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From Paint Store Palate to Zombie Kicks: A Gaming Adventure with George and Bobby
Bobby and I then set our sights on the horizon of handheld gaming, exchanging fiery opinions on the potential Game Pass debut of Call of Duty and the whispered rumors of a Nintendo Switch 2. Could a Nintendo-themed Steam Deck revolutionize how we play our favorite titles? We dissect the possibilities. Plus, we get all starry-eyed over the prospect of a Legend of Zelda live-action movie, debating whether it should don the haunting beauty of '80s fantasy or stride along the epic path akin to Middle Earth. We even tackle the tricky business of adapting beloved games to the silver screen with the finesse they deserve.
As we wrap up this episode, we steer the conversation toward our personal gaming preferences, expressing our longing to dive into rich, cultural stories like "Rise of Ronin" with authentic voice-overs. We share laughs over our RGT Fan Club’s peculiar discussions—from shoulder appreciation to cling film shenanigans—and Bobby's infectious New York vibe that's become a beacon for our podcast family. Rest assured, by the time the credits roll on this episode, you'll feel like part of the gang, having ridden shotgun through our fifth year of gaming banter, heartfelt camaraderie, and the occasional train enthusiast confession.
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Bobby and I then set our sights on the horizon of handheld gaming, exchanging fiery opinions on the potential Game Pass debut of Call of Duty and the whispered rumors of a Nintendo Switch 2. Could a Nintendo-themed Steam Deck revolutionize how we play our favorite titles? We dissect the possibilities. Plus, we get all starry-eyed over the prospect of a Legend of Zelda live-action movie, debating whether it should don the haunting beauty of '80s fantasy or stride along the epic path akin to Middle Earth. We even tackle the tricky business of adapting beloved games to the silver screen with the finesse they deserve.
As we wrap up this episode, we steer the conversation toward our personal gaming preferences, expressing our longing to dive into rich, cultural stories like "Rise of Ronin" with authentic voice-overs. We share laughs over our RGT Fan Club’s peculiar discussions—from shoulder appreciation to cling film shenanigans—and Bobby's infectious New York vibe that's become a beacon for our podcast family. Rest assured, by the time the credits roll on this episode, you'll feel like part of the gang, having ridden shotgun through our fifth year of gaming banter, heartfelt camaraderie, and the occasional train enthusiast confession.
Could you design a video game?
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
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Hello and welcome to the Unofficial Controller Podcast, your weekly gaming podcast, episode 219. Let the AI decide, because now we've got AI running the show's algorithms in the background, I don't even get to pick show names anymore, so let's hope it comes up with a banger. And in tribute to it, this week me George, joined by Bobby T1000, to my Johnny Five, how's it going? Your mother was a snowblower, by the way. He's gone, he's corpsed.
Speaker 1:How are you? I'm all right, man, good, what's been the most outrageous thing you've seen on the hot streets of New York, and we'll see how that compares to the hot streets of Farmington this week.
Speaker 2:Uh, no, nothing too crazy. They just, um, they used to have these and I know they're Mexican, I know, so let's not get they are. I know that for a fact. I know one of them. Um, they had this paint store that they would just hang out in and drink beers and play guitar and sing songs all day, and now it's a restaurant.
Speaker 2:Oh, wow so they can't be there when it's open and the restaurant was the 12th right, so when you go for the walk in that neighborhood they're still there. And then when they open up the restaurant, they shake the owner's hand and now they just cross the street, still playing the same music, still getting drunk in the streets with 40s. It's just. I thought they would have left by now.
Speaker 2:And as the stores start to open. They used to be like the whole block. Now they're just condensed into two little squares of concrete on the other side of the street.
Speaker 1:How does a paint store become a restaurant overnight?
Speaker 2:The paint store just closed down after I don't know when exactly, and then, a couple months later, it's a restaurant To me, which was the most wildest transformation I've ever seen, but it works. It's a huge restaurant. I'll tell you that I haven't seen, but it works. It's a huge restaurant. I'll tell you that I haven't seen anybody in there, but it's big.
Speaker 1:Hey, we haven't spoken on air Trestles. I mean, is it Jackie, our friend down there? Yeah, she's gone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, not sure what's going on. I mean, food's still good. That's good, good, that's good same same flow doesn't seem to be any different. It's just maybe she went on to another restaurant or something. I'm not really sure we've got to reach out to her yeah next week. I'm going to hang out next week and find out are you going?
Speaker 1:to hang out with her. Give her my best I will. She remembers us.
Speaker 2:Of course she does. Of course, A little spot on the back we gave her this man remember.
Speaker 1:That was a great episode, beautiful moment in the show's history, when we recorded. We spent quite some time. You know, obviously you live there, but then I came over All catalogued on the show's Insta. Well, it probably isn't anymore, but yeah, it was good times. It is, jackie. What happens in Trestle stays in Trestle Stay in Trestle.
Speaker 2:yeah, it's good times, man.
Speaker 1:What about the truffle buffalo wings? Still good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, nothing's changed. So food, so they have still specials.
Speaker 1:You know, obviously special, but not part of my menu, but same quality, which is good rgt would come in and be chill, or do you think he'd come in and be taking pictures everywhere like, oh this is where they sat, and then he'd order all the food and go a little bit crazy?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's very tame, but that place will unleash him.
Speaker 1:I think it would turn him into what I would describe as a feral beast?
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely He'll be pictured everywhere. Yeah, especially selfies. He'll take a lot of selfies Drinking a Frosé selfie, truffle fry selfie. You know He'll do the whole bathroom because the bathroom sounds like a train, so he'll be in there recording, hopefully not too low, but he'll be in there.
Speaker 1:Stalking Jackie on Facebook. That's what I expect. I just wanted to be surprised book that's what I expect I just I wanted to be surprised.
Speaker 2:No, I don't think that'll happen.
Speaker 1:That's just my opinion, I don't know. So he's on holiday this week. I mean, why is that allowed? I don't even know. And from what I understand, seb is still blazing a trail across the American South with the tearaway Texan pastor. Yeah, I don't even know what's going on there. I heard he's trying to infiltrate a cult. You never know. The Texans are tricky. Yeah, based around Q-Bert. They see him as their god.
Speaker 2:Yeah, can you work that out? Probably got influenced by the TV show Outer outer range. Even though it takes place in arkansas, it's very similar, I think.
Speaker 1:Definitely a time travel loop I don't even know what's real. I'll tell you what is real. Your gaming history, what you've been. You been playing um.
Speaker 2:I got the platinum for dead island 2, which was hilarious. I played it with uh, the gaming gram and marlin so that was enjoyable.
Speaker 1:Did they plop out with the platinum as well, or did they just ably assist you with the platinum?
Speaker 2:no, well, I have more. I have a lot more free time than they do now, you know, um, but I got it ahead of them. But now I'm so overpowered I could probably help them get theirs in seconds. I did a DLC which was pretty interesting. Wasn't the best DLC, but it was all right.
Speaker 2:Drop kicking a zombie, first person hilarious. Seeing a character in third person drive kick a zombie even more funny. Because I don't think they really do all the extra animations you would normally have in a game because it's first person. So when they climb or jump or do anything they just look dumb, like you're hitting a zombie with a bat, but it just looks like those things outside with the air for the cars that's swooshing around. It just looks like that. So it was pretty funny to see that.
Speaker 2:But you know they didn't take it so seriously. The game it was like kind of. You know it was a little bit stupid, but it was funny. So it worked, like the satire worked and that's what I made. It, I think, was interesting because the amount of the amount of actual violence and, um, the graphics used to maim enemies, depending on what weapon you're using, is incredible. I mean, you hit somebody with a bat at it, with a heavy swing, and like their jaw flies off and then the zombie just has no jaw, like that would be extremely graphic if it wasn't so funny.
Speaker 1:If you scratch him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you scratch him in the back with a I forget what it's called it's like a three-clawed weapon. You'll see three claws on the back. If it's a sword, you'll see one slice and, depending how it's cut, it'll be a clean cut or'll have like a bit of bone and an angle. But depending what you used, the violence is incredible. You blow up a zombie with a pipe bomb. Oh man, it's oh man. Oh man, it's wild. It's definitely graphic, but I thought it was great. I thought it was pretty funny, so that was pretty good. I'll definitely finish that with them Rising and Ronin.
Speaker 1:Yeah, give me the lowdown on this, how good is this.
Speaker 2:I think it's amazing. I loved it. I even doing Midnight. I mean I got the Platinum like a month ago now, maybe three weeks ago, but I still play it on Midnight difficulty and I'm doing all the Dojo. My thing is to get the red score. That's a. I think it's green, yellow, red, depending on what you achieved in the score rank on a dojo. I'm trying to get everyone all red as I unlock them. It's so much hard on midnight difficulty.
Speaker 2:But I'm telling you, sekiro prepared me for this game. I saw how the combat goes. I think the combat is super fluid, really good. What I didn't understand? I mean I understand the history of japan and how they want. You know what. They let the west in, but they kept their conditions so you could pick going against it or going forward. I went forward because that's historically what happened.
Speaker 2:Um, the problem is, within the first 30 minutes of the game, you meet 100 characters. One minute you fight them. The next minute you're doing a mission with them because you're pro shogunate or anti-shogunate, it doesn't really matter to me, until like the third act, where you have to pick one. But even your enemies are your friends and your friends are your enemies, I thought there would be more consequences. As far as picking what, I haven't really noticed anything. I was friends with all of them at the end, so I thought that was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the story was a bit wild, but overall, how they had the map and to find it and discover things, it wasn't just like a typical like assassin's creed game with just icons everywhere. As you explore the world, you unlock them slowly. There's nothing to climb up or whatever and uh, when you help people in missions, more map gets exposed. They show you certain things. I wasn't overwhelmed with collectibles and they were kind of like in the direction you were going anyway, so I thought it was pretty cool how they did that map. I wish more games had an open world map like that. I think it's easier to understand.
Speaker 1:I was sort of hovering over getting it in the video game shop.
Speaker 2:It's now my game of the year. It's better than Helldivers, yeah, wow, yeah. The combat I'm telling you everything about that game is really interesting. It took me two hours to make my character, which you know I can't. I wish they didn't do those anymore. I just wish you just gave me a generic character, because even in skyrim or games like that, I find a helmet. I'm just rock. I'm rocking a helmet. Who cares what it looked like? It doesn't really matter to me I.
Speaker 1:I expected in that for you to put on the raiden hat so no one could see your face I was bro.
Speaker 2:I was going through different outfits and then that game trying to figure out what I look. Cool, my character looked so good looking I didn't put anything on her but a little bandana her hair was luxurious. Yeah, she was great, bro, she was beautiful, so I kept her. I made her a female. I gave her a little bit of a tattoo, like a little bit of a you know renegade kind of character in my own mind where was this tattoo?
Speaker 2:Right arm, half chest to right arm. So when you wear some of the outfits they're half on, half off. You can see her tattoo. Wow, yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1:This would be a very dangerous lady in the 1800s, oh yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:That's what I made her bro edgy, watch out for this one it's super edgy, so what else?
Speaker 1:so you've done that bit of Helldivers, no doubt little bit of what was the other game, dead Island 2. Dead Island 2, that's. It is that you cleared out.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I have so many. I still have Far Cry 6. I have Horizon.
Speaker 1:West that you've been playing, though. No, that's it. That's it. You've not played Horizon West.
Speaker 2:I have a bunch of games that I have to just pick one now. I feel like the moment might have passed for that game, probably, but I still have it. I got to finish it. I mean not finish it, start it and finish it. That won't take me that long.
Speaker 1:That was probably about. That was over two years ago. We talked about me playing that. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:That's what happens to the backlog man. And then when a better game comes out, sometimes you got to jump on those first. You know I didn't plan to play Rise of the Ronin first and I ordered Stellar Blade.
Speaker 1:So if that don't come in soon, then that'll be on the wait list too. Og Tom's on. Last week he had a long list of games to talk about, but he was saying that he's loving Stellar Blade.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, look, the demo was amazing. I played a demo like crazy.
Speaker 1:I can see he's going to launch a range of flesh-colored silicon controller grips with the Stellar Blade logo on.
Speaker 2:Are you signing up for that or no? 100%, I'll pay extra for the extra digital physics. Fine, not a problem, not a problem.
Speaker 1:Not a problem, mumsy, fetch the silicon mould. We've just. Oh no, I was going to say something, but I'm not.
Speaker 2:I am not oh and then I found out, because I don't really. I don't even know how I even got this news, just randomly popped up. I took a picture of it. If this comes out how I even got this news Just randomly popped up, I took a picture of it. If this comes out, I'll play this one too. Puppy Combo they're releasing the Glass Staircase on May 24th, so that's next Friday.
Speaker 1:Oh God.
Speaker 2:You're not finishing anything.
Speaker 1:are you Anytime soon?
Speaker 2:I've been finishing a lot of stuff. It's just now. My order has been kind of Whacked out, but I did put in Tormented Souls, which I got two years ago. It's the CDs in the PS5 ready to be played Today.
Speaker 1:I have to Get the ball rolling well, let me bore you with what I've been playing. Well, no, let me do a little pickups as well. Yesterday I was in game checking out their 50% sale. I think I found Resident Evil 4 for PS5. That was very cheap price, so I thought, yeah, I'll get that. While I was queuing, I was looking at all the different controllers on the back shelf and then my eyes rested upon a WD Black SSD.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm sure everyone's going to message in and say, well, there's faster ones. But do you know what it does the job? It's indeterminable from the built-in PlayStation internal memory. So do you know what it ticks the box? It was right there and then If I'd gone home and thought about it, I probably never would have gotten around to it.
Speaker 1:What did you get 1T or 2T? 1t I've never really struggled with managing the hard drive, but at least now I can just let my belt off a little bit. I can just let my belt off a little bit, I can just relax. I've bought the two-size-up trousers. Okay, I'm ready to become a larger gentleman.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I can gorge at the all-you-can-eat buffet now.
Speaker 2:I'll give you my old clothes.
Speaker 1:Fine, as you come down, I come up. Yeah, we exchange wardrobes.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:You become me and I become you. You can keep the overalls, though I think you.
Speaker 2:I'll take the hoodies.
Speaker 1:One strap on ripped abs wearing a white Pepsi shirt. Logos kind of faded off a little bit. There's some rips in it so people can see your rips in you. You've got a cap on backwards with your sort of little ginger quiff hanging out. I'll be honest with you. I would want to smother myself all over you like butter on bread. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 2:Especially on toast A little warmer.
Speaker 1:The thing is it'd be quite a chewy meal because of those abs.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:You like your Cupid face.
Speaker 2:You've got to beat him to get a little bit tenderized, you know.
Speaker 1:Just get round and pound me, pound that meat Tenderize it, Tenderize it oh wow.
Speaker 1:So there's what I picked up and what I've been playing. I went on a digital splurge two or three weeks ago and I picked up that big sale, right yeah, and I picked up a big sale, right yeah, it was a good sale, actually it was. I got Robo cop in it, which I want to like, but can't they need to patch that? I want to enjoy it. It's a very special game to me. Why, what's wrong with it? Every time the people talk to each other in cut scenes, the camera flicks the model inside out.
Speaker 2:Really. Yeah, I had no issue with the Robocop, not one. That's weird. I thought it was great. I really thought it did a good job.
Speaker 1:I wanted to really enjoy it.
Speaker 2:I was hyped. I didn't have, not one crash or anything. Actually I was hyped.
Speaker 1:I didn't have not one crash or anything. Actually, when the characters talk to each other just for maybe a quarter of a second before the camera turns to the other person that's talking, it literally goes full Pan Am from.
Speaker 2:Oh wow, from the back seat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh wow. You're in Pan Am, yeah, so you're inside the middle of Robocop, but you're not. But then you are and then you're not. And then the person he speaks to you're inside them, in the middle of them, where it flips inside out, and then back again, but then you're not. That's so strange so I had to delete it. I was like I can't let you do this to me, because the game feels great.
Speaker 2:No, you can't play like that. That's wild. That's where I was at.
Speaker 1:So anyway, f1 Manager 23. It's a little bit harder than the previous one and I know 24's come out so bad timing, but it's aged well. It's a little bit more difficult and a little bit more challenging than the previous one, but you know I'm enjoying the struggle, so I think by the time I get to Season 2, things will be great. I've been enjoying hell divers 2 and I'm a weirdo. I know you're like that's not how you level up, bro, and I know I know I don't, I know you don't, but I don't care, because I just like to go thin, terminated numbers. I just like the chaos of the whole thing. And we mean you were speaking off air. At the minute everyone gets 500 kg bombs at the minute. It's a stratagem that everyone can just have extra in the bag. And we were talking how you throw the stratagem down and then this almost sort of very thin, sort of almost looks like a fence stake, just slides in, stays right next to you just and the first time I saw that I was like what is that?
Speaker 2:looks like a glitch. It looks like a glitch. I'm like what? What? That just happened to me, you know.
Speaker 1:Next thing, you know, I'm like oh, throw me in, boys, I just died, it's a 500 kg bomb delivers in the thinnest, most delicate payload ever and it just slides in next to you as if it's like your best friend, your casual mate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's true, it's just the strangest stratagem ever. How are you?
Speaker 1:mate. Oh, by the way, bombshell, I've been sleeping with your wife Boom 500 KGBombs.
Speaker 2:That's it. Yeah, it's true, I thought my game glitched out. I was like what was that? And I kept talking about it and I'm like I don't know, I didn't do anything and with those stratagem, no, because my brother, my brother was like oh yeah, I threw one to help you. Well, what should you throw Next? Thing? I know dead, instant dead death done.
Speaker 1:Everything around me was dead, everybody to try out and I've never really tried it before because I think I've unlocked it but I've not used. It was the gas strike.
Speaker 2:Gas strike is amazing gas and it's like 60 seconds.
Speaker 1:You could throw it every 60 seconds it's the most undersold weapon it is don't get too close to it, but my goodness gracious, I saw an outrageous number rack up in the yellow thing.
Speaker 2:I was like I can't believe you threw that.
Speaker 1:It was just like boom.
Speaker 2:It's really key man. It's really underrated.
Speaker 1:I expected it to be less deadly than a napalm cluster bomb strike, for example. It's. It makes those look like a kindergarten fight. It does. No, it's crazy. It's really beautiful. What else have we played? Oh, here's one, dave the Diver. Yeah, it's free On PS Plus. They have a Godzilla. Now they have a Godzilla. You should try it. It's your cup of tea. I don't even think you're good enough at games for Dave the Diver what it's a load of different games wrapped up.
Speaker 1:So you've got to run a restaurant. You then got to serve in the restaurant and in the day you go diving catching fish to serve in the restaurant, and in the day you go diving catching fish to serve and deliver to people at the table. But then there's also mysterious things going on in the sea as well. It's quite the game.
Speaker 2:I saw a trailer of it, but didn't really.
Speaker 1:I know, but it's not a game that the trailer's going to do justice to.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, I can take a look at it, I guess.
Speaker 1:Your challenge is to have that platinum by next time we speak. So in a week. How long's the game For you? Probably a couple of hours. For everybody else, probably 20 hours. I don't actually know how long Dave the game For you? Probably a couple of hours. For everybody else, probably 20 hours. I don't actually know how long Dave the Diver is Ever the hard-hitting researcher as I am.
Speaker 1:Is there anything else going on? Oh, hang on. Yeah, let's get this out there. Let's deal with this community news right now. The bombshell if you're an early adopter as you listen to this, I'd imagine right now or close to now, or maybe it's happened, depends when you listen to this. If you listen to this two years from now because you just downloaded the back catalog, you ain't got your early adopter box. I'm sorry, that's just how this works. But to everybody else who got involved early, doors became an early adopter, supported the show financially. I'm very grateful to you. As early adopters, you get the full upper suite of treats just for getting on board early, even at the lowest funding price available, and you should now be Felt like President Trump there.
Speaker 2:You know it's the greatest adopter kit ever.
Speaker 1:You know it was a box. Be the greatest, greatest. It's fine box. They're going to be opening that. They're going to be blown away. There's cassette in there. There's exclusive wall art. There's signed drivel. There's the food item I mentioned. If you paid attention, you're getting one of those as well. So I just can't wait for social to be flooded with people sharing their boxes, wearing their T-shirts. Just generally just dripped in UCP bling. We've got the drip.
Speaker 2:The drip yeah.
Speaker 1:To everyone else. The show remains free and always will be, but if you want to support, click the link at the bottom of the show notes. You make us all very happy, men, and I don't think there's a better feeling than making these men happy, like. Look at Bobby now. Look at him. He's purring like a feral cat that's just been given its first tinned cat food. It's been living on Subway rat for most of its life. It's 10 years old. Huge upgrade, Big upgrade In fact. Do you know what I like you so much? I'm tickling you under your chin. I'm going to give you a lick of fresh tuna. Oh my God, this is amazing.
Speaker 1:I'm going to give you a lick of fresh tuna.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, this is amazing.
Speaker 1:I'm then going to rack you up a line of catnip.
Speaker 2:That's it. And that fresh water from a filtered water jug Incredible. Who's?
Speaker 1:better than a cat, bro. You know They've got it going on. They're better than us. Get you a three-tier sort of cat apartment inside your house yeah, unbelievable, like the Downton Abbey of cat boxes. Right, it's the news. Are you ready for this, bobby? Because I am. I'm lubed up and I'm leaking.
Speaker 1:We've scoured the very darkest regions of the internet to bring you the latest stories. First up, a safe bet A new report has just dropped that claims Activision's upcoming 2024 Call of Duty title will be included in Games Pass on day one. The Wall Street Journal is the source on this one, with the outlet claiming that the plan is expected to be announced as the company's annual showcase next month. About a week ago, xbox's Sarah Bond doubled down on Microsoft's commitment to Games Pass, reiterating that Xbox will bring in its titles to the service across the whole slate. Of course, today's report backs that up, even if Bond didn't state Call of Duty specifically Over.
Speaker 1:In a separate article at the Verge, tom Warren says Activision is currently targeting a late October release of what is expected to be Gulf of War-themed Call of Duty Black Ops title. Warren has also mentioned in his previous report that Microsoft may be debating another Games Pass surprise rise to accommodate day one Call of Duty arrivals, but that hasn't been confirmed at this stage, of course. What has been all but confirmed is that we're getting Call of Duty Direct Livestream right after Xbox's main showcase in June. So that's where you can expect to see the team officially lay out its Call of Duty 2024 plans. So we're taking today's report info with a pinch of salt until the official confirmation comes in from Microsoft themselves.
Speaker 1:Bobby, we knew this was going to happen. There was talk of it not happening. I also still think it's going to be available to buy on other systems, because they all signed that exclusive little tete-a-tete between themselves during the whole court proceedings. Is Call of Duty inhabiting on Games Pass going to get more people to buy Games Pass or is it just going to make the people that already have Games Pass happier if they play COD?
Speaker 2:make them happy if they play COD hmm, how is this going gonna?
Speaker 1:because the bare cheek of it, microsoft activision signed a deal for 10 years to bring call of duty to the nintendo switch. Do you think?
Speaker 2:so call of duty or medal of Honor style, frontline, era that kind of graphical Well that's what I don't know.
Speaker 1:Are we going to get a specific version for the Switch, where it's really great, or are we going to get nothing? Or are we going to get it on Switch 2?
Speaker 2:You're going to get a six little gaming chip exclusive. So, depending on what map you want, you put that into the switch to load up so you don't have to have any issues with anything else. You know 50 game cartridges, yeah, little game cartridges, yeah, and they all save your data to do some kind of cloud systems. You don't have to worry about it. But when you want to load up a map you just put that little disk in that little cartridge in.
Speaker 1:Do you think they're going to bother or do you think that was getting themselves ready for maybe the Switch 2?
Speaker 2:Even the Switch 2. I mean, even if the Switch 2 comes out, how's it going to work? How's the Switch 2 going to be any better than the Switch? It's going to be better graphics.
Speaker 1:How much better graphics can you get from the Switch? You can probably get on the back doors of the PS4 Pro, which is arguably, on a screen of that size, maybe indistinguishable from PS5.
Speaker 2:So on a cartridge well, look, I don't work for Nintendo but I would say but is a cartridge better than a CD?
Speaker 1:you'd think it would be instantaneous. There's no need to maybe do as much install. Maybe you can call down from the card and because it's almost like a little SSD, maybe it might be as quick so why did they remove?
Speaker 2:why did they go to the disk format on the Gamecube? Because it was cheap? I was only impressed that the CD is better than the cartridge back in the day it might have been, but is it now?
Speaker 1:well, if they stream it? Well, that's how they're solving some of the issues with the Switch's graphical flaws on some games.
Speaker 2:But if you haven't got good internet, man of Nintendo just contacts what's it called Steam Deck, what sends them some Nintendo Switch stickers. Listen, we want to make a Steam Deck partnership with Nintendo and it'll be a Nintendo Color Steam Deck. It'll have all the Nintendo stuff in it. Would you want that? I mean, there's ways to do it. I have a friend who basically has a Steam Deck with everything you want.
Speaker 1:You need to stop this friend immediately, because it's people like that that are killing sort of mom-and-pop video shops. They're killing the mobile video rental guy. You are right now putting Stingray higher up the endangered animal list than a polar bear. He'll still be there. Stingray doesn't the endangered animal list than a polar bear. He'll still be there. Stingray doesn't have a mating partner anymore. He's only had one spawn, ray Wayne.
Speaker 2:that survived it's all right, there'll be others out there. It's not going to end. I just think it's incredible that you could just load up the Nintendo console to switch on the Steam Deck and play everything on that.
Speaker 1:And then dock it.
Speaker 2:Did it feel a bit dirty? No, it didn't. It felt great, it felt amazing. It felt amazing. It even has Game Pass on that thing so you can play Call of Duty on it. Yeah, because it's a PC. He just put game pass on it, loads up game pass, that's it his whole.
Speaker 1:Xbox library is in there. Have you gone to the dark side? Have you got a Steam Deck yet?
Speaker 2:no, because I don't. I don't think I'll ever use it really. I'm on vacation. I don't play video games. I'm on vacation, I'm doing other things. I don't really need a handheld.
Speaker 1:I've been getting legs out of the pool. I've still got the Switch kicking around. Don't get me wrong, it's great.
Speaker 2:No, the Switch is good for Nintendo stuff, the Metroids are fine. Zelda was fine.
Speaker 1:The Portal gives me the access to my PS5 library that I necessarily wouldn't be able to play all of the time because I have my little dedicated experience. So to grind away on bits and bobs in the background on the Portal which has been I'll play Helldivers on that bad boy. Admittedly, I was in the Discord the other day and I think Sil Mastrelli was asking me about the portal and I was like, well you know, I was close to sending it back initially and then I fiddled around with some settings and I bought some different wires because I didn't realize that Ethernet cables have like a 10-year lifespan. My Ethernet cable is like 20 years old. Ship that out, change some settings. It works flawlessly.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, when I played it I was like, wow, I mean, it looked phenomenal and it looked super smooth. I just don't think I'd be carrying that around everywhere I go. Oh yeah, that's the thing. Like where am I going to go To the park? I don't want to go play video games in the park.
Speaker 1:I want to go to the park for something else you know. Or on a long airplane ride. I don't know. See for the long airplane ride, I'd probably take the Switch.
Speaker 2:Like, I see people and I see there's a need for it. Obviously, see people and I see there's a need for obviously because it is good, right? I'm not saying I'm against it. I mean, yeah, handheld games are great. I just personally don't have time or to go anywhere and start carrying a portable video game system now if I'm going to go to the airport I'm gonna portable video game systems.
Speaker 1:Are they a step too far? Generally, no, not really. Look at it this way.
Speaker 2:When I was a kid, you want a game boy was essential. When I was punished, they didn't know about that game boy. They forgot about that game boy. I had that game boy under the covers playing Nintendo.
Speaker 2:I was like, wow, this is like I'm punished, I got my, I got my game boy Couldn't take that away from me. You know what I mean? It's still something. Or like you're a younger kid your parents are watching TV, your older brother got a TV, or I have a Switch. I have to play it somewhere else. It's good, it's good. But like I just can't see myself now walking around with a bag to carry First of all Steam Deck's heavy, it's heavy it around, with a bag to carry first of all Steam Deck's heavy, it's heavy. It's a big boy system. It's heavy to carry that around because I'm going on vacation.
Speaker 1:This is where I was trying to get to. Are you the next level of video game addict when you have to take around your little bag of like get you buys it is horrible gaming for a grown up, now a Nicorette patch.
Speaker 2:Listen, we're going to go into a point where there's going to be other phones that can do everything a Steam Deck could do, including make a phone call Right. Once that happens, the technology is there.
Speaker 1:I know this is going to be outrageous, but I bet you could make a phone call off a Steam Deck.
Speaker 2:You know what I bet you could, because they have WhatsApp and WhatsApp is an actual thing. Yeah, so you could Teams Listen. I'm sure there's a way you could do it. Zoom Probably Discord. I mean it's a PC.
Speaker 1:Xbox Games.
Speaker 2:Pass voice chat. Bro, if you can download, zoom on the steam deck and have wi-fi and make a call, you have a phone. So I mean, it's there, right? He opened up his outlook email on that bad boy and was answering emails from the steam deck. Oh it's, it's a little PC. It's like that's vulgar, yeah. But I'll tell you something, man, it's hooked up. I don't know what kind of terabyte card he got in there, but he had loads of stuff in there. So I guess, if you like games, that's all you had and you can dock it and play it home and then you go on your little adventures from work or wherever you've got to go and you bring it with you. Fine, it's cool, it's great. But I just don't need iND to get it. What's an acceptable?
Speaker 1:let's say you lived in a world where you decided you needed a Steam Deck. You work at night something comes up where you're like, yeah, this could really work for me or any portable gaming device. What would be an acceptable man-like carry bag for you? Let's say you had to take around your systems in there and you wanted to keep them nice, but you also wanted to look cool the man about town. Would you go with gaming-branded tat or would you go for like a little leather carry-all? Describe to me your gaming man bag.
Speaker 2:Just the Jansport book bag.
Speaker 1:Is that it Just keep it simple?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't even like it. Whatever, can I fit my two pockets in front of my pants or my little vest or my hoodie? We're not bringing it. I hate carrying things, bro. I hate carrying bags I don't like to carry anything.
Speaker 1:This is strapped across you like a tactical vest.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, if I had to just a book bag, if I had to Just a regular book bag.
Speaker 1:What about those? I was in a charity shop recently and I saw something. I didn't know what it was, but after a Google I realized that people are buying tactical vests that are fake. They're just sort of like thick fabric with the Velcro strips on the front. What about if you stuck Velcro to the back of your Steam Deck and just had it sort of clagged on the front, almost like a weapons system.
Speaker 2:I think, then, it's time that you need to just sit down with someone and just talk about life, just in general, just about everything, getting your mind right.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's a little bit too much, I think yeah, it's not my mumsy, I don't know who's it is, it's just been it. Don't hit switch. I don't know who that is. Maybe use glue gun and get the Velcro off. Yeah, thank you. I guess I'll scrap that plan. Okay, what's the next bit of news lover boy.
Speaker 2:A link to the pictures, because we're still doing this. The Legend of Zelda live action movie has been in the headlines quite a bit over the past few weeks, and now Sony has chimed in reiterating just how massive it's going to be, thanks to Shigeru Miyamoto's strong vision of this particular world. I think my Japanese pronouncing of names has gotten better because of Rise of the Ronin.
Speaker 1:I think his name's Shigeru. You know what Could be. That could be the accent I Doronin.
Speaker 2:I think his name's Shigeru. You know what Could be. That could be the accent I'm picking out. I'm not really sure, but I felt good the last name. I felt confident. I think if you say it wrong, but have confidence in it. People are going to slide.
Speaker 1:I smell a crack in your confidence A little bit.
Speaker 2:It's probably just a stutter when I read out loud that's what happens. I don't know what Bob's excuse is. Here's exactly what Sony Motion Pictures chairman Todd Rothman had to say during an interview with Deadline, noting how the Super Mario Bros movie also benefited from its collaboration with Miyamoto and labeling him a true genius when it comes to Zelda. As he now knows the world, he understands, he says, because the movie is being developed and made in the closest possible collaboration with Nintendo Game Designer, he's a true genius in that world and it's really his strong vision that is motivating he created it and understands it thoroughly. You only have to look at the results of Super Mario Bros to see. In an original announcement of the live-action movie, it's revealed Sony would be co-financing the film, with Avi Arad, chairman of A-Rad Productions, working alongside Miyamoto, where Ball, the king of Planet of the Apes, will be directing his big screen outing. He's previously gone on record saying that he's been following Link's adventures throughout his life. He's also acknowledged the importance of his series and wants to fulfill people's greatest desires.
Speaker 1:Two things Nintendo financing, Sony financing a Nintendo movie. What world are we living in and how does it smell to you?
Speaker 2:we're living in a world of the asian community getting together to make a video game movie they wanted to make would you be if this film was like the never-ending Story or Labyrinth?
Speaker 1:I don't want that.
Speaker 2:What do you want All? No, I don't want the Labyrinth. If you're going to make Zelda's costume, not Zelda's Link's costume look anywhere like David Bowie's tights then.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I wasn't thinking that I was thinking more.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's what I thought immediately. As soon as you say Labyrinth, I just think of that. That was the wildest costume in the world and my man was so happy with that outfit.
Speaker 1:It showed off his finer sides of his personality. Sure did. I. Don't think Link's going to have that somehow. I think that Link's probably his front window is going to have less things on the shelf. Here's my problem. I think that Link's probably his front windows can have less things on the shelf.
Speaker 2:Here's my problem. I think if you put any style of Link's uniform in it, you're either one going to be David Bowie or two you're going to be Carol Hughes in Robin Hood, men in Tights. I just don't see it, you know, I just don't see it. I just don't see a live. Listen. The Mary Brothers movie for what it was. It was animated, it was good. I enjoyed it. I don't think you have to go live action with this, because I would like it. If you're going to do it, I would like it more dark fantasy, like more Lord of the Rings style. Ooh, Then I would like it more dark fantasy like more Lord of the Rings style oh, then. I don't know what's like Princess Bride. Yeah, I know it's a kid movie. I mean you don't have to be for kids like the Married Brother movie. I think everyone of all ages could enjoy it, especially if they had kids. They can take them to see it and, all right, it was good for everybody. But this is, I think, zelda's a little bit more bigger boy.
Speaker 1:What are the Zelda gaming moments that have to be in the movie? I don't know have to be in the movie it has to be in the movie. Yeah, it has to be in a movie. Yeah, if you're sat there and you've got like you've got Zelda bingo in front of you, yeah, Maybe instead of walking One.
Speaker 2:What are the other things that you. I don't want to push in a bush and you find a staircase. I'm not doing that. That's a bit wild for me.
Speaker 1:What about him breaking apart and finding a repeat? No One repeat short.
Speaker 2:No Of no. I think it'll be pretty cool. Let's say, first of all, if you're going to find the sword, I don't want you going to a shop and getting, I want to. You're going to find some old lady out of nowhere, like later, the lake style Excalibur. Find this woman. She's going to give you a sword. That's the sword you're going to use.
Speaker 2:Special sword Cool, great, that has to be there for sure, that's the sword, the special sword, it's the sword, it's the greatest sword of all time. It slashes and dashes. Then that's what I want. You know, in a cave, let's say, you know he's getting aggravated, can't find a way out of this cave, he throws a bomb into a wall, hilarious, like all right shortcut. I'm smart. If you had to do it like that, Is there a?
Speaker 2:fairy in there, a fairy fountain in there. No See, that's the thing For me. I think Fallout is a better video game series from TV than the Last of Us, because the Last of Us is like you're playing the game and you're watching it in live action, so you kind of can expect what, like what's going to happen. They took the story and they adapted it. Fallout is just set in the universe, so there's lots of cool little easter egg, but it had its own little story I think, if they won, yeah, I thought it was.
Speaker 2:I think if they won. Yeah, I thought it was phenomenal, I think if they won that route. Okay, so you know the world of Zelda, you know about Hyrule, you know all about it because you're a fan of the game and little Easter eggs here and there and it's his own journey. It doesn't have to be the same journey that you already played, but something along the line. Yeah, you got to rescue Zelda Copy, you got to fight the Okay, cool, but put it where it's interesting to new people and old fans alike. But I just think it would be better in a darker setting.
Speaker 1:Are you ready for?
Speaker 2:my pitch Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:You've seen Neverending Story? You know he's got this little 80s kid's life and he's getting bullied at school, all that sort of stuff. And he's getting bullied at school, all that sort of stuff. What if we take the book and replace it with an old video game console?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:And a game cart that's older. I want this to be an actual world, but the kid goes into the world when he's playing the game. He is that character.
Speaker 2:No, he's already player one, not doing that it's not the same.
Speaker 1:It's never ending story. Normally you let me pitch, I normally pitch, you receive the idea and I can. I've normally been able to sell you on some of the most far out 100%.
Speaker 2:Every game I've loved it. I'm not feeling this at all. I don't want Fred Savage reading a book going into this world. No, I don't want Fred Savage reading a book going into this world. No, I don't want that. I don't want someone from 1986 going into a world of Hyrule wearing tight little green shorts. I don't want that.
Speaker 1:Mumsy, burn it, burn it, burn it, burn the whole monologue.
Speaker 2:No, I don't care if Bobby's not buying it no, I don't think we need to understand why there's a higher rule or why no, this is what's happening. This is the world. This is our hero. Let's go for it. Why do things have to be explained?
Speaker 1:I didn't want to do, it explained. I just wanted, wanted to add that little, just that little sheen of video game sort of you could be at home doing this yourself. It's the kid's imagination. But then you, then you start questioning is it because this world is starts?
Speaker 2:to become more real. That's the problem, like, why, like Fallout didn't have to explain none of that. It is what it is, is it's. This is the world, bro. This is what's happening, okay, so super mario did I have to know that they were plumbers and they were new york city and they found a pipe. All right, it was cool. Was it necessary? No, I never once said man. How did this human guy get into this world where he's jumping on turtles all day it?
Speaker 1:is what it is. How would you feel if you woke up as a plumber in Mario's world? You know the mushrooms, the whole bag of bricks.
Speaker 2:It'd be wild man, because what are those toads? That'll freak me out. They have large turtles trying to attack you, but are they? They're literally just walking around. You could just easily avoid them. You don't have to kill anything in Mario. No, you don't. You don't have to kill nothing, just jump over them.
Speaker 1:What about the bosses?
Speaker 2:Well, you have to get past them. Your screen doesn't go any further. You have to. I feel sorry for you, but you have to.
Speaker 1:So the minimum you can get away with. In. Mario is looking like I don't know, like a 12 person serial killer. Think about it, yeah people.
Speaker 2:The first thing people do in Mario is they commit murder. They jump on this toad, like turtle, like creature they don't even know. First of all, it doesn't spit at you, doesn't run. They jump on this toad-like, turtle-like creature they don't even know. First of all, it doesn't spit at you, it doesn't run at you, it doesn't try to do anything to you, it's just walking to the left and you are walking to the right and the first thing everybody does is jump on this bad boy and send him on his way down the screen.
Speaker 1:It's a dangerous world though, because one touch of a turtle's nail on his foot, yeah, but let's just say hypothetically what is it a toenail? I totally forgot. It's a toenail. That's what it's called. What little infinitesimal scrape of a turtle's toenail and you're dead yeah, but but that's.
Speaker 2:But that's just a video game.
Speaker 1:See if I woke up in real life and it makes you jump forward with your arms, out out of the TV screen, off the.
Speaker 2:TV screen. I mean, what if you were woke up in a world like that? And now you're in it, right, and then you see this turtle thing and let's just say you don't. Let's just say you don't see it, it just surprised you and you just it hit you. All you did was fall on the floor back up.
Speaker 1:You know now you're in a 3d world, right, you know you could do, just walk around them. What if it was only a 2d world, like you could only walk left to right?
Speaker 2:then just jump over him.
Speaker 1:You could jump about 15 feet in the air, I think, and mario but what if you mistimed it and then jumped on his mate that was flying up and down and his wing literally just glanced across your face? Then you're done. And if you were big boy mario, that's okay, because you shrink down to little boy mario yeah, big boy mario is more aggressive than little boy man.
Speaker 2:When you're a little boy mario, you're more uh-oh. Gotta be careful, right? Big boy mario doesn't care. Big boy mario is a savage. Big boy mario is dr chuckle, he's just savaging and killing. When you're Mr Hyde, you know you just, I'm sorry about that. Let me just run around you, you know, or jump over things, and then when you get the mushroom again, I'll kill everybody back.
Speaker 1:But then, if you happen to just glance your hand across a flower in this world, you suddenly are able to emit fireballs from your crop. Which is also um crazy do you think that expends calories, or do you think it's just one of those things we have to accept?
Speaker 2:well, usually if you have spicy food um, your metabolism kicks in a lot more, so probably being able to shoot fire out of the palms of your hand in a white jumper does it come out the palm of his hand level?
Speaker 1:does it come directly from his crotch?
Speaker 2:It depends on what game you're playing, but I think they didn't have the graphical fidelity to show the palm, so it just looked like a bunch of fire nuts coming out of his crotch.
Speaker 1:Fire nuts, mm-hmm. I didn't think this is where a conversation about the Zelda movie would take us, but I'm so glad it did. I think we should do a poll.
Speaker 2:Do you want this like a dark fantasy? I mean, is Lord of the Rings? I mean I guess it is kind of dark. Yeah, I mean I would prefer it like that I don't think I want a kitty bop, beautiful green grass and a beautiful sun. No, I'd need something a little bit more.
Speaker 1:What if it was Ocarina of Time?
Speaker 2:I never played that.
Speaker 1:It's too late to play it now, but it's a shame it definitely is, I would never go back, probably.
Speaker 2:Wow, I played the first two on the NES. I played A Link to the Past on Super Nintendo yeah, and that was it. And then I played Breath of the Wild.
Speaker 1:Did you like that?
Speaker 2:I thought it was great. It was fun, I had a good time with it. I thought it was interesting. The sequel is just to me like just an expansion, which is alright. I mean, it is what it is. I didn't expect it to be groundbreaking game of the year that year it maybe was let's get this out like if I wanted a Metroid game.
Speaker 2:I would kind of want it similar to like Alien, maybe it was. Let's get this out Like if I wanted a Metroid game. I would kind of want it similar to like Alien Atmospheric, or maybe even Aliens, I guess, because there's lots of enemies on the screen. But you know something like that. I wouldn't want Metroid set in like I don't know, galaxy Quest, you know, or Star Trek Universe. I just feel like it just has more of a horror theme to it. So like when I think of like Blizzard and Zelda, I think of it more like a like a dark fantasy game Like okay, perfect example Like Legend. You ever see Legend with Tom Cruise, yeah, so Legend's kind of a dark. It was a weird movie, right, but it's kind of dark but it's kind of light. There's a unicorn thing in there. There's light and the dark, so it kind of plays to like kind of both worlds, but it was too dark for kids but too light for adults. They couldn't really get it together.
Speaker 1:Now that's where I've been trying to pitch the Zelda movie, that 80s gritty vibe.
Speaker 2:No, I definitely love the 80s gritty vibe 100%. Got your back. Okay, I want it like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't burn page 8 to 20.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would like it like that. Yeah, don't burn page 8 to 20. Yeah, I would like it like that, but I don't want it going to like labyrinth style. I want it more going towards Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 1:I feel like this is the move that's going to make no one happy. Community corrections. Did we miss anything? Do you have an opinion? Or take on the news we missed? I know HG Games jumped in there and threw some stats and figures at us which I actually need to digest and think about, but thank you for that. I think you're probably right in terms of the Helldivers uptake and people not having the accounts in some countries, absolutely agree. But, bobby, if the collected masses wanted to get in contact, like HG Games did and tell us that, george, it's dangerous that you've got a podcast at this point, you've lost touch with reality. You don't know. You don't know anything anymore and we want to make an example of you. How would they make an example?
Speaker 2:of me. They can email us at questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcastcom. People have dm'd me and they said I say that extremely fast, one word like a big neck of cheese. Uh, so it's questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcastcom. They can send us a DM on Instagram, they can reach us on X or they can join the Discord and go into the Community Corrections sub or chat and talk about it there.
Speaker 1:Beautiful. The best bit the Discord completely free. One section of it. The unglorious if you want to step up your life and have, here's one perk, I didn't know I'd agree to a monthly, maybe a quarterly, board meeting with us. They dial into a Zoom call. We're here. I don't know if we play some video games. We talk nonsense. I'll probably show my picture of hamster mummies that I've created. Why not? Why not? It's a bit messy, but then things get a bit better as you get further into the process. So yeah, I'm enjoying it. Nice distraction, nice use of some of the Warhammer paints I collected when I was 12. What more could you want from life?
Speaker 2:Yeah, nothing really.
Speaker 1:If you wanted to really embody this show in one way. There's really only one person Now. We all hang around and we associate ourselves with greatness, but let's face it, this is Stingray's show.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:I think it's time. I think it's time. Are you ready? I am, I'll let him in. It's time for a peek in what we affectionately call Stingray's boot. What's this? A dodgy copy of Battlefront or this week? These are the new release highlights. Ray, I don't think you updated the date. You're flaming nincompoop. Let me do it for you. These are the new release highlights for May 20th to May 26th. Listeners, these are either digital or physical or will be by the time. This podcast is in your feed but could be region dependent.
Speaker 1:I struggled and fell over the intro. Ray didn't update the script. I'm blaming him. I'm basically blaming myself. I feel a little bit beleaguered. It's been a tough week and I look at how I'm seeing ray this week and I'm not seeing ray at all now. He's got a cousin that cousin has. You know, when you're a kid you know there's certain franchises that you maybe get into. This particular character got very into thomas the tank engine, uh, shark. He then got really into trains. He would look at trains. He would write the numbers down as he came through farmerton station. As he got a little bit older, started playing train simulator on his console. That's the sort of character he is. Now he's a popular youtuber. Popular YouTuber famous on TikTok for uploading videos of himself wearing a selfie stick taped to his head. Now, I don't know if you know this, but this particular member of the Ray family, we know him in the village of Farmington as Rail, but you may call him Rail Ray, rail Ray, rail Ray. Yeah, what do you think about him?
Speaker 2:Well, I just met him, yeah, so I don't really know much, but I'm sure after the show we'll have a little bit of a. You know. Just good to know him. Okay, seemed like a nice chap. Okay, he looks normal, actually, whoa yeah, I don't know if he has that same ability. Right now he looks like just a normal dude. You know, you never know. Stingray does not look normal, but he never does well, this week I'm seeing Wayne as Rail Ray's packed luncheon thermos.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, and I think it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I think he's a Marmite sandwich. Oof, that's rough. How are you seeing the mighty ray this week?
Speaker 2:did you ever play the video game? Radioactive dwarves from the sewers.
Speaker 1:I can't imagine that's on my list of games.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you something. I played it. It's actually quite challenging. That's what Wayne looks like a small, sadistic looking dwarf with a full red beard, toxic green eyes, very feral-looking dude.
Speaker 1:What makes a diminutive gentleman like that vindictive?
Speaker 2:Probably the amount of toxic chemicals he's probably ingested into the sewer. That's what I'm thinking. He is definitely been poisoned.
Speaker 1:How are you seeing Sting then? If that's how you see him, wait Sting you know what?
Speaker 2:He has? A very, extremely tight pair of brown tights, beautiful manscaped abs, oil down, with probably a two liter bulge in his pants and I said liter on purpose. So the UK community and everyone else around the world who doesn't use whatever Americans use understands. What do you call? It because we call it the imperial system yeah, I think we use the metric over here, that's centimeters though but Thurgate was rough.
Speaker 2:I don't think we use whatever. What would you say? Two liters is Well, it's whatever you would call it. When you get gas, what do you put gas in? Well, we would get liters. Now, we get gallons. We do it by gallons, you do it by liters, yeah we'd do.
Speaker 1:The imperial system would use gallons pints.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's a liter. It's a two liter bottle of coke that he's got rummaging down there. Don't know how he put pants on. To be honest, probably went to Mugsy Mugsy. Ever heard Mugsy jeans? They have a 6% spandex into their 94% cotton jeans so you can get a bit of a stretch, and he definitely needs it Because it is out there. Or he could have just a massive case of blue balls. I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1:I don't see, I don't. I'm only seeing Rail Ray and I'll tell you one thing he doesn't need Extra space in his jeans, you know he just looks.
Speaker 2:He just has black jeans on. It looks like a salmon-colored button-down with just like a black jacket. Pretty normal-looking dude really.
Speaker 1:He's got a British logo pin badge on his collar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it doesn't even say members only, it's just a regular looking blackjack Something I would actually wear. Nothing crazy. Do you tell you what? There's parted very World War II pilot like you know, just a chill dude.
Speaker 1:Get a race boot and pull out for me, what's your first game? And I presume you're Mummy, mummy as well.
Speaker 2:No, probably not. You got to have one of these as your mummy mummy and the other one on Switch unfortunately I do. Um. This is uh Senua's Saga Hellblade 2 for PC and uh um Xbox Series X. May 21st, the sequel to the award winning Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice. Senua returns in a brutal journey of survival through the myth and torment of Viking Iceland. Intent on saving those who have fallen victim to the horrors of tyranny, senua faces a battle of overcoming the darkness within and without. Actually, may 24th is the Glass Staircase also, hmm.
Speaker 1:Why was that not?
Speaker 2:in my update Because it literally just popped. I don't know what happened. Google just notified me that's never happened before and it showed me that game and I was really interested how much my phone is listening to me now.
Speaker 1:It's literally taking your dream and made it real like the world of goo.
Speaker 2:Without reading it, that seemed something that needs to come out of stingray.
Speaker 1:He doesn't release it very van wilder like on ray rental recordings release. He doesn't release it. Very Van Wilder-like On Ray Rental recordings release on Nintendo Switch May 23rd. Use living liquid creatures, god. Use living liquid creatures to build bridges, grow towers, terraform terrain and fuel flying machines. The world is beautiful, dangerous and evolving. Every level is a realistic physics and fluid simulation build, splash, explode, destroy, fly and roll your way through your own unique solutions to each level local cooperative play exclusively on nintendo switch.
Speaker 1:Build together, explore a new story spanning hundreds of thousands of years. Now, this was all passing me by. Until you have a story spanning hundreds of thousands of years and watch the world change. That suddenly went from yeah, whatever to that actually is intriguing. It's probably not what it says on the tin, but I for sure got excited. Now for my mummy, mummy, I VHS pick. If you don't mind, sir, I'm taking Transformers G1 series, og. It's apparently the 40th anniversary. No way I remember this coming out. They're doing some live cinema events around the UK as we speak where you can go and watch that.
Speaker 2:Are you serious?
Speaker 1:I'm being deadly serious. I was interested until I found out. Now this might appeal to some people, but I did find out. It was like a live script room read-along and I was like, oh, that's interesting, but I don't really want to watch half of the screen of the cartoon that I loved or love, and then the top half, a load of bearded old men recreating their youthful voice, acting work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think as a kid, eh, but as probably an adult, you're like wow.
Speaker 1:But I don't know. I just want to go in as a kid, get blown away and come out. I don't want to find out that Father Christmas lives in Kettering. Yeah, true, what's your Mummy, mummy, vhs pick Stud.
Speaker 2:Probably the first. What I think is the first superhero movie Howard the Duck.
Speaker 1:I love this film. I think the soundtrack is absolutely banging Howard.
Speaker 2:the Duck was a wild movie. Martin McFly's mum. I love her so much she is. Yeah, she's beautiful, she really is she also. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff with this movie that definitely is not PG, super rated R play duck, play duck with the actual human, like boobs on a duck. Also, howard the Duck according to boobs on a duck. Also, howard the Duck according to comic book lore, does have some powers In this movie. He is just a three-foot duck talking smack.
Speaker 1:He's like a very innocent version of Howard the Duck in the movie.
Speaker 2:Howard the Duck is not innocent. This dude is definitely should be in jail. Innocent version of Howard the Duck in the movie Howard the Duck is not innocent. This dude is definitely should be in jail.
Speaker 1:In the movie though he is, unless he's playing it for laughs, he's not quite the dirty dog you would have us believe.
Speaker 2:Oh, no, he is. I think I watched it as an adult just a few weeks ago, was on, and I'm like this is what I watched when I was like five.
Speaker 1:They thought it was acceptable.
Speaker 2:Huh.
Speaker 1:I didn't even think it was that bad.
Speaker 2:Think about it A five-year-old looking at female boobs you know, human female boobs on a duck and we're like what's that? Like I never even asked my mom what that was supposed to be. I've got a confession for you. He tried to make out. I've got a confession for you.
Speaker 1:When my blood boils and I think you know what I'm talking about. I'll be honest with you. When I'm going through the Vulcan aging treatment, ponfar, that's one thing okay, and sometimes that's what you've described there is the very tamest thing I've searched on Google yeah, the very tamest thing. So I don't know if it's edgy or not. With that said, you're clutching a copy of the uncut director's edition of Howard the Duck. Thank you, ray, I'm clutching whatever it said.
Speaker 2:I said I wanted it literally says in a little red stick on the bottom the 15 minutes you never know you want to see. Let's find out.
Speaker 1:Do you think Howard the Duck would just sort of jump on Martin McFly's mum's back and nibble her neck with his bill 100%?
Speaker 2:I think most men would do the same.
Speaker 1:Is that the 15 minute bit that we didn't know we needed?
Speaker 2:I will let you know next week.
Speaker 1:I look on the floor there's a very old British rail logo and what looks like Coke mixed with milk. Just just lay it around it in a puddle. I don't know what to make of that, but I tell you what. It didn't come off the buffet cart of Rail Ray's buffet carriage, that's for sure. All that said and done, he's gone. We're still here. The only question left on people's lips is what are you hoping to play, sir bobby?
Speaker 2:it depends. Uh, I could have sworn. I purchased stellar blade. Um, I don't know why I got the japanese version from play asia, or I thought I did and I purchased it Not here, yet Maybe I didn't do it.
Speaker 1:Why did you buy that when it's available?
Speaker 2:in the shops Because my friend said that it's a different version from everyone else. He goes there's. He said it's not exactly what everyone else got, it's a different version. So I was interested in it and he showed me some photos. So I said, okay, same price, I'll get it. But now I'm thinking, or not? What happened?
Speaker 1:Will it be in English.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's in Japanese, but the subtitles are English, which is fine, doesn't bother me. I can read. Yeah, that's fine, that's why I played Rise of Ronin. I played that entirely in Japanese. Did you play Ghosted?
Speaker 1:Yep, yeah, I did.
Speaker 2:I think it does a game and it's set in a world that's not English and it's in, let's say, portuguese or whatever. I'll listen to it in Portuguese and put English subtitles. Yeah, I just think that gets me you know, I think that's the way to go. Okay, anything. I wish there was a way to put greek inside, like assassin's creed odyssey, but you can't. But you know it'd be cool you can.
Speaker 1:Can't you just change the spoken language to greek? No, I don't have it. When I played assassin's creed, you could put the language to Italian.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I don't think they. I don't see an option for Now. You've got to maybe go back and put the game on. I don't think you could do that. Try it Interesting. I'll try it. Yeah, it'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 1:Assassin's Creed 2 in Italian, but the only problem is, when you go through to the English, they're all speaking Italian as well. Oh, really, yeah. So the guys back in the modern day. They're all, they're all so what do? You tell? Me, or maybe maybe they're a bit more bonjour.
Speaker 2:That's how it is.
Speaker 1:What am I open to? Probably a bit more F1 manager. I feel like slobbing out on the couch playing news in Portal or slobbing out somewhere. Maybe go out in the sun, lay there, press myself up like a piece of pork scratching Although, wear sunscreen, because I did get a massive burn on my head that turned into a big thick scab.
Speaker 2:You've got to wear the sunscreen, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've never been burnt before. However many years old I am, I've never been burnt before. However many years old I am, never been burnt. Are you serious? Yeah, I've been burnt several times. You're a very porcelain-like human being, though, mm-hmm. Protect the cherub, yeah. New T-shirt range. I want a T-shirt that's got Bobby in a state of disrepair and just says protect the cherub. Yeah, that'd be dope.
Speaker 2:I'd buy it.
Speaker 1:Maybe you as a stylized kid, icarus.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, right here.
Speaker 1:I want that as my Christmas present. Someone make it happen. We'll make it happen. Still no updates on the wiki page because we need a wiki but we can't create it. Someone's got to create it. I think Badabinkster was trying, but he needed approval from wiki and I just don't think Ray was something that he could pin down in a description. Imagine one day where there's a UCP wiki where it lists every single different way.
Speaker 2:It lists every single different way and every single different ray there is there is a way to do that how you send each podcast through an AI generator, which then listens to the description of Stingray and then not only will it list it in words in a paragraph by each member of the UCP, it will also generate a photo.
Speaker 1:Someone with more time 216 yeah, but I think initially Ray always appeared the same way, but Ray was involved in like a different clandestine activity each week and then I don't know how, but suddenly Ray and I don't know what episode this happened in. So one needs to tell me. All of a sudden we saw Ray differently each time we saw him.
Speaker 2:I forgot about that. Yeah, dude, it's been like four years.
Speaker 1:We're in our fifth year. I know How's that make you feel.
Speaker 2:It feels like we just started yesterday. In many ways, but I don't feel like it's been that long, but it's been that long, you know what I mean, which is a good thing.
Speaker 1:Well, this is episode 219. And I can't wait to see what you know like when you're playing a video game you're like oh God, just end.
Speaker 2:Already, you know. And then sometimes you're like oh my God, it's ending.
Speaker 1:I can't believe it. I need part two. What do you think the AI called?
Speaker 2:it Called what he's going to call this episode Something with, I'm going to say Link's. You know, let me think Talked about Link a lot. We talked about Bulge a few times. Um, I'm basically like Link Stark's dark, dark, dark Bulge. You know, link Stark Bull, yeah, or the Bulls you didn't know, you wanted I don't know something along that line.
Speaker 1:If I don't get a Bulls in there, I'll be a little upset.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know something along that line. If I don't get a bulge in there, I'll be a little upset. But I thought it was a bulge. You didn't know you wanted.
Speaker 1:I mean secretly, you don't want to say that you know. Are you ready? Are you steady? Are you ready to go with the? I'll just do the list of our paid supporters who pay money each month Absolutely To supporters who pay money each month Absolutely To keep the show alive. Are you ready? I am Brussels, new York, a badder bigster, tingle Tuna, digital Monkery. Still in the cupboard Rowspace Monk, the Gaming Gram, Bald Border Boba. I saw a picture of him on the Discord recently and I'll be honest with you the shoulders on him.
Speaker 2:Absolutely Listen. Forget the shoulders. I want to know. I think, when you look at this guy, especially when he takes a selfie with a coffee cup, I just want to just grab him and just go sit on a stool. I don't even like stools, but I want to sit on a stool. Are?
Speaker 1:we talking the four-legged seating device or the scientific name for a poopy?
Speaker 2:Oh no, Like a stool where you sit. Yeah, I don't want to sit on poop with him, that's wild, but I want to sit. Usually you get a coffee table, you sit down. I don't want to sit on a piece of poop with him, but, like I don't even want to put my coffee down on the table, I just want to sit on the stool and actually hold my coffee for the entire conversation, because I think I'll learn something. Keep going.
Speaker 1:Guaranteed Marathon Gaming the absolute legend. Where are you, Scott? Come to me, I'm wearing nothing but a duvet Seal. Where are you, Scott? Come to me, I'm wearing nothing but a duvet Seal. Master Elliot sealed himself up in a sleeping bag the other day so tight and then got his mum to wrap it in cling film. Oof Rumour has it he's still inside, Doesn't? Want to break the seal he doesn't want to get out. What do you think? He can't breathe.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you're wrapped in cling wrap, you're screwed, yeah but if he popped a straw through there that's what I'm hoping, yeah, but then he might as well unwrap if he's done that. I see what you're saying think of the pain he's going to be in when you unwrap a Japanese version of Stellar Blade. The agony is going to be unrivaled.
Speaker 2:And it's that plastic wrap, that Japanese plastic wrap is tighter than the American ones. For sure they could seal some game guess who's next on the list?
Speaker 1:RGT fan club no, my red headed stepson. A man so magnificent, I wished he was my own creation from my lawyers yeah, he's a great dude, emma Sharp.
Speaker 1:Just to confirm, og Tom came back. He heard a female name in the list of paid supporters. His first and only question is she on the apps? Yeah, bulletproof. The man, the legend, the walking enigma, harvey Retro yeah, nowhere near Berlin. Greg Cummings, mumsy, the RGT fan club. The mighty yet dangerous, pete Brockelhurst yeah, he throws slabs of concrete at people and hopes that they volley it back like football. Yeah, he's a wild dude. He's not everyone's cup of tea, but he's certainly everyone's favourite breakfast spread. It's Billy Marmite. We've got Simon Pryke and he requests I say it sexually every time. His name Mm-hmm, fats and Gief. Yeah, is that sexy, though? What would?
Speaker 2:you describe as a sexy voice, Something very sultry. Very nice of the ear.
Speaker 1:Do you think what I did then was sexy, or do you think I should have?
Speaker 2:said more like Sounded more demonic, to be honest with you, Okay so Fats and Gief is demonic, whereas if.
Speaker 1:I'd said more like Fats and Gief.
Speaker 2:Oh, Fats Zangief.
Speaker 1:Oh Fat Zangief, oh Fat Zangief. What, oh my God?
Speaker 2:Fat Zangief baby, Something like that.
Speaker 1:I'm not very good at accents.
Speaker 2:I get my friend who knows what I'll do.
Speaker 1:I get my friend to record it.
Speaker 2:I'm wondering now We'll put that little bit in the end of just her saying it.
Speaker 1:I'm super nervous now about do you know what's cancel culture? If I end up on the scrapyard now, you would have to be collateral damage. The only thing left is rgt and seb. They're involved in a vicious buyout.
Speaker 2:You know how I imagined his name being said. Who Is that? Fat Sangiefs? Yeah, you ever watch the Fog with Adrienne Barbeau.
Speaker 1:Not that I probably remember as explicitly.
Speaker 2:Adrienne Barbeau was a very voluptuous sexual woman icon in the 80s. Lots of horror movies. She did a radio show on the movie of the fog where she was a old school jazz lighthouse radio station. Okay, I imagine her voice saying fat zingies. I would actually like her voice to read out all the names. One episode would be fantastic.
Speaker 1:How close can you get to recreating it? Do you think?
Speaker 2:So we can try and be damn close. Give it a go. Oh, right now. Yeah, ooh, on the spot. It's going to be difficult. I have to hear a little bit of her still how she does some syllables and words. But I have to hear a little bit of her still how she does some syllables and words. But she was like I forgot. I even forgot the name of the radio station she did. But she was like something along the lines like oh, watch out, right there there's a fog coming in rolling from the West Bank of California and right now we're going to put some smooth jazz by Can't think of a name right now, yeah, by, I can't think of a name right now Fat Sangief. Yeah, put some smooth jazz on by the classical director Fat Sangief. And look out there sparkling lights and hello California, something like that. That's what she did.
Speaker 1:If you need your name read out in a specific way, jump in the Unglorious. It's your private space to talk about us and the show whatever takes your fancy. If I'm being honest with you, um, bobby, that draws us to a very neat line at the end of the show. It's been absolutely wonderful to embrace your new york visage, to watch you arise in the morning like a sunrise, and now it's midday and your peak brightness shines down upon me. I feel irradiated, but in no danger of feeling burnt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, also, it's only 8 o'clock for me, wow, still peak morning, which I love. You know what I love? Every episode, not gonna lie, when we're talking as the sun rises through my window, it's like we watch the sunrise together every sunday oh, that's so not beautiful I don't know what I can give you in return.
Speaker 1:That's anywhere nearly as close as that I'll tell you what you could do.
Speaker 2:You have a beautiful little on air neon light.
Speaker 1:Click it on and off every now and then now this has been mentioned before that on air light turns on so bright that you can't see me are you serious?
Speaker 2:yeah, I'll be deadly serious. That's incredible. You can't.
Speaker 1:That little thing is incredible, then that thing comes on so bright against that white wall that on video it goes invisible Wow.
Speaker 2:So technically it's brighter than the sunshine right now in my house Talk about a real light right there.
Speaker 1:When I got it and I love it, I think it's great, I think it's awesome. I got it as a gift. I've got given it as a gift and I thought, oh, I are awesome. I got it as a gift, I got given it as a gift and I thought, oh, I can't wait to get that plugged in. As soon as I turned it on and looked on the camera, I was like I have an idea.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you get a little bit of plexiglass, small piece of plexiglass, right.
Speaker 1:What it's in plexiglass.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's okay. You put a little film for the window, just a little bit of a tint to soften the brightness.
Speaker 1:Yes, If you've listened this far, you know the intimate arrangements of my, of the UCP's recording dungeon. If you want a picture of that, let us know. On the Inglourious, it's the only place I'm going to respond to it as well. So if you want to be involved in that intimate chat, if you want to know what my inside leg measurement is, I'm sorry but you have to pay the extra bucks. It's not a lot, is it? Right now, during the adopter phase? It's not a great deal. We'll let you in, right, if that's news, then one would imagine it's probably not. I think that's all we have time for this week. Listeners, as always, thank you for the pleasure of speaking to you. We look forward to speaking to you again next week. Until then, happy gaming and remember there's nothing wrong with being given the unofficial control. It's what you do with it that counts, bobby adios.
Speaker 2:Peace, outro Music.