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

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.

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.