It's funny, but I think it's a real thing that happens to people who have lived most of life involved with games. Resident Evil 4 was the last game I ever got frustrated at, like, I figured things out by getting good at that game. I go back to it just this year and literally feel that frustration again. Tim's cinematic intro here was a great visual representation of the "going back to a game" experience. All those coded memories coming back to make the modern day feel sort of like old times. I think there's a reason "Vaporwave" and such is so deeply tied into gaming; modern music that "feels" like the 80s, because that's the way a lot of people experience life.
@@Pensive_Scarlet Need For Speed carbon is the last game that made me so angry I wanted to play it more just to beat it. Before that it might've been Crash 2, but I also loved Crash 2 in spite of dying a billion times.
@@josuesilva9409 That made me realize, there is probably a review of a Pong re-release, sequel, or follow-up that says Pong has come a long way since Pac-Man.
Having watched the Tokimeki Memorial episode first and then watching the rest in chronological order I thoroughly enjoyed every promise that "the next one will be shorter" but none so much as this one.
Go to any video essay channel, their first few videos are typically way shorter than where they tend to level out in duration...I won't pretend to think we've hit that plateau yet. After all, he hasn't done a video about The Secret of Monkey Island yet, which by nature will have to include not only all SCUMM games, but all point and click games going both directions in time, as well as pirates, nautical fiction, and the evolution of humor.
I want Tim to succeed so much (even more than he is now). His content is so unique, and entertaining at the same time. May you create vids like this for long years to come.
Not just vids! I can't wait for him to publish one or two of the _hundreds_ of books he's already written. "Chronicles of a Tennis Monster" sounds like a fascinating read.
this was the first video from Tim I had ever watched. realizing 7 minutes in that he was STILL just listing off Pacman comparisons was the moment I knew I would love this man. coming back for another rewatch and it still brings joy to my heart
I like to imagine T̶i̶m̶ Alex Jaffe sitting alone in a vast, empty, dark library. His face illuminated by the flickering screen of the microfiche film reader, whirring away as he searches for every mention of "since Pac Man" in history.
Great to see you have good taste sphere hunter. Any hints on your next video? Also in so excited for RE8 you have the only video I watched about the subject. However I plan on going in to the game as blind as ray charles. Appreciate your work!
rewatching this epilogue where tim repeats how the tokimeki memorial review will be way shorter than the other reviews. I will never forget the sound that left my mouth when i saw the behemoth of a runtime on that review and how i swore to never trust a word tim ever said about the runtime on these videos again
Buddy, the year was 1988, and I was having the same conversation with my parents about the NES being the "Real Video Games," but I wasn't trying to replace Atari. I was trying to replace Intellivision. Intellivision's biggest feature was that it was capable of playing Atari games. I tried, like an idiot, to convince my neighbors that Intellivision was just as good as an NES. They left to go play Mario 2 at their house, while I sat alone in my parents basement. We'd move away to another state, shortly after I'd graduated 2nd grade in 1989. In November of that year, I was finally given an NES. Later that day, I called Bowser the N-word, because earlier that day, I'd heard one kid at school call another kid that word, and thought it was a good insult. I had no idea what it word meant. My mom threatened to kill me if I ever used it again. I have not.
Namco has continued its proud tradition of awesome game names in the tales of series. Phantasia, Xillia, Zestiria, Vesperia. Clearly they kept the Druaga guy around.
"I shortly fell into an introspective post-toddler obsession with Asteroids" is the sort of absurdist prose I would outright deride were it to be spoken by quite literally any other person on this entire stinking planet.
Currently kicking myself for never writing an article somewhere online saying "games have come a long way since Pac Man" so I could've been featured in this video.
It was going on so long I was beginning to think I was going to see "...as remarked upon in a thread on x-y-z message board in 1998..." or somesuch. :)
Tim, I'm 39 years old and every story you tell resonates with me deeply. Your description of feeling the significance that Pac-Man on NES would have in your life and how fleeting and wonderful that moment was for you is some of the best prose I've ever heard written about video games. I think I could listen to you drone on and on about video games and your tangentially-related lived-experiences all day. Please never stop.
Bring back the classic 70s Monday Night Football theme when you say "Welcome back to video games" Tim, it celebrates your heroic status amongst your fans.
The quote about the Atari 2600 controller at 22:05, I've been revisiting it in my mind for weeks now. "The Atari 2600 controller, that infernal stiff joystick, feels about as responsive as jabbing a chopstick into the permafrost ground of a tundra and twiddling it vainly in an attempt to manipulate the clouds overhead."
I have Misophonia as well and I use your videos on my noise cancelling headphones to cover over sounds that are triggering to me. They're not just fantastic video essays on their own, but also serve as a tool to make my life easier in several situations. Music would be too stimulating, white noise would be just as triggering to me. Your videos are PERFECT.
@@aarcade6676hearing people talk about stuff off the cuff just isn't the same as something written with intention with this level of production quality
Wow. I was on my exercise bike for an hour, and this is still going. You won the race. We appear to have grown up in similar situations. Dad was also a captain in the Army tasked to install the first IMB computer (mainframe) in the Pentagon. I remember playing Lunar Lander at WPI when I was around five. I was fascinated. I had a light pen and I was controlling the Lander!! I kept trying to Land close to the McDonald's someone programmed on the moon. This was the greatest moment of my first years on Earth. The grad students were more fascinated in my approach to the computers. It's probably not every day a child was in the lab. That day fueled something inside of me. I would grow up all around the tech. Screwdrivers were removed from my reach. I wanted to know how this stuff worked. Was there a really a tiny Pterodactyl that's forming the television picture I see? Or is that just the Flintstones? Fast forward a couple decades, and home computers were the rage. While other people were scared of using them, it was natural to me. I had already logged millions of hours on Rogue and (text) Adventure (my first time playing Atari 2600 Adventure is a whole nother story). Today, I'm surrounded by the toys I never got as a kid. From Atari to Vectrex. However, I still keep up with the new. Rocket League is my favorite current game. Thanks for this huge effort. It has pulled some great memories. I even learned some great stuff. Take care.
I swear to fucking god toenail and fingernail gore like that sets me off at an insane level. Mortal Kombat fatalities are fucking childs play compared to that shit. I hate it so much, it makes me want to jump out of a fucking window to get away.
@@Bone8380 dude, this. It creates such a violent reaction to where my toes and fingers curl and I have to push to make sure my nails are still connected. I saw that shut coming and turned my head so fast.
I'm forty-five minutes into the first ever Tim Rogers video I've ever watched I'm surprised that I haven't followed him at all before because this is literally the kind of content I would like to make some day Like. This hits me on a different level than most of the extended videos I've watched. I'm probably going to consume and reconsume all of your content (if you're reading this tim) over the next week or so, probably longer. You do good stuff, Tim Rogers. Understatement of the year right there, but it needs to be said.
@@cranktherider4302 Welcome to awesomeness! Tim is a very meticulous individual with the most thought provoking and entertaining review videos I've ever seen. Definitely check out his Kotaku videos. As mentioned the Dragon Quest XI review is amazing. I'd recommend the Red Dead Redemption 2 review as well. It had me laughing my ass off on more than one occasion. I feel so happy for you lol
Well... Pat and Woolie brought me here, and I am NOT disappointed. This is an artstic level of tangential orality, the epitome of thematic procrastination, an incredible display of how a man can have a manner of speaking so eloquent that whatever he, as our guide and narrator may be saying instantly becomes an almost personally comfortable and calming experience. Thank you, Tim Rogers. And let me inform you, as I listen to the ramblings, thoughts, analysis and, honestly, life stories/advice from what some may call a madman; but what I would call a discourse genious, that you just gained a new subscriber.
Same. I remember someone in the CastleSuperBeast chat asking: "Is he self aware?" And Pat just answered that Tim would probably say he is cripplingly self-aware. After watching the Doom review, yeah, that's pretty accurate...
Even if it's just for a few minutes at the end of a 3 hour review, I immensely appreciate someone addressing Misophonia. I am going to start using the "ASMR, but bad" description from now on.
Man the part about what your mom would rent really hit home and brought back so many memories. I remember playing stuff like Bomber Jack, Archon, Aero the Acrobat 2 (without ever having completed or even heard of 1), Winter Olympic Games and others all because she just had them waiting when my little brother and I would see her on the weekend. I didn't even know that games could be bad and never thought they really sucked until I got older and would get the ROMs to go down memory lane and hated some of them... Archon still slaps though.
That memory thing is the craziest shit I ever heard in my life. Given the sloppiness and haphazard nature of my own ADHD riddled brain, the idea of paying perfect attention to everything, whether you want to or not, is both thrilling and Cthulu level horrifying
@@michaelfetter5413 Are you saying he's lying? Or exaggerating? If it's true, seems like you'd know. Like that probably would have been tested. If it's not true, kind of a weird lie, but I guess it's possible.
@@lulairenoroub3869 You wouldn't know. Some memories are accurate and some are inaccurate. He could think he does and be mistaken, which would be not telling the truth, but not "lying" as such. You could perfectly recall one conversation because it made such an impression on you and you revisited it many times. But you can also not recall other things accurately, or a memory can be accurate initially and slowly become inaccurate as time goes on and you make small mistakes or additions in recall. There is just no known mechanism or syndrome or record of anyone having memory the way he describes. It's made up. It's probably just exaggeration to make you laugh, which is clearly in his wheelhouse. I'm not meaning any offense or slight against him, just letting you know, since you and some others seemed to believe it at face value, that it's not possible
One of things that kept me wondering when I was a kid that played Pacman 2 at the time was "What was the first Pacman? What have I lost from the first game?"
If someone never played Pac Man 1, they would never know about the tragic death of Mrs Pac Man, or how that lead Pac Jr on the path to being an anarchist war criminal. It's because of this that I always tell people they should play the series in order.
That intro was some next level stuff Tim. So nostalgic. I loved it and definitely wouldn't complain if you were to implement more scenes akin to that. Thanks for doing what you do. You are a gift to us all.
I don't have words to describe the importance of your journalistic endeavors. The humor, the references, the tangents, the rabbit holes..... Everything is spot on. One million thanks for making these! You are truly wonderful.
This elevates the "Video game review" to something greater. This is some kind of gonzo-journalism method of video game vivisection. I loved this, what a ride.
I remember being completely unaware what my Misophonia was too. Spent a long time wondering why people thought eating in a group was tolerable, let alone enjoyable.
@@cambienvenu Peak Tim experience is definitely listening to him while driving. I still think of that E3 video where the intro is just him driving to the event while listening to a particular City Pop album.
Excellent video, I had such a great time watching this! I'm not normally a numbers guy but the calculations you made while discussing the nap zone sounded at once like beautiful poetry and one of the funniest pieces of comedy I've ever heard. 2020 has been a weird heck year, but these videos always manage to cheer me up, no matter how weird of a day I might be having.
Everybody gangsta until you try to play against someone over 40 in pac man or tetris. If ms. Pac man was a game of life an death, my mom is a stone cold killer
2:45:05 This is the moment I learned my favorite video game podcast is back, sneakily hidden in a different feed than the one it used for years (and which has sat, inert but hopeful, in my podcast app for the last three years). I'm so happy to have six months of new Insert Credit to catch up on!
Tim, can you activate the subtitles? I find it helpful to better enjoy the text, since english is not my native language. And if I do miss it other people may miss it even more than me...
This is my second Action Button experience. I first saw the Doom review and absolutely loved it, marking the Last of Us and FF7R reviews on my "to-watch list" when I play those games. This Pac-Man review was just as amazing as the Doom one, and I love that the Doom shotgun firing sound has become its own Action Button motif; what's more action button-y then firing a shotgun, after all? I am totally in love with the amount of context given to every detail and the deadpan humor interlaced just kills me every time. I am on the edge of my seat waiting for more ACTION BUTTON. I am a game-liker. VIDEO GAMES FOREVER.
Legends say, if you listen very closely on a quiet day, you can still hear Tim Rogers listing things that said video games have come a long way since Pac Man.
After luxuriously ruminating on the childhood stories and the tales of impressing CEOs at game shows, upon finishing this video, I can say with confidence and second-hand pride that Tim Rogers has come a long way since Tim Rogers.
Having finished the Tokimeki Memorial review before this one, I had a good chuckle at Tim saying the next video would be significantly shorter than this one. Well played, sir.
My older brother introduced me to your videos, it’s amazing seeing someone else with a photographic memory who has both ruined and honed their brain playing video games go into detail on their thought process. Photographic memory is a blessing and a curse, I hope I’m able to hone my brain into the fine thinking machine you possess at some point in my life.
Your recollections of childhood memories make me wonder if I'm going to be a good parent, and what my kinds will remember. It also makes me ponder the inevitability of death. Still, I am filled with hope.
I love your three hour video game reviews. It's so nice that there is some solid entertainment I can watch over a couple of days. You have such a great way at breaking them down and a good touch on comedy. Thank you for doing what you do.
Reading the action button comments section makes me feel like I'm in some underground coffee shop that all the cool game critics and enthusiasts go to.
I remember Taco Tico had a 2 player sit down arcade machine of Ms Pacman. That version lets one person play as PacMan and another person play as Ms Pacman intermittently. I was never very good at the game, but my mother was amazing. I loved seeing the little scenes that played in between the levels.
"You'll have to give him a moment, son. Tim Rogers has to think about his entire life before he plays a game."
Incredible reference
It's funny, but I think it's a real thing that happens to people who have lived most of life involved with games. Resident Evil 4 was the last game I ever got frustrated at, like, I figured things out by getting good at that game. I go back to it just this year and literally feel that frustration again. Tim's cinematic intro here was a great visual representation of the "going back to a game" experience. All those coded memories coming back to make the modern day feel sort of like old times. I think there's a reason "Vaporwave" and such is so deeply tied into gaming; modern music that "feels" like the 80s, because that's the way a lot of people experience life.
So fucking good
@@Pensive_Scarlet Need For Speed carbon is the last game that made me so angry I wanted to play it more just to beat it. Before that it might've been Crash 2, but I also loved Crash 2 in spite of dying a billion times.
jacobbbb aaa it’s almost like talented people are drawn to each other on this site
keep coming back and watching this video in segments. after having seen all of them i can finally conclude: great video
Don't worry he assured us that the next video will be significantly shorter. It couldn't be much longer than 3 hours, right?
@@ShaedeReshka lol and its almost 6 hours
My favorite so far probably, except for Tokimeki.
Harold Ramis may have been a better Harold, but not by much
honestly, i'm not even sure if youre a harold or a harris, so consider this just a general comparison
Damn, Action Button reviews sure have come a long way since Pac Man
I can't Wait Till He makes A four Hour review About Pong
@@josuesilva9409 That made me realize, there is probably a review of a Pong re-release, sequel, or follow-up that says Pong has come a long way since Pac-Man.
can't wait for the reupload
WRITING ON GAMES SAID IT ABOUT ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS IN 2020
Here cuz of you lol
"If CD ProjeKt red sends me cyberpunk super early" well the good news is they sent it to everyone super early.
Rekt
very good joke
CD Projekt Red sure has come a long way since The Witcher 1
Bodied
Hey it's mostly okay now though... 3 years later.
"Videogames have come a long way since pacman" is the Dark Souls of videogames comparisons.
It really makes you feel like Pacman.
It's like Skyrim with pellets
@@PlotlinePlus"with the exaggerated swagger of a hungry yellow sphere"
comparisons of videogame topics to dark souls have come a long way since PAC-MAN.
Having watched the Tokimeki Memorial episode first and then watching the rest in chronological order I thoroughly enjoyed every promise that "the next one will be shorter" but none so much as this one.
hello! i have taken this path as well. A+ experience imo
oh whoa same!!! EXCEPT - I haven't watched the ff7 remake episode cause I really want to play it and have not yet.
Go to any video essay channel, their first few videos are typically way shorter than where they tend to level out in duration...I won't pretend to think we've hit that plateau yet. After all, he hasn't done a video about The Secret of Monkey Island yet, which by nature will have to include not only all SCUMM games, but all point and click games going both directions in time, as well as pirates, nautical fiction, and the evolution of humor.
@@ProfKisuto yeah, if we could go ahead and get that pc release...
@@ProfKisuto hey it's good. It's been two months but you should play it if you haven't
I want Tim to succeed so much (even more than he is now). His content is so unique, and entertaining at the same time. May you create vids like this for long years to come.
Considering he’s currently bringing in almost 13k a month on Patreon, I’d say he’s currently very successful but I could be wrong.
Not just vids! I can't wait for him to publish one or two of the _hundreds_ of books he's already written. "Chronicles of a Tennis Monster" sounds like a fascinating read.
Tim Rogers has come a long way since working at Target
Tim Rogers has come a long way since Pac-Man
Buck Rogers has come a long way since the 25th century
Casually shaking me to my bones by quoting my college's newspaper that nobody read in your pac-man review.
woah
I don't even know what these are anymore. Someone give this guy an Oscar.
If Andrew Cuomo gets a daytime emmy for his press conferences Tim Rogers deserves a lifetime achievement award for this review
The Oscars have come a long way since Moscow Doesn't Believe In Tears
this was the first video from Tim I had ever watched. realizing 7 minutes in that he was STILL just listing off Pacman comparisons was the moment I knew I would love this man. coming back for another rewatch and it still brings joy to my heart
I like to imagine T̶i̶m̶ Alex Jaffe sitting alone in a vast, empty, dark library. His face illuminated by the flickering screen of the microfiche film reader, whirring away as he searches for every mention of "since Pac Man" in history.
Every 6 minutes that went by without him finding any info, the noise of a horrible buzzer suddenly materialising in the air
That intro was fantastic!
YOU'RE fantastic! 😁
Great to see you have good taste sphere hunter. Any hints on your next video?
Also in so excited for RE8 you have the only video I watched about the subject. However I plan on going in to the game as blind as ray charles.
Appreciate your work!
What did you think of Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition? Looking forward to that video if that is something you're working on.
HELLO!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!! It was shot in a delirious 4 hours :)
I was today years old when I learned that power pellets in Pac-Man don't turn ghosts blue in later levels....
what is "today" years old?
Bro did namco design your name too
rewatching this epilogue where tim repeats how the tokimeki memorial review will be way shorter than the other reviews. I will never forget the sound that left my mouth when i saw the behemoth of a runtime on that review and how i swore to never trust a word tim ever said about the runtime on these videos again
1. Tim Rogers's Pacman intro
2. Moby Dick's intro
3. This comment
Call me Pac-Man
Intros sure have come a long way since Pac-Man
Comments and their subsequent replies/edits have come a long way since Pac-Man.
3. The begining of the new testament of the bible
Buddy, the year was 1988, and I was having the same conversation with my parents about the NES being the "Real Video Games," but I wasn't trying to replace Atari. I was trying to replace Intellivision. Intellivision's biggest feature was that it was capable of playing Atari games.
I tried, like an idiot, to convince my neighbors that Intellivision was just as good as an NES. They left to go play Mario 2 at their house, while I sat alone in my parents basement. We'd move away to another state, shortly after I'd graduated 2nd grade in 1989. In November of that year, I was finally given an NES. Later that day, I called Bowser the N-word, because earlier that day, I'd heard one kid at school call another kid that word, and thought it was a good insult. I had no idea what it word meant. My mom threatened to kill me if I ever used it again. I have not.
This anecdote is precious
Bowser is a N-word though.
Thank you for sharing your first “gamer word” moment 😂
"I called Bowser the N-word."
The earliest documented case of what my generation jokingly calls a "gamer moment".
Heated Gaming Moments have come a long way since 1988.
"I was a discerning three-year-old" is the kind of line legends are made of.
3 years old have come a long way since the 20th Century
@@mechamonkeymancityboat7785 since Pac-Man *****
Namco has continued its proud tradition of awesome game names in the tales of series. Phantasia, Xillia, Zestiria, Vesperia. Clearly they kept the Druaga guy around.
The man followup to being called Super Man absolutely killed me.
"I shortly fell into an introspective post-toddler obsession with Asteroids" is the sort of absurdist prose I would outright deride were it to be spoken by quite literally any other person on this entire stinking planet.
Asteroids has come a long way since the dinosaur age
The Da Vinci Code is to Mona Lisa as Pixels is to Pac-Man.
Unmistakable Trash.
Before the “Games have come a long way since Pac-Man” segment I had a large bowl of pasta and once it had ended I no longer had a large bowl of pasta.
im in the same extremely specific boat…
Why are we all paring this thing with pasta?!
when it ended, I no longer had the bowl
Currently kicking myself for never writing an article somewhere online saying "games have come a long way since Pac Man" so I could've been featured in this video.
It was going on so long I was beginning to think I was going to see "...as remarked upon in a thread on x-y-z message board in 1998..." or somesuch. :)
Tim, I'm 39 years old and every story you tell resonates with me deeply. Your description of feeling the significance that Pac-Man on NES would have in your life and how fleeting and wonderful that moment was for you is some of the best prose I've ever heard written about video games. I think I could listen to you drone on and on about video games and your tangentially-related lived-experiences all day. Please never stop.
Bring back the classic 70s Monday Night Football theme when you say "Welcome back to video games" Tim, it celebrates your heroic status amongst your fans.
YES!
I second this
The quote about the Atari 2600 controller at 22:05, I've been revisiting it in my mind for weeks now.
"The Atari 2600 controller, that infernal stiff joystick, feels about as responsive as jabbing a chopstick into the permafrost ground of a tundra and twiddling it vainly in an attempt to manipulate the clouds overhead."
I have Misophonia as well and I use your videos on my noise cancelling headphones to cover over sounds that are triggering to me. They're not just fantastic video essays on their own, but also serve as a tool to make my life easier in several situations. Music would be too stimulating, white noise would be just as triggering to me. Your videos are PERFECT.
Just wait until you learn about podcasts
@@aarcade6676hearing people talk about stuff off the cuff just isn't the same as something written with intention with this level of production quality
@@maxmfpaynethere are podcasts with scripts. Check out 99% invisible.
Wow. I was on my exercise bike for an hour, and this is still going. You won the race.
We appear to have grown up in similar situations. Dad was also a captain in the Army tasked to install the first IMB computer (mainframe) in the Pentagon. I remember playing Lunar Lander at WPI when I was around five. I was fascinated. I had a light pen and I was controlling the Lander!! I kept trying to Land close to the McDonald's someone programmed on the moon. This was the greatest moment of my first years on Earth. The grad students were more fascinated in my approach to the computers. It's probably not every day a child was in the lab. That day fueled something inside of me.
I would grow up all around the tech. Screwdrivers were removed from my reach. I wanted to know how this stuff worked. Was there a really a tiny Pterodactyl that's forming the television picture I see? Or is that just the Flintstones?
Fast forward a couple decades, and home computers were the rage. While other people were scared of using them, it was natural to me. I had already logged millions of hours on Rogue and (text) Adventure (my first time playing Atari 2600 Adventure is a whole nother story).
Today, I'm surrounded by the toys I never got as a kid. From Atari to Vectrex. However, I still keep up with the new. Rocket League is my favorite current game.
Thanks for this huge effort. It has pulled some great memories. I even learned some great stuff.
Take care.
Tim, I will PAY you to never use the footage of the protag from Death Stranding ripping off his toenail EVER again in any video you are involved in...
I'll pay him DOUBLE to use it MORE
Tim, here's a dollar. Zoom in on that toenail next time, baby.
I swear to fucking god toenail and fingernail gore like that sets me off at an insane level. Mortal Kombat fatalities are fucking childs play compared to that shit. I hate it so much, it makes me want to jump out of a fucking window to get away.
His business email is in his Twitter profile :^)
@@Bone8380 dude, this. It creates such a violent reaction to where my toes and fingers curl and I have to push to make sure my nails are still connected.
I saw that shut coming and turned my head so fast.
Please don't ever "trim these down". This is legendary stuff.
Well, he certainly didn't do that with the Tokimeki Memorial one...
It's like a long-form shit post
@@tripdefect87 How can you say that *anything* Tim Rogers does is a shitpost?
@@tripdefect87 Don't you dare
@@tripdefect87 a "lit post" is what your keyboard misspelled.
2:07:24 "He pointed at me and said 'Ziggurat!'" 🤣 That's an amazing sentence. What is your life Tim Rogers?
I refuse to accept that "TINKLE PIT" is a "good" video game name, and not a cursed euphemism for a toilet.
PRETTY sure it is both and it is one because it is the other
Tinkle Pit sounds like a watersports-themed adult venue.
I'm forty-five minutes into the first ever Tim Rogers video I've ever watched
I'm surprised that I haven't followed him at all before because this is literally the kind of content I would like to make some day
Like. This hits me on a different level than most of the extended videos I've watched. I'm probably going to consume and reconsume all of your content (if you're reading this tim) over the next week or so, probably longer.
You do good stuff, Tim Rogers. Understatement of the year right there, but it needs to be said.
Welcome to the Tim Rogers rabbit hole. Check his stuff for Kotaku, too. The review for Dragon Quest XI is legendary.
@@fabio78 I'll be sure to! Thank you for the reccomend ^-^
@@cranktherider4302 Welcome to awesomeness! Tim is a very meticulous individual with the most thought provoking and entertaining review videos I've ever seen. Definitely check out his Kotaku videos. As mentioned the Dragon Quest XI review is amazing. I'd recommend the Red Dead Redemption 2 review as well. It had me laughing my ass off on more than one occasion. I feel so happy for you lol
Welcome to the bunker
Jump in the Action Button Discord and hang with like-minded goblins: discord.gg/chPDCUYP
"The ghosts have no long game." *chef's kiss* Tim Rogers has done it again.
Well... Pat and Woolie brought me here, and I am NOT disappointed. This is an artstic level of tangential orality, the epitome of thematic procrastination, an incredible display of how a man can have a manner of speaking so eloquent that whatever he, as our guide and narrator may be saying instantly becomes an almost personally comfortable and calming experience.
Thank you, Tim Rogers. And let me inform you, as I listen to the ramblings, thoughts, analysis and, honestly, life stories/advice from what some may call a madman; but what I would call a discourse genious, that you just gained a new subscriber.
Same. I remember someone in the CastleSuperBeast chat asking: "Is he self aware?"
And Pat just answered that Tim would probably say he is cripplingly self-aware. After watching the Doom review, yeah, that's pretty accurate...
oh shit what episode do they mention tim?
Even if it's just for a few minutes at the end of a 3 hour review, I immensely appreciate someone addressing Misophonia. I am going to start using the "ASMR, but bad" description from now on.
I LOVE the way this man speaks. He cracks me up so much. LOL
Tim: "This!"
Pacman: "uwu"
Tim: "This sounds like eating something good."
Man the part about what your mom would rent really hit home and brought back so many memories. I remember playing stuff like Bomber Jack, Archon, Aero the Acrobat 2 (without ever having completed or even heard of 1), Winter Olympic Games and others all because she just had them waiting when my little brother and I would see her on the weekend. I didn't even know that games could be bad and never thought they really sucked until I got older and would get the ROMs to go down memory lane and hated some of them... Archon still slaps though.
That memory thing is the craziest shit I ever heard in my life. Given the sloppiness and haphazard nature of my own ADHD riddled brain, the idea of paying perfect attention to everything, whether you want to or not, is both thrilling and Cthulu level horrifying
Absolutely. It’s so interesting but also very sad.
Yeah man, listening to him recall conversations from nearly 40 years ago with perfect clarity is a goddamn existential nightmare
It's not like you can tell if he's making it up or not. Lots of people have really good memories that feel perfectly accurate, and aren't
@@michaelfetter5413 Are you saying he's lying? Or exaggerating? If it's true, seems like you'd know. Like that probably would have been tested. If it's not true, kind of a weird lie, but I guess it's possible.
@@lulairenoroub3869 You wouldn't know. Some memories are accurate and some are inaccurate. He could think he does and be mistaken, which would be not telling the truth, but not "lying" as such. You could perfectly recall one conversation because it made such an impression on you and you revisited it many times. But you can also not recall other things accurately, or a memory can be accurate initially and slowly become inaccurate as time goes on and you make small mistakes or additions in recall.
There is just no known mechanism or syndrome or record of anyone having memory the way he describes. It's made up. It's probably just exaggeration to make you laugh, which is clearly in his wheelhouse.
I'm not meaning any offense or slight against him, just letting you know, since you and some others seemed to believe it at face value, that it's not possible
Holy shit Tim has upped the production quality on his material, well done my good man.
Mrs. Dunn brought up at 1:35:45 RIP for reals
I've come a long way since finishing watching this video a few minutes ago.
1:32:00 are we going to ignore that this legend is a human calculator too???!! these videos make much more sense now
Came here for this comment. Mad respect
he's the kind of person id love to be around and always feel inadequate around
A real life mentat
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I envy the working memory to hold numbers like this in my nog
B-B-B-BIG BOY BABY BOY IS BACK IN THE BUILDING
READY TO BIG BOY UP
@@jai249 AND BABY BOY DOWN
One of things that kept me wondering when I was a kid that played Pacman 2 at the time was "What was the first Pacman? What have I lost from the first game?"
If someone never played Pac Man 1, they would never know about the tragic death of Mrs Pac Man, or how that lead Pac Jr on the path to being an anarchist war criminal. It's because of this that I always tell people they should play the series in order.
Having Sam Porter Bridges pull out a toenail in this video TWICE was a real RoboCop move.
This is a genuinely remarkable and often touching series.
That intro was some next level stuff Tim. So nostalgic. I loved it and definitely wouldn't complain if you were to implement more scenes akin to that. Thanks for doing what you do. You are a gift to us all.
Can't wait to see this review. Been thinking about getting this game, but I wasn't sure if it would be any good!
Lol
Actually said “oh shit” at the moment I figured out the visual gag with the pizza
It's terrifying to imagine what Tim could have been capable of had he pursued his aspirations to be a CIA operative.
We would have won the cold war
Castro agrees.
The CIA has come a long way since the Cuban Revolution
You assume he hasn't
Wtf. He does more good as a decent human being.
cia dea fbi. Etc. All a waste of life & scumbags.
I admire Tim Rogers and his ability to do these reviews.
1:35:43 Ms.Dunn button
He did it for 3 hours AGAIN. He is becoming too powerful.
The multiple layers of Tim's commenting on Tim's from across the timeline is a delightful component of these reviews, I hope continues in this series.
I love how there are only two categories of video game critics: Tim Rogers and then a bunch of Robocops.
Robo-narcs
I don't have words to describe the importance of your journalistic endeavors. The humor, the references, the tangents, the rabbit holes..... Everything is spot on. One million thanks for making these! You are truly wonderful.
"Time to take a break?"
NO, RUclips APP
The "pac man gulp-doom shotgun" sound fx combo is like ear candy
Will we learn that Pac-Man, like Doom, has two flavours-Search and Destroy?
Unironically, yes. He does says something similar to that
@@cerdgold225 don't worry everybody pretty soon we'll be moving on to Multi-Flavor Games for the foreseeable future
So, DOOM is Pac-Man, Pac-Man is DOOM.
@@alexmorath DOOM is Pac-Man 2
2:07:05 - that IS the coolest story ever, I'd be crying just like when that guy cryed when Shigi talked about Mario and Rabbits at E3
Honestly, I will say, this is not a review. This is a work of literary prowess.
Honestly i still don't really know or care what he actually really thinks about pac-man lmao
This elevates the "Video game review" to something greater. This is some kind of gonzo-journalism method of video game vivisection. I loved this, what a ride.
Thank you Tim rogers I love you
I remember being completely unaware what my Misophonia was too. Spent a long time wondering why people thought eating in a group was tolerable, let alone enjoyable.
where is this in the video? i cant tell where i zoned out
I absolutely cannot wait to do nothing at work except to experience this.
Watching Tim Rogers videos at work is by far my favourite form of time theft.
I have a driving job, nothing cools the temper of dealing with horrible Houston drivers like Tim talking in the background.
@@cambienvenu Peak Tim experience is definitely listening to him while driving. I still think of that E3 video where the intro is just him driving to the event while listening to a particular City Pop album.
Same. I have been looking forward to this one.
I still can’t get over that cut right after that smirk after “maybe because I’m too humble” it just makes me cackle
Excellent video, I had such a great time watching this! I'm not normally a numbers guy but the calculations you made while discussing the nap zone sounded at once like beautiful poetry and one of the funniest pieces of comedy I've ever heard. 2020 has been a weird heck year, but these videos always manage to cheer me up, no matter how weird of a day I might be having.
Everybody gangsta until you try to play against someone over 40 in pac man or tetris. If ms. Pac man was a game of life an death, my mom is a stone cold killer
I was looking at your channel last night thinking, “Man, I hope he uploads something soon.” Now I am one happy boi
2:45:05
This is the moment I learned my favorite video game podcast is back, sneakily hidden in a different feed than the one it used for years (and which has sat, inert but hopeful, in my podcast app for the last three years).
I'm so happy to have six months of new Insert Credit to catch up on!
Why do 3 hour Tim Rogers videos always seems like its 30 minutes? Answer: Because you're having a good time hanging out in the Goblin Bunker, cowboy.
Tim, can you activate the subtitles? I find it helpful to better enjoy the text, since english is not my native language. And if I do miss it other people may miss it even more than me...
This is my second Action Button experience. I first saw the Doom review and absolutely loved it, marking the Last of Us and FF7R reviews on my "to-watch list" when I play those games.
This Pac-Man review was just as amazing as the Doom one, and I love that the Doom shotgun firing sound has become its own Action Button motif; what's more action button-y then firing a shotgun, after all?
I am totally in love with the amount of context given to every detail and the deadpan humor interlaced just kills me every time. I am on the edge of my seat waiting for more ACTION BUTTON.
I am a game-liker.
VIDEO GAMES FOREVER.
Legends say, if you listen very closely on a quiet day, you can still hear Tim Rogers listing things that said video games have come a long way since Pac Man.
FOR POSTERITY: Pac-Man Battle Royale is included in the new (i.e. since this video was made) PAC-MAN MUSEUM+, which is available on Steam.
After luxuriously ruminating on the childhood stories and the tales of impressing CEOs at game shows, upon finishing this video, I can say with confidence and second-hand pride that Tim Rogers has come a long way since Tim Rogers.
This man can probably make a simple slice of bread sound extremely fascinating
Mysophonia for everyone: The sound when you only have one heart left in Zelda
The whole time I thought you were going to say Metal Gear Solid was Pac Man 3.
Having finished the Tokimeki Memorial review before this one, I had a good chuckle at Tim saying the next video would be significantly shorter than this one. Well played, sir.
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one
My older brother introduced me to your videos, it’s amazing seeing someone else with a photographic memory who has both ruined and honed their brain playing video games go into detail on their thought process. Photographic memory is a blessing and a curse, I hope I’m able to hone my brain into the fine thinking machine you possess at some point in my life.
I like how there are basically multiple videos in one. You never know when a random top 10 will hit ya
"How the flip is Tim going to talk about Pac-Man for over an hour?"
"BUDDY I CAN DO IT IN TWO"
*proceeds to talk for 3 hours*
I’m only 13 minutes in but it feels like an hour already, in a good way. This is such a specific entertainment
This video is like someone said you can't make a video about pac man longer than an hour and a half and you took that to heart.
Your recollections of childhood memories make me wonder if I'm going to be a good parent, and what my kinds will remember.
It also makes me ponder the inevitability of death.
Still, I am filled with hope.
I love your three hour video game reviews. It's so nice that there is some solid entertainment I can watch over a couple of days. You have such a great way at breaking them down and a good touch on comedy. Thank you for doing what you do.
This channel... is the only real reason to even have the RUclips app installed.
I installed the youtube app on my measly 16gb iphone 6 just to finish watching his doom video in bed
I can't get enough of this dude and/or his videos
I have never played Pac-man, however...
I have PLAYED Pac-man...
We have ALL... played Pac-man.
Tim Roger's reviews are like a 3 hour kick in the nuts... like in a good way.
The first memory of your life was the words "Pepperidge Farm" and you got Hyperthymesia?
I find that amazing.
1:55:31 the "*HELLO* Pac-Man" had me absolutely creasing
Reading the action button comments section makes me feel like I'm in some underground coffee shop that all the cool game critics and enthusiasts go to.
“The next episode is going to be significantly shorter”
The next episode: double the length of this episode.
You uh mean significantly longer?
How will a hangout in Tokyo, Japan factor into today’s video?
Stick around and find out.
I remember Taco Tico had a 2 player sit down arcade machine of Ms Pacman. That version lets one person play as PacMan and another person play as Ms Pacman intermittently. I was never very good at the game, but my mother was amazing. I loved seeing the little scenes that played in between the levels.
TACO TICO!?!!