how it sells, and then maybe we'll do one. Um, as for Xbox, um, Xbox as for Hogwarts Legacy being on there, I think brilliant again to them guys.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, them guys are like you say, they're putt making sure it runs on everything, they're making sure it's a cab obviously it's on there because it's a PC game, but very sweet to see that they've made it more favourable to run on there with these tweaks.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but I also find I I think what it is, I mean, I do like the idea of these handheld gaming PCs. I um I've got a good friend of mine, a work colleague who's got a Steam Deck and he's he's once his game and PC packed up, he was rather than replacing the gaming PC, he literally just bought a dock for his Steam Deck and he uses that, he runs Windows on it, he does pro you know bits of programming on it, he can use it for everything. But if you've got a handheld 720p and you're paying over 600, I think the top one's a thousand bucks for the X for a 720p experience, it's I know it's not just about resolution, you know, it's about what it can do, and that it's a big chunk of change for a handheld, and I can't see that you would if you've already had a Series X or a Series S and you're playing Hogwarts at home, it's 700 or 650, whatever it is, and a thousand bucks for the two models. That's a big chunk of change to then just play that on the go.
SPEAKER_03:It's a I'll be honest with you, I think you've got to be, and I want to just wash this into a little bit of news that uh I saw last week as well, if I may. You've got to be a real enthusiast to get into these.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, hence sales figures, I think.
SPEAKER_03:It's you know when and I know the Rogue Allies sold a million units by any metric console, that doesn't look great, but to an accessory company that might might be big news. Or to them that might be a significant way of cranking out some units for not a lot of money to them at a high retail value. We we don't know the science behind it, but there was a piece of news out covered by a few outlets a week ago. I think I mentioned it to you. How actually the it's literally only you and I, and I know you kind of circled around it with Scotty a little bit, but you and I have talked about this video game crash. Um now we don't neither as I don't think think it will look like the video game crash when Atari kind of tanked the home video game market, but we do think there might be a bit of a kickback coming. You know, we've seen people kind of build business models based on what people were doing during COVID, which hasn't borne fruit. We saw developers hire overheads because of remote working that they've now let go, which is obviously another bad optic for them. You know, Xbox let X go, Sony let Y go, you know, Ninty let Y go. It is what it is. Developers, the news has been full of developers left, right, and Chelsea shedding people like tears. You know, that there's been a lot of damage. Then we see this news article. We we see obviously all the consoles going home and we see the charts. We don't normally have much of a metric because I don't necessarily think it always publishes volumes, so it's it's hard to know other than where it sits within it. Obviously, there are other information that you can use to try and work out where things are because people don't like releasing stats because there's a line in the sand to be judged by. I get it. But this particular article seemed to hone in on the fact that the enthusiast is the person that they're after, and the enthusiast right now is the only person breathing life into the brand. Sony's accessories, this generation, PSVR2, high priced, low uptake, bought by the enthusiast. Probably got a pretty high uh coin, pretty high contribution margin within that piece of plastic tat as well. Um You get the portal once again, probably quite affordable to be able to build en masse. I'm not saying you could build one for that price, but I'm sure you can build a million for a lot less. Um, accessory, who's that aimed at? High-end enthusiasts, PS5 Pro, hmm great. Well, who's that aimed at? High-end enthusiasts. All these games, for the most part, the ones that people have been moaning about that they want, who are they aimed at? Special editions, you know, and this this article basically lamented the fact that uh the only people that are buying more than one game a year is the enthusiast, and they are outnumbered by everybody else. So these these manufacturers' chance to make money back are limited and slim.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, very true. And I also think it's a bit like the old asage goes, you don't make money off hardware, but a bit like what you say, like Sony have done, you drip feed different hardware out, so you do make the money off the hardware eventually. So if you're dripping out new earbuds and earphones and dual sensors and portals and PSRs, it reckons back to Scotty's comment about why we're seeing Sony talk about a set of speakers.
SPEAKER_03:Well, I tell you why, because that's probably one of the only ways they're making money this gen.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very true. Terrifying if you think about it. It's very terrifying, and I still think there's we've noticed with price hikes of games, price hikes of hardware. I still think there's there's there's there's a lot to come from this at the moment, and maybe Xbox are thinking, right, let's think ahead. Let's you know, let's diversify a bit, let's do a handheld PC, let's just try and do something a bit different, let's try and name the market that way, see what happens.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, to be a disruptor again, possibly, I think would be beneficial. I think that uh no, it's gone. I had something queued up, ready to go. It's probably the most insightful bit of information I ever had, but it just disappeared out from my.
SPEAKER_00:I also think, you know, if you were doing a Microsoft only handheld, a complete bespoke handheld just for the Microsoft market or Xbox market, you're gonna be looking thinking, well, hang on, Switch has absolutely smashed it. You know, hundreds of millions of users, you've got to switch.
SPEAKER_03:It's danger of the Wii though, mate.
SPEAKER_00:It is, but do you try and jump in on what's Nintendo doing? They're doing their own thing. I mean, for all sense and purposes, the feature was a failure since then, apart from the portal, Sony ain't jumped back in. The Switch have sort of they've all Nintendo almost gone, look, you boys do what you want. We're doing this, but if you try and get involved, you ain't got open hell. We got this corner of the market. Switch 2 is the highest quickest selling console of all time at the moment. The smash in the PS4, you know, you ain't got open hell. And that's almost like, hang on, we'll do a handheld. Let's go out, let's go what Lenovo done. Let's do, you know, let's get Rog Alloy involved. Let's do what Steam Deck done and Valve, let's head in the PC market, let's just leave that Nintendo one because we aren't we we ain't got the you know, we ain't got the chance to Clay to get in that. Um, if anything, but maybe the Switch being so successful has stopped us getting any more sort of consolised handhelds rather than these big powerful gaming PCs.
SPEAKER_03:But yeah, I think is where I guess I guess the pantheon of platform of handheld gaming looks like this. You've either got to beat Nintendo at their own game, which ain't happening, or you're gonna go have to go the other end of the spectrum, Steam Deck and Rogue Alloy, and try and throw everything, including the kitchen sink, at it, so it becomes price prohibitive, and then it goes into your enthusiasts' hands again. Switch 2's kind of in that wheelhouse of like just about getting away with it against current gen, just about getting away with it against current gen, and is able to hit a pretty decent price point, I have to admit. It's not where we wanted it to be, but I don't personally find it that offensive for what you get.
SPEAKER_00:No, for how for how good the system is, your 4K and whatnot, bits and pieces, for that money, I think it's a pretty good system.
SPEAKER_03:I'm gonna go as far as to say this as well. No stress back catalogue as well. Yeah. Whereas if I wanted to get back catalogue on Steam Deck, I wanted to, you know, possibly play an older PC game, I might be sweating a bit trying to get it work out how to make it work.
SPEAKER_00:And also um seamless for like you say, with back catalogue for switch owners to get into the switch to plus. I think I I think I read the other day there's 10,000 switch original switch games.
SPEAKER_03:And I know like we've talked about compromises, but Snowrunner on Switch 2 is just about good enough. Do you know what I mean? You're not ripping round at 400 miles an hour, are you? You know, I've quite enjoyed Snowrunner on Switch. Kind of lends itself to the lone, very lonely game. Yeah, very lonely game, but lends itself to it. Feels feels right.
SPEAKER_00:Almost creepy when you go for the town and there's no one there, but the but the church is singing. The paranormal voices, yeah, they're singing, the paranormal voices in the church are echoing round the town, but no one's there. But yeah, anyway, so yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So to to illustrate the larger point, game crash possibly coming. You talked about it. What do you think?
SPEAKER_00:I think it I think we're seeing, I think the last 18 months we've been seeing the start of this. I think it's almost a lot of drip-fed crash where it's to the stage now where companies can look forward and say, right, this is gonna tank. We need to do something a bit different, I think.
SPEAKER_03:So I think a managed disaster.
SPEAKER_00:Exactly. So I think you've got Xbox going, well, look, let's just get a toe in the handheld. Let's not go down Nintendo's route, let's go PC, let's just get a little toe in there. So we've got something ticking away there for the enthusiast. You've got Sony going, right? Let's just reassure everyone we're making a console. Let's do a video of IMD, let's show look, we've got a PS6 coming. No one panic. You need to buy the PS6 because everyone's worried and tightening the purse strings, it's gonna be bigger and better, don't panic. Then you've got Nintendo who are literally just going, look, we're not changing the thing. We know we've got an audience, we're gonna keep selling them, we'll keep drip feeding 80 bucks games because you lot are gonna buy them, and we will. You know, we will, so yeah, we will.
SPEAKER_03:It's almost like it's a hardcore. I think that's what's keeping the Switch 2 alive, if I'm honest with you. The the the red spine collectors that they established and honoured and enlarged, because the Nintendo fan base, I'll be honest with you, let's face it, off the back of the Wii U, the hardcore Wii U collectors and supporters must have felt absolutely crushed. I couldn't even survive that. I got in and out of the Wii U like it was on fire.
SPEAKER_00:I thought that I thought Nintendo were in big trouble after the Wii U.
SPEAKER_03:I thought this is it, but and but the Switch came out, it garnered a lot of attention, it became everybody's second console, which means it kind of almost Trojan horse its way into every gamer's life. Um and you gotta say they did a good job with that. They kind of like took that second league role, but then they used that to literally obliterate YouTube, they're all over Instagram with the collectors putting that, and that's one thing we go back to that I said with Xbox. You can always do a stack of ninety red spot spined games and put a um a pine cone in the corner and one of your little you know, Gatcha Animal Crossing toys, and boom, you got 200 likes on Insta.
SPEAKER_00:You can't do that of a digital game.
SPEAKER_03:No, and again, I don't know. It might maybe it's not a crash, maybe it's just a changing of the guard. But there's certainly we were moving from what we I feel we're moving from a gaming industry that we knew into one that we just aren't as able to predict in in any way.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I think with most things um in market and or finances, things that have a massive spike tend to have a massive drop. It's yeah, it's in and like you say, with with lockdown and bits and pieces, we had that massive spike. Um, but you're probably thinking a big or not a big percentage, a certain percentage of those people that made it spike maybe aren't playing games now. They got into it for the era and why they were playing it. Um so there's a now this massive void of gamers that have either got a dusty Series X or a dusty PS5 that probably aren't buying games because they might turn it on once a year to watch a uh, you know, an Ultra HD film or something.
SPEAKER_03:You know, it's probably turning it on to watch YouTube, dude.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I think with Nintendo doing their own thing, I mean you look back to the very first Nintendo Switch trailer they done. You had a guy, you know, who's a business bloke, you know, he was he was having a go on one, then a then a young lady in an apartment shouting out to her friends to come up and join in. Then you had a child playing, and you and it was literally saying the switch is for everyone, you can all have one, whether you're a lawyer, whether you're in school, whether you're your housewife, whoever, you all can have a switch. Very clever marketing, and that seems to have stuck and worked.
SPEAKER_03:Whereas, you know, Xbox and PlayStation seem to be for hardcore fans more, if you seem to be, but that's actually not working in their benefit, and now you can see Sony's push for free to play actually made a lot of sense to them, but made makes a lot of sense in terms of the you know, we need to find a wider audience, we need to find a way of making more money out of this platform because through the traditional route, we're struggling.
SPEAKER_00:I th I think they chose the free-to-play route because of they saw where the demographic demographic was, and they saw that the people who are having the consoles probably can't afford because they saw the price hike in games. These the the people who are playing, these teenagers can't afford to go out and spend 70 bucks negotiations. So we need to get in that free-to-play. We need people buying skins, we need people buying weapons on games because they're not going to be buying the games. You know, we've got a big demographic come in who haven't got that disposable income. Whether that's right or wrong, whether that's worked, no, it hasn't. It hasn't because you've got to release a game people want to play, and so far they haven't done that.
SPEAKER_03:Do you know what I was you know, I think we've wrapped that up nicely. The thing that I forgot to say before, which is this is I guarantee you Sony wanted to put the price up of PSN, by the way. Oh, god, yeah. And they were probably waiting and thinking we're gonna have to address this soon. And Xbox have done it now and had a load of bad optics, and now Sony are probably looking at it going, we can't put price up now.
SPEAKER_00:We'll sit on that for a bit. Yeah, we'll sit on that for a bit, and I don't know what I would imagine that they're hoping that the people who have gone cancel on Games Pass have gone submit to PS Plus. So they might make their money that way. Whether that is the thing, I don't know whether people are doing that.
SPEAKER_03:Uh Sony never wanted to do it in the first place. So I just honestly, the whole thing feels like they got sort of talked into a bit of a toxic mess.
SPEAKER_00:And also, with you can see all what's happened with Game Pass is generating a lot of bad press at the moment, it doesn't mean it's a bad format at all. If anything, it's probably still a good deal.
SPEAKER_03:But well, people wouldn't complain if it was garbage. No, exactly, people are complaining because they like it, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_00:And it's weird that straight away, not long after that, all this bad news with Xbox and the price and game pass that Sony come out and say, We're making a PS6 and it's got a disk drive, we've got physical, because they're thinking, hang on, this digital thing's gone bad here. Let's just reassure people we're gonna make physical games on a PS6, don't panic. And it's it is a panic by them.
SPEAKER_03:Like there's that. I sent it to you, I think. There's that meme or that sort of video doing the rounds on the on the Instas and the TikToks of that guy sort of punching that dude. Yeah, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer. Hi, how are you? He's like, Hey, how are you? And it's like, Well, I'm not that happy to see you. Why is that? Oh, because you always punch me in the dick when you come around, and he's like, I wouldn't do that to you. And then it's like flashback to the times, and he's like, Yeah, Redfall, worst game ever. Like, oh and I was like, Closed studios, boom, but hi-fi rush was a breakout success.
SPEAKER_00:Boom, does it again never put the price of games pass up, boom, then you do it again twice in a year. I did boom, you know.
SPEAKER_03:And and to be fair, it's those optics that are probably hurting them now. They need a good news story, bless the cotton socks. You know, I think definitely, you know, definitely it it it reminds me of the Simpson meme. Not that Microsoft are dead in any way because they're a multi-trillion company, but it's like stop it, stop it, he's already dead. You know, let's have something good now. You could say good news is that the games are coming to PS5 and Switch, but I don't know as I think that's good news. If I wanted to play those games, I'd have bought an Xbox. Although I'm gonna play the wheels off flight sim in VR, dude. I'm not even gonna apologize. Well, I apologize to everybody in my life who I ignore, but I'm not gonna apologize to you for playing that. Um, I think that draws us to the end of the news. So if you want to have an opinion or comment on the news that we may have missed, or you think, guys, you left an open goal in what you just talked about, you can message us at unoff questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcast.com, or you can hit us up on the Instagram or the X uh or join the Discord. It's free, always will be, as is the show. Uh, but also if you did want to support the show, you could get your name read out and get yourself a t-shirt every single year. Oh yes, new wardrobe with no stress. Hang on, I'm into this, George. Do I get a fridge magnet as well? Why not? Uh RGT. I'm gonna let you I'm gonna let you shine. So you can go first.
SPEAKER_00:What why are you letting me go first, George?
SPEAKER_03:I think you complained about some weird I don't know, negative mind game I'd played. So I'm just gonna stand back and say, Well, you go first, then.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think you've you've done the old uh Scott last week, you've done the old a switcheroo, because you know what happens at the end if you go first. So I'll take a look at it.
SPEAKER_03:Something always happens at the end if you go first.
SPEAKER_00:Yep. Probably two things. So anyway, um, first up, we have the wonderful, the nicest guy on YouTube. We have Retrohead. Um, our newest subscriber, but what a legend he is. He is the sort of guy you'll speak to and you think you've known him all your life. Great guy. So thank you very much, Retro Red. Check out his YouTube channel, it's brilliant.
SPEAKER_03:If I could, I would.
SPEAKER_00:I take it you mean check out his YouTube channel.
SPEAKER_03:No, I no, I okay.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, next next, who's next?
SPEAKER_03:I've already checked out his YouTube, and now I want even more. If I could, I would. Uh up next, the one man George fan club. At least someone notices me, and I love him for it. Like a man should love I'd say a woman, but maybe a dog. Loyal, dependable, looks up to me with his big puppy dog eyes, but he's also strong. Looks up to you.
SPEAKER_00:Why is he looking up at you?
SPEAKER_03:Because he's a dog, he's down.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, okay. Sorry. I just wondered why he was down on his knees. I didn't.
SPEAKER_03:Where do you what do you want a dog walking around on his hind legs now?
SPEAKER_00:No, no, I wasn't. Dressed as a music. When you said Carlos was looking up at you, I was just a bit confused.
SPEAKER_03:I didn't want poor dogs to be getting wife, paying wages, tax, drive a car, seeing our station burning down the road, but he's struggling because he's got his head out of the window, he's barking, but he needs to look at the road. It's not the most confused he's ever been in.
SPEAKER_00:Our dog has to bring an income into the house, so don't see why not.
SPEAKER_03:Wow, okay. Anyway, Carlos, I love him. Who's next?
SPEAKER_00:Next up, we have the wonderful firm returns. Um absolutely.
SPEAKER_03:You've got to do an advert, you've got to do an advert for his business.
SPEAKER_00:All I need to say is if you want your books, accountancy, or financial advice, what you need is firm returns. Plus, he has abs, so what more do you want?
SPEAKER_03:Do your laundry on his body while he does your tax return.
SPEAKER_00:There you go. Washwood stomach.
SPEAKER_03:Up next. They do the finest chicken wings, and I'll be honest with you.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, meat just pulls off the bone.
SPEAKER_03:I had a little bit of a you know, different postcode baby, different country. I had a little bit of a moment in Trestles with the manager, with a with a hostess. You know, it is. Didn't want to talk about it, but yeah. Not only does the finest wings in town, but yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Oh. Anywho, um next up we'll go on to the wonderful Dreamcast legend himself, Roast Space Monk.
SPEAKER_03:He's the face of Dreamcast to me now. Huh? He's the face of Dreamcast to me now.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, if you say his name, I'll just think of the Dreamcast emblem, the swirly emblem, but I'll just straight away.
SPEAKER_03:His face coming out of the middle of it and almost hypnotic.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, don't don't in the bank. Wow.
SPEAKER_02:Calpiturti, cowpitotti, tanta bella cosi battering cosi.
SPEAKER_03:There you go. For the Italian stamina in full Italian, with gaps for him to return with my answers.
SPEAKER_00:Good because I have no idea. So I don't know if that is real Italian or you just made that up.
SPEAKER_03:I believe that is real Italian. And to end off, I think I wished him many beautiful things.
SPEAKER_00:I hope so.
SPEAKER_03:Dante Bellacorsi.
SPEAKER_00:You maybe just really insulted him.
SPEAKER_03:I didn't probably 20 Italian listeners rank me on the Italian. Was it good?
SPEAKER_00:Was it a little confused look on your face then? Like, no, no, no, I didn't insult him, did I?
SPEAKER_03:No, I don't think so. I I said nothing but sort of hello, hello everyone. Uh how are you? I'm not so bad. Thanks. Uh take care. I wish you very many beautiful things.
SPEAKER_00:Well, this once Badabinkster replies in the Discord, we'll we'll know. If he leaves the Discord, then we know what's happened there.
SPEAKER_03:Well also know if he can speak Italian or not, but then again, you just listen to the translation, he's like, I'll just type that in easy peasy.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Next next we have the stunning man, the runner, bit of a keep fit guy, awesome 3DS collection, awesome Switch collection. I mean, it doesn't have to be a 10,000 games like I'm sitting in here like some chump. No, curated every single curation is the future.
SPEAKER_03:Anyone can surround themselves in copies of London Racer on the PS2 RGT, but who would who would have that? Yeah, I'm looking at the floor, I'm looking at the wall, I don't really know.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, who who would have that? I mean, if they were that mad, I'd even have the second one, which is on the PS2. Um, anyway, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So is that would be mate? That would be a step too far, in my humble opinion.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it would be. What a loser.
SPEAKER_03:Um absolute dweeb.
SPEAKER_00:Why would you buy that? Um absolute shovelware. Um, yeah, so it's tingle tuner. It's actually pretty good. Yeah, it's all right. Yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, thank you, sir. Thank you. Um up next, he's the sheriff of the Discord.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:He is. But he's also a very sexual man. Is he? I have decided in this very moment that yes, he is. And I am attract I am attracted to that kind of spice, I have to admit. I feel that uh have you ever seen that clip of Ross Kemp sniffing a spice pen in jail? I think that if I got within a whiff of DM, I would be exactly like Ross Kemp in that moment.
SPEAKER_00:Wow. Sorry, DM. But thank you.
SPEAKER_03:I really felt that. I only just held that near my eyes. Oh, I got that. Um yeah, so that's I'm gonna be all spiced out off the back of him. Um who's next?
SPEAKER_00:Next up, we have the uh world traveller himself, Bald Border. He's actually in Brazil as well, himself at the moment.
SPEAKER_03:True story, not that I was any good at it, but I skated up and down the seafront of Coca-Cabana Beach.
SPEAKER_00:Did you really?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. So I feel like Bald Border should do the same.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he would, and he'd probably do a kick-flip manual out to a kickflip again because it's a good one.
SPEAKER_03:What I would say about Brazilian pavements is they're like America, they're like that smooth concrete glass.
SPEAKER_00:That's not like stone chipping to get in and you lose your teeth. Oh, mate, obviously, I'll slide down to the spa shop when you're fighting.
SPEAKER_03:I bought a skateboard in Brazil for this very scenario, and I got home and thought, oh yeah, I'll take the skateboard down to the co-op. Nope. Jumped on it, immediately went arse over tit because it hit two mil of tarmac chipping.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, you can't that's that's not that easy around here. You need like off uh you need like all terrain tyres on your skateboard and an engine, two kicks, and you had gone all the way down Coca-Cubana beach just flying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not round here. But yeah, so he's out there at the moment as well, and he is in a UCP t-shirt, and there is a little picture after the this obviously this show is released on a Sunday, keep an eye this week because there's going to be a little picture of a couple of guys in UCP t-shirts in Brazil at the beach, rocking it for us over there. So we've now got a UCP wing department in Brazil, South America.
SPEAKER_03:I don't want to take this good news and smash it by applying metrics to it, but those two t-shirts in Brazil represent the very highest contention, the highest collaborative, the highest sort of collection of UCP nurch anywhere on the earth right now. It's a hot spot.
SPEAKER_00:It is a hot spot. There's flies going out now as we speak in Sao Paulo, so everywhere. I've been on this, mate. I have been on this case.
SPEAKER_02:She was a dancer.
SPEAKER_00:So, yes, so thank you, Board Border. And also, thank you, Vinny. You're a legend. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_03:Thank you to our new listener, Vinny, and thank you to Bald Border for their efforts. Someone's always doing something, aren't they? If it's not Emma Sharp, it's Bald Border going on the foreign. Well, this how bad it was.
SPEAKER_00:I tried sending Vinny his merch twice and it got refused in Brazil. That that t-shirt of his is now gone, it's his third time in Brazil. So Bull Border went, now tell you what, mate, forget that, I'm flying it over. Put it in me.
SPEAKER_03:Brazil has no problems with any kind of export you could possibly imagine. But you try and send someone a t-shirt, it's contraband.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, yeah, it cost me about 30 quid to have it delivered back to me twice.
SPEAKER_03:So if Bull Border wasn't available, there is only one man I would select for the mission for a halo drop. Oh 55,000 feet. It's our own Discord sheriff, it's Boba Loba. I think he would get to about 200 foot, pull canopy, land, release, go brown.
SPEAKER_00:No, you've got to do it, and he'd land and then he'd go, come on.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Boots on the ground.
SPEAKER_03:Boba, we're over the drop zone. Boba doesn't speak, he just nods. I know this is an audio show. Just know that I did a I turned to him, nod. True G go forward, chuck myself out the plane. I am brave, I'm Boba Loba. Wind rushing round me, to be honest, in my head. I'm thinking about what I'm having for tea tonight. I'm not even looking at me out of me.
SPEAKER_00:He's got me playing Pokemon and he's going boy colour, and he's that cool on the way down.
SPEAKER_03:He is. He's flipped on his back like Deadpool, and he's literally just playing it. Without doubt. He knows just from the temperature on his neck hairs to rotate, deploy shoot, didn't make any noise. It pulled on him, it wind a normal man, didn't even flinch. Not with abs like that, don't you? He landed, he rolled, he didn't have to, but it looked cool. And he knows that on the battlefield, looking cool, he's 90% on the job done. Pulls a release, the wind pulls the parachute away from him.
SPEAKER_00:And his shirt just leaves him in a vest.
SPEAKER_03:Literally rips his rips. Sorry, it's getting a bit fantasy there. No, no, you're right though. It rips his shirt open clean, like Hogan. All of his upper tags is there shoulders like Atlas. He's gripping his weapon and his gun.
SPEAKER_02:Woo! Getting bread. And then he just stands and he deploys. Done.
SPEAKER_00:And just hands the t-shirt over to Vinny. With the other hand, he'sn't holding his weapon. Going pink. All right, mate, yeah. I don't know how you've just made him a cockney, but brilliant.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, considering he's from Farmer's.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, going pink. Right. Thanks, Boba. Next up, we have the Platinum King. The most gorgeous man in Nottingham. The whole of Nottinghamshire. Um, it is the awesome, the ripped, the powerful Ginge. Thank you, Ginge. And I can't wait. Don't forget what I said last week, Ginge. We need a Faus and Platinum party. That's what we need. And you get the Thousand Platinums. We need a trip to Nottingham, I think. We need to have a party. Because I think that's an achievement.
SPEAKER_03:The way you look to celebrate this feels a little P diddy, if I'm honest. Up next, Harvey Retro sitting on his throne, Prince of Darkness. All I've got to say to him is, please hurt me, Master.
SPEAKER_00:You have this way of dropping something hideous about me and then continuing on to the line, so I have no response to repute the allegations whatsoever. That's quite a clever technique, and I'm disgusted, but also quite impressed. That's very good. Yeah. PDD party bang straight into the next one. Uh hold on, I need to defend myself here. Geez.
SPEAKER_03:You don't need to, everyone knows it's not true.
SPEAKER_00:Next, we have Emma Sharp back from her world tour. Unbelievable, Emma. Thank you. I never she brought me a little present back, which I did show last week. I haven't shown George yet, so I will show George because I'm very proud of this. This is my as a Christmas decoration, but I'm going to keep it hanging on my desk. It is a little uh toilet.
SPEAKER_03:Toilet.
SPEAKER_00:It's a game. I saw it from the mouth controller, popcorn, the drink. It's just like a little miniature version of my actually hold it forward so I can see it properly for a minute.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, that's really cool, mate. That's awesome. Is that a tree decoration?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, Christmas tree decoration, all the way from Pennsylvania. So thank you, Emma, again. You're a legend, better art. So uh, and also it's even got the speaker on the back. Look, a rocker chair.
SPEAKER_03:That's what I thought was a toilet. A toilet. You just held up this thing too close to the camera just saw this white aperture. I was like, what is this?
SPEAKER_00:Yes, thank you, Emma, as always. Thank you.
SPEAKER_03:I think you mentioned that last week. So, yeah, so that's very kind of you, Emma. Thank you again for wrapping the show across the planet, if I'm honest with you. Uh you're the true Alan Wicker of the show. Someone who's never gonna be Alan Wicker because they'll tell you where he's never gonna get, he's gonna get nowhere near the Dorsha land. Beautiful Greg, nowhere near Berlin. Who's next?
SPEAKER_00:Next up, we have the wonderful Mumsey. Thanks, Mumsey.
SPEAKER_03:This next readout, the RGT fan club we're locked in the legal wrangle with. I'm trying to split them up and make them pay en masse, but RGT's having none of it. So uh you know.
SPEAKER_00:It's hard for pensioners these days. You can't expect them to uh pay twice. So share the cost.
SPEAKER_03:In the modern world, we have only pay for it twice.
SPEAKER_00:We have a secret fifth tier OAP special. So there you go. Um next well, we qualify for that. Well, yeah, we aren't far off. Um next up we have the awesome, the tough, but it's also quite a silent man. He's just in the background, he chips in each week on the subs list, but he keeps himself very quiet. It's the awesome Pete Brocklehurst. Thank you, Pete, as always.
SPEAKER_03:I think you'd describe him as a sign of the violent type. Oh, next, you lick one side of his part in. Ugh, don't want any of it. You lick the other side of his part in his middle part in you're like, mmm, yeah, I want a slice of this. It's salty. Oh, yeah. It's got a little bit of viscosity to it. Bit yeasty, bit sticky. And I like. But I like it. What's the bar GT you triggered yourself there, mate?
SPEAKER_00:Just thought I'd gone a bit far. But yep. No, I'm not sure. I know you can never go too far with you.
SPEAKER_03:That's right. Well, you could say you could, but to be honest with you, we know that the section can't end unless we finish with a climax. Now we know that the word fat zangief has become synonymous with many things. But namely this. Now I'm Oh no, is this fell on me? How did this happen? I've got my baseball cap on. I'm feeling a little bit fruity. I feel a little bit spielbiego.
SPEAKER_00:You keep moving around to get comfortable, which is a bit. Oh well, he's up on his knees. Oh my god, you can't see this thing.
SPEAKER_03:When you get that close to the camera, this is uh You always make me do this eye to eye. I've realized this the other day. I thought, yeah, he does, doesn't he? So let's see how this works out for the pair of us, shall we?
SPEAKER_00:You just want to look straight into my soul and see me at my most vulnerable. Yes. Now, what I'm looking for today is come and hit me with I'll do anything. I'll do anything. Come on, I'm up for this.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, let's go. Alright, let's say this then. Oh god. You're 16 years of age, just to keep it kind of semi-decent, right? You you go in, you've you stumbled into your parents' bedroom looking for Christmas presents. Don't know why, but you're open, you're hoping you got that PS1. Alright? Anyway, while you're ganning about looking for that little bit of extra Christmas cheer, you stumble across something that you know you never should have found. I'll be honest with you. It's left a bit of a mark on yourself. But for some reason, the vapours inside you kind of took over you. And you spontaneously zange to the findings. I would like an eye to eye zangief representation from you of what that might look and sound like action.
SPEAKER_00:So you want me casual and then you just want me exploding.
SPEAKER_03:I want you curious, scared, and then zange. If that's what he wants, that's what he gets. Uh yeah, and just to clarify to anybody, what he found was not the NES he was looking for, but it's bigger brother than SNES. Just to qualify. Well, all that said and done, RGT. What are you hoping to play?
SPEAKER_00:Um got to get resistance done this week. Must only have a couple hours left in it, hour and a half, couple of hours. So get that done. Um get back on stick of truth. I know I said this last week. I also said loads of things last week that I was going to get on and get the um glue uh retro get the retro, uh sorry, retro, get the hidden gems up to date. I haven't done that. I will try and do it this week. It's been a lot going on, but it should be a little bit more than a lot. You don't need to do that anymore. Um I do need to do it anyway. Um, yeah, so resistance, um, probably do a bit more Grand Bazaar, get stick of truth, get stuck into that more, need to be getting that played so we can get that done, get another pick selected for the uh RGT in the past. Um I said last week I was gonna play a bit of retro. I want to start a league on or season or a career, I should say, on sensible soccer. Um, what version I'm gonna play? I don't know yet. I was touring with a Jaguar because I know you love that system. Um, and that's the ultimate system to play those sort of games.
SPEAKER_03:I want to qualify that I don't just throw the Jag under the bus for no reason. I bought one twice to make sure it was and then drift the bus and run over it.
SPEAKER_00:Uh yes, I did. Twice, even reversed. Um, so yeah, I'm not sure what's simple. I want to get into yeah, Scentsy again and have a good league on there. But yeah, so other than that, it's probably gonna be some random game. I've been looking at PS2 RPGs, PS3 RPGs, but I can't really pull myself away from the uh the PS3 at the moment. Um it's my sort of thing.
SPEAKER_03:So why don't you play Final Fantasy X, the PS3 upgrade? Play it on there, enjoy it. Yeah, maybe yeah, I'll just play Final Fantasy 13, big dog.
SPEAKER_00:Gee, I'll maybe I'll play what I want to play, so uh alright, mate. No problems. You're absolutely gut. Oh, okay, mate. Sorry. Well play roles. You'd be play rolls. Now you're horrible.
SPEAKER_03:Exactly. You're feeling used now, aren't you? A little bit, yeah. I've got to admit. I feel like a hastily tied prophyleptic that's been sort of pushed under a bed and forgotten about, only to be discovered during an awkward house move when Mumsy and Dadsy came round to help you with the with to help you with the double divan. Have you been talking to my family again? I've just been dropping the odd confession in, just wondering if you'd noticed they were yours.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, I'm a bit worried. It seems as though you've read my memoirs that I haven't written.
SPEAKER_03:It's healthy, you're looking after yourself. What can I say? I'm proud of you.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Uh I tell you what I'm gonna play. Bizarrely, uh, I'm in the Chaza not that long ago and I picked up a copy of ISS Pro 98. Uh I think it is, with John Barnes or Thierry Henry on the front. I can't tell them apart, if I'm honest with you, but someone like that on the front and somewhere else head to head.
SPEAKER_00:You bought Pro Revolution Soccer 98.
SPEAKER_03:I did.
SPEAKER_00:Why? You don't need to be.
SPEAKER_03:I actually think it's Thierry Henri actually on one side and then someone else on the other side, but I can't remember who it is.
SPEAKER_00:But PS1, you brought this on.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Why? You don't like football.
SPEAKER_03:I know, but it was a pound and it looked really good. And I'll be honest with you, I don't know why, but I looked at the case, and it is Thierry Henri, but I don't know who the other footballer is. I thought it was John Barnes, but I'm not I'm not very good at football knowledge, right? Uh he's he's on the right hand side, and some of the uh players on the left hand side, probably to the football players, some are very famous. Um I ain't got a clue who he is. Um could be my local victory. No, I was gonna say that I'll see back this week, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Give it a go. It's actually for the time, it was a very, very, very good game. It's I I don't I don't know why, but I get this feeling that I had it on N64 or possibly do. I don't I don't know. That was on N64. I think I've got the N64 cartridge, but yeah, it was on N64.
SPEAKER_03:Well I don't remember the cart that I had, which I thought was that year, with Thierry Henry on the front of it. So maybe I've misremembered the whole scenario.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, maybe, maybe.
SPEAKER_03:Maybe Thierry Henry. Have I made that up? Is he actually a football player?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he is a footballer, but I don't know if I thought he was on the FIFA games, but maybe I'm wrong.
SPEAKER_03:Who knows? Anyway, other than that, what can only be described as red herring, uh, because I'm probably not gonna play that. Um no doubt something completely off the hook that I've never mentioned uh and probably never will again next week. I'll rock up and say I played this game on PS2, never to mention it again, uh, and probably a little bit more No Man's Sky, I have to admit, it had it hooks in me deep. I was an addict. I've now kind of seen what the latest updates all about. Although I was inspired by Gaming Groom getting the plat, I have to admit, and then I looked at what I needed to do to get the plat and thought, well, I ought to do that really. Um but anyway.
SPEAKER_00:Surprised you haven't read the hours you put in, but the actually with the hours you put in, I was worried we were gonna have the law merman all over again. But um I think we've you've sort of phased yourself out of that a little bit.
SPEAKER_03:I I have.
SPEAKER_00:I think it was your reality was getting distorted there somewhat.
SPEAKER_03:The No Man's Sky gets you hard when it launches one of these new series, one of these new seasons, especially if it's something that you've kind of always wanted, but the fall-off is brutal. Like I was all consumed 50 hours, all back in it again. No question, all in it. So, did it get my money's worth of free? Yeah, absolutely it did. Uh excited for the next one. Um, but that'll probably be it, be watching a lot of persona. But I think that draws a line in the Sand R GT, unless you've got any more to add.
SPEAKER_00:No, just uh thanks for everyone. Thanks for listening, thanks for downloading, thanks to all the people that new listeners that jumped on with Mags the other night, some of his regulars who uh you know were very kind to us and very good. And you know, if you could download as many episodes as you can, because it all really helps us and algorithms and yeah.
SPEAKER_03:If you're new to us, please download the back catalogue. Um I don't want to blame your own trumpet, but I don't think you'll be disappointed, especially if you pick a retrospective or a special, but there's lots of fun in between, isn't there?
SPEAKER_00:So there is, and and downloading the back catalogue takes just a couple of minutes, but it really, really helps us so much just from doing that. But yeah, if you could, we'd be absolutely marvellous. Thanks to the subs and uh yeah, thanks to you, George.
SPEAKER_03:All right, well, thank you to everybody. Um, I'm not gonna get lost in the moment here, but uh you know, I got lost in a moment on Mags's show. You do all mean a lot to us, and and we're very grateful for all your support and all the listens. Very, very grateful. It makes the difference between RGT getting a full fizzy fatzang geef or not. And I'll be honest with you, that's not a decision I want to have to deal with. So, with that said, that's all we have time for this week. Listen, as always, thank you for your time. 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 the unofficial controller, it's what you do with it that counts. See you, RGT. Ladies,