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Not Being Allowed to Play M-Rated Games Growing Up
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Here it is, the ninety-second episode of Unqualified Game Chat! This is where two friends, Azario and Spencer, talk about the games they’re playing and the most requested gaming news.
This week, the two talk about horror games and their early childhood religious traumas.
Unqualified Game Chat is posted across podcast services for your entertainment.
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Transcript
Can We Separate Art from the Artist?
00:00:00
Speaker
Hey Spencer. Hello. Have you ever felt the need to go into a bar and go to the jukebox, put a quarter in and then put on R Kelly and look around the room to see who separates the art from the artist?
00:00:17
Speaker
There's so many things you just said that I have no experience with. You can never put a quarter in. Going to Mars, B, carrying change now, like past 2012. C, I couldn't name one R. Kelly song. Ignition? Ignition remix? I don't know what those are, but they're probably full. The closet song? I do remember that one, because they did it. Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah. And I said, no. She said, yes.
Balancing Pop Culture Interest
00:00:48
Speaker
No, I can separate R from Marvis. I didn't know that was real until like five years ago, my friend was like, no, that was based on this. It's more than real. It's a way of, it's a way of life. That's so interesting. Yeah. How does people not know he was a psycho? It's just like this small thing where like, he's like, he just pees on people and he's super gross. You look past that, the guy's an artist.
00:01:16
Speaker
I think it's more the age than the pee that people are a lot of with. I think people think it's true. The pee's not great. I'll say it. Yeah, the pee's the icing on the cake out of everything else, thinking about fucking Guy's bullet. People would be like, he's a weird, he makes good music, but he's really weird. But the other thing mixed with the pee, it's too much. It's too much.
00:01:39
Speaker
Yeah, you could be weird and make music and not be an ass or not be like You can't be a sexual predator and be weird. Yeah, it's actually predator Yeah, because I was thinking like I was trying to get to Kanye and then I was like saying weird when Connie's kind of weird But like it will also really defend again. I've like never gone out of my way to ever hear a Kanye thing I know they of them but
00:02:01
Speaker
And so I'm completely divorced from the hype and the hatred. So I just see all these news stories and I'm like, he seems wild. And people are like, no, you don't get it. I watched. Yeah. I feel like this is the first time we've ever talked about pop culture stuff.
00:02:20
Speaker
I have a very specific cone, you know, in stealth games, there's like a cone of vision, a character can view it. I have a very specific cone of vision. And I know every fucking detail in that cone, but outside that cone, I'm like, I'm like early, like, I'm like not the, we don't have a world map yet. People living on one continent, you know? I don't know what the fuck's out there and I'm never going to know. That's so different from me because I like to be a little good at everything.
00:02:47
Speaker
I have to have a little bit of knowledge and everything because when I, when I gas people up and try to get shit, you know, like I have to know everything so that I keep the conversation, you know, the car, like, they're like, they, they walk away. They walk away. Every person I meet walks away thinking, wow, that guy was really good at talking. He wouldn't shut up. He wouldn't shut up the whole time.
00:03:12
Speaker
That's good. People say something. I'm like, I don't know what that is, dude, but I'm happy for you. And they're like. Yeah.
Navigating Social Etiquette
00:03:18
Speaker
Okay. So Mark and I talked about this where this guy, this like PR guy went up to Mark and was like, Oh, Hey man, uh, how are you? And then Mark was like, I don't know you dude. Like blunt.
00:03:32
Speaker
Like, I don't know you, dude. I mean, so I was like, hey, how are you? I wouldn't be like, who are you? That's what I said. I'm not going to know them, but that's just polite, like they're being polite by asking me. Evidently, they did. He met him at a press event.
00:03:49
Speaker
Oh, that's even worse. Yeah, months before. That's rough. Yeah. And he's like, dude, I met you here and here. And he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm like, Mark, in those situations, you just pretend like you know the guy. You just say hi. Yeah, you don't dive too deep. You're not like, oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But you're like, yeah, let's go, dude. How's it going? And then you're like, you don't remember me, do you? Then you can, like, try me what you like.
00:04:10
Speaker
I'm going to be real with you. I don't. I've met so many people today. I've just been bachelor of this business. I'm different. The flight, the meeting all the people, frankly, it's a cooked egg in there. Yeah. Typically, then once you have enough layers, then they're like, oh, no, it's me from this. Then you either remember them and you're like, oh, or you don't, and you still do that because...
00:04:34
Speaker
you've established that your brain is mush so they don't care. Let's do the theme song.
Welcome to Episode 92
00:04:53
Speaker
Hello and welcome to episode 92 of Unqualified Game Chat. I'm your host, Azara Lopez. And with me today is the Snug. What is that? Persona or Thomas the Train? It's like a bootleg website. My parents got me for Christmas and I like it a lot.
00:05:14
Speaker
This is one-piece characters doing that like tongue-out thing that those anime head tie girls do they're like, oh no, that's just chopper Thomas the engine he's not chopper Thomas the tank engine on my shoulder He joins the straw hats
00:05:36
Speaker
Anyway, Spencer, the legacy. Hello. Hello. I'm not sick this week anymore. I still feel, you know, when there's like an echo of sickness, you're not sick anymore, but your brain hasn't gotten the memo yet. You're like a little tired. You're like, tomorrow I'll be all the way better. Like that kind of mindset. I'm still there. So hopefully tomorrow I will be all the way better. But sometimes I don't want tomorrow to be better.
00:06:00
Speaker
I always do, no matter how good it is. I'm like, I don't want it to be worse, because it's always worse and I want it to be better.
Managing Daily Expectations and Luck
00:06:07
Speaker
Yeah, I don't like this. I try not to set any expectations for my day. It's just... I don't either. You know, one good thing, I hate...
00:06:17
Speaker
I hate that I like this. When good things happen, I get really nervous. I'm like, I like things have to be average at best, average at best. You know what? Bad luck to me. Legit happens in threes. So every time something bad happens,
00:06:36
Speaker
I have to do these big things. I check if my mortgage is paid. I have money in my savings. I talk to my boss and see if I can have a one on one with him. I do all these things.
00:06:51
Speaker
Just to downplay the fact that whatever's coming next is not that bad. Usually it's something like, my phone breaks and then my tire pops and then, you know, stuff like, it's usually shit like that. A pipe breaks in the house or something, you know? Like, it's usually something like that.
00:07:10
Speaker
But I have to do like these checks every time I get a stroke bad luck That's fair that makes sense. I Yeah, that'd be the smart thing to do. I just kind of like Head down until it's over
00:07:28
Speaker
Much like my high school experience with my period. Head down, it's over. And then when it's over, you get up, you dust yourself off, and you go, I probably got three more weeks before I get knocked down again. Maybe. Would you do high school over again?
00:07:44
Speaker
like with my current brain. Yeah. Maybe that'd be very interesting because I would definitely be the complete opposite of
High School Reflections and Growth
00:07:51
Speaker
what I would like. I'd be very, not necessarily outgoing, but I would definitely like work. What most people don't get about high school when you're in it is like, it doesn't matter if these are like forever friends or anything. Like you're supposed to live in the now. This is your last time having no
00:08:08
Speaker
real obligations. And you don't really get that. But I mean, granted, I was born fucking 90 in my head, so I've had the weight of obligations my whole life. I've always been like, I must always be completely good and respectful and carry my weight, which is probably not the best way to be like a 12-year-old boy.
00:08:27
Speaker
Um, I think I would, I think I would try it just to, uh, just to see like, Oh, like I'm just going to enjoy my time with these people and I'm not going to take class too soon. Like I'm not going to do poorly, but like all through high school, all I focused on was grades and like hanging out with a few of my friends. And I had good times a hundred percent with them. Like.
00:08:49
Speaker
playing Gary's mod until like 5 a.m. on Weekend, like stupid shit like that, and it was great. But I would 100%, yeah, I think it would be a very different experience, and I would definitely, I mean, granted, I'm saying that, I still don't do any of that shit as a 27-year-old, I'm not.
00:09:07
Speaker
I'm going to enjoy my time with my I'm like every day I'm like all I do is think about money and work and Then I go to bed and I try to do some video games, but I don't know. What about you? What would you do?
00:09:20
Speaker
I would probably try not to care so much. I was totally in the brain of like, I cared so much about what people thought about me. And I would try to meet their expectations or what I thought were their expectations of me. And it kind of turned me into an asshole. Like later on, like I started to resent like everyone. Like it didn't matter who you were. I already hated you before I met you.
00:09:47
Speaker
And I was just like, yeah, I was a bad, I had a heal arc for sure. It's shocking how different we were at these ages and how good of friends we are now.
00:09:58
Speaker
Yeah, it's so interesting. I think that you would have absolutely very successfully scored points off me and I would have been seething but hiding it. I got beat up and teased up until sophomore year and then emo music started getting big and so I had the scene hair and stuff and
Embracing Individuality in Youth
00:10:26
Speaker
I had
00:10:26
Speaker
all these MySpace friends. So by default, I started looking cooler because people saw me and saw people online and then just said, oh, that guy looks like he's one of those online guys, but he's here in real life. So I played off that and I started going to a lot of punk shows. I was playing music.
00:10:50
Speaker
The hard part is that those people aren't necessarily into video games, so those are two different worlds. So any anime that I used to watch, any video games I used to play, all went away. Call of Duty. Halo. That was it. That I was allowed to talk about. If I talked about anything else outside of that, it was like,
00:11:13
Speaker
See, I did the exact opposite, where in my insecurities, I dove, because I had the fucking, the like Peter Parker fucking high school footballs to the back of the head, people like making out on your locker and you can't get in so you're late and your teacher's mad at you. I'm like, I'll be like humility. I had all that shit. And so I dove deeper where I was like, I just got to get through like six, seven or however long schools, that many hours of school, like go home and I can fucking play Final Fantasy and not,
00:11:41
Speaker
about school anymore. I can go watch this show or whatever. So it's very interesting. You know, you went this way and I went this way. That's really interesting. I definitely put the, I definitely, and I, I took that, I guess I am still pretty good at like putting that mask on for whatever group or community I'm in. I can kind of weasel my way into like different conversations. But in terms of like,
00:12:08
Speaker
holding back who I am and my personality. I think I got over that going into college. I think I really like, and I didn't start college. I didn't go to start going to college until I was like 24, a little full time.
00:12:25
Speaker
So it took me a while, but so when I entered there, I was like, you know what? Like fuck, fuck everything. Like those friends, those friends I tried to impress in high school and stuff, they're not around anymore. They're not here. Yeah. They're fucking dead. Yeah. No,
Catholic Upbringing and Personal Development
00:12:49
Speaker
I don't think so. I don't know. I would hurt anything. Maybe they are.
00:12:53
Speaker
But I do, it was, it was definitely like that for me and I would go back and I would probably not care as much and really dive into the things I enjoy instead of waiting so long to do it.
00:13:08
Speaker
Yeah, I'd also eat better. Ooh, yeah. Actually, I was vegetarian when I was 13, but yeah, it was a tough road. High school is when I started getting fat. Well, disaster first failed the year of art school is when I got real fat.
00:13:32
Speaker
Yeah, so that's, yeah, that would be a big one. Cause I didn't shed my like high school brain. Like at least this not high school brain, but the mannerisms I developed there that I was talking about. I didn't shed that until like 2020. I would like, I could put on like a good show with other people, like at events and be like, well, I'm totally sociable, normal. But then, but like, then I would just, like when I went to two or three colleges in total for different periods of time and for the first two, the failed one and the other one, I would just like not,
00:14:02
Speaker
I lived in a dorm and I didn't know anybody and I didn't hang out with anybody the whole year. I just played video games every day, all day. And that's, to me, that's like such a wasted opportunity is to not make friends and stuff in that way. But then once, just before the pandemic, I was like, I need to, I need to do something and then.
00:14:19
Speaker
The pandemic happened, which didn't help the social aspect, but- No, it didn't. Yeah, foam therapy was in India at that time. That was going into your last years of college too, right? Yeah, because I did art college for one year and I failed horribly, and it was a disaster. Then a couple of years later, I did English, but halfway through my thing,
00:14:44
Speaker
the school and on strike for months and it I got like I just I couldn't manage it at the same time as like having mental health issues so I dropped out and then finally in like 2019 late or early 2020 first
00:15:00
Speaker
Yeah, I went for journalism to a different school. COVID happened. So I finished it after COVID. So it's been an interesting post-secondary experience. Hey, I got a thingy. I got a paper.
00:15:15
Speaker
I'm surprised you're so well off living alone too. I'm shocked. I got that coming right out of school. Living alone is probably the hardest thing that I've ever had to do. It is hard. I'm very conscious of my
00:15:34
Speaker
How I use and save money. Oh, yeah, I can I can probably I can't even count like on two hands How many times I've asked you mark and Bailey just to move in with me? These guys like I've been I've been putting seeds for years like I just need I just need my breads It's true
00:15:55
Speaker
Well this episode or this podcast is recorded every week posted to podcast service on Thursday We did two in a row pretty good. Yeah, pretty good. Take that Take that take that uh, Sab and fire Was Brian I always I always miss Brian because I always don't say Brian because we have a Brian on noisy pixel Brian Lee and I
00:16:24
Speaker
And that's where my brain goes. Brian, but I do attribute Brian to Brian. That's crazy. Cause I think Brian Griffin, um, like, wait, he's not real. He's a dog. Um, we have a topic today. I wanted to talk about, um, I want to talk about horror games and I know everyone fricking talks about this. So, um, I feel like we probably, yeah. Yeah.
00:16:50
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know if we can repeat the same stories, but hey, we'll try because I know you guys didn't listen to that episode. Remember. And if you do, you're a liar. Hmm.
Religious Dogma as Horror
00:17:02
Speaker
We got, we got better. We buy better equipment now. We got better tech. We got better audio. So put your head down and just enjoy, put your head on your desk and be quiet. This is where you're with us. What was your first horror game? Uh,
00:17:21
Speaker
My parents were very, well, I guess it was more my mom, but I'll just say my parents. They were very ratings conscious. I didn't get to play rated games, so that was probably 14 or 15, except for I would sneak watch Max play Mortal Kombat and stuff and think it was really cool. You couldn't play Mortal Kombat? I could sneak play it, but I didn't like doing- Like Super Nintendo Mortal Kombat?
00:17:49
Speaker
No, because that was when I was a real little kid. I'd seen them, but I had a Sega Genesis. I couldn't get more combat. That was the violent one. That was the uncensored one. I mostly saw like Deception and Armageddon and Deadly Alliance. Good game.
00:18:09
Speaker
Yeah, I didn't sneak play them because when you're raised as a little Catholic boy, when you're a kid, they instill guilt in you very early, so they're like, you're not in anything your mom doesn't want you to know, so I wasn't playing Mortal Kombat secretly, because Catholic guilt is a big thing for a 10-year-old. No, yeah. You say that, but I grew up, I went to Catholic school up until high school.
00:18:32
Speaker
And you're absolutely right. And I try to, I try to explain this to people that growing up Catholic- You can't get it. It's insane. Yeah. Just the, just the guilt of the guilt of sex, the guilt of, uh, enjoyment, anything that's, that's- Anything that is cool. They hate and they make you think you're going to exorcist hell for like- I had, I kissed a girl when I, when I was, I kissed a girl when I was 12 years old on the cheek. It was a girlfriend I had.
00:19:02
Speaker
maybe 11th, 8th grade, but I kissed her on the cheek. It was my first girl kiss on the cheek. I went home and cried because of how- Most shit in the world. Yeah, because of how I was going to explain it to my dad that I kissed a girl. That's how bad it gets to you, especially- Sorry, what? Even being nude. Oh, yeah, 100%. Yeah.
00:19:35
Speaker
What are you guys doing? God can see their dicks. Yeah, post your fucking clothes on your little fucking kids. You're not even like... You're not remotely Catholic anymore. If you were as a kid, you were raised that way, there's just some shit that's stuck in your brain, and you can acknowledge it, and you can be like, I hate that, but it's there. And that's the shit like that, where you shouldn't care about other people. You fucking cares. It doesn't matter. But there's an itch in your head that's like...
00:19:51
Speaker
I can't I don't I don't do that like when when people have their kids running around nude in my head. I'm like
00:20:04
Speaker
Isn't that weird? You're like, oh, there's this one time where I, so there's like my, the hot, the way this old house was set up, there's a hallway and there's a bathroom, my room, but in the middle of the hallway, there's a living room where everyone's at. So I took a shower. Okay. So to get to my room, you have to walk past the living room and I forgot my clothes. So.
00:20:30
Speaker
I decide that I'm going to run past the living room area and go to my room. And in my head, I remember this so vividly that I started humming the Sonic theme song. You know, like the cartoon.
00:20:51
Speaker
Um, but, uh, uh, and I, I felt like that made me faster. And so I ran past, I ran past and then someone said, I saw that or something. So I think it was my dad or my uncle or something. And I started crying. Yeah.
00:21:10
Speaker
There's a lot of crying in Kithals. Yeah. I've never put the word guilt to it, but that's so great that you said it like that. Yeah, that's 100% a real thing. Even again, if you're not Catholic at all, there's an extra 10 pounds in your stomach of guilt at all times. It's insane. Once it's put there, it's never gone. When I was 13 or whatever to do confirmation, I had to go to this Bible camp.
00:21:37
Speaker
They handed out a list of sins that you could confess for that day. And it was like, pleasure, sinful thoughts about the opposite sex. I don't even want to know what they thought of the odds of the same sex. And like, sinful touches of my body, like all vague enough that when you're 13, you're like, oh, fuck, have I done all of this? Oh, fuck, am I going to hell, dude? Yeah, it's, uh, yeah, listen, if you
00:22:04
Speaker
having been raised, it's really hard to comprehend any of that because it all sounds insane. Putting that stuff in your brain when you're young, your brain develops around it. It's very unique. I can't even pinpoint how it came up because I don't explicitly remember them saying any of this was bad or saying- I'll get mixed with fundamentalists. Yeah.
00:22:30
Speaker
Very, very smart. Very smart. Those Catholics. That's the scariest game of all we've talked about. Dogma. Yeah. Religious Dogma.
00:22:39
Speaker
the scariest thing in the whole thing in the world. Real life, the scariest game to play. Scariest game to play when you're 12 years old and you don't even talk to any of you. And you need to repent. Very experienced. The Catholic Church. You know, we're covering every movie that's coming out, so there's a lot of trailer posts for the Exorcist sequel and shit. And even though I'm not religious,
00:23:07
Speaker
Because as a kid like people come to our school be like demons are fucking real exorcisms are real you can get And you're like eight so you're like
00:23:16
Speaker
like that's real so then you like you I watched The Exorcist and the Adult and like probably if someone watched it now who had never seen or wasn't religious and was like this is like a really good horror movie but it's not especially scary at this point but because that little like Catholic seed for what your kid is like you hear that priestly like demons are real and you're like this movie is fucking scary
00:23:39
Speaker
I'm there. I'm there. So weird. So nice. It's this episode is a, is a lapsed Catholic child of these sessions. Yeah. Happy Halloween. I think so. Kind of turned into that. We're going to get like three comments though, where people are like, that's exactly what it is. That's a hundred percent true. Yeah. Please let us know if you relate at all. Yeah.
00:24:04
Speaker
But, okay, so you weren't allowed to play scary games. Yeah, so for them, I was like, okay, oh yeah, I got really off the topic there. But then we went on a family trip to Boston and we went to a comic store that had games and I said, I want to, can I buy my first ever game? Please, please, please, please, please, I want to play it so bad. And I'm old now and I'm responsible and they were like, okay, that's fine.
First Encounters with Horror Games
00:24:29
Speaker
and I bought Bioshock 1 and I played it and I was like, this is kind of scary, but it's more story. It's rocks. And I still love it to this day, but I would actually, I would call Bioshock 1 at least a horror game.
00:24:44
Speaker
It's got a real freaky aspect, like Sandra Cohen, all the statues and like the, even the first part in the hospital with the, with the doctor and the, all that shit. It's very much, it's very, and just an excellent game, ORM, but yeah.
00:25:04
Speaker
But I sure too kind of removes it with like the big debt playing as big daddy. Yeah, I felt I felt safe for some reason I felt like I had a But I think own is a lot less scared like it's not so you're not in this foreign place that You'd have no idea about anything and it's already fallen apart. You're a resident of it. You're a giant.
00:25:24
Speaker
hulking thing that lives there forever. I guess in that regard, the horror aspects of the second one, at least, are more by your choice. You're kind of turned off by the choices you made. Bishock's a good choice.
00:25:46
Speaker
They ever did that Bioshock movie. That was the talks for so long. Around that time, after I played it, I was like, that would rock. I think Yale Road Del Toro was attached at one point. I know Gore Verbinski was attached at some point. A lot of people have been attached now. That sounds like a way better movie than Twisted Metal that just came out of nowhere.
00:26:07
Speaker
And then it came and went. No one gives a shit about Twisted Metal anymore. I don't need games to become movies, but I think Bioshock would be one that would actually be very interesting. Although, I don't know. The end thing, twist thing, is a lot less interesting in non-interactive form. But I think the lore itself would be pretty interesting as a movie.
00:26:30
Speaker
Out of all the Bioshocks, I think the third one is probably the best suited to be a film. I agree, which is a shame because Rapture is really, to me, Rapture is Bioshock to me. Yeah. I think Infinite has good parts in it and shit, but I think of Big Daddy and Water and yeah, that's why I think Bioshock, I think, Rapture and Andrew Ryan and all that shit. What about you? What was your first spooky idea?
00:27:01
Speaker
Well, I remember so same. I wasn't even allowed to watch Simpsons as a kid. But what did we do?
00:27:11
Speaker
We, I mean, one time out when I was 10, we had a party at my house and my friend brought over Grand Theft Auto and my dad got so mad. It's over the head like you, like looking at, looking back at the first Grand Theft Auto. It was the one. Yeah, it was the first one. And that was, he was like mad that we were playing it. Yeah.
00:27:33
Speaker
So that was that's just to set it up, but my friend had a sleepover and we had like I don't know eight kids I think I was probably like eight or nine and he had Resident Evil and I remember they put it in and we're watching and I'm watching the intro and I was like whoa This is this is kind of scary and then they walk into the room and the talking in my head like yes sure It's cringy now watching back walking watching it now, but I'll tell you I
00:28:03
Speaker
back then when you're like eight years old and they're like they're talking you don't you don't care about tone or anything you don't care about delivery you're just like holy fuck some dogs just chased me in this mansion there's blood on the floor
00:28:19
Speaker
What goes a long way when you're a kid and being scary? Right when the first zombie, you walk into the room and the zombie kind of turns his head after eating. We all screamed about six or seven, like eight-year-old kids screamed and turned it off. That's really funny. And I never played Resident Evil again until I was probably like 11, 12.
00:28:42
Speaker
wow that's crazy yeah and i think i think i rented like the third one at that point and i don't i didn't even like go back into the first one until maybe like the ps2 was already out and i was just playing old games because back then
00:28:59
Speaker
Back then, I had a PS2, but I probably only had like three or four PS2 games, and they're all like Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X2, and just a couple others. But I never even knew there were Spyro games on the PS2 until I was like 17, 18. It was just so weird. We couldn't afford it, so I didn't even humor. I had the exact same thing in my head.
00:29:24
Speaker
I remember, plus the internet wasn't as prevalent, I was probably like eight, and all I did was fuck Sonic Adventure. For some reason to this day, I'm gonna have to give you, I have like a 48 hour file of that game. It's maybe like four hours that game. I don't know what the fuck I was doing. But I would just play it all the time. Even when I was done, I would just run around the stage in square. And I remember I called my friend in Winnipeg, told me, who was like my cool little friend, they knew all about Sonic and Sega.
00:29:52
Speaker
And it was probably 2004-ish. And I was like, oh, yeah, I just beat... I beat the Sky Deck in Sonic Adventure. That's a really tough level that I'm gonna be done the whole game soon. And he was like, then you'll be ready for Sonic Adventure 2. And I was like, what? Yeah. And he was like, yeah, it has Shadow the Hedgehog. And he sent me like a picture on MSM later. And it was just Sonic, but like dark and evil. And I was like, what?
00:30:21
Speaker
I've never been able to match that hype in my life of seeing that. That came out for three years at that point. There's no way to know. Unless you search Sonic Adventure 2 on the internet, you wouldn't see it, because I wasn't on game facts. I was just on new grounds and dumb shit, not seeing half that. As a kid, I was just- I was just way more... I mean, the PS1 games were just cheaper.
00:30:50
Speaker
the other two. We rented a lot of games but renting was dangerous because again we didn't have internet we had dial-up but i never i never thought to use it i only use it to go like cheatsheetsie or absolute playstation
00:31:09
Speaker
I never use it to look up game news. I never read game news as a kid. It's because news was in magazines and newspapers. Yeah, I had Game Informer, you had PlayStation Underground.
00:31:23
Speaker
But whatever they wanted to show you is what you knew. I knew Soul Reaver was coming out, you know, stuff like that because it got a cover. But in the big scheme of things, I didn't have the money to afford those things. And I think that's why my PS2 collection is so good is because I'm going back
00:31:43
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It's very expensive, but to play some of these JRPGs that I missed out on, and it's good for me, but I didn't know until maybe a couple of years ago just how extensive and how vast the PS2 library is. Oh, the Armored Core series.
00:32:07
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there's updates and the way they did updates was they just released another armored core so yes there's like five armored cores but each armored core has like three different versions and I didn't I didn't know that growing up I just bought one and thought this was the third one this is the fourth one this is you know
00:32:23
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Like Silent Hope and stuff like that. They just put taglines behind it. And I was like, I know what this is. I'm not. Yeah, this is not funny about like Kingdom Hearts final mix and you like you find it online and it's like the color of the enemy is different and there's different bosses. Yeah, and you're like what? Oh I remember like Final Fantasy 8 had like a PAL version where you can like go into some secret room and like do this stuff and like I was like, what?
00:32:47
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What what is how what the fuck is oh, it's you yeah, it's like to Europe. I don't live there Yeah, how do I do this? Oh, you can't cuz region lock, you know, you go you go down the hill you figure it out eventually ps3 Kingdom Hearts was announced They're like we're playing them all on there and then they're like and their final mix and everybody was like oh
00:33:07
Speaker
Oh, yeah. For so long, it was just the thing you saw on YouTube. Some people who had modded PS2s that you'd put fucking thumbtack in so that you could run the thing. So you'd see the terror fight on there and you'd be like, this is fucking crazy, dude, how'd they do that? And then they were like, now everyone can play it. What a... God, what a weird time. It's so weird how the world was like 15 years ago to now.
00:33:30
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in terms of games like yeah how much more accessible things have gotten just everywhere it's not every every night before i go to bed i've been watching an old episode of computer chronicles just just to like they're they're 30 minutes long and they're from like 80 there's like from 80 80 1981 to the year 2000 you know you have so many like good episodes about when the
00:33:53
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internet was coming up when graphics and games were popping and they would show a video game and they're just so stoked on the math of it all and the graphics, even though it's Atari graphics, and they're just like, wow, I love that feeling. Gamers are so fucking jaded now. When they look at graphics and they, oh, there's popping. Oh, look at that popping.
00:34:24
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fuck up about Poppin. You know, you know, it's just- Unless it's really bad. Unless it's really, yeah, I mean, we've all played the new Pokémon. Yeah, we all play games where it's like, well, where the Poppin happens to be here? And you go, oh. Yeah. And that's not like, that could be improved. It's like, that should be better. You have a lot of money. Yeah. That should be better. I get, I get indie studios. Okay. What I like, yeah. But Pokémon Cup.
00:34:48
Speaker
Well, I think that that's when you develop a game within your means. If you know you can't do something like that, you find a way around it like they did. Yeah. In the old times, it's like, oh, so we have a shitty draw distance. Oh, there's fog. Yeah. We use fog to put that and it makes it a little scary. Sometimes you get that in the story, like Sunwheel. Sometimes it was just like Superman 64, where they're just like, wow, it's the virtual world. Everything's foggy. And you're like,
00:35:16
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I don't know about that one, but it's alright. Yeah, it's a... I don't know, it's...
00:35:24
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I think, I think we take graphics a little, we put graphics a little too high. And so I like- Even though it's special for graphics or like power scalers, we're like go to stronger, no one fucking cares. Oh, you reviewed this on console and not PC. That means it's not a real review. Oh my God. What's your rig? What's your rig? Shut the fuck up. That's my rig. The rig. Oh. All right. Well, we tried to talk about Halloween games, but- We got some games in there. We talked about a couple.
00:35:54
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Well, let us know your first Halloween games in the comments below. Let us know your repressed Catholic trauma. Yeah. And your favorite little Halloween games. And would you twerk to our Kelly's ignition remix if I put it on? All those questions tomorrow will be answered in the comments. Yeah, I'm excited to see all your crazy little thoughts about it, you little biscuits. Well, have a good week, everyone. We'll see you later. See you later.
00:36:23
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I'll see you next time.