Pro tip: never let Justin DJ your wedding.
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”?
Get in the banana boat!
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.
Getting to know you, getting to know all about you...
It’s the final regular-format episode of Nerds Without Pants for 2020, and we go out with a bang. A massive bang! A four-hour bang! Um…wait. Anyway, this is a very special listener AMA show, and we talk about a ton of games before pitting two beloved 16-bit RPGs against each other in a steel cage match. Enjoy!
It's NWP AMA Round 2!
Welcome to one of the beefiest episodes of Nerds Without Pants this year, and there were only two of us on this episode! Must be all the E3 hype. Or maybe it was your AWESOME questions for our second AMA edition of Stage Select. It might have even been a hellacious Video Game Cage Match! Regardless of the reasoning, please enjoy this super-sized edition of NWP!
All we know about this PlayStation 4 exclusive (which isn't a whole lot).
There was plenty of excitement about the final salvo Sony fired at their E3 press conference on Monday night, maybe to such a degree that they forgot about an exclusive PlayStation 4 game that debuted before the grand finale. The only new exclusive game revealed during the conference, The Order: 1886 looks like it could satisfy our collective need for new properties on our flashy new console.
That Kickstarter Shadowrun game has some unexpected competition on the horizon.
CD Projekt Red has enjoyed a tremendous amount of success with its popular Witcher RPG series and fans have been clamoring to find out what the Polish studio’s next venture would be. Although most thought it likely that the team was working on a third entry in their tent-pole franchise, CD Projekt Red has revealed via its live Ustream summer conference its new game; an adaptation of the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper RPG.
Gameplay footage of an area/chapter in the game that is called "The Secret".
Cliffhanger promising a more authentic cyberpunk experience than what was previously delivered.
Shadowrun, the pencil and paper role playing game that seamlessly blends classic fantasy and Blade Runner-esque cyberpunk has seen three different video game adaptations in its time. The original games for the SNES and Genesis are considered classics by many gamers while the most recent effort on the 360 and PC left a bad taste in gamer’s mouths. Cliffhanger hopes to assuage these recent bad memories by throwing their hat into the ring—announcing Shadorun Online.
Worship the god out of the machine
Twelve years ago, Ion Storm created the original Deus Ex, combining role-playing elements into a first-person shooter, something that, while done before, had never had such polish. The game won multiple awards and still regarded as one of the greatest PC games of all time. Stepping into the role of a UN agent in a cyberpunk, dystopian future, you unraveled a massive conspiracy threatening the entire world. In 2003, a sequel, Deus Ex: Invisible War was released and while generally well-received, it failed to deliver the quality and poise of its namesake and has become a sore spot for fans. Today, 11 years later, Square Enix has tried to revitalize the franchise and bring in a new generation of gamers while catering to the old guard with Deus Ex: Human Revolution - and boy did they succeed. Deus Ex: Human Revolution has managed to deliver one of the most enjoyable games I have played in years.
