Special: Sony Goes Digital So We Pick The Physical Games Worth Buying Now Part 2

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This is episode 30, and this week we're doing part two of our flashback special, which if you haven't listened to yet, we picked 12 games from Pierce 1, Pierce 2, Pierce 3.
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And these are recommendations of physical PlayStation games to pick up before things get too pricey.
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This time we're doing PSP Vita and finally finishing on Pierce 4.
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Some of these may seem a bit obvious, but a surprise and how many gamers have played and loved these games through either Pierce Plus, etc., or downloads, but don't actually own the physical.
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So now's the time.
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And I'm RGT, welcome to the show.
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And as always, I am joined by the man who always gets a brew when playing the Switch 2.
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Thinks the game's great, but of late is starting to hate Final Fantasy VII made us feel part of the team on his legendary Minecraft stream.
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It's UCP George.
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How you doing, my man?
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Yeah, I'm great.
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Um I present as quite a curious character with that little intro of yours.
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But um I was quite pleased with the second one because there was a lot of rhyming in there, and I managed to do it about spitting my teeth out.
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So I couldn't have done it myself, so I did marvel just at the sheer facial engineering that you executed.
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Um yeah, I probably would have been on the floor at that point.
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So well done.
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Thank you.
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Welcome back, everybody.
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If you've enjoyed part one, buckle up for what's set to be an interesting ride for gaming esoteria.
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So um yeah.
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Let's do it, RGT.
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Why don't you show me the colour of your skin?
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Show me your first pick out your bag.
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And what platform will it be on?
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Well, we're gonna start on PSP.
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So we've done we've done two each on the puspa, and we've done two on the Vita, and we have done two on the PS4.
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The PS4?
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Yeah, plus four.
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Um, and I'm gonna start with um a little game is creeping up a little bit now, I believe, in value, but oh, that's another thing.
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Do you want me to do the values as we go or should we do them all at the end?
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We'll do them at the end.
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We'll do them in the format.
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Um this is a game I've had as a hidden gem before as well, over on the Unofficial Controller podcast, and this is Driver 76.
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Oh, hello.
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Now, this is an Ubisoft game.
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Um I I don't think this gets enough attention, really.
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Um it's that sort of driver format um set in the 70s, obviously, 76.
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And you do it's very GTA-looking world, but you do literally driving missions.
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Um you're like an undercover cop and busting gangs and all this sort of thing.
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But it's definitely got that driver feel to it, but just on a handheld, it looks really good.
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You've got that really good tight drive, and you've got the mission based, and that's all that that sort of made the PSP feel like that PS2 in your pocket.
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You were really taking these sorts of games on the go.
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And this is one that just went under the radar.
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I picked up cheap years ago, played, I think, on a holiday, played for them, beat it, and thought, how comes no one's ever told me about driver 76?
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And still to this day, people don't really talk about it much.
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I think it's a great little game.
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Yes, it's probably scaled down from a PS2 version, which it didn't actually get in the end, it is just exclusive to the PSP.
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Um, but definitely give it a look.
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Um, I think it's a great little game.
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It's one I keep wanting to go back to again and play again recently, but I haven't as yet.
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But have you played Driver 76, George?
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No, I can't say I have.
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I mean, you did wheel it in as a hidden gem.
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I listened to your platitudes about it and how great you said it was, and then uh I don't have it in my collection.
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That's definitely worth picking up.
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And it is starting, like I say, I I mean that was petty.
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Is there a is there on foot sections or is it all in the car?
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If I remember there is but there is on foot sections, I believe, but um you know, nowhere near like a GTA, I think it's very limited as to when you do that.
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Um I think there's like sections of mini games as well.
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I think if I remember rightly, like rampages, which are a bit like GTA and stuff you can do as well.
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So there is shooting, I believe.
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I haven't played it for a long time, but it was mainly the drive, and I used to love because it really did give you that almost PS2 version of the driver games.
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Um, but yeah, definitely worth checking out.
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I I think it's a great little game.
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Love the cover art, love the 70s style, love the little uh muscle cars and that you get in it, but yeah, really good.
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Um what studio is it?
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Um sorry, no, what city is it, base?
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Like, is it is 76 San Francisco looking at the cover?
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Yes, yes, I believe.
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Does it feel like that when you're driving around though, or is it just like generic grey buildings?
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No, it's quite good.
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You you get the feeling you're in a city, definitely.
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Um, obviously, scale down map-wise, it's not a huge map, and you've you just got to go from sort of mission to mission, but it is good at what they've done.
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Um, it's more linear than open world.
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Um, but it's a good little game.
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Like I said, it's from Ubisoft Refra Ubisoft Reflection Sumo Digital developed it um and published by Ubisoft.
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Um it was out in well in Europe.
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We got it in uh we were well a couple of days later than everywhere else, but 2007, May.
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Um I think it had a multiplayer on if I remember, whether that was on online or when you used to connect to your PSPs and oh yeah.
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Um, but the funny thing was scores when it first came out, Metacritic only give it 57 out of 100.
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Um, but other magazines were a bit more, you know, like Edge gave it seven out of ten, Eurogame is six out of ten.
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There was a lot of six out of tens, three out of fives.
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So, you know, all right scores, I suppose.
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Um, and I think because maybe people looked it up and saw those scores, maybe people didn't buy it.
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Um I used to see it a lot in CX, but you don't tend to see it about so much now.
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So, but yeah, give it a go.
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Uh driver 76, great little addition to a PSP um collection.
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So, what's your first one then, George?
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Uh my first one for the Sony PSP PlayStation Portable is Daxter.
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I do believe it was with the choice window in Europe.
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It's uh made by Ready at Dawn, and it's probably one of the best games on PSP, in my humble opinion.
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It looks fantastic straight out the gates.
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It's a great extension of the Jack and Daxter franchise.
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Obviously, you've got the slightly wordier of the two, or very much the wordier of the two, out here in his own game.
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And to be honest, the open area elements, the kind of bug hunting missions you go on.
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I'll be honest with you, this game feels a million bucks, and I'd recommend it to anybody.
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Obviously, Redi at Dawn known for the PSP trickery because they also um did two God of War games of their own, and then um were involved in the Origins collection being ported to uh V uh Vita, maybe from memory.
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Um obviously made Order 1886 as well, but um this is like a fantastic game.
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Uh it's fun, like I say, extends a franchise, and uh even in the very early days of the PSP, they had this thing singing like this.
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You talked before of a PS2 in your pocket RGT.
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I don't think there's a game that more convinces you of that than Daxter.
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Oh, definitely, it's got when when you play that game, you do it's hard to not look at that and think this is a PS2, it looks very good graphically.
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It's a great looking little game, and probably quite deceivingly made people think that the PSP had more legs than it even did, because you know, if this was relatively early doors, then you know what lies beyond.
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Um sadly, not much more trucking was ever really um extended past Daxter and obviously the GTA to GTA games that you find on there.
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Um, but a fun little game, it's an official game, it has had a re-release on Sony's PlayStation Premium package where you get to play the classics, therefore, I do believe it's also available to buy.
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But I can't see that being something that they're gonna support for a long time.
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You know, this is a game that needs to be experienced as well in its handheld format.
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Yeah, sometimes reeks of it.
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Yeah, you know, and you find out as well with um certain games throughout game and history, really.
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This sometimes games just need to be on what they were made for, you need to be playing them on the system they were making.
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So we're not here to you know push emulation, although obviously this would be a good place to go grab for your phone copy of Daxter from some sort of ROM site, not recommending anything, but I think it'd be more affordable just to grab a PSP and get yourself a copy of Daxter and lose yourself in the moment, you know.
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Go take yourself off on the couch somewhere, maybe a little round of that on your PSP before bedtime.
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You know, sort of thing Tingle Tuner would do.
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A very, very sophisticated experience, very sophisticated gentleman.
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Um, though he's not gonna sori himself with a PSP, I should think.
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Sent me one, so maybe he's PSP listener.
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Either which way, that's one of our loyal listeners over on the main show, hopefully here as well.
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Um that's all I've got to say on Daxter, mate.
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Have you got anything to say?
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Uh no, I'm same as you, really.
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Great looking game, very playable.
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Um, for a spin-off to a successful series, um, you don't feel like you're um losing out in any way.
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It's yeah, I definitely think this has got the legs over like Secret Agent Clank or what have you.
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Yes, yeah, no, I I agree with you on that.
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Um, it's a great little game.
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Again, it's one that seems to go under the radar a lot.
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Um Jack and Daxter's talked about a lot, but you know, they tend to talk about the later games being rubbish, but they don't tend to talk about how good Daxter actually is.
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Um, so it deserves a bit more credit, really.
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But yeah, great game, and again, an awesome one to add to the PSP collection.
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Yeah, grab it while it's hot.
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What you got next, RGT?
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I've gone a bit uh left field here with this.
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Um yeah.
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Um looked more at the retro games on this one.
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I have gone for EA Replay.
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I knew you were gonna wheel that in.
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That's a great collection.
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It is a fantastic collection.
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If you don't know what EA Replay is, EA put a load of their classics onto their little UMD so you can retro game on your PSP.
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Um, and in just three or four games, you get um BOB on the Super Nintendo, you get Boudacan, uh the Martial Spirit on the Mega Drive, you get Desert Strike, Return to the Golf, Mega Drive, you get Haunting, starring Polter Guy on the Mega Drive, Jungle Strike, Mega Drive, Mutant League Football, Road Rash, Road Rash 2, Road Rash 3, Syndicate, Ultimate 7, Virtual Pinball, Wing Commander, and Wing Commander Secret Missions on Um all on this little UMD.
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Um sorry to interject, but the surprise for me on that list was always Wing Commander.
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Yeah.
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But sadly, Syndicate is quite hard to play on there.
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Yes, yes, I would imagine that would be.
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Um, for me, I think this is a great way of playing your desert strikes and your jungle strikes, your road rash.
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Yeah, um, and again, it's one that slips under the radar a bit because for the price of this, you've you know you're not emulating, you've got it on your UMD, and you've got a good load of classic games that you can take with you on the go.
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Um, this was developed by EA Canada, published by Electronic Arts, obviously, and it is exclusive to the PlayStation Portable.
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Came out in uh came out in Europe in March 2007.
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Um, America got it a bit earlier in November 2006.
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Um, and it's a it's a great collection.
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Um when you think of what you pay for an emulator nowadays to take around with you, you know, there's ways of doing it with hardware you've already got, and I just think this is brilliant because a lot of these games, I mean, like Mutant League football, go try buying that nowadays because my mate's got that, and that's a lot of money.
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You're gonna be spending big time on that.
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And then you've got all your road rashes, like you say, you've got your wing commanders.
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Um, really good.
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If you like your Mega Drive, like your Super Nintendo, even if you've got these games in your collection, for what this costs, that's worth picking EA replay up.
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So then you've got them on the go if you were fancy playing road rash and bits and pieces.
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So that's a that's a great collection.
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Have you had much history with this or played this, George?
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Yeah, I've got this, it's probably one of my most played ones.
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I didn't know if it really qualified today, but you're right, it does, and it's a perfect example of something the PSP becomes famous for uh being natively supported on it.
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And I think you know, people cottoned on, developers cottoned on that this was happening.
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Not everyone wants to uh crack a PSP, so boom, here you go.
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I think Sega also produced one of their own with Mega Drive Classics, two, three Mega Drive Classics, all that sort of stuff on there.
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So this is a great way on a couple of UMDs of replicating probably your dream childhood Mega Drive collection.
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Definitely, and I mean I chucked it in it because it is literally an exclusive to this system, so it's a great way of playing retro, and like you say, with um with the other collections you can get as well as Sega Mega Drive, there's also I think they've done a was it don't quote me on us, I think there might have been a Taito or an Intellivision as well.
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So if you aimed at this, then midway or uh midway, I think yeah.
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I think if you aimed at getting those retro collections, suddenly you're pushing a hundred retro games already to burn your PSP.
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So the EA, like I say, what surprised me, you know, obviously you're getting some girth there, RGT, there's no dispute.
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But um the um the wing commanders are surprised, special missions is a surprise, not that it's that much better than the first one, but they're two sort of meaty games, a little hard to control, I have to admit, on the PSP, but you know, you pays your money, it takes your chances, can't be any harder than it was with a keyboard or a joystick back in the day.
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Um syndicate is uh a little small on the PSP screen, if I'm being honest, does make it a little bit more of a challenge, but Desert Strike looks fantastic, plays really well.
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Roebrush does as well.
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Did you say Jungle Strike was included?
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Yeah, so nice little follow-up.
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I personally don't think it as good because I feel some of the vehicles don't maybe control as well as the excitement that goes with seeing what they are, like a hovercraft or a stealth bomber.
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You're like, oh yeah, this is gonna be banging, and then you end up controlling them and thinking I'd give anything for an Apache right now.
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Um, Road Rush, absolutely brilliant little game to have fun on.
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So, yeah, a lot, you know, a lot of good.
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Also, you've got you know, like Horton and Star and Polterguy, another one I had as a hidden gem on the Mega Drive, uh Super Nintendo as well.
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Great game, and you know, these a lot of these classics.
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The OB was a bit of a looker as well back in the day.
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And these are creeping up some of these games.
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Like I say, Mutant League football is is a pricey game at the moment, so a really affordable way of playing these games, even if you don't really want them on the go, but don't really want to spend the money on the actual originals for a small outlay.
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You're you've got the whole collection there, you can sit on the couch and play some retro.
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So yeah, great, great little collection to have.
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That was my number two.
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Oh, um, I'll just quickly go through um review-wise of a got a lot of six fives out of ten.
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Um, I mean, GameSpy gave it 1.5 out of five, which I find a bit harsh.
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I take it these were the people who didn't actually play these games back in the day.
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Um, because yeah, it's it's got some very mediocre scores.
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I think Game Zone was probably the best at seven out of ten.
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Um, but I think most people probably looked at it and thought, oh, what do we want to play them old games for?
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Well, it's actually probably quite a lot of people that do, so um yeah, but yeah, so EA replay on the PSP.
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What's your uh second and final PSP game then, George?
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Um, not an exclusive, unfortunately.
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Um, but it's a game that was played on much bigger systems than the PSP.
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I have this on 360, I think it was an arcade marketplace game.
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But here we have Sidmar's Pirates remade for I think circa the 2006, 7, 8 era.
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Um, made by Faraxis 2K.
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It's a full fat version from everything I can tell of Sidmar's Remade Pirates, graphical editions, etc.
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etc.
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It's a fun game.
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You kind of take on the role of a guy who's gone across to the Caribbean to find his father from memory, but also his fortune and fame as a pirate.
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It's a classic pirates experience.
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You kind of start off as a privateer, you decide which country you're going to support, or which one you're going to sort of deface in some ways, I would say, um, by you know, plundering their stuff, or picking sides with the English or the French or whichever side you join with, or becoming a full-fledged pirate, you can do both.
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The freedom in this game, obviously, it found its legs on Commodore 64, I think, from memory, but that's probably where most people have memories from it.
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But if you played it back then or on Atari ST or Amiga, and you think, oh yeah, you know, I love that game, it's all here, and it looks better than it's ever looked.
00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:29.680
Um navigating the map, third person, sort of aerial isometric view.
00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:36.799
You kind of move your boat around, uh little small replica of the Caribbean, you engage in ship-to-ship battles as well, it's everything you want it to be.
00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:41.359
You can board the ships as well if you get close enough and do enough damage.
00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:51.119
Um, that goes into like a you versus the other captain, and your success is represented by how many of your crew are successful in the fight.
00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:59.519
Um, so you can also board and be great at fencing and still get the captain to side with you so you take his ship or sink it, repair yours.
00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:09.279
Classic pirate scenario, it's like a mini black flag, I suppose, or this is the prognogium man of meantiful man of um pirate games.
00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:17.519
There's a romance element as well where you have to dance again with a QTE to romance the governor's daughter in a bid to improve your standing.
00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.400
All in all, great little game to take on the go.
00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:29.680
It takes good advantage of the PSP's kind of quick resume feature, um, but it just lends itself to little playthroughs and deeper sessions if you want to.
00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:34.559
Now, this is a game that really is probably a bit left behind.
00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:42.400
Physical copies of this you don't really see outside of really for the PSP, and even then it's a bit of a sideways step.
00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:47.039
Um, I should imagine this will be tumbling off the if it ever got a PS3 release.
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That we know that arcade is that marketplace is shutting down.
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We know the 360 store is already closed, so maybe one of the best and only places where you'll be able to play Sidmi's Pirates natively um and on the go is gonna be on the PSP.
00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:06.000
And what a great place to play it, really.
00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:24.720
It's not a CPU heavy sort of simulator, but there's enough going on under the hood if you wanted to just transport cargo or you know sell your plunder of using the various kind of in-game uh market economies um to move stuff around to take advantage of it, you know.
00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:27.759
So great little package, great little game.
00:20:27.920 --> 00:20:40.400
Like I say, probably gonna disappear down the black hole of obscurity in terms of its digital availability very soon, if it hasn't already, and then physically, you know, this will dry up pretty soon.
00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:48.640
And this is probably one of the more affordable places to grab it and play it if the physical ability appears anywhere else outside of PC.
00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:52.640
Yeah, I mean I've got the original Xbox version, I think.
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I still haven't played it, but you know, I bought it for all means to play it.
00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:58.319
So it came out out there, okay.
00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:12.079
Right, but I remember playing it on Xbox 360 arcade, so yeah, so it probably had a yeah, it probably had a a download from the original on there or something, or a raised up version or something.
00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:15.759
It was the version that probably was on original Xbox, I should imagine.
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But I I I didn't realise that was on the PSP, and you think again that sort of proves the power of the PSP that you've got games this big and this in-depth on there, you know, and absolutely, yeah, you know, and we've always said with handhelds, you know, you have limitations.
00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:35.599
Sometimes you feel like you're missing out if the handheld is your main system.
00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:41.279
But with a PSP in the era, that was when it then started you then started to get these big games.
00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:44.319
You did have them on the go, you didn't feel like you were missing out, you know.
00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:54.000
You had your smack downs coming out, and they were concurrent with the main version, like graphically walked down, yes, admittedly, but on the small screen, not enough to give a rat's ass.
00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:59.839
You had games like Gran Turismo in your pocket, you know, you had God of Wall there, sat looking purring away.
00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.359
Looking pretty Daxter.
00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:02.079
Yeah.
00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:10.799
Like they were compromised versions, but you didn't at the time, at the time, as you say, feel like you were compromised.
00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:12.000
No, no, not at all.
00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:13.119
No, not at all.
00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:16.640
Um, but there are four from PSP.
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I mean, um, I done Driver 76 and EA replay, George Dunn Daxter, and Sid Meyer's Pirates.
00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:31.759
Um, hopefully come with something a little bit more affordable this week, RGT, after my um mistakes previously.
00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:35.839
And we did have to rip my first selection for Vita out, didn't we?
00:22:35.920 --> 00:22:37.599
Because it was a little bit I didn't realize.
00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:42.160
It was a bit shocking when we did try and look it up when we were like I had no idea, I apologise.
00:22:42.559 --> 00:22:47.119
But then again, like you say, we bought a lot of our games a long time ago and they weren't that sort of pricey.
00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:49.920
I think I paid like 30 quid for that and winced.
00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:53.680
Yeah, it's worth a lot more than that now.
00:22:54.319 --> 00:23:04.720
Yeah, so we find out, and and and yeah, Darkest Dungeon, if anyone's guessing, but um, yeah, there's not a lot to justify its collector's edition status.
00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:07.440
I think you maybe got the maybe a bit of the DLC.
00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:08.880
I can't even remember now.
00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:11.279
But there's nothing extra in the box.
00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:16.880
No, it's I think they're just a physical copy, so they called it a special edition because there's a physical, I suppose.
00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:19.519
But maybe that, yeah, possibly that.
00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:24.960
Um, well, right, we'll uh move on to the PlayStation Vita.
00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:36.160
Um, another system that Sony sort of let go by the wayside, and after a few years was not really sporting this system at all, but it doesn't mean there wasn't good games on there.
00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:43.759
Um, and I'll start with it's quite obvious if you know me, um, and you know what games I like.
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Um, I have gone with Uncharted Golden Abyss.
00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:53.279
Um, probably my favourite Vita game.
00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:56.640
Um, again, like what we were saying with the PSP.
00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:06.480
Um really good um game where it feels like a home console port, but you got it in your hands.
00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:13.680
Um they tried to use a few of the gimmicks of the PS Vita with the bat unfortunately.
00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:14.880
Yeah, with the battle.
00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:24.400
Although when I when I first played it, first game I got on my Vita, I think, or second game, I think, and um playing it, and I actually really enjoyed that to start with.
00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:32.880
But when you go back it it is a bit gimmicky, and I only say unfortunately, because it just bars it from being played on PlayStation TV.
00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:34.160
Yes, yeah, yeah.
00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:43.920
And if if you're wondering if you haven't played Golden Abyss, basically on the back of your PS Vita, you have a touch, I want to say a screen, a small like a pad on the back of the Vita.
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That's right.
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Um, and so when you find certain um items and treasures, they'll come up on the screen and you can turn them with the back screen, and then on the front screen you can clean off the dirt and have a look at the the items that you found, which is quite, you know, it is a bit gimmicky, but it's a nice little thing.
00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:06.480
And they're obviously obviously being a Sony studio, they were showing all what the Vita could do.
00:25:06.640 --> 00:25:12.640
But yeah, Golden Abyss is actually the like the prequel to the the Uncharted series.
00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:18.559
So if you've played one, two, and three, definitely play Golden Abyss because it is the the original first game that leads into one.
00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:20.400
Um, but it's a great game.
00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:25.359
You get to feel like I say it feels like a console port, it feels like part of the Uncharted family.
00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:35.680
Um, you know, Nola North, you know, you've got the voices, you've got the sounds, and although the speakers nowadays sound a bit quiet, I love the sound on this game.
00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:40.000
You've got the sound of the jungle, and them little speakers sounded quite good for the time.
00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:43.039
Um, and I think it's that's a great little pickup.
00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:50.400
Um, sort of one of the I would say one of the big boys on the system, um, without having to pay sort of the big boy price.
00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:58.000
Um, but yeah, this was Ben Studio done this for uh for Sony and for um Naughty Dog.
00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:03.839
Um it came out in Europe in 2012.
00:26:04.079 --> 00:26:06.480
So literally, I think it was a launch title, weren't it, George?
00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:07.200
Was that launch title?
00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:09.039
It was, yeah, it came out the end eight, I believe.
00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:10.160
Yeah, launch title.
00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:11.920
So, yeah, third person, single player.
00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:13.279
You know what it's all about, Uncharted.
00:26:13.440 --> 00:26:14.559
You know about Nathan Drake.
00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:17.680
He got a few new new uh enemies in this one.
00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:21.519
Um, but it's just a different version and a handheld only version of it.
00:26:21.599 --> 00:26:26.000
Um, the only place you can play Golden Abyss um is is on the Vita.
00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:37.599
Um, reception-wise, Metacritic 80 out of 100, and pretty much across the board at seven out of tens, eight out of tens, four out of fives, eight point six out of tens.
00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.880
It's all decent, decent um reviews.
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:45.039
Um, like I say, probably my favourite game on the Vita, to be honest.
00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:46.640
Um, what about you, George?
00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:48.079
Yeah, I would agree with that.
00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:52.160
It's I knew you would bring that, so that physically barred me from bringing it.
00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:53.599
Is it the best game on the Vita?
00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:55.759
Yeah, I reckon it might be.
00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:58.960
Initially, it feels a little clunky at first.
00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:02.079
I think the climbing has been made a little bit obtuse in this.
00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:05.839
They want you to trace up with your finger rather than climbing the old school way.
00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:07.759
Yeah, you've got that little arrow and you have to.
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:15.759
Yeah, kind of once you persevere with it though, and just say no, I'm doing it this way, and you bed into that and ignore the prompts.
00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:18.880
Um it feels it feels great.
00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:27.599
To your point about the sound, I think the Vita holds up pretty well in terms of its speaker quality, but um almost yeah, this game.
00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:31.279
Sorry to interrupt, this game almost had a surround sound sound.
00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:36.400
I know it didn't, but it's just them speakers, it sounded facing you sound really good on those.
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:41.519
It really did set headphones on, and this this will transport you.
00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:44.720
And the Vita does come alive with a good set of headphones.
00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:49.440
Um the sounds of the guns, I think, is probably one of the most impactful.
00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:58.400
The way it echoes and you know feels solid and real in front of you as it does, sounds of the jungle, the shouts of the guys.
00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:01.680
Um yeah, it's got that real uncharted experience.
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:05.519
For me, it really, really clicked as a standalone experience.
00:28:05.680 --> 00:28:16.079
I think later on you're in a canoe section with Sully and you're kind of you know, rowing your canoe or paddling your canoe would be the correct nautical term, I reckon.
00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:26.000
And um just the way you're doing it and the way it looks on screen and the way the boat's moving, it was like, wow, do you know what this is this is a really great moment.
00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:28.960
Admittedly, that's deep into the game, there are high points.
00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:46.559
I don't, you know, find the enemies that particularly endearing, but to see the characters wheeled out one last time, it or you know, maybe the penultimate time, depending on how you want to look at it, but definitely for the first time, if you want to view it from the canon storyline point of view.
00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:55.759
But as RGT says, a fun game that they've had more than one opportunity to port, the Uncharted Collection to PS5 could easily have emulated this with not that much work.
00:28:56.079 --> 00:29:01.039
Let's face it, you own all the code, you own all the machines, you own all the intellectual properties.
00:29:01.119 --> 00:29:02.480
Why would you leave it there?
00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:04.319
Makes no sense to me.
00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:20.799
So, yeah, if you want to play this game, and it is probably, as I said, the Vita's best game, and one that Bar My Next game that I call out uses every single one of the Vita's sensors and cameras and all of that jazz.
00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:34.160
Um, so it's it's not only a great game, but it's a really great kind of tech showpiece for your new new to you Vita or your old Vita that you thought might need a bit of a run out one more time.
00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:37.599
Definitely take it out with uh Nathan Drake.
00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:42.960
And I think the Vita as well gave me that feeling that the PSP did.
00:29:43.039 --> 00:29:48.480
You know, the PSP give you the PS2 in the pocket feeling, the Vita gave me a PS3 in my pocket feeling.
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:53.440
Um, and although they were obviously not quite there with that, but it was very close.
00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:59.920
And the Vita, I remember when I first played Golden Abyss and looking at it, thinking, God, this looks just like a PS3 game.
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.559
I know if you put them side by side, it doesn't, you know, it's on a smaller screen, it gives you that feeling.
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:16.319
But you know, for a for a classy looking small system, what the Vita was in a stay, it was a powerful system when you think it was going up against DS and bits and pieces.
00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:18.480
Oh, yeah, it really shone.
00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:33.440
Also going up against the emergent mobile phones that were, you know, and the the the emergent mobile phones, the iPhones and other bits and bobs had an influence on the experience we got with the Vita compared to the PSP.
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:46.400
We got the dual um analog sticks that we've been shouting for since the PSP's creation, but then we also got what felt like mobile more mobile game kind of ports than we saw on the PSP.
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:52.240
It felt a bit kind of gimmicky because of the touch screen and the back panel, you know.
00:30:52.640 --> 00:31:00.559
So the Vita is a machine that's absolutely wonderful but full of compromises in the hope of what might become a digital future that never did.
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:10.559
I think they should have just focused on making movies readily available, i'd be buy them on bought them on the little proprietary cards or something like that, yeah, yeah, it'd been a great idea.
00:31:10.799 --> 00:31:14.960
Rather than the download or whatever, but we were firmly in the download era.
00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:20.880
But if you've got a portable, the case in point is you're taking it away, you take it on a camping trip.
00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:22.799
You're not gonna download a movie there, are you?
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:23.839
No, exactly.
00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:27.680
So or or stream Netflix or watch YouTube.
00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:30.160
Yeah, it's got the physical element, let's use it, you know.
00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:32.960
So, yeah, why not bang movies on there?
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:36.000
That's a great way of doing that as well.
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:39.440
And that and what another cool thing to collect, you know.
00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:40.880
Yeah, but yeah, definitely.
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.640
I'm I'm a weirdo, but let's get physical, as we said.
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:46.160
Yes, exactly, yeah, definitely.
00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:48.559
The catchphrase of uh flashback now.
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:50.240
Yeah, that is the one.
00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:53.440
Um, but yeah, so um that is my first pick.
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:56.960
Uncharted Golden Abyss on Pierce Vita.
00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.000
What's your first one on the uh Vita, then George?
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:04.319
It's Tear Away by um well it's media molecule, isn't it?
00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:06.400
The people that made Big Planet, Little Big Planet.
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:12.000
Um, it's a fun game, very much in that vein of like creating your own experience.
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:18.559
It's like a little platforming game, but it uses all of the Vita's functionality again, the touchscreen, the rear panel.
00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:22.480
You can influence, obviously, you can poke your fingers through, is one of the bits that I remember.
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.359
Yeah, I remember my daughter playing that and doing that, it was quite clever.
00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:28.319
Yeah, you can stick your face in the sun, I think, as well.
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:31.759
So as you sort of walk walking towards it, you see your face.
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:48.480
Um it's again using those examples that they made famous with um Little Big Planet, and then morphing them into a sort of standalone game that you then kind of customise with stamps and bits and bobs.
00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:54.880
Again, it's a game that basically the premise is it's a world made of like paper, folded paper, torn paper.
00:32:55.519 --> 00:33:14.000
It's very much sort of um a photo realistic almost creation of like a 3D paper world that you walk around in as a paper man that you stamp or kind of fold or manipulate with the back sensor or the front screen or the various sensors and cameras in the Vita.
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:16.160
It's it's a fun game.
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:22.160
Um, it did get a a version on PS4, I think, called Tear Away Unfolded, maybe.
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:23.519
Yeah, I think it was unfolded, yeah.
00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:25.359
Because I think my daughter then went on and played that as well.
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:34.480
Yeah, which uses the DualShock 4's touch pad and other bits and bobs for its interaction, but and the PS4 camera if you had one.
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:50.559
Um, but for me, the Vita experience is the takeaway experience, it's the most complete experience, it's the one where you've got all of the tech on the device itself to do all the things that they want you to do without going down um your local game shop and forking out on another piece of garbage for your PS4.
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:55.839
Um, all in all, a fun game, hopefully an affordable game.
00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:58.079
Um, yeah.
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:02.640
RGT, apart from your daughter's enjoyment of it, did you enjoy it?
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:13.039
Um, yeah, I never actually played it myself, but I enjoyed I remember watching her play, and like you say, that's the main thing I remember was like through the touchpad, you put your fingers and they'd come through the front screen.
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:16.000
Yeah, and that was really quite responsive how they'd done it.
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:19.360
And I remember thinking, geez, this is actually a bit of tech, this Vita.
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:23.920
And but it's that's what locks those games there, though, sadly.
00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:31.599
Yes, that is, yes, it is, because of those those little quirks and bits they used for the Vita because the amount of tech they crammed in it.
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:36.000
Um and I think that would also bar this from entry for the PS TV as well.
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:41.280
Yeah, I don't see it mentioned, so obviously it's a bar to entry because it uses the sensors, yeah, yeah.
00:34:41.519 --> 00:34:42.960
So yeah.
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:55.440
But a great little game again, and like I say, if if you've got a Vita or are getting a Vita and gonna collect, I think it's you know, I think all four of ours are definitely must-buys, what we've uh picked today.
00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:57.119
Um for the 50 cent.
00:34:57.440 --> 00:34:58.880
Well, what's your next one?
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:06.000
Well, my next one is a game which um saved me a long journey once.
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:08.400
Um, this game I picked up on holiday.
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:14.800
Um, we were uh we'd gone with my parents, and there was my me and my wife and my daughter was young then.
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:19.199
On the way back, there was about three traffic jams on all the main roads coming back.
00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:24.320
It was a 12-hour journey to get home, and this game we took interns on.
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:30.320
Luckily, I had the car charger for my PS Vita, and this saved the day from having a very grumpy child.
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:33.360
Um, and this is Sonic and your child.
00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:38.000
Yeah, Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed on the Vita.
00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:45.440
Um, and we were literally taking interns on tracks to see who could get the fastest times going through, unlocking the new tracks.
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:48.480
Um, this game doesn't get spoken about enough.
00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:55.039
I know they've done cross worlds and newer versions, but this All-Star Racing Transformed is a fantastic kart racing game.
00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:58.960
Um, one of the first ones I saw as well, where you could you do transform.
00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:05.039
You jump over into water, you turn into a boat, you jump off out of the lake into the sky, you turn into a plane.
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:10.000
It's some great racing, looks really good, runs really well on the Vita.
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:11.760
The Vita just had that.
00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:18.639
If you had a colourful game like what this is, with real deep colours, you know, lovely saturation that that looks so good.
00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:21.119
They look all look so at home on the Vita.
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:32.320
Um, whether it's the um OLED or the later LED screens, the even Golden Abyss, the colours and that in that, then the greenery and the the caves looks awesome.
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:35.440
And yeah, this is a brilliant, brilliant little kart racer.
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:45.119
And like I say, um we just played at taking in turns, doing tracks, and the hours flew by, and it made one journey very easy to do.
00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:49.039
Um, this is by sumo digital published by Sega, obviously.
00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:54.639
Um, it got various ports to different systems: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U.
00:36:54.719 --> 00:37:00.079
Um, but I don't think you're compromising anything at all by having a Vita version.
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:02.000
It is as is the game is.
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:05.199
I mean, they ported it to everything from iOS to Android a lot.
00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:07.039
Um, single player and multiplayer.
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:08.880
Did that end up on Switch, that one?
00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:11.760
Uh no.
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.440
No, that would have been an interesting comparison, wouldn't it?
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:17.599
Well, I bought they done one later on.
00:37:17.679 --> 00:37:20.880
Did they do trans all-star race and transform two?
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:22.880
Or they done a later one on a PS4.
00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:24.639
They done another another version.
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:30.639
And I although I played out on my friends, no, I don't think it was Transform, but I done a the next installment of it.
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:32.960
Um, but it just didn't hit like this.
00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:34.719
It just didn't hit like this one.
00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:45.840
Um, but reception of this, um, I think the sort of the best version they're saying is PS3 Xbox 360, 82%.
00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:48.800
This got a 75 out of 100.
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:53.119
Um, they did do a 3DS version, but that is probably the worst rated version.
00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:57.199
But as far as I'm concerned, there's only a few points in it between each version.
00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:00.480
Um, but a Vita version is very, very good to play.
00:38:00.639 --> 00:38:03.039
Um, definitely worth having in any collection.
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:11.119
Probably one off, if not the best racing game on the system, especially cart racing, so um, in my opinion.
00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:13.920
Um what about your history with Attina Georgia?
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:22.719
Um I've got it, I've enjoyed it, like you say.
00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:24.559
It's all the fun things it should be.
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:34.400
I think it's um I like the transformed element, I think it brings quite a lot to the franchise well to that particular game.
00:38:34.639 --> 00:38:39.280
And I think to your point, it's one of those games on the Vita that makes it pop.
00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:44.719
Um there are other racing games that maybe you could extract similar fun from.
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:46.079
I think most wanted's on no.
00:38:46.320 --> 00:38:50.800
Is it that one need for speed or one of the burnouts and one of the big need for speeds is on there?
00:38:51.360 --> 00:39:05.039
Um but Sonic, a car racing game, it's iconic, it's fun, it's pick up and play, it's throw down, it's quick lapse pass between friends in a car, in a barracks, or wherever.
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:12.559
You know, it's one of those fun things that's just easy to pick up, easy to play, hard to master.
00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:17.440
Um, for those little fun interactions.
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:36.480
The the hard line historically on a portable versus sort of a mainline console is your portable's got to lend itself to pick up and play fun little blasts, multiplayer handheld pass-around experiences because you can't expect everyone to rock up to a party one of these things in their pocket.
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.039
It would be very weird if they did.
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:40.000
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:44.159
If I saw five people turn up and be like, You've got a Vita, I've brought one as well.
00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:46.559
Have you got, yeah, let's all get round now?
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:49.199
It'd be a bit like, oh god, what next?
00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:52.480
Swinging, I'm going, Maureen, get your coat.
00:39:52.880 --> 00:40:00.079
Um, yeah, so it's got to be that kind of game, and this is that perfect game for me.
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:08.079
Um and the Vita, like you say, it just lends itself to those sort of wild, vivid colours and and fast moving action.
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:12.559
Yeah, and I think you know it was dominated at the time with Mario Kart.
00:40:12.719 --> 00:40:19.280
Um, and Sega thought, well, if we're gonna have a kart racer that people are gonna pay attention to, we need to do something different.
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.000
Um, yeah, and they did, and they did, they added to it.
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:28.480
And I mean, I bought that on a whim just for a journey home and ended up playing it all the way home and just absolutely loved it.
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:35.360
I thought, what a great game it plays so well, it's got great little dynamics to it and techniques, and really good, really at home on the system.
00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:42.880
And like I say, I have played the other ports, but I just think there's something about that Vita port for me that just says, Yeah, you know, it's no different.
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:46.400
You got a you got a big game there, portable and on the Vita.
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:51.840
So, um, yeah, so that is Sonic Racing, All Stars Racing transformed.
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:56.320
What's your uh second and final PSP game enjoyed?
00:40:56.480 --> 00:41:05.039
Much like Vita and much like Tearaway, this one advocates itself as only on PlayStation, that moniker they were putting on um back in the day.
00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:08.239
Um, this is everybody's golf.
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:10.880
Um, what's the other name for it?
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:12.000
Hotshots golf.
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:16.239
Hotshots golf everywhere else, but this is our version, it's everybody's golf.
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:20.960
A great kind of chill be animated, and it's one of those moments where I probably don't mind them as much.
00:41:21.119 --> 00:41:22.800
Um, golf game.
00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:27.679
It's it's a hard-to-master game, but perfect for pick-up and play.
00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:29.679
Oh, when it clicks, what a game it is.
00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:41.679
And to be honest, the camera angles that you get, they they're perfect for a golfing game, but the fun little creatures that kind of hop by they just add to the colour of the world.
00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:56.400
Um, as you go through, you kind of build up your clubs, you build up your bag, you you know, you can enter better tournaments and do different things, and you build your characters up with different clothes, and things have performance boosts and other different bits and mobs, but I never really get too bogged down in that.
00:41:56.480 --> 00:41:59.199
I just hop on, play around the golf.
00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:01.840
I'm not really bothered about the concurrent stuff that happens around me.
00:42:01.920 --> 00:42:04.960
Like, oh, you've unlocked this bag or that club or whatever.
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:09.920
I just want to play again, play again, play again, and it's it's fun.
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:14.480
Yeah, I AI is difficult enough to make me feel like a dum-dum, you know.
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:17.760
It's not it's not a walk in the park, everybody's golf.
00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.239
Don't think because it looks fun and friendly, that it will be go go nice on you.
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:29.760
You know, you've got to watch your game, you've got to watch where the ball lands, you've got to watch what surfaces you're landing on, you've got to watch how you're hitting the ball.
00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:38.960
It's not as though, yeah, there might be mega animated swings, but the distance and the way the ball moves, it all feels like more simulation-based.
00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:43.519
And the dressing on top is the you know the thing that makes it fun.
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:53.440
It's uh it's a serious golf game, in my opinion, and one that uh is synonymous with the PlayStation brand, that's why this one is only on PlayStation.
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:55.519
Are you gonna be able to play this anywhere else?
00:42:55.679 --> 00:42:56.000
Nah.
00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:58.719
They drop these like a hot stone when they bring out the next one.
00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:02.559
And I'll be honest with you, everybody's golf locked on the Vita.
00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:03.840
What a shame.
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:07.360
Um grab a copy if you've got a Vita.
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:09.760
If not, is it a reason to pick up a Vita?
00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:15.920
No, but the other two the other two games, the three games we've already brought to the party definitely give you reason to.
00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:17.920
And there's plenty of fun to be had on there.
00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:20.400
You don't need to chase the cases, just get the carts.
00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:22.320
Everybody's golf RGT.
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:26.000
You're a golfer and a golf game fanatic.
00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:27.599
Tell me.
00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:34.639
Tiger RGT, Tiger GT, what's your take on everybody's golf on the Vita?
00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:40.800
I that Vita version, I nearly saw nearly everything that game had to give.
00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:42.000
Oh wow.
00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:46.800
I rinsed that game, and there's a lot of popular podcasts, Cane and Rinse.
00:43:47.119 --> 00:43:49.119
I literally done what they do on games.
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:54.559
I was very close to unlocking every character, every club, every bag, every tournament.
00:43:54.880 --> 00:43:56.320
I loved that game.
00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:59.760
I bought the PS4 Everybody's Golf that come out, and I did it.
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:04.320
Enjoy that and put quite a few hours in, but it just didn't hit like the PS the PS Vita version.
00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:07.199
That PSP version is so good.
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:12.960
And I think with everybody's golf, it's that style of golf game you don't tend to get now.
00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:20.960
I know we get Mario Golf, and we've had Mario Golf Rush, which I've played through, and they're good fun little games for a certain period.
00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:23.920
There's only so much in that game that's worth doing.
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:33.039
Once you played like the the like story mode, I would say on Mario Golf Rush, it's about eight hours long, six hours, six to eight hours long.
00:44:33.199 --> 00:44:36.000
Once you've done that, it's either you play multiplayer of your friends, or that's it.
00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:37.280
The game is quite shallow.
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:48.719
Everybody's golf, there is so much to do, so many next golfers to beat, so many upgrades to get yourself better to beat that next golfer and have your tournament.
00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:54.320
It is such a good game, so addictive, so fun to play.
00:44:54.639 --> 00:45:08.960
Um, and it's I'm not saying it's easy to master the game, but you the the difficulty spike is early on, and once you get that, the rest is down to getting your clubs in your bags, getting your driver to go further.
00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:15.519
Um, it's a big game for the Vita, and I just think that is an absolute classic, and I think that's a great shout, George, to be honest.
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:19.280
Everybody's golf is a fantastic game on the Vita.
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:30.960
And again, like with yeah, I think again, with like we done with the PSP, I think we've got four Vita games there that in my mind are absolute must-plays.
00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:40.639
Um, from like I say, Sonic Race, Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed, Uncharted Golden Abyss, tear away everybody's golf.
00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:47.119
I mean, if you bought M4 to start off a Vita collection, you've got plenty of good game in there for a decent price.
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:48.400
So definitely have a look at those.
00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:50.960
But yeah, everybody's golf is a great choice, George.
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:52.320
Excellent.
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:56.079
Um, I brought something good for a change.
00:45:56.159 --> 00:45:57.840
Um, at least it's past your vote.
00:45:57.920 --> 00:45:59.440
What have you brought for PS4?
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:02.719
This is what I'm excited for, because this is Prime RGT.
00:46:03.519 --> 00:46:09.599
Yes, I've fully track suited, PlayStation pants, socks, hat, coat, bag.
00:46:11.199 --> 00:46:11.840
Yeah.
00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:16.239
I've double dipped a bit, but bear with me, there is a reason why I've double dipped a bit.
00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:23.039
But my first one, these are two obvious choices, but I just think pick them up now why they're physical.
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:24.000
Oh god.
00:46:25.119 --> 00:46:27.760
Um this is why we have rules.
00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:38.079
This is you're gonna hate me for this, but my first one, and it's only because it's really affordable, is why I'm picking this, is the Nathan Drake collection, Uncharted.
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:42.159
Now, yes, I'm a mega uncharted fan, it was obvious I was gonna do it.
00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:43.199
Hear me out.
00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:59.440
Um I've obviously got the special edition here, don't go for that, go for the standard edition, but this is very cheap, and you get literally the remastered one, two, and three Nathan Drake adventures.
00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:02.800
Um all there to play for the one price.
00:47:03.039 --> 00:47:08.400
And if you're gonna get the Vita Golden Abyss, you might as well play that first and play these three.
00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:12.719
Um, but no, on a serious note, it's a great collection.
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:20.800
Um, yes, I know we've had other collections, and yes, they done them on a PS5, and yes, I did buy them again and again.
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:37.360
Um, but I just think for the PS4, I think there's there's a lot of games out there for the PS4, but there's certain collections which are worth, especially on the budget, are worth buying, are worth having those games in one place, having that physical copy, and away you go.
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:42.800
I think they're great games, um, they're great versions as well, really cleaned up, really good.
00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:47.840
And um, I think George is really proud of me for selecting those, aren't you, George?
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:58.480
Unfortunately, you buy a studio that doesn't exist anymore, but uh Blue Point Games, but it's a it's a good call.
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:03.599
You're right, definitely don't go chasing that white box special edition version, that would be a bit crazy.
00:48:03.760 --> 00:48:08.880
Yeah, don't um it didn't include four though.
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:12.880
No, one, two, and three.
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:14.559
Naughty, innit?
00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:16.880
It came out about the same time, didn't it?
00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:19.360
So they were trying to it came out just after, didn't it?
00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:21.440
So people who were sort of thinking, Oh, I'm gonna get four.
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:24.159
Oh, hang on, why don't you get the other three as well?
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:34.079
That was more of a sort of lure you in, but it and also you'll see at the end the price is why I've probably picked that so yeah.
00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:43.199
Okay, well, I love the Uncharted trilogy, I think they're well executed, I think the acting in it's superb, and or the quadrology, more to speak.
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:45.440
But in this case, we're talking the trilogy.
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:51.440
Um, one is probably my favourite, maybe enough for nostalgia.
00:48:51.679 --> 00:48:54.559
Two, I I enjoy three, I think is equally as good.
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:58.639
I think the gameplay cinematic storytelling in three is something else.
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:01.039
Some of the fate and cuts in that game are superb.
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:07.920
Um, I think on PS3 as well, the three really was the absolute pinnacle of graphics.
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:14.719
I mean, if you want to test an OG PS3 backwards compatible one, stick Drake's three in it.
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:19.280
If it can survive the fire scene, you've got a good console.
00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:22.880
Yes, I somehow think that it will die.
00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:28.480
Um, it'll play every other game in your system, but it won't play that, and then you know it's dying.
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:33.440
Um, but here on the PS4 all dressed up and pretty.
00:49:33.599 --> 00:49:38.960
Um, so Uncharted One was probably the outlier in terms of its graphical quality.
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:45.920
It kind of didn't look that great, especially with the direction they chose of two or three and subsequently four.
00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:52.159
But you know, here reworked and polished up to a standard where it feels like a cohesive part of the universe.
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:54.480
So, yeah, wonderful.
00:49:54.639 --> 00:49:56.960
Um good pick, RGT.
00:49:57.039 --> 00:49:59.199
A little bit snaky, but with a little bit.
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:01.599
Uh thanks.
00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:15.280
Um, yeah, I I didn't want to go uncharted again, but I just thought in the current climate, you know, things are tight, and I've gone for a couple of collections here because I just think oh my goodness gracious me, you're gonna do it again.
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:18.000
No, no, no, no, no, with EA replay.
00:50:18.239 --> 00:50:19.599
Oh, okay, yeah.
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:28.400
Um, and I just think it's worth getting those if you're on a budget, you're getting a collection for PS4.
00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:35.679
A lot of people are now with like I say, that's why we've done this show because of the news of Sony and 2028 and digital and all the rest of it.
00:50:35.840 --> 00:50:39.599
Um, I reckon a lot of people, I think PS4s are going to creep up.
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:42.880
PS3s are gonna be a lot of physical collectors going out getting these.
00:50:43.039 --> 00:50:45.119
Go for the collections, you don't need the individual ones.
00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:49.519
This is like the remastered PS4 one that really looks good, really plays well.
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:52.239
Um, probably one of the better places to play it.
00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:57.679
Uh, you know, PS4s are technically probably still more reliable than a PS3 as time goes on.
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:00.960
So um yeah, get the Uncharted Collection PS4.
00:51:01.199 --> 00:51:05.440
Um, like I say, Blue Point Games um came out in 2015.
00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:12.639
Um, and this was across the boards nine out of tens, eight out of tens, four out of fives.
00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:16.480
You know, it's gonna be the three great games that all ranked fairly highly.
00:51:16.719 --> 00:51:21.199
Um, but yeah, Uncharted Collection for the PS4.
00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:25.119
What's your uh first PS4 game, then, George?
00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:36.800
My first PS4 game is a game by Pixel Opus and it's uh Concrete Genie again, proudly displaying the only on PlayStation Moniker.
00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:48.800
Um, it's a game though that uh as much as I love it for its wonderful sort of artwork and storytelling, it's a game that's kind of like a bit forgotten.
00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:49.920
It was forgotten at the time.
00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:52.079
I think I plattered it, would you believe?
00:51:52.320 --> 00:52:01.760
Um, you're an artist who's got like a magic paintbrush, and you can paint characters on the walls that kind of walk around it in a 2D fashion.
00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:13.039
Um again, it felt like a media molecule game, but it it it's obviously not, but it plays so enchantingly well.
00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:20.079
It's it's fun to jump around the world, it's fun to navigate, the creatures that you draw on the wall become kind of friends.
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:36.880
It's um it's a really wonderful game, and it and again, in that world of sort of PS4, HDR technology and other bits and bobs, it was a game that really kind of popped tellies of the era, the way the graphics kind of looked, the sharp colours that we talked about earlier with the Vita here.
00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:40.400
You can see them popping out the screen on your latest TV.
00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:42.239
Um, fun little game.
00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:50.400
Side note, if you've got the original VR, there is like a world you can go into and do sort of draw and interact with the creatures.
00:52:50.800 --> 00:52:52.079
I never bothered.
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:54.719
Um, you probably won't either.
00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:58.079
Um, but it's there if you want to.
00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:00.639
Great game, RGT.
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:02.960
Have you had much legs with Concrete Genie?
00:53:03.440 --> 00:53:06.719
Yeah, because didn't we get this as a plus game when it first came out?
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:17.280
Maybe, yeah, but the physical version, and again, it's one of those games that yeah, you'll find on the PlayStation store now, but I'd imagine that's gonna slowly disappear.
00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:24.000
And when the PlayStation 4 studio or uh library kind of gets shut or closed eventually, or you lose your license, yeah.
00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:25.360
It's gonna be lost in the ether, innit?
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:28.559
So this is an exclusive that will just get forgotten about.
00:53:28.719 --> 00:53:45.119
So if you want to experience kind of peak PS4 or Sony being experimental, trying different things, a world that feels a little bit forgotten now, um, and it being you know, approachable by everybody.
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:58.320
Um, Concrete Genie is a standout of that kind of PS4 supported exclusives era that um kind of feels a bit long forgotten RGT.
00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:08.320
Yeah, I mean I I played this because I'm sure it was on plus, and I played this, and I played it because you recommended it, and I remember you were playing it through to saying, Oh, this is a wonderful little game.
00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:11.360
So then I played it and just thought, oh, you're right.
00:54:11.440 --> 00:54:27.360
I mean, it it at times looks uh pushes to PS4, the lighting and the neons and the painting, and it's an original story, it's great graphics, almost hand-drawn at times, yes, in a lovely little setting in that sort of fishing town area.
00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:28.960
Yeah, that felt special, didn't it?
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:30.719
There's something about that game.
00:54:30.880 --> 00:54:38.559
Um, I think that is a great pick because when it comes to PS4 games, no one mentions Concrete Genie.
00:54:39.119 --> 00:54:45.039
No one mentions Concrete Genie, and this is a really affordable game and a great little game, and I'd encourage anyone to play it.
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:51.679
You don't even have to label it with a genre, it's his own little experience, and it's such a great little game.
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:58.079
You know, I could have rocked up and said I got I don't know, bloodborne, right?
00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:04.559
Uh that's to me, Concrete Genie is maybe more experimental, more interesting game.
00:55:05.920 --> 00:55:08.000
Yeah, yeah, I think you're right.
00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:29.920
It's it's it's it was there and then it weren't, and you know, you don't really tend to see the physicals too much, and I think it's a great way of picking it up, and for uh for having a bit of a a physical library for future uh you know uh future games and future PS4 libraries, that's a great pick, really is a great pick.
00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:30.639
Really good.
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:37.679
That is a proper hidden gem on the PS4, and like you say, like George says, it's locked on that system that's on the store for now.
00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:45.840
How long it'll be on that store for, how long the PS4 store lasts for, don't know, because we're closing in on a PS6 that probably is not going to support that for much longer.
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:48.480
So yeah, definitely pick up Concrete Genie.
00:55:48.639 --> 00:55:49.679
Yeah, that's a great one, George.
00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:51.679
I reckon that could be pick of the day, that one.
00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:53.360
Um Wow, steady on.
00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:54.239
No, I think so.
00:55:54.320 --> 00:55:55.519
I think it's a great you've you've got to be.
00:55:55.679 --> 00:55:57.039
Well, we've got your last one yet.
00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:01.920
So we said it was a double dip, but you know, we're willing to let you have that to a point.
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:04.320
So, what have you got here, you handsome devil?
00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:15.519
I've gone quite obvious again, but the reason I've gone quite obvious is because this game is story-wise, probably the best game I've ever played.
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:20.000
Um, and I know I love my uncharted, I think you know what it's gonna be.
00:56:20.079 --> 00:56:25.840
Um, if you've played the first one, then this must be an absolute must for the system.
00:56:26.079 --> 00:56:28.480
If you haven't got a PS5, you ain't gotta worry.
00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:35.199
I know PS5 have done it on there, but this is the one you need to pick up, and this is the Last of Us Part 2.
00:56:36.159 --> 00:56:51.039
Now, I know it's an obvious choice, but the only reason I put it in, I weren't gonna put it in, I was gonna go a bit more left field, and I thought, no, if you need this game and you haven't got it, or you never thought about playing it, but you collect a PS4, just get it so you've got it for future playthrough.
00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:54.079
Because this is an incredible game.
00:56:54.320 --> 00:57:03.039
The acting, the story, the things this game makes you do is powerful to say the least.
00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:07.199
It'll make you hate people, it'll make you love people, it'll make you do things.
00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:09.440
It is so good, so well written.
00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:13.440
You know, we know what Naughty Dog were like with these games.
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:16.480
Um, Last of Us Part One was amazing.
00:57:16.639 --> 00:57:19.599
Um, it was a game of his era on the PS3.
00:57:20.079 --> 00:57:22.400
The Last of Us Part Two took it to another level.
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:35.119
Um, and when you got a you know a director and writer like Neil Druckmann, um, he knows how to make a movie-esque, dramatic, powerful piece of entertainment in game form.
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:39.360
He's also proved he can make a TV series as well by taking it to the big screen.
00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:49.199
Um again, phenomenally acted um with Ellie and Ashley Johnson, um, Troy Baker, and awesome game.
00:57:49.360 --> 00:58:05.519
Um, and I've always said to George, me and George just spoke about this game so many times, especially after playing it, but it was still one of them games where when I finished a game and I sat there and just breathed out and went, Whoa, what an epic journey that was.
00:58:05.679 --> 00:58:12.079
And I was still thinking about the game days later, the decisions and the things you'd done and how it brought you into that world.
00:58:12.320 --> 00:58:24.320
Um, even if I wouldn't say it's a horror game, but with with you know it can be a bit creepy, if it's not your sort of thing, still pick this game up because one day you're gonna think, what's all the hype about this?
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:29.920
You'll have the disc, pop it in your machine and give it a go because it is absolutely unmissable.
00:58:30.079 --> 00:58:35.039
Um, I think I know what you're gonna say about it as well, George, but I'll uh I'll hand over to you.
00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:52.800
I'm gonna say something you're probably not gonna expect, but I probably would have said you probably ought to come in and pick up the Last of Us Part One remastered PS4 because that version is about it it will disappear into obscurity.
00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:53.599
Yes, yes.
00:58:53.679 --> 00:59:01.119
I went I went with two just because of and so will that version of two, it will be wiped from the face of the earth pretty soon.
00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:01.760
Yeah, yeah.
00:59:02.239 --> 00:59:06.000
Because they're not gonna push, they're not gonna offer that version when the PS5 versions exist.
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:07.599
No, no, not at all.
00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:13.280
And it's a great is a great version of PS4, the the part one, or they don't call it, let's call it Last of Us Remastered, I think.
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:15.119
Make the Pro sing, I'll tell you that.
00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:20.320
That's PS4 Pro sings like an absolute hot dinner with that game, innit?
00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:22.639
Yeah, yeah, dude.
00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:23.920
Mine did as well.
00:59:24.079 --> 00:59:32.079
Um, but like I say, it is just a phenomenal game, phenomenal story.
00:59:32.320 --> 00:59:37.280
Um do I think we get many games like this now?
00:59:37.599 --> 00:59:37.920
No.
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:42.400
Um do I don't think we're gonna get many games like this now.
00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:46.960
There's allegedly gonna be a last of us part three, but I'll believe that when I see it.
00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:54.480
Um, I think I just think it's a it's it's a game that's just stood the test of time.
00:59:54.719 --> 00:59:58.159
I just don't think games deliver a story like that.
00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:01.199
Um, I don't think games have before or have since.
01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:03.360
It's it's it's a rare one.
01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:08.880
Um, and I'd like to say, even if it's not your genre, you don't think it's your game, pick it up and give it a go.
01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:11.280
Because I think it's something that can't really be missed.
01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:20.400
Um, like I say, um it was on PS4, I think they've done a PS5 and Windows version, single player action.
01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:24.719
Um, it came out on the PS4 in 2020.
01:00:24.880 --> 01:00:27.440
Um PS5 2024.
01:00:27.920 --> 01:00:35.840
Um reception, as you can imagine, 93 out of 100, 94% recommended on Open Critic.
01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:40.639
It was 10 out of 10s, 9 out of 10s, 8 out of 10s, 5 out of 5, 10 out of 10s, 10 out of 10s.
01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:42.639
You know, the game done well.
01:00:42.719 --> 01:00:45.760
It got review bombed at the time for certain things, but we won't go into that.
01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:49.760
Just play the game as the story you see um and enjoy it.
01:00:49.920 --> 01:00:51.760
Um, yeah, absolutely brilliant.
01:00:51.840 --> 01:00:53.679
I mean, I can uh speak enough about that.
01:00:53.840 --> 01:00:56.400
So, what is your final Pierce 4 game?
01:00:56.559 --> 01:01:03.599
Well, just the last of us part two was a game in itself rather than all the other things around it, technicalities and exclusivities and bits and bobs.
01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:06.079
Just an absolute stunning piece of storytelling.
01:01:06.159 --> 01:01:11.679
And as RGT says, you just got to go with the story, it's not your story to tell, it's your story to experience.
01:01:12.239 --> 01:01:22.719
And when it's fully played out, I think on reflection you'll have to have had a word with yourself because you know it'll challenge every concept you've ever had in your life.
01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:25.840
Um, a great game, well executed.
01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:34.000
I think obviously with the PS5 version, it maybe just clinches it, but we're to talk about PS4 and physical media.
01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:42.000
My next game, it's uh Days Gone on the PS4 by Ben Studios.
01:01:42.559 --> 01:01:50.239
Um I got this game when it first came out and I had a couple of glitches like my motorbike exhaust kind of stopped working.
01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:57.519
I was still driving around, but my bike made no noise, even though it did make noise because it attracted freakers, as they're called in this game.
01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:02.639
Um the PS4 version, I had the PS4 Pro at the time.
01:02:02.800 --> 01:02:06.639
Um challenging game, graphically fantastic to look at.
01:02:06.800 --> 01:02:13.760
Um, played really well, had a mix of sort of on foot, sort of open world, use your bike to navigate.
01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:24.960
It's a game that got a bit of a kick in when it first came out because it had several bugs at launch that were very quickly patched out, and none of them affected me by that motorbike scenario.
01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:40.400
And it's a game that is hard to like until you get to maybe the second settlement, and then you start to really click with it, you start to feel like a sense of community in that area, and things that you're doing, you know, feel like they matter.
01:02:40.639 --> 01:02:48.000
Um it's an interesting story, one that's probably a bit formulaic, but you know, it plays out quite well.
01:02:48.159 --> 01:02:51.599
It plays well with the location of Washington State.
01:02:51.840 --> 01:03:10.000
Um, there's like a like an extinct volcano in a river in a big lake that I think is either real or based on a real place, and most of the area in the woodland that you're driving through is is again either real or based on a real place, and you get that real connection.
01:03:10.159 --> 01:03:25.760
I remember watching a developer diary, they'd been off and bought bikes similar to the one that you ride around on as deacon in the game, and they'd gone sort of threshing those around in the woods to see what it felt like to ride one of these bikes that could translate that into the game.
01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:52.639
Now, initially, um that doesn't feel that way because the game um, as much PlayStation games at the time followed a kind of upgrade um window where you collected sort of perk points that you would then add to an attribute or a bike or whatever sort of setup it was going on, and it was only then as you modified the bike and did different bits and bobs did the full kind of ability come in.
01:03:53.760 --> 01:03:56.800
But hey, the game was ultimately very rewarding.
01:03:56.880 --> 01:04:03.360
Um, PlayStation of you know, publicly seeking to sort of quell any ideas of anyone ever getting a days gone sequel.
01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:18.000
I think the developer had a little bit of a fallout, and then there was a bit of a public spat about how that's what they should have been doing, making a sequel to that rather than the other Druvel or Dross that Sony ended up doing with Bend, and you know, the rest is history, as they say.
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:29.840
But um, this game was fantastic, got a PS5 port as well, probably got a physical copy there, but the original to me is a place to go, place to play it, especially if you collect it for PS4.
01:04:30.000 --> 01:04:44.960
This is one of those sort of late games that uh many people missed because either A the reviews or A the review bombing, but the subsequent patched game that you would get today is uh a really great experience from start to finish.
01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:58.400
Obviously, the big selling point of it at the time was the thousands of uh hundreds and thousands or thousands of on-screen enemies at times when you stumbled across the different hordes, um, which was a challenge.
01:04:58.559 --> 01:05:03.840
Um, there's definitely um horde challenges where you can extinguish the horde.
01:05:04.559 --> 01:05:07.840
Um that will make any game a sweat.
01:05:07.920 --> 01:05:19.280
Um, I don't care who you are, and the larger hordes would probably give you heart palpitations because they are right on your toes, no matter how good you are, as you try and eliminate them as you go through.
01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:28.639
But I tell you what, a great experience to see uh a few hundred zombies burning um and chasing after you.
01:05:28.800 --> 01:05:31.440
Um, where else can you get that experience, RGT?
01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:32.400
Nowhere else.
01:05:32.559 --> 01:05:41.360
So days gone for me, PlayStation exclusive that I feel will not stand the test of time and will slowly disappear from storefronts and be forgotten about.
01:05:41.599 --> 01:05:55.199
Um goodness knows why, because the Chuck Deek can sent John everywhere, but then have no plans of doing a sequel, but they use him as their legitimacy of being a grown up um developer, which I find almost laughable.
01:05:56.239 --> 01:05:57.119
Yeah, definitely.
01:05:57.280 --> 01:05:59.760
Um again, fantastic choice days gone.
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:00.719
Another one.
01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:03.679
I haven't finished it, but I have played it.
01:06:04.480 --> 01:06:08.559
It's again one of them games I don't think gets the credit it deserves.
01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:16.000
There's a lot of haters towards the game, but I think in an era where there was zombie games coming out of your ears, you need to do something different.
01:06:16.159 --> 01:06:20.559
Being a biker gang, being out in Washington State was such a great idea.
01:06:20.800 --> 01:06:23.119
This is peak UCP era as well.
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:27.679
Yeah, yes, it is why I bought it because I was a listener at the time, so that's why I bought it.
01:06:29.360 --> 01:06:33.679
But also it was um like I say, so your biker gang.
01:06:33.760 --> 01:06:36.960
I think Deegan is a very likable character.
01:06:37.119 --> 01:06:41.840
I think he's played well, he's got that edgy sort of bike.
01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:45.039
What you make Boozer, he's very enjoyable as well, isn't it?
01:06:45.360 --> 01:06:48.320
Yeah, there's that sort of chemistry between the two.
01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:58.880
Um, and you get you know, you get that bit of backstory of how things kicked off, and then you're in the world, and then you've got that extra little bit where when I was first playing it, thinking, Oh, what's happened to my bike?
01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:00.480
Oh, I've run out of fuel.
01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:06.239
You've got to get fuel for your bike, you've got to maintain your bike, you upgrade it, you find different camps and do your missions.
01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:08.159
It's actually a really enjoyable game.
01:07:08.239 --> 01:07:10.559
My mate's a big zombie fan, and he hasn't played this.
01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:21.679
I keep saying, 'You need to play this because you will you will really enjoy this game,' and again, it's part of that PlayStation legacy that I'm not too sure they really care about.
01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:22.639
So it will just be.
01:07:24.800 --> 01:07:26.960
You know, they don't really think nothing of it.
01:07:27.039 --> 01:07:30.880
This game would have been perfect for a part two, I think.
01:07:31.039 --> 01:07:32.880
Um, but ain't gonna happen.
01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:37.840
Um, instead, they went off made live servers drivel, and it never worked, but there we go.
01:07:37.920 --> 01:07:38.639
That's boom.
01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:40.079
Like, what the hell?
01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:41.039
Yeah, exactly.
01:07:41.119 --> 01:07:46.960
When you could have had another exclusive sitting on that system, which people would have absolutely lapped up.
01:07:47.039 --> 01:07:49.679
Um the studio wanted to make as well.
01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:59.840
They had passion for making a sequel, they'd seen the places where a the story could go, and then b where they could take it on the new hardware.
01:08:00.000 --> 01:08:04.480
This was made on what Unreal Engine 4 as well, and it was a bit of a struggle.
01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:05.519
Yeah.
01:08:05.840 --> 01:08:12.079
So to have that on Unreal Engine 5 or similar, or maybe even Decimal, why not?
01:08:12.480 --> 01:08:16.560
Um you know, bullish, but yeah, great game.
01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:18.000
Authority to recommend it.
01:08:18.079 --> 01:08:18.960
Get on board.
01:08:19.279 --> 01:08:21.119
It's a great, it's a great game.
01:08:21.279 --> 01:08:27.520
If you've got a pro, if you're collecting for PS4 and you've gone and got yourself a pro, this is one of those games that will look great on there.
01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:28.319
It really will.
01:08:29.039 --> 01:08:36.560
And for how old the pro is and how old the games are coming nowadays, you don't feel like you're not modern game and still look good, still playing.
01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:43.199
100% playing on a PS4 Pro, Days Gone, which yeah, got a PS5 patch, but so what?
01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:48.319
You could be playing Ghost of Toshima, Spider-Man 1, Mars Morales.
01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:52.640
I don't think you can get two, but hey, do you know what you're not missing out, fella?
01:08:53.039 --> 01:09:03.760
Um, you know, Concrete Genie, Uncharted Collection for Last of Us Part 1 and 2, Last of Us Remastered, 2, you know.
01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:07.279
Um, there's lots to go out there, mate.
01:09:07.680 --> 01:09:13.600
Death Stranding, I mean Horizon and Forbidden West, God of War and God of War Ragnarok.
01:09:14.079 --> 01:09:19.760
I imagine those late PS4 releases of those games are probably going to be quite collectible at the end.
01:09:20.079 --> 01:09:21.840
Yeah, definitely, definitely.
01:09:22.159 --> 01:09:24.399
Um Grand Turismo 7.
01:09:24.560 --> 01:09:25.199
Yeah.
01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:27.920
There's our um 12 games.
01:09:28.079 --> 01:09:31.279
I mean, we've done two PSPs, two Vitas, two PS4s.
01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:40.319
That's sort of rounded up as our part two of our PlayStation must-buys, we think you need to get before the digital takes over.
01:09:40.479 --> 01:09:44.800
Um I think before we go into housekeeping, we'll go through a few of these prices.
01:09:44.960 --> 01:09:47.359
Do you want to play a little guessing game with me, George?
01:09:48.159 --> 01:09:59.680
Well, I just also want to say, you know, as I said that out loud, I realised that the PS4 Pro has really only been eclipsed in the last 12 months in terms of availability of games.
01:09:59.840 --> 01:10:03.039
And there's still games now you could pick up on PS4 that you could be playing.
01:10:03.199 --> 01:10:07.920
Your next gen gaming on an old gen.
01:10:08.479 --> 01:10:21.520
You could have a PS4 launch model, although she'd need an oxygen mask, once you bless her, but you know, and be playing games that technically are on PS5, Ragnarok.
01:10:22.640 --> 01:10:27.199
And w once they cut that off, they haven't really done a lot of exclusives since.
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:32.000
Where's the better library?
01:10:32.319 --> 01:10:32.960
PS4.
01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:36.720
The better library is way better on PS4.
01:10:37.279 --> 01:10:40.960
Um but let's uh let's go through some prices.
01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:44.239
So my first game was Driver76.
01:10:44.640 --> 01:10:47.680
What do you reckon that's going for now then, young George?
01:10:49.039 --> 01:10:57.039
It's not a game you see that often out in the wild, so I'm gonna say that um it's gotta be worth five pounds of anyone's money.
01:10:57.840 --> 01:10:59.680
That's about£8 that goes for now.
01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:01.119
CX about eight.
01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:13.039
I mean, I picked it up, I think it was about£2.53 a few years ago, quite a few years ago, but like I say, there was a bit of a spike with these physical games, and then since the latest news, things are creeping a little bit.
01:11:13.199 --> 01:11:14.800
So definitely pick up.
01:11:14.880 --> 01:11:16.640
But yeah, driver 76 you can get.
01:11:16.720 --> 01:11:24.000
I I think if you went to uh you know eight pounds probably top top dollar, you could probably pick it up five five to eight pounds, I reckon.
01:11:24.159 --> 01:11:28.880
So um, right, then your first game was Daxter.
01:11:29.039 --> 01:11:33.600
So yeah, a game that you do see on the regular if you're out in the wild.
01:11:33.760 --> 01:11:35.840
So I would say five pound.
01:11:36.159 --> 01:11:40.479
Yeah, you could four pounds, four pound is about where you're at with with Daxter.
01:11:40.720 --> 01:11:43.600
Um absolute steal for that game.
01:11:43.920 --> 01:11:46.640
You know, brilliant game on the system, really, really good.
01:11:46.720 --> 01:11:49.039
If you like your 3D platformers, pick it up.
01:11:49.119 --> 01:11:53.359
You know, it's about the price of a decent loaf of bread nowadays, so definitely pick it up.
01:11:53.520 --> 01:11:57.840
Um my second PSP game was EA Replay.
01:11:58.000 --> 01:11:59.840
Um, what are you thinking then, George?
01:12:00.239 --> 01:12:03.680
That's not one you see on the regular in the wild.
01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:12.720
You see it occasionally, so I'm gonna with that idea in mind say let's go eight quid.
01:12:13.199 --> 01:12:15.760
£10 about where it's at on CEX.
01:12:15.920 --> 01:12:27.920
I think, but eight pounds, I think you could be able to pick it up six or eight pounds if you go to you know independent retro game store or on eBay, but yeah, ten pounds about top money, I'd say, for EA replay.
01:12:28.239 --> 01:12:28.880
Okay, close.
01:12:29.199 --> 01:12:30.000
Close, though, yeah.
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:31.279
You're you're in the ballpark.
01:12:31.439 --> 01:12:36.479
Um your second and final choice of PSP was Sid Meyer's Pirates.
01:12:36.960 --> 01:12:40.159
Now this was everywhere at one point in time, and now it's nowhere.
01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:44.000
So I'm gonna chuck eight pounds on that.
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:45.600
Six pound.
01:12:46.000 --> 01:12:47.279
Yeah, two pound out.
01:12:47.359 --> 01:12:49.199
So you know, you're batting the money again.
01:12:49.439 --> 01:12:50.800
Yeah, you're batting the money again.
01:12:50.960 --> 01:12:52.960
Again, massive game for six pound.
01:12:53.119 --> 01:12:53.760
Do you know what I mean?
01:12:53.840 --> 01:12:59.840
It's oh you know, and a fun little just throwaway play game that you can take seriously or not.
01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:04.479
You make the story up yourself, really, as you go along, although there is one, but not really.
01:13:04.720 --> 01:13:08.000
So you write your own law and history, what a great little thing.
01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:10.319
Yeah, I mean you could with a bit of looking.
01:13:10.640 --> 01:13:17.199
I mean, if you've picked yourself up the PSP but ain't got any games, you could pick pick these four up for about 25 quid, 25, 28 quid.
01:13:17.359 --> 01:13:18.000
Um D only.
01:13:18.399 --> 01:13:21.439
Yeah, you know, and then get yourself a UMD carry case.
01:13:21.600 --> 01:13:30.880
Yeah, you know, you've got yeah, if you go UMD only, less than 20 quid, you get these four games for, and you've got loads of games in there to play, so yeah, it's worth doing.
01:13:31.039 --> 01:13:40.399
Um then we go over to um the PS Vita, of which my first game was Uncharted Golden Abyss.
01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:47.439
Vita pricing's like my beta pricing is from like 2018.
01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:55.279
I should have to think where this is now, but Uncharted was a game that they were practically throwing away at CEX at one point in time.
01:13:55.680 --> 01:13:58.319
Now I imagine they're probably wanting 15 quid.
01:13:58.560 --> 01:14:00.079
Bang on 15 quid.
01:14:00.159 --> 01:14:01.760
So calibrated.
01:14:01.920 --> 01:14:04.000
Yeah, Uncharted is a 15 quid game.
01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:07.039
Um, for the longest time that was sort of a six to eight pound game.
01:14:07.119 --> 01:14:16.720
But um as as the Vita stocks in CEX rapidly decrease, um, and you only sort of find your FIFA's and football managers on the shelf.
01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:21.279
Um most people who want Golden Abyss now have it, so it's a bit of a rarer game.
01:14:21.359 --> 01:14:35.279
But yeah, 15 quid again, it seems a lot for uh an older Vita game, but you're not you're you know, for the money, you're you're getting a full-blown Nathan Drake experience, you know, and that's the prequel, so it's definitely worth that for 15 quid.
01:14:35.439 --> 01:14:39.199
Um your first game was Tear Away George.
01:14:41.279 --> 01:14:49.119
Yeah, a game that again you used to see everywhere, and now you don't see it really that much at all.
01:14:49.439 --> 01:15:00.079
So I would say, based on that, let's throw hmm let's throw 15 quid at that.
01:15:00.960 --> 01:15:03.520
Gone a bit over there, 10 pounds for tear away.
01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:04.800
Okay, fair enough.
01:15:05.119 --> 01:15:07.600
Yeah, I think that's a gr that's a steal for that game.
01:15:07.680 --> 01:15:14.079
Like you say, with the little bits and pieces it does similar to Golden Abyss, is it's where you need to play it, really.
01:15:14.159 --> 01:15:16.720
And for that money, you're you know, that's that's a bargain for that.
01:15:17.439 --> 01:15:22.640
It's a fun game that shows you what the Vita was maybe meant to do, but no one really cared for that.
01:15:23.840 --> 01:15:29.680
Um next up, my next pick was Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed on the Vita.
01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:30.880
What do you reckon?
01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:36.640
I reckon that was a bit of a surprise, that one.
01:15:36.800 --> 01:15:39.279
I reckon that's like 10 quid.
01:15:40.319 --> 01:15:41.920
18 pounds now.
01:15:44.159 --> 01:15:45.039
Surprised me.
01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:51.119
I paid I still had the label on, I paid 15 pounds for that pre-owned, so that was like a couple of months old.
01:15:51.199 --> 01:15:52.720
I paid 15 quid for that.
01:15:52.960 --> 01:15:56.399
Um but now it's I think people realise how good that game is.
01:15:56.800 --> 01:15:59.359
So I I do I think 18 pounds too much?
01:15:59.439 --> 01:16:01.520
No, but I think if you're gonna get it, get it.
01:16:01.920 --> 01:16:09.680
You know, we're not trying to spike prices here by any means, but yes, I'd definitely say um pick it up now, I think, because I think there's only one way that's going.
01:16:09.920 --> 01:16:11.520
People have realised how good that game is.
01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:15.520
But um what's your second game then, George?
01:16:16.319 --> 01:16:17.359
Everybody's golf?
01:16:17.760 --> 01:16:18.239
Yeah.
01:16:20.720 --> 01:16:27.199
Um that's got to be£10.
01:16:28.319 --> 01:16:29.199
Bang on£10.
01:16:29.680 --> 01:16:31.600
Both your games for ten pounds each.
01:16:31.920 --> 01:16:36.399
Um again, I think that's a bargain for that game, but it really is a bargain.
01:16:36.479 --> 01:16:39.199
It's so much so playable.
01:16:40.079 --> 01:16:42.399
So many hours of fun to have in that game.
01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:50.640
Um, yeah, I don't think you'd if you if you like your golf games and um especially if you've played a hot shot to everybody's golf, you're not gonna be disappointed with this.
01:16:50.720 --> 01:16:54.960
It's probably the best version of the game, I think, anyway, in my opinion.
01:16:55.199 --> 01:16:57.680
Um great game, but yeah, everybody's golf,£10.
01:16:58.640 --> 01:17:03.840
That moves us on to our uh PS4s and our final two games each.
01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:09.279
Um I started off with Uncharted the Nathan Drake collection on PS4.
01:17:09.520 --> 01:17:10.720
What do you think then, George?
01:17:12.720 --> 01:17:13.359
Four quid.
01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:15.199
Eight quid.
01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:17.680
Eight quid.
01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:27.520
Um obviously I'm not the one I've got, it's just the the standard edition, but eight quid for three uh remastered uncharted games is an absolute bargain.
01:17:27.680 --> 01:17:29.520
So definitely give that a look.
01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:33.920
If you want to get if you haven't played Uncharted and you got a PS4, is the only way to go, I think.
01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:35.199
So yeah, give that a look.
01:17:35.359 --> 01:17:37.600
Your first one was Concrete Genie.
01:17:39.039 --> 01:17:39.760
Four quid.
01:17:40.479 --> 01:17:42.319
Fiverr, so bat bang on the money.
01:17:43.279 --> 01:17:47.600
Again, that is a steal for what a fantastic little game.
01:17:47.920 --> 01:17:52.000
For a fiver, for a pint of beer, that is a brilliant little game for that.
01:17:52.800 --> 01:17:57.119
I mean, if you put it on that metric, so much more rewarded than a pint.
01:17:57.279 --> 01:17:57.600
Yeah.
01:17:57.840 --> 01:18:02.239
You look you look at the dross that's on some of the stores now at£5.
01:18:03.119 --> 01:18:03.920
Do you know what I mean?
01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:06.640
And you can pick up a physical copy of Concrete Genie for that.
01:18:06.720 --> 01:18:11.199
And you And the physical copies artwork as well, just should sell it to you just off the get-go.
01:18:11.359 --> 01:18:12.000
It looks beautiful.
01:18:12.640 --> 01:18:14.079
It's unique, it's different.
01:18:14.239 --> 01:18:15.760
I'd recommend anyone to pick that up.
01:18:15.840 --> 01:18:18.000
That's a lot of say, I think that's pick of the day so far.
01:18:18.159 --> 01:18:19.439
Concrete genie's a great job.
01:18:19.520 --> 01:18:23.920
Hey, I tell you what, you know, seeing as we're pumping PS4s, it's only a Gen a go.
01:18:24.479 --> 01:18:28.800
I bet there's sealed copies of Concrete Genie for about eight quid online on eBay.
01:18:29.119 --> 01:18:31.279
Still new stock.
01:18:31.680 --> 01:18:32.560
Yeah, that's amazing.
01:18:32.960 --> 01:18:36.560
I bet there's a few new stock PS4 ones worth grabbing on there right now.
01:18:36.960 --> 01:18:38.000
Definitely, definitely.
01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:45.439
Um and then I finished up uh my last PS4 and my last game of Last of Us Part 2.
01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:50.239
Um what are you thinking for the original PS4 version then, George?
01:18:52.560 --> 01:18:59.359
That's probably no more because the new versions are out, but does it really make a difference if you've only got a PS PS4?
01:18:59.600 --> 01:19:00.159
Maybe not.
01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:03.199
I would say that's got to be about 10 quid.
01:19:03.520 --> 01:19:05.119
Yeah, top dollar 10 quid.
01:19:05.359 --> 01:19:17.119
If you wanted to, if you have a PS4 and you haven't played the games, you could get The Last of Us remastered PS4 for eight quid, get that for a tenner from C 18 quid, and you've got both instalments of the story.
01:19:17.279 --> 01:19:20.000
Um definitely worth doing, definitely worth doing.
01:19:20.079 --> 01:19:24.239
Because I think the remastered one has um left behind added in as well, doesn't it?
01:19:24.399 --> 01:19:25.279
The DLC.
01:19:26.399 --> 01:19:26.960
Oh yeah.
01:19:27.279 --> 01:19:31.600
Yeah, so you'll you will then get the the DLC from the first one, the first game, and the second game.
01:19:32.239 --> 01:19:36.159
I mean you might be able to get them cheaper, 15 quid all in, so it's definitely worth doing.
01:19:36.319 --> 01:19:40.319
Um and your last game, George, the day's gone.
01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:53.279
Again, I can't see that being much more than sort of 8 quid.
01:19:53.840 --> 01:19:55.279
It goes about 12 pounds.
01:19:55.680 --> 01:19:56.239
12 quid.
01:19:56.479 --> 01:19:57.199
Yeah, that's fair.
01:19:57.439 --> 01:19:59.119
It's a lot of game for 12 quid.
01:19:59.199 --> 01:20:03.760
You know, it's the same like you're saying about Last of Us Part 2, you know, tenor, days gone, 12 quid.
01:20:03.920 --> 01:20:09.119
You've got graphics that you're not gonna feel like you're playing an old system, look really good.
01:20:09.359 --> 01:20:12.479
You can play them on a on a PS4 Pro 4K.
01:20:13.199 --> 01:20:13.760
Fantastic.
01:20:13.920 --> 01:20:16.239
Yeah, you're not missing out at all for that money.
01:20:16.399 --> 01:20:19.680
22 quid for those two games, you'll you've got some game in ahead of you.
01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:21.520
So yeah, great picks.
01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:23.680
Um and I hope you like that.
01:20:23.760 --> 01:20:24.640
I hope you like those games.
01:20:24.800 --> 01:20:29.600
Like I say, um it was just a little bit from each, like we've done before.
01:20:29.680 --> 01:20:31.760
We've gone through the ecosystem of PlayStation.
01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:36.960
Um, we've given you 24 games in total over the last two weeks.
01:20:37.600 --> 01:20:43.840
If this is um a format you like, I think we could uh we could do this for other systems.
01:20:44.079 --> 01:20:50.159
Um I know we've done uh our sort of uh must-play top tens before.
01:20:50.640 --> 01:20:57.039
Um similar sort of premise this is, but this was just sort of in a in a reaction to the the digital news that we got.
01:20:57.359 --> 01:20:59.279
Um but yeah, if you like it, let us know.
01:20:59.439 --> 01:21:02.399
Um which moves me on to the housekeeping, really.
01:21:02.560 --> 01:21:12.640
If you want to let us know, you can let us know at uh unofficialcontrollerpodcast.com on our website, or you can questions at unofficialcontrollerpodcast.com email.
01:21:13.279 --> 01:21:25.039
Um we've got our Discord channel, which is the Unofficial Controller Podcast, um, TikTok, we've got Instagram, we've got X, um Discord's a great little place to go if you want to go on there.
01:21:25.119 --> 01:21:30.479
We've got our little Gen 7 playthroughs we're doing, we're waiting on the moment of picking a new game for that.
01:21:30.720 --> 01:21:34.640
Um, and also check out like I say, I keep mentioning Unofficial Controller Podcast.
01:21:34.720 --> 01:21:36.720
If you've first listened to this, you're thinking, what's that then?
01:21:36.800 --> 01:21:38.640
Well, that is our main show.
01:21:38.800 --> 01:21:46.000
Well over 300 episodes on there to to uh wet your whistle and download and have plenty to to listen back to over the years.
01:21:46.159 --> 01:21:49.039
Um and then this is our second show flashback.
01:21:49.199 --> 01:21:50.560
But go and give it a check out.
01:21:50.640 --> 01:21:51.920
Like I say, check out the Discord.
01:21:52.159 --> 01:21:57.520
Any questions you want to let us know, questions at unofficial controllerpodcast.com or even on your podcast provider.
01:21:57.680 --> 01:22:01.520
You can send us a little message on there and we'll we'll give it a readout.
01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:05.279
Um, yeah, I think we're about there, aren't we, George?
01:22:05.359 --> 01:22:06.159
I think I've covered everything.
01:22:06.239 --> 01:22:08.399
Is anything you want to read before we go?
01:22:08.720 --> 01:22:14.640
Um no, obviously the Discord is the name Unofficial Controller Podcast, but there's a little flashback section in there.
01:22:14.800 --> 01:22:17.600
Yes, yes, um, for all the wonderful retro ness.
01:22:17.680 --> 01:22:26.079
And there's a smattering of that as RGT says the Gen 7 playthroughs, there's a challenge accepted, it's normally across a myriad of systems, so there's plenty there for people to get on.
01:22:26.399 --> 01:22:33.199
If you're a retro gamer or a collector and you're like, oh well, I'm not too you'll find someone in there, and I think you'll find someone in the main show as well.
01:22:33.359 --> 01:22:36.560
We cut a little bit more loose there, RGT certainly.
01:22:37.119 --> 01:22:41.680
Um not too much, but we um probably mess about a bit more.
01:22:41.840 --> 01:22:43.119
We have a bit of a mess about, don't we?
01:22:43.199 --> 01:22:44.640
A bit of old school humour, you know.
01:22:44.800 --> 01:22:44.960
Yeah.
01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:48.720
We have we have we have a we have a good bit of laugh over there, and everyone's always welcome.
01:22:48.800 --> 01:22:50.479
So come have a listen, come have a join out.
01:22:50.880 --> 01:22:51.439
Definitely, yeah.
01:22:52.319 --> 01:22:58.239
If if flashback you got you to work, let the UCP on official controller podcast get you home.
01:22:58.880 --> 01:22:59.600
Exactly.
01:22:59.840 --> 01:23:00.880
You know, exactly.
01:23:00.960 --> 01:23:04.479
And like George used to always say, don't be a lonely gamer.
01:23:04.720 --> 01:23:13.520
Not say come and join in on Discord, because when we do our playthroughs and challenge accepted and bits and pieces, it means so much more when you're playing along with people than it does plan on your own.
01:23:13.680 --> 01:23:16.720
Gives you a little outlet to chat to and and fellow gamers I like.
01:23:16.880 --> 01:23:17.920
Very friendly place.
01:23:18.159 --> 01:23:21.600
Um, but thanks for joining me, George, again, as always.
01:23:21.840 --> 01:23:25.199
I think you've stole the show a bit with your your picks this week.
01:23:25.359 --> 01:23:26.800
Absolutely fantastic, as always.
01:23:26.960 --> 01:23:27.439
Oh, really?
01:23:27.520 --> 01:23:30.239
But yeah, I just randomly grab these games.
01:23:30.399 --> 01:23:33.359
Yes, because you've got the knowledge, you see, you don't need to think.
01:23:33.520 --> 01:23:34.560
But yeah.
01:23:35.439 --> 01:23:36.720
Like a London cabby.
01:23:36.960 --> 01:23:38.000
Yeah, the knowledge.
01:23:38.159 --> 01:23:40.399
Straight on days gone, left on concrete dreamer.
01:23:40.479 --> 01:23:48.560
You want to be probably second rights, everybody's golf, take the immediate, left tear away, uh, straight on down Sidmar's Pirates, and then you're at Daxters.
01:23:48.720 --> 01:23:50.319
Yeah, there we go, spot on.
01:23:51.039 --> 01:23:52.399
But yeah, thanks, George.
01:23:52.479 --> 01:23:54.399
Um, thanks everyone for listening.
01:23:54.560 --> 01:23:57.680
Thanks for downloading, thanks for commenting, thanks for joining in.
01:23:57.840 --> 01:24:04.880
And it just leaves me to say flashback the games you loved, the stories you forgot.
01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:06.800
I'll see you next week, George.
01:24:07.680 --> 01:24:09.840
See you all GT, see everyone.