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I'm kind of worried this is going to devolve into a hate-on-the-popular -thing circle jerk. I mean, I love Holmes, he's a nice man and his thoughts on popular games are cute, but he's a hipster even if he says he isn't. But at least he's a closeted, honest-to-God, does-his-own-thing hipster; from that video, I gotta say I dislike Tim Rogers already.
ZOMG, totally rando! LOL, buy my stuff because I dispassionately talked about unrelated shit for 3 minutes and that means I'm cool. The man just seems generically indie (a term I am now coining), much like Phil Fish or Jonathan Blow. And if he tells us that Japanese games and cutscenes are bad with no explanation given, let the record show that I fucking called it.
I dunno, I hope to be proven wrong on this one, but I just have a strong feeling about this guy. He has an indie asshole aura, although that might just be the glasses.
ZOMG, totally rando! LOL, buy my stuff because I dispassionately talked about unrelated shit for 3 minutes and that means I'm cool. The man just seems generically indie (a term I am now coining), much like Phil Fish or Jonathan Blow. And if he tells us that Japanese games and cutscenes are bad with no explanation given, let the record show that I fucking called it.
I dunno, I hope to be proven wrong on this one, but I just have a strong feeling about this guy. He has an indie asshole aura, although that might just be the glasses.
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Seems like a fair review of Skyrim. Except he mentions dice rolls which the Elder Scrolls has sadly abandoned for their hit things to do stuff approach.
Seems like a fair review of Skyrim. Except he mentions dice rolls which the Elder Scrolls has sadly abandoned for their hit things to do stuff approach.
I'm not a big fan of Rogers. The articles he writes are in rare occasions enlightening, but most of the stuff is just pretentious and convoluted masturbation of his ego, be it direct or subtle and indirect.
Rogers, Hamilton, Cox and Totilo are the main reasons I prefer not to read anything in Kotaku. That and Gawker being Gawker, allowing BS like the stuff Lam and Chen pulled with the iPhone leak, while publishing the personal information of Powell.
What piques my interest out of things that he has given this world are ZiGGURAT and some insights into the social procedures in the Japanese game dev. industry and the accompanying work culture. Can't be bothered with most of the other stuff he's produced.
Rogers, Hamilton, Cox and Totilo are the main reasons I prefer not to read anything in Kotaku. That and Gawker being Gawker, allowing BS like the stuff Lam and Chen pulled with the iPhone leak, while publishing the personal information of Powell. Wonderful values.. all while sitting on that high horse and spewing nonsense about being morally consequent, pinning down people like Jaffe or - more recently - Rosenberg and Stewart on slow news days, to get them hits. Rogers, in his own way, contributes this image I've got of Kotaku and Gawker as a whole.
Sorry for putting it like that, but it's an undiluted opinion of mine - a shitty IT guy who's survived war, then lived an average life and hasn't done much else worth mentioning - though an opinion, nonetheless.
Rogers, Hamilton, Cox and Totilo are the main reasons I prefer not to read anything in Kotaku. That and Gawker being Gawker, allowing BS like the stuff Lam and Chen pulled with the iPhone leak, while publishing the personal information of Powell.
What piques my interest out of things that he has given this world are ZiGGURAT and some insights into the social procedures in the Japanese game dev. industry and the accompanying work culture. Can't be bothered with most of the other stuff he's produced.
Rogers, Hamilton, Cox and Totilo are the main reasons I prefer not to read anything in Kotaku. That and Gawker being Gawker, allowing BS like the stuff Lam and Chen pulled with the iPhone leak, while publishing the personal information of Powell. Wonderful values.. all while sitting on that high horse and spewing nonsense about being morally consequent, pinning down people like Jaffe or - more recently - Rosenberg and Stewart on slow news days, to get them hits. Rogers, in his own way, contributes this image I've got of Kotaku and Gawker as a whole.
Sorry for putting it like that, but it's an undiluted opinion of mine - a shitty IT guy who's survived war, then lived an average life and hasn't done much else worth mentioning - though an opinion, nonetheless.
Fucked up at editing my comment and viewing it before I posted, evidently, but you all get the bigger picture.
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Not familiar with this guy but he did start his own site, which then reviewed the game he co-developed and gave it a perfect score. No disclosure that I could see...just sayin'...
I will admit to having played both "The Lost Vikings" and "Spartan: Total Warrior" for no other reason than because they were on the Action Button manifesto. I was not disappointed with either game (or any of the other games on that list that I had already played). Tim Rogers is definitely in need of an editor sometimes, but the man has good taste in game mechanics.
Wow, after reading some of the "reviews" they post on Action Button.net are hilarious.
The justification behind Kane and Lynch 2 getting 3.5 stars, or Brutal Legend getting a 4 star review while something like Dungeon Defenders gets a half a star much akin to Dead Space or even worse Diablo II getting no stars it becomes apparent quickly that these kids have their nostalgia glasses either permanently glued to their face or they're so stuck up their "I'm so indie, if normal people like it, it can't be cool" bullshit that I audibly laughed at every review I mentioned and even agree'd partially with some, such as the Skyrim review.
But what they do over there isn't play video games for fun, they play video games to posture.
The justification behind Kane and Lynch 2 getting 3.5 stars, or Brutal Legend getting a 4 star review while something like Dungeon Defenders gets a half a star much akin to Dead Space or even worse Diablo II getting no stars it becomes apparent quickly that these kids have their nostalgia glasses either permanently glued to their face or they're so stuck up their "I'm so indie, if normal people like it, it can't be cool" bullshit that I audibly laughed at every review I mentioned and even agree'd partially with some, such as the Skyrim review.
But what they do over there isn't play video games for fun, they play video games to posture.
@liquidprimus Well, if they really are trying to be "so indie", then you are gonna have to explain to me exactly why Tim calls Gears of War the 6th best video game of all time. And his Call of Duty 4 review, and his GTA 4 review, and his Halo 3 review, and his Crackdown review, and his Gears 2 review, and his Uncharted review.....
He also wrote a piece for Kotaku about the games he was interested in most at this years E3. These games are titles like The Last of Us, Nintendoland and Halo 4.
He also wrote a piece for Kotaku about the games he was interested in most at this years E3. These games are titles like The Last of Us, Nintendoland and Halo 4.
Tim's simply the best game journalist alive.
Tim, if you're reading this, Kotaku is a shithole, you should leave it and go over to this place. Or Penny Arcade. Or The Escapist. Or practically any place tha isn't IGN.
Tim, if you're reading this, Kotaku is a shithole, you should leave it and go over to this place. Or Penny Arcade. Or The Escapist. Or practically any place tha isn't IGN.
Whoa, that website of him is pretty bad. Difficult to read, and some way too "self-aware" reviews. Guy should try to loosen up a bit and enjoy things instead of trying to analyse everything so much.
This guy gets under my skin. Maybe it's his hilarious clothing, or maybe it's because he's so pretentiously verbose when he writes that it drives me mad.
This is a guy who wrote a 17 page (6,018 words, holy shit) article on Kotaku about why the Apple TrackPad might be the "greatest controller ever made."
And how could you fail to mention that the same (terribly designed) site that he runs gave the game he "co-developed" 4/4 stars?
He also not only reviewed Shadows of the Damned and didn't talk about the game at all, he wrote this at the bottom of it:
"Now please kindly stop asking me if I played it. I didn’t play it, no. I don’t need to play it. I lived it."
Wow. He's just sooooooooooo cool, man.
This is a guy who wrote a 17 page (6,018 words, holy shit) article on Kotaku about why the Apple TrackPad might be the "greatest controller ever made."
And how could you fail to mention that the same (terribly designed) site that he runs gave the game he "co-developed" 4/4 stars?
He also not only reviewed Shadows of the Damned and didn't talk about the game at all, he wrote this at the bottom of it:
"Now please kindly stop asking me if I played it. I didn’t play it, no. I don’t need to play it. I lived it."
Wow. He's just sooooooooooo cool, man.
How can we trust him when he says "Art games" isn't a term when all games are art, and just a week before 10mins into the episode he's using the term with Jimmy JIM.
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I actually never said anything about Tim specifically, infact it's Samuel Kite's reviews I generally have a problem with. In fact, I agree with his reviews of GTAIV, Uncharted and Bulletstorm but as you mentioned Tim gives Gears a perfect review and reviews a game like Bioshock with 2 stars even though he didn't beat it and complains about things like a "silent protaginist" when that story makes you get to the end to figure it out.
Game mechanics are great and all and they should be reviewed with the same sense and scale the narrative is (if there is one) or art direction and the like, it's shitty "journalism" when a game (i.e Gears 2) gets a flawless score even though "the characters are creatine chugging meatheads" and he even goes as far to say more Dev's should copy Gears 2 than Bioshock (oh great that's what we need). The fact that he reviews games like GTAIV and touches on character and what it means to a game yet for something like Bioshock, according to them has no character (yeah, most of it is ambient) but the fact that characters like Marcus and Cole will forever be in the front of their heads as staple video game characters yet someone like Andrew Ryan or [Spoilers] Atlas/Frank Fontaine [Spoilers] won't even be remembered by the reviewers other than being part of that shitty Bioshock game Tim repeatedly bashes in his reviews. It's that shit that makes reading reviews from that site, laughable.
I actually never said anything about Tim specifically, infact it's Samuel Kite's reviews I generally have a problem with. In fact, I agree with his reviews of GTAIV, Uncharted and Bulletstorm but as you mentioned Tim gives Gears a perfect review and reviews a game like Bioshock with 2 stars even though he didn't beat it and complains about things like a "silent protaginist" when that story makes you get to the end to figure it out.
Game mechanics are great and all and they should be reviewed with the same sense and scale the narrative is (if there is one) or art direction and the like, it's shitty "journalism" when a game (i.e Gears 2) gets a flawless score even though "the characters are creatine chugging meatheads" and he even goes as far to say more Dev's should copy Gears 2 than Bioshock (oh great that's what we need). The fact that he reviews games like GTAIV and touches on character and what it means to a game yet for something like Bioshock, according to them has no character (yeah, most of it is ambient) but the fact that characters like Marcus and Cole will forever be in the front of their heads as staple video game characters yet someone like Andrew Ryan or [Spoilers] Atlas/Frank Fontaine [Spoilers] won't even be remembered by the reviewers other than being part of that shitty Bioshock game Tim repeatedly bashes in his reviews. It's that shit that makes reading reviews from that site, laughable.
@liquidprimus Well that's exactly it! Having characters and a good atmosphere isn't going to do it for Tim, entirely; there's always that darn game part, too! When it comes to video games, Tim puts one element ahead of everything else: Level Design. That's why he appreciates Gears so much. It doesn't matter if Marcus and Dom are, as you quoted "creatine chugging meatheads", that series has always had immaculate level design and I wholeheartedly agree with him. Tim just has a much different view of video games then most people do.
@BrekkieBurrito: I don't want to be incendiary, but, "Psst, level design isn't the only thing that makes a game."
@Malachi You're right! And that's why he gave BioShock 2 out 4 stars, and not zero. Just read those final two lines in his BioShock to you; they are key to understanding a lot of where Tim is coming from.
@Burrito: I just did. I understand where he's coming from, but good Lord, his quotable at the top said, "NOT ART". That's just inflammatory. I didn't find BioShock as boring as everyone else, I guess.
@Malachi I can definitely see where his quote might come off as troll bait, but that can be said about alot of his "Bottom Line" quotes. It's just meant to be eye-catching, and a little bit of a joke.
"I didn't find BioShock as boring as everyone else, I guess." Don't worry about that. BioShock is universally praised by the gaming press and by gamers. And i'm sure Tim has felt the full force of the BioShock defense force. I mean, people hate him just for existing.
"I didn't find BioShock as boring as everyone else, I guess." Don't worry about that. BioShock is universally praised by the gaming press and by gamers. And i'm sure Tim has felt the full force of the BioShock defense force. I mean, people hate him just for existing.
@Burrito: Opinions are opinions, but for his safety, he should probably think about existing in another plane of the multiverse. Maybe he's just rough around the edges. He seems like the kind of person who would step on your sand castle-no, Jordan Devore's sand castle!
Best not to proclaim yourself as "The One and Only Tim Rogers" when there's someone else more famous with the same name.
@Malachi "but for his safety"......Really? I'm not liking the tone of that. Remember, at the end of the day...it's still just videogames.
Haven't seen anything about this guy in ages.
Take everything he says with a grain of salt, he just makes up stories for fun.
Take everything he says with a grain of salt, he just makes up stories for fun.
Why did you have to bring this cancer to Dtoid?
I know he's trying to be funny, but I don't get the joke.
I know he's trying to be funny, but I don't get the joke.
@ The Breakfast Burrito, i dont think he puts level design above all else. His review of God Hand was basically him saying how the mechanics are incredible, ignoring level design for the most part. If he did touch on level design, he would have to criticize the game. So no, i don't think he is bias towards level design. I do think he is bias though, but its probably an ignorance based on not studying enough games well enough.
where do I listen to it?
Tim writes like a motherfucker, and has some REALLY good views on gaming, I really want to see how this ended up.
Tim writes like a motherfucker, and has some REALLY good views on gaming, I really want to see how this ended up.
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