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woolly i'm going to utter a name that i'm sure you're familiar with but i'm going to probably be disappointed that my much of our audience is unfamiliar with and that name is tim rogers uh i love tim rogers dude tim ross i learned about tim rogers from you and your roommate when you explained the review scale of time to crate yes tim rogers i mean introduce it like you bring explain that time to crate is an incredibly simple review scale it's the amount of seconds after pressing start that you see a generic crate asset in the game and that's the review score it represents the moment that the people making the game gave up utterly and entirely on a creative choice when you see a goddamn crate tim rogers is uh a pretentious mad genius yes game reviewer i i fell in love with and discovered the work of tim rogers through his catamary damashi review which was probably 12 pages long back in the day of which maybe three or four paragraphs had to do with kadamari damashi and the 11 and a half pages had to do with coming to visit him at his flat in tokyo and just what what an experience that would be and what it's like and also rolling stuff up maybe sometimes and boy it's it's great it's just tim rogers has turned the seemingly unrelated non-sequitur into a legitimate art form i i it's free it's been well over a decade now and you know uh there's been different incarnations uh action button five red coins i believe um and yeah currently just at 108 on twitter i want to say what just the number 108 i want to say 108 on twitter is tim [ __ ] rogers god bless what a chance so yes are you aware of the current status of the action button youtube channel no i am not i have uh not been following so tim who uh according to his recent video has actually been doing quite unwell caught corona twice um has been putting a lot of time in i'm going to send you a screenshot of the current action button catalog tim has a patreon up and is doing monthly at least one hour long video reviews all of which are over three hours long yeah these are insanely huge okay me plague and peach saliva watched his doom review in which maybe 25 of that review has to do with doom yes still going as he waxes poetic about the creation of doom yeah how doom got created etc and then dives into stories of him at his lunch table in high school how he was a doom poser in exhaustive detail in his college years oh bless blessings it is three hours and i want to say 15 minutes long of actual content and then he's got the 50 minutes it's like i thank you this person you know the the patreon stuff um not talking about the thing legitimately one of the best videos i have ever seen on youtube wow um it so i i've been familiar on and off with tim rogers and when paige was started watching she didn't know who tim was i'm getting her i'm getting her first question was who's tim rogers and all i could say was he's this guy who's been crazy forever um and at that point in the video we got to him describing his method for reviewing doom because he wanted to review doom but how could one review doom without reviewing all of doom so he played all of doom on multiple difficulties on every single commercially released version that has ever existed hell yeah hell yeah yeah okay i see which is a lot of doom mm-hmm and uh as he he starts to describe levels in such absurd detail and you're like how did you figure this out and then he starts throwing down the scientific notation structure atlas of every second to second moment of every playthrough of his doom runs on each platform and he jesus christ timothy's so crazy this is terrible this is so crazy you're describing peak tim absolutely that's the [ __ ] man i'm getting like i haven't i haven't seen the newest stuff i have like again it's just memories of the text reviews back in the day and a couple of video things in between but i am very excited and like the the culmination of that massive amount of work of going over every version of doom that's ever existed is to actually just tell a story about him hanging out with american mcgee in tokyo yup yup sounds good sad like it is like it is hyperbolic it is nonsense it is genius it is incredible i i [ __ ] love it there's just there's just this like it's like it's so entertaining in it's like meander and pretentiousness and at the same time just i don't know like i said i remember trying yeah i was trying to pitch you on it and like uh uh yeah shmoop god pat was the only other person who was like oh yeah no i'm in there you [ __ ] read that [ __ ] that's some good [ __ ] there's no one else writing like it you know um i i don't know if like being like hunter s thompson-ish is like an intended thing or not i don't know i can't say for sure all i know is uh i [ __ ] super super very much enjoy someone in the chat asks is he self-aware though i would describe tim as almost cripplingly self-aware uh yes yes yes yeah no no and one of the reasons his stories are so bizarre is because apparently and he describes in the doom video that he suffers from a rare neurological condition which gives him a perfect eidetic memory of events uh-huh which explains why he can't help but ramble on into nonsense non-sequiturs at every opportunity like i don't know how to describe it when you're reading a review about something and then you get caught up in the journey and then like seven pages later the game comes back up and you just [ __ ] pop off like yeah yeah there it is we made it back there is a 232 to there is a 28 minute long section of this review of doom which is longer than most youtube videos that is nothing but reviewing edge magazine's review of doom okay all right so this is this is the action button doom review so he's doing one of these a month and the funniest thing is that we watched doom review first and then we immediately the night that we finished it the three of us hopped on to the ff7 remake review because he's got three out he's got an ff7 remake he's got last of us and he's got doom and he says he's got 37 more planned and there will be one a month and the ff7 remake review he describes how because the review of the remake is so complex and involves not just that new game but the old one as well it's going to be uncharacteristically long and that future versions will likely not be as long but he guarantees at least one hour reviews a month and then all three of them blast through the 180 minute mark okay okay yes i i i the doom one was written while on while sick from corona and it's three and a half hours long i mean it's kind of crazy to think about like i i don't know like the era of insertcredit.com was like so long ago but like if you it like this people nowadays people that we're talking to right now being introduced to like content from that [ __ ] yesteryear of video games like literally 15 years ago i was told by you about tim rogers i'm very i'm very happy for people to get a chance to take a crack at this because yeah games in the games in the what would you call it gaming during the the uh administration yeah right it's a [ __ ] mood man it's a moon um uh so anyway yeah there's there's something about that too by the way where you're saying like he played every version of doom on every single person on every version possible and then i'm thinking about how um adam played or rather watched every [ __ ] kimba the lion thing that he could and then that other video where the dude was like yo i [ __ ] went through everything kirby related ever and you're just like this this current trend of people on youtube killing themselves to do the most complete review hold on a second i i can get this from a primary source hey paige how much time did it take adam to go through all that kimbo oh my god just hours and hours we he and i watched it for four days straight 24 hours a day 24 hours a day kimba like i don't know he said months in the video he said months of his life yeah and that was at what was that a film festival oh my god it was all it was like oh we hung out for three weeks straight and it was 24 7 kimbap amazing amazing but like you just and you just like absolutely deteriorating your life to get the most complete statement out which is in his case at the end this is not a [ __ ] uh the line the lion king comparison is not what you think it is and this [ __ ] is it's [ __ ] you know this entire narrative uh uh uh is wildly different and crazy yeah you you finish the tim rogers review of doom when you get to the end and he's like doom's really good and it's important yeah i'm glad we had to go on this journey to understand that or or uh um i read every halo book and now i'm the master chief of loneliness yeah you know like it's like these these this this new found like just destroy your life for your craft you know well think of how much research and re-watching had to have possibly gone into like the plinket reviews right right right like just editing that together like holy [ __ ] um that last one just to give uh full credit uh bdg [ __ ] one second ah lost in the links oh god okay well brian david gilbert so yeah i i i have the utmost respect for like reviews that like take a chunk of your life bar away you know permanently um incredible incredible uh very excited for the new tim rogers joint that new heat and it says a lot about the i don't know what to call it the following the tim is amassed that action button the youtube channel is the type of youtube channel that is completely failed by the algorithm it has 26 it has 27k subs and each of those reviews tops out at about 170 despite being like four months old so 170k but his patreon is crushing it at like 12k a month because yeah people want to see that [ __ ] yeah no welcome to mega 64 on youtube having a fraction of what they should have because they were too early to the game and they [ __ ] crushed it too hard in the pre-youtube days so by the time things came back around it was like yeah people were already familiar but they were just doing it through their own website you know um i want to say same thing for fensler films as well like these things that just two should be a millionaire too big too early and it's it's criminal it's [ __ ] criminal because like yeah mega 64 is just like that should be an empire you know uh the the the timing of what they were doing and when they were doing it and everyone [ __ ] knows them they just they just didn't have that algorithm they didn't have the youtube they didn't have that spread in the way because you just have to go to their site and click their videos you know um but yes uh all of that is is great but yeah anyway so you can check our [ __ ] out um too i guess it's nowhere near as good as what we're talking about but uh that is our weeks yeah that's the week let's take a quick our sponsors lost my fatty pig dog

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Length: 16min 46sec (1006 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 21 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/OpticalJesu5]

He's like one of few games journos I even listen to and like the one journo in the west that cares about Dragon Quest.

[u/ThisManNeedsMe]

Tim Rogers is great. The long form videos may not be for everyone but I love it. The tangents to he goes on are fantastic and they all some how tie in into everything. I recommend checking out his fantastic dragon quest reviews or his Let's Mosey series where compares the English translation of FF 7 with the Japanese text.

[u/thanatos388]

Tim Roger's is pretty fantastic and has some real insightful things to say about the video games he covers and their place in the industry.

[u/ILikeWrestlingAlot]

There’s a Borges story bout a man with perfect idetic memory who cannot function by leaving his house. He can remember the imperfections in a glass to microscopic detail. He can remember the first sound his neighbour made on literally any specific day. He can remember everything so perfectly that he cannot dream and the only way he can fall asleep is by imagining the part of his town he’s never seen otherwise his brain is constantly working.

Tom Rogers reminds me of that story

[u/Rock_Carlos]

I knew about "time to crate", but I didn't know the dude was so beloved. Checked out his Death Stranding review, figured I'd check out his view on a divisive game that I happened to love. Holy shit, I cannot stand the dude. He manages to go at least 10 minutes (probably longer, I couldn't watch any more) without saying anything of any substance, repeating the same things several times.

[u/WellComeToTheMachine]

If y'all like Tim Rogers I highly recommend checking out Noah Caldwell-Gervais on YouTube. He does similar content (that being very long and in-depth reviews of games) tho definitely more focused than Tim. His writing is pretty incredible imo and more people should check him out.

For starters I really like his series retrospective on God of War, his video on the 2 Homefront Games, and his video comparing Soma to Tacoma.

[u/[deleted]]

I remember him yeaaaarrrrrsssss ago from Kotaku, writing overly verbose, incredibly pretentious articles along with his website that read almost like parody of some Polygon crap.

[u/DarkWorld97]

He changed the game with his MGS2 deep dive article. One of the few gaming industry people that I respect immensely.

[u/SoThatsPrettyBrutal]

Does Tim Rogers have anything to do with "Start to Crate"? Isn't that Old Man Murray?