Nerds Without Pants

Fantastic guests make for fantastic shows, so for this episode of Nerds Without Pants we are joined once again by Bill Tucker of A Gamer Looks at 40. He’s here to not judge as we let our vicious side out and talk about video game baddies we LOVE killing. Over. And over. And over again. Oh, and Justin gets very creative in Video Game Cage Match. Enjoy!

00:00 – 13:27 Poetry

13:37 – 1:44:34 STAGE SELECT: What video game baddies do you love killing again and again?

1:44:43 – 3:02:30 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Making A Gamer Looks at 40, Doom 2016, Cocaine Bear, Justin’s dark path in WWE 2K23, Drums Rock, Kayak VR Mirage, Diablo IV’s open beta

3:03:08 – 3:23:18 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Punky Skunk vs Easter Bunny’s Big Day

3:23:28 – 3:34:00 Outro

A Gamer Looks at 40: https://linktr.ee/agamerlooksat40

NEXT WEEK: HEADLINES!

IN TWO WEEKS:

STAGE SELECT: What are some of your favorite video game demos?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Super Mario Sunshine vs Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 7:30 CENTRAL ON 4/7 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

Twitter: @NWPcast

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

 

Welcome to the first news edition of Nerds Without Pants, as we go weekly for the first time since our beginning way back in 2012! Join us for a second helping of Consumption Junction, followed by Headlines, and then we close out by hopping on the Email Banana Boat. Get into it!

00:00 – 09:39 Intro

09:39 – 1:34:58 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Octopath Traveler II, WWE 2K23, Drums Rock

1:35:25 – 2:31:54 HEADLINES:

Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League delayed: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/22992865/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-delay-spring-2023-announcement-ps5-xsx-pc

Starfield delayed:

https://www.polygon.com/23630506/starfield-release-date-delayed-bethesda

IO Interactive opens new studio:

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/io-interactive-opens-new-studio-in-istanbul

Lance Reddick, from Destiny 2 and Horizon series passes away at age 60

Diablo IV is kinda scuffed

2:32:19 – 2:57:25 EMAIL BANANA BOAT and outro

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What video game baddies do you love to kill the most?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Punky Skunk (PSX) vs Easter Bunny’s Big Day (PSX)

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 7:30 CENTRAL ON 3/24 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

IN TWO WEEKS: More news, and your emails!

Twitter: @NWPcast

Email: [email protected]

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

 

 

Welcome back to another Nerds Without Pants, where we kick things off with a special announcement: NWP is going weekly! Sort of! You’ll see. Anyhoo, this episode is a chance for Julian to right a great wrong as we talk about good ideas in games that didn’t quite land the first time. Then we have a handful of games to go through before having the first-ever Fatal 4 Way in Video Game Cage Match! Sort of!

This episode is going up late, so apologies for the lack of time stamps.

NEXT EPISODE: THE NEWS!

IN TWO WEEKS:

STAGE SELECT: What are some video game baddies you love to kill again and again?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Punky Skunk vs Easter Bunny’s Big Day

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 7:30 CENTRAL ON 3/24 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

Twitter: @NWPcast

Email: [email protected]

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

 Welcome back to Nerds Without Pants! Friend of the show John Gholson returns after a very long absence to talk about games we wish we could play again for the first time. It’s a fun topic with lots of asides and trips down memory lane. We also talk some Fire Emblem, Like a Dragon, and PSVR 2, plus much more!

00:00 – 10:57 Girls on Film

11:06 – 1:43:40 STAGE SELECT: Games we wish we could play again for the first time

1:43:53 – 3:52:30 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: John’s making movies, Midnight Suns, Fire Emblem Awakening, Fire Emblem Engage, Like a Dragon Ishin!, Theatrhythm Final Bar Line, PSVR 2

3:53:07 – 4:05:44 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Dr. Muto vs Vexx

4:05:53 – 4:14:26 Outro

If you have money to spare, please consider pitching in to Megan McDuffee’s Gofundme for her next music video here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-a-pole-dance-music-video-dream?qid=ff36a8c52d790d4e6c5dda0781ff6fc7

 

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What are some good ideas in video games that went wrong and should be tried again?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Plants vs Zombies VS Scott Pilgrim vs The World

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 7:30 CENTRAL ON 3/10 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

Twitter: @NWPcast

Email: [email protected]

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

 

Heya! I bet you weren’t expecting this episode of Nerds Without Pants so soon! Well, since we got delayed a week with our first episode back from hiatus we decided to record this one a week later to stay on the schedule we had planned. It’s an all-Consumption Junction edition of NWP because we…had a ton of games to talk about!

In a surprise twist Justin played The Sims 4. He also checked out Chained Echoes. Julian finished Crisis Core and has some thoughts about the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, and tries to explain some thoughts he’s been having about RPGs. Then it’s a quick mention of Theatrhythm Final Bar Line before an EXTENSIVE discussion of Fire Emblem Engage. We have a couple quick hits before ending with some bigger games like Hi-Fi Rush and God of War: Ragnarok!  

 

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What are some games you wish you could play again for the very first time?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Dr. Muto vs Vexx

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

FEATURED MUSIC: Selections from Burt Bacharach (A House is Not a Home, I Say a Little Prayer, Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head, What the World Needs Now is Love, Make it Easy on Yourself)

 

For mom.

NERDS WIITHOUT PANTS IS BACK! Technical issues kept us away for an extra week, but we’re joined once again by Xavier Krieger to talk about our favorite games that we played in 2022. It’s a really fun discussion, and unlike nearly every GotY podcast you’ve heard for the year. Also, Elden Ring challenges Chrono Cross for the NWPWF Heavyweight Championship in a steel cage match. Please enjoy!

Twitter: @NWPcast

Email: [email protected]

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

 

 

Welcome back! We’re still on hiatus, but it’s time for our annual music special, and we have a jam-packed edition this year. We’ve gone back to our older format of getting together and talking about our music selections and what they mean to us. In traditional Nerds Without Pants fashion we overshare, things get heavy, and then there’s probably a joke about boobs or something. You know how it goes by now.

NEXT EPISODE:

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT: Elden Ring (challenger) vs Chrono Cross (champion)

SUBMIT YOUR WINNER BY 7:30 CENTRAL ON 1/27!

 

FEATURED MUSIC:

Art-Nainita Desai (Immortality), Masquerade Nights-Masaki Nagata and Hami (Idol Manager), Ashita he no Kodou-Falcom Sound Team JDK (Trails of Cold Steel), Wushu Dolls-Marcin Przybylowicz (Cyberpunk 2077), The Rebel Path-P.T. Adamczyk (Cyberpunk 2077), Valentinos Combat-P.T. Adamczyk (Cyberpunk 2077), Title Sequence-Omniboi (We Are OFK), Infuriata-OFK (We Are OFK), Red & Blue-Daniele Zandara (Vampire Survivors), Forest Night Fever-Filippo Vicarelli (Vampire Survivors), Song of Mana-Daniele Zandara (Vampire Survivors), Hearthward-Masayoshi Soken (Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers), Shade’s Delight-Masayoshi Soken (Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker), Those That We May Yet Save-Masayoshi Soken (Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker), Punk Rock Flu- The Friday Prophets (Being a DIK), Don’t Count on Me-Melodic in Fusion (Being a DIK), Just Peachy-Bellsmarie (Being a DIK), All of the Pieces-Emily Ventre (Being a DIK), Medicate Me-The Night (Being a DIK), Frantic Wiggling-Megan McDuffee (Atari Recharged), Bugs and Basslines-Megan McDuffee (Atari Recharged), Feel the Heat- Megan McDuffee (River City Girls 2), I’m Better Than You-Megan McDuffee (River City Girls 2), Is it Cold?-Joel Corelitz, E. Hillman, and IMOGEN (A Memoir Blue), Wanderer-Yoko Shimomura (Live a Live), Under the Fake-Yoko Shimomura (Live a Live ), Sound of Shinobi-Yoko Shimomura (Live a Live), Secret Mission-Yoko Shimomura (Live a Live), Kiss of Jealousy-Yoko Shimomura (Live a Live), MEGALOMANIA-Yoko Shimomura (Live a Live), GIGALOMANIA-Yoko Shimomura (Live a Live), The Glint of Steel-Falcom Sound Team JDK (Trails of Cold Steel), Mall Meltdown-Tee Lopes (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge), We Ain’t Came to Lose-Ghostface Killah and Raekwon (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge), Song of Lament- Tsukasa Saitoh (Elden Ring), syuurAI-Keisuke Ito (AI: The Somnium Files), Mohg, Lord of Blood-Shoi Miyazawa (Elden Ring), Armed Insurgents-Keisuke Ito (AI: The Somnium Files), Lichdragon Fortissax-Yoshimi Kudo (Elden Ring), Ambidextrous Identiy-Keisuke Ito (AI: The Somnium Files), Godskin Apostles-Tai Tomisawa (Elden Ring), Grand Finale-A-Set and Her Fantastic Friends (AI: The Somnium Files )

Twitter: @NWPcast

Email: [email protected]

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

 

Well, here we are. It’s the final episode of Nerds Without Pants for 2022. It sure has been a year that happened, with things and events and…I’m already pretty checked out, to be honest.

This is our annual State of the Generation episode, which begins as always with us talking about how we feel about the current console generation and our machines in general. Then we discuss some of the biggest news stories of the year before wrapping up with a look at the games we’re most excited to play in 2023. Also, Super Mario Odyssey challenges Chrono Cross for the NWPWF Heavyweight Championship in a steel cage match!

See you on the other side, listeners. We love and appreciate you all!

Twitter: @NWPcast

Email: [email protected]

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

Welcome to a really special edition of Nerds Without Pants! We watch The Game Awards together every year, but this year we decided to record ourselves, and it ended up working out as a pretty fun commentary track! Enjoy our live reacts to some big announcements, dunk on fashion, and listen to Justin totally fracture when one of his least favorite games of 2022 wins an award. There are instructions on how to sync up the audio with the video archive in the intro to the show, and we have included a link to the official video archive below. I mean, I guess you could listen to this along with someone else's stream, but that would be kinda weird.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl9yakt_5tc

 

Welcome to the penultimate episode of Nerds Without Pants! It’s a shorter show this time around, as we take your super hero video game pitches, talk about a small handful of games, and find out who comes out on top between Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man (2018).

00:00 – 01:53 Intro

01:53 – 51:03 STAGE SELECT: We hear your pitches for a super hero game!

51:35 – 2:00:36 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Pentiment, Tactics Ogre Reborn, Final Fantasy Tactics, Spy x Family

2:01:14 – 2:11:32 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Spider-Man 2 (2004) vs Spider-Man (2018)

2:11:41 – 2:29:36 Outro and outtakes

NEXT EPISODE:

It’s our annual state of the generation episode! Give us some of your thoughts on the current generation of gaming, or talking points around the year in gaming news you’d like us to talk about.

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: END OF THE YEAR TITLE BOUT: Super Mario Odyssey (challenger) vs Chrono Cross (champion) for the NWPWF World Heavyweight Title

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 7:30 CENTRAL ON 12/16 TO BE ON THE SHOW!

Twitter: @NWPcast

Email: [email protected]

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