i like that in the thumbnail you can see he tried to write “dad games” on the garage door but inevitably realized that the layout wouldn’t work and resorted to the side of the house
@@aubreymhill it's basically saying "it's okay to ask for help." which is indeed a very important life lesson that I find way too hard to learn. so that's why it hit hard for me at least.
videos like this are the ones that make me say "oh Pat" in so many different tones, but its always a good time. thems the vibes we love from polygon videos
One of my favourite stream moments is Pat, Simone and Clayton all fawning over a good power wash, while an exasperated Jenna yells “what is wrong with y’all?!” in the background
This reminds me of the time my dad took his eyes off me for a second when I was 2. My auntie spotted me in the process of walking into traffic. She just told him: "Run". He had to sprint down that road of 200 yards and scoop me up right before I left that curb. That day my dad became a hero and a different man.
as a childless guy playing a dad in DnD, this gave me a lot of insights to take with me into the imaginary world as I try to be a good dad to my imaginary children
the thing about every Pat sentence is that he writes jokes in sparkling-stained-glass prose, and contemplative commentary on humanity in off-the-cuff-sounding throwaway puns. The barely restrained laughter while delivering both kinds of writing is very dadly, I'd say
as someone who works close to the wastewater/drinking water industry, I want you to know I was CHEERING at the mention of nitrogen runoff from lawns causing ecosystem-wrecking algae blooms, thank u for bringing this knowledge to the broader gaming audience :D (I also enjoyed the existential glimpse into becoming a dad)
Shout-out to the Original Dad Game, those handheld electronic card games that were sorta like a Game and Watch for Poker or Texas Hold 'Em. My grandpa had at least five of them.
"Special thanks: Dads" Man's out here addressing toxic masculinity and environmentalism whilst goofing on video games and still manages to be as kind as ever. That's our Pat.
My entire job revolves around booking moorage for dads who want to fish. I interact with hundreds of fishing dads each month. The line about spending 40k on something you can do with a stick and some string made me lose my mind laughing. Thank you.
Patrick, you're really, really fucking good at what you do. Really enjoying all your explorations of masculinity, it's underdone and I enjoy your perspectives as well as how they are delivered.
The Polygon video crew has been on a roll for a while now with videos that are each 100% them and I love it every time. This video is another beautiful and Dadly example of that
the fatherly insight for the golf game actually took me off guard because it was in no way a joke. Well, there is good insight in all of the segments, but the goddamn golf one struck gold. So much so that, immediately after I was going to make this comment, I noticed my own dad struggling to accept his shortcomings and be vulnerable around his family and wanted to help him with recognising that. Thanks Pat and his dissection of a golf game!
This is why my little brother got me a Wooly Willy keychain as a child. Retrospectively the name is suspect but the dad beard simulator of it all still holds up.
Wait. A. Minute. Are you really gonna say “anonymous hole action” with “partner after partner” with a completely deadpan intonation and expect me not to notice?? I like it. Good new wave dad joke. A+
Shoutout to whoever did the closed captions on this video. I love the little descriptions of the music. That IS a rollicking little acoustic guitar loop over the credits. That WAS so nice, you're so right. 😊
This is a beautiful review. I can feel my scruffy beard growing in, that my kids that I don't have shall comment on saying "you look funny" only for them to not recognize me when I shave it.
I thought was going to be a review of games like Octodad or Dream Daddy but oh god this is so much better We are your collective children, Pat, and we love you
As someone with no children but extreme levels of dad energy, I appreciate this video. Say sport, how'd you like to go play catch in the yard? I'll bring my old beat-up glove!
When I become a dad, hope one of these will help me cope with time waiting for children's swim class, especially the lawnmowing simulator (just to not use the lawnmower on my own yard nyah)
The downfall of most dad games is that almost all dads needs physical proof of whatever project they undertake. In that sense the most dad thing about this video is that it exists as a record of your exploration of dad games.
Not to get serious here, but I lost my dad to the plague in 2020, and this resonated with me. He bought me all my games growing up, played countless hours of Everquest and Guild Wars 2 and WoW, he grew up on Atari and never really stopped loving games, and he passed that on to me. About a year before he died, I bought him Red Dead Redemption 2 for Christmas and then I moved out of state to live with a shitty boyfriend, and while I was there his texts about what he was up to in that game were one of the few things that brought me joy. He wasn't a great dad when I was little, but he tried his best given the situation we were in, and after circumstances cleared up, we were close. Two black sheep of the family, listening to punk music and talking about D&D on long drives. He would have hated these games. But he would have loved this video. Thank you, Pat, for the kind of fatherly insight that really matters: the kind that comes from someone who doesn't really know how to be a dad but would try their best anyways.
I just realized that in the thumbnail, “Dad Games” was about to be power washed on the other side of the house, but turned out to be not enough space, so it was redone on the longer side, and that was too relatable for me to not call out
I loved the existentialism during the fishing review, the impeccable comparison between fishing and golfing, and Pat’s face when he looked up to see he had run into a train after ten seconds of looking away.
Me, coming into this: Definitely read that as D&D game reviews, but eh, whatever I'm here for it. Me, 10 seconds in: I wonder if they'll go over Railroad Tycoon, the game my dad played for literal HOURS on end as I was growing up (including AFTER we upgraded from an early 90s Mac to a fancier early 2000s PC) Me, after hearing the words Train Sim: Ah, yeah that's close enough. Dad=Dad confirmed.
the way that Pat, when confronted with all the trappings of uniform, commerical, artificial "dadly" things in the fishing simulator, slowly rejects them and in doing so uncovers the core of Dadhood... that cut deep
I was mowing my grandfather's lawn last year and he still has a lawnmower with a power chord. It was agonising. You really had to plan your path so as to a) get the grass and b) not cut the power chord. The worst task I have ever had to do, I was so afraid the entire time.
Hey Pat, whatever happened to Pat's Pets? The two volumes we got, in addition to the non-Pat spiritual predecessor, Far Cry Primal: Every Predator Petted and Reviewed, were sweet sweet morsals that I would love to once again have grace my feed. Nothing says Dad more than claiming they don't want or like a pet, only to accept said pet as their favourite child.
There is, at least on my dad’s case, a genre missing. Dads love simulators yes, but some of the also love history. My dad would spend hours navigating on a historic ship, hoping to find an enemy ship to spend HOURS in a ship battle. So, accurate historic simulators.
I was really hoping we'd get a D.A.D. scoring rubric, like the H.O.R.S.E. one from the Red Dead video. Incredible work, Pat. I scream-laughed at the Spider-Man riff. It doesn't exist, but a Talk To Your Dad For More Than 15 Minutes Simulator built like a visual novel would be a lot of fun.
I just really love it when people take a hobby topic and are able to tie in strong emotional themes, contemplating what kind of dad you want to be and your impact on the world from within the compact investment of a video game on a topic, rather than spending the $600 to start a boujie dad activity to figure out it doesn't work with your personal ethics is just. I really don't have the words it just really touched me
That fishing game seemed to be missing a crucial step, taking a photo of yourself with the fish for the tinder profile you’re using to cheat on your wife
This video feels like therapy. Or like a conversation you have with your dad when you're alone together on a very long car ride. They're basically the same thing.
As a dad that doesn't personally take part in any of these activities, I approve. Though I wish we'll get a better take your child to the mall and the park simulator than Heavy Rain
You forgot the mechanic sim games! Surely they are "dadworthy"! Also, plane mechanic, tank mechanic and car mechanic 2018 are the only "Dad games" I've ever played so there's that lol
This video was incredible. Big Jacob Geller vibes to me. The quiet thoughtfulness with a gentle hand. What I expected to be a romp through a handful of games with a comedic undercurrent turned out to be something much, much more. Genuinely powerful stuff.
Dad games. Which ones did we miss, and what do you rate them for Fun and Fatherly Insight?
Is Octodad a dad game? it has dad in the title.
Rad Dad Redemption
Flight Simulator is a game I will forever associate with my dad but I think the train segment broached that same niche 👍 lol
If you squint (and select a moustache at the start) I think you could frame Bloodborne as a fatherly game
can you drop the sources to the music you used in your video? i really enjoyed it
i like that in the thumbnail you can see he tried to write “dad games” on the garage door but inevitably realized that the layout wouldn’t work and resorted to the side of the house
Thank you for pointing that out, I needed that
And made zero effort to hide this failed attempt
“We’ve all made a happy birthday sign”
"the dadification of games.... what about the dadification of patrick?" god i love pat videos so much. i love these words
"If I share power and responsibility, there is also serenity."
uh this is such an important lesson? thanks dad!
That one hit surprisingly hard...
@@aubreymhill it's basically saying "it's okay to ask for help." which is indeed a very important life lesson that I find way too hard to learn. so that's why it hit hard for me at least.
we've all made a "happy birthday" sign
From each dad according to his ability, to each dad according to his needs. 😌
words to live by
not mine, not yours, but our dad
In Soviet Russia Dad game YOU!
Infinite Dads in Infinite Combinations
"Why did I think that sharing my fears and insecurities were unbecoming of a father?" I feel this more than I should...
The REAL dad experience: falling asleep while watching the Tour de France Simulator. The serenity, the peace, the sportsmanship... and the naps.
oh, this sounds like something my dad would do - Simone
@@polygon my dad woule get along with yours then!
and don't forget, waking up to say "I was watching that" if you change the channel
videos like this are the ones that make me say "oh Pat" in so many different tones, but its always a good time. thems the vibes we love from polygon videos
"Oh Pat" supercut - 12 minutes
One of my favourite stream moments is Pat, Simone and Clayton all fawning over a good power wash, while an exasperated Jenna yells “what is wrong with y’all?!” in the background
We became daddified
"I took my eyes off of the situation for 10 seconds and now there is disaster" is pretty prime toddler dad.
Metaphors all around
This reminds me of the time my dad took his eyes off me for a second when I was 2. My auntie spotted me in the process of walking into traffic. She just told him: "Run". He had to sprint down that road of 200 yards and scoop me up right before I left that curb. That day my dad became a hero and a different man.
as a childless guy playing a dad in DnD, this gave me a lot of insights to take with me into the imaginary world as I try to be a good dad to my imaginary children
Tabletop Dads are great characters
@Jess Kaldwin I have heard of it but haven't tried it out yet, thank you for the rec
There is an adventure zone one shot in a dad based universe, dm'd by Brennan Lee Mulligan and its glorious
I knew Pat would pull through with anti-lawn TRUTH.
Yaaaaasss!
the thing about every Pat sentence is that he writes jokes in sparkling-stained-glass prose, and contemplative commentary on humanity in off-the-cuff-sounding throwaway puns.
The barely restrained laughter while delivering both kinds of writing is very dadly, I'd say
‘trains make spiderman look like a little piece of shit’ we came into this one guns blazing huh
Water guns blazing, yeah.
Really thought there was going to be a Far From Home reference. Train really got the better of him there.
The dadification of Patrick is such a beautiful concept I was not ready to hear.
if he's trying to get dadified he has my number
PAT you can't just say "anonymous hole action" this is a family
as someone who works close to the wastewater/drinking water industry, I want you to know I was CHEERING at the mention of nitrogen runoff from lawns causing ecosystem-wrecking algae blooms, thank u for bringing this knowledge to the broader gaming audience :D (I also enjoyed the existential glimpse into becoming a dad)
Thank you for demystifying why so many men love trains. I found that genuinely insightful haha
**popular doll customizer TH-cam dollightful???!?!?**
@@courtjester42069 :000 I didn't even know until you pointed it out. *popular doll customizer TH-cam dollightful??*
("BEYONCÉ????" meme voice) DOLLIGHTFUL????
Katherine Dollightful???
hi dollightful :)
"golf is a bit like backwards fishing" pat you can't just say this shit
But he's right though!!!
Some people call it Ball Chess.
No, no. Let him speak
"like a powerwash yojimbo" had me. well played patrick, well played.
I don't wanna break the 69 likes but good comment pal pls accept my alternate form of fake internet points
As a dad, I appreciate this well-crafted dad content. Good job, sport!
Gee, thanks!
My dad is a gamer, and he plays MMORPGs.
I'm the one who plays the dad simulators in the family.
Same here! My dad loves strategy games and some MMOs, and I'm out here also playing dad simulators
Grass is greener and all that
Time to have a kid
@@mechanicalmonk2020 See you in approximately 192 business days, in that case
Lol same, my dad has beef playing WoW for years
Shout-out to the Original Dad Game, those handheld electronic card games that were sorta like a Game and Watch for Poker or Texas Hold 'Em. My grandpa had at least five of them.
"Special thanks: Dads"
Man's out here addressing toxic masculinity and environmentalism whilst goofing on video games and still manages to be as kind as ever. That's our Pat.
My entire job revolves around booking moorage for dads who want to fish. I interact with hundreds of fishing dads each month. The line about spending 40k on something you can do with a stick and some string made me lose my mind laughing. Thank you.
Patrick, you're really, really fucking good at what you do.
Really enjoying all your explorations of masculinity, it's underdone and I enjoy your perspectives as well as how they are delivered.
"A computer display shows me where the fish lives."
I'm always excited to see MST3K references out in the wild
I watched this immediately after waking up from a nap. It gave me serenity I have never felt, and shall never feel again, I fear.
The Polygon video crew has been on a roll for a while now with videos that are each 100% them and I love it every time. This video is another beautiful and Dadly example of that
As a fellow Patrick, "...what about the dadification of Patrick?" may just be the best thing I've ever heard on this platform.
I love that for you
patrick gang
The golf insights are too real. As a father, it is hard to find other peers to bond with.
the fatherly insight for the golf game actually took me off guard because it was in no way a joke. Well, there is good insight in all of the segments, but the goddamn golf one struck gold. So much so that, immediately after I was going to make this comment, I noticed my own dad struggling to accept his shortcomings and be vulnerable around his family and wanted to help him with recognising that.
Thanks Pat and his dissection of a golf game!
I think I need a Dad beard simulator game. To enjoy the facial hair I'll never have.
i want this dream for you
This is why my little brother got me a Wooly Willy keychain as a child. Retrospectively the name is suspect but the dad beard simulator of it all still holds up.
May I suggest Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2, for their realtime beard growth features!
@@speedracer2please excellent suggestions!
Pat videos are always the best, he just has this energy of "I love doing this, but I don't really want to be here"
Can we just take a minute to acknowledge how well this is written?
Wait. A. Minute. Are you really gonna say “anonymous hole action” with “partner after partner” with a completely deadpan intonation and expect me not to notice??
I like it. Good new wave dad joke. A+
Shoutout to whoever did the closed captions on this video. I love the little descriptions of the music. That IS a rollicking little acoustic guitar loop over the credits. That WAS so nice, you're so right. 😊
"Dad game review round-up" - Review
Entertaining 5/5
Thoughtful 5/5
The lawnmower experience is true to life, in my experience of mowing the lawn. Am… I the dad?
you might be the dad
Hi Dad
The true dad was the lawns we mowed along the way.
Each game brings another insight that just levels me. Pat's out here being the Werner Herzog of video game review.
Everytime Pat describes anything I’m inclined to employ the timeless phrase “Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about” in an affectionate tone.
Lol so true like i DO get what pat is talking about but it certainly deserves that meme regardless
1:12 "(Spider-Man grunting and yelling as he is overwhelmed by the power of Train)" might be one of my favorite captions on a TH-cam video ever.
This is a beautiful review. I can feel my scruffy beard growing in, that my kids that I don't have shall comment on saying "you look funny" only for them to not recognize me when I shave it.
THIS HAPPENED TO ME - Simone
@@polygon you have my daddest sympathies.
I thought was going to be a review of games like Octodad or Dream Daddy but oh god this is so much better
We are your collective children, Pat, and we love you
Thank you for this gentle fatherly insight, TH-cam man who is only a year and a half older than me. It’s soothing and I will cherish it henceforth
As someone with no children but extreme levels of dad energy, I appreciate this video.
Say sport, how'd you like to go play catch in the yard? I'll bring my old beat-up glove!
When I become a dad, hope one of these will help me cope with time waiting for children's swim class, especially the lawnmowing simulator (just to not use the lawnmower on my own yard nyah)
The Dadification of Patrick will not be televised.
The downfall of most dad games is that almost all dads needs physical proof of whatever project they undertake. In that sense the most dad thing about this video is that it exists as a record of your exploration of dad games.
Not to get serious here, but I lost my dad to the plague in 2020, and this resonated with me. He bought me all my games growing up, played countless hours of Everquest and Guild Wars 2 and WoW, he grew up on Atari and never really stopped loving games, and he passed that on to me. About a year before he died, I bought him Red Dead Redemption 2 for Christmas and then I moved out of state to live with a shitty boyfriend, and while I was there his texts about what he was up to in that game were one of the few things that brought me joy.
He wasn't a great dad when I was little, but he tried his best given the situation we were in, and after circumstances cleared up, we were close. Two black sheep of the family, listening to punk music and talking about D&D on long drives.
He would have hated these games. But he would have loved this video. Thank you, Pat, for the kind of fatherly insight that really matters: the kind that comes from someone who doesn't really know how to be a dad but would try their best anyways.
I can never be the same after the Fatherly Insight gleaned from lawnmowing. Thank you, Patrick.
Every single sentence in this 12 minute videos is perfect. (Pats you firmly, yet kindly, on the back) "Good job champ"
I just realized that in the thumbnail, “Dad Games” was about to be power washed on the other side of the house, but turned out to be not enough space, so it was redone on the longer side, and that was too relatable for me to not call out
This is among my favorite polygon videos ever made. Good job, champ.
I loved the existentialism during the fishing review, the impeccable comparison between fishing and golfing, and Pat’s face when he looked up to see he had run into a train after ten seconds of looking away.
Me, coming into this: Definitely read that as D&D game reviews, but eh, whatever I'm here for it.
Me, 10 seconds in: I wonder if they'll go over Railroad Tycoon, the game my dad played for literal HOURS on end as I was growing up (including AFTER we upgraded from an early 90s Mac to a fancier early 2000s PC)
Me, after hearing the words Train Sim: Ah, yeah that's close enough. Dad=Dad confirmed.
I love how wholesome in fatherly way the comments are in this video, even though I can't imagine the target demographic is dad's.
I have never before pondered the existential terror of dad games.
the way that Pat, when confronted with all the trappings of uniform, commerical, artificial "dadly" things in the fishing simulator, slowly rejects them and in doing so uncovers the core of Dadhood... that cut deep
I was mowing my grandfather's lawn last year and he still has a lawnmower with a power chord. It was agonising. You really had to plan your path so as to a) get the grass and b) not cut the power chord. The worst task I have ever had to do, I was so afraid the entire time.
Hey Pat, whatever happened to Pat's Pets? The two volumes we got, in addition to the non-Pat spiritual predecessor, Far Cry Primal: Every Predator Petted and Reviewed, were sweet sweet morsals that I would love to once again have grace my feed.
Nothing says Dad more than claiming they don't want or like a pet, only to accept said pet as their favourite child.
That was extremely well written, holy shit.
A work of ART
There is, at least on my dad’s case, a genre missing. Dads love simulators yes, but some of the also love history. My dad would spend hours navigating on a historic ship, hoping to find an enemy ship to spend HOURS in a ship battle.
So, accurate historic simulators.
called my dad to tell him i love him after this video
"My son wants to go to an art school" killed me lmao
We got my dad an oculus over quarantine because all his friends had one as well, now they play vr golf all the time.
I was really hoping we'd get a D.A.D. scoring rubric, like the H.O.R.S.E. one from the Red Dead video. Incredible work, Pat. I scream-laughed at the Spider-Man riff.
It doesn't exist, but a Talk To Your Dad For More Than 15 Minutes Simulator built like a visual novel would be a lot of fun.
Pat is both the dad we want and the dad we need.
For not being a dad, pat got so many dad-isms spot on. I say this not as a dad, but one who spends a lot of time with dads through work.
Hey, dadly content aside, the writing quality on this video is superb!
This video made me feel things I haven't felt since my last bout of playing dad games. Perfect vibes right here.
I just really love it when people take a hobby topic and are able to tie in strong emotional themes, contemplating what kind of dad you want to be and your impact on the world from within the compact investment of a video game on a topic, rather than spending the $600 to start a boujie dad activity to figure out it doesn't work with your personal ethics is just. I really don't have the words it just really touched me
Just about spit my drink out at the "unlimited fish glitch" joke. Kudos sir. :D
Pat your dad-sona's face at 8:42 was absolutely precious he looked so innocently happy with himself to have caught a fish
well that was a surreal 12 minutes. 10/10!
The thing about Pat videos is that I never know quite what to expect
That fishing game seemed to be missing a crucial step, taking a photo of yourself with the fish for the tinder profile you’re using to cheat on your wife
I did not know i needed content like this.
But i really like the Skript, the words, the mood.
Thank you
Thanks, Pat! This was a great video. I laughed. I marveled at your insight. I laughed again at the characters that "looked just like you".
If this is what dads are like, quiet, thoughtful, well-spoken and sincere.. then I love dads.
I grew up playing games with my dad this actually made me weirdly emotional XD Thanks Pat
What an incredibly well-made video. Proud of you, son. - Dad
Ive missed Pat sooooo much. I haven’t watched a polygon video in forever! What a nice treat! :D
“The grass doesn’t forget… and neither do I.” Really needed that laugh today
Pat, your videos are real oases in the desert of the internet! Thanks!
baffling yet flawlessly executed video concept as usual! thank you for this! :)
7:45 "shows me where the fish live" either that's a solid mystery science theatre 3000/touch of satan deepcut or i have officially lost my mind
This video feels like therapy. Or like a conversation you have with your dad when you're alone together on a very long car ride. They're basically the same thing.
As a dad that doesn't personally take part in any of these activities, I approve. Though I wish we'll get a better take your child to the mall and the park simulator than Heavy Rain
Dad/dad would father again
this video got some good chuckles out of me. thanks pat & polygon, good video
I love the way you write your scripts Patt, please never change.
Why is this video my new favorite thing on the planet. thank you pat
This video is amazing and your ability to make 100% accurate avatars in a wide variety of games is immaculate.
Pat, you cannot drop Powerwash Yojimbo and just walk away. That is powerful chaotic magic you just unleashed on the world.
He’s walking away, to another town,
You forgot the mechanic sim games! Surely they are "dadworthy"! Also, plane mechanic, tank mechanic and car mechanic 2018 are the only "Dad games" I've ever played so there's that lol
actually cried watching this, i love my dad. thanks, pat
if it's a pat video, it's pretty much guaranteed that i'm gonna hit the like button within the first minute. what an absolute treasure.
This video was incredible. Big Jacob Geller vibes to me. The quiet thoughtfulness with a gentle hand. What I expected to be a romp through a handful of games with a comedic undercurrent turned out to be something much, much more. Genuinely powerful stuff.
Video in one sentence: Maybe the real dads were the lawns we mowed along the way.