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Now that you mention it, I remember you commenting that you had tried the remake and were digging it, but I don't think I heard if you finished it. Your Dark Souls comparison is spot on, and I'm really hoping that game designers (especially people at Capcom and Konami) take note of how successful the Souls games are and remember that survival horror was doing that stuff 15 years ago. Sure, modernize the controls (but not the loose, crappy style of RE 6), but the limited resources, small inventory, and tense pacing still works today.

Characters change in comics all of the time, and I expect this to be much like the Superior Spider-Man: just an arc that lasts about 6-12 months. Trust me, Thor will be back to normal in time for Avengers 2 to hit the theaters.

Personally, I'm more interested in A: Actual, lasting change to characters (see: Psylocke becoming asian or Hal Jordan being dead for over a decade) or B: Actual new characters in comics that aren't a derivative of another character. Comic artists are so concerned with the fact that they don't own the characters created under Marvel or DC that all we get these days are things like Red Hulk or Kid Guardian.

I'm sure Fez is great. I'm sure it deserves all the accolades it received. If I had reviewed it I would have done so on the merit of the game, not my opinion on the man who made it. That being said, I'm glad I didn't have to review it because I don't want to support Phil Fish.

My problem with him isn't the way he dealt with criticism. My  problem with him is the way he would run his mouth about an industry that he was trying to break into, and the general way he would whine and complain when things didn't go his way. Beyond that, what annoyed me the most was how many people in the media (friends of Fish) would give him a pass and say "Oh, that's just Phil."

If he could have been a professional and moderated his tone, maybe I would have had less of an axe to grind against him. I feel the same way about Jim Sterling, a man who I believe just loves the sound of his own voice and is incapable of saying or writing anything with a professional or respectful tone.

I think we did okay!

So, I would like to say that we just finished recording and these topics made for an awesome show! Super Step, your second topic didn't make it into the show, but that's because we were running long and I think it can actually work into a bigger episode. Thanks to everyone who contributed! We will defnitely do this again.

While I am adamant about keeping our main topic gaming related in some way, we talk about all sorts of stuff.

As far as the title, it goes way back to when we were on the PixlTalk podcast. We used to record on Sunday night and all of us were pretty much ready for bed. I think Rob mentioned one time that he was podcasting naked, and later on Patrick had the famous line "I'm wearing shorts, and those aren't pants". It became a running gag, and even though we had a couple other title ideas when we got our own show, Nerds Withou Pants just seemed right.

Plus it abbreviates to NWP which we all thought was badass, hence the NwO-style logo in this blog post.

I've said it before and I'll say it a thousand times more: you can't go wrong with Invincible. I think it's far and away the best super hero comic of the past decade. Granted, I haven't read every super hero comic of the past decade, but it deserves way more attention and recognition than it gets, especially considering it comes from the creator of The Walking Dead!

You have no idea how happy you're going to make Patrick. I'm going to link him to your blog. So nice to hear that we got you curious again, and you picked three of my favorite Batman arcs, especially The Long Halloween. In addition to the New 52 stories (except for Zero Year), I'd recommend No Man's Land. It's quite an investment (5 thick trades!), but well worth it.

My goal with NWP since episode 1 has been to A: have a show that can be enjoyed at anytime and isn't dated by new releases or news and B: have topics that always deal with video games in some way. Beyond the fact that we're a podcast on a gaming website, I usually tie everything I talk about into video games anyway, so as long as I host this show that's how we're gonna do it!