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this week... We're going back in time

2:01

because frankly there's not really any new stuff

2:03

to talk about. We haven't been playing any

2:05

new games, haven't watched any new films or

2:07

TV. My copy of Unicorn Overlord just sat

2:09

there on the shelf, we'll see. Exactly,

2:12

maybe next week you can talk about that

2:14

because you can actually sink some time into

2:16

it. But yeah, we're gonna, this week, we're

2:18

gonna look back at 2014 because that was

2:20

10 years ago and that's the best excuse

2:22

I had to link a year to this

2:24

because let's celebrate a decade ago. We're gonna

2:27

be doing like a little draft thing where

2:29

it's not just games, it's not just

2:31

films. It's not even just music or TV.

2:33

We're gonna go through lots of

2:35

different categories which I'll go through in a bit and

2:38

pick our favourite things each.

2:41

But before all that, before we get into that,

2:43

I know we had some sad news overnight which

2:45

I know Matt, you'd like to speak a few

2:47

words on Mr Dragonborn, what he means for everyone.

2:50

Although you may not know it. Yeah,

2:52

I was devastated this morning to learn about

2:54

the loss of Akira Toriyama. I

2:57

had about 15 minutes of preparing

3:00

this before the episode and that's

3:02

really no time at all to surmise without

3:04

exaggeration the impact of one of the most important

3:06

artists of the modern era. In

3:09

retrospect, Dragon Ball Z was a

3:11

horrendously stupid thing. Mostly

3:14

remembered for men shouting at each other and

3:16

saying utterly abstract numbers to claim how powerful

3:18

they are. All I really know is like

3:20

seven hour long battles, that is my kind

3:23

of grasp of Dragon Ball. It's accurate, but

3:25

of the time when you were watching it,

3:27

the world that it inhabited, a

3:29

place a bit like our own but at once futuristic

3:31

and stuck in the past, it could

3:34

be about martial arts tournaments as

3:36

much as it was about aliens coming

3:38

from space or robots being eaten by

3:40

genetically modified bugmen. It

3:42

completely made sense in and of itself. It

3:45

was captivating like nothing else, even from

3:47

the clothes everyone wore. There was a

3:49

mix of street fashion and martial arts

3:51

gear and space armour. It was unbelievably

3:53

its own thing. Toriyama's

3:55

designs for Chrono Trigger have a warmth that could

3:57

have easily been forgotten and I doubt could have

4:00

been. emulated by anyone else. A

4:02

lot of people have been sharing today the

4:04

original design for Dragon Quest Slime and how

4:06

his version is radically different, and

4:08

you can tell that it informed the entire production

4:10

after that point in a way that nobody could

4:12

have anticipated. I

4:14

think I mostly remember the extent

4:16

that his work translated, it

4:19

transcended language barriers. People

4:21

I've been lucky enough to meet from all corners of

4:23

the earth have talked to me about Dragon Ball being

4:25

adapted to show on their local channels and it introduced

4:27

them to things that are outside of wherever they grew

4:29

up. Like

4:32

it was something that was so good that it needed

4:34

to be shared, although it's probably more that the licensing

4:36

was really cheap. I think that's

4:38

going to have to do it because I'm pretty glad

4:40

I don't actually have all time today to be able

4:42

to write more about this because it

4:44

won't even come remotely close to the

4:47

things that I want to say, but

4:49

RIP to the absolute goat. Yeah, it's

4:51

always a sad day when I don't know if

4:54

it's a stretch to say one of your heroes

4:56

dies, but I know I'm always looking at some

4:58

of my favorite film directors knowing that it's

5:00

not too long before someone else's 80 goes and I'm

5:02

like, we would be able to get another school baby.

5:04

We were talking about the last night weren't we? There's

5:06

only a few that you really haven't had a chance

5:08

to be yet, but they're up there. And

5:10

Toriyama was relatively young so people

5:13

would have expected more. Exactly.

5:15

Still to look back on a

5:18

career most people would be very happy with,

5:20

I think, but yeah, still a sad day.

5:23

But yeah, we look back to

5:25

2014, which a whole 10 years ago, it is

5:27

mad when I was looking at some

5:29

of the stuff for my short list of things I

5:32

want to pick here to think that some of this

5:34

stuff was 10 years ago. It does not feel like

5:36

10 years ago. A lot of this stuff in

5:39

particular, a couple of things, which maybe I'll get to

5:41

pick, but who knows what did

5:43

2014? What do you guys remember about 2014?

5:45

You weren't IGN yet where you go. No,

5:47

I graduated university in

5:49

2014. That's my... A year

5:52

after me. Yeah, that's

5:54

my lasting memory of that and yeah,

5:57

moving in with my partner for the first time who's now

5:59

my wife. So yeah that kind of that

6:01

year is a bit of a weird

6:03

university life blur as opposed to

6:05

like media blur You know yeah,

6:08

so it was probably not

6:10

to get too deep into one of the worst years of my life

6:15

It was like the year and I'm sure a lot of people I'm

6:17

sure it's very relative

6:20

Relatable even to a lot of people it was the

6:22

year after I left uni and like for a year

6:24

after leaving uni like Just trying to find a job

6:27

I was like I had that thing of like bounce

6:29

at a university with a degree in television production being

6:31

like right I can go be an editor or something

6:33

I can go do this and then a year later just

6:36

maybe getting like two Two

6:38

freelance gigs in that whole time being like why just

6:40

no one want me. I'm pretty good at this I

6:43

think like like yeah, and it was it was a

6:45

dark time that luckily yeah like summer of 2014 is

6:47

when it turned around So that that's

6:49

good. It was half bad half good So

6:51

I have really similar scenario of I'd gotten

6:53

a little bit of writing work right out

6:55

out of uni that was able to like

6:59

Have me tick over and I moved in with

7:01

a partner and then that contract ended So then

7:03

I had to just like scramble to get anything

7:05

Yeah, I was working behind a bar for ages

7:07

I mean I was very lucky that I could live

7:09

with my parents in London and not really have to

7:11

pay them anything But then I made the lie I

7:13

was like signing on at a time because you probably

7:15

should if you have my job and Probably made the

7:17

irresponsible decision to use that money to buy a ps4

7:19

when it came It probably

7:21

isn't what they want you to do with that money, but

7:23

you know what I mean Something to

7:26

make me smile Exactly you could

7:28

look at it now as that was an

7:30

investment in your future exactly I

7:32

mean I got that infamous second-sum bundle when it

7:34

came out And will I

7:36

pick that game later probably not the maybe someone

7:38

I did look at it and I thought

7:40

no I remember having a time, but I

7:42

can't really remember either apart from Troy Baker

7:45

Game it like it looks still

7:48

to this day looks very good I remember first

7:50

light being like a bit more

7:52

enjoyable to look at yeah,

7:54

but I was any on powers Let's

7:57

talk about what these categories we've got hot so we're

7:59

gonna I'll decide an

8:01

order shortly, but we'll take turns of

8:04

picking them obviously and we'll do it

8:06

in like a snake style So whoever

8:08

goes first goes sick, whoever goes third

8:10

goes forth, etc The one thing I

8:13

will say about these categories is it

8:15

doesn't it doesn't necessarily leaning to people

8:17

picking games Because

8:19

they're all like they're all sort of architects.

8:21

They're all like put into categories already So

8:24

you can't say oh I picked this game on this. Oh, I can't

8:26

use it on this anymore Yeah, I know

8:28

what you mean. But what it does mean is there's

8:30

some categories like this I will say I 2014 Isn't

8:34

the best year for games for me? Like there's

8:36

not a ton of games I really fondly remember

8:38

so there will be a couple here if I

8:40

don't get what I want I'm gonna be scrambling

8:42

for something like But

8:44

it's a good idea. It's a good year for

8:47

TV and film but um, we'll get we'll get

8:49

onto that bit So the categories we've got are

8:51

we're gonna pick one RPG game each one

8:54

shooter slash action game each One

8:57

puzzle slash adventure game each we can

8:59

just decide what adventure is. I'm not

9:01

gonna if you pick sign Yeah, sex

9:04

adventure whatever an action slash

9:06

thriller film a Sci-fi

9:08

slash horror film a drama

9:11

slash comedy film and

9:13

then one season of TV One

9:15

album from that year because we know it's all

9:17

about music Why not talk about music for a

9:19

couple of minutes and then the wild card which

9:21

is anything from that year? Anything you relate to

9:24

it can be a can be a food that

9:26

came out can be a meme can be a

9:28

football match Could be anything. It's gonna be so

9:30

hard to pick which one really I've just got

9:32

one in if someone else picture I'm gonna be

9:34

devastating. I'm gonna end up reading them all anyway.

9:36

No at some point, but yeah I'm

9:38

so excited about that. Okay, but anyway, I should probably

9:40

I think it's the wheel of names is what we

9:42

need I

9:45

mean Let

9:49

me see So

9:51

the wheel of fantasy last last week that we played the

9:53

game is All

9:57

the long sections of quiet I

10:01

have actually finished I've it's on the podcast.

10:03

I played through the original final fantasy 7

10:05

now So I have that reference point everyone

10:07

just thought no, but that anyone

10:09

was ever telling me why when you play Exactly

10:16

I did surprisingly well in that game when I

10:18

was listening I was like, I think just by

10:20

osmosis I know half of these protagonists names, but

10:22

it was a good game I enjoyed it. Anyway,

10:24

the wheel of names to see who goes first.

10:26

I am spinning the wheel now and

10:28

it is It

10:30

is me going first which I actually didn't

10:33

I didn't want to go first Because

10:36

I don't want to wait so long for

10:38

the second pick Let

10:40

me get to the so who's going second. I'll

10:43

spin it again Dale

10:47

is second. Okay. I feel

10:49

like I always get one pick then

10:52

isn't it? Yeah, so just so people

10:54

knows that means I'll be me first

10:56

Dale second pick Matt third pick then

10:58

also Matt fourth Dale fifth

11:00

pick and me six picks after weight. Oh,

11:02

there's gonna be something I need gone by

11:04

the time I second I'm gonna be gutted

11:08

Anyway, I suppose let's start I have

11:10

to pick first I wasn't ready to pick first Just

11:14

say dark soul to get I mean what I haven't

11:16

played Watch

11:18

this at six, you know, I don't know because TV

11:22

for me there is one thing

11:24

in there that I'm like that I really want

11:26

but also I've got like four solid backups in

11:28

TV if I didn't get the one I want

11:30

It's also about thinking about who you're playing in

11:32

and are they likely to pick that thing? Do

11:35

you know what? I'm gonna just go with the

11:37

category I have the least things in so make

11:39

sure I get because I only have two in

11:41

this category that I actually genuinely like And it's

11:43

RPG and I haven't played Like

11:47

a couple of the big RP these in here, so I've

11:49

only ever played like three hours of Dragon Age Inquisition So

11:51

I'm not picking that I haven't played Dark Souls 2 So

11:53

I'm gonna have to pick and I think this is this

11:55

may be what you would have I'm gonna have to go

11:58

with self Puck the sticker do you literally the only

12:00

one I had the wrong choice.

12:03

I knew I've done it already in one

12:05

pick. I had a second choice

12:07

there so that's a shame. But

12:10

yeah I'm going with the stealth part the sticker truth

12:12

as my RPG. I think mainly

12:14

because I've never really been historically a South

12:16

Park fan. Like I've never watched a few

12:18

episodes over the years but I

12:20

thought I'd give the game a go and

12:22

I was just so surprised by how good

12:25

this game. Not only that it had the

12:27

spirit of South Park and it was funny

12:29

but it was actually genuinely fun. I do

12:31

prefer the second one Fractured Butthole more.

12:34

But I actually I thought this was

12:36

a very solid like tactics RPG game.

12:39

I think the thing that stood

12:41

out to me the most was it was a fun

12:43

game to play. Also it genuinely

12:45

did feel like episodes of South Park and like

12:47

it felt like of the quality of their writing

12:49

and their comedy and while you were roaming around

12:51

the world it felt like you were part of

12:54

the show as well. It never felt like it

12:56

was the game. It always felt like it. In

12:58

a time when licensed games weren't fantastic this was

13:00

actually one that was very good and yeah and

13:02

you know it was an RPG you could do

13:04

in like 15 hours or something. It wasn't like

13:06

going on and on and on and on and

13:08

yeah it's just there's some questionable

13:11

jokes in it but that's South Park

13:13

isn't it. So what's wrong with going

13:15

to an abortion clinic and fighting Kim

13:17

Kardashian's giant fetus babe. I would say

13:19

is there a priest with like

13:22

an anal bead battle with a

13:24

priest or something. It's not for

13:26

kids but I thought about going back

13:28

to one of these games to play. I'd love a third

13:30

one of these. But yeah I

13:33

don't know if Matt did you play this game.

13:35

I didn't play it unfortunately. Wrong time. It's

13:38

fine you've got plenty of other RPGs to

13:40

pick from probably. Me and Dale did not

13:42

play RPGs in 2014 it looks like. Which

13:44

was the South Park game with the power

13:46

of the farts where you're using to get

13:48

around. Was that the

13:51

second one or was that both. I kind of blur. You

13:53

do a Fuz or a Dah with a fart. I think

13:55

that might be the first. Very

13:57

good. I

14:00

know, highbrow content. Good clean fun. Except it's not

14:02

good clean fun at all. Anyway, yeah, so that's

14:04

my RPG, I'm picking South Park the sticker tree

14:06

firm, so yeah, I'll put you in a corner.

14:08

I'm literally going to be frantically googling while, oh

14:11

I'm next, aren't I? I've got to go. Yeah, but you

14:13

don't have to go RPG. No, no, no, I'm going to,

14:15

yeah, well, that's what I was going to go first, so

14:17

that's like the question. Yes, I've done

14:19

him. Absolutely done him. So, let's pick something that

14:21

someone else is going to get. I want to

14:24

win. And I

14:26

am not prepared. Oh,

14:30

don't take my films bail, my beautiful films.

14:32

Yeah, I really want to win one of

14:34

the film categories. Let's take

14:36

film and let's take, do

14:39

you know what, I'm going to

14:41

say, oh

14:43

my god, this is hard when you're not prepared. I

14:45

was honestly prepared to do RPG first and that was

14:48

it. I'm going to

14:50

go for sci-fi horror film

14:52

and I'm going to go for Edge of

14:54

Tomorrow AKA, Live, Die, Rook. That was very strong.

14:56

That was my third choice, I'm happy with that.

15:01

What a film that was screwed

15:04

by marketing, right? That film

15:06

for me is one

15:08

I'll regularly go back to and watch. I think

15:10

it's one of Tom Cruise's best, to be honest.

15:12

I love Tom Cruise's sci-fi period, I really enjoyed

15:14

it. And I think it

15:16

was just completely like, had its legs

15:18

cut off from the get go. I

15:21

think over time it's built up and people like us

15:23

who are in the bubbles and stuff, we know about

15:25

it and we're familiar about it. But

15:27

there's so many people who have probably never

15:29

seen that film because it was so confused

15:31

and so terribly titled. The

15:34

trailer doesn't really get across how smart

15:36

it is as well. It's a very

15:38

good action film, it's also very smart.

15:40

Obviously, you're going to market Tom Cruise

15:42

in this film but Emily Blunt

15:45

is incredible in this film as well. She's

15:47

like a proper action star in this film.

15:49

She's so good. Tom Cruise is kind of playing

15:51

against type as well, he's kind of a

15:53

dickhead and it really works in a way

15:55

that he's not. I like him when he's a dickhead. Like in

15:57

Magnolia, that's his best role for me. A

16:01

bit more like himself. I guess it's

16:03

a redeemable dick endo, right? It's about

16:05

him learning the error of his ways

16:07

through what is basically a video

16:09

game story. They keep saying they might

16:11

make a sequel to this. I think it's gonna happen. I don't

16:14

know if it needs one. I don't know where you go. What

16:17

do you even title it then? That's

16:19

the problem. Live, die, repeat again or

16:21

live, die, repeat, live. Was

16:23

there a book called something like Every

16:25

Kill or Every... Oh god, yeah. Kill, yeah,

16:28

I don't know. I

16:31

feel like they could lean into the video game

16:33

aspect of it with the market. And

16:36

live, die, repeat, I suppose. Edge of the

16:38

day after tomorrow? Edge

16:40

of tomorrow is the most nothing title that you

16:42

could ever... It is such a design by committee

16:45

title, isn't it? It

16:47

doesn't really mean anything. I haven't

16:49

seen that film in a few years. I could watch it again.

16:51

Oh, it's very good. I think it's

16:53

really good. Matt,

16:55

you've got back to back pics. I need to grab

16:58

hold of this. I can do anything I want. I'm

17:01

gonna take action thriller to

17:03

film. I'm gonna go Guardians

17:05

on that one. Oh, good job. Okay. I think

17:07

it sort of, maybe to its own detriment, it

17:09

set the mold of what that kind of film

17:11

needs to be. That kind of, we're all buddies,

17:14

but we're all hanging out and getting the mission

17:16

done. But we kind of like each other, but

17:18

we don't really like each other. It

17:20

also, I don't know if you

17:22

went to a wedding that year, but everybody

17:25

was just playing the songs from that soundtrack. Oh,

17:27

the music, yeah. Yeah, which I think is still

17:29

like, you know, there are songs from that soundtrack.

17:31

Like, I think it was maybe the first movie

17:34

to really do that really heavy needle

17:36

droppy thing, but also have it entirely

17:38

work for its own, like,

17:40

theme, its core. Yeah.

17:42

Yeah, like, Ali, like,

17:45

now I think it's hard to determine

17:47

how remarkable it was, but

17:49

when it came out... Well, everyone expected it to just

17:51

flop. And then, yeah, 10 years later, it's arguably one

17:53

of the most influential films of the last 10 years.

17:55

I mean, if you look at that Borderlands trailer, they're

17:58

just trying to do Guardians of the Galaxy. This

18:00

is exactly what they're trying to where do you

18:02

stand on guardians 1 versus 2? So she used

18:04

to be a heated debate in a podcast. So

18:06

no Rory for two is an absolute I think

18:09

is it I think the debate prefer to oh

18:11

really so I was gonna say I think one

18:13

is the best Marvel movie still But I don't

18:15

think the debate was what which better debate was

18:17

whether Guardians was to was good or not and

18:20

Rory hated it I would likely prefer to I

18:22

haven't watched them both in a while to be

18:24

fair I think of the three I think two

18:26

is the weakest one I actually think three is

18:28

the better one. Really? Which I know is

18:30

not necessarily an opinion shared by everybody. Yeah, yeah

18:34

Absolutely fine. I'm kind of I'm

18:37

kind of glad we're not getting anymore I feel like this

18:39

sticks dumb now if you know, I mean like it

18:41

was still the sticks still kind of worked in three for

18:43

me But yeah, I don't need I don't need anymore. Yeah,

18:47

good. Good pick. What's your next one? I

18:49

do get to don't I let's pick sci-fi

18:52

horror off Because I

18:54

would really love to have it follows I

19:00

was talking about this with somebody the other day about

19:02

how like the important parts about it follows are The

19:04

moments where everybody's just sort of not doing anything They're

19:07

just like sort of lounging around like looking at their

19:09

little clam shell phones And about

19:11

how like it still manages to be

19:13

a compelling horror in its horror moments

19:15

But those are made more stylistic by

19:18

the fact that like nobody's always scared

19:20

They are there is just downtime where they're like, well that

19:22

is gonna come get us But it's gonna take hours

19:24

like we're just you know, go away around to do

19:26

whatever Yeah, it's

19:29

that is what scares me most in horror

19:31

films It's just when the tone or the

19:34

vibes just come that constant dread and it's

19:36

like that just disaster piece score is just

19:39

so good I'm not

19:41

what it's they're making a sequel. I need to

19:43

watch it again. Um, they're making a sequel. Yes

19:45

year to it They follow I believe and so

19:47

I don't know if I need no

19:49

one but I trust them to be

19:51

doing it for the right reason It feels like it's

19:53

been long enough where sequel is Acceptable.

19:55

I don't know like it's not

19:58

like they were trying to desperately capitalise on

20:00

its success immediately and maybe they've just come up, had

20:02

enough time to come up with a good idea for

20:04

it. Who knows? Yeah, it's

20:06

a great bit of people haven't seen it follows it is one of

20:09

probably one of the great modern horror films. If

20:12

you don't know what it's about it's basically,

20:14

it's kind of, it's a parable for

20:16

STDs really isn't it? But you basically,

20:19

you get hunted by this thing

20:21

that takes over people and the only

20:23

way to pass it on is to

20:26

have sex with someone basically so how

20:28

do you get around that? You'll have to watch the film. Great,

20:32

well. There you've got another

20:34

pick, don't take it. No one's actually

20:37

taken anything I want. I am, I'm

20:39

sitting pretty. I've been frank, I can't

20:41

speak, I've been Googling like mad. I

20:44

cannot find another RPG. I did

20:46

I Blade. You can just pretend you love Dark

20:48

Souls 2. I'm

20:50

gonna find some loopholes somehow and go and get

20:53

something in there. I thought there might be one

20:55

you might have played but yeah. No, it looked

20:57

like from the list, it looks like I didn't

20:59

play a lot of them. But anyway, we're not

21:01

talking about that one. We're gonna save that one

21:04

till last. Let's do, hmm,

21:08

let's do Puzzle Action Game, Puzzle

21:10

Adventure Game, sorry. Okay. And that's

21:12

because I want to get in

21:14

before Cardi gets in to say

21:16

the greatest puzzle game, except for Tetris,

21:18

of all time. And that is the wrong

21:20

year if you're saying I'm about to figure

21:22

out. And not according to my Google search,

21:24

it wasn't. PEGGLE 2? It's

21:27

2013. Also PEGGLE 2 is the bad one. PEGGLE

21:30

1. No! What were you gonna know? Initial

21:32

PEGGLE is the one. PEGGLE 2. So, I'll

21:34

let you up. So it came to 360

21:37

and PlayStation 4 in 2014. Then

21:39

it released one game in December 2013. It released in

21:42

2014, plus I played on PlayStation since the first time

21:44

I played it. I'll let you have it just because

21:46

you've had a bad time of the year. It released

21:48

in 2014. Why do

21:50

you think it's the bad one, Matt? I need to

21:53

know. It had like, I played it on the phone

21:55

and it had some weird microtransaction stuff. Wasn't that PEGGLE

21:57

Blast? Maybe. PEGGLE Blast, yeah.

22:00

or twos. PEGAL 2 is basically

22:02

more of the same. It had

22:04

more superpower characters but it

22:06

was just more of the same and that

22:09

same is just one of the best puzzle

22:11

games ever made. I've platinumed this game twice.

22:13

Yeah. Twice! During the pandemic I've platinumed it

22:18

and then a couple years ago when I

22:20

went to San Francisco and stayed at Lucy

22:22

James for a few days she had it

22:24

and I just basically I'd wake up way

22:26

too early every day and play PEGAL 2

22:28

and I platinumed it for her again.

22:30

We just had to draw every

22:32

five minutes. Cheers for

22:34

the play. Yeah I'd be

22:37

up at six just playing PEGAL. I

22:39

don't think I've ever quite felt satisfaction.

22:42

Like I said I still believe Tetris

22:44

is like the ultimate puzzle game but

22:46

Tetris didn't have the level

22:48

complete satisfaction that PEGAL had. PEGAL is just more

22:50

casual, more relaxed as well. Tetris here is frantic,

22:52

you know you can't keep... PEGAL you can just

22:55

do a shot, look at your phone, take another

22:57

shot. You can pause and you can think about

22:59

it. Obviously a lot of it is down to chance and look but

23:01

there's a little bit of skill there but the

23:04

satisfaction of the slowdown

23:06

of the pinball when you're just about to

23:08

hit the final thing and then also sometimes

23:10

the tease of you're very close to it

23:13

but you don't hit it. It's slowed down

23:15

and zoomed in and then when you actually

23:17

hit it and it owes to joy plays

23:19

and fireworks back everywhere. It's such a great

23:21

feeling. One I miss and I want to

23:23

platinum it again. Does

23:25

anyone want me to come round for a

23:27

week and platinum PEGAL. Come on.

23:30

You have to deal with me in your house for

23:32

a week but I will platinum PEGAL for you. Is

23:34

that like that guy on Elden Ringu like mate

23:36

kills the boss for PEGAL. You're like that with PEGAL.

23:39

Yeah I'll come around and get the platinum for you.

23:41

Some of those are very hard to get the trophies

23:43

for let me tell you but you can do it

23:45

if you know how. You can do it. Yeah those

23:47

super slides go in. I love that game. Carl where

23:52

do I go now. I finally got a second

23:54

pick. I've

23:57

got a few different. I'm

24:03

gonna go puzzle slash adventure and

24:07

I think this counts as a puzzle slash adventure game.

24:09

Oh what's he gonna say? I'm

24:11

gonna pit the wolf among us. That

24:13

counts I think. Adventure games? It's a story

24:15

I mean where else would it fit? Well

24:18

how would you? I still

24:20

think to this day the best telltale

24:22

game I would say. I think

24:24

we're getting a sequel at some point it's

24:26

been in development they it keeps coming and

24:28

appearing and disappearing but

24:31

I did think it was as well written as that first season

24:33

of The Walking Dead but I did enjoy it. I think

24:36

I just yeah I never

24:38

quite got the I enjoyed The Walking Dead a

24:40

lot I never had the emotional connection a lot

24:42

of people seem to get in

24:44

that game that never quite worked for me I

24:46

think maybe I was also just a bit zombie

24:48

overloaded at that point but I just really enjoyed

24:51

this universe I love like noir detective fiction and

24:53

this is what you get with the

24:55

wolf among us set in the fable universe

24:57

of is it the fables universe yeah yeah

25:00

and yeah basically it's a

25:03

murder mystery story with loads of kind

25:05

of nasty fairy tale characters in it

25:07

what's what more do you want and

25:09

yeah I just I really enjoyed

25:11

it I haven't got back to play it since but

25:14

I really do want to see there was there was a sequel

25:16

in development at one point right it is still

25:18

in development apparently like it went and it came

25:20

back and hopefully we get to play it one

25:22

day but yeah I think later just surprised I

25:25

hadn't read any of the books is based on

25:27

and I just I really enjoyed the wolf among

25:29

us it's probably up there

25:31

with surprisingly actually tells that from the border

25:33

lands I'm not a big border lands fan

25:35

but that the telltale borderlands game is so

25:37

good disagree yeah those are

25:40

my I will say

25:42

though I I think I enjoy I think wolf among

25:44

us is my favorite telltale game as well and I

25:46

think the only reason I started playing it was because

25:48

I liked The Walking Dead and I thought oh you

25:50

know this is the next game they've made I should play

25:52

it but it like you said that for

25:54

me I didn't know about the comic series or the

25:56

book so it was it was an introduction

25:59

to dark versions of like fairy tale characters

26:01

and I thought it was such a great idea and

26:03

it was yeah it was kind of the peak of

26:05

telltale as well like this and the walking down like

26:08

then like yeah a couple years later they just kind of they

26:11

go like yeah do I have a

26:13

over saturation or something else but yeah

26:16

there we go um I do get

26:18

another pic straight away though so that's good isn't

26:20

it that's good for me for you um

26:24

you've both chosen your life alright so I feel like I've

26:26

got I can leave that for

26:30

now okay

26:33

I'm gonna go for a film I'm

26:35

gonna go for the drama slash comedy this

26:38

one was in contention for me as well I think I know what you're

26:40

gonna pick and it's it's

26:42

a drama bit could be called a thriller but

26:45

I'm going I'm calling it a drama and I'm

26:47

taking whiplash ah yeah you

26:49

could call it a thriller I think

26:51

it's a drama it's a drama um

26:55

one of the great films

26:57

of the last ten years pretty

26:59

one of the great debut films ever

27:02

from Damien Chazelle just like

27:05

well some of them like the last I watched the

27:07

last ten minutes of this film I'm

27:10

not exaggerating probably once a month like I

27:12

think it's some of the best editing I've

27:14

ever seen it probably comes off on tiktok

27:16

every day for me is it

27:18

caravan the last thing you have a

27:20

fan like yeah

27:23

then it's not just the end of this film that's

27:25

great all of it is so good like to create

27:27

this sort of thriller dynamic

27:29

out of basically someone learning to play

27:31

the drums like it's like that social

27:33

network pictures and it was like that sounds like a

27:35

dull film someone goes to you oh it's a guy

27:37

it's a guy who's having a tough

27:40

time learning the drums that's really boiling it down to what

27:42

the film is but you know it turns

27:44

into this real like really really a

27:47

film badly I suspect the

27:49

picture would be more like someone learning

27:51

the drums with in the middle of an

27:53

abusive relationship or yeah but it's

27:56

yeah Miles Teller is so good this film

27:58

and yeah I think in

28:00

the middle of film, I'm not sure if we

28:02

should spoil or not, but where he's desperately trying

28:04

to get to the show when he goes through

28:07

traumatic events, and it's like so

28:09

tense, so horrible to watch because you're

28:11

just willing him to just work it out

28:13

and to get there on time because you just know what

28:15

he's going to suffer and the consequences of what he's gone

28:17

through. So even to be in that position

28:19

as well. Yeah, so

28:22

well edited, just so well directed.

28:24

And yeah, Damien Chiselle made this film

28:26

when he was like 28, which is

28:28

sickening. Like, grow up. Yeah.

28:33

What a film. I'm taking Whiplash in Drama.

28:37

No, Dale, you get it. You get a pick. I

28:39

best go for Drama Comedy as well because

28:41

I'm running out of choices because I had

28:43

Guardians of the Galaxy there, which is a

28:45

comedy film, a really good comedy film, and

28:47

I always had Whiplash in there as well.

28:50

So the only other comedy I could see of

28:52

note that year that I

28:54

put down on my list was Bad Neighbours, which

28:56

I really, really, really like. And I

28:59

like the sequel as well. And

29:01

I thought it was, I think that

29:03

was my first introduction to Zac Efron as an actual

29:05

like fun comedy, not just a

29:07

child actor, not just like high school musical kind

29:09

of guy where he really

29:11

sort of found his chops. And

29:14

I think I'd say the same for Dave Franco as well,

29:16

even though I'd seen him in lots of stuff and

29:18

I think he's a very good actor. I think this is

29:20

the role I always think of when I think of

29:22

him as a comedic performer. I do quite

29:24

enjoy it especially the Robert De

29:27

Niro party is a

29:29

very, very funny scene. It's a

29:31

good cast. And I do think Dave

29:33

Franco and Zac Efron have a

29:35

really great... I do really like Dave Franco.

29:38

Actually last week, watched both 21 and 22 Jump

29:40

Street again because I hadn't seen them in a

29:42

few years. They're very good. See, that's the thing.

29:45

I never really gelled with those films. I tried so

29:47

many times to watch them. And I know obviously Dave

29:49

Franco's in them, but it never really clicked for me.

29:53

This is the role way. There's

29:55

this whole through line about how he can just get an

29:57

instant erection at any time and he talks about it like

29:59

a... weapon and it's this curse that he's

30:01

been, he's had his entire life and so

30:04

it's just so many great levels of fun

30:06

and it's just I don't

30:08

think we get enough of these sort of comedy films anymore

30:10

and I understand why because a lot of them don't do

30:12

very well but like

30:14

I know Ricky Stenicki just came out yesterday I think

30:16

it was and the word is it's not very good

30:18

but it's got Zac Efron and

30:21

John Cena in it so I want to

30:23

watch it. I really like a Hannibal Burress

30:26

as the policeman. Oh yes yeah.

30:28

Hannah will Burress doing anything frankly.

30:30

Yeah it is very funny. I

30:33

thought you were gonna say a different film because no

30:36

one's actually picked and I'm not gonna have to pick

30:38

it now. I'm the best comedy from that. I will

30:40

just mark some stuff off because I'll do this category

30:42

next just to give it off board. There

30:44

are like three things on my list that I think

30:46

we should give a little shout out to. There was

30:49

a Paddington one which is not as good as two

30:51

so it's not in there. I

30:53

also have the Grandpa Best Hotel. That was

30:56

my pick which is I think as of

30:58

yesterday exactly ten years old. I think it's

31:00

my dancing's best film. Yeah

31:02

maybe I might even agree. I really

31:05

like French Dispatch but I don't think that it's

31:07

yeah but the one that I really want to

31:09

talk about is the movie Frank. Either

31:11

of you see this movie? Yes. Yeah

31:13

with Michael Savoza and Domino

31:15

Gliesen. It's about like a musician

31:18

that is wearing this like giant

31:21

like paper mache head and that

31:24

he's like incredibly talented but yeah

31:26

has this thing going on. They don't

31:30

want to create music to

31:32

get successful like this guy.

31:35

Like somebody comes into his life the main character

31:37

that does want to like his main aim is

31:39

to make music so that he can be successful

31:41

and famous and so he like pumps a load

31:44

of money into this project but then it doesn't

31:46

quite work out through the like the

31:48

means of the film. I remember watching it at

31:50

a time where like things weren't really going

31:52

very well for me creatively and I was like

31:55

it really sent me a message that was

31:57

like oh you don't just get to be creative

31:59

just because want to. Like the fact that you

32:01

like have this passion and this drive doesn't actually

32:03

mean that everything is going to line up. It

32:05

was like at once totally devastating and exactly what

32:07

I needed to hear and like it really stuck

32:09

with me in a way that I don't think

32:11

any like I don't think anybody talks about this

32:13

movie at all and yet I like rate it

32:15

really highly. I've never heard of it before. I

32:17

think I've seen the imagery. I've definitely seen that

32:19

when you describe the paper I say it. Frank,

32:21

Frank Saibon's been around for a while but yeah

32:23

the film is very uh... I only

32:27

watched it once but I can't remember too much about it but I

32:29

do remember enjoying it quite a bit. Yeah

32:32

I really like it. Is that all the comedy drama? We've all

32:34

done comedy drama. Yeah Grand Theft was

32:36

my third choice. My second choice would have been Boyhood.

32:39

I love that film so

32:41

much. It is slightly too long but uh if

32:43

you know what Boyhood is, it's Richard Linkley's film

32:45

where he basically follows a

32:47

boy for about 20 years. I reckon

32:49

if you film that much material, if you film 20 years

32:51

worth of material you can have it be a bit long.

32:55

But yeah Richard Linkley is one of my favorite direct

32:57

types. I can put this film on in the background

32:59

at any time and just it's not always a

33:01

laugh but I just really like it and I just

33:03

love it. I'll watch anything Ethan Hawke does as well.

33:06

But yeah there we go. Matt you've got another

33:08

pick. Let's do the next one. I don't think

33:10

either of you are going to pick either of these. So I

33:12

am going to do it as a little cheeky double up. It's

33:16

for shooter action and it's

33:18

both Nidhogg and Towerfall Ascension. They're kind of

33:20

yeah they're one of the pieces. Exactly. So

33:23

I used to run a gaming bar for

33:25

a little bit and these two were constantly

33:27

in rotation. They were on each of the

33:29

PCs that we had. It was like everybody

33:32

just wanted, if it was two people you'd be

33:34

playing Nidhogg. If it was four people you'd be

33:36

playing Towerfall Ascension. Nidhogg is like a sensing game

33:39

where either one of you just wants to be

33:41

on the other side of the screen but you've

33:43

got to prevent each other and it was a

33:45

fun interplay of like who's got their sword the

33:47

highest up and who can like disarm each other

33:49

and then just run away as quick as possible.

33:51

It's great like you can just introduce somebody to

33:53

it and they'll be playing it immediately. Towerfall

33:56

is a little bit more party game. It's like

33:59

you've got a bow and arrow, everyone

34:01

has got one with five arrows

34:03

depending on how you do your multipliers. And

34:06

if you get hit, that's it for the round. So you want

34:08

to rack up as many kills without

34:10

getting hit as possible. It's

34:12

still to this day, I think, one of the best

34:15

party games. You've got four people and

34:17

nothing to do. I'm on tell for it.

34:19

Yeah, it's good fun. It is

34:21

very good fun. Yeah, we'll let you have both

34:23

of those. But let's not make a

34:25

habit of it.

34:29

No, you've got one. You never get two picks in

34:31

a row, how does that feel? Shit.

34:35

No, it all evens

34:38

out. Okay, I'm

34:40

gonna go for shooter action as well.

34:42

Because I want to

34:44

take alien isolation off the board. Okay,

34:47

okay. You can have it. I had

34:49

notes in this one of Bioshock infinite

34:51

complete edition. GK five. The last of

34:53

us remastered all of these came out

34:56

in 2014. The one I okay, there

34:58

is something we'll go on. But I

35:00

thought no, because you know, like, I've

35:02

already I'm gonna cheese it with RPG

35:04

as well. So I've already cheesed it.

35:07

I'm not gonna do it again. Alienization

35:09

actually came out in 2014. And what

35:11

not just a

35:15

game but what a legacy a game has

35:17

left like something based on an IP with

35:20

a history of terrible games associated to

35:23

that IP to come along and really

35:25

like define the genre and change the

35:27

game so much so that is now

35:29

is like how Dark Souls is referred

35:32

to when comparing describing games

35:34

alien isolation is used for that for a

35:36

certain type of horror game. I still

35:39

I 100% think it's still a little

35:41

bit too long in the middle. I think I

35:43

think it could be a tighter experience. But what

35:46

a terrifying like horrible way to play

35:48

a game. It follows like I can

35:50

say the same things like it's all

35:52

about constant dread, isn't it? And

35:55

you can tell the impact it's had cuz even like if

35:57

you played side pump Phantom Liberty, there is a mission in

35:59

that game which kind of heavily borrowed it turns

36:01

into this game for like half an hour or two

36:03

an hour. So yeah, definitely one

36:05

of the most not one of my favorite games,

36:07

it's not I don't actually genuinely I love it.

36:09

I'm a weird when it comes to this. I

36:12

love horror film like this is a film I'd

36:14

lap it up. But like when it

36:16

I don't know, I just don't enjoy playing the game

36:18

coward. Yeah, it's because I'm tired. I'm just really just

36:20

coward. No, I know you mean especially this game. I

36:23

think I like to relax with games. And I think

36:25

and also something else that might may

36:27

or may not come up later is a PT where

36:29

it's like, you just respect the

36:31

craft and you think it's such like,

36:33

well, well made but praying it is

36:36

horrible. Same of

36:39

alien isolation, especially like on the harder

36:41

difficulties, which I've stupidly

36:44

done. But there's lots of

36:46

points out where I'm just like, am I

36:48

having a good time? I'm just like, relentlessly

36:50

stressed. Yeah. But yeah, the

36:52

craft of it is incredible. Nice.

36:55

I get two picks now you've both pitch shooter

36:57

and action haven't you? I can leave I can

37:00

leave that for who's picked

37:02

action thriller. I

37:04

did. I yeah, just not

37:06

me. Okay, I'm gonna take action thriller. I'm

37:09

gonna take a thriller. I'm

37:11

gonna take night crawler. Oh, what a

37:13

movie night crawler. Not a good show.

37:16

Top tier Jake Gyllenhaal weirdo

37:19

performance. In a career of

37:21

doing weirdos. If you

37:23

want a dark film, or even

37:25

border on nihilism. It's a pretty

37:27

nihilistic film. If it's

37:29

kind of holds a mirror

37:31

up to what society is turned into at that

37:34

point and kind of still is it's basically it's

37:36

a film all about you know, you hear the

37:38

term ambulance chaser. This guy's a literal ambulance chaser.

37:40

It's about people who chase

37:43

and go to like crime scenes and murder scenes

37:45

and get video and basically

37:48

try and make a career

37:50

out filming these horrible things and selling them

37:52

to new stations and it turned

37:55

into a deeper kind of plot

37:58

from there a deeper kind of conspiracy. conspiracy

38:00

thing going on that's how far

38:02

will Jake Chan the whole character who is this

38:04

sort of this I don't need to

38:06

call him a Gorilla reporter

38:09

results Yeah,

38:11

I like crawler How

38:13

far will he go and how

38:16

far is he you know? Where's

38:18

the line basically the film is about why I leave

38:20

the line and it is again such a kind of

38:23

just Grim oppressive tone base a

38:25

fantastic film. I really love the

38:27

ways in which he like his

38:29

Exists in doing the thing is reinvested

38:32

into making him become even more efficient

38:34

at doing it It isn't just

38:36

that he's like already doing this awful stuff He's

38:39

doing it to be able to get better

38:41

at doing it and more like quicker and

38:43

more efficient To be able to do

38:45

more awful stuff like

38:48

more often It's

38:50

good It's it's a gripe. It is

38:52

a film you watch in one of those afterwards you like

38:55

Well society is a bit fucked in it Like

38:58

but it's the same thing about

39:01

you're watching this and enjoying it be a light Oh,

39:03

I'm kind of kind of a

39:05

hypocrite for enjoying this on I have not

39:07

it's a movie. Yeah but

39:10

Yeah, not a career path. I'm gonna take

39:13

up any time interesting that they ditch the

39:15

X-Men origins prefix from the title as well

39:25

I've got another pick I've got another pick

39:28

I'm gonna go with the TV That

39:31

I've got five different seasons of whoa, you know fantastic

39:33

I've got a couple strong ones as well I'm gonna

39:35

have to pick the one cuz I think it may

39:37

be the best season of television ever made a nice

39:40

true detective season One yeah, I have to take the

39:42

number one. That's why I didn't even put it on

39:44

my list Because I

39:46

still haven't watched it Everyone

39:51

said like the second season wasn't as good and

39:53

the third was completely unrelated

39:55

I know but it makes me less likely

39:57

to get invested in something. Well, what? And

40:00

three is also fantastic. Yeah, I thought four in

40:03

the end was air. I Was

40:05

in between I think I'll just watch one at some point.

40:07

I will definitely watch what is Unbelievable

40:09

ten years the hell for can't say you have

40:12

no I mean lots of things I haven't seen

40:15

There's only so many hours. It's Yeah,

40:18

I think in the argument up there

40:20

with one or two seasons of the wire For

40:23

me as the best season of my

40:25

individual season of television. I've ever seen I'm

40:29

not gonna spoil it because they haven't seen it

40:31

for its Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrison as two

40:34

troubled detectives trying to solve a

40:36

serial murder case in America

40:39

and it jumps

40:41

between time periods of is it happening

40:43

of things happening now and thinks I

40:45

think I think roughly 10

40:48

to 15 years previously might even be

40:50

longer But it's just the

40:52

tone of The whole

40:55

thing is so again. There's a common theme when

40:57

I say it's just so grimy It's

40:59

just it's you know when you

41:01

watch it It's like when you watch the

41:03

original Texas Chainsaw Massacre It just like feels sweaty

41:05

and hot and just like this whole place

41:07

is just like yeah I think you

41:09

get the reference point so much for like games that

41:12

are based in like like when Resident Evil 7 was

41:14

released I love people use that as

41:16

a reference point and a bit of Alan

41:18

Wake. I suppose as well Like yeah, so

41:21

I'm very familiar with for like the tone.

41:23

Yeah, and the voice just it's it's

41:25

just unbelievably good I've

41:28

never seen it replicated but the scene where

41:33

Matthew McConaughey is talking about like them

41:35

faking as if something has happened while

41:37

Like it's showing him like shooting a machine

41:39

gun or whatever to pretend as if something

41:41

happened somewhere and him giving a system only

41:43

Of the thing so it didn't happen.

41:46

I've never seen anything else try and do that

41:48

as well And it's

41:50

not only it's all not all just moody

41:52

like detective work Even though there's an action

41:54

sequence towards the end of I think the

41:56

fifth or sixth episode There's just like a

41:58

one a like a ten minute What a

42:00

shot that's like in a shootout and it

42:02

just goes in and out all these houses

42:05

and down the road Just following mcconaughey And

42:07

it's just like don't think I

42:09

can compare that to is like some of the long

42:11

takes in children of men which are Unbelievable like it's

42:13

one of the great shots. I think and yeah, I

42:16

could what only what re-watch it recently But I could

42:18

yeah, maybe it's fine. Maybe I should It's

42:20

so good But yeah, like we're going to

42:22

the other TV once everyone's picked this but

42:25

I had four other like incredible seasons of

42:27

television To pick from I think I've got

42:29

one of yours. Well, there we go. It's Dale

42:31

first though. Mm-hmm I'm gonna

42:33

do TV as well while we're on that train and I'm

42:35

gonna say what I

42:37

think is one of the greatest TV shows of all time which

42:40

of lot of people have the Idea

42:42

that I dropped off, but I think the season

42:45

for us of Game of Thrones is

42:47

probably I'd

42:49

say probably the last great season of that show

42:51

I think season five and six are good still

42:54

I think four was like the last truly great

42:56

one because it was so slave it Slaves you

42:58

to the book at that point I find it

43:00

It's kind of by the end of five that

43:02

the box were done, you know, this is Pete

43:04

Joffrey as well, isn't it? No, Joffrey

43:07

died before this this is I died

43:09

in forward in me He's always making

43:11

the second episode of four actually, but

43:13

it's right at the start if he

43:15

does because it's more about like your

43:17

Tom in But it's where the Martels

43:19

arrived. So he's got the Viper versus the

43:21

mountain in the season It's also got the

43:23

the battle at Castle black Against

43:27

yeah, although all the people from the north and

43:29

this has got some incredible scenes in there and

43:31

it's like I said, it's just It's

43:34

also a season that builds on Ramsey

43:36

Bolton starts really establishing that he's the

43:38

new like real big bad after Joffrey

43:41

as well So no shit. Yeah, I

43:43

just think so it's just We

43:46

it's easy to forget how fucking good

43:48

Game of Thrones was because of what

43:50

the last thing legacy is Yeah,

43:52

yeah, and I think I think the corners turned a

43:54

little bit now of House of the Dragon because people

43:56

are remembering a little bit Oh wait, this stuff can

43:58

be really good again But

44:01

what a show. But it's not written by two lads

44:03

who've got their foot out the door. Yeah, exactly. I

44:06

do, yeah, I probably agree. Four is probably

44:09

lost consistently. Like five and

44:11

six have a somewhat my favourite. Like five I

44:13

think has hard home, right? Which is probably my

44:15

favourite. Five has really good highlights, but I remember

44:17

when that show came out, I remember there was

44:19

a bit of a narrative like this season's a

44:21

little bit boring, and then hard home came, and

44:23

then I think there's the... It seems to have

44:25

fixed the reign to Castamere. It's like... That's

44:28

earlier on than that, I think. Which

44:30

one of my things has The Battle of the Bastards in

44:32

it at the end. But yeah. This

44:36

was a, I think, like you said, it's P like three,

44:38

four, five, six for me, or three,

44:40

four, five maybe. Yeah, it was really

44:42

great. But yeah, good

44:44

stuff. That was my second choice for TV. I've

44:48

got others. Matt? Yeah, let's

44:50

get TV out of the way. So I

44:52

had a couple other things as well. We had

44:54

BoJack Horseman's first season,

44:57

which isn't really its best. I think

44:59

it gets strayed later on, but still absolutely

45:02

worth talking about here. Holton

45:04

Catchfire was one that I thought that you'd

45:06

mention, Cardi. So this is one of those

45:08

series that I know I'll love. I've just never got around

45:10

to watching it, and I

45:12

know I'll love it, and I do need to watch it.

45:15

It's also one of those cases where, yeah, that first season

45:17

isn't necessarily its best, but it's really strong. But

45:20

for me, it was the full... I've talked about it

45:22

on the show before, but it's Over the Garden Wall.

45:25

The Elijah Wood animated

45:27

show out, like, some kids just

45:29

being lost and trying to find their way home,

45:31

and this weird, like, ghibli-esque, weird,

45:35

unexplained world that gradually evolves in its mystery

45:38

and then gets uncovered towards the end. I

45:40

watch it every Halloween season. It's, like, I

45:43

think just a part of me at this

45:45

point. I've still never watched it,

45:47

but I do know a lot of people. They always

45:49

recommend I do need to do it at some point,

45:51

because, yeah, it just sounds weird.

45:53

Shockingly, none of us had Fargo. I thought that

45:56

would be a big knock in that. I don't

45:58

know. So I do have... have

46:00

part one of the last season of madmen

46:02

but I think it's part two that's the

46:04

sensational part like part one is still very

46:07

good I also had the

46:09

first season the leftovers which is amazing

46:13

and also had season two of Hannibal which has

46:15

an incredible ending to it got a lot of

46:17

good stuff in that season yeah damn good

46:20

television yeah good time for

46:22

television I'll get back into puzzle and

46:25

adventure for my next category I think

46:27

I'll take Hearthstone for a second this

46:29

one will that is a

46:32

very good game so not

46:34

peak of my enjoyment of Hearthstone I think

46:36

like after the next expansion comes out is

46:38

like when I enjoyed it the most which

46:40

might have been that year I can't really

46:42

remember but like the original

46:45

deck of cards was mostly about like how

46:47

their base interactions worked and

46:49

then like more complicated stuff got added but

46:51

this was before it became so complicated

46:54

that like you know

46:57

it was interesting in the

47:01

base design that it built but didn't become like

47:03

unwieldy in the way that it is now really

47:06

great I sound like a lot of evenings

47:08

playing the arena mode as well where you have like

47:11

coins that you could use the random draft stuff and

47:13

then you know you'd get basically the money that you

47:15

would have spent back by winning

47:17

it great

47:19

time yeah I

47:21

I played a lot when it first came out but

47:24

I felt like yeah I thought from the time

47:26

I thought I would enjoy jump back into that I don't know

47:28

how lost I'd be at this point and yeah

47:31

it surprised

47:33

me that people still play but then I was on a

47:35

trip earlier in the year and then there was several people

47:37

talking about their Pokemon go and I was like people still

47:39

play this as well I guess for me I just think

47:42

of those those sort of things is like a moment in

47:44

time a snapshot that I thought people would move off so

47:47

when you're surprised that ten years later someone's

47:49

still playing words of friends like what people

47:51

like people

47:54

I still sit next to people on the train they're

47:56

playing candy crush yeah people

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50:22

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50:33

it is so tricky choosing this. Two

50:36

that I know are definitely not is one though there

50:38

was a force awakens T-shaped trailer that year.

50:40

I don't know if you guys remember that. It was like an

50:42

incredible moment. No, that's the

50:44

second one. So this is like

50:46

the first shot is Finn jumping up in the desert

50:49

and stuff. But

50:58

the excitement levels. I watch that

51:00

trailer so many goddamn times. But,

51:03

and there's also, I don't know if you remember 2014 was the year

51:05

of the ALS Ice Bucket

51:08

Challenge as well. I always remember when there's

51:10

like a little toddler two year old girl

51:12

who gets it done and then she goes,

51:14

oh fucking hell. Really funny. But that's a

51:16

run up. Oh, I've got two others. Which

51:18

one is going to win? Oh

51:20

my God. Right. Yeah. The

51:24

run up is against a dumb Starbucks

51:27

opened in 2014. Very

51:29

good. Very good moment. Which

51:31

is absolutely fantastic for those that know

51:33

from Nathan for you where he convinced

51:36

a coffee shop owner to open a parody version of Starbucks,

51:38

dumb Starbucks. And there was people who

51:40

legit me for, cause it was an art installation.

51:42

They legit me for it was like Banksy's work

51:44

in LA. So

51:46

good. But the winner is

51:49

it's got to be my wild card. 2014

51:52

is when John Travolta came on the stage

51:56

and tried to introduce Adina

51:58

Menzel and didn't know how

52:00

to pronounce the name. so

52:02

that pronounced that Adele Dazeem

52:04

could perform the Oscar nominated

52:06

gorgeously empowering song let it

52:08

go from the Oscar winning

52:10

animated movie Frozen please welcome

52:12

the wickedly talented one and

52:14

only Adele Dazeem If

52:21

I want to make my wife laugh at

52:23

any moment I could just walk in and

52:25

say the wickedly talented Adele Dazeem I'm going

52:27

to start laughing It's

52:29

not even near being right I'm going

52:31

to say four syllables and it's the best

52:33

thing about it is you see this pause

52:35

this moment where he clearly looks at the

52:37

teleprompter but he can't read it properly

52:39

and he's just not sure he's like fuck it I'm

52:41

just going to have a go I'm going to have

52:43

to put the audio of that in on it I'm

52:46

going to actually edit this podcast and put audio clips

52:48

in and probably 10 seconds of songs from the albums

52:50

I'm just going to go for it Adele

52:52

Dazeem That

52:55

is very good What

53:01

a wildcard pick I'm going to pick my,

53:03

I've got two picks I'm going to pick my wildcard because

53:05

I only have one option down there because I know there's

53:07

only one thing from 2014 I want The

53:12

song wasn't recorded, the song was actually

53:14

recorded a few years previously but we

53:16

got an impromptu video recorded rap version

53:19

in 2014 and that is the

53:21

birth of Meat Free

53:23

mondays.com 2014

53:26

was when we got the

53:28

video of Paul McCartney rapping the Meat Free

53:30

Mondays song to the camera and

53:33

asking us to do it right now please

53:36

pledge.meatfreemondays.com

53:45

you can do it right now please We

53:49

said this yesterday as I, for me like he

53:51

was like the perfect human being until he did

53:53

that but you know in my eyes

53:55

anyway top 5 songwriter of all

53:57

time and then he comes out with it

54:02

I'm definitely playing a clip of that. He

54:04

also feels like he's got no rhythm while

54:06

he's doing it. I

54:08

think we were debating his day. I'm not quite sure if he's trying

54:11

to do some sort of South

54:13

Asian accent or if he's trying to do some

54:15

sort of Caribbean accent. Yeah, I was getting Jamaican

54:17

vibes. Yeah, I think he's going for more of

54:19

that. But it kind of ends in a different

54:21

part of the world. It's

54:23

all over the place. It's so

54:26

good. We say, I

54:28

think I'd slightly prefer it to the

54:30

Ringo star. No more family or peace

54:32

and love. Peace and love. God,

54:36

I love the beat. But

54:38

yeah, I'm having meat free Monday rap as my

54:41

wild card. That actually

54:43

sounds like a rap as in like a

54:45

launch item in

54:47

rapping. And

54:49

then I'm not going to do

54:51

my album because there's no way anyone's picking at either of these

54:53

two albums. I'll

54:56

do my sci-fi horror film and

54:59

I'll pick Interstellar. Oh, that was

55:01

2014. I didn't see that my search

55:03

is good film interstellar. That's very loud. I

55:06

know some people aren't as keen. I

55:08

think it's unbelievably good. I

55:11

do get why people have problems with

55:13

the whole bookcase stuff, but

55:15

I just buy in. I'm all in on it. That

55:17

film gets me. It

55:19

gets me emotionally. And I feel like some people

55:22

do say no one can be quite a cold

55:24

director. I point to quite a few scenes in

55:26

that film as proving the opposite of that. The

55:29

Matthew McConaughey stuff gets me, especially when he's

55:31

driving away to go to the start and

55:33

the kids are chasing it. That is, oh,

55:36

don't get it. Don't say the word

55:38

to me. You'll get me. Especially compared to Tenon.

55:40

It's like it's like nuclear heat

55:42

compared to that. I've

55:46

actually I've been reappraising Tenon in my mind.

55:48

I think I actually really know you don't.

55:50

I do. I've not scored. It's unbelievable. So

55:52

is the interstellar score to be fair. It's

55:56

a textual bad movie. I

55:59

actually. Anyway, I mean not till that end

56:01

of Stellar, which I love. I do have a problem

56:03

with the very last minute of that film. Not

56:07

the Anne Hathaway stuff, the stuff with Matthew O'Connor here right

56:09

near the end. I think it's a bit of a weird,

56:12

very abrupt. But

56:14

the journey towards that point is just, I

56:16

remember sitting there and I'm actually being blown away.

56:18

It just looks and sounds amazing. And yeah, just

56:23

Christopher Nolan, quite good at making films. Probably gonna win

56:25

loads of Oscars in two days time. Who knew? Good

56:28

luck to him. Nice guy. I

56:32

did have, I don't know if you want to talk about

56:34

other sci-fi horrors. I did have my second choice that year.

56:36

I had the Babadook. I had the Babadook. That

56:39

is a horror film that I refuse to go

56:41

back to because I don't want to put myself

56:43

through that again. I don't

56:45

want to put myself through that again. It's annoying as

56:47

well. If you haven't seen the Babadook, check it out

56:50

there. We were talking about fairy tale books. If you

56:52

want to see a truly evil fairy tale book in

56:55

an Australian kid's home, check

56:57

out the Babadook. Can

57:00

you imagine being a little kid watching that and

57:02

like how traumatised you'd be for a sea life?

57:04

I can't watch it. Yeah,

57:07

that was my run up for that. Those

57:09

are both my picks there. Dale, we've

57:12

only got what? Have we got two picks? I've got three. I've

57:15

got my RPG, music and

57:17

action thriller. Action

57:19

thriller, I'm gonna do that one. I did

57:21

consider Winter Soldier and Kingsman, but I think

57:23

John Wick is gonna be my pick for

57:26

that. Mainly because I

57:28

still think, and I know you guys will likely disagree,

57:30

that John Wick, the first John Wick is the best

57:32

John Wick. It's the one where I was invested

57:35

in the idea of John Wick.

57:37

I think it's tight, it's short,

57:41

it's not obsessed with the world

57:43

of assassins and coins and hotels

57:45

and stuff. It's just very like,

57:47

a lot of that's kept ambiguous.

57:50

And I think that's to its benefit. And it's just a

57:52

story about a guy who's really

57:54

good at killing, getting revenge about

57:56

his dog. And I just think,

57:58

yeah, what? I mean

58:00

it birthed like not only is load of

58:02

sequels but load of rip-offs as well. Yeah.

58:05

Just John Wick in general just leaves me a little bit

58:07

cold I think like all of them. Like when the first

58:10

one came out I was like yeah. Not

58:12

for me. I think Four might be my favourite just because it has

58:16

scenes I would watch again. I wouldn't watch the whole film

58:18

again but I will watch the Paris bit again. Yeah.

58:22

I think the stickers, yeah the stick in general although

58:24

it's like they're technically the craft is never better than

58:26

it has been in Four. I just

58:28

think it's worn a little bit thin for me where

58:30

it felt new and innovative in the first one and

58:33

yeah. I remember the excitement of when

58:35

that film came out and everybody said you need to

58:37

see John Wick. I did have

58:39

in Action thriller I also had thriller I

58:41

had Inherent Vice which is Paul Thomas Anderson's

58:44

film that year. I think his weakest film.

58:46

Still a pretty good film but Wacky Phoenix being

58:49

weird psychedelic detective and

58:51

I also had Gone Girl which is very

58:54

very good. If you want to

58:56

see Ben Affleck looking very worried

58:58

for two and a half hours

59:01

in a David Fincher film. There

59:04

we go. Matt you've

59:06

got a couple of them. I do. Yeah let's

59:08

get these out of the way. So my RPG I

59:10

should have picked Dark Souls 2 but I didn't. This

59:13

is technically Cheating because it was released

59:15

in Japan in 2010 but didn't actually

59:17

come to Europe. You're picking Danganronpa. I'm

59:19

picking Danganronpa Tricky. What a happy habit.

59:21

I thought about it. It's

59:23

very good. I mean it's more of a visual novel

59:25

than an RPG in theory. I'll let you have

59:27

it. But yeah just a

59:29

really interesting murder mystery story that

59:31

becomes a new murder mystery every

59:34

kind of hour. The

59:36

thing that I think will sell this is that it's

59:38

about a group of characters and a lot of them

59:40

are gradually getting killed off. But

59:42

it's always the characters that are like you

59:45

think they're probably most likely to die

59:47

are the ones that stay on the

59:49

longest and the least likely to be

59:51

killed. Some of the least interesting

59:54

characters are the ones that stay on the longest

59:56

because that's the most interesting thing narratively. It'd be

59:58

like no one's safe. I

1:00:00

still never thought I've played a good

1:00:02

chunk of this game twice, I've still never finished it. I

1:00:04

just need to get back. It's just, they are just too

1:00:06

long. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I haven't really

1:00:08

checked out any of the other ones, but I really like this one

1:00:11

a lot. My,

1:00:13

I only had one other RPG that I

1:00:15

could say I confidently played that year and

1:00:17

it was Child of Light. Did you play

1:00:19

that? The UBR RPG game? Look,

1:00:22

I don't remember too much of playing it. I

1:00:24

know I enjoyed it. It looks stunning, it's like

1:00:27

kind of that wasted UBR engine which they've kind

1:00:29

of stopped using now, which is like really nice

1:00:31

looking games, but yeah, Child of Light was

1:00:33

a fun one. I think I played it on the Vita. This

1:00:35

was like my peak Vita time and I was playing a lot

1:00:37

of Vita games. What

1:00:40

a time to be alive. Do

1:00:42

you have one more pick? I do, I've got two

1:00:44

more things, but so for my wild card, it was

1:00:47

just because I'm here, it was going to be Anime

1:00:49

of the Year, which I'll brush

1:00:51

off. It was Haikyuu, Haikyuu was the best. But

1:00:54

my like actual favorite thing of the

1:00:56

year was former Prime Minister Liz Truss

1:01:00

saying, in December, I'll be

1:01:02

in Beijing opening up new pork market. Oh

1:01:04

yeah, that in 2014. That was 10 years

1:01:06

ago, Jesus Christ. In

1:01:10

December, I'll be in Beijing opening

1:01:13

up new pork markets. We

1:01:17

also had Press S to pay respect that

1:01:19

year as well. Oh, shit, about that year.

1:01:21

Yeah, and too many cooks came out that

1:01:24

year too. God, I forgot about that. Mm-hmm.

1:01:26

Good year for weird shit. The

1:01:29

pork markets, whatever happened to those? Dale,

1:01:33

you've got a pick. Yeah, I've got

1:01:36

two left. Let's do

1:01:38

music. It was kind of slim picking for

1:01:40

me this year. I thought the

1:01:42

two that stood out for me, Run the Jewels 2, is

1:01:44

something I still listen to regularly. Oh, yeah, banger. But

1:01:47

the one I chose is a Royal Blood Stereo album

1:01:49

called Royal Blood, mainly because I love the album. I

1:01:52

still listen to the album and I went to see

1:01:54

them on that tour. So it really like leads to

1:01:56

last memory. And I also remember Luke from our Australian

1:01:58

team when he came over. and we did a

1:02:00

trip with you Cardi and I remember seeing him listening to

1:02:02

Royal Blond on the phone and we had a little moment

1:02:05

of bonding over here. I

1:02:31

think the second was alright but then it's kind

1:02:33

of gone off. They were a bit of a

1:02:35

one trip pony. There's only so much, I mean,

1:02:38

it's not as stupid as things say, so much you can

1:02:40

do with one guitar and one drum. I

1:02:43

mean there's definitely a bit of that but yeah

1:02:45

the live show kind of, yeah they've also had

1:02:47

a bit, obviously you've seen clips of them with

1:02:49

a bit of attitude issue on stage as well.

1:02:51

Yeah they think they're, I do like the description

1:02:53

of like yeah the Waitrose

1:02:55

rock band. Yeah but yeah that first

1:02:57

album was like a breath of fresh air at that point

1:03:00

I felt like. It was good, there's a lot of good

1:03:02

songs on that album. Yeah. Good

1:03:04

album. I've got a couple of picks now. I've

1:03:07

still got my shooter in action game and I am

1:03:09

actually gonna do, you kind of alluded to it earlier

1:03:11

Del, I'm gonna put The Last

1:03:13

of Us left behind because that came out in

1:03:16

February of 2014. One

1:03:19

of the all-time great DLCs, so one of the

1:03:21

all-time great games. What

1:03:24

more is there to say about The Last of Us? A DLC

1:03:26

that truly felt like, it

1:03:29

felt fair to be DLC but it felt like

1:03:31

it was always designed to be that way. Yeah

1:03:33

it was, it was additive and it just

1:03:36

works and it kind of teed

1:03:38

up what was to come in a great way. So

1:03:40

like it was, it felt like it was always the

1:03:42

plan is what I think. Yeah. So it wasn't just

1:03:44

like oh this game's done really well that Scrambles went

1:03:47

together. Like this was always obviously meant to be there.

1:03:49

But also it made perfect sense for it not being

1:03:51

in the main story as well. Because it felt like

1:03:53

it would have slowed down the moments that you were

1:03:55

going through at that point. Yeah I'm picking The

1:03:57

Last of Us. Oh I do have a couple of options

1:03:59

Wolfenstern. a new order came out that year. I

1:04:02

do prefer Walspine 2, New Colossus, quite

1:04:05

a bit more but new order is

1:04:07

still very good. And also Ground Zeroes came out Metal

1:04:09

Gear. Yeah I thought about that but

1:04:11

Phantom Pain I love but Ground Zeroes is

1:04:14

a demo really wasn't it? It was like a level.

1:04:16

I know there was a lot to do with it.

1:04:18

There is the Hips to Take that Ground Zeroes is

1:04:20

the best Metal Gear game but that is a Hips

1:04:22

to Take. They're wrong. Yeah, they're definitely wrong. I've

1:04:25

got my final pick which is Album. I've

1:04:29

got two choices here. Do I go for the

1:04:31

Emo or

1:04:34

the Hardcore?

1:04:36

Hardcore? I don't know. No, no I'm

1:04:39

not going to have thought of it. So my run

1:04:42

off will be Every Time I Die is from Parts

1:04:44

Unknown, one of my favourite bands ever. Not

1:04:46

their best album though, like their second or third best

1:04:48

album I think. So instead I'm going to go with

1:04:51

an album you've probably never heard of called Home

1:04:53

Like No Place There is by The Hotelier. Yeah.

1:04:56

If you know your emo then

1:04:58

you'll know this album is very

1:05:01

very good. It's just real like

1:05:04

resonates with me lyrically very much. And

1:05:06

yeah it's just a good throwback to

1:05:09

like the style of emo. So like Late

1:05:11

Night you know like American Football's album.

1:05:14

If you listen to that a lot it's good stuff.

1:05:24

Which

1:05:28

did you get

1:05:31

into first?

1:05:33

Was it

1:05:35

American Football the Sport

1:05:38

or American Football

1:05:42

the It

1:05:52

would have been the band I think. Would it have

1:05:54

been the... Did one preclude the other? I've got to

1:05:57

see what this is facing. I'd properly go into American

1:05:59

Football around. 2009 they'd never heard of it crazy

1:06:03

with a boy or I think I think it

1:06:05

would have been the band I think it would have been the

1:06:07

band just So I was properly digging

1:06:10

into 90's emo. Well, I know it's in my

1:06:12

teens. So it would have been just that that

1:06:14

yeah Good album. That's all of

1:06:16

my all of my pics Matt

1:06:19

what have you got left to pick? I might

1:06:21

still eat. Yeah, I've got one left as well.

1:06:23

It's me Yeah, you'll come back around to make

1:06:25

your turn I'm in the water. Oh, who

1:06:28

cares go through the mountain. This is the shit

1:06:30

one. Anyways the RPG one Let's get out the

1:06:32

way. I found a loophole It's

1:06:36

the only other RPG I could find that I've played

1:06:38

that came out in a version came out 2014 I

1:06:41

actually think it's shit, but I've played

1:06:44

it. It's Final Fantasy 13, which

1:06:46

came out to Windows in Well,

1:06:50

well, surely they re-released

1:06:52

like fire fantasy 6 But

1:06:57

I went through all the other ones all my favorite

1:06:59

RPGs and seen if there was like a version that

1:07:01

came out that yeah And this is the best I

1:07:03

could find about the Windows version Why

1:07:05

do you love that so much? Yeah,

1:07:10

here we are good great

1:07:12

great pick It's

1:07:16

too out like this the this the fake one

1:07:18

that I'm gonna tell you and then there's the

1:07:20

actual real one so the one that I love

1:07:22

now is School

1:07:24

by Q's oxymoron Play a

1:07:26

little bit of man of the year here or something Yeah,

1:07:29

that'd be the one great track.

1:07:31

The album. I was actually listening to most

1:07:34

was Nicki Minaj's pink print My

1:07:36

partner at the time we just constantly have it one of the car Yep,

1:07:39

you're in you get where you get to listen to one

1:07:42

of those which one are we listening to? Oh God No

1:07:46

Yeah, boxy moron be great, please somebody

1:08:00

There's a Taylor Swift big album that

1:08:02

came out that year as well. That

1:08:10

1989 that year? Yeah, I generally consider that

1:08:12

for a second. Did you? It's

1:08:14

not Taylor's version though. It's not my favorite. It's

1:08:16

not my favorite. Uh, Swizzle. There

1:08:19

we go. Has anyone got any more? Have we done

1:08:21

it? Have we done it? We've completely done it. I

1:08:24

might quickly just run through. So if you want, I

1:08:26

mean, I'm not gonna, there's not gonna be a place to actually vote for

1:08:28

this. Maybe we could tweet our poll.

1:08:30

I don't know. Um, I'd have to

1:08:33

actually put this somewhere. But, uh, my stuff, if

1:08:35

you want to vote for me this year, you

1:08:37

would be enjoying all of this and this is

1:08:39

all you'd be able to enjoy this year. You

1:08:41

know how to, you know how to play anything

1:08:43

else or watch anything else. This is what you'd

1:08:45

be doing. You'd be playing South Park the sticker

1:08:47

truth, The Last of Us Left Behind and The

1:08:49

Wolf Among Us. You'd be

1:08:51

watching Nightcrawler, Interspeller and Whiplash. God, that's

1:08:53

a little bit moody, innit? And

1:08:56

True Detective season one. You'd

1:08:59

be listening to The Hotelius, Home Light Night,

1:09:01

No Ladders To Be Had, A Crying at

1:09:03

the Pooh McAtney. Yeah. And

1:09:06

then you'd be watching the 42nd Meet 3 Monday

1:09:08

Wrap On Repeat for the rest of the year.

1:09:11

Blake. Um, Dale, what would we be doing with you? Oh,

1:09:13

we'd be having a bit more fun. We'd be playing Final

1:09:15

Fantasy 13, unfortunately. Would we be having fun on Windows? You'd

1:09:18

be playing Alien Isolation and Pegil 2. That's

1:09:21

pretty fun. You'd be

1:09:23

watching Edge of Tomorrow or Live, Die, Repeat,

1:09:25

John Wick and Bad Neighbours. And

1:09:28

also Game of Thrones on TV, season four.

1:09:30

And you'd be listening to Royal Blooms album

1:09:32

while enjoying John Travolta trying to put out

1:09:34

Athena Mendelssohn. I

1:09:38

was right. You'd be playing Danganronpa.

1:09:40

You'd be playing Hearthstone. You'd be

1:09:42

playing both Nidhogg and Tower Full

1:09:44

Ascension. You'd be watching Friends there.

1:09:48

You'd be watching It Follows. You'd be

1:09:50

watching Guardians. You'd be watching Frank and

1:09:52

Over the Garden Wall. You'd

1:09:54

be listening to Schoolbook Use Oxymoron. And

1:09:56

you'd be opening up new pork markets

1:09:59

in Beijing. Fantastic.

1:10:02

What a selection of things. 2014!

1:10:04

What a year! We

1:10:07

might do this again sometime in the future when we have

1:10:09

nothing to talk about and we'll pick it, I don't know,

1:10:11

another random year. I don't know, there's no logic to any

1:10:13

of this really. But that was good. Fun.

1:10:15

Let us know what your favourite thing

1:10:18

in 2014 was. IGN unscored UK podcast

1:10:20

at ign.com. That's

1:10:23

not... Is that it? IGN unscored UK feedback

1:10:25

at ign.com. I've only said that

1:10:27

probably 2000 times in my

1:10:29

life now. There we go. Just

1:10:32

like these people have. Matt, you've got

1:10:35

the first email. I do, but I

1:10:37

also don't have it pulled up anywhere.

1:10:39

We're going to have to do a

1:10:41

little bit of editing. It is from

1:10:44

Will Holmes. That's the start.

1:10:46

It's going to be Will Holmes is the name.

1:10:48

I've got to feel fine with that. A

1:10:50

dead-old in from a dead-old disease. One

1:10:52

kind of thing that's been cooler. After

1:10:54

hearing the team last week talking about

1:10:56

bringing back Gunge to Children's TV, I

1:10:59

said Christmas TV. I liked Gunge of

1:11:01

Christmas. I feel compelled to write

1:11:03

in and let you know that Gunge never

1:11:05

left British TV. Last year I worked as

1:11:07

assistant producer on the sixth series of CBBC's

1:11:09

Saturday Mashup Live, a weekly two and a

1:11:12

half hour long live show complete with cartoons,

1:11:14

puppets, celebs, fart jokes, live music,

1:11:16

silly games and of course Gunge. Every

1:11:19

episode would end with one of the celebrity

1:11:21

guests getting Gunge'd. Every one of them is

1:11:23

in quotation marks. From Strictly

1:11:25

Come Dancing professionals to the new gladiators,

1:11:27

it was a bucket list job to

1:11:29

tip off for me. I got to

1:11:31

dress up as a dinosaur and tackle

1:11:33

an assault course, get interviewed by a

1:11:35

puppet, write silly sketches and even get

1:11:37

Gunge'd whilst Children's TV is dominated by

1:11:39

cartoons these days. Live Saturday morning shows

1:11:41

still exist, although it's a dying art

1:11:43

form. Respect the city, Will. Thank you so

1:11:46

much, Will. So they're not Gunge

1:11:48

the kids anymore? Is that a rule?

1:11:52

I want to know what it's like

1:11:54

post Gungean. Like, is it like

1:11:56

very easily washable or does it leave like

1:11:59

a lasting sort of stickiness or smell or

1:12:01

like a shower on site surely what's it

1:12:03

made of what tell me about the gun

1:12:06

yeah well what is he gonna do yeah

1:12:08

what does it smell yeah I don't know

1:12:10

I'm thinking of a gunge I want to

1:12:12

know I feel like it would leave a

1:12:14

lasting sort of like scent in your nostrils

1:12:17

I would yeah you'd be feeling at least for

1:12:19

the rest of the day probably when you woke

1:12:21

up you'd be having double you knew you've got

1:12:23

guns that next day yeah you know when you've

1:12:25

been I've got

1:12:27

an email from Nick Rowley he says yes

1:12:30

yes guys and girls of the IGN crew

1:12:32

I trust you all are well is everyone

1:12:34

well with the rumored news

1:12:36

of the successes

1:12:39

of the switch being delayed until 2025 it

1:12:42

got me to thinking on where the direction

1:12:44

of launch spotlight titles of this new console

1:12:47

will head a new 3d Mario

1:12:49

game sees almost seems almost guaranteed along

1:12:51

with Mario Kart 9 but will

1:12:53

the new console have a unique selling point

1:12:56

or innovative element Nintendo are renowned for one

1:12:59

more system selling title the Legend of Zelda seems

1:13:01

miles away with just over six years between breath

1:13:03

the world and tears of the kingdom do you

1:13:05

think we'll be waiting until 2029 for

1:13:08

his elder game we

1:13:11

can answer that question now I think yeah

1:13:13

we'll be waiting a while for a Zelda

1:13:15

game oh yeah I think we'll probably be

1:13:17

waiting even longer because they'll probably do something

1:13:19

completely new I'm around watch them re-release tears

1:13:22

of the kingdom in some new form maybe

1:13:24

imagine they pour spirit tracks to the new

1:13:26

thing you know they could

1:13:28

literally just like remaster an old Zelda

1:13:30

game actually genuinely 3d minish cap might

1:13:32

be pretty cool yeah we're

1:13:34

kind of getting that Nick does go

1:13:37

on to us do we think we'll be getting

1:13:39

a remake some remasters as elder games I mean

1:13:41

they've been I do feel like they

1:13:43

might be them I know

1:13:45

nothing here I wouldn't be surprised if later this year

1:13:48

we do get some just because if the rumors are

1:13:50

true and they were planning to launch the console this

1:13:52

year and it's now the later next year they need

1:13:54

something to release this year and it seems like the

1:13:57

sort of thing you'd keep in your back pocket for a rainy day

1:13:59

if you didn't It's like let's re-release some games

1:14:01

and get a bit of cash that way

1:14:03

but Just put Wind

1:14:05

Waker HD on switch. Just do it. Yeah,

1:14:08

please. I want to play it and

1:14:12

Also, there's an addendum a forgotten TV

1:14:14

show with the Queen's nose do love

1:14:16

the Queen's nose It was very good

1:14:18

with harmony and melody Getting

1:14:20

all their wishes come true for better and worse

1:14:24

harrowing TV movie movie from ancient history

1:14:26

Watership down from 1978 a lot of people

1:14:28

always mention water down as being harrowing I

1:14:31

have no idea why my mum left me

1:14:33

watch that regardless of age I was eight

1:14:35

when I first saw it and she asked

1:14:37

me if I want to wrap it as

1:14:39

a pet Are you kidding me? What if

1:14:41

we had adopt a general wound

1:14:43

walk? Thank you There

1:14:46

we go. What's your down is a is a

1:14:48

traumatic one for every single child in the world. I

1:14:50

think There we go

1:14:52

Dale, what else have we got? This is

1:14:55

from Brad. No surname. Just Brad He says

1:14:57

hi guys. Very long time listener six years,

1:14:59

but first time caller Everyone's

1:15:02

going on about the endless search while I

1:15:04

totally agree with everyone The thing we need

1:15:07

to bring back is the football day segment

1:15:09

must admit the mr Must

1:15:12

admit I missed the random transfers row to

1:15:14

the cup and demise in the leagues respect

1:15:16

the sea all the best Brad I

1:15:19

think sadly it would just be me and Dale talking

1:15:21

about wow these days. So we For

1:15:25

like hardcore listeners a podcast my member. I

1:15:27

don't know probably about hundred episodes ago We

1:15:29

had someone called Rob Robert on the podcast

1:15:31

with us. He works in IGN's commerce team

1:15:33

and We spoke

1:15:35

to him yesterday and he was slightly reluctant to be

1:15:37

on the podcast, but he is a massive football fan

1:15:39

He supports gilling them as well. So you never know

1:15:42

maybe we can get him in We'll

1:15:44

have a jilling league one of the moment

1:15:46

lead to lead to I think you know,

1:15:48

okay Well, we've always got the full ladder

1:15:50

between us. Then there we go

1:15:52

Yeah, I've I actually started new spare save and won

1:15:55

the double in my first season. That's a bit too

1:15:57

easy Come on

1:15:59

and get it going I've only had one save

1:16:01

this year and I've dropped off of it

1:16:03

and I don't know, I'm not feeling it.

1:16:06

I won the double and then Saudi Club came

1:16:09

in and said, do you want $140 million for

1:16:11

Sond? I'm like, it's $32 million. I

1:16:14

have seen that, there's lots of dodgy stuff

1:16:16

going on with Saudi money. You can just

1:16:18

keep rejecting how often they'll just give you

1:16:20

more and more money. Yeah, you can rinse

1:16:22

it. It's kind of broken a bit. This

1:16:24

full magic is too easy. I've said this before, it's

1:16:26

too easy. Anyway, there

1:16:29

you go, it's a tiny bit of full magic chat. igen

1:16:31

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1:16:36

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1:16:38

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1:16:41

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1:16:45

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1:17:33

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1:17:41

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your podcasts. We dream

1:18:10

about it. We both dream about it.

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How often? Every night.