Obra Dinn is awesome btw, and i don't think i will ever come close to figuring out the fates of everyone
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:25 (six years ago)
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.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 04:26 (six years ago)
^same
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 08:15 (six years ago)
good list. hollow knight s/b #1 tho
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 08:19 (six years ago)
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!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 13:27 (six years ago)
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
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:18 (six years ago)
Hollow Knight is also a 2017 game
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:51 (six years ago)
hollow knight is low b/c he played it last year jeez yall didn't listen to all 44 minutes did you xp
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:53 (six years ago)
year of impact
PCs are powerpoint
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 19 December 2018 17:55 (six years ago)
of course I paid attention to all 44 minutes, and I might do it over again!
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 19 December 2018 18:21 (six years ago)
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 20 December 2018 13:55 (six years ago)
The sheer amount of video editing he must do for these is pretty intense
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 20 December 2018 18:43 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y48DgYY6GVA
― Karl Malone, Friday, 28 December 2018 17:45 (six years ago)
shooting zombies is the vegetarian version of murder
― Karl Malone, Friday, 28 December 2018 18:12 (six years ago)
his story about jonathan blow (#4, braid) is interesting and kind of sad
― Karl Malone, Friday, 28 December 2018 21:12 (six years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqnAx3gx99w
― ciderpress, Thursday, 24 January 2019 19:09 (six years ago)
this is one franchise I just solidly dng
― ||||||||, Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:00 (six years ago)
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
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:19 (six years ago)
lol, though, that video is great, one of his very best
― Karl Malone, Friday, 25 January 2019 04:50 (six years ago)
he's pretty OTM there
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 25 January 2019 19:47 (six years ago)
lol after all that kotaku made him do their review of the game anyway
― ciderpress, Saturday, 26 January 2019 23:23 (six years ago)
It’s good
https://kotaku.com/kingdom-hearts-iii-the-kotaku-review-5113989
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Sunday, 27 January 2019 00:55 (six years ago)
i wish it was a video review, i much prefer him in video format
― ciderpress, Sunday, 27 January 2019 00:58 (six years ago)
Those take him like seventy times as long is the thing. I still like his writing. I want his novel to come out.
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Sunday, 27 January 2019 00:59 (six years ago)
ciderpress, you're in luckhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvBcSY9vC3o
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 28 January 2019 04:43 (six years ago)
thats not a scripted review its just bonus footage & ad-libbing
― ciderpress, Monday, 28 January 2019 22:03 (six years ago)
Tim Rogers ad libbing is more entertaining than most prepared material tbf
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:27 (six years ago)
Another person who rules is Gita imo
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 28 January 2019 22:53 (six years ago)
I dig the whole Kotaku crew; Paul Tamayo seems like a very chill dude
― days of being riled (zchyrs), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:21 (six years ago)
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)
― days of being riled (zchyrs), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 18:23 (six years ago)
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
― moose; squirrel (silby), Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:31 (six years ago)
this one gets away from me a bit too much but i like the part about god hand
― ciderpress, Thursday, 7 March 2019 17:42 (six years ago)
lol, he references kael in the first fifteen seconds
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:14 (six years ago)
"yet, if games is turds, these turds happen only after a community collaboration"you gotta like this guy
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 March 2019 20:17 (six years ago)
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
― moose; squirrel (silby), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 02:53 (six years ago)
silby makes a cameo in his e3 predictions vid
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 5 June 2019 22:14 (six years ago)
Star treatment really, I was flattered
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 22:57 (six years ago)
lol congrats!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 5 June 2019 23:18 (six years ago)
haha, just watched that and was wondering if that was ilx's silby
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:44 (six years ago)
Accept no substitutes
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 6 June 2019 01:57 (six years ago)
is his face as punchable IRL?
― Nhex, Thursday, 6 June 2019 16:45 (six years ago)
he looks and acts the same irl as in his videos if that's what you're asking
― ciderpress, Thursday, 6 June 2019 17:01 (six years ago)
<3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43a2H7LQ1Xs
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Friday, 2 August 2019 22:34 (five years ago)
I'm love him
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 22:43 (five years ago)
Maybe his best work yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7O6aNzLLw
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 15:25 (five years ago)
sold me on iti prefer not to watch him talk though, triggers some rough highschool flashbacks
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 16:23 (five years ago)
oh dear
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 16:43 (five years ago)
you went to hs with him? or just generally?
also, i guess related (ppl who went to school with tim) did anyone ever listen to the insert credit podcast way back when he talked about going to college with j*red f*gle? because holy fuck. i think it was a couple years before dude got caught being a creep and tim just talks for 15 minutes about how much of a creep dude was
― I'm a board man. Board man gets paid (Will M.), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 20:25 (five years ago)
hmm no i think i misremembered. episode apparently came out around the same time as the bust.
― I'm a board man. Board man gets paid (Will M.), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 20:29 (five years ago)
no i didn't actually go to school with TR, I just mean to say i and most of my friends were luminous cave newts in glasses who would expostulate nonstop with one another in eltingville-style logorrhea-offs about video games and seeing him free verse about kojima gives me the fear that there's a pop quiz in spanish
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 20:46 (five years ago)
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
― mick gagger (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 22 April 2025 22:26 (three months ago)
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.
― mediumrarexxl, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 12:10 (three months ago)
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
― flopson, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 15:48 (three months ago)
being flagrantly unhappy is for sure part of his whole thing
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 15:57 (three months ago)
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 16:03 (three months ago)
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 16:09 (three months ago)
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
― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 16:11 (three months ago)
the new one doesnt sound great tbf but i havent checked it out yet
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 16:16 (three months ago)
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.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 16:24 (three months ago)
Even on the official thread on the Action Button Reddit there are basically no fans of it.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 16:26 (three months ago)
ok lol lets do this
https://i.imgur.com/BxomVDR.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 16:28 (three months ago)
I agree with you completely lagoon, except that I've unfortunately watched the new one
― mediumrarexxl, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 17:23 (three months ago)
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 17:26 (three months ago)
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
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 23 April 2025 18:06 (three months ago)
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
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 18:34 (three months ago)
Let's Play: Dress Up with 1940s Menswear
― mick gagger (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 23 April 2025 23:46 (three months ago)