Ball’s to Xbox ?

A classic RPG throws us into court twice, Sony quietly trademarks a new PS5 name, and Embracer keeps rearranging the board like it’s playing 4D chess with the entire games industry. George and Bobby are back together and we start with the fun stuff: what we’re playing when time is tight. Bobby is grinding Hades 2 in bite-sized runs, sneaking in Nine Lives to Defend for that Vampire Survivors energy, and we both get pulled into the odd charm of Vampire Crawlers, a first-person deckbuilding dungeon crawler that feels like an old 80s maze with modern roguelike hooks.

Then George tells the latest chapter of his Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic journey, including the kind of legal “you’re under arrest” chaos only KOTOR would dare to spring on you after a totally reasonable amount of Sith-related explosions. From there we hit the headlines: Embracer Group’s plan to spin off Fellowship Entertainment and what that means for major IP like Lord of the Rings and Middle-earth, Tomb Raider, Kingdom Come Deliverance, and a long list of fan-favorite dormant series. We also build the ultimate wish list for a modern Lord of the Rings video game, aiming for a grounded open-world RPG that feels like a dangerous journey instead of a checklist.

On the platform side, we react to Sony’s PS5 trademark for Break In and talk frankly about PlayStation’s live service push, why Helldivers 2 hit, and why so many similar games bounce off players. We close by looking at Xbox hiring analyst Matthew Ball to strengthen the console business as Project Helix approaches, and why real competition still matters for prices, features, and exclusives.

If you’re into gaming news, industry strategy, PlayStation vs Xbox debates, and RPG war stories, you’ll feel right at home. Subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review with your dream Lord of the Rings game pitch.

Transcript

Welcome Back And Weekly Preview

SPEAKER_06 0:20

Hello and welcome to the unofficial controller podcast, your weekly gaming podcast episode number three twenty, uh, with me, George, and this week joined by Bobby, prodigal son. To my what the bloody hell are you still doing here? How's it going, sir?

SPEAKER_07 0:36

Going pretty good. Can't complain.

SPEAKER_06 0:38

Uh as I said, we got a special of the returning you uh went live Wednesday, so I implore everyone to go check that out. But in the meantime, you've slotted back into the rotation so RGT can sit down and rest his weary larynx. Um but you know. Soldiers got to battle through, haven't they, Bobby? Look at me. His job is never ending. Well, to be fair, he does extend. Hang on, what am I doing? We're getting into a side rumble. I can't do this. I can't afford to do this. Last week, I think I kind of went a little bit too far with the Google AI YouTube algorithm. I think I kind of said a little I got a bit, I suggested we've gone to first base. That was a mistake. Let me step back. Let me straight be straight with you now, YouTube. I respect you as an algorithm. I enjoy you as an algorithm. Let's just keep it platonic for now.

SPEAKER_04 1:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:31

But so you're happy. Coming up this week, Bob, we're going to talk about some Embracer got hold of the Lord of the Rings uh franchise, and that to spin itself off, I guess, to manage the many, many franchises that they now have. Uh so we'll talk about that. PS5, you dragged up some news that there's some uh break-in uh game stuff going on over at PlayStation, and then Xbox have gone out and have employed, they've kind of signed a new guy in, Matt Ball. He's meant to be a bit of a console architecture guru. So we're gonna dig into what that means for them. With all that said and done. I mean, YouTube, are you happy now? Are you happy? Are you gonna make us? Are they gonna make us go viral or because on the audio, we got it going on, but hopefully on the it's our faces, isn't it? It's my face. Yeah, I'm the consistency. It's on me, isn't it? Let's face it. I'm down with it. I don't you know. Anyway, Bobby, I think the question most people fresh, depressed and ready of the special episode on the YouTube

What We’re Playing Right Now

SPEAKER_06 2:40

and the audio. Don't you think I forgot about you listening?

SPEAKER_07 2:44

They want to know uh what you've been playing. Well still knocking out 80s too.

SPEAKER_03 2:50

I think I'm just a few stories away from the platinum. Wow. Um yeah, I've been having that with this game at night. And then being tired with the baby, but it's worth it. It's worth it.

SPEAKER_06 3:05

Can I say I see you coming back fresh faced from all this time off the UCP, you've picked up Hades 2 like a meth head with a needle, and now you're the wrong side asleep again, you don't know where you are, you don't know who you are. No, I know uh and you've lost yourself. All it took was one good game.

SPEAKER_03 3:25

That's it. The only thing that makes what this game is good, like if you're finish a room and you go to the next room, you just save. That's it. So if the baby cries or I had to do something, I just go to the next room, save, continue right where I started. So it's like the perfect game for stopping them.

SPEAKER_02 3:44

That makes sense.

SPEAKER_03 3:45

I then playing a little game called Nine Lives to Defend. It's like vampire survivors but with the cat. Badly drawn. Oh it's it's perfectly for like the portal. Right. Uh so I've been just playing that, and then um I went back for sniper elite resistance because Marlon's been begging me to platinum this game with him. How's Marlon? He's doing great, man. He's doing good.

SPEAKER_06 4:14

Not only we get you back, we get Marlon back.

SPEAKER_03 4:16

Yeah, it's amazing, right?

SPEAKER_06 4:19

I feel I feel complete. I don't know what happened to me these seasons. They got a bit of drift. I realize now what was missing in my life. I didn't have a slice of Marlon. What what's what's that man been up to?

SPEAKER_03 4:32

He's been fixing his house, he got a barbecue pit now, got a little pool. So he's he's actually coming this week, this weekend to hang out. Is he?

SPEAKER_06 4:40

Yeah, has he met your son and heir yet?

SPEAKER_03 4:43

Yeah, we went for his birthday uh last month to go visit him or March, not May. In March, uh end of February, went to go see him. But it was a wild drive. It was the end of February. We're in May, bro. I thought we were in March.

SPEAKER_06 4:56

I mean, I'm gone, you know. I I I tell you what, I blinked and bam, it's nearly the end of the year.

SPEAKER_03 5:00

Next thing I know, I'm I'm back at work like this, but it's crazy. But I promise them we'll finish the game. So there for some reason they added solo campaigns, and you have to do it on the most uh on authentic difficulty, which is the hardest difficulty. It's just more annoying than fun, and that's what's holding us back. So I said, you know what? Let me just start see if I can get what there's only like seven levels of this. Once that's done, we can then play together authentic on co-op and hopefully knock it out. I need his G.I. Joe skills when I'm trying to snipe. And he gets aggravated and then runs forward and just it's pretty fun, you know. Yeah, well that's that's pretty much what I've been uh trying to do to knock this out.

SPEAKER_06 5:43

Wow, okay. Tell me about his barbecue pig. What's that?

SPEAKER_03 5:47

Oh, he got it like um where it was, it was just grass, and like why don't you put a barbecue page and extend the patio? Like, that's a great idea. I'm like, there you go, bro. So he extended it like way out. He got his little bar called your mom's your mom's bar, which is hilarious. Um you know, it's got a refrigerator in there, he has like a it's like a it's a it's not a wet-dry bar. But whatever, they have everything ready, they have uh they have a freezer in there, they have a refrigerator. So when you go out of house or barbecues, you never have to go into his house again. You just hang every hang out. It's it's been pretty good. He's been he's been yeah, feeling really good, I gotta say. Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 6:28

I tell I'm out of it for a little while and everyone's just living their best lives. This is great news. It is uh so that's you drawn

Vampire Crawlers And Deckbuilding Friction

SPEAKER_06 6:37

out. I if I may, then let me ask you a question. You mentioned on your talk about that game that nine lives things, badly drawn vampire survivors. So you have you played vampire survivors? Yes, I have. Did you enjoy Vampire Survivors?

SPEAKER_03 6:52

I loved every second of that game.

SPEAKER_06 6:54

Question Have you stumbled across Vampire Crawlers?

SPEAKER_07 6:59

Yeah, the card game. I bought it. Did I play it?

SPEAKER_06 7:05

No. I I I like it. I see the similarities to the top-down one, but I can't get the rhythm going where I'm just like slaying them. I don't know if I'm meant to be, I haven't looked at any videos and nothing. I mean, I am like stacking the cards in a way that kind of takes them down relatively quickly, and I'm putting the bolt-ons on, and I've recently gone in the blacksmiths and started upgrading the cards and giving them extra slots, and then like trying to find new different like slayers and trying to update bits and bobs. But there's a section where you've got to get across the bridge, and I I've been back through all the other levels multiple times now, but I can't quite get across this bridge, and I don't know why. Like you use your health, unless I'm getting it wrong, you get armor cards, yeah, which you can use to sort of bolt on your health. But I see your health as like an ever ticking down amount, like it's like this is how far I can get into the level, basically, and you use your shield to protect the distance you can go by how much life you can extract. And on this bridge, like the halfway point, there's a chest, or I think it's the halfway point. I've been telling, please tell me. I've been anyway, I'm right. It's a halfway point because I love this. I I don't know what it is about it, I love it. And um I just want to sort of push on to the next bit. So, yeah, I've been sort of grinding, but I didn't know if you'd played it because if you had, I was gonna sort of pick your brains.

SPEAKER_03 8:32

Yeah, man. I I loved uh Vampires of Iris. That was so I thought this game just came out. I was like, what's this? I didn't even know what a wipers bought it instantly. Then I was like, oh, it's a card game, but first person, right?

SPEAKER_06 8:44

Uh I mean, I I don't even I can't even begin to tell you what it is if I need to describe this to the listener. I mean, yeah, yeah. If this was a good podcast, I mean they'd edit in a bit of video here, the footage and it'd be going off, giving a really great example. Obviously, we're you know, we the audio listeners like, are you are you stiff for me, George? No, absolutely not. Um, you know the production values here, guys. That video did not scroll in because we are not a highbrow show. But if we were it would have. Um, but it's kind of like the old 80s dungeon crawlers, like dungeon master and bits and bobs like that, where you kind of like move forward and you there's um a couple of little pointers. You usually can use your shoulder buttons to kind of spin on the spot. So you go through some bits on the Goonies on NES. Is that first person?

SPEAKER_03 9:36

Well, when you go inside the door, it is. Then yes, then you want to make your way down this weird hallway there. You have no idea where you're going.

SPEAKER_06 9:43

I think yes. Then yes, that's exactly what it would be like. Um, so forward, back, left and right, and then two at the top so you can spin. Not really relevant, but uh anyway, you just walk into these things, and what I quite like about it is you kind of walk in, like when you finish a level, uh a chest appears, and you just keep walking into it until it opens, and then there's a spade, you just keep walking into that until it stinks stinks stinks stinks down, like it's a proper like game. Really? And it gives it a good, you know, almost a rhythm. Um Sprite works great in terms of like what you're looking at, feels like from the time, and often when I'm playing it, I'm thinking, oh, if this is if this had come out back in the day, would people have got it and it'd be revered as being good, or would have people just seen it as like a re w really weird way of playing a dungeon game and they would have just poo-pooed it because they want to get into doing the swords and the sorcery and all that? You can do that. Like, I've got a character at the minute where um the whip seems to be the weapon that predominantly comes up, so I think he's a bit of a sort of Castlevania kind of nod, you know.

SPEAKER_04 10:48

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:49

But uh and and each vampire crawler has like their own kind of USPs, exactly like vampire survivors, where each character had their own skill trait where one were better than the other, or maybe fit your play style better. So I guess I maybe just to unlock more, but I I need you to play this.

SPEAKER_02 11:10

I definitely will now.

SPEAKER_06 11:11

It's a cracking portal game. Oh yeah, and and to call back to a great Bobby moment and to the American list on exactly what I'm talking about. It's a great game to take on the can.

SPEAKER_03 11:26

100% thousand percent. That's where some of the games should be played. That's where you're in your most private time.

SPEAKER_06 11:35

Yeah, um, I think a lot of things are getting stimulated at that point. Nose. Um yeah, I want to talk about another game.

KOTOR Courtroom Chaos On The Water Planet

SPEAKER_06 11:50

Nights the old republic. I'm back on it, you know. I persevered since we last spoke. I spent ages on this game. Obviously, I've died a couple of times. I got involved in a legal wrangle, which was absolutely hilarious. Um, so I got off I sort of Kashyyyk. Uh some of the bits are a bit clumsy, like I think I just walked past a Wookiee, didn't realise I probably should have spoken to him to activate the next quest line.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 12:21

Thing is, if you're on the planet of Kashyy, how many of these Harry Brown things are you gonna see on a daily basis and you're expected to care about each individual one? I ain't got time for that. Okay, if you're important to me, say, hey, dude.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Yeah, something, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 12:36

And I'm like, oh yeah, of course. Yeah, I help you down there. No disrespect, mate. But to be fair, especially on Night Seal Republic with Xbox graphics, yeah, it kind of all looked the same. Um, so yeah, anyway, I found this dude in the end, spoke to him, that activated the tribal chief activation area, and then they got into a little bit of a family drama, have to admit, it was like being in a soap opera, but they sorted it out. Um, I requested that no one needs die. They kind of uh kind of went along with that. Then I ended up I thought when I did that, I thought, oh, I've got everything I need to progress. Uh one map short. Um had some shenanigans with like um a couple of the big end guys and stuff, but it's like pre-ending drama. Um anyway, I went to this other planet, found out it's a water planet. Okay, I'm into this. Walking around, talking to a few people, doing a couple of side missions here and there, finally find the place I'm looking for. And this guy says to me, Yeah, I'll I'll help you get down to the architectural ruins under the sea. That's where your star map will be, young man. But I need you to break into the Sith HQ and uh see if you can recover one of our security bots memory drives, and uh you know, and you've got three options, all right? Here's your three options. You you can work with us on that thing you found the other day, and we could maybe use that to sort of sneak you in the front door, or we can do this other thing a little bit, you know, more stealthy. We could like hack their net and you can go in through this vent, or I can't remember exactly what it was, or three, you go down to the hangar, you kill everyone down there, you get in a you get in a like a jet transport, you go in the back door of their base, uh, and then well, you know, you're on your own. And I was like, okay, option three. I can't bother that with a drivel. Uh I'll save it, I'll save it, of course, because then if the other drivel ends up being the sort of smarter option, we'll do it. Anyway, go down to this little Sith sort of secret harbour area, right? Yeah, bit bop bop, that was easy, and we get boom, off we go. Get out. In a go, straight away, no chance of dialogue, we're straight into well, you would do, wouldn't you? You're sat in your ass's door open. So, oh come in, mate, sit down. Yeah, what brings you this way? You know, you'd be like, get out. So, anyway, Sith swords are drawn left, right, and Chelsea, and it's a standoff at the OK Corral. Well, I'll be honest with you, much like Tataween, I just murdered my way through this place. Um, summed across a lift to the surface. I was like, oh right, okay, maybe that's how I get back. Uh I think I've killed everyone I need to kill. I was going to go a bit further, but I won't bother. Uh, I've got that thing out, that droid. Yeah, we're good to go. Let's go up. As soon as I get up, whoop, doors open, the water police, planets, water police arrive. Boom. Hey, what's going on? We've heard all these explosions, and uh, frankly, there's been a lot of killing going on. I'll be honest with you, pal. You're guilty of sin. I'm like, oh no, you know, I ain't I haven't done anything wrong. You know, I would I wouldn't do that off of a serious as well. You know, we'll sort this out anyway. Next thing I know is guys saying to me, right, I'm your legal counsel. Oh my god. Right, what's happening now? He says, Well, you could indeed me, it's a very complicated law process here on the water plan, huh? Yeah, I took you through it. I says, What happened? I said, Oh, I'm not guilty. He said, Oh, right, you know, what went down there? Because there's a lot of shooting and killing. Oh, well, yeah, uh, I don't want to talk to you about that. Uh way, you go into the trial. And I felt like I tried every different dialogue option going, and I'd like I'd saved it before the arrests. I'd be like, right, okay. Boom, no, boom, through the court, boom. Anyway, I started going down the line of like, no, mate, you're sacked for the minute you soon. It's one of the first things you could say to him. It's like, no, I'll represent myself. And he's like, Oh no, you know, I wouldn't represent, I wouldn't recommend that. It's it's not wise, very complicated, different language, blah, blah. So I relented, or okay, no problems. No, actually, you know, you're sacked. And in the end, you trip them up with their own thing where they're kind of like, yeah, we you know, what went on down there. And uh, I think I stumbled across, like, oh well, I was invited down there. So, oh right. Well, what reason? Oh, I need I needed to talk to them about some negotiations. Oh, right, then what happened? Oh, then they like tricked me and started trying to kill me. So I had to defend myself. Oh, do you have any proof? I was like, No. Um, and one of the guys goes, Well, we know that we've got problem our own problems with the Sith, they can be quite you know naughty, really. And he went, Yeah, I suppose so. And seeing as there's like no one left alive, we haven't really got any proof, have we? And our law system need says that we need proof. It's like, yeah, so you're free to go. And I was like, Oh wow, I didn't see this coming. See it a bit. That's a bit that game of the great. Um, there's a lot of it where I'm obviously embellishing some parts of it, but the main griff of it was that my excitement was there. My kind of like, oh my god, I can't believe I'm in court now representing being represented by fish. What's happened? What's happened here? And then uh when I'd done that, I went down to the bottom of the planet, found this Starforge, got my way through it in a you know, not the Starforge, the Star Map, got myself there relatively easily. Again, there was a hell of a lot more killing, but did stumble across a way to let the big angry fish that this harvester had activated leave quietly and not be angry. Got the star map, came back up to the surface, having solved a lot of their problems. I thought down there, guess what happened? First thing I step out of the door, you're under arrest. Oh my god, oh my god. I'm back in court. They don't seem to remember the first time in court because I think if this was any other court in the world in the world, they'll be like, You're a bit I'm I'm not being funny, mate, but lots of explosions going on. And you, and then okay, first time for me once, second time, you go down underwater on our planet, a lot of explosions, a lot of dead people again, some of ours as well, and you say, Oh, they went feral, went at you. Bit odd, never seen that before, but alright. Uh uh and then you appear. Something here kind of ties up that you're a murderous devil. Anyway, one of their bosses whispers in his ear, like all know us our race going crazy with these certain vibrations underwater is well known, and that activated. If that's activated, the fish of our legends to go crazy, then you know that's a big thing for us. Court adjourned, court resumes. Yeah, there's way too much of our little secrets going on here. You're free to go. Boom. I'm out of there. Uh, I've got more to say, but I'll probably leave it there because I think we should embrace the news, Bobby.

Embracer’s Fellowship Spin-Off Explained

SPEAKER_02 19:34

It's yeah, let's do it.

SPEAKER_06 19:35

It's time for the news. We scoured the very darkest regions of the internet and RGT's washbag to bring you the latest stories. First up, bit of news. I was hoping a returning OG would be with us today because something amazing happened. You would think. Oh wow. Oh, yeah, coming at you. Yeah. Uh you would think when uh for the audio listener, I just had a little shadow box with the mic.

SPEAKER_03 20:03

Felt a little bit like it happens to the both of us.

SPEAKER_06 20:05

Yeah, it felt a little bit like Tyson Fury coming out the back of that. Um every now and then things happen that you think aren't be real. Now, Tom's a massive Lord of the Rings stan, I would say. Proper mark for it, he loves it. Um, he's got when he comes back on, we needed to get him to show you his Aragorn nipple piece, absolutely brilliant. He's got um Vigo Morsen's eye. Is if yeah, oh, it's great, yeah. That's sensational. It it's a full piece. Um, I've I've come together with the Embracer Group uh and obviously the creators of uh Kingdom Come Deliverance, another sort of sweet spot for Tom, and he sent me a text saying, I nearly came. My reply was, what do you mean nearly? Because I should imagine he was an absolute mess. Yeah. Anyway, Bobby, over on Nintendo Life, they've got hold of a bit of a wider story. And Ollie Reynolds, uh, I mean, I bumped into Ollie's dad this week in the in the local Yorkshire trading. He was picking up some fire lighters, he was planning on having a barbecue. Uh bank holiday weekend coming up. He was getting a little bit excited. Uh, said he'd been to the butchers and bought some um sausages. But it transpires that um Ollie has been trying to set up his own rival pork business, and he's been buying sausages off of that butcher and trying to sell them in another village or I think it was more a market town, one over from where we are, and he's branded them as pork swords, Bobby. Absolutely outrageous.

SPEAKER_03 21:52

So the butcher was just saying to Ollie's push in the corner like a sharp edge.

SPEAKER_06 21:57

I don't know if he displays them on. the market stall with the tips touching like that. I wouldn't think that Olly's probably want to go down that road, I'll be honest with you. I don't I think he believes in the Ghostbusters ideology in that way. Like you know, don't cross the streams. I think he's yeah. I think he'll probably just display them individually. I don't know quite what makes a pork sword or what I'm not sure. But anyway. So Ollie's anyway. Hey up to your old man Ollie. But anyway, in the meantime he's been passing himself off as a journalist at Nintendo Life and he's got quite journalistic here. He says Embracer will spin off fellowship entertainment into its own company. Embracer's announced its intention to spin off Fellowship Entertainment into its own company in 2027 in the press release founder Lars Wingford states the approach represents the most effective long-term solution for Embracer, with the intention being to increase management focus by being an IP-led entertainment company first and foremost. In terms of game series, the company will be responsible for Lord of the Rings, Stroke Middle Earth, Tomb Raider, King to come deliverance, Dead Island, Darksiders, Remnant, Metro. Dead Islands are still a thing. Okay. Not only that, but it's also keen to investigate potential partnerships around some more dormant series such as Saints Row, Legacy of Kane, Deus Ex, Red Faction, The Mask, Thief, and Time Splitters. That's music to our ears, honestly. We'd love to see Deus X make a grand comeback. Got a little snippet here from uh I mean, I don't know how you'd pronounce this W-I-N-G-E-F-O-R-S. Now, I think for the rest of this article I'm going to call him Winged Force. The main rationale to spin off fellowship is to increase management focus to capture the full joint potential of the IPs, their respective communities and some of the best game developers in the world. Just like as Modi and CoffeyStein, we believe in Fellowship Entertainment will thrive the most by becoming its own standalone business. I think assets held by Fellowship Entertainment are amongst the most undervalued in the industry, and I feel it's my duty as the largest shareholder to change this and create a structure that realise the full potential. Curiously Winchfalls also defended Embracer against the company's history of worker layoffs, stating that while it's become closely associated with redundancies, the reality is that we've worked hard to retain as many people as possible through a very difficult period while balancing the needs to drive a profitable business operation. So we'll just have to wait and see what happens next then Embracer's clearly been scrambled to reverse its negative perception in the games industry. Perhaps splintering fellowship entertainment off into its own company could prove to be a solid move.

Dreaming Up A Modern LOTR RPG

SPEAKER_06 24:47

I guess we'll find out but uh first of all let's talk about the news of Bobby in your sort of parenthood hiatus from the show Good Sir did you play any of Kingdom come deliverance at all?

SPEAKER_03 25:04

No my my my my father has played massive hours amount of hours so you're aware of what it's capable of being I am um I want to book I want to get it but it's very long I have a lot of games I need to finish first before I get it. Maybe by the time I get it it'll be on sale um but he has been talking about this game for a while.

SPEAKER_06 25:29

What he's been playing that and Crimson Desert yes yeah that's what it is yeah are you not attracted to Crimson Desert I am but again it's 500 hours maybe okay we'll see let's stop rewind let me ask you another question seeing as you are very of a with Kingdom Deliverance can you imagine those people making a Lord of the Rings game set in Middle earth uh yeah can you imagine for a moment how freaking amazing that could be oh it would be a it would be fantastic fantastic I think it'll be um I don't I mean what story were they gonna tell I don't know but the fact that they can set up the world wherever it's great I mean I don't know if we'll get all of it but imagine if we just got a large chunk of it I mean I've been playing I was playing that Lord of the Rings game for God's sake on PS2 uh the those are great man wait I no I'm talking about the now many years ago I started a playthrough of Lord of the Rings the turn based game called third age do you do you remember that when me and you were and then I went back to it and then I went back to it again with my wife and she literally took to it like a duck to water and decimated the whole game.

SPEAKER_03 26:52

Really?

SPEAKER_06 26:52

Oh yeah oh damn okay absolutely got stuck in the end game because it's got these random screens it's not like you just walk down a road it kind of like then switches but it's different every time you can't really map it so it was just brutal so it just kept chucking you in very high level but not end level bosses every time and she survived that leveled the hell up so when we actually did finally stumble across the guy it was like we got an RPG legend over here Jesus that's amazing well in the meantime played and finished Persona 4 on her own really smashed it God okay wow that's good yeah and there's a big chunk into uh persona five but it didn't really tickle her as much to be honest with you um but she did kind of go straight into it after I said you want a palate cleanser and she's like nah yeah sometimes yeah you do you need it you've just done you now you're you're overstimulated yourself to be tired of it yeah and the hours count was huge I'm sure it was so then go straight into another one was like I'm sure it was and to be fair only rolled in what we doing here Lord of the Rings embrace a group spin off everywhere hang on pull it back let's keep the algorithm happy let's keep the viewer view view view happy um it's interesting that I've took this on obviously you've got a lot of franchises I mean people I think are like maybe saying it's a bit of negative slant it's all about trying to protect the brands they've bought from the wider toxicity of what they were doing with the worker layoffs why worker layoffs aren't nice and maybe they've had repeated rounds of it yeah they have should that stay in a company forever though Bobby no because things happen in the company right so I mean you have to do it you have to do hopefully you can get back stronger that's the whole plan.

SPEAKER_03 29:03

No one's plan is to lay people off constantly rather why would you work for them? Exactly and there's a lot to be said for that if you're a video game company you need to attract the best talent so you can make the best game I mean hopefully sometimes you put all your effort into it and the game is supposed to be phenomenal and just in click and that's it. I mean it's not your fault.

SPEAKER_06 29:23

Exactly that you know um and I think many companies during COVID went crazy just hiring people left right in Chelsea and then as things kind of returned to normal and it wasn't that we're going to be at home playing video games all day they realize we probably don't need 4,000 staff we probably ought to let a couple go. I'm making light of it I shouldn't but um what do you think about spinning this off let's say it's not for the toxicity does it make sense to be able to create a new kind of pillar for your business all around it's a big franchise right you might as well I mean it if you have it now um it's gonna be it's always gonna be popular so it's it's a good place to start what would you going back to the dream game lord of the rings game open world single player experience in the vein of kings and come deliverance what would you like that to represent what would you like that to be you know I have no idea because there's just so much you can do like if you go back to all his books that he wrote in that world I mean it's never ending or you could just create something new that happened you know before or after certain events and start fresh there you know what would you would you want to be like human elf hobbit wizard is there a particular I don't think you could do wizard to be fair because you'd have to be one of the wizards because there only is a finite amount yeah no you no you would um maybe you could pick a couple characters like out of X amount of characters and then you can pick one of them or create your own whatever um kind of give yourself up like abilities like you know a ranger and maybe a thief or a ranger and a fighter whatever something like that and then go on whatever whatever journey's taking you and then but if you're gonna make a journey now you know it's a single player game it's sort of a journey. Yeah like I need you to go like you know to the point where you feel like you're doing everything you can do and all of a sudden something just takes you down to like restart yourself back up to get where you had to go from I'm getting veins I'm getting imagine you know imagine a map the size of Red Dead Redemption 2 yeah which is but one singular line that kind of winds itself all the way through up through the mountains over the top you don't really stray off it you can sometimes you go off and you find some food do a little bit more maybe a village side quest whatever but your main road is to get where you've got to go to do some sort of massive Mordor like yeah that'll be banging and as you say along the way things happen set pieces or you know like you can you gain party like you gain a uh a a buddy with you that helps you do things maybe you know they could die like no you know you don't have to live forever hang on I see it now I see it now in Kingdom come deliverance you are a blacksmith son who if he aligns himself in the right ways during his story can be at these really massive historical events like these battles different bits and bobs or that all goes on in the background as night and day passes and you just carry on working as a blacksmith's son or get involved in something else or all those moments pass and you didn't end up at the castle at that moment to convince that guy not to go to battle blah blah blah we set it during the trilogy a little bit like that third HPS2 game you exist in and around like a corkscrew the main vibe and you can like you have to be if you wanted to at this time to be in this thing but if you get held up because something grabs you and you can't make that yeah like if you happen to be at Morio on this moment in that day you see the guys going into there and you can follow them in and help them do that bit like the maybe game pushes back a little bit but like they're like well thanks for your help but who the hell are you we've got a we've got a little bit of a bit of a serious thing going on here I don't I don't want to say too much but little bro dude here he's carrying something quite powerful maybe why do I turn in he's got a ring a big he's got a ring probably I've got the maga he's got I've got a ring probably the best the best glorious ring yeah so I want you to stay back um I think we've uh probably news that out buddy what's this next bit of news you got a bit of Sony news for us yes yeah it's Sony trademark's new PS5 game called break in and it regards several social media

PS5 Trademark Spotted For Break In

SPEAKER_06 34:20

accounts it's written by Sammy Parker what's he been up to this week Bobby well I've heard of the grapevine that this is a place in the Bronx Riverdale section to Palisade Avenue they have a lot of expensive houses there a lot um there's a bit of mystery there because it's kind of like a haunted area no one can confirm or deny these things but I've heard that um this guy in particular he's now he's a game journalist he's trying to prove that vampires exist now we know because we've actually interviewed vampires on this podcast before um but we we know we respect them and they respect us we have no problem with them this guy is trying to open their coffins in the day and slather them with pork fat and then take pictures of them and then try to take pictures of them when they wake up for their reaction of being slathered in these it could be like marmaid some of it could be butter but you know he's playing a risky game does it have an effect on them in any way or is it just an ungo there's lots of funny smelly he's making memes now of them of their reactions when they wake up being slathered and whatever it could be do you think he might use pseudocrem I don't know what that is how the hell mum get the social services on the phone Bobby don't know what pseudocrem is got anymore pseudocrème pseudreme what is that creme sounds like a French pseudocrem uh it's not it's uh google it o c r e m e we've gone off topic here but George and Bobby are back in town c r e M E it's diaper cream I mean you who knows what this guy's up to I mean why not I was just thinking about this right if you stick a bunch of that in someone's butt crack when they're sleeping yeah are they gonna tell you about it absolutely not happens to me nightly yeah I mean you know well you just did tell me now George yeah or was it a bit a distraction maybe happens every other night you don't know yeah I mean according to this um he even have large tubes up to uh 400 gram sizes of that yeah so I'm thinking you could that's what I'm thinking industrial styles yeah yeah in Ollie Run no Sammy Barker big handful of this stuff in his hand yeah I just don't know what his deal is to be honest with you on the Vik on the sorry but that's what I've heard slap it on the face uh I've got yeah I've got shares I think you should I mean he's even putting like the cream like the facial cream with the um with the cucumber slices he's he's making a mockery of it it's gonna get found out yeah it's gonna get found out but sucking vampires playing a game I think something happened personally and now he's taking some kind of revenge on them without harming them more like embarrassing them which is probably worse tell me tell me about this story good sir what's this break in uh thing going on so um basically um it's a live service game oh well hold on sorry live service games often have social media accounts with play name you know their handle uh evidence of uh by horizon hunters gathering you know um it's worth adding that a recent inside gaming report noted break in is in the name phase of play in the recent fair games closed data um Sony filed a trademark for a new PS5 game named Breakin which will presumably be revealed during next month's data play I think it's June 2nd uh the document submitted in both US and Europe doesn't include any additional information about the project just that it could pertains to video game software uh honestly the name of the game is vague enough that it could be anything some are hypothesizing it may be a new game for fair games given the game's title heist theme which is possible but it could be feasibly anything from Fire Sprite's rumored horror game uh through an uh externally developed second party title uh one thing uh that he stressed is that the timing of the trademark application strongly suggests this will be revealed on stay to play June 2nd which says um he would do more digging if he could find anything out before that but he will let us know what it is and it sounds intriguing breaking I mean I don't know what I mean it could be anything I you know what I think it's gonna be what I think it's gonna be online game yeah where you're breaking into something like a high game a hundred percent yeah it can't be uh there's a game that Jinj was playing

Sony’s Live Service Gamble And Helldivers

SPEAKER_06 40:01

uh it's a it's a co- it's like helldivers where you can help each other um achieve a big goal supposed to be like a friendly online game supposedly I forgot the name of the game could be like one of these oh dear he doesn't see game we we were hoping I was hoping for something new something fresh especially something that had been under wraps but for all intents and purposes this is another live service game apparently it has had betas and it's gone down about as well as a dose of the pox in a medieval village or maybe he's in you know the game breaking could be breaking into Vampire's houses and smearing pseudocrome in people's faces 100% yeah I never thought of that you would need multiple to do you need a lookout you need someone to open it someone to hold up material you know at least four players one of you uh one thing I haven't been able to talk to you about this is one of the reasons why some of this news is here is while you've been off on your uh break from the show Sony got a little bit crazy about live service games nuts and they put games out but then they well they were gonna put some games out then they bottled it last of us the Concord came out got absolutely crushed um the one that stuck Helldivers you've played that yes you love that love it that stuck that seemed to be a good rhythm it felt like the right game what was it you found in there that was enjoyable that you wouldn't normally well you're not playing against other people I mean I just think I mean I'm not young anymore but there's a bunch of 18 year olds hanging out with each other on mic it's absolutely oh my god right so at least this game you have a couple friends even one or two is enough you don't have to do the hardest level just do medium level you know you just go there hang out on the mic shoot some aliens or robots and whatever hopefully complete the mission and gone on it's just fun you know the more people you have the better your friends did you go back to it after platinum it or was that you won and done and you were out no I went back a few times people either help with something or we just played it because what else are you going to play it?

SPEAKER_03 42:23

No one has anything else so like for honor I went back to for I still go back to forehonor every now and then Mike Rouse's baby. I love that game. So like but that game yeah you're playing with other people but um that's meant where if you don't have friends you can link up they kind of do the best they can with the like level level of your level and the skill yes so you're not getting decimated but this game helldivers you can pick the level so as if you're a rookie you just start fresh if you're a professional you can do hard you know and you just have fun with it.

SPEAKER_06 42:54

That's it it's just a fun game to play do you think that's where the appeal is do you think that's what it do you think it's quite macho as well though isn't it which I think is probably some of the appeal it's also just slapstick hilarious the stuff that you do like people will feel something and do like in a moat which is just hilarious you know I mean um I think that's what it is like I get the whole Fortnite craze you know I I understand it but like not everything's gonna be Fortnite and don't nor does it have to be and how many Overwatch games and everything are you gonna have like Marvel Rivals I heard is very good art style people love it you know just not everyone's gonna hit but how many live service games do you need yeah I get I get the appeal because there's a hell of a lot of money in it um I think like if it hits I think I've also made the point um maybe a couple of episodes ago they're free to play but not free to run or make you know these games cost as much as a normal game it's a hell of a slice of chance really and we look at a game like Fortnite it did and it ended up there by accident. You never really intended To be a massive battle royale game.

SPEAKER_03 44:02

No, it just hit. That's it.

SPEAKER_06 44:05

It hit that as a kind of well, this is going to keep the doors open while we get the rest of the game working. And guess what? Ended up being gangbusters because PlayStation didn't have PUBG. Well, worked in Fortnite's favor, didn't it? You know. But you know, I want to play a battle royal game. Fine, I'll play this one that looks like a cartoon. Actually, it's alright. I'll keep playing it.

SPEAKER_03 44:25

Um games like Day-Z, like, people love Day Z. I watch people, I watch a friend play it. I'm like, just seem kind of boring. But if that's for you, that's fine. You know, like some people help you, some people lie and they feel your stuff, or they just outright kill you. You just don't know what you're gonna get. And that's probably the excitement is not knowing what's gonna happen next, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 44:48

I think that uh I can't really have a leg to stand on when I'll play a farm and simulator game for a hour straight.

SPEAKER_02 44:55

No.

SPEAKER_06 44:56

I'm probably part of the problem. So Sony have been rumbling around, I don't know what they're up to, but they've got their little um live service push on. They're not prepared to let go of Horizon, that Hunter's game which looks like Fortnite with robot dinosaurs. I like Horizon, but that makes it look not the best. Um they didn't give us The Last of Us. Now, do you think that could have been incredible? Because rumor as it was, it's gonna be the same thing.

SPEAKER_03 45:28

What's you're gonna pick a fraction, um, and you're gonna run around and just kill each other off until whoever wins, whether it's team-based or free-for-all, you know, and then that game is kind of set like realistically. So, like, what fantastical things are you gonna be doing over there? Like, it'd be more realistic combat. Like, every game they did, like Uncharted, they had to add online play. They had Ghost Futoshima, Ghost of YoT has on well, not YoT yet, but Ghost Futoshima definitely had an online you could play with your friends. Yo T has it now, it doesn't have right. So it's like, you know, at a certain point, like, why does everything have to have this? Like, you know, would have been great days gone, where you and your buddies are just trying to not get killed by hordes of zombies, would be better than fighting other players, riding around in the biker gang.

SPEAKER_06 46:22

I mean, how gay would that be? That would be so cool. See, like that, that is what I would and that's a franchise that they don't really care about.

SPEAKER_03 46:30

No, and I don't get it. It's like okay, uh the Taylor Clowns from Out of Space is that four vs one thing Friday 13th did it now. Halloween's coming out again. Basically, Halloween's a reskin on Friday 13th. It just looks uh the touching as a massacre, it's just all the same thing. And if you don't have a bunch of friends, you're playing with random people doing random things, like then what's the really enjoyment of that? I don't get like Dead by Daylight, it just it hooked. People love it, it's non-stop, it's fast-paced. I mean, basically a cat and mouse game, but people love it, you know. What why didn't other games click on? Because how many are you gonna have? You're oversaturating everything with live service type games.

SPEAKER_06 47:15

I think it was last week we had a little bit of a story in the news about Sony's releasing this widget to the dashboards that tells you the top ten most popular games. They're all live service games, Bobby. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, it was uh it's just the money. Yeah, it was just strange to see there wasn't even one Ghost of Yotai wasn't just hanging on at the bottom of there. It wasn't there wasn't there's just nothing, Spider-Man, nothing. It was nothing, it was all so you can see why Sony went, Wow, geez Louise, no matter what we do, no matter the critical acclaim, no matter the amount of sales that we get, it never breaks into the top ten here of most played things on this system, and it's all this stuff that's free, yeah. And they're earning more money than we are after spending all this money making this game. I totally get why they chased it, but woof, it's not working out. I don't God knows how much they've blown on these projects. But and I suppose it's it's not necessarily the money which you can recoup, it's the time wasted on another game on another game you could have made that may have been the next big thing for that studio, single-player game or or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 48:27

Days gone too could have been perfect, could have had uh if you would have made Days Gone 2, like they want, like you're supposed to, or even a Bloodborne 2, which I don't understand why they haven't done yet. And then if that goes well and that game can be a live service game because of things you can do with a co-op partner, then that's when you should base your live service games on. I never thought Horizon Zero Dawn needed to be a live service co-op.

SPEAKER_06 48:54

Not when you think how I mean Aloy thing is Aloy is just a human fleshbag and a DNA recreation of a woman from many years ago, but yeah, like she's not a superhero. No, there's not one single element of her fabric being that makes her a superhero, she's just a good hunter, generally. Maybe slightly more intelligent than the average Joe, who knows? But she can single-handedly take down all of the most deadliest creatures in that on that planet, yeah. I think roar, I think, I think she's okay. And let's face it, when you walk around Horizon, every single dude is wearing a necklace made out of a spino, out of the most fearsome creature. So they're not that bad, are they? No, um it does make me laugh when you see the hunting parties go off, and there's like three or four of them tackling the smallest little um steer thing. It's like row.

SPEAKER_03 49:53

Oh my god, yeah. I don't get it.

SPEAKER_06 49:57

Let's get into this next bit of news, Bobby. Uh, if I can find it, because this is a bit junky.

Xbox Hires Matthew Ball For Helix

SPEAKER_06 50:06

Um while you've been off, Xbox employed Asha Sharma to kind of re-in well, I don't know if she they she was told to, Bobby, but she's decided to reinvigorate the brand. She's not spending money left right on Chelsea, she's just doing little incremental fixes here, she's listening to them, she's alleged to be bringing exclusives back, she's doing some other things, she's committed to Xbox being a console, she's scrapped that only on everything advert, although she's not pulled the programme, which makes sense. Um, so there's some good stuff going on there. While you've been away, I've been running a counter on the wall, a bit like an industrial accident one that says, you know, I think we're currently at like 45 hang on, let's be right, 109 days since Xbox last like really controversial F up. Um so she's doing well, she's she's making hay, and the next part of that, as reported by Ben Kerry. Now tell you what Ben's been up to this week, Bobby. He's um he's been reperfecting the lost art of the uh American Indian Mohawk. Uh so he's been growing his hair out since COVID. Uh it was about six foot in length, had it tied up. He went for his ceremonial defrocking. Uh, he he lives in um worksop, so it's done at the worksop community hall on a couple of roughly laid breeze blocks. Uh a local chieftain, um don't know his name, cut all his hair off, and then scalped out the side, left him with a mohawk uh and he he just kind of fat breed. Serious. Um it was done on a budget because you know it's the work so palm of the so there'sn't there's not there's not a lot going on, uh pound land job, but you know, they made it happen. So he's happy, he's part of the tribe now. Uh Xbox hires new exec to strengthen the console side of the business. Let's find out what this is about. Coming by the way of both the game business and the Verge, which is paywall, apparently. Chill out, Ben, just use the company credit card. Uh Microsoft has hinted parody with Xbox executives. Why that? Why that word? What why me? Xbox executives. That's probably why, including a chief strategy officer to strengthen the console side of Xbox, as the game business puts it. The new CSO is called Matthew Ball, an industry analyst who produces the state of video gaming report. Ball is coming in to help with the console side of the business as Microsoft puts renewed focus and Xbox Series X Nest builds towards Project Helix. Second hire has been announced today. Scott Van Villett is chief technology officer. According to the game business, Villett is coming to improve how Xbox builds products so teams can move faster and deliver stronger results alongside these fresh hires. Chris Caken Sh Naken Kakenberg.

SPEAKER_00 53:17

Um Baconbak.

SPEAKER_06 53:20

Yeah, Waken Bakenberg. Uh SCH Schnakenberg. Chris Schnakenberg. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 53:31

His name has a lisp in the in the enunciation.

SPEAKER_06 53:34

I look, mate, I'm I've got one built into myself these days, and Chris Schnakenberg will bring one out of someone like you know, I don't know what's going on. Chris Schnakenberg will give a lisp to uh to the queen. Um God rest the soul. Uh sorry, ma'am. Um God, can we edit that out? I'm not happy, but I know we don't. Yeah, I know we don't. Chris Schnakenberg has taken on a new role as vice president, partnership business development of the latest internal X reshuffle at Xbox HQ. New boss Asha Sharmer has commented on these fresh job roles with a cheeky mention of the Xbox game showcase coming next month and beyond. She says these changes are about strengthening our foundation by creating more clarity and improving execution. As we head towards Showcase and Beyond, we'll continue making the changes needed to position Xbox for the future. It's good to see Xbox continuing to focus more on the console side of the business. We wish him well. And the new hires, we hope you have a great time. Bobby. A strong Xbox brand or emergent Xbox brand has delivered to us some of the greatest PlayStation moments in history. Is it beneficial that we see this ever-emerging Xbox come strong? Put choice in the marketplace. Plus, it means not everyone can rest on the laurels and charge you four grand for PlayStation plus.

SPEAKER_03 55:15

Oh 100%. I mean you we need Xbox. Just like just like Xbox and Sony and they both need Nintendo. It just now you might have your little preference, which is fine, but if all you had was Sony, Sony, Sony, Sony, then what what what good games are you gonna get out of it if there's nothing to compare them to to someone else's system?

SPEAKER_06 55:39

What would Xbox need to do? Have you ever had an Xbox? I think you have, haven't you? What would they need to do with the Helix? And I hope they call it that, because they might as well call it you know, their names are totally done.

SPEAKER_02 55:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 55:58

What would they need to announce, do, or say that will make you sit bolt upright in bed and go, Oh I I I do know I'll tell you what, I gotta get that.

SPEAKER_03 56:11

Um I mean, well they bought Bethesda, so let's make some something from there finally. You know, and if you had if it's if it's exclusive, then it's exclusive. That's right, that's what you bought it for. Um and put out some of the best games that you did when you in your when you in your heyday and just put them out there. I think that's the best way to do it. Um I don't know the the don't get me wrong, I uh the free um the whole Xbox play anywhere just games come out of day one. Yeah, that's that's all great and dandy, but it's not I don't think I don't think it's really it's helping the consumer's pocket. I don't think it's really helping your pocket, and you're just you're just putting out random games. Whereas if you went back to putting out some of your like a years of war or whatever, another Halo. I mean, obviously the same game, but you know, um and build it back up slowly like that, I think that would be beneficial for them.

SPEAKER_06 57:09

She's obviously pushing to uh take the business back to exclusives. There's been a few sort of bits and bobs that she's tweaked on the dash, made some changes in the back end, held back on some advancements and changes in pricing and bits and bobs. So she sees the consumer out there gasping for breath. I think some people who've probably been with the Xbox brand since the get-go are just saying just change this, this, and don't be crazy, and we can get going, we can get this going on.

SPEAKER_07 57:40

Yeah, whatever she's doing, she's doing it, she's doing a good job.

SPEAKER_03 57:42

That's it, that's for sure, that's for sure. Will you feel like people who I know at Xbox players, they feel like you know, a change is coming, you know?

SPEAKER_06 57:51

Oh, right. That's the that's the tap on the streets, is it? They've got excited by this, yeah, yeah. So it's not just me.

SPEAKER_03 57:59

No, no, they feel like something something's coming. Like, you know, whether the system's coming out or not, they hope it is coming out, they hope to have exclusive back. You know, they want to keep what they have, but you know, upgrade to something else. And you know, you could you can have two things at once, you don't have to have just one sided you know.

SPEAKER_06 58:14

Speaking of that, they did a poll. Uh and the apparently the top comment was give us our exclusives back.

SPEAKER_03 58:24

I mean, that is the point, right? I mean, what is the point of buying a Sega and then playing all the Mario games on there? So why have Nintendo? Right? But and now you're playing Sonic on it. I get it, things cross over and I understand things happen, but like, why would God of War be on an Xbox? It just makes no sense. Why would Mario be on an Xbox? I mean, I played Mario, I expect to go, or Zelda by Nintendo.

SPEAKER_06 58:48

But we now have Master Chief and Marcus Phoenix, if that's his name from Gears of War obviously.

SPEAKER_03 58:53

It's just wild to me. When I saw that, I was like, this is crazy. And then when you turn it on, you know what it says?

SPEAKER_07 58:58

Xbox.

SPEAKER_06 58:59

Yeah. Well, I've been playing Flight Sim, and thank goodness this happened.

SPEAKER_03 59:04

Is it now what's it called? The baseball game, isn't it now? Xbox Studios.

SPEAKER_06 59:08

No, it's you can get it. You it's PlayStation made, but that's their oh I mean, before any of the before any of their exclusives came, Sony had to give them an exclusive. Don't forget, first blood was drawn by the MLB in this exclusives off because you know, for the longest time, MLB was and kind of is an exclusive. I've I'm not entirely sure that maybe MLB, I think I don't know if we were talking on or off there before, uh, when we're talking about MLB, you said there was there's a resurgence in the game thanks to the pitch count and all that other stuff. I I hate it, but you know, whatever. They've been struggling to sell enough copies of MLB as far as I'm aware. So broadening out the platforms, it's got to be for the better. And even a mug like me will buy it, yeah. Multiple times. Although this year, I for the first time in a while, I didn't buy it, Bobby. What's happened to me?

SPEAKER_07 1:00:14

Really?

SPEAKER_06 1:00:15

Yeah. Oh wow. I didn't get it this year.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:19

Baseball season came day one every single year.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:22

Does he go full like Diamond Dynasty though? Is he all into that?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:28

Let me create the teams that no one heard of in the 1950s season. And he creates all those players and gets them in there, and he'll spend hours doing that. He loves baseball. You and him should have a baseball podcast.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:45

I I to be fair, he knows a hell of a lot more about baseball than me.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:48

Oh, this guy's Stat City. It's unbelievable. You want a stat about a player you never heard of? Fall for that man right there.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:57

We we need to get him We need to get him a job in sports journalism. He would conquer, I believe. How do we get him in front of them? Do we need to get him a shower, a shave, get him cleaned up, take him down Trader Joe's, get him a suit, tie?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:15

No, just directions to the place he gotta go.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:18

Is that it?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:19

That's it, he'll do it.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:21

Okay. Well, where is it? I will Google it and find out. It's in New York somewhere. It's right next door. It's next door. It's gotta be. It might be on the floor below you. Who knows? We can find out.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:33

I will look into it. I never logged into it before, but I'll look into it now, you know.

Trophies And The PS Stars Afterlife

SPEAKER_03 1:01:37

I also heard while I'm at an Xbox that she is also doing something with the achievements.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:44

Yeah, I think they updated the artwork, and it it that kind of that's what I was referring to. These three changes in the background kind of ended up triggering some PlayStation fans because the PlayStation trophy animation, we got an update when the PS5 launched, but then that was it. The classic Sony, they kind of brought it to us and then dropped it in your face and walked off.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:08

Well, because they don't have to worry about it, you know, they don't have to. That's it. That's no one has it, but us.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:12

However, many years later, they're getting new animations, new styles, changes to the system, this that and the other, and what's happening over here, what I'll tell you what, nothing.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:19

It's almost like every game should have yes, obviously it's gonna say platinum trophy achieved, that's fine, but every game should have its own unique when you get it. I guess how it's presented to get it, then it's a pop on the screen. Should be something like you know, you actually achieve something great, it should be a grander, it's just a trophy pop with a platinum image. You know, you need some I would like something better, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:42

I suppose for a platinum, I mean it depends. You'd have to create a separate app, possibly, and maybe not everyone what a multi-platform person wouldn't want to create a separate little area, but be nice if you could have for your platinums. You know, when they made that app for your phone PlayStation Stars, which I poured a lot of time and effort into chasing down all these different trophies, and now it's just a dead corner of the PlayStation app.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:09

Yep, and it's still there, which is outrageous.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:12

Well, that's because uh I think they're legally obliged to let you have that place to show your trophies because some people might have bought them.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:20

Which I'm sure people did. When you're an adult and have money, do we do whatever you want?

SPEAKER_06 1:03:26

I never bought one. I always thought that was a bit crazy, but I you know, did people use their points that they had earned to buy them? Then therefore, is that some form of locked-in currency?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:36

I used a lot of my points to buy the PSN cards, not I did 100%.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:40

I didn't spend them on anything else, and now I've got like a dead random number of accounts in the stars wallet that's just like like yeah, they should let you do that, they should have used that for something or transfer it to whatever I don't know. Well, I was where I was going with that is if not on your phone, but an app that combined what was left of PlayStation Stars and then a new trophy system where when you get a trophy, you get a little trophy in your digital shelf, you click on it, and it kind of just gives you a little video montage or or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:11

Or the lot like they do, like you could do the last 15-30 seconds.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:15

Yeah, that it just puts that clip in there, yeah. That'd be dope, but you know, it does that already though, Bobby, and it does put that little plaque round it if you go into your recording. So are we just hoping they've got the parts there, we just need them to maybe stitch them together.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:35

Yeah, I I would agree.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:38

Okay, well, I think that probably brings us to the end of a well, I know coming up we've got some serious news kicking off because this June seems like it's going to be wall to wall game news, and hopefully, that this game drought is drawing

Housekeeping And Where To Find Us

SPEAKER_06 1:04:55

into an end. So I'm not reporting Embracer Group spinning itself off. I'm not, you know, we're not reporting a trademark registration, uh, and we're not talking about Xbox's latest staff hires. Although, you know, to be fair, that's interesting because it can show a movement in the industry. Can do a bit of housekeeping, RGT's not here, so I suppose I'd better pick up them up and book it because you are Lord Bobby, King Bobby. Um, so housekeeping. I'm gonna mention our awesome website, ww.unofficialcontrollerpodcast.com. Go there, it's got hidden gems, it's got the challenge accepted bits and bobs, it's got links and transcripts of the show. You want to get all over that like a hot rash. Um, we got the TikTok. Don't forget to get in there. Uh there's videos going viral left, right, and Chelsea, thanks to the emerging Captain Scarlet, the social media uh Kingpin. And um we've got an Instagram and X, but no one really talks about those anymore. That's social media's kind of dead there if you're not on TikTok or YouTube, you You can not even really existing as a human being. Yeah. Which is scary.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:06

It is.

unknown 1:06:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:08

Grab yourself a slice of immortality and get a YouTube video. Uh which hopefully at some point in time in the future they'll use this clip to create an AI. Oh god.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:20

I can AI stuff big time.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:22

Mate, I've given YouTube quite a large algorithm to create my voice into some sort of AI slave of theirs. Like, oh, would you like this voice? Rural Pharmaton. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's all I want my AI to sound like. Some backward talking fool. You know what they should do? What?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:43

The company that we said bought the Lord of the Rings. Yeah. They should use you as the narration for the background of what's happening. Oh my voice is perfect for podcasting. Sometimes when you talk, I don't know if you notice, but maybe the viewers can go back to some videos. When you talk, I drift out. V. You ever had a teacher like talk to you? Just had a soothing voice, and you're just so relaxed in the class, but you're not really listening to what they're saying, it's but their voice hits like a wave in your equilibrium or something like that. Oh wow, mate. Makes you feel good.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:19

That's the kind of voice that I'm hearing over there. Wow. I think someone's got lost in translation over the Atlantic. I don't think I sound soothing. I think I sound a little bit more like animal. Nah. Being dragged across uh a dual carriageway about 70 miles an hour, and then someone's randomly throwing razor blades at him.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:39

No, for some reason my father thought you were an English teacher. Yeah. He said he sounds very regal. He thought you were from a prestige family as well. You could be, but that's what he thought when he heard your voice. He doesn't know who you are, you know.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:55

What what can I say other than thank you? I don't know what to say to this old boy. I'm honored, I'm blessed. Um, where else are we gonna send him? Well, you're here already, so don't forget to hit subscribe. No, god damn it. I tell you what you're not doing. You're all coming and watching, but you're not or is it hang on a minute, flip it round, where would it be? It's here, wherever it is, you smash it. That's what the cool kids are doing. All the roadblockers, they've got thousands, millions. We just want like maybe ten more. That's it. You set your stall out. I'm not being greedy. Shoot for the moon, you hit the stars, shoot for the end of the gate, make the end of the gate. That's what I say. Um, so that YouTube, got some shorts going up. Something about a forza content created. Maybe our gate crushed it.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:48

Maybe I did. Maybe not, maybe you did.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:51

I 100% I did. I'm expecting a lawsuit or something similar. Probably broke the embargo and everything. But I, you know, you put the sign up, you put the cars there. I'm gonna get involved, aren't I? Um you know me, I took myself into anything. Um, yeah, including paranoia. Oh, yeah. Wow. Big time. Well, to you someone, last little thing. We don't want to make a big deal of it, Bobby, because I know that it turns them off to it. Okay, but we we got a Discord. Yeah, cool things happen there, prizes, all that, community, friends. Oh, I'm never gonna make friends on Discord. Don't make friends on Discord then, just join it. Simple. Yeah. Move to one side, we arrive every week.

Shoutouts To The Community Supporters

SPEAKER_06 1:09:38

This show is delivered to you FOC. I think that means free of charge. If it means anything else, I didn't mean that. Um, and we give you flashback, it's free. You got the Discord, it's all free. You got pictures to look at on the TikTok movies, so when you're either sat on the cam, as our American cousins call it, or you're up in your high-rise crane when you should be steering that metal pipe around, you just knocked out Billy Joe because you're too busy looking at TikToks on your phone. It's fine. I think that's legal, it's allowed. At least I've endorsed it. Uh I don't I don't think that's an endorsement. Um yeah, so from as $3, and let's face it, no disrespect to you, Bobby. But if you're living in any other country outside of the US, $3 equates to about I don't know, about a third of a bottle of water. It's nothing.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:34

Okay?

SPEAKER_06 1:10:34

It's it it's less than three English pounds. So get in on it. Because if you do it, I'll tell you what I'm doing at the moment, I will immediately send you a t-shirt. And that's not even part of your tier. Again, I think we oversell it. I'll say no more. But there are some smart, educated people, people with intelligence, high IQs, overmuscular bodies, and just an ability to seduce on contact. They are our subs, and we're gonna read them out because every week that's what we do. It's one of their tier subs, like, it's one of their perks. And if you want to get read out on here, if you've listened this far, you you do want to get read out on here. So clickity-click, click the link on the bottom of the audio show. Come clickity-click, click into the old uh list here. Bobby, would you like to go first or second?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:36

Uh I'll I'll do I'll I'll go first.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:39

Okay. This is Gaz Con, C-O-N, by the way. Um, well, that's what I believe the gentleman is called, but we still seem to have a typo error in the script.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:50

So really, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:52

And he he got he got a bit argy bargy with RGT. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I endorse it. Uh apparently rode RGT around a small Suffolk market town like a goat.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:08

Interesting.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:12

Uh, then we have Captain Scarlet, who could have been an XGI Joe member of the team.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:21

He could you're absolutely right. Yeah. But instead, he sits backstage wired into the internet, making our uh social stuff. Yeah. Wow. He's tied in. Up next, retroed, or a seb renamed him retroid. I think that we've decided that's his alternate angry version. So if you get retroed fired up, Bobby, it'll retroid you.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:48

And if you say that word wrong once, you could definitely um cancel yourself. You're right. So you gotta be real careful with that, you know.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:00

Okay, who's next?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:02

Uh we have Carlos. Uh, I believe he's the local NHL expert on the Discord from memory. Serves correctly.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:10

Do you know what else he is?

SPEAKER_03 1:13:13

Where else is he?

SPEAKER_06 1:13:15

He is the one man George fan club. He's the army. I don't need a thousand people. Fan club, just need him. He has the strength of ten men, he has the wit and panache and demure of a thousand sultry men. Oh wow, sultry. Oh, yeah, he's dangerous. If you if you invited him around for a cup of tea, you turn round, weather ring on the table, all you see is the door swing shut.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:48

And you don't mean to do it, it just happens.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:50

Yeah. Yep, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:53

Up next, Bobby. Have you ever done any investing online or around and about?

SPEAKER_01 1:14:00

No.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:01

I tell you what, if you were ever gonna invest in the Nigerian prints, just to make sure that's wise investment, you'd be better contacting firm returns over on X. Because I tell you what, I don't know if you know this, Bobby, but they'll take you from Trump to Trump overnight.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:19

That's interesting, because I thought firm return was something that your wife holding you did every night. But that's just me. Moving on.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:33

It's actually a greeting. Oh, baby, yes, worked out well, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 1:14:37

We have Trestles New York, which I have to say will have a new name next week.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:42

Oh my god, why? What will it be?

SPEAKER_03 1:14:44

They have they have uh closed permanently. It's a sad, sad, sad day, yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:55

But however, I will because of us.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:00

No, no, no, nothing to do with us. It's just do you promise? I 100% promise. So I have a we'll have a new sponsor. Uh now we'll be able to I'm working on it. I'll should have it. I will by what's today, by Friday, Saturday, I'll have it to you, and then we can leave it out for the next episode.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:21

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:22

So we'll when we move the show back to New York, we will be able to go back there on an evening.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:27

Oh, yeah. On the on the will it be wings? It's gonna be Mexican.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:35

I don't know about you, but I don't want to start a rumor, Bobby, but you know, I think you're like uh two percent Mexican.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:44

It could be. I mean, I love their food. That's not no question.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:50

Wow. I don't oh, we were trestles. Ah, that means I get to thank an absolute legend of the show. He's been around longer than I have, throw space monk. Thank you, sir. Um, I need to check, see if you've updated us on your dreamcast scenario. Who's next?

SPEAKER_03 1:16:07

This is Bada Binkster, who is the local Italian flair of the show. With with at the time internet connection issues where he would randomly come in and out constantly of hell divers, too. But hopefully he got that fixed. Because it was very premature, or it would just be too long. We don't know what was going on there, you know.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:40

Things happen in life.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:48

I think this is his wedding this weekend, unless I've completely got the wrong end of it.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:52

Well, I saw something, so possible, yeah. I mean, good for him, man.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:00

That's a good time. I wish him the best. I hope he goes well. Um, up next, that means I get to ride in on the crown prince of video games. He is a topper curated collection. We say this every week, is he's husband to a beautiful wife, his father to beautiful children. He's got everything going on, and yet he still feels the need to collect for these ancient systems almost obsessively. Yeah, this is a man who is singularly focused. Every other man on planet earth will be happy with their lot, but not Tingletuner. There's one more title just around the corner, just up another precipice, just at another market, just around that next charity shop. We've all got this affliction. Tingletoner leads us. He's like our king, Bobby. Who's next?

SPEAKER_03 1:17:57

Oh, next we got Digital Monkery. Um what is what has he been doing? He's been collecting some some games on his YouTube channel.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:06

Yeah, I saw he had a Street Fighter tin and he'd kind of uh lamented because he had a little bit of a can I say unsuccessful request I went to.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:17

I think it was can I looked up because I have a picture of it.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:20

I think it's Camden Town. Yes, and they had a little farmer's market there. As well, I don't know what you're doing. What were you doing in Camden Town? I was going in the shady side of that farmer's market. Let me tell you something.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:34

I have myself a slice of Camden Town. What were you doing?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:38

Really? I was in the Kent Road. I gotta find, I don't know what the road was, but I was there. It's been a while, yeah. At least nine years ago.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:48

Was that when you came on a tour of the UK? Yeah, I was all over the place.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:53

They were like, oh, you can't walk there, it's too far. You have to take the bus. No, we're in New York. We walked everywhere. Edinburgh to London. No, we don't walk to Edinburgh, but we walked everywhere while we were in London. There was nothing we didn't hit with the foot.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:08

What a great terminology. I love it. Right. Uh who did you just have viciously? Digital Munkery, which means I get to talk about a man who can execute the floss 360 inverted. It's I think we've said enough. Who's next?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:29

We have our Resident Xbox Matrix, who you know, the Matrix had the key master. This is the Xbox Master. This is this is Bobo.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:39

Oh wow, what could he do?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:41

He can do everything that you know, red pill, blue pill, he got a green pill. Watch out. You have a third option with this guy.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:51

So Bobby, I've got one question for you.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:55

Uh-huh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:55

If you meet Xbox Key Master Boba and he holds out one hand and another hand, and in one hand is a red pill, and in the other hand is the blue pill, where would the emergent green pill come from?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:10

It would probably be from the third leg. I'm pretty sure.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:15

Would just raise up with it on firm returns, baby, right there. Wow. So do you think he kind of like hot glued a little bottle cap on the tip? So it's a good one.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:29

No, what happens is did you ever see a TV show? I believe it's a Finn or Adventures of Finn.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:37

It's like Huckleberry Finn.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:39

No, no, no. It's a cartoon. Uh dude, it's like a really drawn. Oh my god, it's uh it's about a little it's about a little boy and a dog, and they're going as adventure. Adventure time.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:54

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:56

That is what the hand looks like as it comes up because you don't know where it's coming from. It just comes up and then it's like a little, you know, like a little that of the green pill. Whip I don't know. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:14

But his left and right hand are like really hard worn hewn sort of man's hands, but the the third wheel is it might not be an option people take.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:24

That's why probably it's often.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:28

Did you say it was also like 25% the size of his normal hands?

SPEAKER_03 1:21:34

Yeah, roughly. Which is everyone hopes it is, you know.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:43

Oh mate, uh I just wish we had a little bit more money and we could just get some special effects and make all these things happen.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:52

I want that as a meme.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:54

I'd pay his wages for a month and whatever the prosthetics are required just to get that on voyage. Right. Up next, my red-headed stepson is ginge. Um, I mean, as I always say, what sort of bond have we got where he was never my kid, I was never responsible for him. I guess when his mum went down the bingo, I was his guardian, so made sure he didn't choke on any sweets and note. But really, after we separated, I should have had nothing to do with him anymore. But you know what? I love him. I love him I love him, I love him like my own. Yeah, and that's the effect this kid'll have on you. But I'll tell you one thing as well, he's super strong. Uh yes, super strong.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:42

The other day he carries around loads and loads of concrete on his back.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:47

But thing is, he doesn't even know it's there anymore. I think someone loaded up a hod carrier of bricks about 10 years ago, and his skin's just grown over it now. Have you hugged him? I'll be honest with you, it it was like hugging a ready-to-explode. If you could get hold of a bomb about 0.001 seconds after it exploded, all that rip sinew. Yeah, that's how it felt to me. I have hugged him, not in an overly sexual way. Because that would almost that would be technically it's legal, but it's frowned upon.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:26

100% that's Targaryen's. Yes. Hugging him is like the most equivalent I can say, like hugging a like kingpin from Daredevil. Just massive mouthful. I I just prefer the handshake, honestly. You try to give him a little dap at the shoulder. You're in the hospital for a week.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:48

I don't know how you suffer the handshake, to be honest with you, because I had to have full bone reconstruction surgery. I'm more I try and shake his hand mano because you know I'm trying to instill into him some gentlemanly ways of conduct.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:04

But I look at my hand, it's more metal than bone.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:07

Yeah, no, your mistake was I just hold up one finger.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:11

Oh, respectful.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:13

Yeah, you can't do the whole hand, it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:15

Yeah, as a father figure, I want to fully interlock our thumbs and go deep into it.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:21

And he's being gentle, like I would be if I was, you know, touching a rose petal, but it it's it's it's beyond.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:28

Who's next? Up next, we have Harvey Retro. Wow. Yes, he He did the show with us.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:36

He we had a phenomenal show with him, one of my favorite shows, probably of all time. I just love that show. The vampire one. I was like a little giddy kid, you know. He's uh, you know, he's doing his thing. He's never stopped. He I forgot the last video I watched of him, but um yeah, he's still going strong.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:56

He's a machine, he's a content creating machine these days.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:59

He is, he's really doing good.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:01

Uh up next, Emma Sharp. Um I think she's resting, she's been touring the world for us, going everywhere. Um, promoting the show. She sees a dip, she goes, she promotes, she sticks sap stickers everywhere, she comes away, sees a spike, goes, promotes, gets on it. You know, Emma's everywhere. I'll tell you what she is, she's a fantastic human being. So thank you very much. Who's next?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:26

Up next, we have nowhere near Berlin. He is right now in North Korea.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:34

Oh, north of the 51st parallel.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:36

Yeah, he's up there. We don't know. He's doing some mission, some kind of game or something.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:42

Wow, I'm not sure. That super secret squirrel. Uh up next. She's my mum. She's Bobby's mum. She's RGT's mum. She's Scotty's mum. She's OG's mum. We can't explain it. But we love her anyway. It's Mumsy. Thank you to Mumsy. That's right.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:04

Up next we have the wild children of the RGT fan club. They constantly the group chat is just you have to mute that. And just look at it because it's nonstop. How many memes of this man can you have?

SPEAKER_06 1:26:27

I often wonder. It's crazy in there. It's a hotbed of it's a little incestuous, I have to admit. Uh, because I think a lot of it's him. Have you seen how many phones this guy's got now?

SPEAKER_03 1:26:41

He looks like a cell phone dealer that you would find on a strange corner of an Indian town.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:50

Yeah. I I I don't know. Do you have you ever heard of the mod scene? Uh, have you ever seen the film Quadrafenia? There was a moment over here in the sort of 60s where uh certain type of music was listened to by a guy who would ride around on a moped, a scooter with like, I don't know, uh hundred wing mirrors. And the more wing mirrors you had was the sign of like how much of hard nut you were. Apparently, RGT's driving around on one of these scooters, but he swapped the he swap the mirrors for mobiles.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:26

Interesting. There was a game, I can't remember the game. Maybe the viewers can help me. You would go and buy inventory from this man, and he would pull out his coat and go, no.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:38

What Resi 4?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:40

Is that what it was?

SPEAKER_07 1:27:41

Yeah, was he the like uh if he got his coat out? Or did he get it?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:46

Something he popped out, and it was pockets of things you could buy. I don't want him. That is him with the cell phones.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:55

Oh wow, he sells them as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:58

He's doing something.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:02

I'll tell you what, the day he's not here to defend himself. We find out he's into some really nasty stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:08

Did you ever see his um the app where you walk? How is he uh walking everywhere at once?

SPEAKER_06 1:28:20

So he's lying and cheating and stealing.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:23

I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:27

Up next, a man who's so strong that he he had a Sunday dinner, got a little bit bloated, broke wind, and he he actually killed half of a seal colony on the southern tip of Africa.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:43

Jesus Lord.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:47

That's wild.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:50

Oh my goodness, man.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:53

Jesus Lord.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:57

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:58

Oh man, this is bananas.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:01

Who's your favorite?

SPEAKER_03 1:29:04

Billy Hamarmite. This guy is a local legend. He is still out and about. He his new hobby is collecting rib tips from previously eaten spare ribs in.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:23

Are rib tips to an Englishman the sort of little white chef's hat that you see on the top of a rib?

SPEAKER_03 1:29:32

It could look like that if you're in the Simpsons.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:35

Yeah, yeah. What do they look like in real life?

SPEAKER_03 1:29:40

Uh really strange pieces of like bone marrow. Oh. And he just collects those. I think he uses it and grinds it down as like a base instead of using oil. He's using that as deliberation for the food.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:11

Sorry, Billy. Right. I have to do the new ways. I have to do a I have to do a zangief, and then you have to tell me Jesus Christ. Yeah, tell wardrobe not to dress me in this drivel anymore. Uh you have to tell me what it is I'm zangiefing over. Okay. I'll be honest with you, I'm just gonna agree to whatever most at the most outlandish thing you say. Are you ready? Yeah. Hang on, let me have a little sip of the shine. Strong. Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:54

Oh.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:10

Did that come through?

SPEAKER_03 1:31:14

I saw it in here. But what memory hit me was a man named Charlie in the booth.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:27

And he does this show where he brings rappers on to do a freestyle while he hits him with Hadoogan and stuff from Street Fighter.

SPEAKER_07 1:31:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:40

And I think this particular moment I'm memory is when you had done a freestyle rap from Metroid Vein from Metroid music from DNES. And you had a whole segment about the Farmerton days, and I thought it was fantastic. That's it. Somewhere somewhere written down.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:14

No, I have it. Word for word. That's exactly what happened.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:18

What got me was the mic to the back. Because you were so at a loss for words, you just had to throw that mic back and then put it over.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:26

That's what it was. That's MAGA George for you, baby. That's what we're all about. Make make make whatever. Exactly. We're here.

Next Games And Flight Sim VR Balloon

SPEAKER_06 1:32:40

We're here at the point of what I've enjoyed. A really great episode, Bobby. It's good to have you back in the full rotation. We're ending for the special. And I implore everyone watching now to hop back and go check that out. So they can find out a little bit of secret source about our man Bobby. Um, in the meantime, before you disappear off back to your lives, um, we have to ask each other the immortal question, Bobby. Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby. Can you fly, Bobby Boy? What you've been playing? What are you hoping to play?

SPEAKER_03 1:33:13

Hades 2, and then um the nine lives defend, which is wild. That's my make my main two games to focus on that. What about you?

SPEAKER_06 1:33:27

No. No, I can't accept that. You need to get yourself so deep into vampire crawlers that you think you're one of the playing cards.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:39

Oh, yes. I can buy that right now.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:44

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 1:33:45

It's it's on my wish list. There's some sale now? It might look whatever the price. Uh tell either that you sold a kidney. I'll back it up. I'll give you a receipt for it. One left kidney price vampire crawlers.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:02

Sorted. Okay. Uh I'm gonna carry on playing Kotor because I can't just I'm nearly at the end. I've even downloaded two in anticipation of finishing one. I'm that close.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:13

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:14

It's been a grind, but I've enjoyed it, I have to admit, although on and off for what two years. The journey. Yeah, I'd say so. Um, this weekend I want to get on to Flight Sim because I realized recently that you can have a hot air balloon. On top of that, with the move ones and the VR, you can stand in the basket, which should be a really freaking great experience.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:45

And look down.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:46

And not only that, reach up, grab the cord, oh wow. Up you go, let go of the cord, as you say. Look over the edge as you drift up over whatever you know there part of the world you want to look at, baby.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:03

You you should be able to land an oz.

SPEAKER_07 1:35:06

To do the what? You should be able to land an oz. Oh, you can. You could take off from there. You could do anything.

SPEAKER_06 1:35:15

Anything. Sensational. You could take off over the Great Barrier Reef if you wanted to. You could take off over the deserts of the western goldfields, you could take off in Alaska, you could be in the Yukon, but still be warm. You could take off in South Georgia, the Falklands, Brazil, and you don't even need skill really to fly the hot air balloon just and let go and then just enjoy the ride, baby. There's so much going on with the VR that people aren't talking about. Like that alone.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:50

So in VR, you can see that's gonna be sensational.

SPEAKER_06 1:35:57

So that is what I plan on doing this weekend. I plan on becoming a virtual balloonist. Amazing. And I shall come back with tales of I have had a go with the balloon on flat screen, and I have to admit that I got a bit carried away pulling the thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is great. I was going up and up and up, and I was like, oh, brilliant. Let's see what happens if I just really tank this thing.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:24

Boom, boom.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:27

Burnt hole in the canopy. This thing came crushing down at a rate of knots, then it started spinning. I mean, good job wanting VR, because then the thing's sort of wrapping round, and it was like, this is this is real, yeah. Oh my god, that's crazy. So good job on playing that in VR, that's a probably would have spewed up everywhere. I would have died. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:54

Absolutely died, yeah. That's for absolute for sure. 100%.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:58

First of all, I was like when I was playing the game, I was like, Oh, I don't feel like we're going up like we were, and then it's like, oh my oh my god, look like just a squid just flailing its heart like his tentacles, like I've done it now. Yeah, that's true. Wow. On that note, Bobby, have you got anything to impart to the listeners before we go? Nope, that's it. Okay, welcome back, brother. That's all we have time for this week, listeners. As always, thank you for your time. I look forward to the pleasure of speaking to you again next week. Until then, happy gaming. Remember, there's nothing wrong with being given the unofficial controller, it's what you do with it that counts. See you, Bobby. Peace out. See you guys.