Thread 717943956

Other than pic related, GamingBrit, and Running Shine, are there any other /v/ approved vidya reviewers?

Guru Larry

>>717944001
>HELLO YOU

>>717943956 (OP)
Yeah, like I'll share decent folk in this place ;dd

>>717943956 (OP)
Who?


(I implied I'm too cool to know who you referenced, lol thanks I know I'm very epic)

Hands down one of the most based youtubers.

>>717944149
Holy based

Electric Underground

youtube.com/@PtolemySL
youtube.com/@LordFrogmire
SyntheticChud
youtube.com/@ErickLandonRPG
youtube.com/@HikikomoriMedia

>>717943956 (OP)
uhh nortubel

>>717944236
These are all your channels aren't they

I think Resonant Arch are pretty good. Two mature normie chads talking about games:
https://www.youtube.com/@ResonantArc

>>717944373
no just the channels that are not confirmed shills that are passionate about the topics they cover

>>717944431
>normie chads
Hate them

>>717944651
you hate normie chads in general or you hate resonant arch? Because those 2 guys are quite harmless.

>>717944764
Hate em all

Jg

>>717943956 (OP)
TB

>>717944001
didn't this guy put gamecube discs on his ass? someone post the super monkey ball pic

>>717943956 (OP)
tehsnakerer

>>717943956 (OP)
the only internet vidya dude who doesn't annoy the hell out of me is this aussie retro game streamer called macaw45. he is a funny dude and plays weird shmups and dos games and obscure japanese hentai games and stuff

>>717945786
Porn is not a personality

>>717945702
I enjoyed his Brigand Oaxaca video.
>>717945786
Macaw is based, I wouldn't call him a reviewer though. I hope he replays Osman again sometime.

>>717945786
oh yeah I know him. I used to watch him years ago. He used to play random literal who shit from the 90s when I watched him

>>717944431
Their stuff is good but extremely drawn out
The argument they would use against this is “the games are 40+ hours, therefore our analyses can be longer”

>>717943956 (OP)
Why would I want anything to be /v/ approved?

>>717946061
Because we're your friends

He's a pretty comfy reviewer and keeps political shit out of his videos 99% of the time. He got filtered by Brandish though.

>>717943956 (OP)
SsethTzeentach
>>717944207
only people with bad taste

>>717945948
Yes I mentioned that to them before about their xenogears series. It was like 20 videos long or something.

>>717943956 (OP)
Joseph Anderson and Yahtzee.

>>717943956 (OP)
>Other than pic related, GamingBrit, and Running Shine
Fuck these faggots the only approved e-celeb is TEU

>>717946942
/v/'s very own PirateSoftware

GmanLives

>>717943956 (OP)
Video games, faggot, VIDEO GAMES!

>>717943956 (OP)
Here are some gaming channels that I enjoy watching

https://www.youtube.com/@SeanSeanson
Mostly talks about PS1 games and sometimes Dreamcast
My favorite videos of his are making lists of recent fantranslation of the said consoles, and also going through companies' history with the PS1

https://www.youtube.com/@Gamingpastime64
Run by few guys who review older games and occasional indie games, and also write blogs about them on their site
I do like how actually go through entire series one by one, like how they went through all of Splinter Cell and Hitman

https://www.youtube.com/@campxbox
Talks about all kinds of Xbox games, consoles and their history, although he mostly talks about OG Xbox

https://www.youtube.com/@SegaLordX
Mostly talks about Sega stuff, be it their older games, certain console ports or the consoles

https://www.youtube.com/@SNESdrunk
Despite the name, he talks about all kinds of retro games, even Sega games like Gunstar Heroes
Definitely worth watching if you're looking for an old game to emulate

>>717948292
Thanks for the bump, retard

>>717943956 (OP)
>GamingBrit
lmao, that guy is a total embarassement, has no idea about the games he plays and was caught red handed shilling here because he didn't log out from his channel so his screenshot had uploader only ui features lmao
The only /v/ approved reviewers were
Matthewatosis
MrBTongue
billyplaysgames

I like the Electric Undeground, but he can not be /v/ approved anymore (no one can) as this shithole of a board doesn't have a culture anymore and as such is stuck in a, 2012 and older, limbo as everyone is free to post about whatever idiotic bullshit they want because noone is told to lurk more. And for the few idiots that like me that still can't go, there is a rare thread in which we reminisce about old times.
After years of tolerating this invasion of newfags, the invaders took over and destroyed what this place used to be about.
So even if you tell someone to lurk more nowadays, they would only find porn threads and either ragebait or actual redditors and twitter users who got banned and come here to vent, bringing their shameful behaviour here.

>>717946942
Do you think his wife is hot? He's so handsome and intelligent. Once in a lifetime thinker.

For me? Gotta be the greatest longplay of putt putt balloon game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4jUiQcrCYc

>>717948923
Click this and you have to provide your ID to yt if you are an amerimitt or a britbong

>>717946174
Ha

>>717943956 (OP)
Pull up a big name AAA game on opencritic.
Scroll to the bottom where all the 6/10 reviews are.
Those are the ones you should be paying attention to.

>>717948661
nigga wat

>>717943956 (OP)
None, they’re all the same.

>>717949719
>>717943956 (OP)
*As for youtubers, none are worth listening to now that matosis stopped reviewing....

Tim Rogers has some outstanding insights now and then, but his 6 hour long videos only contain about 5 minutes of actual game discussion.

>>717943956 (OP)
RockCock64 and BroTeamPill

>>717943956 (OP)
nerrel mogs all of them

>>717943956 (OP)
Sseth, Mandalore and Ross. Who the fuck are GamingBrit and Running Shine

>>717943956 (OP)
DoshDoshington
MandaloreGaming

Majuular
>but the he said the name trans rights he said persons of lordly caliber he said
Don't care

People really forgot about his game Logic Bombs already, huh?

>>717951473
It's a minimalist puzzle game that can literally run on a gameboy, regardless of quality there's not a whole lot to discuss there

>>717943956 (OP)
These are some of the guys I like

Casp: reviews jrpgs and sometimes does items only challenges for jrpgs.
https://youtu.be/8zzJh4_SATc

VonGalactic: plays dwarf fort and makes story videos about it.
https://youtu.be/o2OQS9tf5sg

Earlybird: plays weird old games and shows them off.
https://youtu.be/qT_H0ru2lqA

Dungeon Chill: also plays weird old games and shows them off, but a lot of them are japanese.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHdrc0E1CtY

Boklahoma: comfy grandpa who plays wow and MnB, he obviously loves what hes talking about which makes his videos very endearing.
https://youtu.be/cB3xbNRU1y8

Also Tamers12345 is still the best youtuber period.

>>717951473
I'm still playing it, got five puzzles left on the bottom row to solve. Hard to talk about with people though, not just because any thread about it gets bombarded with accusations of shilling but because all the fun is from figuring it out yourself. What are you going to say to someone that isn't spoiling that fun, "I liked the part where I put the right number of walls down"?

>>717943956 (OP)
>>717951304
Seconding DoshDoshington. I really enjoy his reviews, although they're not really his main content.
Face Full of Eyes also makes great and unique gaming videos.

>>717944149
if you don't know who he referenced, how do know it makes you cool to not know is them?

I watched a lot of MitchManix lately and I think the games he's covering are pretty entertaining

>>717951304
>>717951707
I watched Dosh's videos on La-Mulana and Tower Climb. Any other good ones?

>>717951745
Because I'm implying whoever they mentioned must be beneath me in some way because I'm too cool to care or pay attention.

>>717945632
It was one of the top ten games he put there

>>717944160
i liked his long TES videos but the starfield one was so boring. hopefully the fallout one is good

>>717949872
>British youtuber
>Not hating on Japan
Every single British youtuber hates Japan except for the one or two games they played as a kid and SOMETIMES Nintendo cause they don't count!!

>>717948735
I was surprised to learn he was married when he randomly said so in a video. He comes across as such a major incel nerd in his vibes despite him looking quite normal otherwise. But I guess since he looks normie enough it was able to land him female success.

Threads like these always confirm to me that despite over-compensating cynicism and contrarianism, /v/ is not actually more intelligent than reddit.

>>717943956 (OP)
I like Whitelight, some of Never Knows Best videos, Raycevik and Supper Bunny Hop.


Shammy used to be cool.

>>717943956 (OP)
I'd list some of my favorite youtubers but /v/ just hates everything.

I like Josh Strife Plays channel

>>717956095
1. He couldn't keep his mouth shut about politics and comes across as an idiot
2. He played NWN, willingly skipped party members, played a mage, and then proceeded to spend the entire game whining about it. His justification for skipping party members is "I'd get less XP!"
He basically did a self imposed challenge run and then blamed the game for it. It is like playing Mega Man and then never using anything but the default buster and complaining.

>>717956290
I honestly do not care. The way he does his videos is entertaining enough for me.

>>717957089
I think he is okay, but it is a serious mark against his intelligence.

>>717943956 (OP)
gamingbrit is a faggot

>>717948661
Isn't Btongue ancient and dead? Didn't he release a video decrying gamergate and then flatline?

>>717957198
Wasn't he very outspoken in favor of stop killing games before most others were willing to defend Ross? Seems pretty based to me.

>>717943956 (OP)
I like civvie

>>717943956 (OP)
I really liked Shammy before [THE INCIDENT]. It's a shame he went utterly insane, some faggoty english major with decent writing chops was good for a giggle.

>>717943956 (OP)
I know he mostly reviews anime, but BestGuyEver is a fucking legend.

Electric Underground

>>717944207
I've watched Ragebound and Final Fight videos, and those scripts are are so tortured. The general observations are easy enough to entertain, but they can't pinpoint an insight to save their life. Some weird-ass term has to be invented to tie together overpowered pogo and and an easy aerial recovery, when you could just quickly list faults and incongruences for each mechanic, and note their cumulative effect. Tons of repetition and waffling.
Matthewmatosis pins the frog to the table, neatly dissects the body, and shows how each organ works and fits in. These guys smash it with a mallet and pick through bones for a sign from the spirits.

>>717955657
i remember him putting a simpsons dvd on his ass too? what the fuck is wrong with that guy?

>>717943956 (OP)
>Running Shine
His comments on the Yiik video about UI actually helped me during the development of my first video game.
It's crazy to think that video came out 5 years ago.

>>717958926
He's got DVDs up his ass, for starters.

>>717943956 (OP)
MathewMattosis is the only youtube essayfag I had an ounce of respect for, and GamingBrit isn't remotely on his level. I don't even know who Running Shine is.

>>717943956 (OP)
Majuular doesn't really do reviews, but his stuff is peak comfy and he really brings you into even the most simplistic games as though they're real adventures.

>>717943956 (OP)
>GamingBrit
He's a piece of shit who shills his own channel nonstop and has abhorrent dogshit opinions
>MM
Should kill himself.

>>717959818
I don't even consider Matt an essayist as all his review videos but one (excluding the commentaries which are really just LPs) are under an hour and actually have a good flow throughout them. Essayfags use chapters and a excessive runtime because there's no natural flow to their ideas and they harp on the same points repeatedly to run more ads

>>717949872
>stagnant game design
Why put something good as a 'bad thing'?
Change is usually for the worse, and in game design especially so.

>>717956290
>play a mage build in a Dungeons and Dragons game
>this is somehow a bad thing
If your CRPG can't adequately simulate why its fun to be a wizard/cleric/sorcerer on tabletop, then you fucked up and your game is dogshit.

>>717945896
>Brigand Oaxaca
Basado
I should watch that video because the game filtered me with its jankiness

>>717960508
>Play a mage
>DO NOT TAKE ANY PARTY MEMBERS AND GO OUT OF YOUR WAY TO AVOID USING SUMMONS/FAMILIARS SO YOUR SQUISHY ASS DIES
>Complain
>This is the game's fault
You did not read my post. It is a self imposed challenge run on a first playthrough and he is judging the game based on that.

>>717959818
RunningShine tries very hard to be RedLetterMedia but for games. His review style is almost exactly like the Prequel Plinkett reviews. He is funny though, and his YIIK review is pretty legendary. He hasn't posted in 2 years cause he graduated college and I think got a real job.

>reviews every US Sega Saturn game
>reviews are actually quadruple length documentaries with members of the original development team involved from actresses that appear in it, to the original programmers, to peter molyneux, to the entire Virtua Cop Saturn development team all at once
>highly skilled at the games he plays
>uploads once a year

>>717960712
He's never going to get through the entire library but he's pretty based.

The Sega Rally video was fantastic. The deep dive into 90s Japanese game dev practices just highlights how much of a golden era that was.

>>717960712
>>717960932
Fine, link one his videos. You've successfully shilled me.

>>717944149
can a post be so fucking reddit it loops back to being 4chan?

I only watch justbackgroundnoise and legendoftotalwar

>>717958848
His video on Ragebound was fine and thoughtful, I don't understand why you are so pissy. He invented a term to help explain himself, what's the fucking issue.

>>717960992
Just watch the Sega Rally video, it's his best work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CEdmZ5P0jA

If you want something way shorter, his video on Theme Park is a pretty good deep dive about a game/era of game development people hardly remember:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7LeegLJee0

>>717961172
I'll check it out, I don't mind some 5 hour long autism. It will take some getting used to when it comes to sega shills though. Normally people are shilling nintendo.

>>717960992
I'm partial to the NBA Jam TE one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcwjgnaQXXU

>>717961439
Sega people have a much more grounded perspective and are less whimsical. There's a sense of fatalism when you know the lineage of consoles ends in 2002.

>>717961439
I wouldn't even call him a Sega shill, he's just a retro game dude and Saturn fan. I doubt he's so retarded of a fanboy he hates the PS1 or something

>eceleb thread
Enjoy your 3days vacation
You fucking pathetic thirdworlder beanerbrown.
Fucko

>>717962443
>wannabe janny
Gayest man in the thread.

>>717961151
The issue is that the term is redundant and vague. It doesn't clarify a thing.
Streamlining mechanics and sanding down any potential frustration points results in losing the mechanical identity of the series, which this game is supposed to invoke. Some notions of what is good design in terms of control and recovery are treated as axioms, instead of considering their fitness for specific game, resulting in homogeneous action platformers. A dominant mechanic trivializes challenges and makes other moves redundant. Tell me if I missed anything.

Again, the observations are totally fine, but there is no novel through-line to warrant a special term.

>>717958848
>Matthewmatosis pins the frog to the table
No, Matthew tosses it into a blender and starts finger painting with the resulting paste.

He's SUCH a retard.

>>717953916
His video on Marrow is pretty good at going into how sadistic the game is. I banged my head against the game for hours before giving up on it and boy I didn't even scratch the surface.

>>717956095
I watched his King's Field videos and he was repeatedly wrong about the things he claimed in them.

>>717963598
>causes the mick to have a melty
He couldn't even provide fair criticism of the fucking Ironclad Soldiers.


He -actually- thought he could just say
>They're bad and it's unfair they have a move that counters backstab fishing
And not come off as the KING of retard pseuds.

>causes the mick to have a melty
He couldn't even provide fair criticism of the fucking Ironclad Soldiers.


He -actually- thought he could just say
>They're bad and it's unfair they have a move that counters backstab fishing
And not come off as the KING of retard pseuds.

>>717963816
If you're going to complain about the video you should at least get your facts straight. He was criticizing the fact that they have stupid tracking on their attacks to the point that they spin around on the spot like many DS2 enemies, and that it was especially egregious BECAUSE they already had an attack for countering backstabs.

>>717963956
>He was criticizing the fact that they have stupid tracking on their attacks to the point that they spin around on the spot like many DS2 enemie
Retarded knitpick for and from a faggot as if Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 2 enemies don't do similar things. He's a pseud with EXTREMELY low skill but an massively overinflated retard ego. His Dark Souls 2 video is OBSCENELY retarded.

Your defense of it makes literally zero difference.

>I hate getting my backstabs countered
is no better or worse than
>I'm a retard who holds everything Dark Souls 2 falls short on against it while ignoring everything DeS and DaS fell short on

Pick one. They're both massively harmful to his arguments or credibility.

Amazes me how quickly /v/ turned on Potatonigger when he was THE /ourguy/. All because he didn't cover more Fromdrone slop. Goes to show how fickle /v/ as an audience is.

>>717964129
No, I've always despised him and so has most of the people here who aren't lobotomites.

/v/ only ever liked him because he helped low skill dogshit slurping retard niggers feel better about themselves when they got filtered by Dark Souls 2.

>>717964129
The change in heart over The Electric Underground was even funnier because he criticized modern Nintendo.

Good to see that DS2fags are still as mentally ill as ever.

>>717964193
No one on here even knew who Mork was until his Gook Blade vid was spammed here.

>>717964186
>DS2 nigger
Of course

>>717964629
>lowskill dogshit slurping retard who got drawn in by a fuckin' accent and is actually somehow DUMBER than that fucking potatonigger is
of course

>>717964059
Demon's Souls and Dark Souls both accomplished what they set out to do in immersing yourself into an interesting and hostile world. DS2 only cares about shoving content down your throat because the retards that made it think people only care fighting enemies and bosses. It's quantity over quality.

>>717965012
Not a valid defense of Niggosis. His claims and arguments are downright dishonest retarded trash. You can have that judgement of DaS2. Doesn't matter because that's not how he approached it. He approached it with a bunch of dogshit, halfbaked pseudointellectual drivel that amounted to nothing but selective memory and bitch tears from a scrub who needs to git gud.

btw he likes Dark Souls 2, he said so many times in the video.

>Twitter meme.jpg
DS2niggers keep revealing their shit tastes.

>>717962443
avatarfags don't get banned, what makes you think mods give a shit lmao

>>717965309
Great counter argument you fucking addlepate faggot.

>>717963167
And yet, nothing he did invalidated any of his observations whatsoever, but rather infact reinforced them. So I ask, again, what the fuck is the problem?
You are coming up with retarded arbitrary rules.

>>717944160
This dude is a fucking retard. I made the mistake of listening to some of his Oblivion video and it is LITERALLY just telling you the stories of the factions and some opinions at the end. He has nothing interesting to say at all about anything.

Fonald 3D recently did a good video on Morrowind's art:
https://youtu.be/jhuuKuc28SY?si=cOZ4KZFfAgUwAgiU

His argument against uprezzing old games is also something I think about a lot:
https://youtu.be/jjjlteKX_Uc?si=rHlp1O4ssaNGcvHm

I don't really agree with him unfavorably comparing Unreal 1 to Halo 1 but its a well written video regardless:
https://youtu.be/ZJzJaBM9QRY?si=3hJwu-V9am9drsoy

Honestly shocked he still has such low sub numbers because of how high quality the videos are. I know he lurks /vr/

>>717944160
The literal definition of slop. Pure slop for attention deficit midwits. Second screen slop. Nobody is going to sit down and actually watch this slop with thought, because there is nothing of value in these videos.

>>717963167
It's just giving a focal point for the average drooling youtube viewer to attach to so that he can make it clear that this is his main point of contention. The term itself is meaningless.

when's the last time matthew's been here if you had to guess?

>>717965747
>but rather infact reinforced them.
bold claim, substantiate. I've summarized his insights using plain language that's been used across the web to analyze games for years. Soulja Boy could get the point across in half the words. Now tell me how his new term draws new useful connections or distinctions. We both know you ain't typing out this nonsense outside of e-celeb discussions.
>>717966331
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0qmkQGqpM8
focal my ass, it's muddled waffling

>>717964059
>Retarded knitpick for and from a faggot as if Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 2 enemies don't do similar things.
They don't and that's exactly why everyone shat on DaS2 for it, you retarded cocksucker.

>>717966867
They absolutely do. You're a fucking retard. Even Nightreign has enemies doing ugly little sliding pivots to help them target you.

The complaint is either:
>It should have an animation
Which is cringe nonsense for children

OR

The complaint is:
>I should be able to utterly break most enemy movesets by strafing
Which was a massive legitimate criticism of Dark Souls 1 and Demon's Souls.


Noi matter how you slice that fucking potatonigger's arguments, he comes up looking like a fucking retard.

>>717967028
>They absolutely do. You're a fucking retard.
>I should be able to utterly break most enemy movesets by strafing
>Which was a massive legitimate criticism of Dark Souls 1 and Demon's Souls.
Make up your mind, retard.
>Even Nightreign has enemies doing ugly little sliding pivots to help them target you.
Yeah of course it does, because that came long after they stopped knowing what the fuck they were doing.

>>717967028
There's nothing inherently bad about sliding pivots if you can easily tank/outrange/dodge the enemy. The issue isn't that pivots exist - cause they were in ds2 too - it's that pivots and every other possible "gotcha" thing come in one package, making every enemy only i-frameable. There should be variety in approaches, not just one universal required solution. There should be a guy that charges and can be strafed and hit in the back, and there should be a guy that hedgehogs and needs to be space baited, they shouldn't both be the same enemy.

>>717967319
>Make up your mind, retard.
Kill yourself illiterate ESL waste of space
>Yeah of course it does, because that came long after they stopped knowing what the fuck they were doing.
No, it's because we're still decades away from procedural animation systems adequate for creating those kinds of animations and they're the only answer to the problem because you need a flexible system that can generate custom solutions to varied circumstances.

>GamingBrit
he's a tranny-fucker

combat overview

>>717943956 (OP)
There's no one quite like Matt. He is pretty much the only one who talks game design while trying to get in the shoes of the developers.
Most other "video game essayists" are full of themselves and think their shit opinions are gospel, but the only thing they ever do is story summaries for bloated 3+ hour videos.

>>717949872
that image probably applies to like three channels

>>717943956 (OP)
There are non kill yourselves you fucking losers. Fucking internet men addicted losers your whole lives revolve around internet men.
Fucking die already.

>>717967538
>No, it's because we're still decades away from procedural animation systems adequate for creating those kinds of animations and they're the only answer to the problem because you need a flexible system that can generate custom solutions to varied circumstances.
Or you can just make competent enemy design like they did in DeS and DaS1 instead of trying to make everything le epic marketing hard to own the player.

>>717951456
didn't know that, thanks! will unsub right now.

>>717965923
This guy is good. Ive been watching him since the Deus Ex guide and it's funny to see how much his content has changed. His stuff has really shifted away from goofy lighthearted stuff and into proper analysis but I like that he doesn't take himself too seriously. Was glad to see his last video take off but he should have a more consistent upload schedule.
Still cannot figure out whether he's an ausfag or britbong desu.

>>717967694
>Or you can just make competent enemy design like they did in DeS and DaS1
Those games both have shittons of slidey pivoting animations in them anon and the times they had less, the game's challenge and immersion suffered due to the absolute destruction of challenge and realism when circlestrafing ruins an enemy's moveset and the threat it poses by extension.

All 3D games do because we don't have computational power or the patience and need to waste dev time and hardware resources trying to make immersive footwork for digital swordsmen. Someday, it will be as easy to have in a game as the inverse kinematics that make characters's feet adjust to varied terrain elevations. Until then, it's a childish whiny pie in the sky faggot thing to mention. Matt is a retarded fucking faggot and you're SO much worse than him for being a fan. At least he's a successful content creator. You're just a retard who buys into pseudointellectual diarrhea.

Anyone play his game? It's so pretentious.

>>717963816
I love these guys. One of my favorite souls enemies. They way they fall backwards is hilarious.

>>717967653
The irony of your post is completely lost on you

>>717967994
Say where I'm wrong instead of doing low-effort passive aggressive posting.

>>717967898
>Those games both have shittons of slidey pivoting animations in them
Where?
> and the times they had less, the game's challenge and immersion suffered due to the absolute destruction of challenge and realism when circlestrafing ruins an enemy's moveset and the threat it poses by extension.
As opposed to immersion being broken by enemies sliding around on the spot with idiotic tracking, which is worse, and the difficulty created by it is not interesting or fun.
>All 3D games do because we don't have computational power or the patience and need to waste dev time and hardware resources trying to make immersive footwork for digital swordsmen.
refer to >>717967694

>>717968240
>Where?
Every enemy that has freedom of movement and can be faced in a flat plane.
>As opposed to immersion being broken by enemies sliding around on the spot with idiotic tracking, which is worse,
It's not worse, you're a weak fragile faggot who'd rather blame the game than adapt and overcome.

>>717967898
>all 3d games do it
You know that Dark Souls became popular in the first place because UNLIKE every single other 3d game it's hitboxes and animations actually made sense? And then they removed all that brilliance and became like those other inferior games. That Lords Of The Fallen 1 was hated precisely because of pivots?

>>717968393
No, it was popular because it was oblique and challenging during peak casualization and degeneration of games. That's why DeS took off and DaS was just DeS but on Xbox too.

Fuck all the way off anon, you're wrong.

>>717968373
>Every enemy that has freedom of movement and can be faced in a flat plane.
Such as?
>It's not worse, you're a weak fragile faggot who'd rather blame the game than adapt and overcome.
Adapt by pressing the roll button at the right time for every enemy in the entire game?

>>717968498
>Such as?
I'm not playing your faggot game. You know as well as I do that enemies were able to shift themselves mid animation to some degree in many cases.
>Adapt by pressing the roll button at the right time for every enemy in the entire game?
Yes? Imagine being mad that the game's mechanics ask you to engage with them.

>>717968491
Bro literally half the playerbase joined in later cause it was TOUGHT BUT FAIR, and the main argument of that fairness was that enemies had complete animation lock.

And that peak casualisation is just good design to this day, the real issue being not that they were easy, but that they didnt' have any depth to them, as ps3 just couldn't handle anything that isn't a corridor.

If they had stuff like Tears of the Kingdom nobody would complain about their difficulty. A hard movie game is still a movie game, an easy sandbox is still the best selling video game ever created.

>>717968619
>Bro literally half the playerbase joined in later cause it was TOUGHT BUT FAIR
Enemies not allowing themselves to get buttwrangled by backstabs isn't unfair you pathetic fucking scrub

I could read more of your post but this first bit was so bad I don't think I can be fair to the rest of it. Kill yourself.

>>717943956 (OP)
I like civvie

He can be a whiny left sometimes but I forgive it as long as he talks about old vidya games

Actually my issue with ds3 onward is by tightening the bolts and making less builds viable, and with PCR essentially not allowing you to make a single free off script move they became much more like a movie games and less sandboxy. Sure you can go anywhere, but when it matters there's only one singular way to fight, and at that point it's just loops back to the lame OOT Zelda "shoot the eye weak point" design

>>717949872
pic only describes the good ones.

>>717956019
I used to like Never Knows Best but lately his videos have been bad. The one where he defends Starfield by comparing it to the works of Franz Kafka is awful.

>>717968551
>can't name a single example
>thinks an entire game should consist of exactly one problem with exactly one solution
This is the prime DaS2 fag

>>717969405
improved tracking and backstab punishes are the opposite of option removal. They're an attempt to balance out dominant strats.

>>717943956 (OP)
You will now rewatch his videos and realize at best he's making incredibly basic analysis

>>717970197
Basic AND deeply flawed.

>>717970197
I rewatch his tetris and sm64 vids every now and then and they are the best for those games

>>717965923
>I know he lurks /vr/
He used to post here. That's how I found out about him.

>>717943956 (OP)
Electric Underground

>>717964193
This is worded like a gotcha as if his Nintendo video isn't a great distilment of how clueless he reveals himself to be any time he starts venturing outside of his shmup comfort zone

>>717957569
Seconding Civvie

>>717961172
geez where does he source all that obscure supplemental material from?

>>717943956 (OP)
Nitro Rad

>>717943956 (OP)
Who is that
No seriously idk and Im curious

>>717967028
>Even Nightreign has enemies doing ugly little sliding pivots to help them target you.
>>I should be able to utterly break most enemy movesets by strafing
>Which was a massive legitimate criticism of Dark Souls 1 and Demon's Souls
Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 fixed that without resorting to bullshit tracking

>>717958848
Matthew is eternally BTFO'd for not taking a stance against rollslop and embracing Kingsfield and Shadow tower. They have literally everything he wants a didn't get from rollslop. Shadow tower is anti rollslop, its a thinking mans Fromsoft adventure. Why didn't he cover these? Fucking Kula world gets more attention than Fromsofts magnum opus anti rollslop games Kingsfield 4 and Shadow tower. He will NEVER live this down

>>717975871
No they didn't lol. They have the literal same thing, just with more 180 degree flailing spam attacks that don't even need to pivot to threaten a strafer.

Anybody who takes Matt seriously is a weak, ugly little retard who wants excuses for his shortcomings.

>>717943956 (OP)
Thorhighheels

>>717960408
>Change is usually for the worse
First time reading something here that made me actually laugh out loud in a while. Only someone either under age 18 or with the maturity of someone under age 18 could write this unironically. Thank you for the laugh anon I almost actually thought it was serious as well.

>>717964059
Jesus you wrote so many words to such a simple response. You spend all day looking for things to debate about, don't you?

>>717943956 (OP)
Would he have liked Lies of P?

I like avalanche reviews

>>717976186
>No they didn't lol. They have the literal same thing, just with more 180 degree flailing spam attacks that don't even need to pivot to threaten a strafer.
Wrong

>>717965161
speak like a normal human and stop sperging out over internet commentators who you disagree with, this cant be healthy
you can think he's a retard or whatever but the initial argument you attacked is obviously true. DaS2 mobs commonly have very drastic tracking, which is untrue to the games before it, and an overall weird decision in some cases like the turtle that doesn't even need it given it's counter for if it gets behind you.

>>717976597
I'm the prime DaS2fag:>>717969405

Literally been fighting this battle since it released on console [30 days before PC]. Dark Souls 2 is incredibly fun and more replayable and fun than Dark Souls 1. The haters are secondary/pseud retards who had fartsniffing retard reasons for thinking Dark Souls 1 or Demon's Souls were good.

Dark Souls 2 is the best Dark Souls.

>>717967919
Is your screenshot supposed to be an example of that?

>>717961736
>Sega people have a much more grounded perspective and are less whimsical. There's a sense of fatalism when you know the lineage of consoles ends in 2002.
Funny, but a fair assessment. My favourite games journalist in my language is a Sega fan.

>>717976765
>shows a clip where a straight rush turns into a near U-Turn
LOL
O
LMAO

>>717976771
>speak like a normal human
Earn it. Your tone and level of language is worthy of effort and reciprocity. His wasn't.
> DaS2 mobs commonly have very drastic tracking
Yes and selective memory cattle who're insecure about losing some fictional fake video game money after dying in a videogame are forgetting that Dark Souls 1 is incredibly incredibly undermined by how powerful backstabs and circlestafing is in that game. It literally contorted the PvP into a meme and actually -really- undermines the entire game's challenge and difficulty curve. IF you're good at backstabs and parries, Dark Souls 1 is a fucking -joke-. The devs were insecure about this obvious design flaw and chose to address it.

>>717976796
Caping this hard for any game for that long of a period of a time is definitely mental illness. I'm going to assume you're disabled IRL and spend your entire day online because that's probably the most charitable way to understand your behavior.

my man mork

>>717976796
>Literally been fighting this battle since it released on console
Lol, you have completely failed then. Most people go straight from 1 to 3 or start right at 3

>>717977076
Nope. I'm right and you're wrong. It's that simple. I enjoy smashing people who're obviously wrong, I do it for fun, and to vent negative vibrations. Dark Souls 2 is less linear, has better build variety, balance and breadth, more interesting covenants, better bosses [Dark Souls 1 is actually very lacking in fun challenging bosses, a lot like Demon's Souls]

There's no cope involved. Dark Souls 2 is a great game and pseuds and secondaries choose to blame it instead instead of introspecting or gittin' gud

>>717976971
>Shows a clip where enemies have limited turn rate
Exactly

>>717977264
Anon, it did an unrealistic videogamey thing to try and punish the strafe. Literally exactly like Matt complained about.

You're stupid. And bad at games.

>>717976971
>Dark Souls 1 is incredibly incredibly undermined by how powerful backstabs and circlestafing is in that game.
Which is solved with competent enemy design that can space the player, not by turning tracking to 3 billions

>>717976971
>Your tone and level of language is worthy of effort and reciprocity.
this is what im talking about when i say speak normal, it's not just your language, it's the way that you type like you're actually wearing a fedora right now.
>and selective memory cattle who're insecure about losing some fictional fake
this, again, is what i mean, christ. you must've watched a lot of leafyishere as a child or something.
anyways you can ignore that part in your response, in regards to your actual point
>Dark Souls 1 is incredibly incredibly undermined by how powerful backstabs and circlestafing is in that game
this is true, but Bloodborne showed an obvious way that the system can be improved. DaS3 and Elden Ring then chose to simply improve the AI so that it's hard to get behind them in the first place. you don't need to either have absolutely broken backstabbing or absolutely broken enemy attack tracking, you can actually have neither.
> IF you're good at backstabs and parries, Dark Souls 1 is a fucking -joke
that's a big IF, a lot of games are a "fucking joke" if you're skilled at them, that's obviously the point. if that wasn't a big IF, the game would be more accessible, but DaS1 is one of the least accessible still.

>>717977243
wait holy shit is this a chatgpt bot post? LOL oh man fuck

>>717977350
>this is what im talking about when i say speak normal, it's not just your language, it's the way that you type like you're actually wearing a fedora right now.
Fedoras were larping as what I actually resemble [in some respects]
>this, again, is what i mean, christ. you must've watched a lot of leafyishere as a child or something.
Nah, I just don't respect 95% of people. I used to be arrogant and then I watched most of the people I love and respect submit to segregationism and medicial experimentation. Most people are amoral trash garbage who deserve to die lonely and in pain.
>that's a big IF, a lot of games are a "fucking joke" if you're skilled at them,
Dark Souls parries are not particularly hard even by 2009 casualslop standards. Neither is strafing while holding a shield up until the enemy shows you his doughnut hole.

>>717977307
>Anon, it did an unrealistic videogamey thing to try and punish the strafe.
No it didn't, no matter how much you try and spin it, tracking is only limited to what the animation logically allows, unlike Dark Souls 2 where enemies slide on their feet to compensate weak game design

>>717977758
your schizoposting aside, you simply didn't reply to the most relevant section of my post, so i'll post it again.
>Dark Souls 1 is incredibly incredibly undermined by how powerful backstabs and circlestafing is in that game
this is true, but Bloodborne showed an obvious way that the system can be improved. DaS3 and Elden Ring then chose to simply improve the AI so that it's hard to get behind them in the first place. you don't need to either have absolutely broken backstabbing or absolutely broken enemy attack tracking, you can actually have neither.

>>717977947
I ignored that because we're talking about dark souls 2 and contemporary critiques of it; namely the potatonigger who's avatar is in the OP.

Things from later aren't salient. Faggot.

>>717978037
how retarded are you that you can't read past the title of another game for comparison without thinking that it's unrelated?
i'll say the point without mentioning other games so that you can understand it clearly, try engaging this time! :)
you don't need to either have absolutely broken backstabbing or absolutely broken enemy attack tracking, you can actually have neither. eliminating one doesn't justify the other.

>>717978130
You aren't making relevant points. Elden Ring, DaS3 and BB don't have the ability to retroactively absolve MM's dogshit takes and critiques regarding Dark Souls 2. Which was the only point here: MM is a piece of shit retard who did unknowable damage to Dark Souls 2 discourse, and possibly even Fromsoft's internal culture as he drove a large degree of the "informed" backlash the game received.

>>717978217
>Elden Ring, DaS3 and BB
Stopped reading here, I actually didn't mention any of those games and thus will not engage in your pompous irrelevant meandering babble about them. Make a relevant point.

>>717978217
>People don't like Dark Souls 2 because of a YouTube video

>>717943956 (OP)
Does anyone actually watch the suggested channels here? also why does every matt thread devolve into ds2 shitflinging after they were btfo years before. fuck off already

>>717978513
No, they felt JUSTIFIED in their feelings because a guy with a soothing accent gave them half-baked weakshit reasons for why they're actually smart and discerning gamers for feeling that way [instead of realizing they're being babies or maybe misunderstood what the devs intended to be the most important elements of DaS1's design mindset]

>>717976471
Cute, but I am correct.
Of all the things that you like in the world, which of them do you want to change very much? Of all the things that you hate in the world, which of them do you think that change will realistically improve?
Most people would not name many things for either group.

For game design in particular, people got it all correct a long time ago.
Changing things is almost guaranteed to make it worse, which is what we see.

>>717944160
I genuinely shudder to imagine the amount of time it took for him to script, edit and voice a video whose entertainment and informative quality amounts to an AI prompt that'd take less than a line to type.

>video game reviewers
Is it 2009?

>>717968995
>he defends Starfield by comparing it to the works of Franz Kafka
Good God are you serious.

>>717943956 (OP)
Majuular suffers from the overly long videos but at least it feels like you're sitting down with your fat nerdy friend as he gushes on about whatever weird-ass game he's been dabbled in instead of some petulant University major seething that his degree is useless and he's in student debt through an overly verbose deconstruction of why Stardew Valley's Artisan perk being so unbalanced is proof that late-stage capitalism is a blight upon society.

>>717943956 (OP)
Jimmy McGee is great but he seems to have vanished. Actually, GamingBrit seems to heva vanished too...

>>717978616
I don't need some retard on youtube to tell me Dark Souls 2 enemies are poorly designed

>>717946942
Why does /v/ seethe about this guy?

>>717979326
>Actually, GamingBrit seems to heva vanished too...
I think he puts his shit on Patreon now

Matthewmatosis and The Infinite Review are the only good youtubers. I'm glad Matt is doing what he wants to but it's a shame one of the only good channels bowed out.

>>717958848
Seethe /v/ tranny

>>717943956 (OP)
Joseph Anderson

>click on video
>Hear filthy gross angloid sputtering vaguely resembling human speech
>close video
Simple as.

>>717980479
more like GamingJew amirite?

Used to enjoy GamingBrits content. It's very apparent how he fell off after DMC5. He reached his peak and couldn't find it again after. He had some good things, like the Ratchet and Clank 1 vs Remake video which is still class, and his RttRL series started out fine, but after 2020, his output really fell off. Just throwing darts at a board to see what would stick, even trying to meme review his way back in with niche ps1 horror and foreign titles that no one knows about.

Never was really good at reviewing, but he at least felt enthusiastic back then. Now everything feels tone deaf and formulaic.

The Electric Underground is the only YouTuber I tolerate. He offers a different perspective and his videos are original even if i don’t agree with him all of the time, unlike all these other fags who just repeat the same mind numbing shit.

>>717976162
Shadow Tower is total slop.
Almost every enemy in the game has a single attack with a shit animation for it. The level design is awful. The puzzles are tedious. And the weapons are uninspired.
There is zero fun to be had with Shadow Tower. It is the worst of their dungeon crawlers by far given the period and context it was made in.

>>717984951
true

>>717984734
I wish he'd kept up the Back From The Dead series, his Overblood vids are hysterical.

>>717984951
I liked Abyss. Haven't played the first one though.

>>717987132
Abyss is fun.
Scythe girl is bangable.

>gamingbrit
KWAB

>>717984734
i feel the opposite desu
the quality of writing mixed with the nice mellow tone in most of this recent stuff is great, he's really helping to fill the void left by matthewmatosis

>>717988168
>Brownskin woo'd by inspect element
Never gets old.

>>717988578
>being this new

>>717984951
Every enemy has like 2-3 attacks, dont believe me? Try their movesets in vs. The level design and puzzles are 100% Pure undistilled Fromsoft. Its nonlinear and super easy to drop into a late game area. Acid caverns and invisible enemies are the shit I play Fromsoft games for. Weapons are understandable, too many Long swords. But the armor is great, many playthroughs in and im still finding new armor pieces.
Shadow tower is a masterpiece, Fromsofts best game and definitive proof of games as an artform.
You have monkey brain though. You think the rollslop boss doing a triple flip spinning 8 hit tracking combo is peak gaming. That shit isnt Fromsoft, its creative bankrupt self parody. Miyazaki is a total fraud ruining armored core with boost spam and their dark fantasy games with rolling. The mass audience appeal of rollslop and general hatred of some of soul's more perilous old school type areas like Blight town says more than I ever could

>>717976162
I haven't played the first one but Abyss was total garbage.