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How are you guys doing in this lovely Easter time?
If you guys celebrate Easter, Happy Easter to you guys and
Donald Trump is Muslim now. What's up everybody?
Sorry, I haven't got a guest this week because it's Easter,
people have their holidays and sorry, I couldn't do it
yesterday. Just last minute shit was coming
up. So they'll come join us on a
Sunday and that's quiet Sunday. I know I'm overlapping with the
Iron Lords, but I thought let's just let's just do it, bruv.
I know it's going to be going on for about 100 years, so there
will be a masses man of late. 4 minutes late has to be a record.
I know I'm getting better. Eldrick, What's up?
Replica What's up? Samson, what's up?
Random What's up? Captain Chat and bake cow.
I just eat chocolate eggs. What?
Oh, you just ate chocolate eggs because it's Easter.
I'm like, you just eat chocolate eggs.
That's all you eat. It's a, it's a nice, a nice
weekend, bank holiday weekend for us a lot in the UK.
So we get to relax a little bit. When I checked my camera, I
haven't even looked at my cameras.
Everything else, yeah, I think it'd be pretty much good to go.
And I didn't want to do a video yesterday because one, I was
running around random shit at home and two, I was working on
some videos. It's been a while.
It's been, do you know how long it's been since I made a video?
It has been two months. That's disgraceful. 2 months
since I made a video. I, I, I don't know where the
time goes. I don't know how it happens, but
that was two months ago. And when YouTube says two months
ago, it's probably longer, that is crazy.
And I'm working on some really good videos and I think you'll
like The thing is, it's just like scope creep.
It gets a little bit more complicated than I thought.
And then it's like, oh, but is it worth it?
Fuck, you, just do it. So, OK, you want to be known for
good quality videos, isn't it? So I just thought, fucking let
me just make it. So I'm going out filming for my
next video, which is weird. Like guys going out filming.
Why? Let me know in the chat if the
music is too loud or if it's just all right.
I can't really tell unless I play it here, which will just
overlap twice. And that's you don't want that.
So yeah, we're going to get into this week's been a crazy one.
It's ups and downs. There's a lot of dramas
happening all the time. There's something that happens
in this space. There's goods, there's bad.
But Xbox, man, they have like ups and downs, ups and downs.
Always there's something going on, you know, lovable, hate
them. Xbox are always on the front
line, the front lines in the news so much that the
PlayStation guys can't avoid talking about them.
They literally exclusively talk about Xbox.
I feel like sometimes I talk about PlayStation games more
than they do. Speaking of which, I caved.
I caved. I'm a disgrace.
After all the shit I talked about with the pro, with the
price hikes and all of that and the fact primarily that they've
gone back to exclusive. Well, we're giving some some.
I'm putting a lot of stock in Jason's.
Try his name by Jason say Jason. I think you I think he saw he
spawned though I don't there's a lot of hopium one way or the
other one hopium that they're you know suggesting that you
know PlayStation are not going to go third party.
I'll be not going to go exclusive with their single
player games. Remember single player games,
it's not multiplayer games. Then the other opinion, the
other side of the coin is people are saying Xbox might actually
go back and walk back their exclusives and oh shit, I didn't
even tweet this out. Fuck, you know, I'm so, so
disorganised brav. It's ridiculous and why the PS,
the PS-5 Pro is a scam. So I made AI made a tweet a
couple of days ago. I might just play it right now.
And the people are idiots man. It's like so many people just
don't don't get it like or just don't have a very low attention
span, which is coming from me, which is really bad.
But check this out. This was earlier today, not
today, 2 days ago, three days ago.
I don't remember. Hey people are idiots man.
How are you buying the PlayStation 5 pro for over $1000
or thereabouts? Or why are you rushing because
you got FOMO to buy it before the price hike?
You guys are idiots man. The PlayStation 5 Pro is a scam.
If you care about value for money and good gaming you should
get a 5090 breath. Get a 59 instead.
I need to clean this team breath getting a PlayStation 5 pro.
He was just falling for Sony. Sony made record profits and
they just freaking increased the price out of it.
And remember all the idiots that said they wouldn't increase the
price of that console? So if you bought a PS-5 Pro.
You're an. Idiot, man.
Bro, look at that. Can you see the end of that
clip, bro? But Nope, you should see the
freaking comments here and everyone is going mad.
They're like, oh, you're a piece of shit.
Oh, oh, what's going on? Yeah, yeah, APC is a scam.
Look at the quote tweets of this thing.
It's just oh, your PC is a scam. Look at this look at this
freaking genius Christopher Hart, the guy who looks like a
statue from freaking St Fire. PC is a scam.
The amount of money you have to pour into quality PC speck of
PS4. Bro you already spend over 2000.
There's the level of idiocy that you have to deal with on the
lack lack of attention span. Idiots.
Oh shit. I just still haven't tweeted it
Rap. I don't have to eat it safe.
Yeah so I bought the PS-5 Pro and I have no compulsion to open
it. It's still in the box.
The only reason I've bought it is, and this is an extreme
example, but the very few tiny morsels or sprinkling of
PlayStation exclusives. I want to play.
I don't want to wait for games, but you know, I'm like, I'm FOMO
galore. I've got so many games that I
buy day one on my Steam right now that I haven't even played
yet. I'm still playing Kronos by the
way. By the way, I did like I, I
started Kronos a couple of months ago and every time I
played it, it was at night. And that game scares the shit
out of me. So that's not a game I can play
at night. OK, There's no way I can play
Kronos at 2-3 AM. It's too much, man.
Too many jump scares. Yeah, OK, fine.
I'm I'm a bitch. I'm a bitch when it comes to
scary games, horror games. It's why I don't stream them
because it scares the shit out of me.
You'll just see me scream. But the game is just it's, it's
a really good game. It's a really good game.
Oh, Sakaguchi, name these all wrong, bro.
But the game is just it's just tense.
Graphics are amazing. Oh, I say that graphics.
Everything on this PC is amazing, bro.
PC is a scam. Yeah, because you can't afford
to get sauce. You got to be playing Toys-R-Us.
Shit. Come on, man.
Look at this. Oh, shit about this.
This. Where has it gone?
There you go. Oh, shit.
I got rid of the border. Brav.
There we go. Professionalism.
This game is crazy, man. There's proper just dark, just
deep. It's just raw man.
This game is is mad very atmospheric at the start of it.
I was like a bit put off by the fact that you can't dodge shit.
This is pretty particularly dark game, but it's a very dark game
oozes atmosphere is just a great game, great game.
You need to play it. You do need to try it.
A lot of people are like oh, Gaz, if you just play Resident
Evil. That's really, and I I'm not
comparing it to thingy, but you know what you got to give got to
give some, some memes to the AA space as well.
And you can't miss out on these games, man.
These this is not like like other other, you know, AA's are
so crazy now. Like they genuinely remind me of
the kind of, you know, like the the mainstream games used to get
the, the hype behind them wanting the AAA space back in
the day. Now the hype behind AA's is kind
of crazy and it's not the the quality levels are so high.
I mean, this is a AA AA. Yeah, it is a AA game.
There's a well they did work on resident of the remake, but they
are Blueber team are I think squarely AA I'm I think so I'm
probably sure they're not AAA Jack, correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't think they are. I don't think in ER Blueber team
are AAA, are they? But yeah, relatively small
studio, but they've produced. I mean this is not a multi
£1,000,000. I say that the the the budget of
games is disgusting now. Disgusting amount of people I
interviewed at GDC and the AA teams and indie teams.
You will be shocked at what the freaking baseline development
cost is for games now. It's disgusting.
It's like the it's so high, like 2300 million.
We used to remember we baulked at a Spider Man's development at
405 hundred mil or Halo Infinite was at 500 mil. 2300 is the
baseline average now for the AAA space.
It's disgusting. So, you know, in the AA games
they are they're at like easily 50 to 102 hundred mil now.
So whether or not this is AA or triple AI, don't know.
But yeah, try out Kronos if you're you like your survival
horror. I'm not a big survival horror
fiend, but the these games are so well done.
There's so much tension and I feel like they like, you know,
you'll repeatedly hear me say Callister Protocol was a game
that was massively overlooked in my opinion.
And it it was, I think it really was.
It's a great game. And I don't know, it's just
there's so many beautiful, great looking games.
That's a AAA game and that failed, actually, funnily
enough. But it it's memes anyway.
I've been playing that and I've been playing Marathon, which has
numbers. The numbers have been going
down. Not they're not staying strong.
My biggest fear with Marathon is the fact that they'll just kill
it. Sony might not believe believe
in their own IP like that, like they should do.
In my opinion, I don't think, I don't think I, I don't trust
Sony with that. I mean it could kill blue point.
After that anything could be killed.
They did say they did say Bungie did say that they are in the the
long haul for Marathon, but Highgard said that as well and
they lasted like a month and everyone says that bloody Halo
Infinite 343 said it and that what went well, the 10 year plan
went to shit. So so something to bear in mind.
It's I don't I think it's a great game.
I know people want to hate it. I know the Xbox guys have a
massive revenge boner of it because let's be honest on
social media, PlayStation guys are absolute bunch of but I
think the hate is absolutely not warranted.
It may not be doing massive numbers and to be honest with
you, I question is longevity really.
But it's a great game. It's not like your Concorde,
it's better than High Guard and it's a really good extraction to
a man. It's got his own unique flavour,
but it's not for everyone. It definitely isn't for
everyone. And ironically one of the
things, the reason why is I actually think it's because of
the visuals. I don't think marathons visuals
kind of lend themselves quite well to to that kind of shit.
So something to bear in mind, you know, maybe for the future.
I mean, I will say if they cook, they they capitalise on, you
know, the visuals of the, the promo assets will be a different
kettle of fish. But they didn't do that, did
they? So instead we get this kind of
like really cartoony looking thing.
And perhaps I keep putting it on my main display.
I'm like an idiot. Yeah, so, and to be honest with
you, I still like it. I still think it's visually
diverse. It's very good.
But yeah, you know, it's, it's a great game.
I haven't played Marathon, but I would love to try it.
The community mystery puzzles are cool.
Crip. I haven't done the cryo archives
yet so so I've even experienced the main source I was supposed
to. I've been so busy.
I was going to do the review for insider gaming for it.
Someone else did it, but they gave it the same school I would
have. Typically, I don't like to give
game scores, but you know, inside a game do give scores, so
I have to abide by that. I was going to give it.
I was going to review it, but the reviewer thought inside a
game. We gave it the same score I did.
I was going to give it a solid 8 out of 10.
And it's a great game that has some serious questions regarding
his longevity. And it's fallen by the wayside
in a few ways, but it's still sick whether it survives or not.
Oh, look at snipe safe. We'll see we'll see whether or
not marathon can survive. I question whether it can.
The developers said that they're in it for the long haul and
we'll see we'll see. How do you not get killed in
that shot? I just saw that there anyway,
that is marathon this week. Little bit of like side piece
news because this is what the industry is about.
Mass Effect, the TV show. What's going to happen with
that? Oh, yeah, they're going to.
They're the, what did the director say?
He said they don't want basically, they want to just
shit all over the fucking legacy of Mass Effect.
I'm sorry. They're like, oh, we got to make
it. What is it?
Here we go. Where's it gone?
Yeah, here. Look at this.
This is bullshit, man. Amazon's new head of TV has
requested that the Mass Effect series should be rewritten to
appeal to non gamers. Bruv.
Yeah, because that always works really well.
Really well. It really worked well for Halo,
didn't it? In fact, Master Cheeks, welcome
back. That's what.
What are they doing man? Look with Halo, I, I, you know,
I just cast it aside. I didn't even treat it like
Halo. Although this is a weird DMT
side project. Like you.
Oh, you bastardised the shit out of it.
Let me imagine, it's something else.
And then I started to enjoy it even though it's shat on.
It's so dumb. They had a 10 year plus game.
Oh my God. We'll talk about Halo actually
maybe next, but Mass Effect, man, what are you doing?
What are you doing? Mass Effect is a freaking
incredible IP. You don't need to dumb that shit
down. sci-fi isn't really a place where you want to dumb
shit down anyway. That's not like it's so
massively freaking complicated that other people don't
understand what Mass Effect is about.
It's such a good sci-fi. I've said it for ages.
This is how I introduced my friend to our friends to Mass
Effect. One of them who's a massive Star
Trek nerd. I'm like, if this goes toe to
toe with Star Trek law, and obviously he doesn't believe it.
And obviously I'm trying to bait him into playing Mass Effect,
but he loves sci-fi and he loves Star Trek and he won't play
freaking Mass Effect. I was like, breath, are you on
crack? You have to freaking play Mass
Effect. Mass Effect is such a an
incredible, such an incredible game, such an incredible series.
I know the third game flopped it massively with the ending and it
left a massively bitter taste in my mouth for, well, forever.
And I didn't even try. I haven't even tried.
I wouldn't even dare touch Andromeda because I know for a
fact that will ruin my my my my impression of Mass Effect and
the legacy that it got shot on not just by the ending because
that's what the I'm going to have a rant about Mass Effect
fact 3 is ending again, but how they messed that up is it beyond
me. But Mass Effect as an IP is
incredible. The stories you can tell Imagine
going to the clubs. Imagine seeing all the freaking
not the voluses because we've got now chasing Shreyas, but you
know you've got different so many different factions there.
They look so good. You can tell so much about the
Krogan freaking war, the whole, you know, the whole genocide
that was happening against the Krogan's.
That was crazy. That and you know, follow follow
up very strongly with the nature of the game where you know,
players can die, key players can get killed.
My there's so much you can do with mass Mass Effect is dying
to be made in movie, but not in this way where you make it
easier for the fucking general public sci-fi game.
It makes no sense. It makes no sense man.
So I don't know what they're going to do bruv.
But Mass Effect deserves respect and if anyone is touching that
IP and they have no respect for the the legacy of it, piss off.
Don't touch the IP you pieces of shit.
Let go of it. Let someone else deal with it,
someone that knows what they're doing.
So it's so dumb, it's so dumb. And it's it pisses me off that
all these companies are obviously now the new man
paradigm gamers. Gamers are so massive right now
in, in terms of the general populace and the target audience
of so many different things. You know, they're like video
games. Let's make a video game.
Oh, yeah. But let's make it a little bit
easy so mom and dad can understand.
I'm like, piss off. You don't need to do that.
Look at Fallout strikes a really good balance between respecting
the legacy of the IP and then delivering on it.
A great I just finished season, the second season really good.
So it's like it just feels like what?
And if you start talking about stuff like this, like, oh, we're
going to dumb it down and make it easier for everyone else,
then what's going to happen? It's going to be shit.
It's going to be dumbed down. You should be doing the
opposite. The video the the TV series
should let you dive delve in deeper into the sub stories of
so many different alien races here could do the first contact
alone. It could be something so epic.
But this TV, they don't have any, any desire for any, any
kind of ambition with all the tools that they have.
Any people cry about freaking just use AI to build the CGI.
Don't care. Just don't dumb it down.
Have some integrity. You're talking about, oh,
creative licences or creativity in the space and AI is really
bad. And then a fundamental level,
you will have directors and people coming in lash leeching
off the gaming space and doing the most basic bitch drive by
freaking homage to it like it did with Halo, which we had to
accept because Stockholm syndrome set in.
And that's what happened. With anything Halo, when it
comes to me, it's so it's so lame.
It's it's just, I don't know. I don't know.
It's annoys the shit out of me how these companies just take in
the gamer stuff as a check, a chequebook exercise, do the base
minimum and the potential of what they could have is amazing,
but they don't do nothing with it.
They don't do anything with it. We need Denny real nerve on Mass
Effect, not freaking whoever the hell is working on this shit.
Before we go into lost topics, I have to talk about Halo.
Oh Halo, oh Halo. The multi $1,000,000 IP, that
one the if we lose our way with Halo, we lose our way with Xbox.
You know, Phil, Dominus, Maximus, Aurelia, Spencer shout
out that freaking quote and what happens?
We've since 343 took over, it's been such a freaking absolute
painful exercise. Wins here and there, they're
bad, wins here and there and bad.
You know the story I'm not going to even repeat.
You know what I am? Halo 4.
Shit's the freaking multiplayer, man.
Halo 5 and delivers an incredible multiplayer
absolutely defecates hot diarrhoea on the single player
and Halo infinite. Oh my God, they did it.
They they, they built the foundation of something
incredible and then they just gave up.
Bullshit, bullshit. Our blaze goes Xbox is back you
good? What Xbox fat fest is back you
Pisa blaze? Blaze loves to freaking cry like
a victim all if you have you seen him every time he's on the
show? Oh games man, you know man don't
freaking show me any love man. He doesn't reply to any tweet
messages multiple requests play games with a marathon here DMS
ignore in a server bullshit and he just plays with a bunch of
freak. I don't know who he plays with
but he can. There's no way it's as
entertaining as if you played with me.
But you piece of shit you fake piece of.
Shit. Don't ever say I don't show you
any love. You love fuck.
What's up Abdel? Good to see you man.
Good news. Halo C remake isn't Halo
Studios. Well, it is Halo Studios, but
they're using another studio to assist them with it.
So what's wrong with Halo? I'll tell you what's wrong with
Halo. Everything the leadership is
wrong with Halo. It's always been the issue with
Halo. You harassing me about Italy?
Oh yeah, by the way, Blaze, we got to tell talk about it.
Blaze lot in in by Estranzo Bastar know what happened to
Italy but didn't even freaking qualify for the World Cup as it
comes to the US. Holy shit, how embarrassing is
that? Blaze?
That's bad, man. You might as well support
Pakistan at this stage in the football because holy shit,
that's bad. But this is bad.
Halo is bad. It's worse than the Italian
football team. I'll tell you that, because
their publisher, the the leadership, I, I, I, I got so
much Flack on it on doubting Pierre Hintsu.
I I still have to have the receipts for people who said as
being cautiously optimistic. I'm like, yeah, sure, he fixed
freaking the Master Chief Collection and sure he support
Halo Infinite with that additional content for a little
bit, but you're talking about carrying on the Halo IP.
This man, can he do the memes? Can he do the memes?
But then we find this out. This is called courtesy of Rebs
Gaming, and it's a stark reminder of just what a shit
show operates at Microsoft and the key studio working on one of
their biggest IPS, the IP that may put Xbox on the map.
Without this IP, Xbox will be finished.
Halo. I warned you all back in October
about Halo Studios in leadership.
Yesterday Halo Halo Studios former Art Glenn Israel revealed
that why he left. He said that in August he got
multiple harassment campaigns. In August 2025, the catastrophic
mismanagement of the Halo Combat Campaign Evolved created an
opportunity for senior Halo studio representatives to
temporarily reassign the entire art team from an unannounced
project and falsely characterise my role as redundant.
Basically, Long story short, there's masses of beef between
the the art teams at Halo and you know just what basically
leadership, and I've heard this before as well.
I've heard the same kind of rumblings about this man, that
all the leadership in this space, leadership is really
upped themselves. They're not communicative, blah,
blah, blah. And I thought it was just
bullshit. But then this stuff comes out
and you're like, Oh my God, are you serious?
Are you serious? The whole freaking saga would
say Bonnie Ross was a shit show. The team has no respite.
Then they come in, have a change of leadership.
And the way Pierre was moving in this interview kind of sounded
mad, didn't give inspire much confidence.
So I'm not saying it's going to be dead, but Halo com a campaign
involved is in terms of my expectations for this year, he's
like at the bottom. It's like I won.
I don't know why I exists. I don't know why I keep making
remaking games that don't need to be remade.
Halo C had a freaking remaster remake could switch between two
visual models there and the UE5 OK, fine as AUE 5 demo and even
the demo didn't show off that well.
I'll be honest with you. We talked about it on the show
with the artefact LOD bugs or whatever the hell it was blah
blah blah. All the things that you
complained about with UE5, this team that works on their prime
team couldn't even get that result for a freaking trailer.
So I don't think the Halo cup paper ball is going to be good.
I think it's going to be a shit show.
I feel like it's going to be and if it is a shit show, even
though it's just a remake, the messaging behind what that
represents for the rest of Halo is not good.
Brav is that tell me Halo. Imagine the scenario Halo
campaign involved comes out absolute dog shit.
The what's it called? The game doesn't run well, it
has not multiplayer. So it's just campaign stuff and
it's just everyone's like questioning well, why do we make
this? Remember Halo has a it's the
name of the prestige. The the the expectation of Halo
is always much higher than every other game and then you flop it.
So what happened? Nothing man, it's over the
signal that it would send if it's shit even though it's a
remake would be massive for the following games and just give it
to someone else to deal with the software to deal with it man.
Because far you have no respect for the IP if you treat it that
way. You think CE will be great?
They just don't have a forge or MP or theatre or file browser.
How can you say that in the same sentence?
I think CE will be great but they don't have forge or a
multiplayer or theatre farm. What do they have bro?
Doesn't need to exist unless other than a demo for your
Unreal Engine. I'll be honest with you but the
Halo stand in US will obviously be more excited for more Halo,
even if it is a freaking remake and my expectations are dampened
for that. And that's the weak link for,
ironically, of all the games, the weak link is Halo.
Out of Xbox's year. There's Xbox 2026 shocks.
Even me, I didn't think they would go this hard.
I didn't think they were going to go this hard, so might as
well just talk about it now. Wow, yeah, fuck it.
Let's talk about it. We're only 33 minutes in, but we
want to make some memes, man. Xbox Fan Fest is back and Xbox
is going to have an almighty show at the start of this year.
I told you on the show that the Xbox are going in.
The reason why is because the negative impact of all the
cumulative bullshittery of last year with the game price, price
hike, all that shit. It was felt at Xbox HQ
massively. They felt it.
All the shit that they they, all the marketing campaigns, all the
reassurances, all the fucking shills in this space who said
that everything is good, everything is fine, blah blah
blah. They were.
So the reality was my Xbox in the background were feeling the
source. I said it here, I told you from
developers back Xbox first party developers were saying one, they
don't feel comfortable I think last week or two weeks ago
working on it. They have no confidence in
working at my my game studios generally.
But they're now being reassured that look that AI think was a
distraction. We're going to go back recommit
to gaming. If I was in their place, I'd be
like, yeah, whatever, anyway, let's see, let's see what
happens. But they feel the source, Ashley
Sharma is very fresh in this space.
I see a lot of people giving Ashley Sharma a lot of credit
and I'll be honest with you. So the first couple of moves
that she's made are mad. Like, let's be honest, first
move, the first thing she mom, as far as we're aware, the first
thing she did killed that. This is Xbox ad campaign,
absolutely killed it. Thank you.
Asha Sharma, you have some
common sense. What happened in the space?
How many people came at me about So for 24 hours I was rinsing
Xbox for their this is an Xbox. This is an Xbox ad campaign to
the point where even owners Alex is tweeting out guys is crashing
out over this is an Xbox. I'm just taking the piss.
I was taking piss about how utterly stupid and tone deaf
this multi billion dollar or trillion dollar company is when
it comes to anything. People are like, oh, you know
better than a trillion dollar company.
I know better than a trillion dollar company because there's
no way freaking hell I would ever sign off on whatever the
shit this is and now it's thankfully dead.
Thank you. Kill that shit.
It's dead. First thing that Asha Sharma
does kills it. And this is Sarah Bonds legacy.
I'll be honest with you, that's her idea.
But the mandate is coming from Xbox.
They're everywhere. So yeah, the the Xbox say like
we're going to be everywhere. Satya Nadella's like he doesn't
believe in freaking exclusives. So as much as we want to rinse
Sarah Bond for it, it's coming from bald headed Satya.
This is their mandate. But the execution, I'm not
saying, I'm not saying that Sarah Bond gets off Scott free.
No, absolutely not. Just because she's pretty.
You think we're just going to allow her to freaking stay off?
No chance. Sarah Bond.
This was dumb. This was stupid, it was dog
shit. But multi primarily this is
aimed at Microsoft bullshit ad campaign bullshit messaging that
made it look like the Xbox is completely redundant now.
Asha Sharma I'm so I want to be very careful about repeating the
exact same mistakes so many in the Xbox space have done.
And wistfully. I can septic your source,
absolutely. They are good at speaking.
They speak on 2 opposite sides of their mouth.
They'll say one thing, they'll do another.
Phil Spencer is absolutely guilty of this.
So Asha Sharma is now saying all the most beautiful nice things
and it's just, it's just like honey in the ears of Xbox.
But yes, I hear you. Hear me, hear me, hear me.
And a lot of the. Shells in the space had of doing
AU turn deleting their tweets or talking about how the the
Speaking of opposite ends of their mouth.
They said that oh, you know, exclusives are disappearing is
great or blah blah blah, or we don't need exclusives and
Microsoft's playing 40 chess, all this shit.
Well, there's there's. Someone telling you from the ex
Xbox community that this is dumb and it's bullshit and now all of
a sudden I'm starting to see renewed hope that exclusivity is
coming back and you're starting to chirp a lot louder now, huh?
Really. Really.
Why are you doing that? Why are you doing that, huh?
You guys are very quick to make fun of me.
Like get over it guys, get over it guys, get over it.
You're not over it. You're not over it because I see
you in the socials either pretending or deleting or
metrofitting your arguments. You guys want exclusivity back.
This is the primary thing that is hurting the Xbox brand and
This is why I respect Sony so much for bringing back and it's
a smart play for their for their, even if it's in a limited
capacity for their single player games.
Smart play. They have a read on the market,
but Asha Sharma says she hears you and she's in part of the
second thing. Xbox Fan Fest was cancelled
because I don't know why. To the point where you had Huggy
and all the other Xbox hardcore go and build, pay for and
organise their own fan fest. Asha Sharma not only brought it
back and she made it a global affair.
There's one in the UK and everywhere else.
I don't know where it is respect, respect, respect to
Astra Sharma for bringing that back.
I get it. It's very early and I'm telling
you a lot of her definitive whatever statements that are how
they age, they're all those statements are going to come
back to her in a potentially most likely negative light.
We'll see. But she brought a fan fest back.
Now there's a air of greatness or coming, a little bit of
confidence now starts coming back and we just, we're
repeating the same cycle. Are we not?
Are we not repeating the same cycle?
We fall, we fall into the source, but there is a hope, a
glimmer of hope. Whether it's misconceived,
complete hopium, it sounds like it to me.
I don't know. I'm hearing stuff in the
background, but I just don't think it's feasible.
There's no way when you open the freaking floodgates, This is not
Sony. This is my Sony's entire
business isn't mostly entertainment, entertainment and
gaming. So for Xbox, they could just
shut down gaming tomorrow and it'll just be a write off for
them, even though it's the third biggest.
Well, actually, I say that they've spent 70.
They've never spent that much money in their lives.
So in the company's history. So it's like a third place
business, but still it's not their primary bread.
Maker is it? Leo Shimazaki.
All I want is my 363 library on APCI.
Don't care about anything else. I have not used this.
Xbox console, but if the next Xbox console or whatever PC app
allows me to freaking carry on my say for lost Odyssey and Mad
Max, I'll be so happy. But thank you so much for the
Super chat. He goes he wants the 360
library. This is library is great.
It's amazing project got them racing bring it back back back.
We need project got them racing back.
I don't care about exclusives but I wanted back just to see
how toxic PlayStation community reacts as sun rash.
That would be hilarious. It would be glorious if it ever
happened. Even if it's a timed exclusive
affair, and that's the only way I see it coming back really, is
if Xbox starts dabbling with timed exclusives, which to be
honest with you, is still the smart play like you're about to
unleash or reveal or release the next Xbox console.
Why would you just completely just undo the value proposition
of it by releasing games day and day on PlayStation, even if it's
temporary? Like do it for the launch or six
months after launch. The thing is, Asha Sharma has
been saying the right things. She has also said, and again,
this is speaking, this is just words, right?
She said she wants to make the Xbox conscious.
The first thing she said is the way to bring it back would be to
focus on the console itself, the the device itself.
And I think that's a smart play. Focus on the console first,
which is a hybrid device. Now they're doing this Windows
thing which is basically Xbox moving away from the traditional
hardcore traditional insular console space and moving into
PC. But it's the smart play because
the whole industry is moving towards PCPC is the meme now.
I mean like I said, these consoles are glorified get PCs
just gimped to shit. They're just gimped down and
restricted. And that distinction is just
completely disappearing as generations go like.
But Xbox has an advantage over the other platform holders
there. They can play the field.
Now they have a unique up up for the first time PS4.
Xbox One what? Was the difference apart from
Kinect peripherals, what was the difference between the PS-5 and
the Series X? The same shit for the first
time, Even if it's whatever you you may argue on the labels, the
existential question of whether or not it's a console or not.
Xbox is doing what all of us have said is a smart play.
Do the hybrid console model, make it do something different
and we're going to get something different.
And if they want that to stand a chance, they have to, they have
to tackle exclusivity. Tim Dog, I don't know what he's
on. Tim Dog is on some next level
fentanyl because this guy has now staked his account and to
it. And you know, The thing is, Tim
Dog's connected. I know it sounds stupid, but
because of his parasocial relationships, he has absolutely
have contacts within Microsoft. But for him to say and stake his
account on the fact he's been saying, bring it up, he's been
saying freaking other than rightfully.
And I respect him, dog for calling out the bullshit in the
world is his political Tim Dog. But I rate him for this guy
having the balls to say the right thing that other people
don't say. So you know, yeah, I respect him
and you know, it is what it is. But now he's doing.
This. Visual Showcase and he keeps
saying Xbox exclusivity is going to be back.
And this isn't mixed with a lot of political stuff.
Trump is insane. Trump is insane.
If you support Trump, get your head checked.
But OK, this is all politics stuff.
It's starting. He keeps talking about the fact
that exclusivity is coming back. And you know what?
It's easy for me to dismiss it as craziness, and I'm inclined
to do that, but why is he doing that now?
Why would he stake his account on it?
It's craziness, Tim. Look, I don't think it's going
to happen. Don't just just keep the
account. It's too.
Entertaining for us, but hey, Tim, if you're right, even if
it's a 0.000% chance if you're right.
Incredible. Now I need you to I need you
guys before we talk about what the fuck they actually show me
how to show me. Imagine the scenario Xbox brings
it back. It's just just think about what
this would mean that the shockwave it would send to the
entire industry. First of all, it was like, wait
a minute, Xbox are freaking they're saying no to money.
That's what they would be saying.
Now you might be saying, oh, gas, but this is that county
argument. Short term gains, long term
Merckages, but they will be saying no to money.
They'll be saying we don't want your PlayStation.
We don't need Playstation's money.
As desperate as you think we do, even though I think they
definitely do because the PlayStation is a mass.
It's not the Kellogg's of the space.
Now. It's a homemade brand.
That's it. You go, you know, like the
Netflix of subscription services.
It's like the Kellogg's, it's the cereal, the homemade thing.
Everyone like knows what. We talk about gaming, people say
I want to play PlayStation in the UK at least anyway, even in
other countries. So if Xbox ever went back and
said you know what, fuck PlayStation we are.
We're going to stand on our own 2 shoes, have faith in our own
platform which is PC and console and now you do this hybrid, fair
enough. And we're going to do this.
It would be insane. It's not going to happen though.
I just refuse to believe it's going to happen.
But if it did, if it did even in timed affair.
But there should be more than time.
But even if it's a timed exclusive affair, the amount of
people, amount of PlayStation guys desperate for Gears of War.
I can't wait to play on my pro. I can't wait.
They can't wait to play their games on the pro.
The freaking Starfield was topping their pre-order charts
again. How much shit do they talk about
Starfield? They told I know like a
PlayStation content creators who covered Stafford more than their
PlayStation games in their entire life hours and hours and
hours and hours of hatred dedicated so God, oh sorry if
Gears of War like you know it's a massive deal.
This is one of Xbox's biggest looking, most impressive looking
titles, no doubt coming UE5, Unreal Engine and The Coalition.
You know, it's going to be a source, it's going to be a jaws,
not even the source. It's going to be a force.
It's going to be sick. It's going to be sick and.
I was wrong. I was.
Wrong. I said there is no way.
There's no way that Gears of War is coming out this year.
I said there's no way. Like, why would they do that?
Why on earth would Xbox lose the opportunity to not show off the
best looking title that they'll have in their arsenal for next
year? With the reveal of the next.
Xbox and why would they do that? Why would they release this game
this year when they have so many freaking games coming out this
year and basically anything after and before GTA is locked
off. You have to understand of GTA6
has has a massive buffer around its release.
So you've got November locked off, you've got most of October
locked off and got those 2-3 months locked off after GTA6's
release. Why on earth are you releasing
Gears of War E Day in the same year you're releasing Forza
Horizon 6 for Halo? And.
Fable, well, you don't need to do that, but Xbox are doing it.
Not only are they doing it, not only are they doing it, they
have a deep dive for the game and in the summer.
Showcase. And you know, typically like
their Starfield deep dive was like 45 minutes for like it's
not even part of the main show. It's part of.
I reckon they'll probably show like a little sizzle, like a
cool trailer and then show off Gears of War with a deep dive.
But a deep dive, I can't wait. I can't wait.
I didn't think they were going to do that, but that's going to
be and the freaking fan fest is happening when I'm having my
wedding ceremony on the exact same day.
The last time it was my mates. What was it last week?
Last year I missed it. Or the year before?
The big one, the crazy one. Why did I miss it?
It was my mate's brother's freaking wedding and I was there
safe. Now it's my wedding ceremony and
I'll miss it. It's on the day crazy and.
But it's going to be epic. It's going to.
Be amazing. It's like this could be the one
that I mean that one where that the year where they showed off
perfect dark, which is dead and state of decay, which we'll talk
about in a SEC. This could be the.
Big one, this could be a. Massive 1 but just Gears E day
alone being shown off amazing amazing.
They wouldn't be doing a gears direct this.
Summer, if it's not out this year, it is out this year.
They've said it's out this year. They've even confirmed 2026 and
I don't know when they're going to release this game.
Forza Horizon comes out in May, May right?
What's Forza Horizon 6 release date?
It's May. That's not far.
May 19th, Early Access, May 15th and people have got the hands on
with the game and they're playing in, they've got preview
coming in. So Oh yeah, they're they're
already playing it. So Forza Horizon in the hands of
a lot of people already. So they're quite confident with
that one. Well, we've got replaced coming
in as well. Replaced coming in two weeks,
isn't it? Replace release date April 14th
Yeah and 10 days or 9 days sick so you.
Got a replace coming out you've got.
Freaking Fable coming out. You've got Forza Horizon 6
coming out in May next month. Holy shit.
So we're going to have Forza Horizon 6 next month.
That's kind of sick. And replacing it in 10 days,
nine days, whatever. And then we're going to have
Fable. I don't know when Fate, so it's
Fable and Gears of War. Which game would you release
first? When would you release it?
Like, there's not much time left.
May, June, July, August, June, July, August, September,
October. I mean those are the.
That's it. You can't do.
Anything after October. In October, you've got freaking
Wolverine coming out. So when do you release this
stuff? Wolverine's a massive freaking
Marvel. IP's got a lot more mainstream
support than Fable. So when do you release Gears of
War? You're running out of time,
you're packing up all these games, and these games are going
to compete with each other. I don't know.
Captain Awesome says well, Halo's rumoured.
To be early summer definitely will be early summer I reckon,
which leaves Fable and Gears for September and October maybe.
Bro, bro, it's. Going to be a packed.
You know what I do think? Yeah, well, fable's a massive
RPG, but if Subway Dave, good to see you, man.
But fable's a massive RPG, and you're going to need some time
to marinade in the source of that.
But I'm telling you, October even.
A few Do you know when the Rockstars start doing their
marketing campaign? We're all.
Going to be in GTA. Further, it's going to.
Be mad. It's this this channel, I'm
telling you right now, it's just going to be about GTA, man.
I'm just going to be obsessed with you.
I'm going to be streaming on Twitch.
I'm going to make making continent.
GTAGTA is an event. I can't wait.
It's the one thing I've got to be so excited like a little kid
when GTA 6 comes out. That's the, this is it.
But after GTA 6, we can all phone it in, in terms of like
masses of hype when it comes to software.
Because you're not going to get a $2 billion freaking massive IP
like GTA6 until much later in our lifetimes.
And when we'll be like, God knows how old will we be then?
Will we be old? We weathered we'll be just
shrivelling little shits. This is it peaks. 2026.
Is such a big year, assuming they don't delay GTA 6, but I
don't think they will. It's going to be an event.
I can't wait for that game. But that game is such a massive
freaking event that when their marketing starts, the marketing
alone. Is just going to.
Eclipse the release of games, man.
I you think this is hyperbole? It's not man.
Like if Rockstar have to go in hard can you?
There really is trailer too like.
Well, you have to. Understand we haven't seen it.
Have you seen a gameplay trailer yet?
Have you seen any gameplay trailer yet?
We haven't seen any gameplay for GTA6.
We've seen in engine stuff where we haven't seen gameplay at all,
other than the leagues that I've seen, but that was old leagues.
GTA. 6 is going to be a moment. Whether you like it or not NC
says I don't give a shit about GTA.
Doesn't matter. Fair enough, that's fine.
But it is. So big.
That everyone. You can't avoid it.
Didn't they? Fire the AI department.
They did. Yeah, they did.
Spring 20. 27 you guys think it's going to be delayed again?
Please don't do that to me. I don't.
I can't. I can't do it anymore.
But if it did get released, if
it did get delayed, you bet you're asked.
All these companies are praying it gets delayed into 2027.
If it did, I don't think it will.
But if it did get delayed, that would give so much breathing
room for Xbox's first party titles and PlayStation or
PlayStation. I think their releases are much
better. When is Soros coming out?
When is Cyrus's release date? That's that's out soon as well.
Cyrus release date April 30th. Oh shit end of this month.
Can't wait. We got so many good games coming
out. I have to complete Kronos man
because I need to get into the source.
I have so many games to play. It's a good time for me gaming.
I'm enjoying it a lot, but I've been playing marathon so much
and I'm like, fuck, I need to play single player games because
that has spent some time this time playing Chronos.
It was so good. But the the my mind is like, all
right, replaces coming out. Oh shit.
And then I've got Soros coming out.
That's a day one. And then what else I'm going to
be playing. Oh shit, then I've got what's it
called, Project Eve? What's wrong with me, Phant
Phantom Blade 0? When is Phantom Blade 0's
release date? Fucking hell, there's no.
Way. I love playing the.
I love getting Fanbase 0 release date.
Oh, that's in September. OK, you know what?
I'll. Get some breathing space for
that, but I don't like these all.
These RPGs man. And then you got fables a
massive RPGII hope Wolverines are some big ass fucking open
world game shit. I don't want that.
I want a linear game man. Don't make spider man with claws
bro. I want I want a linear game I
just need it. Fables are RPG that's going to
be massive. Then you got GTA6 which is like
different open world game. Crimson Desert Fonz loves
Crimson Desert, he says. It's an incredible game and I
want to play it, but there I have no time to play Crimson
Desert. You think I have to?
It's the last game I should be playing right now.
It's like people playing it for like 708090 hours and they're
like I'm oh, it's really good now.
I'm like, bro, like what were you doing?
Like I can't do that, I can't do that.
There's no way. And you know what, that's a
shame because I still want to complete Dragon Dragon's Dogma,
man. So I don't have time.
I really don't have time. To play all these.
Games, I need short games, I need smaller games.
I need them in my life. When you grow up, you just need
when you have your own business and all this shit, you want to
make content, guys, you haven't made a video for two months.
How we're going to do that? I'm going to do that.
I have no time. It's it's crazy.
It's a crazy. Year Crimson Desert supposed to
be amazing. So you want me to play Crimson
Desert? Then you want to play GTA6.
Then you want to play Fable, which is an RPG.
Then you want to play Forza Horizon 6, which is basically a
car RPG. Then it got Phantom Blame 0
coming out. Then I've got Sorrows coming
out. Then I've got freaking replaced,
which I'm hoping is a short game.
Please for God's sake, what's up?
It's too much. It's a good problem to have, but
it's still too much man. It's like yo.
And I want to talk about these games.
In a way like live as they, you know, typically I play these
games and play I play Kronos came out last year and it's it's
not fresh in the conversation. It's better when everything is
fresh. James bonded may forgot about
James Bond. As well.
James Bond looks really good if. I was a full time YouTuber.
I would still struggle to crack to cover these games.
Which makes me think. What are all these other
Youtubers doing? You know what in this space,
right? It's all industry stuff and we
all all of it talk about in industry stuff.
Xbox here. Look, Fan Fest is back, blah
blah blah, but if I had this in my main vocation, I'll be
covering games so much more if I had free time, which is why I'm
trying to get to that space, but holy shit is it difficult.
It's going to be crazy, but the Xboxes Fan Fest is coming out.
You're going to get your parasocial bastards going out
there, you know, rushing to touch Sarah Bond.
Sarah Bond, Sorry, rest in peace, Sharon Asher Sharma,
Jason, Jason Ronald, not Jason Schreyer and all of that.
They'll be stalking all of these, their little WhatsApp
group. He's in the he's in the hotel
now. Run.
Go get him Luke Steele. Says still got to play silent.
Hill F as well guys from last year, holy shit.
And that's from. Bloomberg Team.
And I have so much more respect for them now that I've played
Chronos. So I'm like holy shit.
And Silent Hill looks good. Resident Evil.
Requiem when I'm going to. Play that with part tracing on
this beast of a console bro. Come on, Brad.
She's. Not dead.
Yeah, she's not dead. Ceremony's alive.
Sorry, but you know, I mean, her job's title is basically dead.
She's finished in this space. Pragmata's out.
I'm not even looking at that in that looks good.
Pragmata looks great. So.
So when? You know when I.
See. Wait.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Captain Chat, I need you to just be very careful there because I
may have missed this. Is that is that confirmed?
Is Zelda Ocarina of Time getting a remake chat?
I need you to not be. Ambiguous about that, because
that is. That is mad.
I know about Star Fox though. Star Fox.
Nintendo needs to do fix up. Nintendo's fucking up rawly now.
There's no way they can carry on status quo.
They they drop the ball so badly with Metro Prime that completely
shat on Nintendo's almost freaking untouchable legacy you
need to fix up. But if you think bring back
Lilac Wars or Star Fox after Star Wars 64 is that confirmed?
It came from name to the hate. Ocarina of Time getting a remake
is insane. Insane.
I would stream that day one. I can't wait.
Go back to Kukiri forest. Freaking the music.
Anyway, that last Game of Thrones that.
Didn't even sound like it to call it Pona.
Oh my. One of my top five best games of
all time, so. Oh, there's so much shit coming
out. This year is mad.
So yes, we can look on a selfish level this this week we had.
Another studio. Shut down another freaking set
of layoffs. Idas Montreal laid off 124
developers. Madness they can't.
I just Montreal cancelled A7 year plus game development a
game in development for seven plus years almost ready to
complete and then and then we found out this week what
happened. Factions, Factions.
The. Game that the.
Developers what? What is it the The developers
behind the factions only found out a day before everyone else
and the members of the public that factions got cancelled.
How crazy is that? How crazy is that?
And you know what it got cancelled because Neil Kuchman
said, look, I'll got a single player game.
Let's just focus our attention on that.
We we can't we can't do multiplayer that well.
Pissed off ended it one day before everyone else found out.
All the developers spent God of seven years, seven years for on
that game. Dead, dead cancelled Dream
finished. Khalas the man ended mad smart.
High Road field music, Oh my days.
I'm, I'm tempted to play it right now.
Oh my God. Thai.
Music, Oh Rev. It's. So good man.
So good. The.
Soundtracks were so good. The nostalgia is crazy.
I'll tell you, I'll tell. You which one is the?
The sickest one. I'll create the Zora music.
Music, Zora. Domain music.
Oh, and I hate Zora's Domain at the time just because there's
so, you know, underwater levels make you feel a little bit like,
but so good there's. 12 hours. Of this music.
The memories. I remember trying to find those
waiting boots. It.
Took ages. The music was so nice.
Can you imagine this rebate? I want to just keep it going.
I want to just keep this going. Why?
Why not? Why do you think about that
before instead of paying for licenced?
Music. Just play this shit.
That's 12 hours. Listen.
What I feel sorry.
For the future generation of gamers, I genuinely do because
us old a lot we experienced. Gaming at its.
Peak, I'll tell you why we saw generation after generation
actual changes step up. Do you remember like Sega Mega
Drive or whatever you guys called it over here?
Over there, I don't know, Master Sister.
I don't know what you guys called it, but Sega Mega Drive.
Then you went up to 3D from Sega Saturn and then PlayStation.
I remember freaking PlayStation on disc playing Wipeout.
It was amazing. I played freaking Tomb Raider 1
was incredible, incredible. The moment when I came across
that T Rex, I will always remember.
Even the later levels where it got really weird and the meaty
levels like in the Alien and shit, it was just like it sucked
you in this world, Super Mario, Mario 64, it was, I couldn't
believe it how you, you were absorbed in the world.
You were in there like even pilot wings when you were in the
space, you could almost smell the air.
It was weird. That freaking Ocarina of Time
came in and I was gone. Man like.
Kokiri Forest, the music, Oh my God, like freaking here.
The Zora's domain, the sand level.
I just crazy and we and then Gold and I came out and then you
had to jump from that to PlayStation 2 where, you know,
it was mad, it was mad and there was an art form.
To the music, look at. The soundtrack.
They don't make games like this. The soundtracks like this, oh
Charles, I was watching a video on Final Fantasy 7 remake versus
the Final 37 music and I was like, bro, I didn't even get to
play them. I used to look at a postcard of
Final Fantasy 7 because games cost like £50.
I didn't I couldn't afford them. So I was a little kid because
Sony, because I signed up to their little, you know, mailing
list and they sent me one little postcard of Final Fantasy 7.
I just stared at it the ground, you know, the CGI, they will
show you the CGI as a cutscene. You're like, Oh my God, imagine
the game playing that game. And then Final Fantasy 8,
though, I played and I fell in love with Renoa, and it's if we
we had a great. We had a great.
Man, every generation and it came up PS2 insane.
I remember what was the PS2 the demo disc that came out with SSX
tricky. Oh bro, I'm just going to
nostalgia. But I'm telling you, man, like
we had a good. As much as we complained about
the state of gaming now, we had a good.
We at. Least we got to experience it
the next generation, the only no Roblox and Fortnite and freaking
Minecraft. I'm sure they're having fun in
their own time, but it wasn't like it wasn't pure.
It wasn't amazing. We are the Puritans in the space
we we saw the dry, the the, the, the switch up the advancement
every freaking time. It was beautiful.
It was amazing. PS2 was amazing.
SSX. Playing that tricky I remember
so many random. Games because.
You get chipped to them so I could pirate the shit out of
them. Even Zone of Enders was
beautiful, man. Like there were such beautiful
games, man. We just took for granted.
And then the generation behalf of that, the 360 Gen, well the
Halo came out and that just changed everything.
But when the 360 Gen, that's where it peaked.
Beautiful. Look at this.
Oh soundtrack is beautiful man. Shit, we are the Ogs.
In this space. And we had a good and that
doesn't mean that gaming is. Always negatively but.
I look, I know what the YouTube game is negativity negativity.
That's the only thing that gets you views.
Positive stuff will not get you views.
It's just standard it's just what Youtubers do.
That's why my my last video I said this, this video is not
going to get any views but. Gaming is good, we've got great
games coming. Out this year and we have we
have so many fucking amazing games coming out this year yes,
the yes, the industry is bad. Yes, I know it's all bullshit at
the moment, but. So what you're still getting?
What what's going to happen in this space?
I will tell you right now and I'm speaking to developers.
Let me just for. The sake of repetition, you
might think as a. Musics.
Bruv amount of developers I spoke to.
I said, and I was asked them the question in my interviews.
So there's one interview that's come out there.
I'm sure there's quite a few that are coming out.
What's going to happen with all the talent you've got, all these
Triple E studios going and just dying?
What's going to happen? I'll tell you what's going to
happen. Any creative's worth their salt,
they all who have the drive and passion in the space are just
going down to form their own teams.
If they're a real passion, a lot of people will have to consign
to resign to reality and then get vacations to other places.
That is an A negative we can't avoid and that's massive shame
because you'll have good talent and we'll walk away from the
space entirely through circumstance because they have
to put food on the table obviously.
But you will also see a lot of people starting to really driven
creatives to just push, push along and they will start
forming their own. They're doing it now.
They're starting their own AA teams.
Our new injured is already so sick.
That alone, indie developers can create games that will just and
just wow. Us so.
Imagine what, you know, these teams starting to form.
So AA is going to be the new AAA.
GTA 6 marks the the just the apex of it until for the
foreseeable future, I cannot see a single AAA title in the next 5
to 10 years that will come close to GTA 6.
That's going to be the thing. And then we're just going to
look at I'm not saying the AAA is going to be dead and we're
not going to look at it. I'm I'm talking about the level
up, the the that's it after that.
GTA rocks aren't going to push the butt I expect them to.
If they don't do it, you'll see me being one of the most
obnoxious, annoying, vociferously just critics of
Rockstar and. Their failure to achieve.
What they needed to to dispel the burden that's on them that
they've earned, but at the same time, they've also accepted the
burden. They've earned their respect,
but they accept that burden. I'm sorry.
It just that's the way it works. What's up, Iron Storm?
Good to see you man. So AI will make games into AAA
level games? Rachie you may say that and
people will hate you for it but I absolutely agree with you.
I agree with you that tools like DLSS 5 will be fundamental
shifts in the way we perceive games and budgets and visuals.
Like you can put slap DLSS 5 on all the titles and they will
just be like yo it's amazing like this looks like real life.
Not every game has to look like real real life.
There's also other philtres to make it look more CD, more Pixar
style animated, more individual hairs.
We the way the tech has been developing, you're not going to
get the level of physics that we've been imagining in our
heads. Like even in 5-10 year old Pixar
movies, liquid physics, all of that shit.
AI is going to bridge that gap. It's going to push that forward.
No matter how much people want to cry watch this space.
The people crying about AI all the time, they'll be the the
same people just quiet down. They'll shut the fuck up and end
up playing these games and loving how good they look.
So I agree with you. So yeah, it's.
Going to be amazing. Yeah, Expedition 33 is proof
team of former UB slow devs. UB slow, that's a good way to
say it. You be slow and yeah, absolutely
look at that. Well, not just a team of
Ubisoft. There's there were only a few
people came out of Ubisoft. Some of them the other people
that they joined the team weren't even devs.
There's some of their like people that they knew their
friends or whatever learned to their code on the job with UE5
S. The tools are there man.
Like I genuinely, genuinely for the first time in my life think
that hey, it's actually viable for me to play or to to.
Try. Or consider making a video game.
I couldn't do it before, no chance.
Coding and all that shit is fucking crazy.
I'm still I'm not saying it's easy at all right now, but it's
even. It's a distinct reality, at
least. So hype for GTA6 kicks up
captain. Chap member for 19 months, can't
wait. Yes thank you man.
People say they're just trying to be like contrarian.
I'm not saying that everyone is is like there are people
genuinely just don't give a fuck about GTA.
That's fine. But I don't know how you can't
be if you're into gaming. I'm not saying that you're not
into gaming. I'm just like it's for me.
It's just a moment. Managing to get Miami a two week
before it comes out is going to get me uncontrollably.
You're going to Miami in two weeks before freaking GTA 6.
It's going to be quite cold, is it?
Cold in October? Ish.
No, I don't know. Oh.
Oh, in two weeks before it comes out, Yeah.
So it'll be October and hopefully it's not cold.
But Miami's crazy. Miami's mental.
Miami's crazy. The people that are mental and I
love Miami, I love. I was talking to my mates on
Friday but I'd love to go back to Miami.
Sick place. People are mental though, I'll
be honest with you. It's so much NPC behaviour it's
crazy. It's.
Crazy. It's crazy.
Can't wait to take a loan from the bank.
So I can afford. DLSS 5 DLSS 5 is not going to be
some well, early iterations of it will be resigned to the 50
series card. Absolutely.
But you have to think about what that tech represents.
Once it starts, you know, teetering down, becoming
mainstream. Obviously it's going to be to
for the path tracing like Wasabi.
How expensive is path tracing now?
It is like for it to be viable a lot of people need to spend
serious money for or 50. Not well forty 90s can do it, or
maybe 4080, but 50 series cards are the ones handling pulse
racing well. So it's impulse racing
expensive, but then later on it'll be the equivalent for DLSS
5. Everyone hates UE 5, but UE5
made game development accessible to more creative minds.
Rachi thank you. Just like RPG Maker managed to
attract new self-made developers.
Thank you. Rachie gets it.
It's the same thing I've been battering for ages.
And you know, The funny thing is every freaking indie developer,
barring to every indie developer I interviewed said they're
making the game on UE5. And when I asked them what do
you think of UE 5? Because you're not building on
Unity and there's a lot of hate for it.
They're like, yeah, every day there's cause issues, maybe like
some style stuff here and there. But what they just said, there's
just what, you know what they were doing the same thing I'm
doing to you guys. I'm not even a game dev.
They were like, oh man, UE 5 is amazing, man.
We had this tool. They'll mention separate tools
because it's like very popular and they're like, we've been
able to do this and that. And then they get really excited
about the things that they've been able to do to bridge the
gap between them and the big players.
Visually at least. I've played UV5 game by a lone
man who built like, I forgot the name, name of the game.
It was like a Kung Fu kind of kind of game.
It was almost like raid redemptions inspired.
Forgot the name of it. Visually it's like.
Yo, this is what a. Lone Man is doing it's like Can
you imagine what like small indie teams are now confident in
doing all the facial motion capture tech and then on top of
that add AI tools as well to assist them in developing stuff.
I mean anytime someone mentions us oh used AI, any prick who's
saying that has not used AI hasn't got a job as I had to do
some other menial job or just following the fucking trend of
everyone else. Yes AI has issues.
Yes I don't like big tech, yes I don't like Jetson hang whatever
his name is from NVIDIA, he's a prick.
I just don't trust big corporations.
Absolutely there is an argument to be made about the utilisation
of AI. I am the negatives of it, but
the technology itself is massively empowering.
You can't just have a cop blunt sweeping statement fucking.
They're just wide rule. I slop and that's what I see.
I'm going to start using AI in my videos already.
I want to tell you right now, lazy YouTube content creators
are so fucking lazy don't even bother editing in their videos
so. But when I do the shit I do with
AI the by the money I'm paying for.
These AI tools. Which I'm trying to use.
I challenge you, I challenge anyone.
You guys will cry. There will be people getting
used AI slop. I'm like, you fucking idiots
won't even have time to do it. Half the micro edits that I'm
doing so then replicate it. Go and do it.
Tell me why that's bad. Tell me because it used AI for
me to freaking, I don't know, 3D render me freaking jumping from
a freaking skyscraper for a three second clip that you
bricks can't even be bothered to edit.
You have one single camera with a green screen on it just
barking at the screen. Get the out of here.
That's the reason I'm talking. About all any creatives are
using AI tools. I'm doing more work than all the
people could crying about it. All the fucking artists with
their little coffee links in their BIOS are sitting there
just talking about AI. Learn to draw, learn to draw.
I'm like, bitch, I'm looking at your drawing.
It's not even that good. How are you barking so loud?
What have you done? You just sat there on Twitter
all day just complaining about AI.
Do something with it. Do something with your fucking
out. Do AI.
If you don't, what? If you can't do that, shut the
fuck up. There aren't positives and
negatives though. Negatives are the generative
models that are serinsing people's art styles and then
reproducing them and. You're like, well, guess how?
Can you separate the two? That in itself is a red line.
I can't go past that. Fair enough.
You know what? Fair enough.
But you have to. Ask yourself, are you going to
resign to the? Rest of your life just crying
about it because the tech isn't going anywhere.
How could you put a stop gap on on development on tech like
that? You can't do that.
Can't you say like that's it, we're going?
To get rid of. AI completely.
It's not happening. So concede to reality and then
embrace. Embrace it responsibly.
Because if you keep barking like you've got all these people with
their multi coloured hair fucking things screaming into
the ether, no one's going to take notice.
But when you may have a valid concern or valid point to make
or valid critique, no one's going to say it because you've
made a It's just 100%. I don't want to listen to you.
I'm just going to bark then. All right, fine.
The rest won't carry on using it.
So yeah, you know who? Likes it game is that.
Like graphics? Over gameplay.
It's all about game development. It's not just about.
Visuals. Reishi says AI uses stolen.
Art. OK, but if you use Photoshop for
a thumbnail, aren't people still making images from the Internet
like AI does? I'm telling you right now,
Reishi. Remember when Photoshop?
Came out, people were rinsing people for using Photoshop
because that wasn't real art. So that's what it was.
That's all. It was so big.
So anytime this kind of like disruptive bit of tech comes in,
people just start crying about it for ages and then people end
up use utilising anyway and then that's it.
That's what happened. So you'll get a bunch of weirdos
who'll cry about it, the tech gets used, and we'll have to
just deal with their absolute oestrogen just flowing through
their mouths for ages. Like where, where and.
I saw that with DLSS 5 and. There are valid concerns there,
but there was no hardly any people like in the middle ground
or talking, weighing up the pros and cons.
Here's what it is. And that's what.
And you get people like serve. 6028 These are the kind of guys
who'll complain about it habitually complain about random
shit. Yes Sir, I would like fries with
that. Wasabi Forza Horizon 6 in a
month and a half. We have to link up for some
racing. We need to do that.
Forza Horizon itself is like at least two weeks. 3 weeks just.
Signed off Forza Horizon 6. Is coming out in one month.
Man, I can't wait. I can't wait.
I hope. You know, I know it's going to
be good, but I could tell that it's not everything I wanted it
to be because I feel like, oh, I still have that cringe dialogue
stuff with the hey, you unlocked a barn find and it's like, I
wanted like it, but here's what it is.
Here's what it is. People have been nicking art and
plagiarising for generations before AI.
I'm not saying that it's justified replica, but you're
right. But the Puritans above the space
aren't really doing much about it.
There are some real artists I follow, they produce great art.
And actually the opposite's happened.
What's happened is with AI, myself and other people are now
appreciating art and real artists a lot more.
So what it's done is added to the value proposition of artists
who go out and still produce art massively.
So you know, and I was on signed up to Deviant Art when it came
out. That's how old I am and saw all
this incredible artwork. But if I go on mid journey and I
see some of the incredible 3D intricate stuff, even like I saw
Harry Potter, professional Snape thing is really so ridiculous.
But it's hilarious at the same time.
But people don't even want to admit it's funny because it is
what it is. Because they have that chip on
their shoulder, massive chip on their shoulder.
So yeah, like surf, surf, yeah. The.
Massive chip on their shoulder. They'll just virtue signal till
they're blue in the face. But it is what?
It is E ranks good to see you man, because I'm just tired of
the. Anti AI arguments from people
who don't know what they are even talking about.
I know it's boring at this point.
At this point, fuck it, give me AI everything bro.
This is the thing like if you're going to keep the people keep
doing that. Like really they're just making
people like in the middle ground.
Just subscribe to extremes. Now they're like fuck you.
You know what this this is the kind of guy who's complaining
about AI. I'm I'm all in.
Like there has to be like with any kind of discourse, there's
always a middle ground. But it is what it is calling AI,
real art. I didn't say that, I said real.
Artists are. Being we're going up that's what
I'm talking about surf surf 6028 tell everyone in the chat what
your vocation is what do you do for a living?
I want to know I want to know what you know I'm calling you
out because all you do and when it comes to gaming topics, the
defending Xbox. He's the biggest freaking martyr
for a biggest corporate show on the on this channel.
Serve, tell everyone what you do as as a professional, I need to
know that and I'm going to judge you massively and be honest.
Don't be a liar. I want to.
I want to hear that. I want to hear it.
It's all well and good. Being a random person with
random text in the chat, I want to hear some substantive
argument. Exactly.
Say something. I want to know exactly what you
do so I understand. Exactly.
No, he's just there. He's receding lol.
Hide, hide, hide, hide behind your the McDonald's Happy Meal,
which you're serving to everyone else.
Listen, I did my stint in retail.
It's fine. He's a tattoo artist.
At least he creates art. At least he creates.
This and this as well chat. Can't even make it up.
He's an art. At least he's an artist.
But he's offended. Is is, is AI art an existential
crisis to people? Are they getting AI to draw the
art on their arms? What if someone come if I came
up to? You.
And I had a concept that I conceived with AII said, hey,
hey, go look up through mid journey.
I created this incredible design.
What what do you think about it? What would you say?
Who's your daddy? And what does he do?
My daddy. Work at farm, do you?
Remember that I'm a. Carp, you idiot, that's how old.
We are. We're so old.
Anyone. Who uses AIAI?
Is incredibly powerful tool different and you know what?
It may make my vocation redundant.
Serve is going to be OK unless you're getting machine robot to
start doing it. But AI saves me hours at work as
replicate. Same here.
It saves masses amounts like they're woven into our case
management systems and it has saved us fundamentally loads of
hours benefiting our clients massively.
Huge game changer. Huge game changer.
And the tech is scarily good to the point where it might make it
redundant like. But it is what like it could
potentially be so disruptive that it could end the legal
vocation it lawyers at the top of being a risk of being
replaced. But I still say you cannot,
cannot say, cannot stop, cannot stop technological advancement
like that, can't do it. AC too cold?
Hi may hi. What can I help?
You with you can help me with the cryo archives man.
AI isn't a tool, it's the. Actual creator?
No AI is a tool, it's how you use it.
AI is a tool, it can create stuff with it and how you
utilise it. It video editors who are really
worthless all are using are are creating it, are using AI as a
tool. That's what the AI is.
So you can't just make a blanket.
AI is not a tool, it's the creator.
That's what you said. AI isn't a tool, it's the actual
creator dude. It's a freaking type creator.
Right. But yeah, it is what it is.
Anyway, we've talked about got a massive tangent about this,
about this shit, but yeah. But it's fun to talk about.
The the the strike. I don't even know what time
Sam's going to look like, but fuck yeah.
Last thing I got was factions was cancelled.
I haven't even talked about factions for God knows how long
anyway. Anyway, back to.
The showcase listen. I don't know what's going on
with with. Xbox out of all the three
platform holders so this this is Sony's best year they'll have a
Wolverine and they'll have Soros and I'm already counting phantom
blade zero really because but OK if you do it as a third person
third party title whatever Sony's.
Generation has been so. Dead.
So dead. Someone asked me what did you
buy the pro? What game is going to play after
that? And I was like Saras and.
Wolverine and then. What else am I playing?
GTA 6 before I get the actual version.
On PCI, Don't know what I'm going to play.
I bought it for two games. Stop.
What's up, Maya? Good to see you, man.
Esky boy. Good to see you man.
So yeah, man, like this. Have all the three you know how
much shit Xbox gets for all this bullshit of what it's doing with
hardware space? It's software space.
They're making memes they're making memes 2026 if they look
if imagine the fable. I'm not saying this is going to
happen. If Fable launches and it is a 90
meta or 8990 beta and then Forza Horizon comes out 90 meta then
fucking Gears of War comes out another 90 plus meta game.
Halo, I'm not even going. To.
You'd be lucky if it was in low 80s, but 8281 maybe that's why I
reckon the hey, I don't even yeah, that's why I reckon it
will be maybe even low, who knows, but whatever fable Gears
of War and Forza Horizon doing that would be resulting in.
Xbox having the best. Most critical year of.
Five years? 10 years?
When has Xbox? Gone that hard.
I I don't think they've done it for two generations.
They haven't, have they? No, they haven't.
Do they? Even have any freaking wow think
about that Xbox didn't have. Anything remotely.
Close in the Xbox One generation, that would be the
best performance of Xbox and it's not just a minor thing.
Having three games like that and delivered that rawly is a
madness, is a madness that would.
Result in Xbox having the. Best year ever in terms of
software on paper anyway. They'll somehow they'll find a
way to fuck you up. But let's just humour me for a
bit. What does that mean for Asha
Sharma? Even though she's stepping into
this space, even though Phil Spencer may have bought some of
the groundwork, she reaps the benefits of all this stuff.
The big question is exclusivity. It's always going to be
exclusivity. She knows she can't dodge it.
All the fucking shills who enabled Microsoft to excuse
their multiplat strategy with this is an Xbox and it's
exclusive disappearing blah blah blah.
They those guys have done. So much harm to Xbox just by
optic standard because if you are people who like me called
out Xbox for the exclusivity and Xbox bring it back People like
serve and all these other things will celebrate exclusivity all
over again. But I'm.
Just telling you there's no. Value in listening to these
basic bitches. Listen to me, listen to me.
Give me the job as Osama. I will do it.
I will make. Greatness I.
Will create Xbox greatness. I will bring back exclusivity
because I would say we need to have faith.
We need to have faith in the freaking box in the brand.
We don't need to haul yourself out to PlayStation.
You, you don't need to do that. Bring it back the golden tide.
But you know what? They won't do it.
Staffo's coming out on PlayStation.
Dependence of edition on. Consoles anyway with.
The PS-5 Pro Halo. Halo coming to PlayStation?
Disgusting is disgusting. And you know the shells.
The shells. Like like surf, they've just
fucked it up. They fucked up Xbox.
They fucked up Xbox because they're whatever the.
Corporate mandate they get they they just accepted it and now a
lot of these people are too committed to even do AU turn
some of us, some of us. Bond. 3S325 says Xbox is back
Hey Asha Sharma. You're listening to.
Me. You want Xbox to be back.
You cannot ignore the exclusivity questions.
Keep the next Elder Scrolls exclusive and watch those Xboxes
fly. Even if it's.
Expensive. The mere shock of Elder Scrolls.
Not being available on. PlayStation would be a huge
marketing boon in its own right. Do it make?
The. Industry, The industry is so
lazy now and I do blame Xbox for it.
I do blame Xbox for it. You will.
Oh how are you blaming Xbox for the entire industry being lazy
or Sony being lazy? Because if you're a platform
holder in the space and a trillion dollar companies
backing you up into it and you bought your way into the space,
you fucking better accept the fact that you have a
responsibility to safeguard competition when it has
competition. Let us have competition.
Remember freaking Satya Nadella, the disgrace that the moment ABK
went through they did the E complete opposite.
But Xbox and Microsoft whoever, they have an absolute
responsibility if you bought in to this creative space to
maintain exclusivity and maintain competition and
exclusivity does that. The moment that happens the the
look at the landscape now. PlayStation coasting like mad,
price hikes again. Not nearly a grand for a
console. Now it's over a grand if you buy
a PS-5 Pro and a disc Dr. I haven't even bought a game yet.
It's a grand. They're coasting on 3rd party
money easily. They've got Call of Duty money
coming in easily. Microsoft is supplementing them
with their cut easily. Imagine all that changes.
Microsoft says fuck it, you know what?
These guys are taking the piss. They're pulling back their
games. We're getting nothing in return
and we have to think about the long term prospects of this
brand and what it means. We've got the PC space already
locked in. Why don't we just go back and
say, you know what, let's just actually show that we have
confidence in our brand. Look, I hate Microsoft.
Microsoft just blow in. Absolutely atrocious company,
but they're in the gaming space. I can't create another gaming
company or console or platform holder in the space.
That ship has sailed now. There's no more.
There's going to be no more sagas or Ataris or whatever.
This is it. This is it.
So what do you do? You have to want to.
Have competition in. This space, one of the few
motherfuckers in this space that actually wants is me.
That's the fucking hilarious. But whether you agree or not,
one thing you have to at least give me credit for.
I give a shit about the space and competition.
Not all these people who are just doing brand loyalty because
I don't give a shit about Microsoft.
I don't give a shit about Xbox as a brand other than I want it
to be compared to. If that Sega came out of nowhere
and it's actually maintained and got the shit right, I would
Chuck Xbox back in the toilet. You don't care.
I want someone who's a serious entrance in this space, but we
have no choice. You want?
Asha Sharma said again, the same thing.
She's very good at talking. She wants to bring back that
renegade spirit, the renegade spirit that defined the Xbox
environment and the execs that were working in the back.
The renegade spirit requires you, requires you to do stuff
that Renegades do. And the Renegades don't just
mouth off corporate spiel from a mandate that they get from the
bold headed CEO of the company. They don't do that.
If you want a renegade spirit, you actually want a renegade
spirit, then you have to think outside the box.
You have to fly in the face of the very CEOs that have put you
in that position in the 1st place.
Who did that? Who did that?
James Allard, the father of Xbox with a 360 of the original Xbox.
He did that. He had a renegade spirit.
So much so that he made freaking Bill Gates, Mr Epstein Island
visitor, storm off from the office.
He was so pissed at what James Allard and the team had created
for Xbox, it flew in the face of what the corporate mandate was.
No windows on this console. What the fuck?
This is a puritan gaming console with an expertly designed
freaking machine with freaking 8 gig hard drive and mandatory
online land broadband that took the space to another level.
And James Allard. When the 360 came out, he was
wearing his blazer and a hoodie, sat on the floor and showing
everyone. Talking to everyone.
About achievements. And no one knew that back then
that achievements would be so big and would fundamentally
change. So the way so many people play
games. Sony copied them, PC copied
them, but Nintendo didn't. And that's the thing.
That's the thing. This is why the.
Space needs people like me. And less corporate shills like
serve 6 O 828 and all the other people you see in this space.
You're welcome, you're welcome, You're welcome.
You're. Welcome.
Replicant says I want Asher to be.
Bold bring back exclusives kill day one on game pass Game passes
are weight round their neck impacting sales.
Shout out to. You thank you so.
Much for the Super chat. Replicant.
I did a poll a few weeks ago and I said if you had a choice
between killing Game Pass and bringing back exclusives, what
would you do? And the majority said bring back
exclusives and that you know what, replicant?
How dare you, how dare you say get rid of game pass that would
bring gaming accessible to so many people.
You would do that? Serve is almost crying in his
fucking bed right now. He's crying.
Now, how could you get rid of? This so much value I get for my
game pass. I wouldn't be able to afford
games if it wasn't for game pass.
Yeah, Replicant, you piece of shit.
How dare you? How dare you be absolutely
right, motherfucker. You're right, bro.
Listen to me. What's the long term?
This is a. Creative space gaming is not.
I'm not saying I want it. Listen, I experienced gaming at
his height because of piracy. I'll be honest with you and game
pass is the closest thing to that.
But what's the value of the fucking platform holder if the
spirit of gaming has completely been shat on?
That's what I'm saying. Treat it like the art form.
I'm the. One who say.
Safeguard the creativity. Funny isn't it?
For the guy who defends AI tools and the freaking under tattoo
artist is sitting there freaking sticking the needle up his ass
because he wants to get value for money.
Go to fucking Tesco and get your meal.
Do you pizza? This is about freaking
creativity. We want dankness.
This is not about freaking trying to make it accessible for
the sake of you love because you got a coupon there.
You feel like you're entitled to your basic bitch games.
We want to have curating experience.
We want to have competition in this space.
We want Microsoft to fucking fight Sony and Sony to fight
Nintendo and intended to fight everybody and Gabe Nil to do
whatever the fuck he's doing so they can make some memes in this
space. Because now when you have these
fucking islands fighting, we're on a platform level so that they
don't know Sony doesn't have a freaking Front or western RPG
and go fucking build a western RPG.
Xbox you don't have JRPG, you go build a fucking JRPG.
You. Motherfucker stop giving them
games little shits you idiots. Man, this is the whole point of
my exclusivity. It fucking galvanises the
entrance to start competing to build games and they don't
bother to build for you mother. Why does nobody get it?
Why does? Nobody get it?
Oh my God, I'm surrounded by fucking.
MPCS in this space is the fact this is the space in creativity
and all the fucking anti people are talking about creativity.
Hey David D, this guy has no clue.
Yeah, that's why. You're stuck there in the
comment section fucking tattooing your own name in your
asshole while I'm sitting there listening to me, you Dick heads.
That's what I'm talking about. I'm talking.
About this is. Facts.
This is the reality all you guys need in the space.
Critical thinking is an all time low.
Gas, I know tardish gaming, that's why you got served there.
Fucking drawing cartoons on his own neck because he doesn't know
what the fuck he's talking about and.
Then you go rambling entertained because he.
Sucks the Dick out of AMD cards because corporate twerker, I'm
telling you the fucking opposite.
You're consigning. You're doing the very thing the
corporates want you to do. You're, you're Microsoft's cock.
You're literally just there. They're just, they're just
drilling your backside and you're like corporate twerker
because you're an AMD. Just basic melt with your basic
bitch card. Sat there crying about DLSS not
because it's fucking an AMD released fucking DLSS 5.
Rambling Entertainment would suck the Dick Calvin.
This is the difference between me and all the other Xbox guys.
I will still call it out, but even the PC space has the
rambling entertained basic little freaking cool brand
worshipping pricks. I'm the holy guy.
The holy guy telling you, telling you what needs to be
done for the betterment of all. Hey guys, thoughts on game pass
and exclusivity? What?
What do you mean? I don't understand.
I don't use garbage. Yes, you do you.
You share the specs of your PC, get the fuck out of here.
Namely, one PC game that PC gamers.
Love to brag about being exclusive?
I don't know, one of the biggest games ever.
World of Warcraft that still has about God is how many billion?
OK, you aren't even a real PC Gamer.
OK, you're not even a real tattoo artist.
What's a real PC game I built a fucking.
PC you little peasant, don't put your freaking GoFundMe page link
in the chat so we can give you 5 shekels for you to spend on game
pass you little shit. Sweet rat.
I still want game pass though. Listen, I'm just.
We're talking. About hypotheticals If, if.
The option. Was given to us.
And I can. See it?
I see it. I'm like Paula Tradies after I
injected some fucking spice or that blue liquid, you know when
they when they finally had that worm liquid and you see all
possible futures, but I see a narrow way through.
I could save us all. Asha Sharma, it's on your on
your ass. It's on your ass.
Tarnish gamer goes. People still think PC gamers
care? About the same things console
gamers do. It doesn't take exclusives to
sell APC. Can you say the same about your
favourite brand? Source that?
Source PC. Has its own right, it doesn't
rely, although I'll be honest with you from the longest time
my biggest bugbear is developers don't do PC first.
But that's the reality of it. And in the same space console
console owners have, the console platforms have also well up
until lately risen the tide. Abby for the win.
Good to see you man. It could.
But here's what it is. Has anyone seen this guy ever
playing games? All the time.
Who are you, Sir? Sir, have you are?
You a tattoo? Us.
Have we seen you do any tattooing?
Let's see your art. I guarantee you you showed it to
us right now. We'd fucking laugh at the
fucking. I bet you're on the Internet for
one of those fucking weird freaking tattoos that people
want to sue you for. Don't even chat shit just go and
play games you. Are always.
In the chat being a spectator and crying like a little bitch.
Why are you making fun of Xbox so much?
Why are you here? Who are you?
Nope. This is the first time I've ever
seen him in my life. That's crazy.
Xbox need to take Call of Duty out of.
Game pass and cut the price. I don't.
Don't they have a? Call of Duty Less.
They have so many tiers now with game pass Game pass needs to get
Game Pass just needs a thorough revision there.
There's so many fucking tiers now.
I just like just keep it simple. Apparently they're going to
introduce like a first party only tier, so there'll be.
A tier where you can just. Play Xbox first party games.
I think that would be a good idea.
I don't see any of the reason why that would be a bad idea,
although obviously that puts pressure on Xbox to deliver more
first party games, but that would be good.
No. Like I said, chat.
It's always the ones the the government rationed ones.
I definitely never seen Gaz Reck.
Noobs and. Halo Infinite?
Nope. Never ever swear.
Abby, shut your ass. But yeah, look, game.
Boss. Just one one.
With day one games and one. Without you.
Got to get rid of that shit man. You get rid of that shit game
boss just seems. A bit convoluted.
I think they want to get rid but you know I.
Say that I wasn't thinking that they wanted to get rid of game
pass and then all of a sudden the next partner showcase so
many game pass games and they're not just minor games, man,
they're pretty decent games. I was like, all right, OK,
they're still going pretty hard on a game pass.
That's that's a really I mean with third parties as well.
Remember, the biggest complaint is that game pass only has like
doesn't have that many third party partnerships, but they had
decent games on on that service. I'm like, all right, that's
pretty good. Got to do a Sony and get day
one. Out of game pass if they
introduce. I don't.
What's the point? Day one is the best value of
Game Pass. Yeah, Christopher, you're right.
It's day one that makes it worth the conversation.
I know it's all that rolled up and all of that, but like to the
point where the day one is so good that if you just did a a
game Pass tier, let's say it was like $9, right?
But it was only for their first party games. 100% be subscribed
to that 100. Percent.
Lower price. Point but.
Just for their first party time, even though they're less scared,
they've got such such a big mega publisher now, they could
finesse that easily and I think that would actually work really
well. What's this AI music?
These are real artists, by the way, but you're pissed off.
But you can't tell that, isn't it?
Real artists who's who are getting paid.
By me. They have the game passed here
where first party. Comes in 6 to 12 months later.
Keep that one. Yeah.
Plus it does get a lot. I'm happy.
If Game Pass gives good discounts all round on games
which have been getting some crazy for you deals, I don't
look at that to be honest with you.
Like today. So I bought Street Fighter six
day one on Xbox. Then I bought it on Nintendo
Switch, which I haven't even played because my friend Julian
wanted to play no. Today I just bought it on PC
again. Because my brother's been
streaming C56 and I don't have time to fucking play these
games, but I played it today on PC and it was like 9 pounds 9
lbs on CD keys or something. Oh I said it was.
I thought it was CD keys. It was something else after CD
keys and I went to another website I ended up buying.
It works. It wasn't a scam loaded or
something third party event. I didn't even know that it was a
website but £9 com. That's the thing with PC man,
you can get so many deals, so many deals so you get rinsed on
console all the time. Like even PlayStation don't even
have CD code digital codes. It's disgraceful.
So PlayStation you always get shafted.
You just assume you get shafted all the time, whereas on PC it's
just there I. Thought let me just look.
At it, it's £37. I'm like, let me just check CD
get 9 LB done. Is that.
The PSSR 2 playlist. No stop loaded is called now is.
It actually loaded. Is CD keys not called loaded?
I thought it was it was the same website.
Is it? Oh, it is called loaded.
All right, I thought this looks awful, like CD keys.
Bought it straight away. That's it.
Yes, sign out. Done.
I don't want to think about it. Boom, now I quit.
Done in a few minutes. Game installed, ready to play
PC. This is the meme man.
This is the future. This is why Xbox is the one
smart thing they're doing is moving towards PC with their
hardware which gives a value proposition to their console and
changes things up. I rate them for.
It I rate them for it. Well done, rebranded.
I didn't even know that. I.
Thought I looked at the. UI I'm like this is quite on the
nose there the. Copy there, motherfucker.
It works. The.
I checked the trusted review. Shit.
Yeah. Let's talk about State of Decay
3A game that I thought was dead. I thought this was dead.
I thought there's no way. Yeah, well, I talked about it on
the show. Like, there's one game I'm SUS
about. It's State of Decay 3.
Like because Undead Labs have been.
Working on it. For what?
Seven years. Oh, God knows how too long.
Too long. And I'm going to be honest with
you, I'm a little bit. Disappointed.
A little bit. Disappointed with what I'm.
Hearing about state of decay three if you had followed.
The. Development.
Of State of Decay and what it was supposed to be in the
aspirations of the developers behind that IP, you would have.
Known that there. Was.
What they wanted the game their. Ultimate game to be.
Was. This online.
Game like. The dream game.
Like this? Is the game that whoever smashes
it out of the park will make millions?
But it doesn't look like it will be Undead Labs.
What it's what? They said they wanted to be as
this. Online game was almost like The
Walking Dead, but in like in game form.
You and your friends got on this massive online world, shared
world and you're, you know, building resources to survive,
basically like a survival game. Like like your Daisy.
What what Daisy tried to be. I want Daisy.
It was massively successful, but the idea of the the the what
Daisy was trying for, everyone kind of knows what it was.
And the State of Decay has the opportunity to make some memes,
but unfortunately. To for me.
Anyway, after all that time in development, they've.
I don't know. They kind of found it in.
I'm going. To play it now, yeah.
Any survivors? Out there.
So is this thing working? Can you?
Hear me. Love.
This has been. Driven by their Brant
Fitzgerald. By their community.
From the Undead Labs enclave. In Seattle and I'm broadcast, I
feel like they're they've been listening to their close knit.
Community be a little bit too much this message to the State
of Decay community. To give you an update on State
of Decay 3. Over the last few years, most of
the. Team's been doing updates for
State of Decay 2. The rest of us been creating
cool for State of Decay 3. We've been keeping a close eye
on what you liked about. State of Decay 2 and what you
didn't We've read your SO already, they've kind.
Of. That pisses me off.
It's disappointing because they they kept such a close eye on
state of decay too and what the community want with that.
I'm like, all right, you've already consigned yourself.
You you resigned yourself to the scope of the second game,
whereas the idea behind what your ultimate form was like was
massively more ambitious than what State of Decay Two and one
are. Feedback on Discord.
We've watched your gameplay. Clips and live streams on
YouTube. We just got three and one baby
and through it. All we've seen how powerful and.
Tight knit this community is, and I think that.
As soon as I was hearing that, I'm like, oh, here we go.
The tight knit community of the people that really love the game
for what it is. I'm not saying it's not worth
loving. Those guys own little systems
and all of that. People love that game.
I know. I know friends of mine who are
obsessed with State of Decay too.
But. That's all you got to do, guys,
it became. Clear the community is.
Survival and that we need your help.
And if you've made it this far, great, because starting next
month we'll be hosting a series of alpha play tests with the
community. So just net only?
Is 1A play test couple of things to bear in mind with that for
me. Immediately I thought, oh wow,
we get to freaking play state of decay already.
Well, whoever gets into the alpha, that's great Like I
thought this game was cancelled so they even any opportunity to
even play it is great. But then after seven years
you're like wait a minute fucking alpha like like is it
actually an alpha? You know, because they call it
beta. And then with the marathon and
then seven days or six days later the game came out.
So it's like what? What's an alpha now is, I don't
know. I'm expecting this to come out
next year, but we'll see. Listen, I'm not going to spoil
the surprise. For you, but I can say that it
will feature 4 player Co-op, some new base building and yeah,
there you go that. Is disappointing for you, but I
can say. That he did spoil it for.
Me because he said it will feature. 4 Player Co-op 4.
Player Co-op. Some new base building and
resource. Strategies and some new base
building and resource. Strategies.
A whole lot of combat if. Scavenging supplies in the
middle of a zombie outbreak sounds fun to you?
Then grab your ruck, pack some mags and head over to our
website to find more information and register for a chance to be
Yeah, and the rest of it is just whatever.
Now I don't. Know if I'm that excited about
that? Four play cup is fun.
That's great like in terms of that, but what's the scope of
it? Is it consigned to four player
Co-op? What happened to the shared
world element of it? Is it going to be still haven't
retained that shared? World stuff.
Are you persistent? In your base.
Building how is it going to be the interactions with people
outside? This is where you know, games
like we have proximity chat. Do I trust the humans that are
coming in the can we work together old stuff for what
community that kind of stuff. That's the idea and what they
create is the very creatives of State of Decay were were selling
the idea of I need to be able to find the the original article
quite old and even at the start of this Gen they talked about
the aspirations for and it was a lot more lofty.
What they said was like we are going to go for this.
Our dream has always been this and we built this, but our dream
was to take it to another echelon.
But it looks sounds like to me they've scaled it back their
expectations and done something more manageable, which is 4
player Co-op with the same kind of resource building and stuff.
So for State of Decay fans who want a conservative upgrade,
that's great for seven years in the.
Making for. Something like this you deserve.
To be judged. Accordingly, for a title like
that, Replicant, you've nailed it.
In fact. Actually so funny you mentioned
that. Replicant says this should have
been like the Division, a game with zombies and shit, not just
another 4 player Co-op Facts. That's what Replicant is.
Spot on, and even The Division is actually the if you watch the
original Division trailer and what it ended up being that was
disappointing with its sequestered dark zones and
things like that that gave the impression of a much more wide
open pervasive universe with a real focus on survival.
Not massive numbers just bouncing off enemy human enemies
that took thousand bullets to kill.
It was a was mis sold quite a bit.
But with State of Decay, you can actually take the statements
from the very developers about what they were aiming for with
State of Decay 3 and what this guy is saying now.
I haven't seen it, but he's given an idea there.
And that idea there is, I think purposely managing expectations.
They say look, it will have. Foreplay it will have base.
Building. And that is, to me a resignation
from the developers that, you know, we the scope has been
whittled down massively. Now people cry about it.
Captain Chat said the same thing.
That's exactly what I thought State of Decay 3 was going to
be, something like the division. But one pump man says we haven't
judged anything though so why you're judging it already?
Well we can only talk about what he's given us.
But if if it's a four player Co-op game with the same
resource building, then the scope is boom here.
It's not the Division. It's not.
Massively multiplayer only. You know the day after well, the
reason why people love that you know that that that game that
ended up being a scam day after tomorrow or something it was
called that just ended up being a complete utter lie.
The reason? Why people were so hyped?
About it was because it was like the division but with zombies in
a massive open world or massive world and you meet other players
and you're fucking scared. You're like yo-yo yo the world
is so oppressive. You need to use procs chat to to
work together. Should I trust this person or
not? Build friendships here and
there. If you've played games like
Daisy and miss created the the even at a smaller level is so
amazing. Those kind of that's why arc
Raiders are so big, even though that procs chat of that world.
It's why factions have such a big appeal of something a little
bit more than just a you know, multiplayer just like that.
And I don't think yeah, long as it's state of decay, surely
that's a win. It depends episode 13 on how you
perceive it. If you're just a state of decay
fan who won a better state of decay game, fine.
But if you're someone who's followed the development of
State of Decay from of the first game and what the developer was
saying. That they could do and you.
Could you can understand what the scope of this title it could
be then? It's a bit disappointing.
And you? Can't really judge people for
being. Well, taking the developers at
their word, really, but. I just feel like, yeah, for me.
It's a it's a disappointment. It's a disappointment.
Luke Steele says my biggest concern.
My biggest concern is, and I know there will only be very
brief namely steps of this video is that I use.
I thought visually it looks rough.
Alpha, of course, but a far cry from the 2024 trailer we also
saw. Clips.
Of the which is played right now.
So in the trailer you saw bits of it.
I'll be honest with you Luke, I thought it was staying like, is
that staying Dicky 2 or is it three?
If they phone in the visuals, they deserve to get called out
for it. I think our Dead Labs have had a
pretty tumultuous development timeline with this game and I
think visuals. Will be the one to be called.
Out for it and you'll see it here.
What was the gameplay snippet? And I gave them so much credit.
UE 5, they're building this game.
It looks amazing now. You'll see it here and it's
purporting to be gameplay. You don't put over the shoulders
here. You'll see in a second right now
and you see all this is in. Engine graphics are.
Amazing. This is what we're going to have
to look. This is in engine graphics.
Here we go. And then you'll start to see.
Look here. And I expect this kind of
fidelity now. And if that fidelity is not
there, well then. And it's not even like asking a
tall. Order.
But it looks nice. It looks present.
Look at that. That kind of visual stuff I need
to see. I'm not saying it's not going to
look that nice, but if it does and mine and Luke's concerns are
not. Addressed and the game does kind
of look a. Little bit sketchy in the pre
alpha state or even if it's pre alpha state, I'm sorry, but
seven years of development, don't fucking try and make an
excuse. It's just an alpha.
We've been here, done that thing again.
I don't want to see excuses for that shit.
This is the kind of imagine this kind of open world, like all
this kind of shit. There's a scope for what state
of decay is supposed to be and based on what you're saying,
it's it's going to be a very conservative upgrade.
It's going to be state of decay too, with some additional
features, bells and whistles, 4 player Co-op.
It's not going to set the. World on fire, but.
It might be a decent, fun, good game.
It could even be a good game. It's not what it needs to be.
The scope could be something absolutely tremendous and that
lack of potential ambition, I'd love.
Look, I'd love to be wrong. I'd love to be absolutely wrong
and say, you know what, I was wrong.
They've really have done. This multiplayer.
Shared world thing really well, visuals are great to match the
2024 trailer state of decade 3 and I was.
Like I'm going to, I'm going to. Borrow that, I'm sorry.
Stayed and if it is like that. It is what it is.
Oh my God. You've got the excuses.
Out already. We've got.
And who's the excuse of the corporate?
Cock serve. It's just a trailer.
It's like that's why they had over the shoulder fucking
gameplay looking like mimicking gameplay.
It's just a trailer. And then when the game.
Comes out, they told you. It was 4 player Co-op and you
had resources. What more do you want?
I don't know. You fucking dared to dream and
take the developer at their word about the scope of the game.
You fuck it. I swear to God.
This is the kind of person that's going to make sure that
the government introduces us into a fucking basic diet and
Universal Credit. Basically like token system to
feed you. Here you go, you don't have to
work. Here's 1200 credits, put Avi
headset on and enjoy bliss. Yeah, and then you beg the
government to give you minimum amount of food to regulate your
serotonin levels. You've.
Yeah. I don't.
Know it's just my view. Let's see what happens.
But generally couldn't shake the.
Disappointment. There was more facts on the
ground from this on Biclobul. I will try and find that because
there were some details there. I might have saved it, actually.
Let me see. Let me see, Let me see.
Let me see. Safe.
Safe.
Ow. Oh yeah.
Here we go. Safe.
Let's see if it copies and paste.
Over, I can tell you some facts about State of Decay, Trey.
So shout out to Clove. Rule for this information, it
might be on Insider Gaming. As well actually, but I.
Didn't see it on the right the. Game is set into the future.
Blah. Blah blah, zombies and special.
Infected have evolved. Combat has been significantly
upgraded with more responsive locomotion and fluid movement.
Sounds good. Crafting a building Lean into a
post scarcity scavenging vibe where players improvise in a
while that's already been heavily looted.
That sounds good. Multiplayer supports up to four
player Co-op in a truly shared open world untethered.
So if you played the older game there was a there's tethering
which is shit because if someone went a little bit too far
forward just I don't think you teleported or something.
It was lame. It was fucking lame.
Players can start different. Locations and explore more.
Independently, while still contributing to a shared
experience, the solar experience is still a major focus.
The studio expects most players will play alone and it will feel
complete and satisfying on its own undead lap position.
Saved K3 has the biggest. Evolution in the series, and
that's the word. It's an evolution.
It's not building building. On the systematic depth.
Of the first two games while expanding the world.
Well, that just made it more scope Co-op freedom by not
having tethering combat feel or just quality of life upgrades.
Let's be honest. And emotional storytelling.
Well, I don't know about the story.
Well, that's a little bit of extra, but yeah.
All that suggests to. Me that kind of get an idea of
where they're going with this. I'm not saying it's going to be
a bad game, but the scope is nowhere near as ambitious as
what they wanted to do. In which case, maybe scope creep
came in this and that, but for seven years, hey.
It is what it is. It is.
What it is? Xbox One DDR3 was a mistake.
Like the 10 gig on the Series S? Maybe promise that info dump
looks promising. Yeah, yeah.
It's it's kind of what we is there a conservative?
Upgrade. Over that.
Guys, it's 45 minutes play time in this game just.
Looked. That's more than.
That's state of decay 2, state of decay one, and state of decay
State of decay one is nothing. It's just.
That's what I'm telling you. I've talked about this for ages.
I thought I'd play. More than that.
And that was it. Basic game, but the scope wasn't
that high. It is what it is is resigned to
their reality service so cries cry in the chat.
Is conservative upgrade. It is what it is.
Times 555. This dude.
Is a hate or holy? Shit bro this guy is the
biggest. Xbox.
Cock on the planet. He will suck the Dick out of
Xbox so rawly all the time to defend them.
He will never expect anything more.
And that's the basic NPC in the world you get.
I I hate I hate people like that who will just defend mediocrity
all the time, all the time. I'm telling you just just watch
watch him chat he and in success everyone's shows he's like that.
He's that weird like guy. He's really entitled.
We shouldn't pay him any attention, but you got that
greasy head kind of like. Yeah, Well, actually they can
hear the nasally voicing them, but here's what it.
Is. Times 6. 56 Nothing wrong with
an excellent AA. Look.
Save decay the way it is now. My good friend of mine, Ben, he
loves save decay. He will love save decay.
Three he doesn't care about. He doesn't care about maybe
perhaps well, he would care. He was the dream game for him
was like the day after tomorrow and for a lot of us it's like
that. It's why we played games like
miscreated, a beautiful game, but you will still enjoy this.
I know my brother will enjoy this because they love save
decay. They just even even in with stay
decay once the scope, you know the way the players are managing
their resources and their moods and stuff like that.
It was a fun. It was a fun loop, but still.
Nothing. Spectacular.
Captain Chester, I don't know what you're talking about.
You might have muted. Him, he's really, really
annoying, but yeah, that's that's state of decay if you're
if you're excited by it, that's great.
The alpha is out next month. Hopefully we can get into it I'm
not saying it's going to be a terrible game, but a lot of
people who all right, let me just find out state of decay all
right. You know what I should do to
really piss off Sir? I should use ChatGPT to find.
Help me. Use AI State of Decay, the
developer. Hopefully, hopefully AI can help
us. State of Decay is a resource
management game. If they simply add a multiplayer
mode, it quickly becomes Arc Raiders.
That's what they wanted though. That's.
What that's what I that's why I love that.
I would love that have the option for.
Have the option for thingy. Yeah, Captain Chat.
Doesn't seem surf because he's obviously muted him like 90% of
us sane people. Yeah, I suggest we all do that.
Oh. Here we go.
I think I found the article. No, I'm trying to find it.
No, that's not it. An option for multiplayer would
be great. I agree there.
No multiplayer means the game's scope is very not that high and
you're going to get what is it good to you How?
Are you going to? Get.
Look, I'm not saying. It's going to be a bad game.
You have to keep repeating. That it'll be it'll be state of
Decay fans will love it. They have a close knit
community. They've followed that, but that
suggests that they've they've toned it down massively in terms
of scope. But that's fine.
Look, developers want to cater to their at the moment.
This is the problem with with that development.
They can't, they're so risk averse, which is the big concern
I have with Gears E Day. When when a coalition.
Took over the IP. I was like, are they actually
going to be? Scared shitless to take this to
another level. Like to expand the scope beyond
what the status quo is and and they didn't with Gears Four.
They were very close to it and it didn't really make a mark.
Then there went. Open world, which was a.
Big change, but I don't think it was a positive change and it and
cue me years since gears 2 even saying that this is what they
need to do with gears finally with Gears E day on paper what
they've said they want. To do is.
Exactly what I've wanted them to do.
And I've spent years on podcasts saying the same things to the
point where even Cliff plays everyone came at me for for, for
that. Oh, you're talking shit.
No, it's fine. Gears of War doesn't need to
change. The same people, the same kind
of people on the chat that you know that were defending
mindlessly, same people. And then Gears E Day announced
it and the details of it were announced.
And Cliff Blazinski comes out and says this is exactly the
next step for what I wanted Gears of War to do.
Gears 5 was decent. I'm not saying it was, it was
terrible, but it didn't. Really.
Fundamentally make a massive mark, but I enjoyed gears.
He's a problem. The story was shit, was
absolutely shit and Hive Busters was nice good fun thing, but it
didn't leave a mark. Because if you truly believe in
Gears of War, Gears of War can be a very, very potent IP beyond
what they delivered Gears 5 and Hive Busters and.
Gears E Day looks like he has. Everything going for it.
And people made fun of me for that.
You know you're playing gears on big massive gears head.
So why are you so like the on on gears?
Oh, then how does how on earth did I land on exactly what the
developers are aiming for the Gears E day because.
That's what it is. A Cliff of me ended up being a.
Weirdo. OK, it is weird, but it's not
like you you're fucking weird. How long have they been working
on E day? That's a good question because
the Coalition has sat. Out the.
Entire Gen they're like Naughty Dog.
I know Hive Busters came out a little bit sooner.
They had a cancelled game. I forgot the name of that title
and that sounds quite cool actually.
But it was. Oh yeah, Gears of War just ended
up being oh, I'm trying to find the tweet where I talked about
where I found. Where's the Cliff Burzynski
talked about? Gears of War.
Let me see if I. Twitter search function is so
shit. But.
Yeah, Gears of I'm trying to find it, but it was, it was
listing all the things that developers wanted, all the
things you talked about, the survival horror game, making a
slow, slower paced, more horror, you know, more bloody, more the
weight of the the proceedings back into the game.
It was amazing. I was just like, that's what
I've been talking about and I was working on a video.
Maybe I should still do it, but it's not even that far off.
So it's like I was going to use AI to generate some like what I
was conceiving for Gears of War as an idea.
So because right now, because I did that with the Starfield
right where it pulled the same assets and kind of delivered
made made it like it look like the game when I created with AI
like it was a very basic breaching mechanic, breaching
into a ship when you aboard them.
But that was amazing. And I thought, OK, with this
kind of tool, I can really explain and show vision, help
people see the visuals of what I'm talking about, what that
kind of gameplay looks like. So I might still do that, but
it's only a couple of months till Gears of Wars shown in a
deep dive, a deep dive as well, which is I didn't expect it.
I didn't expect the 2026 release, which they've doubled
down on and I didn't expect a deep dive and I'm very grateful
for that. So that's going to be really
good. I mean, just that on its own is,
I mean, when you're talking about the Xbox Game Showcase in
in June, what are you expecting them to show to me?
I don't know what else can they. Show, but I would have.
Said the big surprise for. Me.
Well, Elder Scrolls. That would be huge.
And Gears E Day, except Gears E Day is actually getting its own
deep dive after the show, which is fucking crazy.
Didn't expect that. You could have showed me Gears.
And I'll be like, yeah, great show because they've produced
and released so many games now. Like in terms of volume, in
terms of Metacritic, they were done really well.
Doing really well. Blade.
Yeah, absolutely.
There are rumours of Blade being shown off.
I want to see that. I'll have questions.
A lot of people have questions around the the the tone of the
the Blade games. I've Blades.
Blade, yeah. I hope Arcane Leon really,
really smash out of the park. Yeah, it's good Blade.
If Blade looks they showed of Elder Scrolls and the show of
gears looks crazy and then they show of Blade and it looks
amazing and. It's crazy we we'll see some.
Amazing stuff, amazing stuff. We could potentially have.
I'm expecting a really good showcase and just by virtue of
Gears of War being there, amazing, amazing.
StarCraft shooter captain chats don't.
Even do that to me, but apparently that's going to be a
BlizzCon reveal. Clockwork Revolution.
Absolutely. Captain Awesome.
That's a great point. Clockwork Revolution is due a
real actually, I think that's a good shout.
We'll see more of it because we saw quite a lot of gameplay for
it last year. I think it was last year.
Of the year before, but that looked.
Good. And that that looks like a
definite 2027 release to me. I hope Blade is a hit.
Insomniac and need some competitions as a Takushaku.
It's free real estate right now. That's a good point.
I didn't think about Blade in the sense of a Marvel IP like
that. Is it going to be what kind of
do we have details on the ground or what kind of game it's going
to be? I don't know, it better be
violent. A lot of people are.
Like put off by the. Art style, but yeah.
I don't know what else can they show?
What else can they? Show at that showcase.
First party though is I'm not kind of counting third party
stuff. What else can they show Xbox?
Last few shows have been really good and well made.
In the setup and stuff and the format, yes, their format, they
smashed it with a 2024 show format.
That was really good. That was really good.
They've confirmed it's a third person action game.
But beyond that, no real details.
Thanks, Luke. Yeah, third person.
But let's fuck. At least it's third person.
It was another Indiana. Joe's doing your first person
thing. It'll be like, oh, fuck it.
Oh yeah, smash the like button. People except serve.
I do not want your like you weird fuck.
Oh 30 minutes MSI aftercare is going to Kick It Out for no
reason. Give me it's Quake reboot
please. Oh my day.
Don't even say Quake to me, man. Reboot though.
Not. Reap.
I'll take anything Quake, I'll be honest with you, but I don't
want a remake. I want a new Quake.
But a new Quake. The arena shooter Quake would
need I. I I genuinely think it needs.
Thingy's help on it? What's his?
Name John Carmack Because you need to, you know, you have to
have really good ideas to release justify an arena shooter
in the space. It has to release the IT engine
as open source to compete with Unreal Engine as the good old
times. I don't know if a lot of
developers would take on IT engine.
I don't think it's as refined as Unreal in terms of an engine
capable of being used by the masses.
I feel like a lot more work is done.
See. If Thieves 2 no please don't.
See if Thieves 2 and you can see the Kraken's whole body.
It only took them. Over a.
Decade prototype remake. I wish I loved prototype 2, that
would be amazing. I think just poured cold water
on this and definitively not happening.
I don't think he would go out of his way to say that if that's
not the case, but then he. Said the same thing by
exclusive, didn't he? Jess, fuck's sake.
But yeah, so I wonder what they're.
Doing I think it's. Not on its own.
There's so much coming out. Like we just take it for
granted. If they showed Elder Scrolls or
any kind of Elder Scrolls, fucking mad.
If they show well, they're showing gears.
Of war, they'll show. I'm pretty sure they'll show
Clockwork Revolution. I think that's a good shout.
I think they will do that. StarCraft has got to be a quake
on thing. I don't give a shit about Banjo.
Piss off with Banjo Kazooie I.
Don't want to see Banjo ever. Wild.
Fuck it, I don't. Even say that bro what?
The fuck are rare been doing how they not?
Shut down already. Seriously.
Are they not shut? Down already.
I don't know what they're working on.
Just see. If thieves is keeping them.
Afloat and see if. Thieves not doing all that
great, is it? Although I was watching my
brother's gameplay the other day, it was actually still got
that on. Microsoft was sitting on a gold
mine with Viva Pinata. They could do an Animal Crossing
type game and have Xbox related pinatas visit you.
Maybe, maybe, maybe you're right.
Not for me, but potentially CFDS makes huge money.
Yeah, I think CFDS the only one that actually brings in money
for Rez keeping them afloat. And yeah, I did do well on
PlayStation. It's a surprise, isn't?
It 6. Year old game ended up like
dominating their charts and a sea of Thieves and didn't even
need a Kraken body to fucking be a success.
We're going to see Fable, obviously, because the game's
coming out soon. So yeah, we'll see a lot.
More fable and I want to see a lot more.
Combat, and I'll be. Honest with you, console
performance might be a bit shit unless it's on the PS. 5 Pro.
Because the the frame rate looked sketchy if you look at
Fable or I'm going to see a Fable gameplay.
Where's the Fable gameplay trailer?
It's on the PlayStation Shadow right at the top.
Look at this, do you like this chat?
Are you OK with it? You're of course you're OK with
it because you have no testicles like serve the look.
I mean you can see there already like the frame rate even on
PlayStation I heard wasn't on PlayStation.
This is in in game look look at the fucking volumetric.
This is why PC master race man look at the light leak it's just
depth of this game is just beautiful man The horizon engine
is doing bits Look at that. I can't wait till now Forza
Horizon 6 with full extreme mode in that right Luke Steel and
Captain chaps. We've got to play with full on
ray tracing and shit volumetric lighting.
Look at that this game is. Going to be amazing.
This is the one game where. It will potentially outdo its
legacy. It looks amazing, man, and I
feel like they'll get the there that that that frame rate there
is atrocious. I think the in game you I'm I'm
calling it now for. Consoles this.
Game is not going to work that well.
Look at that, look at that frame rate terrible in in the city, in
the city especially I I reckon it'll be like janky, but.
That's a. Console peasant problem.
Crank those Forza tech RT. Features up guys going to be
glorious. I can't wait they need to do a
trailer just for Forza Horizon sake with the with the with the
ray tracing on just like they did with Forza Motorsport.
They lied but with Forza Horizon I want to see they do the
trailer show the in his best guys.
I'm sorry. Just show us the show us the
schleems man. I want to see this.
Game is going to be coming out. In a month and it looks sick.
I'll be honest with you. Actually, some of the visuals
didn't. Actually, I didn't.
I think it was a generational leap.
It looks quite. Conservative and and.
Considering the last game was crossed, crossed and it'll still
look good because the game of the first game.
Last game looks really good visually astounding.
But because it's not crossed yet I was expecting more.
But I haven't seen the ray tracing yet.
So when I see the ray tracing PC mastery stuff, I'll be able to
turn off the Hut like I normally do and I'll just enjoy May 19th
I'll enjoy it's. Coming next.
Month, baby. Forza.
Horizon 6 is here man. And it's in Japan, in Japan of
all places, that the peak. Serve.
Serve is so. Assaulting as Scousers of 59,
he's better than everybody else. Facts.
I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry. I get.
To play in the tank as shit. I'm not.
Sorry, and they have your own garage as well.
In this game, yeah, you're right.
They'll have a Tokyo garage car meet with people and friends.
AC too cold. My friend's in Japan right now.
He sent me, like, videos of just doing the meet.
Oh, my God. Hey, Luke.
Still you keep going to Japan. Surely you've got to the car
meet and the underground drift sessions because.
Car culture vibe is amazing. 4070 super still beast old
retro. I don't know if I'll do ray
tracing I might do. 4070 is not a slouch man.
What are you talking about? That's a decent card his.
Shits on the console peasants. I can't wait.
Did he show more? Like drift racing and shit like
that. In that game, he'll be sick.
I'll be sick. Xbox is coming with the big guns
outside Phantom. Death.
Excited to see what they've cooked up.
Hope is high. They listen to all the feedback
from 5:00. I hope so too.
Too busy eating Wagyu and. Copious amounts of.
Ramen whilst I'm out there, Don't blame me man because the
food you took all the pictures, amazing you play Forza Horizon.
Five with extremist. Ray tracing.
You'll be fine, man. You'll be fine.
You'll be. Running a Max star as well
actually. What are the specs of it?
Forza Horizon 6 PC spec Insider Gaming Insider Gaming has.
The scoop? Genuinely.
I'm being. Serious, genuinely inside a
gaming's website. Is so.
Not clean so much shit out there and the app so nice.
If it wasn't I wouldn't. I wouldn't be part of inside a
gaming so clean. Where's the less recommended?
Here's the extreme version. Hey, look, you're good old retro
gamer. You're you're, you're loving it.
Bro, that's for. Extreme need 24.
Gig ram though. 4K60 Plus. Hey, it's not bad.
So you'll be joining the. Extreme crews.
Oh shit, it is a lovely site. Yeah, inside the game, it's
website. It's really nice.
Just nice to navigate. No shit, no fluff, no fucking
intrusive ads everywhere. Like OK, obviously here ad here
is fine, but boom, navigate through the app though is
amazing and I'm like gassing up like oh, you're part of inside
the game. That's why you're doing it, Rev.
Just look. Show you oh.
Let me show you, show you. It is sick.
Are you? I didn't think I was.
I look at this and thought, well, we could have done this
for game on daily because it just looks so just run so fast.
Look at this, how fucking smooth it is.
I don't know who their developers are, but they're
fucking sick. It's so fast.
It's so smooth, the speed. Is the main thing as well.
So nice man. Just go in there that's it down
it's sick. This is what you want.
Download the app and the subscription you get is some
sick shit as well. I should do some like exclusive
content for them. It makes it memes.
Oh, the music stopped. That's how far.
That's how long I've been. Streaming battery's not dead
yet. I haven't even looked at the
camera feed yet. I don't know if I'm too blurry
or not or you guys haven't said anything so that's fine you.
Know what I'm going to play? I'm going to play some F0.
X music, yeah. Oh shit.
Oh my God, Oh my God.
Serves complaining about ads. No intrusive ads out of two or
three ads. How are they intrusive you?
Just saw the. Fucking the thing.
Oh my God, this is, I'm telling you, this society.
Needs. To have a better way to hold.
Members of the public. Accountable for their
contribution towards society. Serve you.
Are exactly exactly the type of person.
I would hate to be, I'm sorry. Man, I'd hate to.
Be. They weren't intrusive at all.
I know, man, What? The fuck does he not know what
the intrusive means? Just kick him.
He's so fucking long bro it's like a cyst.
He exists there but you want to see how?
How fucking idiotic someone can be just just like this guy.
Like listen. This guy, actually.
Exists that like the he does exist.
I never see this person in real life.
It's like a Karen. He's like a male Karen.
He's there, just constantly getting weird.
It's just. But.
It's like a car. Crash.
We can't. Help.
But just watch it. It's like what the fuck is this
guy? Is he real?
You taking the piss? Love this track Big Blue man.
I'm glad. I don't see you.
Mod me. Gas.
Oh, it's too. Cold.
I'm sorry. You should be in one.
Oh, there you go. AC too cold.
Do with him what you please. I've given the powers, man.
AC too cold. Yo.
You control his fate, Rav. Kick me, it is what it is and
there's AF. 0X. Oh.
GX available as well on on thingy.
I'm taking the piss. Don't don't.
I feel bad for bullying you bro, but you deserve that Don't feel
bad fuck off. Why am I being soft?
But I'm being soft. Yeah, give him one more chance.
If he acts like a Dick then you can just mute him and kick him
out. But he's.
Going to be a Dick because that's how he.
Breathes. Bro there's no way surf.
Cannot not be a Dick. He'll do something.
He'll be like, Oh yeah, but actually.
F0X had amazing music man. F0X needs to come back properly.
Nintendo, what are you doing man?
What are you doing? F0 Oh my.
God. You know what I've just
realised? A treasure.
Stone of stuff that I I could just play Goldeneye music.
Oh, you just play. The the the pause thing unloved.
N64 gods like. Oh, what a beautiful time.
Beautiful. Time in gaming give it I feel
bad because. I feel like I'm.
Bullying him, but at the same time he is that guy, he does not
care, he will just be a Dick. So why?
Am I feeling bad? I don't know man, I'm just.
Good memories, eh? This man, whoever did the
fucking soundtrack, you're. A genius.
Oh my God. I want to play this.
So bad though, he modded me and he left.
The pause music. Yeah, you're right.
We got to play the pause music. So good.
And we don't have. Soundtracks on that anymore.
But they know who cooks. Like this for a.
Game all. Soundtrack.
Who created this? Who created this honey?
It's looking. To I've never looked.
Who actually fucking created this?
So good. Batteries.
Fuck it. Fuck it.
I'm down to it in. The Dark.
Let me chat, let me switch up to.
Some. To some game players.
Switch my battery. Where's the battery?
Yeah, I I really want to play. Gold lie again.
But I I did the the achievements.
Came out of the Xbox version and 100% of that and it was so.
Much fun to do. That it's the only time I don't
give a shit about achievements at all.
But that was one where the achievements added.
To that. Experience because I just needed
an excuse to play like that game and Oh yeah.
Say another sick one, but you know what it was.
Nintendo. Nintendo is such freaking sick
that So we played Zelda, then we played Goldeneye and I think.
This Mario 64. This is just majestic.
This is just. Like who created?
This. This is so good.
Is. Magical soundtrack.
Boba Fett. Good to see you Boba Fett.
Hope you're good man. Nintendo.
'S music. Guys were on crack.
They did. DMT they did, LSD, they did all
sorts of shit man to create this because there's no way you
create music like this man. So good man Beautiful times.
Oh, Captain Chance to see you on Twitter.
There you link to the specs. Thank you for that, Sorry I've
just seen it now. I don't really look at Twitter
that much unless I'm showing you stuff live on stream so.
Apologies. Oh, I thought I saw some DLSS 5.
News but it's Destin Leggeri just beefing with someone that's
not not the tenchu 2 intro music tenchu 2 intro phone that's.
I'll just picks up. There after a while.
Actually so good someone comes in and
like what the fuck are we watching?
All right. Let's give attention to opening.
Theme. I haven't.
I haven't heard this or I might have years ago.
What is this? How is this one called Abby is?
The Tenchu 2 opening theme. Scores goes.
Hey, guys. Never expected to check out
YouTube that late and see you do an old school video game.
DJs. I don't.
Remember this I've ever played. Tenchu 2 as well.
Tenchu 2 was cool because they introduced all the different
guys. The Mario one from before that.
Was I'll type. It.
Dial dox. That's pretty good.
Run like they did some. Things as well.
What else is a classic soundtrack?
I was sick. I'll tell you what, I'll tell
you what. So this might get me copyright
strike because they that's pretty sick soundtrack.
Let's go into Jet Set. Radio Rav Rav I've been trying
to get this. I need to emulate this because
this is an we'll never get the remake again as well because of
the licencing issues and because I'm playing this might just get
AI Think I've got a copyright struck there for this anyway
automatically but fuck it who cares.
Is such a beautiful soundtrack and.
There's intro as well. This is a classic Xbox One game.
Better than just a radio feature on Dreamcast.
So good the. Soundtrack in this game.
Amazing. Understand, Understand the
concept of love. Understand, understand,
understand, understand understand.
Minutes till the fucking screen. Turns out.
Oh what this fucking name my OLED is going to shut down in 5
minutes Fuck it I don't really need it.
I want to look at chat I. Can do it because I've got a
dual PC Sir. I'll turn back on the laptop.
Minute. You listened to this yesterday.
Such a sick soundtrack and the soundtrack in the game.
Fucking amazing. Somebody's sick tune.
So good soundtracks and games mail.
Soundtrack could change. Everything.
I I. Bought.
Initial D the DVDI didn't realise how rare it was at the
time, but. It was the initial D.
Which is a drifting movie which one of the first videos you'll
see on the on this channel actually is me ripping the
soundtrack and re uploading it. What I didn't realise was that
version of the movie is extremely rare.
It was produced by a group called Fuel, and the movie
didn't get received well because the mainstream movie had a
Japanese rapper in it or whatever.
And the music was all this like cheesy kind of almost like not
not even good rap. It was just cheesy, like
Japanese, kind of like rap the movie.
When you listen to the. Fuel soundtrack completely
transforms the experience. It's like a different movie.
And it was at that moment I realised you can make the exact
same movie, but the sound, the music changes everything.
That's why music is everything. Everything in gaming.
In in in everything in in entertainment.
Initial Day is also an arcade game.
Have it. On the Yeah, Initial D's actual
soundtrack from the anime. Those love this heavy
technology. But that movie took.
Some artistic licence with the premise, which a lot of people
didn't like. I actually didn't mind it that
much, but I wasn't, I didn't know about Initial D at the
time. If I knew about Initial D's
legacy, I I think I would be pissed.
But anyway, the soundtrack was amazing.
Soundtrack was great. What else is a six soundtrack?
I feel like there's so many that we don't know like what are we
A6 soundtrack? Sorry, I know this we're going
to end the stream soon anyway. But I I love I want to talk
about the music in it. There's some wicked soundtracks
in games. What is it?
There's loads if you ask me top. Five game soundtracks would it
be, I think. I.
Think it would number one would have to be made like golden and
Nintendo just comes up on top. Too bad.
Most gamers don't give a shit. About.
Music and sounds and games, they don't give a shit about it, but
they just don't realise how good it is, how important music is in
gaming. Or.
As a medium or how? They can elevate the mood, sound
design get elevated. People just think it's just pure
gameplay but it isn't. Depends on the type of the game
anyway. But music and.
Be massively. Transformative man Massively
transformative. One of the most underrated.
Is. Idos Guardians of the Galaxy
original Star Lord album. Oh, you mean from the the?
The latest Guardians of the Galley?
Yeah, I don't know which one you're talking about a great
game as well. Expedition Expedition 33's music
was really good. It it took people by surprise at
how good the music was Halo, Halo, Halo, of course Halo had
good music. Halo's Halo had some incredible
music. Halo 1-2 and three just some
incredible well, I think it picked maybe a Halo 2, but
they're all amazing actually even 3 was amazing.
I I liked some of the tracks in Halo 4 as well actually.
But yeah, the Smash Brothers Ultimate version, The Dark World
Dungeon, ODST. 'S music was a good.
I don't. Remember that much of ODST's?
Music, I'm not going to lie. Halo was banging *.
Fox first level? Oh my God, yes.
Halo's battle song and the chanting.
All of that was amazing. What else King wrapped up?
Oh my God. A lot of you might not know this
game actually. It was a.
Brilliant game and it's called vigilante. 8 second offence.
OK, I'm going to have to execute.
The aftercare vigilante 8 second offence was a beautiful game.
In fact, while Let's play, I have to play Vigilante 8
gameplay Vigilante 8 gameplay, you have to It was second.
It was so good back then, we thought this is all we need, but
where is it? Where is it?
I want to find it. This is a.
This funk but. Sick and the gameplay.
Was just crazy. You can upgrade.
Cars in this. It was sick.
You upgrade. The way you upgraded your cars
in this game. It was between this and Twisted
Metal Black, but I think I preferred this.
Sorry, Jeffy, I thought it was sick.
Wait this. This.
This soundtrack is insane for a game where you just shoot other
cars. Look this.
Is the soundtrack for this. Game didn't need to go so hard.
This is a. Sick.
Tune the game was so jank. It was so much fun.
Look how far we've. Come.
So good, so good. So.
Good. Game.
Game does. You need to get your.
Soundtracks up, man. Because.
Shit, you're not doing anything. Close to this now I'm close to
this level bro. Streets of rage.
Oh yeah shit that's a sick shot as well.
Rage Racer had it wipe out. 24-O wipe out of some sick tracks.
Nothing like getting Spice Girls vibes for shooting.
Enemy cars do not. Insult that.
Soundtrack how? Dare you?
You played so much. Luke, yes, thank you.
Thank you. V8 Second offence of.
Dreamcast. Yeah.
PS-5 blows. That was sick.
Streets of Rages are classic. That's actually a six shot I
missed out. I missed out on Castlevania I
feel. I feel like I missed out
Cyberpunk actually a decent soundtrack.
Bloody tears is goat. I haven't played it but let me
try it. Let's see.
Castlevania bloody tears. Let's see, Castlevania bloody.
Tears epic version. I don't know which one is OST.
Doesn't it tell me if this is the right one?
This this is old school. I don't know if I play the right
track. Elder Rings.
Just had a more. More of a like atmospheric.
Droning what it's really good. You know what I need to play
Alden ring. I want to stream on Twitch I.
Want to play that? I need to complete that on
stream. That's the original.
Oh, OK. Bad Day Cake from Jet Set Radio
is Funny I. Don't remember that.
Oh Sean Palmer snowboarding. Oh my days.
Bro the fact that you even said that Boba Fett is fucking crazy.
Sean Palmer's snowboarding had a wicked track.
I I still is in one of the tracks I still play at the gyms
and by gym thing. Was it Sean Palmer's snowberry
soundtrack? New disease by spine Shank.
I love this track he is so good. This is going to get.
Copyright, but he is such a good.
Track. That's in my gym playlist short
I can. Take that everything I know.
Oh this is so sick. I'm so.
Glad that you said it. You know that means Bob Affair
is a goat for even cup saying that Sean Sean Palmer
snowboarding was sick. I can never change.
Anything I've done because it's the only thing I have learned to
play my. Tune does.
YouTube allow you to play music? No it doesn't.
My screens come back on. Yay.
Yeah, No, it hasn't. You remember that track?
Yeah, sick track. Sean.
Sean Palmer, snowball. It was a wicked game as well.
It's a wicked game you still waiting for?
The Elder stream elder. Ring stream, I should turn this
into one. I should I should turn it about
what I want to do on Twitch. I don't think people like on
YouTube want to see that shit, but yeah.
I'll definitely play. I am dying.
To play Elder Ring and let me stick to Kronos.
I can only stick to one single play game at a time now and.
Yeah. It's I should play it now, I'll
actually want to play it now, but it's a chilled stream but
fucking it's raw but. I don't want to see.
I don't want you guys to see. Me scared shitless as a result
of a result of me playing horror games.
Because yeah, if you like metal music.
You know that track? Yeah.
Yeah, but I used to love new metal, so I was probably into
it. So that track from Spine Shank
was sick. Great, great game.
Sean Palmer snowball is a great game as well.
It's really good. But yeah, I think what what I've
covered everything now, so I think I'm pretty much good to.
Go. Maybe we.
Should call it a day. And it was a random Sunday
stream overlapping with everyone else's.
But what else can you talk about?
I don't know what else we can talk about.
Oh, what's this? Yeah, we're good to go chat.
It was fun. Smash the like button if you
enjoyed it and we talked about some music and shit, something
different. You don't get that every other
stream in it. I'm working on finishing Kingdom
Come Deliverance too. In If you're 150 hours in,
that's crazy. Sleep time for me was a lovely
stream. Oh, rest up.
Guys, is there a special like button?
I'm going to upload this on Spotify.
Can I probably can anyway. Yeah, go to.
Sleep it's. Midnight, but it's bank holiday
weekend so I'll be working on my Xbox.
I might do a cryo with your AC after the stream.
Thank you everyone. Check check you out.
Thank you old. Retro Gamer, everyone smashed
like man was really good good. CEO Luke Abby everyone scourge,
Boba Fett phantom death all of you guys mad love to you guys I
want. To play some tunes before I sign
out. Though I have to play a tune, I
have to play the, you know, I have to pay the fucking
Nintendo. I have to pay the fucking golden
eye theme as I fucking leave, bruv.
Come on bruv. All right, chat and we'll see
you. Guys soon.
Safe.