Nerds Without Pants

Well howdy, partner! Nerds Without Pants is back, and Mike Fallek as back. So you know what that means: a massively meandering show that loses control almost immediately. Enjoy! Also, why did I start this by typing “howdy, partner”?

00:00 – 11:25 Stamps

12:04 – 53:21 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH TOURNAMENT BOUT: Super Mario Bros. vs Crusader: No Remorse

59:33 – 1:35:59 Horizon: Forbidden West, modern sci-fi

1:35:59 – 2:32:11 Cyberpunk 2077, Justin is a Time Lord confirmed, the pros and cons of early console adoption

2:32:43 – 3:08:27 Elden Ring

3:08:27 – 3:43:10 WWE 2K22, wrestlers are the worst actors, or are they the BEST actors?

3:43:55 – 4:10:01 The pitfalls of current day collecting and “always online” games when they go offline

4:10:01 – 4:51:11 Mike Fallek has some…opinions on Mass Effect 2

4:51:47 – 5:00:57 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH TOURNAMENT BOUT: Chex Quest vs Castlevania 64

5:01:05 – 5:11:15 Outro and outtakes

NEXT EPISODE:

The Video Game Cage Match Championship Tournament continues!

Opening match: Chrono Cross vs Dead Space

Closing match: Area 51 vs Super Mario Odyssey

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON 3/25 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! This week, we hop onto our Email Banana Boat and read your emails! We also talk a lot about games! It’s…you know…a podcast.

00:00 – 12:47  Birthstone Talk, with NBA all-star Carmelo Anthony

15:04 – 32:38 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT: Area 51 vs Dragon Quest XI

35:39 – 2:31:27 EMAIL BANANA BOAT: We answer your emails!

2:31:53 -   3:59:00 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Closing thoughts on Persona 5 Royal, worries about Triangle Strategy, Sifu, Horizon: Forbidden West, Cyberpunk 2077, Phantom Train!

3:59:36 – 4:09:05 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT: Primal Rage vs Super Mario Odyssey

4:14:21 – 4:47:25 SPOILER CHAT: Persona 5 Royal

NEXT EPISODE:

The NWP Video Game Cage Match Championship Tournament continues:

Opening match: Super Mario Bros. vs Crusader: No Remorse

Closing match: Chex Quest vs Castlevania 64

SUBMIT YOUR CAGE MATCH PICKS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON 3/11 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! Hiatus is behind us, and we’ve revealed our favorite games of last year. Now, it’s time to catch up and see just what we got up to during the break. This episode covers a lot, while baring it all!

00:00 – 15:47 Scuba

15:47 – 20:04 Announcements

20:04 – 22:18 Black Friday deals, Persona 5 Royal’s last dungeon sucks

22:18 – 39:19 Death Stranding: Director’s Cut

39:19 – 55:13 Magic the Gathering: Arena, our bleak NFT future, Justin’s pyrrhic victory

55:46 – 1:25:07 Sifu, our muted enthusiasm for Horizon: Forbidden West

1:27:07 – 1:42:25 Deathloop *SPOILERS AT 1:39:03*

1:42:25 – 1:55:39 Justin is defeated by a character creation screen, Pathfinder

1:55:39 – 2:05:10 Cloud gaming on Xbox, Nobody Saves the World

2:05:10 – 2:20:47 Idol Manager (?!)

2:21:18 – 2:45:06 Buying Final Fantasy Tactics is even harder than playing Final Fantasy Tactics, Triangle Strategy

2:45:06 – 3:19:05 Dragon Age: Inquisition

3:19:05 – 3:29:41 Treasure of Nadia

3:30:27 – 3:49:38 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Chrono Cross vs Devil May Cry 2

3:49:46 – 3:56:59 Outro and outtakes

NEXT EPISODE:

THE EMAIL BANANA BOAT ARRIVES! Send us more emails if you want them read on the show!

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT DOUBLE HEADER!

Area 51 vs Dragon Quest XI

Primal Rage vs Super Mario Odyssey

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON 2/25!

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.

 

It’s the first episode of Nerds Without Pants recorded in the new year, and that only means one thing: Game of the Year, baby! We shake things up just a bit this year, listing our top ten games that we played in 2021, as opposed to the usual top five. There are some big surprises in there, for sure!

00:00 - 10:24 Sarah Michelle Gellar

10:24- 41:42 Game of the Year 2021: the bottom 5

42:13 – 1:57:03 Our top 5 games of the year, up to 2

1:57:03 – 2:21:51 Honorable mentions

2:21:58 – 2:49:48 Our number 1 games of the year

2:49:48 – 3:02:59 Our next big game, outro, outtakes

 

NEXT EPISODE: WE KICK OFF THE NWP VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT!

Chrono Cross vs Devil May Cry 2: Who wins? You decide!

Submit your comments by 8:30 Central on 2/11/22!

No, I didn’t forget that we have this last part of the Nerds Without Pants PS2 list special to release! I’m just…really lazy, y’all. But here it is! Not sure if we’ll ever do another one of these, but there’s something kinda fun about just going through an entire console library, so never say never.

 

Also, the PS2 had some weird, cool games.

Well hello there! Are you missing the Nerds Without Pants? Well…we miss you. Why you gotta waste our flavor? Damn! Aaaanyway, it’s our annual music special, so feast your ears, and we’ll be back with live episodes soon!

TRACK LIST: V3- Masafumi Takada (Danganronpa V3), A Long Fall- Masayoshi Soken (Final Fantasy XIV), Niez- Motoi Sakuraba (Tales of Arise), CPU Plaza- Kenneth CM Young (Astro’s Playroom),  Shadowlord- Keiichi Okabe (Nier Replicant), Cold Blooded- Hidenori Shoji (Yakuza: Like a Dragon), Counterstrike- Shoji Meguro (Persona 5: Strikers), Zero to Hero- “Starlord” (Guardians of the Galaxy), Love the Subhuman Self- Daisuke Ishiwatari (Guilty Gear Strive), Rasen- jon-YAKITORY feat. Ado (Lost Judgment), Disaster of Passion- Daisuke Ishiwatari (Guilty Gear Strive), Footfalls- Masayoshi Soken (Final Fantasy XIV)

Reminder that we are asking for emails and voice memos for a possible mailbag episode!

 

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.

 

The last Nerds Without Pants of the year is our annual State of the Generation episode, and we have a lot to say about the new consoles, where they may be going, and also highlight a ton of the biggest stories in gaming from 2021. Check the timestamps to skip ahead if we are covering a story you don’t care about. We’ll see you in 2022!

09:41 Being early console adopters

29:43 Unreal 5 and the Matrix experience

45:55 Should you buy a PS5 or Xbox Series console right now?

52:36 The terrible interfaces on both consoles

58:08 News of the year: Covid delays

1:11:16 The supply chain issues and the effect on this generation

1:17:04 No one cares about the Switch OLED version

1:21:08 A surprisingly long VR discussion

1:35:26 The continued fall of Activision Blizzard

1:52:27 The rise of Final Fantasy XIV

2:05:39 The NFTs are coming! The NFTs are coming!

2:18:49 Character likeness rights and the future of games

2:34:07 The art of creating remastered games

2:47:06 The games we’re looking forward to in 2022

NEXT EPISODE: NOTHING! But if you want us to do a mailbag special during our hiatus feel free to send your emails and voicemails to [email protected]. If we get enough we’ll do a thingy.

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 hello there! This is the final standard format episode of Nerds Without Pants of 2021, so we decided to bring Mike Fallek on and recorded an episode so long that you won’t finish it until 2022. Yep, totally meant to do that. Wasn’t an off-the-rails affair from minute one. Nope.

00:00 – 14:41 Time ghosts

15:00 – 3:04:18 STAGE SELECT: The games that relax us. Sort of.

3:04:25 – 4:37:29 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Xbox Gamepass, The Evil Within, Call of the Sea, Wild Guns, Subnautica, Ace Attorney Trilogy, L.A. Noire, Hades, Forza Horizon 5, Overboard!, Guardians of the Galaxy

4:38:06 – 5:05:46 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Super Metroid vs Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

5:05:54 – 5:12:46 Outro

NEXT EPISODE:

THE FINAL EPISODE OF NWP FOR 2021!

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.

 

 

This episode is late and I’m in so much pain writing this that I can’t think straight. You know the drill: we talked about stuff. For a long time. About video games.

00:00 – 14:17 Doves

14:25 – 01:40:52 STAGE SELECT: What video game worlds would you like to live in?

01:41:01 – 03:00:45 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Unpacking, Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Gears of War 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider

03:01:22 – 03:20:21 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Final Fantasy XV vs Dragon Quest XI

03:20:30 – 03:26:43 Outro

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What are the games that relax you the most?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Super Metroid vs Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON DECEMBER 3 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 to another banger of an episode of Nerds Without Pants! We hope this episode pushes all of your buttons, because that’s the topic of the day: BUTTONS! It will make sense when you listen to it, we promise. We also cover a handful of recent releases, and Serious Sam steps into the cage with Turok Evolution!

00:00 - 07:06 Introduction

07:16 – 01:25:13 STAGE SELECT: What are some of your favorite buttons in gaming?

01:25:22 - 03:08:32 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Tales of Arise, Inscryption, Wilder Myth, Alan Wake Remastered, Corpse Party (PS4), Guardians of the Galaxy, Julian’s Persona 5 Royal check-in

03:09:08 – 03:26:08 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Serious Sam vs Turok Evolution

03:26:17 – 03:37:59 Outro

NEXT EPISODE:

STAGE SELECT: What are the video game worlds you would like to live in the most, and where would your home be?

VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Final Fantasy XV vs Dragon Quest XI

SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS BY 8:30 CENTRAL ON 11/19 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.