Nerds Without Pants

Somehow, Nerds Without Pants has been podcasting pantsless for 8 years straight! Angelo joins us for a celebration, lots of reminiscing about console launches, and a good amount of video game talk. This is one of our most fun episodes so far this year, so don’t miss it!

00:00-06:54 Introduction

07:09-2:06:13 STAGE SELECT: Our Top 3 console launch games

2:06:53-3:10:27 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: The Messenger, Phantasy Star Online 2, Total War: Warhammer, Civilization VI, Gloomwood, Batman: Arkham Asylum Remastered, The Last of Us Part 2 (gameplay discussion, no story spoilers), Justin actually playing Skyrim for once, Halo: Combat Evolved

3:11:02-3:38:06 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic vs Tales of Vesperia

3:38:06-3:46:26 Outro and outtakes

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What are some of your favorite video game related gift stories?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Donkey Kong Country 2 vs Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON 7/24 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

Our theme song “Relax” and interstitial tracks “To the Maxx” and “Moody Grooves” are written and performed by Megan McDuffee.

And lo, the final seal was broken, and Nerds Without Pants exceeded their previous limits and stepped into the world of four-hour podcasts. Yep, strap in, because this is a beefy boy podcast. We’re joined once again by Mike Fallek of the Hackthought Podcast to talk about our favorite things from gaming’s yesteryears, along with a whole lot more. Hey, it’ll get you through half the workday, so that’s pretty cool, right?

00:00-07:23 Introduction

08:07-3:26:30 STAGE SELECT: What are your favorite things from the “good ‘ol days” of gaming?

2:51:20-3:26:30 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Saints Row the Third Remastered, Skyrim: Special Edition (guess who played that?), Slay the Spire, Grift Lands, Night Call

3:27:06-4:02:24 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Silent Hill Homecoming vs Silent Hill: Downpour

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What are your three favorite console launch games?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic vs Tales of Vesperia

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON 7/10 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

Our theme song “Relax” and interstitial tracks “To the Maxx” and “Moody Grooves” are written and performed by Megan McDuffee.

On this edition of Nerds Without Pants we pretend to be pious by talking about our favorite video game religions. Also, we get down with the PS5 reveal, and things get heated with one of the most contentious Video Game Cage Matches so far! This one is a doozy!

00:00-4:40 Introduction

4:53-1:44:22 STAGE SELECT: What are your favorite video game religions?

1:44:29-3:08:19 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Final Fantasy IX, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, Pillars of Eternity and the plight of CRPGs in modern day, Monster Train, THAT PS5 THOUGH

3:08:55-3:31:29 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Super Mario Bros. 3 vs Super Mario World

3:31:29-3:35:06 Outro and outtakes

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STAGE SELECT: What are some of your favorite things lost from the “good ol’ days” of gaming?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Silent Hill: Homecoming vs Silent Hill: Downpour in a battle of the Western developed sequels!

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON 6/26 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

Our theme song “Relax” and interstitial tracks “To the Maxx” and “Moody Grooves” are written and performed by Megan McDuffee.

The world is on fire and it’s getting harder to carry on, but Nerds Without Pants is here to hopefully inject a little levity into your day. It’s not much, but it’s all we can do.

00:00-06:38 Introduction

6:53-1:33:41 STAGE SELECT: Let’s make some fun video game spinoffs!

1:33:47-2:33:27 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Ganbare Super Strikers, Super Mega Baseball 3, If Found, You and Me and Her: A Love Story, Final Fantasy IX, Saints Row The Third: Remastered

2:34:03-2:50:41 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Journey to Silius vs Crystalis

2:50:42-3:00:26 Outro

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What are your favorite video game religions? Or cults. Cults work, too.

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Super Mario Bros. 3 vs Super Mario World in a battle for plumbing supremacy!

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON 6/12 TO BE ON THE SHOW

Our theme song “Relax” and interstitial tracks “To the Maxx” and “Moody Grooves” are written and performed by Megan McDuffee.

Welcome to another all-Consumption Junction edition of Nerds Without Pants, which means that Justin has once again punished himself by playing a terrible game for your pleasure. But before that we are joined by former cohost Angelo for a quarantine catch up. And so very many games.

 

We’re really all over the place this episode, and we cover a ton of games, including Doom: Eternal, Red Dead Redemption 2, Streets of Rage 4, a little more on Final Fantasy VII Remake (sorry), Candlebox facts, X-COM: Chimera Squad, some TV talk, the return of Angelo’s Board Game Corner, and more!

 

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: You are creating a spin off to a popular video game series.  What is it, and what kind of game is it? GET CREATIVE!

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Journey to Silius vs Crystalis: who wins? You decide!

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON MAY 29 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

 

Our theme song “Relax” and interstitial tracks “To the Maxx” and “Moody Grooves” written and performed by Megan McDuffee.

 

Are you feeling more stressed than normal? Anxious? Are the walls closing in on you? We feel that, too, so this episode of Nerds Without Pants is designed to throw those feelings right out the window. Yep, it’s another musical edition of Stage Select, but this time we go through video game songs that make us happy. It’s an eclectic mix, so let’s just dive right in!

Oh, also Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game takes on The Simpsons: The Arcade Game in Video Game Cage Match.

 

Our theme song “Relax” and interstitial tracks “To the Maxx” and “Moody Grooves” written and performed by Megan McDuffee.

And now you can download our theme song as a full single here: https://meganmcduffee.bandcamp.com/track/relax

Well, here we go: it’s the Nerds Without Pants spoilercast for Final Fantasy VII Remake. Justin and Julian don’t agree with the majority of reviewers when it comes to this game, but hopefully you will enjoy this different take on one of the biggest games of the year. Keep in mind that, in order for us to talk about what rubbed us wrong about Remake we also need to spoil the original Final Fantasy VII. So if you were thinking of going back and playing that after playing this, you may want to wait before diving into this episode. With that said, enjoy this very raw, very unedited special edition of NWP!

 

Welcome to what’s sure to be one of the most divisive episodes of Nerds Without Pants since, like, The Last of Us came out. We’re here to talk to you about some of our greatest video game regrets, which ends up being a very healing and cathartic Stage Select topic. Then, Julian and Justin are against the world when it comes to Final Fantasy VII Remake, and in Video Game Cage Match we have Horizon: Zero Dawn taking on X-Com: Enemy Unknown. Let’s goooo!

00:00-03:25 Introduction

03:40-1:55:57 STAGE SELECT: Our greatest gaming regrets

1:56:37-2:52:18 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Um, pretty much just Final Fantasy VII Remake, so strap in.

2:52:54-3:15:20 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Horizon: Zero Dawn vs X-Com: Enemy Unknown

 

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STAGE SELECT: Give us 2 video game songs that make you HAPPY! (You can list more, but we’re only playing 2 per person)

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: The Simpsons: The Arcade Game vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game (original arcade releases)

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON MAY 1 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

Our theme song “Relax” and interstitial tracks “To the Maxx” and “Moody Grooves” written and performed by Megan McDuffee.

 

Ok, I won’t lie; I’ve been editing this episode for almost an entire week, and I just don’t have the mental bandwidth left to write a pithy, entertaining show post. Y’all don’t read this stuff anyway, amirite? Yeah, so here we go.

 

We talk about video games, namely, games that we have never played, but we love anyway. It’s a really fun Stage Select section, but I don’t have time to give you the time stamps. It’s about a two-hour segment, if you’re one of those people who skip segments.

In Consumption Junction, we don’t really have anything to talk about, but we still manage to go on for almost an hour? I don’t know how that happened?

Finally, Galaga takes on Centipede in Video Game Cage Match

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What are some of your greatest gaming regrets?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Horizon: Zero Dawn vs X-Com: Enemy Unknown. Who wins? You decide!

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON 4/17 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

 

Our theme song “Relax” and interstitial tracks “To the Maxx” and “Moody Grooves” written and performed by Megan McDuffee.

Well, with the world shut in and working from home (if you have to still go out to go to work, we salute you), maybe people will have more time to listen to podcasts. If so you’re in luck, because we have a MASSIVE episode of Nerds Without Pants lined up for you, including the triumphant return of Video Game Cage Match!

00:00-08:33 Intro

08:54-2:06:40 STAGE SELECT: We make the next WWE video game (sort of)

2:06:47-3:12:24 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Max Gentleman: Sexy Business (yes, you read that right), Yes, Your Grace, Nioh 2, Rune Factory 4, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Diablo 3 season 20, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Doom 64 HD, Doom: Eternal

3:13:03-3:38:13 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Doom: Eternal vs Animal Crossing: New Horizons

3:38:40-3:43:10 Outro and outtakes

NEXT EPISODE

STAGE SELECT: What are 3 games you love, but have never played?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Centipede vs Galaga

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON APRIL 3 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

Our theme song, “Relax”, and interstitial tracks “To the Maxx” and “Moody Grooves” written, composed, and performed by Megan McDuffee.