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Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Hello this is a thread to talk about videos about video games. There have been attempts at threads like this before but perhaps "right before a big Tim Rogers video drops" will be a good time for a thread like this.

I'll start with a few specific videos I really like that I want to recommend, then a list of channels:

Tim Rogers (Action Button)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-DtICmPTY

Jacob Geller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQNeYbBiCKw

Folding Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxQRswLAmI

Review and Analysis:
  • Tim Rogers (Action Button) - Long, extremely idiosyncratic reviews of games mixed with personal essays. Tim has a lot to say about (and also not about) any game he reviews, and personally I think his style is really entertaining.
  • Jacob Geller - Focused, well-written and edited analyses about games and general topics. He also makes non-gaming videos, like this one on the Jewish tradition of the golem. Aside from the video linked above, I especially like his video on Dark Souls 3.
  • Errant Signal - Infrequent but good discussions and retrospectives on games. I especially like his horror game videos he usually does each October.
  • Noah Caldwell-Gervais - Long, detailed reviews of games, with a calm, down-to-earth presentation. Not the super nitpicky style of long review, like Joseph Anderson. He just has a lot to say.

Game Design
  • Game Maker's Toolkit - Mark Brown makes videos discussing game design, based on his own observations and interviews with designers. Great primer on game design for lay people.
  • New Frame Plus - Videos all about video game animation, with overviews of general animation principles and occasional close examinations of specific animations from specific games.
  • Video Game Animation Study - Also about video game animation, with a stronger focus on examining specific games, or game series through multiple generations. This video on the animation of the Mega Man series is great.

Gaming News and/or Variety Topics
  • Kyle Bosman - Formerly of Easy Allies (and formerly of GameTrailers), now making a weekly "discuss a recent topic in gaming" series called Delayed Input. Generally pretty entertaining.
  • James Stephanie Sterling - I mean, you already know Sterling. They're still tirelessly calling out the increasing levels of bullshit in the games industry while wearing fancy outfits.

Harrow fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Oct 27, 2021

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Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Simone Magus posted:

Folding Ideas doesn't talk about games that often, but his WoW and Fortnite videos are great (and his non game stuff is amazing)

https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas

His WoW video is one of my favorites. It helps that I just am generally interested in MMOs as a genre and how they've developed over time, and it's cool to hear a perspective on what classic-style MMOs offer from someone who'd been playing the same game for its whole lifespan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxQRswLAmI

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Oh boy this is going to be an interesting one. Is it like a CYOA format or something?

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

I posted this in the more popular Tim Rogers-related thread (am I bitter? no, not at all, definitely not, I mean I made this one first but...)

I highly recommend watching Rogers's FF7 localization series that he did back when he worked for Kotaku. He goes through the first disc of FF7 and compares the Japanese and English scripts to talk about the choices made during localization, it's cool stuff: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsiJPoHlPqEEA07AKMQ2Hm2oRLiGkR_uJ

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Also I updated the OP with more of the recommendations people have posted. Keep 'em coming! I always want more video games Youtube to watch.

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Oh yeah Mark Brown is cool. I’m enjoying his new series about trying to make his own game.

That reminded me I should also add some of the channels about video game animation to the OP.

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

exquisite tea posted:

I also really enjoy this analysis of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice from the perspective of someone who suffers from psychosis in their real life. Courageous and deeply personal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52flQkqj5gs

This video was extremely good, highly highly recommended viewing

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Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

New Mark Brown video pointing out something that you probably felt if you've played Metroid Dread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pop-cc9kmY

Glad to see another Boss Keys episode, too. If you haven't watched them, his original Boss Keys series is about the dungeon design of the Zelda games.

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