The Stupidest Thing I've Ever Bought
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2023
- I bought something stupid. So stupid it's not James Pond for Game Boy Advance.
Edited by Sam Essig and Scott Wozniak
Main Channel: @ScottTheWoz
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Hey gang! The microtransactions tangent was definitely poorly worded and thought out. Since these videos are unscripted, I can sometimes have a hard time making a point, I think what I was trying to get at was how all the requirements for games on Amico would make it a tough sell for developers (No games rated above E10+, no direct ports, etc.) and one of the only requirements I could think of at the time was the microtransactions one, so I think I was trying to make it make sense coming out of my mouth and it did NOT. Sorry about that!
It's ok.
It’s cool that you apologized though I personally loved your tangent in regards to the “impotent shaking of fists” attitude some people have in regards to current game design trends because of how it reeks of “in the good old days”.
Nah it made sense if you have a working brain
Wait but it made sense 😭 i thought it did at least.
I think it was worded just fine! No worries, Scott! I found that whole tangent about updates and such also super interesting! I loved it!
This video was produced, directed, and written by Tommy Tallirico. Another notch in his enormous and totally not embellished body of work.
You forgot starring in as well, Scott is just a character Tommy plays.
@@joshuadenaux3620 His mother is very proud!!!!!
His mother is very proud
And he was, of course, on MTV cribs.
He has 7.... no, 16 world records
Tommy Tallirico’s mother is very proud of him
Did you hear he was on mtv cribs? Insane
I can't believe he was also the first American to work on a Sonic game, totally wild
My headcanon for why he says that is because his mom failed to even show up for his birth.
I can’t believe he worked hand in hand with Miyamoto on Metroid Prime for 5 years, so cool
He has seven DIFFERENT world records
Scott is getting more and more in character with his Scott’s stash videos
Scott Wozniak the person and Scott the Woz the personality are becoming one.
The line between the Woz personality and the Stash personality is fading and soon his two personalities, one afflicted by a blue border and one afflicted by a desk carpet, will clash.
He has another channel?
Woozy wozzy
this video sucks
Words that have jumpscared me in Scott's vids by only hearing Scott say them:
-Danganronpa
-Undertale
-Tommy Tallarico
-NFTs
-Among Us
-Five Nights At Freddy's
-Doki Doki Literature Club
-Goat-ze
*NFTs
It was Among Us for me
What about Frederick Fazbearington the XV
wait what video did he talk about nfts???
edit: WHAT
@@solarsnail1 I had the exact same reaction lmao
I was told that Tommy Tallarico singlehandedly developed the entirety of James Pond for the GameBoy Advance
His mother is very proud.
I mean, he was the first American to work on Sonic the Hedgehog!
@@SeanLuxfordewith the amount of lies Tommy makes, I have begun to wonder if even this is true
and Joey Kuras
He developed the GameBoy Advance, worked hand in hand with Shigeru Miyamoto
You know... he wasn't even on cribs...
he wasn't even the first american to kiss sonic on his little lips!!!
But what about the waterfall? Does it make him have to go to the bathroom?
Wait that wasn't real? Or was it a different show that knocked off Cribs?
@@aortaplatinumthe footage was real. He just lied. There's a great video all about it, but I forgot the name of it. I know the name has some relation to the "Oof" sound effect from Roblox, but still don't remember the video's name.
@@TheTNTPVP it’s named ROBLOX_OOF.mp3, fittingly
fun fact: tommy tallarico actually made every single sound that scott has ever made, it's truly incredible how good he is at making sound effects
his mother is very proud indeed!
The first american that worked on scott the woz
He has the world record for working on the most video game TH-cam videos
I want nothing more than to see Scott's telling of the Tommy Tallarico saga.
The cold open's just Scott waking up in a room filled with pictures with the red lines on them and scattered notes on Tommy Tallarico (Probably 10 empty cups of coffee scattered all over the desk as well).
"First American to work on Sonic"
Live action Scott holding up Sonic 2: "Nope"
"Composed all the music in Earthworm Jim"
Live action Scott holding up a photo of the actual composer Tommy stole credit from: "nuh-uh"
"Was on MTV's Cribs"
Live action Scott cringing and shrugging: ...
You know, for the first American to work on Sonic, he didn't hesitate to name drop Mark Cerny as being a friend of his.
@@ccricers Or how well he got along with ole MJ.
He knows you know what's the point in him going over it
The Tommy Tallarico rabbit hole goes deep. He's lied a lot about what he's done and continues to claim others works as his own. HBomberGuy made a video about his antics
Don't listen to that guy, he's just a gaming racist
Tommy Tallarico? you mean the first American to work on Sonic?!
@@deanmoriarty6015 Shigeru Miyamoto literally had him work on Metroid Prime.
He was on MTV Cribs, while is mom was very proud!
That video is just the tip of the Tommy Tallarico iceberg.
I like how tommy's idea for making a console more user and family friendly is by making it with features that make it infinitely more complicated and prone to malfunctions.
Using 2016 smartphone tech is going to make your thing cheap, but it's going to make it hard to develop games, and making it so you cannot update or offer DLC means you have to get everything right at once.
i mean, do any of the complaints or criticisms matter when at the end of the day it's all vaporware and no product will ever be released?
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 You'd be correct. Their simple overhead tank game had a choppy framerate, and according to one of the former fans, the graphics for Cornhole were downgraded for this reason. The system wouldn't handle the overhead of Unity engine games otherwise.
@@cat-le1hf Good point, though by now, it’s metastasized to being about the desire of TH-cam audiences to see the same video about this con game a dozen more times, saying the same things
Man I clicked on this video expecting an 18 minute long video on James Pond, and I walked away feeling like I learned all I needed to know about the game
I'd say this is a pretty justifiable purchase. Not every day you get to physically own vaporware
It's hilarious, on Scott's channels you can read comments in his voice, and that's something he would say.
Underrated comment
Sometimes I think we should take away Scott's credit card for his own sake.
Imagine if they become collectors items.
lgr has something to say about that
Scott really tricked us with James Pond for the gba
You calling James Pond stupid? Yeah, my grandpa made that mistake and he’s dead
My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather _might've_ said that and he's also dead. Definitely not a coincidence.
D-did James Pond kill him?
ON MY BIRTHDAY???
@@Raime69 look you didn’t hear it from me(he probably knows where I am right now)
James Pond might look goofy, but he’s ruthless when he gets a gun
Fun fact: Tommy Tallirico originally stated to launch the Amico with zero online multiplayer functionality, and wanted to push playing in the same room together again. He also tried to launch and push out this console at the height of the COVID pandemic.
I don’t know that either of those says anything important about this con artist, though. Your comment seems like you’re just stating things you know to get other people to acknowledge you know them
The word NFTs coming out of Scott's mouth is so weird
Especially after the whole bizzare pro microtransaction screed. Why are nfts bad if microtransactions are good?
@@DimT670 Microtransactions can help game companies earn money by offering things to the consumers for a product that they can access for free, while it can be scummy considering the fact that you have to pay to get something in a game that is supposed to be free, it still has a purpose. nfts meanwhile have zero actual purposes and only exists as a tech bro trading card
@@DimT670mtx can be alright in some scenarios, NFTs can't.
@@trunguss I can't believe it took the creation of NFTs to make people realize that microtransactions aren't the spawn of satan
Tommy T. confused NFC with NFT which is why he claimed that these NFC cards would have the game downloadable as a NFT.
incredible Tommy Tallirico made the entire Scott the Woz family of channels, his mother is very proud
Sad you didnt mention the whole tommy talerico lie event horizon
Although i do like how you added your own spin on why tommy is so dumb
It would have taken 5 hours to explain it all
@@somerandomguy8541 No, only two..... as of the publishing of that video.
Tommy finally got a big gaming TH-camr to talk about his product as he promised!!
And the Tommy Tallarico event horizon didn't even mention everything, he was also a Yankee Hall of Famer!
@lone_stick WHAT, THATS AMAZING, HE CLAIMED TO BE PART OF THE YANKEE HALL OF FAME????? there really needs to be a full list of all the things he lied about
I hope your mother is proud
Oof
The waterfall makes me want to pee at night
How come people have made this exact joke and gotten thousands of likes yet when the man himself who blew the lid on the whole thing does it he gets 72 likes
You've never been funny
14:30 “I did lie”
Truly embodying the sheer genius that is Tommy Tallarico. I’m sure your mother is very proud
Oh god it's Tallarico again, we can't escape him!
his mother is VERY proud
he is the first american afterall
Well, of course, Shiggy Meemo did work very closely with him on Metroid Prime, and designed its weapons around his sound effects!
@@TenshiCat For the next Metroid, I want some weapons designed around the words "Oof!" and "Groovy!"
I wish I could make Scott saying "M-Rated Sex Games" into a ringtone.
Just record it lol
Just clip it
To respond in a non-rude way: if you use an online converter to download the audio from this video, then an app to clip that part, you can then send the audio to your phone and use it as a ringtone
Id like to thank Tommy Tallarico for creating this video
scott is conected to the origin of the oof now
For those curious about the Amico fiasco, there's a great playlist of videos from the Pat the NES Punk from his CUPodcast show which goes into detail about all the stupid things Tommy (and those adjacent to him) did with this system.
Pat is a goon.
yeah Pat is almost as big of a salty turd as Tommy is
@@GribbleGobelaborate? I've only seen a couple of his Tommy videos
@@dhruvtukadiya Pat has always been a sneaky little goon of a man.
@@GribbleGob that tells me nothing about what he actually did
You know Tommy Tallirico is legit because of his very (il)legitimate Guniess World Records that he basically bought.
Guinness world records are usually bought. They're a business, give them thousands of dollars and you get a record
his mother's very proud
I love the Tommy "cameo" in Karl Jobst's recent video in his latest commentary on world records.
to be fair, the Guinness Book of World Records reflects its origins as a way of settling drunken arguments, in that it’s mainly an ad farm for dimwits
7:32 There is also an issue, especially with PC games, where testers can play a game fine for several times but as soon as it ships, there are bugs and stuff that people encountered that testers didn't, or the bugs only came up and are being worked on long after the game had gone gold and is about to be shipped, hence the frequent Day One patches.
The day one audience of a game is miles bigger than an QA department and in much more varied circumstances. This is especially true for the PC ports of games, which will be played on a variety of systems. Jedi Survivor shipped to PC fine, unless you were running the newest and best hardware. Respawn probably never tested on systems like that because it would be a waste of budget to obtain a top tier brand new gaming PC. And besides, why would a computer being too good cause problems? Well guess what, it did.
10:17 Video Game Controversies would unironically be a really good video topic and a nice change of pace for the channel, we've had so many skit/lore focused videos recently I feel like it could be a fun return to form
Scott? RUN. You don’t want to get dragged into this whole Amico mess.
The fact that this is almost as good as a normal Scott video, absolute mad lad
It's basically a regular Scott video with the occasional "um" in the dialogue.
Now Tommy Tallarico can add this video to the long list of things he's worked on.
I kinda love how this simple vid on his stupidest purchase became a mini retrospective of modern gaming vs retro gaming
I remember the Coleco Chameleon was also another "console" that was meant to be a "throw back to the olden days, no patches or DLC" kinda thing but ended up being a scam. Dunno what it is about the 'visions...
These brands are now zombie brands that attract people that wish for an alternate timeline where their beloved 2nd gen consoles weren't wiped out. The "official" Coleco branding didn't matter because it has no connection to the original company. The CollectorVision Phoenix however, is a modern FPGA version of ColecoVision with extra bells and whistles and is more faithful to the original thing. And it doesn't have to use the Coleco branding.
@@ccricers Yeah, my lifelong cure of the Stockholm syndrome of identifying with a video game company was seeing the Atari brand change hands enough that it ended up on an Unreal Tournament
This needs to a full Scott the Woz episode down the line.
No, it doesn’t. There are countless videos on the Amico debacle, all saying the same things over and over and over. You need to aim higher even if you are gawking at disaster footage
My favorite part of Tommy Talarico’s career was when he was on MTV Cribs
It wasn’t even Cribs!
A couple of times, yeah!
Right and those 50 Grammys he won in one year, impressive
@@narcopsy And the --Canadian Daytime-- Emmy he won!
That totally wasn't won by his former anchor, Victor Lucas for a completely unrelated project!
OH NO NOT TOMMY TALARICO
I appreciate Scott defending modern gaming and kinda giving it to retro game enthusiasts who think gaming peaked back in the 90s. Like yeah, some stuff about gaming nowadays suck, I get that, but with the expanded scope and budget of games these days... you kinda just need to take those on the chin because it's necessary for how much bigger games are.
There are pros and cons to every era so it’s basically a matter of preference. Elitists act like there’s only one right answer.
While I certainly don’t think that video games peaked in the 90’s (it was an admittedly great decade for the medium), I would also disagree that many of the things publishers do now are "necessary." There are just so many nakedly anti-consumer practices in the industry today, and I think to downplay that hurts us all.
I would also like to say, even though I’m disagreeing with you, I hope you have a nice day. Just because I disagree with something you said about video games, doesn’t mean I wish you any ill 😊
Someone tell Mike Matei
@@brianlefko4404 That's certainly fair, and publishers do do unnecessary things. I was more referring to baseline things such as game updates, digital downloads/exclusives, free to play games, and all that stuff.
@@SuspiciousScoutI guess we didn’t really disagree at all, haha. Have a nice day!
Tommy finally got a big gaming TH-camr to talk about his product as he promised!! It was only 3 years late... but it counts, sorta!?
Wouldn't that be something?
My biggest video game purchasing regret was when I was 8-9 yo. I saved up my allowance to buy a gba game and I impulsively bought James Pond purely off of the box art. I think I played it for 10 minutes and never touched it again. I could’ve bought Pokémon emerald or something but instead I was stuck with…James pond.
most of tommy tallarico's music is just music created by people who worked for his company
And the stuff he actually made was hot garbo; such as the shrill do-wop of Color a Dinosaur or the absolute _nothingburger_ the OST to Super Caesar's Palace is.
Of course Scott got two sets of those 😂 I’ll have to admit they are part of gaming history! And yes, I’d love to hear Scott go on about the history of this doomed from the start system
Uh oh. Who's gonna tell Scott that Tommy's a scam artist who might not even exist as a real person?
Huh?
He knows the Amico is not releasing
I suspect that he knows. He just didn't want to go down that rabbit hole as he'd have ended up having to make a video that's five hours long.
@StarkMaximum can you explain what you mean that he might not exist as a real person?
@@Matt__Bpoor Harriton Splimby
"Scott's stash"is slowly turning into "Scott the Woz
Uh scott. Retro gamers don't want their games to be forever broken after release. They want their games to release finished to begin with. I would rather every triple a release take longer to come out if it meant they weren't being shipped bugged.
“I could’ve bought food!”
- Scott “Wozniak” The Woz, 2019
that quote could also be attributed to that really gross ouya commercial, ANOTHER SCAM MICROCONSOLE!
it's always Joey.
His mother’s very proud
"Limited Collector's Edition" on a video game box has never been more true.
I’d normally say something like this that’s this bad would still be bought en masse, but in this case not a ton of people knew about the amico happenings until hbomberguy dropped his video. this must actually have a disgusting amount of value despite it being so new. good on scott
…crap, I forgot it was actually tommy tallaricos video AND him performing as Scott…
@@hive-sys If only a few hundred copies were made then Scott is extra rich. He can finally buy more gex!
I wonder if these physical games will sell for more later on, highly doubt it, seeing as unlike something like an N64 Zelda game, these are largely obscure properties.
@@leonardogomez8812 The thing is, most of them _aren't_ properties, and have a Mario Factor approaching 0.
The highest profile title that the Amico had was either "Dynablaster" (a copyright anomaly that was Bomberman with the numbers filed off.) or Earthworm Jim. (Which turned out to have been a lie.) I know some people would insist on the latter having a Mario Factor of at least 0.5, but I'd soon clap for Rash from Battletoads.
It's also ridiculous to advertise a box made for collectors as biodegradable... wouldn't collectors want their items to LAST?
This is kinda like buying Scientology books, you're giving your money to scammers.
I love the videos of Scott yelling at stuff on his carpet.
If anyone is unfamiliar with Tommy Tallarico, or the Intelevision Amico, Pat The Nes Punk has a bunch of clips from his podcast talking about the console, their thoughts, Tommy's tall tales that he spun to dupe investors, the list of smaller youtubers that Tommy used to attack people who's coverage wasn't favorable, all of the lies and slander that Tommy publically said on an Atari forum where he spent most of his time the last few years, and all the other hilarious Amici related hijinks.
This was a rabbit hole that I fell deep into, and it's one of the most hilarious and baffling things I've witnessed.
Also, if you ever played Roblox, or know of the "OOF" sound, Tommy is the guy who threatened legal action to get it removed.
Also, fun fact, they messed up the font for Biplanes, and then tried to say that it was a limited variant, rather than flat out saying they made a mistake
From my superficial understanding, Tommy did legitimately create the Oof sound right? And Roblox didn't get a license for it? I think he did have a case.
But I've not watched the deep dive
@@RegiRuler So the thing about it is that his studio did create it for a game called Messiah, however the Roblox developers got the sound from a royalty free sound disk. It was just a big legal grey area, and the Roblox devs just decided to remove the sound.
@@RegiRuler It's likely that he was involved at some point of the process, but the creator he wasn't.
There are knock off NFC cards that work like amiibos. A Scott’s Stash video on them would be cool I think
I should’ve known Scott’s audience would overlap with our boy HBomberGuy
I have a sick fascination with this consoles failure and history, i cannot get enough of it, and im glad someone like Scott is finally checking it out
The biggest thing the Amico did was show up first when searching Gamestop for amiibo, that's its biggest accomplishment
So after all that, how long until Scott will actually own a 2600, Intellivision and Colecovision? He’s got the freakin Vectrex for Rex Moh’s sake…
He has TWO six-switch 2600s!!!
Wait, he DOESN'T own a 2600??
he'll become framerater lol
why would owning something interesting mean he would buy something less so
There needs to be a whole Scott the Woz episode about the Intellivision Amico. I want to go down this rabbit hole.
Scott’s pretty smart to avoid making the umpteenth video gawking at the same car wreck. I don’t get the urge to demand to see the same thing you’ve already seen, over and over
Every time I feel bad for one of my purchases, Scott cheers me up, by showing me I could have done worse. lol
I think it's funny that basically every company that tries to make a game console that doesn't usually make game consoles usually always only makes a controller and not even the console itself.
Especially as “the console itself” would always end up as just another mini-PC in an oversaturated market, where the buy-in is “register trademark, put chip on board, delay release date 10 times”
I've heard the amico story a bunch of times, but I did appreciate Scott's opinion on the retro gamer mentality about updates and whatnot. Thats pretty accurate
not really, it’s more a preservation thing, like, when xbox shuts down the servers for your xbox one, almost all of your xbox one games will never work again!
@@masonasaro2118 xbox is a terrible example of what you're trying to say considering their backwards compatibility program. Even delisted games that you've bought can still be downloaded. A better example of what you're trying to say would be Nintendo.
That said, the boogeyman that so many old timers are afraid of is highly unlikely and if for whatever reason happens emulation will be there waiting (see Nintendo wii online, wii u storefront, etc)
Remember OUYA? This is him now
In Atari's defense, the VCS was at the very least an actual product with some justification for its existence.
On a hardware level it's basically just a mini PC, and Atari actually used to make PCs back in the day (IE the Atari 800) so it's not that outlandish; it's not bad for what it is, but Atari screwed the pooch by trying to market it as a full blown console that could only play decades-old games and the remakes they've been publishing, instead of as a mini PC that could theoretically boot up Steam games.
As for the Amico, I've got nothing.
There's multiple games releasing on VCS every month, even if most of them are ports it's still 'real'
Though the other big issue is that the mini-PC market is now almost as saturated as the PC market, and all of these companies are just labor costs.
They're physical products Scott, not physical media. That distinction is very important./s
But seriously, as someone who's been following this train-wreck since it was announced, it's gratifying to hear Scott lay into it.
My first reaction was "when did it release" and then he said you can buy the games before the console is out
Can’t wait for the Scott the Woz video were he dives deep into the Tommy Talarico rabbit hole.
love this hourly content!
oops this isnt scotts snippet lol
Did you know that Tommy Tallerico's mother is very proud of him?
To explain the Day 1 update debacle; I work for a rather large game studio and simply put, the reason for day 1 updates are (mostly) because of physical releases. It takes time to print millions of CD’s for different consoles so the developers end up having to send a Version 1.0 to the publisher WEEKS ahead of launch. The developer in the meantime will keep working on the game and making bug fixes, all of which will be available to players as a Day 1 patch.
As a side note, there will always be bugs in new video games too, since the amount of play time you’ll have on Day 1 is potentially millions of hours more than all the combined play testing you could’ve had during development. This means that a bug that occurs for every 1-in-100,000 play throughs, which could potentially never have been seen by the devs, will seem so common that people will scratch their heads and poke jokes. Again, this is why Day 1 updates are important as there would be so many more bugs and overall reception wouldn’t be as nice.
And before you say “Just ship the game when it’s finished?”, there are massive marketing budgets put in to a game’s release and changing the dates because of a few bugs would increase those budgets dramatically. When you see marketing for a game, it means they have a set release date. When you see a set release date, that means the game isn’t finished yet BUT is in good enough shape that they will meet these deadlines
Playing Devil’s advocate: the people to whom you’re responding would say that if the game has major bugs, the studio actually didn’t meet their deadline.
Kudos to Joey Kuras for launching the Amico!
gonna commit to crediting joey kuras for every accomplishment tallarico tries to claim for himself from now on, legitimate or not
I'd like to thank Joey Kuras for eating the meat & cheese pizza that the supersleeper Tommy Tallarico claims to have not eaten while eating at a pizza party.
that being said, making NFC download codes is somehow the closest to a Legitimate thing Tallarico has done & his Mother would be very proud
Hey, we've all been there and made some silly purchases. One I'm not particularly proud of is a seven-foot waterfall I installed in my house that makes me need to go to the bathroom at night.
I love them calling them NFTs, because NFTs both failed incredibly hard and are treated as a joke. I'm also pretty sure that a part of being a NFT is that it has to be digital, so I literally have no clue the fuck they're on about
I'm sure the guy who made this console would never lie about being on MTV Cribs.
“Foreshadowing is a literary device in whi-“
I do think that the option of an update is what makes developers and publishers release games with a lower bar of quality, but acting as if a day 1 patch is anything but a positive is stupid.
Wow, did not expect this to be another Tommy Tallarico hit piece but I slapped my hands like a seal when I saw that Amico "game" box. Amazing.
I wish I had the income to buy something twice for no other reason then how stupid it is.
Tommy Talerico must be really good friends with scott, cause why else would he buy this willingly.
I highly disagree with Scott about patches and DLCs. Games should be complete day one. Otherwise, you won't be able to play them correctly in the future. For example: when the PS3 closes its digital store, many games will become unplayable, since you won't be able to download patches that fixes the games, and you won't get the complete game, 'cause you can't download a DLC anymore.
you will, pirates preserve everything
It’ll be harder, but not impossible. You can easily buy a hacked console (depending on the game, not even that is necessary), download said patch from an internet archive, put it in the right folder on your console and ur set.
While I really wish day one updates weren’t a thing, its just an unreasonable thing to ask for given the size of games nowadays. No amount of people can both develop and perfect a 100 GB+ collection of data within a few years, especially for PC games which would require vigorously testing thousands of different setups.
This isn't even considering the fact that day one updates are largely also an inherent artifact of the fact that we still have physics media also the fact that game developers aren't unionized which is a bit of a political topic but it does affect the working conditions of developers especially with crunch being so prevalent. My point is that for a lot of games there's a week or two before launch where the game has gone gold where the game is going to be physically pressed onto Blu-ray discs. Typically developers keep on working on the game after it is pressed but before it comes out. Often this is the case for smaller teams who don't have so many games in the pipeline like IO interactive or Remedy or rockstar even. Studios where they focus on one or two games for every so many years. This argument also falls apart when talking about multiplayer games which rely on there being a certain number of servers being available for all of the players. The larger something is the more complicated the backend for their servers will be because the off-the-shelf solutions just fall apart. You know that the larger games are going to need custom solutions like the call of dutys and counter strikes of the world. What about games that explode in popularity after they are released like Among Us or Palworld. These were made by small teams that didn't design their online to be able to sustain 1 million concurrent players because not every indie game can do that because often they have limited resources and spending that much money on a feature when you don't know how popular something is going to be is risky.
"This isn't the stupidest thing I ever bought...uh, 'cause I bought them again."
I smiled and shook my head. Oh, Scott
Scott, while I certainly agree with you on game updates (mostly*), but microtransactions on pay-to-play games are gross because often times these games are designed to manipulate players into buying them by making the games increasingly difficult to progress. It's much the same with free-to-play games, but at least with them the microtransactions are their only source of income so with them I'm more willing to accept them as a necessary evil.
However, if the games industry needs microtransactions to remain profitable, then maybe the reason is because they utilize overly bloated budgets and for that maybe they should collapse. Because most of the companies utilizing microtransactions are Ubisoft, Activision (Blizzard), and EA. If you told me that removing microtransactions would lead to the collapse of those three companies I would tell you that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make!
*It really depends on the game. If the game has a solid foundation, but is just rough around the edges and just needs some optimization (like Hogwarts Legacy), then I'm willing to allow it some updates to get good. But if it's more like Fallout 76 or Anthem, then the game can go die in a fire.
Scott's really acting like he didn't buy two copies of Bike-O-Vision
The only remotely valuable item in these cases is a physical coin. A coin that, due to its minor imperfections, is in fact a unique object. A literal Non Fungible Token.
The grift has come full circle.
The Amico's like the gaming equivalent of mix between a dingleberry and a hemorrhoid that won't go away.
Summoning Tommy Tallarico is like summoning Candyman.
As someone who got an Intellisivion in 2017 and never touched one before, you need the box/instructions for those games. They’re actually surprisingly deep and involved if you read up on what they want from you. My girlfriend watched me play all day.
I can see why they lost the market, then
I love how Scott can turn a simple talk about a purchase he made, into a full on discussion about retro vs modern gaming.
Oh, I remember seeing that guy in MTV Cribs!
I audibly groaned when I heard the name Tallarico.
I completely forgot he was behind this whole Amico thing too.
I think we should refer to this saga as _The Assassination of Keith Robinson's Legacy by the Coward Tommy Tallarico._
Scott buying physical games for a console that DOES NOT EXIST (and then buying them AGAIN 'cause he wants them SEALED!) is SUCH a Scott thing to do, I cannot! X'D I love it! You're so awesome, Scott! (And I love your tangent about day one updates and all! SUPER interesting and, IMO, very right!) This was such an interesting vid! (But MAN, does this Amico thing look stupid AF! X'D Eager to hear more about it from you later!)
I love Scott's antithetical attitude to any other retro collector.
"ULTRA-RARE PSA 10 COLLECTOR'S BUNDLE OF GAMES FOR AN UNRELEASED CONSOLE!"
vs
"This is a beyond stupid purchase with absolutely no worth or value PLEASE do not buy this"
Lovee tommy on reviews on the run
I'd be so down to hear a longer version of the Amico story
But has Scott ever watched HBomberguy's famous documentary exposing that most of Tommy's resume is full of lies and deceit, and that he's a pathological liar and generally kind of an insane man?
The Thumbnail: James Pond
The Video: Intellivision Amico
I would love to hear the full Amico story please Scott!
Cant wait for Tommy to go on a rant about how Scott has joined the "gaming racists"
Hearing Scott say he technically owns an NFT feels so wrong.
Scott being not only the one person to but Amico games but doing it TWICE the mad lad
This is the year of Scott’s Stash and I’m here for it
Tommy Tallarico actually invented video games