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Thread to share and discuss long-form video game critiques and their creators.
Their quality doesn't matter, they can vary from actually insightful and clever to 8h gay plot summary slop, as long as they are vidya related they are welcome here.
I'll start with some recommendations, be warned this op will be very autistic:
Matthewmatosis:
My favorite critic and in my opinion the best one. His videos usually fall on the shorter spectrum, as they are rarely longer than 1 hour.
The only longer videos of his are his "Commentaries" which are more like a "let's play" of the entire game, where he talks about pretty much everything regarding the game. He made commentaries on Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Devil May Cry and Viewtiful Joe.
He is infamous for saying that Bioshock Infinite should have had the word "nigger". He kickstarted the hate on Dark Souls 2, and his critique of modern Souls slop predicted the direction From Soft would take with Elden Ring.
He is mostly retired from youtube, as he is developing a puzzle game now.
His GoW 2018 review is probably one of his best videos and a good place to to start:
Joseph Anderson:
Probably the most popular youtuber game critic, and one of the most influential.
His criticism on Elden Ring's boss designs sparked strong debate in the souls community.
He is famous for taking over 5 years to make his Witcher 3 video (still incomplete at the making of this thread), and infamous for his complete lack of understanding of Silent Hill 2's plot ("the town made him stupid").
He also got involved in some drama for saying SOMA is not a horror game, and in response he made a video "Why Horror Games Don't Scare Me", which led to EFAP faggots having a 3h stream talking about it. In fact, Mauler is notoriously a JA hater.
His 4h video on Witcher 1 is probably a good place to start:
PatricianTV:
He is the epitome of these long-form video game critiques, not in the sense that his videos are good, quite the contrary, but in the sense that his videos are the longest fucking shit ever. Great for background noise.
He is famous for his 8 hours Quick Retrospective of Morrowind, his 12 hours Quick Retrospective of Oblivion and his 20 hours Quick Retrospective of Skyrim.
He does normal length reviews, like his Avowed review, but those are not as popular, nor as interesting.
Personally I don't think he is a good critic, but his long videos are so insane and so well researched it's hard not to appreciate them in some way.
Like his Starfield video, that had a bunch of research to back up his main thesis that the game was a mess because Bethesda doesn't have a design document:
NeverKnowsBest:
He has some great retrospective videos:
The Entire History of Video Games, The Entire History of RPGs, The History of MMOs, The Entire History of Japanese RPGs, Final Fantasy - An Entire Series Retrospective.
He also does reviews. He did a pretty good Baldur's Gate 3 review, and an Elden Ring review.
However he also dabbles on politics faggotry from time to time, in which he has some gay centrist libertarian takes. He did a pretty bad video on "Gamer Gate 2" for example.
He also did a bad video defending Emil Pagliarulo (Bethesda's main writer) where he talked shit about Patrician TV (who then went to EFAP to criticize him and call him a cuck).
My favorite video of his is his Genshin Impact critique, which nails what makes the game so good but also so fucking bad:
Noah Caldwell-Gervais:
He is a leftist faggot and a huge casual, he will say some of the dumbest shit you will ever hear, but at the same time I think he is a pretty good script-writer and he does have good plot, lore and theme analysis.
His videos on Souls games are actually interesting in the sense that it's fun to see the perspective of someone who is so fucking bad at them.
He has a bunch of long retrospectives, I haven't seem most of them, however I did really enjoy the one on the Diablo series:
And some more I don't have that much to say:
Raycevick: He mostly just review shooters and racing games, and mostly focuses on forgettable 7th gen games. But even though I don't care about most games he covers, his videos are incredibly well made and engaging.
TheGamingBritShow: He does the occasional long-form review, but most of his videos are actually just short recommendations or takes. I find his takes quite good.
Whitelight: I unironically hate this guy's video, I have never heard him say something of value and half the videos on his channel seem to be about ubisoft tier slop. But he is one of the most popular I've seen.
Hbomberguy: An actual lolcow tranny loving faggot sexpest with a his own thread that talks more about politic shit or youtube drama. But he has a handful of dogshit videos on games which are probably some of the most viewed long-form vidya critiques on youtube.
Mandalore: On the shorter side, he mostly covers older cult classic games, some eurojank type shit. His videos are more summary style, but they are entertaining. I also believe he was involved in some tranny drama (siding with the tranny), but I don't have a single source to back that up.
And I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting or that I don't even know exists.
Do YOU have a favorite video or video creator? Do you even pay attention to these video when you leave then on the second monitor for background noise?
Discuss.
Their quality doesn't matter, they can vary from actually insightful and clever to 8h gay plot summary slop, as long as they are vidya related they are welcome here.
I'll start with some recommendations, be warned this op will be very autistic:
Matthewmatosis:
My favorite critic and in my opinion the best one. His videos usually fall on the shorter spectrum, as they are rarely longer than 1 hour.
The only longer videos of his are his "Commentaries" which are more like a "let's play" of the entire game, where he talks about pretty much everything regarding the game. He made commentaries on Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Devil May Cry and Viewtiful Joe.
He is infamous for saying that Bioshock Infinite should have had the word "nigger". He kickstarted the hate on Dark Souls 2, and his critique of modern Souls slop predicted the direction From Soft would take with Elden Ring.
He is mostly retired from youtube, as he is developing a puzzle game now.
His GoW 2018 review is probably one of his best videos and a good place to to start:
Joseph Anderson:
Probably the most popular youtuber game critic, and one of the most influential.
His criticism on Elden Ring's boss designs sparked strong debate in the souls community.
He is famous for taking over 5 years to make his Witcher 3 video (still incomplete at the making of this thread), and infamous for his complete lack of understanding of Silent Hill 2's plot ("the town made him stupid").
He also got involved in some drama for saying SOMA is not a horror game, and in response he made a video "Why Horror Games Don't Scare Me", which led to EFAP faggots having a 3h stream talking about it. In fact, Mauler is notoriously a JA hater.
His 4h video on Witcher 1 is probably a good place to start:
PatricianTV:
He is the epitome of these long-form video game critiques, not in the sense that his videos are good, quite the contrary, but in the sense that his videos are the longest fucking shit ever. Great for background noise.
He is famous for his 8 hours Quick Retrospective of Morrowind, his 12 hours Quick Retrospective of Oblivion and his 20 hours Quick Retrospective of Skyrim.
He does normal length reviews, like his Avowed review, but those are not as popular, nor as interesting.
Personally I don't think he is a good critic, but his long videos are so insane and so well researched it's hard not to appreciate them in some way.
Like his Starfield video, that had a bunch of research to back up his main thesis that the game was a mess because Bethesda doesn't have a design document:
NeverKnowsBest:
He has some great retrospective videos:
The Entire History of Video Games, The Entire History of RPGs, The History of MMOs, The Entire History of Japanese RPGs, Final Fantasy - An Entire Series Retrospective.
He also does reviews. He did a pretty good Baldur's Gate 3 review, and an Elden Ring review.
However he also dabbles on politics faggotry from time to time, in which he has some gay centrist libertarian takes. He did a pretty bad video on "Gamer Gate 2" for example.
He also did a bad video defending Emil Pagliarulo (Bethesda's main writer) where he talked shit about Patrician TV (who then went to EFAP to criticize him and call him a cuck).
My favorite video of his is his Genshin Impact critique, which nails what makes the game so good but also so fucking bad:
Noah Caldwell-Gervais:
He is a leftist faggot and a huge casual, he will say some of the dumbest shit you will ever hear, but at the same time I think he is a pretty good script-writer and he does have good plot, lore and theme analysis.
His videos on Souls games are actually interesting in the sense that it's fun to see the perspective of someone who is so fucking bad at them.
He has a bunch of long retrospectives, I haven't seem most of them, however I did really enjoy the one on the Diablo series:
And some more I don't have that much to say:
Raycevick: He mostly just review shooters and racing games, and mostly focuses on forgettable 7th gen games. But even though I don't care about most games he covers, his videos are incredibly well made and engaging.
TheGamingBritShow: He does the occasional long-form review, but most of his videos are actually just short recommendations or takes. I find his takes quite good.
Whitelight: I unironically hate this guy's video, I have never heard him say something of value and half the videos on his channel seem to be about ubisoft tier slop. But he is one of the most popular I've seen.
Hbomberguy: An actual lolcow tranny loving faggot sexpest with a his own thread that talks more about politic shit or youtube drama. But he has a handful of dogshit videos on games which are probably some of the most viewed long-form vidya critiques on youtube.
Mandalore: On the shorter side, he mostly covers older cult classic games, some eurojank type shit. His videos are more summary style, but they are entertaining. I also believe he was involved in some tranny drama (siding with the tranny), but I don't have a single source to back that up.
And I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting or that I don't even know exists.
Do YOU have a favorite video or video creator? Do you even pay attention to these video when you leave then on the second monitor for background noise?
Discuss.
. Of the few I'd actually recommend is BoulderPunch, if only for covering actually niche games
