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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of Nerdificent. And it's only me
Speaker 1: in the studio because we're doing something special, So Danny's
Speaker 1: very busy and getting ready to travel and you know,
Speaker 1: it's down to the wire here, so there's no guests.
Speaker 1: It's just me and you talking to your ear. And
Speaker 1: not only is the year ending this year, but so
Speaker 1: is the decade. So I wanted to take a big
Speaker 1: look back at the best and nerdiest of this decade
Speaker 1: and really break it down with y'all. So this one's
Speaker 1: gonna be a real fun one, I mean, but you know,
Speaker 1: to keep tradition going. What I'm nerding out about this
Speaker 1: week just the end of not only the decade, but
Speaker 1: the Star Wars trilogy. At this point, I uh, the
Speaker 1: newest trilogy. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see what's in store there. But I will say,
Speaker 1: you know, whether you loved it or hate it, at
Speaker 1: least it's over all right, y'all. Well, without further ado,
Speaker 1: speaking of sci fi, I want to kick off the
Speaker 1: first thing. Actually, I'm gonna shelve that because part of
Speaker 1: me wanted to go in chronological order or jumping around.
Speaker 1: And of course, the first thing I want to talk
Speaker 1: about that came out this decade that I was super
Speaker 1: excited about was on July fifth, two thousand, fifteen, dragon
Speaker 1: Ball came back with dragon Ball Super. So of course
Speaker 1: we had the movie that came out before that, but
Speaker 1: the season officially started in July fIF two fifteen. It
Speaker 1: was off to a rocky start. People weren't feeling the animation,
Speaker 1: but soon enough it kicked off. People loved it, and
Speaker 1: before you know, we were going into super dope arcs
Speaker 1: ending with the Last Battle of the last arc where
Speaker 1: we met Juren and everyone's just freaking out and then
Speaker 1: we're like, psych we were not doing anymore for a bit.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give you the Broly Movie, which came out
Speaker 1: in November fourteen of two thousand and eighteen, and was
Speaker 1: just left you hungering for more. So hopefully in we'll
Speaker 1: get some more Dragon Ball Super. But I will say
Speaker 1: that was probably the biggest thing. The first thing I
Speaker 1: thought about when doing this episode was Dragon Ball Super
Speaker 1: because that was the wildest moment we thought we were
Speaker 1: done when z happened and Super came back and blew
Speaker 1: us away. Of course there was g T after Ze.
Speaker 1: I don't want to fully erase it, but y'all, y'all
Speaker 1: saw a G team. But after that, I do want
Speaker 1: to talk about kicking off this decade, which you may
Speaker 1: it seems so long ago now that I'm like kind
Speaker 1: of like looking at it. But in January of two
Speaker 1: thousand ten, kicking off the year, BioWare went ahead and
Speaker 1: dropped Mass Effect too. Now this is this, This was
Speaker 1: like the second installment of Mass Effect would would end
Speaker 1: up being a trilogy, but this was the game that
Speaker 1: kind of I think solidified Mass Effect as the best
Speaker 1: sci fi experience. Mass Effect one was a good time.
Speaker 1: I didn't come in until two. Actually, no, that's that's
Speaker 1: not true. I actually did play one before two because
Speaker 1: I remember liking that there weren't any Mako missions, and
Speaker 1: if you don't know what the MAKO is, it was
Speaker 1: a kind of like a driving mission on the planet.
Speaker 1: And it was bad and some people like it, most
Speaker 1: people hate it. A Mass Effect two came out, continuing
Speaker 1: the story of Commander Shepherd and creating more options to
Speaker 1: have sex with more aliens and eventually leading into the
Speaker 1: third one, which will not make the list. I enjoyed it,
Speaker 1: but it did have a huge hickup. Not the ending
Speaker 1: was so bad for Mass Effect three that they had
Speaker 1: to release a DLC where they did a different ending,
Speaker 1: which wasn't that different. I was fine with it, but
Speaker 1: you know I was. I don't think I was ready
Speaker 1: for the Shepherd's story to end, but it did in
Speaker 1: in a neat way that I liked. Most people did not.
Speaker 1: But that was that was truly a good time. But
Speaker 1: two thousands ten wasn't wasn't just about that. RPG two
Speaker 1: thousand ten also brought us Red Dead Redemption, which was
Speaker 1: released in May eight or two thousand ten. Red Dead
Speaker 1: Redemption was the spiritual successor to rock Stars Red Dead Revolver,
Speaker 1: which was a Western game that kind of came and went,
Speaker 1: but Red Dead Redemption was a moment. Red Dead Redemption
Speaker 1: was when rock Star I think fully settled in and
Speaker 1: made a huge cinematic experience. And I think that's what's
Speaker 1: cool about it coming out the same year as Mass
Speaker 1: Effect Too, because Mass Effect Too, I often at the
Speaker 1: time said it was the best set sci fi UH
Speaker 1: TV series slash movie that I've ever played. And these
Speaker 1: are two games that were cinematic and true to the genre,
Speaker 1: and Red Dead Redemption truly had you following James Marston
Speaker 1: down his path to outlawed them and him trying to
Speaker 1: move past his past. But as we all know in
Speaker 1: the wild West, past always catches up to you. It
Speaker 1: received rave reviews across the board and then led to
Speaker 1: some really cool DLC that came out in One Game
Speaker 1: of the Year from v g X and uh Best
Speaker 1: Original Score, Best Song in a Game, and Best Original Game.
Speaker 1: And I remember Red Dead Red Dead Redemption. I keep
Speaker 1: trying to say Revolver. I had the soundtrack for it.
Speaker 1: That's how into it I was. Is the soundtrack was
Speaker 1: fired and it was by Jose Gonzalez, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: it was just looking at it. Um, yeah, Jose Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: he had he won Best Song. But it was a
Speaker 1: beautiful soundtrack that complimented the truly cinematic experience in video
Speaker 1: games and I truly, truly, truly, truly, Uh, if you
Speaker 1: haven't played it one or two, I definitely would suggest
Speaker 1: you go check it out. This one's gonna be a
Speaker 1: more personal one because I think across the board and
Speaker 1: not everyone was as big of a fan of this
Speaker 1: as as I was. In two thousand ten, Halo Reach
Speaker 1: was released. It was a prequel to the Halo series
Speaker 1: that kind of showed the invasion that led to complete decimation.
Speaker 1: And it's my favorite type of story trope where you
Speaker 1: start off. It's kind of like Rogue one where you
Speaker 1: start off and you know these heroes won't make it,
Speaker 1: but you want to see how they go out, and
Speaker 1: it would do. It was truly, um a beautiful experience.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say cinematic again, even though it was.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm saying cinematic too many times times.
Speaker 1: But it was a beautiful experience that I truly, truly uh.
Speaker 1: I hope everyone gets a chance to play now that
Speaker 1: Master Chief collection is out on PC. Now let's talk
Speaker 1: about some movies here. In two thousand ten, we had
Speaker 1: the release of Kick Ask, which who the comic was
Speaker 1: fired and so was the movie. The movie I think
Speaker 1: really tightened up some parts of the comic that you know,
Speaker 1: just weren't I guess you could say kosher. And I
Speaker 1: think now the movie doesn't hold up as well, but
Speaker 1: I truly did enjoy it, and I think that was
Speaker 1: a big moment for superhero movies because it also kind
Speaker 1: of invited the idea of superhero movies outside of the
Speaker 1: now successful m c U formula. I gotta put some
Speaker 1: respect on Scott Pilgrim's name because that also came out
Speaker 1: in two thousand ten, which was truly a fun movie,
Speaker 1: and the comic is super fun. If you haven't checked
Speaker 1: it out yet, might I suggest you do it too.
Speaker 1: Thousand and eleven was a big year. I was talking
Speaker 1: about the m c U, and I think this was
Speaker 1: the one that solidified the formula because on July nineteenth,
Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven, we had Captain America, the first Avenger,
Speaker 1: good old Chris Evans stepping up to the plate and
Speaker 1: solidifying himself as Steve Rogers. I mean he had the body,
Speaker 1: he had the I mean he really This was the
Speaker 1: watching Captain America was truly the first time I I
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna work because Captain America was a
Speaker 1: tricky character to do because he's very much like Superman
Speaker 1: in the sense that he's corny, he's easy. He wants
Speaker 1: the best in people. But if you can get someone
Speaker 1: who can get you to believe in that, who can
Speaker 1: get you to believe in justice, faith and not be
Speaker 1: jaded about it, then you have your Steve Rogers. And
Speaker 1: I think Chris Evans nailed that. And you know in
Speaker 1: this you know it's good to revisit it because you
Speaker 1: know he he ends the mantel this decade, you know,
Speaker 1: as as we got to the end of the end game.
Speaker 1: But ut this was this first pay and that wasn't
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven. Also in two thousand eleven we got
Speaker 1: Thor which honestly, I'm not it was great, but it's
Speaker 1: it doesn't hold a candle for me. Um. But if
Speaker 1: we want to talk about things that really stunk, then
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna have to say Green Lantern also came
Speaker 1: out in two thousand eleven. However, I will give a
Speaker 1: shout out because I'll always put respect on the Fast
Speaker 1: series name. Fast five also came out in two thousand eleven,
Speaker 1: which really was the one that kind of revitalized the series,
Speaker 1: and I gotta say, truly, it deserves to be on
Speaker 1: this list. I mean, it's not necessarily the most quote
Speaker 1: unquote nerdy thing, but I feel like the Fast series
Speaker 1: is truly turning into a superhero universe when you're watching
Speaker 1: kind of the way that the movies are going, so truly, uh, truly,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold a point. I'm gonna say it's nerdy,
Speaker 1: and I think you can be nerdy abou about it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Past five two thousand eleven. So in the
Speaker 1: world of video games, two thousand eleven led to the
Speaker 1: release of Dark Souls, which Dark Souls has solidified its
Speaker 1: place as the super try hard if you're really serious
Speaker 1: about gaming. It's created its own genre, which is now
Speaker 1: referred to as a Soul's type, which is adventure games
Speaker 1: that required tight controls, quick reflexes, and is completely unforgiven
Speaker 1: and without Dark Souls coming into the foray, the sequel
Speaker 1: to um Demon Souls. Uh, we wouldn't have our Secu dos.
Speaker 1: We honestly wouldn't even have Jedi Fall in Order because
Speaker 1: Jedi Jedi f Jedi Fall in Order borrows a lot
Speaker 1: of things from the soul's type genre. So shout out
Speaker 1: to Dark Souls in two thousand eleven, unknowingly creating a
Speaker 1: whole new genre of video games and really blown onto
Speaker 1: the scene in a exciting way. Also, we had another
Speaker 1: bio ware hit in two thousand eleven with Dragon Age two.
Speaker 1: Dragon Age two was the second installment of the dragon
Speaker 1: Age series and still going good. I mean, this was
Speaker 1: well if you know where Dragon Age kind of ended up.
Speaker 1: Even though I am a fan of Inquisition, even though
Speaker 1: it was critically kind of panned. Uh, dragon Age too
Speaker 1: really elevated the series in a big way. Beautiful story
Speaker 1: in the same way that they were telling this artful
Speaker 1: sci fi masterpiece, they were doing the same thing with
Speaker 1: Dragon Age in a fantasy setting. And I truly put
Speaker 1: so many hours in this game, and if you have origin,
Speaker 1: you should pick it up and give it another replay
Speaker 1: because it was I think it definitely was one of
Speaker 1: the breakout games of that year. But speaking of finishing
Speaker 1: trilogies and so on and so forth. In two thousand eleven,
Speaker 1: we did have the End of Years of War three,
Speaker 1: which finally which was the final chapter of that first trilogy.
Speaker 1: We found and found out we happened with Dom and
Speaker 1: his wife and we saw it was kind of a
Speaker 1: heartbreaking into that, but it was a It was a
Speaker 1: beautiful game, and if you're Gears fan, you really enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: If you weren't, you did. I mean, I feel like
Speaker 1: Gears are hit and missed for people, but I did
Speaker 1: enjoy the trilogy. I thought it was phenomenal, and Gears
Speaker 1: three definitely is gonna be up there for me. As
Speaker 1: far as game releases. Also, I do want to shout
Speaker 1: out some smaller games that came out in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eleven, which was Bastion, which is an artful indie game.
Speaker 1: It truly if you haven't played Bastion, it still holds up.
Speaker 1: You can pick it up. It was developed by Super
Speaker 1: Giant Games, released on July twenty and it was it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a fantasy floating themed environment where you're
Speaker 1: kind of like doing like light platform or work. And
Speaker 1: I mean the art of this game is just truly gorgeous.
Speaker 1: It almost uh, it's it's right up there with It
Speaker 1: reminded me of Braid a lot, which was a puzzle
Speaker 1: platform er that kind of used a lot of um
Speaker 1: beautiful backgrounds and such. So if we move forward into
Speaker 1: two thousand and twelve, we can finally start talking mug
Speaker 1: games like Dishonored, which was truly so fun. I can't
Speaker 1: I found Dishonored pretty late in the game, and Dishonored
Speaker 1: was a game that you could complete it anyway that
Speaker 1: you wanted it. It follows, you know, it's kind of
Speaker 1: has the Steam punky you know, vibe. It's by Bethesda,
Speaker 1: and you can either be stealthy and and like totally
Speaker 1: go through the game without killing anybody doing non lethal takedowns,
Speaker 1: or you can do kills, and based on how you
Speaker 1: do it, uh, it changes the ending. So you're following
Speaker 1: the story of Corville Atano, who was a bodyguard of
Speaker 1: the Empress and who was framed for the Empress's murder
Speaker 1: and now with the exchange of power in the fictional
Speaker 1: city of Dunwall, it forces him to fight his way
Speaker 1: to redeem his name and you know, restore the rightful
Speaker 1: power into the rightful air into power, I guess is
Speaker 1: what I'm meant to say. And then of course in
Speaker 1: two thousands welve is where we have the mass Effect three.
Speaker 1: But you know, like I said, um not wasn't the
Speaker 1: biggest fan of of that. I mean I was. I
Speaker 1: guess what I'm trying to say is everyone wasn't the
Speaker 1: biggest fan, but I was a huge fan of it.
Speaker 1: I hope you know, let me know. Were you a
Speaker 1: fan of mass Effect three? Yes? Or no? I know
Speaker 1: we got a lot of mass Effect heads and the
Speaker 1: nerd fan so just let me know. In this year,
Speaker 1: Blizzards and kind of weird hot Water due to the
Speaker 1: kind of issues that it's kind of having with its
Speaker 1: support of certain regimes. But in two thousand twelve, Blizzard
Speaker 1: released Diablo three, and this was interesting because as someone
Speaker 1: who loves Diablo three didn't really play the prior Diablos,
Speaker 1: this one was one that you know, kind of was
Speaker 1: hit or miss for some fans. They did not like
Speaker 1: how different. It was. For me, I fell in love
Speaker 1: with the game and just played through it, and then
Speaker 1: it only got better as time went on, because eventually
Speaker 1: it led to having its season system and really just
Speaker 1: pushing the game. I think to new how Nights in
Speaker 1: the long chevity of that game, just kind of being
Speaker 1: able to live on definitely got a shout out. In
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, Counterstrike Global Offense launched. Uh. I mean
Speaker 1: before this, people were playing counter Strike Source before that
Speaker 1: one point five. But Global Offense is the newest iteration
Speaker 1: of counter Strike and kind of the kind of platform
Speaker 1: that a lot of e sports used. You know, the
Speaker 1: s L has been uh, the counter Strike Go League
Speaker 1: is still alive and well. And I'm still a Fanatics fan,
Speaker 1: you know, even though they've they've kind of fell off.
Speaker 1: But back when I was watching seriously Fanatics, we you know,
Speaker 1: we we were great. So in two thousand twelve was
Speaker 1: a very big moment for movies because two thousand and
Speaker 1: twelve is when we got the first Avengers. This was
Speaker 1: when it all galvanized. This is the moment we've all
Speaker 1: been waiting for. This is what built that strong MCU
Speaker 1: foundation and what we would eventually revisit to see how
Speaker 1: many Easter eggs we can pull out and reuse from
Speaker 1: this moment. But Avengers comes out. It's a smash hit,
Speaker 1: a home run, and I I wish I can forget
Speaker 1: the feelings I felt up until now. It's just to
Speaker 1: witness Avengers for the first time again, because I remember
Speaker 1: being so blown to blown away because I didn't think
Speaker 1: it was possible, yet they pulled it off. Little did
Speaker 1: I know in about six more years they're gonna blow
Speaker 1: my mind yet again. But Avengers solid point. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a quick shout out in two thousand
Speaker 1: twelve to the Hobbit, even though you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: the biggest Tolkien fan and you know I I dabbled,
Speaker 1: but not the biggest Tolkien fan. But the Hobbit did
Speaker 1: drop and people were messing with that. So two thousand
Speaker 1: thirteen movies were We're interesting because two thirteen is when
Speaker 1: we got a Man of Steel. Two thirteen was when
Speaker 1: we got Iron Man three. So as far as like
Speaker 1: nerdy movies, uh, you know, it was it was. It
Speaker 1: was rough. We had the Wolverine. Um, yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a rough year for movies. I will say
Speaker 1: the g I. Joe movie was pretty solid, and of
Speaker 1: course wow, yeah, two thousand thirteen was a rough part
Speaker 1: of the nerd dom in decade because you have Buckle up,
Speaker 1: Man of Steel, Iron Man three, four, Dark World. You know,
Speaker 1: these were all kind of movies The Wolverine that the
Speaker 1: nerd community just weren't really rocking with, and um and
Speaker 1: those all came out in two thousand. Even like Kick
Speaker 1: Ass two wasn't as exciting as Kick As one for me,
Speaker 1: so it truly truly seemed kind of bleak. But then
Speaker 1: we had bright spots like movies like Uh, snow Piercer
Speaker 1: which came out and was pretty dang solid and uh
Speaker 1: and that was pretty much the breakout for me that year.
Speaker 1: But it truly it was. It was Hansel and Gretel
Speaker 1: two thousand and thirteen in in in movies, well, it
Speaker 1: was something we're gonna look back and be like, yep,
Speaker 1: that was a thing that happened. However, in video games
Speaker 1: it was a breakout year because in two thousand and
Speaker 1: thirteen was when we got Grand Theft Auto five, which
Speaker 1: was a phenomenal. I can't speak highly enough about how
Speaker 1: much Grand Theft Auto Five raised the bar. Not only
Speaker 1: doesn't introduce three main characters, one of them being black,
Speaker 1: which was you know, we haven't seen a black protagonist
Speaker 1: since San Andreas. I will say Nicole Belck was fun.
Speaker 1: I really did enjoy the story of four, but being
Speaker 1: able to play a black, you know character in a
Speaker 1: Grand Theft Auto is something that I enjoy. Maybe with
Speaker 1: six will get some women in there, but five, you know,
Speaker 1: we're following three protagonists. It's a beautiful story about three
Speaker 1: three people in crime at in different points of their
Speaker 1: crime career. So you have Franklin, who's kind of like
Speaker 1: a newbie to the game. He wants to get involved
Speaker 1: in big crime stuff, but you know, he's, uh, he's
Speaker 1: he's he's just trying to figure his way. Then you
Speaker 1: have Michael, who's like old school, he's in witness protection,
Speaker 1: knows the game like the back of his hand, but
Speaker 1: he's trying to stay out of it. And then we
Speaker 1: introduced later into the game, Uh, Trevor, who's this wild
Speaker 1: card who just really is is just you can't you
Speaker 1: can't figure out what he's up to, so much so
Speaker 1: that even when you switch to his character in the game,
Speaker 1: you'll end up in random places, sometimes on an island
Speaker 1: way off from the city, trying to figure out where
Speaker 1: you're gonna go. And Grand Theft Out of Five also
Speaker 1: introduced the Grand Theft Auto Online, which is still going
Speaker 1: strong till this Day. This was released in two thousand
Speaker 1: thirteen and it's still going strong right now. And Grand
Speaker 1: Thought and Grand Theft Auto five because you know they
Speaker 1: it eventually launched like the RP community, so you have
Speaker 1: g t A r P and like I said, once
Speaker 1: you put g t A and PC, all the mods
Speaker 1: give longevity to the game, so even if you wanted
Speaker 1: to buy it by the game now, you'd still have
Speaker 1: a community to play with online. Another game that came
Speaker 1: out in two thousand thirteen, when that's interesting to talk
Speaker 1: about now because we're going to get the next installment
Speaker 1: very soon was the Last of Us. Naughty Dog came
Speaker 1: through and gave us just the most phenomenal video game
Speaker 1: experience with the Last of Us and UH it truly
Speaker 1: um It's it follows you know, uh to to uh
Speaker 1: two main characters, Ellie being escorted by Joel, a smuggler
Speaker 1: who who who has taken in Ellie and they it's Joel,
Speaker 1: you know, early in the game, loses his own daughter,
Speaker 1: so it kind of leads to this father daughter relationship
Speaker 1: and it just if you haven't played it, definitely pick
Speaker 1: it up now so you can be ready when part
Speaker 1: two comes out, which is currently scheduled to come out
Speaker 1: in a so just just check out Last of Us.
Speaker 1: It's truly a piece of work of art. And then
Speaker 1: we also had BioShock Infinite, which I truly enjoyed. It
Speaker 1: was a very interesting take on the BioShock franchise in
Speaker 1: the ending. Really, you know, some people like felt some
Speaker 1: type of way about it. I actually truly loved it
Speaker 1: because it took something that kind of uh was a
Speaker 1: constant in in the in the series and flipped it
Speaker 1: on its head. So definitely, definitely, definitely please check out
Speaker 1: BioShock Infinite as well. But if you have to choose
Speaker 1: between that and Last of Us, of course Last of Us. Uh.
Speaker 1: And we also have The Stanley Parable, which was an
Speaker 1: indie game that is another game that plays with the
Speaker 1: format of video games. Check that out. We had the
Speaker 1: drop of Dota two, which you know, if you listen
Speaker 1: to our Mobile episode you heard uh Me Danny and
Speaker 1: producer Dan talking about that, and Injustice God's among Us,
Speaker 1: which actually was a solid fighting game. The community couldn't
Speaker 1: really the fighting game community really couldn't build off of it.
Speaker 1: That was a fighting game that Sonic Fox was actually
Speaker 1: dominating it, but the community just wasn't there, so it
Speaker 1: kind of fell off. Also, I want to shout out
Speaker 1: war Frame, a free to play game that came out
Speaker 1: in two thousand, probably one of the best free to
Speaker 1: play games ever just that period, point blank. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go through the rest of the decade, but right now,
Speaker 1: we just need to take a quick break. So why
Speaker 1: don't you just uh go grab a glass of water.
Speaker 1: I'll see you in a bit and we're back doing everyone.
Speaker 1: How's it going. It's your boy if he and we're
Speaker 1: going through the best of the decade, and we've been
Speaker 1: going through the best things and nerd them. We've been
Speaker 1: primarily talking about video games and movies, so I'm probably
Speaker 1: gonna have to go back towards the end of this
Speaker 1: to really talk about stuff that happened on TV as well.
Speaker 1: But but that's gonna be more Hopscotch Hopping. Around two
Speaker 1: fourteen released one of my favorite game franchises at the time.
Speaker 1: It was rocky, but eventually it came around to be
Speaker 1: a solid game, which was Destiny. Uh Destiny dropped and
Speaker 1: it and you know, like I said, it's it was
Speaker 1: kind of rocky year one and then, but the excitement
Speaker 1: was there. It kind of fell off. And then year
Speaker 1: two when Taking King was released, everyone was hyped about
Speaker 1: the game. It was great, and then we ran into
Speaker 1: Destiny too, and it seemed like it was the same
Speaker 1: kind of issues. But you know, it'd be like that
Speaker 1: sometimes truly a good time time. But two thousand and
Speaker 1: fourteen I definitely got a shout out tighten Fall. Titan
Speaker 1: Fall is a solid if you like Max and you
Speaker 1: like shooters, titan Fall was that franchise, But titan Fall
Speaker 1: was one of those franchisees that were that was plagued
Speaker 1: with like being smushed between too many games and it
Speaker 1: kind of fell by the wayside. Uh. Actually, titan Fall
Speaker 1: one actually I think had a good push, but it
Speaker 1: just really kind of had trouble finding its footing. But
Speaker 1: it had a strong community that wrote it out, and
Speaker 1: I think truly is one of the most innovative games
Speaker 1: that have that came out because it really did kind
Speaker 1: of take shooters and kind of want to go in
Speaker 1: a different direction with them. And then, of course in
Speaker 1: two thousand and fourteen, we also got Divinity Original Sin,
Speaker 1: which is probably one of the most solid RPG franchises out.
Speaker 1: It's good and if if we want to talk about
Speaker 1: solid RPG franchises. I'm also going to give a shout
Speaker 1: It's a Banner Saga, which so came out in two
Speaker 1: thousand fourteen. Good times all around as far as movies go.
Speaker 1: We had this was this was we were back to
Speaker 1: the hits because we had Lego movie come out, which
Speaker 1: was phenomenal, Captain America Winter Soldier, which is on a
Speaker 1: lot of people's lists as the best Captain America. They
Speaker 1: really like that, and then Guardians of the Galaxy, which
Speaker 1: which was great. So you had Captain America, Winter Soldier
Speaker 1: and Guardians of the Galaxy coming out, truly dominating the
Speaker 1: year as probably some of the most talked about movies.
Speaker 1: I mean, Winter Soldier reintroducing Bucky. It was so fun
Speaker 1: and got all the hubbub excited because we knew that
Speaker 1: Bucky eventually becomes Cap in the comics. And we'll get
Speaker 1: tomorrow on that later. But it was truly an exciting
Speaker 1: time for movies, which led us to two thousand fifteen,
Speaker 1: and you know two there were lots of you know,
Speaker 1: I could I could talk about some some good and
Speaker 1: like we said, we had you know, um, Dragon Ball,
Speaker 1: super Roly, but the breakout film of I mean, in
Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, we had Dragon Ball Super coming back out.
Speaker 1: The breakout film of that year was mad Max Fury Road,
Speaker 1: a movie that I saw in the theaters probably three times.
Speaker 1: It was so solid and it was interesting because in
Speaker 1: the world of all these different you know, uh, reboots
Speaker 1: and what have you. You know, we had Jurassic World
Speaker 1: come out and it really didn't hit like it wanted to.
Speaker 1: I feel like Mad Max Fury Road nailed it, like
Speaker 1: just top to bottom, and then Pepper. Throughout the year,
Speaker 1: we have things like ant Man coming through, and then
Speaker 1: we had the second Avengers movie, Age of Ultron, which
Speaker 1: some people felt some type of way, and then we
Speaker 1: had Creed as well, which this is very important because
Speaker 1: I feel like Creed was the movie because we already
Speaker 1: had Fruit val Station, but Creed was the movie that
Speaker 1: solidified Googler as just a undefeated director, and that I
Speaker 1: feel like it is what led to him being the
Speaker 1: director of choice for Black Panther. So very great, super exciting,
Speaker 1: good year, you know, and just reminder, we're going through
Speaker 1: the best of nerdy things. So just I know you
Speaker 1: might be listening to what why aren't you talking about
Speaker 1: this movie? In this movie, I'm talking about the nerdy stuff.
Speaker 1: You know. There there have been great movies besides that,
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm sticking to the nerdy things. But in
Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, and video games was very important too,
Speaker 1: because we had h one z one released their Battle Rayal,
Speaker 1: which would be the thing that leads to both Player
Speaker 1: Unknown Battlegrounds and Fortnite. This is this is this is
Speaker 1: the beginning. It's very buggy at this time. It's not
Speaker 1: really popping off like that. But h one z one
Speaker 1: did release, and it becomes it's gonna be it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be something new, uh to watch out for when
Speaker 1: you when it gets when it gets polished. But the
Speaker 1: other games we also had that year was Fallout four,
Speaker 1: which I truly enjoy. But oh boy, I think the
Speaker 1: game of the year that kind of took over in
Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen has to be The Witcher three Wild Hunt.
Speaker 1: This was the third entry, third and I think final
Speaker 1: entry to the Witcher trilogy. Truly beautiful story, fun game play.
Speaker 1: It was so solid. It's such a solid entry. It
Speaker 1: took me a re visit to really understand how good
Speaker 1: it was because it kind of was like it's kind
Speaker 1: of difficult if you're not if you're not really on
Speaker 1: your stuff. But which are three Wild Hunt really knocked
Speaker 1: it out, ended up taking home so many game of
Speaker 1: the years. But you also had the release of Rocket League,
Speaker 1: which was such a simple yet innovative concept which was
Speaker 1: just soccer with cars, and that took off and still
Speaker 1: to this day has a large community. We also had
Speaker 1: dragon Balls Universe, but there's another dragon Ball game that
Speaker 1: kind of I think takes the place of the dragon
Speaker 1: Ball game. So but you know, that was at the
Speaker 1: time we thought it was great. As far as the
Speaker 1: indie game shout out, I definitely want to shot up
Speaker 1: bro Verse bro Force, which was an indie game side
Speaker 1: scroller that lets you play as these kind of classic, uh,
Speaker 1: these classic like action heroes. Two thousand sixteen is a
Speaker 1: wonderful time to be a nerd because we got not
Speaker 1: only Doctor Strange, not only Captain America Civil War, not
Speaker 1: only Rogue one, but we also got Deadpool. But we
Speaker 1: also did get Suicide Squad in Batman v. Superman, which
Speaker 1: you know, some some people might be into it, me
Speaker 1: not at all. Uh. We had the Warcraft movie Come
Speaker 1: and Go. I mean it did well in China. I
Speaker 1: necessarily didn't hate it that much, but that's because I
Speaker 1: knew enough about the warcraft lore that it filled in.
Speaker 1: But we also had the Assassin's Creed come and flop
Speaker 1: as well. You know, lots, I think there were lots
Speaker 1: of hits and misses in two thousand six Um X
Speaker 1: Men Apocalypse, you know, it really was all. Two thousand
Speaker 1: and sixteen was one of those where it's all over
Speaker 1: the place because the highs were high, but the lows
Speaker 1: definitely were low. I mean Deadpool. I think it's the
Speaker 1: biggest one to talk about here because, like I said,
Speaker 1: at this point in in the m c U, they're
Speaker 1: established as hits, Like we know they're gonna be good.
Speaker 1: We know what to expect. We didn't know what to
Speaker 1: come from Deadpool. There was a lot of fan outcry
Speaker 1: when people passed on the animatic that was going around online.
Speaker 1: The fans went crazy. Till this day. We don't know
Speaker 1: if maybe that was part of the plan, maybe they
Speaker 1: leaked it on purpose to see if there was, you know,
Speaker 1: a want for this. But either way, Ryan Reynolds becomes
Speaker 1: Deadpool and you know, not the version that we saw
Speaker 1: in the Wolverine and It truly did show us that
Speaker 1: not only are we in an era where we can
Speaker 1: enjoy nerdy comic book movies, but we can make some
Speaker 1: stuff just for the adults and Deadpool. We It was
Speaker 1: highly anticipated, it came out, did well, and everyone got excited.
Speaker 1: It truly was a fun time to be a nerd
Speaker 1: and thinking back, I was like, yeah, two thousand and sixteen,
Speaker 1: that was a great year in video games. We had
Speaker 1: titan Fall two, which unfortunately came out during the releases
Speaker 1: of Battlefield one and I think a new Call of
Speaker 1: Duty and just unfortunately it was looked over. It was
Speaker 1: a solid game until this day, I still uh, I
Speaker 1: still still still am very angry that it didn't get
Speaker 1: the respect it deserved. But that led to them eventually
Speaker 1: making the uh eventually making the the game Apex Legends,
Speaker 1: So you know, through the dust and fire, we did
Speaker 1: get something great. You know. Verse two also came out.
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, so we had the release of battle
Speaker 1: Born Overwatch and then one other Overwatch style game that
Speaker 1: also did not do as well as Overwatch in two
Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, and I can't believe we almost missed it
Speaker 1: for some reason. Whoever made this uh, this Releaseless put
Speaker 1: some disrespect on Overwatch his name. But yeah, Overwatch definitely
Speaker 1: came came out and crushed. As far as television, I
Speaker 1: gotta put some respect. My hero Academia came out and
Speaker 1: this was on April third of two thousand and sixteen.
Speaker 1: We had my hero Academia or book you know, hero
Speaker 1: depending on who you're talking about, which you know, I
Speaker 1: am late to the game on but man, oh man,
Speaker 1: am I loving it now? Speaking of heroes, two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen was another great year for heroes. Why because not
Speaker 1: only do we get great Marvel movies like thor Ragnarok,
Speaker 1: but also we had Wonder Woman which knocked, which showed
Speaker 1: us that DC can in fact create dope movies, you know. Uh.
Speaker 1: We also had The Last Jedi, which rocked my socks.
Speaker 1: I I was a fan of it once again. It's
Speaker 1: one of those that it you know, some people in
Speaker 1: our miss But we also did have Spider Man Homecoming,
Speaker 1: which was a big moment because all this time we
Speaker 1: didn't have any Spider Man's, no Spider Man's but we
Speaker 1: did see Spider Man in Civil War and now we
Speaker 1: got our movie and then Guardians of the Galaxy volume
Speaker 1: two dropped as well. All around, it was definitely great,
Speaker 1: and of course the second john Wick came out, which
Speaker 1: really did heighten from the first john Wick and take
Speaker 1: us to a whole new level of killing people. I
Speaker 1: guess that's the best one we could say. We also
Speaker 1: got Logan as well, so not only are we getting
Speaker 1: good Spider movies, good good DC movies, but finally some
Speaker 1: good X movies. And once again it followed the same
Speaker 1: formula of Deadpool, of being like, Okay, we're going to
Speaker 1: take something and uh make it. We're gonna take this
Speaker 1: comic book property and make it adult, and it kind
Speaker 1: of followed that old man Logan style and it really
Speaker 1: did nail it, so good job for them. We also
Speaker 1: got the Chumaji movie, which was a surprise breakout hit,
Speaker 1: and of course, if I'm gonna talk about john Wick two,
Speaker 1: I definitely want to talk about Charlie their own an
Speaker 1: Atomic Blonde, which was so solid. It was basically Lady
Speaker 1: john Wick, and I was all for it. It was
Speaker 1: so good. I if you haven't seen Atomic Blonde, definitely
Speaker 1: check that out, because I did. I definitely think it's
Speaker 1: worth checking out if if if you're into that, some flops.
Speaker 1: We had Dark Tower UM and uh Bright. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I almost forgot about Bright. There was there was a
Speaker 1: world I lived in before reading that where I thought
Speaker 1: where I forgot Bright even existed. But then we also
Speaker 1: got it as well. So all in a two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen was a solid year. Two thousand seventeen and video
Speaker 1: games too was very interesting because we got uh Fortnite.
Speaker 1: Fortnite Battle Royale was dropped, you know as a fluke
Speaker 1: alongside uh, alongside you know, the the Save the World version,
Speaker 1: which ended up becoming a huge hit. As far as
Speaker 1: other video games, you know, we had the Legend of Zelda,
Speaker 1: Breadth of the Wild, drop phenomenal Horizon zero Down, Destiny
Speaker 1: to which ran into the same first year issues as
Speaker 1: the first uh Destiny hell Blades, soon as Sacrifice, which
Speaker 1: the sequel was just announced at the Video Game Awards
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. And uh we also had the
Speaker 1: uh Dishonored DLC, which featured a woman of color, uh,
Speaker 1: which was cool. You know, so some people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you're it's cool to me. Star Wars Battlefront two
Speaker 1: had a shaky release, but now once again that's another
Speaker 1: game that kind of came out now and is pretty
Speaker 1: solid and worth checking out now because they definitely did
Speaker 1: a great job of fixing all the issues that people
Speaker 1: were having with it. We had Red Dead, Redemptions to
Speaker 1: come out in video games this is last year now,
Speaker 1: Spider Man, Marvel Spider Man the video games Solid, God
Speaker 1: of War Solid. These are all hits, Smash Ultimate and
Speaker 1: then of Horse, the definitive Dragon Ball Z game, Dragonball
Speaker 1: Fighter Z, which you know is super fun. You heard
Speaker 1: me whining about it, but you know it's there were
Speaker 1: there were issues, but in the end, I think it's
Speaker 1: a solid fighter flops Fallout seventy six. You also have
Speaker 1: Sea of Thieves, which is up going pretty strong too.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not really into it, but I definitely
Speaker 1: see y'all in the discord talking about it, so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna shout it out just for y'all, but though, but
Speaker 1: I think the big, the big games worth talking about
Speaker 1: is gonna be Dragonball Fighter Z, Spider Man, Red Dead,
Speaker 1: Redemption to uh and of course for me, Monster Hunt
Speaker 1: a World. As far as movies go, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: give a moment of silence because on February six, my
Speaker 1: life changed. Black Panther was released It was a film
Speaker 1: that captured my favorite superhero and ran with it and nailed.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Ryan Coogler, shout out to Chadwick Boseman,
Speaker 1: Shout out to everyone making this beautiful thing come to life.
Speaker 1: And I mean two thousand and eighteen was we got
Speaker 1: Avengers Infinity War, which left everyone just in shambles after
Speaker 1: the snap. We had Incredibles to come come through. We
Speaker 1: had Spider Man into the Spider Verse. We had Aquaman
Speaker 1: which not as bad as people say, same thing with Venom,
Speaker 1: yes they did blow their load and not you know,
Speaker 1: and and like tease Carnage even though we kind of
Speaker 1: saw like a version of carnage in there. And then
Speaker 1: we had Deadpool two. You know, so all these things,
Speaker 1: yet somehow green Book one, I was taking all those
Speaker 1: things over. Green Book winning Solo came out as well.
Speaker 1: It was. It was truly, and we had the ant
Speaker 1: Man in the Wasp. Truly, this was a solid year
Speaker 1: for Nerdy movies. It probably out of all the years
Speaker 1: that we've talked about, beyond like a lot of the
Speaker 1: kind of intro stuff that came through, I think two
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen might be the most solid year of Nerdy movies,
Speaker 1: because it's just like the strong entry of the strong
Speaker 1: entry of like you know, Black Panther, and you had Aquabam,
Speaker 1: which isn't that bad. I'm gonna jump with some respect
Speaker 1: on Aquaman ant Man in the Wasp, you know, and
Speaker 1: and Avengers Infinity War which lobbed everyone up, and then
Speaker 1: of course into the Spider Verse. Solid solid. I need
Speaker 1: everybody to know how solid it was. This year in
Speaker 1: movies was interesting for because we did get Captain Marvel,
Speaker 1: which was amazing. We got In Game which was amazing.
Speaker 1: Far From Home also amazing. You know. Unfortunately we had
Speaker 1: Dark Phoenix, but Shazam also came out this year. Wild
Speaker 1: Sorry it blows me away that Shusam came out this
Speaker 1: year in April. I we went through the whole there's movie,
Speaker 1: so many movies that came out this year. Detective Pikachu,
Speaker 1: you know, the Angry Verse two movie, which I will
Speaker 1: still to this day say, was surprisingly extremely funny. Like
Speaker 1: I I challenge you now that it's probably out on
Speaker 1: video and all that, check it out. Tell me tell
Speaker 1: me if I was right, you know, Like, what do
Speaker 1: you think Lego movie too? Yeah? This was such a
Speaker 1: solid movie year. Um, just as far as nerdy movies go,
Speaker 1: but in game, you know obviously probably is going to
Speaker 1: have the crowd. I mean, I wouldn't even movie. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't movie the Year, and maybe I wouldn't because Far
Speaker 1: from Home I think really did uh elevate I mean,
Speaker 1: in game wrapped it up, but Far from Home I
Speaker 1: think elevated the series to a point that gets me
Speaker 1: excited for the next one. And I'm glad they worked
Speaker 1: everything out. But also we had in video games Death Stranding,
Speaker 1: Jedi Jedi, Fallen Orders, Sword and Shield, Borderlands three, shinmu Uh,
Speaker 1: like so many solid games, Second Oh, Shadows, Dietract, Kingdom
Speaker 1: Hearts three came out this year, Gears five, like so many.
Speaker 1: We are at the point where, like I think we've
Speaker 1: caused a snowball of nerdy stuff, that so many nerdy
Speaker 1: things are coming out that it's gonna be hard. I
Speaker 1: think you have to find now Apex Legends came out
Speaker 1: this year. You have to find your favorite thing and
Speaker 1: rock with it, because now we're in a wealth of
Speaker 1: of delicious nerdy things. I truly, I I truly am excited.
Speaker 1: But you know, we're gonna take one last break and
Speaker 1: then when we get back, We'll go through some of
Speaker 1: the best television of the decade. Uh, and and and
Speaker 1: and wrap it up see all in a bit and
Speaker 1: welcome back. So we've been going through the best of
Speaker 1: the decade. But man oh man, we have a whole
Speaker 1: We have so much more time to talk about stuff,
Speaker 1: but we don't have much time left. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try and fit as much of the best TV of
Speaker 1: the decade as I can into this segment, which is
Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. Even though we didn't like the ending,
Speaker 1: it was a great ride and great experience. Breaking Bad
Speaker 1: came out this decade, which was probably the best TV
Speaker 1: viewing experience I had. Or yeah, on, let me see,
Speaker 1: maybe it ended this eve. Yeah, Breaking Bad end at
Speaker 1: this decade. It started outside in in January two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight, but it ended in two thousand thirteen, which
Speaker 1: probably was the best ending of a TV series quite
Speaker 1: some time, because it's kind of a lot of people
Speaker 1: can't dismount. I feel like Parks and Rex started a
Speaker 1: little bit outside of the decade, uh, starting in April
Speaker 1: nine of two thousand nine, but ended February two thousand fifteen,
Speaker 1: which was one of the greatest comedy television shows. I
Speaker 1: think that has been out. We got Rick and Morty
Speaker 1: this decade, Black Mirror started in two thousand and eleven, Fargo,
Speaker 1: True Detective, there were so much, so much. We had
Speaker 1: the Expanse, Start Ships, Creek, Brooklyn nine nine. These are
Speaker 1: all phenomenal shows that I can't really get too deep
Speaker 1: into because I'm just wrapping it up. Mr Robot, Crazy
Speaker 1: Ex Girlfriend and uh, you know, Glee ended in two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen, so and Bob's Burgers started. There's so many
Speaker 1: amazing television shows that started in this decade and ended
Speaker 1: in this decade. Stranger Things, So that was the best
Speaker 1: of the decade. I think I got most of it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I missed some stuff, but definitely what I
Speaker 1: want to hear your best of the decade? Uh, just
Speaker 1: tweet at me. Let's do um hashtag for this. Let's
Speaker 1: say uh hashtag Nerdificent decade. And I'm gonna make it
Speaker 1: harder for you. What do you think is the best
Speaker 1: nerdy thing that came out this decade? Nerdificent decade? And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, at the top of the year when we
Speaker 1: get back, we'll read some talk about it for a
Speaker 1: bit before we jump into the episode, But thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: It's been super fun. I you know, we we went
Speaker 1: through the TV, we went through you know, there's there's
Speaker 1: just so we are in probably the golden age of
Speaker 1: being a nerd because there's so much media coming out
Speaker 1: for us. There was a fun thing piece that came
Speaker 1: out that said nerds are no longer the underdog, and
Speaker 1: I truly believe it. I think there's so much space,
Speaker 1: so like, go forth, make nerdy stuff and just nerdy stuff,
Speaker 1: and of course stop all gatekeepers. Nerd them is for everyone,
Speaker 1: so always make space for everyone to fit. And if
Speaker 1: you see anyone trying to exclude anyone, stop it. Like
Speaker 1: they said, p J Mask, it's time to be a hero.
Speaker 1: Step up. Let's get rid of the gatekeepers. All right, y'all,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for listening. And like I said
Speaker 1: at the top of the episode, please please please head
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Speaker 1: This has been an amazing decade. Oh my gosh, I
Speaker 1: forgot to tell you the most important thing that happened
Speaker 1: this decade. At least for me, we created nerdificent. So
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on for this ride, and like we
Speaker 1: always say, stay nerdy. Have a wonderful, wonderful Merry Christmas,
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, and I'll see y'all later