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having subjected to myself to 7 minutes at double speed, I think the lost art of video game critique is brevity
There is nothing that can be said in this 2 hour video response to several other 1+ hr videos that could not have been said better in a two paragraph long post
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not meaning this as a dig on you sharing this but i couldnât even get into what this video was saying before feeling my body start to calcify and my all my organs deciding to reject whatever was happening. i get this is calling out the worst excesses of youtube critique and i agree with that in abstract but itâs in the classic genre of being weirdly parochial and hindered by the default things everyone buys into to be a part of that space for it to be of much use to me. the Content Creator quicksand, it is inescapable. Canât Get Enough Of The Stuff!
i mean, everyone knows the only truly important critique of games is what happens in the youtube space, right??? like why even exist otherwise, tbh! thatâs why Joseph Anderson and Jacob Geller are the new gods of our reality. oh wait, whatâs that you say? you have a blog? and then they say - my god, please choke down a gallon of piss, you deadbeat! only real men can talk about FromSoft for 4 hours in searingly bland fashion to hundreds of thousands of weird pedants. inevitably this is the battle fought for the hearts and minds and eyeballs of aspiring 15 year olds huddled in their giant suburban fortresses. if youâre not participating in this consequential fourth dimensional chess battle to combat male loneliness then get the fuck out before we remove your organs and incinerate your corpse.
if someone told me about like Joseph Anderson or whatever in 2011 i think iâd know then that it was just time to like, hang it up. any attempt to be good at what i do or elevate in some way with âgame critiqueâ is clearly no match for hundreds of thousands of weird pedants with the time and energy to build giant monuments to their own provincial headcanons. so, just wipe me off the map. youtube is garbage obvs but the biggest garbage of all is guys who do the whole act of being âelevatedâ but really just exist in their own fantasy universe where they only engage with the big youtube group wankathon & bring in millions of people with them to share that delusion. and people are so inextricably emotionally tied to it all, like an unremovable parasite at this point⊠especially coming out of the pandemic. so, why not just pack it in? it was always their game to play and never mine. maybe itâs for the best.
anyway thatâs what i feel whenever i see this sort of stuff at this point.
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After that new Switch RPG Maker trailer, I was getting pushed a bunch of RPG Maker tutorial videos, and while Iâm not actively doing anything like this, I liked the look and wanted so see more of this project. Refreshingly itâs rare that I find a YouTube tutorial on anything thatâs concise(ish) and not obnoxiously presented
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oh my god - is the internet of 2007 back? i was kind of taken aback to see that this is only from 2 weeks ago and not some timewarp to 17 years ago
i guess Talking Heads would be too music nerd and esoteric for video game people in 2007. but otherwiseâŠ
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As someone that made his game criticism legacy this year, this was a good post.
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Addiction recovery therapist does a letâs play of Disco Elysium. Itâs taking him a year because every episode is him relating the game to theraputic models instead of powering through the gameplay which makes it kind of better than a lot of his other game videos.
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Even after reading your post it took me a sec to determine this wasnât a youtuber named TheRapist
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If Musk bought youtube
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staving off the void by watching compilations of streamers driving into the swingset with fucked up collision physics in GTA4
the best clips imo are the ones from the PC version where they spawn a bunch of swings on top of eachother & anything that drives into this Thunderdome fucking evaporates + crashes the game
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Tom Walker has been spending a few months trying to get through GTA V with a mod that makes the cars travel at 9999 kmh. Itâs an incredible parade of sudden and random spectacular deaths while Tom tries to eke out niches in the game to complete the missions.
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ahaha thats wonderful
edit jfc the parkour route he has to memorize just to get to the first mission lol
early on someone in the chat comments âthis is like a nightmareâ ive basically had nightmares like this yeah
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Heâs on the final mission arc currently, except the save file got corrupted, so heâs playing through the game off-stream without the cars on to get back to the same point, periodically noting that âthe game is much easier this way.â
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