thread of tim rogers content (do not read if you hate tim rogers)

Good stuff from Tim recently: Judge Eyes demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je7hYYjr9Mk

Eyebrow-raisey Shadow of the Tomb Raider preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8lgFc6vFyU

Affectionate DQXI review

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTbUGItU0s

Oops forgot to remove the m on that last one, here’s the embed for those who prefer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTbUGItU0s

let's see if tim can sell me on forza horizon 4, a candidate for my biannual Fancy Graphics Game Impulse Purchase

I like his series about translating Final Fantasy VII, funny and informative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZefYEaNUJ7w

Tim made me want Forza Horizon and it’s not a thing I should want.

Tim plays, screams at Mega Man 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7GR5GQy9XU

I can't tell if I prefer exasperated Tim or chill Tim

the two types of tim rogers content i love are his scripted review vids that all take poetic turns in the 2nd half (e.g. hyrule warriors, forza horizon 4) and his on-site vids from E3/conventions

Tim and I have the same Game of the Year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru3yZzhhnS8

Does not disappoint.

This also reminds me that I need to 1) go back and beat Celeste & 2) pick up Obra Dinn ASAP

those two are tied for my goty

i downloaded obra dinn the other day and i'm trying to con my partner into trying it out with me tonight!

and rogers' #1 same as mine too. it was a good year for games!

kinda sold on this guy

Obra Dinn is awesome btw, and i don't think i will ever come close to figuring out the fates of everyone

I’m going to sit on my hands on that one for a while owing to my Switch Only policy but I’ll stop waiting in a year or so. I loved Papers Please, what a game.

^same

good list. hollow knight s/b #1 tho

He even says there's nothing wrong with it and struggles to find a complaint (too dark to play on the NYC subway, lol), so at the least it should be higher!

Sheesh it’s not like a scientific ranking.

I agree with him though: Hollow Knight is very good and Celeste is the best platforming video game and basically a perfect realization of what video games are good at

Hollow Knight is also a 2017 game

hollow knight is low b/c he played it last year jeez yall didn't listen to all 44 minutes did you xp

year of impact

PCs are powerpoint

of course I paid attention to all 44 minutes, and I might do it over again!

it's possible that talking-fast-over-a-video is him at his finest.

This is a terrible thing to say about anyone, but having a look at the Shadow of the Tomb Raider video you might have it right.

The sheer amount of video editing he must do for these is pretty intense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48DgYY6GVA

shooting zombies is the vegetarian version of murder

his story about jonathan blow (#4, braid) is interesting and kind of sad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqnAx3gx99w

this is one franchise I just solidly dng

yeah, i don't really like disney that much so i got really bored about 3 hours into the first game and never came back

lol, though, that video is great, one of his very best

he's pretty OTM there

lol after all that kotaku made him do their review of the game anyway

It’s good

https://kotaku.com/kingdom-hearts-iii-the-kotaku-review-5113989

i wish it was a video review, i much prefer him in video format

Those take him like seventy times as long is the thing. I still like his writing. I want his novel to come out.

ciderpress, you're in luck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvBcSY9vC3o

thats not a scripted review its just bonus footage & ad-libbing

Tim Rogers ad libbing is more entertaining than most prepared material tbf

Another person who rules is Gita imo

I dig the whole Kotaku crew; Paul Tamayo seems like a very chill dude

However, Tim is the only one who I'll read a novella-length review of a game I have no interest in ever playing (e.g., Kingdom Hearts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1IoIOjMqxQ

I truly don't even know what he's going on about this time but I love him all the same

this one gets away from me a bit too much but i like the part about god hand

lol, he references kael in the first fifteen seconds

"yet, if games is turds, these turds happen only after a community collaboration"
you gotta like this guy

i gotta get somethin off my chest: every single time i see the letters “PHD” i *immediately* say “Paul Homas Danderson” and “Philip Heemore Doffman” in my head simultaneously

— tim rogers (@108) April 2, 2019

Strange dude. As much as I've enjoyed a lot of his work, the pompous, contemptuous, negative side of him seemed to be growing. And he's clearly kind of a compulsive liar. Not a new thing, but speaks to the "head case" thing.

The few hour solo hosted "36 Best 360 Games" episode he released right before the announcement was unexpected and I was pretty stoked to see it pop up. I'm not sure what the general consensus is on that, but I found it a little insufferable? Leaned more into the sides of him I don't care for.

Anyway, this isn't a "i never really liked this guy who might be an asshole" thing, just a general recognition of a slide. Won't make excuses for abusive behavior, but he's exuded a "i wish i was dead" aura on the show for the past few months so idk. Feel for his cohosts. Wasn't just a professional relationship.

Was caught of guard by how much this bothered me so spent too much time thinking about it over the last few days. I guess it's because it was becoming harder and harder to ignore how his asshole-ish tendencies really were bothering the other hosts - thought his interactions with Ash Parrish in particularly were a bit ehhh though she handled it well imho. So to have it confirmed that Frank and Brandon (at least) were indeed at the point of 'fuck that guy' reminded me of actually relationships in real life where the wool comes off your eyes and you realise you've been putting up with a real POS for no good reason for a while.

HOWEVER

That's parasocial as fuck? Dude has been unprofessional and a dick to his one-time friends. Who cares, I don't know any of them. Unless more info comes out, is it naive to say that this is none of my business as an audience member and I can go on enjoying the output from both sides of this divorce?

Similar here. Got to the point of searching his take on his Discord. I don't know why I bothered to join it... like maybe there was a list of music or something I wanted to see. Anyway I think his side was basically already covered here via Reddit and it's pretty lame. Jaffe is on the server too and was talking some shit about how there aren't really parasocial relationships, that it is just indicative of a lack of "skill" in making someone your friend. That is weird as it implies one would want that. I have no idea who he is other than a guy hosting a podcast I've listened to like 20 episodes of, and who's also annoyed at Tim Rogers.

I barely game and am probably about done with both sides of this divorce. I did stumble across the fact that Action Button started as a mobile game dev and made my favourite iPhone game ever, though ("Ziggurat") so this is a point for. Had no idea that was Tim.

Tim's on Twitch doing his weekly Action Button thing. Got all serious for a minute and said he needed to make a statement about everything that's been going on this week. Turned it into a gag and announced that he's kinda into the Venom movies. Alex Jaffe (!?) is on there now and they're joking around about superhero movies like they're best buds and everything's cool.

I have no idea what's going on here lol.

podcasters should having a cooling off period before they go public with their drama

They may be physically incapable of stepping away for a minute

yeah lol

I'm reading this, maybe too cynically, as Tim flattering up Alex (who I never gathered as being a genuine buddy of Tim's) in the wake of this to have him on his Twitch stream to make him look totally cool and chill.

I would like to think Alex isn't that dumb and pathetic and I'm totally missing some information here, but it certainly presents as a wtf thing to do right now.

"Step away for a minute" OTM

After over 2.5 years since the last upload, Action Button has returned as the long rumored LA Noire video is finally premiering with a stream on YouTube and it’s apparently 9 hours long?

ha noticed this pattern with other pods/youtubers where they keep getting longer and less frequent the last fall of civilizations took forever to come out then it was 7 hours on the mongols, guess its cool theyre digging so deep

thats too much i'm putting my foot down. i don't want an entire tv season worth of video on one game

idk if i want to watch it all but i appreciate the passion

la noire is such a weird pick for going that deep on compared to like doom or pac-man or tokimeki memorial which are all genre-defining games. curious to at least see what his angle is even if i dont watch the whole thing

ahh ok the angle this time is basically a fancy let's play. that makes a lot more sense for the length

Is that game worthwhile, or was it important for some esoteric reason ("the first game with motion cap," or whatever)? What is his hook?

still in the prologue.. does he does the terrible film noir voice the whole time? might have to sit this one out...

Is that game worthwhile

i played it a few years back in preparation for this review (lol) and enjoyed it well enough. driving around the historical recreation of LA in bonkers cars like the stout scarab is worth the price of admission alone

This is very very bad! 9 hours of plot recap via overwrought hard boiled pastiche (I mean I fell asleep 30 min in, woke up 2 hrs later and skipped to the end to confirm that yes indeed this isn't going anywhere -- safe assumption there's nothing good in the middle).

Retreating inside a bubble of internet sycophants hasn't been good for this guy. And, minor point, if you're showing signs of catastrophic ego replying to comments with faux-Musk "looking into this" isn't as funny as you might think.

i love but also hate tim rogers. there’s something about the way he talks in the videos, he sounds like a nerd trying to make his voice sound deeper and it comes out forced-gravelly. i think it’s at least partly ironic as he leans into it during punchlines but it’s almost unbearable. his sense of humor is hit or miss for me. one time i had one of his videos on in the background and he was talking at length about some experience he had playing video games in college and it made his life sound extremely depressing

being flagrantly unhappy is for sure part of his whole thing

i personally think hes great just cause something is annoying or somehow unsatisfying doesnt mean its not you know good, hes def the most ambitious talking about video games person ive encountered, which i mean maybe low bar def a lot of people in there who have never read a book, but still his level of understanding of and passion for the medium seems pretty deep, tho im not really a gamer so i cant really be a knowable judge of expertise its more of a this is what people who know what theyre talking about and care about it sound like thing

at the end of the last of us ep he does an extended retelling of the game in the style of cormac mcarthy at first i was like this is deeply silly but then minute in i started to think it was pretty good

in conclusion imo his work is artful

agree w lagoon on all of the above but so far the only thing that feels artful abt the new one to me is that it might take me 2.5 years to get thru which is a clever way to reference the 2.5 years it took to make

the new one doesnt sound great tbf but i havent checked it out yet

New one is a real dud. Pretty much plays to all his weaknesses and none of his strengths. Made it through first hour awake and second hour drifting in and out of sleep and I think that’s all I can take, especially since I’ve already played through this not particularly great game already.

Even on the official thread on the Action Button Reddit there are basically no fans of it.

ok lol lets do this

https://i.imgur.com/BxomVDR.png

I agree with you completely lagoon, except that I've unfortunately watched the new one

damn people really are not liking it lol im only 15 minutes in so idk, i will say noir as schtick kinda hurts my feelings since i love raymond chandler

my fav stuff hes done are still some of the old kotaku review vids particularly the forza horizon 4 and hyrule warriors ones. all the same insight and weird gonzo tangents but in a much more digestible 20-minute package

the cyberpunk review was interesting because I can't think of anyone else who delves into not just the mechanics of games but why they work both in function and as a subjective reviewer. the entire video breakdown of how many minutes of cutscenes versus action versus travel time is just pure statistical wonkery but then he'll launch into how the dramatic bits resonated

it's like a car mechanic disassembling the entire car and then later going on a cross-country drive to enjoy the experience once everything's back together

Let's Play: Dress Up with 1940s Menswear