Welcome back to Nerds Without Pants! Julian totally forgot to come up with a Stage Select this week, so we just have a beefy Consumption Junction for you, and another Video Game Cage Match that rhymes. We hope you enjoy it!
00:00 – 17:42 Saying goodbye to wrestlers
18:16 – 2:44:14 CONSUMPTION JUNCTION: Baldur’s Gate 3, Julian’s Elden Ring platinum trophy, Armored Core VI, Stray Gods, Barbie, House of Leaves, Immortals of Aveum
2:44:53 – 2:58:15 VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Astral Chain vs Code Vein
2:58:24 – 3:08:28 Outro and Outtakes
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STAGE SELECT: What are some video game characters you love to hate?
VIDEO GAME CAGE MATCH: Jerry Rice and Nitus’ Dog Football vs James Pond 3: Operation Starfish
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Good video game villains make the best characters to love to hate. So here's some of mine:
Kefka from Final Fantasy 6
GlaDOS from Portal
Dr. Wily from Mega Man
Bowser from the Mario games
Tron Bonne and the Servebots (and the rest of the Bonne family really) from Mega Man Legends
First off, that's definitely a Julian thing, the pronunciation of Iceland. Having said that, his fellow Texan (me) approves of Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men, as well as Aqua. That second bit is cause I'm also Julian's fellow Austinite ... moving on.
STAGE SELECT:
I love to hate Kuze in Yakuza 0 so much it sorta turns into love again, but there's definitely a "WHEN IS THIS GUY GONNA QUIT/DIE" element there.
To some level, I love to hate the unaccepting parents in Walking sims like "Gone Home," but that's not necessarily hate either. More disappointment.
Finally, once Life is Strange: Before the Storm is over, I kinda (unfairly) hate Max. The "love" part of it comes from that being justice for all the hate Chloe got in the first game (from me too, not gonna lie). Man, context is a hell of a drug.
Stage Select:
I'm going to go with Bob Page and Wilton Simons from Deus Ex. Bob Page is a guy who's too privileged even for his own secret society. And Walton Simons is a guy who JC calls *himself* an ugly son of a bitch just to insult.
Video Game Cage Match:
Ain't no rules says the dog can't win a cage match. Nitus wins!
