I'm back with gathering rewards on Xbox. Hopefully the auto-redeem will work at the end of this month. And when retro and GP are done, back to current games.
Welcome to an episode of Nerds Without Pants that comes in at an actual respectable hour count! It’s a lean and mean episode as Julian and Justin use science to determine the most generic video game characters, while Breath of the Wild takes on The Witcher 3 in an epic Video Game Cage Match!
This episode of Nerds Without Pants is coming in late, and I don’t have the energy to do a clever show post or time stamps. I’m sorry; I’ll do better next time. In this episode we talk about some of our favorite memories of game related gifts. We go heavy on Ghost of Tsushima, and we squash the PixlBit beef over Donkey Kong Country 2 and Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze.
I played a bunch of stuff, chasing Microsoft Rewards points and playing one co-op game.
Welcome to a creative edition of Nerds Without Pants! Patrick is out battling Thanos this week, but Julian and new third chair Justin get together and think up a concept for Final Fantasy XVI, along with our lovely listeners. The result is…a pretty cool game, actually! Also, Mortal Kombat 11 gets a Brutality, and Bloodborne takes on The Witcher 3 in Video Game Cage Match. Enjoy!
Welcome, welcome, welcome, to the 150th episode of Nerds Without Pants! We have an amazing show for you this week. So amazing, telling you about what’s in this episode would spoil everything! Okay, you twisted my arm. We’re joined by {REDACTED}, who surprises us all by announcing {REDACTED}. After that, we spend some time talking about {REDACTED} and announcing the winner of the second Great Game Giveaway: {REDACTED}! Then, we jump into the meat of the show.
I'm honestly a little upset I didn't get one in 2014. I just would have liked to have a Playstation FOUR in Twenty-FOURteen. Oh well.
In this post, I'll give a rundown of what I've been playing since the beginning of last fall, or at least the highlights.
A bunch of random shit. First still playing I am Setsuna and 7th Dragon and loving both of them.
I bought Destiny for Xbox 360 today. My friend Mark got it and played it last week. He was really uninterested in it until a friend of his got it for him and he tried it. Now he's super enthusiastic, and, well, that means I'm going to get into it too. But not today. Today was all Minecraft on Xbox 360 and my trials with my Star Wars Edition 360. More below.
good, good good game, i recommend it for sure, though admittedly around hour 80 I was ready to stop sidequesting. At about that time, I ended up going and hunting down all the Witcher Armor/Sword sets and commenced the endgame....which was surprisingly open and quite nonlinear in the first half. The ending I got was satsifying. I doubt I'll return to the game in the future though. I did get pretty good at Gwent.
The Witcher games have always been very odd for me. Fantasy RPGs tend to stick with a particular tried-and-true formula, yet the series has made an effort to be distinctly different from everything that might make it similar to Dragon Age or The Elder Scrolls. Some of the decisions - like its distinct races and lore - are a welcome diversion. Yet there are some design choices which feel different for the sake of being different at best and baffling at worst.
So, Fallout 4 was officially announced yesterday. Can't say that I am surprised. Can say that I am super-excited about this one.
Here is what has been going on since I last visited this wonderful realm to blog.
Upon finishing up Bloodborne I dived right into Shovel Knight, and finished that game up almost instantly. I was excited for Shovel Knight to finally be on the Vita, but I found myself playing it on the PS4. Typically when I enjoy games on the Vita, I have the volume turned down, but not so when I play on the PS4. This meant that a lot of the music from Shovel Knight got stuck in my head. That soundtrack is so good. Anyway, I finished the game fairly quickly and went trophy hunting until I let frustration get the best of me.