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speaker-0: It's Doki Darko, let's get him in.
speaker-2: Yeah.
speaker-0: Bring him on in, shall we? Dockey Darko, how you doing brother?
speaker-2: Yeah, great guys. How are we going? Yeah.
speaker-0: Very good, very cool.
speaker-1: Good. Again, I feel like we haven't caught up properly in ages. It's been like a a real ⁓ shifted timeline of who's available and when and we've sort of been all over the place. But this is nice. We're back in the room together, we got this.
speaker-0: Yes.
speaker-2: It's great to be back. What are you playing at the moment?
speaker-1: I I've actually jumped onto Star Wars Outlaws. I'm a bit behind the curve here. And I will admit, the first couple of hours of gameplay, I'm like, ⁓ I can see the hate. I can see why this didn't work. I can understand it. I'm so frustrated. I'm so bored. And then guess what happened, Doc? I started enjoying it. Something happened.
speaker-2: You fell in love with it. You know what, this is not a bad game. I think the biggest issue they have with Star Wars games in general is most of the population just wants to play games about Luke and Hahn and the male character. Go away from that and they create this brand new character who was essentially female hand solo, yeah. ⁓ it it can be a bit of a a a jarring experience for for a lot of people. But
speaker-0: Sure.
speaker-2: Once you that that story and then once you start going like working the syndicates against each other that's the key part. That was the bit that flipped it for me. When I started really like delving into the the different crime syndicates, I was like, ⁓ this game is so in depth. It's so much better than people have ⁓ are giving it credit for explain.
speaker-1: That's it. Yeah. Nick with a problem with it, and I'll touch on this very quickly, is that Ubisoft do open world so well, what they don't do well is like much like Breakpoint or Ghost Recon games or anything else, a lot of the characterizations feels very rushed and a bit bland. So the character models and the facial sort of even in the cinematics is a bit s like whatever. But when you get back
speaker-0: Taxi yeah.
speaker-2: I didn't love that about the game. And then and then eventually I played it on Nintendo Switch 2 as well. And then it loses a bit of fidelity there. ⁓ and it was like But it's all right. Like it's fine. Like I I think it's a great game. And I think it it just dropped on PlayStation Plus this month too, so you can actually play it plus
speaker-1: Clear example of just give a game a chance, don't listen to all the hate, like find out for yourself. ⁓
speaker-0: Yeah. G delve in. That's it. And especially if it's free now on Playstation, give it a shot. Give it a shot. A hundred percent.
speaker-2: Yeah. The other thing, like Star Wars gets so much hate and there's a lot of negativity out there online because people get lots of views on their videos for giving Star Wars hate. So you know, hate breeds hate. Yeah. And ⁓ as Zoda says, hate leads
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to the dark side. So show a bit of love, everybody. Star Wars.
speaker-1: And hate leads to the dunk.
speaker-0: That's right. ⁓ Yeah, we'll We'll all become dark betas at one point. Hey Doc, ⁓ what games are you playing at the moment?
speaker-2: Well, I just ⁓ I've been playing a game called Beast of Reincarnation, which just dropped on PS5, Xbox, and PC. Now, you might have seen the trailer for this one. It dropped to much excitement a little while ago because it's from the creators of Pokemon, Game Freak. No. But it's totally different to Pokemon. In fact, it's probably more sits in the ⁓ Sakiro Black Myth Wukong type ⁓ scenario. Like it's very much a souls like
speaker-1: All in
speaker-2: It's a Souls Like Light, if if if I can say that. Soul One of the things I find frustrating about Souls Likes and those those Dark Souls games is they just get too hard. You know? I just want a nice casual fun game.
speaker-1: I think I'm a sucker for punishment. I'm whipping myself as I'm playing it.
speaker-2: Yeah, yeah, right. Yeah.
speaker-0: I feel like I need to wipe Marcus' drool off his chin right now when he mentions souls like.
speaker-1: Yeah, this sounds bright.
speaker-2: It's exciting. So this is about one person, one dog. It's an action RPG and it's set in the year forty twenty-six. Yep. It's sort of a post-apocalyptic Japan. The world's been taken over by these like plant manipulating blights. And you ⁓ you play as Emma, who has a really cute dog called Koo, and you have to go around and basically ⁓ wipe out the blight. But as you wipe it out, you absorb it into your own body, and it's about what that what that means and what that feels like and dealing with
speaker-1: You what I'm gonna have to do, Doc, is Google, much like most films, does the dog die? Because I won't be playing it otherwise. Yeah.
speaker-2: ⁓ yeah. Yeah. I just got a puppy recently, a golden retriever. She's fourteen weeks old and so I've got that real John Wick attachment to this.
speaker-1: Totally get it.
speaker-0: Hey Doc, being a game freak game, can we expect a beast go on the way for an app where we get attached to a
speaker-2: get dangerous if we do that. I I think we'll stick to ⁓ to catch catching Pikachu's and catch ⁓ all
speaker-1: Yeah.
speaker-0: you're also playing of Final Fantasy as well?
speaker-2: This is incredible. Final Fantasy fourteen online has finally dropped on Nintendo Switch two. This is a game that's been around for for years. Like it's I I wanna say like ten, fifteen years it's been around. I I I don't have an exact date on it, but that that's what I want to say. Yep. ⁓ and it's one of those MMOs that just is dropping new content constantly. I got a bit of a sneak peek into what's coming next for the ⁓ for the game the other night and I can tell you it's pretty exciting. I can't tell you what it is, but I can tell you it's pretty exciting. ⁓ this is cool though that it's dropped finally on Nintendo Switch 2. ⁓ I always had connection issues with it. So I set up a Final Fantasy account. My Steam Deck didn't like it. It it told me I'd already played the demo and all sorts of things. It wouldn't work. So I'm really excited to jump in and play this more on Nintendo Switch 2. I feel like this is gonna be the gateway drug for a lot of people coming in via Nintendo Switch 2. And it's such a massive game with years and years of content. So when you do jump in, you're gonna be able to go through and level up really quickly before you get to that brand new content that gets released soon. Wow.
speaker-0: Is this classic final fancy like RPG style fighting as well for those?
speaker-2: Yeah, there's ⁓ it's it's a bit of a hybrid, I think, so it's not the turn-based fighting, obviously. Yep. ⁓ but you're gonna see classic Final Fantasy characters and classic sort of that art style and everything that goes with Final Fantasy. They've done it, it's kind of like a split world, like a multiverse. Yeah. And so each time they drop a new bit of content, you're going to a different part of the multiverse, but then you can come back and play it.
speaker-1: Good because lucky we're not fatigued with multiverses by now. Yeah.
speaker-2: I I you know, w this is gonna be a great game for people who ⁓ are upset that Destiny has been killed. So games like Destiny really brought people together to play together. That's what this is all about. It's jumping in, playing with your friends. You can play solo as well, but it's a much more ⁓ a thrilling ⁓ fulfilment if you ⁓ if you play with your friends.
speaker-1: Gotcha.
speaker-0: I can't wait for ⁓ this game to succeed and then they go into Final Fantasy Battle Royale. That would be excellent.
speaker-1: Final Fantasy twenty seven, Battle Royale.
speaker-0: can now play Spongebob in the Final Fantasy universe. Hey, Doc, as well, the music I know Final Fantasy nail it with music. They tap into your mo emotions. Does that still exist in this one?
speaker-2: ⁓ the music in this is glorious. Yeah. Yeah, you'll love it. Yeah, it's that real that f Final Fantasy had this certain sound when it comes to the orchestral sort of ⁓ the build ups and the battles and
speaker-1: Sounds like it's summoning a god every time.
speaker-0: ⁓ yeah.
speaker-2: It does, yeah, yeah. So I really I love to play Final Fantasy games with headphones on because the sound is just so good. And especially like I use the ⁓ the the Sony Pulse Elite ones. ⁓ and they are just hard to describe just how good it is.
speaker-1: ⁓ yeah.
speaker-0: My gosh. You'd be like a cactus with goosebumps all over ya. Yeah.
speaker-2: Right. It's ASMR, it's Max. ⁓ here's another one coming. This is I'm so excited for this, although the Premier League season is about to start soon and that has me worried 'cause I'm a Newcastle fan and all my players are being sold off and my manager and yeah, so ⁓ but this is EA Sports F C twenty seven. It's coming soon. This is what has me excited. I think we're gonna see
the biggest changes in EA F C ⁓ that we have seen in a very long time. Maybe the last ten years. ⁓
speaker-1: Manager, yeah.
speaker-2: Ever since 'cause they changed the name, obviously. I still call it FIFA. Everyone does. Like, yeah. What are you playing? I'm playing FIFA. Yeah. EA Sports F C twenty seven is the game. They've introduced a thing called the Grounds. Now, what the grounds is, is it's really at the core of F C twenty seven's new social experience. So it's a shared virtual playground that's supporting a hundred players all at once. And players start at a central hub called the Terrace. And then you can travel to three different culture inspired districts. So there's Montclair, which is the French urban cage pitches. Yeah, yeah. Then you've got ⁓ Ziza, which is the Argentinian street football area. And then you've got Parkside, which is more of that classic UK working class football heritage. I think they're gonna like don't be surprised, they'll add more as it goes on. Yeah. Pay extra for it.
speaker-1: Yeah. No Brazil. Beach soccer in Australia or something crazy.
speaker-2: You want Brazil? Okay, that's a ninety nine dollar.
speaker-1: ⁓ do Australia but it's in the outback and it's all
speaker-0: ⁓ that's it. ⁓
speaker-2: You go they'll do Australia, but you have to wait for the AFL players to get off the beach to put
speaker-0: ⁓ Is this a bit like the park from NBA two K?
speaker-2: It is ex that's a really great point. It is exactly the park. Interesting. My city, I think they call it in ⁓ in MBA two K. So ⁓ yeah, it's not just gonna be about queuing up in menus, it's gonna be like hanging out, forming clubs. Is it
speaker-1: J's gonna be a bunch of guys just nutmegging each other the whole time.
speaker-2: Yeah, yeah. I think so I think we will see a lot of that. ⁓ if you're a fan of EAFC and you like the story driven content as well, ⁓ you ever you'll be happy to know Alex Hunter is coming back. Now that was the main character from the journey. Yep. ⁓ so he's coming back and ⁓ he's gonna be a mentor ⁓ in in in the world. ⁓ but he'll be standing alongside the likes of Killiam Mbappe and ⁓ and and stacks of others as well. So it's gonna be wow, yeah, look. I'm probably more excited for EA Sports F C twenty seven than I have been a EA sports game E S E A F C game for a very, very long time.
speaker-1: Every year I say I'm not gonna buy the next one and every year I'm probably gonna buy it. Right.
speaker-0: Always money set aside for a break in case of emergency.
speaker-2: Yeah, I start putting a dollar away as soon as I come.
speaker-0: Hey Doc, ⁓ you being a massive FIFA fan of the games as well, do you think this will succeed? Do you think this will be a worthwhile addition to the game?
speaker-2: I think it's a no brainer. Like I think, yeah, everyone buys the new FIFA regardless. Yeah. Yep. and I think, yeah, I think it's definitely gonna be a big one. I look, are you are you saying specifically the grounds part? Yeah. Yeah, I think look, I don't know. That's that's the that's the real million dollar question. Mm-hmm. I think EA are smart enough that they've done their research into saying this is what people want. Yeah. However, online I see comments under the post saying
speaker-0: Yeah, being a new thing.
speaker-2: Who asked for this? No one asked for this.
speaker-1: It is interesting 'cause you you're going for that real life simulation. You're asking for people that generally don't play though. Like it's like having a Call of Duty lobby ⁓ with the same aspect. Yeah.
speaker-2: Yeah, right. Yeah. So I look I think a lot of people people play EA Sports F C different ways. I play in career mode and that's how I like to play by myself as a as a switch off at the end of the day. But then a lot of l people like to play the ⁓ the card based version of the game where you ⁓ are unlocking players and playing online and and doing all that. And I yeah, so I I I see a lot of people playing it completely different ways. I think that's great that the game lit gives you those options. ⁓ will this work? But The proof will be in the pudding when it finally launches.
speaker-1: Imagine an active Call of Duty lobby like that would just be a bunch of people telling each other they've slept with each other's mothers.
speaker-0: A lot of people that should be locked up. ⁓
speaker-2: I'd be walking around and they're saying, Isn't it past your bedtime?
speaker-0: ⁓ It's Doki Darko, our gaming guru. Find him at DokiDarko.com. He also posts a few articles up at chilifm.com.au, check him out. And also the ⁓ the podcast as well. Multiplay. Multiplay podcast, check him out. Doggy darko. We'll catch up next week, brother.
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speaker-0: Ha.