I saw this 90s animated show called King Arthur and the Knights of Justice. I was attracted by the excellent colors and drawing of the animations. It's about a football team that gets transported to King Arthur's time by Merlin to save Arthur and his knights from Morgana. It's a neat premise. I find the writting a bit dull but not stupid. The real thrill though is the inventiveness of the animation and action. I hope to watch more of it. It's all on youtube. 

A few weeks ago I revisited these two PS4 exclusive games and readded them to my library. Yes, physical games still exist, and I am still interested in building a library of them. I was thrilled to play some of both and remember. 

I used my trade money to get several games at Game N DVD Exchange today. Then I spent some time with my friend and played some stuff. 

While I was trying to stick to my retro game playing, my friend was still deep into Dishonored 2. As an assassin, he had lots of bodies to hide and it was funny to watch him fill up bathtubs and decorative ponds with them. Kind of gruesome but the physics of throwing a whole body around in this game is pretty funny. 

While I dithered around in numerous games, my friend was playing Dishonored 2 exclusively and really enjoyed it. 

I finished up what I want to play in Golf with Your Friends and then dug into Dishonored 2 for a while. 

Some more Wizardry punishment and Golf with Your Friends today. I started Dishonored 2 as well, but put it aside so Mark and I could play Golf online. 

I just can’t stop. I’ve got 49 games in my all-time list to build my library from, and I go another page on Metacritic to get more. What’s up with that? It's listomania. I think I’ll stop at games with a score of 90 and then search some other lists to get older games. This current list includes games rated at 91, so I’m almost done.

I went to gamestop to buy kingdom hearts 3 the other day, but it wasn't on sale so I got a double-pack of Prey and Dishonored 2 for $20. Not sure how I missed these two releases as they seem to have a lot of the gameplay elements and atmosphere that I enjoy in games. Completely forgot about them. I was too busy playing Monster Hunter World I guess? Yeah, recently I've just  been playing through whole series and putting off new releases so I've mainly been buying new games on sale later in the year. I'm sure I've missed a lot now. Has any of your gaming habits changed over the years? I don't really keep up with new games any more. A gamestop employee was trying to hype me up about all the new games coming out this year and I wasn't that excited except for maybe Borderlands 3. Poor dude was hyping me up on the new Football game and I had no idea who the super special downloadable athletes are with the pre-order. I just went along with it to make it easier for both of us. Oh I love me some football!

I generally don't get excited for E3 anymore. I have too many great unplayed games as is. But I'm always down for something from Arkane (of Dishonored and Prey fame) and they've got a trippy new game that looks pretty cool.

Games Beaten

Welcome back to a Nerds Without Pants, edited on the fly! Julian cut this together between moving, so if it’s a little rough around the edges we apologize. We have a great show in store for you though, so let’s get to it!

Welcome back to another jam-packed edition of Nerds Without Pants! Technical difficulties can’t keep us down, and we’ve got a lot of fun shenanigans all set up for you, including the introduction of the Mega Buster of Destiny ™, some of Patrick’s worst jokes ever, and more!

2016 sucked for me. Not because a bunch of celebrities bit the dust or our politics got even more polarized, though that didn't help, but for extremely personal reasons I won't go into. 

I just posted a blog about my gaming in 2017. But what about the ones I couldn't get to? 

 Hey guys, sorry I've been away for so long. Had a bit of a depressive slump, had a bit of a breakdown, had some life shit. It's okay though, I'm feeling a lot better now! Getting therapy, on decent meds and whatever, and while I still have my blue periods (gross), I'm a lot healthier and have a lot more confidence in myself. I know I was a complete and utter self destructive asshole who got swept up in being super selfish and in general kind of a cunt. At the same time though, I now recognise that I am getting better. I'm feeling empathy again, which means I also feel a lot of guilt over some things I have done that I don't overly want to go into here, but I also recognise that it's all part of getting better. Sometimes you have to feel worse to get better.

I just wanted to think back and see if I can remember what games I played thorughout the year.  The idea is just to come up with a list now.  This should allow me a reference point for when I start thinking about my favorite game(s) of the year.

I just saw a tweet from Cheap Ass Gamer for pre-ordering Kingdom Hearts III.  I remember when that was announced, and how it helped sell me on the PS4.  I wonder if this game is ever going to come out, my interest has waned significantly in the 4 years since it was officially announced.

I have been wanting to talk videogames for the past week.  I have not spent enough time with Breath of the Wild to talk about that game.  I also have not had the proper inspiration to talk about anything else.  All that has changed, and hopefully I will be able to use my newfound ideas before I lose them.

Some game series have seriously overstayed their entry. Some are on their fifth or sixth entry, and some were dead on arrival. Either way, here are some solid ways we could improve these series of old.

Having finished up Destiny 2's campaign, I have a few thoughts on the game so far.  

A couple peices of housekeeping.  Firstly, it has been too long and I apologize for that.  I wish I could guarantee that I will be back, but I cannot.  Life keeps getting the way.  So, what brings me back?  Prey, and the fact taht I want to talk about it with more than just my brother.

I watched this video today of the E3 Bethesda Press Conference, and I’m left saying to myself, “this is the best video game company out there.”. Skyrim and Fallout 4 mods, Evil Within 2, Doom VFR, Wolfenstein II, Quake, and Dishonored: Death of the Outsider. All this stuff was just incredible! I’m super excited. 

So since E3 started on Saturday we have had our first 3 big conferences done. They werent terrible but they definitly werent like mind blowing awesome either. For me, EA was the weakest. I know a lot of people would probably say Bethesda was but they had more stuff I was actually interested in. EA had 1 game I have interest in. 1 game. Microsoft actually did improve this year and Im gonna get another Xbox on down the line since they are getting a few games I want. 

Work was ... interesting today. Let's just say certain meetings don't need to be addressed to everyone and sometimes attacking negativity with more negativity leads to more negativity ... don't mind me, just vague Facebooking on an entertainment website. Clogging up your escape website with gossipy bullshit.