Return of Voidcast | Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, Elden Ring Nightreign + More

Gerry (00:00.91)
So I'm in civilian clothes. This is almost an impromptu thing at this point because my PC is not here. It's in shambles.

Aaron (00:16.886)
you pick today of all days to do that?

Gerry (00:20.302)
Cuz dude, I don't know fucking I got a whole look Here's the thing. Here's the thing you yes you pet your mane you pet your mane While I describe my pain pet your mane while I describe my pain you're on ko398 pet your mane while I describe my pain

Aaron (00:41.941)
Describe it.

Gerry (00:43.022)
Why betooby?

Gerry (00:54.528)
Here we are. Welcome back to Super Ghost. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting us. This is a, this is a, this is gonna have to be a void cast because I don't know what else to do at this point. So before we get started, Aaron.

with our nothingness of things to talk about now at this point. Before we get started, got any news or anything? You got any cool things to share?

Aaron (01:31.81)
Fuck, I did. I know for one, that Jetpack cat that Mr. Greg and I were talking about in the last episode. No, that doesn't matter. That's not news. Fuck, I had something, but I didn't write it down because I'm bad at news. I'm trying to think here.

Gerry (01:53.294)
I mean there was a pile of stuff that just got announced at the time of this recording at the state of play I don't know if you're aware of this and I'm trying to stay calm as much as I was trying to stay calm during that PlayStation event

Gerry (02:13.07)
Castlevania is back.

Aaron (02:15.15)
I saw that. That looks really fucking cool.

Gerry (02:18.158)
two dimensional Castlevania is back. Aaron, do you hear what I'm saying?

Aaron (02:24.184)
I hear you're digesting them. I'm shitting them out as well too. I love this idea. Thank God.

Gerry (02:31.68)
Now you hear me saying it. Castlevania is back in 2D and it's by the dead cells devs.

Aaron (02:33.815)
Yes.

Aaron (02:43.746)
That I didn't know. That's cool. The Dead Cells dudes are doing it.

Gerry (02:47.678)
Which is cool because the Dead Cells guys, did a crossover. Do you remember that? They did a crossover with Castlevania. I don't know when that was. It wasn't too too long ago. Yeah. Cool. Very cool. Another Silent Hill game got shown off. Silent Hill Townfall. And it looks good.

Aaron (03:15.181)
Hmm

Gerry (03:17.386)
It looks good. It's in first person.

Aaron (03:20.43)
I for sure saw that they're doing a new 2d god of war. That's kind of cool. Yeah

Gerry (03:28.14)
That was out of nowhere and the remaking the original trilogy with the original voice actor who was just a doll on this thing. He was like, had the coolest banter. Like he, can't even impersonate him because he was so fucking cool. I'll never be that cool in my entire life. don't even like, see this is what you get folks when you join a void cast. I don't even know that guy's name.

Aaron (03:54.382)
I will say Henry.

Gerry (03:56.524)
Aaron get the producers to look that up.

Aaron (03:58.939)
I will. I'll get Cheryl and HR right on that.

Gerry (04:03.032)
Fucking Cheryl. Yeah, there was, they showed, I don't know why, they showed yet another look at Resident Evil 9. That game comes out in two weeks? Why are we, why are we, don't, and like they showed stuff, I'm not even gonna say what they showed in that trailer because I wish I hadn't seen it.

There's things in that trailer that I wish I had have seen organically as I was playing the game. So I'm a little mad. I was going to say Kodami, but Capcom, they do that. They show their games off too much. Greg actually made a good point. He was like, it's like the opposite of what Square Enix does. They show it like once and they're like, there you go. I hope you invest in our game.

Aaron (04:58.35)
I hope you look forward to this game that's coming out in three years.

Gerry (05:02.06)
I bet you any money, the day before Resident Evil 9 drops, they'll be like, check out this exclusive trailer.

Aaron (05:10.178)
wouldn't surprise me man that sounds like something they would do

Gerry (05:14.254)
100 % there's some there was some cool stuff death stranding 2 is coming to PC finally in like I think April ish Hell yeah There was some there was some dog shit at the thing too. There was you know, there was like the most mediocre looking anime RPG like Beth was scared that it was gonna be a tales game because it kind of did look like

Tales game and then there was like some other game that looked like fucking Kingdoms of Amalur but like as a soul is like It was not a good throwback. It wasn't a throwback. I wanted that's like going to a wedding and seeing your aunt throwing it back like that kind of throwback

Aaron (05:57.885)
man.

Gerry (05:58.818)
Have you ever been to? Yeah, let's talk about weddings, dude.

You ever make out with a cousin? I'm just... Yeah, but...

Aaron (06:07.907)
NOB

I've got a story that's not like... got names? No, no, no, no, no, so, uh, this past Saturday, we had my mom's celebration of life and I don't know if I've ever talked about, well, back when it was me and Tommy, I talked about Andrew M. a lot, my self-appointed best friend from back in the day. Did I ever tell you about him?

Gerry (06:13.184)
And Z with one?

Gerry (06:37.358)
I've heard of this Andrew

Aaron (06:39.918)
But no one No one invited this fucking guy like literally I had no idea this guy He did he just fucking he just showed up He was like I heard about this from so-and-so and she was like a second mom to me So I decided I'd come say hi and literally all he did the entire fucking time

Gerry (06:48.226)
You up to this?

Aaron (07:05.032)
No, he doesn't do that. But he did the next best thing. He he attached to me like a fucking leech and just would not stop talking about Magic the Gathering dog. My mom is dead. We're talking about my mom, not Magic the Gathering. Shut up. Like he kept trying to talk about his like his like snakes commander deck or something and kept trying to ask where I lived. And I just be like, my Des Moines.

I'm gonna go outside now and talk to my family because my mom's dead man. That's what we're all here for and then eventually

Gerry (07:43.586)
consoling each other and he's like fanning out of deck and he's like, man, you wouldn't believe this Gorgon that I just picked up.

Aaron (07:52.812)
The final

Gerry (07:53.822)
holding each other in shit like crossover yeah, consoling each other. Who is it again? Matthew or Andrew

Aaron (08:03.669)
Andrew

God damn man. and he just...

Gerry (08:10.382)
Andrew Other

Aaron (08:13.8)
Fucking might as well have been dude when he showed up. He was like

Gerry (08:18.703)
Andrew the Gathering?

Aaron (08:22.094)
Andrew MTG When when he showed up he was just like standing like directly behind where my in-laws were sitting He was just kind of standing there like this until finally someone acknowledged him and I was like Shit Andrew and he was like yeah, then he immediately came and sat down next to me. It was so it was weird It was weird, man. He's still very weird

Gerry (08:45.71)
Does smell like piss?

Aaron (08:48.192)
No, apparently he lived in an apartment with lead walls though, so that was cool.

Gerry (08:53.294)
And so his celebration of life is next.

Aaron (09:00.844)
him graduating from the bentel institution or whatever holy fuck man

Aaron (09:08.878)
I never did get a hand job at a wedding though Damn it

Gerry (09:14.194)
neither have I neither have I it is weird though right when you go to a wedding and then it's just like with last wedding that I went to we kind of like we invited ourselves to a wedding and we showed up it was like all these relatives that I hadn't seen in years it was it was interesting

Aaron (09:26.766)
Hell yeah.

Aaron (09:42.638)
I that you amped your way into that wedding. That's cool.

Gerry (09:50.466)
Yeah. I mean, all I did at my dad's, my dad didn't even really have a celebration of life. It was pretty much just like, all right, so we have to fly back to the East Coast. And I always made the joke. For those of you who might be new to this show, we got dark humor. So.

Aaron (10:14.1)
Buckle up!

Gerry (10:15.31)
So when my dad passed he was cremated and He because he has a plot with my mom who's still alive I still I still can't Get behind the idea when people are like you should see the plot that I got Aaron I got a place picked out and man. There's a nice tree there I'm gonna just be like next to Karen

It's a nice place and then you slap the top of the fucking grave.

Aaron (10:53.774)
You wouldn't believe this, the cargo space in this fucking grave,

Gerry (11:00.91)
But yeah like so he he has he had a plot there in New Brunswick and Then he also wanted to be buried in Newfoundland with his parents so I always made the joke like my dad's top Is in New Brunswick with my mom well will be with my mom and His bottom half we brought to Newfoundland and we buried him

And then like, yeah, his whole like celebration of life was just us eating like egg salad sandwiches in like the bottom of a church.

Gerry (11:42.798)
you dad needed I don't even know if he liked egg salad sandwiches like it wasn't anything to do with him It was just like just pours like salad sandwiches the alike chicken salad sandwiches How about turkey salad sandwiches like it was just like salad sandwiches for everything tuna salad sandwiches? Crazy you know what makes a salad sandwich Mayonnaise and like a couple of like cucumber not cucumbers, but

Aaron (12:00.59)
pouring out some of-

Aaron (12:05.613)
Mayonnaise?

Gerry (12:12.248)
Celery. You just chop up and there you have salads, salmon salad sandwiches.

Aaron (12:13.616)
yeah.

Aaron (12:20.64)
Yeah, that sounds that's exactly right, dude. Fucking we have a lot of like, well, not not me personally, but like growing up, family members would bring like ham salad and like tuna salad and shit.

Gerry (12:36.226)
The rum ham! The rum ham!

Aaron (12:38.88)
I miss you, Ramham. I'm sorry, Ramham.

Gerry (12:41.91)
My dad would have fucking loved a rum ham at his at his funeral

Aaron (12:47.436)
Holy shit. sucking the alcohol out of it.

Gerry (12:49.528)
fucking love rum. Yeah, yeah, funerals are weird. I don't like funeral. Which brings me to my next. What were you gonna say? Go ahead.

Aaron (12:57.709)
Yes.

Aaron (13:03.566)
I was just was just gonna say it was like a lot of people I didn't know because they were all friends of my mom and they'd be like I've heard a lot about you and I'd be like I don't know who you are whoo-hoo Yep. Yeah

Gerry (13:16.942)
There's lot of that. There's people coming up to me and just like hugging me and crying and be like, you okay? And I'm like, I'm fine. Are you fucking okay? Like what's going on here?

Aaron (13:27.949)
Do you need help? Shit.

Gerry (13:29.75)
Yeah. Like, do I need to carry you? Are you going in there too?

Aaron (13:36.558)
It's the best man

Gerry (13:39.118)
It's, yeah, it's weird, funerals and shit. Like I don't, I've only ever been to like, like three or four funerals in my life. One of those was my dad's. And I do not care for them. I remember like my dad being like, hey, you gotta go to like your great aunt's funeral. And I was like, is it open castle? And they're like, yes. And I was like, I'm not going to that.

Aaron (13:56.704)
Especially

Gerry (14:08.094)
No fucking way. I am not going and looking at dead people today. That's not on my agenda. I do not, I don't, I don't fuck with it. I don't like it.

Aaron (14:18.494)
Especially when it's someone you don't really know like we did that a lot too growing up my dad would be like Yeah, here's your great aunt on your grandma's mother's side of the family like let's go check out her dead body of this funeral I'd be like dad. I'm fucking eight. I don't know who this is

Gerry (14:35.726)
honest to God man like it's weird right like traditions but anyways we've come here to talk about video games but first before we before we talk about video games because I got some stuff I can just rant about I've been playing some fucking with some stuff but before we get started you gotta you want to confess anything you know

Aaron (14:39.832)
parents.

Gerry (15:03.175)
Any disses you want to throw out there? Any beef you want to squash?

Aaron (15:07.214)
Yes, Andrew Stop fucking showing up the things I'm still like flabbergasted So like when this dude show I'm still stuck on this fucking shit It fucked me up man. Like when he showed up my wife was like who the fuck is that? I was like, dude, you're not gonna because I've told her like the legend of this guy the half wolf the half wolf demon element ninja of lightning himself I was like, that's Andrew Cheyenne and she started like

Cry laughing? She was saying what? fuuuu-

Gerry (15:38.99)
You might want to edit the last name out or beep it out. Just beep it out. It would be funnier if you beep it out.

Aaron (15:48.856)
But yeah, yeah, I'm, that whole thing still fucked me up. Like an idiot, I gave him my phone to put his number in there, but I haven't texted him, so we're good.

Gerry (16:03.694)
Um, I guess I got a confession I can make. It is 2026, the year of our Lord.

Aaron (16:07.318)
Yes.

Gerry (16:16.216)
And I have still not finished Okami.

Aaron (16:23.008)
I still I haven't finished. What was mine? Robo Trek? I haven't finished Robo Trek either man. It's It's alright. Mm-hmm. It's not. this fuck up.

Gerry (16:23.822)
Why?

Gerry (16:37.102)
I want to beat Okami so badly, but there's too much shit all the time. And even when there's not shit, I find shit. And I'm like, yeah, I should go play Okami. And then I don't.

Gerry (16:55.736)
Greg told me today that I would be a dead ringer for karaoke doing the B-52s. And I don't know why. That's been in my head for a little bit, living rent-free.

Aaron (17:03.246)
That was a

Aaron (17:08.8)
It was hit me with a rock lobster real fast. We'll put this to the test.

Gerry (17:13.678)
I don't know, like I don't even know the melody. I might be able to do it if I knew the melody, but I don't even know if I know, like Rock Lobster, like I don't, I'd have to hear it a couple times to actually, cause that guy just basically talks in the song. He'd be like, went to the store and what did I see? Like, it's just like.

Aaron (17:29.858)
Yeah.

Aaron (17:36.078)
I am one of these nights we should do an all smash mouth karaoke thing with just the four of us and we'll take turns singing different smash mouth songs, but it all boils down to like this the four most popular smash mouth songs which are

Gerry (17:53.134)
If I had- No, I don't like that one. No! Fuck! I didn't like it it came out. I thought it was lame.

Aaron (17:57.622)
All Star?

Gerry (18:05.518)
But you know what song by those guys actually fucking rips dude? on the sun or walking. Joaquin Phoenix on the sun.

Aaron (18:11.617)
Wuh.

Aaron (18:16.536)
Christopher walking on the Sun

Gerry (18:18.382)
That's cool banana man man man man man, yeah, man

Aaron (18:25.452)
Or or

Gerry (18:30.222)
I will absolutely fuck up a Len, steal my sunshine.

Aaron (18:35.598)
You are my sunshine. No, I know yeah

Gerry (18:42.966)
Do you know the song that wasn't like a Canadian thing, right? Like, you know that song.

Aaron (18:47.65)
I think so. What's the name of it again?

Gerry (18:50.904)
think it's called If You Steal My Sunshine. And they're just like riding around on like scooters in the video. It's like late 90s.

Aaron (18:58.382)
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

Gerry (19:01.454)
There's like a chick and a dude. And the guy just sounds like, dude sounds like fucking Cartman.

Aaron (19:02.946)
My sunshine, yeah

Aaron (19:10.494)
Yep. Yep, I know exactly what song you're talking about. yeah.

Gerry (19:16.27)
was that good? Greg and I had a little little side conversation about something today that him and I are gonna do on a little rainy day pod sometime we were talking about a specific game I won't say which one yet but we're gonna we're gonna break down the best levels but as like a whole like the level with the song with the boss

Aaron (19:33.688)
Damn.

Gerry (19:45.774)
But that's Mega Man. That's Mega Man. up! Shut up!

Aaron (19:46.446)
Yeah.

peep that out too.

Gerry (19:58.284)
I don't get a fact. Yeah, no, don't have anything else to confess right now. I mean, other than like other stuff, like juvenile stuff.

Aaron (20:08.558)
You ever get arrested? Yeah, know what? Have I been arrested? Yes. Yeah. Have you? Mm-hmm. Yeah. When I was in high school. Okay. good. This is good podcasting content.

Gerry (20:17.036)
All right, lay it on me. Juicy.

Give me that juicy, juicy, juicy batch.

Aaron (20:28.918)
So back in Give it a juice. I think it was my sophomore or junior year of high school. Oh It was it was either 10th or 11th grade I forgot which one But my my stepbrother and I we broke into just a bunch of places we broke into The the local like swimming pool. We stole some money and some candy

Gerry (20:38.357)
I don't I hate

Aaron (20:57.74)
We broke into the elementary school.

Gerry (21:01.182)
breaking into schools is so fucking cool. It's creepy. Kind of creepy, but like at the same time you're like, could just like, I could go to like, broke into like a school that we went to that was like defunct. Like it was shut, shut down. when we took fire extinguishers and sat on office chairs and was like,

Aaron (21:04.128)
Yeah, it was.

Aaron (21:09.966)
where my class was?

Aaron (21:19.534)
That would be fucking cool.

Aaron (21:26.702)
I just like, yeah.

Gerry (21:30.187)
And we made ourselves really sick. Let's go on. Breaking into shit.

Aaron (21:38.222)
breaking into shit yeah so we broke into the elementary school stole some checks I don't know what we thought we were gonna do those checks but we were in like high school we're like dude this is like way money

Gerry (21:47.512)
Did you break into a school that was like, actively like?

Aaron (21:51.262)
Open yeah, it was that night though, but like We sold some like confiscated Gameboys and shit and we were like dude this is sick and then we and then like I think a week or two later some cops came to get us from the school and then we went to detention center and

It was my first offense, so I got out within like a week, but I was on house arrest. And it was the like the most piss poor house arrest.

Gerry (22:27.426)
You have like the ankle thing?

Aaron (22:29.908)
No, they didn't do that. would be it would just be like my parole officer would call my cell phone. She'd be like, I'm just checking in and making sure you're at home and everything's okay. And I'd be like, Yeah, I'm at home, dude. Yeah.

Gerry (22:46.55)
I'm can you bring me a pizza?

Aaron (22:52.59)
Could you imagine asking Could you give me a ride to the Chinese buffet?

Gerry (22:56.462)
Can you give me some pizza rolls I haven't had in a while?

Gerry (23:03.694)
I know just the guy and then fucking... mmm... and ramshows

Aaron (23:08.941)
Oh, no, God you would do like the the the naruto had a stroke

Gerry (23:15.694)
would he would do the he would do the the the hotel run

Aaron (23:19.83)
Naruto Yeah, dude, he absolutely would But no she would call me she would ask vows at home and like no matter where I was I would just be like yeah I'm at home like I'd be at a buddy's house or like at my cousin's house, and I'd be like yeah, I'm at home

Gerry (23:38.286)
way more shit than

Aaron (23:40.674)
No, it's no, it's fine cuz I mean thankfully she was stupid and then she'd be like She'd be like, okay. Well, can I talk to your mom real quick? And I'd be like, yeah, you sure fucking can please hold and I would just like run back to my house real fast cuz the town I lived in growing up was was tiny So I'll just run back to my house and give my mom the phone and she'd be like, yeah

Gerry (24:03.694)
We need put a officer on the phone. I asked for pizza rolls. Jeez, it's not for you.

Aaron (24:11.962)
But yeah, it was uh, yeah, it was great I had to do community service because I didn't have a job But I was in high school with no car so like What What am I supposed to do? Where the jobs at? I can't fucking walk to a job. That's like 15 miles away. I don't know. It's stupid That's it

Gerry (24:37.176)
ever got arrested. I've handcuffed, but not like arrested.

Gerry (24:46.894)
I'll tell you what I did do though.

I got it. All right. Here's a confession. Here go. Nice try Satan. I'll get it out. You won't keep this in me. Let me take it back. I guess this was like 2002 ish. 2002, 2003 maybe. It's a lot of new metal. I listening to a lot of System of a Down. That was when like, know, Justine Aguilera and you know.

Aaron (25:03.446)
You Satan.

Aaron (25:14.349)
Hell yeah.

Gerry (25:21.666)
Britney Spears and

Aaron (25:23.252)
and you white zombie smash mouth

Gerry (25:25.966)
Yeah, dude, it was a good time to be alive in those very early 2000s So I started To Hear some so let me actually hang on I gotta take this back a step when I was growing up I I kind of like sort of grew up in two different towns because my dad had built a Cabin

that was like, it was a house. And it was just like in this fucking outport community, like some fucking in the sticks somewhere. And

What we would do is we would go there like pretty much every couple of weeks we'd be we'd go there for the weekend and I had like a completely different set of friends like a total different upbringing in this little town and it was fucking I'll dude, which is funny because that's last name of a lot of people down there was literally lawless la w l e ss so That town because it was so small I'm talking like there's like

Aaron (26:31.31)
Peace.

Gerry (26:37.711)
maybe 70 people in this town. Like that's it.

Aaron (26:41.486)
That's like the town that I grew up in. was like a village. Yeah, mine was like 50 people

Gerry (26:47.438)
So like, I was allowed to drive a vehicle, my mom's little rinky-dink fucking car, I was allowed to drive that when I was like 13 years old.

Aaron (27:01.038)
Holy shit. There's no laws when you drink Claws.

Gerry (27:02.562)
Yeah, dude.

But like all we would do, like I was responsible. never, I didn't drink or anything like that. All I would do is I'd go pick up my friends and we would literally just like drive around this little town, just down a road, turn around, come over here, turn around, go over here. And we would just listen to music. That was it. That was all we ever did. Ever. And because like the highway was up away from, you would have to leave the town to get to the highway.

Aaron (27:27.416)
Yeah.

Gerry (27:36.642)
It was very sheltered. Anyway, so this town, there's one dude that lived on like the very end of the town. His name was Dan. And he had one arm.

Aaron (27:51.478)
Oooh, one arm He lost it!

Gerry (27:53.966)
Because this is like, I'm telling you right now, this town is like an out port community. Like, it's a fishing town.

This dude, I think, lost his arm in some sort of a fishing accident. Kind of badass. And he was like, that one arm that he had, he was scary guy. He was scary. He was that dude that you heard legends of, that he did all this crazy shit. So anyways, he had a house, and across from that house, he had his old house.

And it was like all dilapidated and shit. And I'll never forget my cousin going, you know, Dan has a ton of weed in that house that he grew. Holy. You're lying. And he was like, he does. And I was like, how would you know? And he was like, cause you can get in there super easily. And I was like, no, you can't. And he was like, I'll show you. Like we, we could sneak in there like tonight, but you can't tell anybody that we're going in there. And I was like,

Aaron (28:43.054)
Shit.

Gerry (29:01.878)
Sure. Yeah. I was kind of like trying to call his bluff and he was like, by the way.

Like we gotta be very careful when we go in there. I was like, well, yeah, obviously. He was like, no, no, no, you'll see why. This motherfucker was telling the truth. So we get to this house. It's like middle of the night. We get to the house and there's like one window on the back that you could just literally like take your hands and slide over. And then like one person would have to get like a boost to get into the window. And then they pull the other person up. So.

We break in-ish, I guess. Like we slide a window in. I drop down, he pushes me back, and he's like, hold. And I'm like, why? He's like, because there's traps. And I was like, dude, this place was booby trapped? Like fucking home alone. The floor in the main living room that you get in, like that we would.

Aaron (29:43.114)
You enter

Aaron (29:53.986)
What the fuck?

Aaron (30:05.838)
Get into marbles?

Gerry (30:07.182)
Dude the floor was like it was hollowed out and there was fucking snares in the like you would you'd probably fall like three foot down through the floor because the floor was like gone and There was like snares and shit and he had fucking paint cans like on strings and shit He had like the home alone shit set up and I was like dude. I don't know if I want to be in here anymore. This is sketch

Aaron (30:34.574)
don't know if I want this weed anymore.

Gerry (30:36.846)
But then I see like this glow coming from like the hallway and I'm like, what is that? And we open this door dude, and he has like a fucking operation going on in this house like these huge like hydroponic lamps and shit like like it was like something at a breaking bad like I was like what the fuck like This weed like I've never even seen weed in my life before

Aaron (31:00.983)
What like is

Gerry (31:05.378)
Then all of sudden, I'm breaking into a house, which is, I've never done that before either. I'm avoiding traps. And then I'm looking at this guy's abundance of weed. So my cousin was like, yeah, sometimes I'll just come in here and take a little bit off. And I was like, we gotta get out of here, man. This is sketchy. So we fucking take off.

I go back to like where I like my town that I lived in, like the normal town, not this little village. And I like tell one of my best friends, I'm like, dude, you're not gonna fucking believe this. Like there's this dude down there with one arm named Dan, and he has a house full of weed. And he's like, bullshit. I'm like, dude, you should see if you can come with me the next time we go and I'll show you. Cause I was like, I gotta prove that I'm not lying about this. Cause everybody thought I was lying about it. So I take my buddy up with me the next time we go.

Aaron (31:33.751)
You

Gerry (31:59.532)
And I was like, All right, we're doing this tonight, man. That was like the last night before we were going like because we were

Aaron (32:05.346)
That's last night they saw that friend alive.

Gerry (32:09.71)
So we go in and he's like so we got it we gotta take shit. I'm like, what do you mean? So he pulls out like a bunch of like ziploc bags. He's like dude, we gotta take some We like we have to and I was like Okay, and I just panicked and I grabbed the bottom of the stem it just went Like all the way to the top. I just threw it all in a bag I had no idea what I was doing

It was just a bag full of leaves and fucking a little bit of buds and like a bunch of stuff. Like it was just like fucked. It was just a bag full of fuck. And we smuggled that back to where like the town that I grew up in. We brought it back there and for like a good six months, all we smoked was what we called Jerry weed because you smoke a pile of it to get stoned because it was like shit weed.

But we smoked weed for free for a very long time.

Aaron (33:13.966)
Yeah, hell yeah. That's a real dude. We kind of had well not kind of had the same thing. So like, my uncle lived on this farm for a little while. And he had this old like abandoned barn that was never used. And the same stepbrother and I we saw we saw patches of this like plant in the ditch that we thought was ditch weed. We were like, dude, that's totally ditch weed. Yeah.

Gerry (33:42.936)
fuck is ditch weed?

Aaron (33:44.718)
Just like wild weed that grows in a ditch, I guess. Wild? Yeah. Yeah. What? Yeah, and my brother and I, I mean, we were little. We were like, dude, this is fucking ditch weed. This is so sick. So we would pick it and then we would go hang it up in the barn to dry out or whatever. And then after a couple of days, we would roll it up in fucking just regular printer paper.

Gerry (33:47.886)
Like marijuana, wouldn't

Aaron (34:14.893)
It's just like fucking dry like the weeds and stuff. I don't know what kind of plant it was. It's probably fucking poison ivy for all I know. But yeah, we picked that shit and we fucking let it dry out. Then we smoked it out of like printer paper.

Gerry (34:31.499)
Dude, the funniest thing that I've ever done with weed that I thought, I thought my friend was going to pass out from laughing. So like what we would do is when we would smoke weed in like high school, we'd like leave my house and walk just like a little ways into like the, was like basically like walking into the woods. We'd walk into the woods and we just like go get baked in the woods and then walk back and then go into my basement and just like play like fucking San Andreas and like Tony Hawk and shit.

Aaron (34:59.953)
Yeah, dude.

Gerry (35:00.876)
be baked down in my basement. So anyways, this one time I was like, fuck dude, like, cause I was like, I was not very good at rolling, like rolling joints, but like I was okay. So I rolled a joint and I was like, fuck, I don't have like, so for those of you out there that don't know, and I apologize for all the Christians listening right now that are very upset that I am talking about how to roll a joint. But when you roll a joint, if you don't know, you need to have a plug.

You need like some sort of a filter on the end. So you usually get like the best thing to use was like back then you'd use like a CD like on the you take a CD case apart and like the back of the CD had like that kind of like hard cardboard like paper. Do you know what I mean? Like on the back of a CD case. like you'd rip that and you just like kind of roll it into like a little like like a spiral.

Aaron (35:51.139)
See ya.

Gerry (35:59.522)
and then you pop that into the end of the joint. And then you have, so that way you weren't like getting like, you weren't like spitting shit out the whole time. So I couldn't find anything. And I had a CD handy and I was like, I'm just gonna use this. As we're smoking, my buddy like coughs, blows all the smoke out and just starts dying laughing. And I'm like, what's funny? And he's like, look at the plug.

and it was just Will Smith's face because I took it out of Big Willie style. It was like from like the spine of Big Willie style, like the CD. like, he's like on that thing, like just like with his arms out and shit. And it was just, you could just see Will Smith's head like in this plug and we were fucking dying. He also did the thing where like, we were so stoned when we got back. We were like sitting in my basement and he had like, let's see if I can do it.

He had like a can of like a Pepsi or Coke or something. And he just kept being like.

Gerry (37:06.958)
I'm like tilting my head back all the way and I'm like I have so I have an empty can So did he he thought that his throat was closing off because he couldn't feel the liquid He was drinking out of an empty fucking can and he was like man. I Think my throat's closing off and I was like why and he was like I can't taste anything and I was like

Aaron (37:34.121)
Holy shit.

Gerry (37:36.78)
Yeah. Yeah, man. I also, did I ever tell you about the dog treats thing?

Aaron (37:43.436)
Yeah, you did. Yeah, that was in the Dank Tank episode.

Gerry (37:48.256)
Was it?

Aaron (37:49.622)
Yeah

Gerry (37:52.462)
The dog treats was a good thing too. I did a lot of really stupid stuff when I was a teenager and a lot of it was I was baked.

Aaron (37:57.409)
Me too.

Yeah, I did some pretty stupid shit too. I'm trying to have another really good one. Okay, alright, so... there's so many, I can't pick just one. I guess, okay, so here's one. my brother and I, again, the same brother, we did a lot of really stupid shit. We had... So my dad lived in this trailer.

for a little while that had this like rinky dink like shitty little, what is it called? Like not a playground but like a play set. Like it was like the leftover from a play set. it had the parts to

Gerry (38:47.148)
It's just a slide, just a slide, no swings.

Aaron (38:51.2)
It was like it was the wood part to like a play set, there was no swings, no slide. was just like, thought it was just.

Gerry (38:58.99)
picnic table. That is like for leaning up against it and he was like, look at that slide.

Aaron (39:04.874)
It could have just been that. That's probably what it was. A picnic table with a two by four.

You're fucking gymnasium!

Gerry (39:13.053)
You're fucking jungle gymnasium

Aaron (39:16.974)
Jumble gym.

Gerry (39:18.766)
You're table to by for jungle gym

Aaron (39:21.934)
Just a fucking particle board leaning up against the side of a house or something but

Gerry (39:29.662)
Brings you to a fucking dam and he's like, we're going to the water park.

Aaron (39:36.334)
It's just a fucking creek. Dude. It's just a creek with a fucking like the tarp going over like the most shallow part of it So alright, so this like this the remains of a fucking swing set again No slide no swings you would just climb up into the part where the slide Should be but there was nothing there that was like this thing was like our little headquarters whenever I came over for the weekend So we would go down the hill

to the local Kmart, Rip Kmart, we'd go down to Kmart and we would just shoplift shit all the time. Like we would take like the Yu-Gi-Oh tins and we would go to where people couldn't see us and like you would see me like huddled up against this like shelf and I would shove the tin like all the way in there so people couldn't see what I was doing. But they could see a kid with his hands like all the way into the back of a shelf and I would be like,

opening the tin, taking out all the packs and the cards and then put them in my pockets and then I would just leave the tin there and then we would buy like a fucking pack of gum and leave or like we would go snake like some games out of the the bargain bin and just like take the discs out and then put them in our pockets and then again go buy something cheap like candy and then leave and then we would just go sell those games at GameStop to buy a new game we actually wanted.

Dude. Yeah.

Gerry (41:07.669)
I missed the days of just like going to like Kmart to a bargain bin and just being like ruffling through the PS1 games that were like seemingly just garbage but then being like, this is fucking awesome. Dude, I got Saweetkaden 1 out of a bargain bin. It was like $10. The cover of it was stupid as shit. Because I was like, this is definitely dumb. And then I looked on the back and I was like, whoa.

This looks crazy. I also got, have you ever heard of Wild Nine?

Aaron (41:44.27)
Wild 9? No.

Gerry (41:46.124)
Yeah.

So Wild9, think is by, I gotta look this up, Wild.

Gerry (41:58.478)
Think it was by the same people that made Earthworm Jim, maybe? Or like some people worked on it? The game was designed by David Perry, developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Interplay Productions, all of whom were involved in Earthworm Jim. The game was released in 1998. The game is a run-and-gun platformer, size scrolling video game. It's like a 2.5D game.

The whole mechanic is like, you have like this electric shock thing and you can like latch, you can like get guys on it and you have to like smack them side to side. Like you're just like torturing and beating the shit out of all the enemies like the whole time in this game. And I remember thinking like, this game's cool as fuck and I paid like $5 for it. Like $5 out of a bargain bin. I miss bargain bins, man.

Aaron (42:52.814)
I had that with Destroy All Humans on PS2 and I was...

Gerry (42:59.33)
That's total sleeper hit. what was that?

Aaron (43:02.296)
Beatdown Fists of Vengeance, we had that on the original Xbox, that was like five bucks in the bargain bin. Yeah, that game was awesome. It's like a beat up RPG kind of. And you can recruit different characters to your gang and shit. Yeah, it was sweet man. It is awesome, god damn it. and Urban Reign, Urban Reign on PS2, holy shit.

Gerry (43:07.992)
Fist of vengeance.

Gerry (43:20.622)
That sounds awesome.

Aaron (43:29.038)
that out of a bargain bin for like $10. That game was awesome as fuck.

Gerry (43:33.902)
You what else I got out of a bargain bin one time was urban chaos. Now that you mentioned urban, ever heard of urban chaos?

Aaron (43:38.766)
I feel like you've mentioned it before maybe?

Gerry (43:43.886)
Dude, that's by the same people that made the fucking Arkham games. Rocksteady. Yeah.

Aaron (43:48.814)
fuck pretty sure her look it up

Gerry (43:53.176)
pretty sure it is rock steady. But yeah, it was like a, it was a first person shooter. It was pretty crazy. Well on the PS2.

Aaron (44:05.208)
Holy shit. Yeah, rock steady. That's why.

Gerry (44:08.43)
Yeah, it was crazy, I got condemned criminal origins out of a bargain bin. Ooh, that was that was an EB Games. Game stop for you Americans. Bargain bin. I just went in and was like, what is this for $5? So it's just some fucking stupid game. I'm like, Sierra made this. Didn't they make that fear game? That game is crazy. And I, yeah. Have you played the fear games?

Aaron (44:37.07)
Yeah, dude. I played the first one and then...

Gerry (44:40.414)
Second one was fucking nuts

Aaron (44:43.01)
Which one was the one that was like co-op? you played as the slow down time gun? That No, that sucked.

Gerry (44:48.066)
wasn't great. It's not that, you know what? It's not that fear three sucked. I think the problem with fear three for me personally is because fear one and two literally fucked me up. Like those games were scary as hell, man. Like so, so scary. There's jump scares in those games that I still knowing that they're coming would still get jumps from the.

Like, do you remember in fear too when all the lockers blasted open?

Aaron (45:20.201)
I do.

Gerry (45:21.688)
was crazy. There was so much crazy shit in fear. And then fear three was like, let's just go action. But it was a good co-op game. That's the problem. The game was a good co-op game. It just wasn't a good horror game, which is what I was expecting. The problem that I have with death space three, cause death space three is not scary at all. That game sucks. Greg defends it. I hate it. was a dumb game.

Aaron (45:52.91)
Do you have any more dumb game or not dumb games any more bargain bin games you want to shout out before we get to what we're actually playing?

You know, Blue Dragon, that's a bargain bin one. Really? Dragon. You gotta...

Gerry (46:06.124)
You have Blue Dragon and a bargain band? That's... That's nuts. You know I still have not played that game.

Aaron (46:08.492)
Yeah.

Aaron (46:11.99)
it kicks ass. mean, people love to shit on it for like really stupid reasons like the story isn't even that good. Fuck you. doesn't need to be it plays great. Awesome.

Gerry (46:23.15)
I just need everything to look like Akira Toriyama's art style and I'm in dude. That's Sand Land game? It's apparently like it's okay. I don't even care. To me it's like cool. It's Akira Toriyama. I'm in. Sign me up.

That's why I like Dragon Quest so much. It just feels like you're playing a Dragon Ball Z RPG.

Aaron (46:49.012)
Or fucking Chrono Trigger or Yeah.

Gerry (46:51.822)
Well, Chrono Trigger a little bit.

Aaron (46:56.174)
There's another one.

Gerry (46:59.672)
There is.

Aaron (47:00.85)
Think, think, think, Hang on, there's another Akira Toriyama game that I'm not remembering.

Gerry (47:07.925)
Talking about

Dr. Slump or something? No. is that one that recently got translated? Right? That is a thing though. Slump.

Aaron (47:23.926)
the Tobol games.

Gerry (47:26.734)
Is a Kira Toriyama?

Aaron (47:28.578)
Yeah.

Gerry (47:30.562)
What?

Aaron (47:31.948)
Yeah, Tobol I and II, he did the designs for everything for that game.

Gerry (47:36.768)
Interesting.

Aaron (47:40.138)
And I think that's about it for that, yeah.

Gerry (47:43.374)
man. There was always some good shit to be had in the bargain man. If you look you what else I got in the bargain man was that remember that PS one game reloaded like a top down like

Aaron (47:57.366)
Sounds familiar.

Gerry (47:59.48)
feel like that like, dude, you know what else I got in a bargain bin? But it was like a PlayStation classic, so it was already like discounted. Because remember when like PlayStation, or it was like PlayStation Greatest Hits? Yeah, whenever something was like Greatest Hits, it was always like, it's like $20 or something back then. Was Legacy of Cain, Soul Reaver.

Aaron (48:22.219)
yeah, that's good shit.

Gerry (48:24.59)
That's another game I've never fucking beat I found it too hard when I was a kid

Aaron (48:31.48)
There were

Gerry (48:33.186)
There are quite a

Aaron (48:35.758)
There were a few PS2 games that I got in bargain bins that ended up being maybe not like all timers for me but like I have good memories with them like what the fuck is it called? Rogue leg yeah Rogue Legacy I got that a bargain bin yeah or no Rogue Galaxy sorry Rogue Galaxy dude

Gerry (48:52.444)
legacy.

Gerry (48:57.942)
level five game? That game fucking kicks ass man!

Aaron (48:59.682)
Yeah.

The game f***s so hard

Gerry (49:05.87)
It's so good!

Aaron (49:08.214)
Zero Galaxy and there was another RPG I got out of there. I can't remember off the top of my head. fucking, no, can't. The names are like on the tip of my tongue, but I can't fucking remember it.

Gerry (49:23.65)
You know what's funny about Rogue Galaxy? That is the game that when I went on my quest to find a PS3 that I could hack, and I was like, I'm gonna play all these PS2 games on this hacked PS3. That one in particular, that one had some problems. There's something about it.

Aaron (49:49.688)
or something.

Gerry (49:52.302)
That game in particular that just gave a lot of issues back then, it might be normal now. I don't think so though. Because it was still being, even though you could play it on PS3, it was being emulated. It was almost like an injection through a PS2 classic. Same way that the Wii injections used to work. People used to be able to inject N64 games that weren't actually on the virtual console.

into Virtual console games and sometimes magically they would work I even contributed to that whole community back in like 2008 or nine or something like I figured out how to do the injections and I did it for mischief makers and I was able to get it running but it had like graphical issues and I couldn't I wasn't smart enough to figure it out after that but The point I'm trying to make is back to

the point that I was trying to make, which now at this point, I can't remember what it was that I was trying to make the point about. So I was injecting, what was I injecting? Rogue Galaxy, yes. So Rogue Galaxy did not work very well on a PS3. Then I was like, yep, now I'm gonna get one of those PS3s that are actually backwards compatible. And I actually tracked one down.

Aaron (51:01.1)
Rogue Galaxy.

Gerry (51:20.654)
for a good price. 80 bucks. This lady had no idea what she had. Yeah, she had no idea that she had one of like the fully original fat PS threes that was fully backwards compatible. I went and got it for 80 bucks. Modded it. But then it was like, I kept reading about how those those PS threes would like, just fucking melt. Like, they had like a lot of issues. So then I just, I just

kibosh that I just got a PS2 and I'm not at that. And I still have it. That's my my modded PS2. But yeah, Rogue Galaxy was like a game that kind of set me down a rabbit hole of just like, I must know how to play this game.

Aaron (52:11.278)
It's worth it.

Gerry (52:13.346)
Yeah, it is. It's a really good like I remember back then for a long time as you can imagine. I did a whole thing where I was like just googling. Dude, do you remember fucking Yahoo answers? Do you remember that?

Aaron (52:27.458)
Yeah, I miss you all who answers.

Gerry (52:30.222)
I remember just constantly going to Yahoo answers and me like what games are like secret of mana like all the time. I was just like what I need more games like secret of mana. What is this game? Like what do you call this? I mean back in like, I don't know 2005 and six. I don't think I think rogue Galaxy came out in like 2005 or six. Actually, you know what I'm saying actually a lot got to stop that.

Aaron (52:52.492)
Yeah

Gerry (52:59.2)
Rogue Galaxy came out.

Aaron (53:03.118)
Crystal Chronicles came out about that time too.

Gerry (53:05.91)
Aaron, you want to play the game?

Aaron (53:08.142)
I do because I'm fairly fucking certain it came out in 2005 because that, yeah.

Gerry (53:16.494)
You're absolutely correct, Aaron. It did come out in 2007 for the director's cut. fuck. Yeah. But that's that's that's the I don't know. What was the original?

Wait, it was originally released exclusively in Japan in December 2005. A director's cut of the game with enhancements and changes was released in 2007 in North America.

Aaron (53:46.104)
We too.

That's two years into the 360, goddamn!

Gerry (53:52.558)
That's crazy. That game was so good though. Man, that game was good. But yeah.

I don't know where I was going with this.

Aaron (54:04.75)
Modding ps2s I think I need to mod myself a ps2 because there's a lot of ps2 RPGs that I haven't fucking played like I want like to play shadow hearts, but God's why? the ps2 emulation just

Gerry (54:20.184)
Don't, so that's the thing, man. stay away from PS2 emulation because PS2 emulation is good on a PC with the right setup and the right specs. It's come a long way. Even PS3 emulation's come a long way. But I would still say if you have the video games, oops, if you have the video games and you...

want to.

preserve them.

Then I would highly recommend just going with a PS2 for your PS2 games. Just go get a slim PS2 and you can literally buy the free McBoot memory card off of Amazon and you pop that into your system and it's done. Like that's all it takes now. That's all it takes now. Like it's not.

Aaron (55:04.366)
ship.

Gerry (55:23.244)
It's not even like you don't have to do anything anymore. It's just like here it is. This thing just does the work for you.

Aaron (55:30.936)
think I will do that.

Gerry (55:32.748)
Yeah, just go get a PS2, and get that free McBoot.

Aaron (55:39.86)
you

Aaron (55:57.346)
Bacon of PS2. What I've been playing is the HD remaster of a PS2 game. Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne. got... Like, how is it? It's awesome, man. got... I've been a big main... Well, not a main series, but a big Shin Megami Tensei freak for a while now.

Gerry (56:10.84)
interesting.

Aaron (56:23.982)
I've I've never beaten Nocturne I got like a little under halfway through the game and then I got stuck in a dungeon and gave up for a little while, but I came back to the game maybe I think just this past weekend on the way to My mom's celebration of life where I ran into Andrew and he fucking just destroyed my Just destroyed my psyche but yeah, so I picked that back up got through that

fucking pushed through that piece of shit dungeon. And yeah, it's just easy breezy now. It's just the the world in this game is just so fucking cool. So like, in the main series, Shimogami Tensei games, it's always just post apocalyptic Tokyo, but each game has its own unique little twist to it. Like in three, it's this cult has essentially

just destroyed the world and then rebuilt it into this like, how the fuck do I like this this barren like wasteland where only the the strong survive and the weak are just like bullied and killed or used as slaves and shit. And fucking the music is really cool too. It's this like

Like late 90s industrial metal slash like techno metal type shit. It's really fucking cool. Yeah, like

Gerry (57:54.606)
Now you're speaking my language.

Aaron (57:56.728)
Dude, I'll send you the battle theme after this episode is done. The battle theme is so... The whole soundtrack is good, but yeah. The game still holds up surprisingly well compared to newer games. Like the first Shin Megami Tensei game I played, Jerry's doing cool beer chemistry over here. The first Shin Megami Tensei I played was 4 on the 3DS, and then I played a little bit of 5, but yeah, 3...

still plays really fucking well. Like the press turn combat still kicks ass where like when you hit an enemy with an element their weak to or you get a critical hit, you get an extra turn and the same goes for enemies. So you got to be on your fucking guard at all times. But like in this game, it feels like that shit is amplified like three times because goddamn like one wrong move and then it's game over and you got to fucking restart.

will not restart but like reload your save I mean and yeah the demon fusion system is still really fucking cool like you talk to demons and you'll be like hey man you want to join my party bro and they'll be like give me like six thousand fucking maka which is the money in the game he was six thousand maka you'd be like okay are you gonna join me now no give me a life stone bitch okay are you gonna join me now

Give me a medicine and I'll join you. Okay, and then boom now you've got a fucking like ninja leopard thing that joined your party that's cool and then Then you level them up till they stop learning abilities Mash into yeah Yes

Gerry (59:42.616)
question.

Are the dungeons bland?

Aaron (59:49.226)
No, there's lots to like.

Gerry (59:51.576)
corridors.

Aaron (59:54.414)
Well, I guess in this game, yeah, they are kind of samey.

Gerry (59:59.022)
that I...

I got spoiled with, I started on Persona 5.

Aaron (01:00:08.394)
yeah, you're super spoiled.

Gerry (01:00:10.414)
that had like really cool dungeons. And then when I went back and I played Persona 4, I was like, wow, these dungeons are boring. Like they're just hallways, corridors, and rooms. That was it. Occasionally it would be like a room with like a, like a, something. Yeah, something, would be like a, like a platform risen up or like maybe like a stairs going up to like another area or something, but like,

Aaron (01:00:30.52)
Like chef something.

Gerry (01:00:40.686)
It was nothing to look at. was just fucking hallways and walls. that's the thing that prevents me from getting into a lot of these games. I don't have a problem with dungeon crawling, but it's so like just samey and bland. Like I just, have a hard time with it.

Aaron (01:00:59.958)
Yeah, with Nocturne it's a little different though, because like there's like there's quite a few dungeons where they're kind of like they're kind of puzzly like I'm on one now where when you get to certain points in the dungeon this like spirit will just appear and block off certain parts of the dungeon so that like initially you can go in like this direction or that direction you can go wherever

but then the spirit will pop up and he'll block off like the door going to this way or the door going to this way and you'll have to like figure out, just figure out basically the right path to where you won't piss off that demon and then so you can proceed. And then there's a lot of other dungeons where it's like, like there's different branching pathways, but if you go this way, you can enter a room and talk to like a spirit who will give you a little bit of backstory regarding like the

Tokyo and like the What the fuck is the the Colts name? Nilo the order of Nilo. I think it's what it's called. Yeah But they are like I guess appearance wise you playing the on switch switch to yeah

Gerry (01:02:17.774)
I'm glad that you're getting some use out of your Switch too.

Aaron (01:02:22.03)
That's like all I play on really. Like I don't touch my Xbox unless I'm playing Rivals or something.

Can we talk about something, Bruce?

Gerry (01:02:33.112)
second. Yeah. Can we? Yeah. Yeah. I'm a little bit disappointed with the switch to right now. I feel like there's not really anything for me to go.

Aaron (01:02:38.804)
See ya!

Gerry (01:02:50.766)
Switch 2, That's what you want. Like, I love Mario Kart World. I think that game's awesome.

Aaron (01:02:59.82)
What about the GameCube

Gerry (01:03:01.71)
I don't give a fuck about the GameCube games. I could play the GameCube games in their native tongue on my modded Wii U if I want.

Aaron (01:03:14.37)
Can you take you take that Wii U with you when you go to a hotel? Or I mean, I guess you could you could take apart the whole fucking Wii U and take it with you if you went to a hotel or went to go take a shit, but like that's

Gerry (01:03:28.63)
I'm with having my GameCube games in one spot. It's kind of like with my Mr., like, you know, I have like all my old retro consoles on my Mr. I don't take that with me. I don't need it. I feel like there was a part of my life where I was like, I must be able to take every console with me wherever I go. And I kind of started to realize that like,

having a limitation is actually a really good thing because it kind of forces you to play stuff that you normally wouldn't. And I'll tell you what my next purchase, so I recently, I sold, as you can see behind me, I used to have an analog pocket. I sold that. I just wasn't playing it. It's a really, really nice piece of hardware. I do not like the company.

Aaron (01:04:27.214)
But, yeah.

Gerry (01:04:30.446)
I think it's a good piece of hardware and it's it's FPGA which is the same as the mister but like to me Recently what I've realized is Here's the thing man The handheld stuff that I care about Okay Gameboy Gameboy color Gameboy advance DS 3D

That's it. That's where it stops. I don't give a fuck about game gear. Thrak. I know you're totally... Is there? There might be, but it's, mean, I could, I have a mod of 3DS. I could just throw it on that.

Aaron (01:05:20.874)
Amio geo pocket color. That's got some good shit too. You're missing out.

Gerry (01:05:25.602)
But like how much good shit.

Aaron (01:05:28.106)
A lot of good shit. You'd be surprised.

Gerry (01:05:31.47)
Are we talking like four or five games or are we talking like 20? On Neo Geo Pocket Call are you sure?

Aaron (01:05:34.648)
something games.

Aaron (01:05:39.554)
Yeah, dude. There's the dope as fuck card game. There's all the cool fighting games. There's a fucking submarine RPG game. There's a dungeon crawling robot RPG full-blown RPG. There's a couple of awesome puzzle games. There's a lot dude. It's it's for such a tiny fucking library. There's a surprisingly great amount of games on there. But yes, the Neo Geo Pocket.

Has like the best handheld fighting games of any console and I'll say that with my whole heart man Like if you get fucking SNK gals fighters on the neo geo pocket color, it sounds lame, but it kicks ass

Gerry (01:06:22.702)
Do you know what I think my next move is and I thought one to like this weekend? Today is the weekend. What is it? I was really close to it They ended up selling I checked marketplace earlier and they ended up selling it But it was a Gameboy Advance the original Gameboy Advance model, but it had an upgraded screen It was a modern screen. So it was a backlit screen and it was like it was like a different kind of panel

Aaron (01:06:41.944)
Yeah.

Gerry (01:06:50.294)
for the screen so it was like an enhanced picture. I think that's what I want. Because then I'll go get a flash card for the Game Boy Advance and I'll have Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance at my fingertips in a Game Boy Advance. And then I'll just take that with me. Because when I think

Aaron (01:07:12.504)
third party like rechargeable battery for it too.

Gerry (01:07:16.01)
Yeah, that's another thing that you can get. can get the recharge. You can get there. Actually, there's a mod, think, where you can like actually mod in a battery and have it so that you can recharge it with a link USB-C. I honestly think that I would prefer that over having because like that those analog pockets are expensive. They're very, very expensive. And I got my I got my money back on that transaction to.

Back what I paid for it because they're they're hard to get Well, it's sort of hard to get they it sucks for us Canadians because it costs a goddamn much to ship from the US because they only ship from the US so a lot of times people will be like well, just I'll just pay for it because it's basically like I I got back what I paid for it minus shipping essentially But yeah, I just

Aaron (01:08:06.35)
Yeah.

Gerry (01:08:11.862)
I don't know, there's something I kind of want just a Game Boy Advance right now to be able to play Game Boy Color, Game Boy, just Game Boy games on that Game Boy Advance. I know that it probably, because of the screen on the analog, you're able to replicate the way that Game Boy, like the Game Boy screen looks, like you're able to replicate that like flawlessly in a way that's like

almost disturbingly close to being identical to the Game Boy screen.

Aaron (01:08:48.462)
You know, like the pea green or whatever.

Gerry (01:08:50.36)
Like it is, that is peak retro handheld, that analog pocket. That's as good as it's gonna get. But I don't know. But I think the point that I was getting at, I'm getting sidetracked. I'm on the beer, man. I am on the beer. The point that I'm trying to make is that instead of taking something with me that's like, have all of the things. Like if I had a Steam Deck and I was like, yeah man, I got GameCube on here, I got fucking.

Neo Geo, I got Super Nintendo, I got fucking N64, I all the shit, man, on my Steam Deck. That's too much.

Aaron (01:09:29.034)
Yeah, you get decision paralysis.

Gerry (01:09:30.954)
much shit. If I take a Game Boy Advance with me, okay, now I'm now I'm limited to a smaller library, even though it's a massive library, but still it's a smaller selection. I feel like that to me is better. That will allow me to be like, Yeah, you know what, let me throw this on and play this. Plus, I really like the original Game Boy Advance, like the ergonomics of it.

Aaron (01:10:00.009)
This pee just fucking hurts.

Gerry (01:10:01.998)
SP is not bad, but it's just, yeah, it's very tiny, tiny, tiny,

Aaron (01:10:08.27)
I've got big hands, my shit like overlaps when I'm trying to play that motherfucker.

Gerry (01:10:12.59)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Gerry (01:10:20.494)
I was gonna say, by the way, because we haven't even gotten to this part, I was, sorry, were you done with Shin Megami Tensei? Are you done?

Aaron (01:10:38.582)
For the most part I was last part I was gonna say is that the the demon fusion is still Just as good as it is now and the Magatama system is really cool Because you can just ingest these little parasites that give you different stat boosts or like help you learn different types of moves depending on which ones you have ingested or whatever, but It's it's a good game if you're

Gerry (01:11:10.254)
I have Dragon Quest 7 reimagined and installed now. I play that. I bought it last night. I went on a shopping spree. I bought Dragon Quest 7. And then bought Reanimal. And I'm gonna play Reanimal tonight. And I know that it's only like five hours long, but I heard it's really fucked up. And people are complaining that the co-op doesn't work right. But I don't care because I'm gonna play it by myself. I don't care. I'm excited to play that game.

Aaron (01:11:39.214)
I love lip.

Gerry (01:11:42.69)
That is a Aaron as fuck game and you should buy that game.

Aaron (01:11:47.31)
That's what I've heard. It's a tactics game. A tactics rogue-like. Like, I need that in my life.

Gerry (01:11:53.512)
the point that we were getting at was that I'm glad that you're enjoying your Switch 2 because dude my Switch 2 went after I played the most disappointing game of my life Metroid Prime 4 I put that thing on its dock and I could go to it now and be like and blow off the fucking dust like it was like some decrepit fucking Bible in a tomb

because it's collecting dust. Now, it's not collecting dust as much as my PlayStation 5 is collecting dust. That thing, I haven't touched that thing in a year. No joke. shit. No joke. have not touched it.

Aaron (01:12:35.822)
She had.

Aaron (01:12:39.63)
When you've got your PC and your Switch and all the other shit that you have, yeah, I'm sure it's hard to find time for that motherfucker. For me, my main thing is the Switch too, because I take that fucker everywhere. I'm in my fucking office slash bedroom all the time for work.

Gerry (01:13:00.334)
a console gamer though you don't have well you have like a laptop but it's piece of yeah yeah it's a little rough we've been playing yap yap dude that game is ohhhh

Aaron (01:13:04.62)
Yeah.

Aaron (01:13:16.526)
OHHHH FUN He was so fucking fun and funny dude fucking

Gerry (01:13:24.342)
Let us know if you want to see some video of that. I think we're going to record something soon. But let us know if that's something that you want to see. So if you don't know, YapYap is like, it's kind of jumping on board this whole thing of like, know, peak and like these cheap games that you can play with friends that are just like silly and fun. you know, they're good cheap games that you can play with friends that are

Aaron (01:13:30.798)
You should.

Aaron (01:13:52.301)
Yeah.

Gerry (01:13:53.268)
very entertaining. And with YapYap, it's all voice recognition and you're casting spells. So if you want to cast like a wind blast, you have to say arrow, which is very difficult to play with Aaron online because as soon you're like, Hey, Aaron, blast a fucking arrow shot. Like Greg and I were like, Aaron, Aaron, like the whole time. But there was some really funny shit, man.

We went on a couple good runs. It's like, it's sort of run based. You have like three nights to complete like a bunch of missions and like, then you can get like upgraded like wands that do, you could piss on stuff. Yeah.

Aaron (01:14:40.992)
I probably compare it to like Lethal Company and games like that where it's one base you have to fulfill a quota and shit Yeah, because you have to what you do to just be to break shit and you earn points or money based on However much shit that you bro

Gerry (01:15:00.162)
Lethal company dude, lethal company has been like, it's been a minute since lethal company has been. And it's been a long time since like, I've played lethal company. Like, I think the last time I played lethal company was literally when all my shit was still upstairs. back when that's like almost this summer, it'll be two years. So it's been like, probably like three years since I played lethal company.

Aaron (01:15:06.83)
Damn.

Gerry (01:15:29.454)
Same thing with like Phasmophobia. Haven't played Phasmophobia in a long ass time either. But I have all that shit. Like I have Phasmophobia, have Lethal Company, I have Peak, I have this game now, yap yap. The only one that I don't have that I was still debating on getting was RV There Yet. Which I've heard is quite fun as well. But it's the same type of thing. It's just like you're dicking around with friends and just doing dumb shit.

Aaron (01:15:56.11)
I'm going to look up that RV there again real fast. It's cool.

Gerry (01:15:59.106)
Yeah, it's kind of like the same thing. You're just a bunch of friends in an RV. I think you just have to drive across a bunch of places and help each other. People will have to get out and help you back the thing up. It just looks stupid.

Aaron (01:16:22.616)
We definitely need to do that. God damn it, that sounds so good. But it's hard to find time for that and yap yap because I love all the dumb fucking wands that you can get in yap yap like the one that Greg had.

Aaron (01:16:41.07)
Yeah

Gerry (01:16:53.592)
Dude, you know what else? I've been playing and I'm I'm getting dangerously close to beating it.

Aaron (01:17:01.74)
What's that? Not okami.

Gerry (01:17:05.334)
Elden Ring, Night Reign.

Aaron (01:17:08.18)
yeah. Okay. It is so.

Gerry (01:17:10.766)
Dude, like I picked that thing up because I was like It's a rogue like once I read like it's a rogue like I was like, hold on rogue likes have slowly started becoming one of my favorite genre of games and I'm like wait a FromSoft rogue like that's gotta be good. That's gotta be good, man My gut was right

It was right, dude. It's so good. It is very FromSoft. Like, it definitely feels like you're just, just making enough progress after. The good thing is when you die, you still get rewards. They're just not always the best. Like when you kill like, like, so essentially, I don't know if I don't think I've talked about Night Reign yet on. Bye.

Aaron (01:18:08.18)
Yeah, yeah, I forget which episode but yeah, you talked about just a little bit

Gerry (01:18:15.436)
But yeah, you, essentially like the formula is that you drop into the map and there's like a circle that closes in kind of like a battle royale in a way. And if you get caught out in that, because it's like raining, it's like this acid rain basically. If you get caught out in that and then it starts to hurt you. And like, basically you start off and it's like the full map is open and you got to.

Every little location on your map is a thing. So like a church will give you an extra flask, so an extra heel. And then like a, what else is there? Like the magic towers that always will give you like a new wand for like, you're, if you pick, cause there's classes, so you get to pick a class.

But when you drop in, essentially like you have, I don't know, a few minutes before the first ring starts to close in and then you can see like where the, okay, we gotta go to the good, we gotta be in the good ring inside of it. And then once it closes in the third time or the second time, it's closing in on like a spot where there's like a tree. And what you have to do is you have to get to that spot and then you have to fight a boss.

And then once you beat that boss, you start day two. So the ring goes back and then you're open to the whole map again. So then you got to kind of figure out like, okay, where am I going? And then it does the same thing. You fight another boss after you beat that boss, you automatically teleport to like a little hub. That's like a safe zone where you can like upgrade and buy stuff and level up just before like the big boss. Cause it's kind of like

It's funny because when you start the game, you can only pick the one boss. Like you have to, you have to beat the first boss. Basically. Once you beat that boss, all of the other bosses open up like mega man. Like you're just like, Ooh, okay. And it tells you what they're weak against. So it'll be like, this guy's weak against fire. So as you play, you get, items that are called relics. Those are permanent. So

Aaron (01:20:27.138)
That's cool.

Gerry (01:20:41.42)
No matter what you do on a run, whether you beat the big third big boss of like the the main the robot master, if you will, if you beat that, then you get like some significantly cool like rewards from it. If you don't, you still get rewards like you still get relics and some relics are specific to a class. So and like some are like adds fire to your weapon and then you're like, I'm getting that.

and then I'm gonna level up my starter weapon, max it out so that I know I have fire going into that big boss, because I know he's weak against fire. So it has this really cool loop of just doing a run, it's almost got a little bit of Monster Hunter DNA in it, where it's like, this is our target, we have to kill this target, this is the

big target that we have to kill. But you might have to kill a bunch of other shit to get to it. Well, you do you you definitely have to fight two bosses. But I'm shocked by the sheer amount of content that there is in this game, and how good of a co-op game it is. Just like doing runs. And it's very decently optimized. We've had basically no issues online.

or connection issues or anything like that. like my buddy that I play with, he's in fucking China and he has to use a goddamn VPN. And it's a fucking nightmare sometimes. Works flawlessly on this game. This game is dialed in. Yeah, like we're at, we can go fight the last boss now, but like we're kind of like those sticklers. Cause like when I played Elden Ring, I beat every boss. I beat them all, every one of them.

All the optional ones, every I have the trophy on my PS five. I've killed everything. Everything has been killed. I don't have the platinum because I don't I don't care about trophies as much but I've killed every boss and I feel like there's only two bosses that we haven't killed besides the last boss. And I'm like, dude, we got I think we got to do it. I think we're gonna kill all these bosses. We killed one this morning.

Gerry (01:23:06.316)
We killed, we had three left and we killed one of them this morning. We had a really good run and like do the runs too. Like they can be like 45 minutes to an hour for a run. Yeah. It's so good though. my God. It's good. It's a lot of fun.

Aaron (01:23:18.094)
Goddamn.

Aaron (01:23:23.822)
The from the way you described it it sounds it sounds weirdly similar to Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles in a lot of ways because you have to Yeah, cuz like each Was it there's four races each one is kind of a different class and You'll run through What is it you run through a level you beat a boss and you get like a permanent upgrade to your character and then

You can like upgrade your weapons and shit as you go along and your armor and everything Maybe not like a hundred percent similar, but it's It sounds a little bit similar That game was fun as fuck

Gerry (01:24:07.158)
It's really good. I would definitely if you're a fan of the Souls games or from soft games. I mean, it's a it's a if you're and especially if you're into Roguelikes, it's it's it's a good one, but it's. It's fucking hard, man. It is. It is up there, I think it's like next to Sekiro, it's the hardest from soft game I think I've played.

Aaron (01:24:25.998)
Yeah

Gerry (01:24:36.994)
Like it's a lot. And I'm like, I don't even say that as like a bragging thing of being like, yeah, I got good. It's just, it's, find it very satisfying playing games that are that difficult and then finally triumphing over them.

Gerry (01:25:01.294)
That's just me though.

Aaron (01:25:03.478)
I no I feel you that's that's why I love shinbagami tensei so much man like nocturne especially like one of the first bosses that is like Just a gigantic brick wall not not like an actual brick wall. He's What is it? It's the matador and pretty much any boss in a shinbagami tensei game You have to throw a couple of goof runs at it learn its attack patterns and then like

make your best team and come up with a good strategy and then you can fucking plow through it and there's no better feeling than that. No better feeling than like learning what an enemy I guess is weak to and like what you can do to counteract their fucking attack patterns and shit. there's nothing better than that.

Gerry (01:25:52.696)
Dude.

Gerry (01:25:57.642)
You have to finish Look Outside.

I insist it is So so unbelievably good I Could not believe how good that game was I Think after I finished it, I think I gave it an eight because I always I was slapping a little number on my games On how long would be after I've finished them and after I logged them I never write a review just a number just a

This is how I felt about this game. I think I gave it an eight, maybe even an 8.5. It's difficult. The game is difficult, And are you playing on the standard difficulty where you have to go back to your room after a certain amount of time and that's the only time that you can save? When you go talk to What's-Her-Face through the hole in the wall? Yeah, so I read after, if you change the difficulty,

It allows you to save whenever you want. And there's an auto-save. Which I feel like it might detract from how intense that game is because when you leave your apartment in that game, you feel like, holy shit, like every fight that you have is like, I don't know if I'm gonna pull through this. Eventually you do get stronger.

Aaron (01:27:33.166)
That's exactly what I think about any Shin Megami Tensei man, I love that shit.

Gerry (01:27:40.258)
Yeah, it's like they're they're hard as nails RPGs I Think I think you would hold Look outside in a like a very high regard once you finish it I don't want to say anything about it. Got I got a decent ending. There's a there's a few endings that you can get I did a little bit of the side stuff What I found crazy is that?

You recruited somebody that I finally went back to and they were dead. I'm like, for the record, this is a game that is, all intents and purposes, made on an RPG maker engine by the looks of things. Like it's a very basic like 16-bit kind of RPG, but man, it's just really good. Like, I know, I want more people to be talking about this or something.

I guess just, it's so good.

Aaron (01:28:39.982)
I brought up to the holy shit. was talking to I think it was the no small games gals. Kate and Emily. Shout out. And yet they mentioned that they really fucking like that game too. So did they? I'm glad. I'm glad that there's at least some other people. Yeah, there's at least some other people in our little circle that know about it. But

Gerry (01:29:05.388)
Yeah, I got a bunch of stuff in the pipeline right now that I'm gonna be checking out. So we'll touch on those things at another time. But it's about that time, dude. It's about that time. It went quick. It went quick because we're in a void. We're in the void cast right now. those go, I don't know, maybe it didn't go quick for you. Maybe it's just because now I'm my second beer and I'm starting to feel it.

Aaron (01:29:26.862)
all fours.

Gerry (01:29:34.606)
So maybe time is just becoming a blur. But before we get out of here, you know what time it is.

Welcome to Dated Games!

Aaron (01:29:48.59)
Oh man. I always do.

Gerry (01:29:52.078)
Yeah, I got a little something.

Aaron (01:29:54.742)
So I've been using my Anbernic mostly as a little Neo Geo machine and my god.

Gerry (01:30:04.8)
to do this. Yeah.

Aaron (01:30:07.15)
It's hard to pick just one, but there's this game I just discovered called Aggressors of Dark Combat. And I guess just based off the name, what do you expect the game to be like? With a name like Aggressors of Dark Combat. Don't look it up. What do you expect it to be like?

Gerry (01:30:26.158)
Here's my hands. I expect. I expect nothing less than to play. I bet it's a strategy game like a like a RPG strategy RPG or like a snow is a strategy. No. What the fuck is it then? If it's not a strategy game.

Aaron (01:30:42.616)
No.

It's a fighting game!

It's like, it's kind of like a, almost like a mix of a beat them up and a fighting game. Cause you can, you're not limited to just, you know, the one plane of movement. can kind of go like, you can go in like really any direction when you're playing it. And the backgrounds are cool and colorful and there's all sorts of cool, small details. Like there's this.

Gerry (01:30:50.862)
I should've known.

Gerry (01:31:13.846)
Neo Geo Pocket Color Game.

Aaron (01:31:16.354)
just a regular neo geo game like the neo geo

Gerry (01:31:19.752)
Okay, gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha continue continue continues on Neo Geo

Aaron (01:31:24.056)
Yeah, like the stages... Infinite continues, that's right, Hop away, the fucking select button.

Gerry (01:31:29.08)
kind of

Hold on. Do you limit yourself?

Aaron (01:31:36.247)
I try to limit myself to five, five. A buck twenty-five.

Aaron (01:31:45.022)
In quarters. Yeah. what was that? yeah. Yeah. So this the stages have all sorts of like just Insane amounts of detail. Like there's this train station stage where characters will like there'll be a ledge characters will like or characters but people in the background they like jump off the ledge follow the fucking combatants around the covers fighting the follow them around maybe jump back up onto the ledge or you'll

All sorts of cool shit like that, the characters you can play as are all memorable and like the special finishing moves you can do like When your health gets real low your your crazy meter. That's what it's called your crazy meter when your health is low that should'll That should'll light up and you can do some sick finishing moves like this big like Japanese guy with big wooden sandals He'll he'll whip off this whirlwind that'll throw you into the air

Gerry (01:32:29.57)
Z meter.

Aaron (01:32:43.458)
And then as you're falling, he'll catch you and do the fucking like, he'll break your back over his fucking knee and then it'll just be like, KO! And then yeah, Acrestors of Dark Combat kicks fucking ass and I highly recommend that game.

Gerry (01:32:59.928)
Cool.

Aaron (01:33:02.318)
combat.

Gerry (01:33:04.266)
I threw on a cool game this spring that it went on sale. was on my wishlist for a little bit and I was like, fuck, it's so cheap. It's only like $8. And that's called the...

Primal I always get it. I think it's called I always get it mixed up between primal or prehistoric. I think it's primal. It's called Primal Planet. Primal Planet. Greg is. Greg and Beth are going to laugh because this is a caveman game and I'm known to enjoy caveman game. It's a it's a Metroidvania but it's like a very tight one. It's not long.

Aaron (01:33:33.833)
planet okay

Aaron (01:33:45.496)
nothing wrong with that.

Gerry (01:33:54.368)
If you go to the Steam page and see this game.

It plays really well and there's like a lot of things going on. Like you'll have to craft things more so than like from what I've seen so far because I'm very, very early in the game, but I can already tell you right now. This is a, this is definitely a strong recommendation from me. If you're into Metroidvanias, it feels good. It plays nice. It's got a

amazing pixel graphics and it's like you're a caveman and it's co-op you can play it in co-op I think the other person could be like your little pet dinosaur because you have a little pet dinosaur with you that like you level up and you can like teach different moves and stuff too and like it'll automatically do its own thing but I think you can have like a secondary player jump in and yeah like you'll find like spears

And then eventually you'll be able to like make torches from those spears, which will allow you to like burn something to get past somewhere. So I was like, sweet. Now that I got these torches, I can go back to the, remember there's a spot where I could burn it. And then when I walked up to it, there was a waterfall. And as I walked past the waterfall, was like, like I put out the torch. So I was like, okay. All right. Checkmate. I see you. I see what you're doing. And I like it. I like it a lot.

I would, I'm very early in the game, but I would say that I can already recommend it for what it's worth. It's on sale right now. Like if you're in, if you just want like an easy, I don't actually, I don't even know if it's easy going, but it's a shorter Metroid mania. I think it's only like six hours, maybe six or seven hours. Yeah, I'm okay with it. I mean, right now I'm,

Aaron (01:35:47.726)
That's pretty good.

Gerry (01:35:55.086)
I'm sure I'll probably have a lot to say when we come back about reanimal because I'm going to play that. That'll be the game that I play the most probably before Resident Evil 9 comes out. And I'm just going to be I'm going to be all in on Resident Evil 9. Are you going to play Resident? Have you played seven and eight?

Aaron (01:36:14.387)
fuck yeah, yeah I beat the shit out of 7 and 8.

Gerry (01:36:17.528)
Just it. Just beat it. If you want to be bad.

Aaron (01:36:24.042)
even matter if it's boiled or fried just eat it just eat it

Gerry (01:36:29.006)
Yeah, so are you getting Resident Evil 9?

Aaron (01:36:34.286)
Yeah, I hope so fuck there's a lot of shit. I still need to play I Just I also just bought hermit and pig and I want to play that too That game that came sauce Jerry you would like hermit and pig it's got time to

Gerry (01:36:48.846)
I'm saying food is coming out. Come on. Yeah beyond

Aaron (01:36:54.446)
I know, Rizny.

Leon!

Gerry (01:37:05.78)
Yeah,

Aaron (01:37:09.6)
Yeah. Resident Evil 9. Yeah.

Gerry (01:37:12.718)
Yeah, dude. And then Pragmata? Have you played the demo for that?

Aaron (01:37:18.295)
no, but I- I saw the gameplay footage of that from the fucking direct and it does look- Yes!

Gerry (01:37:24.568)
Dude, the demo's out on Switch 2 now. Go play the demo and tell me what you think because I think that's gonna be a day one game for me.

Aaron (01:37:33.196)
I cannot retell you I'm interested. I'm very interested in that game.

Gerry (01:37:37.134)
Play the demo dude because I feel like if you're already interested after I played that demo for 10 minutes I was like, this game has my money. It's got my money.

the way the fuck in on this game like for sure. But anyways, we got to get out of here because I need to put my PC back together.

Aaron (01:37:54.967)
Hell yeah.

Aaron (01:38:03.395)
I need to pee. See back together.

Gerry (01:38:07.246)
See you back together cool. All right, And do the do the thing where do you tell them where they can go?

Aaron (01:38:18.041)
Right to No, no. Go to superghost.site. Straight to hell. But if you don't want to go there, can go to superghost.site, socials, episodes, Patreon. Find our faces there. We're all there. Yeah.

Gerry (01:38:31.758)
Yeah, and we say it every we say it every week. We're gonna do more video content. We never do we are we will we will Yeah, we've hired we've hired two editors and

Aaron (01:38:43.626)
Cheryl from HR, she's doing it too.

Gerry (01:38:45.878)
Cheryl's gonna pitch in. We told her that we'll give her three extra smoke breaks and she was like, I'll do it.

Aaron (01:38:55.79)
In the middle of a sub a smoke break she's got one of those adapters to where she can smoke three six at one time she

Gerry (01:39:02.168)
just out back. She's just out back in the studio squatting in an alleyway smoking cigarettes playing a fucking Magic the Gathering with fucking Andrew

Aaron (01:39:11.847)
God. fuck. Please don't bring that studio, Cheryl.

Gerry (01:39:16.91)
On that note, we'll see you next time or we'll listen to you. You'll hear us next. I don't know. We'll, we'll, be back. We'll be right back folks. Bye.