i love the guy and i hardly play games. fairly sure he's a leftist too but that doesn't surface in his videos much. not many game reviews—much less ones about doom!—contain sentences like "Sooner or later, life is at last a list of things you every day deal silently with not having done."
highly recommended! don't be put off by the running time! easily digestible in chunks if that's more your style
I'm an hour and a half in and I do really like it, but watching this vid is gonna take me all day while I dip in and out to do other stuff. But boy oh boy this humor is drier than a dry thing, I love it.
i'm glad you're enjoying it! his humor is exquisitely dry. and dipping in and out is totally fair for a marathon watch like this! took me a few sitdowns myself. still, as verbose and labyrinthine as it is, it's a meaningful slow burn that's equally wistful and funny and unique :)
i love the guy and i hardly play games.
honestly, I think that's what makes it. he puts a whole experience together in his reviews and I think it works best if you don't actually go play the game after.
i think you're on to something there. he does such a great job of conveying what the sensation of playing the game—as tim rogers, in the 90s, without a soundblaster— felt like. when it works, and it often does for me, it's a distinct experience that uses the game as a touchstone to jump off of to explore more than just the game
I thank you for sharing this recommendation!
This is a video of exceptional quality, and these topics hit me right in the spots.
If anyone reading this feels the same, whomever also has a Youtube account, please tell/inform the video creator you are a friend of a guy who thinks highly of their efforts.
i'm glad you enjoyed it :) i found myself moved several times while watching. he has a few more reviews on the same channel , and he used to work for kotaku and there are several videos of his there of a similar nature! he's hitting his stride with video with each one he makes imo
I have been hooked on Tim's content since I stumbled into his Dragon Quest review, I love this guy.
No, g*ming is reactionary and should be punished with prison time
😭 can't you see? our persecution will end one day, and a dazzling new coalition of gamer and non-gamer will bring total communism to the world at last. just as Marx foretold
i like jim sterling too! i think they're completely different though. jim sterling is more focused on the game. which most may see as a strength, fair enough. whereas tim's reviews feel more like an album review: focused on the experience itself of playing, and the connections the game has to other games, and his own memories, in addition to breaking the game down