Welcome to a special Nerds Without Pants! Eric Peacock from the Soundtracker Podcast joins us for the first time to talk about pretty video game music, his video game origin story, and much, much more!

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was an odd beast for many reasons. It originally released in 2011 for the Wii, and had a lot of expectations to live up to, both from fans and from Nintendo's financial department. Unfortunately, it met with a sharply divided reception among both, in no small part because Skyward Sword often got in its own way with its design.

It's a shark racing game. Get in your custom shark and race underground waterways. It's a spin off of the well known series Dungeon Inquisitor which is a totally unrelated mystery, walking simulator. Who thought this was a good idea?

As of January 1, 2020, we're entering a new decade in gaming (let's not go into pedantic debates about the.year zero here). It's hard to believe, it just seems like 2010, a time of Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, and Kinect, was just yesterday, and the world of the 2000s was still fresh in my mind.

Wii would like to Switch

I remember when EO was first announced. I was super excited because to me it seemed like a new little interesting title to bring to the 3DS. Upon finishing it I have found that it definitly has its own little charm and while it can be beat quite quickly it might just be the "short" RPG all of us who play 80 to 100 hour long games need. It only took 23 Hrs to clear the main game, this of course doesnt include having the Oasis completely leveled nor having all possible characters living there. I had around 30+ at the last story part and was still able to take on the final boss okay. I would say that fully completeing the game would probably take 30-40 Hrs.

So let's recap the current situation: Gym reopens and I'm excited. It's a 1000 degrees outside, so I go work out in an air conditioned room, then I go to the pool where it's a 1000 degrees outside and swim a couple of laps. I sit for a bit to dry off, then jump in the truck for the two minute drive to my house, than into an air conditioned house to take a shower. A couple of days of this and I now have a cold. I'm currently typing this with a stuffy nose, slight headache, and sneezing up a storm. We'll see if I decide to venture out for CD Friday. I also find it funny that I have a cold when it is 1000 degrees outside. Anyways that some personal randomness let's get started with this week's Quick Hits.

So unlike May I actually beat a game this month. Im officially caught back up but I might try to finish a second game since May wasnt a good month. I have probably talked about God Eater before on here. If I havent I have no fucking clue why not. Regardless though, this game is fucking fun and worth a playthrough. They rereleased this bundled with the second game but you can buy it on PSN for $19.99. Personally I say its worth the $20.00 but I know not everyone likes the monster hunter type games. Let me atleast say this game is way easier to jump into than Monster Hunter. Its beginner friendly and single player friendly. The story for the game can be beat completely by yourself. Other then maybe achievements, there isnt anything special to use the multiplayer for. 

Well it's the last day and the last batch of games I'll be able to show off. I wasn't able to get to my other tote of wii games which has another 100 games, so maybe next year I can go through that. Still I managed to go through 250 games in my collection and that is quite a bit. Anyways, enjoy my last batch of games and a few big box/special edition games.

Holy cow. Where has the time gone? The Wii came out my first year in college, so I really didn't get to spend as much time with it as I would have liked in its heyday years but I still enjoyed a bunch of great games. Ploughing through Twilight Princess on my Christmas break in 2006 was sure a tight experience! But rather than list my favorite Wii games ('cause lots of people are doing that)—except Super Mario Galaxy, which is just SO GOOD—let mention a couple in my backlog that I haven't gotten to yet.

Anybody know that Manowar song Kill with Power? It's a silly song from a silly rock group, but that's what I was singing while playing Diablo III today. It was appropriate though, as Mark and I trounced enemy after enemy with explosions of swordplay and magic.

Finished it last night sooner than I meant to. I accidentally started the last story mission before I was ready to, and didn't have a back up save from before the start of the mission. Oops.

It may have taken me an inordinate amount of time but towards the end of last month I finally managed to finish up Conception II. All in all it's a pretty good game, and I had a blast.

I have finally done it.  At least I hope that I have finally quit Cookie Clicker.  There is a small void that has formed in my being and I might have to fill that with Candy Box 2.  Here is hoping that I get bored with that one fairly quicklySince half of Cookie Clicker is all about waiting to accumulate enough cookies to buy another upgrade I have spent that time with a couple of games in my Steam backlog.  The two big games that I have spent some time with are Papers, Please and Risk of Rain.  I spent about 20 minutes with Valdis Story:  Abyssal City but wanted something a little more rogue-y so I put it down.  Valdis Story left a fantastic first impression though, I really hope to come back to it soon.

I had Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout last night.  It was good, but I was not expecting to find actual cocoa in the beer.  I know that there are chocolate malts, which is just how it is roasted and I was just expecting that.  So imagine my surprise when I take a sip of a deliciously chocolaty beer.  I almost felt like I should have had it after dinner as a dessert.

Where to start?  Nintendo hardly had any major hiccups back in the day but the most notable was is sticking with cartridges for the Nintendo 64 which had to turn off publishers. It definitely impacted their relationship with then Squaresoft and how it helped Sony spiral their console in a household name. The two biggest mistakes that Nintendo has made continuously is sticking with undesired formats by sticking with cartridges and not moving to dvds. The other is not being aggressive with a competitive online gaming network.

This morning it dawned upon me that I was having buyer's regret.  This feeling has been sitting with me for the past couple of days.  I am glad that I figured out what it was, but am surprised by the source.  I did not know that you could have buyer's regret from something that you have not purchased yet.  So, I fixed the problem and canceled my PS4 pre-order today.

The Fall 2012 to early Summer 2013 recap!

I hate trying to start something when you have much to say, but no starting point...

Wow. Not only are we getting Tales of Xillia but they just announced that the sequel will be coming Stateside as well. That is great! We have had a great slew of titles that come over a long wait. What are others and unexpected...

It's happened to all of us, well the music lovers anyway. We boot up a game we're excited to play, settle in for the opening few moments, and at some point the game asks us to do one of the easiest things in the world: Press Start. And the music is so good, we just can't do it.

In today's blog, The Original Ser goes weekly and does a bunch of other stuff. 

I hope everyone is doing good. I just finished up watching Battlestar Galactica. I really enjoyed it. I watched my first episode last week and finished it all yesterday. It was a long miniseries. After that I downloaded Gacumalee. I got ten dollars for spending 50 dollars on PSN. I didn't even realize I did. It was a nice surprise. Besides that game, I been contemplating what to play next. I have a lot of games and getting Pandora's Tower tomorrow.