As a Pittsburgh resident, I remember the day Last of Us came out. I prowled through the ruins of Grant Street, weaving stealthily between makeshift military checkpoints, quietly slaughtering any gunmen too stupid or stubborn to get out of my way, before finally reaching the cracked and crumbling Fort Pitt Bridge. Then I went home and downloaded the game.
As a fellow Pittsburgh I can concur. Also The Fake Hotel that was set up for prom was based on the real hotel where my senior prom was held The William Penn - coming across that in the game was a lil spooky
@@EJ_Crough "As a fellow Pittsburgh I can concur." i am now convinced there was an experiment that incarnated multiple Pittsburghs into human form, all of whom experienced this man violently running through them then downloading a game
It would be Joel's shirt superficially covering/hiding Ellie's like his gruff male protag hid the fact that like Bioshock Inifinite this was definitely a story first and foremost about the young girl. I still love that 2 developers near simultaneously did this bait and switch and demonstrably tore the 'women can't be the protags' marketing/publishing myth to shreds.
It's bizarre but incredible that the 3hr Action Button button review of the extremely famous The Last of Us has significantly less views than the 2 6hr Acton Button reviews of obscure Japanese life sim games
Your videos satisfy my powerful subconscious desire to listen to a 40 year man list things for several minutes repeatedly over the course of several hours
0:48 Ahhh E3 2012, that was one to remember. Ill never forget the crowd's reactions when action button appeared on screen and tim rodgers did a 3 hour dissection of a game that wasnt out yet. Very bold of them.
@@ghfjfghjasdfasdf No one, watch the video. Alternatively, an enemy, followed by Baby Mario's shrill voice, demanding attention lest the player lose sight of him and, in turn, one of their precious lives.
When I came here, I didn't expect it to secretly be a love letter to 'Out Of This World'. That game is among the short list of games I have madman-proselytized now for decades, all with a response of dismissal and disinterest. I appreciate this small bastion of validation.
getting a lot of people watching this video and asking me in DMs if i'm gonna review out of this world in a later video . . . . . . buddy, what do you think i just did! lol
@@ActionButton I'm so used to listening to you, watching you and reading you that i just mandella effected myself when i saw this comment by, for a few seconds, thinking to myself "i already watched him say this in the video before, one of my favorite moments", only then to realize it was never in the video in the first place. It was a comment.
@crescian medston I've heard a bunch of people say this but I don't get it, you don't have to watch in one sitting, indeed you can just pop tims videos on in the background, I'm really new to his work only really found out about him as he was leaving Kotaku but yeah he's a good lad
@@macariuswrench whether or not it's in one sitting you're still watching some dude talk about a game for three hours. Yet I still do it for games I didn't really like that much...
Check out his ooooold channel Tim Rogers. I found a review from years ago where he does exactly that. Got about 90% thru it last night before passing out on my couch like an idiot. Interesting to watch the evolution of style ua-cam.com/video/IDCUqer7UrM/v-deo.html
Didn't people praise Bioshock Infinite through the roof when it came out? I remember lots of reviewers calling it a masterpiece and saying how clever and awesome it is. I have played it and enjoyed the opening but quickly got bored once the charm of the gorgeous visuals and art direction and the paralel universe quirks wore off, leaving a hollow game revealed unto me. It feels empty and kind of vacuous. I feel it needed boss battles to break up the areas, and to be less linear. A game set in a floating city should let you explore that floating city.
To be fair to Infinite, it's the only Bioshock game I finished. I've tried multiple times to get into the first one but it just doesn't hook me in any way
Anytime Tim Rogers says something about "doing the research" to fully understand something, I get incredibly hyped. This man is about to show painstaking detail to prove his thesis and I am here for all of dat data.
I took a 400 level critical film studies class on post apocalyptic narratives, and did a presentation on this game with a few classmates, shortly after the game had released. I do feel that TLoU does stand pretty favorably among post apocalyptic narratives, and functions as any good piece of fiction as a snapshot into the early 2010's fears and anxieties.
The devaluation of masculinity as it simultaneously becomes more necessary amidst increasing violence... and a world changing pandemic. Nope, nothing culturally relevant here. Move along.
I'm at the stage of my life where I'll happily watch an entire Tim Rogers review but if someone asks me to watch an hour and a half long movie I'll say, 'Hmm, no thanks. Seems too long.'
I don’t even know what that is but I guess I am still far away from reaching you guy’s level of understanding and knowledge of internet culture and media
I live in a densely populated metropolitan area. Walking during the pandemic is the Gran Turismo of Tim Rogers reviews. Also I'm day drinking so I'm sorry if that joke doesn't make sense
You are the embodiment of the "I have an uncle who works at Sony/Nintendo" statement. Thanks for all the content with such care and expertise into it. You are awesome!
In the proper order of importance: 1) This was a great video essay, review, ABN moving image, whatever you want to call it. I could not get myself to really care enough for the FFVII Remake to watch more than half of the other one so far but that was pretty much down to me not having played any Final Fantasy game ever - so my loss, I guess?! I rectified this situation by playing "The Last of Us" for the first time just this last week and had a good time with it actually. So thank you for keeping on getting me interested in games I did not really have on my radar or at least did not consider to play anytime soon. And thank you for producing video game "content" that does not make me want to quit playing video/computer games every other day. Since I am a lifelong home computer game liker (I'm just a 1980's European, not a console hater) and only occasionally happen to own a current gen console to play any kind of "prestige" video games I was pleasently surprised with TLOS seven years "after the fact". My actual question, because I could not stop thinking of it and you, Tim, have not mentioned it in your video at all: has this game ever been properly/critically compared to Half Life 2? To me there seems to be a fairly direct design and storytelling lineage between the Naughty Dog formula and Valve's first person flavour of environmental storytelling, character building, combatless traversal, setpieces and so on? Every other hour of playing TLOS and going on this road trip through a dystopian landscape and society made me think of my various playthroughs of HL2 during the last 16 years. Down to the Zombie and survival elements of Ravenholm and beyond (scarcity of ammo, switch between more predictable "infected" and highly tactical enemies and so on), the Babychild-Bigfriend is probably not as defined since Alyx seems fairly capable from the beginning and Gordon is such a blank slate guy but still we are dealing with large segments of "escort missions" that actually do not suck and you miss Alyx quite a bit in the moments when she's gone or the two are somehow separated. Also getting into new areas and scanning all the signifiers for possible combat engagements before they actually happen reminded me strongly of HL2. Not trying to stress this too much, I just found it interesting to find such vivid similarities in my play experience and feelings between "the biggest thing" in PC gaming of the mid-2000s and "the biggest thing" on consoles in 2013, which is even more interesting today where PC gaming came back with a vengeance commercially while at the same time PC and console gaming seem closer to each other than ever before in many regards one could argue. 2) It made me very happy that my name has been fixed in the credits of VIDEOBALL, I was not aware of that fact before (had my silly facebook handle in it in an earlier version). I somehow did not even notice that Eric Chahi's and my name are so close to each other in the same credit sequence, I'm flattered (and should get some people to play VIDEOBALL with me again). 3) Some technical issues I'm sure you are aware of already or are actually intentional: Some of these pie chart pieces are disproportionate in size to their stated percental value. Nobody cares, I just could not stop noticing. And is your camera set to autofocus? I even like the shallow image of your tasteful shirt and T-shirt combination somehow, it's just such a stark contrast to the razor-sharp in-game footage and the even sharper superimposed images on top of the footage of yourself. It seems like the lens does not have anything in focus that is actually in the picture. Again, not that I care all that much, it just reminded me of what happens when the AF of a camera is too dumb to correct itself properly. Thanks again. Very much looking forward to watching the DOOM video, finally a game I have played enough for the last 25 years to really have shaped my own opinion and thoughts going in!
i often feel a bizarre mirroring of my innermost thoughts when i watch tim videos but listening to him describe his relatively meager physical game collection as my eyes dart over my own ersatz three-shelf collection of DVDs and other discs i no longer own a machine to play that i picked up for completely inscrutable reasons yet to which i feel a deep personal connection was a truly surreal experience
Holy shit of all the things I expected to see in this video a Sleep No More shout-out was not among them... I would unironically love to see an action button review of Sleep No More.
To all the people that message you saying “why are you reviewing -insert_title_here”. This guy captivated me, an ex-bodybuilder, moonshiner and blacksmith for 6 hours on the subject of a dating simulator WITHIN the first 4 minutes. I’ll watch anything this guy reviews with utter joy.
Some Indie game developer saw this comment and has by now nearly finished his ex-bodybuilder, moonshiner and blacksmith dating simulator. It's going to be called BMB-DS Classic.
I watched this video for the first time in early 2021, having not ever played tlou despite owning it for years. I finally decided to play it because of how authoritative Tim is when speaking about games, I knew what I was getting into because of him, essentially. Now that I've played both of the games repeatedly and written about them as a hobby throughout the past 2 years it brings me so much joy to just turn on this video and kick back to where I was introduced to the series. Tim, thank you for remastering this review! Your original "glue wet gun" review was fantastic but getting to see your ideas be drawn out to the fullest extent is wonderful to experience.
Hey Tim, great review as always. I humbly request either a video or an article about “Best Hang Out Video Games”. I just finished a 200 hour play through of dragon quest 11 (mostly thanks to your review of the game) and I’ve discovered that “hang-outitude” is my favorite thing about RPGs. Keep up the good work man!
This man is amazing. That right here is an amazing man. He’s the best of us...his awkward, unapologetically quirky words are silky poetry to my cynical UA-cam listening ears. His work on this platform significantly lowers the value of other UA-cam commentators in so much that Tim releases a two hour commentary video where every second has value. Thank you for your time.
was into it until i saw he was a society-destroying commie who wants to defund the police force and descend his country into lawless violent chaos. hard pass. shame i thought his videos were good
I have rewatched each current instalment of season 1 in the same way I used to reread old Action Button reviews and secret blogposts: repeatedly and eagerly. I’m also really loving the emergent connective tissue between each review in the season that reveals itself upon reflection!
“Ellie is the main character.” That’s the game I want to play. Imagine playing entirely as Ellie just avoiding death while Joel handles the enemies eventually evolving my ability to save him and help him.
You kinda described playing as Moira in Resident Evil Revelations 2. Makes me wish their was a level with Barry and Moira together at the end of that game.
This is a really good video that actually made me want to play The Last Of Us for the first time, but more importantly, I was utterly enthralled everytime bibby babbus was on screen.
I love how Tim is a jack of all trades and master of all lol. I can't wait to see his take on the last of us 2. I know I loved all of its complicated and muddied motivations and emotions
Please review Sleep No More! As a game and theater nerd that was right there for and very into the NYC immersive theater boom of the last decade, this would be a delight. Thank you.
Watching this review makes me wanna see a Resident Evil 4 review. It's one of my favorite games and I feel like there are similarities between this and that
Heck of a bonus at the end there! Loved that and loved the casual unscripted chat in the epilogue in general. Here's hoping that becomes a trend in this series, awesome job
Man, not even this lovingly deep and rich retrospective can get me to care about it. But I did get a lot of good perspective, so thank you very much for that
8:25 WRONG. My dad worked for Boeing and had to go to Japan a few times. One time he brought back a copy of N64 Goldeneye , not realizing that it would all be in Japanese and the cartridge wouldn't fit. Most quintessential Dad Move of all time. Hardly slowed me and my brother down though, and didn't dampen the joy of owning Goldeneye for N64 at all. Bro had the idea to file down the corners of the cartridge and make it fit (albeit just a _bit_ loose), and I had already played it at friends' houses enough to navigate the menu blindfolded, so we were set. Really wish my 13 y/o self had the foresight to treasure that cartridge forever, but alas I don't know what became of it.
It’s strange that my AirPods died and video paused right at this spot with the text on the screen - I was like ‘wth’ when I picked up my phone to press play again
Gosh I love it when Tim starts laying down the Japanese language flex for his video game collection. Can't wait to one day hear a Tim conversation with Japanese developers that he voice-over self-translates!
I have played "The Last of Us" back when it was first released. After a couple of hours of playing the game I started hearing a loud, droning noise. The noise was coming from my PS3. Slightly shocked, I turned off the console. I was unable to turn it back on again. "The Last of Us" killed my PS3. I was never able to forgive the game for that.
False diagnosis. Planned obsolescence killed your PS3. Sony killed your PS3. Also, try randomly turning it back on sometime. I hear they come back to life after being forgotten for a while. I lost my backwards-compatible PS3 a few years ago, and I'm thinking of seeing if it's back, but then I'm afraid I won't be able to handle the disappointment if it still doesn't work, so maybe don't take my advice if you're already so depressive you can't forgive a video game for traumatizing you years ago. ;
@@Pensive_Scarlet my ps3 still works great! I have a giant tote full of ps3 disks, but I basically only use it to play Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. There is still a scene for it on ps3 as well, shockingly.
Sounds like you never cleaned your ps3. As with all electronics, they need regular cleaning and service to get rid of dust build up, but as with most electronics owners, it never gets done.
No, no, no! You start on the Bach, but you finish on Debussy! I thought everyone knew that? (I'm sorry. Pop-culture saturation compels me to make references that may not be relevant or particularly wanted. :( )
I just found your channel. and discovered what a "tim rogers" is. the video that was recommended to first was a 6 hour video about a Japanese game I'd never heard of. At least I think it was Japanese. I was interested but did not want to commit 6 hours so I dug into your old videos and found your review on last of us and doom. Now I get it. The humor, the video length, how all games are doom games, and what a "tim rogers" is. You're gregariously hilarious. Normally, I have to skip through or speed up videos but not yours. Love your videos and your content. Big ups
In the thread of "player as actor" I think any/all of the Platinum-style games titles delve into this. If you don't SSS every mission on Dante Must Die you're not performing the "canon" Dante, also see Viewtiful Joe, where upon death the scene is 'cut' by the director and played over again until you, the player, act it out correctly according to the script.
Only the handsome man known as Tim Rogers could attempt and furthermore succeed to create an introduction long enough to be it's own video and get away with it
The only games I've played that you review in this series are pac man and doom, yet I'm devouring every episode of this frankly astonishing series. Phenomenal work, sir. I urge everyone like me to watch all 6 hours of tokimeki.
As a Pittsburgh resident, I remember the day Last of Us came out. I prowled through the ruins of Grant Street, weaving stealthily between makeshift military checkpoints, quietly slaughtering any gunmen too stupid or stubborn to get out of my way, before finally reaching the cracked and crumbling Fort Pitt Bridge. Then I went home and downloaded the game.
Can you do gifs in youtube comments yet? Gif of Putin clapping
@@mikeamarilio this ain't twitter... yet.
As a fellow Pittsburgh I can concur. Also The Fake Hotel that was set up for prom was based on the real hotel where my senior prom was held The William Penn - coming across that in the game was a lil spooky
@@EJ_Crough "As a fellow Pittsburgh I can concur." i am now convinced there was an experiment that incarnated multiple Pittsburghs into human form, all of whom experienced this man violently running through them then downloading a game
@@Pensive_Scarlet ripples were felt throughout the yinzverse.
I’m literally only alive for that Japanese berserk game title clip
8:40
I realized how bored I was when he was humble bragging about his JP games, until he broke it out again. Suddenly worth it.
Tim is wearing Joel’s shirt over Ellie’s. Incredible
i was getting worried that i'd have to point this out myself!!!
Bless you. I would have gone the whole video without noticing somehow. Mind. Exploded.
It would be Joel's shirt superficially covering/hiding Ellie's like his gruff male protag hid the fact that like Bioshock Inifinite this was definitely a story first and foremost about the young girl. I still love that 2 developers near simultaneously did this bait and switch and demonstrably tore the 'women can't be the protags' marketing/publishing myth to shreds.
If you think that is interesting, you should check out the Last of Us pornography on pornhub.
@@WtfUA-cam_YouSuck I'm good!
It's bizarre but incredible that the 3hr Action Button button review of the extremely famous The Last of Us has significantly less views than the 2 6hr Acton Button reviews of obscure Japanese life sim games
This is almost his least viewed video. I guess people are just tired of hearing about The Last of Us.
I decided to watch all his videos after finding the doom review and this is the one i had the least hype about seeing
I had never played it until now and didn’t want to spoil anything
@@boogiemeister9581 I'm really impressed that you managed to not get spoiled this whole time
I kind of suspect that its partly because people have to go to the videos multiple times since theyre so long
Your videos satisfy my powerful subconscious desire to listen to a 40 year man list things for several minutes repeatedly over the course of several hours
Beruseruku Sennen Teikoku no Taka Hen Seima Senki no Shō
YES
0:48 Ahhh E3 2012, that was one to remember. Ill never forget the crowd's reactions when action button appeared on screen and tim rodgers did a 3 hour dissection of a game that wasnt out yet. Very bold of them.
Yoshi's Island is a sad dad game.
Who hurt you?
@@ghfjfghjasdfasdf No one, watch the video. Alternatively, an enemy, followed by Baby Mario's shrill voice, demanding attention lest the player lose sight of him and, in turn, one of their precious lives.
That said, the child is pretty sad too... always cryin'!
It's actually a mom game as previously pointed out by Tim and Gita Jackson.
@@itsalolmor I remember Miyamoto saying Yoshi didn't have a set gender or something
"Over two hundred game of the year awards" That's at least two hundred and ONE game of the year awards!
This got me.
Yes, the driest of humor is what sticks. So sardonic.
"Less than 300 game of the year awards"
When I came here, I didn't expect it to secretly be a love letter to 'Out Of This World'. That game is among the short list of games I have madman-proselytized now for decades, all with a response of dismissal and disinterest.
I appreciate this small bastion of validation.
getting a lot of people watching this video and asking me in DMs if i'm gonna review out of this world in a later video . . . . . . buddy, what do you think i just did! lol
@@ActionButton I'm so used to listening to you, watching you and reading you that i just mandella effected myself when i saw this comment by, for a few seconds, thinking to myself "i already watched him say this in the video before, one of my favorite moments", only then to realize it was never in the video in the first place. It was a comment.
God I love Tim's style, he's in on the joke but not making a joke out of it, the man is doing great work
@crescian medston I've heard a bunch of people say this but I don't get it, you don't have to watch in one sitting, indeed you can just pop tims videos on in the background, I'm really new to his work only really found out about him as he was leaving Kotaku but yeah he's a good lad
@@macariuswrench whether or not it's in one sitting you're still watching some dude talk about a game for three hours. Yet I still do it for games I didn't really like that much...
@@steeplewiththesnakes I mean whats 3 hours? 3 and a half episodes of some overblown TV show, gimme Tim Rogers anytime
@Deen Chaser it sounds nice, doesn’t it?
@Deen Chaser i assume "the joke" they mean is like his silly writing style and how long and complicated his videos are
God bless Tim for shoehorning in that Death Stranding toenail scene any chance he gets
It's the Wilhelm Scream of Tim Rogers footage.
Can't wait for the three hour long Action Button™ dunk on Bioshock Infinite.
Check out his ooooold channel Tim Rogers. I found a review from years ago where he does exactly that. Got about 90% thru it last night before passing out on my couch like an idiot.
Interesting to watch the evolution of style ua-cam.com/video/IDCUqer7UrM/v-deo.html
Also check out the Matthewmatosis review from the time it came out where he angrily calls it "Bioschlock Infantile"
Didn't people praise Bioshock Infinite through the roof when it came out? I remember lots of reviewers calling it a masterpiece and saying how clever and awesome it is.
I have played it and enjoyed the opening but quickly got bored once the charm of the gorgeous visuals and art direction and the paralel universe quirks wore off, leaving a hollow game revealed unto me. It feels empty and kind of vacuous. I feel it needed boss battles to break up the areas, and to be less linear. A game set in a floating city should let you explore that floating city.
Relugus they HAD to praise it. it’s one of the most expensive games ever made. but yea it is boring and i played it for two days before returning it
To be fair to Infinite, it's the only Bioshock game I finished. I've tried multiple times to get into the first one but it just doesn't hook me in any way
Anytime Tim Rogers says something about "doing the research" to fully understand something, I get incredibly hyped. This man is about to show painstaking detail to prove his thesis and I am here for all of dat data.
Only with a director like Tim Rogers do I have complete faith that Ellie's firing of a pistol was meticulously timed to Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1
Can we take a moment to recognize his literary summation of the game at the end? That prose was...everything.
It was honestly beautiful.
"Grass blasted asphalt"
It's straight up hilarious if you've read the road 😂
@@pippincovington1348 Yeah, I actually finally read it after seeing this review.
Huh? His prose was literally nothing special?
You've mentioned Dragon Quest V more times in 30 minutes than I've heard anyone else do so in the two decades I've been consuming videogame media.
I took a 400 level critical film studies class on post apocalyptic narratives, and did a presentation on this game with a few classmates, shortly after the game had released. I do feel that TLoU does stand pretty favorably among post apocalyptic narratives, and functions as any good piece of fiction as a snapshot into the early 2010's fears and anxieties.
The devaluation of masculinity as it simultaneously becomes more necessary amidst increasing violence... and a world changing pandemic. Nope, nothing culturally relevant here. Move along.
@@Heizenberg32 curious where your reading of the devaluation of masculinity comes from in the text of TLoU
@@SergeantMedicine It was late when I wrote that. A better way to phrase it would be the limitations, or drawbacks, of unchecked masculinity.
@@Heizenberg32 ah, yeah, I’m following you now
Vivaldi's four seasons playing in the background... Well played sir.
i'm glad somebody got it!
@@ActionButton you always put it, sometimes several times lol
I'm at the stage of my life where I'll happily watch an entire Tim Rogers review but if someone asks me to watch an hour and a half long movie I'll say, 'Hmm, no thanks. Seems too long.'
That's because Tim's delivery is sublime. Both comforting and menacing, so you both want to keep listening but don't fall asleep or get bored.
We find ourselves in similar situations in life, I have no regret's.
Yes and yep! Also I’m broke so it may just be sour grapes.
That's because, quite frankly, Tim Rogers' material is better than most movies.
I would like this comment but at this time of writing, your likes are at 420 and I'd rather not mess up a perfect number lol
As one with red green color blindness I appreciate the very well contrasted colors for the pie chart
i genuinely tried to make it look right!! i'm glad it worked for you (sorry some of the numbers are in the wrong places though oops)
I hope, purely for my own sake, that you can add Ponkotsu Roman Daikatsugeki: Bumpy Trot to your collection again some day
check my instagram like two weeks from now lmao
I see you in every one of his videos so far lol
I don’t even know what that is but I guess I am still far away from reaching you guy’s level of understanding and knowledge of internet culture and media
@@Tonberry999 it’s steambot chronicles in English. It’s Geoff’s favorite game
I'm glad I was able to mouse over and pause this on my computer desktop screen to read the large amount of text that sometimes appears on screen.
That is a fantastic dog. The urge to pet grows every second that fuzzy fur is on screen.
I'm here for the Sleep No More review.
The fact that he correctly uses hypothesis instead of theory makes me so damn happy.
Tim Rogers Reviews are the Gran Turismo of game reviews
Fuck, why don't I get this? Why GT specifically?
weird interface and funky music
@@mosdef6209 watch his Death Stranding review he did for Kotaku, all will become clear
Yep. You have to get your 2-hour license before you can enjoy the review.
I live in a densely populated metropolitan area. Walking during the pandemic is the Gran Turismo of Tim Rogers reviews.
Also I'm day drinking so I'm sorry if that joke doesn't make sense
You are the embodiment of the "I have an uncle who works at Sony/Nintendo" statement. Thanks for all the content with such care and expertise into it. You are awesome!
The "The Road" section at the end was amazing to listen to
In the proper order of importance:
1) This was a great video essay, review, ABN moving image, whatever you want to call it. I could not get myself to really care enough for the FFVII Remake to watch more than half of the other one so far but that was pretty much down to me not having played any Final Fantasy game ever - so my loss, I guess?! I rectified this situation by playing "The Last of Us" for the first time just this last week and had a good time with it actually. So thank you for keeping on getting me interested in games I did not really have on my radar or at least did not consider to play anytime soon. And thank you for producing video game "content" that does not make me want to quit playing video/computer games every other day.
Since I am a lifelong home computer game liker (I'm just a 1980's European, not a console hater) and only occasionally happen to own a current gen console to play any kind of "prestige" video games I was pleasently surprised with TLOS seven years "after the fact". My actual question, because I could not stop thinking of it and you, Tim, have not mentioned it in your video at all: has this game ever been properly/critically compared to Half Life 2? To me there seems to be a fairly direct design and storytelling lineage between the Naughty Dog formula and Valve's first person flavour of environmental storytelling, character building, combatless traversal, setpieces and so on? Every other hour of playing TLOS and going on this road trip through a dystopian landscape and society made me think of my various playthroughs of HL2 during the last 16 years. Down to the Zombie and survival elements of Ravenholm and beyond (scarcity of ammo, switch between more predictable "infected" and highly tactical enemies and so on), the Babychild-Bigfriend is probably not as defined since Alyx seems fairly capable from the beginning and Gordon is such a blank slate guy but still we are dealing with large segments of "escort missions" that actually do not suck and you miss Alyx quite a bit in the moments when she's gone or the two are somehow separated. Also getting into new areas and scanning all the signifiers for possible combat engagements before they actually happen reminded me strongly of HL2.
Not trying to stress this too much, I just found it interesting to find such vivid similarities in my play experience and feelings between "the biggest thing" in PC gaming of the mid-2000s and "the biggest thing" on consoles in 2013, which is even more interesting today where PC gaming came back with a vengeance commercially while at the same time PC and console gaming seem closer to each other than ever before in many regards one could argue.
2) It made me very happy that my name has been fixed in the credits of VIDEOBALL, I was not aware of that fact before (had my silly facebook handle in it in an earlier version). I somehow did not even notice that Eric Chahi's and my name are so close to each other in the same credit sequence, I'm flattered (and should get some people to play VIDEOBALL with me again).
3) Some technical issues I'm sure you are aware of already or are actually intentional: Some of these pie chart pieces are disproportionate in size to their stated percental value. Nobody cares, I just could not stop noticing. And is your camera set to autofocus? I even like the shallow image of your tasteful shirt and T-shirt combination somehow, it's just such a stark contrast to the razor-sharp in-game footage and the even sharper superimposed images on top of the footage of yourself. It seems like the lens does not have anything in focus that is actually in the picture. Again, not that I care all that much, it just reminded me of what happens when the AF of a camera is too dumb to correct itself properly.
Thanks again. Very much looking forward to watching the DOOM video, finally a game I have played enough for the last 25 years to really have shaped my own opinion and thoughts going in!
Please always hold your dog for extended periods of Action Button Reviews.
That opening, giving us a little slice of E3 this year. I appreciate it.
“Quarantine day 91: I found Tim Rodgers again”
I read this in Tim Roger's gritty anime voice.
i often feel a bizarre mirroring of my innermost thoughts when i watch tim videos but listening to him describe his relatively meager physical game collection as my eyes dart over my own ersatz three-shelf collection of DVDs and other discs i no longer own a machine to play that i picked up for completely inscrutable reasons yet to which i feel a deep personal connection was a truly surreal experience
"Had the divine interiorist again designed him a geometrical refuge against the unexpected?" That is quite humourous. I enjoyed that.
Holy shit of all the things I expected to see in this video a Sleep No More shout-out was not among them... I would unironically love to see an action button review of Sleep No More.
To all the people that message you saying “why are you reviewing -insert_title_here”. This guy captivated me, an ex-bodybuilder, moonshiner and blacksmith for 6 hours on the subject of a dating simulator WITHIN the first 4 minutes. I’ll watch anything this guy reviews with utter joy.
Some Indie game developer saw this comment and has by now nearly finished his ex-bodybuilder, moonshiner and blacksmith dating simulator. It's going to be called BMB-DS Classic.
@@KunjaBihariKrishna I'd play it
@@ConnieFWill I'd play the heck out of it, twice.
Why'd you stop body building?
@@heyhonpuds probably joint pain
That Berserker Game had an entire Arc in its short appearances.
I watched this video for the first time in early 2021, having not ever played tlou despite owning it for years. I finally decided to play it because of how authoritative Tim is when speaking about games, I knew what I was getting into because of him, essentially. Now that I've played both of the games repeatedly and written about them as a hobby throughout the past 2 years it brings me so much joy to just turn on this video and kick back to where I was introduced to the series.
Tim, thank you for remastering this review! Your original "glue wet gun" review was fantastic but getting to see your ideas be drawn out to the fullest extent is wonderful to experience.
“If time heals all wounds, then what he had either wasn’t a wound, or time had wounded itself, and time can’t heal itself.”
it is killing me that the percentages on these pie charts around 1:28:00 don't match up with their segment sizes
Hey Tim, great review as always. I humbly request either a video or an article about “Best Hang Out Video Games”. I just finished a 200 hour play through of dragon quest 11 (mostly thanks to your review of the game) and I’ve discovered that “hang-outitude” is my favorite thing about RPGs. Keep up the good work man!
This man is amazing. That right here is an amazing man. He’s the best of us...his awkward, unapologetically quirky words are silky poetry to my cynical UA-cam listening ears. His work on this platform significantly lowers the value of other UA-cam commentators in so much that Tim releases a two hour commentary video where every second has value. Thank you for your time.
Got
Read this in Tim’s voice and inflection
was into it until i saw he was a society-destroying commie who wants to defund the police force and descend his country into lawless violent chaos. hard pass. shame i thought his videos were good
Antiform Found the narc
dont try hard at making a joke about being a try hard
I laughed entirely too hard at ‘Some More Of Us’
The appropriate amount is entirely too much.
You are awesome. I finished this series last month and was waiting to watch your review. PLEASE DO NOT STOP. you are awesome. Love.
Holding a Babychild whilst talking about Babychild-Bigfriend phenomenon is absolutely stellar cinematography.
There are two types of video game reviews; other people’s, and Tim’s. Tim’s are always better.
"GOD HAND." can't wait for that potential AB review
I have rewatched each current instalment of season 1 in the same way I used to reread old Action Button reviews and secret blogposts: repeatedly and eagerly. I’m also really loving the emergent connective tissue between each review in the season that reveals itself upon reflection!
"24 The Game" Wait, what?
"Sopranos, the Road to Respect" What!?
Really wanna know if there's a story as to why these are in Tim's collection. I loved 24 but the game is hot dog dirt.
More importantly, why?!
“Ellie is the main character.”
That’s the game I want to play.
Imagine playing entirely as Ellie just avoiding death while Joel handles the enemies eventually evolving my ability to save him and help him.
You kinda described playing as Moira in Resident Evil Revelations 2. Makes me wish their was a level with Barry and Moira together at the end of that game.
in disco elysium Kim kitsuragi is pretty much your babysitter so i guess that counts.
the Last Guradian
You play the little guy with a big grunt friend in Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom.
It wasn't a very good game :|
Last of Us 2 dlc:
Ellie uses Joel as a Clicker with whistle commands
This is a really good video that actually made me want to play The Last Of Us for the first time, but more importantly, I was utterly enthralled everytime bibby babbus was on screen.
Everyone needs a game they haven't played. The Last of Us is my favorite game I haven't played
I love how Tim is a jack of all trades and master of all lol. I can't wait to see his take on the last of us 2. I know I loved all of its complicated and muddied motivations and emotions
Please review Sleep No More! As a game and theater nerd that was right there for and very into the NYC immersive theater boom of the last decade, this would be a delight. Thank you.
"That being said- if anyone from CD Project Red..." Lol
I’m sad that I only discovered this channel today, right now. I’m delighted to see your excellent new hair (it’s delightful, Tim)
"Kawaiikochan no This Is Cool Gaming no Magazine" Ah, I see you too are an individual of culture.
YOU are a GOD DANG treasure, sir!! i'm glad i found your newest content!!!
BIG BOY BABY BOY IS BACK IN THE BUILDING
It is almost upsetting how much I enjoy your reviews, on so many levels you hit a niche groove of my own odd sensibilities.
Watching this review makes me wanna see a Resident Evil 4 review. It's one of my favorite games and I feel like there are similarities between this and that
Heck of a bonus at the end there! Loved that and loved the casual unscripted chat in the epilogue in general. Here's hoping that becomes a trend in this series, awesome job
Man, not even this lovingly deep and rich retrospective can get me to care about it. But I did get a lot of good perspective, so thank you very much for that
8:25 WRONG. My dad worked for Boeing and had to go to Japan a few times. One time he brought back a copy of N64 Goldeneye , not realizing that it would all be in Japanese and the cartridge wouldn't fit. Most quintessential Dad Move of all time. Hardly slowed me and my brother down though, and didn't dampen the joy of owning Goldeneye for N64 at all. Bro had the idea to file down the corners of the cartridge and make it fit (albeit just a _bit_ loose), and I had already played it at friends' houses enough to navigate the menu blindfolded, so we were set. Really wish my 13 y/o self had the foresight to treasure that cartridge forever, but alas I don't know what became of it.
I commend you for the subliminal messaging about the police
Damn... I missed this, but I'm not re-watching a 3 hour video... for that. :-O
ACAB
@@NathanielJordan85 4 months later... 56:31
You're welcome
It’s strange that my AirPods died and video paused right at this spot with the text on the screen - I was like ‘wth’ when I picked up my phone to press play again
10:45 Beruseruku Sennen Teikoku No Taka Hen Seima Senki no Shō
Bioshock Infinite is The Newsroom of videogames.
lmao
I have long believed that Werner Herzog is the Herzog Zwei of movies.
I'm Confused
@@josuesilva9409 aaron sorkin is the ken levine of videogames
A masterstroke of video game essays.
Please make a BioShock Infinite review. My thirst intensifies for a seething negative Tim Rogers review of anything.
hey, we're still up for the TRUCK HECK localization :-)
for sure, we are
Gosh I love it when Tim starts laying down the Japanese language flex for his video game collection. Can't wait to one day hear a Tim conversation with Japanese developers that he voice-over self-translates!
I expect Truck Heck to have full voice-over, all by Tim, in all 12+(?) languages he speaks.
Entire japanese dubbed review on panzerdragoon by Tim please
The best part was him reusing the same take for that Berserk game twice.
@@congrilla- I swear he said it more than twice but I'm not going back to check. Maybe on the next rewatch
“A silent ascension. A thunderclap.” - poetry my friend.
I have played "The Last of Us" back when it was first released. After a couple of hours of playing the game I started hearing a loud, droning noise. The noise was coming from my PS3. Slightly shocked, I turned off the console.
I was unable to turn it back on again. "The Last of Us" killed my PS3. I was never able to forgive the game for that.
False diagnosis. Planned obsolescence killed your PS3. Sony killed your PS3. Also, try randomly turning it back on sometime. I hear they come back to life after being forgotten for a while. I lost my backwards-compatible PS3 a few years ago, and I'm thinking of seeing if it's back, but then I'm afraid I won't be able to handle the disappointment if it still doesn't work, so maybe don't take my advice if you're already so depressive you can't forgive a video game for traumatizing you years ago. ;
@@Pensive_Scarlet my ps3 still works great! I have a giant tote full of ps3 disks, but I basically only use it to play Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. There is still a scene for it on ps3 as well, shockingly.
Sounds like you never cleaned your ps3.
As with all electronics, they need regular cleaning and service to get rid of dust build up, but as with most electronics owners, it never gets done.
You are incredibly eloquent. This was an exceptionally well written deep dive. Thank you for putting this out there for us.
Hearing Clair de Lune in the background, two thumbs way up. Debussy would be proud
Was thinking the same thing, my dude. Debussy is one of my favorites to listen to while I work.
No, no, no! You start on the Bach, but you finish on Debussy! I thought everyone knew that?
(I'm sorry. Pop-culture saturation compels me to make references that may not be relevant or particularly wanted. :( )
Only listing to the audio (@ work) love the deep voice effect. Reminds me of the album Goblin by tyler the creator . Great content sir.
Every time he mentions Out of This World, all I can think about is "Mike Aruba"
I hit a breaking point where I heard the words "shiv" and "scrounge" so much I spit my water out laughing.
Amazing that, simultaneously, he can sound earnest and sarcastic for 3 hours.
God bless you Mr. Rogers, These long running videos are truly a miracle!
PSA: Tim the next time you play any LoU hold Triangle to loot, you will grab everything that you can reach at the same time.
I will always love your use of clair de lune in your videos on kotaku or on this channel! Thank you!
7:13
Tim running through the history of his video game collection is the highlight of this video for me.
Thank you for sharing the final segment in the epilogue. I very much enjoyed it.
"Well, that's the end of the video"
*still 50 minutes of playtime left*
I just found your channel. and discovered what a "tim rogers" is. the video that was recommended to first was a 6 hour video about a Japanese game I'd never heard of. At least I think it was Japanese. I was interested but did not want to commit 6 hours so I dug into your old videos and found your review on last of us and doom.
Now I get it. The humor, the video length, how all games are doom games, and what a "tim rogers" is.
You're gregariously hilarious. Normally, I have to skip through or speed up videos but not yours. Love your videos and your content. Big ups
Bonus section might be greatest thing i’ve ever seen you do. Phenomenal turns of phrase. 🤣
I love you (not only) for the Secret of Evermore mentioning!
In the thread of "player as actor" I think any/all of the Platinum-style games titles delve into this.
If you don't SSS every mission on Dante Must Die you're not performing the "canon" Dante,
also see Viewtiful Joe, where upon death the scene is 'cut' by the director and played over again until you, the player, act it out correctly according to the script.
Tim Rogers with that sick burn on "Super Mario" 😂 Love it.
The tour of yout Sterilite bin is exactly why I am a patreon. Just the best.
I totally forgot about Sleep No More! I was in undergrad studying theatre at the time and everyone was obsessed with it. DO THAT REVIEW!
8:58 YOU WERE GONNA THROW THEM OUT (yes I need to clean my house)
Holy shit THAT Vito?! It's a small UA-cam world.
Tim is back! YAY! Good to see you man! I haven't been back to Kotaku ONCE since you left!
"He loved her now, without saying it or thinking it."
Just you mentioning the games Garouden Breakblow: Twist or Fist and God Hand, has got me hyped to see the reviews you make in the future.
Only the handsome man known as Tim Rogers could attempt and furthermore succeed to create an introduction long enough to be it's own video and get away with it
Rewatching these reviews is getting me through covid, thanks man, these are possibly the best writing on games I've ever seen
The only games I've played that you review in this series are pac man and doom, yet I'm devouring every episode of this frankly astonishing series. Phenomenal work, sir. I urge everyone like me to watch all 6 hours of tokimeki.
When Action Button appeared on the screen at the beginning I lost it 🤣