Welcome to the final Headlines Edition of Nerds Without Pants for 2023! This was a fun experiment, going weekly and getting to talk about news every other week, but we’ll probably do something different for 2024. This time it’s all about that Grand Theft Auto VI reveal and everything Game Awards related, so sit back and enjoy!
Pokemon finally got topped in sales by Grand Theft Auto this year with Vice City #1 and GTA III #3 in the U.S. . Critical acclaim went to GameCube's Metroid Prime and Zelda: Wind Waker. The Sims topped all-time PC sales beating out Myst this year. Microsoft bought Rare and Gametrailers began online. Remember Gametrailers? I used to check out that site all the time. Now for games I wouldn't mind playing again or for the first time.
I found a few more VG ads in the third Batman Gotham Knights comic I got. This comic is from the year 2000 and seems to have liltle to do with the upcoming video game of the same name. It was a good read though.
After conquering 2018 with the hyper-realistic open-world cowboy simulator, Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar has certainly not been resting on its laurels. As many of you now know, the highly anticipated hyper-realistic open-world crime simulator, Grand Theft Auto 6, has been announced. Thanks to the hundreds of hits my writing for PixlBit has amassed over the past nine years and the runaway popularity of my podcast, Nerds Without Pants (tens of satisfied listeners!) I was given an exclusive look at this upcoming juggernaut. Don’t worry, I got hands-on with this sure to be life-altering video game months before the Covid-19 epidemic. Now that my embargo has been lifted, the story can be told at last!
I’ve started a row on my bookshelf for a games library. I used metacritic’s all-time highest rated database as a guide. I went down the list and picked games that I wanted to play again and ones I’ve been desperate to play for years. Here’s the list I made from page one.
Ok Pixlbit I am back for Part 2 of my Quick Hits Chris Is Back Form Hawai’i blog. Now last time I went over how I started my trip (Thanks United) and some of the things I did on the islands. Today I thought I’d mention some of the actual gaming that went on. I mean c’mon this is a gaming blog I should mention the handful of times I whipped out the Vita, 3DS XL, and the tablets right? I also have some other pickups I’d like to mention as well so let’s get started before I force myself to eat Oatmeal.
Happy Friday Pixlbit! So how have you good folks been since our last post? I’ve been caught up in something different. I’ve started to get rid of stuff. Yes, while I was sorting and adding the new CDs to the library, I decided it was time to get rid of a bunch of stuff. I got rid of duplicates (around 20, who knew I had that many), weeded out some records that I lost interest in, got rid of a bunch of caps that I no longer wear, a ton of shirts from college dorm stuff, to everyday graphic tees, and I cleaned out the jerseys I don’t wear. Gone are some jerseys I’ve had for years, a couple of Chargers ones I got for cheap, and other random college team jerseys. At some point I will tackle my sports cards collection, and get rid of copies, and finally add the cards I bought from the thrift stores a year ago.
If you’ve read my reviews for Guardian Heroes and Golden Axe, it’s pretty clear that I’m a big fan of the classic arcade-style beat ‘em up. Many critics will say that this genre is an irrelevant dinosaur and has no place in modern gaming, but I disagree. While the old “quarter muncher” design philosophy no longer works today I truly believe that the side-scrolling brawler can still be a viable genre with the right updates to the formula. WayForward comes frustratingly close to bringing this genre into the modern age, but doesn’t quite get the job done with Double Dragon: Neon.
Nobody’s perfect. We all have our inner demons—those things that we do even though we know we shouldn’t. That’s what this episode of NWP is all about: vices, and how they work into our video games. Since this is technically the second part of episode 5, we skip what we’ve been playing and jump into the discussion.
