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

the incomparable tim rogers has been a full-time contributor to kotaku since last year. I have loved tim rogers' writing, but it's possible that talking-fast-over-a-video is him at his finest. here's a thread for tim rogers content past present and future!

this week he did a video review of Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition which makes me…kinda want this bugfuck game…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5SWvImTRU

mostly for my own future reference, here's a wayback machine link to action button dot net, which is currently missing with a message that says "relax, it's coming back", featuring his 18,000 word review of Final Fantasy XIII which I think is a high point.

I'm guessing you dont mean this guy!

http://artslab.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tim_Rogers_1.jpg

I don’t.

no, that's him

i fondly remember his long, digressive "reviews" of earthbound, chrono trigger and super mario bros 3 being really important to my own writing at a certain time in my life, and i'm sad to find out the website is down now so i can't spend 2 hours reading all three again!

i like his videos way more than his written stuff

the part of the hyrule warriors video starting around 13:30 where he tries to explain the appeal of musuo games is wonderful

I have a mixed opinion of Rogers as writer. He has some annoying tendencies for sure, but his perspective and his style feel so unique and inimitable. I like his absurdist wordplay. I like his overall design philosophy. I could do without about half of his loopy digressions on his travels and lifestyle...at the same time, a large part of his appeal (for me) is the way his writing is always crammed-to-bursting with vivid and unnecessary detail. I'd be lying if I said his stuff didn't influence me, though if you asked me to define said influence, I'm not sure I could. Anyway, his God Hand review is pretty funny.

rereading the FFXII review last night, there was a lot of 2010 bro-type/edgelordy language and imagery that he's mercifully moved on from.

I've met him irl a few times. he's relatively nice but does not stop talking

xp yeah, I was reading that and "blade raped" made me cringe. Glad he has matured a bit.

yeah i've met him at pax a couple times since my friend did the music for his game - he's basically the same person you see in his videos, it's not a put-on

recently ive been listening to the Violence Island podcast:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151130033625/http://earthblows.com/

it's a battle royal of random characters. interestingly the one they taped in October 2014 "Must See Killing Spree" begins with a fight between Dick Solomon and Dr. Huxtable himself, and Tim Rogers wastes no time saying that there are some deep, dark "grandmother terrifying" things about Cosby. he never comes out and says what he was accused of but it's clear he saw/heard the Hannibal act from the same month and he took that stuff seriously. just kind of interesting, i was listening to that and had to look up that it was 4 years ago. an entirely different world.

as for his personality, he doesn't seem all that different from music hipsters i've talked with. then again hipsters hate nothing more than their own kind.

this is the best and worst of tim rogers, al in 5 minutes

https://jalopnik.com/should-you-honk-at-people-in-anger-a-cargument-1826083140

imwo honks are the only non-violent way to communicate to other cars. someone needs to invent smart honks that figure out if you are trying to merge lanes or whatever and produces a tone the other car understands and can communicate to the driver.

Tim Rogers reported from E3. Videos are up from the booths of the major publishers. There's also this video. https://kotaku.com/the-weirdest-things-we-found-at-e3-2018-1826928317

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

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

Maybe his best work yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7O6aNzLLw

sold me on it
i prefer not to watch him talk though, triggers some rough highschool flashbacks

oh dear

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

hmm no i think i misremembered. episode apparently came out around the same time as the bust.

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

Happy to listen to him talk though! can just pass on including his face in the story. no offense!

i totally get that. there's nothing that throws me into a rage faster than someone who acts like me at some previous stage in my life. it's like FUCK OFF MAN

yep. i have no greater scorn for anything than what i used to be. Looking forward to hating current me in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVImwSb4EYU

That was really enjoyable. "In other words, like all video games, Death Stranding is *exactly* like Dark Souls. It should be called 'Tark Souls.'" Extra amusing to me because I've never played any Metal Gear games and only know them from one or two iterations of Smash Brothers, where the guy always reminds me of Snake Eyes from GI Joe, and what few clips I've seen of this one seem the farthest from a sneaky ninja assassin game, so it's hard for me to make a connection between that concept and whatever the hell this game seems to be. So I guess I'm ... excited? Curious? Certainly entertained by the simmering hype.

More people should review games months before they play them.

incredible stuff

https://youtu.be/kCf75gfZhXo

Watched that this morning; did not check the TRT before I started lol

that kingdom hearts "review" is a masterpiece

his video review of Death Stranding is another one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHUY-nVXKU

tim on pokemon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsXB95GPimU

excited to watch that tonight…

Tim goes deep on his 2010s:
https://badend.simplecast.com/episodes/the-decade-in-tim-rogers-ft-tim-rogers

(this is a super-depressing interview, btw)

less depressing (likely)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0TMNoaB6jg

actually still quite depressing!

i stand corrected. i kinda wanna take that guy out for ice cream.

tim rogers, if you ego surf your way here by google, i live in brooklyn and will happily take you out for ice cream at ice and vice if you want. we can talk about not video games. Or Dark Souls!

tim has reviewed animal crossing new horizons, FF7 remake, and cyberpunk 2077:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESl8gJahyBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Bi149yQa8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuTXkMnooR4

All good, tho the Animal Crossing one is less tight and more depressed than most of his stuff. Dude is the most too-smart-for-his-own-good person I know of.

announcement: as many of you have decoded from my recent videos, i have decided to step away from full-time work at @Kotaku effective today, in order to focus on @ActionButton's #TRUCKHECK, other Exciting Endeavors, and my health. pic.twitter.com/FIDFtOuG5z

— tim rogers (@108) February 3, 2020

more in the thread if you click thru

Kind of a bummer, but he did seem pretty unhappy in that job. I'll look forward to whatever dude does next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai8s6SsDqyY

He seems cheerfully unburdened in that one

i enjoyed learning about the lore of the pink sonic shirt with japanese text that you can buy at target

Guess that's me unsubbing from Kotaku's youtube channel then. No loss really as their non-Rogers content is pretty much worthless.

Tim is on the mend from the ‘vid and the patreon is live

HELLO! i have a patreon: one huge, monthly, hour-long, meticulous, unconventional video review of a game i love. i have 37 videos in the planning stages already. https://t.co/JvTEJSALnx

— tim rogers (@108) April 8, 2020

sure why not

Daddy needs medicine!

i googled tim rogers patreon to grab the link, and saw this tweet, which confused me because i forgot we're in 2020 and jsut saw "current month, current year"

(hang on a second: no, i am NOT making a patreon. i get paid a salary, everybody. and no, i am not going to stream "on the weekend." weekends are for walking around manhattan, watching the @criterionchannl, eating pizza, and reading books)

— tim rogers (@108) April 13, 2019

omg and the patreon link is in the tweet you posted. i am just crushing it on the internet today. absolutely smashing it

once he gets this running, i am down to pay

same

He’s got nerve surgery to pay for! Also he’ll be steaming FF7R all day Friday.

I'm of course on board. Joined at the mysterious $5 tier.

he's up to $6000 a month, he deserves it all and more!

whoa, really? i'm not sure i've seen a patreon go that high, wow! he does deserve it. he was the last good thing remaining at kotaku, which he almost singlehandedly kept afloat the last year or so

WHY DID YOU LEAVE KOTAKU?

I found myself suddenly surrounded by numerous offers and opportunities to get paid more by doing less work to produce better content, while also reaching a wider audience. Ain't that the dream? Also, I want to be able to focus on our (Action Button Entertainment's) game TRUCK HECK more.

Also, the CEO was an idiot.

premiering at 4PM Pacific / 7PM Eastern / 23:00 UTC, the first Action Button review, of Final Fantasy VII Remake, over 3 hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4H5ykBP0I

dope but i think i will wait until after i've played the game to watch 3 hours of tim rogers about it

gonna do the opposite

i don't think i'll ever play the real games. so i'm looking forward to experiencing the remake series through tim rogers

whew, that first hour is fun but exhausting

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

as someone who has never played ffvii and has no intention of playing ffvii or the remake this was amazing. only trouble is that i couldn't help reading everything in tim's voice for the rest of the day

"what a philosophical nightmare"

I've also never played FFVII outside of the demo, and probably never will play it, but I find it very fascinating as a pop-cultural relic, so this was worth watching for me. I'll probably avoid his video on TLoU until I've actually played that, though.

two hours into this it has mostly convinced me i shouldn't play it. Good review! Saved me a lot of time!

this was fine. i mean i watched three hours without being bored. but i wasn’t at any point wowed enough by anywhere he went with it that i felt, afterwards, it had been a sound investment of my time. which i suspect is how i would feel if i got the ffvii remake so i guess it fits

INSERT CREDIT PODCAST is happening again btw and i kind of prefer his snide persona to his earnest persona so I’ve been digging that a lot

only trouble is that i couldn't help reading everything in tim's voice for the rest of the day

― devvvine, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 09:11 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

my girlfriend accused me of doing this. i was totally unconscious of it.

well, here's three hours on the last of us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGSTEKapIAg

One of his best videos imo

his certainty is infectious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9V8GPtvQEI

i found this entertaining and it offered a lot more info about the games he's worked on than i'd picked up from his videos

i ran out of my crohn's disease medication a couple weeks back. coincidentally, i now know what the symptoms of crohn's disease feel like. also, i am experiencing an outbreak of shingles. i spent all day on the phone today, and learned i can't get health insurance until 2021.

— tim rogers (@108) July 22, 2020

dude's really been going through it

THREE AND A HALF HOURS ABOUT DOOM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38zduHkwGcc

this is very much my content of choice from him.

also this is how i feel about the nfl in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43a2H7LQ1Xs

Thank god

pretty stoked to dig into that doom video

alright, i just got through the first chapter of Doom and fuck, it's PROUSTIAN

i spent ten minutes explaining to my gf who this guy was before i hit play (there was a considerable digression about patreon) and got her to agree to try this video to see if she could see what I liked about him. she couldn't even make it past the list of releases.

Your GF is a champ for sticking it out that far, dude is definitely an acquired taste. I daresay this is the best thing he's done yet. I'm amazed at how many times he cuts away to that Romero/Carmack photo and it is equally hilarious every time. Also amazed at how he seems to be aging in reverse.

I seriously hope I am that hot when I'm 41 (I won't be)

I loved his "Last of Us" epic, looking forward to this.

the doom video is fucking great; it really is like six separate long form video essays and they're all interesting and pretty funny.

in the video he says he got COVID twice??

I also was not aware that he had some form of the Marilu Henner memory thing, but that sure explains how he was able to remember all of his play through in such detail.

also his use of repetition is weirdly appealing to me

yeah, i empathize
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthymesia

If anyone wants to read the FFVI essay he mentions in the ULTRA-VIOLENCE section, it's here: http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=3272

yes i do, thank you! i didn't realize he was publishing new action button (written) reviews, last year

i really enjoyed that essay. there's a reveal about halfway through that made me actually say holy shit

i'd read tim's auto-fictional epic

oh yeah i think that FF6 essay was partially incorporated into his 1994 review video

Ok I've watched three hours of the Doom thing, even though it blows up Firefox's memory usage and makes everything crash. I can't always make it through his super long videos but this is good.

(might have to switch back to Chrome even though I was trying to lesson my Google surveillance)

The FFVI essay is good too, as a poignant midwest portrait of pre-internet childhood being obsessed with Final Fantasy games (relatable, except for me it was the original FF). Did he really go to high school with Subway Jared?!

If he did, he went to college near him as well

I am very curious to see how he will spin insight, LOLs, and poignancy from Pac-Man, a game that to my mind, "speaks for itself" even more than Doom. Like what on Earth is there to say about Pac-Man?

I struggled with the doom vid. doom's greatness is somewhat lost in watching gameplay video.

i was ignorant of tim rogers before clicking on this thread a couple of weeks ago, i played doom back in the day and plenty of other fpses but am not a fanboy; anyway decided to start watching this for whatever reason and loved it.

> it blows up Firefox's memory usage and makes everything crash
> might have to switch back to Chrome

how about neither: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/

I thought I was gonna get some projects started this afternoon--NOPE!

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

o god how many hours is this gonna be

chat says a shade under three. i am kinda excited.

I can't believe he's still listing instances of the "come a long way" trope

By which I mean I 100% believe it, but man, this bit may destroy me

i appreciate his commitment to the 3 hour format though my favorite video reviews of his were the 20 minute ones (hyrule warriors, forza horizon 4)

When he gets around to Super Mario Bros 3 I can’t imagine him doing anything short of a 10 hour series

TRUCK HECK

omigod this opening

I couldn't make it through the Doom one, but Pac-Man could be good.

saving this for Thanksgiving when I may give it my full attention.

The Tokimeki Memorial video is up and its six hours long

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-DtICmPTY

lol, i have never heard of this game.

finally--i say this very early in the video, though i figure it deserves at least one social media post: WOW. Tokimeki Memorial is an *EXTREMELY* Important Video Game that You Should Know About. it's bigger than chrono trigger, persona, MGS, and GTA. it's monumental. i love it

— tim rogers (@108) January 1, 2021

bookmarked! i don't know anything about it, and i would like to know. perfect tim rogers content

however, he also raved about god of war and i'm still a little mad about that

Lol at the Patreon supporter that cancelled their sub because they didn't want to hear Tim talk about games they'd never heard of. Why would you even bother subbing to a Tim Rogers channel if you weren't interested in hearing him ramble on at great length about anything at all, as that basically is all his videos (and the whole appeal of watching them IMO)?

otm

Desperate for him to actually publish a novel but I don’t think he ever will

yeah tokimeki memorial is kinda the next most elemental game after tetris, mario, and zelda

it's still zelda though by way of the majora's mask sidequests and general ignorance of the chronology of those two games

watched up to the first intermission and this one's goood

YESSSSS!!! i've been wanting to play this game for a while but no english translation :(

He’s really in his bag

best tim rogers content is that bit within pac man episode where he talks about that game where you tie string around pins to trap dudes.

Tangential but for fans of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAJrVXaPe9s

ok that was enjoyable on the whole but i think the first hour where he places the game in historical context was the strongest part

well that plus the creeping horror of the 'successful' playthrough. his ruminations afterwards don't really add that much that isn't already expressed there

HELLO. starting at noon saturday i'll stream a complete game of TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL: FOREVER WITH YOU for sega saturn over at https://t.co/ZM876RMmAc. my goal will be to get megumi mikihara, which as i explain in my review i consider the most interesting route. so follow me please~ pic.twitter.com/AVtnr6fTrJ

— tim rogers (@108) January 7, 2021

Is L.A. Noire really as good as his aside implied in this one?

I'm prepared to believe it when he gets done talking about it

yeah i was surprised to learn he thinks its good, ive only ever heard lukewarm impressions of that game

i kinda hated it!

i always think "l.a. noire is supposed to good, right?" before remembering that i'm primarily thinking about tim rogers raves throughout the years

The one risk with Tim Rogers is he likes a lot of stuff, including NASCAR t-shirts, Conan novels, direct to video martial arts movies…

80s Japanese idol pop…

It’s inspiring to me to learn from someone with the openheartedness to enjoy so much.

i like to let him convince me that something is amazing and then give it a shot, it's fun

i am an avowed I LOVE EVERYTHING guy but LA Noire is not a fun game. It's Heavy Rain.

Tim is the american bradass of videogames

LA Noire's game mechanic was annoying, you had 3 options when questioning a suspect, forget the terminology but essentially you could believe them, challenge them with proof of their dishonesty, or doubt them without proof. The distinction between the latter two options was close to utterly arbitrary and annoying as hell. The acting,storyline, and writing were all pretty good as far as games go

the one time I bought into tim rogers' contrarian hyping the game was pish

there were definitely things about la noire i liked, in spite of the bad parts, im curious to see him talk abt it for a long time bc he might cover some of those things

like if they removed all of the "game" from it and made it a drive around 1920s simulator i'd maybe love it even more?!

In the context of this TM video at least, he seemed to be championing the interrogation gameplay.

don't think he hypes up games he loves to convince other people to actually play them, usually

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzPvx8VUSDw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cib-Mlqz3ZU

omg lol

I absolutely must play this game now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVWbogLa77Q

this game seems like it is good

When you're doing the part of the game that isn't interrogating people it's pretty stale

But it's a great game world for the era. Really cool version of classic LA

He's streaming tokimemo rn on Twitch if anyone's interested:

https://www.twitch.tv/actionbutton

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that Action Button is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Looking forward to the review of baseball

baseball rules in part because every turn contains a massively dreadful opportunity for infinity. baked right into the design are questions whose answers involve "idk man somebody's arms'll fall off first". anyway please anticipate my review of BASEBALL, coming 2025-ish https://t.co/GE8LZxUKiY

— tim rogers (@108) March 14, 2021

honestly, this would be the ultimate tim rogers review for me

I have zero interest in baseball, but I'm sure he'd make it compelling. And then I might come away with *a little* interest in baseball.

i would like to make a 3 hour tim rogers-style parody video, raving about baseball. then convince some of you to join me to watch a game, only to watch that you absolutely hate it, still (my experience with yakuza)

Finally going through Pac Man a segment at a time, it's excellent.

Love to hear his disturbingly specific memories of his early '80s childhood renting NES games from the video store, very resonant for me

He has beyond photographic memory, he said something like "I remember everything that's ever happened to me and I hate it"

theres a vid where he describes the first hour or so of link's awakening screen by screen from memory

I assume everyone who's ever written a memoir has that strong of a memory, if I wrote a memoir it'd be all "I suppose I went to school…I had some birthday parties…"

latest updates have been wild

go through this thread if you like tim rogers

i made a massive patreon post about this, so here's the tiny twitter version: the cyberpunk video is REAL GOOD (and huge). it's gonna take another month. it's the best thing i've ever made, so please wait a little longer so i can finesse it! expect it week one of august. pic.twitter.com/RYUJc8VIqX

— tim rogers (@108) July 6, 2021

"i played 110 video games total for this review" lol

glad to hear the 'season 2' reviews are going to be shorter, i still much prefer his old 20-40 min kotaku videos to the new 3 hour format. 20 mins is still a lot of content!

Yeah, all of that seems like good news!

I'm stoked

about season 2 and that he has finally forced himself to only work 40 hour weeks but also for whatever the hell this cyberpunk review will be

ciderpress I hear u and you're right but also the tokimemo review was worth every stinking minute

also i'm sure shorter videos still means like an hour long at this point

yeah

Can't wait. Action Button was the best discovery from the 2020 "TV" poll!

New episode 10/10 at 10. So this is gonna be 10 hours, huh

next sunday is october tenth. i don't care if you're from the united states OR kingdom: that is the best possible day for me, a Video Game Critiquer, to release a hideously massive video review of @CyberpunkGame. i will take no further questions. sunday 10/10, 10am eastern. pic.twitter.com/UqxmtIEKGv

— tim rogers (@108) October 1, 2021

Delayed once more

Thematically appropriate (and for tech issues to boot)

per patreon - tomorrow, 6pm eastern, opening segment on twitch.tv/actionbutton and once that's done airing (including a twist?!), the entirety of it goes up on the YT. sounds like it's split into two vids due to processing issues. but i think it's really real this time!

i hope the twist is that he decided to review a different game

lol the stream didn’t even show up until almost 20 minutes in, and then there was a big STAND BY screen until almost 6:30, and now he’s… drinking a Coke

this is getting dark

be well, tim

are you fucking kidding me tim

i got worked

Trashcan Jerry!

This is already hilarious

Games are becoming every game

SEVEN REVIEWS

......

ok he actually just put it on YouTube. i was pretty sure the computer was going to blow up or something

chapter 1’s killing me

spoiler: he does talk about how keanu reeves is great, and should not be blamed for anything, for 28 minutes :)

any time the development team size is mentioned (“cyberpunk’s development team was 1/4th the size of rockstar games’ for red redemption 2’s development team”) it absolutely boggles my mind that they were planning on hitting all platforms on launch

jesus christ wtf

absolutely in awe of tim’s gaming rig. it’s the only system capable of capturing the cyberpunk footage we crave tbh

i'm gonna follow the instructions and watch parts 5 and 6

this has been worth the wait

lol got the bad ending

So the first hour is truly just the intro, huh

the bad ending turned into the true ending, now i have permission to watch the whole thing

Apparently in part 5 he says the 'pick 2 parts' thing was just to quell people complaining about length lol

shhh dont spoil it lol

anyway i watched 1-6-7-5 bc i was feeling naughty i was like "the short one, as a treat"

Half ass watched intro-1-6-end and really enjoyed it. I think doing other stuff was kinda the way to go here, it's not super deep and pausing every couple of minutes to read too much text on the screen often kinda kills the flow of these videos for me (am I meant to do that on a supposed second play or something?). and giving my undivided attention to the hour on jackets and watches would've kinda pissed me off. This way, it was just funny.

Of course I will watch the other segments sometime. The only-watch-two thing was just dumb enough for me to indulge. What rationale did he even try to give? Uh, there's a lot of repetition and stuff? lol. I guess he's interested to see which bits rack up the most hits.

I don't think I could like anything more than his Tokimeki Memorial episode.

jackets and *glasses

Part 3 is great

lol what's the opposite of a speed run? Because that's what this is so far.

Anyway, there's a meta perfection to his approach, because as far as I'm concerned youtube is where I go to watch and/or enjoy alternate endings to or plot branching in games I'm too lazy or exhausted to play more than once to get every ending (that is to say, all of them so far), let alone 100% or "platinum." So of course I will eventually make my way through all/much/most of this.

Weird he seemingly couldn't stop from playing so cheaply. I intentionally didn't bother learning much about how to best level up, do "quickhacks", and all that, and combat stayed reasonably challenging. But of course I can't say that's "playing it right", either.

Also he played a lot when the game was still super broken. The rogue taxis stuff was one of my favourite bits of the game and was mostly busted for Tim.

The game itself is barely the point at all of course. If you are thinking about playing it before watching the video, I'd say don't bother!

Part 3 literally spoils every ending in the game so if that matters don't watch it.

I like the "good time hat" idea, that's pretty much how I try to play. I just play so slowly that luckily I wasn't very far before a lot was fixed.

Somehow of all his claims I find the idea of how many videogames he plays to completion to be the hardest to believe. 4 or 5 versions of Shadowrun? A dozen rodent based 16 bit games? To the end? Really?

belief isn't important to me when watching a tim rogers review, i believe it like i believe bret hart is really working someone's knee. whether it's an exaggeration, a lie or cold hard facts, i'm gonna accept it, because sometimes it's fun to be tricked

the Excellence of Execution for a new generation

feel like i should've reached for a rock reference what with the number of times he says "the bottom line" but decided to go with a technical guy for arbitrary reasons

fuck i meant stone cold. i am so fucked if any wrestling fans sees that last one

what?

he's saying that wrestling fans hate ice cream chains

Will M was understandably mixing up stone cold steve Austin's catchphrase "that's the bottom line cause stone cold said so" and the rock's finishing move "rock bottom"

As someone who reads Tim's Twitter feed I feel pretty confident saying hes just a massive liar even when he isnt playing "tim rogers" or maybe he's just always playing "tim rogers" even in interactions with people he knows. I get that he has a funky brain but the breadth of things he claims to have recently consumed is ridiculous

The part where he says he read 266 books last year and 12 this year (because he was playing too many video games)...idk, it seems crazy to me, but people on ILB read an amount of books that I can't conceive of, and he does have a pretty weird brain. And he has time for consuming media as part of his job.

i always get into that zone where i think "oh they must just be skimming it", and then think about how all reading is a factor of skimming, and we all have our own ideas of what "skimming" is

because even if you read in one day -- really read -- a book that takes a normal person 7 days, what does that mean in terms of absorbing the material? the person who takes 7 days may very well sit and think about the passages during the "downtime" during those 7 days, during those dreams, in conversations. "oh what are you reading?", "well, "

meanwhile the person who reads 300 books a year is apparently doing all of this in a day, nearly every day

seems fucked up to me but i am a "slow listener" advocate, slow the fuck down everyone

Yeah, I thought I was a super fast reader in college, but I was definitely skimming for keywords and gists, and I'm slower now because I'm actually trying to absorb all of the words, for pleasure.

Clearly you can skim games too (maybe this is what we should call speed running).

that was always the thing about the matrix to me - sure, you can hook up a cable and download the info to your mind, but does that also count the time that your mind spends digesting the content? you may hear the golden rule as a 5 year old, but it takes time to understand what it really means. does the matrix cable account for that? maybe it does. i admit that i read superintelligence a few years ago, all the way through, and think of this stuff in terms of "cycles". maybe there are plenty of cycles to go around in the matrix

Clearly you can skim games too (maybe this is what we should call speed running).

for sure. not even speed running, but just trying to "beat" the game as quickly as possible. maybe doing 2/4 of the bosses in breath of the wild before headed toward ganon

I can believe that he's capable of reading very fast, less believable is his tendency to respond to everyone on Twitter asking "have you read/watched/played this" with "why I just so happened to be reading/watching/playing that yesterday/this morning" which he does surprisingly a lot

Among other things...I've known 2 people who have legitimate trouble telling the truth in any context and he just reminds me of them sometimes, and that unfortunately leads me to treat the actual biographical stuff he shares as kayfabe

i can see that for sure

i had a friend who had a thing about lying. like, a very weird, extreme dedication to extravagant lies. which ended our friendship.

I have a feeling it’s just the character Tim Rogers idk

It's the fact that he claimed to play all these old console games that got me, at least some of them the first time. Unless he's generally freakishly good at platformers, a lot of those can take an eternity. Maybe he used an emulator and savestates, at least.

I was doing Austin's "What?" bit with Will but he punked out.

i am exhausted with the tim rogers character, tbh. i started watching the cyberpunk 2077 review, and about 10 minutes in i just wanted to die

the most exhausting thing was the Twitch stream after he played the review intro video and started obsessing about how the outro (of the intro) portion was done in 59 point whatever frames per second resulting in a jump every x seconds that he had just now noticed...... this went on for some time.

if you're watching the twitch stream before it's even on youtube, you kind of bought your tickets already

I'm a fan. But for how he likes to say the scripted version is not a real person, well, is it possible the real guy is even more tedious?

It is funny how I can feel mega bad for him due to his various challenges and then I watch a video where he describes the 45 $500 jackets he owns and I'm like wait a second...

having met him the real guy is more or less the same person you see in the intermission bits of these vids

He was extremely the guy in the videos in 2010 when I met him, but it does sound like he's mellowed

Didn't someone here say they met him and he drunkenly tried to start a fight with them

i am exhausted with the tim rogers character, tbh.

seems like he is too, fwiw

I was doing Austin's "What?" bit with Will but he punked out.

― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:21 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

And then I tried a bit where I was confidently incorrect (cold stone creamery)

Is he exhausted with the character? Seems he is proud of his 10 hour video game review

his ability to remember things and numbers down to ridiculous levels of detail remind me a lot of descriptions of the “pure o” version of ocd. it might not be completely true to reality, but your brain loops on events enough you end up with intense recollections of detail

also, absolutely burrowing into video games and books fits

this isn’t a diagnosis per se, just a possibly mentality where doing things in this way makes sense

he also mentions in one of the videos that he’s limited himself to a 40 hour work week, but his main hobby is still playing video games outside of those hours

lol missed you back there Evan. Also i had to cook dinner. I hope everyone smelt it

No worries man, you rock!

i for one do not think this guy who creates obsessive videos that dissect every detail of his own emotional and intellectual relationship to video games for a living is lying when he says he plays a lot of video games

i think he heavily embellishes a lot of his experiences, it's not really lying so much as storytelling. i don't have any doubt he played through a ton of old platformers or whatever, those games are all like an hour or two long

gonna report back when tearing my hair out in the middle of Rocky Rodent

Tim should be a guess star helper on Game Center CX

As someone who has been following the dude's output since the mid 00s--he's been doing degrees of kayfabe for pretty much his whole career. He's even gone on at length publicly about how the first stuff that he wrote online was a troll to make fun of some self-serious person he knew on a game forum. For a while I was maybe unhealthily para-socially fascinated with the question of "how much of this is a bit?" I get the impression that there's less of the persona and more of the "authentic" guy in his current output, but it's also clear that he believes real, true authenticity on the internet isn't possible, and he has fun with that.

and that's THE STRAIGHT DOPE--stay tuned for my multi-hour video review of Tim's review

tim is very good at benjamin buttoning himself via jackets and hair. with these time powers, i believe he has played and read everything.

Will M was understandably mixing up stone cold steve Austin's catchphrase "that's the bottom line cause stone cold said so" and the rock's finishing move "rock bottom"

― ✖, Thursday, October 28, 2021 5:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i think this is 100% what i did to the point where i heard dwayne's voice in my head saying "that's the bottom line"

It's the fact that he claimed to play all these old console games that got me, at least some of them the first time. Unless he's generally freakishly good at platformers, a lot of those can take an eternity. Maybe he used an emulator and savestates, at least.

I was doing Austin's "What?" bit with Will but he punked out.

― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, October 28, 2021 7:21 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I JUST FORGOT TO CHECK BACK OK I GOT THE BIT

I SAAAAAID,,,,

huh

now that you're doing wrestling goofs u know i have to assume you're the maffew of botchamania

Oh you didn't know?!

Nah tho this is the only forum I've ever posted any amount on

comment from some dude on the Tokimeki Memorial review

While Tokimeki Memorial is one of the first and is definitely the most influential "genuine cyberpunk artifact" of a game, I'd say the LovePlus (ラブプラス) series go even farther - forcing the player to talk and sing into the microphone and evaluating their emotional investment through voice recognition technology and demanding the completion of daily and special limited events in *real-time*.
What, you aren't hardcore enough to have a "real" short conversation with your cyber girlfriend whispering into your Nintendo 3DS every morning at 08:00-09:00 in a convincingly caring tone? Well, tough shit - cos' she is going to dump you, game over. You are in class or at your workplace in real life? Nobody cares! Your girlfriend is calling on the Nintendo 3DS and you better pick up that call, or you are in serious trouble.
The rabbit hole of the madness of LovePlus+ is on its own level, honestly.

I've watched part 3 (what he liked) and bits of part 4 (what he didn't), and ... I feel kind of bad for this game. I'll never play it and don't want to play it, but it seems so rich and ambitious that (like Rogers) I can see its achievements and failures, existing sort of symbiotically, which if I were one of the programmers that slaved over it for so long would make me feel terrible. Like, all that hard work, all those ideas, all that effort, and it became an instant punchline, justified and not justified, for so many. And for many others probably remains so, despite (I assume) many patches.

I played through a couple endings. I enjoyed it.

I was shook by the Judy side quest/romance as much as tim and it’s ridiculously good (Judy is my ride-or-die forever partner in cyberpunk)

tried restarting the game this week and it’s wild how fleshed out (and yet vacant!!) the opening quests are. So much choreography but so little substance. Like there’s a little cutscene with an architectural flyby and synopsis of how you’ll infiltrate. Nothing like this happens at any point in the rest of the game! Or at least not as I remember.

LovePlus sounds wild. Anyone else catch the part of the new review where he says Tokimeki 2 is twice as good as the first? Hmmm

I'm finished all the parts now. Really fun. And he totally claimed to play all of those games in the out-of-TIMROGERS-character mode. And in the list of games he played through, he threw in "and 20 hours of Red Dead Redemption 2". I guess I believe him. The walk we see him take may be his first in quite some time.

So there is one open world game that he found surprisingly good and will talk about in detail later on. Wonder which.

I'm not sure I've beaten any of the GTA 3's... might have to pick up the "definitive edition" coming soon and maybe it'll be less forgiving wrt RC controlled helicopters.

*more forgiving. god help me

i'm also interested to know what his favorite open world game was

All the references to medical problems, I assume that is not him doing a bit.

I think the "I played through every single iteration of [game] AND THEN I replayed... AND THEN I played every possible influence... AND THEN I played all 500 hours of... AND THEN I read every single fan fiction... AND THEN" is definitely a complete bit. I believe he researched these things thoroughly which may have involved a lot of play time, but I don't necessarily believe any of these lists of content consumption claims are literally done as described. The relentlessness to making the "pile" sound as big as possible is a bit that is meant to be proportionate to the cartoonish depth of his dive into a subject, hence the intense delivery and review lengths as well (and everything else).

i want to believe

did he mention listening to the billy idol cyberpunk album?

I don't think so. And he would had if he was a dirty liar!

https://johnrieber.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/todd-rundgren-live-1994.jpg

watched this all the way through a week ago. if you haven't yet, i would recommend just doing that instead of picking and choosing. it works really well as a complete thing i think. even the 30-45 minute journey into jackets. i also think this is maybe the most essential essay/treatise about modern AAA video games and possibly about the game industry c.2021 as a whole, at least in a basic sense. puts into words a lot of things i've felt for a while.

Listened to a recent Insert Credit podcast episode and i think the open world game he loves is The Godfather. Unless the video contradicts this? I'm not rewatching.

pretty sure it's actually Days Gone and that is it plainly stated on a freeze frame somewhere in the 10 hours. He's also been mentioning it a bit on twitter, even just a couple minutes ago:

i'd say

* red dead redemption 2 (real good writing; quite slow though)
* assassin's creed valhalla (got a lot of vikings; however, it's a little too big)
* days gone (does a LOT of surprising / amazing mechanical things with its open world! however: yeah, it's a Zombie Game)

— tim rogers (@108) December 4, 2021

just lmao'd at this clip of the video in which i novelized the entirety of red dead redemption 1's plot. *the* best vid i made at kotaku. on the other hand, it didn't get a million hits. (it still hasn't cracked 100k!) they shoulda made me CEO for this tbh https://t.co/va3ngqoDnb pic.twitter.com/P23xpexCdS

— tim rogers (@108) December 15, 2021

So what's up with this guy?

I occasionally listen to the podcast he's on ("Insert Credit") and that's been business as usual. I just looked at his Twitter... I didn't realize he seems to have stopped posting as a new year's resolution.

I can see an April 25 Patreon update says "Season Two COMING QUITE SOON"... hmmmm

I haven’t joined for a long time but Tim has been doing Friday night twitch sessions

HELLO

I hope tim's collaborators have freed up and TRUCK HECK is becoming a reality

oh yeah the twitch. He's on there right now talking about shoes. Pretty indistinguishable from a new YouTube season.

https://t.co/mXk6jkS0IY pic.twitter.com/kdlaZhgE5Y

— tim rogers (@108) September 25, 2022

the prodigal Tim has returned

based on his absence from the insert credit podcast, i figured he was either wrapping up work on an action button review or having another of his health issues. from the sound of his voice in this review it seems like it was both

*sigh*

I don't hate Tim, I just wish he gave his work to someone else to deliver it. And to cut out some of the romantic melodramatic garbage always involved in his schtick. Is there anyone like this bloke but not annoying?

I hope he's been busy working on TRUCK HECK

the romantic melodramatic garbage

is a big part of the appeal, imo

There's nobody else quite like Tim out there, but I'd recommend Noah Caldwell-Gervais for a semi-similarly deep-divey and personal (though more focused) approach to games crit.

I say all this and then watch his FFVII YouTube video.....

He would be so good if he could somehow learn to contain his enormous ego. or at the very least, not romanticise it. Thanks for the rec, sadly Noah doesn't seem to cover the type of games I am interested in (which Tim does damnit).
Watching Tim feels like watching keeping up with the Kardashians. I know the vanity is bad for my own soul, yet the hate-watch drive (and genuinely interesting things to say about video games) says give me more.

He just needs someone over his shoulder asking "uhhh, hey Tim, does this part of your content do anything for the viewer except try to manipulate them into thinking you God's gift to this barren earth? No? Is it perhaps entirely self-indulgent? Yes?".

the gonzo style is part of the appeal imo, though it was maybe better in small doses when he was doing 20 min videos for kotaku instead of these 3-6 hour monstrosities

enormous ego
try to manipulate them into thinking you God's gift to this barren earth?

i don't get any of this from his work and i would like to politely remind you to re-read the subtitle of this thread. to quote the man himself, "buddy, you think i LIKE the sound of my own voice?" he's clearly on the spectrum and what i see is his flawed-but-functional social coping strategy.

there is no one else on earth making scripted, maximalist brain puke video game criticism videos and for that reason i'm glad he went independent so he can go as far as his health will allow. though i do fear that his eventual dark souls review will end up like SMiLE or hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73hip3pz0Xs

i don't get any of this from his work and i would like to politely remind you to re-read the subtitle of this thread. to quote the man himself, "buddy, you think i LIKE the sound of my own voice?" he's clearly on the spectrum and what i see is his flawed-but-functional social coping strategy.

and if the tim rogers i'm defending there is just a carefully constructed fictional persona, then he's a very talented artist and should keep on doing what he's doing

i see a lot of criticism like HP's on reddit whenever he's posted there and i really just don't see it. in nearly every review, the egotistical autobiographical stuff is clearly done in service of his main points or in contextualizing the game itself. granted i'm only maybe 25% through the new review, but every piece of biographical information so far has been included for sake of the game itself. i don't think any of it is there to give me an appreciation of tim rogers' life. i've said before that i'm pretty sure a lot of it is straight up kayfabe anyway.

the only review i can think of where he was actually writing about himself for the sake of writing about himself was very long written review of FFVI.

regardless, i don't think the way that he uses his personal life in his reviews is in any way unique except that he's doing it to talk about video games rather than novels, travels, food, whatever, and that he's doing it on youtube rather than in writing.

i do think that his personality and sense of humor is what drives a lot of interest in his videos but when's that ever been a problem with criticism?

there are a lot of people on the internet who have glommed onto a variation of the tall poppy syndrome where anyone who acts as a distinct individual (read: not anonymous) or has actual subject area knowledge is somehow showing off or violating a social contract. there’s definitely a strong contingent in the video game fan space (and Reddit) that have that tendency

Tim’s video persona feels like more of a bit to me, where he does have extensive knowledge but he couches it in this over the top dramatic reading that sounds like a cross between a retro newscaster and an enthusiastic high school drama kid who plays every character the same way in an “acting voice”

It’s not always my thing, but I appreciate his work and seriously hope he remembers to take breaks from video games occasionally

that is to say, I don’t think it’s ego-driven in a bad way, and presenting things you’re knowledgeable about in videos you worked hard on should give you a little ego boost in a healthy way

in a way i feel similarly about tim rogers and battlestar galactica (2004 tv version): there is a whole bunch of it, waaay too much of it. you don't need all of it. some of it is purely filler. but damn, when it is good it is GOOD

tbf some of the tangents are about his understanding that he is a weird, obsessive dude and I get more of a sense of self-deprecation from some of those admissions

Looking forward to the new video and hope he's back on Insert Credit soon. The stand-ins have been good but I do miss having him there claiming he's recently played any and every game ever mentioned.

Reduced to a redditor, ouch.

The potential of him being on the spectrum reminds me to be kind. If that is the case (I’m not sure, has it been stated?) then yeah, what he is doing is a good thing.
I have all the time in the world for stories of saving up one’s part time income and sneaking to the video game store to buy a game in the 80’s outside the view of your female workmate. I cringe when I have to hear him say “I don’t like myself” halfway through a 3hr video essay. His personal stuff is brilliant when it relates, vry off putting when it’s braggadocious like “I played FFVII 16 times in the past two years” repeated x8 in a single video. If the bragging is a bit, I guess I just don’t get it.

All said, his content outside of my complaints is so good I am watching him regardless

that's the worst example of a brag I've ever heard.

I'm an hour in, fun so far. as a former Japan liver </brag> the Why Did You Come to Japan bit was really cute.

I’ll leave

lol cmon. Is that a brag for serious gamers? I dunno. I've never played a Final Fantasy. I should try and get through his review of the remake sometime.

The Doom and Pacman and Tokimeki reviews hooked me. I've always been curious about the omglol Weird Japan! magazine kind of coverage of things we never used to get "over here" and thought that section of this video was well done.

Seems the Boku fan translation isn't out yet.

when you’re a game reviewer/creator, saying you played a game that many times is like “bragging” you worked two weeks of 70 hour shifts and you don’t get paid overtime, imo

he LOVES talking about how much he overworks himself!

tim 'paid tha cost to be da boss' rogers

I find his epic essays a little too much to take (literally; they're really long!) but I've got to admit they accomplish something novel, even necessary, in a way. Video games make a bazillion dollars a year, and young people in particular spend a bazillion hours a year just *watching* people play video games. Yet there's not a lot of long form discussion/dissection of video games anywhere, afaict, not really, which is remarkable, given their prominence in pop culture. So if he wants to spend six hours crafting a take on a game, making the case for why something so niche or cult or overlooked deserves your attention, I say bring it on.

I mean, it's wild, a game like Red Dead Redemption 2 can make almost a billion dollars in a weekend, and yet it's nowhere close to a household name property, imo, not in the same way, say, Star Wars or Marvel is. For sure people will pay attention to the Last of Us show, but many of them will have no idea about the game beyond that there even is a game, let alone a game whose merits someone like Rogers could intelligently, intricately discuss for five hours or whatever it was without so much as dipping into the plot, iirc.

One thing I hope we all can agree on is that he should*absolutely* keep writing hallucinatory ad copy for hbomberguy to read

I decided not to play all of those Contrail games.
I mean actually, I had actually played __all__ of them, years ago,
over the years, it was -- it gave me maybe the very first instance
of going to Wikipedia to look for a list of something, and, realizing
I had engaged with literally everyone on the list.

that was a very Tim moment

it's just one tim moment after another, i love it

when tim rogers does that low, gravelly voice, he's starting to sound uncomfortably like Alex Jones

that naniwa express album the cool guy at work recommended to tim is pretty sick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAxyYtpazmw

someone took the trouble of listing his favourite albums that he flashed on the screen over like 2 seconds in the Tokimeki video. Some great stuff:
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/pedrochambs/tim-rogers-ten-favorite-albums-of-all-time/

ha! I literally did the same thing freeze-framing it myself. guess I should have just done a google search instead.

of course, I still haven't actually listened to the records I'm not already familiar with. one day!

oh I love that Starbow record, a scifi idol concept album by Hosono that was a huuuuge flop

amazed there is a clip of Starbow on TV, only seen photos before!
the concept was that they were genderless aliens so were dressed and sang somewhat androgynously, early 80s Japan were having none of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FzW4xGQT_s

yep, that's a favorite of mine as well.

the taeko ohnuki is also quite good, a highlight in a large catalog filled with cool records.

Finished the Boku video (who else made it?)

He mentioned again his habit of listening to a new album *every* day. Mightn't be a stretch to many on ILM but I know I wouldn't get much out of trying that. It's probably a decent relief from his memory issues, of course detailed again as he goes home to Kansas for the first time in 30 years...

I never got the sense he was bragging about anything. I hope for him that he even is just pretty OK with himself. There's a lot of talking about himself of course. The thesis he rolls around to at around the 5 hour mark is all we can learn from well-imparted nostalgia. "I love everyone and you can too". I'd be more inclined to call this "nostalgia" simply "memories" or "experience", but I can see if he's drawing a distinction from how he can remember the exact date he last went to a certain food court.

--
The guy working on the game translation is still at it:

I'm currently taking some time off Twitter, but rest assured, I'm working on the thing y'all are excited for! 🦋
I do check my DMs still, so you can reach me there if you have questions or comments!

— Samuel 💻✨ Messner (@obskyr) September 27, 2022

(who else made it?)

i'm somewhere in the third hour! taking it in chunks. in typical fashion, by the time i was in the second hour i was trying (and failing) to download an emulated version of the first game on psx

i didn't know anything at all about boku no natsuyasumi. i want to play!

I'm trying to convince a Japanese friend who loves the games to try getting through the video.

Karl once the translation is out I will commit to help you get it running on a computer

:) thanks maffew! i have openemu (mac running 12.5) but downloaded a file from a sketchy rom place, and the file failed to open. but honestly i've never had any luck with psx emulation, or really anything that for disc-based systems.

you can and you will

oh hell yeah!

it's gonna be a boku no natsuyasumi winter

Without even crossing the equator. They said it couldn't be done

have you played one of them before?

Nope. Had heard about the series from Ray Barnholt's enthusiasm for it over the years. It's sweet that he appears in the video.

*shot of ray barnholt*

"HI TIM!"

add me to the list of folks who wanna try a fanlation. looks great!

i got it running on openemu, there's a gamefaqs guide that explains what the buttons do but you're on your own dialogue-wise. very attractive game tho

The tricky thing with a lot of systems from this point is having BIOS files to get anything to run.

And then patching a rom will be another little pain.

To be clear, my Japanese is crap. I was over there two years. Can still read kana pretty quick, but most Chinese characters..fuhgeddaboutit

I was aware of this guy but never took a full dive until I watched his full Doom video earlier tonight. And it was kinda wild how the arc of my opinion of him while watching matched the arc of this thread that I read immediately afterwards.

Our greatest critic of the medium at work today

Tim is definitely an arc

I drive a lot and have been listening to a ton of Insert Credit recently. For Tim, solely, I’m finding. Guy is sharp and funny. I’m still not sure where he belongs in the bullshitter to savant spectrum, but enjoyable either way.

Brandon S. is fucking insufferable though. “So my number one game of the year is Super Fart Tensei 3. I don’t know, it’s kinda like Sonic Mania. It’s the most Dreamcast game of the year. Like the jumping feels pretty good, the running feels OK. But yeah, it’s bad and super janky. Hehehe. But kind of interesting. I played it for 12 minutes. Hehe. Yeah, that’s my number one.”

I want to shove him down a toilet.

you shoving him dowm a toilet is his game of the year, though

lol. At times you can practically hear the others biting their tongues with some of the dumb shit Tim and Brandon say. Best thing about that show.

xp lmao

It is true, the interplay between them all is what keeps me coming back. It would be too much if it was all Tim. But I do skip the episodes he’s not in.

Jaffe is a great host who knows how and when to interject. Frank is kind of a bore, but I like the museum/history stuff and his barely concealed contempt for most of what Brandon says is really funny. It’s a good sitcom.

That all sounds so great, will listen

Sort of really love how Frank seems to barely have played any games mentioned. I have to be in the mood for Brandon but the recent Tim/Brandon only episode was really, really strong.

I listened to a bit of that end of the year ep, and yeah, Rogers is fast and funny and less affected than his long videos. The other guys, don't know anything about them or why they are in the orbit of this video game savant. The one guy talked about giving "Elden Ring" maybe an hour before giving up, which seems ... short.

Well, Brandon is the co-founder of Insert Credit, which was Tim's first writing gig back in the early 00s. Those guys have been co-conspirators for decades. Not sure where Frank comes in, but I think the work he and Kelsey Lewin are doing with the Videogame History Foundation is super cool. I agree with y'all that Brandon's opinions can be baffling/obnoxious, there was a segment on this week's ep where he was trying to bash the Criterion Channel for being "pretentious;" Tim wasn't having it.

oh dear god this new episode. oh god.

Read that and thought there was a new Action Button review for a second. On Tim's current schedule we're not due another for around...five months or so?

just tim timming all over the latest podcast, in post. use caution if you like tim rogers.

i will probably finish it. it's just so ludicrous. Frank's audio is missing, and so he fills in the spaces in the conversation from his famously great memory.

Loved that episode and all the credit in the world to editor esper for making it even slightly comprehensible

Yahueh!

This sounds amusing, looking forward to it.

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.