Top ten essential Playstation 3 games for new retro players

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Hello and welcome to Flashback.
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The game do you love the stories you forgot?
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This is episode 41.
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And no, this isn't a random month or random year.
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This is 10 PS3 games for new retro, well we'll say collectors stroke gamers.
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And as always, I'm RGT and I'm joined by the podcast veteran, the Lifetime Gamer, CCP George.
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How are you doing, George?
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Oh, I am fighting fit and raring to go.
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It does me good to see your glorious face and obviously vicariously the ears of our wonderful listeners and those viewing the logo as it floats around the YouTube screen.
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I love these top tens, so I've grabbed an eclectic selection from the shelf.
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And um yeah, let's get into it.
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Me or you first, what do you want to do?
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Um well I'll just quickly go over what we do in case there's new listeners on here.
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Usually we do a random month of a random year in game and cover what we would have been playing and news stories, etc.
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But occasionally we do these ones, which we there'll be some obvious games in here, but there'll be some less obvious ones and some a bit different.
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But we pick five games each as a collection of ten, and just for new new people collecting for the PS3 gives you a you know a nice little ten games to jump straight onto and get your collection going and good games to play as well.
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But yeah, we're we're taking turns with our games, and then at the end we'll give you a little round up of the prices.
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Um, yeah, you go first, George.
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What are you going for first?
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Well, my first game is this beautiful looking gem, it's Final Fantasy XIII.
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Um, I will go on record and say I think this is my favourite.
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Um you take Lightning and the team through the journey and the world of cocoon.
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Square End, it's classic.
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It's it's turn-based, so I absolutely love it, and I still think graphically it kind of holds up to it to this day, apart from when you get at the end of the game, like back maybe third of the game, you get into like an open world section, which does look a bit ropey, but I can understand why they put it in because it was kind of all the rage at the time.
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Um, but everything else, it's very linear path, obviously, because it's turn-based and it takes you on like that the journey through.
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Story's a little bit complicated, but the characters are enjoyable enough that makes that easy to um deal with.
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Uh, it was available on 360 as well as PS3.
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Um, I think the music especially is incredible.
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This was the in my mind the height of the CGI movie element of it as well.
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So we had the movies kind of holding it together.
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Um a different way of leveling up as well.
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I think it's called the Crystal or Cristarium or something along those lines.
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But um, yeah.
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For the long I don't really I didn't really know what my favourite Final Fantasy was um until I played this again.
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Um and during the main show, the unofficial controller podcast, you would have heard me talk about this as I walked through it, and I think it was a good 60 hours, you know.
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But it it kind of flew by.
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Um I remember when I played it first, maybe on 360.
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I got I don't know five hours into it.
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I had a young family at the time, and I just bounced off of it.
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I didn't have the time.
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Um, but this time around, they were all grown up or grown up enough to be off distracting themselves, and um yeah, I played this game sort of back to back day after day until it was done, and I absolutely loved every single part of it, mate, to be honest with you.
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Really, really cool game.
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Um, I'm hoping that it's relatively cheap at CEX when you tell me the price.
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I don't know whether we do that at the end or now.
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I think we do it at the end normally, don't we?
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We do at the end, yeah, yeah.
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We do it at the end.
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Absolutely brilliant.
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I've got like a special edition, but this is just the normal vanilla you buy it from the shelf in CEX.
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Like I say, I'm hoping this week I haven't come with a load of stupidly priced games.
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I hope not.
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I think I've actually been a good boy this week, and I know I'm relatively confident this will be quite cheap.
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Um this reviewed reasonably well at the time and was pretty well accepted.
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Um what more can I say without giving you a proper story drivel boring part of it?
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But uh yeah, very enjoyable game.
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Have you played it?
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No, I've always been tended.
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I remember when you played it um through before when you were saying about 60 hours and you're enjoying it, and I've looked at many sort of uh um sort of play clips and playthroughs on YouTube and stuff, and I must admit, it for a PS3 game, it does look very good.
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Um I quite like the sort of look of the act, and like you say, it was probably the last of that sort of CGI sort of cutscene, which I think looks good, and is is I love that about the era as well.
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Um, but yeah, I've always I've got it and I've been very tempted to start it.
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Um and it's just intrigued me the longer that's sort of the one the Final Fantasies you don't really see people talk about too much, uh which I think is a massive shame because to me I've played the PS1 ones obviously and I've um dabbled with the ones on PS2.
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I really liked um the road trip one, which is what 15.
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15, yeah.
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Yeah, didn't like 16 at all because again, although 15 was not turn-based, it was more um sort of hack and slash style.
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It did have some turn-based elements in, probably less than seven remake, even.
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Um, but 16 just I did not vibe with.
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Whereas this to me is like true Final Fantasy, it's got like a turn-based section, but it's one of those ones where you race up your readiness, um, so you can beat people to the quick.
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Uh, and to me, that's always been I've always thought to myself, well, they nailed it there.
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Why did they then try and evolve from that?
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Because to me, Final Fantasy has been a JRPG, a turn-based game, you know, that you want to take the time on.
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Um, that you can, you know, hang on a minute, what this isn't working.
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Let me go through my spells, let me go through my actions.
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Is there something that I can do or change or manipulate to win this battle?
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Um, and Final Fantasy 13 has that in spades.
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It's I don't want to rave about it too hard, but it it to me it might be the the perfect JRPG.
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I think there's only one other YouTube channel of sin.
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I think it might have been, don't quite be honest, I think it might have been JRPG Life.
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Um and I'm sure they um said this is their favourite Final Fantasy, um, which is high praise indeed, and you know, it's not really one people like I say, people would suggest as their their favourite.
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Um a lot of people always go to the original 7 or remakes of 7.
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Um, as some people say 15, but and 10 crops up quite a lot, but 13 always seems to get missed.
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That's always you always I mean, even when I didn't know a lot about Final Fantasy, I always thought of that as a year where Final Fantasies weren't very good, but that's not technically true.
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Um mate, the iconography, like the artwork that goes with it behind the Final Fantasy words, the logo, the music, the intro video on the PS3 alone, it like captivates you.
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And it it's just a lot of the time you don't know what's going on, but as you piece it together, it really just comes into like this like, oh wow, this is great.
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And the story's out there, don't get me wrong.
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Like most Final Fantasies like totally out there.
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In fact, is this the most out there one?
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Yeah, probably, but I tell you what, it's one hell of a ride.
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One hell of a ride.
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Yeah, well, that's uh George's first game, Final Fantasy XIII.
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Uh great choice.
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I'm um probably going a bit obvious, but I think I came to this game quite late.
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Um that is Bioshock.
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Um I played this for the first time only a couple of years ago.
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Um I couldn't funnily enough, going back to JRBG life, um the guy on there is the same as me.
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He can't play first-person shooters because you get motion sickness.
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Um I've managed to sort of overcome that a bit now as I've got older, so I went back to play some first person games.
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The halos and whatnot, and eventually came around to Bioshock.
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I've always had them on my on my PlayStation 3.
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Um what can I say about Bioshock?
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Um, it's one of them games that it's the complete package.
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Um it's the story, unique.
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Um the sound effects and and the world they try and build is very unique as well.
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Um, but it all fits.
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Um and there's something that I still when I think about, but like I said, it's only a couple of years ago, but I think back playing it and I just think what a journey in a game that is.
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Um if you don't know about Bioshock, basically a sort of an alternate sort of 1950s or is it 50s?
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Yeah, I think 50s 50s, early 60s, I'd say.
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Yeah, just and I only think that based on the aeroplane that you're in and the things that you're doing in the plane.
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I think the smoking in the plane and yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And this basically um um this guy had made sort of an elite city under the sea called Rapture.
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Um, and and you go out to as a press journalist, I'd leave, aren't you, to go out and report on it?
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Was that no?
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I I think that the story is that you're just randomly flying over, something happens, and you crash down.
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Oh, and you crash, sorry, yeah.
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But then, you know, no spoilers, it starts to get a little bit wider and broader, and yeah, you know, then you go down to and find out what's actually been going down going on in this city, and and away you go on your journey.
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Um, and like I say, I I know I say this a lot.
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Um, sound means a lot to me in games, and the sound in this is brilliant.
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Um the people that are slightly crazy sound fantastic, the noise of these bots or cameras when they spot you is so unique to that game.
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Oh, it's just um and I loved it.
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Um, and I I was in a few weeks, I was straight onto Bioshock 2 um months ago.
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Is it just the first game you brought today?
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It's just the first game I bought today.
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Um, I've again I I've I've when I do these collections, if if there's a trilogy of games I've played, I'll always start with the first one because I think it's where you should start first and work your way through, even if the games in the series are better.
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Um, but yeah, Bioshock is like I say, just that underwater world.
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Um that sort of come off the back of the system shock um and just literally went all in on this, and it is absolutely fantastic.
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If you like sort of adventure first person shooter games, and you haven't played Bioshock, uh, pick this up, especially for your PS3.
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It's really, really good.
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I mean, I think you played this back in the down release, George.
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Yeah, I played it on release.
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I've played the remaster on PS4, it got a remastered trilogy, which I think is also on Switch, but graphically a bit of a downgrade on there.
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Um, I think the game's great.
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The as RGT says, the the music, the aesthetic.
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Um graphically, I think it still kind of holds up.
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You know, your journey down into rapture in the bathrosphere is is always captivating.
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You see the whale come through, you see a lot of the praise on it when it was initially during its launch phase was about the water physics, the way the water works.
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I don't think that holds up or is as impressive now, but it is an interesting part of the game.
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You are set up the water.
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Um, I think the plasmids that you get and the combination of plasmids that you can use to take down the bad guys in combination with other weapons you've got either melee or or you know, gun weapons is is interesting.
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It makes for a good gameplay style or a good frantic mash of the of the shoulder buttons, which I believe the controls are mapped to.
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Um, it's super interesting.
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You get all the little um voice diaries as well that you find that kind of like build the story of rapture around you as you go, which spreads the lore, you learn a little bit more, you kind of get into these areas that when rapture was brand new.
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And I think on Bioshock Infinite there's some DLC that takes you back to Rapture when it was in its perfect state, and that has always been like very interesting to me because in the first and second game, you only ever see it in its sort of destroyed state.
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Obviously, you know, in terms of iconography and you know breaking its way into the gaming sort of sphere, the big daddies and the the little sisters were like the iconic characters that you kind of had with you on your or you know were kind of hiding away from or saving or killing or harvesting as you went through the journey.
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You know, the first time you meet a big daddy, you're like, Oh my goodness gracious me.
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And if you don't know, a big daddy looks like a massive hawk of a guy in like an old school diving helmet, yeah, so really massive sort of diving type creature.
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Yeah, and he's got like a drill for a hand or something crazy like that, and you know, they're a challenge.
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It's like the the whole game, the way it works, the harvesting of the Adam, as they call it, and then the eventual sort of ending of the game where you kind of learn a few little bit of some home truths and some other things, you're like, oh my goodness gracious me, you know.
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It really is um a fantastic package and one that's forced its way into like most people's gaming top tens.
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So an absolutely brilliant choice of a game to bring along, RGT first class.
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Yeah, yeah, it's like I say, it's it's it's one of them games that sticks with you, the sounds, the look, you know.
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Whenever you see that font of Bioshock on you know in an old magazine, or if you see it on a shelf in CX, it just brings it back, you know.
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It's it's really good, it's a bit of everything, it's not a adventure game, it's it's not so much linear, got open areas, but it can be linear in areas, it's a bit survival horror, but it's not survival horror, it's got a bit of everything in it, and I just think and there's no real I can't even the controls nowadays still control well.
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I don't think there's really any weak point to the game.
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Um, I just think it's a unique story a lot that we don't get nowadays, so even more reason to go back and check it out.
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But yeah, my first one, Bioshock.
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Um, what's your second pick, George?
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Uh my second pick is a game called Transformers War for Cybertron.
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This is the first out of the two.
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Um like so far, none of mine have been exclusive, and I think that's okay.
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Maybe we'll do top 10 exclusives one day.
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Always gotta leave content on the table, RGT, haven't we?
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Um, but Transformers War for Cybertron, absolutely brilliant game.
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I think by a company called High Moon Studios.
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Uh, if you're into Transformers or necessarily of the age where you're into like G1 Transformers, Transformers the movie.
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I don't mean the Michael Bay one, which I've grown to love over time, but I mean the OG G1 cartoon with the uh heavy metal soundtrack.
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Transformers War for Cybertron allows you to be a Transformer like no other.
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I had a game on PS2 which was called Transformers Robots in Disguise that was kind of okay.
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You transformed, and the story was kind of okay, but the visuals were a bit bland.
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This thing looks incredible from the start.
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You know, Cybertron has never been represented like this the way it is.
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You've got the Seeker Jets, you've got Cybertron looking exactly like it should, massive battles going on.
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I do believe in this one, you play as Autobots and Decepticons in a cross-weaving story.
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Wonderfully put together, a real love letter to the fans.
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Its sequel, which was called Fall of Cybertron, equally as good.
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Um, we never got the third game, which is sad.
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I think it got co-opted.
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That should have been basically a recreation of the G1 Transformers season one, where the arc crashes on the earth and you get woken up.
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And I I personally think we were robbed there because this these Transformers making it their way to Earth off the back of this story would have been absolutely fantastic.
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But sadly, that didn't happen.
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Um, but in terms of like sound design, you've got obviously the classic Transformer noise, you've got characters you can play as in robot form, and you can transform when you want on the fly.
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It's basically a cover shooter which is very heavily inspired by like Gears of War and things like that.
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You know, you can change the weaponry, you can get stuck in.
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Um, I absolutely loved this game when it first came out.
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Me and my son um have played both through again, and he absolutely loved them.
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I think this might have been the first sort of grown-up game that he ever completed, me and him together.
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Um, so we've got some great memories.
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He recently acquired a old school PS3, but with the two drive with so it's not backwards compatible, it's got the two USBs on the front, but this is one of the games he was wanting to pick up.
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Um, and I spoiler for the end of the show, he was kind of prohibited or put off a little bit by the high price, um, which I was surprised by because for the longest time it kind of was just fodder, and I think both on the PS3 and the 360 it's spiked in price, which might be a reflection, in my opinion, of its quality and its uh delicate and improvised way of handling the G1 Transformers lore.
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Um I can't rave highly enough about it.
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Graphically, it still holds up, um audio-wise, it still holds up, and gameplay-wise.
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It does lag at times, like it does sort of maybe in the middle act, you start to think like oh Cry key, but then by the time you get through to the end, you're like ravenous and wanting more.
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So, yeah, can't say enough about War for Cybertron.
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I think, in fact, you've even played that round mine, haven't you, RGT, on one of your drop-ups to Farmerton Manor?
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Yeah, I think that's the only time I have played it, but you you're correct.
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Um, yeah, it does get a little bit laggy, but there's a lot going on.
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It's an impressive looking game.
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Um, if you if you're a Transformers fan, there's a lot there for you.
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They've been very loyal to that.
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Um sound effects to story to the white looks.
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Um, very good.
00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:52.799
Um, yeah, I think that captured the characters well as well, like Starscreams the Snivelling Wretch, Megatron, Soundwave.
00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:53.920
Yeah, perfect.
00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:57.359
Yeah, it's like I say, it's very loyal to the lore.
00:18:57.519 --> 00:18:59.920
Um, and I think it's a fantastic game.
00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:16.000
And again, it's one of them that went under the radar for so long, like you say, and then suddenly you just need a few, you know, influencers or YouTubers to pick it up and say how good it is, and bang, suddenly it's on the increase, and it still does keep going up.
00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:18.559
I don't know what it got on Metacritic either.
00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:28.960
Sorry to cut you off, but I think it when it reviewed, it was like 80s, which we know isn't a bad score, but you know, retrospectively, I think this game has been viewed in a lot better way.
00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:30.880
Yeah, I think so.
00:19:31.039 --> 00:19:48.960
I mean, it it's funny with that as well, because you know, we've done you know over 40 episodes of flashback now and the same on UCP, and you end up picking up games later on, and Transformers being you know a great example of that that that have these scores that but no one really talks about them.
00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:56.559
You see top tens for systems and it's not on there, and you just think but then you try and play the game and think, Well, this is fantastic.
00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:59.680
This game, how how is this not been picked up?
00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:05.119
You know, yes, we've got some obvious ones in here, but I don't think Transformers is an obvious one.
00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:19.599
This is one of the ones, especially for George he's popped in here to say, look, actually, you know, although you'll see at the end of price tag is a little bit hefty, it's still an absolutely cracking game that you you know you will miss out on if you don't don't get it for your PS3.
00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:21.599
But yeah, that's a great choice.
00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:27.519
Transfor Transformers War Transformers, Transformers, that's the little version.
00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:30.720
Um yeah, great choice, absolutely great choice.
00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:37.200
Um, my uh second game again is a uh it's a bit of a random one.
00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:39.119
Um what you got here, RGT?
00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:39.440
Tell me.
00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:42.079
That's another one I think went on the radar a bit.
00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:46.960
Um, again, I've played fairly recently, um, and that is Singularity.
00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:48.480
Oh, yeah.
00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:59.119
Um I popped this in because again, yes, we could go, you know, pretty much the same ten games that you see on every top ten list for must-buys and all the rest of it.
00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:03.680
But I think this this is first-person game by Activision.
00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:30.559
Um it's got a whiff of Bioshock about it as well, but it's got this sort of uh time sort of traveling story of you know um Russia and America and how things can change and how you have to put things right by going out to this Russian area and base, you know, and it's got that feeling of of Bioshock, but in a more sort of army cold war style.
00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:40.480
Um I picked this up at the time for Peanuts, it was just shelf filler on on um CEX, read the back, and thought this looks quite good.
00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:42.640
You know, it's Activision as well, it was a good name.
00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:45.440
I'd never heard of it, never heard of the game at all.
00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.240
Obviously, a bit like Transformers Went Under the Radar.
00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:49.519
Um, played it through.
00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:52.160
It's not too long, 10 12 hours long.
00:21:52.319 --> 00:21:53.759
But what a great little game.
00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:59.599
Plays really well, loved the combat, loved the story, graphics were good, and again, that was.
00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:09.039
In an era, we say this a lot, it's in an era where you if you made a really good game that was really different, that's how you sold a game.
00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:14.799
Not by just keeping it generic and just give people three or four genres of what they want.
00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:19.119
This is a time when they did try different things and stories are very different, and this was one of them.
00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:24.480
I've played other games similar to this that have been terrible on the PS3, but this one always stood out to me.
00:22:24.559 --> 00:22:27.039
I got to the end of it and thought, do you know what?
00:22:27.200 --> 00:22:38.559
If you were, you know, like this this this show, but like if you were then buying a PS3 for the first time and you just went and see it, didn't know what you're buying, you just grabbed this and put it in, you wouldn't be disappointed.
00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:42.480
You'd have such a good time for relatively low outlay.
00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:44.559
Um, and I just really enjoy it.
00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:51.759
I think like I say, it plays well, looks good, good little story, it's not too long, don't overstay us welcome, um, and quite unique.
00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:53.920
Um, have you ever played Singularity, George?
00:22:54.160 --> 00:23:01.920
No, much like you, I think I picked it up on a CX binge one day because it was, you know, less than three quid, I think, from memory, um, back in the dim and distant past.
00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:04.240
And it appeals to me, absolutely it does.
00:23:04.319 --> 00:23:09.039
But I've just I guess maybe some of my collection I'm saving for a rainy day or whatnot.
00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:10.799
But I've always hoped that this would be good.
00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:19.519
So when you showed it to me and I went, Oh, yeah, I thought, yeah, get me juicy about this because this is going to be one of those ones that I go back to and I'm looking forward to.
00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:34.960
Yeah, it's like um it's if I remember rightly, the story is like you're in the modern day to try and you have to go to this sort of Russian secret base, and then something happens while you're there, and you travel back to the past, which you then have to fight your way through to change the future.
00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:35.759
Yeah, that's cool.
00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:38.559
And it's yeah, it's really good and it's done quite well.
00:23:38.640 --> 00:23:43.519
And it's you when you play it, you'll you will think of Bioshock, you can see where they were heading with it.
00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:47.440
Um, but they'd changed the story enough to be a different sort of thing, you know.
00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:49.200
And um, yeah, it was a shame.
00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:54.319
So I think they even had Singularity 2 in in in the works, but it never never happened.
00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:59.759
Whether that went off sale as figures of Singularity or what I don't know, but um, yeah, definitely check it out.
00:23:59.920 --> 00:24:03.519
I think it's it's worth a show, especially if you're a first person fan, you like them sort of games.
00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:07.599
Was it developed internally by Activision or was there another did they just publish it?
00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:09.279
I presume they just published it.
00:24:09.599 --> 00:24:14.000
Because Activision published War for Cybertron, but it was made by High Moon Studios.
00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:19.359
Yeah, I don't know if this was Raven or Demonware, one of the two were involved in it, I think.
00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:21.119
So they might have just published it, I think.
00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:23.599
But um, yeah, but yeah, interesting.
00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:25.039
Yeah, good game, good game.
00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:28.000
So, yeah, my second game, Singularity.
00:24:28.079 --> 00:24:29.279
What you got third then, George?
00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:29.920
Good pick.
00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:34.400
Um, up third is Resistance Fall a man, uh Insomniac Studios.
00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:46.480
Um bit of a swerve for them after their PS2 activities, but um, they went all in on this, and again, it was a launch game for the UK on PlayStation 3.
00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:49.759
Um, I came to this late, I didn't play it at launch.
00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:59.599
Um it's it it looks like a military shooter for all intents and purposes, but obviously you're fighting the Chimera in an alternate take on sort of World War II era.
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.680
Um, this one, Resistance Fall of Man, takes place in the UK.
00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:16.079
So you go into places like Grimsby to hit a fish tower, and you know, it's not graphically correct, don't get me wrong, but it's quite nice to have a game set in the UK, uh, definitely a war type game set in the UK.
00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:20.559
I think initially, when you first play this, you might be like, Oh, graphics are a bit rough, you know.
00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:27.279
It does have that sort of PS2 edge to it, like a HD PS2 game, but the gameplay's there, the store is there.
00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:33.279
Um, the way you kind of play through it is is also you know very very rewarding.
00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:40.640
Um sound design on a good surround sound setup or a soundbar, you know, it really hits you in the chest.
00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:45.680
The guns sound good, the guns look good, the the graphics of the reloads look really good.
00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:48.960
Um, the chimera themselves are quite terrifying.
00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:57.599
Um, that you know, they come with a unique twist where they've got these little things on their back that you can blast so you can feel you know, maybe some of insomnia actual roots in there.
00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:06.880
Um, I think I finished this over a maybe a weekend, so quite short, but you know, plenty of reason to play through again from memory.
00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.960
Um, obviously on the harder difficulty setting as well, if you wanted to.
00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:24.880
Um gameplay still holds up, so audio and gameplay hold up, visuals that you're gonna need to have a little bit of adjustment time, but once you get into it, especially on like a modern TV, I think you know, this thing will sing.
00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:35.519
It's got a little bit of monochrome look on it, um, that kind of gives you the vibe of like a like World War II, I suppose, is probably where they were going through with it.
00:26:35.759 --> 00:26:38.400
It earned a trilogy on PS3.
00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:42.480
Obviously, by the time you got through to the end of it, they really had the machine singing and dancing.
00:26:42.559 --> 00:26:46.079
But if you want to go back to the OG, the start location, you've got to start here.
00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:50.880
So maybe on another one we might, you know, talk about some of the later resistances.
00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:54.000
But no, I really loved this game.
00:26:54.160 --> 00:26:55.359
It was an interesting take.
00:26:55.519 --> 00:27:16.799
Obviously, already by the time the PS3 launched, there was a saturation on PS2 and then into the PS3 of these World War II war shoot games or FPS shooting games, and this one kind of struck a very different tone, um, a very different angle, you know, an alien invasion during I think like the late 40s, early 50s, almost as though World War II didn't happen.
00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:21.119
I can't remember the exact canon of it, but um yeah, fantastic, mate.
00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:22.160
Have you played that one?
00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:24.319
Yes, yes, played through and completed.
00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:27.440
Um when I got my PS3 on launch.
00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:40.480
Um I was lucky enough to get a very early batch that came into the country, and we got the uh the old fat boys with the full backwards compatibility, and we got resistance and motorstorm was packed in.
00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:45.039
Now, I didn't play first person shooters then, so resistance never even entered the machine.
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:50.720
Um my best mate though, he he got as at the same time we went and picked our PS3s up together.
00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:54.160
Well, actually, he worked in the stall at Soldom, so he came and dropped it off to me.
00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:54.880
Bless him.
00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:57.680
And he went back and played Resistance through.
00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:01.200
Said, what a game, brilliant, brilliant game, really enjoyed it.
00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:09.039
I was always on Motorstorm, but then later in later on in years, I played Resistance, spoke to you about it, and you're like, Yeah, yeah, but it does have that PS2 look.
00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:13.759
It does, um, but it's still if you'd come from PS2 to that, it's hell of a step up.
00:28:13.920 --> 00:28:14.559
Oh, yeah.
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.880
The amount of people on screen in the first level, they think, Oh, it looks a bit PS2.
00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:21.920
You know, it's not because there's so much going on, yeah.
00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:24.799
You've got so many people around you and things, yeah.
00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:39.839
And also, I mean, it does have that sort of generation seven sort of brown who over, but it really works with this because of the era you're playing in and that very unique 1940s alien invasion, so you're using weapons and vehicles of that era.
00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:41.039
Um, I loved it.
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:44.480
Um, when I did eventually play through and completed it, I was similar to you.
00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:46.319
I played through in three or four days.
00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:53.519
Um, and the story was really good, it it pulled me in, and I loved the different areas you went to and the different parts of the country.
00:28:53.759 --> 00:29:08.240
Um I really loved it, and I think there's something to be said for a game which is you know an exclusive for the system, it's you know, and it sort of shows the system off in its early days, but also you can get through it in a few hours.
00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:11.839
There are times where you do get sort of log jams in places.
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:31.599
I don't quite know whether that you've got to pass the spawn area to stop the baddies coming or what, but there are times when you're sort of fighting house to house where I've been like, oh my god, you know, you get caught out, or you're like, Oh damn it, you know, you get I think the danger is you feel a little bit too super soldiery, so you're running a little bit too hard and heavy in it, and it's like, oh, that was a mistake.
00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:36.799
Um, so just adjusting that, but still two or three nights, and as you say, RGT, you'd be done.
00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:46.480
Yeah, yeah, and it's really good, it's worth playing because not only is it a really good game, not only is it still mad to think in Somniact done a first-person shooter series.
00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:51.680
Um it's also I I like games like this are release games.
00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:54.799
You can see what people were hyped about.
00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:58.720
This is the you know, for a lot of people around the world, a lot of games around the world.
00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:02.160
This was their first introduction to the PlayStation 3.
00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:10.880
Yeah, you know, so play through it and experience what they would have experienced on that day of release, and you know, resistance does that, and uh yeah, I think it's a great game.
00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:21.759
And again, like you say, it got people with release games always think you know, it's gonna be something chucked together just to chuck in cheap with a system.
00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:25.119
This isn't that, this is a really good game.
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:30.480
And um well, this in the other game you talked about, Motorstorm, were like real like, wow, is that possible?
00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:37.119
Oh no, Motorstorm got a little bit of a kick in because I think there were some CGI trailers at launch where you're like, Oh, really?
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:40.160
It and Kill Zone 2 got an absolute kick in at an E3.
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:47.680
Um, but resistance and then resistance was held up as like, hang on a minute, they're saying that Kill Zone 2 is gonna look like that, but resistance looks like this sort of thing.
00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:58.400
Uh, and I think that when you play Motor Storm, which is a bit off topic in that first person view, it gets very close to that CGI intention trainer that we saw.
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:05.839
Um, yeah, and you know, whichever one you picked up at launch or both, like you did, I think you'd have come away feeling very happy.
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:17.680
Um, that there was a short wait, there was quite a long wait then for Heavenly Sword to come along as another exclusive, but you know, um there's enough going on third party wise to keep you busy, so yeah.
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:19.200
Yeah, brilliant, yeah.
00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:19.759
Great choice.
00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:21.279
So that was George's third choice.
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:24.559
What next RGT bring us me some more games?
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:27.119
Yeah, so that was Resistance Fall a man.
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:28.880
Um, my third choice.
00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:32.000
I've gone a bit gone a bit off piste tier, um, for what we have been.
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:38.400
There's a lot of first-person shooters there, but um I've gone with Race Driver Grid.
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:40.559
Um yeah.
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:43.119
Now this is Codemasters game.
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:50.079
Um, obviously, you know, Codemasters nowadays for uh I mean they did do a later grid game called Legends, don't touch out of a barge pole, absolute trash.
00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:53.920
Um and they they did do had great success for the Formula One games.
00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:58.799
Codemasters of nowadays is owned by EA, so they've sort of took a bit of a different route.
00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:06.960
But Codemasters in this era um were very well known, especially in the racing sphere, and they started their own game series called Grid.
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:16.799
Um I loved Codemasters back in the day, so I picked this up on release and I was blown away by this game, absolutely blown away by it.
00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:30.960
It was just that you know, career-like where you could go through the different challenges, you had the online, you had all the different disciplines and European circuits and um damage as well.
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:32.480
The Japanese drift I loved.
00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:47.759
I used to play hours online a Japanese drift, um, and you had muscle cars and the different circuits, but it apart from your grand turismos, you had a lot of racing games like your midnight clubs and your need for speeds and bits and pieces.
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:54.559
This is the first time other than a grand turismo where I thought actually this is quite a grown-up racer, you know.
00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:05.279
It is it's got that arcade feel to it, but it had so many disciplines chucked in, yet I didn't really think any of the disciplines were the weaker side of the of the game.
00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:07.119
They all seemed to do really well.
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:12.480
I'd really started to master them, and that was one of the first games I actually played online.
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:25.680
Um, and the online was good, it was very active with players, it was a good community on there, from whether you were doing um European touring cars over in Germany to whether you're doing Japanese drifts around the docks.
00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:29.039
It was really, really good and made some friends online.
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:30.319
It was really good.
00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:42.000
I was racing these Japanese guys in drift and beat them two or three times, and they come, you know, try to send me a message in English saying, Oh, brilliant, you're really good, you'll come race us tomorrow, blah blah blah.
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.480
And just really good memories of this game.
00:33:44.640 --> 00:34:07.119
Um, and again, it's a lot of people talk about racing games, you know, from this era, from this generation seven, and there's a lot of you know, burnouts and need for speeds, lot I say, but not many people mention grid, and even going back to it now, yes, graphics have moved on, but it's still a very tight and very capable racing game, really good.
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:11.199
And they went on to do a second as well, but yeah, we're just talking about the first one here, grid.
00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:12.719
Have you played much of this, George?
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:13.840
Yeah, yeah, mate.
00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:14.159
I have.
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:15.760
I got it at launch when it first came out.
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:17.360
That first race you do.
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:20.000
Um, I had my eyes on stalks.
00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:23.360
I think you're racing along a beach, you've got all the confetti coming out.
00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:40.400
I mean, the game was incredible, and then you get in, and I think there's like a CGI sort of story mode running alongside it, where your manager and your mechanic have signed you up, or your engineer, and they're working alongside you, and then you first see like the tree of all the different events that you can go into.
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:45.920
And I remember at the time thinking, Oh my god, it's Jack of all trades, master of none, and how wrong could I be?
00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:50.719
As RGT said the drift will keep the drift fans happy, the touring car will keep the touring car happy.
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:55.199
I think there's open wheel sections as well, which will keep the open wheel racers happy.
00:34:55.360 --> 00:35:10.000
Um, the AI responds in a good way, the sound design is fantastic, again, especially on like an old school surround sound or sound bar, real deep in deep notes, the circuits are very, very accurate representations.
00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:17.760
I think it's got like sparring and places like that where you know you go through a rouge and whatever, and you think, oh yeah, this is this is the real deal.
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:21.679
And I remember thinking at the time, why don't these guys get the F1 license?
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:22.719
Why don't they well?
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:35.920
This was their sort of job application, I would say, because what within about two or three years we did actually get an F1 game by them, and it did have that similar the first F1 game that they did to me.
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.360
I know it feels a bit dated now, I've still got that on PS3.
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:52.000
Um I don't think I've got many other F1 games because I've got newer ones digitally, don't get me wrong, but that one will always have that aesthetic of like being in the paddock, going in your caravan, blah blah blah.
00:35:52.159 --> 00:36:09.119
And this one has the same where you feel like you are actually doing a racing career, and I don't think and they they put a smatter in that into like the dirt games when they started to bring that emphasis across um to like the Colin McRae successors, Dirt, Dirt 1 and 2.
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:13.519
They had a similar vibe where there were different rallies styles that you could go into.
00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:28.320
Grid to me, though, it's got so many different types of racing in there, and as you go through, you think, Oh, hang on a minute, if I go down that route, I can be driving like these outlandish vehicles or or doing X or Y, and you're like do you know?
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:35.599
I don't know how they got all that in there, it was in a day before, like you know, you needed downloads on games, so it's all on the disc as well.
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:37.440
Absolutely fantastic.
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:42.000
I think this, as you said, is an unsung hero.
00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:48.320
I think it has its own graphical style, so whereas Gran Turismo is chasing photo realism.
00:36:48.400 --> 00:36:59.599
This one has it's photorealistic, but it's got like a slight twist on it where it doesn't it's got like that Codemaster's style, very forgiven graphic style as well.
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:04.079
So you know, it's you know it's realistic, but it isn't, yeah.
00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:04.719
I know what you mean.
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:10.079
It's it's it has got it's not auto modelista, but it's certainly got a shade of that in the background.
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:15.679
Um, the way you work through the menus, your interactions with your manager and your engineer are good.
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:21.360
You know, he comes on your headset as you're racing through, and yeah, absolutely stellar choice.
00:37:21.519 --> 00:37:24.400
Um, again, I do not know why this is overlooked.
00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:28.320
I remember it was scoring sort of mid to late 80s when it first came out.
00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:43.679
Um, I guess in that era, we've talked about this before, but games in that era, unless they got a nine or a nine point two, or yeah, even if you thought you were buying an eight or an eighty-four percent game, you felt like you were taking a bit of a risk.
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:47.599
If you bought a 60 or a 70, you were like literally blown your brains out with your pocket money.
00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:49.119
You were like, What am I doing?
00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:54.559
Um, and now like sixes and sevens, what were the upkeep and graphics and whatnot?
00:37:54.800 --> 00:38:01.920
Uh you know, Star Wars Outlaws famously on the main show, you know, we were like, I got a six or a seven, but does it make it a bad game?
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:08.320
And you know, Grid Legends probably, like I say, scored mid to late 80s, and it was kind of like dog walked.
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:09.920
I I think it's a shame.
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:23.440
I think, much like a lot of these games, they're hopefully hidden gems, and and you'll pick these up for hopefully not a lot of money, but although Gen 7's had a little bit of a boost in price lately, if that's the right GRG to the game.
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:28.559
And I think like you were saying, I think with these games going under radar, but there was so much choice back in the day.
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:35.679
There were so many games, and unless you were, you know, an 8.9 or a 9 out of 10, you got lost, you got lost in it all.
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:36.880
Yeah, you got stomped.
00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:44.639
And I what I will say about grid as well, I was a big, um, big touring car fan at the time, so I was looking forward to doing the touring car side.
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:56.960
And um I used to play online a lot, and everyone online always used the BMW, but I always used the Chevrolet, that Chevrolet that they first brought over to this country because it was front-wheel drive, and I always used the rear-wheel drive BMWs.
00:38:57.119 --> 00:39:01.440
They'd always have a speed on the straights, but my god, could I corner that Chevrolet?
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:04.639
And people used to be shocked I could beat them when they were in the BMWs as well.
00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:06.800
Well, they've got oval racing as well, in it, haven't they?
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:08.000
I think so, yeah.
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:12.480
But their their touring car was so accurate to touring cars.
00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:15.360
Well, they did do the touring car games, didn't they?
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:23.599
There's in in defence of them, and I think this was like an evolution of that franchise that they were that looking to broaden out to a wider audience.
00:39:23.760 --> 00:39:25.920
So, yeah, very cool pickup, very cool.
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:29.920
Great memories, that so yeah, that's my uh my third choice.
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:33.039
That is uh Race Driver agreed by Codemasters.
00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:35.199
Uh, what's your fourth choice then, George?
00:39:35.440 --> 00:39:40.000
My first, fourth, first, my fourth choice is LA Noir.
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:43.679
Um, an all-time favourite of mine by Rockstar Games.
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:45.760
I think it's probably one of the more forgotten games.
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:52.559
This did get re-released on PS4 and Switch and memory, um, and probably Xbox One.
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:56.639
I've played it on 360 through to completion and on PS3.
00:39:57.119 --> 00:40:00.559
Um, I don't know why I kind of like it on PS3 better.
00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:03.119
It just feels right on there.
00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:18.559
And from the minute this game starts, um, the the jazz music in the background set in like a post-sort of Japanese World War II, these guys are coming back, and he's got a job as a cop, you start off as a beat cop and you work through.
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:23.280
Very interesting game, the way you kind of um find clues.
00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:38.719
Um it's become very memeable now, but when you're interviewing people, I think they changed it in the later games to like truth or lie because some of the wording is a bit oblique in these in this original version about whether you're saying they're lying or they're not.
00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:41.840
So um, but their facial reactions.
00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:45.760
I do believe it was initially started by um the guy who did the getaway.
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:48.239
This would have been like his third game.
00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:51.039
Um, went to Australia to make this.
00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:55.920
I think it was like I can't remember what the developer was called, like Bondi Games or something like that.
00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:56.320
He started.
00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:58.320
I believe it was, yeah, yeah, I believe it was.
00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:02.800
Um had a really innovative, like full face facial capture suite.
00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:21.519
So the faces to this day still look really fantastic in terms of the graphical fidelity, and they needed to be because you know you're looking at these people and looking for subtle facial cues, or not so subtle, really, in the modern era when you look back, but sort of subtle facial cues that they're lying or they're holding something back in terms of the dialogue of what they're telling you.
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:29.599
The story is set in LA, obviously, and it's sort of intertwines around like burgeoning sort of LA film sets at the time.
00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:38.880
You do go into the film sets, um, without spoiling too much, you end up sort of cheating on your wife, even in it.
00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:41.440
So it's a very dark, very mature story.
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:52.320
He's dealing with like flashbacks to his time when he was in the war and some of the decisions that he made, and then all the way through, you've got this really great jazz soundtrack.
00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:56.079
It it is quite honestly a work of art.
00:41:56.239 --> 00:41:59.519
A game like this, I doubt we'll ever see from a mainstream publisher before.
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:05.360
I think Rockstar must have seen something in it because they stepped in and completed the game, which they had a habit of doing.
00:42:05.440 --> 00:42:12.880
They obviously stepped in and completed um Red Dead Revolver and then picked the Red Dead franchise up as their own.
00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:24.719
Um, I prayed that we might get a revisit to this because obviously the detail of the the 19 late 1940s, 50s LA is incredible.
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:38.400
The streets, the shops, the people, the clothing, the cars, uh, everything about it just has this real gritty, and again, we you know, it's obvious, noir aesthetic to it.
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:42.800
Um I could rave about it, gameplay is good.
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:47.360
Like there are some sections where you can feel the rock star bits bolted on top.
00:42:48.159 --> 00:42:50.079
Um, but do you know what?
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:55.840
When you sit back and take it all in, it all kind of works in like a sinuous way, sound design is great.
00:42:56.079 --> 00:43:02.159
Um when you're out in the streets, it feels right, when you're in the police station, it feels good.
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:08.480
Uh, voice acting is very strong, facial capture is incredible, especially for the time.
00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:20.480
Um, and then gameplay-wise, you kind of see it as like almost three distinct games, like you've got the detective investigation section where you're out on the beat or out of the crime scenes, and some of those are interesting.
00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:39.440
Um I've picked up I think this is the this is the complete edition, but I've bought all the um so this came with a um set of um film negatives in like a little police envelope that I got, um, which just adds to it.
00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:48.000
Um I and I picked up all the DLCs as well for it, because I think this might have had a code in that had expired or been used.
00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:53.199
And when the PS3 store was still active, I went on about a quarter of the way into the game.
00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:59.840
I think when I first played it, they weren't available or were kind of linked to like early editions or special bundles or some drink.
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:08.639
And I went and got like the Reefer Madness mission and all those other ones that you had and play through at the time to really bulk it out because I didn't want it to end.
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:13.760
Um I love this game, I think I've got it on Switch as well.
00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:20.719
But for me, like the iconic place to play it is PS3, it's not an exclusive there, but it's it might be the place to play it.
00:44:20.800 --> 00:44:23.360
I might put my neck on the line a little bit.
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:25.679
I'm sure someone will show me a 360 comparison online.
00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:28.719
I'm like, yeah, I know, but it's got the vibes, man.
00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:30.239
It's got the vibes.
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:34.559
Um I love it, RGT, I could probably rave on about it for hours.
00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:40.159
Um I I just think that we'll never see a game like this again.
00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:42.559
It's very unique in what it offers.
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:46.000
Hopefully, it's not too expensive, and I implore everybody to pick it up.
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:46.639
It's beautiful.
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:53.760
And I could leave it on the in the start screen with the flickering neon LA Noir and the music playing in the background.
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:57.199
I could leave that on all day just for the for the aesthetic.
00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:58.960
It's absolutely fantastic.
00:44:59.199 --> 00:45:01.440
Tell me, have you played this game?
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:03.440
Yes, bought this on launch.
00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:08.559
Um, I was really into my um rock star games.
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:12.960
Um, so when I saw this first come out in the magazines, I was like, I'm all over this.
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:14.320
Something different.
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:28.000
Um again, this is like I say, if you if you get yourself a PlayStation 3 and you buy Elon Your Wire, like George suggests, pop it in the machine and you will be blown away that this is a generation 7 game.
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:40.079
Rockstar had a knack for this, there's a few developers did, but I don't think many do it as well as Rockstar that they would make a console absolutely sing Insomniac a pretty good naughty dog.
00:45:40.400 --> 00:45:47.840
But Rockstar, when you look at if you compare it to say no disrespect to resistance, first person shoot a different sort of genre.
00:45:48.239 --> 00:45:50.400
Yeah, but and you look at LADWAR.
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:56.719
If if you didn't know and someone said, you know, and he's running on the same system, you'd say, Well, no, that's a PS4, and that one's a PS3.
00:45:57.199 --> 00:46:01.679
No, it is a PS3 game and it looks stunning, absolutely stunning.
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:05.840
The the voice actors are superb in it.
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:12.960
Um Scott, one of my favourite actors, John Noble, in it from who was In Fringe, um, the Australian actor, he is brilliant in it.
00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:29.679
Um, and it's lot I say, it's just that you if you want to be an old school cop setting this time, they nail it, they absolutely nail it from the radio in the car to the cars you drive to the setting in LA to how you solve the crimes.
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:39.920
The way people talk is of the era, the way people communicate to you is the era, and then they done that had a touch of this mocab of people's faces.
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:49.840
So to when you interview people, arrest them, take them back to the station, you've got to pick, look at the way their faces go, whether they're lying or not, or whether you know, and it's so unique.
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:51.840
Um, really, really good.
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:55.039
Like I say, you can get it on the switch, as I've said before.
00:46:55.119 --> 00:47:00.320
Um, it's harder on the switch light because you haven't got the rumble in there, so when you're getting near a clue, it's a bit tricky.
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:03.039
But overall, what a fantastic game.
00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:08.000
It's another one of them, a bit like Canis Canis Canaan Edit or Bully, as we say, 100%.
00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:16.079
Which is another one which Rockstar has made fantastic, and you're never gonna see the light of day again of it, which is a shame that there weren't an NA Noir 2.
00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:31.360
Um, I'd love to see it go on, but like you say, you you do follow Cole for his whole story from coming out of the war to starting as a cop, working your way up through the different sections of of the police station to detective absolutely brilliant.
00:47:31.440 --> 00:47:37.039
It's got that nod to the Black Dahlia murders as well, and yeah, absolutely brilliant, superb game.
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:50.960
Um, even if you're listening to this and you're not, you know, having got a PS3 and not going to collect for a PS3, pick up PS4 version or something, just give it a or Xbox One, give it a play, because it is a very unique, very special game, I think.
00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:52.000
LA Noir.
00:47:52.320 --> 00:48:03.599
Um, that one, we don't we we get a bit closer with you know, like Quanti Dream do some similar sort of games, you know, that are powerful and and have that sort of style to them, but L.A.
00:48:03.679 --> 00:48:08.480
Noir is just I love it for the setting and that open worldness was brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:08.960
Yeah.
00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:11.599
Um what's next, RGT?
00:48:12.079 --> 00:48:21.360
Yeah, so after George's fourth pick of LA Noir, I'm going, I know I'm going a bit mainstream of this, but I've gone Grand Theft Auto 4, and I know I've mentioned this before on other shows and bits and pieces.
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:34.559
Um I've picked up I've chosen this um for the basic reason I bought this on release and for many a time not many people spoke about Grand Theft Auto 4.
00:48:34.800 --> 00:48:48.480
Um you know, we'd come off the hype of you know San Andreas and Vice City, and although Vice City is probably my favourite Grand Theft Auto game, but that's more for nostalgia, not necessarily for the gameplay side.
00:48:48.719 --> 00:49:00.159
I think if you go for the gameplay side and go for what I think is the best ever, Grand Theft Auto, I think you have to go with Grand Theft Auto 4.
00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:08.639
I think the city is so alive, the story is so good, and you don't realise the amount of work put into this game.
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:12.159
Now, I'll give a little shout out to YouTuber who's called Annie Austin.
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:13.440
Oh, it's great.
00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:22.800
Go on there and just when he does Grand Theft Auto videos, watch one of his videos, and he treats it just like a world.
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:28.559
So, you know, there's like in Grand Theft Auto 5, he was doing, you know, where do the rivers start and where do they end?
00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:30.480
And he'll walk all the way along and find them.
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:40.320
And in this, he was he was doing different points and different areas, and there's bars and clubs and areas that most people have never seen in this game.
00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:46.159
Yes, Rockstar, Rockstar have fully you know developed in this game.
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:48.639
Little backstreet bars with pool in.
00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:56.320
You can just go in there and have a couple of beers and play pool with people, play darts, and there's and the detail in the areas is just fantastic.
00:49:56.480 --> 00:49:58.159
And George said this to me years ago.
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:04.400
I'd played and completed Grand Theft Auto and and and the spin-off DLCs, um, and never re-fought too much of it.
00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:17.119
I went on to Grand Theft Auto 5, but George always said that Grand Theft Auto 4 is the is the one with the most realistic city, the one that's got the living-breathing city in it, the noises, the sounds, how it's populated.
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:19.119
It feels a real place.
00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:23.920
So um, over on obviously we always mention Unfish Controller podcast on our Discord.
00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:27.760
That was recently one of our generation seven playthrough games where we play through together.
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:34.079
Grand Theft Authority Four got picked, and um playing for it again, just phenomenal.
00:50:34.239 --> 00:50:37.440
Loved every minute of it, absolutely superb game.
00:50:37.599 --> 00:50:41.840
Um, and a lot of people don't like the car physics in Grand Theft Auto 4.
00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:54.800
I love the car physics, that realistic physics as well, you know, and it's it's just something about that game where it's I was really sad when it finished because there's so much to do, you know.
00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:58.239
You you feel part of Niga Bellick's story.
00:50:58.400 --> 00:51:03.840
Um, hey Roll Man, um, you know, it's it's a cousin, you want to go bowling?
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:27.840
Yeah, you know, and from you know the the early rise of the internet cafes you can go to and go online, you can arrange dates, you can go, you know, go out with your cousin Bowling, you can do these side missions, you meet so many different people all over the city, and it's just you know, even like things from a graphical point from draw distance and stuff, it looks really good.
00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:34.239
You know, it's again how Rockstar got this on the seventh generation.
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:37.039
I I don't know because even playing it recently.
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:42.000
I know my TV does a bit of trickery and magic, but it still looks really good.
00:51:42.079 --> 00:52:03.119
The car physics are good, the car models are good, and sometimes I'd just walk around the block and people were talking, and you'd go and have a hot dog from a hot dog cellar, and someone was having an argument, and then there's a policeman run after someone who's nicked something from a shop, and you just think it feels so realistic, and I think it's a even to this day, it's a really great experience.
00:52:03.280 --> 00:52:06.000
If you like Grand Theft Auto, definitely pick up four.
00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:08.159
I know you've played it a few times, George.
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:11.599
I mean, what can I say about this game that I haven't said already?
00:52:11.679 --> 00:52:22.400
I mean, the story of Nico arriving on the boat, it's a great way for the player to uh experience at the same time because you know Nico's never seen this sitter, and we never have.
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:39.519
The first time I played it, you know, I smashed the car off every wall as you drive Roman back to your flat, uh, his flat that he tries to tell you in the let in these letters to you is a mansion, and then you realise that the you know the wheels are falling off his life a little bit, and he's running a taxi company, and you get involved in that.
00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:52.079
And as RGT says, and I've said numerous times, there is no game that captures a feeling of a time, the emerging internet, the the stories that get told, the the way it looks, the way it feels, the way it smells.
00:52:52.320 --> 00:52:57.440
Obviously, it's based on New York, but in in rock star lore, it's Liberty City.
00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:01.519
All three islands are fantastic and have something to add to the game.
00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:04.239
It feels right and the way it's constructed.
00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:12.639
Um, the suburbs, the towns, the posters on the wall, the people that you hear walk by you, as RGT says.
00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:31.119
I mean, one of my favourite things to do then and to this day when I play it is to hail a taxi, pick a random point as far away as I can on the map, get them to drive, and then sit looking out the window and you go past shops and people and events that you like you just can't believe you're seeing, like the detail.
00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:38.239
You pull up next to a building and you look up and you can see like the air convents and the steam coming out of different bits of the road.
00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:43.119
You see these different adverts, you're listening to the radio and buying into the world completely.
00:53:43.760 --> 00:53:52.079
Like Grand Theft 405, yes, is an improvement in some ways, but I feel like the physics in this are better, the storytelling's better, the characters better.
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:55.920
Um, the world is like a truly cohesive world.
00:53:56.000 --> 00:54:03.119
Like you can imagine when you turn this off that Liberty City is still alive on that disc when you put it away, it's got something magical about it.
00:54:03.199 --> 00:54:07.280
I don't know exactly what it is, I don't know why it sings to me the way it does.
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:16.639
Look, Grand Theft Auto 5 and what's soon to be released six is gonna do absolutely gangbuster numbers, absolutely no doubt about it.
00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:20.480
But don't get me wrong, four will always have a place in my heart.
00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:24.159
Yeah, it's the first of the HD universe, but what a game.
00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:32.960
They put everything into this, and things they put so much into it that I feel like they almost left things out of five just to make five work.
00:54:33.199 --> 00:54:39.119
And you know, the car physics in this feel better, you can feel the potholes when you go over in the States.
00:54:39.199 --> 00:54:44.079
They have like these metal um sheets of metal that will drop over potholes so you don't drive in them.
00:54:44.320 --> 00:54:47.199
You drive over it and you hit a gagunk de gunk as you go over.
00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:49.280
There's so much detail in there.
00:54:49.599 --> 00:55:07.760
Every like when the wind kicks in, and I always find that GTA 4 is set in this like permanent autumn phase where the trees are brown and the leaves are coming down, and it has this real um kind of sense of season, a sense of place when the when it rains, you know, it feels right.
00:55:07.920 --> 00:55:28.400
And they the rain in this one is done in a way that feels it's not obvious, it's like this mist that comes down, but it's kind of more represented as you'd see it in real life, it's not like these big droplets or lines, it's it kind of mists over, and then the rain comes, and you can see it, and you can feel it, and you can almost smell like the wet leaves coming out of the TV.
00:55:28.639 --> 00:55:31.360
The game is literally iconic.
00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:45.519
Nico, as a character, is is a wonderful sort of player avatar, like I say, you've never seen it before, and he's as blown as where you are at the excess and the decadence of the states, um, the car designs.
00:55:45.679 --> 00:55:50.719
I mean, I could go on and on and on and on about this game.
00:55:51.119 --> 00:55:52.880
It's equally as beautiful as L.A.
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:53.440
Noir.
00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:53.840
L.A.
00:55:54.000 --> 00:56:11.119
Noir has got this little subsect, it's a little bit of a jazz bar entry, whereas GTA 4 is a little bit more mainstream, but just such an interesting world to just sit in and look at, let alone play uh a massive kind of Rags to Riches crime drama drama in.
00:56:11.199 --> 00:56:26.159
And you must forget, you know, you mustn't forget that there's like moral choices that you make along the way that are built around the sort of friendships that you've built and the sort of interest that you've poured into these characters.
00:56:26.320 --> 00:56:33.519
I'll always say, like, yeah, it does get a bit annoying when you're right in the middle of a mission and you have to hang up on Roman and he thumbs down on the screen.
00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:38.159
Uh, when I first played it, I was like, Oh, well, I got frustrated because I was like, What do you want me to do?
00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:40.239
I can't just quit this mission to take you bowling.
00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:45.519
And I'd see the thumbs down as a negative, but now I just kind of play through it and he's cool with you regardless.
00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:51.920
If you spend a bit of time with him, taking him to the bar or taking him bowling, uh bowling.
00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:56.639
Um, I I honestly think this is a high watermark.
00:56:56.719 --> 00:57:10.239
They surpassed it technically, but in terms of like artistically and lore and world building, this was the first one where you could sit in your flat and watch TV, which is something else I would do in GTA 4, even to this day if I put it on.
00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:41.039
I'd go and flip the set on and watch the knife adverts, watch the sort of all the kind of takes on 2005-ish TV shows that are out of the time, um, like you know, bratty dramas or sort of real life um kind of teen mum shows to sort of like um shop 24-7 shopping channels, and then like these um Space Ranger type cartoons that would come on, and the history of Liberty City that you can sit and watch all the way through.
00:57:41.280 --> 00:57:44.480
The talk radio is equally as fantastic on this one.
00:57:44.880 --> 00:57:47.679
I honestly I could write a thesis about this game.
00:57:47.760 --> 00:57:51.679
I do believe it's one of the finest games probably ever made.
00:57:52.239 --> 00:58:04.960
Definitely, and also the good thing about this is is you know, there was the two well on-disc DLCs of Balladagay Tony and um Lost and Damned, and these literally come as almost like a trilogy, so these are all linked in.
00:58:05.199 --> 00:58:15.280
So if you play if you play this and loved it and think, oh no, you know, it's come to the end, you've still got two more games to play through, which will all link in to the others, and it's very cleverly done.
00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:17.440
They put a lot of effort into these games.
00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:30.159
Um, the other two look very different aesthetically because of how they wanted to give the game across from Lost and Dam being a biker to Balladigate only being more the high life, very colourful.
00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:36.960
Um, but they link into Grand Theft Auto 4, and there's that whole set itself is just one of the best to play.
00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:48.400
Um, and Grand Theft Auto 4 is like I say, nostalgia-wise, Vice City's my favourite, but actually for a game-wise to play through, um, it still feels good today.
00:58:48.559 --> 00:58:57.119
I mean, you've got that little bit of clunk with controlling characters you get with Rockstar games, but if you're attuned with a Rockstar game, that's no problem.
00:58:57.360 --> 00:59:03.519
It's just a really, really good, really good game, open world, um, sets the scene really well.
00:59:03.679 --> 00:59:05.599
So, yeah, that was my fourth choice.
00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:07.840
Grand Theft Auto 4.
00:59:08.079 --> 00:59:10.559
Um, we come around to your fifth and final choice, George.
00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:11.360
What are you going with?
00:59:11.519 --> 00:59:18.239
Yeah, well, I had to go a little bit obvious for this one, but I'm picking the less obvious of the two, I suppose, and I'm sure you'll pick up the other one.
00:59:18.320 --> 00:59:20.639
It's The Last of Us by Norsey Dog.
00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:23.360
I mean, what can I say that hasn't been said about this game?
00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:29.199
Um, it starts in an interesting way, a little bit brutal, sets that up.
00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:42.320
Um, the storyline before we get into anything between Joel and Ellie, and Joel having this like maternal sort of love for Ellie, that was sort of a daughter replacement without sort of robbing too much away from it, is fantastic.
00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:58.559
Obviously, Joel has took a bit of a bad turn from the beginning, sort of prologue through to when you then start to use him as a controllable character, and then you also see like the downturn of the world around you as the cordyset spirus has taken control.
00:59:58.880 --> 01:00:05.840
The enemies are unique, um, the world and the way that's portrayed inside it is unique.
01:00:06.639 --> 01:00:14.239
Um, the depth of character, the acting from the voice acting from the cast is fantastic, you really do feel it.
01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:29.440
It plays through in seasons like spring, summer, winter, fall, or whatever it is, whichever order I can't remember, um, is is equally as interesting as well because it shows the passage retirement, but then also is represented graphically in very interesting ways.
01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:43.039
Naughty Dog, obviously, famous for many franchises through their life, but um, from Crash to Jack to Uncharted to this, but this one to me was like the high point of everything they'd learnt along the way.
01:00:43.519 --> 01:00:59.360
The the shooting elements of of are real and um you know interesting when you first get your weapons, they're not that great, and you're kind of like shooting around the guys a little bit, but ammo's low, so you you then you kind of force into the melee route, which is even to this day is brutal.
01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:10.159
If you get caught by one, you you kind of see a gruesome death played out on the screen, which you don't want to see because you you you know your heart's in it, you're like, Oh god, no, I I can't, I don't want to see that.
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:32.239
Um, the the story is one thing, the graphics of the PS3 obviously it's been remastered, then remastered again for PS4 and PS5 uh to make it match in with The Last of Us Part 2, which I think was a good decision, and I've played through every single variant of this game, but for me the PS3 one will always be kind of the best one.
01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:36.960
This was a very late release on the PS3, possibly the last official title to come out.
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:39.199
It's a real swan song to the machine.
01:01:39.360 --> 01:01:43.440
It is a PS3 killer, so do be careful if you've got an early one.
01:01:43.679 --> 01:01:47.119
Um, I think when you first you'll you'll play fine.
01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:53.199
You see, what the PS3 you'll think is working fine, and then you get to the section in the first tower and it just shuts off.
01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:59.519
It's a little bit like Uncharted 3 in the flaming um building in the chateau.
01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:04.960
Your PS3 just cannot deal with it because Naughty Dog have literally rinsed the last juice out of this.
01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:13.519
And if your PS3 is on the edge, um there's Last of Us and Charted 3 and Gran Turismo 6 will kill that console stone dead right in front of you.
01:02:13.679 --> 01:02:15.039
So, you know, be careful.
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:16.800
You say there's nothing wrong with my PS3.
01:02:16.960 --> 01:02:18.719
I've been playing Transformers all day.
01:02:18.960 --> 01:02:20.159
Yeah, you have.
01:02:20.559 --> 01:02:25.039
You have, but none of those games use a cell processor to its maximum.
01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:29.679
This one is one of the games absolutely does, and it will fry a dying PS3 into the state.
01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:34.639
Yeah, if that's that thermal pasting up to date, it might be uh it's I don't think it's even that.
01:02:34.719 --> 01:02:40.400
I think it's something to do with the RSX chip and the the little memory chips that are associated with it.
01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:51.519
They are kind of like loose on the board or whatever it is, it doesn't matter whether you've got heat or not heat, or whether you've looked after it or not looked after it, whether you're refurbed or not refurbed, if it's dying, last of us will kill it.
01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:53.599
It literally is the last of us for your PS3.
01:02:54.159 --> 01:03:04.320
But put all that to one side if you've got a slim or a super slim or maybe a second um fat boy, you're probably gonna be okay, maybe.
01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:07.599
But The Last of Us, what a fantastic game.
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:20.480
The relationships that you kind of experience within it, the cordyceps virus itself, again, the little nuances of storylines and bits of paper and scrap that you pick up as you go through tells a story.
01:03:20.800 --> 01:03:31.760
I think that the environments um that you go through tell stories as well, from abandoned offices to to homes to houses to scenes that you stumble across.
01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:43.519
This obviously then ticked up Naughty Dog into another like stratosphere, really, in terms of what they are known for and what they're famous for.
01:03:43.840 --> 01:03:56.239
Um I think the PS3 version and maybe even the later version suffer from you sort of hiding and then Ellie just walking round right in front of the enemies or the or the cordyceps infected, and they just can't see her.
01:03:56.400 --> 01:04:00.079
Whereas if you even poke up an eyebrow, they're like call over you like a rash.
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:07.039
So that does break immersion a little bit, which I think they're solved later on to some degree, but not completely.
01:04:07.519 --> 01:04:20.000
Um, the puzzles that are presented to you because Ellie can't swim in this one, so then you have to do some swimming bits to move things around or change things, or you boost her up for her to unlock doors on the other side.
01:04:20.159 --> 01:04:24.800
The way the two characters work feels real inside of the lore of the game.
01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:33.519
It doesn't feel like our stupid puzzle section where I've got to do this or got to do that, it does feel all part of a coherent journey across the states.
01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:44.239
Again, the way that's represented in your sort of transport of Ellie, I'm not going to get stuck into the sort of moral implications of what goes on or what happens in it.
01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:50.239
And if you're listening to this and never played it, I don't want to ruin it for you if you're going to pick it up on PS5 or PS4.
01:04:50.960 --> 01:04:52.960
Less said soon it's mended.
01:04:53.280 --> 01:05:00.880
But let me tell you, in terms of gaming, we've had like Ellie Noir, Last of Us, RGT brought Bioshock, GTA 4.
01:05:01.199 --> 01:05:10.960
As great as they are as storytelling narratives, and like the Gen 7 that like really allowed them to go next level with that and take you on a very believable journey.
01:05:11.199 --> 01:05:21.679
I think the storytelling and nuanced moral decisions that you don't make or you do make, but not really, because it it is pretty linear in its presentation.
01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:27.280
But although you feel very present in everything that's going on, really is right up there.
01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:30.000
Uh is this game the best that there is on PS3?
01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:34.000
Yeah, I think it might be.
01:05:34.079 --> 01:05:36.480
Um, RGT, have you played The Last of Us?
01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:38.559
Oh, yeah, just a few times.
01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:45.360
Um yeah, Last of Us is is one of them very few times that you get a game that's more than a game.
01:05:46.239 --> 01:05:49.039
This isn't just a sit down play on a Sunday afternoon.
01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:52.239
This is a story they wanted to tell you.
01:05:52.480 --> 01:05:54.960
Um you play through this story.
01:05:55.119 --> 01:06:03.039
Um it's got it's like you say, it starts it's probably the Best but worst start to a video game ever.
01:06:03.360 --> 01:06:11.199
And I mean that in both ways because it is it's one of it might have even been the first video game that made me cry at the start.
01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:12.719
It's very powerful.
01:06:13.119 --> 01:06:19.440
Um along that you've got this this world which has really changed for me.
01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:30.239
Sort of fungal infection, which is true, which is a real one, which affects ants, and they the naughty dog devs first saw it on a BBC documentary about ants and the rest is history.
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:37.760
Um to this journey of these two people that are not connected, and as the journey goes on, they get closer and closer.
01:06:37.920 --> 01:06:41.280
It's beautifully done, beautifully acted.
01:06:41.519 --> 01:06:45.760
Um with Troy Baker and um Ashley Johnson.
01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:48.000
Um absolutely brilliantly done.
01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:50.559
Um get to the game itself.
01:06:50.880 --> 01:06:52.480
Um yes, it plays well.
01:06:52.559 --> 01:06:57.920
I remember I've said I've had two or three people, including my brother-in-law, when they first played it recently, because I hadn't played them before.
01:06:58.159 --> 01:06:59.119
Oh, this is so hard.
01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:00.480
I keep getting killed, keep getting killed.
01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:05.199
I said, All I'll say to you is you don't need to kill every clicker or enemy.
01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:06.719
You have stealth.
01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:11.920
You will this is one of those games where you start weaker and you'll progress.
01:07:12.000 --> 01:07:19.440
The game will get easier as you go because you will you will weapon up, you will make shivs, you will make different weapons, and you'll get stronger as you go along.
01:07:19.599 --> 01:07:23.119
But you don't need you don't need to clear a room, you need to get through a room.
01:07:23.199 --> 01:07:24.239
It's a different thing.
01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:27.360
If you take that on board, you'll you'll find the game okay.
01:07:27.599 --> 01:07:32.880
But again, it's it's a wonderful way of doing a zombie apocalypse, so to speak.
01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:35.760
Um, but the most mature zombie apocalypse story.
01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:37.039
Exactly.
01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:42.239
Because the zombie apocalypse isn't the story here, the story is Joel and Ellie.
01:07:42.320 --> 01:07:47.760
Yeah, so that's that's the world is the zombie apocalypse, but the story is those two.
01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:53.679
Um this for for a PS3 game, narratively, is is incredible.
01:07:53.920 --> 01:07:57.360
I'd never played anything like this.
01:07:57.519 --> 01:08:12.880
I mean, all these games here, like you say, are fantastic games in their own right, but as far as a story which is almost movie-esque in the way it delivers it, is is stunning and it's still to me one of the best games ever made.
01:08:13.039 --> 01:08:18.800
Um, on the on the generation, probably the best game of that generation, in my opinion.
01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:26.720
Um, yes, you can say there's there's plenty of other games which are fantastic, whether they were first-person shooters or racing games, all in their own right.
01:08:26.800 --> 01:08:40.479
But I think if you take a game which delivers that powerful story with those graphics on the system it's on and the way it plays, yes, you say it's got us little nickels where you'll quickly hide because there's a clicker coming and Ellie just wanders past.
01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:46.079
It's of an era, you know, there's the limitations they could do, but absolutely wonderful.
01:08:46.239 --> 01:08:48.560
I know as everyone says it, and you've probably heard of it.
01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:51.760
And from the TV series, that's really brought up more mainstream.
01:08:51.920 --> 01:08:58.720
But if you've watched the TV series, you're gonna collect for a PS3 and you haven't played it, pick up Last of Us because you will not be disappointed at all.
01:08:59.119 --> 01:09:01.920
The game is better than the TV series by Country Mile.
01:09:02.560 --> 01:09:09.439
Yeah, the TV series almost assists the game because there's bits in there which help with the game and vice versa.
01:09:09.680 --> 01:09:11.840
Um, but yeah, definitely play the game.
01:09:11.920 --> 01:09:17.760
If you enjoyed the series, you will love the game because you feel more involved and you are part of that story.
01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:21.119
So, yeah, absolutely fantastic one to finish on for you, George.
01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:22.159
Last of Us, you know.
01:09:22.319 --> 01:09:25.439
Well, serve us up another slice of K car GT.
01:09:25.520 --> 01:09:26.800
What have you brought to the party, friend?
01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:29.039
Well, I've gone Naughty Dog again, and I couldn't.
01:09:29.119 --> 01:09:39.039
If people know me, you know, I'm a bit of an uncharted slash Last of Us fan, and um I had to go with the original Uncharted Drake's fortune.
01:09:39.199 --> 01:09:41.359
Well, I think we'll revisit some of these consoles again.
01:09:41.439 --> 01:09:50.720
I'm getting a real vibe today that there's so much left on the table for the we've done a load of retro consoles, but I could have pulled another five off the shelf easy for this.
01:09:51.760 --> 01:09:54.399
And you know, the sequel to Uncharted, etc.
01:09:54.640 --> 01:09:57.359
But yeah, sorry to get in your way, RGT, please.
01:09:57.600 --> 01:09:59.680
No, um look also again.
01:09:59.840 --> 01:10:02.800
Um, all the Uncharted games I love, they're fantastic.
01:10:02.960 --> 01:10:04.319
Is this the best Uncharted game?
01:10:04.479 --> 01:10:04.640
No.
01:10:04.800 --> 01:10:06.319
Is this the best one on the PS3?
01:10:06.640 --> 01:10:09.359
No, but I pick it because it's where you should start.
01:10:09.600 --> 01:10:17.439
I know Golden Abyss on the Vita is originally the first game, but if you go on when they're released, this is your first game, Drake's Fortune.
01:10:17.600 --> 01:10:21.840
Now, my brother-in-law told me about Uncharted, but I hadn't heard of it.
01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:26.239
And he just basically said to me, You should try this game, borrow it off me, it's really good.
01:10:26.319 --> 01:10:26.960
I was like, What is it?
01:10:27.039 --> 01:10:30.319
He said, Well, think of a really violent Indiana Jones.
01:10:30.399 --> 01:10:32.319
And I was like, Okay, that sounds a bit different.
01:10:32.399 --> 01:10:34.800
He's like, Yeah, you're treasure hunting, but you just murder loads of people.
01:10:34.960 --> 01:10:36.640
I went, Alright, I'll give that a go.
01:10:36.880 --> 01:10:40.720
Um, and I played it through literally on my day off.
01:10:40.880 --> 01:10:43.680
I just sat down and went through the game all day.
01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:46.159
I didn't do anything else all day.
01:10:46.319 --> 01:10:49.119
Um, and it just gripped me from then on.
01:10:49.279 --> 01:10:56.159
Then Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, Uncharted 4, Lost Legacy, blah blah blah, were all day one purchases for me after this.
01:10:56.319 --> 01:11:04.000
That was this first game that made me think how what a great character Nathan Drake is.
01:11:04.159 --> 01:11:06.720
Absolutely voiced superbly by Nolan North.
01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:15.600
The his cheekiness, you know, his odd little cocky comments, but on top of that, you know, he can be a bit of a badass, he can beat people up, you know.
01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:25.279
The shooting technique, and also I remember when you were telling me that when you see the screen starts closing in, that's not that he's getting shot, it's that he's getting close to getting shot.
01:11:25.520 --> 01:11:27.680
So technically, it is a one-hit kill.
01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:31.680
Yes, you're getting very close to getting hit, and that was always clever technique to me.
01:11:31.760 --> 01:11:35.600
But and if you watch, like none of the bullets hurt him until the last one hits him.
01:11:35.840 --> 01:11:36.960
No, exactly, yeah.
01:11:37.199 --> 01:11:59.520
And it's just that story of you know, that treasure hunting story, and and trying to beat the the evil guys, that Indiana Jones star, the evil guys to getting the treasure and the different places you go to, and from fist fights to shoot, you know, to shootouts to solving puzzles to the way it even looked, you know.
01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:05.840
Yes, if you looked there's this is again like Last of Us has been remastered God knows how many times.
01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:23.279
Um, but even then in the day, I look back at these, and there's times when you're hanging off signs and trying to shoot people or on trucks, and you just think this looks very good for the generation, and this was still quite Jake Drake's Fortune was an early game in the system, you know, it was 2007, I believe.
01:12:23.439 --> 01:12:27.199
Um got great scores, nine out of tens, and quite rightly so.
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:34.960
And it it started a whole new sort of genre for naughty dog, this sort of treasure hunting but puzzle solving.
01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:40.880
You know, we'd done had done it with Tomb Raider, but this felt more involved, more cheeky than Tomb Raider.
01:12:40.960 --> 01:12:42.479
Tomb Raider had that serious side to it.
01:12:42.640 --> 01:12:48.319
Was this had that it did have a serious side, but you had so much fun doing it because all the elements worked.
01:12:48.479 --> 01:12:52.159
Um and like I say, this this game just got me completely hooked.
01:12:52.319 --> 01:12:54.399
Did you play this on day and date?
01:12:54.960 --> 01:12:59.680
I didn't pick it up, but a friend of mine did, and we would sort of wag off work a little bit and play it.
01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:02.239
And I remember thinking at the time, you know, this is great.
01:13:02.399 --> 01:13:07.199
Um I've obviously got it since and played through it many, many times on my own.
01:13:07.520 --> 01:13:18.640
Um showed the good lady wife it, she really loved it, loved The Last of Us, so there's more to where that came from, you know, showed her Uncharted, or I think we might have done them the other way around, I can't remember.
01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:21.920
Um, Drake is a great character, he's very self-aware.
01:13:22.079 --> 01:13:25.520
You know, he is aware that he's stacking up bodies like in the hundreds, you know.
01:13:25.600 --> 01:13:29.760
He does often quip about that, you know, you know, how many more of these people I'm gonna kill?
01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:31.359
This is getting crazy.
01:13:31.680 --> 01:13:40.399
Um Uncharted to me represents them sort of shunning their PS2 roots, not in a bad way, but you know, we've got the graphics now to tell a story.
01:13:40.479 --> 01:13:49.119
You saw their evolution through the Jack and Daxon trilogy as they were wanting to lean into a little bit more darker, a little bit wider reaching story.
01:13:49.439 --> 01:13:51.760
Uncharted is the first stab at that.
01:13:51.920 --> 01:14:02.319
Um it's a little bit gears of war influence in terms of cover shooter strategy, definitely, but you know, it it plays well, it adds to the story, it's not a direct copy.
01:14:02.399 --> 01:14:06.159
Whereas obviously on the 360 things got very monochrome, very brown.
01:14:06.319 --> 01:14:10.079
On here, you're playing a cover shooter in a in a tropical paradise.
01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:18.079
Some of the iconography in it, from the doubloons, the supporting characters like um Sully, really, really great.
01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:26.319
Um, some of the sights that you see from a stranded World War II submarine in the middle of a jungle.
01:14:26.479 --> 01:14:32.000
Um, as that sort of explode, uh, as that sort of expands, and further you further get into it.
01:14:32.159 --> 01:14:36.239
Um the game is is very rewarding.
01:14:36.399 --> 01:14:41.920
There's so much to see on a playthrough that it requires multiple playthroughs.
01:14:42.079 --> 01:14:43.520
I know some people tell it's a bit short.
01:14:43.680 --> 01:14:44.800
It's like, did you get all the treasures?
01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:46.479
Like, no, okay, right.
01:14:47.119 --> 01:14:47.920
There's more to do.
01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:49.359
Did you play out on the harder difficulty?
01:14:49.600 --> 01:14:50.239
No, okay.
01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:51.680
Well, there's more to do.
01:14:51.840 --> 01:14:59.760
You know, there's so much going on, it has a supernatural twist at the end, which it handles well considering it's sort of realistic world that it's based in.
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:09.359
Initially, you're fighting pirates, there's like jet ski sections, there's sections where you're jumping from the back of a Jeep on a you know under a waterfall to a piece of rock as it falls.
01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:14.000
There's so much going on in the game RGT again.
01:15:14.239 --> 01:15:19.680
PS3, Xbox 360 era, the sound design is great, you feel like you're in a jungle.
01:15:19.920 --> 01:15:28.079
Um, this game compared to the other two, there is some like pop-in, and SSD's gonna limit that, but it's still gonna be there.
01:15:28.159 --> 01:15:30.880
But for the rest of the time, the game looks gorgeous.
01:15:31.199 --> 01:15:46.079
Um again, the weapon choice is is fantastic, they feel crunchy, the gameplay feels doable, even sometimes when you get a little bit trapped in places, you like you see death a couple too many times, like getting hell, what can I do?
01:15:46.239 --> 01:15:58.399
But then it all of a sudden it clicks, you kind of you know the order, you get it right, you swap the weapons, you're great, not grey, but you grab a bigger weapon or a grenade launcher, and you can clear an area, you got your go-through.
01:15:59.039 --> 01:16:02.560
It's it really is a standout game.
01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:10.479
Um, like I say, you feel you're double crossed, you're not double crossed, you you you you think you're chasing one thing, you're chasing something else.
01:16:11.119 --> 01:16:13.840
For me, rock the boat here.
01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:24.239
I know everyone loves two, and I like two, and I like three, and I like four, and I like all of them, and I don't know whether it's nostalgia kicking in or what, but I really like this game.
01:16:24.399 --> 01:16:34.720
I really think the first one is out the gates, fantastic storytelling, brilliant gameplay, great sound design.
01:16:35.119 --> 01:16:37.279
Is it as deep a story as The Last of Us?
01:16:37.359 --> 01:16:38.319
No, of course it's not.
01:16:38.399 --> 01:16:46.720
But these are two different genres that's telling a heartfelt zombie apocalypse story where the humans are probably more dangerous than the than the quarterstep zombies.
01:16:47.199 --> 01:17:01.199
This is telling like uh people say Indiana Jones, and that's like I can see the comparison, but to me, this game will always be more romance in the stone jewel of the Nile in terms of how it plays, in terms of what you see and what you're doing.
01:17:02.560 --> 01:17:04.399
The the quips that you do.
01:17:04.560 --> 01:17:15.600
He's not Indiana Jones, not by a long chalk, he's an absolute player of a rogue, really, that's going around stealing these artifacts, and there's an element to that where it's not it's not even Tomb Raider.
01:17:15.840 --> 01:17:34.159
You know, Drake doesn't ever plan on putting any of this drivel in a museum, he just wants to flog it to get rich, and he's always like one sort of one one good treasure hunt away from a good payday, and I think there's something scrappy and lovable about that in the character and the supporting cast as well.
01:17:34.399 --> 01:17:51.760
Um I I I think that you know all the naughty dog entries on the PS3 are are first class and cemented them as the uh if they'd have stopped at the PS2, people would be like, Oh, do you remember that Jack game, like yeah, or crash on PS1 or oh yeah.
01:17:52.079 --> 01:17:55.359
This is the console that they really learned how to maximize.
01:17:55.439 --> 01:17:57.760
This is the time where they got really close to Sony.
01:17:57.920 --> 01:18:08.960
This is the time when they got really close to you as a player, this is the time when they catapulted themselves into the stratosphere by being able to tell Hollywood level stories within a game.
01:18:09.520 --> 01:18:13.199
Brilliant choice, RGT, great selection, fantastic.
01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:15.680
Yeah, I think you know I've loved this episode.
01:18:15.840 --> 01:18:16.399
It's brilliant.
01:18:16.479 --> 01:18:18.159
Yeah, for me, Uncharted as well.
01:18:18.319 --> 01:18:34.720
Like you say, the the the story continues for the games, the characters grow and evolve, characters come back, some go, it's it's it's really good, but they know what the game's about, they know we're still that that cheeky side to Nathan, and and they play on it a lot at times.
01:18:34.800 --> 01:18:45.439
And this, yeah, it hasn't got the the powerful story of a of a last of us, but my god has it got gameplay that's addictive, and yes, you think the game's short, but you will want to play through it again.
01:18:45.520 --> 01:18:46.079
That's that game.
01:18:46.319 --> 01:18:46.640
100%.
01:18:46.960 --> 01:18:49.520
I don't know how many times I've played through it, especially the first one.
01:18:49.600 --> 01:18:50.560
I played it through the most.
01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:51.680
I absolutely love it.
01:18:52.720 --> 01:18:54.239
Um, there's our ten.
01:18:54.479 --> 01:18:58.239
I will just quickly go back through and name those ten before we do the prices.
01:18:58.399 --> 01:19:02.079
Um, George's first choice was Final Fantasy XIII.
01:19:02.159 --> 01:19:06.479
Um, his second choice was Transformers War on Cybertron.
01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:10.720
Um, number three of his was Resistance Fall of Man.
01:19:10.880 --> 01:19:12.880
Number four was LA Noir.
01:19:13.279 --> 01:19:15.920
His number five was The Last of Us.
01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:30.399
Uh, mine was number one Bioshock, number two Singularity, number three, Race Driver Grid, uh, number four, GTA four, and number five, uncharted Drake's fortune.
01:19:30.640 --> 01:19:33.279
Now, Price's young man.
01:19:34.239 --> 01:19:34.880
The game.
01:19:35.039 --> 01:19:37.920
Um, so what we're gonna start with Final Fantasy XIII?
01:19:38.159 --> 01:19:39.279
Final Fantasy XIII.
01:19:39.359 --> 01:19:40.800
What's your guess on that then?
01:19:44.479 --> 01:19:53.600
I don't know because we're recording this in the sort of post-PS3 store closure where things got a bit crazy, and this on PlayStation consoles, this never left the PS3.
01:19:53.840 --> 01:19:58.399
There's no backwards compact for this or anything or an even way to play it unless you've got one.
01:19:58.560 --> 01:20:01.199
But equally so, I think it's a bit sort of forgotten.
01:20:01.279 --> 01:20:05.680
So I'm gonna say£3.50 for a Final Fantasy 13.
01:20:06.319 --> 01:20:07.920
Um, PS3.
01:20:08.479 --> 01:20:12.079
Uh, this is or usually goes for around about£6.
01:20:12.560 --> 01:20:15.520
I'm going off CX prices on this, apart from one.
01:20:16.159 --> 01:20:18.000
There is a bit of a curveball in this.
01:20:18.159 --> 01:20:22.159
One CX doesn't even have in stock or list because it is a bit rare.
01:20:22.319 --> 01:20:24.560
Oh, um, but yes,£6.
01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:26.640
Um, Final Fantasy on the PS3.
01:20:26.800 --> 01:20:29.199
You can get a£360 version for£3.50.
01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:32.560
Oh, so yeah, I was there or there, not quite, but close.
01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:33.600
Yeah, you were you were pretty.
01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:38.880
I think this was£3.50 until the latest PS3 noise, and I think that's boosted it.
01:20:39.119 --> 01:20:40.079
I think you were right.
01:20:40.239 --> 01:20:41.119
I think you're right.
01:20:41.279 --> 01:20:44.079
Um, my first one was Bioshock, George.
01:20:44.159 --> 01:20:44.880
What do you think?
01:20:45.199 --> 01:20:52.239
Again, I can't imagine this has like got a lot of money behind it, so let's up it a little bit and say sort of four pound.
01:20:53.199 --> 01:20:57.359
Um PS3 version you can pick up for£2.50.
01:20:57.600 --> 01:20:58.159
God damn it.
01:20:58.479 --> 01:20:59.279
As I recorded.
01:20:59.920 --> 01:21:03.520
Um the£360 version is£5, funnily enough.
01:21:04.159 --> 01:21:04.800
Interesting.
01:21:05.039 --> 01:21:10.960
I think they because the£360 store shut earlier than the PS3, some of them have crept up a bit.
01:21:11.119 --> 01:21:15.039
Um, but you can get the collection on the PS4 or Xbox One.
01:21:15.119 --> 01:21:21.359
Um, and they're sort of£18 and£22, around about£20 for the collection if you wanted to get the fair price remastered.
01:21:21.520 --> 01:21:23.119
Very good for that, for that money.
01:21:23.279 --> 01:21:26.880
Um, number two of yours was Transformers War on Cybertron.
01:21:27.199 --> 01:21:27.840
What were you?
01:21:28.720 --> 01:21:33.439
Like I know this seems to go up on a daily basis because you know my son recently tried to pick it up.
01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:36.800
Uh I'm gonna say like 38 quid.
01:21:37.439 --> 01:21:43.520
Um, this funny enough is the one that is not listed on CX.
01:21:45.039 --> 01:21:51.199
Um, so I had to do a diving into a bit of the eBay sold listings, not what people are asking, sold listings.
01:21:51.520 --> 01:21:58.479
Um, and the cheapest I saw it go for is around about 45, but it does hit regularly hit 60 to 70.
01:21:58.560 --> 01:22:00.079
So I think Louise.
01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:04.159
I think if you can pick this up for 50, you you're done well, I think.
01:22:04.399 --> 01:22:09.840
In in today's current climate, I think 50 pounds would be a good a good deal for Transformers War and Solid.
01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:10.960
That's blowing me away, that is.
01:22:11.199 --> 01:22:11.920
I can't believe it.
01:22:12.159 --> 01:22:28.239
Now I don't own this game, I have played this game, and I'm really thinking about picking it up for 50 because I think today's prices on games, you're paying£70-80 for a game nowadays in the UK for a new release game.
01:22:28.560 --> 01:22:32.960
Um and I want this more than most of games that are coming out at the moment.
01:22:33.119 --> 01:22:37.359
So£50, still£20 to£30 cheaper than a new release.
01:22:37.520 --> 01:22:38.640
I'm quite happy to pay that.
01:22:38.720 --> 01:22:39.359
So yeah, I can't.
01:22:39.520 --> 01:22:40.800
Fine, mate, fine.
01:22:41.039 --> 01:22:47.600
I wouldn't normally pay£50 for a generation 7 game, but it's just something about that, and I don't think that's going to come down anytime soon.
01:22:47.920 --> 01:22:48.960
Don't think it's coming down.
01:22:49.039 --> 01:22:52.159
If CX isn't listening at all, then there'sn't a lot of copies out there.
01:22:52.239 --> 01:22:52.880
I wouldn't suggest.
01:22:53.119 --> 01:22:54.399
Which I find strange.
01:22:54.640 --> 01:22:56.720
It's quite hard to find copies on eBay.
01:22:56.800 --> 01:23:03.039
There's a lot of the other one, the fall of Cybertron, but War on Cybertron is hard to find copies.
01:23:03.760 --> 01:23:04.000
Wow.
01:23:04.159 --> 01:23:04.479
Okay.
01:23:04.720 --> 01:23:05.840
What's next?
01:23:06.159 --> 01:23:10.640
Next up it was my second choice game, which was Singularity.
01:23:12.399 --> 01:23:18.000
I've obviously lost my radar way off, but I'm gonna say this has got to be sort of forkid.
01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:22.880
Well, this was a a Bioshop£2.50 game for the longest time.
01:23:23.119 --> 01:23:23.520
Yeah.
01:23:23.840 --> 01:23:32.239
But since the uh the PS3 store shut, and the uh people grabbing physical copies of the PlayStation are shutting down and going to digital.
01:23:32.479 --> 01:23:34.399
Um this is now£12.
01:23:36.159 --> 01:23:43.199
Make it make sense to me, and this is£12 on the 360 as well, so it's got that sort of that's gone up together.
01:23:43.359 --> 01:23:45.680
Um I okay, I paid like so.
01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:46.720
I think I paid£2.50.
01:23:47.039 --> 01:23:48.239
I might even pay£1.50.
01:23:48.560 --> 01:23:49.039
I know it was cheap.
01:23:49.359 --> 01:23:52.079
Mate, it was Charity Shop 50p fodder for the longest time.
01:23:52.399 --> 01:23:59.199
But I think again, it's one of a lot of these Generation 7 games that we said, because there was so much choice, a lot got missed.
01:23:59.359 --> 01:24:06.479
Now people are going back and playing these libraries, they realising there's a lot of games in here that people didn't realise we actually good, yeah.
01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:11.039
So I think it's part of that, but yes, so Singularity£12 across the board.
01:24:11.199 --> 01:24:14.239
Um, your number three was Resistance Fall of Man.
01:24:14.319 --> 01:24:17.520
Well, obviously, there's only one price for this, as it's an exclusive.
01:24:18.800 --> 01:24:32.800
Uh but the thing is, it was like an absolute kicked in the corner 50p game for the longest time, but now I'm starting to critically reassess where I'm at, and although I think it's a little bit of a forgotten trilogy, I'm gonna say eight quid.
01:24:33.439 --> 01:24:34.640
Three pounds.
01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:36.479
Make it make sense.
01:24:36.800 --> 01:24:37.439
Three pounds.
01:24:37.520 --> 01:24:38.319
That's mad, isn't it?
01:24:38.560 --> 01:24:44.079
I thought this one being a launch title, being a bit of an off-pieced insomniac game.
01:24:44.239 --> 01:24:46.720
I thought, you know, this is probably gonna creep up now.
01:24:46.800 --> 01:24:48.399
People want launch titles, you know, to be a big thing.
01:24:48.560 --> 01:24:53.119
Off the back of people like learning about them from Spider-Man and all those sort of more modern games.
01:24:53.359 --> 01:25:00.720
Yeah, no, but then again, I suppose they must have packed it in for a long while, and there's a lot of them out there, so I suppose they've they've held the price, but yeah, fair enough.
01:25:00.880 --> 01:25:03.279
£3 a bargain for Resistance Fall of Man.
01:25:03.439 --> 01:25:08.000
Um, my third game was Race Driver Grid by Codemasters.
01:25:09.680 --> 01:25:12.479
I don't even say it, I'm gonna say four pound.
01:25:13.359 --> 01:25:17.600
Um, it's the same price on PS3 as it is£360, and that is£2.50.
01:25:18.319 --> 01:25:23.279
Now that if you like racing buy so much game for the money, mate.
01:25:23.439 --> 01:25:34.239
If yeah, if you like racing games and you've got a PS3 or an Xbox 360, nip down CX or just order online, because even if you have to pay the postage for a fiver, that is one of the best driving games.
01:25:34.319 --> 01:25:40.159
If you like race driving and you're like career mode, you know, and that rags to Rich's sort of race style.
01:25:40.399 --> 01:25:44.000
Yeah, and the story that evolves round it as well, not just mainly to menu.
01:25:44.479 --> 01:25:49.840
No, no Jesus grid is is for two pounds fifty is the bargain here.
01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:51.039
It is an absolute bargain.
01:25:51.119 --> 01:25:51.840
Go pick that up.
01:25:51.920 --> 01:25:53.199
That is absolutely brilliant.
01:25:53.439 --> 01:25:55.119
Um, what's next?
01:25:55.439 --> 01:25:57.840
Your number four was LA Noir.
01:25:58.479 --> 01:26:03.199
Like this has been remade and it's on modern systems and and all that sort of stuff.
01:26:03.279 --> 01:26:07.439
So I can't imagine for the life of me, this is much more than sort of eight quid.
01:26:08.079 --> 01:26:11.199
PS3, you can pick this up for four pound.
01:26:11.840 --> 01:26:13.439
That's the number I've been using all day.
01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:16.000
I decided to change it the moment I get to LA Noir.
01:26:16.239 --> 01:26:17.920
Maybe I respect it too much.
01:26:18.159 --> 01:26:20.720
£360, you can pick this up for£2.50.
01:26:20.960 --> 01:26:22.159
What a great game for that!
01:26:22.960 --> 01:26:24.159
£2.50.
01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:32.479
Um, and then they done the remastered ones um later on, so you can pick them up for sort of£15 to£18, normally about£18.
01:26:33.119 --> 01:26:34.720
Again, I think that's a fair price.
01:26:34.880 --> 01:26:38.880
I think it's a great price for an absolutely superb game, it still looks phenomenal.
01:26:39.119 --> 01:26:42.399
Tell me another game that tells that story in that era the way they tell it.
01:26:42.560 --> 01:26:42.880
Yeah, right.
01:26:43.199 --> 01:26:44.479
It's worth a million quid.
01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:45.840
Yeah, there isn't one.
01:26:46.159 --> 01:26:51.439
Um my fourth game was uh Grand Theft Auto Four.
01:26:58.640 --> 01:27:01.600
A fiver not far off, four pound.
01:27:01.840 --> 01:27:04.880
Um sorry, sorry, I got that wrong.
01:27:05.039 --> 01:27:05.760
Eight pound.
01:27:06.479 --> 01:27:09.359
Oh I read the wrong one, but yeah, eight pound.
01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:11.840
Um but it's ten pound on the 360.
01:27:12.159 --> 01:27:13.119
So two more quid.
01:27:13.359 --> 01:27:28.880
Even so though that maybe nowadays money, eight pound, I think it's still a bargain for that, for the way it plays, the amount of story that you get, the action and the chaos that ensues, and then the peaceful times around you while you're not doing all that, absolutely brilliant deal.
01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:34.399
And then your fifth and final game, The Last of Us on the PlayStation 3.
01:27:34.800 --> 01:27:40.319
Oh again, this is an exclusive, but I've got a few other prizes.
01:27:42.079 --> 01:27:43.119
I don't know.
01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:44.640
Eight quid.
01:27:45.359 --> 01:27:47.760
Six pounds on a PS3 close.
01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:50.000
So I've got zero this week, this month.
01:27:51.199 --> 01:27:58.239
Oh no, but you've been round about the ballpark, these are CX figures, so ra what what you were saying, you'd probably be able to pick up the cheaper faceovers.
01:27:58.560 --> 01:27:59.279
Yeah, okay.
01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:04.640
It's also six pounds on the PS4 for the remastered version.
01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:08.560
Um PS5 version still hangs around£30-32.
01:28:09.279 --> 01:28:18.479
It's a great way to play it, the PS5, but if you want the OG and that Gen 7 look and where it all began, I just e even to this day I think the game's still brilliant on PS3.
01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:20.319
The price of two coffees, there you go.
01:28:21.439 --> 01:28:22.960
Basically, basically.
01:28:41.199 --> 01:28:42.239
Five quid.
01:28:43.359 --> 01:28:45.119
Ooh, nearly four pounds.
01:28:45.359 --> 01:28:51.199
Um what then they done like a blue cover PS4 remaster.
01:28:51.279 --> 01:28:53.439
You can pick that up for about eight eight pounds.
01:28:53.840 --> 01:29:05.199
Um then they done not the collection on PS5, but I mean for for four pounds, I mean you're looking here, apart from the Transformers, which is a bit of a curveball, it's still in my mind one of the big hitters on the system.
01:29:05.279 --> 01:29:10.079
I think if you collect for PS3 and you want really good games, it's a price worth paying.
01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:12.960
Curated collection, then these are all worth picking up.
01:29:13.279 --> 01:29:17.600
Yeah, I mean you got 250, 12, 250, 8, 4, 6.
01:29:17.840 --> 01:29:20.960
Yes, we got to 50, but you got three, you got four, you got six.
01:29:21.119 --> 01:29:27.359
I mean, you could technically go out with a few quid in your pocket and get all ten of these, you know, a good collection for a good price, you know.
01:29:27.680 --> 01:29:36.479
And the hours that you would get and the high-level storytelling that you'd enjoy across, like I look at mine, Final Fantasy XIII, great story, really enjoyable.
01:29:36.720 --> 01:29:42.000
Transformers is a bit popcorn, resistance for a man's probably not aged very well, but El Ainoir and Last of Us.
01:29:42.239 --> 01:29:52.960
And then across to your choices, I mean what a great world, like Bioshark, Uncharted, these are all sort of games that are gonna make you think.
01:29:53.279 --> 01:29:59.359
Not just because oh, it's a bit difficult or as a puzzle, but morally you're gonna come away, like GTA 4, like oh Crikey.
01:29:59.680 --> 01:30:00.640
You know, they're heavy hitters.
01:30:00.800 --> 01:30:02.479
I think absolutely brilliant era.
01:30:02.880 --> 01:30:09.119
Yeah, and I think we've got a bit of everything we've got from you know, games on here that push the systems to nearly breaking point.
01:30:09.199 --> 01:30:17.199
You've got launch titles, you got hidden gems, you've got ones that are quite hard to find, but others which were just devs at their best, you know.
01:30:17.279 --> 01:30:25.760
There's a bit of everything here, and also in the genres from first person to racing games to open world to adventure, there's a bit of everything here, even JRPG.
01:30:25.920 --> 01:30:28.239
So yeah, I hope you liked those ten games.
01:30:28.319 --> 01:30:33.039
Um but before we go, we'll do the uh honorary housekeeping as we do each week.
01:30:33.359 --> 01:30:41.760
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01:30:44.079 --> 01:30:50.079
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01:30:51.840 --> 01:30:53.199
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01:30:53.439 --> 01:30:59.920
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01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:08.800
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01:31:08.960 --> 01:31:11.920
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01:31:21.119 --> 01:31:23.359
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We'll be doing a vote very soon.
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Uh me and Fatzangifief are discussing what games we're gonna put into our next vote as we speak.
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So come and come and jump on there, come and join in.
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Um straight to it.
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We've also we are on X, we are on Insta, we're also on TikTok if you want some funny little videos of us where our words are uh put together in different sentences and makes us sound very silly for the unofficial controller podcast.
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Outrageous.
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Check out our TikTok and finally if you'd like to contact the show is questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcast.com.
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From anything from collaborations to sponsorships to questions you just want to ask us, or if there's anything you couldn't even find on the website or links, just email us and we'll sort you out.
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Even merch, if there's any merch you want, just let us know.
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We do flashback t-shirts, unofficial controller podcast.
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Uh we do tote bags, various different bits and pieces.
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So, yeah, just let us know.
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Um is there anything you want to add to that, George?
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I think the only thing I want to add is this show is free, it'll always be free, as is the main show.
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So if you've got a hole in your life, you've got a car journey or whatever, and you're enjoying it, don't forget to check out the main show.
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The show is free and it'll always be free.
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But if you do want to support, there's a link on the website to take you through to our support platform from as little as$3.
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You can get read out on the main show.
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Um, if you want to support, you've enjoyed flashback and you want to support us a little bit, you can hop on there and do that there.
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No pressure though, because it will always be free.
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Um, but it does help.
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So please go check that out.
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Other than that, I want to say thank you to RGT for uh curating such a fine episode again and allow me to come here and throw my games at him and then demand him search the prices and me get them hideously wrong.
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Uh, I'm starting to lose touch with the game prices out there, so that's starting to become a little bit of a parody.
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Does George even know?
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Like, no, seemingly not, not anymore, not after the PS3 stores close or is closing.
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Um, and the threat of the Disc to digital, everyone's gone a little bit mad over in the Sony ecosystem.
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So uh yeah, suddenly I can retire early.
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Um I think that uh I want to thank everyone for listening, everyone who comments and supports the show, um, all the people that kind of contribute on the flashback Discord section of the main show, like Carlos, for example, and people who chuck up their Gazcon, who throw up their games that they've got, uh, go along with the show that we've talked about.
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I hope you've enjoyed these.
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We try and do these top tens, uh hidden gems as and when we can.
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Um I've loved my time uh um doing this, so thank you again, RGT, for that, and thank you to everyone who's listened and and viewed if you're watching the uh logo on YouTube.
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Fair play to you.
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Yes, thank you very much to everyone who's listened and viewed and different bits and pieces.
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Thank you to George, as always.
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Thank him every week for his continued participation in my uh mad flashback dreams each week.
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But it's a great way to talk about nostalgia and games of the past and sort of reignites us to play these games.
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I'm all deep back on uh PS3 was always my favourite PlayStation, but now I'm all of a sudden hankering to go back at it again because uh you've got me like whipped up uh and fevered up like a madman to go sample Sony's most eccentric console, but even to this day, and um what a fantastic selection of games.
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I would love to revisit uh PS3, even if we revisit nothing else.
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Like I could grab another five of these off, be them exclusives or multi-plats or or whatever it is.
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What what a great era in gaming.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And like I say, you know, contact us if there's anything but a PS3 you'd like us to do with a certain genres or hidden gems or something like that.
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We can soon do another top ten list.
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But yes, thanks to George.
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Thank you guys to listening.
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Thanks for downloading.
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Give us a little review, give us a comment on YouTube, give us a sub on YouTube because it all really helps us uh try and evolve the shows as we go.
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Um, and it just leaves me to say flashback the games you loved, the stories you forgot.
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I'll see you next week, George, and I'll see you guys as well.
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See you guys, you know.