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speaker-0: It's Doki Darko, the gaming legend.
speaker-1: It's a talk-to-
speaker-0: Well we gotta get him in. Doki Darko, good morning mate, how are you?
speaker-1: Eat my laser. I love that line. Great, it's good. So good. I'm good. Hey, you know why I'm good? I've spent the last couple of weeks playing a game that has just dropped for everyone else and I'm so excited about it for once.
speaker-0: And that game?
speaker-1: Star Wars Zero Company. ⁓
speaker-2: Yeah, yeah, yeah
speaker-0: Now what you think of the
speaker-1: This is the tactical RPG shooter. ⁓ it's kind of like XCOM. So if you've ever played an XCOM game, it's like that. ⁓ but it's also mixed, I would say mixed with mass effect to a point. ⁓ and it's probably when you attach the name Star Wars to something, you you get a bit of an expectation, and there's an instant I I feel like people instantly want to hate on it. And yeah. You know, like it's like there's this intense scrutiny around it. And I think what they've done really well with Star Wars Zero Company is they've sort of moved away from everything that's popular, you know, the looks, the hands, the things like that. And they've actually just told a really fantastically great story. You've got an amazing story, amazing collection of characters. They've added stakes to the game, and it's just brilliant. In fact, this is how good the story is. I think if you took away the Star Wars element and just had it as a sci-fi game, it'd be just as good. In fact, I I would liken it more to Firefly, the series. because the the main character just reminds me of like ⁓ Mal Reynolds. ⁓ and and like he he's almost like he's even in a brown coat. Like that's the whole like
speaker-2: ⁓ yeah, cycle.
speaker-1: There's all these elements to it that make me think of Firefly and the way that that game ⁓ that that show works and and this really intricate band, the zero company, that have to go out and complete these missions. It's just such a well done game. I'm so impressed with it. There in it there's a permadeath system, which I it freaks me out playing permadeath. I don't know about you. Yeah. I'm like when a character dies in and there's no coming back for them, so you're gonna miss out on that entire storyline for that character for the rest of the game.
speaker-2: addresses me to know.
speaker-1: I like I started playing with Permadeh on, I'm not gonna lie, I turned back I turned back to the start and turned it off because I was like, I wanna know what happens to these characters.
speaker-2: I mean, canonically, that's sort of how you meant to play it though, right?
speaker-1: Yeah, yeah, totally. They recommend playing with Permadeath on. Yeah. ⁓ and it just yeah, it made me very sad.
speaker-0: Is it canon?
speaker-1: Is it canon? ⁓ I suppose it could be. There's no reason why it can't be. I'm not the one to answer it because I think Dave Fallone would be the guy to to ask. Yeah. Yeah. But it takes place in the clone wars. So there's no
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reason why that and there's canon elements that happen throughout the game without saying too much. Okay. Okay.
speaker-2: The Star Wars universe seems to be the most interesting when it's surrounding the Clone Wars. That's where they seem to be hitting their stride with a lot of this stuff. It's so loose and fast with the lore, you can really just build that world there because we don't have enough to...
speaker-1: Totally. That's right. And and because it's such a a huge huge universe as well, you can do something on the other side of the universe. It isn't necessarily going to affect what's going on with Anakin ⁓ on the other side. So yeah, look, I I think ⁓ from from what I can tell it it would be canon from what I've played, but I'm probably not the ⁓ the expert you want on that one. That would be Dave Faloney. I tell you what though, Star Star Wars Zero Company, ⁓ it's coming out on PlayStation Five, Xbox Series, X and S, ⁓ Windows PC, the controls are incredible. So like if if you are playing on a PC, you can ⁓ you can y like it's so adaptive. I love it. Like you can just like use a controller or a keyboard quite easily. I even played on Steam Deck. I wouldn't recommend that. It's a little chuggy on the Steam Deck, so you really do need a decent PC if you're gonna play on PC. But ⁓ mate, look I I think I would give a highly recommended for this one. It's a ⁓ good. It's like I don't wanna I don't wanna throw it out there 'cause I don't like throwing it out there, but it's for me it's like a ten out of ten. It's just it's probably the game of the year I've played so far.
speaker-2: That's interesting. This makes me a little nervous in the sense that again, much like turn-based games, it's not just, it's not my style of gaming. Much like XCOM, for example, I haven't really delved into, but for the same reason I jumped into Claire Obscure, I think I'll give this a shot because Obscure surprised me and I kind of loved what they did with that turn-based genre.
speaker-1: And I think that that's what this does really well. Is this is the mass effect parts are really mass effect and cool. And then the the like I I actually don't really love XCOM. I'm not an XCOM player. I actually preferred the turn based strategy in Mario and Rabbids. ⁓ so that's that's where my turn based strategy ⁓ history comes from. And I think they add to that even more with this game. They they also have like there's a bond system under it, so like you've got to build bonds up with characters, so it means even more when the permadeath kicks in. There's such a huge roster of characters that you get to meet and choose from along the way. You recruit characters, you earn money, you you get into business with the huts and that goes bad and build up. Yeah, it's so good. But it's
speaker-0: Bond with the H
speaker-2: it seem possible to you, Doki, that you can avoid ⁓ losing characters? does it seem almost possible or does the game drive you in a way where it's like if you've got
permadeath on, you're absolutely losing people along the way?
speaker-1: Yeah, no, I think you can avoid it for sure, if you're actually good at the game, which I was not. ⁓ so I was losing I was losing main characters left, right, and center, and I was like, ⁓ no, this is this is gonna ruin the game for me. I need to turn permadeath off. It it does a really great job with the learning curve. Like it it really teaches you if you've never played this type of game before, it will hold your hand at the start and ⁓ and and really give you the ⁓ the the boost you need. Highly recommend. Go grab it. It's ⁓ it's the best Star Wars game I've played in a very, very long time. Right.
speaker-0: So that's just got released, something that you've released at ChileFM.com.au is the Gamescom 2026 drops. Can you tell us more about this one?
speaker-1: Yeah, so I got up at four AM the other morning just so you guys wouldn't have to. ⁓ and watched every single trailer in the opening of Gamescom. And yeah, y you're welcome. ⁓ look, I I was really excited by a lot of things that they mentioned at Gamescom. We we saw more of Metro, which I'm always pumped for. ⁓ yeah. Love that game. Can't wait for the new one to come. There was ⁓ multiple train simulators I saw, ⁓ which I was less than excited for. ⁓
speaker-2: visit
speaker-1: There's a Dungeons and Dragons game coming, which is Warlock, which looks ⁓ amazing. I I'm really looking forward to that one. ⁓ the Australian made Game of Thrones, War for Rest Westeros, which is a a yeah, it's a real time strategy game based on the hit series and it's made in made in Australia, so we've got to get behind that one and and really get involved with that. ⁓ Hitman are introducing Snoop Dogg as the herbalist.
speaker-2: Hitman just
speaker-1: From strength to strength. Yeah, I think the object is to actually get him. Crazy Taxi World Tour. We saw more of that, and I love those games. ⁓ I was a that's the reason I bought a Dreamcast originally when it came out. Yeah. Right. The new Turok game. Like who thought Turok was gonna be a thing in 2026-27? Looks good. I thought that game series was dead, but no, looks looks really great. ⁓ I one standout for me was a game called Gravhounds. Which was is going into early access and you play as heavily armored bipedal dogs. So human bodies dog head fighting galactically. Like I you had me a doghead.
speaker-2: Yeah.
speaker-0: I feel like this is going to be haunting for some young kids, isn't it? It's going to scar them, baby.
speaker-1: It looks so cute. I'm so on board for it. ⁓ we of course saw more of Final Fantasy ⁓ what is it, V one one. So that's running out of numerals. The revolution. So it's like ⁓ a ⁓ a flashy, highly anticipated final chapter in the modern remake trilogy. ⁓ if you loved Guitar Hero, then Stage Tour is coming. Yeah. So that's a music game and it's bringing back like the plastic instruments. In fact, I I get emails every week from Gibson.
speaker-2: They're run out of humor. Final final check
speaker-1: Who were telling me about the latest plastic instrument they've done for one of those games. ⁓ and they look incredible. They look like proper guitars. Like they are
speaker-2: How are they not getting sued for looking just like Guitar Hero? Like it's the same game, right?
speaker-1: Yeah, I it essentially. I mean, but then there guitar hero, then there was the one where you plug in an actual what was that? A rock star. You plug in an actual guitar. rock band. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. And I 'cause I used to play that with my bass. Yeah, right ⁓ and yeah, so that you know, that yeah, they're all the same thing, but that
speaker-0: handle.
speaker-2: Get in your toaster and see if you can play that way.
speaker-1: And you can have breakfast straight away. ⁓ but of course the big the big announcement came at the end of the ⁓ the show, which was another remaster for The Witcher 3. I think the exciting part of the whole thing was it it gave you a list of everything they're bringing overhauled combat, traversal skill trees, better graphics, better monster fighting, like everything was gonna be much better, and then it's free if you already own the game.
speaker-0: Not the bath.
speaker-2: which I'm so keen for.
speaker-1: I I'm always keen for free things. Like that's that's
speaker-0: Which are, if it releases one more time, it's on the same wavelength as Skyrim. Skyrim, yeah. Yeah, I don't... You can play it on your fridge now.
speaker-1: Review. No, I was gonna say I'm not gonna be happy until I can play it on my LG fridge. Yeah.
speaker-0: So that's all the latest. That's DocuDocu. Catch him at docuDocu.com. The multiplayer podcast as well and catch up every week. We'll catch up next week.
speaker-1: Sounds great, guys. Talk to you then.
speaker-2: Thanks, Ducky.