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speaker-0: That's right.
speaker-1: And
speaker-0: Yeah.
speaker-1: And here he is right now, Docie. Morning, welcome on him brother.
speaker-0: ⁓ boys I tell you what, I've been playing so much video games lately. In fact I've forgotten what my wife looks like. ⁓ it is it is insane how many games are coming out at the moment. And I think a a lot of ⁓ got pushed earlier in the year than they would normally come out because everyone's sort of avoiding that November launch date for Grand Theft Auto Six. Yeah, it's totally. You guys pre ordered?
speaker-1: Yeah. A lot of sick days coming up.
speaker-2: Yeah, it's like a stupid amount of money.
speaker-0: Yeah. What was your pre order bonus? Like
speaker-2: ⁓ I can't remember. It's like you get a full like Vice Skitty ⁓ Vice Skitty Vice City ⁓ skins and ⁓ I think you get exclusive content that others would never get otherwise.
speaker-0: Really? Yeah, okay. That's I mean most of it is most most of the content coming out for it is is if you get the deluxe version, you get everything. But yeah. I just ⁓ like I still don't see the value in pre ordering games at the moment. Like it's just I used to when you'd go to midnight launches and get your physical copy of the game. Yep, yep.
speaker-2: I I don't know. When when it's a when it's a company like Rockstar who only pump out one game every what, ten years I'm kind of that's when I'll do it. ⁓ something big like
speaker-0: Yeah.
speaker-1: It's not a bad price for a pre order considering how much the base game is as well. ⁓ yeah. Like you and you're getting bonus content that no one
speaker-2: I just yeah, I just don't want to miss out. Like I again I like to get every aspect out of a game and if it's gonna get me across the line to make sure I don't miss anything, I'll I'll Oof. I couldn't even platinum five. Really? Really? I'm close to it, but like it's that's a hard platinum.
speaker-1: How fast have you light them this one?
speaker-0: And you're the platinum king, like you that's good. Yeah, you're good at it.
speaker-2: ⁓ Dockey you'll be proud to know I wanted to tell you this, I was excited. I played and finished Requiem in fourteen hours.
speaker-0: ⁓ yeah, yeah. ⁓ nice, see, I told ya. Yeah.
speaker-2: Yeah. And wanna go straight back. Such a good game.
speaker-0: Yeah. There's that's what I love the most about I think I mentioned that when we reviewed it, was the replayability on that game is is insane for what for what it is. You don't normally expect a game like that to have such replayability, but it does. And it and and the second time you go back in, you will enjoy it just as much as the first. Yeah.
speaker-1: ⁓ yeah. ⁓
speaker-2: Probably no. Probably the best Resi game I've played, actually. No, I did. And and you're right. It is. And it's hard to explain until you experience it, but it really is. Nick has convinced me to do it, ⁓ especially with GTA coming out. He said you need to play the Mass Effect games one through to three. I'm now halfway through Mass Effect one.
speaker-0: Yep. Yeah. ⁓
speaker-1: Push them off a
speaker-0: ⁓ you totally do. Yeah. yeah, no, they are amazing titles. And I hear they're doing like a series, a T V series or something for it. Really? Yeah, which would be yeah, I'd I'd love to watch that. But no, they are they are solid. And I think too, like I ⁓ I reviewed recently the latest Star Wars Game Zero company and I mentioned in that that it was like a cross between XCOM and Mass Effect. Gotcha. Yeah. And the more I play it, the more I I I strongly believe that as well. So yeah. So I think ⁓
speaker-1: Trilogies ever.
speaker-2: Feels like Timu Halo but with more RPG elements.
speaker-1: First one definitely. Yeah. We were joking ⁓ the other day, Doc, about ⁓ Mas ⁓ sorry, not Master Chief, about ⁓ Shepherd's just his vocal tone.
speaker-2: ⁓ dude, I cannot act. I don't know what's going on with the vocal acting on that one. Just
speaker-1: ⁓ Just his love scenes as well. ⁓ You look beautiful, Miranda.
speaker-0: Yeah. Like how did he ever manage to ⁓ to he he must look really good and and have a decent Anyway, ⁓ I'm playing ⁓ EA Sports F C twenty seven at my way. This is a game that's got mixed reviews, ⁓ because and and you know, usually the mixed reviews when they come out for for FIFA, I'm gonna call it that. ⁓ when they come out for for this game, it's it's usually around the fact that it's only a small improvement on last year. Sure. ⁓ and in many respects, yes, it is a small improvement on last year. ⁓ but what they have done and improved on, they've improved really well. The dribbling in the in the career mode is now exceptional. I think the defending, you have more control over your defense than you've ever had before. And I really like that as well. But for me, and and this is a guy who buys FIFA just to play career mode. Okay? That's all I've wanna play. I don't want to play no. Ultimate team, don't be shoving that stuff down my throat. I want nothing to do with it. In fact, I had no intention whatsoever to go into the grounds. Which is the new tried out. Yeah, so I had no intention whatsoever, but I went, you know what? I need to jump in and I need to play it just to add it to the review so I can tell people about it. And I am absolutely hooked.
speaker-1: Specific thing. Really? Did they master it or did they do it good?
speaker-0: Look, I think they did it good. Yeah. ⁓ but I they've done it good enough that I'm hooked. Wow and I I I have found that I've gotten so much enjoyment from going in there and playing rush mode, which is four on four. It feels like indoor soccer, you know, like a futsal type game. ⁓ but you are controlling four four actual people against four actual people. Wow. In a match and like you have to sort of work out as you go who's gonna drop back in defense, who's gonna go to attack. There is so much joy in putting through a through ball for a goal. Yeah. Like equal joy to actually scoring the goal, I reckon. Like
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when you do a significant pass like that, it is just so rewarding. Like I am so I'm hooked. I'm only in France still. ⁓ but there's all different Yeah, so you keep there's other areas as well. You meet ⁓ you meet big players along the way who help you
speaker-2: Right. That's what you want.
speaker-0: ⁓ learn about the area like you start off you meet Mbappe and he talks about his history in the game. So it's also like there's a I think ⁓ Nick you you'd liken it to the the one that's in MBA, like in in two K. Yeah.
speaker-1: Which is they've got their own like playground sort of
speaker-0: Like it's like the city or something and it's and and it's very much like that. They've done a really good job of of of copying that. But it's soccer and it's it's the world game and it's beautiful and I am just here for it. I l I really hope that the FIFA the the EA Sports F C community get behind it enough so that every time you go in there you can get into games quickly, 'cause that's probably my biggest gripe. Is so you go up to an area where d they're doing four on four matches and there's not enough people around to actually To get one going straight away. So you might have to jump over to the two V two or the three V three areas or or even some of the other crazy like there's a balloon match where you got balloons tied to you and you've got It's weird. There's some real weird stuff on there, but but as a whole the grounds I think is a massive success and I'm really keen for it.
speaker-1: Yeah.
speaker-2: I've just seen videos of ⁓ people just ⁓ nutmegging NPCs in the ground. Yes. Just over and over. Like they've spent hours doing it.
speaker-0: There's I spent hours just walking around there's there's all these highlighted ⁓ areas, like these highlighted rings everywhere that you've got to drop a drop kick a ball at. Right. And so you've just gotta like, you know, might might be fifty three meters away and so you drop kick this ball to try to get it in the loop. And I'll sit there for hours just doing that. ⁓ no. Like it is it is just love. Yeah, and you just bouse you 'cause you're any points as you do it to to increase your
speaker-2: ⁓ yeah.
speaker-0: You're ⁓ you're standing in there. I I'm only like a low level still, but I've I've chosen a like a a career path essentially. So I'm a midfielder who's a who's ⁓ a maestro, it's called. But I just love it. I'm just like I'm so hooked. I'm I'm really keen for it and yeah, and so i I've I've spent in in comparison to other years, I've spent very little time in career mode. Yeah. ⁓
speaker-2: Yeah.
speaker-0: ⁓ yeah, man. The EA aren't there to bloody give you free stuff. They're there to make money.
speaker-1: That's what ruins it for me is like you you get these like people are just straight off the bat. Yeah. Full on sweats. Yeah, they're like playing like D Rose or Michael Jordan off the bat and
speaker-0: Yeah, and that's the thing. You've got like there there's a lot of the pay stuff I think is more aesthetics than anything. And there are areas where 'cause you get these, ⁓ you get these boosts which help the way you play, but there are areas where there you can't use them. Yeah. ⁓ and there's ⁓ I should mention too, there's also eleven versus eleven. There's full like club football where you're playing a player.
speaker-1: I can't wait for a hundred V Hundred game. So now you
speaker-0: Full guys style. Yeah. Yeah.
speaker-1: So now you're into this ⁓ not only for career and ⁓ for the online aspect as well, which is exciting. we'll keep our eyes out on that, but can you also tell us about ⁓ the other games like Minecraft Dungeon you're getting into as well?
speaker-0: Yeah. Yeah, so that just dropped this week. ⁓ it's pretty exciting for Minecraft fans. Minecraft Dungeons two is just a massive improvement on the first one, but to to dumb it down for everyone, it's Diablo for kids. Great. Right. So like and not really for kids, but for for younger adults. Yeah. ⁓ but yeah, it's it's very much in that Diablo build, but Minecraft and you know, I love that. My kids are starting to play Minecraft now, so ⁓ I'm I'm keen for them to to jump on and we do some multiplayer dungeons.
speaker-2: Unbelievable that Minecraft has the legacy that it has. Like and it became what it did.
speaker-0: I know, right? Yeah. Yeah. A and you know, even I watched the movie recently with the girls. Yep. And it's exceptional. Yeah. Like it's actually a really solid movie.
speaker-1: Come on, I know you wanted a role in that, but you can't have it. You can't have everything. You wanted to be Steve. You wanna
speaker-0: Yeah, Jason Momoa's already got the the bearded baboon.
speaker-2: Yeah. If you take the live action people out of it, it's a great movie. ⁓
speaker-0: I thought it was pr no, I thought they were fine. They were great. The the scenes I love the most were with the ⁓ the the citizen or whatever you call it, the the villager who came into the real world. How he came into the real world and he got hit by the car and then
speaker-1: You can't help but like Steve today.
speaker-2: Yeah. That that was actually quite fun.
speaker-0: That was very funny. Like she is hilarious.
speaker-1: Now, I know you've got a indie game on the way, but can we get the big games of October first?
speaker-0: Yeah, sure. So ⁓ big game's coming out in October, October second, ⁓ which is ⁓ today. Yeah. Yeah. So so Ace Combat eight, Wings of Thieve is out. So ⁓ that's one that isn't normally on my lists, but everything I've seen of this is exceptional and there's a reason why there's so many Ace Combat games. So ⁓ check that out. ⁓ next week we'll be seeing Star Wars Galactic Racer, which is the new ship racing, pod racing game.
speaker-2: ⁓ it's pods?
speaker-0: Yeah, there's pod racers in it as well. So there's heaps. Yeah, so that's well worth checking out. Star Wars Galactic Racer. So you'll be able to race ships and and all sorts of things. So ⁓ and the good thing I like
about that it's ⁓ I think it's from the creators of Need for Speed and the Burnout series. And so they get racing. ⁓ yeah. So it's it's gonna be solid. The other one to look out for is one I've been playing the demo for on Steam and I cannot wait for this. If you're a fan of horror movies ⁓ like I am, then Clive Barker's Hellraiser revival is coming out.
speaker-2: So they get it.
speaker-0: It is not safe for work, not safe for kids, it is but it is gruesome and every bit a Hellraiser video game. And it's Yeah, yeah, yeah. So
speaker-2: First person shooter, yeah.
speaker-1: In the basement.
speaker-2: Sort of plays out a bit like ⁓ almost like old school doom in
speaker-0: It feels very much like that. You know, I I liken it yeah, there's a lot of games I probably liking it too, but yeah, it feels a lot like a Bethesda title, to be honest. Like one of those. Yeah, it's it's really yeah, it's it's awesome. I'm I'm hooked on the demo and I can't wait to play the full version. I ⁓ I I just love those movies. Like I I I I remember watching the original Hellraiser back in the day with Terry Pharrell in it from ⁓ from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. So ⁓
speaker-1: ⁓ god.
speaker-0: And thinking, ⁓ my god, she's she's a Star Trek lady. ⁓ but yeah, that's ⁓ yeah, Hellraiser's phenomenal, but also it is very ⁓ sexual content. So there is a lot like there is a scene where you see your hoo hoo dilly as you look down. Yeah, because you're naked for this for a great period of the game, so you look down and yeah, there it is in a water.
speaker-1: I feeling my dad's gonna knock on the door right when that scene comes. I swear I don't stare at it all the time. They're the big games of October. Now I want to hear this indie game you've got for us as well.
speaker-0: Yeah.
speaker-2: Yeah.
speaker-0: Yeah, I'll stop this title. It's it's not something I would normally click on, but it's stick it to stick man, it's called. It is hilarious. And and and it's a basically you're a stick figure guy who has to battle from the bottom of a building to the top of a building. This is the basic mode of the of the game. ⁓ fighting other coworkers on your way up to become CEO. And and it is hilarious the game itself, the the the the writing in it is just so funny. Like you get staple guns and glue guns and stick people to walls and staple them and Wait, Anki, why is it glue death? It's very much like stick death, right?
speaker-1: Yeah.
speaker-0: Yeah, so this is and it's hilarious. So you've got to you've got to get all the way to the top and then there's another three D component of it where you're in this world and you've got to go from building to building and then then when you hit a building that's when you go into the the other mode. But ⁓ look mate, I this is it's just it it's been in early access for ages and it's just gone ⁓ it's just gone gold. So I I John Stick. I love that. Yeah. ⁓ but it's ⁓ it's it's fifty percent off at the moment, so it's only like eight dollars forty nine on Steam.
speaker-1: John Wick but John Stick.
speaker-0: ⁓ so but even it's it even it's at its seventeen dollar price, it's worth getting and it's so much fun. I've been playing on Steam Deck, so yeah, really, really great fun. Check it out, stick it to the stick man, it's out now.
speaker-1: That's very exciting. That's Doki Darko, ⁓ gaming guru. ⁓ find ⁓ at Doki Darko underscore official.