"Ever since I finished designing my first Quake level 20 years ago I have never once had to ask a member of a restaurant's staff where the bathroom is. I just feel it." OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDD
Cheers to Bob and Korg. The motif of sound and connection (not being able to appreciate Doom w/o sound, not connecting to to Bob and Korg due to silence) is excellent.
I didn't immediately got that they're not Romero and Carmack, but I did eventually. I'm still not sure whether they actually exist. I think it's good to have that not totally clear, though.
My friends always told me about this really long Doom review that went for like 3.5 hours. I had seen clips and heard them talk about it, but I had never actually watched the whole thing myself. I was an... Action Button Doom Review poser.
Hahaha that's brilliant. And it's the first TH-cam video that's made me buy a book, Masters Of Doom. It's very well written. Not quite Tim Rogers gold standard but well worth a read.
You won me over with your Tokimeki Memorial video - and now I'm just binging all of your content. Cheers, chief. The whole project - design, delivery style, editing - it's all wonderful. Thank you so much for letting us wade through this with you.
sorry to be offtopic but does any of you know a method to log back into an instagram account? I was stupid lost the account password. I appreciate any help you can give me
It doesn't help that he's a Sheep sign in the Chinese Zodiac. Look up his birth year, and you'll know what I mean. A lot of sheep signs are highly self-deprecating
Tim Rogers saying he wishes he could make something good at the end of the Ultra-Violence chapter is heart breaking. I wish I could make things half as well as Tim Rogers.
What a video essay. The writing, improv moments, editing, it's a modern spin on the type of TV special that you might catch on a cable channel in the odd hours of the night back in the early 2000s. Really enjoyed your talking points, personal stories, and jokes. It's very polished but still as raw and relatable as it deserves to be.
The work he does is amazing. I can go through the videos multiple times and always pick up on something I didn’t notice before. Inspired me to get back on TH-cam and buy a teleprompter lol
Rewatching this for the like fourth time and I love the way Tim juxtaposes his desperate desire to be friends with the runner against how he disregarded Bob and Korg.
no one else on the planet is really built to turn the fifth decade of their life into a soul-exhausting romanticist monument to the medium of video games. anyone else who might try would lack either the artistry to make it good or the self-doubt to keep it framed in a sense of perspective. you have found a calling, and it's a doozy.
He's been at this a long time. I remember being a fan of his written reviews decades ago, in the Insert Credit days... really happy to see him doing his thing here. There's nobody else quite like him.
I did not like Mega Man when I first tried the games. I just found them unreasonably difficult. Then I discovered Action Button Dot Net and it’s reviews’ many loving comparisons to Megaman boss patterns and mechanics. I decided to try the series again and ended up loving them. I love them so much I even main Mega Man in super smash brothers. Now I find that Tim Rogers has played a thirteen-year-long prank on me with his sudden announcement that he has never liked Mega Man. You got me, Tim. You got me good.
But hey, it's still valid to like mega man. Unless it's Bioshock I'm sure Tim would never shame anyone for liking stuff, at least according to his FF7R review
He literally originates as the first person to call MGS2 "postmodern." He did so to troll someone. It literally kick started his career, and people still think MGS2 is literature. So, Tim has trolled a lot of people.
@@mechamonkeymancityboat7785 I would fully expect Tim to pull a "would you kindly" moment during his review and profess his love for Bioshock and all steampunk-adjacent media. I also know that by commenting this, the chances of that happening have gone down to exactly 0.
My Bob and Korg were 5 black female seniors, most with a child already, yelling at people that tried to bully me in the 9th grade and always saved a chair for me.
Far and away the only creator on this platform that I would be upset if they no longer did this. Your video, your script, your passion, your life experiences and your humour are so unique, so rare and so critical to the utter brilliance of your videos. Timothy, imagine my hand on your shoulder as I tell you this please, you are more than enough exactly as you are right now. From Boku to Barrett, you are effervescent in a sea of dim and I pray you won't stop this quest of your passion because we need it.
This review made me understand that DOOM is not an action game, it is a maze navigation puzzle game with buttery smooth real-time combat elements. It is Pac-Man, if every single pellet he chomped needed to be chokeslammed into submission first, and it felt incredible every time.
I won't try to speak to anyone else's experience, but I think that the work that you do is good and it has a value and impact that may not be possible to see from your perspective (as I find most people who are not complete assholes to be overly self-critical, especially with creative endeavors). Especially now, after six+ months of pandemic, art consumption is one of the few things that make the strain of being alone in my apartment month after month at all bearable. You didn't cure cancer or right any huge societal wrong with this video, but you did enlighten and entertain in a way that I've come to really appreciate and value. In short, I like the cut of your jib.
Ah, it's quality over quantity. I come to Action Button reviews and nearly every comment is gold. So I'm guessing Tim attracts a more discerning crowd who love trenchant critique and long form reviews, rather than your stereotypical meatheaded gamerbro types who just troll because they're a PC/PlayStation/Xbox fan boy rather than being smart enough to realise it's not about the platforms, it's about the games. Eh Tim?
@@ActionButtonMate, honest question: were you using your real voice throughout this video or were you making it sound low and hoarse no purpose? I'm about half way through your essay. I won't type up any thoughts because why would you care. I'm just trying to figure out if you are playing a bit or if this is actually "you". Again, honest question. Thanks for your contribution to the world of DOOM.
Hearing Tim at the end of the ULTRA-VIOLENCE chapter say he wants to do something good some day, makes me wonder what Tim visualizes to be good in his big ol' brain. I came across Tim Roger's review of Dragon Quest 11 in 2018, after which I became a "Dragon Quest poser" and convinced my roommate and best friend to play Dragon Quest 11 proclaiming it be one of the best RPG's of the decade. He played Dragon Quest 11, for 3 weeks straight. Impressively, he turned off his second monitor to only play the game and soak in all of it's dialog and detail, rather than his usual habit of watching Netflix and grinding a game. 3 weeks later, with little conversation on the game in between, he emerged from his room to confirm my educated but inexperienced opinion that Dragon Quest 11 was everything and possibly even more than what Tim Rogers described it to be. It is an experience that my roommate still cannot seem to find a replacement to this day, starting Final Fantasy 12 but leaving it incomplete and resigning himself back down to playing Runescape (For... some reason). Just like Tim's experience being a Doom poser, my experience of being a Dragon Quest taught me that we can be touched and impressed by another person's passion and experience with something. In the case of Tim Roger's, his many experiences playing the Dragon Quest series. Back in January of this year, I was in a deep depression. Days we're pretty hard to pass by, meals pretty impossible to eat, and self-worth hard to see. Tim helped me through. I fell in love with Tim's honest story telling of his own life and emotions. It helped me appreciate and see that we struggle, and that things can get better even if things change, but also laugh my ass off to Tim's comedy which is pretty good therapy on it's own. I watched every single one of Tim's Kotaku videos, and even some over again. Watching Tim's videos over (for some reason I can't figure out) always feels like watching it for the first time. Along with a drive to improve, therapy and support, things have come a long way this year for me and Tim has been a source of enjoyment, fun and interest that has helped me find my way back to the hobby's and interests I love. I now also own an Xbox Series Elite 2 controller, and it is in fact pretty bomb. When I heard Tim had left Kotaku, I wasn't disappointed that there wouldn't be more, since what we got was pretty damn great looking back at watching all the videos. And then bam, all of a sudden, a video appears that Tim reviewed the Final Fantasy VII remake. Now as someone diagnosed with ADHD (selective attention), its not hard to pay attention, it's just hard to keep it with distractions available. Approaching a 3 hour long review of a single videogame "is like approaching Mount Everest, with only a plastic fork" (God, that analogy makes my stomach hurt), but to alleviate my self-doubt I found myself attuned to Tim's review with healthy attention and intrigue just like his shorter videos at Kotaku, and the same with his videos since. I think I even left a comment on the video complaining about it's length before starting it, that I feel pretty dumb leaving now. I don't want to convince you that your content is good, but maybe sharing this life experience of mine like the many you have shared may be a consolation. Keep up the great work, and don't ever change for anyone but yourself.
The curse of being able to make good stuff is being able to recognize that something is good, and the inevitable realization that there are people making stuff that's even better than your stuff. Even if you recognize that your stuff is good on some level, is it ever really good enough? Then there are people that make mediocre stuff that are oblivious to their mediocrity and pump out enormous volumes of the stuff while fully convinced that their stuff is the greatest.
I also watched Tim’s DQXI review in 2018 and thought, damn I wanna play this game. I did not start DQXI until maybe 3 weeks ago. I first played the demo and then was like, this is dank AF. I just wanted to let you know, if you like JRPGs then you will love DQXI and who cares if you’re a poser, because I was a poser for 3 years before I jumped into the game on my switch. I believe DQXI is what the Pokémon games should have evolved into. If you grew up with Pokémon and liked the game play mechanics, you will definitely appreciate DQXI.
I too was briefly befriended by two older kids when I was a sophomore in high school. One of them was a tall white goth rocker with long hair and the other was a black punk guy with spiked bracelets. They were pretty cool.
I've been looking for the phrase "A spectral conversation with your past self" for decades. It finally describes the sensation of returning to an old outpost in Terraria, or booting up an old save file in a game with manual inventory management.
Yea dude epic quote. Here’s another from his Last of Us review: “Soon, in a sense, only the cold part of the world understands: anything that is now will be before everyone’s time.”
Jesus I just want to give sad Tim at 2:29:19 a present or something and tell him how important he is to so many people. He may hate himself but we love his (public) personality and care about him!
Hi Tim. I've been watching your videos for a while now but have never commented. After hearing about all the negative comments you get on your Death Stranding stream, I figured I should leave a positive one. Your videos have brought me countless hours of joy, and I eagerly anticipate each one you put out. Thank you for providing both insightful and hilarious content for everyone to enjoy.
@@wildonionchase3934 He was talking about people who'd complained about him "not talking about the game" in his Kotaku review and other ridiculous accusations. It was clearly just people that did get it, but apparently he gets a lot of those comments that he deletes.
@@Tamacat388 Kind of like every single TH-cam video on planet earth does? So weird that he isn't the only on this website that doesn't get bad comments. I figured he'd be THE ONE. But seriously though, it's just pathetic and sad human beings making those comments. Pay no attention to them.
I've watched this three times now. I originally thought I'd not even get through a 3hr:30min video, ONCE, but here I am... on my fourth viewing. There is something quite beautiful about it. The nostalgia, the music, the highly intelligent writing, and delivery of Tim. It's really a treasure. OK... sappy mode: off :) but seriously, thanks Tim! I can't wait to see what's next. -Matt
I discovered this video because it popped on while I was sleeping, and I thought it was rambling nonsense disguised as a review. Watching it now, fully awake, I realize that it is the greatest video I have ever seen! 🏆👏
With a project like this, you inexplicably raise the medium of "video game analysis and review" to a form of artistic expression. Genuinely, I think you've outdone yourself here, and (it goes without saying) outdone the rest of us a hundredfold. Bravo!
This is one of the most baffling yet amazing videos I have ever seen on TH-cam. I loved it, it was insightful, thorough, and extremely well put together. But at the same time, watching it feels like an experience. Like a rollercoaster. You can never tell when Tim is being completely genuine or when he's making something up for a joke or funny story or to emphasize a point. And somehow this ambiguity exists in such a way that its not a bad thing, it doesn't detract from the video at all, if anything it probably makes the video better as it has a very unique sense of positive confusion that I don't think I've ever felt before, and at the same time I have no trouble understanding what he's saying. This video can best be summed up with the phrase "I completely understand but I don't understand at all" and I love it.
@@1234bobfox right? He’s medically forced to. Which, now that I think on it, makes it nearly infinitely better that he did eventually realize the kindness they did for him. Be kind. You never know what will stick with people, or what people will have an incredibly rare condition by which they cannot help but remember everything that has ever happened to them…
1:23 Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux. Don't know why everyone keeps forgetting. It was one of the first platforms Doom was originally ported to, in 1994. It was an initiative of an Id Software employee called Dave Taylor. Then the Doom source code switched to the GPL license, a free and open source license. The rest is history. But...outstanding documentary. The best I've seen on this topic. I can't even conceive the amount of work that went into this. Have my humble like, if that means anything. Keep on with the good job.
During the editing period of this video, Bethesda patched the modern console ports of Doom 1&2 to support true 16:9 widescreen! Crazy to play Classic Doom on my Switch in widescreen!
Pat and Woolie from Castle Super Beast sent me and I'm down for this. Your vocal delivery reminds me of Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder, and I fucking love it. Your memory has turned you into a fantastic storyteller. This is great content and you should be proud of making a 3 hour series of non sequiturs this compelling.
@@derpstick5467 I generally disagree with his thoughts on The Last of Us but I keep on watching anyway because even when he’s wrong, he’s too goddamn interesting to ignore
Hahaha they both go all out, don't they. Different voices, but both seem like great people. Polygon peeps lke BDG ,and the ex-Kotaku writer,s sometimes feel like the only diverse group of good people left in videogame criticism. I much prefer BDG and tim over the 10000 angry white youtube game critics yelling "this is bad, everyone agrees" & " "I hate SJW's" all the dang time.
@@jord.an6123 I think all good video game content creator on youtube are either story tellers (Tim, BDG, HAPPY CONSOLE GAMER) or technical experts (DIGITAL FOUNDRY, MY LIFE IN GAMING). I feel like most everyone else wants to rally up an army... Man... I just wanna hang out in _Boku no Natsuyasumi_ or perfect my GOD HAND destruction...
@@jac1011 Couldn't agree more. You look at someone like YongYea (off the top of my head) and he does seem to think his role is just to get as many teen boys as angry as possible, instead of y'know actually contribute to video-game discourse & growing the artform, or diversify the artform's fanbase. Like you said, I wish that at the VERY LEAST that other content creators would just chill and hang with games they like, instead of trying to tell me why "politics should stay away from my vidyagamez" etc It's frustrating the most popular games youtubers just seem to want to fight in some culture war on the side of the alt-right. Hopefully as tim gets bigger, people will realise there's a way to be a successful games youtuber without being a jerk too :)
When I was 5 or 6, I had computer classes. The teacher would show us paint, word, simple stuff. And in the end, he always allowed us to play Doom. I have very good memories of it. After watching this video, I decided to buy the PS4 version, being 30 in about two weeks. I'll be honest, I thought I would play the first level for nostalgia and that would be it. I was waiting to be over hyped. I am shocked at how fun the game still is to play, to this day. It's super fast and smooth and the shotgun feels amazing. Incredible game. Thank you Tim
i feel like i don't see enough comments about how great the music timing and editing in is in tim's videos. it's masterful. I miss the monday night football theme though.
"if you think any death is too gruesome for a Nazi, then you haven't read enough history books and if you think any shotgun blast is too brutal for a demon, then what kind of christian are you? Dad!" XD
That was... nearly a life changing video imo... I don't know what kind dark magic you do, but this is so high-quality, intelligent, cheerful, nostalgic and LOUD! I needed it at this point in my life. This was the real deal! Keep em' coming!
Upon re-re-re-RE-re-watching this video, I've come to the conclusion that it is the greatest piece of journalism to ever grace my ear and/or eye-holes.
So far this is like listening to a top tier audiobook narration of an incredibly deep Introspective book. It takes real skill to elevate game reviews into this
"I sort of even love Daikatana though I reckon not a high enough percentage of the viewers of this video are psychologists for me to legally continue this sentence". looool
“I said uuuuhhh to make myself sound colloquial, to make myself sound normal... and not... whatever the hell i am.” We have reached peak relatable material here. Now I feel morally blinded to watch every minute of this serie.
I've watched and listened to this video so many times that I can almost recite all the "punchlines" in fact most of the lines from it. Somewhere along the way it became my comfort audio. What is going on
Honestly this review does several things that are usually done poorly in isolation so you end up with a fragmented 15 minute video with some good content and some stuff that didn't need to be there. This video is almost 3x the length of Big Momma's House. It establishes the industry at the time, it does a deep dive on the game and it has color commentary. It is complete. Even 2 hour videos on immersive sims lack color commentary or anecdotes. I enjoyed it.
“love is precisely that: an irrational, prickly mess, inextricable from our memories of college” hit me so hard I had to pause the video and take a walk
Holy shit, as an original Insert Credit reader I'm glad the algorithm randomly added this video to my autoplay after I had fallen asleep watching another video almost 4 years after its initial release. Good to see you doing your thing in a new format, 108! I woke up halfway through the video very confused. "How did I get here? Did I warp?"
"Some day I want to do something good." Tim you've got a fantastic, amazing brain that is apparently being a real jerk to you right now. Use that amazing and powerful tool to realize that this is a fantastic video insight to many and joy to many more. I'm so happy to see your videos. I saw your review of Godhand and permenantly put it on my favorites list, showing everyone I could. Nine years later I found your DMCV review and LOST MY GODDAMN MIND because I had finally, so many years later, found you again. Keep being awesome and tell your brain to stop being an asshole to you :)
Doom is indeed larger than itself, it's a multi facet cultural movement influenced so many lives, how we do things and how we perceive things, even after decades later. And Tim got us think about that while reflecting on our own too, for me the book Masters of Doom inspired me so much, I decided to give game development a try. The masters' story influenced me more than Doom itself.
"This man is one of the most interestingly unintelligent individuals I have ever encountered in my entire media consuming life... and I've looked at Twitter." Beautiful.
There is another subtle lesson Doom teaches you in E1M1 without an explicit tutorial. That being one of paying attention to the sound design. Right at the beginning, when you go to the left to the room with the green armor, there's a switch on one of the walls that seemingly does nothing when you press it, but you can distinctly hear the sound of a door being opened which, if you go back to the main lobby, will grant you a shortcut to that blue armor. So, you get two lessons through one simple action. That sound design will give you important clues and that you can traverse the levels in a non-linear fashion which I think is pretty cool :)
"What, in any case, the point was of paying attention and knowing stuff when those in power take pride in not knowing anything" Man, this hit hard, especially in these dark times we live in right now. We *wish* our politicians' general dumbassery was limited to boomers not getting video games.
This was amazingly poignant. It sucks that Tim got so down on himself for not making a better point. But there are some really good insights in this part of the video. And the conversation and debate will continue, and be enriched by Tim's contributions.
-TIMOTHY-, Your team has accomplished Something Good by executing this demonically and Proustianically researched, exquisitely edited, double-feature-length documentary. I sympathize that Our Collective Feelings may NEVER saturate your waking life to any satisfaction; but, at least allow yourself, with your monstrously-high intelligence quotient, to appreciate, even briefly: We Love You and we derive a particularly-peculiar pleasure watching You Love Things. Thank You.
my paranoid religious mom tried getting me to stop playing Doom for the same reason, but I explained that the game couldn't be satanic considering I, the main character, was tasked with KILLING demons. She still didn't like it, but she didn't really have a comeback so she just kinda walked away and didn't bring it up again.
There are youtube videos then there are videos like this. The effort put in this is awe inspiring and I'm just two hours in (don't even care that we went off on a tangent on school shootings and video game violence in the 90s) you made this interesting and thought provoking. Thank you Tim Rodgers this is ART
as someone who has trouble to remember anything that has happend a couple days ago, the amount of detail you can remember makes me jealous and terrifies me at the same time
I like where this is going, when I saw how long this video was I knew it was worth it and I was right. It's not easy to add something new so I just tell a short story: Growing up in South America, not having my own computer until I was 12, I had the luck to be exposed to Doom on every computer I had access to(since I was 7~), seems like it was installed by default right after Windows and Office by sellers because I know the owners of the computer didn't ask for it, didn't even know what it was, since piracy was the mainstream in my country my guess is the copy of Doom was pirated. Now that I'm older, learning what a huge step it was in the gaming universe made me appreciate it even more. Just bought an eMac g4 for some retro gaming, first thing I'm doing with it? right, playing Doom.
Tim, I'm really sorry to hear you say you don't like yourself and you have low self-esteem. You make really special videos, that only you can do. I watch the same videos on repeat, yours and Ahoy's are the most watched by far. Thanks man
That's nice! *edit* Wait, is this what led you to streaming Doom all the way through? 'Cos this is what got me to finally play past the first shareware episode!
"Ever since I finished designing my first Quake level 20 years ago I have never once had to ask a member of a restaurant's staff where the bathroom is.
I just feel it."
OH MY FUCKING GOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDD
Cheers to Bob and Korg. The motif of sound and connection (not being able to appreciate Doom w/o sound, not connecting to to Bob and Korg due to silence) is excellent.
YES!! THIS!!! 🤯😩❤️
wow, i totally didnt see that, makes this even better
@ashy They seem to have taken Tim saying that Bob and Korg were John Romero and John Carmack completely literally.
I didn't immediately got that they're not Romero and Carmack, but I did eventually. I'm still not sure whether they actually exist. I think it's good to have that not totally clear, though.
Hmmm don't suppose Bobby Prince's weapon of choice was a Korg synth? I suppose that reference might be a bit too meta lol
Bless you, Bob and Korg. I hope you are both still out there doing kindnesses for strangers. The world needs more people like you in it.
My friends always told me about this really long Doom review that went for like 3.5 hours. I had seen clips and heard them talk about it, but I had never actually watched the whole thing myself. I was an... Action Button Doom Review poser.
Hahaha that's brilliant. And it's the first TH-cam video that's made me buy a book, Masters Of Doom. It's very well written. Not quite Tim Rogers gold standard but well worth a read.
i read this with his tone
@@skyblue2139 Me too! First time in years I was hooked by a book.
The mask came off then, didn’t it??
UNTIL TODAY
Bob and Korg are the most wholesome people I've ever heard of.
I'm going to check out the first and last 5 mins of this video. I will then proceed to become an Action Button POSER for the next 20 years.
Get out.
Yeah, dude. ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS.
@@chekhovsraygun Yeah, I've seen a Timothy Rodgers film.
Are you going to produce a 3 hour video where you chronicle your quest of unposerifying(c) yourself?
@@ZsomborBerki I ....might?
"Tokimeki Memorial review is going to be shorter than this one..." Lawl!
I'm kinda hoping that each review is comically longer than the last one until we're getting 48 hour long reviews of pong
@@Flowtail youtube limits a single video to 12 hours at this point. new uploads at least. :(
@@juneguts np, he could make a whole season of one game review with 12 hrs per episode. If someone can pull it of, then it's Tim.
it was all intentional
"Cyberpunk 2077 review will be out by Christmas 2020"
You won me over with your Tokimeki Memorial video - and now I'm just binging all of your content. Cheers, chief. The whole project - design, delivery style, editing - it's all wonderful. Thank you so much for letting us wade through this with you.
It’s a long binge, but we’ll get there.
SAME
sorry to be offtopic but does any of you know a method to log back into an instagram account?
I was stupid lost the account password. I appreciate any help you can give me
too bad he hasn't updated
@@FredMaverik it is odd, being deprived of infinite Tim Rogers. 🤔
"Tell your little brother he better not come in here." If you have younger siblings, sweeter words have never been heard.
Or if you're being intimate with a girl who has younger siblings yep 😏
“Those cops were defunded of the currency of their life”
-Professional Video Game Expert Tim Rogers
Gonna change his name to Elliot and show the pigs what horseshoe theory is
Tim Rogers you talk about not liking yourself but we love you. Trust our love. You ain't half bad
It doesn't help that he's a Sheep sign in the Chinese Zodiac. Look up his birth year, and you'll know what I mean. A lot of sheep signs are highly self-deprecating
@@Gaming4BoringGrownUps what star sign is he?
@@ZaddyZavid I believe he's a Gemini, which is why he's able to work as diligently and efficiently as he does!
@jet black Not to mention, he's multi-talented! Manga artist, advertising agent, video game producer, writer - holy shit!
@@Gaming4BoringGrownUps damn Tim Rogers - "2010s Man of the Decade"
Tim Rogers saying he wishes he could make something good at the end of the Ultra-Violence chapter is heart breaking. I wish I could make things half as well as Tim Rogers.
It made me tear up a little bit if I’m completely honest haha
Made me feel good because I can point and laugh at his insecurities
@@tylercafe1260 you’ll look back on this comment and cringe in like 4 years man
@@angusraze9638 No he won't. I know. I'm from the future.
@@angusraze9638 no`
What a video essay. The writing, improv moments, editing, it's a modern spin on the type of TV special that you might catch on a cable channel in the odd hours of the night back in the early 2000s. Really enjoyed your talking points, personal stories, and jokes. It's very polished but still as raw and relatable as it deserves to be.
The work he does is amazing. I can go through the videos multiple times and always pick up on something I didn’t notice before. Inspired me to get back on TH-cam and buy a teleprompter lol
Rewatching this for the like fourth time and I love the way Tim juxtaposes his desperate desire to be friends with the runner against how he disregarded Bob and Korg.
Feeling second-hand gratitude for Bob & Korg.
That's one of those stories that feels like it would be perfect in a novel, and makes me sad that i don't have a novel to put it in
no one else on the planet is really built to turn the fifth decade of their life into a soul-exhausting romanticist monument to the medium of video games. anyone else who might try would lack either the artistry to make it good or the self-doubt to keep it framed in a sense of perspective. you have found a calling, and it's a doozy.
He's been at this a long time. I remember being a fan of his written reviews decades ago, in the Insert Credit days... really happy to see him doing his thing here. There's nobody else quite like him.
Jesus, you are not telling me this guy is pushing fifty? Meta commentary must be the goddamn fountain of youth!
....i know one other person who might be able to fill such a role, except that he's in his 20s so it'll take thirty years
@@markfrost4064 He said he was 14 when Doom came out, which would put him right around 40.
Some people don't realize that the "fifth decade" of a person's life is their 40s and not their 50s.
Mad respect for Bob and Korg. I hope they're doing well today.
I personally hope Korg actually acquired that Korg synth at some point. Also, that him and Bob went om to make videogames
@@reverberateddreams7958 In a perfect world, Korg is using that synth to make some sweet tunes for their games
They are dead man I’m sorry to tell you.
@@reverberateddreams7958on*
Can someone please timestamp the bob and Korg part.
1:54:25 I would like to put it on record that my older brother DID study psychology at West Point, and he DID end up needing therapy post graduation.
I did not like Mega Man when I first tried the games. I just found them unreasonably difficult. Then I discovered Action Button Dot Net and it’s reviews’ many loving comparisons to Megaman boss patterns and mechanics. I decided to try the series again and ended up loving them. I love them so much I even main Mega Man in super smash brothers. Now I find that Tim Rogers has played a thirteen-year-long prank on me with his sudden announcement that he has never liked Mega Man. You got me, Tim. You got me good.
But hey, it's still valid to like mega man. Unless it's Bioshock I'm sure Tim would never shame anyone for liking stuff, at least according to his FF7R review
He literally originates as the first person to call MGS2 "postmodern." He did so to troll someone. It literally kick started his career, and people still think MGS2 is literature. So, Tim has trolled a lot of people.
@@mechamonkeymancityboat7785 I would fully expect Tim to pull a "would you kindly" moment during his review and profess his love for Bioshock and all steampunk-adjacent media.
I also know that by commenting this, the chances of that happening have gone down to exactly 0.
@@mechamonkeymancityboat7785 I mean bioshock 1 is better than ff7r so idk if that means much coming from him
@@LloCiDul what?
Bob and Korg, wherever you are, we salute you.
The story about Bob and Korg made me cry.
Damn.
*Fucking same.*
Six months late, but same
Yeah that's rough buddy. I hate that feeling when you realize that you had someone there for you, but never even realized it.
Same here
Ditto
"Buddy, if I liked anything about myself, I wouldn't be here right now."
God, this man is a treasure 😭
7:40
Agreed.
Also, I think Bob and Korg need to be found and reunited with Tim
This is the inception of the three of them starting a D+D podcast. Demon themed, with metal music.
i legit wept during that part. I wish I had bob and korg when i was bullyied. great guys, would love to know how they're doing.
I think korg and Bob burnt down the school
My Bob and Korg were 5 black female seniors, most with a child already, yelling at people that tried to bully me in the 9th grade and always saved a chair for me.
@@gerzie absolute legends
Far and away the only creator on this platform that I would be upset if they no longer did this. Your video, your script, your passion, your life experiences and your humour are so unique, so rare and so critical to the utter brilliance of your videos. Timothy, imagine my hand on your shoulder as I tell you this please, you are more than enough exactly as you are right now. From Boku to Barrett, you are effervescent in a sea of dim and I pray you won't stop this quest of your passion because we need it.
This review made me understand that DOOM is not an action game, it is a maze navigation puzzle game with buttery smooth real-time combat elements. It is Pac-Man, if every single pellet he chomped needed to be chokeslammed into submission first, and it felt incredible every time.
This kinda helps me understand why DOOM feels like a fever dream to me. Pacman itself is a nightmare.
Castle Super Beast sent me here, holy shit Pat.
Same. I think I might stick around :P
Me too
Ayyyye
Same
Same
I won't try to speak to anyone else's experience, but I think that the work that you do is good and it has a value and impact that may not be possible to see from your perspective (as I find most people who are not complete assholes to be overly self-critical, especially with creative endeavors).
Especially now, after six+ months of pandemic, art consumption is one of the few things that make the strain of being alone in my apartment month after month at all bearable. You didn't cure cancer or right any huge societal wrong with this video, but you did enlighten and entertain in a way that I've come to really appreciate and value. In short, I like the cut of your jib.
This review has inspired me to start tracking time as “Before Doom” and “After Doom”. It’s actually 18 AD now.
Think you might’ve dropped a decade there bud. (Don’t worry, I do it all the time too.)
"sooner or later life is, at last, a list of things you everyday deal silently with not having done" - Tim Rogers (2020)
Damn what a quote
😊😊😊😊😊
every now and then i come back and rewatch these and am still upset there aren't millions of views yet they are completely deserving 😤
oh don't worry buddy when i want Millions Of Views i know what to do!
@@ActionButton 9 hours review of earth defense force?
Ah, it's quality over quantity. I come to Action Button reviews and nearly every comment is gold. So I'm guessing Tim attracts a more discerning crowd who love trenchant critique and long form reviews, rather than your stereotypical meatheaded gamerbro types who just troll because they're a PC/PlayStation/Xbox fan boy rather than being smart enough to realise it's not about the platforms, it's about the games.
Eh Tim?
Don't ask for approval like that lol
@@ActionButtonMate, honest question: were you using your real voice throughout this video or were you making it sound low and hoarse no purpose?
I'm about half way through your essay. I won't type up any thoughts because why would you care. I'm just trying to figure out if you are playing a bit or if this is actually "you".
Again, honest question. Thanks for your contribution to the world of DOOM.
Hearing Tim at the end of the ULTRA-VIOLENCE chapter say he wants to do something good some day, makes me wonder what Tim visualizes to be good in his big ol' brain.
I came across Tim Roger's review of Dragon Quest 11 in 2018, after which I became a "Dragon Quest poser" and convinced my roommate and best friend to play Dragon Quest 11 proclaiming it be one of the best RPG's of the decade. He played Dragon Quest 11, for 3 weeks straight. Impressively, he turned off his second monitor to only play the game and soak in all of it's dialog and detail, rather than his usual habit of watching Netflix and grinding a game.
3 weeks later, with little conversation on the game in between, he emerged from his room to confirm my educated but inexperienced opinion that Dragon Quest 11 was everything and possibly even more than what Tim Rogers described it to be. It is an experience that my roommate still cannot seem to find a replacement to this day, starting Final Fantasy 12 but leaving it incomplete and resigning himself back down to playing Runescape (For... some reason).
Just like Tim's experience being a Doom poser, my experience of being a Dragon Quest taught me that we can be touched and impressed by another person's passion and experience with something. In the case of Tim Roger's, his many experiences playing the Dragon Quest series.
Back in January of this year, I was in a deep depression. Days we're pretty hard to pass by, meals pretty impossible to eat, and self-worth hard to see.
Tim helped me through.
I fell in love with Tim's honest story telling of his own life and emotions. It helped me appreciate and see that we struggle, and that things can get better even if things change, but also laugh my ass off to Tim's comedy which is pretty good therapy on it's own.
I watched every single one of Tim's Kotaku videos, and even some over again. Watching Tim's videos over (for some reason I can't figure out) always feels like watching it for the first time.
Along with a drive to improve, therapy and support, things have come a long way this year for me and Tim has been a source of enjoyment, fun and interest that has helped me find my way back to the hobby's and interests I love. I now also own an Xbox Series Elite 2 controller, and it is in fact pretty bomb.
When I heard Tim had left Kotaku, I wasn't disappointed that there wouldn't be more, since what we got was pretty damn great looking back at watching all the videos.
And then bam, all of a sudden, a video appears that Tim reviewed the Final Fantasy VII remake. Now as someone diagnosed with ADHD (selective attention), its not hard to pay attention, it's just hard to keep it with distractions available. Approaching a 3 hour long review
of a single videogame "is like approaching Mount Everest, with only a plastic fork" (God, that analogy makes my stomach hurt), but to alleviate my self-doubt I found myself attuned to Tim's review with healthy attention and intrigue just like his shorter videos at Kotaku, and the same with his videos since. I think I even left a comment on the video complaining about it's length before starting it, that I feel pretty dumb leaving now.
I don't want to convince you that your content is good, but maybe sharing this life experience of mine like the many you have shared may be a consolation.
Keep up the great work, and don't ever change for anyone but yourself.
This comment took me on a touching side journey while the part of the video that i've already watched played--thank you for sharing
The curse of being able to make good stuff is being able to recognize that something is good, and the inevitable realization that there are people making stuff that's even better than your stuff. Even if you recognize that your stuff is good on some level, is it ever really good enough?
Then there are people that make mediocre stuff that are oblivious to their mediocrity and pump out enormous volumes of the stuff while fully convinced that their stuff is the greatest.
I also watched Tim’s DQXI review in 2018 and thought, damn I wanna play this game.
I did not start DQXI until maybe 3 weeks ago. I first played the demo and then was like, this is dank AF.
I just wanted to let you know, if you like JRPGs then you will love DQXI and who cares if you’re a poser, because I was a poser for 3 years before I jumped into the game on my switch.
I believe DQXI is what the Pokémon games should have evolved into. If you grew up with Pokémon and liked the game play mechanics, you will definitely appreciate DQXI.
i think that analogy is ok
One hour in to the video, “Now here’s the review...” Only Tim Rogers and his incredible storytelling can get away with that. 10/10 video.
I'm just starting the video and this is the first thing I saw. I'm cracking up 😂😂
I could listen to Tim Rogers talk about his own life forever
The scary thing is that he could do it
I could too. He describes events in his life very well as if they were scenes in a movie or book.
Same.... As much as I am a bit sad I may never read his personal essays, I will always prefer his weird audio presentation anyway.
I too was briefly befriended by two older kids when I was a sophomore in high school. One of them was a tall white goth rocker with long hair and the other was a black punk guy with spiked bracelets. They were pretty cool.
The story of Bob and Korg is very moving. A little kindness goes a long way.
I've been looking for the phrase "A spectral conversation with your past self" for decades. It finally describes the sensation of returning to an old outpost in Terraria, or booting up an old save file in a game with manual inventory management.
rewatch time, jerry
This editor really flexing on his first showing
oh baby JUST WAIT
Dude... that subtle "i ❤ NY" shirt insert was smooth as oiled smoke! So sexy...
@@kenoahj I had to double check that it hadn't always been there but edited OUT. That's how good it was!
That story about Bob and Korg was incredible
I hope they're doing okay
The visual of Gandalf's ship penetrating Bilbo's smoke ring when Tim mentions nobody getting laid in Lord of the Rings at 32:41 is priceless.
"Sooner or later life is at last a list of things you every day deal silently with not having done"
IF IT WASN'T BEFORE, IT IS NOW! Thanks for that! X_X
@@NathanielJordan85 X_X;;;
Yea dude epic quote. Here’s another from his Last of Us review: “Soon, in a sense, only the cold part of the world understands: anything that is now will be before everyone’s time.”
Jesus I just want to give sad Tim at 2:29:19 a present or something and tell him how important he is to so many people. He may hate himself but we love his (public) personality and care about him!
I’m glad you’re not looking good at it all day too bro you have yy
Hi Tim. I've been watching your videos for a while now but have never commented. After hearing about all the negative comments you get on your Death Stranding stream, I figured I should leave a positive one. Your videos have brought me countless hours of joy, and I eagerly anticipate each one you put out. Thank you for providing both insightful and hilarious content for everyone to enjoy.
Why was he getting negative comments on the Death Stranding stream?
@@wildonionchase3934 He was talking about people who'd complained about him "not talking about the game" in his Kotaku review and other ridiculous accusations. It was clearly just people that did get it, but apparently he gets a lot of those comments that he deletes.
@@neptune301 Yeah that’s pretty dumb
@@wildonionchase3934 It was all the videos. He just always bad comments on his videos.
@@Tamacat388 Kind of like every single TH-cam video on planet earth does? So weird that he isn't the only on this website that doesn't get bad comments. I figured he'd be THE ONE. But seriously though, it's just pathetic and sad human beings making those comments. Pay no attention to them.
I've watched this three times now. I originally thought I'd not even get through a 3hr:30min video, ONCE, but here I am... on my fourth viewing. There is something quite beautiful about it. The nostalgia, the music, the highly intelligent writing, and delivery of Tim. It's really a treasure. OK... sappy mode: off :) but seriously, thanks Tim! I can't wait to see what's next. -Matt
You've so much value as a human, I'm so happy you've decided to share this piece of yourself with the internet.
These past 3 videos have been the most elaborate advertisement for an indie game I've ever seen.
wait till you see the next eight videos lmao
@@ActionButton doom wasnt an indie game
oops replied to the wrong guy. lol
@@ActionButton i did it again!
doom wasn't an indie game
I wonder if Korg ever bought that synthesizer
Maybe he changed his name to Roland
the most impressive thing is being invited to a girls house to play quake
Yeah that's pretty kick butt.
Except not "butt".... If you know what I mean.
I hope she's your wife now.
Edit: oh it's from the video never mind :)
There are lots of girls nowadays playing videogames.
Meant as a reference to another one of his videos.
Good 1st sign for a keeper.
@@zatozatoichi7920 based rin pfp
I laughed literally every time the tiny wolf howled
I discovered this video because it popped on while I was sleeping, and I thought it was rambling nonsense disguised as a review. Watching it now, fully awake, I realize that it is the greatest video I have ever seen! 🏆👏
Same
Dude! That's what happened to me just now! I haven't fully woken up yet tho
With a project like this, you inexplicably raise the medium of "video game analysis and review" to a form of artistic expression. Genuinely, I think you've outdone yourself here, and (it goes without saying) outdone the rest of us a hundredfold. Bravo!
Dude I love your series, found your super metroid review and could not stop watching. love your classic sonic and 2d metroid reviews.
Kind of makes you want to step up your own game, doesn't it?
@@Gaming4BoringGrownUps YES, but it also makes me feel depressed and inadequate by comparison.
@@NormalModeTV Then change your difficulty to Hard Mode
Don't worry man. You are still up there with the best of them.
This is one of the most baffling yet amazing videos I have ever seen on TH-cam. I loved it, it was insightful, thorough, and extremely well put together. But at the same time, watching it feels like an experience. Like a rollercoaster. You can never tell when Tim is being completely genuine or when he's making something up for a joke or funny story or to emphasize a point. And somehow this ambiguity exists in such a way that its not a bad thing, it doesn't detract from the video at all, if anything it probably makes the video better as it has a very unique sense of positive confusion that I don't think I've ever felt before, and at the same time I have no trouble understanding what he's saying.
This video can best be summed up with the phrase "I completely understand but I don't understand at all" and I love it.
I cried for Bob and Korg. The bros that never were. I hope Tim keeps them in his heart forever.
I don't think Tim has a choice....
@@1234bobfox right? He’s medically forced to.
Which, now that I think on it, makes it nearly infinitely better that he did eventually realize the kindness they did for him.
Be kind. You never know what will stick with people, or what people will have an incredibly rare condition by which they cannot help but remember everything that has ever happened to them…
1:23 Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux. Don't know why everyone keeps forgetting. It was one of the first platforms Doom was originally ported to, in 1994. It was an initiative of an Id Software employee called Dave Taylor. Then the Doom source code switched to the GPL license, a free and open source license. The rest is history.
But...outstanding documentary. The best I've seen on this topic. I can't even conceive the amount of work that went into this. Have my humble like, if that means anything. Keep on with the good job.
“Making YOU think is a shortcut to artistic profundity.” has never made me laugh so hard as a former art major.
During the editing period for this video, someone got DooM running on a pregnancy test. Just thought I'd add that to your list in Part 2.
Foone did it! They're a chaos God of obscure electronics.
During the editing period of this video, Bethesda patched the modern console ports of Doom 1&2 to support true 16:9 widescreen! Crazy to play Classic Doom on my Switch in widescreen!
I thought this was a joke, but... th-cam.com/video/KyITTyRX_rk/w-d-xo.html
Pat and Woolie from Castle Super Beast sent me and I'm down for this. Your vocal delivery reminds me of Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder, and I fucking love it. Your memory has turned you into a fantastic storyteller. This is great content and you should be proud of making a 3 hour series of non sequiturs this compelling.
@@derpstick5467 I generally disagree with his thoughts on The Last of Us but I keep on watching anyway because even when he’s wrong, he’s too goddamn interesting to ignore
Tim makes people like Brian David Gilbert look sane.
Hahaha they both go all out, don't they. Different voices, but both seem like great people.
Polygon peeps lke BDG ,and the ex-Kotaku writer,s sometimes feel like the only diverse group of good people left in videogame criticism. I much prefer BDG and tim over the 10000 angry white youtube game critics yelling "this is bad, everyone agrees" & " "I hate SJW's" all the dang time.
@@jord.an6123 I think all good video game content creator on youtube are either story tellers (Tim, BDG, HAPPY CONSOLE GAMER) or technical experts (DIGITAL FOUNDRY, MY LIFE IN GAMING). I feel like most everyone else wants to rally up an army...
Man... I just wanna hang out in _Boku no Natsuyasumi_ or perfect my GOD HAND destruction...
@@jac1011 Couldn't agree more. You look at someone like YongYea (off the top of my head) and he does seem to think his role is just to get as many teen boys as angry as possible, instead of y'know actually contribute to video-game discourse & growing the artform, or diversify the artform's fanbase.
Like you said, I wish that at the VERY LEAST that other content creators would just chill and hang with games they like, instead of trying to tell me why "politics should stay away from my vidyagamez" etc
It's frustrating the most popular games youtubers just seem to want to fight in some culture war on the side of the alt-right. Hopefully as tim gets bigger, people will realise there's a way to be a successful games youtuber without being a jerk too :)
Jordan check out easy allies or minnmax, great jolly people
Man, Tim Rogers is an artist with that prose. BDG is just the algothrim-riding area between MatPat and Adam Conover.
When I was 5 or 6, I had computer classes. The teacher would show us paint, word, simple stuff. And in the end, he always allowed us to play Doom. I have very good memories of it.
After watching this video, I decided to buy the PS4 version, being 30 in about two weeks. I'll be honest, I thought I would play the first level for nostalgia and that would be it. I was waiting to be over hyped.
I am shocked at how fun the game still is to play, to this day. It's super fast and smooth and the shotgun feels amazing.
Incredible game. Thank you Tim
i feel like i don't see enough comments about how great the music timing and editing in is in tim's videos. it's masterful. I miss the monday night football theme though.
Astounding. This truly was the Dark Souls of Doom reviews.
Brilliant reference to his past videos lol
More like, it's the E1M1 of Dark Souls reviews.
I'm a Doom poser even now.
This comment has come a long way since the pacman of dark souls comments
I agree. Its very painful
I don't know. Video game reviews have come a long way since Dark Souls and/or Pac-Man.
“Are you really a poser if you keep it to yourself?” Never stop timming Timothy.
Tim’s video game talk is in its own league, but I come for the stories where he sounds cool.
"An irrational, prickly mass, inextricable from our memories of college" is now my current favorite definition of love.
I frequently come back just to re-watch the Bob and Korg segment. Thanks for sharing that, I appreciate it
I'm happy you listened to Big Black and The Jesus Lizard and Nine Inch Nails and "Not Tool"
Hey, Writing on Games! Your videos rock my dude! XD
I was once at a "Not Tool" concert, it was a perfect circle.
i listened to korn and deftones but wish i listened to Atari teeneage riot.
This video is nerd inspiration at it's very finest.
Listening to Tool is what makes posers.
"if you think any death is too gruesome for a Nazi, then you haven't read enough history books and if you think any shotgun blast is too brutal for a demon, then what kind of christian are you? Dad!" XD
The fact that kids voted to let the Trix rabbit have his Trix gives me a little faith in humanity
Gears of War 3 having Carmine live is up there too
That legit made me fistpump--i was annoyed by that aspect of the commercials even as a child
Yo Hololive and Tim Rogers cultural cross-pollination gang rise up!
I remember voting for that
That was... nearly a life changing video imo... I don't know what kind dark magic you do, but this is so high-quality, intelligent, cheerful, nostalgic and LOUD! I needed it at this point in my life. This was the real deal! Keep em' coming!
This review is like Hunter S. Thompson, if he'd been a sober PC gamer. 10/10
7:40 "Buddy, if I liked anything about myself I wouldn't be here right now." Same brother.
Tim always ends up telling a story that takes me straight to emotion town.
....”ghost-uh”........
“Those cops were defunded of the currency of their life”
A+
Upon re-re-re-RE-re-watching this video, I've come to the conclusion that it is the greatest piece of journalism to ever grace my ear and/or eye-holes.
So far this is like listening to a top tier audiobook narration of an incredibly deep Introspective book. It takes real skill to elevate game reviews into this
This rewatch will be in 144p, as John Romero intended. They say this review can even play on a toaster!
"I sort of even love Daikatana though I reckon not a high enough percentage of the viewers of this video are psychologists for me to legally continue this sentence". looool
What?
“I said uuuuhhh to make myself sound colloquial, to make myself sound normal... and not... whatever the hell i am.” We have reached peak relatable material here. Now I feel morally blinded to watch every minute of this serie.
Wait did Tim actually say "hell" and not "heck"?
@@zephyr1181I think he says "whatever it is that I am" or something like that
"Buddy, if I liked anything about myself I wouldn't be here right now."
@@zephyr1181he most definitely does not. Fake news 0/10
I've watched and listened to this video so many times that I can almost recite all the "punchlines" in fact most of the lines from it. Somewhere along the way it became my comfort audio. What is going on
this may be the only guy on TH-cam that can entertain me for 3 hours straight.
Honestly this review does several things that are usually done poorly in isolation so you end up with a fragmented 15 minute video with some good content and some stuff that didn't need to be there. This video is almost 3x the length of Big Momma's House. It establishes the industry at the time, it does a deep dive on the game and it has color commentary. It is complete. Even 2 hour videos on immersive sims lack color commentary or anecdotes. I enjoyed it.
I appreciate the use of my preferred scale: the Big Momma's House Ratio
@@WilliamGoldsbury It's the yardstick everything else must measure up to
“love is precisely that: an irrational, prickly mess, inextricable from our memories of college” hit me so hard I had to pause the video and take a walk
*Me, a dude who played Doom on Gameboy Advance when it first came out, currently watching this video in my law office*: "Well, heck."
Holy shit, as an original Insert Credit reader I'm glad the algorithm randomly added this video to my autoplay after I had fallen asleep watching another video almost 4 years after its initial release. Good to see you doing your thing in a new format, 108! I woke up halfway through the video very confused. "How did I get here? Did I warp?"
"Some day I want to do something good."
Tim you've got a fantastic, amazing brain that is apparently being a real jerk to you right now. Use that amazing and powerful tool to realize that this is a fantastic video insight to many and joy to many more.
I'm so happy to see your videos. I saw your review of Godhand and permenantly put it on my favorites list, showing everyone I could. Nine years later I found your DMCV review and LOST MY GODDAMN MIND because I had finally, so many years later, found you again. Keep being awesome and tell your brain to stop being an asshole to you :)
This video isn't about Doom, it's about life.
And family
@@ovwarrior And Doom.
Doom is indeed larger than itself, it's a multi facet cultural movement influenced so many lives, how we do things and how we perceive things, even after decades later. And Tim got us think about that while reflecting on our own too, for me the book Masters of Doom inspired me so much, I decided to give game development a try. The masters' story influenced me more than Doom itself.
Life, and life with Doom in it.
Laura Palmer
I would physically protect this guy with my life.
From what? Him getting hurt by my dead body falling on him when I jump in front of a bullet for him?
He is one of greatest writers to have chosen video game reviews as his medium. Yet his work is so much more than that.
@@skyblue2139 action button is bigger than action button. If you’ve watched action button you’ve watched all reviews.
I wouldn't
@@johnhasso8908 That's because you're a bell-end, John.
"This man is one of the most interestingly unintelligent individuals I have ever encountered in my entire media consuming life... and I've looked at Twitter."
Beautiful.
There is another subtle lesson Doom teaches you in E1M1 without an explicit tutorial. That being one of paying attention to the sound design. Right at the beginning, when you go to the left to the room with the green armor, there's a switch on one of the walls that seemingly does nothing when you press it, but you can distinctly hear the sound of a door being opened which, if you go back to the main lobby, will grant you a shortcut to that blue armor.
So, you get two lessons through one simple action. That sound design will give you important clues and that you can traverse the levels in a non-linear fashion which I think is pretty cool :)
"What, in any case, the point was of paying attention and knowing stuff when those in power take pride in not knowing anything"
Man, this hit hard, especially in these dark times we live in right now. We *wish* our politicians' general dumbassery was limited to boomers not getting video games.
This was amazingly poignant. It sucks that Tim got so down on himself for not making a better point. But there are some really good insights in this part of the video. And the conversation and debate will continue, and be enriched by Tim's contributions.
-TIMOTHY-,
Your team has accomplished Something Good by executing this demonically and Proustianically researched, exquisitely edited, double-feature-length documentary. I sympathize that Our Collective Feelings may NEVER saturate your waking life to any satisfaction; but, at least allow yourself, with your monstrously-high intelligence quotient, to appreciate, even briefly: We Love You and we derive a particularly-peculiar pleasure watching You Love Things. Thank You.
Tim Rogers, the reluctant god of TH-cam.
my paranoid religious mom tried getting me to stop playing Doom for the same reason, but I explained that the game couldn't be satanic considering I, the main character, was tasked with KILLING demons. She still didn't like it, but she didn't really have a comeback so she just kinda walked away and didn't bring it up again.
Thats nice that your mother understood it
There are youtube videos then there are videos like this. The effort put in this is awe inspiring and I'm just two hours in (don't even care that we went off on a tangent on school shootings and video game violence in the 90s) you made this interesting and thought provoking. Thank you Tim Rodgers this is ART
This isn't art. This is video games.
as someone who has trouble to remember anything that has happend a couple days ago, the amount of detail you can remember makes me jealous and terrifies me at the same time
I like where this is going, when I saw how long this video was I knew it was worth it and I was right. It's not easy to add something new so I just tell a short story: Growing up in South America, not having my own computer until I was 12, I had the luck to be exposed to Doom on every computer I had access to(since I was 7~), seems like it was installed by default right after Windows and Office by sellers because I know the owners of the computer didn't ask for it, didn't even know what it was, since piracy was the mainstream in my country my guess is the copy of Doom was pirated. Now that I'm older, learning what a huge step it was in the gaming universe made me appreciate it even more. Just bought an eMac g4 for some retro gaming, first thing I'm doing with it? right, playing Doom.
I always enjoy how much Tim adores Red Bull E-Sports' "Golden Boy" Grand Poo Bear
Tim, I'm really sorry to hear you say you don't like yourself and you have low self-esteem. You make really special videos, that only you can do. I watch the same videos on repeat, yours and Ahoy's are the most watched by far. Thanks man
If every journalist did this much research we’d be on Mars by now
The ones working like that are just finishing up their first reports on the gulf war
Considering the subject matter, I wouldn't like how it's Mars.
if journalists were paid properly for their work we'd be on Mars by now
heck, if every job was
AND THAT'S THE STRAIGHT DOPE@@MintyArisato
Exquisite.
I luv u James A Janisse
Oh hi James
You mentioned it in your stream just now! Will give it a watch.
That's nice!
*edit*
Wait, is this what led you to streaming Doom all the way through? 'Cos this is what got me to finally play past the first shareware episode!
yo