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

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!