I honestly think your writing on Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey perfectly puts to words my feelings on the entire 360/PS3 generation. It was a time where Japanese design for games like those aforementioned two had hit what I consider to be all time highs. Gorgeous, exciting games with love and passion poured into them and unique ideas bursting out of every crevice that we’re all met with annoyance, dismissal, and “Japanese people are so weird, huh?” That truly breaks my heart. Those games are both titles that I find so exciting even to this day, yet I can’t help but see that this was the moment where the JRPG wave finally broke and receded from the western shoreline, profit seeking keeping the genre from truly thriving again until the past few years. All of the immaculately designed games that could have taken off and inspired dozens of others instead faltered in favor for games that went on to devolve into franchises full of messy disasters.
tim is one of the few people who write a two hour script, strictly adhere to reading it without deviation, and leaving traps to keep things interesting
as i was looking for the week's episode, I saw the thumbnail and thought tim finally posted his next review, but then I realised I'm on insert credit's page
saw the last remnant and went "oh yeah i meant to play that for the last 16 years" and found out that the remaster got delisted from the steam store in 2018. Bizzare
Was going to comment something to the effect of: "Now this is a tasty bowl to smoke while grinding out archetypes in Metaphor Refantazio, the year's most Xbox 360-era-like JRPG" but opted to not comment on the video until I had smoked it down to the filter, only to be totally delighted by the serendipity of the outro. Incredible video as always, hoping your perfect description of the appeal of Virtual On motivates Sega to acknowledge its existence in some way more substantial than a Yakuza arcade game cameo.
Aaahhh, I actually made it to #24, I remember last night seeing the title and thinking, "is that the same as the Wednesday Campanella song 桃太郎 line?". This line in your script is the first one that genuinly makes me wanna play the game mentioned on the list, as I LOVE that song.
I vividly remember how excited I was about Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, and equally vividly remember how disappointed I was with both. Lost Odyssey is one of the few games I have played through multiple times despite disliking it just because it FEELS like I SHOULD like it (along with FFT Advance)
I know you care about generosity in art, Tim, and you always deliver it. Length is one thing, but the true generosity lies in your hyphens, commas, and attributive nouns.
That’s a really good list. I would have put N3 Ninety-nine Nights, Operation Darkness and Bladestorm: The Hundred Year War on my own. If my personal circumstances had been different I would have liked Lost Odyssey as well…
I feel like among all these games, if I have to try just one, Bullet Witch would be my pick. As somebody who unabashedly loves 360/PS3 era linear cinematic shooters, BW feels like a appealing balance of decisively weird and unintentionally janky. Also I don't take Tim's feature length essays for granted and I'm very glad to get another one out of the blue.
I do believe that another Action Button will one day happen (I do have you on Patreon). Though I still have a bunch of discs of some the games on this list, there are some that I don't have, and with the online market place closing it does make it a bit more difficult to get them (I am assuming that backwards compatible games still listed on the Xbox store will lead to having the game being downloadable on the 360 console itself). Lost Odyssey being #1 is no surprise to me.
Oh my god. Seeing Tim's face in my feed made me believe that it was an Action Button review, just for two seconds. Still happy for this episode of course but hell my brain is hooked for eternity
"If you believe another happens eventually... Well I suppose I must go now" I guess that's all the proof i need that we won't be seeing a new action button video anytime soon lol
marked out so hard for steins;gate in the top five. still my default choice for someone who wants a first VN to read. (though I happened to play it on the Vita)
2:01:47 Mushihimesama Futari didn't make the list but at least got a few seconds of gameplay. To many the best CAVE shmup on the console. Please M2, do your magic and release it with the ShotTriggers treatment it deserves.
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this episode can be viewed in 4K here: th-cam.com/video/sgVT9c3mmvE/w-d-xo.html
Man. This is a staunch reminder we haven't had a new Action Button review in far too long. Magnificent!
When tim rogers isnt around, people should ask "where's Tim Rogers?"
That's exactly what I've been asking since September 25th 2022
Finally,i found more Tim Rogers
@@tobiasarevalo9929 there’s lots, lots more of him in the archive of this very podcast!
He also streams weekly if you didn't already know.
@@insertcreditshowOne day early!?
we're feasting, boys!
I honestly think your writing on Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey perfectly puts to words my feelings on the entire 360/PS3 generation. It was a time where Japanese design for games like those aforementioned two had hit what I consider to be all time highs. Gorgeous, exciting games with love and passion poured into them and unique ideas bursting out of every crevice that we’re all met with annoyance, dismissal, and “Japanese people are so weird, huh?” That truly breaks my heart. Those games are both titles that I find so exciting even to this day, yet I can’t help but see that this was the moment where the JRPG wave finally broke and receded from the western shoreline, profit seeking keeping the genre from truly thriving again until the past few years. All of the immaculately designed games that could have taken off and inspired dozens of others instead faltered in favor for games that went on to devolve into franchises full of messy disasters.
Props to Christa for getting all that footage
tim is one of the few people who write a two hour script, strictly adhere to reading it without deviation, and leaving traps to keep things interesting
I paused so he could rest a bit
omg i can't believe i am being welcomed back to videogames !! that's like, my favorite thing !!
Babe wake up, Tim Rogers's newest video essay just dropped.
I could hear Brandon going wild after 17:56
This was like listening to a slam poetry recital, but gamer.
I see Tim Rogers, I click instantly.
yayy yayy, also props to Tim for truly doing it in one sitting despite the minor speech obstacles
I laughed aloud at “and a few other scores that don’t support my argument.”
somehow, Tim Rogers has returned
It is said Frédéric Chopin's last words, and numbers, were Xbox 360.
This channel is about to explode 🤣🤣
TIM IS BACK
as i was looking for the week's episode, I saw the thumbnail and thought tim finally posted his next review, but then I realised I'm on insert credit's page
Love that I just found out Tim Rogers has been doing this the whole time since even before the Action Button content
saw the last remnant and went "oh yeah i meant to play that for the last 16 years" and found out that the remaster got delisted from the steam store in 2018. Bizzare
You know what you have to do
Was going to comment something to the effect of: "Now this is a tasty bowl to smoke while grinding out archetypes in Metaphor Refantazio, the year's most Xbox 360-era-like JRPG" but opted to not comment on the video until I had smoked it down to the filter, only to be totally delighted by the serendipity of the outro. Incredible video as always, hoping your perfect description of the appeal of Virtual On motivates Sega to acknowledge its existence in some way more substantial than a Yakuza arcade game cameo.
Predicted number 1 but was surprised by a lot of others on here. Wish that Street Fighter 4 or Marvel vs Capcom 3 had made the list.
This is 100% without question the type of content i am here for.
……………..
HELLO
"a uniformed charter member of the cult of myself" i wish we could read a novel by tim rogers someday, his writing is so cool
As a crossover classical music freak and video game liker, I had a lovely time with Eternal Sonata
im sorry tim... at number 25 i fell asleep at about 1:30am... only waking up the next day to finish it
Good Ol One Take Tim!
I just rewatched the Xbox 360 ranking episode this morning. I’m gonna stress drink a glass bottle of San Pellegrino to this.
It's oddly fun to watch an unedited, seemingly less rehearsed Tim script read.
Anyway. Smoke a good one.
Thank you algorithm for suggesting this video to me.
The king is back.
This has end of the year tim rogers' kotaku output 2019 vibes
23:23 - My Japanese coworkers add "san" to the end of my name every time. Born different, I guess....
Pure class as always. I approve of this list and thank you for reminding me how much I loved my 360. RIP consoles
Thank you Tim, it's good to be back at video games
360 is the goat system. Kind of wish this came out before the store shutdown in July. I might have purchased some of these games.
New Tim words we're so back
the jacket...
ok, im rewatching the cyberpunk 77 review.
That’s not the Buzz Ricksons
What a nice surprise - also multiple BoFV mentions? I love this much maligned classic.
A Mountain Dew showing up on an Xbox 360 video is perfect.
Tim didn't post a Action Button video in so long now the jokes on him: everybody elses TH-cam videos are also 2 hours long.
mad respect for putting Idolmaster on the list
I was waiting for this Insert Credit episode.
Finally a good LIMBO take
I now want to hear each member host their own scripted episode. They’d hate making it I think so it probably won’t happen, but yeah.
Aaahhh, I actually made it to #24, I remember last night seeing the title and thinking, "is that the same as the Wednesday Campanella song 桃太郎 line?".
This line in your script is the first one that genuinly makes me wanna play the game mentioned on the list, as I LOVE that song.
(also, 666 likes rn)
this man's words hypnotize me and I cannot explain why. but I accept it
I vividly remember how excited I was about Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, and equally vividly remember how disappointed I was with both. Lost Odyssey is one of the few games I have played through multiple times despite disliking it just because it FEELS like I SHOULD like it (along with FFT Advance)
I know you care about generosity in art, Tim, and you always deliver it. Length is one thing, but the true generosity lies in your hyphens, commas, and attributive nouns.
We are so back! (To video games)
Nice to see Infinite Undiscovery on the list and higher than more talked about games like SO4, Eternal Sonata, and Last Remnant.
Ayy smoke a good one boys
close enough, welcome back Action Button!
I too came up with predominantly goblin genes from 23andMe, so naturally Tim and I must be related. Which is why Tim correctly put Lost Odyssey at #1
Lost Odyssey ruled it felt like they made a game just for me and no one else on earth I had ever met
I didn't know he looks like this! Jaffe is the only one of them I've googled in the last ten years.
I’ll take a Tim Rodgers video anywhere I can get it
Great list man, I cackled throughout.
That #1 is the correct #1. I couldn't agree more.
That’s a really good list. I would have put N3 Ninety-nine Nights, Operation Darkness and Bladestorm: The Hundred Year War on my own.
If my personal circumstances had been different I would have liked Lost Odyssey as well…
One can dream: smth like this for EVERY CONSOLE EVER?! ahaha 🎉 (Yeah I know: 2:04:00 ahaha but damn this was good)
Always a big lover of Tim's work :)
I feel like among all these games, if I have to try just one, Bullet Witch would be my pick. As somebody who unabashedly loves 360/PS3 era linear cinematic shooters, BW feels like a appealing balance of decisively weird and unintentionally janky.
Also I don't take Tim's feature length essays for granted and I'm very glad to get another one out of the blue.
I do believe that another Action Button will one day happen (I do have you on Patreon).
Though I still have a bunch of discs of some the games on this list, there are some that I don't have, and with the online market place closing it does make it a bit more difficult to get them (I am assuming that backwards compatible games still listed on the Xbox store will lead to having the game being downloadable on the 360 console itself).
Lost Odyssey being #1 is no surprise to me.
it might not be a novel-length L.A. Noire review but heck I'll take it!!
Oh my god. Seeing Tim's face in my feed made me believe that it was an Action Button review, just for two seconds. Still happy for this episode of course but hell my brain is hooked for eternity
This video is backward compatible with my soul.
the beatific vision
Don't worry, they gave it a good score because it had ninja in the title. Your thesis still stands.
Not the Viva Piñata hate 😭
Feel like I am missing some understanding but glad the F1 heads get a look-in
This is absolutely what you’d call “what I’m talkin’ about”
The man himself.
Oh my god hi Tim
a fun episode thank you everyone🎉
I definitely picked out some sentences Tim improvised, but I will NOT be telling him which ones I thinks it is.
Decided to start playing eternal sonata today just because of this video………on a ps3….
Jonathan Goldstein would be proud.
thank you algorithm. great games
"If you believe another happens eventually... Well I suppose I must go now" I guess that's all the proof i need that we won't be seeing a new action button video anytime soon lol
43:17 theres a nice head movement here. dont miss out
marked out so hard for steins;gate in the top five. still my default choice for someone who wants a first VN to read. (though I happened to play it on the Vita)
2:01:47 Mushihimesama Futari didn't make the list but at least got a few seconds of gameplay. To many the best CAVE shmup on the console.
Please M2, do your magic and release it with the ShotTriggers treatment it deserves.
James, what are you doing outside of Silent Hill
tim's e-primin it
i fucking knew he'd like shadowrun
#27 - Star Ocean: The Last DOPE
My time, your excellence
I love Nier: GOME. Played it on PS3, though.
A unmarked action button episode?
well isn't this a pleasant surprise
Damn, no love for Mushihimesama Futari?
It's two years since the last Action Button, I will drink this like I'm dying of thirst in the desert
33:08 played it twice (natively!!) on my android, but considering the context it still counts
We are SO back!
Registering my guess 4 minutes in: it must be no "to be" verbs
Wow this is genuinely educational
Or I should say... this video will enlighten every intermediate grammarian who chances upon it
Oh hey this is not unlisted
I need to go back and check out issue 64
Game Arts is the good stuff.
@27:40 i actually laughed out loud