Gen 7 Console Clusterf0ck | Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3

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Spent, like, not to fucking bend over backwards and remove a ribbon to my own horn here. Like, I got a pretty That's
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a Marilyn. Right? My own d or anything.
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Hey. Hey. That was not true, dude. That was the first, like that, like, that was, like, the first viral thing that I remember as a kid.
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Yeah. Yeah. A kid.
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There wasn't even Internet, and people were like,
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do you know that Marilyn Manson can suck his own dick because he took out a rib? I I have a vivid memory of of my brother and I. We were playing, like, that that South Park racing game on N 60 '4. And my brother was like, did you know that Marilyn Manson removed a dick or removed his dick so he
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could suck his ribs. Marilyn
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Manson removed the ribs so he could suck his own dick?
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He removed his dick so he could have all you can eat ribs.
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Dude, I fucking would Could you imagine if you got all your
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ribs removed? Montana's for all you can eat ribs. Marilyn Manson does it every fucking Wednesday night. Jones barbecue and foot massage.
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Welcome back to Superdust.
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The show that just keeps giving and giving and giving and giving me headaches and anxiety and
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Just like Jif peanut butter. It's it's kid tested mother approved.
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Is that what they say about that?
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No. I'm thinking of kicks. Oh, god. I'm such a fucking idiot. Jif is choosy moms like you choose Jif.
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So choosy moms like you choose
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super Choosy moms. That's that's like Jif out there, like, insulting people. Like, they're just like Who is this fucking choosy ass moms out here? Make a
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fucking peanut butter. It's peanut butter. It all tastes it all tastes like nuts.
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Well, hang on. We gotta we gotta get this out of way.
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Oh, fuck. Butter talk.
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Butter talk. Time for butter talk. Is a fox. Oh, man. This just in Iowa just ran out of fucking butter.
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Dude, God forbid Iowa runs out of butter. I don't know what the fuck will
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you guys are.
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But butter and mayonnaise.
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Peanut butter though.
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Peanut butter rules.
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Kraft peanut butter?
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Hold up. I don't think we have Kraft peanut butter in in a in The US, my friend.
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So then what the fuck do you have?
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There's Jif. I just said it, Jif. There's Jif.
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We have There's Jeff?
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Jeff's butt Jeff's butter? There's Jif.
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Jeff's baby butter?
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Oh, Peter Pan peanut butter, the one had all the glass in it back in the February. That was good. What? Oh my god. Yeah, dude.
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Everything's fucked down here in The States.
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Welcome back to Supergirls, your number one peanut butter podcast.
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Woah. This fucking craft peanut butter char looks like a like some kind of cult shit. It's just like two bears, like
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Two teddy bears?
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Yeah. Coming in for like a smooch, it looks like. They're like, buy our butter. Buy this butter or we're gonna kill them. Buy
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our butter. Yeah. So folks, if you if you if this is your first time, I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm Jerry and that's Aaron.
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And if you're shaking in the corner because you still haven't heard Greg and Beth's voices, it's because Oh, yeah. Well, we don't know where they are. We have no idea.
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I mean
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They've run off into the sunset.
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I have an idea, but I I will I will not tell anyone for less than $1,000,000.
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Yeah. You can keep your ideas.
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Head us up. $1,000,000 and I'll tell you exactly where Beth and Greg well, not exactly. But this I could for
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a million dollars, I could tell you exactly where they are. Like, enhance. Enhance. Yeah. They both be getting a call real soon.
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I like, guys, I need you guys to just, like, go stand in a park and I'm gonna tell a bunch of people who probably won't even react to this or act on it. I'm gonna tell them exactly where you are, and then we're gonna collect a million dollars.
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It's time for Beth Welch. And And send out a drone.
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Elizabeth Welch. Elizabeth Welch.
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It's just the noisiest drone in the planet.
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So normally on Super Ghost, we do talk about video games. We don't typically talk this much about peanut butter.
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Yeah. We'll get there to the video games, I mean.
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And like we used to we used to have fun on this podcast.
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Jesus. Okay.
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Fun here. We used to have fun. No, I'm kidding. We're gonna have some fun. We we put our noggins together this week and we were like, what should we bring to the viewers?
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I don't know why I'm talking. I don't know why I'm so I feel like I should be like opening a scroll and be like, to the viewers we bring. Like, Gary. We're gonna talk about a generation of gaming.
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Damn right we are.
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One of my favorites as of recently. And it's almost like, oh, man. So I'm gonna get a little heavy here. Ready to get a little heavy?
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Yes. I'm ready.
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There's a quote on the last episode of The Office. And it's by Andy. And he says something like, I wish they told you that the best moments of your life are these ones right now. Because you're always like, you know, you're always in the future like, oh my god, those are the best times when I was like ten years younger than I am now. And then in ten years time, you'll look back on this and be like, oh, fuck that.
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Yeah. Those were the days when I could still walk without everything cracking. Yeah, dude. Like, those were the fucking days. So I didn't realize gen seven has a real special place in my heart.
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And I'm not talking about gen seven Pokemon. I don't even well, what even is gen seven?
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Sun and Moon.
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Yeah. Fuck those guys.
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I scoop them.
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No. I don't wanna hear it. Okay. Gen seven consoles, ladies and gentlemen, and all you peoples. We're gonna talk about gen seven consoles.
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So buckle up. But first and that's all for the news.
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Maybe So. That's how you got something real fucking good.
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No. I have literally and oh, man. I got
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hang on. There's gotta be something good.
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Britney hasn't done anything in a while, dude. Like, I need to make a meme of, like, just Britney Spears laying on the ground in, like, that fucking is it the toxic video? I think she does, like, a lot of, like, ground moving. Because she
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know that toxic video. You know?
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Yeah. I know the song. I need I what I need to know is if there's ground movement. Do you know
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what mean? Yeah.
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Does she get down on the ground? Is she, like, moving stuff? Are you listening to me? Where is your attention?
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I'm listening. I'm also trying to
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What are you doing right now? I'm trying
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to find some news, but there's
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nothing. You get off your phone, dude. Right now, young man. This is a goddamn professional environment. Professional won't have this swap coming into my house.
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I guess Oh, yeah.
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Yeah. Britney hasn't done anything in a long time.
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Damn it.
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What? So, like, we need to make that meme of us just, like, poking her with a stick and be like, do something.
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How how are we supposed to podcast if Britney's not doing anything?
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I don't know. I guess I could just, like, type in Britney Spears Spears into the Google machine and click news.
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Come on, Brit. Come on, Brit. Brit knee.
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She hung around with Kim Kardashian. Oh, cool. That's There's just a lot of stuff over the last couple days of just like, why is Britney with the Kardashians? Find out next time.
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I'm Britney. I'll find out next time on super ghost. Yeah. Nothing interesting has really happened. I mean, I keep seeing a lot of shit about oh, was arc raiders is like, oh, the game is so good because we use AI for some things and people are shitting on that.
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But, like, I mean, whatever. I don't know the whole story behind it. There's also, I guess, the the mega bonk dev withdrew his game from the the game awards. That's kinda interesting. I don't I didn't read
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too much into it. Because the game's not finished.
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That makes sense. Yeah.
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I see the same thing and people are like, this is ridiculous. Yet again, another year where and then just were hating on the nominee. The the the big. And then
[00:09:50] - [Aaron]
I've got something. I've got something. I this is a big one I keep seeing all over fucking, all over everywhere. So, Shroud, the streamer guy, he keeps
[00:10:01] - [Gerry]
Okay. I thought you're gonna start this up with but
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she's saying Shrek. Mean, that'd be he's basically Shrek, but he keeps going like, oh, expedition 33 needs to be pulled from the game awards, and, arc raiders should win the game awards because because better game. But, like, dude, that is that's pretty subjective, man. Like
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Look, here's
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A lot of people like single player RPGs, and then there's a lot of people that like extraction shooters. Go fuck
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yourself, Here's what I'll say. If you are listening to this show right now and you like extraction shooters, go fuckers. No. I'm just kidding. If you like extraction shooters, fine.
[00:10:47] - [Gerry]
Yeah. But leave our RPGs alone, man. Because, like, we don't get a lot of those ones like that. And, like, you get an extraction shooter every week.
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Yeah. Fucking there's an extraction shield person. Fucking last year.
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Is good, but, like, there's too many of these fucking games. There's too many of these games Yeah. In the market. Ark Raiders is just another fucking thing.
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And, I mean, yeah, it's fine if you don't like RPGs, but don't don't try to I mean, it's not fine. Don't Yeah. I guess yeah.
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I'm not I'm not gonna stand
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for it. Don't brainwash your entire fucking audience into thinking that, like, oh, Arc Raiders deserve someone game of the year just because you don't like RPGs, my man. That's a Yeah.
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I don't that's a stupid take. And I would definitely grab that person's hands and hit themselves with their own hands and be like, step. Would do that to that person.
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Yep.
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Is that considered abuse? If you were like Maybe. Oh, because, like, you're grabbing onto their wrists and, that probably hurts. But what if
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I mean, Shroud's a little bitch, so I bet, like, he wouldn't do anything about it. You'd just be like, don't fucking tell anyone or I'll come back
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and kill you. Come at us, you fucking cuss.
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Do it again, and I'll cook the fuck out of you. And he's just like, okay.
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I'll suck your dick, I swear to God.
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So I'll twist your goddamn nipples clean off, you
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fucking bitch.
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Yep. That's that's news.
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I don't even know who Shroud is.
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I don't know either. I mean, I just know he's a streamer and, like, he was like, come on. As big, if not bigger than Ninja at one point. I don't know.
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Another real original name. Yep. Yep. All these super original. I'm ninja.
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I'm shroud, and I'm fucking cranberry.
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Cranberry? Count Cuckula.
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Count Cuckula.
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Does a body good Indeed. First thing in the morning. Fresh Does it?
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All of Cuckula. But do you just eat all the marshmallows?
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Yeah. Marshmallows first, cereal after. I'm get my treat. The fuck the fuck you think I'm gonna do? Not eat my treat.
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I'll eat my treat.
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Yeah. Eat your treats.
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Go eat those treats.
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Eat your bowl of treats. That's what that's what fucking what is it? Picky moms or something?
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Choosy moms like you choose. These choosy moms, that's
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what they should say to their fucking stupid kids when they're feeding them a bowl of sugar, and they're like, eat your bowl of treats.
[00:13:31] - [Aaron]
No. No. My kid has ADHD. He won't stop bouncing off the walls. But, like, all their kid eats his sugary cereal and fucking soda.
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Get out of here, dude. Dude,
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you know what's wild? Watching my dad who, for the record, since I can remember memories, was a sick man. Not like in the head. Like, he was just like he was like, my heart, my lungs. Like, basically, my neck, my back, my pussy, my crackling.
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For my dad, it
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was, like,
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my heart, my my lungs, my kidney, and my stones or something.
[00:14:09] - [Aaron]
Like, you're gonna say he could do, like, a backflip standing up sick.
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Fuck no. He couldn't barely do a stand up.
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Oh, man. But Is it better now,
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though? So he's isn't no. He's matter of fact, he's gone. No. Go ahead, Eric.
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Oh,
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shit. I'm sorry, Jerry.
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Didn't know. Fuck.
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Oh, god. That's what
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you get for a
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I think you made fun of my, like, divorced parents at one time. So I guess that's what you get. Couple
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times. But I made fun of,
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I don't know, divorced parents in general,
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and you were like, I'm from a divorced family. Oh. No. But anyways, my so, like, my dad, never healthy, really, as long as I've been alive. He used to just, like, he he tricked me.
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I mean, he tricked me a few times, but he tricked me into thinking that he was eating healthy because he would have a massive bowl of cornflakes every morning, which okay. Yep. Cornflakes.
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Not that bad. Pretty warm.
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But then when you put about four tablespoons of pure sugar, just, like, just waving sugar across that. That was insane.
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I bet.
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That was insane. And then I would, like, sleep over at a friend's house. They'd be like, what's some sugar with your cereal? I was like, dude, motherfucker, we're already eating Lucky Charms. Like, what are you Oh
[00:15:52] - [Aaron]
my god. This reminds me of a of a story my wife told me about one of her cousins. She has I don't know. She has a crazy cousin who, I guess, would, like, pour melted butter on her Cheerios, which already have milk in them. Melted butter, milk and Cheerios.
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And that that makes my fucking stomach hurt talking about it every time.
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Yeah. God. But why? She's crazy.
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I don't know. Crazy crazy fuckers do crazy stuff. I don't know.
[00:16:34] - [Gerry]
So anyways, to beat Ninja Gaiden four, I I I felt fucking betrayed by that game, dude. I
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They said I seven out of 10.
[00:16:54] - [Gerry]
I didn't write. Yeah. If I had to put a number on it, which I don't put numbers on things, but if I had to put a number on it, I'm gonna put a number on it right now, I would say seven out of 10 because, it does a really, really, really, really stupid thing in my opinion. I I will say in my opinion, sometimes people like these things. I don't know why you would like this, but it does the whole like, oh, here you go.
[00:17:22] - [Gerry]
You got to the very end and then little switcheroo. Oh, now you're controlling somebody else. Guess who that person is. I won't spoil anything, but you take control of a different person than fucking yako wako and dot and then you make your way all the way back to basically the beginning of the game using that character. But you're moving at a very brisk pace, but, like, you're repeating some of the, like, landmark bosses.
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Oh. And
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it's like,
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wait. So, like Don't
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like that.
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The last five four chapters of this game are just gonna be me going back, but playing as oh, they thank you so much, Platinum Games, for letting me control the fucking character that I wanted to in the beginning. Thanks for doing that for a hot four chapters when it's literally a repeat of the entire beginning of the game. Well, fucking halfway through as well as I fought that stupid shark ghost thing again. And then the the the wind guy and then
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Oh, god.
[00:18:36] - [Gerry]
That's his name. The wind guy. The wacky inflatable flailing arm tube man emporium gas. Yeah. Don't know how everybody else feels about that game mechanic, but I can tell you one thing, I don't appreciate it.
[00:18:55] - [Gerry]
I think it's a bit of a slap in the face. I'll say, I like platinum. I'm starting to retract my statement that I've said many a time that platinum don't miss. They don't really miss. Yeah.
[00:19:11] - [Gerry]
But they don't they don't hit home runs every time. They're good at making gameplay. That's what I'll say. They they understand good gameplay mechanics because they always keep But it interesting in that even with this, I've just found this was kind of boring and not really all that rewarding in the end.
[00:19:32] - [Aaron]
Do like, so when you do beat it, is there fuck, how do I how do I do? Trying to figure out a point. Does it does the story give you a reason as to why, like, you suddenly play as the other character and, like, do you ever have to go back to Yakima or is he just gone for the rest of the game?
[00:19:57] - [Gerry]
No. No. There's no well, no. You go yeah. You take control again of Yakima after you guess what you do.
[00:20:06] - [Gerry]
Oh my god. You won't believe this. You fight as Yakima against the the person you get to control as for four chapters. You get to fight them. Oh.
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They're a boss. Yeah. Like the final boss? No. It's like fucking third last or fourth last or something.
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And then you got, like, a whole string of bosses that I was just like, I don't care. I honestly I don't I don't care anymore. And I don't even understand what the fuck's going on in this story. Like, this is so that's the thing. At a certain point, it just got so repetitive too, like the game itself that I was like, oh, are they supposed to be, like, rewarding the gamer with the incredible storytelling that's not happening?
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Because that's the only reason I could see someone sticking around for it. Or if you're a sicko like me and just really need to see those credits.
[00:21:08] - [Aaron]
Jesus Christ.
[00:21:10] - [Gerry]
See those credits, dude. I got to see them.
[00:21:15] - [Aaron]
You did.
[00:21:16] - [Gerry]
Why would you why would you why would you start a game and not see credits?
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This like
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If you're like
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This is this is giving me, like, like Dexter, like, dark passenger type vibes. Like, I
[00:21:27] - [Gerry]
No, it's not.
[00:21:28] - [Aaron]
I need to see this through to the end. Fucking no idea. I You don't feel that way? Some games I do, like Mother three, like, needed to I needed to beat that. And then there's a couple other games that I beat earlier this year that I really wanted to see the end.
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But I'll I'll get to
[00:21:49] - [Gerry]
Did you beat Donkey Kong Bonanza?
[00:21:51] - [Aaron]
No. I got really burnt out on that because I played it for, like, fucking three days straight.
[00:21:57] - [Gerry]
I do need to beat that,
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though, because that was cool.
[00:21:59] - [Gerry]
That's another game where it was like, okay. I get what you're going for here, but can we do something else?
[00:22:07] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Like, that's that's how I got with Ys Origin, man. Like, I was so on board with that game for goddamn near almost the whole game. And then it does these really fucking annoying parts where, like, before before you can enter the room where the final boss is, or not the final boss, before you enter the room where a boss is, the game likes to make you do some fucking tedious garbage. Like, there's this one where there there's a door that is cursed to where anybody that touches it, I don't know if they they get hurt.
[00:22:43] - [Aaron]
I don't know. Something stupid is cursed door. And in order to dispel the curse, you have to take this ring. It's it's also cursed, but the curse is depleted, I guess. And in order to put the curse back into it, it basically, the game makes you fight four of these enemies that have too much health and you don't do any damage to them, but they also do a lot of And damage to I I
[00:23:09] - [Gerry]
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Are we still talking about doggy companies?
[00:23:17] - [Aaron]
E's origin. No.
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I was like, wait. I don't remember anything about any of this cursed shit in doggy companies.
[00:23:25] - [Aaron]
No. My bad. This is E's origin.
[00:23:28] - [Gerry]
That's not your bad. That's my bad for just spacing the fuck out.
[00:23:31] - [Aaron]
That's alright, man. Yeah. I I I haven't I pretty much gave up on that. I didn't give up on Ys Origin. I'm just taking a break because, yeah, it it's got far too many moments where the game's like, stop stop having fun with the cool combat and the cool exploration and the cool visuals, and do this really dumb, boring, monotonous, fucking tedious ass thing for me.
[00:23:56] - [Aaron]
And and then you get to a boss that takes, like, I don't know, fucking three hours of attempts to try to beat, but I didn't beat it because it's really hard. I didn't mean to take over your space. Go ahead. Sorry.
[00:24:09] - [Gerry]
What? What's happening?
[00:24:10] - [Aaron]
Like, I know this was still this was still your thing. Are you playing anything other than what you got for?
[00:24:17] - [Gerry]
Yeah, am. I'm playing some gen seven. Let's let's let's roll. Let's roll into this because I like, this will be consider this volume one of gen seven talk because there's not enough time in one podcast to just talk about gen seven.
[00:24:38] - [Aaron]
Before so before before before we do that, I I need to talk about two games first, and and then we'll get to gen seven. Like, yeah. So so there's Yeah. There's there's one. It's got a really stupid name.
[00:24:54] - [Aaron]
It's called the Cookulo, and it's like a puzzle cookie Cookulo. No. Cookulo. It's like a puzzle cooking game where like, you remember the did you ever play the the old phone game alchemy where you start with like water, fire, wind, and air, and then you mix them to make things that you then keep combining to make more things until you make everything? I sure haven't done.
[00:25:18] - [Aaron]
Okay. Well, Cookie Low is that. It's like you start off with basic ingredients and then you combine them to make new stuff and you keep, like, just combining ingredients to make more stuff. And all the while, you have this cookbook that keeps track of all your recipes. And it'll tell you, like,
[00:25:36] - [Gerry]
so we're you're you're not talking about Donkey Kong bonanza anymore. Right? No. No.
[00:25:41] - [Aaron]
It's not East Origin. It's not it's not Ninja Guy four. It's Cookie Loaf. Yeah.
[00:25:48] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Because I couldn't remember Donkey Kong making any any
[00:25:53] - [Aaron]
Any elements. Meals or Yeah.
[00:25:56] - [Gerry]
Doing I didn't I don't remember Donkey Kong doing alchemy.
[00:26:00] - [Aaron]
He's doing the cool hand signs and touches the ground and the ground explodes and he fucking dies like in a full meal alchemist. Cookie Low is cool though. It's yeah. It's pretty cool. I wasted about, like, two hours on it.
[00:26:19] - [Aaron]
Haven't gotten all the recipes yet because there's a lot, and I don't know how the fuck to make a strudel. And then the other game I'm that I'm kinda dabbling with is called Guardian's Crusade. It's this like
[00:26:33] - [Gerry]
Oh, yeah. Okay. Listen to this guy now. He's like Damn. Connoisseur of retro games.
[00:26:40] - [Gerry]
I you know, I've always been curious about Guardians Crusade.
[00:26:43] - [Aaron]
It's cool.
[00:26:43] - [Gerry]
I have it on my mister. Was it turn based?
[00:26:46] - [Aaron]
It is turn based, dude. It's like I
[00:26:48] - [Gerry]
like that.
[00:26:48] - [Aaron]
So you play as this knight who you find this, like, this pink, like, hippo kangaroo creature and you basically are confronted by this angel, this guy, and he's just like, hey, bring this fucking pink thing to God's Tower, bring it back to its mom at God's Tower, and you're like, you got it. And the the baby
[00:27:14] - [Gerry]
Bring Kirby to see God.
[00:27:16] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Kirby is God, plot twist. But like the it's cool because the little baby acts as like kind of like a Tamagotchi in ways, like so it'll it'll fight with you in battle. And depending on like enemies that you fight, it'll learn attacks from them and use them in battles. Like it starts off with just like a bite attack, but then eventually, it'll learn like a headbutt that'll transform into certain enemies.
[00:27:48] - [Aaron]
You can feed it like old armor and shit, and that'll raise its stats. So you can feed it like these different seeds that have different abilities. It's pretty cool. And you'll also collect these things called living toys that basically act as, like, your spells and other special attacks and shit. Like, there's one
[00:28:06] - [Gerry]
Just going around collecting real dolls.
[00:28:08] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Fuck. Just collecting sex toys to fight with you or something.
[00:28:14] - [Gerry]
To go see God with?
[00:28:16] - [Aaron]
You got this, like, BDS.
[00:28:18] - [Gerry]
No, I just realized too. You you could tattoo Kirby God on your knuckles. Oh, shit. You could.
[00:28:24] - [Aaron]
You think Kirby could just inhale God and become God?
[00:28:28] - [Gerry]
Oh, my God.
[00:28:29] - [Aaron]
I think he could.
[00:28:30] - [Gerry]
That's the God that I want. Next time somebody asked me, like, if I believe in God, I'd like, if you mean, do I believe in Kirby being able to suck God into his Suck off God. Kirby's just going around sucking off everybody in heaven, then it finally just gets to God and he's like, whatever. No big deal.
[00:28:48] - [Aaron]
Dear God I
[00:28:49] - [Gerry]
take this.
[00:28:49] - [Aaron]
Dear God, please let me win the lottery and and I pray for my family's safety. Puyo, puyo, or whatever Kirby says.
[00:28:56] - [Gerry]
Ew. No. He doesn't say any of that.
[00:28:58] - [Aaron]
In the in the TV show, he did. Kirby right back at you.
[00:29:01] - [Gerry]
Why would he say, Puyo, Puyo? Wait. Does Kirby talk in that show?
[00:29:06] - [Aaron]
He just says, Puyo, Puyo. He'll say, Puyo, Puyo. Go watch Kirby right back at you.
[00:29:13] - [Gerry]
No. I don't Dude, that theme
[00:29:15] - [Aaron]
song fucking slaps. Yes, you do.
[00:29:19] - [Gerry]
It I mean, the theme song might slap, but that sounds awful. That's pretty cool. I don't want that. Oh, Jesus.
[00:29:26] - [Aaron]
No. Okay.
[00:29:30] - [Gerry]
The Zelda movie. We've been we've been seeing some Zelda movie.
[00:29:35] - [Aaron]
Oh, yeah.
[00:29:36] - [Gerry]
Yeah. It looks cool. So this this game though is PS one, right?
[00:29:41] - [Aaron]
Yeah. PS one came out in '99 and all the living toys.
[00:29:47] - [Gerry]
What come what compelled you to play this?
[00:29:50] - [Aaron]
I it's been on my Amberneck for a while and I've been wanting to play another turn based RPG. And I I debated heavily on finally starting Suikoden, but then I got to Guardian's Crusade and I was like, okay, this sounds cool and it's only fifteen hours long. So
[00:30:08] - [Gerry]
you know what we should do next together? Just take a bath and then Hell, yeah. Play we should play look outside.
[00:30:22] - [Aaron]
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:30:25] - [Gerry]
Turn based.
[00:30:25] - [Aaron]
I need to play that.
[00:30:26] - [Gerry]
It's not too long. I think it's only like fifteen, twenty hours or something. Yeah. Yeah. I think we I think we should do that next.
[00:30:33] - [Aaron]
We do need to do that. Yeah. Living toys, guardian's crusade. Okay. So I've I've got alright.
[00:30:42] - [Aaron]
So the living toys are basically, like, your spells and, like, your your special attacks in combat. And there's ones that act as, like, allies during combat too, but you can summon, a cupid to heal you. You can summon I think his name is just, like, mister Kain or something stupid. He's attacks enemies with a cane. There's one that's just, a like a little, like, wind up clockwork bomb, and he explodes after two turns, and there's just a bunch of other ones that have other cool effects.
[00:31:11] - [Aaron]
And my god, the soundtrack rips. Dude, look up the Guardians Crusade battle theme. It's got the fucking boppinest baseline ever. It's just like
[00:32:11] - [Gerry]
And we're back. Let's talk about a a pretty big topic right now. Yep. Pretty pretty big deal. So generation seven of the console
[00:32:24] - [Aaron]
Oh, man.
[00:32:25] - [Gerry]
Wars. The this is where the fanboys got rabid. This is when I would say one of video games most innovative consoles came out.
[00:32:38] - [Aaron]
Oh, yeah.
[00:32:40] - [Gerry]
There was a divide in the gaming sphere worse than the political divide that's happening right now because it was like, are you on Xbox three sixty or are you on PS three? And I I swear I swear that friends stopped being friends during this console generation because of exactly that. I swear to God.
[00:33:08] - [Aaron]
Yeah. I can't I can't recall any other generation as divided as that because, like, you know, everybody had the n 64 and the PlayStation one or, like, after that, everybody had the p s well, not everybody had the p s two.
[00:33:23] - [Gerry]
A lot of people had p s two. Yeah. Yeah. So generation seven started with the Wii, I believe.
[00:33:32] - [Aaron]
I think so. Yeah.
[00:33:33] - [Gerry]
I think I think the Wii came out first. If we were actually good at our jobs here on this this podcast, we probably would have had the release date ready to go for all of these consoles. The Wii release date was on 11/19/2006. Damn. And then I think the Xbox three sixty followed that November 2005?
[00:34:08] - [Gerry]
Oh. So the Xbox three sixty was first.
[00:34:10] - [Aaron]
I guess, yeah, that does sound right.
[00:34:12] - [Gerry]
Okay. So Xbox three sixty comes swinging out of the gates in 2005. Wait, when did I say the Wii?
[00:34:21] - [Aaron]
2006?
[00:34:24] - [Gerry]
Wow. So pretty much a year later Holy shit. And then is when the Wii came out. I think the PS three The PS three, I think, was even
[00:34:33] - [Aaron]
Like another year ago.
[00:34:34] - [Gerry]
11/11/2006. Okay. So it was just before the Wii. But, man, this was a this was a crazy generation because, like, I I didn't get it's kind of ironic that I got the Xbox three sixty last. I had the Wii first and then a PS three.
[00:35:03] - [Gerry]
But, man, it was crazy seeing even though I denied it at the time, seeing Xbox three sixty for the first time, like, seeing, like, Assassin's Creed coming off of, like, PS two graphics and being like, holy fuck. This is crazy looking. Seeing Gears of War.
[00:35:28] - [Aaron]
Oh, man. That blew my little baby brain.
[00:35:32] - [Gerry]
But the the thing was I so at when this generation kicked off, in my possession, had a PlayStation two, I had a PS one, and I had a GameCube. So I had I had I had some of the I didn't have an x an original Xbox, but I had two Sony consoles and a Nintendo console. Full disclosure, I've always been a Nintendo guy. Like, Nintendo is, like, my first priority in a generation, and then I kinda test the water to see what what's what. But I remember when that fucking Wii came out, dude.
[00:36:15] - [Gerry]
The like, that was, like, game changing. Everybody that I knew, even people that weren't even gamers or revealed themselves to be gamers were like, you get are you getting that that new Nintendo? And I was like, are you talking about the Wii? Because, yes, I do plan on getting it. And I I got it I think I got it that year that it came out, and I got Twilight Princess with Oh, fuck.
[00:36:45] - [Gerry]
Yeah. And it was just it was I don't know, man. Something about the Wii. It's like it was so unbelievably unique that you had to try it to understand it. It's almost the same way that I like talk about VR now where it's like, yeah, I could sit here and tell you how cool all this stuff is in VR, but until you actually try it, you really don't understand fully.
[00:37:11] - [Gerry]
Like, I can explain to you the mechanics of a video game like Ninja Gaiden and be like Yeah. Here's what this game is like, here's what it plays like, this is what it looks like, this is how it performs. And you can you can judge based on a lot of those those points. VR, you can't really. And the Wii was the same thing.
[00:37:30] - [Gerry]
And it was it was crazy because that remote shouldn't have been a controller. Like, when I seen that for the first time, was like, how like, this doesn't make sense. How is this going to be a controller? But then once you, like, kind of connected the nunchuck and you see, like, oh, never mind this that I mean, the basics of a controller are right here in my hand. Like, it's just oddly separated.
[00:37:58] - [Gerry]
Like, yeah, it was just strange. But I'm I remember vividly my buddy, Dalo, got one first. He got one on launch, I believe, and I didn't get mine until Christmas. And I remember we're we were all gonna go over to, like, this mutual friend's house, and he was like, dude, I'm going over and I'm bringing the fucking weed. And I was like, yeah.
[00:38:23] - [Gerry]
Is it I remember, like, sort of wanting one, But then when we got to put, like, you know, we did. We just played fucking Wii Sports Fuck.
[00:38:32] - [Aaron]
Yeah.
[00:38:32] - [Gerry]
The entire time. The entire time. And, like, it just it it was so mind boggling because, like, up to that point, video games have always just been controller in your hand. You sit there. Oh, wow.
[00:38:48] - [Gerry]
Look at the pretty graphics. Look how crazy that is. Never, like, completely changing the space where you're, like, oh, now I gotta fucking move and shit. Like, what do you mean? Like, I gotta move my arms and like, how does it know?
[00:39:00] - [Gerry]
Like, how does the techno like, I mean, I was too stupid to understand how the technology worked then. But, yeah, it was just it was mind blowing. And then when I got it, I just denied. I was in full denial. Because guess what?
[00:39:14] - [Gerry]
Most of those games look like fucking trash compared to their counter the counterpart consoles of the generation. So when my buddy was like, dude, you guys see this fucking game Mass Effect? I was like, I don't care about those graphics. They don't mean anything to me because I was in full blown fucking cope that my games look like jagged garbage
[00:39:36] - [Aaron]
mostly. Yeah. Because
[00:39:37] - [Gerry]
like Nintendo has a way. And I I I'm saying that with all of my heart because I love all those Jaggies now. I'll take Jaggies any day over that smooth looking fucking AI bullshit.
[00:39:52] - [Aaron]
Oh, yeah.
[00:39:55] - [Gerry]
Give me them Jaggies.
[00:39:56] - [Aaron]
I'm not fan of that shit.
[00:39:59] - [Gerry]
Did you get a wee? You didn't get a wee, did you?
[00:40:01] - [Aaron]
No. I so at first, I wanted a Wii and then, like, I I got I got my March as a birthday present for my dad, and he was like, yeah. Which one of these do you want? And I wanted the Wii, but it was out of stock around us, I guess.
[00:40:17] - [Gerry]
Oh, it was impossible to get. Yeah. It was impossible to get.
[00:40:20] - [Aaron]
So I ended up getting a three sixty, and I fucking fell in love with that, man. Like, when I got my three sixty, it came with the the dumbass, like, Kung Fu Panda and Indiana Jones or LEGO Indiana Jones bundle. And I was like, no. And I I traded in in a GameStop, and I got fucking Dead Rising. I got fucking Last Remnant.
[00:40:43] - [Aaron]
I got Burnout Paradise, and I got
[00:40:46] - [Gerry]
Oh, that game was so good.
[00:40:47] - [Aaron]
There's one other one that I forget. I think it was the the rebooted Prince of Persia, like the red and blue guy That wasn't very good.
[00:40:56] - [Gerry]
Oh, yeah. The the one that was voiced by Nolan North.
[00:40:59] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Yeah. Because, oh, my God. The Prince of Persia trilogy on PS two, forget about this one. Awesome.
[00:41:06] - [Gerry]
Yep. Forgotten Sands. Dude warrior within Fucking
[00:41:13] - [Aaron]
Godsmax soundtrack on it, dude. Oh.
[00:41:17] - [Gerry]
That didn't that didn't need Godsmax, but it had it.
[00:41:22] - [Aaron]
You know, I was a three sixty guy. And, like, up until that point, I was a pretty big Nintendo fan because I had the GameCube, and I I fucking I still defend it to this day. Like, it was the best. It it it's so awesome. And then it's yeah.
[00:41:37] - [Aaron]
The three sixty totally changed my mind. I was like, I don't want anything else. There's one of this. Like, all my friends are here. And I wonder if that's a big part of why that generation was so divisive.
[00:41:49] - [Aaron]
Like, you didn't get, unless you were fucking rich, you didn't have both the three sixty and
[00:41:53] - [Gerry]
the That's PS good point.
[00:41:55] - [Aaron]
Because like you
[00:41:56] - [Gerry]
Because if you're if you're using these consoles to play with your friends, but your all your friends were in one. You know what? You're absolutely right because I do remember getting shit from some of my friends because they were like, dude, this guy's on Xbox. This guy's on Xbox. This guy's on Xbox.
[00:42:15] - [Gerry]
Like, who's on PlayStation? I was like, well, my my friend Damien has it. And they're like, yeah, I was like, there's one guy. Yeah. I was like, yeah, I know.
[00:42:23] - [Gerry]
But I don't know. So you're absolutely right. I think maybe that's where the the divide happened was just because some there was I would say there was a lot more people on three sixty than there were PS three. And it was, I think, a bit more popular at the time.
[00:42:42] - [Aaron]
I wonder if another big part of it was because this was a generation where you could start buying digital games. Like, wasn't like right away. It was like a little bit into the into the generation that you can start buying digital games on all those consoles really. And because like with previous generations, whatever games you buy, you know, you can just sell them to whoever and put those towards new games on your other cool system that you bought. But in this generation, the digital games like it's like you might I'm if I get rid of my three sixty, I get rid of those games that I downloaded.
[00:43:14] - [Aaron]
So, like, kinda just stuck with it. But I guess, I know quite a few people who had a Wii alongside their, like, three sixty or PS three, but there were very few people who had both three sixty and PS three. That was pretty hard to find.
[00:43:32] - [Gerry]
That was me eventually. I like I said, I I had that Wii first and that was that was my my baby Yep. For a long time. I didn't get a PS three. I ended up going PS three.
[00:43:48] - [Gerry]
And I dude, I remember sitting down and I this must have been like maybe the first instance of me doing like actual research for myself on the Internet trying to find out like what is better. What is better here? PS three or the Xbox three sixty? And for me, what it came down to because like the at the time, the arguments about how like, oh, the graphics are better on this one or the graphics are better on this one. It's like, they look the fucking same.
[00:44:24] - [Aaron]
Yeah.
[00:44:24] - [Gerry]
Like, there's no that's not where some games ran better on one versus the other. Most times it was Xbox three sixty because of the way the architecture was, and it was easier for the devs to develop on the Xbox three sixty.
[00:44:39] - [Aaron]
Yeah.
[00:44:40] - [Gerry]
Something to do with the fact that I think it was very close to, like, developing for PC, like, or something.
[00:44:46] - [Aaron]
Yeah. And the PS three had its own, like I can't think of the word. Like, it's its own A dev thing. Yeah. And it was, like, notorious for having shitty ports, like the original Skyrim on PS three was, like, you would just clip through the floor all the time.
[00:45:02] - [Aaron]
It's cool. Was There the we
[00:45:06] - [Gerry]
reason why I ended up going PS three was when I started to look at the exclusive games on the PS three versus the Xbox, I just gravitated more toward what I was seeing on Yeah. PS three. I I liked a lot of what I was seeing. And at that time, by the time I got into it, that was 2008 when I got my p s three.
[00:45:34] - [Aaron]
Tail end.
[00:45:35] - [Gerry]
That's when I got the p s three. It was 2008. So I I mean, yeah, I just I I gravitated toward it because of the library of games that had already been out. But my first games that I bought the day that I got the console were Resistance one and two, And I also got Burnout Paradise was another one of
[00:45:58] - [Aaron]
my Yeah. First
[00:46:01] - [Gerry]
And then two weeks after I went down to EB Games, GameStop for you Americans, and I bought Fallout three and Dead Space. Oh. And that's when I went, oh my god. This is insane. So, yeah, I I I really enjoyed the PlayStation three.
[00:46:30] - [Gerry]
It it's it's aged decently, I guess. Not great because I have in my possession now, I have a Wii, I have a Xbox three sixty, and I have a PS three, not the original ones that I had before. But I have them all modded and going through those libraries has been kind of eye opening, I guess, to say the least. And especially, like, just navigating menus, like the PS three menu was, like, it was okay. It was just like a an extension of the PSP.
[00:47:15] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Like, that's all that meant. Like, the XMB, that's all that's where it started was the PSP. It was fine on the PSP, but, like, the PS three, I don't know. It it was it was fine and it was serviceable, but wasn't anything to to really talk about.
[00:47:32] - [Gerry]
Whereas the Xbox, I feel like started off, like, pretty strong in terms of, like, the UI was, like, already pretty damn good. Like, the blades. Remember the blades?
[00:47:45] - [Aaron]
I miss the blades.
[00:47:49] - [Gerry]
The blades.
[00:47:49] - [Aaron]
I miss you blades.
[00:47:51] - [Gerry]
Fun facts. If you if you go ahead and mod your Xbox, you can bring back the blades, baby. Good. You can bring them blades back. And this is where I want you to insert the blade soundtrack to do to do to do to to to do do.
[00:48:09] - [Gerry]
Bring the blades back. Yeah. It it I I feel like, right? Like the Xbox had a really good UI on the onset. Yeah.
[00:48:22] - [Gerry]
And it kind of evolved over time. Whereas the x and b didn't really didn't really change. But like Xbox has changed a lot immensely.
[00:48:30] - [Aaron]
It went like, dude, it went from the blade.
[00:48:33] - [Gerry]
It went for the blades, and then it was like the like the cover flow, like that weird like Yeah.
[00:48:38] - [Aaron]
The new Xbox experience they called it with that. Yeah. That was strange.
[00:48:43] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Oh, my God. The avatars. Oh. I remember That was
[00:48:46] - [Aaron]
such a shame. Oh, my God.
[00:48:49] - [Gerry]
I was bitching so hard because I was like It's just me. It's just me.
[00:48:53] - [Aaron]
More than that. Like, you could do way more with those.
[00:48:56] - [Gerry]
I know, but I was like, I was drinking the kool aid so hard for Nintendo.
[00:49:00] - [Aaron]
I was like, it's just me's just fucking copying me's even though
[00:49:03] - [Gerry]
you can only choose like four things for me.
[00:49:06] - [Aaron]
Dude, they went so unreasonably hard with those avatars back in the day. Like, they brought them back for Xbox One and the Series X and shit, but they don't do a whole lot with them. Not as much as they do or not as much as they do with the three sixty because, like, in there were awards that you could unlock in games that unlocked cool, like, exclusives holy shit, exclusive shit for your avatar. Like, in Left four Dead two, you can unlock a cool, like, Left four Dead two logo t shirt for your avatar. Dead Space, you can get a sweet fucking hoodie with the Dead Space fucking cover art on it.
[00:49:45] - [Aaron]
Symphony of the Night, you can get a fucking like a a bat familiar that would fly around your avatar. That was really cool. Really? Yeah. Like, they they did so much cool shit.
[00:49:55] - [Aaron]
And another cool thing is the I think in that I think it was in the new Xbox experience holy shit. New Xbox experience.
[00:50:04] - [Gerry]
I believe in you. Yeah.
[00:50:05] - [Aaron]
They they also brought out themes which, like, I'll defend to the death, like, bring back themes. I mean, they have them on Xbox and shit now, but not Switch for whatever reason. But, yeah, the theme is really cool because you could, like if you put on, a BioShock theme and go to like your where your friends are on the dashboard, they would all have cool, like, Bioshock trash backgrounds behind them or something stupid. I don't know. It was just really cool.
[00:50:32] - [Aaron]
I fucking missed that shit, man.
[00:50:37] - [Gerry]
So here's the thing. Yeah. Here's the thing. Now, we might get us few people a little riled up here with this conversation. You know, some people might hear this and they might their heart might be already pounding because they're ready to defend their favorite console of all time, which is the Wii three sixty or p
[00:51:00] - [Aaron]
s three. You're already on edge because there's no Beth or no better, Craig.
[00:51:05] - [Gerry]
That's fine. That's fine. Everything is fine. However, you know, I I try to look back at these things without rose tinted glasses. And especially now that I I have the opportunity to own all three of these consoles with a very extensive library of games at my fingertips.
[00:51:29] - [Gerry]
And just seeing these consoles kind of stand the test of time and then kind of looking back, I mean, let's just start with the the launch day. So launch day three sixty, here's what you got. You got to choose between Perfect Dark Zero. You have Project Gotham Racing three, Call of Duty two, and Madden NFL o six. I would say none of those are super strong except for maybe Call of Duty two would have probably been a big deal.
[00:52:07] - [Gerry]
Perfect Dark Zero, I still wanna throw that. I it's it's on my Xbox three sixty.
[00:52:13] - [Aaron]
Not great.
[00:52:14] - [Gerry]
I've heard, like, you can't even die. Like, apparently, the AI is like so stupid in that game that like, you could just be standing there and they'll just be like, hey, who you? And then they just keep like shooting and like running and like, you can't like, it's just apparently, it's just a really bad game. That said, which we'll get into this a little bit here, but bad games in 2006, Sometimes they're good games in 2025. Because I'm gonna tell you something right now.
[00:52:46] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Could see that.
[00:52:47] - [Gerry]
You know who dictated a lot of my buying in 2006 to, like, 2012?
[00:52:54] - [Aaron]
Fucking reviewers?
[00:52:56] - [Gerry]
Yep. Oh, yeah. IG fucking That's
[00:53:00] - [Aaron]
what I was gonna fucking say to IGN.
[00:53:03] - [Gerry]
Dude, I would go to IGN the the day a game came out And I would scroll to the bottom, and I'd look for that number. And if that number wasn't an eight, trash, get this trash out of here. I don't want that. I'm not driving to the game store to buy this game now. So I did that.
[00:53:25] - [Gerry]
I'm guilty of it. I I did it. And I think, you know, putting numbers on games the way that IGN had done was kind of like I mean, just it go the the the whole thing about reviews goes into a crazy deep philosophical subject that we don't have time to get into today, but, like, you know, it's it everything's subjective. But at that time, like, IGN's review was gospel. Like, if if a game came out and it had a bad IGN review, get it out of here, slop.
[00:54:04] - [Gerry]
So so that's the $3.60 launch. Now, the Nintendo Wii came with Red Steel? No. Oh. I thought that
[00:54:19] - [Aaron]
was one of them. Never mind.
[00:54:20] - [Gerry]
No. I can't I'm I'm saying it came with Oh. Packing. Fucking Wii Sports, dude.
[00:54:27] - [Aaron]
Which is still good to this fucking day.
[00:54:29] - [Gerry]
I would argue that that is the best packing of all time.
[00:54:36] - [Aaron]
I'd agree with that.
[00:54:37] - [Gerry]
I think top Super Mario World. Super Mario World is a better game in my opinion. I'm sure, If you just think about how insane it was that so many people had Wii Sports and, like, anybody could play Wii Sports. That's true. Grandmother.
[00:54:57] - [Gerry]
You could be like, hey, grandma, take this and beat the shit out of that man on the screen. And then she would just box the shit out of fucking Lucas or whatever his name was or Matt.
[00:55:06] - [Aaron]
I think it was Matt.
[00:55:08] - [Gerry]
Was it Matt? Yeah. You get your fucking cheeks clapped by Matt. Monster. Basically, like going up against Mike Tyson.
[00:55:18] - [Aaron]
That's just infinitely fucking You can play it I know. On your own. I know. With friends.
[00:55:23] - [Gerry]
I threw it on the other night. Why? Nostalgia? For sure. But also, I just wanted a fucking wee bowl, dude.
[00:55:32] - [Aaron]
Yeah, dude.
[00:55:34] - [Gerry]
Like, I swear to God, dude, if you came here, I would I would guess a super big pizza and we would hang out until the early morn, and I would just be like, dude, let's just play some wee. Let's just play some Wii sports, dude. Just fucking golf, Wii golf. And he's like, you hear, like, the ball and then, like, the little I think the golf claps and shit.
[00:55:57] - [Aaron]
Oh, it's
[00:55:58] - [Gerry]
so good. Car.
[00:56:00] - [Aaron]
Or fucking Wii baseball just home run. Yep. Yep. Goddamn. Yeah.
[00:56:09] - [Aaron]
Oh, the fucking oh, man. The meat, like, the meat maker theme. That's so iconic, dude. Dude. Dude.
[00:56:18] - [Aaron]
Dude.
[00:56:21] - [Gerry]
Dude. Did not need to go so hard on their system menu music and, like, their app music. Like, all their dude, have you ever heard the news app? Have you ever heard the news app's music? Cool, fun.
[00:56:39] - [Gerry]
I want you to put it in this episode right now. Listen to that. Listen to how crazy that is. Dude, it's so good for news. Like, you'd wake up and, like, what's the weather like?
[00:57:08] - [Gerry]
And you're like, yeah. Dude, the fuck You can fucking get into it.
[00:57:12] - [Aaron]
The shop theme went unreasonably hard to fucking There's our our boy, James, in with Bar Silence, he did a whole episode about the the the Wii music or menu music shit. And there's another one, I think, for, like, the stocks app or something stupid. Yes. Like, the stupidest shit just goes
[00:57:33] - [Gerry]
I know. So So hard. Yeah. It's unbelievable. So that's we're not even So here's the thing.
[00:57:39] - [Gerry]
Again, people are gonna be mad. But hear me up. This is part of the reason why the Wii is so good. We haven't even talked about the launch games yet. What have we talked about so far?
[00:57:52] - [Gerry]
And then we've got excited about fucking system menu music and a sports game.
[00:57:57] - [Aaron]
It's just iconic, man. Like, it's
[00:58:00] - [Gerry]
besides those two things, The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess.
[00:58:07] - [Aaron]
Oh. That's hard to beat at launch, The
[00:58:10] - [Gerry]
Sight Truck, which Take
[00:58:13] - [Aaron]
it or leave it.
[00:58:16] - [Gerry]
Call of Duty three. That was pretty cool with the it wasn't it it was it was okay. But it was fun with the thing, you know? You're like, well, I can actually aim and cheat to God.
[00:58:30] - [Aaron]
Fucking Excite Truck, you're holding the Wii like them.
[00:58:33] - [Gerry]
And of all things, Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
[00:58:37] - [Aaron]
That game fucking rips though. Not Does it? Going Marvel Diablo, dude. It's good.
[00:58:44] - [Gerry]
Oh. Interesting. There's probably more, but those are the That's
[00:58:52] - [Aaron]
a fucking solid lineup, dude.
[00:58:54] - [Gerry]
According to the Internet.
[00:58:55] - [Aaron]
That's already that's already above the fucking three sixty launch launch titles or whatever.
[00:59:01] - [Gerry]
And then the the PS three launched with Resistance Fall of Man, which was a really good first person shooter. If you haven't and you have the means to play it, I mean, even PS three emulations come a long way these days, but, that's a good game. It's a good game. Resistance two blew my brain out the back of my head when I first played that because I could I couldn't understand how good the graphics were. It was, like, unbelievably good looking to me.
[00:59:32] - [Gerry]
Hell, yeah. Yeah. Resistance Fall of Man, Genji Days of the Blade. I've never heard
[00:59:40] - [Aaron]
of that at all.
[00:59:41] - [Gerry]
I should throw that on. NBA o seven. Yeah. Not for me. And Marvel Ultimate Alliance.
[00:59:49] - [Gerry]
Which console are you gonna buy? You gonna buy the Wii or the PS three for Ultimate Alliance? And then Full Auto two.
[00:59:58] - [Aaron]
Was actually kinda kinda cool.
[01:00:01] - [Gerry]
Don't know if I've ever played Full Auto. Is it like Vigilante eight?
[01:00:05] - [Aaron]
I don't know about that, but it's kinda like it it it's like it's like your typical racing game, but with way more guns. Like, it's like, oh, burnout, but guns. Like, you still ram in the cars and shit, but there's also guns.
[01:00:21] - [Gerry]
And we're not we're not talking about Donkey Kong Bonanza. Right?
[01:00:25] - [Aaron]
No. And we're also not talking about fucking Guardian's Crusade. It's fuck what? Full auto? I forgot the name of the game.
[01:00:33] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Full auto two, battle lines. But, yeah, I mean, decent decent lineups, but come on. That we. Right?
[01:00:45] - [Gerry]
Like we could think subjectively here. When you when you look at all the cards, when they're laid out on the table, not in the long run. I get it. I get the long run. In the long run, things get a little, like, little squirrelly.
[01:01:00] - [Gerry]
But launch, dude. That launch Get a lot of We own that launch, dude. Lot of That we owned that launch. Yeah.
[01:01:09] - [Aaron]
That's what almost got me to get one. I remember I had Twilight Princess pre ordered for GameCube, and I was like, I'm gonna get a Wii, cancel that shit, pre order the Wii version, and I didn't get a Wii. And then they were out of the GameCube versions and I was like
[01:01:25] - [Gerry]
Did you only not get a Wii because they couldn't get one? Yeah. Because Like, was it your it was your first choice.
[01:01:31] - [Aaron]
It was my first choice. Yeah. So that could have changed me. That could have changed me as a person. I could be going to church and like I could have had
[01:01:41] - [Gerry]
three eyes.
[01:01:42] - [Aaron]
I could have had a fucking well, I could be a detective. I could be part fly. I don't know.
[01:01:49] - [Gerry]
Oh, my God. The butterfly effect of Dude. Buying consoles on launch day. Oh, my God.
[01:01:54] - [Aaron]
The song of the
[01:01:55] - [Gerry]
That is a butterfly effect. Right?
[01:01:57] - [Aaron]
Oh, Holy shit. That is a
[01:01:59] - [Gerry]
butterfly effect. Is it not?
[01:02:00] - [Aaron]
That is a butterfly effect. Yep. You just drop a fucking Wii on my doorstep. Like, cool. Thanks, Jesus.
[01:02:06] - [Aaron]
And then I go play that instead of a three sixty with Lego Indiana butthole or whatever.
[01:02:14] - [Gerry]
Thanks, Jesus. It's just like some regular delivery guy. He's like
[01:02:17] - [Aaron]
It's me dressed up as a delivery guy going back in time to get myself the Wii. You got it, kid. It's just the Wii.
[01:02:26] - [Gerry]
So recently, I have been playing a a bit actually of gen seven. I don't know if it's the fact that this console generation is 20 years old now.
[01:02:44] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Oh. That's wild, man.
[01:02:49] - [Gerry]
That hurt when I looked that up. I was like, why do I feel so nostalgic for gen seven?
[01:02:54] - [Aaron]
I mean, my heart melted up.
[01:02:55] - [Gerry]
And I was like, I just, like, got turned to dust, just vanished. I couldn't believe that it was twenty years. So I have been playing a little bit of everything, but not p s three. Not because I don't like p s three. There's tons of stuff on p s three.
[01:03:17] - [Gerry]
Like, I I still, to this day, need to go back and play because I started it so many times. Three d dot game heroes.
[01:03:27] - [Aaron]
Oh, I hear so much good shit about that game, man.
[01:03:31] - [Gerry]
It was cool, man. It's a FromSoft game. Oh, yeah. FromSoft made that.
[01:03:35] - [Aaron]
Tommy Yeah. Tommy used to bring that fucking game up like all the time. Like, he'd send me videos. Like
[01:03:43] - [Gerry]
hard Zelda. That's cool. But like with like three man, that might be like the first HD two d thing. Like it was Oh, yeah. Like three d pixelized because it was pixelized, but it was like three d, like almost Like it wasn't Voxel.
[01:04:01] - [Aaron]
Oh, okay. Never mind.
[01:04:02] - [Gerry]
But it wasn't Voxel though.
[01:04:04] - [Aaron]
I see. That's true.
[01:04:06] - [Gerry]
But yeah. And like you could customize your care like you could make a like if you could if you could use pixel art, you could make like your whatever. Like you can make your pixel character.
[01:04:19] - [Aaron]
You know what's what's really fucking weird about this generation, not really not really considering the Wii because the Wii went fucking hard the whole time. So, like, the March started out with some fucking banging exclusives, and then it really petered off toward the end of its life. Like, it just kind of, like, went, like, and it just stopped giving a shit about exclusives. Then
[01:04:45] - [Gerry]
Which one?
[01:04:46] - [Aaron]
Three sixty. And then the Oh, yeah. The PS three started off with, like,
[01:04:51] - [Gerry]
like, a little little bit, like, a little I feel like the PS three ended the strongest.
[01:04:55] - [Aaron]
It it really did. Like, toward the middle and then toward the huge comeback. Yeah. I had shit tons of exclusives. They fucking lowered the price.
[01:05:03] - [Aaron]
PSN was free. Fucking this makes me so mad, man. Like, three sixty PS Plus. Yeah. PS Plus.
[01:05:12] - [Aaron]
The fucking three sixty had some great exclusives that they, like, they slapped out and then they were like, no. No more. No more. That's it. Like fucking Blue Dragon, the game was And then they made the two fucking
[01:05:27] - [Gerry]
Did you play Blue Dragon? I played the shit out of it.
[01:05:30] - [Aaron]
I played through it, like, twice. Is it good? It's awesome. Like, it's Yeah. Not to get too into it, but it's like
[01:05:37] - [Gerry]
No. Let's get into it. Fucking get unzip it and then get in it.
[01:05:41] - [Aaron]
It's like Dragon Quest three where there's, like, jobs and you can you can switch between characters and each job, of course, lets each character learn new skills exclusive to that job. Like, fucking there's what? A fighter, white mage, black mage, there's a fucking green mage. There's mages for all sorts of shit. There's like a time mage.
[01:06:03] - [Aaron]
There's fucking the goofy Marimaro guy who has like the werewolf or no, saber tooth tiger shadow. He's a monk. There's all sorts of cool shit. The story isn't the greatest, but it's it's fun. Like, it's it's just a big old Akira Toriyama fucking goofy RPG quest.
[01:06:21] - [Gerry]
Like adventure?
[01:06:22] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Just like
[01:06:24] - [Gerry]
but see, that's why I like Dragon Quest. Yeah. Dragon Quest is not It's just overly complicated. Yeah. It's just like a it's a journey.
[01:06:31] - [Gerry]
You're just like on this really fun adventure. And then, like the I feel like the Akira Toriyama stuff really enhances that Oh. Because he just has like just that, you know, Beth Beth notoriously hates Akira Toriyama. But
[01:06:48] - [Aaron]
And and, dude, the boss battle theme in Blue Dragon, I'm gonna put it in right now. The boss battle theme is insane because it's got this, like, hair metal singer guy going fucking nuts. It starts off like, wow. And then he goes, like, sings this goofy fucking wild song, like, I'll send it to you after So
[01:07:09] - [Gerry]
The battles start with Down with the Sickness?
[01:07:11] - [Aaron]
Base the boss battles. Basically, it's like it's like it's like it was South Park Japanese person to Down with the Sickness.
[01:07:20] - [Gerry]
Oh my god.
[01:07:23] - [Aaron]
It's awesome. So Yeah. It was Blue Dragon, and then they did, like, the two DS sequels that were okay, and they were like, no more.
[01:07:33] - [Gerry]
Oh, yeah.
[01:07:34] - [Aaron]
And then fucking Xbox had that Ninja Blade game, that FromSoft Ninja game that was fucking awesome. And then they were like
[01:07:40] - [Gerry]
That was a cool game.
[01:07:41] - [Aaron]
They were like, no more. They had all these cool exclusives that they could have done a whole lot more with, but they were like, no, we only want Gears and Halo and Forza. Just those three.
[01:07:51] - [Gerry]
Barker's Jericho.
[01:07:53] - [Aaron]
That was cool too.
[01:07:56] - [Gerry]
I don't I I don't know much about that game. So one of the things that I've taken upon myself to do is to attempt a curated list. The games that interest me on these consoles in 2025 are essentially games that have never been ported or, like, they're just kind of locked to this console. Games like Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts, which I threw on recently and went, wait, is this good? This is good.
[01:08:29] - [Aaron]
Well, hang on there, mister. It's also on newer Xbox consoles.
[01:08:35] - [Gerry]
It is? Like, it's backwards compatible? Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay.
[01:08:40] - [Aaron]
It is good, though. I like that game.
[01:08:41] - [Gerry]
It was never but it was never ported. It's just backwards compatible. So it's still it's still technically locked to that console.
[01:08:50] - [Aaron]
It's weird because, like, it came with rare replay. So it kind of was ported because there was, like, a rare replay version of the game that was separate from the backwards compatible version.
[01:09:02] - [Gerry]
Yeah. I will say too, maybe you you can put the link in the description. I found a a site that's right now. I found a site called V's recommended games. Oh.
[01:09:21] - [Gerry]
And it's what they do is there's, like, all these consoles on here. And, like, say if I go to Microsoft Xbox three sixty, it'll it'll list a very extensive list of, like, of all the games that are available on three sixty that are recommended. And it'll say, like, the genre, give a brief description. And at the bottom, this is where it gets really interesting. At the very bottom of the site, there are, like, these, like, just these huge, like, pictures that have games that were only ever on Xbox that you can only get on Xbox.
[01:10:09] - [Gerry]
So, like, let's see. Xbox exclusives for, like, say, shooters
[01:10:20] - [Aaron]
For $3.60? That were yeah.
[01:10:22] - [Gerry]
For $3.60, you have, like, Gears of War two three. You have Halo three, Halo three ODST, Reach four, Perfect Dark Zero, Project Silfied, Ghost Recon, the outfit, and then multi platform with no PC release, army of two, army of two fortieth day. That's too good.
[01:10:47] - [Aaron]
Fuck. I missed those.
[01:10:48] - [Gerry]
Wet. Wet sucks. You were wet? Yeah. The darkness, dude,
[01:10:53] - [Aaron]
the darkness
[01:10:54] - [Gerry]
was so fucking cool.
[01:10:55] - [Aaron]
That was cool.
[01:10:56] - [Gerry]
If you listen, listen listeners, if you haven't heard of the darkness yet, it is so crazy. Like, it was such a weird but fun first person shooter.
[01:11:06] - [Aaron]
And the singer from faith no more does the voice of the dark past.
[01:11:09] - [Gerry]
You will be my puppet. I hope I
[01:11:14] - [Aaron]
was I hope I did a good note.
[01:11:15] - [Gerry]
It's a lot
[01:11:16] - [Aaron]
of fun.
[01:11:16] - [Gerry]
Darkness two is a lot of fun too. But yeah, like this this just gives like this huge look, like a top down look at everything. Like Condemn two never left consoles. That's Yeah. Condemn one, I think.
[01:11:32] - [Gerry]
But Condemn two? No. You know Never left a console.
[01:11:36] - [Aaron]
You know what was really, really cool about this generation that I I don't know if I can say the same for PS three, but I mean, I'm sure it had its stuff, but like the March had a lot of like digital only games, like those super cheap digital only games. I'm not talking about like Braid and Fez, which I mean, that's also cool. Like this was the start of indie gaming because you had Fez and Braid and all those games, but there were lots of like, I guess, like, event games because, like, the March had a shit ton of those, like, dumb Doritos games for, like, fucking $4, like, Doritos Crash Course, which was just, like, Wipeout, but but with with your avatar, there was one versus 100, which was like this game show you could play with your avatar where they asked you questions or something and it'd be like you versus a 100 people. Oh, yeah. There was
[01:12:31] - [Gerry]
Remember that?
[01:12:32] - [Aaron]
There was that like poker game that you play with your avatar against like other people in their avatars. There was a lot of shit like that where like where you would be like your avatar against other people or or doing other fun shit. Yeah. That was really, really cool.
[01:12:49] - [Gerry]
So here's here's a fun one for
[01:12:52] - [Aaron]
you. So
[01:12:54] - [Gerry]
the Xbox three sixty exclusives that are still locked to the console, Blue Dragon has never seen a port. I don't know if this is right or not. It says it on this, but Fable two has never seen a port. That's true. I Infinite Undiscovery has never seen a port?
[01:13:16] - [Aaron]
That neither. Yeah. That's still stuck there.
[01:13:18] - [Gerry]
Lost Odyssey, which I would argue is the reason why I even brought a three sixty back into my life because I've never played It's good.
[01:13:28] - [Aaron]
That Infinite is really good also.
[01:13:32] - [Gerry]
Is that good?
[01:13:33] - [Aaron]
That is really good. And
[01:13:37] - [Gerry]
the other one here is Magna Carta.
[01:13:39] - [Aaron]
That's also good. I think it's a tactics
[01:13:43] - [Gerry]
on That's the a ban presto game. Interesting.
[01:13:48] - [Aaron]
Eternal Sonata, if you haven't played that, that's also really good. I think it's on PS three and three sixty, but that's awesome.
[01:13:55] - [Gerry]
Yeah. So, again, this list kind of gives multi platform with no PC release, and those ones on three sixty. So this would have been also on PS three. So enchanted arms is one.
[01:14:07] - [Aaron]
Oh, yeah.
[01:14:08] - [Gerry]
Eternal Sonata, Ultimate Alliance two near, like the first near. Yeah. I think they they did. Sort
[01:14:17] - [Aaron]
of like
[01:14:18] - [Gerry]
they did. They remade replicant, which was I think that was the exclusive one to PS three only in Japan. Okay. Residents of fate. Oh, I forgot about that.
[01:14:30] - [Gerry]
Yeah. That's the gun one. That was cool. Yeah. That's the gun one.
[01:14:32] - [Gerry]
I've heard that that game is pretty underrated.
[01:14:35] - [Aaron]
It's hard to play, but it I mean, like like, mechanically, there's a lot, but it's fun once you learn it. Star Ocean, The Last Hope. That's pretty cool too.
[01:14:45] - [Gerry]
I've heard mixed things about that, but not from a lot of people, so I wouldn't consider it accurate. Super Robot Wars x o I which was Japanese only.
[01:14:56] - [Aaron]
Damn it.
[01:14:57] - [Gerry]
And then Tales of Vesperia, which I've never played.
[01:15:01] - [Aaron]
That's like I'm doing a chef's kiss, but I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah. That game is really good. It's I think, a lot of I don't know. It's hard to say which Tales game is the best in the series because everybody has their own favorite, but Vesperia.
[01:15:17] - [Aaron]
I think that's mine, man. It's a good combat system.
[01:15:23] - [Gerry]
Interesting. So then you got action adventure with no ports that I'm aware of. Afro Samurai. That game's kinda cool. That is kinda cool.
[01:15:41] - [Gerry]
Anarchy reigns, dude. Oh, shit. I threw this on last weekend when Dala was over, And we both had like a light bulb moment when we both went, hang on. Isn't this like a sequel to that one we exclusive game mad world?
[01:16:02] - [Aaron]
That's what I was thinking.
[01:16:03] - [Gerry]
Black and white. Now I'm like, holy shit, I think it is. Then we're both like, wait, is that that's the main character. This like, this is a direct sequel to Mad World. It's like this is Mad World two.
[01:16:17] - [Gerry]
And my my head exploded. I didn't realize that this was like a direct sequel to that. That is cool. It was crazy. Some of the armored core games, same thing.
[01:16:27] - [Aaron]
Good Four
[01:16:28] - [Gerry]
four answer, five five verdict day, Asura's wrath, which is a big bucket list one for me. I've had it in my backlog forever. I've never really seen, like Yeah. Fifteen, twenty minutes of that thing, but my god almighty, that was crazy. Bladestorm.
[01:16:47] - [Gerry]
I don't know what that is. Conan. Dante's inferno. You know what? I really, really enjoyed Dante's inferno.
[01:16:54] - [Aaron]
Yep.
[01:16:54] - [Gerry]
It was a it was a super just rip off of God of War. Like, it was that
[01:17:01] - [Aaron]
With way more early that game. Way more dicks, though. A lot of exposed dicks in that game, and it
[01:17:05] - [Gerry]
was cool. Lot of hogs. El Shaddai. That was pretty cool. Was it?
[01:17:13] - [Gerry]
Yeah. We we checked that one out last weekend too. Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom, I don't know anything about that.
[01:17:19] - [Aaron]
All of that.
[01:17:20] - [Gerry]
Lollipop Chainsaw, which I think just got a remaster. So this this might be a little outdated. Same thing with these Ninja Gaiden games like some of these two. It was only recently pointed out to me that Red Dead Redemption has never made a port.
[01:17:36] - [Aaron]
Oh, yeah.
[01:17:37] - [Gerry]
PC. It's never been ported to PC.
[01:17:39] - [Aaron]
That is. Yeah.
[01:17:41] - [Gerry]
Yeah. But, yeah, highly recommend checking this site out. That's just three sixty, but I've been I've been perusing it lately for for the other two consoles for PS three and and Wii. And I've I've found actually, I found one of the coolest three sixty games I ever played just last week because of this website. What is it?
[01:18:05] - [Gerry]
Have you heard of Comic Jumper?
[01:18:08] - [Aaron]
It sounds familiar, but I don't think I've played it.
[01:18:13] - [Gerry]
It was an Xbox Live arcade game. Of course. It I mean, initially, I was like, okay. Didn't really know what to think of it. Alright.
[01:18:25] - [Gerry]
Let's see what it's like. Presentation's strong. It's very comic booky, like, you know, speech bubbles and stuff. Fully voice acted though. It's by Twisted Pixel.
[01:18:40] - [Gerry]
Do you know who that is?
[01:18:42] - [Aaron]
That sounds familiar, man.
[01:18:44] - [Gerry]
I'm Do you know
[01:18:47] - [Aaron]
I don't remember.
[01:18:48] - [Gerry]
Other games were? No.
[01:18:49] - [Aaron]
I don't remember. They sound really familiar. Tell you.
[01:18:53] - [Gerry]
They also did The Maw. They did Oh. Explosion Man. Fucking Explosion Man. Yep.
[01:19:00] - [Gerry]
Did, The Gunstringer. I don't know what that is. And they did Locos Cycle, and they did for Oculus Rift of all things. They did Wilson's Heart, which was a VR game. They did, a really, really fun VR game that I played when I had my quest two, and that was Path of the Warrior.
[01:19:23] - [Gerry]
That was really fun. It was a beat them up in three d or in VR. And they're now doing the Deadpool VR game. Oh. That's who's that's who's doing it.
[01:19:33] - [Gerry]
But, yeah, this comic jumper, The Adventures of Captain Smiley, Jesus Christ. This game goes from being a beat them up to basically becoming Contra. Oh, hell yeah. And then also being sin and punishment.
[01:19:52] - [Aaron]
Oh, where it's like It's like sort of.
[01:19:56] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Sort of. Yeah. Where, like, the perspective will shift and all of a sudden it's like fucking what's that Super Nintendo game with the cowboys where you're
[01:20:04] - [Aaron]
like Sunset Riders or whatever.
[01:20:06] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Basically that. So it's got, like, so far what we've seen, we've only been to the first world, but it seems like each world is gonna be a different comic.
[01:20:16] - [Aaron]
That's really cool.
[01:20:17] - [Gerry]
Like, it's very self aware of how corny it is and, like, how how it's ripping off, like, all these different, like, comics and pop culture references and stuff. I would say that for me would be my recommendation of because you know what? We're gonna be recommend lots of games. So we're probably not gonna do a random
[01:20:38] - [Aaron]
Yeah. That's fine.
[01:20:39] - [Gerry]
At the end of this. But that would be my, like, kinda hidden gem recommendation for the three sixty. Dude, absolutely check this game out.
[01:20:48] - [Aaron]
The three sixty and PS three was a really good time for racing games. I think that was like a good bunch of what I played on these systems was racing games because like
[01:20:58] - [Gerry]
Burnout Paradise, baby. Yeah.
[01:20:59] - [Aaron]
Burnout Paradise, they had the the the remaster of Burnout Revenge on their Fucking two, I would say, like, two hidden gem, like like racing game hidden gems on the system that I need to, like, sit forward for in order to talk about them because I love them so much that have never been ported. So first off is split second, which is like
[01:21:23] - [Gerry]
That game is fucking awesome.
[01:21:25] - [Aaron]
It's insane. So listeners, I want you I want you to think of like a fusion of Mario Kart and we'll say burnout. And then occasionally, when you get to a certain point on the track after you've built up your boost meter, you can hit a button to make parts of the track fucking explode. And then not only does it knock out other cars, but it also, like, drastically changes the the course to take, like, a shortcut through this to get to that way. And then, oh my god.
[01:21:54] - [Aaron]
And then blur blur is another good one. That's
[01:21:58] - [Gerry]
blur was good. That was, like, more realistic Mario Kart.
[01:22:01] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Like, kinda like Need for Speed Underground a little bit. That one was really good too. Fuck. But you could
[01:22:07] - [Gerry]
like pick up power ups and shit. Right?
[01:22:09] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Yeah. You had like oh my god. What was it? There was one that make the screen
[01:22:13] - [Gerry]
Disney Interactive or something make that?
[01:22:15] - [Aaron]
Those split second they did.
[01:22:18] - [Gerry]
Disney interactive did split second.
[01:22:19] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Blur was oh, I can't think of their name. Disney did split second for sure. And they haven't done a new one, which is stupid because they could do a lot of split second now. Like, they've never done that kind of racing game ever.
[01:22:33] - [Gerry]
It would be I mean, yeah, they they could make split second. They can ramp that up and make it really ridiculous.
[01:22:42] - [Aaron]
Goddamn, man. Now, that'd be cool.
[01:22:47] - [Gerry]
Yeah. I'm trying
[01:22:48] - [Aaron]
to think
[01:22:48] - [Gerry]
PlayStation had quite a bit of exclusive racing games. Those motor motor storm games, motors motor storm. Why is that so hard for me to say? My god.
[01:23:00] - [Aaron]
Just a lot of
[01:23:01] - [Gerry]
Motorstorm. That motorstorm. I
[01:23:04] - [Aaron]
I remember at I think it was so around that time, three d TVs are were becoming pretty popular. And I remember seeing at Best Buy Yep. Like, Motorstorm being played on a three d TV and Pacific Rift. Yeah. And the fucking
[01:23:22] - [Gerry]
That was the three d one.
[01:23:23] - [Aaron]
The fucking split screen. It wasn't split screen because, like, player one would have, like, the main screen and player two would play on, like, the three d screen or whatever and, like
[01:23:35] - [Gerry]
So you know how that worked. Right? You could have two people playing
[01:23:39] - [Aaron]
On one.
[01:23:40] - [Gerry]
But you but you both wear the glasses, but one person's seeing their screen and the other person's seeing their screen. Oh. Full screen.
[01:23:48] - [Aaron]
Stop screen peeking. They have, like
[01:23:51] - [Gerry]
Yeah.
[01:23:53] - [Aaron]
Goddamn, man.
[01:23:54] - [Gerry]
Yeah. That was there, man. There's a a really rare we should ask video game esoteric. He probably fucking owns one for Christ's sake. One of the there was like a three d TV that Sony made that had a PS three built into it.
[01:24:10] - [Gerry]
What the fuck? I'm maybe I dreamt that. Let me just double check. Three d TV with PS three There's a weird amount
[01:24:20] - [Aaron]
beyond. Of crossovers back in that day too because there was was it was the Mortal Kombat versus DC or something, and, like, that's when Sonic and Sega All Stars first started coming out too. So I think this the Sega All Stars tennis and, like, racing and shit, which, by the way, those racing games are fucking good. Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed is my baby.
[01:24:43] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Those games are fun. Lots of fun. Lots of fun. The other thing that I've been playing so I I whipped up that p that three sixty, and, you know, I felt pretty inclined to throw on Banjo Kazooie.
[01:25:05] - [Gerry]
But the the the thing that was that's been calling me, and I'm I'm I'm holding on because I know it's gonna be a bit of a commitment, is Lost Odyssey. Like, that is
[01:25:15] - [Aaron]
Yeah, dude.
[01:25:16] - [Gerry]
My number one priority. And look, I get it. There's lots of classic the here here's what I'm gonna say that's probably gonna make some people mad. The PlayStation three and Sony in general, I feel like in my personal opinion, and this is not the opinion of all the people on this podcast by any stretch of the means, I feel like the PlayStation three had between the three sixty and PS three because let's be real, Wii has the best exclusives. Nintendo always has the strongest IPs.
[01:25:56] - [Gerry]
But this the PlayStation three, like you said, didn't start off as strong, but holy Christ. Look, if you don't like The Last of Us, that's fine. But there's a lot of people that do.
[01:26:09] - [Aaron]
Yeah.
[01:26:11] - [Gerry]
Myself included. I I don't love The Last of Us. I really like it though. There was just, like, just a fucking wealth and a deep deep well of exclusive games. And they they really started to ramp up the strength of, like, new IPs.
[01:26:32] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Like, their production
[01:26:34] - [Aaron]
value was off the fucking charts too with Last of Us Uncharted. Uncharted. Jesus Christ. What? Infamous?
[01:26:42] - [Aaron]
That would
[01:26:43] - [Gerry]
Infamous was very good as well. Yep. There was there was so many, like, that were just coming out left, right, and center, and they just all seemed to be bangers, like, all the time. Like, sure. There's some hit hit and miss, but, like, you know, you had the God of War games.
[01:27:02] - [Gerry]
Oh, yeah. Like, of War three was fucking insane. That was crazy town, dude. That was game is mind blowing at the time. The Yakuza games, they were Oh, I've got
[01:27:21] - [Aaron]
that. Yeah. Okay. Yakuza. Yeah.
[01:27:23] - [Aaron]
Yakuza games.
[01:27:24] - [Gerry]
You had The Last of Us, Infamous, Twisted Metal was making a comeback. Heavenly Sword And we're playing. Apparently, it's pretty good. I've never played that, but I kinda want to. For Dragon's Crown, have you ever played Dragon's Crown?
[01:27:42] - [Aaron]
No. But I've heard a lot about it, like vanilla Vanillaware. Yeah. Vanillaware. That's one that never misses is vanillaware.
[01:27:50] - [Gerry]
The I guess. I I don't have enough, I guess, experience playing with them.
[01:27:59] - [Aaron]
Change that shit.
[01:28:01] - [Gerry]
Yeah. You you also have the resistance games. Mhmm. Uncharted, like you said, time crisis, kill zone, which was pretty insane.
[01:28:13] - [Aaron]
I forgot about the first
[01:28:14] - [Gerry]
person shooters. Little Big Planet two, dude. I remember that blowing my fucking mind when that came out. That, like, that was, like, the first Mario maker, essentially. Because, like, you could make your own levels and then publish them online, and then people could go play the levels.
[01:28:36] - [Gerry]
Yep. And, like, people were making, like, insane shit, and then there was three of those. Then you had the Jack and or no. Jack and Daxter got a, like, a HD remake thing or not remake, but like
[01:28:47] - [Aaron]
HD Remaster.
[01:28:48] - [Gerry]
Rerelease of like all the different games. But there was a pile of new Ratchet and Clank games on PS three, and those games are all really, really fun.
[01:28:56] - [Aaron]
That was that whole generation had a lot of really like mind blowing games because I remember back then having never played a single other scrolls game playing oblivion for the first time, Oblivion fucking, like, knocked me out. That's all I I got.
[01:29:14] - [Gerry]
I didn't even play oblivion, dude. My first one was Skyrim for fuck's sake.
[01:29:18] - [Aaron]
Oh, man. Oblivion was so so oblivion and fucking fallout three, that was some shit. Like, you could literally go, like, before before then, like, the GameCube and PS two, there was never a game where you just go wherever you want and just, you know, beat your dick over in that town for like thirty minutes and then do the same in that next town or whatever. That's what I mean. Like, back then,
[01:29:47] - [Gerry]
that concept of game, insane. Yeah. Mind blowing. That it was just like, see that mountain? You can go there.
[01:29:54] - [Gerry]
That was that was wild to me when you could do that. But that's why I don't really like it now because I feel like it's outdated.
[01:30:04] - [Aaron]
Yeah. So when people are like,
[01:30:06] - [Gerry]
look how big this world is. I'm like, I don't care.
[01:30:08] - [Aaron]
I wouldn't say it's really want it. Outdated. It's just kind of like overdone. Like, it's just like every game has an open world and those open worlds are like so devoid of anything that makes it fun. Because like with fallout, the funnest parts of that was the open world because you could go explore and find something cool.
[01:30:28] - [Aaron]
Yeah. And same with like oblivion. But
[01:30:32] - [Gerry]
as time went on though, they got lazy with that. Yeah, formula.
[01:30:35] - [Aaron]
Just open and be open.
[01:30:36] - [Gerry]
Look how big it is. And it's like, yeah, but like, what's there? And they're like, a lot,
[01:30:40] - [Aaron]
but look how big it is. Oh. But oh. Did you ever play Sleeping Dogs? I think I talked about this on episode, but I I I need you to play Sleeping Dogs because that game fucking
[01:30:52] - [Gerry]
I Buddy.
[01:30:52] - [Aaron]
I think that actually got a port.
[01:30:54] - [Gerry]
Greg has already been on my ass about Sleeping Dogs. And, yes, I've played that game in my God. That soundtrack doesn't need to go that hard.
[01:31:03] - [Aaron]
Neither does the fucking combat, man. Like
[01:31:06] - [Gerry]
Yeah. The combat is crazy, dude. Yeah. It's it's I have Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition Oh,
[01:31:12] - [Aaron]
hell yeah.
[01:31:13] - [Gerry]
On my PC because Greg demanded I play it. It's Greg said it many times before. He might not have said it since we've all joined forces, and he's coming over into this into our house. But it's it's a top five Greg game. Oh.
[01:31:29] - [Gerry]
That's one of his top five all timers, like
[01:31:32] - [Aaron]
Hell, yeah.
[01:31:32] - [Gerry]
Ever. He loves that game. And I can see why. You know what else was a crazy exclusive on PS three? Siren Blood Curse.
[01:31:43] - [Aaron]
Oh, I fucking for. Yeah. That I forgot that was
[01:31:47] - [Gerry]
He was scavenger. Yeah. Fuck. That game though, dude, they they did that game dirty. Did they?
[01:31:56] - [Gerry]
So in North America, do you do you know under do you understand how that game, like, works? They released it in episodes. It was one of those games where they're like, you know what would be a good idea? Let's release this in episodes,
[01:32:08] - [Aaron]
like, Yeah. Each
[01:32:10] - [Gerry]
So it was just like you had, like, fucking 14 different games of Siren Blood Curse. But I think in Japan and maybe Europe, it came out, like, on a disc. Like, you just buy it. But, yeah, that's that's and that's never left that console. It's just there.
[01:32:29] - [Aaron]
That was a a weird, like, thing that Jen, like, was when Telltale started and they did like a million of their games like that.
[01:32:37] - [Gerry]
Oh, man.
[01:32:40] - [Aaron]
There was another game that did that too, but I forget. Also, dude, the fucking the Batman Arkham games started on, like, March and shit, and that is, like, that is my shit. Like, Arkham Asylum and City. Oh.
[01:32:52] - [Gerry]
I got Arkham Asylum for my birthday, the the day it came because I think it came out on my birthday and I just remember being like, oh my god, this is the next step for action games. Yep. Like, this is like, I couldn't I couldn't believe how good the combat was in those games. And then it was a Metroidvania, like, that was crazy.
[01:33:13] - [Aaron]
It oh, my God. And then the fucking they opened it up a shit ton in Arkham City and they gave you more playable characters, like you could be fucking Nightwing or Catwoman, and they had their own cool move sets and shit too. Another cool, I don't know if this is left, three sixty or PS three yet, but have you ever played Killer is Dead?
[01:33:35] - [Gerry]
I haven't, but I've heard it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. I did not play this game, but I feel like it would be a miss if we didn't actually mention it. But Journey, I know people that like fucking wept because of Journey. And like, I I thought it was crazy that, like, you would go on this little, well, journey with a stranger, and you were just like, I don't know, you'd like feel so connected to them even though you couldn't communicate with them.
[01:34:09] - [Aaron]
Yeah.
[01:34:10] - [Gerry]
Right? Because that's essentially what that game was. It was like you just kind of you're going in the sand, you're just kind of running around and hanging out with your friend. Katamari Forever is also exclusive to the PS three.
[01:34:24] - [Aaron]
Which is super weird because I think three sixty has its own exclusive
[01:34:28] - [Gerry]
They do. Yeah.
[01:34:29] - [Aaron]
Oh, man. Speaking of three sixty exclusives, Viva Pinata, dude. Hidden gem. Not like unironically, those they're all not those. The second one, Trouble in Paradise was really fucking good.
[01:34:44] - [Gerry]
Really? No. Yeah. Yeah. Here's here's where shit gets real, dude.
[01:34:50] - [Gerry]
Real. You ready for this?
[01:34:51] - [Aaron]
Realer than Uncharted.
[01:34:53] - [Gerry]
PS three play say plays PlayStation three, PS three RPGs that were exclusive to the PlayStation. There are Probably a shit ton. Way too many of these Atelier games.
[01:35:13] - [Aaron]
I've always wanted to try them, but I never know Where the crap to start?
[01:35:16] - [Gerry]
One, two, three, four, five Oh. Six of these fucking games.
[01:35:21] - [Aaron]
I think Valkyria Chronicles started on PS three Yeah.
[01:35:24] - [Gerry]
And those were That was a that was a PS three exclusive for a long time.
[01:35:27] - [Aaron]
Those were really, really good.
[01:35:29] - [Gerry]
So let me tell you about a game that changed the trajectory of my entire gaming life that came out on the PS three Yes. That I bought blindly Mhmm. After watching a trailer Mhmm. Mhmm. For this game.
[01:35:46] - [Gerry]
That game is called demon's souls.
[01:35:48] - [Aaron]
Oh, God. Yep.
[01:35:52] - [Gerry]
I didn't know what I was getting into when I got that game, dude. I had no idea. I had no idea what I was getting into. And I'll be honest, at first, when I realized that when I died, I started over at the beginning and lost everything. I was like, hold on.
[01:36:13] - [Gerry]
That can't be right.
[01:36:14] - [Aaron]
Surely, I have it on like this wrong.
[01:36:17] - [Gerry]
Do I have it on like a hard difficulty or something? I don't remember selecting that. And I'm like, never mind. I guess this but when you finally do, like, beat that first boss and you get, like, you you kind of go all the way around and end up at the first boss, and then you kill it, and then you unlock that gate, and it's like, oh, wait. That's like totally a shortcut.
[01:36:37] - [Gerry]
Now I could just start here. And like, yeah. That I got I got bit pretty hard by that game.
[01:36:45] - [Aaron]
That's So
[01:36:46] - [Gerry]
like when when demons see that's the thing. When Dark Souls came out, you have no fucking idea how hype I was for that because I had played Demon's Souls and finished it. And Dark Souls just seemed like it was like
[01:37:00] - [Aaron]
Bigger and better Demon's Souls. Fuck, dude.
[01:37:03] - [Gerry]
Yeah.
[01:37:04] - [Aaron]
Speaking of of games going in blind that turned out to be really fucking good, dude. I remember buying so, like, when I first moved into my first apartment, no Internet. And I was like, dude, I need to pick up games that I can play offline. So I went and got Alan Wake and fuck. I just had it in my head.
[01:37:24] - [Aaron]
And it was Alan Wake and something else. And after playing Alan Wake, like, over and over, I was like, dude, dude, what the fuck? Why does this game rule so hard? Who is that other fucking game, man? Talk over me.
[01:37:41] - [Aaron]
Always Dante's Inferno. Yeah.
[01:37:45] - [Gerry]
I go to take a breath to talk and you're like, I got it.
[01:37:48] - [Aaron]
Yeah. I got it.
[01:37:50] - [Gerry]
Some of the other games on the PlayStation that were exclusive to the console, we got folklore, which I know has sort of a a weird cult following, like people people go to bat for that.
[01:38:04] - [Aaron]
Yeah.
[01:38:05] - [Gerry]
Kingdom Hearts as well. Oh, Kuni started off as an exclusive for that console, which was really, really good. The Disgaea games, which I think it's just the Disgaea two, I think, maybe. What is this? We got Ragnarok Odyssey.
[01:38:28] - [Gerry]
I don't know what that is. The Witch and the 100 Night, Guided Fate Paradox, Tales of Zilia, Tales of Zilia two.
[01:38:37] - [Aaron]
Oh, yeah. There were a ton of those on PS three.
[01:38:40] - [Gerry]
Yep. Shining Residence, White Knight Chronicles one and two. Yeah. There was a there was a a ton of like, that the amount of games that works that they ended up just finally being like, alright. Let's start pumping these fucking exclusive games out.
[01:38:58] - [Gerry]
It just became like it was almost like hilarious how many there were. Like, they just kept coming.
[01:39:05] - [Aaron]
They also they had And
[01:39:07] - [Gerry]
they gave Africa, which was strange.
[01:39:10] - [Aaron]
They they also It
[01:39:10] - [Gerry]
was just called Africa.
[01:39:11] - [Aaron]
I think yeah. It was holy shit. They also had MLB the show, the exclusive to the to the PlayStation Oh, yeah. For, like, the longest time too.
[01:39:21] - [Gerry]
A long time.
[01:39:22] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Yeah. That was that was a big heavy hitter for them for the longest time as well.
[01:39:27] - [Gerry]
Yeah. But that's that's the thing. Like, I I feel like I fell in love with the PS three toward more toward the end of its life just because it it just had such a strong library of games that were just like, yeah, there's so many of these that are must plays. Yeah. It's kind of unbelievable how many there are.
[01:39:54] - [Gerry]
But, I mean, by the time I got my I got my three sixty in 2010.
[01:40:00] - [Aaron]
Oh, goddamn, dude.
[01:40:03] - [Gerry]
Got it for Dark Souls. And shortly after that, my buddy was like, hey, man. You should really pick up Halo Reach so we can play online. Oh, yeah. And I was like, I'm not good at these games, dude.
[01:40:17] - [Gerry]
And he's like, it's super fun. And I was like, I don't believe you, but whatever. I'll pick it up. So I picked it up and, yeah, we used to play that, like, every other night. We'd hop on and just have a few matches and, you know, call it quits, and it was it was a good time.
[01:40:31] - [Gerry]
It's really the only Halo that I got into into. I don't even know if I I'm don't think I even played the campaign at all. I just played it online.
[01:40:39] - [Aaron]
My me and my friend Jared and my my brother Devin, we would play Reach fucking religiously. Like, we would always team up and we do like three v three SWAT. We would do the was it griff ball? We played griff ball fucking religiously, which is where you like, everybody has either a hammer or like everybody has a gravity hammer and a sword and you just knock this fucking ball around or no. I think you hit your teammates around actually.
[01:41:08] - [Aaron]
Yeah, I forgot.
[01:41:10] - [Gerry]
Or was no, it was a ball.
[01:41:11] - [Aaron]
Right? It might have been a ball.
[01:41:13] - [Gerry]
I've It was a ball, but you could you could whack the fucking people around.
[01:41:16] - [Aaron]
Yeah. With the gravity hammer just
[01:41:20] - [Gerry]
in the lead, lost the lead, took the lead.
[01:41:23] - [Aaron]
Yeah, dude. SWAT especially, like, we would we would stay up for fucking hours just binging SWAT trying to get like as good as possible and start our own fucking clan or something. It was just like, you mad because that was a that was the big meme at the time you mad, bro. Like our our clan tag was you mad.
[01:41:46] - [Gerry]
So, yeah, I had I had some love for the March toward the end of the March life. I've since rediscovered it. And I think there's I think there's some cool things there that I need to play. I need to go back and I need to play some of the some of the games that I just wasn't able to play. I need to do the same
[01:42:11] - [Aaron]
with the PS three, man. Like
[01:42:14] - [Gerry]
No. You need to do the same with the Wii. We gotta talk we we have to talk about the Wii right now. We are talking about the Wii.
[01:42:25] - [Aaron]
Dude,
[01:42:26] - [Gerry]
so This console was a fucking powerhouse.
[01:42:32] - [Aaron]
It had a little bit of everything.
[01:42:33] - [Gerry]
For graphics, just in terms of the longevity of the console was absurd. Like, they went let me let me just really quickly Aaron, do you wanna play the game?
[01:42:50] - [Aaron]
Let's do it.
[01:42:57] - [Gerry]
So I'm gonna ask you a question.
[01:42:59] - [Aaron]
You know,
[01:43:03] - [Gerry]
when do you think the last Wii game came out?
[01:43:09] - [Aaron]
It had to have been a Just Dance and I wanna say 2018.
[01:43:25] - [Gerry]
I can't fucking believe what I'm reading on my screen right now.
[01:43:29] - [Aaron]
Let me tell me. Tell Tell me. Tell me.
[01:43:32] - [Gerry]
Oh, god. I you know what? I'm I'm getting this information, I think, myself for the first time. You're right. It was a Just Dance game.
[01:43:44] - [Aaron]
I knew it. Yep.
[01:43:45] - [Gerry]
And it was fucking Just Dance 2020.
[01:43:49] - [Aaron]
Ew. Why? Goddamn it.
[01:43:52] - [Gerry]
The last game Gonna came out on 06/10/2019. Oh, no. That was when it was revealed.
[01:44:00] - [Aaron]
So it came out after that? Final
[01:44:02] - [Gerry]
release, 11/05/2019.
[01:44:07] - [Aaron]
There surely, the install base for the Wii was super low at that point. Fucking twenty years Absolutely not.
[01:44:14] - [Gerry]
That's that's the that was the console seller. It was Just Dance 2020. Oh, man. They hadn't realized that they thought it was Mario Galaxy and all these other games, but no, sir. Nisser.
[01:44:25] - [Gerry]
Man. It was Just Dance twenty twenty. That So, yeah. Just Dance twenty twenty is the last game to be released on the Wii. That is unbelievable.
[01:44:38] - [Gerry]
That is insane. That that console almost made it twenty goddamn years.
[01:44:47] - [Aaron]
It's almost as bad as the what is it? The mega no. The master system or whatever. In Brazil, people still, buying the master system and shit. A fucking console from the eighties in the in the February now.
[01:45:03] - [Gerry]
Oh, my god. But, yeah, I recently started playing Metroid Prime three. The reason I started playing Metroid Prime three is because I have never played it.
[01:45:19] - [Aaron]
Yeah.
[01:45:20] - [Gerry]
I love Prime one and two. Love those games. Prime four? Right around the corner. Right around the corner.
[01:45:28] - [Gerry]
It's so close. It's so so close. So I was like, you know what? I got this Wii, I got Metroid Prime three. Maybe it's time I finally played this game.
[01:45:40] - [Gerry]
And man, I gotta tell you, the game fucking goes pretty hard.
[01:45:46] - [Aaron]
You know what else goes really fucking hard on the Wii? Xenoblade Chronicles. I'm still so surprised they got a
[01:45:57] - [Gerry]
game that And big on the
[01:46:00] - [Aaron]
then they were like, hold my beer and they put it on the three d s of all things.
[01:46:05] - [Gerry]
No. That game is not that's not the way to play
[01:46:07] - [Aaron]
that game. But Huge, man. So Finally,
[01:46:12] - [Gerry]
the, you know, the the remaster came out not too too long ago. But, yeah, the we had a pretty hefty ensemble of RPGs, man. So let me just let me just let me just see some of these because they're crazy. K? Alright.
[01:46:39] - [Gerry]
Platformers. Mario Galaxy one and two. I mean Pretty good. There's your console seller. Right there to the highest rated some of the highest rated games of all time.
[01:46:52] - [Gerry]
Mario Galaxy one, I think, is for a long time, it was the highest rated game of all time.
[01:46:58] - [Aaron]
I think they both are 10 out of
[01:46:59] - [Gerry]
10
[01:46:59] - [Aaron]
on IGN or some other site.
[01:47:04] - [Gerry]
On almost everything. Like, I think only in the last few years since, I think, Breath of the Wild may have dethroned them, but Or more honestly. For for a long ass time, dude, they were, like, the ones. New Super Mario Bros. We goddamn.
[01:47:21] - [Gerry]
I love that game. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. I played so much of that game. Donkey Kong Country Returns, Kirby's Return to Dreamland.
[01:47:30] - [Gerry]
Like, these are these are fucking certified bangers, dude.
[01:47:34] - [Aaron]
Wasn't wasn't Kirby's Epic Yarn on week? Is that game was pretty I
[01:47:40] - [Gerry]
looked at that and I skipped over it. I was gonna mention it. Be cool. It's it's not you can't die.
[01:47:48] - [Aaron]
I mean, it's still pretty good.
[01:47:50] - [Gerry]
You can't die. You can't die. It's a baby game.
[01:47:54] - [Aaron]
Oh, well, sorry.
[01:47:57] - [Gerry]
There was also warrior land shaken, which was fantastic. Yeah. Have you ever played that?
[01:48:03] - [Aaron]
I haven't, but I've heard that it's really good.
[01:48:06] - [Gerry]
Do the animation in that game is so good. It looks like you're playing a cartoon. It's it's really, really good. Lost in shadow was an exclusive game.
[01:48:20] - [Aaron]
I don't know what that is.
[01:48:21] - [Gerry]
The blob? Ever have you ever heard of the blob?
[01:48:24] - [Aaron]
Tommy talks about it all the time. Yep.
[01:48:26] - [Gerry]
Blob is super good, man.
[01:48:27] - [Aaron]
Oh, man. Oh, warrior wears smooth moves.
[01:48:31] - [Gerry]
Don't even get me started, dude. Don't even get me started.
[01:48:36] - [Aaron]
Wear so much, dude.
[01:48:37] - [Gerry]
I'm warning you. Don't get me started.
[01:48:38] - [Aaron]
Wear smooth moves. I'm starting you.
[01:48:40] - [Gerry]
Don't start me out.
[01:48:41] - [Aaron]
Starting you.
[01:48:42] - [Gerry]
Don't start it.
[01:48:43] - [Aaron]
Okay. Fine.
[01:48:44] - [Gerry]
Okay. It started. Fucking love that game, dude. Dude, the explanation screens will be like, man. And it would like be like these super, like like, realistic drawings.
[01:48:58] - [Gerry]
And, like, you just have this person, like, describing what they need you to do and be like, you gotta hold it on, like, top of your head and then do, like, a squat. Oh my god. What were the names of some of the the oh, man. I I need like, I feel like I need to look this up. The WarioWare.
[01:49:18] - [Gerry]
I don't know. It doesn't matter. But yeah. Man, WarioWare, that that like, I fell in love with WarioWare with that game. I liked it on GameCube and on Game Boy Advance.
[01:49:28] - [Gerry]
But Those motion pictures when I was just like, holy shit. This is funny as hell. Then we move into dude, this this list is crazy. Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Metroid Other M, Monster Hunter three Tribe.
[01:49:47] - [Aaron]
Oh, yes.
[01:49:49] - [Gerry]
Yep. Tried. On Chani Berra, zombie slayer something or other. Red Steel, Red Steel two, No More Heroes, No More Heroes two. Was cool.
[01:50:00] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Scarface, the world is yours apparently was Okami was Oh, yeah. Yeah. Sort of like a weird exclusive.
[01:50:08] - [Aaron]
His best played on Wii, I think.
[01:50:11] - [Gerry]
Oh, a 100% because of the the motion controls. Pandora's Tower I've Which I'm sure that's really not played. Yeah. Same. Disaster day of crisis What the is a really, really cool game.
[01:50:23] - [Aaron]
Disaster days.
[01:50:29] - [Gerry]
Disaster introducing disaster days. Disaster Dave. Wow. And then we just bring Dave Jackson out. He's just like, hey, guys.
[01:50:37] - [Gerry]
And then we and then we just cut him. Disaster Dave. You know what?
[01:50:46] - [Aaron]
You know what fucking PS three exclusive we forgot to mention? Metal Gear Solid Oh,
[01:50:56] - [Gerry]
yeah. Yeah. That's a good one. Yep. I mean, I I didn't list every single one.
[01:51:00] - [Gerry]
I just kind of went through, like, oh, yeah. So disaster day of crisis. It's an action adventure and then sometimes light gun game.
[01:51:15] - [Aaron]
It's kinda cool.
[01:51:17] - [Gerry]
And it's developed by
[01:51:24] - [Aaron]
Monolithsauce. Oh, okay. That's a name you can trust.
[01:51:27] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Yep. So check that one out. That's that's a hidden gem in my opinion.
[01:51:33] - [Aaron]
The fucking yeah. The virtual console also started on the Wii and that was like that was one of the main reasons you bought a Nintendo console going forward was for the fucking because you you get n '64, fucking Game Boy Advance, fucking pop GameCube discs right into your Wii and shit. That was that was fucking sweet.
[01:51:55] - [Gerry]
Yep. It was it was a good time to be alive. We also have these are to these RPGs. Jesus Christ. Muramasa, the demon blade.
[01:52:09] - [Gerry]
It's a vanilla ware. Oh. Super Paper Mario Oh. I thought was Yeah. Underrated.
[01:52:16] - [Gerry]
Rune Factory Frontier, Rune Factory Tides of Destiny, Arkwrights Fantasia, Tales of Symphonia, Dawn of the New World, Chocobo Dungeon, Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, Fragile Dreams, Phantom Brave, Opuna, which I read recently, you can play Opuna with just a nunchuck.
[01:52:35] - [Aaron]
That's cool.
[01:52:38] - [Gerry]
Shire and the Wanderer.
[01:52:39] - [Aaron]
Oh, yeah.
[01:52:40] - [Gerry]
The Last Story.
[01:52:42] - [Aaron]
Last Story is good.
[01:52:42] - [Gerry]
Xenoblade Chronicles, Tales of Graces, and Sakura Wars. So Sakura Wars.
[01:52:49] - [Aaron]
Those are pretty cool. Those, like, visual novel mech tactical RPG games. Those are pretty cool.
[01:52:54] - [Gerry]
Is that what those are?
[01:52:55] - [Aaron]
Or sorry. Bromance sim what are they called? Dating sim mech tactics RPG. There we go.
[01:53:03] - [Gerry]
Sakura Wars? Yeah. Sakura Wars. Sakura Wars.
[01:53:08] - [Aaron]
They started on the Saturn.
[01:53:09] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Dude, have you ever heard of The Conduit?
[01:53:13] - [Aaron]
I feel like I have.
[01:53:14] - [Gerry]
It was it was a first person shooter game exclusive to the Wii, and it was kinda like
[01:53:21] - [Aaron]
it was kinda like a cross
[01:53:22] - [Gerry]
between, like, Halo and Half Life. Like, it was it was pretty different. Like, it was I
[01:53:26] - [Aaron]
like I've heard of that.
[01:53:27] - [Gerry]
It was pretty pretty interesting. Also, the GoldenEye remake was on the Wii Virtual Console first for for a long ass time, and then it got ported to three sixty.
[01:53:41] - [Aaron]
I forgot about that.
[01:53:43] - [Gerry]
Elabits was a cool game.
[01:53:45] - [Aaron]
Oh, yeah.
[01:53:47] - [Gerry]
There was man, there was some good horror games on here too. Shattered Memories was exclusive to the Wii at first. That was that weird one where it was like, you had to answer questions with like a therapist and like Oh, change. Like, that was a really interesting game. Cursed Mountain, which I have not played yet, but I do plan on playing it.
[01:54:09] - [Gerry]
Oh, dude. The Resident Evil archive games. The light gun games
[01:54:12] - [Aaron]
I never played those.
[01:54:13] - [Gerry]
That ran through like oh, they're so good. Calling did not play that. There's a there's a Ju On the grudge game.
[01:54:22] - [Aaron]
I think I've heard
[01:54:22] - [Gerry]
that's Obscure the aftermath. Dude Those games are This game, They're so good. They're fucking co op survival horror games.
[01:54:31] - [Aaron]
Oh. I'm pretty sure there's a couple Super Monkey Ball games on Wii that are really good because you use like the the tilt controls to to move the monkey and shit. Oh, no.
[01:54:39] - [Gerry]
It wasn't. I think you just held the remote. Right?
[01:54:41] - [Aaron]
And just That might have been tilted
[01:54:42] - [Gerry]
it around and stuff. Yeah. Something like that. There was a the Fatal Frame four was exclusive. Yeah.
[01:54:52] - [Gerry]
And then there was a remake of Fatal Frame two. Of course, Super Smash Bros. Brawl was incredible as well. What else we got here? Man, there's a lot of, like, good light gun games.
[01:55:08] - [Gerry]
The Umbrella Chronicles.
[01:55:10] - [Aaron]
Oh, the Sin and Punishment sequel.
[01:55:12] - [Gerry]
Sin and I haven't played Sin and Punishment on Wii, but I've played the the n sixty four one. And just the other night, actually, my buddy was like, I'm super happy that you're finally playing Metroid Prime three, but you better fucking place it in punishment next. And I'm like, I I got it. I got it.
[01:55:31] - [Aaron]
You got it, boss.
[01:55:32] - [Gerry]
Dead Space Extraction was a fun one too.
[01:55:35] - [Aaron]
I forgot that was a thing.
[01:55:36] - [Gerry]
That was a lot of yeah. That was a lot of fun. Of course, dude, Punch Out was such a Oh, good That was really good. Yep. Love that.
[01:55:49] - [Gerry]
Mario Kart Wii two. That was Jesus. That was a banger. SX blur.
[01:55:54] - [Aaron]
Oh, man. I
[01:55:55] - [Gerry]
like excite truck. We mean, Jesus, we already talked about Wii Sports Resort. But dude, Trauma Center was a game that I picked up pretty early on. And I loved that game because it was one part, like, visual novel and then another and in between, like, all this crazy shit happening and be like, quick, we gotta fucking operate on this guy's heart. And you'd be like, and you'd be like operating on, like, a dude's heart.
[01:56:27] - [Gerry]
But then eventually it got crazy. It was like, quick, who can who can fucking save us? We're trapped in this hospital and there's a bomb. And it's like, well, I know how to do surgery, so let me surgify this bomb. Surgify?
[01:56:41] - [Gerry]
Then you're like, fucking disarming bombs and shit.
[01:56:46] - [Aaron]
I forgot that
[01:56:46] - [Gerry]
That was a cool game.
[01:56:47] - [Aaron]
I always forget they made a fucking trauma center for for Wii. They had, like, two of those in the DS that are
[01:56:54] - [Gerry]
I wanna say that they started on we, but I'm not a 100% sure. Zach and Wiki was a fun one too. It was like a point and click adventure kind of thing. Of course, Animal Crossing City folk, lot of people really like that one. Yep.
[01:57:09] - [Gerry]
Oh, we forgot about people like the Go on.
[01:57:12] - [Aaron]
What? I was gonna say we forgot about the Castlevania fighting game. Castlevania judgment.
[01:57:17] - [Gerry]
Oh, my God. I forgot about that game. I tried really hard to forget about that game. Tatsunoko versus Capcom was also exclusive to the Wii for a long time.
[01:57:28] - [Aaron]
That's cool.
[01:57:30] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:57:32] - [Gerry]
Endless Ocean, those apparently are well beloved. And then yeah. Then, of course, then there's, the the oddball ones like WarioWare, Rayman raving rabbits was kind of funny. Like, that was that was a weird game. Rhythm Heaven was good.
[01:57:53] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Those are good.
[01:57:56] - [Gerry]
There was another one too, like, something.
[01:57:59] - [Aaron]
Are you talking are you thinking of Food Network cooked or be cooked?
[01:58:03] - [Gerry]
I sure wasn't thinking of that. Was not oh, you know what else was really fucking good was boom blocks.
[01:58:11] - [Aaron]
I remember that one.
[01:58:13] - [Gerry]
You know who helped make that game? Who? Steven mother fucking Spielberg. I swear to God.
[01:58:23] - [Aaron]
Has he I
[01:58:24] - [Gerry]
swear to God.
[01:58:24] - [Aaron]
Has he done another game since then? Like, he did that one and he was like, nah.
[01:58:29] - [Gerry]
Dude, Boom Blox bash party even says a Steven Spielberg EA game on it. That's so weird. Yeah. It was a good game though. Really good game.
[01:58:44] - [Gerry]
Yeah. Like Holy shit. The Wii just, like, is, like, the gift that keeps giving, dude. It just keeps fucking giving over and over. It just keeps going.
[01:58:54] - [Aaron]
There's so many Harvest Moon exclusives on that fucker, dude.
[01:59:00] - [Gerry]
Yeah. I I think for now, I think that kind of covers the initial chapter of talking about this gen. Kinda talked a little bit about, you know, our experiences with these consoles and what we kinda had at first. The next time I want to really divide our audience and really start making fun of fanboys. And what you know what?
[01:59:25] - [Gerry]
Why don't we rank, like, from from least annoying to most annoying next episode that we do on the, gen seven? And really, really let's you know what? There's not enough division happening in our world these days. Let's let's just add to it.
[01:59:43] - [Aaron]
That's true, man. Console wars are goddamn near over. So we're due for some drama, some gamer nerd dramas.
[01:59:52] - [Gerry]
Let's spark up some drama. Let's start let's let's let's bring back fanboyism and I mean, fanboyism is still alive. But this is this was like, I mean, holy Christ, dude. Yeah. We can get into it next time, but it was it was nuts.
[02:00:12] - [Gerry]
I I feel like I could take a whole episode to dissect fanboyism on this generation.
[02:00:17] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Like, I could
[02:00:19] - [Gerry]
because all of it was stupid, and I'm guilty because I was I was in the dumbest camp. I was in the weekend, dude. I was defending the Wii. Me, like, I don't need your good graphics. I'll take my Wii and my motion.
[02:00:31] - [Aaron]
Yeah. I was I was an Xbox defender for, like, since the March. Like, I didn't give a shit about the original Xbox. I got a March and the Xbox One, and I was like, this is why these consoles are so sick and I'm not getting a PlayStation. Yeah.
[02:00:50] - [Aaron]
Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. Next time.
[02:00:53] - [Gerry]
Next time on Dragon Ball Z, we finally power up the fanboy as a machine.
[02:00:59] - [Aaron]
We finally we finally power up to to brony mode.
[02:01:07] - [Gerry]
Yeah. But in the meantime, you should go check out some of the other episodes, and you can get those over on the website. And that is what's the address? Tell them, Aaron. Yeah.
[02:01:16] - [Gerry]
Tell them what the address is. The address. Tell him the address.
[02:01:20] - [Aaron]
It's superghost.site. Find all of our shit there, man. All of our episodes.
[02:01:25] - [Gerry]
Punch that in your map quest.
[02:01:26] - [Aaron]
Please punch it into Ask Jeeves, and he'll find it for you. Fucking Dogpile? Remember Dogpile? Dogpile was cool.
[02:01:32] - [Gerry]
I don't. I don't remember dog balls, but I remember Rasjeeves and Alta Vista. Dude,
[02:01:39] - [Aaron]
get off of Alta
[02:01:40] - [Gerry]
Vista. GeoCities. Bring back dude, bring back Yahoo Answers. That's how I solved everything back in the day.
[02:01:47] - [Aaron]
I kinda I kinda do, but I kinda don't miss Yahoo chat rooms. Okay. Not to get too into this, but the fucking three sixty, you could log into your, like, I think it was Yahoo or MSN chat rooms and you can do chat rooms.
[02:02:00] - [Gerry]
It was MSN. Yeah. Because MSN was, like, still sort of alive then.
[02:02:05] - [Aaron]
Yeah. There's a lot of cool shit you can do on that. But, yeah, next time. So, yeah, the super ghost outside, all of our shit socials, Patreon, 2 or $4 a month, early access. This super ghost outside.
[02:02:15] - [Gerry]
Or you can pay $5 to make air take shirt
[02:02:17] - [Aaron]
I'll do it. $5. Hand it over. No more. No less.
[02:02:23] - [Gerry]
No more. No less. Alright. I I that's gonna that that one that's gonna put the cherry on the top and then flick it off. Get ready for the revenge next time on Super Ghost.
[02:02:40] - [Aaron]
Okay. Bye. Goodbye.