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Episode Date: October 31, 2025

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This episode's brought to you by Arc Raiders, a multiplayer extraction adventure video game set in a lethal yet vibrant future Earth. Available now for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X&S, and PC, Arc Raiders.com. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Gamescast for Friday, October 31st, 2025. I want your host, Blessing Adioia, Strife. And joining me is Tim Shreddies. That's it. I love it. I love it. What's up, everybody? How you doing,

Bless? I'm doing good. How you doing, Tim? I'm doing good. Happy Halloween. Really good. Excited for this.

You look fantastic. You'll get many, many guns comments in the chat today. Of course. And they're well deserved. And you look fantastic. Thank you very much. My shredder.

I have a cape. I've lived my entire life wanting a cape. I fuck with capes so heavy. It's so good. Cates are so cool. I've always wanted to pull off. Oh, man, look at that.

Tim's running around the caves flowing in the wind. I feel like we need to incorporate capes into way more formal outfits. I know people. do. We don't do it enough. He tried for the longest time. Who did? Kevin was trying to get the tapes going.

I, everybody needs to understand how I agree with you wholeheartedly. I tried to wear a cape for my wedding so hard. Yeah. So hard. To the point that I bought

three separate capes. They just don't look right. It's just ain't right. They just ain't right. What is it? Geo wore one? Geo War Cape. Yeah.

I was very jealous of her. Yeah. I tried to get a cape so desperately that I ended up buying a professional cosplay, like, very high end, like, wear it on a show grade from, uh, what's his name from Rogue One?

Is it Krennick? Barrett? Yes. Like the white cape because it's, it's fucking sick of shit. Okay. Um, and it just looked bad. It just didn't pull it off the right way.

I tried looking up like actual fashion capes, but there were way too just like, yeah, the material wasn't right. Or my bigger problem. being yeah oh this kind of cape yeah pretty damn sick but it just didn't it didn't look right and uh otherwise it's like there's a lot of like cultural outfits that i can't be doing that you know yeah no exactly so that that's always the the thing there but um i i legitimately um reached

out to gary whittah to see if there was any favors he could pull to get me lando's cape from solo because it's like the coolest like donald glover's cape yeah so fucking sick and uh he tried He legit reached out to people to try to get me the cape, but it's a real one right there. It didn't know. Shout out Gary Witta. Well, Tim, happy Halloween and also happy 25th anniversary to the PlayStation 2. That's what we're celebrating today. Because, of course, remember, this is the kind of funny games cast.

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topic of the show. Tots, tuts, tats, tats, tats, tats. It's my favorite day of the year. Yep. Shitless day, baby. I can't wait. This is a very special one, though, because it's not just any old shitless. Like this is one of the most important anniversary dates. Gaming has had

thus far 25 years of the most successful console of all time, the PlayStation 2. Some might say the greatest console of all time. Some might. I think most people would, right? Yeah. I mean, it's... The PS2 is a fucking force. It's a beast. And yeah, I don't necessarily know that I would at the end of

the day give it the nod, but like yeah, I can't deny that I would need to debate myself. And I think at the end of the day, it would be a personal taste thing of me really loving Nintendo games that would put a different console over it. But that makes sense. I mean, when you look at what the PlayStation 2 did from a third party perspective, like, it's kind of wild.

And even from an exclusive perspective, uh, less so the like Sony first party perspective. That was, I think, a later generation in Sony's life thing. But, um, very important like building blocks here, though, when it comes to the first part. Oh, for sure. Absolutely. You're talking, then you're talking about Jack and Taxter. you're talking about, I mean, when you want to talk about first party exclusives, Shadow Colossus, one of my best, like, favorite games of all the time, right?

I'm talking about God of War. Yeah, totally. But you get to the third party stuff, and we're talking about Grand Theft Auto 3 trilogy, yeah, exclusive on PS2, later coming to other consoles. But for the initial launch and like for, ostensibly like the life of those games, it was PS2 exclusive. That's crazy to think of that. Metal Gear solid two.

And three. And three. Right. I mean, we're going to, I mean, we'll get into this. the conversation, of course, for the uninitiated shit list is where I go online. I find a top 10 list. I bring it back to Tim and sometimes buried on the ones and twos

and we judge it for your amusement. Today's list is the best PS2 games of all time. This list is coming from IGN. I'm taking it on my gloves for this one because I'm going to do a lot of typing. This list is coming from IGN. It was compiled by the IGN staff. There's not just one

name on this one. This is a staff made list. Originally posted on October 13th, 2023, but then updated on October 26, 2025, I imagine, for the anniversary of the P.S2. I wonder if it was like 20 games and then, because I think the whole thing is they're doing top 25 for this one for the 25th anniversary. So they probably expanded it. Added a few. Yeah.

And so October 20, I mean, I guess the date doesn't matter because PS2 games or PS2 games. Yeah. IGN. Tim, I know we just listed a few, but what comes to mind? Before, before we get into the list, there's two things I want to say. I want to do a non-sec, we're going back to talking about capes. I've had this picture on my desktop

for like six months now, and I think it is legitimately the coldest picture I've ever seen in my life. And like, if I could have this picture just like tattooed on my forehead perfectly,

I would, because it's, and no one would judge me. People would be like, you know what? I get it. That guy's cool. That guy's fucking cool.

I need to show you this picture of Spider-Man that I saw. It's just, I'm going to send this to assets right now, and I need everybody to prepare themselves, all right? And I'm not going to get too graphic, but you might want to get some tissues out.

What Jesus. I mean, he said what he said. He said what he said. It's up to you. You might cry, Barrett. You might cry. He might cry out of somewhere else. Like, this is legitimately the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life.

This actually goes hard. He's right. Oh, yeah. Spider-Man with a web cape. Oh, yeah. Oh, dude, this is something I would see in 2007 and go hell. Yeah. This is my personality, damn.

Is this and then SpongeBob with like the basketball? You ever see those cool SpongeBob pictures? It's this, that and Sonic. Like those are the things that in 2007 you show me those and I'm like, fucky, Eddie. That's what it's about. Come on. All right, now the Cape Talk is over here. Let's talk about PlayStation 2.

Before we get into this list, bless, like I kind of just want to talk about like you and PlayStation 2. Because like, oh, yeah. This, I definitively for me, this was the first generation we went into that I was aware that a generation was coming. You know, like I grew up with Nintendo's and Super Nintendo's from like garage sales and then the Nintendo 64 was like the hot new thing at Toys R Us, but like that was kind of my first memories

was Mario 64 at Toys R Us, right? Like the lead up, reading magazines, the build up to the launch of the PlayStation 2, like I was also very lucky to be in San Francisco where the PlayStation store was. And I, the years might be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure.

sure the Sony Metrion, which the Metrion used to be owned by Sony. It's no longer, but it used to be the Sony Metrion. And it was, I think it opened in like 99 and when the PS2 launched, like, the PlayStation store there was like the epicenter of the PlayStation 2 launch.

So I remember my dad took me there just to look at it all happened. And it was such an, it was one of my first gaming community experiences of seeing other people be excited for a launch of anything. And yeah, The PS2 was special. That's awesome.

Yeah, I mean, I was younger, obviously. So, like, I didn't have the experience of seeing a generation come through because it must have been, I guess, six years old by the time the PS2 came out. But I grew up with an N64. Like, my earliest memories, I don't remember a time before owning an N64 to put into context, right? Like, as soon as I came into consciousness, I was playing Wayne Gretzky's 3D hockey. But I do, I do vaguely remember a shift from playing, like, the Mario Games and

Mario Party and all these, like, colorful N64 games. to seeing games just look better all of a sudden. Like I would go, I'd talk about Addison all the time, but it really was going to Addison's house, going to other friend's houses, and seeing that their games are getting a bit more grown and complex and more advanced and they look better. And for the longest time, like,

Addison would be the friend's house I would go to to be like, yo, what's that God of War game? Oh, yeah, he showed me GTA3. And I remember that being like a, he was so excited to show me GTA3. And my brain was still on DK64, you know? And like, it was almost like a, You're showing me something that is too complex for my brain to comprehend.

Like I am eight years old and you're showing me GTA and God of War and all this stuff. But eventually I came into the PS2 life cycle a little bit later. I want to say around 0304 is when I finally got a PS2. And I remember getting a PS2 and borrowing just a bunch of games from Madison. This is where all these. That's the best though, right? Coming into a generation late, I think, is like such a pivotal moment for us to decide. Are we a gamer or do we just like games?

You know what I mean? And being able to go back and play the library of games being invested in that. Like, oh, it's so special. My first game I think I had for PS2 was Spider-Man 2 for PS2. And I remember that being such a fun one, right? But I think it was after borrowing so many games, and I talked about this the other day, I borrowed Shadow Colossus and Metal Gear Solid 3 from Madison in the same week. And that was the thing that was like when I became an adult.

You know what I mean? Like that's when I started to like realize things as some. somebody who played video games of, oh, wait, I appreciate, like, the story here. You know what I mean? Like, I was playing NCT4 games. I was playing Spider-Man, too. Finally, with MGS 3, I had a game where I was so invested with the characters, with the narrative, with all these things.

And with Shadow Colossus, that was the one where, like, I was like, video games can be this. Like, I'm going through. The world is empty. I'm just trying to figure out how to get to these big monsters and I can fight them, and it's emotional for some reason, and the music is so grand and big. And you're 10? I'm probably like 10 years old, yeah, 10, 11 years old somewhere around that.

I want to say that was probably like, I was probably like 05, by some I'm getting around to that point. And my mind is being blown by all this shit. And so, like, yeah, for me, that was the PS2. PS2 was me going from, I'm a kid who's playing video games and I'm, you know, playing party games and all this stuff for fun to then having that transition of like still playing, you know, all these gameplay focused Soul Calibur and Spider-Man 2

and like before he even got around to playing Shadow and MGS I was playing hella NBA Street volume 2 and like there are so many fucking great arcade style games on the PS2 that I was all locked in for Need for Speed Underground. Yeah, Burnout 3 being a big one for me but yeah

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 Underground Underground 2 American Wasteland like that's the thing too is like the PS2 generation not only felt like it lasted longer I think it legitimately did last longer because it was such an entry point for so many people before it was their first console and look

the numbers back this, right? Like the numbers show that it being as successful as it is. People bought it to be a DVD player. How many of those people that did that turned into to gamers because they're like, oh, I can try playing these games too, right? So I feel like it's so many, I would argue it's probably the most people's entry point. And more than that, the most people's place where they played the most games that are pivotal to them in some way, shape, or form.

Yeah. They might prefer the newer games. They might prefer whatever. but I do think the entry point was probably the PS2 because it just there was so much going for that and especially when we're talking about people our age. Like give or take the standard deviation of like five, six years on either side, right? Like it's crazy to me that the PS2 means as much to me and you as it does to Greg Miller, right?

Yeah. And I feel like there's just like this age difference between us and even all the way down to Roger, you know, like where we grew up with the N64 or even like Super Nintendo and Nintendo and stuff. But so much of that was, like, not contemporary whatsoever. Oh, no, yeah. So the PS2 wasn't contemporary with Raj, but it's what he had, you know? And I love that. My favorite PS2 story, I've told the story a bunch of times, but it is so special to me.

I, 10 years ago now, when I first started dating Gia, maybe three months into our relationship, she lived out in the sunset with her roommate Avi. Avi is in a band He not a gamer at all She especially at that point Didn't even know what a video game was Like no video games around them Like video games were very much me and my friends

That's our thing I was at their house And me and her having dinner And I hear a hum And it was driving me crazy Because I'm like In my mind I'm like That's a PlayStation 2

Like a PS2 is on in this now Yeah that's pretty safe And we're eating dinner And at some point she's like what are you listening for? And I was like, do you hear that hum? And she was like, uh, I, I guess so. And I'm like, I'm pretty sure it's a PlayStation 2.

And she's like, what the fuck are you talking about? And I'm like, I'm telling you. This is like one of her first moments where she realizes how much of a what's wrong with me. Yeah. But also she was she was like, no. Like I don't, you, that's weird that it sounds like it, but okay. And I just got hooked on it.

And for like two hours, we're just talking whatever. And I just couldn't get out of my head. I'm like, that's a PS2. Like, I know that's a PS2. And then we're like walking on and I look under and guess what is under the home console, a PS2 turned on. Yep. And I'm like, it's a fucking PS2 and it's on.

And she goes, oh, that's the DVD player. Of course. Of course. I was like, mind blown that to her, that's not a PlayStation, it's a DVD player. But more than that, there was a PS2 that her roommate had been watching a DVD and it was just still on. the TV was off, but the PS2 was on. I literally heard the hum, and I knew it was a PlayStation 2.

That's sick. And honestly, that's not some Tim Geddes is a weird sick oh shit. I bet y'all could do it too. Oh, for sure. And it's like, that's fucking crazy. What's your, so what's your deepest cut on the PS2? Before we get into the best games, what's your deepest cut? It's funny because I just think because of the nature of our jobs and talking,

I feel like we have talked about deep cuts so long that they're not deep cuts anymore, right? Probably, yeah. And even then, like, deep cuts, I don't think are necessarily, like, deep cuts to me are the ones that, like, aren't going to pop up on this list. Oh, for sure. Downhill domination is the one for me. But I can't call that a deep cut because that was a first-party title. Like, I'm pretty sure that was made by the team that did,

wasn't that Sony Santa Monica, but under a different name incognito, I think? Like, oh, I don't even know. It's just crazy. It's like that, you know, that was a big one. Like, there was characters from SSX in it. Oh. Interesting. Yeah, downhill domination, the downhill mountain bike game, which was incredible.

Like, I want to play that today, and I bet it still holds up. God, actually, this is actually pretty sick. Now I'm looking at gameplay. I'm pretty sure I saw this and wanted to play it. Yeah, it's really good. And then, yeah, to me, it would be Connecticut is the other one. That's definitely Sony Santa Monica, which I was obsessed with as a kid. That's like the racing one where it's like, like.

Oh, Connecticut? No, Connecticut. Humans or not. I don't know, but they, like, would hold on to wheels and, like, race with their whole bodies. Very cool. But then frequency and amplitude. The precursors to guitar hero and rock band. Yeah, those are my shit.

But again, like deep cuts. I don't know if I'd call them that. What about you? Seven Samurai 20XX, which is a game. It's a game I've never heard anybody else bring up. But like I was, so I was such a, I was the master of the GameStop $10 bin, right? Anytime I'm at the mall, I'm like, I got to stop by GameStop because I know I can ask my mom for $10 and she'll give it to me. and I can leave here with a new game, or quote unquote new,

with an old game, with an old ass game. So I would be, I would be fucking in the trenches in that bin trying to find what's next to play. I remember grabbing MTV Music Generator 2 out of that thing. Trying to make a sick beat and it was so hard. Trying to make a sick beat and it would just turn out to be like cartoon bullshit that I'm making. And then I Ninja was another one I remember being obsessed with as a kid. Like that felt like a man, this is people out here playing ratchet.

People are out here playing Jack and Daxter or whatever. I got I Ninja that I'm playing, right? But I just want to bring that up because the PS2 for me is a console of just quantity, but like so much quality in that quantity that I think so much falls through the cracks of things that might not be the best games ever.

Obviously, like seven Samurai 20XX, that's like a five out of ten game probably. But like I have the memory of it and I was obsessed with it for some reason and I couldn't get enough of it. The one that I want to shout out that I remember my buddy and I playing just hours and hours of was the flat out games.

which was kind of burnout-esque, but it was the modes that we would play, because we would barely do the actual driving. I'm trying to find gameplay of it. I remember the commercials for Flatout. Got Flatout was so cool. They had the commercials where it was essentially like stunt drive shit, right?

Yeah. People, they would like crash and people would fly out the car and all this shit. There was one where it was like how, like, there was one mode we were obsessed with where you'd go up and it was almost like one of those like strength things where you see the bell go all the way

but you'd crash and you'd try to see how high you can get your dude to fly and stuff I'm trying to find like just one of the silly modes I'm making an executive call here if you boys will allow me here this is no longer a shit list this is a celebration of the PlayStation 2 brought to you by Tim Getting's blessing at Eddie Jr.

and I love it, Barrett Courtney. We'll get to the shit list at a different point, a different day. Let's just celebrate the PlayStation 2. Let's just talk about our memories of the 25 years of PlayStation. You down for that? I'm totally down for that. Because yeah, dude, flat out was like, flat out was one I never played, but like, I remember watching the commercials and being, being that sick.

Another one, another deep cut, which I think when I, as I say it, everybody's going to be like, oh, everybody played that, right? But MX versus ATV. You remember MX versus ATV? They shoved that down our throats. That was on every demo disc possible, man. Dude, they had that everywhere for some, I think I played that in church youth group. Like for some reason the church owned MX versus ATV.

I had also a demo disc that had, oh, we got to talk about don't disks. We got to. But I played so much at MX versus ATV. Oh, this is unlocking memories. It was everywhere for some reason. And this all led to one game and one game only. Freak style. Oh, yeah.

They were like, all right, the PS2 era was dominated by ATV and MX related games. Also, extreme sports are popping off. What if we put a cue and freak and had some fun with it? And then there was BMXXXXXX. Yeah. You can have a lot. I know we've already done this shit list probably on a Patreon thing, but like there's a conversation of the top 10 extreme sports games.

And they're all like 99% of them are on PS2. Like PS2 had such a chokehold on that stuff. I mean, again, Extreme Sports early 2000s. It all comes together. But yeah, man. Here we go. Freak style, baby. Freak style.

This is when I never. Like, God, all games just like looked at, in terms of just like environment assets, like everything just looks. looks the same. It's so funny. It is really funny. I miss this art style. I mean, yeah, this was essentially like, all right, let's just take SSX and make it motorcycles. God. Another deep cut author out there,

Oni. Yeah, Onie was one. Dude, the OG, who made that? Because that was a weird. Oh yeah, oh, Bungie. I think he said OG. Yeah, Bungie made it published by Rockstar of all things. Like a weird ass collaboration there. But like, that's what it was like back in the day, right? but like a

game that was this third person action game you're playing as like you know a cool secret agent and you're going with you're getting like these different guns and like I remember in the back of the box how much they would advertise the like melee moves or whatever and then also how one of the

one of the key bullet points they had on the back of the box that always stuck with me even as I was playing the game I'm pretty sure this bullet point is what sold me on the game more than the game itself because the game is very fine no no no no the game is booty Yeah. This game is not good.

Even as a kid, I was like, it's kind of boring. This is the perfect definition of a game. You go to Blockbuster, you see that box art. You're like, there's no way this is bad. There's no way to be bad. And you're playing it. You're like, this is bad. But no, it's not.

I love this. I love this. It can't be bad. The bullet point on the back of the box was saying that the architecture in this game was made by real architects. And as a kid, I zeroed in on that and was like, I was like, oh, that's really cool. And for some reason, that matters to me.

I let that bullet point convince me that this was. some revolutionary type shit. God, that's so funny, man. Yeah. I want to shout out the PS2 for, you know, like this is, I don't think I quote unquote own a PS2 until 2002,

2003 when my mom started dating my former stepdad and he had a PS2. And so a lot of it was learning about games through him, but then eventually my cousin having a PS2, and that was the era of cousin games.

You know, like that was, that's where we get that era of just like the weirdest shit that you'll find, right? But I was saying all that just to say, like, I'm not in it like you guys are at this point in time, right? Yeah. But I just want to shout out, like, all of the weird games that I think of, the number one that I think of going over to my cousin's house and playing just really weird games was Whiplash, where you play as like a bunny or some shit with another dude. Oh my God. And you're, you're, you're trying to an escape,

like an animal, like, testing facility. And it was just like, I was just, I was obsessed with this game. This is unlocking something in me. Barrett?

Yeah. I don't think I've ever had a memory hole unlock like this. Like, holy crap. This is insane where I loved this game, but I don't think I could have ever, ever pulled it out.

Yeah. Holy cow. Yeah. So it was one of those, like, kind of three-d, platformer, you know, where you play as two characters

kind of thing, but it was a bit more edgier and goofy and stuff like that. It was, I at least remember it being a great time. Yeah, man. Wow. Wow. Interesting. But yeah, like my cousin had just a bunch of games like these where you're just like, okay.

Obviously, I'm going to get into Super Chats in a moment. I want to shout out Spy Hunter, the Spy Hunter series. Yeah. Like, dude, that was one where So I played Spirener 1 and 2. Never got a round to 3, even though that's the one that started the rock. Yeah, I'm with you there too. I remember seeing the commercial or the trailer or whatever it was and being like,

man, I really want to rock bottom somebody in a video game because that's what they had in Spy Hunter 3. But Spy Hunter 1 was a game that, like at that point, whenever I got Spy Hunter, I had learned what bad video games were. And when I first played Spy Hunter, thought it was a bad video game as a kid. I was like, oh, this is boring. Oh, man, this is, there's so many requirements to complete a stage. Basically, if you're not familiar with the PS2 Spy Hunter,

it's a pure driving game. but you're playing as a spy. And so your car has a bunch of gadgets. And you're going through these stages and like trying to fulfill the objectives or also getting to the end of the stage. And for the first maybe month or so of having this game, I was like, ah, this kind of sucks. I don't know what changed in my time playing it, but I grew hooked. Like I think I just, I just learned to understand what it won for me.

And after I got into the flow of that game, it ended up being one of my favorite just driving games of that era. Spy 101 for me was a, I rented it once, never beat it. but I played the demo so many times. I really loved the converting the car into like a jet ski type thing. Oh, yeah. Like the hydroplaining and stuff like that, that was so much fun.

And yeah, again, all these games look identical, but like it's a look we like, God, this looks so stretched. Yeah, I think this is probably,

yeah, 4K60 frames for seconds. But yeah, it's funny. You can see the reticle in the middle. Like you have all the, you have like the machine guns essentially. You can shoot out your car.

You then, I think Circle was how you shoot your, your like tracker, I think, because there's always an objective that I was like, oh, track this thing. And then if you take enough damage on your car, your car will then transform into a motorcycle as like a last-dish thing. So talking about PlayStation 2 games that I feel don't get enough love now at the time they did. But don't get a love when we look back is time splitters. Yes. Yeah.

Because we obviously had golden eye. We had perfect dark on N64. and those revolutionized console first-person shooters, party, couch, co-op, or not co-op, couch multiplayer, first-person shooters, right? Gadgets, Gizmos, fun, chaos. That team ended up making time splitters, and it was a PS2 launch title, or at least PS2 launch window. If I remember correctly, was it launch itself or was it like two weeks later?

It must be weeks later. I don't think it was in the original. It was very, very close. It was between October and December of that year. Times Splitters 1 came out. And it was all the fun that we had of Golden Eye, but just with leaning into the kooky characters and the fun of like,

everyone loved Jaws and Odd Job in Golden Eye. It's like, what if all the characters just had some weird gimmick like that? Like something about them. And Times Splitters 1 was great, but Times Splitters 2 was phenomenal. The amount of maps it had, the amount of weapons,

the amount of just fun and style. And then Future Perfect was like a legitimately great game, the third one. But yeah, this franchise was so damn good and like it's so PS2 coded because if I remember correctly one was exclusive on PS2 and then it went multi-platform and

most of my memories are actually playing this on GameCube just because GameCube kind of became our like party system you know like we're playing Mario Kart and Smash and all that so we just continued the fun there but in opposition to Xbox which was our Halo system but this didn't feel like

Halo this felt more like Mario Kart and Smash yeah man shout out to time slitters and I think you It might have been right, actually. I think that might have been a launch title now that I'm looking it up on IGN, which the PS2 launch slate bigger than I would have guessed. I think when I think about a launch slate, right? Like, I would have thought like... Spine Vision. Spy Hunter. Madden O'1. I don't think Spy Hunter was on there. Well, it's not on the list here. No. It definitely was early, though, because playing Spy Hunter, you could tell that that shit is from early PS2. Tech in tag tournament. Yes. Yep.

Launch. Midnight Club? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I realized that was launched. That's crazy. Did you say SSX?

Nope. SSX, that was on for sure. Street Fighter EX3, which I played at my friend's Ceremole's house all the time. I like that one at all. Oh, man. We got a lot more to talk about,

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Xbox Series X, S, and PC. And we're back. I'm going to bring some super chats into the conversation. Alex Frazier writes and says, why do I associate Time Splitters 1 and 2 with the GameCube rather than PS2? I didn't own it on either console. Yeah, I mean, I think it goes back to what I just said.

Yeah. Just the style of the game and the memories of it. But yeah, Timesploaders one, I don't even think it was on. Actually, I know it was not on GameCube, so. Strive says, nobody talks about the bouncer for PS2. That was a sick-ass game. Hashtag deep cut. I don't, well, Barrett, show me the bouncer.

Think streets of rage, but on PS2. Okay. And made by square. Characters that look like Sora. Oh. So it's like, it's. Oh, I remember the bouncer now. Yeah.

I've seen this. Yeah. I think we talk about the bouncer, the perfect amount. Yeah, I feel like it comes up as a meme all the time. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Did you ever play fighting force back in the day?

No. This gives fighting force a little bit. I want to bring in one from Dave Sketch 3 who says, shout out to Mark of Kree and Indian, or they mean Indigo Prophecy. Yeah. Did you play Mark of Kree? Those are two games I never played, but my friends loved Mark of Kree. I played Indigo Prophecy because I had a, I had a Quantic Dream Era, Tim.

which is not a great era to have but honestly they're the only ones that make the kind of games they do in the way that they do which is like very cinematic in the choose your own adventure thing and very like just weird and I it weirdly speaks to me

I think the FMV fan in me just really likes what they do and the choose your own adventure fan likes what they do and so after playing heavy rain and the one after heavy rain which I can't remember

Beyond Two Souls I went back and I played Indigo Prophecy and when I tell you that David King Cage has been on his bullshit, man. That's hilarious. David Cage has always been on whatever whatever fuck bullshit that he's been on.

Because that was a weird-ass game, but also for the PS2, it did stick out from the pack. That was a game that was doing really unique things with how it did its narrative and all that shit. But man, that's a game about a man who's just going through it. Start seeing demons one day and shit goes wrong.

Shout out Indigo Prophecy. Not CEO writes in and says, Tim. D.H.D. also had War of the Monsters characters. Downhill Domination, yeah, and I'll War of the Monsters, that was another great one. Did you ever play that? I never played it, but I remember it. Big Kaiju games with not Godzilla and not King Kong and not whatever.

That might have been an Addison joint. I might have played that. Super fun, yeah. Again, not a game that I would necessarily recommend to be like, oh man, you got to play it, but you get some friends together, four players, smash them up type stuff. Very, very fun. Entity One says many fond memories of Final Fantasy 9 on PS2

and pulling all Niders. Were you a Final Fantasy 9 person at all? Well, Final Fantasy 9 is PS1. But yeah, I love nine. I went, nine was one I played way later. But I mean, 10 was my first. So, yeah, all the prior ones I went back. I assume this is a backwards compatibility situation.

Because I had that as well where I played a lot of PS1 games on PS2. Yeah. Because I never owned a PS1, but sometimes I would get PS1 games. That's how I played. I had a demo disc, which we were going to have the demo to this conversation. But I had a demo disc that was a PS1 demo disc that had, oh, Bray Fancy Musashi and NFL Blitz. It was one of the PlayStation Underground.

chat, if you know which one I'm talking about, name more games from that thing, because I can talk about that all day. Dude, demo discs. I mean, let's just talk about it. Let's just talk about them. Because there was the, there's PlayStation underground. They would do that stuff. Then there was the PlayStation, the Jam packs that you can get. And you can actually buy demo discs like in box. Like they sold them as a separate series. And I think that started, maybe not with the PS2, but maybe it did start with the PS2. But to me, it was official PlayStation magazine. Every month, you spend $11.99 for a magazine, which now is. It was just normal prices, which is insane. Yeah. But back then, that was crazy because magazines were like $39, $4.99. But you're paying for a monthly demo disc of PS1 games. And that was the best moment of my month every single month. Because, of course, I love the magazine.

But you're telling me I actually get to play a bunch of games. And yeah, was I playing 102 Dalmatians on the PlayStation 1? Sure I was. But I was having a great time. And you're doing it probably over and over again. Over and over again. Dude, the amount of games I played over and over again that had no business playing that much. But like, I, for some reason as a kid, when somebody gives you a taste of a game and that's all you have of it, you just keep going back like it's crack or something.

I remember my next-door neighbor, Freddie, he was my friend who had the Xbox. I'll go over to his place all the time to just play Xbox games. And his dad just had a bunch of demo discs for PS2 for some reason that he was like, oh, hey, here, you have a PlayStation. I was like, yes, I do. I'll take those. And I forget what brand of Domodisc it was, but it had, uh, Death by Degrees, which was the Tekken spinoff games starring

Nita Williams. Oh my God, dude. That's another, that's like Whiplash, bringing something back to me. Yeah, it was the third person action game where she had like a special move that you would power up and you would break people's bones. Like you would target where you want to hit and then break their fucking bones. The demo of that

was fucking fun. Big Rattler says Freddie Slop. There's Addison Slop and then there's Freddie Slop for sure. Oh, what else is on that demo disc because they had the brave fencing musashi sequel that I never really liked that much in that demo disc. They had oh, they had some fucking

football games. I forget what else is on there. Yeah, my demo memory is like the jam packs. There was a they were real big on cool borders. That's what it was. They just kept making cool borders and I never liked any of them if I'm being honest, but I played them so many damn times. Obviously PS2

we had some great final fantasies. The Devil May Cry series gave birth on the on the on the uh the PS2 and yeah DMC one was such a moment like that was one of the first times like you're talking about shadow the colossus making me be like games could be this devil may cry was one where in a very very different way the way that the camera worked and the gothic nature of the like castle you're in

and the island you're on it was definitely a moment for me of like what the hell like people created this and yeah how do their minds work that way And it's like, obviously that was the bloodline of the Resident Evil games and those games had isometric backgrounds and all that. But there was something about the pre-rendered look of Devil McRie 2 using the PS2 that was like so phenomenal. And that was the same era leading into obviously Metal Gear Solid 2 and all that. But the Zone of the Enders demo, that zone of the enders itself. Like, God, man.

You, Devil May Cry, there was like an aura in that game or something. I remember that was one that I borrowed. I'm pretty sure for Madison as well. and for some reason as a kid didn't resonate as much with me I think maybe I want to say it was Devon May Cry 2 but maybe it was 3

I mean maybe it was 1 because 3 isn't a good one Or is the best one 3 is the best one 2 is do-do butter Maybe it was 2 then I think I borrowed 2 from him And just didn't enjoy it

But I remember Playing one of these Devil May Cry games and being like There's something that feels demonic About these games Legitently like This shit feels dark I don't know what it is

But I can feel it through the screen It doesn't feel good. Yeah. And then taking that, not so much demonic, but Fatal Frame 2, Crimson Butterfly, that to this day, I haven't been that actually scared. That game gave me a recurring nightmare, really. Yeah. Like, I would wake up in cold sweats thinking about Fatal Frame 2.

And it's funny because now I look at it and think about playing the game. I'm like, no, like there's no way it's that scary. But there was something that early not knowing about the tricks that video games could have to scare you. and the vibes that they could create because we're so used to it now. We know every trick in the book, right? Yeah. Back then, though, me and my friend Curran sat there

and part of the, again, told this story a million times, but we played in the only room that we could at the time with the TV. There was a lot of glare coming in, like from the windows with the sun. So it was hard for us to see. So we had to get like real close to the screen. And we would like, it was kind of the mic thing of like, you play, you play, you play, you play. Like, we did not want to hold the controller because the way that the rumble would work

on the dual sense too was terrifying. And it's so funny to think about now, but it's like, dude, it was so scary. I found the, we found the sequel to Mike and Rogers streaming series here. They're remaking this. Oh, right, they are. Yeah, that's perfect.

Damn. That's perfect, man. Yeah, this game is fucked off, dude. Yeah. There's a chat that went by. I'm trying to see I can still see it. It might be gone now. There's somebody in chat mentioned.

I hope they talk about Star Wars. Battlefront, Battlefront 2. Dude. If you want to talk about probably still my most played game of all time is probably still Battlefront 2. Battlefront 2 might be up there for me as well. Like that was, I credit that game with being like my first foray into playing a class-based shooter, right?

Like Star Wars Battlefront 2 just hit different for me. I hadn't played a game like that before where it's like, oh, I have all these units and I can be a sniper and you be this and you be that, right? And obviously that existed before. But Star Wars Battlefront being such a like amazing. version of that layering on the Star Wars stuff on it and then even in two having the space battles right having

being able to play as Luke for a second being able to kind of like mowing down all these units me and Barrett did the stream last year maybe two years ago I forget when whenever that re-master whenever the remaster came out which man I forgot they we also celebrated pie day I remember because we ordered pie as well

that might have been this year that might have been March this year there's no way that was this year chat let us know yeah I think that was March 14th 2024 either way though like you can go and watch the gameplay and watch how locked in I get. Yeah. Like it legitimately is like putting a war veteran back into war after years away. Like two especially like two I really adore because, you know, they they do the story mode of like retelling, you know, the both trilogies of, you know, the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy.

But doing it from the perspective of the 501st. Yeah. And getting like these kind of like cute little like intermission cut. scenes between these battles of them dealing with Anakin being their leader and then slowly turning into Darth Vader and then ending I think on the Battle of Hoth like that was like such a cool way to like hey we're not going to do like a full like cutscene thing but it was still like a cool little different perspective to play and then you had the what was the mode that we played bless it was like galactic conquest which was like that's why like I had so many hours in

battlefront too because my friends and I would play that like we played this game for years Somebody needs to make a video essay about how Star Wars games are just so good. Oh yeah. Somebody should and we should call it the Blessing Show. Yeah, you definitely should. Check it out now. YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. But yeah, so many great Star Wars games on PS2. So many Star Wars games on PS2.

I just want to shout out Revenge of the Sith. You got it. Really quick. Because like that game, booty, not great. Like very ridiculous. But I just I love the ending because you can either choose to end it as Obi-1, where you get the ending of the movie, or you play as Anakid, where you kill Obi-1, and then you kill the emperor.

It's pretty funny. I want to give a shout to Jedi Starfighter, which was kind of a rogue squadron spiritual successor. Again, not that great, but I really enjoyed it because it's what I had. And then Star Wars, Episode 1, Racer's Revenge, which was also not as good as Stars I was just one racer. Yeah. But hey,

we got a sequel to that game on PS2. Like, PS2 just had everything, man. The good, the bad, and everything in between. I think it was just,

it was at such a, I guess, such a specific time for the growth of video games where like, you know, it came, obviously it came after

the first 3D generation, and so you had the space to make sequels. And so, yeah, you had so many sequels. You had the evolution of just the tools, and so you could do different things

and experiment a lot. And there was so much experimentation that just led to, like, most like so many pivotal games like so many of the top games you talk about on ps2 were games that fucking invented genres or like did shit that really pushed the needle as far as what you expected out of video games yeah uh jordan vickers in the super chat says the warriors needs a remake but final fancy 10 will always be the goat also tim try looking up fashionable cloaks

i mean he said he did trust me many times i mean i you've probably heard me talk about the warriors video game i fucking love the warriors i put it up there is one of my favorite actually I want to say one of my favorite Rockstar games on PSD, but I can't because Rockstar is so goaded during that era. I mean, obviously, number one state of emergency. I mean, yeah, of course, of course. What a disappointment that was. God, but hey, they made up for it with so many other games. Like, I know I'm always in the minority on here, but like the true goat to me for Rockstar in that era is bully.

Yeah. I love that you love bully. That's awesome. I mean, that was, you know, for the longest time, like the like, you know, growing up as a kid, a fan of the Harry Potter at the. the time of like wanting that like go to school kind of like thing but you know not actually having to do school work like bully was that you know and like doing this whole like prep school type of thing it was fucking awesome and now you have persona and now i have persona the bully to persona pipeline yeah the top 10 games to get to know barrett bullies definitely on it oh bull yeah

yeah we do the bearer version i have not thought too much about it bully persona five Breath of Wild. Oh yeah, one of them, Zelda's. I don't know if it's... I mean, I don't think it's Breath of Wild. But it's Zelda for sure. I think it might be linked to the past, honestly. Oh, I can see that, yeah.

We'll figure that out later. One day. Donkey Kong 64. Mm-hmm. What else we got here in Super Chats? Ty Wilkins Vio says, my deep cut, Yu-U Hau Dark Tournament.

I was busy playing the Budakai games, but I have tried Dark Tournament, and it's neat that it exists because I love Yu-Hu-Hakisho. But the big major square ones, right like final fantasy 10 brought up obviously like what an amazing game like one of my games to know me

one of the best video games period first final fantasy with voice acting such an amazing story like I do think one of the best stories in video games like debatably the best story in video games like it's up there and then Final Fantasy 11 the first online one

Final Fantasy 12 I mean kingdom hearts kingdom hearts one and two man like they were hitting who were hard So who are we calling the publisher or even Game Studio MVP's of the PS2 generation? I mean, I think you got to say Rockstar. Yeah.

Yeah. And Square, it's funny, I think Square, you much more associate with the PS1 because there's even just more dominance there. But, like, I do think that we can't overlook the fact that Square didn't miss on PS2. Yeah. Like, Final Fantasy 11, that one I think maybe can be a bit more take it or leave it. But 10 and 12 definitely like bangers. I think Kingdom Hearts alone puts you on a level in that era.

And yeah, Square also had a bunch of other things too, but like those are the big franchises. Someone shouted out a pandemic, the developer, who did work on Star Wars Battlefront and Battlefront too. One that I forgot that they worked on, which I hold near and dear to my heart. I know they don't age well, but destroy all humans one and two. Yeah. My friends and I were obsessed with. I love how many of the games are talking about that are like, again, it's, it's tough to talk about deep cuts with the PS2, because you can make the argument that there's a few deep cuts or

everything's a deep cuts, you know what I mean? Everything kind of exists in a pile of quality. But yeah, dude, like, I love how many of the games that we're talking about where it's like, oh, yeah, if you know, you know, you know. They also worked on mercenaries. You remember mercenaries? I do remember mercenaries. Fuck, yeah. I think, oh, you know what?

I was trying to think of mercenaries the other day because I was, which is, I know it was a crazy thing to say. But like, what game was I getting mixed up? There was another game that was like force something force fighters fighting, not fighting force. There was another game that I was trying to I was trying to figure out what mercenaries was but

anyway, I digress. Konami, we have to bring them up for your games obviously but also the Silent Hill games and they're another one that they just had a bunch of hits all around. Freedom of Thanks, chat. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

um Alex Frazier Chats says DBZ Budakai 3 of course shout out Grand Triismo 3 A spec we didn't talk about

but that was that was a moment of PlayStation 2 where even if you didn't care you wanted to play you wanted to watch someone play because of how good it looked I'm trying to think of like

the actual like working backwards from current PlayStation to to there like um like it's okay there's no Spider Man well there was Spider-Man

but it was different back then no horizon in, um, I mean, if we're talking about, I mean, God of War is like,

I think the one that stood the test of time. Absolutely, right. God of War, uh, one, two at the end of the PS2's life cycle.

What's funny, when you think about the two big PlayStation franchises that stood the test time from that era, God of War and rationed and clank. Yeah. Like rationed and clank is the other one.

Which is wild. Well, I mean, also we've, we've danced around it a little bit, but like, let's just talk about the PlayStation 2. Jack and Daxter,

one, two, three, Ratchet and clank. One, Four? Deadlocked? Right? I mean, I thought of deadlock, yeah. Yeah, it's like, I mean, but I mean, I, yeah, whatever you want, was there only four? Was there five? I think there was four. But like, that's insane.

Sly Cooper, what, one and two? If I remember correctly. Yeah, that sounds right. Was three on PS3 or no? I think so. I think so. I was never the biggest slide. Yeah, I was never the big guy. But like, that's crazy. The amount of games that we're talking about trilogies plus. Yeah. Like, that's not. And that's when you're talking about like the PlayStation first party stuff.

But then, yeah, when you're talking about Trilogies plus, fucking, like, the fact that you had that many GTAs on a console, GTS of that quality, of that quality, that are that legendary for what they did. And how quickly they came out. I mean, it's nuts, man. And I'm talking about all these, like, GTA,

the Jack games, the Ratchet games. Like, it was insane. They were annualized, essentially. Like, I remember having a conversation. I was shoving breadsticks from Pizza Hut in my mouth talking to Kern and Alfredo, and we're like budgeting out our gaming for the fall. And we're just like, what, who's going to buy? what and then we're just going to like lend it to each other because it's just like all right

I'm gonna buy need for speed underground this year next year you'll buy need for speed underground two I'm gonna buy Prince of Persia sand's the time next year you'll buy the sequel to Prince of Persia like you know what I mean it was like it was crazy and like as a new game would enter the fray you kind of just had to plan next year there's going to be a sequel yeah yeah and it's like I was thinking about this recently because specifically with like the ghost of Yote conversation conversation about like sequels now and people either being like, not like disappointed or, you know,

feeling okay about sequels because they feel kind of the same and not like innovative of their predecessors and how much more of a conversation we have about those, that now than we did back then. And I think part of the reason why is because of the anticipation and how long it takes to make games now.

Like you expect... It's been six years since goes to Tsushima. Yeah. I want something that's like going to blow me away. Whereas like back then, it was like, we didn't think about it as much of like, oh, this needs to innovate because it's just been a year. So it's just like, oh, yeah, it's like more of the thing that I liked already and I only waited a year for it. And also just game, again, it goes bound into just how games have evolved where I do think that problem we saw with Assassin's Creed, where Assassin's Creed was the next generation and it was annualized and that did have that burnout.

Oh, yeah. But anyway, that's a bigger conversation. but another publisher I'll shout out which is more of a sub brand but EA sports big that's my big three

right there you know what I mean fucking oh shit what were the other rock star square and EA sports big I mean I do think

that like legitimately just in terms of sheer quantity and quality of releases and variety you gotta give a shout just EA in general yeah in general for sure

I know it's like who gives a shit about Madden and and blah It's like, yeah, a lot of people and a lot of people like that. And that generation, like, I think did a lot of crystallizing what those were. I bought and loved Madden 04. Like, same.

I was going to mention. I was going to say that crazy. That year, like, Madden 0405 era. Oh, and I know plenty of people talk about, was it Madden NFL 2K or something like that. Like, is that the one that people were. That was, that, the NFL 2K5 was a breaking point. Which I know people would say is like the greatest sports game of all time type shit, which is like, we're talking about that era. Yeah.

then I do, if we're talking about EA, got a shout at Activision. Because Activision bring in so many of the extreme sports games, right? Like the Tony Hawks, but even just that energy overall, it's like, God damn, dude, so many. Yeah, another one that I want to bring up, uh, as just like a developer, we got to bring up harmonics, like, guitar hero one, guitar hero two, and like rock bands at the very end of the PS2 era. Like harmonics, like, dominated those years as well. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah.

To close out, I want to read through a few more super chats to give some shoutouts here. Oscar Navarro says, remember getting Kingdom Hearts 2 and being awestruck. Demon Hacker says sports games weren't gambling sims on PS2. I miss it. Nando writes in and says Capcom forgotten titles, haunting ground in Maximo. Like, you can be making those up and I don't even know. Maximo was a ghost and goblins, but in 3D. Oh, that's cool.

I have never heard of that. Let's see here. Ed Reed fan says, my most played PS2 demo disc included MTV music generator 2. Portal Runner and Army Men spin-off. Eco, Spy Hunter, Star Wars, Super Bomb Racing. Super Bomb Bad Racing. Super Bomb Bad Racing. Thank you.

Manny Bagel Boy Sanchez says King of Hearts 2 is one of my top 10 games for sure and I owe it all to the PS2. It was a system that made me fall in love with video games. And then I'll end with this one. Washed Up Gamer says the Pretenders to the throne can rest sending a birthday tax for the true king

of Halloween. My son, who turns four years old today. Hell yeah. Happy birthday. The real king of Halloween. One last one I want to shout out. What up? What up?

Obviously the goat. Spun-Spobb Square Pants. Battle for Bikini Bottom. An underrated 3D platformer, you know, base off an IP. Those usually not great. But Battle for Bikini Bottom has stood the test of time. And I think it should be recognized as one of the goats in that era of 3D platformers. So me and Tim talked during the break, we're going to do this top 10 PS2, or top 25 PS2 games

of all time in the very near future. So look out for that. But of course, we had to reminisce. We had to. Like, when you start the conversation, it's impossible to end the conversation and just think about how much that console means to us. 25 years of the PlayStation 2.

And I bet you, 25 years later, like these memories are going to be just as relevant and we're going to still have them, you know? We might forget the names of more of the games. I'm definitely going to forget Whiplash again. Maybe not. You know, maybe this has been seared into my mind. I mean, let me go back and play it.

I would love to go back and play whiplash. Where's the Whiplash remaster? Remaster, The streets and badaskey for the last 27 minutes. Come on, you're doing everything else. Honestly, this is one of those conversations where it's like on a day,

like we could do it we could do a part two to this conversation if we wanted to. Like, I'm ending this because we have to end it. But like, man, why do we have to end it? Because we're ready going to game showdown. Oh yeah, maybe.

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