Long-form videogame critiques - 12h background noise to put on second monitor while playing some mindless game

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Basement Brothers. He does old, Japanese PC games and his videos range anywhere from about 20m to 40m. Not exactly long but not really short either.

He goes over the physical product, some history, a bit of technical stuff, then basically gives a rundown of the game along with his opinion, and a brief look at other versions elsewhere (if applicable). Very interesting stuff, it's a peak into another place, at another time for a hobby you're familiar with. He is fairly apolitical with very rare, light implications that he's based.

 

[huesofmercury]

 

[StacticShock]

Would like it more if his voice was not so whiny and has a clear biases towards the original version.

he is not wrong OG version is better.
you want a praise to the remake? it plays like the last of us2 with a refined melee system, everything else is shit.
bam, there you go, took me like 3 minutes tops because i kept checking the oblivion remaster thread.

 

[Thiletonomics]

i saw one of his videos on the NFSes but i got another guy recommended about nfs essays, when looking around i got both ultraviolet and mitchell diedritch however they might not fit the 1 hour thingy but they are good essays, and since hbomber was mentioned might as well pull StopSkeletonsFromFighting since his zeebo videos are top tier shit, it was a clusterfuck of a console to be sold in here and i always laugh whenever i see videos about people from outside of brazil falling in that rabbithole, fastminer07's video on NFS art is good too because he glazes NFS heat and heat is a really fucking good looking nfs with the best garage loading screen in the history of NFS.

Ultraviolet's TDUSC critique would fit, although given how Nacon made the game worse later by raising car prices, nerfing event payouts, and even adding a 3rd-rate kernel-level anti-cheat (SARD) on PC, would easily make a TDUSC critique last over an hour:

 

[Defensive Ella Purnell]

Noah Caldwell-Gervais:
He is a leftist faggot and a huge casual, he will say some of the dumbest shit you will ever hear

He's one of my favourites because he really is so fucking bad at seemingly every game he plays, endless amusement.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

he is not wrong OG version is better.

I agree. Still sounds like his on the verge of tears and that's for 16 hours straight.

 

[SIMON THE PIEMAN]

12 hours? How about a bit more than that:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL16yfJJxAM6g-4YxKGI-17q-K3nrXuVSd

This is a (still incomplete) retrospective of the Ultima series. The author did his homework and not only played each game from start to finish but also extensively researched the history of the Lord British and the Origin Systems. The whole thing is a nice window into the reality of the 80s-90s game development as well as what used to count as actual innovation back then.

Aside from that I've recently watched the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 video by the Synthetic Man:

I enjoyed the first game a lot and it's sad to see that devs not only chose to actively sabotage the sequel but also got rewarded by it.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Roflwaffle combined his GT7 critique videos into one 3 hour long one, fitting for this thread:

 

[StacticShock]

i've recently got a MrHammers video recommended and i think it's okay to put in the thread.
however i do hate his outro song because it sounds ultra fucking lo-gay, downright rage inducing to hear because it. is. so. fucking. shit.

Aside from that I've recently watched the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 video by the Synthetic Man:

i saw the thumb of his veilguard video and could not stop laughing, everyone with a brain hates taash.
also i do remember seeing him crying about being shadowbanned, sadly i could not reply to one faggot defending him on his thread since my ISP's T1 blocked the farms and brave still blocks the onion address, because i saw leafy being shadowbanned then banned during his H3 feud and syntethic had not a single symptom of being shadowbanned, more like what happened to sseth once where his videos were mass reported, i might make a proper reply if i find my post again on that thread.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'm a sucker for video game retrospectives/reviews. The history and insight of video games are arguably more interesting than just playing the game themselves.

I'm not necessarily recommending his channel as a whole; it's a Thomas the Tank centric channel. That said, I gave it a chance since I remember Cars as a kid. The video actually sold me on the first Cars video game tie-in as a competent product made with passion, oversight and respect to its source material and fans alike.

 

[Miller]

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NerdSlayer is a retard.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

NerdSlayer is a retard.

He's seething in the comments too, what a fucking redditor faggot.

 

[Terror Sandwich]

New NeverKnowsBest video on "ElderScrolls-likes"
It's mostly just reviews of a few games (Avowed and some indie shit) and discussion on where they differentiate from The Elder Scroll games. He even covers Enderal a huge Skyrim mod.

 

[PrettySneakyCis]

New NeverKnowsBest video on "ElderScrolls-likes"
It's mostly just reviews of a few games (Avowed and some indie shit) and discussion on where they differentiate from The Elder Scroll games. He even covers Enderal a huge Skyrim mod.

NeverKnowsBest is one of those I constantly forget about and then feel I should like, but every time I look at his channel I remember his Gamergate 2 video and that he can absolutely go fuck himself.

As for actual content, Ghostcharm does good work and I don't really see him get any attention. He just put out a 20 minute video on the history of the Bethesda sweetroll and it's more interesting than one would expect.

https://youtu.be/gPd6SINcQZY?si=V-UTuD_OwB3qvIwx

 

[The Last Stand]

Here's a retrospective on a lesser known Spongebob title: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman. Not just on its development history, but how its developer Big Sky Interactive shuttered its doors right after release.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

My nominee for one of the worst is turbokike Jacob Geller, though there are too many for me to list them all (pastra if you want a horror-slop glazer, Super Eyepatch Wolf if you want an annoying mick, etc.). At least all of the aforementioned here and above can be described as somewhat distinctive in their voice/content, but there's also a trash heap of channels who create sporadic, bland videos that don't even rise to the level of eliciting like or dislike - equivalent to those A.I. generated articles that exist to game google for a modicum of ad revenue.

The worst thing I can say about Geller is that he liked Underland, which is also a bloviating purple prose pretentious wankfest.

 

[Poop A Loop]

Nostalgia Goggles has been really nice so far. It's 45 mins to an hour of two dudes just playing some PS1 games and rating them. Nice podcast format and if you watch on YouTube you get some good footage of the game that corresponds to the topic they're discussing.

 

[Jarch6]

A good takedown of Matthewmatosis's bastard child (Joseph Anderson) and the inbred lineage which followed (Feebleking, etc.).

A nice, nostalgic retrospective on skating games.

 

[Scarthew]

A good takedown of Matthewmatosis's bastard child (Joseph Anderson) and the inbred lineage which followed (Feebleking, etc.).

A nice, nostalgic retrospective on skating games.

Joseph anderson's videos are contradictory, petty, nonsense. The complaints never make sense. His review of The Witness is just him arguing with himself constantly and blaming the game when hes too dumb to understand how it tutorializes things. Like write a fucking thesis before you start rambling.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Finished watching 5 hours video of some obscure Dreamcast game that only came out in japan called "DeSPIRIA".

One of the reasons i miss the late 90s and the 00 of gaming is beacuse the medium was still fresh and people were still experimenting with the tech given to them to try all sort of things. Games like DeSPIRIA cant be made in a mainstream fashion (or indie for that matter out of fear of backlash) because all the taboo topic the game covers (Sex, Nudity, Gore, Vore, Drugs, Religion, etc). Its one of the reason why everything feels the same and tasteless these days. Even Marsh was put off by the cruelty towards the children in this game and how awful the game devs treated "disabled" people, but that's what makes it so interesting and different! Because it pushes the boundaries set on the medium and makes it stick out from everything else.

The game has been getting a fan translation worked on for many years but now that Marsh has pretty much covered the entire game, it makes you question, if fan translation is under threat of dying since most people will just watch someone else review or talk about the game instead of playing it?