The Phasmophobia Experience: Running, Hiding & Screaming [REMASTERED]– Gaming Podcast

0:00Hey Spotify listeners, when you travel with American Airlines you'll enjoy comfort and convenience at every altitude. Before takeoff, unwind in the Admiral's Club lounge with curated self-serve offerings of hearty vites and refreshments. In flight, stay connected with high-speed Wi-Fi, sponsored by AT&T. Your journey is designed to feel easy from the moment you check in to the moment you arrive. No matter where you're going, American gets you there. Book now at AA.com Hello, fellow gamers and welcome to the Video Gapers Podcast. There's nothing quite like getting three grown men who are all giant chickens to play one of the scariest games ever made. But on today's episode, that's exactly what we're covering as we dive into the mind trip that is Phasmophobia.

1:00Most of you have heard of it, but not as many people have actually played it as you might think. So we're here to give our thoughts on it, talk about what works and what doesn't, and if this game is more than just a Halloween time pickup. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host Josh, and joining me, he's the one you see cackling in the dark or screaming for his life on stream, and he ain't afraid of no ghost until he sees one anyway. It's Ryan. I've never noped out of so many places in my life. Nope, nope, nope, I'ma get out of here. Nope, nope, run. Oh, man. And joining us, he's the trailer princess, the front door guardian, and the guy you'll always find standing on the front porch, but don't let him die or you'll get an earful of expletives as he cusses your mother. It's a... I was gonna say, I don't know how I can be on the front porch when my corpse is in the closet

2:04as you two are holding the door shut, and I'm screaming for my life. The streaming this game and playing it together is an absolute experience. We are going to get into all things Phasmophobia here in this deep dive. For anybody that didn't get to watch our Twitch stream, I highly recommend you go watch that because if there is an entertaining game to watch and watch three men just absolutely poop their pants and be scared to death of a video game, you will see that in action on our Twitch. That was such a good time, guys. Now, for those long-term listeners, the OGs of the OGs, yes, we did cover Phasmophobia way, and I mean way back in the day, I mean, I think this was probably one of the first like 10 to maybe 15 games that we covered when we very first started this podcast season

3:09zero. But it's been so long now, and this game has gone through so much development since then. It was an early access back then when we played it. It is a full release now, so we have a ton of stuff to talk about. We do have a new review to read. We're going to get to that in just a second, but guys, we have a huge shout out to an awesome member of our community who has been a member of the community for a long time. As an epic supporter, but they just upped the game by going legendary. So a massive thank you to Bobby S for going legendary for supporting this show at the highest level that you can. Bobby S, thank you so much, man. Thank you so much, Bobby. I wish you a lot to have you as part of the community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm just glad you're here. Yeah. That boy. Right. So. Super after even the discord too.

4:10Yeah, absolutely. So all right. And then Ryan, we've got a new review to read. So why don't you hit us with it, man? We do. This one comes in from your real cool. And it is titled finally, thanks, fellas. I'm 51 and have been a gamer since Atari, much like you, Josh. Literally, my whole life still love playing games. And now I play with my sons who are adults now as well. It's been less of a niche experience and more of a family dynamic. More podcasts has been part of my daily drive lately and always puts me in a good mood. Thank you so much for bringing smiles to my day and normalizing my fun. Keep up the great work, guys. That's a good review. That's a quality review right there. I love that review. Also, what was what was that guy's name? You're real cool. You're real cool. You're real cool. You're real cool. You're real cool. Okay, hold on. No, no, no, no, hold on. You're not cause it got me to you are IEL cool.

5:13You're real cool. Okay, I get it. I get it, but I get it. Whatever. That's the only reason I brought that up is because the first like two times I read it, I'm like, you're real. You're real like, oh, it's you're real cool. You're a cool. You're real cool. You're really cool. Thank you. And you know who else is real cool. You are. You are. You're even us. You know, who's not cool. You know, who's not cool, guys? All the people that haven't left us a review. All those people that have just been. They're consuming this amazing content and they're like, hey, I'm leaving you guys a review. I don't do that. And I don't need reviews. You should be because it's like listening to this awesome podcast and that even reviews. Is that your non-review voice? That's my non-review voice. That's you. Yeah. You don't want that voice. Leave us a review. People, if you're on Spotify, it's a five star. If you're on Apple, you will still leave five stars. Don't get me wrong. Pop something. And there's a good chance we're going to read it on the show. So thank you. You're real cool for that awesome review as well.

6:16Guys, Halloween time. It's spooky season. It is spooky season. It is Halloween. I got to give credit to Ace. Ace, we love picking on you, buddy, on the show. But you also got to get your credit where credit is due. Ace was like, guys, it's. Where? What? What? Why did both of you else turn off? Oh, you guys are doing something. You guys are doing, okay, all right, for the audio listeners, Ryan and Ace have turned off their cameras. They are planning something. I do not know what it is. I'm not sure I like this at all. I have no clue what is going on here. And oh my gosh. Oh my. Oh my. Oh my. Hello, fellow gamers. Welcome to the Fast Malfaulby Adept. Ace, spooky season. Hello.

7:16Oh my gosh. You look so handsome all of a sudden. Like you guys are just these amazing looking just men now. What? I feel so manly. If you're not listening, I all of a sudden lost all the hair in my head and it went all to my face. It's all on our faces. All of my goodness. You two turds are the. Okay, listen, if you're an audio listener, we have had video for quite some time. You should, you should watch the video on this. Ryan and Ace have dressed up like the most handsome men on the planet. That's the only way I can describe that. That's right. We're goosewain. Ryan looks like he's just eating this must. It won't stop going in my mouth. I mean, I believe they're not. I trimmed this thing and I've eaten like so much

8:16fake synthetic hair. So it's all over me, dude. It's all right. I wish I could tell when Ace looks like, but as we're recording, I he's just a blur on the screen right now. So I'm sure I'll regret in once this video uploads. The whole way. Yes. I think we told you we tried to get you to dress up. And you're like, oh, well, you know, you didn't want it really. I wasn't going to do full body paint as cradles. I didn't realize we were dressing up as male super models, guys. I feel so cool. I mean, well, well done, boys. This is pretty good. I feel so nervous. Cameras turned off instantly. I was like, what the. We had a countdown. We had it all planned. Yeah. Ace, I expect. Ace has been having all kinds of internet issues, but then Ryan's turned off and I'm like, what is happening? So again, if you haven't watched the video, people, you know, we put a lot of effort into the video side of things

9:17here as well. If we know that some people like watching that, so I kind of impressed with the Beards, man. That's not a good shaped beard. I trim this one. It came like crazy and I trimmed it all down. I don't like it. I got it. It was bad, man. It was a bad beard. More like Josh's beard. That, I mean, it's pretty good, man. It's got the great. Look at that. I cannot keep it on the entire summer. I'm not going to be able to speak. This side, this side is like the last resistance, man. It's like the rebellion against the Empire where it just hasn't quite. We won't give in. This side, this side is getting there all the way. So I don't know. Ace has done already. Ace is like, I can't stand having a beard. I'm doing it. I'm going to wear the whole time. I'm committed to the role, baby. Oh, man. I can't talk like that. I want to feel beautiful. But you get so much hair in your mouth right now. Yeah, whatever. I'll eat it. Yeah. Anyways, ladies and gentlemen. Happy Halloween, everyone. Happy Halloween, everyone. Oh, man.

10:18Smooth, key scarlet. Smooth, key scarlet. Smooth, key scarlet. Smooth, key scarlet. Smooth, key scarlet. Smooth, key scarlet. Smooth, key scarlet. Smooth, key scarlet. Smooth, key scarlet. Did we get you this time? I legit, like, my brain was trying to figure out what the heck was going on. And then now. Right, I just pulled out the biggest stuff. You know, look, Ryan, the bits, you did it. You can just be a detective. You can just be a real professional. I know, I know. I'm thinking, man, I'm going to use this for this poor man. It's like, he just spit out like a half pound of hair. Yeah, there's so much hair in my mouth. Oh, man. Okay, that is this way, guys. How do you think I feel? I don't know the way choice. I don't know that being bald is my choice. Well, that's not my choice. All right, the beard. I gotta have a beard, cause like I said, otherwise I'm gonna look like an idiot, so. Bro, without, I'll tell you what, with the bald cap, like, I, thankfully, I have a lot

11:18of hair and I should have a lot of hair to my end of my days. But if I was bald, dude, my ears are so stinkin' big and my nose is so stingin' big. Dude, I put that bald cap on and I was like, oh, God. I went to my wife, I was like, honey, would you still date me? She's like, oh. Ryan's the least aerodynamic person you've ever met. Dude, yeah, no. There's a reason they called me Dumbo in elementary school, dude. These, these headphones save me. Brother, so much hair in my mouth. Well done, guys. Yeah, round of boss for me and you, A.C. Yeah. Yeah. This was well planned, Ryan, well planned. Also, I'll never forget this place ever. Yeah, ever. Also, I'm already plotting. Shout out to, how much Amazon sucks because they didn't deliver my skull cap today, so I had to go hunt down a spirit Halloween to find one and get it because my one's delivered. That's a dead of cake, dude. It was the late two or three days and I was like, oh, no, it's not gonna show up. Yeah, so I...

12:19I could bathe you. That many people are ordering bald caps. I guess so, man. Yeah. You're the spirit of the season right there, but I'm just gonna say, you know, that's... Immutation is the sincerest form of flattering. There you go. That's what we're doing. Oh, man. All right. Well, what a start to a show everybody. Welcome into the VideoGamer's podcast. This is what we do if you are a new listener, get used to it because we just like to have fun, man. We're three friends. We talk video games. We play video games and then we share it with the world and thank you to everybody out there for letting us share this with you. We hope you have a good time listening to this podcast. And if you can't have a good time watching Ryan spit out more and more. For trolling me, then, you know, what else are you gonna do, right? All right, guys. I'm gonna just not send you a fair enough.

13:25But we played it. Ace recommended it. He said, let's play fast. I did not realize that neither one of you guys had played this game before. Never touched it, man. Never touched it. Spooky, man. That baffles me, man. Ace, you're like the indie horror guy. How did you not ever play fast before? I was surprised to. I was like, I'm gonna do it alone. Okay, that's fair. That is fair. You know, after after playing the game, I, I, I agree with that sentiment. Like for sure. Yeah, don't play this alone. No, don't play this alone. Good grief. Dude, oh my goodness, man. So for anybody that doesn't know how ace lit, I'm gonna throw this one to you. How would you describe phasmophobia to somebody that has never heard of this game before? It's a ghost hunting simulator. You take all your ghost hunting equipment, you go into these definitely haunted houses. Yeah. And you start using the equipment to you, you know, sort of set off a checklist of what you're looking for, what went off where. And it's all about paying attention to these little things that could point to what kind of ghost you're categorizing as.

14:31But that's what it's basically so spuster simulator. But without the bus. Okay. So it is that is at its basic core, you, I agree with you that there's gonna be people that are gonna go like, okay, why how do you fight the ghosts? And like, sure, is there any ghost fighting? Like, what do you do? You can put down a crucifix. That's it. That's how you fight the ghost. Yeah. You ain't fighting the ghosts in this game. So it's a ghost hunting simulator, but you're actually, you're like, the weird thing in this game is you are just trying to discover what the ghost is. Like, these ghosts all have behaviors. They all have traits. You are trying to acquire like data or evidence will call it to help you determine which ghost type is haunting that house. Once you do that, you get the heck out of there. Like, you are not the ghost destroyer. You are just simply the ghost like identifier. And I think this throws off some people because they're like, oh, well, don't you fight the ghost or kill it or any of that stuff.

15:37No, you don't kill it. You don't kill it. You run away. Don't mess with these ghost people. Don't be like Ryan and walk in the house saying the ghost name 20 times. Hey, Jared, what's up, man? Where you at, dude? Come and get me. Not good. I told you guys before we started playing this game, I said, guys, this game freaks me out, dude. I, I like psychological horror is my favorite kind of horror. I have said that like supernatural psychological stuff gets me every single time. I want to have fun. I'm not one of these people where it's like, oh, it's just a video game. It's not real. So I can't enjoy, you know, like getting into the mood on this. And neither one of you guys are like that either. I was really excited to go into Phasmaphobia with two noobs that have never played it before. I knew what to expect out of this. And I kept telling you guys, guys, this might be one of the scariest games I think I've ever played. And YouTube kind of went, oh, that makes me interested. So what was the first, like, we're walking into the house.

16:41You know, you start off in this trailer, you get your ghost hunting gear. It drops you off at this location that you choose. And you start to walk into this house, Ryan, I still remember us walking in. And then you were like, yo, this is, like, this is creepy. So like, how would you describe like the atmosphere? Like that, that to me is what sets this game apart. And I remember you distinctly kind of saying like, oh, my gosh. Like, okay, I didn't realize it was going to be like this. Yeah, for sure. This, this is one thing that I think, you know, I, it's hard to, you know, they have so many horror movies and all these different types of things to scare people. Like sometimes blood and guts and go or scare people. Sometimes other things, you know, make you freaked out. To me, I think the best way to do it is create an atmosphere, a fear and panic, to where you are just creeped out walking through this, this, this silent environment. And, and I think they did such a good job of that to where when you step in these houses,

17:43and like, like Josh said, every house is haunted. Everywhere you go in is a haunted place. So it's not if but when you are going to find something, it's just when you're going to find it or when it's going to find you. That's a good way to put it. Exactly. So, so you walk in and then the goat, I remember asking like, whoa, wait, did the people do this? Did the ghost do this? There's writing on the walls. It's all in red. There's candles everywhere. So there's a weird lighting. So, so the atmosphere, they created such a creepy place immediately. When you step foot through that door, you have entered that zone of the ghost. And, and you don't know what's going to happen when it's going to happen. And you have to start utilizing your tools and seeing what you can figure out. And like you said, dude, my first thought was like, how am I going to fight this thing? It's like, no, you can't. You just got to not die. You need to figure out what it is and then get back and report. And like, and so that's the whole essence of the game.

18:44And, and they created a place that has this thin line of tension in my opinion. And where it looks like you see everything around you. And you hear everything that did really good job audibly to create that tension as well. And then you just, you know, it turns into hell immediately. And you've got to run or you got to hide or you know, as Ace knows you die. So it's, it's, they did such a good job in creating the atmosphere that I think makes what this game is. If it was just blood and guts, it wouldn't be as, as cool. I think they did create an eerie feeling where you just felt like something was going to happen. And then when it did, you felt the panic. I didn't want to pass the threshold of the first door we opened when we started this game. I opened that door to that house and all that red lighting. Yeah. I knew there was a ghost in there. I knew it was our job to go in there and decipher what kind of ghost it was.

19:45I just stood frozen and threshold was like, everything in my body tells me if I go in here, I'm not coming out. Yeah. So this is one of those things where I have to point out that the audio in this game is absolutely one of the peak, peak things that makes this game as scary as it is. And it's so good and so subtle at times. When you, Ace, you talk about that threshold. When you are outside in the trailer and you're walking up the driveway, you unlock the door to the house like it's normal sound. The second you cross over that threshold, the audio gets this like weird hum to it. It almost like mutes, but then it's got this like creepy just background hum where it's very, very subtle. You almost don't notice it until you start listening for it, but it's instantly creepy. It is instantly like, oh my gosh, like you hear your footsteps. The house is dark. It's not like these people left the lights on for you.

20:47And you know, you guys talk about like all the red, there's like demonic runes over everything. Now that is a Halloween event. So the game is not normally like that all the time. They kind of spruced it up for this Halloween event. But even still, when you are creeping through this empty abandoned house with no lights on and all you have is a dim flashlight. You don't have the bright flashlight either. And you are listening for sounds and it is constantly just giving you little, like just little sounds off in the distance that don't really sound out of place to kind of almost lull you into a sense. You'll just hear like a tick or maybe an electrical hum like two rooms over or something like that until all of a sudden some dishes just smash into the floor and they scare the crap out of you. Or the ghost so they can have these things called ghost events where the ghost will just show up all of a sudden in the room. Scared the car out of you for like three or four seconds and then just disappear.

21:51Right. And it's like, oh my gosh, what was that? And the thing and that see that's the other thing right is half the time you're looking in different directions. So one person sees the ghost for a few seconds and these ghosts are creepy dude. They are little children ghosts. They are just figured old people ghost. Some of them have like old machetes or like sides and stuff like that. Like there is a wide variety of how these ghosts appeared. It really, really freaks you out when you see it because again the audio goes with that. You see it and you also know that there is deadly squat you can do against these ghosts like they are mad that you were there. You were not supposed to be there. You cannot fight them and you are helpless. And that sense of tension and Ryan you said it when you know it's not if it's not like, oh well we didn't find anything. So whatever it is when you were going to find that ghost or that ghost is going to find you that just heightens that sense of tension and fastens it.

22:53And phasmophobia gives you that tension like no other game out there dude. And it's what I love about it and it's what it absolutely freaks me out because you're there the whole time and you're just like guys I know it's going to happen. I know it's going to happen. I don't know when did it just happen and you're like oh wait, no that was just a ghost event. And then like the heartbeat sound goes with it where you can like it's just in the distance dude. Oh my goodness. What a masterful way to create atmosphere in a game to make you just absolutely terrified. You are looking around this house. So this is this is kind of the goal right and Ryan I'll toss this back to you because you are exploring these rooms in this house to try to find the room that the ghost is actually like haunting or it's like the ghosts like kind of base area. So how would you explain that Ryan? So basically in every kind of level you go into it's a home or a bar or a campsite or anything a school or a prison like there's all kinds of different ones a lighthouse.

24:00We even did a lighthouse one. There's always a room that's like the ghost room. That's the that's the main base. That's where you can kind of capture the most information and get what you need to get out of it. But man they you you search this place and there's different cues you get throughout with you have these dots sites or you have these temperature readings or you have your EMF reader or there's a ton of different ghost stuff that you have like these tools ghost hunting tools if you will to find this space and once you find it. You know that's when the real crazy fun starts because then you got to start trying to you know get everything dialed in and you have to you have a journal to try to dial down because the thing is like we said you're not fighting this ghost all you're trying to do is get information and figure out who it is and what it is and what type of ghosts so you get into this room you find the ghost room and you have to decipher all the clues you get once you get in there to to kind of move.

25:05And narrow it down to what type of ghost you're going to you know claim this one is. Yeah and I think that's another thing that kind of is under underestimated by people is like not only are you in the room that you know the ghost is like it's going to frequent. But sometimes the gathering of evidence is creepy as well you know you're watching this EMF meter and it's like hey you're trying to see if the EMF meter hits level five which will give you a clue is to what type of ghost it is but sometimes it starts beeping and it goes up to like level three. And you're just watching it and you're like is it going to hit five is going to hit five looking around and then one of the clues is like ghost writing so you put a book down right on the ground. And then like if the ghost responds it just starts scribbling in this book like right in front of you but you don't see the ghost you just see writing happening and that creeps you out and then ACE to meet the ghost the ghost box where you have to talk to the ghost is quite possibly the creepiest thing that I never ever ever want to do in a video game.

26:10It is mentally upsetting explain to people what the ghost box is dude so the ghost box you turn it on you go into the ghost room and oftentimes. The ghost will on the board when you start it'll say whether the ghost responds to people together or alone which is fine 90% of the time it's alone. So you take the ghost box the unlucky soul you turn it on you go into the ghost room and turn off the lights and you start asking the ghost questions. And how old are you. Yeah did you die here do you want to hurt us and if you're the unlucky soul holding the box sometimes you get an answer. You did the ghost responding to you creepy when you don't want it to respond to you and of course it responds in the creepiest voice imaginable. Like this is like this is a multiplayer game I don't even know that we clarified that you can play solo but this game is absolutely so good with people to play with that are that are similar right.

27:13We have argued we have literally argued over who has to go into the house with the ghost box I'm going to stay in dark scary room. I don't know that's those questions and it's like I'm not going like and then like Ryan and I like repeatedly have just sent Ace where we're like Ace you need to go and then like we're you're out voting so Ace is like gosh darn it like I just went last time and we're like we're not going you got to go Ace is like the time I was like twice a row and locked out of the closet. Oh man if that all right so listen we got to take a quick break we'll talk a little bit more about some of the gameplay and then we'll kind of share some moments that make this game kind of special. And unique and just a memorable game to play we're right back after this quick break. If high interest credit card debt is keeping you up at night you're not alone interest rates as high as 21% APR can do that to you rocket mortgage can help a home equity loan from rocket mortgage could cut your interest rate by more than half so you could wipe out your high interest credit card debt without touching your current mortgage rate.

28:19See how much you could save at rocket mortgage dot com rocket mortgage LLC license and 50 states in MLS consumer access dot org number 30 30 call 804 rocket for full program details. Hey Spotify listeners when you travel with American Airlines you'll enjoy comfort and convenience at every altitude before takeoff unwind in the admiral's club lounge with curated self serve offerings of hearty bites and refreshments in flight stay connected with high speed Wi-Fi sponsored by AT&T. Your journey is designed to feel easy from the moment you check into the moment you arrive no matter where you're going American get you there book now at AA dot com. Ace I'm not going back in this house dude you need to go in there noon like you need to go gather the evidence Ryan and I Ryan you will just wait out in the truck you can watch on the cameras to see if Ace dies that's how cool. I did it last time what I got to do it again. Yeah, but now you know how to do it Ace. Whatever doesn't matter anyway I'm going to walk in the door. This is how this game goes exactly how I'd rather get stuff done spend time.

29:22Oh man guy like okay so we've talked about the evidence gathering so the thing is is that each ghost you're trying to compile like three different pieces of evidence right like if the ghost answers you on the ghost box that is confirmable. This is confirmation you click a you go in your journal you click that evidence and that will narrow the list of ghost down and there's like I want to say like 30 different ghosts. There's a lot of ghosts right that have different behaviors like when you get to be an expert in this game like my daughter is like our good buddy hell of it that we were playing with some people know the behaviors where they're like oh this ghost like he doesn't really respond when there's people around or like where this goes keeps throwing objects at us so it might be this kind of ghost or things like that. Like so there are traits to these ghosts but once you compile the evidence you go okay well it did respond on the ghost box the EMF meter hit level five and this room has freezing temperatures because the ghost makes it freezing. Bing bang boom you put those three in your journal and it says oh well this ghost is a revenant so now you have done your job you have identified the ghost and you want to just get the heck out of dodge at this point.

30:31Because the most terrifying thing that can happen in this game is the ghost starts to hunt you. The longer you stay in the house and the more things you do while you're in the house you start ticking this ghost off and when the ghost hunts you. It's it's it's just terrifying guys it's like your flashlight starts to flicker any light source that you have flickers and goes out your walkie talkies that you have this game has proximity chat by the way your walkie talkies start to just turn into static you hear this pounding heartbeat in your audio. And you just start to freak out. Then you hear the door. And then if you look yeah door oh oh and the worst part is the ghost traps you in the house. So it slams and locks the front door so you can't get out your only hope to survive is to go hide in a closet or like a bureau or a room somewhere and hope that the ghost goes after your buddies instead of you.

31:37This is like you know a lot of our listeners have seen the real that that came about from our twitch play session we voted for ace to go investigate this room ace takes one step out to the hallway the ghost starts hunting Ryan and I slam the doors of the closet that were hiding in clothes. Ace starts trying to get into the closet we are holding the doors closed. Ace is cussing at us the ghost is ace the ghost kills ace right in front of us and then Ace just tells us what he thinks about our moms at that point. It was absolutely glorious but these are the moments that make this game incredible with your friends like the fact that this game is multiplayer is what makes it to me like yes it's probably creep is anything to play solo but man that fear that group fear that you get is like no other game man you never feel safe ever. Exactly you never do Josh you you obviously like you said played this before us so I was like oh I'm going to play someone get some money so I can buy equipment so.

32:41In this game there's different equipment you can buy you have to earn money through your kind of trips out to find these ghosts and. I was going to go earn some extra money you know by myself and dude it's it's still equally just a scary but to be able to play with your friends where you're. Talking to each other because there is proximity chat but then you also have your radio so if somebody's up up in the second story you talk on the global chat and you hold down be or whatever it is and then you like hey man i'm up here do you see anything no no you can kind of move around so. Having that ability to just vibe off each other and then just have that fear when when the ghosts hunts and then use run and you're you're locked in there so you got to find a closet so when you're walking through you're opening every closet door so that you have easy access to run into it's just you. They did such a good job on making like I said the atmosphere and then making a space to where it's it's so fun.

33:46With multiple people like to play with I don't understand I don't see how anyone could not have a good time. With a group of friends playing this game it is it is so good if you haven't played it. Absolutely check this thing out it is it is a it is an all time or as far as spooky games go like for for one that you can play with friends. I think I think it's other. No I was guy I think it's really I was just going to say I'm going to go back to the audio real quick to because a's like when you were getting chased at one point the ghost was singing ring around the rosy to you I got chased. Yeah baby it was a little kid giggling like a little girl giggling as it was chasing me which freaked me out even more if the ghost catches you you die like it kills you this is not a happy ghost like it's hands closed you see you literally see its fingers like close around your face and then it just goes. And then it just kills you if you're watching your buddies yeah right now exactly what if you're watching your buddies all you see is them like grab their throat and start choking and then they just kill over dead in front of you. You son of a.

34:47You get. If you get killed by the ghost you kind of go into the nether realm and then you still get to kind of walk around the house and see what your buddies are doing you can hear them but they cannot hear you you can throw. No is your. Yeah and then you can throw stuff yeah at one point me and you just we're just piling crap up in the door when it's an A's that I we were both dead we're like let's just make a pile of dishes like we're both ghosts Ryan can't see his hell of it can't see us and we're just trying to have fun like throwing stuff at him and things like that too. You know it's just like again if you have any sort of fear in your mind where you can say hey I'm going to suspend my disbelief I understand this is a video game but I just want to have fun and be scared I cannot think of a game that scares me more than Phasmaphobia like we were talking dude this game makes my hands sweaty like it literally raises my pulse like this is the kind of like like effect that Phasmaphobia has.

35:51And I get that not everybody is that way like Paul we love you to death you know amazing friend but Paul is just insanely logical and he was like I don't get it guys like I don't get why this game scary don't play with people like Paul and again we love you Paul that's not shit to you but like find people that are willing to get into the like the mood of this game we all played with our lights completely out rooms dark. Oh yeah that was a mistake oh my gosh man oh my gosh and I like there are so many moments that happen in this game you know A's cussing us out while he was locked out of the closet and dying right in front of us Ryan we were in a creepy farmhouse and I'm upstairs and I'm like hey I found the ghost room A's is already dead at this point you come walking up the stairs oh yeah the ghost just appears right behind you and I just freak out I just panic and run he doesn't even know and then the ghost just grabs him right right instantly Ryan dies right in front of me I just like nope nope I'm out of here I'm not playing this one anymore like I've out you know like it's just man it just hits it hits

37:03in a way that a lot of horror games don't hit you know for sure and it's special and I think dude it's sold 25 million copies across all platforms that's a lot of 20 25 million yeah and on steam they have an overwhelmingly positive review base with 338,000 reviews what's the actual number on that overwhelmingly positive do you know I think it has to be 90s 95 90s and a little rommingly 96, 97 yeah so listen if you're not like you know if you're not catching on this game's incredible when you have 300,000 reviews in your own rommingly positive like that is saying something you know it everybody that I know that has played Phasmophobia loves this game for what it is you know like they actually do a good job with the gameplay elements the atmosphere the audio the creepiness the ghost hunting the scares the the all that stuff is absolutely unlike many other games out there like honestly I it's like I can think like I

38:04always talk about like amnesia the dark descent as creeping me out like Phasmophobia creeps me out if not more yeah then that game did and again with your friends being scared with your friends just leads to those moments and that like I'm not going you go I'm not going you go and then you have to go but you don't want to go so it's even scarier now you know it's just oh my goodness all right guys let's we're running low on time here and we could gush about this game for a long time I want to rate the game you know because when we played it way way back in the day we rated it and I'll be honest I don't think this game got a fair rating back then so Ace let's start with you you are resident Indie horror lover and you have now been exposed to quite possibly what is considered one of the best indie horror games in the genre I am dying to know what you think of Phasmophobia how would you rate this game I have to agree with the masses on this being one of the best indie horror experiences out there genuinely I don't know if I've been so scared of a game like I was of this one and I found something very

39:08interesting about this game when everyone's alive and the ghost isn't hunting you everyone scared and they want to stay together the moment the ghost starts hunting you it's everyone for themselves remember running from the attic down past you on the stairway being chased by the ghost and it's like Josh and then the ghost kills me anyway it is it is that moment of please kill my friends and not me please kill my friends and not me who's slower Brian you don't have to be the fastest you just you know you don't have to be the slowest stop the loudest I'm watching Ryan get chased by the ghost and I think he's actually gonna get away and you can't get away like that is that is doing well you are not just instantly dead there is hope but Ryan is running and I'm like he's gonna make it Ryan runs past Ace hiding in a corner and then the ghost just sees Ace and just instantly be lines it for Ace and kills Ace instead my the best part is no that either I didn't

40:10even know Ace was there I'm just like I'm gonna go circle around this this stuff and hopefully I'll survive and then Ace is like I just fade out and I see the shuckling so score bro so I agree with the majority people it's high nines for me I'm guessing nine five nine six it is it is really good dude I like I only complain is there's not a lot to do when you die like when you that's true you're kind of just stuck there I will say the finishes or everyone dies the session with hell of it with us for uh we played in and then you guys died like pretty early there was a quick hot and then we're I was just like I died within like the first 30 seconds yeah I felt stepped over the threshold you were dead yeah I felt bad I'm like oh man you know like let's just we got a good bit of info let's just go guess and then we can start another one so I do agree with that um for me I thought this was fantastic I'm not like I like I am with food like I don't like hot for the sake of hot I don't like

41:14just gore for the sake of gore I like things that are scary so I just like that really have some thought into it that that they put time in to make it you know the atmosphere and I think they did that so well in this game I think they really put in the effort to create an environment that petrifies you man you're you're scared to go into certain rooms you're scared to open the door and I I loved it dude I absolutely loved it I loved being spooked out I just wanted to boot it up again every time hey guys you want to play who who wants to play so for me it's probably a nine two um it's it's it's in there in the high category there's something they could change like we talked about with when you're dead and in some other stuff but I think this is a very very good game everyone's to check it out especially with friends yeah I agree yeah so I have played this game from its infancy until it's current yeah you know G-Dude I am I am you know it's come a

42:15long way I can kind of see some of like the the changes and I think everything that they've done for this has improved the game um I I love this game no other game freaks me out like this game does like legitimately I people have heard me scream my hands get sweaty I get nervous like this is exactly why you play a horror game is to invoke that kind of response phasmophobia does it better than honestly any game I think I've played like legitimately I don't know that there's another game that terrifies me like this I know there's people that are thinking okay well you can only feel that way for so long right like yes you're gonna be scared but eventually you're gonna get used to these ghosts and you're gonna use to them hunting you there is a deeper game here you know my daughter is like she's super high level we got to play with hell of it that you know he's super high level the people that want to continue to play they start to master it right and this game offers higher levels of difficulty to where it's like okay the ghost doesn't give you as many clues or it can hunt you instantly you don't get a set up period and so there are mechanics of the game that experts

43:21will start to really appreciate at a higher level that keep people playing for me this is the one downside to this game and this is not slander to the game I am only saying this to inform the listeners right is like I want to be scared I want to scream like a little baby girl like that is the reason I play this game gameplay wise I don't really want to get into the in-depth mechanics and that kind of thing like that part doesn't interest me as much but they are there for people that want them you know to where it's like okay this game does offer longer term replayability for me not so much I'm gonna give this game a nine because I think it absolutely deserves it I don't know that there's a scarier game out there again I just don't care for like the later game kind of gameplay stuff oh my goodness man you two guys I'm gonna be able to see ace this time Ryan and Acer's shooting back up into their Halloween costumes oops I jinxed it aces lagged out now

44:23so yeah a nine a nine for me if you have not played this game and you can get into scary games you absolutely owe it to yourself to play this this game ain't expensive either Ryan did you remember the price when you were looking on steam on this one it was like I don't think it was like 20 bucks 20 bucks I was gonna say yeah I feel like this game is like 20 dollars I mean it's on sale right now 1499 for a Halloween sale 25% off so it's gonna be 20 bucks you can't find a scarier more fun multiplayer experience with friends than Phasmophobia like it just doesn't exist in my opinion listen if you know of a game that does come let us know yes tell us you want to hear about it yeah that you can join our discord server there's a link in the episode description leave us a comment on on this episode on Spotify we see all those comments as well but you know if you haven't checked this out if you need people to play with come join our discord server we have seen a lot of people saying hey anybody want to hop in and play with me we've got noobs we've got

45:23experts people of all levels that have played and enjoyed Phasmophobia so glowing reviews from the three of us for this as well that should tell you one of us we are one so we are one podcast host oh yeah that's right we're all just me we're all aces beard look at that ace that's what you look like with a glorious beard oh what are you saying on my beard bud wait it has beard oh come on yeah Ryan's beard looks so much better than yours Ryan knows how to groom you know how to groom yeah oh my goodness well listen everybody if you haven't checked out the video check out the video we're on YouTube on Spotify you can watch the video as well if you're an apple listener you got to go to one of those two to see the video but it is well worth it thank you to everybody out there we hope you enjoyed this spooky episode happy Halloween everybody come join our community rate us five

46:25stars leave us a review like you're real cool dude that's gonna do it for this one boys Ryan's already spinning out more hair that's that's gonna do it for this episode until next time happy me well I'll catch you later guys see you