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In a very rare moment for Nerds Without Pants, we’re coming at you with some breaking news! Well, we didn’t break it, but we’re gonna talk about it, because we wanted to! Well, Julian wanted to; Justin is just along for the ride. Aaaanways, E3 2020 is cancelled due to everyone pulling ou…er, I mean, because of the Covid-19 virus. Yep, that’s the reason. And nothing else. So we talk about it! For…about 30 minutes of this meandering hour long special. Enjoy!

Our theme song, “Relax” written, composed, and performed by Megan McDuffee.

Hey, folks! Welcome back to Nerds Without Pants. This week, we get all corporate on your asses as we talk about our favorite (?) businesses in video games. We’ve also got a game to give away this week, and lots of fun stuff to talk about in Consumption Junction, so strap in for a fun ride!

00:00-05:30 Intro, Great Game Giveaway winner announced

05:44-1:28:20 STAGE SELECT: Top 3 Video Game Businesses/Corporations

1:28:42-2:41:46 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Julian’s second 10th birthday, introducing a newbie to video games, Diablo 3, Julian’s first tattoo, the Final Fantasy VII Remake demo, Gran Blue Fantasy Versus, Stardew Valley

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: Describe the wrestling game of your dreams. If you hate wrestling, tell us what would get you interested in playing a wrestling game for the first time.

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Doom: Eternal vs Animal Crossing: New Horizons

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON MARCH 20 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.

Welcome to an awesome new episode of Nerds Without Pants! It’s our first Stage Select of 2020, and we have an awesome announcement at the top of the show. It’s a long one, but that’s only because you lovely listeners had such fun comments for this episode. Let’s get to it!

00:00-04:53 Intro

05:05-2:29:22 STAGE SELECT: Top 3 Games of the Decade

2:29:29-3:20:15 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Yakuza Remastered Collection, Saints Row IV, an embarrassing amount of The Witcher 3, hella anime

 

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What are your top 3 in-game corporations?

SUBMIT YOUR STAGE SELECT COMMENTS AND GREAT GAME GIVEAWAY ENTRIES BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON MARCH 6 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.

 Nerds Without Pants is back again, but we’re still getting back into the swing of things. Since we were on a six week hiatus it’s time to catch up on a ton of games that we’ve played since the last time we recorded before break. That’s right, folks, it’s time for an all Consumption Junction edition of NWP! But be sure to get the Stage Select topic and the announcement of the first Great Game Giveaway of 2020 at the top of the show.

Man, we talk about a lot of games this episode! From Frost Punk to Coffee Talk, Afterparty to Devil May Cry V, there’s probably something for everyone to love in this show. Friendly note to listeners: we end the show with a nearly hour-long spoiler discussion on Horizon: Zero Dawn, so if you’re planning on playing that game maybe save that part of the show for later. Oh, and Julian forgot to throw the Secret Code Phrase in during the episode, so it shows up in the outro (hint: around the 3 hour mark), just in case you are skipping the Horizon section.

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What are your top 3 games of the past decade? (Ranked 3-1, no honorable mentions)

SUBMIT YOUR STAGE SELECT COMMENTS BY 8:30 Central Time on February 21 to be on the show!

 

FEATURED MUSIC

Ninja Sex Party- 6969

VA-11 HALL-A- Neon District

Devil May Cry V- Pull My Devil Trigger

Horizon: Zero Dawn- Main Theme

Judgment- Your Song

Welcome to the first episode of Nerds Without Pants recorded in 2020! That’s right, we’re back from hiatus and we have a ton of things to say about our favorite games that we played in 2019. There are some obvious games, some shockers, and some games that definitely didn’t come out last year. So, pretty par for the NWP course, eh?

I won’t lie, this is a beefy episode, even by our standards, but it’s a fun discussion, with some deep dives on a few games that we’d been dying to talk about. We’re also joined by an old friend partway into the episode, and there’s even time for an impromptu 2019 Video Game Cage Match exhibition, as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice takes on Fire Emblem: Three Houses. We’re back, baby!

FEATURED MUSIC:

Control -Take Control

Hypnospace Outlaw- Granny Cream’s Hot Butter Ice Cream

Nier Automata- City Ruins

Final Fantasy VII- Underneath the Rotting Pizza

Life is Strange 2- A long Road Ahead

Barry Manilow- Made it Through the Rain

 

 Welcome, welcome, welcome, to the annual Nerds Without Pants music special! We’re coming back from hiatus very soon, but before that we have an AMAZING guest to talk about some of our favorite video game music with: none other than Megan McDuffee, the composer and singer of the River City Girls soundtrack!

Be sure to find Megan at pretty much every social media outlet you can think of and tell her how awesome she was on this episode, and be sure to grab a copy of her new EP, Barely Covered: https://meganmcduffee.bandcamp.com/

 

THE TRACK LIST

Into the Unknown from Subnautica - Simon Chylinski 

Daredevil from Ace Combat 7- Keiki Kobayashi

Mules from Death Stranding – Ludwig Fossell

Dawn from Skyrim – Jeremy Soule

Ready to Shave from Hypnospace Outlaw – Hot Dad (featuring Dave Pino)

Inception from Valfaris - Curt Vicor Bryant

Maze Forest from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, and Hajime Wakai

God Shattering Star from Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Takeru Kanazaki, Hiroki Morishita, and Rei Kondo

Edgewater (Night) from The Outer Worlds – Justin Bell 

Boss Boss Boss from Katana Zero – Bill Kiley 

Theme of Bloodstained (piano version with vocals) from Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night – Michiru Yamane 

Medley: Eye of Death/Wild Hearts Never Die/Dragon Heart/Clair De Lune/A Place I Don't Know from Sayonara Wild Hearts – Daniel Olsen 

Between Heaven and Earth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses – Rei Kondo 

Boss: Noize from River City Girls – Megan McDuffee 

The Hunt from River City Girls – Megan McDuffee

 

 

Welcome to a special Nerds Without Pants…thing? Ok, I’ll be honest. This is being written by Julian, but I have no earthly idea what you’re in store for here. Justin played another bad game, I think? And he narrated it? This is the first episode of NWP that I’m not involved with, and it feels…really wrong, actually.

Anyway, let’s all enjoy this together, shall we? Or possibly suffer together? With Justin’s taste in visual novels this could go either way, to be perfectly honest. So, strap in, and let’s go on a journey!

It’s the final Nerds Without Pants of the year, and that means it’s time to take a look back at 2019, a look back at the 8th generation, and a look forward to the 9th generation. It’s a short episode that quickly balloons into a normal sized episode for…reasons!

We have a bunch of fun talking points for this episode, including Anthem, working conditions in game development, the ascension of crossplay, that Blizzard/China debacle, our scary digital future, Google Stadia, and the future of E3. Then we close things out with our hopes for next gen and our most anticipated games of 2020. Oh, there’s also some more stuff after the show “ends”, so stay tuned!

We love you all. Have a safe holiday season, and we’ll see you in 2020!

FEATURED MUSIC:

Motorhead- The Game

Frozen Crown- Neverending

Kino- Gruppa Krovi

Battle Beast- The Golden Horde

Ranetki Girls- O Tebe

Welcome, friends, to the next episode of Nerds Without Pants that was actually recorded before the PREVIOUS episode of Nerds Without Pants! Come join us on a time travelling romp with Mike Fallek. We have no topic, no agenda, so that means this is pure, unfiltered Fallek. Um, strap in.

Included in this episode: The flying car, Mike’s journey with retro games, the heyday of video game magazines, the early days of the internet, Warhammer: Space Marine, story in video games, Star Wars, Julian betting on the next generation, Batman: White Knight (spoilers), Dante’s Inferno, pachinko for some reason, a whole lot about a small amount of Death Stranding, Justin’s bad game corner, and much, MUCH more!

FEATURED MUSIC

CHVRCHES- Death Stranding

Low Roar- Don’t Be So Serious

Major Lazer and Khalid- Trigger

Silent Poets- Asylums for the Feeling

Eminem- Stan

 

It’s the last standard episode of Nerds Without Pants for 2019, and boy do we have a hum dinger for you? Wait, “hum dinger”? Why am I typing like a kid growing up in 1947? Gee, willikers, this show sure is swell! Golly, it’s just the bee’s knees! Yeah, ok boomer.

00:00-7:08 Introduction

7:31-1:56:38 STAGE SELECT: Games you love that most people hate

1:57:31-2:58:53 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: What Angelo did to his hand, the return of Angelo’s board game corner, Ring Fit Adventure, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Outer Worlds, Horrified, Death Stranding

2:59:30-3:20:17 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Silent Hill 3 vs Fatal Frame 2

3:20:17-3:24:25 Outro and outtakes

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BE SURE TO GET YOUR ENTRIES IN FOR THE LAST GREAT GAME GIVEAWAY OF THE YEAR BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON 11/26! We’re picking two winners, and EVERYONE is eligible, even if you won a contest in the past 3 months! 

FEATURED MUSIC:

Valfaris- Torture March

Haddaway- What is Love

Mass Effect Andromeda- A Better Beginning

Fable 3- Brightwall

Kill Bill Vol. 2- Urami Bushi

Styx- Mr. Robato