The Big Nerd Gaming Podcast

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: 52:45Please check out Jordan's Youtube page at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAKAFMcJ-yD28lJc1bH_vlQSpecial thanks to Michaela for helping to compile these ranks so that they could be a surprise for me. You can check out her blog at https://www.deargamers.net/

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 below.https://www.youtube.com/@bassicfun78Also, be sure to check out www.bignerdgaming.com all month for tons of other end of year lists and coverage.

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 6:00Best Game Direction: 11:50Best Narrative: 14:54Best Art Direction: 21:50Best Score and Music: 25:30Best Audio Design: 32:00Best Performance: 37:10Best Independent Game: 48:50Best Action Game: 56:37Best Action Adventure Game: 1:03:12Best RPG: 1:11:28Best Family Game: 1:21:50Best Sim/Strategy: 1:25:59Best Multiplayer: 1:29:30Best Accessibility: 1:34:53Wrap Up: 1:41:00Make sure to check out www,deargamers.net for more great content from Michaela and Jason. Also, keep an eye on www.bignerdgaming.com later this week for Westen's final predictions for all of these categories.

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 Paul3:00- Thoughts on "Trails in the Sky First Chapter", "Hollow Knight: Silksong", and "Hades 2"15:00 Our Top 5 Final Fantasy games. Including one dishonorable mention and two honorable mentions. You can find Paul on Substack: https://bossfights.substack.com/Also, Westen was recently on the Stage Select Podcast. You can check out that episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7tF5moO9IWx7X1K2pqkZ5m?si=cTLKEyovQMW7WOSRrTJHEw

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 places!Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AndresPlays93Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/andresplays93Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/andresplays.bsky.social

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