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angryjoe is autobanned from the thread i will start: AESTHETICS OF FAR CRY 2 by face full of eyes, a newcomer to youtube videogames criticism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx4eSkMBx-U some youtube channels to check out: noah caldwell-gervais, longform serious thematic essay cool poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sOyZdtVA0 super bunnyhop, legit videogames journalism duuuude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYHrEp917MI civvie 11 (<-- very good comedy and commentary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDLFCxaxb60 krealtube (comedy, hilariousman) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-npPHkeb3A8 i have lots lots more but its your turn now
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it is hard to find ten consecutive seconds of Video Game Dunkey where he is completely non-ironic but when it happens he is an excellent critic and reminder of why games Can Be Fun (But Aren't A Lot Of Times, Sadly) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MQO2STCbbY This one in particular warms my heart
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perhaps i should elaborate on my OP: im a weirdo who thinks that talking about games can be informative and sometimes just as interesting as playing them, just in a different way. certain people do this very well, doing it for laughs or serious analysis, and outside the scope of a Let's Play. we should find them, talk about them and maybe kick some views and subs their way here's another amateur comedy+analysis favorite of mine, Spicy Chicken God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLI7kVx7jaM&t=1686s
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Matthewmatosis is pretty good. I like his video on Rain World, one of the best games of 2017 and a game more people should play. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Un2L5tF1w
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It's tough to have a serious conversation about video game critics without first reviewing this seminal Fragmaster reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgbgpsNUn1I
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Innuendo Studios. I feel that Life is Strange is a game that a lot of people either really love or despise, but often misunderstand in either direction. This is the one analysis out of many that really, truly gets what the game is about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19xgdLF5agU&t=2s The experience of playing Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice from the perspective of someone who has actually suffered from psychosis. A very thoughtful and courageous video that helped me better understand some of the decisions that went into the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52flQkqj5gs Core-A Gaming puts out informative and well-edited videos every few months about fighting games and the appeal they have to many people. This is the first one I saw from him, "why fighting games are hard." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGrIR_jlLno
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exquisite tea posted:The experience of playing Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice from the perspective of someone who has actually suffered from psychosis. A very thoughtful and courageous video that helped me better understand some of the decisions that went into the game.
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Many GDC talks are very insightful https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ/videos
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Crowbcat is hit or miss (and googling around there's rumors he took money to promote a particular VR game in the middle of a "VR sucks" video) but I don't think anyone's better showing off developer dumbness. The DR1 vs. DR4 one blew me away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWVtZJo-HqI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejeIT0MBSac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUxJpDtg0Bs schmitty9800 fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Aug 11, 2019 |
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if you havent heard of sseth tzeentach, i suggest you watch this video and observe his advertising spending habits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ2r2ZFTaWk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3yGE_VHN4M I've only watched a couple of his videos, but being the humorless, joyless sadbrain that I am I like serious analysis of stories and themes, and this guy's done some interesting ones on rule of rose and The Cat Lady. sea of losers posted:if you havent heard of sseth tzeentach, i suggest you watch this video and observe his advertising spending habits "hey hey people, sseth here" is one of those phrases that I can hear when I read it.
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im assuming most ppl here have heard of Mandalore, he's got a good mix of comedy and actual reviewing going on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7uKUgire7Y he in turn led me to another crazy 2-hr-vid-essayist called SulMatul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stH9JSnGH9Q
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Flimf posted:Matthewmatosis is pretty good. matthewmatosis is good but he has a pretty strict mechanical focus iirc and that gets a lil dull for me, as someone who often watches vids on games i havent played. what gets interesting to me is when the reviewer talks about how the mechanics fit into the themes of the game, or how they avoid or suffer from ludonarrative dissonance joseph anderson is another reviewer who does long thematic reviews but im not going to link him because i find that his videos could be 1/3rd the length and say the same amount. he has a like 3 Hour video on the witness Cuntellectual posted:
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Sseth is hilarious and I love all his videos. This guy does a lot of good game analysis and even though I disagree with his most popular review (BoTW), I think his Mario Odyssey is Overrated review is spot-on. It was also incredibly easy to just drag F76 through the mud, but he does a really good job of highlighting the fact that the game actually had a lot of care put into it, and therefor extrapolates a lot of interesting theories about what actually happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlfRhpOy6Yc
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exquisite tea posted:Innuendo Studios. I feel that Life is Strange is a game that a lot of people either really love or despise, but often misunderstand in either direction. This is the one analysis out of many that really, truly gets what the game is about. there's also this video by an owl named Shammy that is probably a lot funnier but a lot meaner than the video you posted. he mentions the game's numerous references to "catcher in the rye," how it seems to really want to be that book, and explains how it does not work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH5B31LdVpo sea of losers fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Aug 19, 2019 |
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maybe i didnt give this video enough heft by putting it in a group of vids in the OP, but Face Full of Eyes, while only having the one video on Far Cry 2 at the moment, is very very good and this is worth a watch if you ever played the game. the editing is very good, even stylish at multiple points, one person who saw the video commented toward me that it had more effort put into it than some ppl put into their thesis. even better, he plans to do far cry 3 next and has plans to talk about the STALKER series. sub him AESTHETICS OF FAR CRY 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx4eSkMBx-U sea of losers fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Aug 20, 2019 |
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my favorite game crit video. now i know that playing MGS2 repeatedly in middle school messed me up for life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-2YuPGYabw
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sea of losers posted:some youtube channels to check out: I appreciate the effort this guy puts into his vids but a lot of his opinions come across as convoluted attempts at having a unique or unconventional take on something without really saying anything worthwhile. During his Baldur's Gate review he said it isn't a "modern digital role-playing game," but a technological and artistic framework for playing dungeons and dragons as a solitary experience........................................ so it's a role-playing game.
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perhaps he meant it isnt a "modern digital role-playing game" like skyrim would be, and many people would think of skyrim when they think "modern digital role-playing game?" idk, i havent watched the baldur's gate vid. curious if you have any other examples of this in his other videos? he certainly does have his own opinion and agenda but he makes it p obvious to the viewer and explains himself p thoroughly. his video on postal and "rear end in a top hat simulators" is an example of this, where he provides his story about how his car was stolen and destroyed and how it fueled his current opinions on those games, citing the act of repairing the car (which he did) as an example of healthy masculinity and the destruction of it as an example of toxic masculinity. of course a buncha doofuses come in to say "But Noah, How Do You Know The Car Thief Was Male"
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tehsnakerer is one of my favorite game youtubers, he mostly just does long-form explanations of the game as it goes along while giving his thoughts on plot and gameplay. He's a pretty funny guy without trying super hard to be, and while I wouldn't call his analysis deep he seems to get what makes games click, gameplay-wise. the interesting thing is that he really seems to love janky-rear end european FPS's and equally janky japanese action games so you get some pretty unique games covered on there. I love his video on brigand. a survival FPS/RPG made by one guy that's so janky that he had to send his save file over to the guy who made it multiple times just to get his specific bugs fixed. Seeing him still have a sincere admiration for the game while also saying how much it sucks is pretty fun. His video on Winback is also a pretty good rundown of the game that introduced cover systems in shooters and its successes and failures (including how little cover actually matters in it), as well as just how weird the PS2 port of it is in hindsight. His videos run a little long (40 minutes-an hour, occasionally a bit more) but they don't really feel like they're wasting time, he just likes covering the beats of a game. Endorph fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Aug 22, 2019 |
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oh yeah i forgot about him, he's quite good. the series he's doing on yakuza games is also quite comprehensive also the series he did about boiling point/white gold/precursors is awesome. i played boiling point in 2008 and thought it was great, was interesting to see someone else actually found it and made an hr-long entertaining vid about it. i actually played a google-trranslate version of white gold as well but never beat it because i recognized alot of the same problems he does with it. it's basically an upgrade only in graphics and the gamefeel/kinaesthetics of the guns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoEuQQlGZSQ sea of losers fucked around with this message at 15:42 on Aug 22, 2019 |
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schmitty9800 posted:Crowbcat is hit or miss (and googling around there's rumors he took money to promote a particular VR game in the middle of a "VR sucks" video) but I don't think anyone's better showing off developer dumbness. The DR1 vs. DR4 one blew me away. Crowbcat is sometimes great at capturing the zeitgeist when it comes to controversial releases (or otherwise just pointing out lies or fabrications), but most of the time the comparisons of two games in the same franchise boil down to "two different games made by two different development teams targeting different hardware and made under different circumstances....are different from each other!!! even though they're part of the same series!!!!  "They give me a really bad vibe because they come off like someone who doesn't actually understand anything about development nitpicking details that aren't necessarily meaningless but are usually included because the devs had room to breathe and slack off and experiment with random weird poo poo instead of being under the gun to deliver a franchise sequel for half the budget in 8 months, just in time for the winter launch period. (In other words, they seemingly target the game as a product of its assumed lazy/stupid/bad developers but not necessarily as a product of its likely much worse publisher.) Is every MGS game after 2 inherently an inferior cash grab because they don't feature an overly detailed ice cube melting simulation? Gamers should be more aware of the artifice of the hype machine, but the absolutism over what are usually minor details gives me the creeps and is almost certainly what leads to stuff like the meltdowns over puddles in Spiderman. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Aug 22, 2019 |
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Crowbcat is the only youtube channel that can get away posting one video a year.
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https://m.youtube.com/user/MrBtongue Bobby hasn't posted anything in over a year and his videos were sparse to begin with, but they're all very very smart and good
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Utgardaloki posted:https://m.youtube.com/user/MrBtongue
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MrBTongue writes about once a week for Shamus Young's site, right now he's playing through Baldur's Gate with a few friends: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=47760
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here's Whitelight, another longer-form youtube reviewer who does a bit of both mechanics and themes in their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jJQg24_qPs
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this dude Raycevick brings movie-quality editing to his videos, each one of them are a standout. i knew that the metro games are based off of books but didnt realize that the metro series was written and posted online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3BmubIQklU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNY87JmXQig
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also here's a hilarious review of tony hawk's underground courtesy of RUNNING SHINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF5PDi40NSk
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sea of losers posted:also here's a hilarious review of tony hawk's underground courtesy of RUNNING SHINE this was a good video. i have far less favorable memories of the game than he did compared to thps 2 and 3 though
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trying to defibrillate my dumb dead thread with more content: this channel, "GVMERS," is basically what a non-poo poo show about video games would be like if it were on the history channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMANc13VQXM
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I like this 'dumb thread'.  This is a long (seriously) response video by Mauler to hbomberguy defending Dark Souls 2; the black sheep of the series. The defense video itself also uses footage by matthewmatosis (his channel is also great btw). What I like about the critique is that I initially thought hbomberguy had a good point and maybe Dark Souls 2 wasn't as bad as I thought. But point by point, Mauler shows us that the arguments presented are flimsy at best. Not just a great video on a divisive game, but also a great video on how to critique fairly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzKasf4_x34
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LionEyez posted:What I like about the critique is that I initially thought hbomberguy had a good point and maybe Dark Souls 2 wasn't as bad as I thought. But point by point, Mauler shows us that the arguments presented are flimsy at best. Not just a great video on a divisive game, but also a great video on how to critique fairly. Hbomberguy's "point" was "here's things i like about a game i like" and his brand is overly verbose wank, Mauler's just sounding like someone who listens to all those right wing "debate me" dickheads sea of losers posted:trying to defibrillate my dumb dead thread with more content:
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Whalley posted:This is fuckin' dumb, poo poo isn't fact just because you spend ten hours farting into a gasmask with an overmixed bass level and an overcorrected software-level pop filter on your voice recording to say "buh buh buh fun isn't a quantifiable measure of what makes entertainment video games good." Sure, everyone´s free to like or dislike whatever they want and make a long video essay about it. But you can absolutely take a statement such as "Dark Souls 2 is more challenging - therefor it is more fun" and examine it, as Mauler does. Also Hbomberguy was using clips from Matthewmatosis´ excellent critique of Dark Souls 2 and smugly saying `you´re playing it wrong´. The line between his honest opinion and what seems to be presented as fact is blurred. For the record I like most of Hbomberguy's other videos. I don´t know what the right wing comment has to do with any of it. LionEyez fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Sep 6, 2019 |
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LionEyez posted:I don´t know what the right wing comment has to do with any of it. And like, hbomberguy's whole video was bookended with, and occasionally peppered with, "this whole thing is my opinion, if you disagree that's totally fine." It's like spending ten hours (ten loving hours I can't believe this poo poo) arguing facts (not opinions! facts!) with a kid who came onto the playground saying "my favorite color is blue and i love my mommy more than anyone." I'm going to look at the person doing this as super unhinged and weird.
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Since Crowbcat has been mentioned here, I feel compelled to post his No Man's Sky video. It's his funniest work and amazingly skewers the insane hype that game got. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8P2CZg3sJQ&t=3s
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Whalley posted:(I can't get over this it's ten loving hours) of opinions tbh i was eager to watch both vids until i saw that this. over ten full hours? i thought joseph anderson had a severe problem of not-editing-down when he made a 3hr video about the witness. ten hours is just masturbating into a trough, and i say this as someone who legit enjoys long-form analysis like 2-3hrs long sea of losers fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Sep 7, 2019 |
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LionEyez posted:Sure, everyone´s free to like or dislike whatever they want and make a long video essay about it. But you can absolutely take a statement such as "Dark Souls 2 is more challenging - therefor it is more fun" and examine it, as Mauler does. idk, as someone who beat 1 (and almost beat 3) before even trying 2, and believes 2 is kinda the low point of the series, i think hbomberguy has some really great points. the new staff got experimental with the formula and even if some of the changes didnt totally pan out, they showed that they could actually work with more refining, which is what happened with bloodborne (imo). they injected new life into the thing instead of doing more of the safe thing, and that takes some stones
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posting tim rogers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTbUGItU0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJIEPyfbWO8 He's good at both providing a useful guide to if you'll like a game or not, digging deeper into a game's meaning, and going on meandering asides about growing up in Indiana or when he lived in Japan. He has a long series discussing the original ps1 translation of Final Fantasy VII that is maybe the deepest anyone has ever gone into the subject, lol. Good videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCeN2KjRHZk
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I somehow missed this thread, but this is very much my poo poo.an actual dog posted:posting tim rogers damnit, i was gonna post a ton of Tim Rogers videos, because I've been posting them in the PS4 thread forever and I'm sure people are getting tired of it. But yeah, watch the Final Fantasy 7 translation series, it's really really good, his best videos by far out of all of the videos he's done for Kotaku. Here's episode 11, which I recommend checking out first maybe, even though starting from the beginning is probably best, it doesn't really matter, and the quality of the first video isn't nearly as brilliant as the last few so it's a better representation of the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5f4-m77O90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H67itWCG1JY&t=1831s A good GDC talk that's also mostly funny, and has more to do with game development and what not to do when making an indie game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMRiFsFwDQg This is a video walking through and scrutinizing every little detail and talking about the game in general and how it used "honest geometry" which was uncommon at the time, considering third person 3D games were relatively new at the time, but they also just talk about the Gall Spaceport level from the Nintendo 64 Star Wars game Shadows of the Empire and how great it is. This isn't a video obviously, but I think it's one of the best 'srs video game analysis' things he's done, and it's not even necessarily supposed to be, but I think it's interesting and also might as well be a video like a lot of the videos I like that people have posted, just stick some Bioshock Infinite gameplay over it when he breaks down why Bioshock is garbage https://soundcloud.com/bad-end-438270825/bad-end-31-ft-tim-rogers-dragon-quest-xi-donut-county-bioshock-internet-comments I just think this one's funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA7O6aNzLLw A lot of his videos are mostly just funny, and happen to be insightful just because dude is smart and has worked for Suda 51 and Sony Japan and he's just entertaining in a way that a lot of Youtube game theory dudes aren't. But re: the FF7 series, I think it's important to note that it's not to nitpick or make fun of "this guy are sick" and say lol, translation errors! But rather to provide a bit of context behind the way games are translated from Japanese into English, and being able to identify whether a game is Japanese strictly from the English text and how it's written, and he goes over the styles that are typically used when translating video games, but especially older JRPGs, because of limitations in space due to the fact that Japanese can be written in much less space, often a fraction of the characters, than English RPG scripts and it results in a lot of punchy writing. He says he hopes to provide a rosetta stone, instead of a direct translation, to help understand and infer from an English translation of a game how the original Japanese text would read (or a very roundabout and basic example of linguistics and how Japanese typically translates to English in a very literal way). Also yeah, gently caress that 10 hour rebuttal of Hbomberguy's Dark Souls 2 video, he's definitely a Gamergate/garbage boy/pedantic neck beard and don't waste your time watching any of it. imhotep fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Sep 9, 2019 |
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