Tag: gaming
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Episode 1: Our Biggest Disagreements With Game Critics In 2025- The Big Nerd Gaming Podcast
Westen and our special guest AndresPlays discuss the games we are currently playing, going into Hollow Knight Silksong, Quartet, and Lost Soul Aside. From there, they go into their six biggest disagreements with game critics so far this year. With 3 positive disagreements, and 3 negative disagreements. Please like and subscribe if you enjoyed the…
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One Post, Three Reviews: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound, Sword of the Sea, and Is This Seat Taken?
I seem to complete something like 40 games a year on average. That seems like a crazy number, especially considering that I am a working father. But the key to reaching that lofty number of completions oftentimes just boils down to the fact that I play a lot of shorter games. A good chunk of…
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The Big Nerd Gaming Podcast: Episode 0
Welcome to my new monthly podcast! This episode is just my way to introduce the show. Episode 1 is coming this week! Currently, I post a blog twice a week. My hope is the podcast will not disrupt that schedule, but obviously, as a working parent, there may be some months where the podcast ends…
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Everyone Wants To Make A Difference, And No One Knows How
Despite loving video games for my entire life, I have spent long chunks of time completely disconnected from the broader gaming community. I play a lot of single-player games. Few of my friends play anything besides the biggest releases. Outside of when I was on GameFAQs a lot in my younger years, I generally had…
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Mafia: The Old Country Review- A Journey Worth Ignoring The Ending
I have a moderately hot take. People obsess about endings too much, for just about everything. Don’t get me wrong, a powerful ending hits like little else. Many of my favorite moments in a year come when a game absolutely nails an ending. But if a game takes me on an awesome journey, and then…
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Donkey Kong Bananza Review- The Nintendo Rage Room
It seems like rage rooms are becoming more and more popular these days. These are rooms that allow people to destroy a bunch of fragile objects in a safe way. It’s a funny concept to me because when I see clips of people destroying all of the glass objects and other things in these rooms,…
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My Top 11 Winners of Gamescom Week
I’ve always loved a good video game showcase. Back in the heyday of E3, I would build my entire week around watching all of the showcases. It’s a little tougher to do that now, but whenever I can, I am seated for things like The Game Awards, Summer Game Fest, and all of the various…
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Gaming Roundup: The Games I Recently Abandoned
I used to be really bad about completing games. I’d abandon at least 50% of the games I played for most of my life. There were a few reasons for this. Part of it is how often I used to have to emulate back in the day. It’s just so easy to turn away from…
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Discounty Review- A Supermarket Sweep
A review code was provided by Keymailer and PQube Games. One of the most famous pictures of the 1980s has to be of Boris Yeltsin’s trip to a random American grocery store in Houston, Texas, back in 1989 (picture at the bottom of the review). Yeltsin was a Russian politician, which was a communist country…
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Wheel World Review: Tour de Chill
Back during the peak of Lance Armstrong mania, I spent one summer absolutely obsessed with the Tour de France. Some kids have a yoyo phase. Some kids have a scooter phase. I had a “wake up at 6am and watching competitive cycling” phase. The Tour de France is an incredible race. It might be the…
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