Games Beaten

Well, with the world shut in and working from home (if you have to still go out to go to work, we salute you), maybe people will have more time to listen to podcasts. If so you’re in luck, because we have a MASSIVE episode of Nerds Without Pants lined up for you, including the triumphant return of Video Game Cage Match!

Games Beaten

Hello again and welcome back - it's time to look at February. February seems to be a bit hit or miss this gen. If not for a pretty strong year in 2017, February may be the weakest month of the year. Though it seems like we could be making a sharp turn this year. Heavy hitters like Anthem and Metro: Exodus are out. We have the return of Crackdown and Ace Combat. Also new entries in the Far Cry and God Eater series to top it off. Past years may have seemed slower than other months but there were still games worth playing.

Welcome back to Nerds Without Pants, dear listeners! And welcome back Stage Select to our normal format! We thought it would be a few more episodes before we’d be able to bring it back, but phase two of the NWP 3.0 beta is in full swing. As such, it’s a lengthy Stage Select, followed by a tiny bit of Consumption Junction. Hey, baby steps.

I never have anything decent to say in these intros, so have a blog. Also, sorry for no pictures, it's really tedious to do on an iPad.

Sable and Sea of Solitude stood out to me as far as indie games I'd like to play. I'm not entirely sure what Sable is, but the art style looked really cool. SoS (oh ... OOOOHHHHH, how did I not catch that before?) has a unique art style as well, and while I skipped past whatever the woman was saying about it, since I was watching in the living room and trying to skip ahead to trailers so my dad could watch cable, I am interested in the seemingly introspective inspiration behind it to boot. 

So I'm fairly sure I didn't play anything IN this year, but I've cheated a bit to include the games I played at least pretty close to 2011. This was another one of those "transition" years where nothing happened. 

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

I hesitate making this blog on this site because I know most of you are either console-only gamers or retro gamers, which I am also, but most of you probably won’t care about the little old ‘PC Show’ that aired between MS and Ubisoft conferences. Nick Dimola tweeted something about consoles being dead and I was like, why? You didn’t like the MS games? They looked pretty sweet, and I don’t even own an xbox. Then I watched the MS conference in full, and basically most every console exclusive is coming to Windows10, and there is cross-buy and cross-play in some cases which basically turns Xbox into more of a gaming service more than a console. So, most XBox games are coming to PC, most Indie games are already on PC or at least start off there. Japan is releasing more and more games on Steam, like Final Fantasy etc. Then there are games on PC that may or may not go to console. The PC is in a pretty advantageous position right now if you’re a gamer that wants to sample a bit of everything right now, and some would argue always has been, but I also love my console and portable games so it’s not true for me. I’m not a PCMaserRace snob at all, but as a gaming enthusiast, I want to play every type of games. I’ve even setup DosBox, if you don’t know what that is, don’t ask. It is severely nerdy to discuss and I feel shame admitting it.

Started off Sunday with Scrabble for PSOne. This is a good TV version of the board game. Everything works fine. You have a tournament mode to play against A.I. characters and solitare in case you don't have anyone to play with. I played some tournament mode for a while before I got kind of bored of it. Get it, board? Yea, that's dumb. Anyway this was good to have way back when but now I have Scrabble on Xbox Live where I can play online. Yea, I don't need this anymore. 

Lesbi-honest!
 

 Guys, read the title. The Nioh demo is actually amazing. Firstly, I've been playing for 5 hours and haven't finished it, so right there it's longer than some triple A games. Granted, some of that is due to the fact that this game is harder than Gary Glitter in an orphanage, but still.

As you may or may not know...I'm a bit of a review buff. I love to take a critical eye to games with my opinion because much like many people I feel I need to give feedback towards a product I purchased. However, this isn't about my sense of professionalism. I'm no professional writer and I'm a pretty bad editor...but I do know what's wrong and I do know what's bad.

Todays blog will be fairly uneventful. I just have too much  of a headache today. So I'm feeling really lousy and tired. So um I guess I could go ahead and enjoy pictures of cats

This is more then likely a more updates then a buys one because I havent bought a whole lot since Injustices release. I actually have only bought one game and preordered a few things so ya. PS4 wise Sony is still being quiet as a mouse and only one new game as been added to the list for it. Its an RPG called Lord of the Fallen. Thats all I know about it right now but with the name and the genre its gonna be in, Im gonna keep my out for info for it. I know pretty much now tyhough that E3 is most likely when a huge chunk of games will be announced and I cant help but feel thats when the consoles design will be revealed as well as when it can pre ordered. This as also prolly been  passed around a lot by now but Microsoft plans to unveil the next gen Xbox on May 21st. Im happy the date is set so the rumors can finally be put to rest whether true or false. On another note Im also back to keeping up with Nintendo stuff because on June 9th I shall have a 3DS again. Im quite excited for that since I was missing a lot of the games I had had at one time. I also watched the Nintendo Direct and some of what they anounnced def as me interested like Animal Crossing, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, and Yoshi's Island 3D. I have played games from all 3 series so Im quite excited for them. The one im most excited for though.....Animal Crossing!!!! I bet ya didnt see that one coming...okay maybe you did.