Modern Warfare 4 Hits Switch 2 As Steam Deck Prices Jump

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 on Switch 2, a Steam Deck price hike that makes your wallet flinch, and a fresh rumor that Witcher 3 is getting a full-blown expansion sized like Phantom Liberty. That is the kind of week that forces a real question: are we heading into a future where gaming gets better, or just more expensive?

We start with the stuff that actually fills our nights, from Ball X Pit on Switch 2 and why its speed and run loop gets dangerously addictive, to Hades 2 nearing the finish line, plus the surprise “why is this so good?” pull of Lego Batman. George then takes us on a story-time detour through Kingdom Come Deliverance, where one quest turns into a chaotic night out and the kind of consequences only an RPG can deliver. We also get into Knights of the Old Republic on Switch 2, including that endgame pressure where every door feels like it opens into another squad of enemies.

From there we hit the news: Modern Warfare 4 landing day-and-date on Switch 2 and what that signals for Nintendo players who want major franchises without feeling left behind. We debate the Steam Deck price increase, the weird reality of this console generation where prices go up instead of down, and whether graphics have basically peaked for most of us already. Finally, we dig into the Witcher 3 expansion talk and wrap with some old-school joy as Donkey Kong 64 joins Nintendo Switch Online.

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Transcript

Cold Open And News Tease

SPEAKER_04 0:19

Hello and welcome to the unofficial controller podcast, your weekly gaming podcast episode number 321 with me, George, and this week joined by Bobby and how it's been colloquially known, OG, everyone's favourite quality street to my disregarded coconut. How's it going, men?

SPEAKER_06 0:36

Doing good.

SPEAKER_04 0:37

Very well, thank you. Nice. Well, I think we ought to slip, slide in to what we're uh everyone's here to talk about. Oh, hang on, what am I doing? Slow it down. Let's appease the YouTube AI, because let's face it, we've fallen out. Let's just slow it down. Coming up in the news, we've got some COD 4 news, maybe an interesting note on the platforms it's coming to. We've also got um some Witcher news, and I tell you what, we've also got we've got some industry Steam Deck news. So get sat down. YouTube's happy. It's like, oh, she actually, it. Who knows? Ah, god, we're never gonna get on our YouTube AI. Let's just say, okay, moving forward, this is all good.

What We Are Playing Lately

SPEAKER_04 1:25

Nice. We've detailed the content, it's happy. Men, now I can get into you as people. What are you what have you been playing? And I don't know. Where do I direct this at? Um ge, regale me with your gaming highlights. We haven't seen you in a while, so dear Thespian sir, let's give you the sorry Bobby, you know he's contractually obliged and a three-hour edit show. Uh to tell us what he has been playing. Doth, good sir. You look fresh from are you doing a to are you Royal Shakespeare Company?

SPEAKER_05 2:06

Yeah, something like that. I'm back here just to uh to help out. I've seen a massive increase in your numbers though. Wilo is away, so I don't know what that says.

SPEAKER_04 2:16

Classic you, though, isn't it? Like, oh, I've noticed a wave. I'd better get there on surf it. If it turns into a tsunami, it's all me. If it just crashes on the wave, those those plebeians just didn't know what to do with it.

SPEAKER_05 2:29

Just on the cusp of just on the cusp of someone else's wave to ride it into the beach, blame the glory.

SPEAKER_03 2:37

Yeah. Step onto my board, and then you're like, yeah, cheers for the carry, mate.

SPEAKER_05 2:43

Or like a bad, like a like just a stunt man just being swapped over for the scene.

SPEAKER_03 2:50

Oh wow, literally that's me, is it? Oh, awesome. Well, you know what? All the hit with all the hit.

SPEAKER_04 2:57

Now that we've got the true hierarchy established, I shall crawl down to the floor beneath Bobby's foot, uh, which is under extended pressure because you are standing on his shoulders.

SPEAKER_05 3:09

Tell us what why you've been playing.

Ball X Pit On Switch 2

SPEAKER_05 3:13

I've been playing quite a lot recently. Um, been utilising the Switch 2 quite a bit. Um, most recently, I downloaded the free game trial of uh Ball X Pit on uh Switch Online, so that's free for seven days. Um and I was a bit dubious at the start. Obviously, I'd heard some good things on the show about it and um seeing good reviews, and it's it's very addictive. Um, it starts a little slow until you figure out the mechanics and what it's all about, really. And obviously the speed of the game, I didn't realise you can actually dial up on I think it's the right bumper and left bumper to move it up and down. So I bumped it right all to the top, and that that sure uh made things a bit hectic. But yeah, enjoying it so far, and then there's like the little base building section to it as well, which keeps it kind of motivation for unlocking new things. Yeah, at the moment is currently on sale for $8.99 on the eShop. So that's a mess.

SPEAKER_04 4:16

I've always been kind of like do I, don't I? Do I don't I think you'll like it?

SPEAKER_05 4:20

It's a nice you you like uh Baltro?

SPEAKER_04 4:24

Yeah, I like that.

SPEAKER_05 4:26

Yeah, I think you'll like this. It's not the same.

SPEAKER_04 4:29

I've been getting into too much of this dirty filth. I've like picked up vampire crawlers, I've got Ballatro, they're all just dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty card secret games, aren't they? That you that you play in the early hours for too long.

SPEAKER_05 4:45

Yeah, I think like ball expert has that nice thing of being able to pick up and play and just do a run, but also the other night I looked as like, oh, it's 12 o'clock, better go to bed, and I'd done like three or four runs on it. Um, yeah, I I'm really enjoying that so far. I can recommend that to anyone who likes a good rogueline. Um yeah, really good. Anything else I can think of, I picked up um TMNT Splintered Fate, but I haven't had a chance to play that. I got that for when it was on sale for something ludicrous, like £2.50. Uh yeah. Um, what else? I've been playing Pikmin 4 with my boys. Uh so back to that. I believe that might be getting a switch to update potentially.

SPEAKER_04 5:37

While you've been off, what's your one controversial take about gaming in general? Oof. We can come back to you.

SPEAKER_05 5:47

Um yeah, come back to me later on that one.

SPEAKER_04 5:51

Let me think uh whatever's whatever's got your goat. Let's have your talking point on what's got your goat in gaming. Okay, well, I I'm looking forward to that. Let's switch to Bobby, let's get his gaming highlights.

Hades 2 And Lego Batman Hook

SPEAKER_04 6:07

Bobby, what what's been going on?

SPEAKER_06 6:09

Hades 2 is almost done.

SPEAKER_04 6:11

Jesus, wet.

SPEAKER_06 6:12

Yeah, I just need a few more um runs to open up the last bit of dialogue I need to finish the game. Telling I could I could go to Endgame now, but I'm gonna wait for that. Like I guess the platinum video, because whatever. Um maybe this weekend I'll be finished with it. And then nine live to defend is almost done as well. I've been playing that when um Gleam's on my body, sleeping on me. So it works with the portal. Nice. And I started Lego Batman, and I wish I didn't, because now all I want to do is play Lego Batman, but I need to finish this game. It hooked me instantly, instantly hooked me.

SPEAKER_04 6:56

OG, is is this a game that you feel you need?

SPEAKER_05 7:02

Maybe uh Dark Knight era um OG would be all over that. But yeah, I have I I did pay a bit of attention to it, it looks very good. They were talking about the the Lego, like yeah. Um sorry, does it it looks like it covers like different um eras and different takes on Batman?

SPEAKER_06 7:26

Yeah, basically it's like all the movies in one universe.

SPEAKER_05 7:31

That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_06 7:32

Um and it's it's like a it's literally like a like an Arkham Knight Lego game. Like you can glide across the city with the Legos, which is I mean, they did an incredible job. Even the fighting is like Arkham Knight.

SPEAKER_05 7:44

I think they make a very like high quality product, to be honest. Like some of those Star Wars ones are really, really well made.

SPEAKER_06 7:50

Oh no, they're really good. They get better every year, I think.

SPEAKER_05 7:53

Yeah, definitely. I think they've yeah, they've got a pretty talented team there as well. And they they're obviously like restricted a little bit because obviously, yes, it's everything's better Lego. Um, but yeah, very cool idea. Um, and it's nice to kind of um hope or hopefully see some critical success with that.

SPEAKER_06 8:10

Yeah, and it it seems like the the even like the trophy list is just play the game, collect trophies. There's nothing like get 9,000 bricks in each level or whatever they used to do. So it's you know, it's been it's it's it's amazing, I have to say. So I mean, so far, it's been sensational. There's even my brother was playing it and they had uh an American psycho reference in the game, which I thought was oh no unbelievable that did that, but it was pretty good, yeah. So far, it's been pretty good, I have to say. So I want to really finish Hades 2 and then get to that.

SPEAKER_05 8:39

What's your go-to weapon set on Hades 2?

SPEAKER_06 8:43

I like uh Danatos, the the big axe. Yes, yeah, like the I just it brings me back to like the original game.

unknown 8:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 8:52

The other weapons are good too. I mean, I do like some of the um the aspect, like the hell aspect, whether you have like the big skull. Um, that's been fun. But for some reason, I just I anything that no matter what randomize I get, I can I can make it work.

SPEAKER_05 9:05

Yeah. And I can always do it. I struggled a bit with the with the skull. I couldn't quite get to sort of the the levels I was getting to on my runs with the other weapon sets. So I found the schools quite or the school quite hard to use. Um, but yeah, my go-to is probably um like the staff, the first I think the first one. Um I did I did finish it, but I haven't got like the because there's like a prologue. Uh uh not prologue, um epilogue ending.

SPEAKER_06 9:35

Epilogue, yeah. It takes a it takes a little bit to um to get it to uh activate.

unknown 9:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 9:40

But then once you once you do like I have it now, I've just been holding off to get the other one started wrapped up. But I love it, it's really good. You like it?

SPEAKER_05 9:48

I I really enjoyed it. I think they refined a lot of the stuff from the first one. Um yeah, it's it's really enjoyable. Um one of the other things I meant to mention that I've been playing was uh Shinobi, um the latest one, which has been really good. Um yeah, I enjoyed playing through that, but yeah, Hades 2, I think I still there's still a lot I like about the first one. Um but I think they expanded to so much that it's just there's there's so much more content there as well. And Hades 1 was quite big, really, for like a indie roguelike game.

SPEAKER_04 10:26

It really was. Is there anything else on that plate of games, Bobby, or is that you is that you washed out?

SPEAKER_06 10:34

No, that's pretty much that's pretty much it.

SPEAKER_04 10:35

I'm just focusing on how far limited how far into that Batman game are you do you reckon? I just beat the League of Shadows. So is that a couple of hours, three hours, four hours, eight hours?

SPEAKER_06 10:48

Maybe an hour and two hours about. All right. My brother's been sending me videos and screenshotting me, and then I watched and I I he I share played it. Well, he share play with me, and I watched him while I was eating. Because I just like I need to play this game immediately. But yeah, I mean we're loving it, so let's see, you know.

SPEAKER_05 11:06

How achievable is the platinum on uh Bobby for Blue Batman? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 11:12

Oh no, it's you can it's not I don't nothing hard, it's just collecting. Like uh you have to collect Riddler, the Riddler trophies. Um, there's other trophies you have to collect, but not nothing, nothing out of it. I don't think it's hard. I think all you've got to do is throw the combo, like the 99 hit combo. Yeah, but I'm pretty sure there's an area or or there'll be like a Lego, a red brick that'll help you with that, I'm sure. You know?

SPEAKER_04 11:35

Yeah. OG, if you throw your little mini me's down in front of that, you'll just get that platinum pop. Just leave it there long enough, and they will just absolutely destroy that game.

SPEAKER_06 11:45

Two two days, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 11:48

You'll turn up. Oh, look out. You'll have to fully kitted out Bat Cave, every single Batmobile arranged in the right order. You're like, Yeah, I'll check the tumbler out. Um, any anything else before I rip into my gaming uh uh toxic mess?

SPEAKER_05 12:06

Um Pocopia with the boys again. They've they've absolutely devoured that game.

SPEAKER_04 12:14

Um how do you feel about it? I mean separate your oh, I'm happy they're getting value from it and they're interviewing it. Tell me how you feel about it as a gamer.

SPEAKER_05 12:26

Yeah, I probably wouldn't have purchased it myself. I I feel I was a bit worried at the time when I got it for them that there's no battling or anything, and uh they're gonna think it's a bit boring, if anything, but I think there's enough kind of unlocks and attracting the Pokemon into the the world you're building by creating different habitats, and it's almost like puzzle element of trying to figure out and work a way around to um design the habitats and figure those out. So that and sometimes you randomly place certain things together and you'll create one by accident, and you're like, oh cool, and they get excited, they see the silhouette of which one it might attract, and you kind of leave it so it's always running as well. So you can come back, like we came back one day, turned it on, and the there was like some of the the original um evolutions there, like Charizard and Venusaur, and yeah, they were very excited, but no, I think um it's a very well-made game, it's it's good quality, so no bugs or crashes or anything like that. Um it it runs really solid. Um, I think that I don't know if it's quite the system seller that were probably making it out in the first few weeks, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 13:43

I bet it shifted a few.

SPEAKER_05 13:44

Yeah, if it had come out during a COVID era, it would have uh it'd have probably stopped.

SPEAKER_04 13:49

Exactly, it would have devoured, wouldn't it? Where would Animal Crossing be without China?

SPEAKER_05 13:54

Yeah, yeah. Okay.

Kingdom Come Chaos And KOTOR Grind

SPEAKER_05 13:59

It's been a bit quiet.

SPEAKER_04 14:01

Uh it has, but I have awoken it. I have uh I was snooping around the other day and I saw that Kingdom Come Deliverance had a PS5 update. I thought, oh yeah, because I've been playing the PS4 version through back and pat. I'll download this because I did get on the PS4 version, I did download all the DLC. I spoke to Teresa and then ended up in some sort of substory set pre-Kingdom Come Deliverance where she was walking around a mine and it all got very confusing. Um I've gone at it again this time, just vanilla. And obviously I'm having a great time. One particular story of note was I was on the hunt for a lad, ging, he'd been sort of hiding out with some charcoal burners. Uh not my red-headed stepson from the show, some other character in this game called Ginge. He'd witnessed some abhorrent chisel, and I needed to track him down, find out what he'd seen. Anyway, while I'm on the hunt for Ginge, I um transpires he was hiding because he had recognised one of these people as a guy from a local town. I went there, tried to find a little bit of something out, got speaking to the priest. He said to me, uh, listen, yeah, I do know about this, but you know, said to me in the confession, and as you know, I I can't I can't tell you anything. So I was like, oh Rhido. He said, I'll tell you what, why don't you meet me at the alehouse in the evening? So okay, yeah, I thought, oh, it's uh ever the opportunity. Something is a window here, I might be able to maybe make a little bit of something get going here. So I waited around, kind of studying the must look like a right pervert, kind of just sort of stud rocked in the pub car park, just sort of waiting for it to turn up. I say pub car park. Obviously there's no cars. Anyway, eventually, here he comes. Now he's an interesting chap because when I first stumbled across him, he was like pretending to sword fight. So anyway, bit of a must think himself a bit of a battle pope or something. Anyway, battle bishop. No, and anyway, he comes in, sits down, we get talking, he says, Look, I really can't say much because uh blah blah. I said you what when you get to try he I can't quite remember how we got round to it, but he said, Oh, let's just forget all that, let's try and get to know each other, let's have some males. Well, although I wasn't in control of the M, I just watched it unfold in a video.

unknown 16:36

Ha ha!

SPEAKER_04 16:37

It was crazy. These boys got absolutely wasted, and I am not joking. Transpires Ed Reverend's got a missus on the side in the village, which you know he it's his concubine, as he calls it. Uh, and I end up with an ale wench or something like that. We end up going up the side of the church in the bell tower, ringing the bell at midnight, cause an absolute mayhem in the village. They don't know what the hell is going on. We're all laughing and joking, and they were having a little bit of fornication up in this tower. Anyway, the next morning I thought, oh wow, that was all that was all enough. Maybe that's enough. Anyway, he wakes up, he says, You, you know, do you feel like you can tell me now? And it's a games classic all over. Well, you know, I can, but maybe it's not throwing up everywhere. You need to help me deliver my sermon. You need to help me deliver my sermon. Oh my god, I'm thinking, you know, they're all in there. We woke them up at midnight, shouting, balling, throwing things at them from the spire, going crazy. We can't go in there. No, we have to, we have to. That's I tell the bishop anyway. So we file in. For some reason, I'm barely wearing any clothes.

SPEAKER_03 17:49

Mate, he's just vomit everywhere.

SPEAKER_04 17:52

Um, so he kind of winces through his bits, kind of half choking back his sick and going a little bit crazy. And then it's up to me to deliver the sermon. And there's like three dialogue choices. Well, tell you what, no matter which one I picked, it was wrong.

SPEAKER_03 18:06

Everything I did, it was wrong.

SPEAKER_04 18:09

And I don't know if there's a successful way to get through this because I'll start modestly and they were like, hmm, fail, doom, what an idiot. I was like, right, okay, well, go strong. Boom, fail, what an idiot. Okay, I'll go in between, boom, fail, what an idiot. I ended up sort of backed into a corner having to choose to admonish my mate for being a drunken wretch in the church. When they all left, and that still didn't even succeed. When they all left, I actually had the goal to go over to Matey and asking me if he would still consider telling me about it. He took me out of the church, obviously. So since then, I've been sort of snooping around, just generally trying to piece together everything I can about the murder of Lubbo Lumpch or whatever his name is, the man with the limp. Other than that, um, I've been doing a bit more of that vampire crawlers. I like that game. I do. I'm starting to get the hang of it now. As I'm leveling up, I'm starting to get the feeling like I'm in vampire survivors and I'm just leveling like guys, it feels quite good. Um, I also have been playing um Kotor. I think let's go into that. Well, I was gonna gloss over it, but we're gonna go into it. Knights of the Old Republic. I'm now into the final end game section of it, and uh it's getting quite difficult. I don't know why, but normally you can like keep the door closed, clear the area, but now we're on the Starforge for the endgame. They're just opening the doors everywhere, and they're all just coming en masse. It's like two Jedi's and one twilight with a couple of guns just sort of pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. And she makes like one pixel of health difference, and then we're in there just wading, but they're not dropping like flies, they're like cutting through granite, to be honest with you. So we're constantly I mean, the puncture wounds on our legs from the med pack injections that we're taking, it's like pow, pow, pow. And one thing I did notice so which I quite enjoyed is when they're not able to get a move in, they're repelling the other enemy's laser shots. I did actually notice it wearing them down on the health, so I was like, okay, there is a way, uh, but that's been I keep grinding forward on it, but you need to keep save spamming. So if you get knocked down or you know, you walk into an area where they just then sort of completely surround you. Um, and there's no real kind of area effects, like there's one called stasis that one guy's got that can kind of lock most of them in position, but you can still only wail on like one of them or two of them at a time, and then when it unpauses, there's 15 again of them going like so. It does feel a little bit like a pylon.

SPEAKER_05 21:03

Um who's um who are you able to change your team uh within the menu, or have you got to go back to a certain save to you've got to go back to the Ebon Hawk every time?

SPEAKER_04 21:15

There's something weird about that name. It sounds a sort of name for a lady's private toy, I'll be honest with you. Um, but hey, what do I know?

SPEAKER_05 21:24

So you haven't got the pilot in your team. I can't remember his name. Oh, I never bring him with me. I'm going like Xbox original, like back or whatever his name is.

SPEAKER_04 21:37

No, he always whinges. I normally up until the point and I normally have distiller in the team. Um and and now I normally have oh begins with a J, the old Jedi guy you find on Cashit.

SPEAKER_05 21:52

Yes, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:53

I love him. Julie Lee or something, is it? I might be wrong, and then the Twilik kind of girl that's from Tatooine or a brother. On Tatooine. She's fun. I was, you know, normally when I had Bistilla on the team, it would be just a three-way saber mashup. But uh now that she's gone, I've had to fall back to what I do like though is when you do decide to take a character out of the Ebon Hawk, they auto-level to you if you haven't played with them since the start of the game, like your mate Dank or whatever his name is. I just you know if I did take him out, he would go from level one to level 20 pretty quick. Um, but yeah, um, I think that might be it. I think I was also playing something else on the Switch 2, but I can't remember now.

SPEAKER_05 22:42

What platform are you playing Knights of the All Republic on? Switch 2.

SPEAKER_04 22:46

Yep. Um I don't know what else, obviously, unless I've got the old Xbox out. I've got it on there, obviously, but yeah, it's nice to have it in the palm of your hand.

SPEAKER_05 22:55

It's is it part of a collection?

SPEAKER_04 22:59

I think I got it as part of a collection off the store where you can get one and two. I did download two in anticipation of getting close to the end of one the other day, and I tell you what, it does look like it's better.

SPEAKER_05 23:12

Yeah. One has the I think one has the big twist, doesn't it? I think two maybe does, but I don't remember it as well.

SPEAKER_04 23:20

Yeah, who knows? I'm kind of going into two very blind. I remember I remember like it.

SPEAKER_05 23:24

If you like the first one, it's good.

SPEAKER_04 23:27

I remember as I've played through this one, I can't ever remember getting this far in it on the original Xbox, but as I've been playing through this one, when we actually landed on the End Island, I was like, Yeah, I remember all this. Oh yeah, because then you have to do some jiggery pokeryo down there so you can go up to the Starforge. And classic me, like I met one tribe and they said, Oh, yeah, I'll tell you what, we need you to go over there and speak to them, sort this out, and and I think kill them basically. Anyway, I got there and they said, No, no, that's exactly what they'd say. Tell you what, let's do it the peaceful way. Why don't you just go negotiate with that team and get our guy out, and you're free to go, you can do whatever you want, and we've got no drama with them. I thought, oh, that sounds a brilliant idea. Bimble back to the original base. As soon as they saw just the very tip of my nose come round the corner, dude, they were like, full anger, came straight over. They were like, Oh, you double crossing snake. I was like, Oh, hang on a minute, I want to talk about peaceful solution. No, the fact that you've even spoken to them means you're a traitor. And then I had to walk through murdering every single member of this tribe from classic OG Xbox era logic. Everyone suddenly was my enemy. Man, woman, and child in that building, throwing everything the man, but the women, the children. Wait, it was only a couple of weeks ago where I ran through Tatooine Sand People colony doing exactly that. I walked in looking for the peaceful option, and I didn't want any of it. I even killed the holy men, Tom. Unbelievable game.

Modern Warfare 4 Coming To Switch 2

SPEAKER_04 25:08

I reckon it's time for the news. We've scared the very darkest range of the internet to bring you the latest stories. First up, oh oh, hot off the press. This is what you all tuned in for. This is what made the YouTube AI literally weep. Call of Duty Modern Warfare revealed. Not only that, for Switch 2. Owed Jim Norman over at Nintendo Live got the scoop on this one, guys. And I'll tell you what, he's been doing his family originate from South Wales, and there they have a garden centre. Okay, Jim's Pines. All the people in the Norman family are called Jim. Either Jim Senior or Jim Jr. Jim Norman, Jim Jr. Jim Junior Norman, Jim Norman Jr. He has branched off from the family. He's decided to get into journalism. His dad always was a bit annoyed. It was always in his room playing his Nintendo, and he he's he's he used to call him the gay station. It's a bit reductive, I know, but it's the sort of thing that dads of that era would say. Anyway, Jim Jr., Jim Norman Jr. Jim Jr. as he's called round the family. He went back to the family garden centre, Jim's Pines, to talk to Jim Sr., Jim Norman Sr. Jim Sr. Jim Jr. Jim Sr. got together. Jim Norman Jr. Jim Norman Sr. got together, cleared the air, apparently. I'm not saying we're here to talk about family gossip, but I'm just glad that we can say everything's alright. So good news to Jim Jr., Jim Sr. Jim Norman Jr. Jim Norman Sr. on a successful uh anyway. Once he got back from the garden centre, Jim's Pines. If you want to Google it, check it out. I think they're doing a discount on monkey puzzles. I know it says pines, but they do all trees, specialise in pines. I think they're doing monkey puzzles and they're doing Canadian maples at half price. That's all I'm saying. Expensive trees. It's a good deal, Tom, right?

SPEAKER_05 27:08

It's a good deal.

SPEAKER_04 27:10

Yeah. Half price of what? I don't know, but either which way? Jim's Pines, South Wales. Uh, that's the UK, not the new version in Australia. Although, you know, I I don't know me off from the elbow to be fair. Anyway, you came for the Switch 2 news, so you've got it. Oh, it probably came for the COD news, to be fair. It's a promise that's felt like a long time coming, but Activision has today revealed a first look at Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4, and yes, it's coming to Switch 2 on the same day as other platforms. You don't need to tell the other platforms you know well they are, but the fact is on Switch 2 is a miracle. This all new entry in the series will launch on the 23rd of October 2026, weeks before GTA 6 shakes things up and sees a squad of South Korean soldiers fight to survive a surprise attack. The Switch 2 version marks the first time in over a decade that the series appeared on Nintendo platforms. Developer Infinity War has teamed up with Digital Legends through the release with pre-order information going live at some point this summer. Here's a brief rundown of the game's campaign, accompanied by a handful of screenshots which you can go look at, or I'd probably recommend if you're gonna go look at anything. Watch the video. They're like screenshots uh that are moving. Uh Fighters Private Park.

SPEAKER_05 28:20

A young South Korean A moving picture show. A moving picture show for all you maddened.

SPEAKER_04 28:26

Yeah. What next? What next? Fighter's Private Park, a young South Korean soldier facing live combat for the first time alongside his squad, a little rouge derriere. What begins as a routine patrol descends into chaos when North Korea launches a full-scale invasion, forcing Park and his unit into a desperate fight through collapsing cities and counteroffences. The campaign drops players into chaos pressure and splits second intensity. In hmm, hmm, hmm, intensity of ground level combat. At the end of 2022, Microsoft entered a 10-year commitment to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo as part of the year's much discussed Activision Blizzard merger. The rumour mill has been working overtime in the month since with eight rumblings pointing towards a 2026 release. It was right. What's happened to me? It was right. What's your thoughts on it coming to Switch 2?

SPEAKER_05 29:37

I think that's really good for Switch 2 owners because back in the day I had uh one of the Black Ops on Wii U, and you just feel like you're not a second class gamer. You know what I'm saying? Like you feel like you're included in the in the bigger boy games, and you're not. I think any of those bigger franchises that come to the Switch 2 is good. I don't it's not, I don't think I'm gonna pick it up on there. I don't know where I'll pick it up this year anyway. Um I really enjoyed the Modern Warfare redo they did a few years ago, I think it was 2020. Um, I think when they first brought in Warzone, and the campaign was actually really good. It felt like um graphically it was really impressive. Um, it must be really hard to do new things with a first-person shooter campaign.

SPEAKER_04 30:29

Was it good enough? Was it good enough that you re-themed your gaming room around a military theme, or was it just the passage?

SPEAKER_05 30:36

Yeah, it wasn't that sort of single-player game where you're fully immersed.

SPEAKER_04 30:41

So you didn't get the grenades out and the AK up on the wall, you didn't put like the the sort of thingy round your neck, the sort of rag and sort of walk round with a desert gear on, none of that.

SPEAKER_05 30:51

Yeah, no, none of that, I'm afraid. Okay, um, it won't that want that influential. Um, but yeah, I think I think it's good news for the switch to um it is, it just keeps these ports just keep coming.

SPEAKER_04 31:05

I don't know at what point we're gonna start seeing them come in on life support and look severely degraded, but right now we're kind of getting a pretty good compromise.

SPEAKER_05 31:14

I do wonder whether some of it's like effort levels with studios. I'm not trying to say they're not putting put in a shift in. It's it's sort of saying, are they going, oh, you know what? No, we'll not do that because it's just gonna take extra time to get it running on that um hardware. I think when they do put the effort in and you look at something like the latest Resident Evil, um, it's it's worth it. It gives and it well, from what I've read, it seems to sell well. Um yeah, portable modern warfare, like playing it online, might appeal to quite a few people.

SPEAKER_04 31:53

Look at it this way you could take it to the army cadets basically their assault course, and you could run through that super army soldier style while playing COD 4. I would think that would get us a few hits on the tube. I think you should make the ultimate sacrifice.

SPEAKER_05 32:15

Okay, I'll get down the career's office now.

SPEAKER_04 32:18

No, you've just got to jump over the fence of the um Oh, of the local barracks. Of the army cadets, just the army cadets. Okay, they've just got that little place out the back of scouts, you know. It's it's in that circle, it's not in that circle.

SPEAKER_05 32:31

I know some of those some of those um road climbs look pretty high.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

You're a big grown-up.

SPEAKER_05 32:38

Might be a job for the stunt man though.

SPEAKER_04 32:41

Oh, great. I love how this is working. You're back on the show, suddenly I'm the third-class citizen. Fine, Bobby. I think packaging one thing together cod and another thing together the switch two, both things that to use an American colloquiism, you probably don't give a rat's ass about, but I'm gonna ask you anyway, what's your thoughts on that?

SPEAKER_06 33:01

I prefer my cod seasoned, beer battered, fried with a side of chips and tartar sauce.

SPEAKER_04 33:09

Wow, a man of high-class elegance and taste. Yeah, that's fine. Are you gonna go mushy pea, or is that something that's not on your radar right now? Uh at the moment, no. No, okay. Take the take it from me. You're gonna go with a mushy pea. You'll thank me later for that. I got you. You want the full experience.

SPEAKER_00 33:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 33:31

If I was to come to New York, Bobby, and I had one meal I could try over there, yeah. Where where would where would I go? Say trestles. Any any cuisine.

SPEAKER_06 33:44

Oh, so now it's Tex Mex, baby. I would say let's go to Las Contrinas. Is that trestles now? It's yeah, it's it's Mexican. I love it. They have a phenomenal frozen coconut margarita. Hang on, how are you spelling this? L-A-S and then uh C-A-N T-R I-N-S Cantrinas, I guess.

SPEAKER_04 34:16

Next time you're in there, Bobby, let them know.

SPEAKER_06 34:18

It's actually two blocks down from trestles. So trestles are still there. No, no, trestles is done. This is two blocks down from trestles.

SPEAKER_04 34:28

You know why they're done? Because they selected the top tier support level on the uh book.

SPEAKER_06 34:33

I think it's a lot more, I think it's a lot more than that. But we'll we'll get into it one one day. Yeah, it's a lot of a lot of things happen over that little that little bar over there.

SPEAKER_04 34:40

So last time you said that trestles had been replaced by something else. What is that something else?

SPEAKER_06 34:46

It's called the Corner House. I don't like the I don't like the name of it, but I peeked inside and it looks very nice.

SPEAKER_04 34:53

Right. Pop down the corner house, let them know they've picked up um trestles subscription. All right, and we'll give it a shadow.

SPEAKER_06 35:01

It's in the contract on the on the on the on the address, so they have no choice.

SPEAKER_04 35:05

Fine.

SPEAKER_03 35:06

I like what you did there.

SPEAKER_04 35:07

Tell you what, no one does legal stitch up.

SPEAKER_06 35:12

Yeah. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to, I don't want to hear your.

SPEAKER_04 35:16

We got our man making moves over there. Absolutely brilliant. I tell you what, if you could sign up a couple more like that, we could probably retire. Uh coming up, Tom. OG, you've donned the pork pie. You've stuck the word press on the back of a business card that you've stolen out of Big Daddy's wallet, and you've gone nose to the ground on a hot

Steam Deck Price Hike Debate

SPEAKER_04 35:36

story. What you got, friend?

SPEAKER_05 35:39

Valve follows Switch 2 PS5 with an Xbox with the major Steam Deck price hike.

SPEAKER_04 35:45

Holy shizzle.

SPEAKER_05 35:47

I know. So this news is coming to us from Nintendo Life. Uh, so thank you for that. I've got a reference for me.

SPEAKER_04 35:57

Hang on a minute. Who wrote this story? Yeah. Who wrote it?

SPEAKER_05 36:04

Uh who wrote it?

SPEAKER_03 36:06

Yeah. Is it Liam Doolin?

SPEAKER_05 36:10

Liam Doolan.

SPEAKER_03 36:11

What's he been up to this week?

SPEAKER_05 36:18

Writing for Nintendo Live, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 36:20

Oh, is that the man with literally filing cabinets full of season one lore? He can't keep come up with a story about Liam Doolin stubbing his toe on the way his Corbell went.

SPEAKER_05 36:36

Yes. If his name was Liam and he he lived in Farmerton, he would work in the local Liddle. Liam who works at Lidl.

SPEAKER_03 36:45

Of course he would, yeah. So that's where he'd be. Right, fine. The name has to run.

SPEAKER_04 36:52

We know this. Okay. We know this. Let me say. You add it like Camberwick fricking green down there on Farmerton front.

SPEAKER_05 37:03

Or little where they're all meant to be, visualized in the head, the map of the village. Until the dark days, until the plane crash.

SPEAKER_04 37:13

No, don't. I think we desiccated them even more than that at some point in time. So um, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 37:20

We should probably should probably pay a trip back to the family home at some point and record a show from there.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

I would love that. I thought we were all there now.

SPEAKER_03 37:31

I thought we were all here now. No, we're not producer Phil CGI's all in.

SPEAKER_04 37:36

We all look like we're sat round a fire at Downton Abbey on the YouTube. That's what I got told.

SPEAKER_03 37:41

Oh, does he? Yeah, CGI's a little bit maybe just is CGI's beard on you and me.

SPEAKER_05 37:51

Yeah, just like Photoshopped our heads badly on like Carlson and um Thomas the Butler.

SPEAKER_03 38:00

Wow, sneaky Tom.

SPEAKER_06 38:02

I only wonder about what happened to Peg legally, but I guess we'll find out soon. Was this a character? You should message her. I think so. I'll read out.

unknown 38:14

Definitely.

SPEAKER_04 38:17

I am lost amid a sea of conversations. I don't know. But give us give us Liam's hot news.

SPEAKER_05 38:26

Liam's hot news. Depending on what kind of hybrid game system you're in the market for, the Steam Deck might not be quite as appealing after a significant price increase this week. So I'm gonna get the prices for you. The Steam Deck 512 gigabyte edition retails at 789 dollars or 649 pounds. The one terabyte version is uh whopping 949 dollars and a still expensive 779 English pounds. So fortunately for the Switch 2, it's already got some momentum as it nears 20 million sales in its first anniversary next month, which we'll have a little bit of news on towards the end of the show. Um Nintendo's own $50 increase raises the price of its new hybrid system unit from $449 to $499. Um, there are rumors of more price increases to potentially follow, but that might be another topic for another time. But yeah, it's it's gonna be tough, I think. Um, what are your guys' thoughts on the price increases in general and particularly the um the Steam Deck?

SPEAKER_04 39:49

Um price increases are odd, aren't they? It's the first time really in any gen where we've seen prices go up, not down. This gen has been sort of kind of a bit weird and brutal for that. Normally, as products get further into their lifeline, they get slimmed down. I'm looking at UPS5, uh price only comes down, but the price has gone up every single time. Yeah, um, they blame chip shortages, this, that, and the other. Like, I get it, like they've got to protect their margin or whatever they're giving away on them anyway. Um, but it hurts, I suppose. Pass it on to the consumer. Um as for the Steam Deck, I don't know, it's it's cutting a bit of a thick end of a big chunk of change there, boys. And um, I think that if you're on the casual end of the market, and I'd say probably not even that really, you've probably already bedded in on at least two or three systems, maybe four, maybe two, three, maybe PC as well. Then you're gonna get a Steam Deck. All of a sudden, if you haven't got one right now, feels like a little bit of a step too far. I think any new console coming out, and I think one of the reasons why we threw this in was to kind of think of how this might look for PS6 and Project Helix coming round the corner. And uh and potentially the Steam Machine, it'll be interesting to see now with the Steam Deck handheld price increase to see what they uh you can only hope that that Steam Machine slightly whittled down internals and the lack of need for a screen and other kind of small cool-in battery, blah blah blah. I mean, you're plugging it into the wall, are you not? So all of a sudden things can get a lot cheaper. All you gotta do is buy the an HDMI, HDMI port, and the rest is someone else's problem. So maybe they can do that as a real cut price solution to allow someone to access the Steam universe.

SPEAKER_05 41:45

But I wonder whether that's why we're probably gonna see like I wonder whether the software is gonna probably just decrease a little bit, but that's gonna have that's gonna take its toll elsewhere.

SPEAKER_04 42:01

Um I think um I think games are gonna plateau graphically for a while. I think they're all kind of tied to an ecosystem now, they're all kind of tied to development tools and game engines and bits and bobs that no one's kind of moving to another gen and totally rewriting the script to the point where none of this material is reusable and it all has to be rewritten again. It seems to be evolution, evolution, evolution. So, which is good for back and pat and other good bits like that, but we're not seeing any breakaway risks being taken, are we? We'll see what PS6 looks like, but I should imagine we'll just see another strand of hair on Aloy's face, and at that point, you've got to wonder what's the point. So maybe we're kind of stuck where we are for a bit. Bobby, what do you make of it all? Are you happy with where we're at, or would you like to see more sweat particles on that person's face?

SPEAKER_06 42:57

I mean, how much how much bet like how graphically better can we already get where we are now to just watching a movie in 4K? Yeah. I mean, it's the only thing that will get better is like you'll have more memories, we can, you know, things won't have to pre-render. I guess we can do things or fighting or what the backgrounds, but that's that's really it. Like you know, you can add more elements like that, but but graphically, some of the games I put on, because I have a PS5 Pro, I'm like, how much better can it get? This is like to me, we peaked it. Yeah. Without getting like real actors playing in for us, you know. I mean, I don't know, that's just me, you know. But the but uh if you don't have a Steam deck, my friend has one.

SPEAKER_04 43:38

What sort of HTV have you got, Bobby?

SPEAKER_06 43:41

I have an LG something.

SPEAKER_04 43:45

It does uh within like three years old?

SPEAKER_06 43:48

Yeah, yeah. It does 120. That's why that's why I matched up the PS5 Pro. So it looks much better.

SPEAKER_04 43:55

I'm I'm yeah. I'm I feel like my TV's holding the console back now.

SPEAKER_05 44:03

I I I went and got that I went and got that OLED which does 120 Hz three years ago. Two and a half, three years ago. And I was playing God of War Ragnarok at the time and I came back, put it on, and there was such a difference. Yeah, it really I I don't use.

SPEAKER_04 44:22

Yeah, but you had a 1080p set before though, Tom.

SPEAKER_05 44:25

Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:29

So that is a big jump. What did you obviously had a 4K set?

SPEAKER_05 44:32

Yeah, like I had like one of the early 4K sets that wasn't really oh you did. Yeah, it wasn't it it was 4K, but it wasn't there was something I can't remember what, but it's not really like true 4K. You could just see a massive difference in the detail and the clarity of of um of the screen.

SPEAKER_06 44:57

Like uh some games before the TV switch, like I had HDR mode and everything looked good, but certain games looked like crap. Like I like to be honest with you, like uh Blackmith Wukong kind of aggravated me because I really it looked choppy. Like I don't understand why it looked like this. And then I went through every setting on my TV and then realized on the PlayStation I had something turned on that I shouldn't have because I don't have the TV for it. Yeah, and I want now with the new TV, it's like I wish I played this game a year later because I was like, oh my god, this thing is is um unbelievable. So, in my opinion, like what more do you want? Really? You know, so I don't know, but if you if you don't have a Steam credit card, we're gonna go to the city. He has it like I guess hacked it. So it has like every single 8-bit, 16-bit system arcade, all the PS1, PS2, there's switch games on there. Steam decks are amazing, just just for that reason alone, and it ports. You could put you could port it right back on your TV. I mean, I'm sure the Steam Machine, which you know would look obviously much better, but a Steam Deck is really, really underrated, I think, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_04 46:13

Wow, okay. So this price increase, Bobby, if you were to get a Steam Deck now, how does it have to be?

SPEAKER_06 46:17

Yeah, now it's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt.

SPEAKER_04 46:21

It is. How much was it? It sounds close to the price of a PS5 Pro, to be fair. What price was the one terabyte?

SPEAKER_06 46:28

I think it was like 700 bucks, 650, something like that he got it for.

SPEAKER_04 46:32

Uh Steam Deck one terabyte, yeah, 949 bucks.

SPEAKER_06 46:36

That's a big up, that's a big jump. Yeah, I mean, exactly. Unless you're like super, super hardcore gamer, I uh I would just wait. If you already have your system and you're happy, then I don't know what else you would need.

SPEAKER_04 46:50

The price has got to come down sometime, maybe when it's secondhand. Bobby, what's this third bit of news? What you got for us here,

Witcher 3 Expansion Rumors Get Big

SPEAKER_04 46:56

fella?

SPEAKER_06 46:56

So we have uh the Witcher's The Witcher 3 new songs of the past expansion could be as big as Cyberpunk 2077. Oh my god. This is by uh Leon Croft. Now we all know oh he is the bastardized child of brother of Laura Croft. So he's a bit of an alcoholic, seen him in a few AA meetings every now and then. Well, I don't go, but I've seen him there. We have a local church here, and they do it. Oh, you've seen him in the queue. Yeah, you know, nice guy, but constantly Laura, Laura, Laura, like bro, get over it. You know, she's the adventurer, you are the journalist. You know, team up, follow her, and write down her stories. That's me. That's just me.

SPEAKER_04 47:44

Here we are. So you know I don't know which part of this is I don't know what's happening now. Fine. What's what's this? Listen, I want to get into this because this is this is the you could argue this is some of the oddest news ever, but uh it's uh it's pretty big.

SPEAKER_06 47:59

So, you know, without you know, I guess he was sober writing this because it looks pretty, you know. I just can't read correctly, but he looked at a good job. So basically, following yesterday's uh revival uh reveal of the Witcher 3 content Songs of the Past, CG Project Red has leaned into his definition of what an expansion is supposed to be as to a typical DLC. Uh Polish developer has talked up before and also commented by Idris Elba in the lead up to Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty. Um he said that uh he scoffs basically in the video that we can't see or hear because we're not we're on podcast. Um you know why? Because we do expansions big, massive monsters. We don't do DLCs, and when we do, we give them away for free. Uh the suggestion here is that Songs of the Past for the Witcher 3 will be of similar size and scope as Phantom Liberty. When Cyber 27 277 add-on launched, it added a whole new storyline to the RPG, along with a new map, area, numerous quests, features, and additional mechanics. The main quest was roughly 13 hours long, but with nearly 30 hours of content in total, according to how long to beat reports. Um so we are so with this news, we are expecting that this new expansion for Witcher 3 to be just as large. Um it also it'll be uh we know officially the expansion is to return players to the role of legendary monster slayer Gerald Arivia for a brand new adventure when it launches in 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series XS, and PC. Uh Fool's Theory, which previously did the um the making Witcher of Witcher One remake, is leading development with CG Project Red assisting. We'll get more details later this summer. That's pretty uh that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_04 50:00

I can you believe that a 12-year-old game is getting a massive DLC drop. I mean, I forgot the name of the the add-ons they added, but um uh Blood and Wine and Hearts Stone or something.

SPEAKER_06 50:11

They were really, really good quality.

SPEAKER_04 50:14

Mate, I started playing the PS5 version of the DLC and of the one where you go to the other area, and that that opening scene where you're fighting that ogre and those sheep are running through and the colours, and I was like, Oh my god, I'm fucking kidding at Christmas, but oh no, it was great. Um, and that got me back into the kind of role, the whole mechanics of it. It was like, Yeah, this is this feels sexy. So to think that there's something coming down the pipe of the city.

SPEAKER_06 50:44

This is gonna be like they added this expansion because they're probably gonna release uh Witcher 4 soon.

SPEAKER_04 50:51

I wonder if it's because we might not see it for a long time. Like maybe they might realize they've bit off.

SPEAKER_06 50:56

Oh, yeah, maybe, or at least he's he was like a little to get plays back into the hype, maybe.

SPEAKER_04 51:01

Yeah, maybe because let's face it, there's gonna be loads of content because Witcher 3, I think, probably as much as Red Dead, it's got lots of little bits hidden all over it. And I can see that game with this hype doing well on the socials, which then by the time everyone's found all the crazy stuff, the new game's probably coming out, and it'll be one of those 10 things you didn't know was possible in Witcher 3 expansion.

SPEAKER_00 51:25

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 51:28

Oh wow, yeah. Same garbage recycled for the next 10 years. Hey, I'm not bitter, I'm happy. Um, I know Bobby's played the wheels off Witcher 3, but OG, have you even played it?

SPEAKER_05 51:41

I funnily enough, I did play it. I never really for whatever reason, I just didn't gel with it, which is strange because it ticks all the boxes on paper. That is the type of game.

SPEAKER_04 51:54

I think if you watch the show on Netflix just a couple of episodes and then went back in. Have you got it downloaded in your library or is it a game you have to do?

SPEAKER_05 52:02

I'm trying to think. Well, I had it, I must have had it on would it have been on PS4?

SPEAKER_02 52:06

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 52:08

Um yeah, I probably got it in the PlayStation library then somewhere.

SPEAKER_04 52:15

PS5 upgrade, PS5 upgrade, started again.

SPEAKER_05 52:19

There's your big game, but I don't know, it's not like I didn't get like hours into it. I got a lot of hours into it, and just I feel like pretty burnt out on open world games, and I've done for a long time.

SPEAKER_04 52:32

It's one of those games that I just kept going back to, and I was playing the Switcher 3. Don't get me wrong, I played majority of it on the Switch. It's garbage there, it has no right to be anything, it's the most awful way of playing it.

SPEAKER_05 52:47

Oh wow, yeah. I I think for me it suffered a little bit of my.

SPEAKER_04 52:51

I'm like he solo there, aren't I? Of like the Witcher World. You did it on the Switch, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 52:55

Yeah, no, that's incredible.

SPEAKER_04 52:57

Handheld most of it.

SPEAKER_05 52:59

This guy's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 53:01

It's nuts. Um, yeah, I definitely did the end credits on the switch as well.

SPEAKER_05 53:07

It'd be interesting if they take that DLC and as Bobby said, to get people hyped for four is to actually have it lead in not completely, but have a bit of a cliffhanger. That's yeah, I agree. It'd be dope, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 53:20

That'd be great, actually.

SPEAKER_05 53:22

It's then uh answered in part four. But it's it's something I feel like I should revisit. It's a like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. I put a lot of hours into that game and then just almost got overwhelmed when I got to the second area.

SPEAKER_04 53:33

And I was you need to play one. What so much? It's had a PS5 upgrade, right? So you already own the game because you bought it digitally. So if you re-downloaded it, oh no, you haven't got one, have you? No, I've got two. Just it's it's your thing, it's contained, it's characters that you'd recognize that you remember.

SPEAKER_05 53:57

I mean, I look I love two, and I just it just got so big in the end. I was like, oh man, just there was that many like characters to go see and speak to and areas to explore, but I feel it's something I need to revisit because at the moment I find I play more games that are a little bit shorter, smaller in scope. I can pick them up and play them for half an hour, or I can hop online with friends and just have a couple of matches of whatever, and that's that's me dumb. But I there's times where I do really crave like just a you know those games that you sit up and you play until the late hours or even early hours, you're thinking about it, you get home from work or wherever, and you wanting to get on it as soon as possible.

SPEAKER_04 54:45

I'm embarrassed to say that's been nice to the old republic recently. It's all right. No choice.

SPEAKER_06 54:51

I mean, that's not something sometimes games are just so overwhelming, and you have so many other games you want to play. Yeah, that it's like, damn, I don't I don't I really want to finish it, but I have other things you could play this game for the next two years if you don't have a you know a choice paralysis.

SPEAKER_04 55:06

I remember when the 360 was on a hot streak, Tom, and we'd be getting a game a month at one point.

SPEAKER_05 55:11

Yeah, I I found like obviously different circumstances in life, but I can't I can't always afford to get like a big game every month now. But the original days of the PS5, like I was looking at those months coming up, like oh okay, this month is this, this month is this, and um sort of waiting for those games to come out. Now I'm trying to like I just look what I might fancy playing and and go for that. Obviously, having children changes it a little bit of taking their their sort of needs of what they want to play as well, um, and trying to enjoy that to an extent. Um, but you asked me earlier about sort of have I got any grievance with gaming as the industry is now, or I Yeah, give it to us very briefly, like the price increase is tough. Nobody's gonna like it, are they? It's basically businesses telling us you've got to pay more for the same thing, which happens in so many other aspects of life, uh, regardless of bills, food, fuel, everything. So it's to be expected. So we just have to go. It's our choice whether we choose to partake in buying a console. It's a hobby, we choose to do it. So overall, I actually think we're very, very lucky to have the wealth of different options. We have so much choice to play, so many different um platforms. We have cross-platform. Imagine that, like you're playing with your friends on a different console. You don't all have to be say, like uh linked together in that ecosystem, because there might be some one of your friendship group, I really want to play this, but I can't get that console because I play with the lads and we we do this game or ladies, even whatever. And having that cross-platform, free games as well, unbelievable. Like some of them are really good. Yes, they do push a bit of a sales pitch, but if you know that and you know that's what it is, you go, okay, well, I'm not that interested in that, or okay, like every so often I might buy skin for my character, whatever. But to have that even as an option, if you just bought a console and you had an online connection, you're gonna be able to play stuff regardless. Like, you don't have to have a physical game in your in your house. So, yeah, I don't I think sometimes people are moaning for the sake of it. Yes, there's bad things, always will be, but overall, I can't complain about where the industry's at. I think there's some great stuff out, I think there's some exciting stuff coming. Um yeah, I agree with Bobby. I feel like the graphics have peaked a little bit. There isn't that wow moment of getting the new console home, and you're like, whoa, that is a massive leap. Um, and there's been various other topics of about that on on the shows, but yeah, overall, positive.

SPEAKER_04 58:14

I'm I'm making so your biggest gripe in gaming is that it's really positive at the moment. Classic OG, you flip the script, you turn the tables on me, and then you turn them upside down. Listen, if you're happy, you're happy. There's nothing that's okay. You don't have to be angry. Let me let me let me tell you something that's gonna make you feel like it's the worst hobby

Donkey Kong 64 Joins Switch Online

SPEAKER_04 58:38

in the world. No, like it's December 31st, 1999, and I've let you sip a sniff of beer out of the top of a Budweiser bottle cap. Because Nintendo expands Switch Online's N64 library with another game next week. We got some bonus news as reported by uh the aforementioned Liam Doolan over on Nintendo Life. If you were a fan of Donkey Kong 64, and if you weren't, then you are weird. You'll be pleased to hear it's finally back to Kick Some Town next week. Donkey Kong. Nintendo has today announced the 1999, 1919, 1999 title developed by Rare. Will be added to the Switch Online and expansion pack service on the 4th of June 2026. It comes loaded with not only the famous DK rap, but also a bunch of Kongs you may or may not be familiar with. Nintendo's PR also confirms multiplayer and split screen action. It's exactly what you can expect from this adventure as you cross aisles with the Kongs and face off against King K Rule. With his mechanical aisles stuck off the shores of DK Island, K Rule kidnaps the Kong family to distract Donkey Kong. It's up to our furry hero to rescue his friends, reclaim his golden bananas, and save his homeland from certain doom. Choose some five Kong's members as you play solo in a quirky adventure or with friends in competitive battle arenas. Join Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Tiny Kong, Lanky Kong, and Chunky Kong as they fight to keep DK Island safe and sound from K Rule and his Kremlin crew. Climb, swim, and jump with each of the five Kong members through treacherous, puzzling areas while taking advantage of their special abilities and upgrades. Encounter friendly aid from other Kongs and a caged Kremlin by the name of K Lumsy. Hunt for collectibles and play wacky mini-games while solo or duke it out in battle arenas with friends in a four-player split screen view that's enough to go around uh with enough fun to go around to make you go bananas. Nintendo's announced Japan will receive the same title next week on its Switch Online expansion service. The trailer is also different, so go check those screenshots if you want to nerd out the differences between some trailers on the Nintendo website. Men, that game to me is um probably the pinnacle of 3D platformers. I love its spunk and fire. When I first got my Switch, one of the things I rushed to was like, oh, I'm gonna get Switch online. Yeah, so I'm gonna play Donkey Kong 64. Watch me weep like a small boy as I realized it was not there, and then my momentum was absolutely nosedived as I remembered how brutal the SNES version was. I like Donkey Kong 64, it's it's gentle, it eases you in and then gets you through the neck with its kind of addictive gameplay, I suppose. Collect them up. It's kind of like Banjo Kazooie, but good in my opinion. I hated Banjo Kazooie. I recognized its greatness, but I just like oh my god, I wanted to punch that bird, kill it, book it. I said pluck.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:43

It's basically rod hull and emu the game, isn't it?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:46

It literally is a rodhull emu simulator. So annoying. There's bits of it that are great, but luckily, all the great bits translated to Donkey Kong and kind of stuck the landed. Yeah, it's late 90s, trying to be cool to the kids, chewed all over it, but I think that makes it quite endearing now. Even that wrap's kind of aged not as bad as we maybe thought.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:13

You can pick it up on the um on the vinyls in DK Bonanza as a collectible, which is quite a nice little touch.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:21

Wow, they didn't ate it that much. Bobby, did you ever have an N64? Or if so, did you deign to have DK64, brother?

SPEAKER_06 1:02:29

No, but my boy Adam had it, and we played a lot of Argy Hong and a lot of WCW NWO. Oh my dude. Those are the peaks. To me, those were just unbelievable days. I mean, I couldn't believe how graphically amazing it was because I at the time I didn't have a PlayStation yet. I just had the Sega Super Nintendo, and I was so jealous of this N64. And then as usual, I went against him and I got a PlayStation. And rest of history. But Donkey Kong is all of them are pretty good. I mean, I have I have the last one for the switch. I mean, you can play the hell out of it, it's great.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:07

Oh, you oh, for the OG switch, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:09

That's freeze, freeze, whatever, freeze something. Tropical freeze. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not bad. We got we got it all done, and he's got a little star, but banana way. We gotta get we got them all. Yeah, it's pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:20

Yeah, nice. Well, a bit of bonus news for all you older gamers and all you newer gamers, you might find something to bond

Housekeeping Links And Where To Find Us

SPEAKER_04 1:03:28

over. Probably time to do the housekeeping. RGT's missing, situation unknown. He's probably been lost to time. We're gonna stumble across him on an episode of Flashback with me as a 12-year-old and him as a something he's at actual age. It looks a bit weird, but I'll tell you what, it's how we get the episode recorded. Um, good job that's not on video. Um men, the housekeeping begins like this. We've got a website www.unofficialcontrollerpodcast.com. Go check it out. There's transcripts of the show, there's the live stuff that we've done where you've come and met us in person and we've probably made bibbling buffoons of ourselves. I don't, I I probably don't mix well, but I'll try. Um, we've also got on there RGT Sidden Gems, load of other stuff. We've got the challenge accepted, all that good stuff. If that mildly amuses you and you want to get involved with some other people that listen to the show uh and do other stuff, uh take on the challenges, get involved, um, look at some of the art that's been made for the show. You want to go to the Discord, there's a link tree. Uh, if not, you can message us at questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcast.com on the email, and we'll provide you with a fresh Discord link because they age out. It is one of those things. Um, we've also got Twitter and Instagram or X or whatever that is, that's pretty much dead, but I'll post up stuff up there every now and then. If you're that way inclined, head over there. And we've got threads, I mean it's a step too far, and all we've got Facebook. I mean, Jesus Christ. Um, but like I said, we've got an Instagram though. We post some thr uh reels there if you're mildly interested. Uh we've also got the YouTube, it that's probably where you're watching this. You're like, don't tell me where to find you, George. But if you're here and you've listened this far, well, let's face it, you either hate yourself or you stumbled across something that you like. Somewhere down here, like the cool kids say, hit subscribe, smash the living daylights out of it. You know what? We had a video, get loads of views the other day. Did we have the equidistant amount of subscribers? No, we didn't. Personally, I think it was my breath. I hate a Scotch egg. Bit of a reference for OG there, he loves it. Uh well my cheers, you mother. Um other than that, Discord website, oh yeah, YouTube, hit subscribe. Come on, make me happy, God's sake. Plus the show's free. You know, we get your flashback, you get this, you're gonna get you got an extra the other week, you got we've we've frozen defrosted. I was defrosting the freeze the other day. Uh, I saw a lolly from like 1989, pulled that off, saw a frozen caprice sun, someone had a good idea a couple of decades ago. To go chip that out down there, frozen in carbonite was OG. Get him out. Let's get him warmed up. Let's get it back in rotation.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:09

Someone do me. OG. Hold it, Tom. Make some noise to the camera's on you. Bang. No, look at the cam, look at the screen. You gotta look at the screen to do the hands.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:22

Do it. Boom. Perfect. Someone, somewhere, somehow, who's watched this, has got some level of some ability. Just made a t-shirt out of you. He's back. Awesome.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:35

Thought from the club. Wait, wait, wait. I thought you were blind. Little honey.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:39

Oh yeah. Christmas special coming up. Right, okay. I think I went on a side ramble. Creative juices are flowing like uh adrenaline through a man who's just careered off a bridge in an icy, icy morning, who was late for work and now realizes he's really late for work. I bet get the amadows on my whoa, oh sure. Okay. Um, one of the things that people can do, and God bless every single last one of them, because like I said, the show's free. But if you've liked what you've seen, you enjoy what you're enjoying, and you want to contribute in any way, even small, you can head over to our Bus Sprout section.

Supporters Shoutouts And Community Lore

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Uh, if you go to the audio show, go to the bottom of that. There's a little link, it takes you to Bus Sprouts uh podcast host, and you can choose to give us anything between three and ten dollars. For that, you will be rewarded not only with a sense of feeling of like I'm doing something good, but more than that, you're gonna get your name read out on every show. No matter what tier you come in on now, you're gonna get a t-shirt. So if you come in on one of the top tiers, you're getting two t-shirts. I mean, hey, don't sound not generous. We're giving you shows, we're giving you t-shirts, we're giving you fridge magnets. These fridge magnets aren't just giveaway either, they're made by the same company that makes them for Q Gardens, Windsor House, and also a host of uh American memorial museums on the East Coast. I'm being deadly serious on this one for once. Yes, the Wooden Postcar Company. Check them out, they do our merch. With all that said and done, those people who have decided to support us, and like I say, God bless them, they are the backbone of the show. Uh, and they also obviously form the backbone of backbone. Oh my god, it's Jason Bourne.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:34

Backbone of the show.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:39

Without them, we would have no community other than my own toxicity, where I basically spout self-hate at myself in a one-man social media experience. It's one ban from the Discord, I feel. Um, but in the meantime, we're gonna read out our lovely plucky um look. I'm I'm struggling. I'm filling for time because I'm basically technologically inept, but I feel like I've arrived at a place now where I can see the list, I can read the list, and I'm gonna start. Oh no, I've been absolutely boxed in by this one now. I believe this gentleman's name is Gaz Conn. Okay. There has been some confusion. The list has still not been corrected. If I'm wrong, sir, I apologize to you now. Let me bow in advance. And offer you my arms, which you could remove wholeheartedly from their sockets. I want you to take the bony mass, grind it into the location where my ears were by the time you finished, and then twist my arm around and basically frog march me around your local market town like a moped. I'll make the sound. I think my scream language. Yeah, fatality. Um, so thank you, sir. And um, yes, my but my body is yours, but not in that way. Who's next? OG, who you got next?

SPEAKER_05 1:10:05

Captain Scarlet, who understand us a lot for the show, is this correct?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:09

Very much. He is the kind of well done, mate. He's like a lawless robber baron that's patrolling the lawless edge of TikTok, producing cutting edge viral stuff. Whatever's hot in this moment, he clips it, adds a UCP twist, he chucks it out. There's me sleeping with Gordon Ramsey. I mean, you've got to just sign up to TikTok to see it.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:34

Can we talk about the Mr. Ons or will we get in trouble with the Jerry Anderson estate?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:39

The Jerry Anderson estate and me are in illegal tryst.

unknown 1:10:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:44

If you want to talk about it, you can, but it would cost me 2,000. It's cheap, Jerry Anderson, because it's only ITV, so it's 2,500 per mention. I see what you've done there. You've made me mention Golf Alpha a couple of times. I do believe you've got some interest in the Anderson estate, so I presume this is what you're you're trying to pedal here. The puppet master. Uh Bobby's looking on like, what the hell even is this? Listen, sir, let me offer you a um let me offer you an American lifeline. It's puppets, basically. Who's next? Up next we have Retro Ed. Wow. Now your American cousin, Seb, who we need to get back on, um rebranded him as Retroid. Now I was a little bit nervous that this was a hemorrhoid cream for retro gamers, you know, that are always sat behind.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:36

I mean you could be, you're sitting down, you're older. Yeah. Um and hemorrhoids are not fun, especially if you go into the bathroom a lot of wiping, then they could bleed. And it's not that's not good looking. And it smells quite often, quite often. Right. So hopefully, hopefully he does you know, he has none of that. We're just you know, I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:57

Okay. Well, he's retro ed, so let's just clear that up right now. Um, yeah, up next, Carlos, the one-man George fan club. Uh, all I can say to him is thank you. Without you, I would have nothing. No one. I would be the Worldstone Raiders perfect foil. You got no fans. Uh so yeah. Uh thank you, sir. Who's next? Uh, we've got firm returns. Oh, I'll tell you what. Tom, I know you've made some shady business decisions in your time. You've made a few financial mistakes. You know, you didn't see the credit crunch come in. You know, subprime mortgages were the way to go. I tell you, one person who would tell you that would not be the way to go. Firm returns. He can take you from Trump to Trump in less than a week. Wow. What's one of these? A live one of the a dead one of these, or whatever it is. Do you remember that, Tom? Is that something you've ever seen before? No. Wow. I don't know how we grew up in the same family, yet we never saw the same things.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:06

Just as a perspective.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:07

What's this? It's a dead one of these. Don't know. Maybe.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:21

No, you've lost me. Messaging, if anyone ever had that said to them by an adult at some point in time during their youth in the 80s to 90s, or what's that? It's a dead one of these. I don't know what it's all about. Maybe someone can tell me, enlighten me. I have no idea. Kind of Mexicans on bicycles was a big joke at the time. It was always a bit lost on me as well. I have no clue.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:47

What's next?

SPEAKER_04 1:13:54

That's a true story. What's next? Uncle Derek would often tell the Mexican on the bicycle joke, whatever that is.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:02

Uncle Guru. Uncle Guru.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:07

Uh who's next to read out? OG, is it? Come on. No, you did four return. Bobby, correct me. It's not Trestles anymore, it's it's cornerhouse, baby. Um Jackie's gone. God rest her soul. Yeah. Well, she's not dead, you know. Listen, RGT, if you're listening, you've got some admin to do. You need to get Gazcom right, and you need to take Trestles, New York, and make it corner house.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:32

Where's Jackie working now?

SPEAKER_06 1:14:33

Is she at Las Cantorinas? No, no, no. She works in a big hotel now. She is a concierge. She leveled up. Director of Concierge. Oh, she is leveled up.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:45

Whoa! Was it just one hate straight hop skip from Trestles to Concierge, or was there someone in between? A lot of in-between and then nailed it.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:54

Let me tell you, it was a joke.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:55

What hotel is this? What what where is this hotel?

SPEAKER_06 1:14:59

It used to be the Waldolver store. I forgot what it's called now. Whoa! She's uh she's in there, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:07

Go Jackie. Hey, Jackie, if you hey Jackie, reach out to us. She also has a baby. Jackie's had a baby.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:15

It's a year, a year old now, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:16

Next time you see her, tell her we talk about on the show. We want to send her a t-shirt. 100% will get me that. We'll get it to her. I got you. Technically, for all the sponsorship she's due.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:27

She's she's part of the show, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:29

Yeah, we all we get yeah. Wow. Uh okay, which means I get to lovingly massage one of the loveliest men that exists on planet earth. His name's Rose Space Monk. Thank you, good sir.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:47

Next up, we've got Badabinkster.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:50

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:55

Banchon, no. Hey, he's got married this week. Congratulations. Congratulations, yes. Salute.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:08

Everybody sit down, sir. Control emoji. Green heart emoji. F1 for the highly car in emojis, uh, yes, italiano. So wedding bells, uh, emojis, uh. Yes. Yes. Honey emoji.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:24

Ciao. Stammy Berni. That was a proper.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:29

Do you remember all that? I do, I was agree. Memories, man. Memories.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:35

Oh mate. Um okay, which means I get to oh no, is it me? Is it you? No, it's you, Bobby. Go for it. Who's that?

SPEAKER_06 1:16:42

Yes, we have uh tingled tuner, and I'm sure he's tingled and tuner somewhere out there.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:48

100%. Yeah, he's big tuner.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:51

Yeah. Basically professional now.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:57

Is it me now? It is. Okay, that means digital monkery, I'll tell you what. Hang on a minute. Yeah. You're doing alright. You look like you're doing alright to me anyway. So uh thank you for everything that's been going on backstage. Love you as always. Stay true to yourself. Who's next?

SPEAKER_05 1:17:20

Got the bold border.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:23

Ooh, yeah. Now, I don't know if you've heard the latest story about that sort of flesh tunnel he created on himself so he could execute yeah, executing skateboard maneuvers. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't know how the story evolved to this, but I love the fact that he's got this leatherized channel, which means he's the only person that can do the floss 360 inverted. Yeah, Tony Hook cut himself belly button deep because he didn't have the leatherised skin to protect him from the chafing floss. Damn. He also he made the mistake of using um softener in his towel, so ended up with a bit of a crust. It was a big mistake. Um that just added to the abrasion. You'd think the birdman would know better, wouldn't you? You'd think he would have waxed it, but yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:25

Yes, that would be our man Boba, who basically runs the Xbox internet of channels, Twitter, Instagram. He is running it the key master of the Xbox.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:41

What was in Ghostbusters Key Master?

SPEAKER_06 1:18:43

Uh no, he's more the key master, like from Matrix.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:47

That makes more sense.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:48

Yeah, the key master from Ghostbusters was was was was quite scary, but also quite sexy.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:56

Who was the key key master was Rick Moranis, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_06 1:18:59

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:01

Let's see what you did there. Yeah, you played my expectations. You you flipped me, you did an OG. Yeah, you're right. I'm sorry. I'm not thinking like a 21st century gentleman. I'm an analog man in a digital world. What do you want from me? I'm trying. Um, is it me next?

SPEAKER_06 1:19:18

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:19

Damn you. You destabilise me by calling me such an eloquent name. Uh it's very American of you. I like it. I do, I love it. Up next is my red-headed stepson. He is beautiful, he is strong, he is. Basically, if you painted him white, stripped in naked, stood him on a pedestal, you would mistake him for a Roman god. All I know is his name is Ginge. He's a loving man, a great father, and he is my adopted red-headed stepson. So, what more could I say? What more of an indictment of my care and love could I give to a man? Who's next, OG?

SPEAKER_05 1:19:59

We've got Harvey Retro. A producer of a video I watched recently on one of his Argos catalogs.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:09

I knew they'd be up yours three.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:11

Yes, very much so. Enjoyed that. So if you're a fan of anything sort of retro like that, go check uh the uh the videos out because um he's always very informative.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:23

Oh, he's a very lovely man as well, and that comes across in the video.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:27

Nicely produced stuff as well.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:29

Yeah, honestly, the production values of those boys is unbelievable.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:35

Yeah, it is. Um, who's next? The lovely and talented Emma Sharp.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:42

Ah, right, wonderful. Thank you, Emma. Um, which means I get nowhere near Berlin. Thank you, sir. I'll tell you where he isn't. Oh yeah. Never gets boring, does it? Who's next? Tom, I think it's you, so this one's a great one for you.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:58

Mumsy. Always looking after us, keeping the home fires burning. Farmerton manor wouldn't be the same.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:06

Well, the lore has developed to the point where me, you, Bobby, RGT, Seb and Scotty are all sons of the same mother.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:21

Wow. Yeah, she was a lovely woman as well.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:28

Very loving.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:30

Very loving.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:32

I feel like we just live in this like Goonies style house, and she comes back with like the Mexican cleaning maid. Here he is, here he is.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:41

This is the lore we wanted.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:42

We brought him back. With his um he's been glued on up the wrong way.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:53

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:57

That is exactly how it goes down. Um, I think I see as more like the Dudley boys, but hey, Tom, you put a romantic spin on it as always. Always right. What's next? Uh we've done Mumsey. Oh god, this one falls to you, Bobby. What's what's this one?

SPEAKER_06 1:22:14

It's the RTG fan club. Oh, I like what you've done there.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:18

You've done in day.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:21

Yes. However, what I have found out from a member named Claire, they are actually working on, you know, when you go to Greece, those little they always see them, the King Leonidas white little statues with the spear. Oh, yeah. I have about 55 of them. Um they're making a ginge version of what you just described. I just got the text message.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:42

Oh, brilliant.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:43

Okay, so we're gonna add red pink to the hair and to the crotch.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:49

So there's no doubt. 100%. Collars and cuffs, baby. Yep. Fine. Okay. Let's uh I've got to thank one of the strongest men in the world, probably not strong as ging, but Pete Brocklehurst. The other day he had what you could call a silent but deadly. He'd overeaten a little bit, he'd had some fizzy pop, and he just let a squeaker out. Little did he know, two streets down, an old lady passed out from methane gas overdose. Oh, she's dead. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, she's dead. She was susceptible to it. Obviously, she had you know, her lung function was reduced, so it was kind of like the perfect foil, but that just shows you how deadly he is.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:30

Well, I guess this is the perfect way to make sure that your batteries are lithium and you buy a CO2 carbon monoxide detector for your house.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:41

Who's next?

SPEAKER_05 1:23:43

You either love him or hate him, it's Billy Marmine.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:46

Oh, absolutely. So, oh Bobby, you need to execute a Zangeef and then me and OG, and just feel free to let go because I don't know if this will be in the show, but basically, whatever you do, we'll come up with something completely left field, and that you'd be just like, Yeah, that's it. Yeah, so but basically we have this will be the show because we've got the production values of yeah uh uh well I don't know what nothing is but that.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:16

So, as you all know, which I'm not obliged to say, but we have our friend Fat Zang Geef is up to another another adventure, as we'd say, this past week. Oh wow, okay. Yes, yeah. Basically, what has happened was he decided to see if the legend of Tarzan could possibly be real.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:35

This is a whole new take on the Zangief. I don't know what's happened at this point, but I'm all in.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:40

Yeah, basically, you know, he has this man has a lot of chest here. So what he thought was he figured maybe he could go out there and see if it's possible to grow and adapt with the animals of the kingdom. Okay, pretty well. I have heard he met some friends out there, um, and he's writing a book about it.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:01

I like the fact that we've wheeled it, we've we've you've you've you've expressed what I can only describe as and I love you for it. You've you've expressed what I can describe as a little bit of creative genius. Well, fortunately, I signed a contract, a filthy lucre contract with Fat Zangief that his name was to be only read out as an orgasmic squeal.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:28

Oh, so Moment, do you want to those?

SPEAKER_04 1:25:32

I I just I look, he's a very nice guy, but I just don't want to get on the wrong side of him. I I'm happy to do it. I just you know either way, whatever.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:41

The other option is George gets 360 pile driven through the floor.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:47

How the hell does one pile drive 360 pile drive? I mean, I'm up for trying it, but something tells me I'll damn break my tailbone.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:54

I'm pretty sure if you squeal his name, you'll find out.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:56

So that the mic sounded like a door opening with the hinges.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:09

Look, we can't afford WD40. All I can use is little squeak stop, and I'll tell you one thing, it doesn't stop squeaks. Um, I think that's everyone done. Thank you. Obviously, we have a laugh. If you want us to take it deadly serious, we tried that one time, and I do believe everyone thought I was having a a stroke or at bare minimum Bell's Pulsey. So that's we went a bit off script, but we've got some we've got some young books here, they just do what the hell they like. They just do. Um I think now we've done that.

What We Are Playing Next

SPEAKER_04 1:26:39

I do believe we're kind of obliged, I'm obliged, to ask both of you gentlemen for the next gaming week. What are you open to play? And I started out with Tom, but damn you, the contract is done. Right, you'll have to wait your turn. Bobby, I'm gonna come to you out of politeness. What are you hoping to play?

SPEAKER_06 1:27:07

Same. I'm gonna try to finish uh Hades 2 and knock that out, and then jump on Lego Batman, and then if Liam decides to sleep, then I'm gonna play nine lives defend on the portal.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:18

Oh wow, yeah, right. Okay, that's nice, concise, eloquent. OG, fresh from Carbonite. You've got your lore site back, you're no longer lore blind, so we've got the full fighting solo version of you now. Fresh from Jedi. What good sir are you hoping to play?

SPEAKER_05 1:27:39

Um, I'd really like to play some more uh borex pit.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:44

Um are you gonna continue with the demo or are you gonna stop being missing frugal and get it bought?

SPEAKER_05 1:27:51

Uh I read that the save saved data will transfer, so I'll pick that up when the the trial ends. Oh. Ash flow of eight ninety nine. I like what you're doing there. You're maxing out your demo purches. Maybe I could finish it in that time, who knows? Is that even possible in the demo? No, no, it's the it's the full game, it's the full game. You just get a week. Yeah, you just get a week, so something tells me that you probably can't finish it in a week.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:21

Um I would really could call a sicky.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:26

Would really like to pick up uh 007 first light, but it's out it's out of budget, so it's not gonna happen. It's out of budget. I'll I'll I'll hold the PS5 controller and watch a playthrough and pretend it's me playing. That works, it works if you just imagine.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:50

Yeah, that's it. Yeah, I mean listen, we gotta do what you gotta do, you know?

SPEAKER_04 1:28:54

Oh mate, there's some kids somewhere though, isn't there doing that?

SPEAKER_06 1:28:58

I mean, don't you know when you had like little brother sisters, they couldn't play, I gave them a fake control that they were playing.

unknown 1:29:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:04

What do they know? You know, that's what this show's all about. Yeah, it is on that note. Let's skip to the intro because that would be quite slick. Uh I'll tell you what, I'm gonna play more Kotor, more KCD1, all these abbreviations. I'm like the man of the K's. I won't play one more though, because that could get me in trouble, so I can only do the double dip on the K games. Um killer instinct, gonna have to just wait for another week before I play it. Uh I'm also gonna probably do a little bit more flight sim. I didn't mention it on the way in because you know what, I probably got a bit greedy and talked about some ancient games for far too long, but you know, I'm still enjoying that. It's still, you know, fun to do a quick delivery mission and pick the plane up and drop it off. I picked one up for a woman the other day from Melton Mowbray and had to drop it off at Barkston Heath. So, you know, you're you're into this. True story. OG's like, wow, oh, hang on a little bit, it gets the loop.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:58

Speaking of uh Fly Sim later, I saw it on the PlayStation on sale. What flight sim for $129?

SPEAKER_04 1:30:06

Yeah, I haven't got that.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:07

The aviator edition. I'm like, what the hell's that?

SPEAKER_04 1:30:09

Oh, it's got everything in it, it's probably got eye res, everything. You could probably see a man's nipple from 50,000 feet. Um it is bloody a good game. Uh and then I uh I delivered this plane for this woman to Barkston Heath, came down a bit hot, but actually she was really good about it. She said to me, Do you know what? That's actually quite difficult. That's why I didn't do it myself. It's a fair play to you, actually. You did all right. Give me a B. A for effort. So I don't think to me, that's like the highest pinnacle of anything I'd ever achieve. If a B to me is like, yeah, bloody hell. That's like the best. That's an A to me. A B. Sensational. Yeah, it's really sensational. I think that's

Final Thanks And Sign Off

SPEAKER_04 1:30:50

it. I think we're all done. So thank you both for joining me and ablely carrying me through another uh absolutely brilliant podcast. So thank you to that. Um that's all we have time for this week. Listen, as always, thank you for your time. Look forward to the pleasure of speaking to you again next week. Till then, happy gaming. Remember, there's nothing wrong with being given the unofficial controller, it's what you do with it that counts. See ya, Bobby, see ya, Tom.