The Big Nerd Gaming Podcast

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 5:54 Bioware 25:47 Final Fantasy Resonance 34:13 Star Wars Galactic Racer 47:22 Castlevania Belmont's Curse 58:28 Castlevania Potential Spoiler Warning 1:00:24 SPOILER SKIP 1:02:33 Onimusha: Way of the Sword 1:10:24 Andrew's Top 5 Scary Games 1:17:56 Westen's Top 5 Scary Games 1:21:56 David's Top 5 Scariest Games Articles and Videos Referenced: Final Fantasy Resonance https:...

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:44 Chrono Trigger 13:45 Control Resonant 23:06 Marvel's Wolverine 36:26 RuneScape: Dragonwilds 47:55 David's Top 4? Of September 57:41 Westen's Top 5 Of September 1:08:33 Andrew's Top 5 Of September Articles and Videos Referenced: Westen's Top 25 Games of All Time https://bignerdgaming.com/2026/05/29/top-25-games-of-all-time/ Chrono Trigger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Westen, David, and Andrew welcome Twitch streamer and "the lorehound" Cynetrunner on the show to discuss a whole bunch of games that we have been playing, both older and newer. From there, each of them give their top 5 franchises of all time, and there are a lot of big surprises. Also, Westen gets roasted for paying $50 extra for his Switch 2 for absolutely no reason. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 5:47 B...

Westen, David, Andrew, and our special guest Andres discuss our recent experiences with The Big Walk, Fields of Mistria, Mafia: The Old Country DLC, and Rogue Eclipse. From there, in honor of Andres being on, everyone gives their top 5 indie games of 2026 so far. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 3:56 Big Walk 15:55 Mafia The Old Country DLC and Issues with Singleplayer DLC 30:42 Rogue Eclipse 33:30 Fields o...

Westen, David, and Andrew give their thoughts on Assassin's Black Flag: Resynced and Deer & Boy. Westen also discusses why he thinks Denshattack! kind of sucks. From there, they give their top 5 games they played in July, which has several big surprises. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 3:30 Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced 18:44 Deer & Boy 27:54 Denshattack! 30:50 David's Top 5 Games July 48:33...

Westen, David, and Andrew once again FEARLESSLY dive into the all of the hot button issues that gamers are dealing with right now. With Xbox studio layoffs now more finalized, the crew discusses what the best path forward might be for all of the studios that are now facing new futures. They also discuss Sony ending physical games. Obviously, it's not good news, but are the doomsday predictions for...

BNG Podcast Episode 9: Westen, David, and Paul from Boss Fights talk about all of the layoffs and price increases that have hit gaming in recent weeks. They discuss where gaming might be going from here. From there, Paul rants about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Westen rants about 13 Sentinels, and then everyone gives their top 5 games they played in June. Apologies for the lack of videos this...

Westen, David, and Andrew each give out one big takeaway from Summer Game Fest Week. From there, they have a few early debates centered around the 2026 Game Awards. Finally, they each give their top 5 most overlooked games from Summer Game Fest week. Timestamps: 2:22 Summer Games Fest Takeaways 12:03 GOTY Predictions 24:53 GTA VI and The Game Awards 35:01 September Releases 37:24 New The Game Awar...

Westen, David and Andrew break down their thoughts from Forza Horizon 6, 007 First Light, and Lego Batman. From there, they each give the top 5 games they played in May, and argue about Kingdom Hearts and KCD2 for fun. Timestamps: 1:33 Forza Horizon 6 18:25 007 First Light 39:02 Lego Batman 41:50 David's Top 5 55:45 Andrew's Top 5 1:05:19 Westen's Top 5 Articles Referenced: David's Way Too Early P...

The Big Nerd Gaming Podcast makes its EPIC return with a new look and a new crew. Westen starts off by introducing the new permanent crew of the show, Andrew and David. From there, the guys talk about Mixtape, MOUSE: PI For Hire, Vampire Crawlers, Replaced and Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Librarian. They also rank their top 5 games from the 2020s that will age the worst. 0:00 Intro 06:22 Mixtape...

Westen and Jordan from CognitiveClips go through the official "BigNerdGaming and Friends" top 10 games of 2025. Which is actually over 20 games, but you'll have to listen to the podcast to find out how that happened. #10: 5:00 #9: 16:39 #8: 22:03 #7: 29:56 #6: 35:33 #5: 40:05 #4: 41:52 #3: 43:17 #2: 46:40 #1: 52:45 Please check out Jordan's Youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAKAFMcJ...

Westen and Chike from Bassicfun discuss their top 5 most overlooked video games from 2025. 6:30 - Discussions of the games we are currently playing. Kingdom of Night, Ball x Pit, Outer Worlds 2, and Silent Hill f are discussed. 25:00 - Our top 5 most overlooked games this year, plus some honorable mentions. You can check out Chike's awesome YouTube page which focuses on indie games at the link bel...

Westen (from Big Nerd Gaming) and Michaela (from DearGamers) go category by category and predict the nominees for every major Game Awards category. No one else is brave enough to do this! Game of the Year 6:00 Best Game Direction: 11:50 Best Narrative: 14:54 Best Art Direction: 21:50 Best Score and Music: 25:30 Best Audio Design: 32:00 Best Performance: 37:10 Best Independent Game: 48:50 Best Acti...

WARNING: This episode contains major Final Fantasy spoilers across the series (blame Paul). On episode 2, Westen and Paul from Boss Fights discuss what they are playing right now, and then rank their top 5 Final Fantasy games. 0:00- Introduction To Paul 3:00- Thoughts on "Trails in the Sky First Chapter", "Hollow Knight: Silksong", and "Hades 2" 15:00 Our Top 5 Final Fantasy games. Including one d...

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 video! You can find Andres in a bunch of different...

A quick three minute pitch on why you should add the Big Nerd Gaming Podcast to your gaming podcast rotation.