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This is 5 reasons why you should play Fallout 4

 1.       Fallout 4 is going to be one of the longest games with over 400 hours of game play. That's months of you living in the wasteland. I know I will be losing weeks of my youth immersed in this game.

2.       Crafting! You'll need things to survive in an apocalypse. There will be no limitations on how much you can craft and create. Everything in the wasteland can be useful including those rusty scraps of metal. Everyone likes minecraft right?

3.       This will be the biggest Fallout yet with over 700 weapon modifications and armour upgrades. At a crisp 1080p and 30 frames per second, you'll keep the game looking fresh as you jetpack around  dominating Rad Roaches with new customised badass weaponry.

4.       You will never be alone as you're building a community. With 111,000 lines of dialogue you need somebody to talk to. Starting with your loyal companion Dogmeat. You can begin to rebuild society one NPC at a time.

5.       It's Fallout. One of the most beloved and addictive games of all time. judging off previous titles this open world first/third person shooter will keep you entertained through the apocalypse.

Video here: https://youtu.be/uoYypIB9qmc

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Rocket League's Change is Perfect Timing

On the 27th of October I logged on to Rocket League; I logged on with the intention that this would be my last time. That day would be my last hurrah in the game and I hoped I would finally unlock the last of the 6 Halloween limited of time items. Unlocking that item was the final thing still left to achieve as just less than a week ago, I 100% the game and felt it was time to hang up my tires. During this session, I did finally unlock the Day of the Dead inspired skull antenna “Calavera”. I felt accomplished. I’ve beaten this game once and for all. Now it’s time to turn my attention to Fallout 4 soon.

Well, so I thought. On the 28th of October, I had a rough day at work and I wanted to come home & play a game that I didn’t have to think about at all. So I did what I said I wasn’t going to do, I started up Rocket League. As I started it up and hit start I was confronted by their in game announcement:

CHANGE IS COMING

It didn’t go into specifics, except outline there was a new trailer released. I immediately looked it up. My immediate thought was: Holy expletive. Rocket League, you magnificent bastard you did it again. You have stolen my attention in this fragmented world of media & gaming. Not only did you take me by surprise the first time when you appeared on my PS4 for free as a PlayStation Plus member. But now when I finally thought I was done with our relationship, here you go again stepping up offering the most amazing DLC and once again for FREE!

This November, Rocket League is adding in a feature they are calling “Mutators”. Mutators will allow you to change many aspects of the game, from playing in low-gravity, or playing with a square ball. What’s best is you can change these at your discretion, or play a play list of varying mutators to keep things fresh & interesting.

This update alone is enough for me to reconsider spending every gaming hour I have on Fallout 4. The developers over at Psyonix though you know what, let’s change the goal posts. So this December, Rocket League will be receiving the biggest game change to date. It will no longer be just soccer inspired. Rocket League is getting a chilling make over to becoming a full inspired Rocket fuelled Ice Hockey game. The arenas turn icy, the Ball turns into a putt and I turn into a 5 year old waiting for Christmas morning.

It feels like the guys over at Psyonix are right on the pulse of the gaming community. A mostly free launch, timely updates, simple ideas and micro transactions that are simply cosmetic. If they keep this up, Rocket League will continue to be my game of choice every evening.

Check out the trailer, tell me will this be making you boost one more time?

https://youtu.be/cEH2hUw-d_U

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This Weeks Content

This weeks content may sound a little strange. That is because we ran into some sound issues that we didn't find out until the day shooting was done.So basically all content this week was captured by our backup sound recorder. Why do we have a back up sound recorder? We have learnt the hard way before. At least this way the show will go on. We hope you still enjoy. Cheers,The Catch Hub Crew

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We have been making a lot of content lately & we are curious of what show varient is your favourite. If you could be so kind & click the links below & vote :)

Gaming: http://strawpoll.me/5068327 Film: http://strawpoll.me/5069024 Cheers

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Fantastic 4 Review

It’s hard to give a review about a movie when a year’s worth of bad press has warped the audience’s expectations and when bad production affects the movie’s final cut. However, when watching a movie all you can do is watch it at face value and leave every thought you have at the door. So forget everything you know about the Fantastic Four and its material (sorry fans) and forget the infamous behind the scenes stories you heard about on the news and watch this movie with a blank canvas. If you take the movie as it is you may find yourself watching a small 90 minute indie B sci-fi/monster movie for the 80s. Some of its creative ideas may be more appreciated or forgiven that way. A great concept is brought on about 5 scientists/astronauts exploring another dimension only to find themselves trapped in a David Cronenberg movie (The Fly 1986) with a touch of Ridley Scott (Prometheus 2012). The film treats the fantastic four’s obscure abilities not as superpowers but rather more as mutated illnesses where they have dangerously exposed themselves to some alien energy and are then kept in a facility run by the Government where they weaponised The Thing with future plans for Johnny and Sue Storm along with Reed Richards on the run lead by fear and with the promise of coming up with a cure. They say sometimes a film takes on a life of its own and despite the Fantastic 4 being adapted from a superhero comic book and Fox setting out to make a superhero movie, the film seemingly doesn’t really want to be taken as one. Especially, since there’s very little action scenes in the film, however, what does seem likely is that Fox got cold feet with the ‘idea’ they originally intended and felt the need to throw in a clichéd  superhero climatic battle in the end to make it feel more like the movie people were expecting to see; a superhero film. Unfortunately, the film’s story does seem unfinished along with some character development and their motivations are not explained but lost on the cutting room floor.

Written by Robert MacFarlane

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The Death of 'Superman Lives' What Happened?

Get ‘schweaty’ for the documentary, The Death of 'Superman Lives' What Happened? as the Director, John Schneppe takes you on a journey at exploring the story about how Superman Lives a.k.a "Superman: Rebranded for the Next Generation", became such a bizarre and strange retelling of Superman and why the plug got pulled three weeks before filming could even begin. Superman Lives went through three writers, Kevin Smith, Wesley Strick and Dan Gilroy, and had Tim Burton set to direct with Jon Peters as Producer who both had previously worked on Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) in their respective fields, and lastly, with Nicolas Cage to play the role of Superman. 

The documentary uses a range of artistic mediums to edit together interviews, old archive videos, concept artworks and animation to help bring a perspective to the film’s development process. Kevin Smith’s and Jon Peter’s interviews are the highlights of the documentary delivering the most interesting parts of the narrative. However, it is unfortunate, Nicolas Cage isn’t interviewed and is only seen in the old archive videos, as it would have added something special to hear from his side of the story.

This is a documentary for the fans and would not have happened either, without the fans coming together to help fund the film using Kickstarter. Despite being a crowd pleaser this documentary does suffer from a limited budget during its making as there is a noticeable range from good and bad camera, sound and VFX quality as Schneppe and crew cycle through different equipment when hiring throughout the two and a half years it was in development.

Written By Robert McFarlane

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Ant-Man Review

It’s the end of Marvel Studios’ Phase Two, with Ant-Man proving to audiences everywhere you don’t need to go big like they did with Avengers: Age of Ultron to make another successful superhero movie. Changing up how they make their movies through the guise of different genres has helped Marvel keep their expanding universe fresh and on point to their characters. Ant-Man is nothing short than a heist film where Dr. Hank Pym recruits a robber burglar, Scott Lang, in desperate need of a second chance in life, to don the Ant-Man suit to help the Doctor and his feisty daughter, Hope, stop and bring down his jilted prodeje, Darren Cross, (Pym Tech’s rising-star) from replicating the Pym particle serum and using it for war profiteering. 

After being in development for nearly 10 years with Edgar Wright writing and set to direct but ended up parting with Marvel over “creative differences”, Peyton Reed stepped up to the plate to be in the Director’s chair and does an amazing job bringing Ant-Man’s world to life. Using a combination of motion picture macro photography, still macro photography and motion capture they were able to create these really photo realistic environments to show something that has never been seen before on the big screen. Despite, seemingly borrowing a similar structure to Iron Man, where envious businessmen just can’t get enough of suits, Ant Man sets itself up nicely and achieves the difficult task of not taking itself too seriously while respecting the source material. Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly and Paul Rudd all have incredible chemistry together in which it became the strongest part in the movie watching them plan the heist and training Scott Lang how to use the suit. Also, having the power to shrink to the size of an insect paved the way for creative fight scenes that were both funny and entertaining.

Written by Robert McFarlane

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Did you notice we begun posting our gaming videos? 

We led with this beauty – we take our favourite game Towerfall & change the rules completely so it’s an even playing field. We like to call it a Challenge.

We then posted a video in Super MeatBoy, except we did it in a fashion we like to call two guys one controller. https://youtu.be/ISOnZxtISQ8

Then we have posted a short but sweet let’s play we call Funny Moments where we share some the funny moments we have whilst playing games together – this time it was in GTA V, it was late at night and we started becoming a bit delirious and developed a whole back story for the car we drove. https://youtu.be/gdtbWez4Nco

If you like these, please let us know & subscribe to our channel.

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Terminator: Genisys Review

Terminator Genisys tries to continue and regenerate itself to modern audiences with time travel nostalgia where its best ideas are only the ones that already exist in the Terminator franchise, leaving you feeling it’s nothing more than just another popcorn flick cashing in on its own name. T5 fails to deliver an interesting plot and ruined a probable big reveal by spoiling the moment in the trailer. 

All three main actors who play Kyle Reese, Sarah & John Connor will feel miscast and the writers finding it difficult to develop them any further, a consequence of being the fifth instalment where your audience already knows the characters pretty well. 

Arnold is the only welcomed presence on screen and delivers his lines and action scenes with ease. Filled with lots of action like the Arnold T-800 V Arnold T-800 is a definite highlight along with Terminator traps and the opening war scene. However, other action scenes are unsatisfying, particularly the car chases and the climactic battle. 

-Written by Robert McFarlane

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Jurassic World Review

Jurassic World is an 150 million dollar B monster-movie that comes with campy-fun special effects and stereotypical characters with some cheesy dialogue. This fourth instalment seemingly wanting to be the true sequel to Jurassic Park, welcomes you into the obscure world of ‘genetically-modified dinosaurs’. Which is a nice little titbit from the movie in explaining why the ‘dinosaurs’ aren’t genetically correct; explaining difference in size and absence of feathers. Struggling to stay open and relevant in today’s fast paced, tech-culture with their i-Pads and i-Phones, and not because of the danger that comes with it, comes a new attraction, a new hybrid of ‘dinosaur’, appropriately named, i-rex. Filled with some awe and wonder Jurassic World doesn’t reach up to the levels of the first movie but delivers on the nostalgia and the last 30 minutes of the movie alone is tongue in cheek- badass and well worth the ticket price. 

- Written by Robert McFarlane

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Nearly There

We have been teasing for months about new content, alot of content and plenty for all to see. We’ll we are nearly there.

I know if you’re reading this you really want to know what’s been going on. We’ll we have had a ton of ideas and for content flow through us. We have made dozens of shows and scrapped dozens more. We have been filming every week for 6 months now, but we aim to be relevant and consistent whilst still working our normal jobs.

We aim to give you 7 videos a week 365 days a year. That’s a video a day. But all your seeing now is podcasts, what are the rest of the videos?

Well we have four gaming shows full of variety games and popular games. These aren’t just let’s plays in fact most aren’t and have a unique flavour to them.

We have two film inspired shows, one that is going to push films and offer a new perspective on them, the other will do the same but more casual and relaxed.

However we are dedicated not just to show you these shows but we will endeavour to add bunch more to our schedule.

Ultimately if you want to support us, stick around and enjoy the ride, cause we promise you this regardless of the outcome we are still going to catch up every week. So why not join our hub right here every day on thecatchhub.com

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The beginning is near

So today we are uploading our 10th Catch Up. We are 10 episodes in and we haven’t even begun to showcase what we are all about. Within this 10hrs worth of content we have provided we have hinted time and time again on what is to follow. We have teased on our Facebook page, we have seen changes to our website. It is all leading to more content. 

So what has been holding us up? Simply put Technology. It was about episode 4 when our main editing computer decided to no longer work. We therefore believed it was best to not introduce our new content until we could be committed to a schedule. Now 6 episodes later, our computer has finally been repaired *knock wood* and we should be back on track to ramp up production.

If you have made it this far on our journey, thank you. I hope you stay for the ride we will soon dive whole hearty upon.

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Let's Catch Up

Right now I don't know a lot about you, and you don't know a lot about me. This is normally how relationships begin as complete strangers. Now I wouldn't call us complete and utter strangers, as I know for certain that you came from one of our other "HUB's" of content across the web. (Site Reporting Section Google Analytics) So that mean's by one definition or another you are not a complete stranger and you have a general idea on what the f**k we do and who we are. For that I would like to thank you, thanks for clicking  that extra link and making it to here, and thank you for reading this far.

Now what is it I can tell you about us that you may not already know. We'll you see, this isn't our first attempt at baking our own unique personality/gaming and film concoction on the internet. In fact given the countless blog's and multiple YouTube channel's I (Adrian) have created myself one would say I've been doing this for at least 6 years.

However I know you may be thinking, Why am I still reading this? If you're not asking that question by now I really do applauded you, but mostly feel sorry for you. However for some ill chance you are wondering, why now, what makes you different now from all these other attempts?

Simple answer - experience is only gathered by the doing.

I would not call our other attempt's failures. With the combined numbers of followers/subscribers and the like in the thousands on these past journey's, many would call these successful. Not only are the number's something to be proud of, but the experience  (not in the I'm wiser sense, but in the I just f**king climbed Mount Everest sense) was fantastic.

However the main difference's now are;

We have a team

We are skilled

We are passionate

We have a website

Mostly we have a vision.

That vision is when we catch up as mates each and every time to make a video, you too will catch up with us and just talk about shit we are passionate about, 'cause why on earth would we want to do anything else except what we enjoy.