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

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

silby makes a cameo in his e3 predictions vid

Star treatment really, I was flattered

lol congrats!

haha, just watched that and was wondering if that was ilx's silby

Accept no substitutes

is his face as punchable IRL?

he looks and acts the same irl as in his videos if that's what you're asking

<3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43a2H7LQ1Xs

I'm love him

Brandon's upcoming game "Demonschool" has a demo on Steam if the urge strikes you. Looks pretty neat... a retro tactics game with some Persona flavor

I played a little of the demo, it's cool. The combat system is neat, the art & music is beautiful. Every character seems to talk like Brandon, though.

I mean this without any disrespect, it’s great whatever way, but Frank’s podcast Video Game History Hour is fantastic to fall asleep to.

Wow, so apparently Tim abruptly left Insert Credit in what sounds like a particularly nasty way. Bad enough and cruel enough that it sounds like Frank and Brandon are cutting ties with him entirely. Frank more/less calling him a toxic person.

Real bummer.

I like his content and I understand being bummed about this.

But also looooollll I can so easily imagine him being, uh, difficult.

for sure openly a headcase

he should make more action button episodes now that he has some free time

100%. I was expecting him to leave the show at any moment, he hasn’t sounded like he’s wanted to be there for a while now. Shitty he had to do it the way he did though. Guy seems like he’s for sure uhh, got some stuff going on mentally and emotionally.

yeah i never listened to much insert credit but it didn't take much to notice his lack of respect for the other guys was very thinly veiled

I check out his Twitch streams a bit but they've been kind of a downer lately..

Also i get the impression he pretty much does nothing put work on his Action Button episodes. I think the next "season" probably won't have long gaps between episodes.

one would hope, considering that the first 7 AB eps came out over a 28 month period, and he's now at 25 months since his last one. Maybe he's gonna pull a lasagna cat and flood the streets all at once, but I'm pretty over his deal at this point.

hard to argue. should we change thread title? lol

looking forward to seeing whatever the heck though

Damn, I'm kinda surprised and bummed to hear about this. I always kinda thought his dickishness to Frank and Brandon was a bit, and that they got along off mic. Shows what I know!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ActionButton/comments/1gdyxwr/insert_credit_361/
lol, thread locked with all comments deleted except a few screenshots of Tim's defense of himself from discord that don't exactly make him come off well.

All he wanted was the right to suddenly quit, not respond to texts, and be given two weeks or so to mull over what else to maybe say.

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