In a surprising turn of events, all the gamba slop mysteriously disappeared seemingly overnight.
I think you mean "the 300 bots who still watch them".
Yeah Terror from the Deep had intense difficulty scaling so if you did ok to well early on the game became impossible to beat very quickly. And the issue with that is that the game itself was a bit easier iirc than the original so the main method to win was to sabotage yourself early on which in a Xcom game is like playing Russian roulette when only one of the chambers is empty
The 2016 election season seems to have been the tipping point if anything.
He talked about gamergate a lot at the time on his youtube channel Let's Play/podcast series "Let's Drown Out', he was a big fence sitter about it. It was really the 2016 Trump election cycle that pushed him over the edge which you can start see at the end of the series in 2016, right before he moved to California.
That explains about everything.
To be fair, if we nuked california out of the map, we would have one less batch of nukes to use on india, mecca and/or israel.
AW FUCK YOU RIGHT, I totally missed that. Goddammit I didn't think I was THAT sleep deprived when I posted that.
Yahtze surprisingly entitled for Games Journalist turned E-begger. I remember Second Wind tried viewer requested reviews and quietly stopped doing them. A big fat reason that I can recall was when During the KOTOR review, Yahtzee outed himself as too dumb to understand the Jedi Council's plan, tried to pass it off as a writing oversight.
I must recant my previous post due to a lapse of retardation. Yahtz is still playing Mewgenics quite heavily. The violently ephemeral gameplay has made him a touch more aware of the importance of letting go and the catharsis that comes with it.
He does sometimes admit when he hasn't beaten a game, if only to reinforce how bad said game was to experience. I guess he doesn't show his hours on every game because it's a level of transparency he can't be arsed to do.
Totally agree with the 2016 timeline.
I've discussed multiple times in this thread that there's evidence that for a lot of games he's "played", even as far back as Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015) he's simply just watched it on YouTube.
That's honestly not surprising. There were other "reviewers" of videogames doing shit like that back then and earlier. Spoony buying game footage from other people to put in his reviews because for some reason he just couldn't be bothered to capture the footage himself or stream it and record it that way(there can be reasons to pay other people for footage, like alternate path stuff, optional sidequests, alternate unavailable versions of the game, etc. but that's not what he did). The scamming faggot Jirard for his "The Completionist" shit was paying people to beat games for him.
And this is the meat of the matter. It's more than just videogame "reviews". It's movie reviews, lore channels for IPs, all kinds of shit. It becomes an issue with these people get their head so far up their own ass that they believe they're important but the reality is they haven't actually fucking done anything.
Whom was he buying footage from? Like, the most I recall was the Pumpkin Head game and he openly admitted in a commentary that he got this footage from a fan and even asked permission to use it.
Spoony?
Accurate. The let's play channel he did with Gabe is a great time capsule for what his views were pre Trump. He was vocally anti PC, was not a fan of feminism and dropped slurs pretty liberally. They stopped uploading videos just a few months before Trump won. He was yet another free speech liberal guy who switched up and became a huge faggot after Trump was elected. What is interesting to me is unlike 90% of the "woke" guys who used to say slurs he to my knowledge never apologized for it.
Tbf, back then recording software wasn't as ubiquitous and simple to use, plus streaming itself wasn't as common. And it was probably easier to use long plays for good footage rather than hope your recording came out well, especially for games that take dozens of hours to finish.
He was a professional content creator whose job involved doing screen capture of console games, PC games, VHS, and so on. Clearly he had the ability to do this with the various screen capture he was doing without needing to get footage from elsewhere. This is a lame excuse.
The fact that he moved to California around that same time presumably also played a role.
I don't know your age, but even just keeping all the data back then would have been a pain in the ass, not to mention that a lot of those old games really didn't play nice with screen capturing software. I recommend watching Accursed Farms videos (the Stop Killing Games guy) where plenty of games has him tackle bizarre glitches and crashes due to the recording software.
He eventually did after he realized it was easier than making videos, but the tech was still not there. I do recommend some of his long plays, especially the SWAT 4 ones.
