Welcome to the Halloween spectacular of Nerds Without Pants! Fear not boys and ghouls, the Pantsless Ones always hand out full sized candy bars. We’ve got tons of podcasting goodness to fill your sacks with as well, so have a listen, won’t you?

We kick things off with what we’ve been playing, including Happy Wars, 007 Legends, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. We also have a moment of silence and pour one out for Patrick’s dearly departed PS3. Hopefully he doesn’t bury it in an ancient Native American burial ground…we know how that ends.

After that, Rob guides the crew as we discuss our deepest and darkest fears. Look into our souls as we talk about irrational fears of sea monsters (that damn giant eel in Mario 64!), feelings of hopelessness, abandonment, and failing to amount to anything in life. It’s an oddly deep episode, but we keep things light as we weave video games into our personal fears, running the gamut from Super Metroid to Silent Hill 3 to Closure.

We had a lot of fun with this one, and enjoy all of the spooky music, as well as a guest appearance from a clown that enjoys Dancing Mad, if you know what I mean. Let us know your biggest fears and what games invoke them in the comments below, or at our Facebook fan page. Stay safe out there, and if you’re going to TP a house, make sure it’s two ply.

Featured Music:

John Carpenter- Theme from Halloween

Nobuo Uematsu- Cry in Sorrow

Bobby “Boris” Pickett- Monster Mash

Wednesday 13- I Walked With a Zombie

Mike Oldfield- Tubular Bells

Nobuo Uematsu- Dark World

Koh Ohtani- Demise of the Ritual

Mao Mamamoto- Corpse Party Chapter 5 BGM

Nightwish- Scaretale