My main takeaway from this one hour, six minutes, and 26 seconds of video is that I will never have the time, money, and energy to do even a fraction of the things I want to do in my life.
@@Ookler well, Tim does explicitly say in the bottom line that he's been thinking a lot about how he's not going to have time to do the vast majority of the things he wants, games to play, countries he wants to visit, etc before he dies.
I wanted to say that watching all the parts would be the Tim Rogers way of watching this, then I realized the actual Tim Rogers way of do this would be to watch all 21 combinations of videos, each sandwiched between rewatches of the intro and outro videos, and that's only after ingesting every video, article, and tweet Tim has ever made in order to get the full context of his work up until that point, as well as large amount of his contemporaries' work, and spend a not insignificant amount of time meditating on what Tim and his work means to me personally. I don't really want to do that, so I think I'll just watch two videos and come back to watch the rest later.
List of books visible at 21:58; still waiting for a link to Tim's goodreads: Title - Author Islands in the net - Bruce Sterling Distraction - Bruce Sterling Schismatrix plus - Bruce Sterling The artificial kid - Bruce Sterling Mirrorshades the cyberpunk anthology - Bruce Sterling, editor Accelerando - Charles Stross When gravity fails - George Alec Effinger A fire in the sun - George Alec Effinger The Exile kiss - George Alec Effinger Diaspora - Greg Egan The Electric Church - Jeff Somers Psion - Joan D. Vinge Catspraw - Joan D. Vinge The shockware rider - John Brunner Johnny Zed - John Gregory Betancourt Eclipse penumbra - John Shirley Eclipse volume one a song called young - John Shirley Dr. Adder - K.W. Jeter The glass hammer - K.W. Jeter Frontera - Lewis Shiner Trouble and her friends - Melissa Scott Mindplayers - Melissa Scott Corpse - Mick Farren Vickers - Mick Farren Snow crash - Neal Stephenson Little heroes - Norman Spinrad Synners - Pat Cadigan Do androids dream of electric sheep? - Philip K.Dick Altered carbon - Richard K. Morgan Realware - Rudy Rucker Freeware - Rudy Rucker Wetware - Rudy Rucker Software - Rudy Rucker The ghost in the shell deluxe edition - Shirow Masamune Streetlethal - Steven Barnes Gordon Child - Steven Barnes Voice of the whirlwind - Walter Jon Williams Angel station - Walter Jon Williams Hardwired - Walter Jon Williams Neuromancer - William Gibson Count zero - William Gibson Mona Lisa overdrive - William Gibson Burning Chrome - William Gibson PS: there might be mistakes
After reading obtuse Reddit comments about a fucking 10 hour game review that disappointed someone because it didn't climax with a guy mutilating a chair with a chainsaw and I would be far more confused if you were absent from these comments
"The technical difficulty is not a metaphor for cyberpunk 2077" Well, not intentionally, no, but I fail to see a better analogy than "extremely long, technically impressive, and a testament to the medium in theory, but also full of overworked people stressing out over not being able to release on time without massive technical issues"
Tim breathlessly reading through the patches and their respective release dates is genuinely one of the most nerve wracking things I’ve watched in a while.
I had a hard enough time thinking I'd recommend this to a friend who likes this game because I thought it was one hour. When I learned it was ten hours with a chose your own adventure style playlist involved, I then realized Tim made the most Unsharable RUclips video I will ever watch.
Honestly, you should just recommend it to him and *not* tell him about the choose your own adventure. The one hour length works as an appetizer to determine if you want to go forward.
@@Nearigami Yeah gotta say I was recommended this one and I do not, 30 minutes in and nothing but dull autobiographical detail lacking insight or amusement
@@Mortarius17 Fair enough honestly. I think Tim’s reviews are more of an acquired taste. You don’t really watch Tim’s reviews specifically for analysis on the game in question. Don’t get me wrong, Tim does do that will, but really you watch Tim because you want to see what Tim has to say about anything. He’s a very interesting character to me, and that’s the appeal of a video like this for me.
To be fair it is fairly awkward to be wearing sunglasses in a place of business. I get severe migraines. You can get special glasses for that. Not sunglasses. Regular glasses with different lenses which he can obviously afford to get fitted for.
It's like listening to someone do a word jumble. About themselves. That they created. Now that I'm halfway through (I was doing all the laundry)this does seem to be the Thin Red Line of reviews 😬 But there's tens of hours of more of this so it's more like Thin Red Line as a long-form HBO miniseries, but self-assured and dismissive 👍 I need to visit one of my profs, jerk said I needed to learn brevity. New record holder for usage of 'simulacrum' though 👍at last 😐
Only an hour? I could actually finish this tonight. Edited: Ah this is just the intro, fantastic. Thank you for choosing my media consumption this week
@@MasterChaoko Well, it sounds like somebody only watched Tokimeki Memorial once, and probably skipped the middle parts. Ten hours spent learning is ten hours well spent.
@@fusionspace175 Joke's on you. I watched the *entire* Tokimeki Memorial review... in one sitting. Indeed, it sounds like *you* did not watch the entire video -- the one we are currently commenting on, that is -- because my comment is a direct quote from it.
How does this man have time to play/read so many games in 1 year all while writing and editing these huge videos? Mad respect for all the effort and work though. Great video.
I got it, the real way to see this Review. Since Tim imagined 7 reviewers to make the reviews, we must imagine 42 versions of ourselves, and then see all posible combinations of two segments.
And finally Tim has given us exactly what we want from a video game review. Replayability. So let me ask you. Which was your favorite playthrough of this review?
After all the delays this video has had I honestly thought the twist was going to be that you were releasing it in an unfinished form and would be releasing patches for it every few weeks for the next year. I like what you've done a lot better.
Tim, not only are you an incredibly talented writer with a fascinating perspective on life, but your sense of comedic timing and delivery particularly throughout all of these videos has had me crying with laughter. Thank you.
Me: "Oh, it's only an hour. Surprisingly short." Me 30 minutes in: "He's mentioned the 7 chapters a couple times now, but the video is half over? Did he make a mistake, or are the chapters short, or...? Action Button: "You must choose 2 and only 2." Me: "oh. Oh god."
@@cyberpunkdarren The playlist with the different sections is linked in the video description, I'm afraid I don't know how you'd reach that if you're on a smart TV or something!
I literally had to write a guide for *myself* to wrap my head around this one. I've primarily decided to post it here as proof for my future self that I Actually Did That, but feel free to use this guide for your own watch/playthrough: Story 1: Let's DEMOLISH The Discourse Story 2: Let's talk about The Graphics Story 3: Action Button LIKES Cyberpunk 2077! Story 4: Action Button HATES Cyberpunk 2077! (Potentially: "Cyberpunk 2077 is pretty good, for a game made entirely out of problems.") Story 5: The Point (What *isn't* a Role-Playing Game?) (in which Action Button (somewhat abstractly) reviews every Open World and Western Role-Playing Game released after GTA 3) Story 6: The Second Point: Action Button deconstructs the Science-Fiction subgenre; Cyberpunk (and then deconstructs that deconstruction) (Or: Why Shake Shack Is NOT A Real New York Dining Experience) (The One Tim Rogers Recommends) (maybe the chair is in this one??) Story 7: The Bottom Line Watch only TWO stories, and then immediately watch Story 7: The Bottom Line. Watch your second most desired story first, then watch the story you are most looking forward to watching as your *last* player-chosen story. You can skip straight to Story 7: The Bottom Line if you are Strapped For Time. At any point during the Intermission after each Story, you may skip to your next Story. You must NOT watch every story in order, back-to-back for your first viewing. However, you *can* watch any of the stories you *didn't* choose during your first viewing after you finish Story 7: The Bottom Line. (EDIT: I'd like to add that the above is *not* spoilers. I wrote it before beginning my first watch/playthrough, simply because there is a *lot* of information present throughout the entire second half of the video, including elaborations easy to miss if one simply chose a video as soon as they were prompted.)
Thank you for the guide. I have no idea why the other chapters aren't titled with the chapter titles. It's like looking at the playlist of a series of dvds you screwed up in ripping.
I just realized there's 11 more hours of *unlisted* parts to the video. Just the fact that you made them unlisted makes me respect you so much more, truly a work of passion rather than just another analysis.
@@phonepunk7888 Sounds like you should apply for the position. Better yet, make your own Action Button. Since you know better, people are sure to care about it just as much.
@@gunsunnuva8346 It's available on the Action Button Twitch page, in all it's 2 hours, 17 minutes and 10 seconds long runtime glory, aptly named "ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 Special Premiere Event!!". Please enjoy responsibly.
A new Tim Rogers video popping up in your feed is like when your friend drops by to marathon the Star Wars franchise with you. Except he’s not just brought the original trilogy and the prequels, but the Clone Wars film and the entirety of the subsequent 2008 cartoon as well as the 2003 series created by Genndy Tartakovsky, and of course while we’re watching those he posits that we might as well pull up Disney+ to watch the rest of the follow-ups, Rebels, Resistance and Bad-Batch. Then of course we need to compare those to the the Nelvana produced Ewoks and Droids cartoons from 1985 and the animated bits from Star Wars: The Holiday Special and thought it’s painful once you watch the animated bits it’s important to sit down and take in the whole thing just to get some context on the one thing George Lucas has called a mistake. In fact, your friend says, it’s important to understand the sprawl of the Star Wars extended universe. So he pulls out the novels Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, The Truce at Bakura, The Courtship of Princess Leia and Shadows of the Empire. In fact, your friend reminds you Shadows of the Empire was the test LucasFilm used to see if people wanted more Star Wars. So since the answer from the public was a resounding yes after reading Shadows of the Empire you might as well play the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire video game released for the Nintendo 64 in 1996, home computer systems in 1997, re-released for Windows systems on May 3rd, 2016. Your friend tells you wistfully that it reminds him of the time he was in the room with the Shadows of the Empire producers and Shigeru Miyamoto who mused that, Dash Render would look more lifelike in he had an idle animation. It is at this point that he puts on the Star Wars: Visions anime. To understand the impact of Shadows on the production of Star Wars games however, your friend quickly produces every entry in the Rogue Squadron, Starfighter and Battlefront series as well as KOTOR to see just what SotE’s big budget, sweeping takes of Star Wars adventures inspired. You should also play Dark Forces, released in 1995 for home computer systems and for Playstation in 1996. A clone of the game DOOM, which of course is a video game developed by ID software and published for the Microsoft disc operating system on Dec. 3rd, 1993, the Sega 32X….In fact you really need to understand the influences of Star Wars to understand what makes Star Wars….Star Wars. So your friend promptly pulls out the Buck Rogers comic strip, select Flash Gordon serials, Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic Seven Samurai, his 1958 masterpiece The Hidden Fortress and Sergio Leone’s iconic westerns A Fistful of Dollars and the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. To get at the immediate impact Star Wars had on the cultural landscape he also pulls out select episodes of Urusei Yatsura, Kidō Senshi Gundam and Ginga Eiyū Densetsu as well as several dozen sci-fi films from the preceding decades, some of which are very good and some of which aren’t very good at all…as well as Annie Hall and the Matrix, two films which beat out Star Wars in key Oscar categories in their respective award years. And so, your hypothetical friend asks if you would like to marathon it all with him. The response I give him is the same one I give when asked if I want to sit through another 6 hour Tim Rogers video. Yes, it’s always a resounding yes.
Me, going into this video. Huh. He managed to review this in an hour. Guess he didn't have a lot to say. Halfway through. This feels like a lot of preamble. Ten minutes later Oh my god
"Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Also I'm ToTaLLy iNsAnE and e=mc²!!!!" - Albert Einstein
"pretty good for a game made completely out of problems" so perfectly fills the void I've spent hours trying to articulate as I ramble endlessly to anyone who listens.
I just watched all these over the course of about four days in a bout of depression. The reviewer's suffering in the pursuit of comically long reviews is somehow cathartic. I hope he's ok.
You got me thinking a choose your own review would be funny shit for tackling a sonic game. Or any really obviously. Your comment reminded me of your sonic choose your own lets play thing
I have entered a weird stage of my life where I am now more likely to play Cyberpunk 2077 in the interest of enjoying this review than I am to watch this review in the interest of deciding whether or not to play Cyberpunk 2077. I don't know what it says about me except that I like Action Button, but I can at least say that I like Action Button very much.
The city,the plot, and the characters alone imo is worth the price, I played and appreciated the game for what it was and didn't get into the hype, this game eurojank but as a fan of cyberpunk it was a wild ride of emotion's, I'd still recommend holding off until you can experience it on a kinda beefy PC or nextgen version though, it's an orgasm to the eyes in how visually stunning everything is
I think it’s so great that Tim’s artistry is at a level that would inspire you to play the game for those reasons, and I’m sure you’re not the only one who feels that way.
3 months later I'll give my 2 cents. You just want to be apart of this conversation. Playing cyberpunk will give you a greater understanding of the topic, given it's what this conversation revolves around. It's like watching a currently airing tv show or anime. Being apart of the weekly conversation is a part of the experience, and feeling of community. Its just a nice feeling.
I'm the same! I held out on watching the FF7 remake because I hadn't yet finished playing the remake. Was (and still am) in the sidequest hub where you first meet Aeris and where you're chasing cats for a quest. I just can't bring myself to continue because every time I think of turning on the game, I remember I'll be trapped in that hub for what will feel like hours. The only thing urging me to return to the game right now is wanting to enjoy the action button review more. Meanwhile I'm here to watch the Cyberpunk2077 review for the second time...
41:55 - If Tim only knew how much I shrieked with excitement when I realized what he was doing with this review. I absolutely love this. Branching path ideas have been done by other RUclipsrs with their videos but those last seconds, minutes at most. The mad man genuinely chopped up his review and is asking us to choose. I can't wait!
I should sue you for how hard I was crying and coughing at your description of a new York dining experience "Where a man screams at your wife, and you don't know why" You're a fucking artist man.
I literally can’t believe this is happening. I’ve watched the Tokimeki Memorial video three times now and I thought that was going to be it for Action Button Reviews. I’m so happy you’ve returned!
Why would you think that? He has like 12k a month on Patreon for more 😶 Edit: it's up to 17,000 USD$. Most well funded game reviewer? Action button is just getting starting imo
First time watching his videos. At first I was annoyed when he went off on a tangent about what games he played to get mentally prepared to play/touch/think about 2077. And then I started laughing and agreeing with the reasons why he needed to play those game. The fear in his voice. Great video. Edit: Wait wtf there's more. HAHAHAH
you should really watch the descent into madness which is the tokimeki memorial review, pro tip, if you do it when youre tired you re gonna have a nonstop laugh attack and then dont remember anything (but also all the things) the next morning so you can watch agani ( dont do this)
oh buddy. You've got so much more to experience. We're glad you're here and I hope you enjoy the rest of the videos. The Doom review is one of my favorites.
I love how the viewcount on each video in the playlist implies that most of us are, in fact, just watching them in order, rather than as intended (and that most of us haven’t gotten beyond Part 2, or even beyond this intro video). We’re nothing if not predictable.
I'd never seen your vids before, this vid is my introduction to you. Wow... I don't want to say how much of this video I watched in one sitting... you know why. Anyway, you're a very strange person. The depth that you went into when covering just the concept of this topic -- the meta -- necessitates strangeness. What a strange trip you took me on, stranger. As I sync'd up with your pacing I was actually able to see that you weren't really all that strange, but in fact, you were actually a reflection of the me that had played all those same games and felt all those same feelings, but this me had never given myself the time and space to talk about them... and here we are, all of us -- reflected deeply in the meta. You do really good work. I'm now going to devote, what I'm certain will be at least half of an entire day, to watching more of your carefully written, masterfully read, self-reflective meta-strangeness. Wow...
if you’re new to tim rogers and you’re enjoying his work, i’d definitely recommend reading some of his stuff on medium (especially “just like hamburger, exactly like hamburger”, but it is a long one lol)!
I'm gonna hop in and also say you NEED to watch his Kotaku reviews. I throw one on and watch it in bites if I don't have time. Like 15-30 minutes before I fall asleep.
Tim, the storytelling in these videos is fantastic. You should be proud of yourself. But also, it’s important to remember to be happy without these big splashes of achievement. You deserve it man.
Every time he off-handedly mentions that he moved to Japan on a whim and somehow made a life there for longer than he intended to, it reminds me I intend to move there too and simultaneously gives me hope and terrifies me that the consequence could be that my existence becomes as avant garde as Tim’s.
So, what you're telling me is that, despite everything, Tokimeki Memorial is the best review/game/let's play of all time? Amazing. For real though, I'm SUPER excited for this omg. EDIT: Madlad split the video up into seven videos???? Actually amazing. I'm so hyped for this, Tim.
You know, Arnold Schwarzenegger once said "leave no stone unturned, that's what makes you a champion" and my God... there are no stones left unturned after an Action Button review.
Was genuinely shocked to get to the end of the video and realise the "7 stories" thing wasn't just a bit obliquely making fun of Cyberpunk 2077's substandard launch state but that there are actually 7 other videos averaging over an hour each in length with the intent that I will watch no more than two of them. Bravo
Yeah me too i thought he was joking like he didn't really wanted to review the game But i have watched story 4 and 5 and now i'm pondering if i should respect his wishes or binge the remaining ones... The style is pretty interesting at least i wanna watch the bottom line
Man, that "the Witcher 3 is a zelda game with just enough skyrim to hook me, though not enough skyrim as to spit me out" paired with the Breath of the Wild image is the most compelling argument anyone could ever make to convince me to give the Witcher 3 a shot. It so perfectly conveys all the meaning and appeal in a way I just "get" immediately. That's a powerful ability you have there.
I haven't liked a single Zelda game since Link to the Past, but Witcher 3 is my favorite game of all time (and Oblivion > Skyrim, to me). I've started BotW at least 3 times, but it never sticks, though. Don't miss out on it - especially now, since I regularly see sales of the Complete Edition of Witcher 3 for $10 out there. Just massive amounts of fantastic content for basically a fancy coffee.
I just went back and finished the FF7 Remake review, and his bit on trinket scrounging immediately made me think of BotW. And I do prefer The Witcher 3.
Finally, a new installment of" The Incredible Life of Tim Rogers As Told through Games He Played Throughout His Years", better known as "ACTION BUTTON Reviews Cyberpunk 2077"
I half-followed the first part on Twitch while I was being a good dad and chasing a toddler. I'll watch this more carefully later; I just want to say that I appreciate your work and will soon carve out free time to watch and choose my story carefully.
"This game that was so good that I would literally not let myself play it because I felt, quite frankly, unworthy of enjoying myself that much." Never heard anyone else articulate this before and I've struggled with this problem for my entire adult life, and also haven't finished Witcher 3 because of it.
Jesus. Tim, I love your writing and specifically, the level of self-awareness in your writing. The whole bit about re-reading Neuromancer for the third time to dial back your loquaciousness followed by "Did it work? You tell me" was great and the capstone of "But you'd probably tell me: NO" was just genius. Also, I love the amount of Chopin you put into these.
You can't fool me Tim I know the delay was due to staying true to the ultra-meta simulacrum-ness of your review. Without sarcasm I think the delay will age well
Can’t thank you enough for the incredible amount of effort you’ve put into this series. You always cross my mind whenever the train I’m on passes through Kita-Urawa. If I were in a better position financially, I’d support you on Patreon, however I often find myself scouring the discounted food section of Ōmiya’s Don Quijote. Looking forward to watching these reviews and hope you’re in good health, Tim.
I looked at the runtime and legitimately thought that he was taking the piss on over promising and under delivering until he said there was a link in the description.
So I’ve decided that I *will* see all six segments, but only ever two at a time. I will begin my “playthrough” by watching this video in full, and then selecting my two choices, watching those in full, and then watching the ending. Tim, in all seriousness, I’ve had a terrible week. This is genuinely something that I really needed right now. Thank you.
Sometimes I write little reviews for myself when I finish a game/book/show. Ever since I discovered these videos the voice narrating the review in my head has belonged to Tim Rogers, not only is it his voice, it's his accentuation. And as if living rent free for months was not enough, now he has turned me into a Swiss cough drop addict. In what sinister way will he strike next?
The structure of this review harkens a lot to 13 Sentinels, the true game of the year of 2020 with its wildly ambitious storytelling. So in other words, by structure and ambition alone, this is the review of the year for 2021.
I love how long these reviews are. The Tokimeki Memorial one is my favorite and I was surprised this video was only an hour until I realised you're splitting the segments up. I will watch two and then the end and then go for completion points once a month or so so they do not become repetitive as you describe. Thank you for the hard work, these are my favorite videos on youtube and I still want a japanese playstation to play Tokimeki Memorial.
I started this late, as I was brushing my teeth to go to bed. I found myself standing in the dark hallway in front of my bedroom like a weirdo, just watching. I can’t wait to plunge deep into all of these vids. Thanks Tim!
Everyone remembers where they were when the Cyberpunk review dropped. Probably owing in part to the fact that we're likely in the same location as we were 4 minutes ago.
And his attempting to upload the review for several weeks only to have it permanently stuck “processing” at 99% completion was the Woodstock ‘99 of our generation.
Your end at this intro convinced me to do the planned 2 segments then final thought. I'll go back and watch the others later for additional context- in the same way you'd play a game again to experience all side quests. If not for the "intermission" I wouldn't have, it was a good decision.
I got a notification that Tim was live on Twitch last night, and I live in an unsuitable time zone to watch live streams from the US. But my yearning was such for more Tim that I immediately dropped everything, forced myself to stay awake just to see how he was doing and what was up. Not only did I watch the stream, but I carried on through the fabled playlist, as per his instructions, and my suspicion were solidified to fact; there is no one like him, the Tim. I don't watch Twitch streams, Tim is my only subscription there, and on here I only have a handful of subscriptions I so closely monitor on youtube to allow notifications, and he is at the very top among those. I sincerely hope this might to some degree validate his inherent quality, and that maybe, in his regular bouts of self-deprecation and doubt, he might look to us and accept that he is actually making something of quality, something to be proud of. His content matters more than he might ever realize. Thank you Tim. I was sincerely beginning to think you weren't doing well. I was right to a degree, but no matter the struggle, you somehow managed to create yet another piece of media that outshines most, if not all, that some of us consume. You are not alone, and fuck the insane people.
No way. I was confused when it wasn't 10 hours like you said but now that day 1 patch has been seen it all makes sense. Nice piano song choice at the end!
Holy balls, Tim. There's an additional 9 hours of content hidden away in that unlisted playlist!? I thought 1 hour felt short for you, but good glut o' editorial gravy.
I went on a huge binge of reading cyberpunk novels and watching cyberpunk movies because of this video and it's been amazing. Thank you, I can't believe how good William Gibson's novels are and unforgiven was the best western movie I've ever seen
i haven't eaten proper so i don't have the energy to type a full thing here, but Thank You Tim Rogers for being one of the best people on this platform. you were the reason my friends got into tokimeki memorial, too. you rock, man. please take good care of yourself.
I just finished and decided to come back and say: I haven't played Either Tokemeki Memorial or Cyberpunk 2077, but season one of Action Button has made me want to play exactly one of them
is a tim rogers word burger of a review "vegetarian" despite being manufactured from the refined mind-meat of the world's foremost wordsmithical video game reviewing mammal?
My main takeaway from this one hour, six minutes, and 26 seconds of video is that I will never have the time, money, and energy to do even a fraction of the things I want to do in my life.
I think thats really the point of this review and maybe Cyberpunk and video games in general...
@@Ookler well, Tim does explicitly say in the bottom line that he's been thinking a lot about how he's not going to have time to do the vast majority of the things he wants, games to play, countries he wants to visit, etc before he dies.
That’s true, unless _you_ decide to take a leap of faith and chase the dream while you have the chance
I wish i had consume ...more...media *dies*
I wanted to say that watching all the parts would be the Tim Rogers way of watching this, then I realized the actual Tim Rogers way of do this would be to watch all 21 combinations of videos, each sandwiched between rewatches of the intro and outro videos, and that's only after ingesting every video, article, and tweet Tim has ever made in order to get the full context of his work up until that point, as well as large amount of his contemporaries' work, and spend a not insignificant amount of time meditating on what Tim and his work means to me personally.
I don't really want to do that, so I think I'll just watch two videos and come back to watch the rest later.
The canon way to watch has been discovered
List of books visible at 21:58; still waiting for a link to Tim's goodreads:
Title - Author
Islands in the net - Bruce Sterling
Distraction - Bruce Sterling
Schismatrix plus - Bruce Sterling
The artificial kid - Bruce Sterling
Mirrorshades the cyberpunk anthology - Bruce Sterling, editor
Accelerando - Charles Stross
When gravity fails - George Alec Effinger
A fire in the sun - George Alec Effinger
The Exile kiss - George Alec Effinger
Diaspora - Greg Egan
The Electric Church - Jeff Somers
Psion - Joan D. Vinge
Catspraw - Joan D. Vinge
The shockware rider - John Brunner
Johnny Zed - John Gregory Betancourt
Eclipse penumbra - John Shirley
Eclipse volume one a song called young - John Shirley
Dr. Adder - K.W. Jeter
The glass hammer - K.W. Jeter
Frontera - Lewis Shiner
Trouble and her friends - Melissa Scott
Mindplayers - Melissa Scott
Corpse - Mick Farren
Vickers - Mick Farren
Snow crash - Neal Stephenson
Little heroes - Norman Spinrad
Synners - Pat Cadigan
Do androids dream of electric sheep? - Philip K.Dick
Altered carbon - Richard K. Morgan
Realware - Rudy Rucker
Freeware - Rudy Rucker
Wetware - Rudy Rucker
Software - Rudy Rucker
The ghost in the shell deluxe edition - Shirow Masamune
Streetlethal - Steven Barnes
Gordon Child - Steven Barnes
Voice of the whirlwind - Walter Jon Williams
Angel station - Walter Jon Williams
Hardwired - Walter Jon Williams
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Count zero - William Gibson
Mona Lisa overdrive - William Gibson
Burning Chrome - William Gibson
PS: there might be mistakes
thanks mate
God bless you, your doing God's work.
Title is definitely Author’s best work so far
and yet he somehow didn't read vurt
@@2ndbleak I really love Author's work but i feel that "Untitled" took it too far. Printing 200 blank pages is hardly a masterstroke
At last, the feast can begin
yes!
When you doing that Night in the Woods vid, Harris?
loved your pathologic video. played 2 as you recommended. waiting for the analysis of the sequel:)
Oh shit it's banana bomb guy
After reading obtuse Reddit comments about a fucking 10 hour game review that disappointed someone because it didn't climax with a guy mutilating a chair with a chainsaw and I would be far more confused if you were absent from these comments
"The technical difficulty is not a metaphor for cyberpunk 2077"
Well, not intentionally, no, but I fail to see a better analogy than "extremely long, technically impressive, and a testament to the medium in theory, but also full of overworked people stressing out over not being able to release on time without massive technical issues"
I'm not convinced this video is going to end when the red dot reaches the end of the line
You were right
He patched in more watch time
Can’t wait for this video to completely rewrite my casual speech patterns for the next 10 months, Jerry
I gotta say, I do NOT envy my friends circa tomorrow morning.
BINGO
oh lord I'm not the only one
Buddy, I haven't even BEGUN to mimic Tim Roger's speech pattern.
Did it work? I don't know, you tell me!
Tim breathlessly reading through the patches and their respective release dates is genuinely one of the most nerve wracking things I’ve watched in a while.
my mother yelled me to shut it off since I was listening thru the living room's sound speakers (6 inchers)
It hurts... I'm nauseous...
PATCHED AGAIN
I am starting to believe that this man‘s day has 48 hours
Seriously
bro, sheer respect
Right? Or he lies a lot. But I'm going with the 48 hour day too.
@@kristanner3933 even if he did, he tells a great story so I wouldn’t mind.
and 24 of them are:
PATCHED AGAIN! ON FEBRUARY 11, 2023!
When the world needed him the most instead of vanishing, he appeared. The avatar of reviews. Long live Action Button
I had a hard enough time thinking I'd recommend this to a friend who likes this game because I thought it was one hour. When I learned it was ten hours with a chose your own adventure style playlist involved, I then realized Tim made the most Unsharable RUclips video I will ever watch.
Honestly, you should just recommend it to him and *not* tell him about the choose your own adventure. The one hour length works as an appetizer to determine if you want to go forward.
soft generation.
@@Nearigami Yeah gotta say I was recommended this one and I do not, 30 minutes in and nothing but dull autobiographical detail lacking insight or amusement
@@Mortarius17 Fair enough honestly. I think Tim’s reviews are more of an acquired taste. You don’t really watch Tim’s reviews specifically for analysis on the game in question. Don’t get me wrong, Tim does do that will, but really you watch Tim because you want to see what Tim has to say about anything. He’s a very interesting character to me, and that’s the appeal of a video like this for me.
it’s a WHAT
Oh
You know, this review is actually pretty good. Its OK to like this review!
WHAT A CAST!
This review OWNS
When he said that about ghost in the shell live action movie I was thinking but this is a joke!
@@brentrazz6355 I liked that movie, I think it's OK to like that movie.
Somehow Tim has 72-hour-long days.
Not only did we finally get the review, but we got to hear Tim say “Tokimeki Memorial” again. Bless you, sir.
you mean ときめきメモリアル
@@gloriozu you mean xiupiu
@@Cotonetefilmmaker BINGO‼️
@@Agostoic Peach has got it!!
I love the idea that Action Button started because a CEO kept trying to cosplay as a human by telling you that your shades were cool.
To be fair it is fairly awkward to be wearing sunglasses in a place of business. I get severe migraines. You can get special glasses for that. Not sunglasses. Regular glasses with different lenses which he can obviously afford to get fitted for.
@@ivonnatrolue6747yeah but also, no
I couldn’t believe you made a review that’s only an hour long... and then I noticed the playlist. Thank you Tim, you’re a modern day legend.
I never thought he could make a review longer than the Tokimeki Memorial video, but he outstripped it by about 2 hours.
Wait this is part1?
I felt the exact same way and when I saw the playlist I got light headed for just a second
oh my god... i saw this in my recommended and thought the same, but boy am i glad to have 7+ hours of tim rogers in my near future.
Yeah I freaked out for a minute when I saw the video was only an hour long lol
THE DAY HAS FINALLY COME!
And so have I
All my favorite youtubers are here in one place
Don't encourage him.
Still waiting for that Silent Hill series review/retrospective
Why are still here, just to cringe?
I love how these reviews are not reviews of the games, but more reviews of Tim Roger's processing in making a review.
It's like listening to someone do a word jumble. About themselves. That they created.
Now that I'm halfway through (I was doing all the laundry)this does seem to be the Thin Red Line of reviews 😬 But there's tens of hours of more of this so it's more like Thin Red Line as a long-form HBO miniseries, but self-assured and dismissive 👍
I need to visit one of my profs, jerk said I needed to learn brevity.
New record holder for usage of 'simulacrum' though 👍at last 😐
Gonzo journalism baby
It really is the ultimate presentation for ADHD. Haha
Only an hour? I could actually finish this tonight.
Edited: Ah this is just the intro, fantastic. Thank you for choosing my media consumption this week
And thank you for saving me from making a dumb comment in a similar vein.
Ugh... Ten hours?? Ugh... NO THANKS!
@@MasterChaoko Well, it sounds like somebody only watched Tokimeki Memorial once, and probably skipped the middle parts. Ten hours spent learning is ten hours well spent.
@@fusionspace175 Joke's on you. I watched the *entire* Tokimeki Memorial review... in one sitting. Indeed, it sounds like *you* did not watch the entire video -- the one we are currently commenting on, that is -- because my comment is a direct quote from it.
@@MasterChaoko Lol, got me, 24 minutes in.
I'M WATCHING THIS ON AN IMMORAL AMMOUNT OF SHROOMS AND I MUST SAY I LOVE THIS MAN
That damn doom shotgun mixed with the Mario 64 taking damage noise got me every time, Bravo sir.
BINGO
...40 minutes in - In prepping for reviewing this game alone you might have consumed more media than I have in my entire life.
I'm enthralled.
I came here asking when the actual review started lmao.
@@playcebovision5319 there's a separate playlist that you choose 2 from
@@andrewramirez9727 Choose 2. If you're a COWARD.
@@mortified0 I’ve seen them all. I am now 1000 times wiser.
The amount of books he read in 2019 is bigger than the amount of any type of media that i ever consumed combined
How does this man have time to play/read so many games in 1 year all while writing and editing these huge videos? Mad respect for all the effort and work though. Great video.
I don’t think he actually played abs read all these things 😂
His final fantasy video has an extended section where he talks about his process, if you're interested
he doesnt watch brain rotting youtube garbage or play loot box daily reward multiplayer garbage
@@post_rot plus... he does that for a living. One usually spend time gaming for fun and relax, he does it for work too.
Easy, the reviews are surface level rants and Tim masks his lack of original content with a lack of editing himself.
This is genuinely one of the maddest most genius things I've ever watched and I can't even imagine how long it must have taken, fantastic work!
I got it, the real way to see this Review. Since Tim imagined 7 reviewers to make the reviews, we must imagine 42 versions of ourselves, and then see all posible combinations of two segments.
I was about to object that 7 choose 2 = 21.
But maybe the order _matters_ and now I'm even more scared.
@@nibblrrr7124 it clearly matters
And finally Tim has given us exactly what we want from a video game review.
Replayability.
So let me ask you. Which was your favorite playthrough of this review?
I am still working on an optimal min max
Replayability? Don't pretend you haven't watched every tim video 3 times already!
Watched all the videos in one sitting, all night
i love how insanely melodramatic this is, bravo
"whoever the opposite of a librarian is--YOU'RE WELCOME"
this intro is so good that Tim Rogers being out of focus for the entirety of it does not diminish the experience of it whatsoever.
After all the delays this video has had I honestly thought the twist was going to be that you were releasing it in an unfinished form and would be releasing patches for it every few weeks for the next year. I like what you've done a lot better.
Tim, not only are you an incredibly talented writer with a fascinating perspective on life, but your sense of comedic timing and delivery particularly throughout all of these videos has had me crying with laughter. Thank you.
Did it also leave you with the faint impression that you'd missed a joke whenever too much time passed without laughing?
Me: "Oh, it's only an hour. Surprisingly short."
Me 30 minutes in: "He's mentioned the 7 chapters a couple times now, but the video is half over? Did he make a mistake, or are the chapters short, or...?
Action Button: "You must choose 2 and only 2."
Me: "oh. Oh god."
I thought same thing.. then "oh my god this is just the intro the whole thing is like 12 hours"
I had the same experience!
The penny's dropped. Oof.
Where is the video of the reviews? I dont see it
@@cyberpunkdarren The playlist with the different sections is linked in the video description, I'm afraid I don't know how you'd reach that if you're on a smart TV or something!
I literally had to write a guide for *myself* to wrap my head around this one. I've primarily decided to post it here as proof for my future self that I Actually Did That, but feel free to use this guide for your own watch/playthrough:
Story 1: Let's DEMOLISH The Discourse
Story 2: Let's talk about The Graphics
Story 3: Action Button LIKES Cyberpunk 2077!
Story 4: Action Button HATES Cyberpunk 2077! (Potentially: "Cyberpunk 2077 is pretty good, for a game made entirely out of problems.")
Story 5: The Point (What *isn't* a Role-Playing Game?) (in which Action Button (somewhat abstractly) reviews every Open World and Western Role-Playing Game released after GTA 3)
Story 6: The Second Point: Action Button deconstructs the Science-Fiction subgenre; Cyberpunk (and then deconstructs that deconstruction) (Or: Why Shake Shack Is NOT A Real New York Dining Experience) (The One Tim Rogers Recommends) (maybe the chair is in this one??)
Story 7: The Bottom Line
Watch only TWO stories, and then immediately watch Story 7: The Bottom Line.
Watch your second most desired story first, then watch the story you are most looking forward to watching as your *last* player-chosen story.
You can skip straight to Story 7: The Bottom Line if you are Strapped For Time.
At any point during the Intermission after each Story, you may skip to your next Story.
You must NOT watch every story in order, back-to-back for your first viewing.
However, you *can* watch any of the stories you *didn't* choose during your first viewing after you finish Story 7: The Bottom Line.
(EDIT: I'd like to add that the above is *not* spoilers. I wrote it before beginning my first watch/playthrough, simply because there is a *lot* of information present throughout the entire second half of the video, including elaborations easy to miss if one simply chose a video as soon as they were prompted.)
Or idk just watch the video
@@nicolasroy8481 This is a more entertaining way of watching them.
I see I'm not alone (did the same thing)
this should be the pinned comment
Thank you for the guide. I have no idea why the other chapters aren't titled with the chapter titles. It's like looking at the playlist of a series of dvds you screwed up in ripping.
I just realized there's 11 more hours of *unlisted* parts to the video. Just the fact that you made them unlisted makes me respect you so much more, truly a work of passion rather than just another analysis.
It's the bloated, fetid result of a man who is so self involved he thinks anything that comes out of his mouth is gold. Tim needs an editor.
@@phonepunk7888 Sounds like you should apply for the position. Better yet, make your own Action Button. Since you know better, people are sure to care about it just as much.
@@Herosoyyo2 the other dude is right, many parts of this review are just babble
@@kosta764 Right. I like long videos, but the review babble for over 30 minutes.
@@kosta764 but entertaining babel to pass the time imo
That live stream was one hell of an experience, he baited us so well
Please explain this live stream for those unaware.
@@INRamos13 he pretended that there was no video and that he failed to make it this whole time lmao
@@philiplowe9524 ah, so he pretended to not make it having made it, the ol reverse CD Projekt Red
Please, is that stream available to watch somewhere, or was it only a Patreon thing?
@@gunsunnuva8346
It's available on the Action Button Twitch page, in all it's 2 hours, 17 minutes and 10 seconds long runtime glory, aptly named "ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 Special Premiere Event!!". Please enjoy responsibly.
A new Tim Rogers video popping up in your feed is like when your friend drops by to marathon the Star Wars franchise with you. Except he’s not just brought the original trilogy and the prequels, but the Clone Wars film and the entirety of the subsequent 2008 cartoon as well as the 2003 series created by Genndy Tartakovsky, and of course while we’re watching those he posits that we might as well pull up Disney+ to watch the rest of the follow-ups, Rebels, Resistance and Bad-Batch. Then of course we need to compare those to the the Nelvana produced Ewoks and Droids cartoons from 1985 and the animated bits from Star Wars: The Holiday Special and thought it’s painful once you watch the animated bits it’s important to sit down and take in the whole thing just to get some context on the one thing George Lucas has called a mistake.
In fact, your friend says, it’s important to understand the sprawl of the Star Wars extended universe. So he pulls out the novels Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, The Truce at Bakura, The Courtship of Princess Leia and Shadows of the Empire. In fact, your friend reminds you Shadows of the Empire was the test LucasFilm used to see if people wanted more Star Wars.
So since the answer from the public was a resounding yes after reading Shadows of the Empire you might as well play the Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire video game released for the Nintendo 64 in 1996, home computer systems in 1997, re-released for Windows systems on May 3rd, 2016. Your friend tells you wistfully that it reminds him of the time he was in the room with the Shadows of the Empire producers and Shigeru Miyamoto who mused that, Dash Render would look more lifelike in he had an idle animation. It is at this point that he puts on the Star Wars: Visions anime.
To understand the impact of Shadows on the production of Star Wars games however, your friend quickly produces every entry in the Rogue Squadron, Starfighter and Battlefront series as well as KOTOR to see just what SotE’s big budget, sweeping takes of Star Wars adventures inspired.
You should also play Dark Forces, released in 1995 for home computer systems and for Playstation in 1996. A clone of the game DOOM, which of course is a video game developed by ID software and published for the Microsoft disc operating system on Dec. 3rd, 1993, the Sega 32X….In fact you really need to understand the influences of Star Wars to understand what makes Star Wars….Star Wars.
So your friend promptly pulls out the Buck Rogers comic strip, select Flash Gordon serials, Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic Seven Samurai, his 1958 masterpiece The Hidden Fortress and Sergio Leone’s iconic westerns A Fistful of Dollars and the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. To get at the immediate impact Star Wars had on the cultural landscape he also pulls out select episodes of Urusei Yatsura, Kidō Senshi Gundam and Ginga Eiyū Densetsu as well as several dozen sci-fi films from the preceding decades, some of which are very good and some of which aren’t very good at all…as well as Annie Hall and the Matrix, two films which beat out Star Wars in key Oscar categories in their respective award years.
And so, your hypothetical friend asks if you would like to marathon it all with him. The response I give him is the same one I give when asked if I want to sit through another 6 hour Tim Rogers video. Yes, it’s always a resounding yes.
This comment is A+
Astounding. You've hit dead on upon the method
Print this out and frame it
i'm copypasting this and saving it for a special occassion, thank you
I love how the sequels have been removed from the equation entirely.
If you aren’t including Mando though, then this ain’t a pizza party.
Me, going into this video.
Huh. He managed to review this in an hour. Guess he didn't have a lot to say.
Halfway through.
This feels like a lot of preamble.
Ten minutes later
Oh my god
there's a playlist? It's 10 hours long? lmfao 🤣 is this guy insane or a genius?
"Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Also I'm ToTaLLy iNsAnE and e=mc²!!!!" - Albert Einstein
"pretty good for a game made completely out of problems" so perfectly fills the void I've spent hours trying to articulate as I ramble endlessly to anyone who listens.
Tim is a revolutionary. What he has accomplished here should finally break the self hate he has lived with all his life. You are free now Tim, live.
I love this. Tim you bring us all so much joy, you’re the man, man. Smile onward sir!
seconding this! you're incredible Tim, thank you for all the amazing videos!
You make it sound like the guy just died lmao
He is so full of himself it has become difficult to make it through these pointless rants masquerading as reviews.
@@phonepunk7888 so says the anarcho christian 🙌
man i was expecting an 8 hour masterpiece but this works too
EDIT: WELL SHIT NEVERMIND! IT IS AN 8 HOUR MASTERPIECE HOLY SHIT
The single greatest video that is also out-of-focus the entire time. We love you, Tim.
The revelation that the entirety of Season One was pre-planned kills me. Because I much preferred the story of how the Pac Man review came to be.
it definitely wasn't pre-planned; sometimes tim just says things
@@iplaytennis7 if he "just says things" then how do you know he wasn't just saying things before
I just watched all these over the course of about four days in a bout of depression. The reviewer's suffering in the pursuit of comically long reviews is somehow cathartic. I hope he's ok.
He’s fine and we love him.
Worth the wait
I feel like you're baiting me into some kind of "bonus video would be worth the wait" comment here
Everywhere I go, you're always there lmao, love your shit though man
You got me thinking a choose your own review would be funny shit for tackling a sonic game. Or any really obviously. Your comment reminded me of your sonic choose your own lets play thing
Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Cyberpunk 2077
why did u not put Super Sonico in your top 10 sonics video reeeeeeeeee
Timothy is one of those people that look like they are either 14 or 47.
Love him.
I think you mean *_I LOVE HIM_*
Please read that in the slowed down voice he uses
I loved this so much. So much.
thanks
HelloGreedo!!! YES
I have entered a weird stage of my life where I am now more likely to play Cyberpunk 2077 in the interest of enjoying this review than I am to watch this review in the interest of deciding whether or not to play Cyberpunk 2077. I don't know what it says about me except that I like Action Button, but I can at least say that I like Action Button very much.
The city,the plot, and the characters alone imo is worth the price, I played and appreciated the game for what it was and didn't get into the hype, this game eurojank but as a fan of cyberpunk it was a wild ride of emotion's, I'd still recommend holding off until you can experience it on a kinda beefy PC or nextgen version though, it's an orgasm to the eyes in how visually stunning everything is
I think it’s so great that Tim’s artistry is at a level that would inspire you to play the game for those reasons, and I’m sure you’re not the only one who feels that way.
3 months later I'll give my 2 cents. You just want to be apart of this conversation. Playing cyberpunk will give you a greater understanding of the topic, given it's what this conversation revolves around.
It's like watching a currently airing tv show or anime. Being apart of the weekly conversation is a part of the experience, and feeling of community. Its just a nice feeling.
It fails as an open world sandbox game but there is a good story buried in there with 3 interesting female side characters.
I'm the same! I held out on watching the FF7 remake because I hadn't yet finished playing the remake. Was (and still am) in the sidequest hub where you first meet Aeris and where you're chasing cats for a quest. I just can't bring myself to continue because every time I think of turning on the game, I remember I'll be trapped in that hub for what will feel like hours. The only thing urging me to return to the game right now is wanting to enjoy the action button review more. Meanwhile I'm here to watch the Cyberpunk2077 review for the second time...
41:55 - If Tim only knew how much I shrieked with excitement when I realized what he was doing with this review. I absolutely love this. Branching path ideas have been done by other RUclipsrs with their videos but those last seconds, minutes at most. The mad man genuinely chopped up his review and is asking us to choose. I can't wait!
I should sue you for how hard I was crying and coughing at your description of a new York dining experience "Where a man screams at your wife, and you don't know why"
You're a fucking artist man.
I literally can’t believe this is happening. I’ve watched the Tokimeki Memorial video three times now and I thought that was going to be it for Action Button Reviews. I’m so happy you’ve returned!
Can i ask how did you watch it three times, did you just put headphones in or did you sit down and watch it?
I've actually been wanting to rewatch it, but I'm playing through the games first.
Get ready for season 2 BABYYYYY
@@lotan7681 nice how that going
Why would you think that? He has like 12k a month on Patreon for more 😶
Edit: it's up to 17,000 USD$. Most well funded game reviewer? Action button is just getting starting imo
I can't believe at no point Tim looks at three different cameras saying, "Cyberpunk. The Game. The review. THE GAME."
And it's not even a 6 hour-long rambling mess... is this reality anymore?? (he did spam Tokimeki memorial tho...)
First time watching his videos. At first I was annoyed when he went off on a tangent about what games he played to get mentally prepared to play/touch/think about 2077. And then I started laughing and agreeing with the reasons why he needed to play those game. The fear in his voice. Great video.
Edit: Wait wtf there's more. HAHAHAH
you should really watch the descent into madness which is the tokimeki memorial review, pro tip, if you do it when youre tired you re gonna have a nonstop laugh attack and then dont remember anything (but also all the things) the next morning so you can watch agani ( dont do this)
I envy you. This is by far the worst review i have seen of his .. Loved his dragon quest one but this... this was horrible
Which path did you take?
@@phajduk86 he's done so much for this one.
oh buddy. You've got so much more to experience. We're glad you're here and I hope you enjoy the rest of the videos. The Doom review is one of my favorites.
KING SHIT
Please enjoy your time off, Tim, you've more than earned it.
I approve of your channel name immensely.
Mina, I didn't know that you're a fan of The Tim Rogers...
I love how the viewcount on each video in the playlist implies that most of us are, in fact, just watching them in order, rather than as intended (and that most of us haven’t gotten beyond Part 2, or even beyond this intro video).
We’re nothing if not predictable.
I'd never seen your vids before, this vid is my introduction to you. Wow...
I don't want to say how much of this video I watched in one sitting... you know why. Anyway, you're a very strange person. The depth that you went into when covering just the concept of this topic -- the meta -- necessitates strangeness. What a strange trip you took me on, stranger. As I sync'd up with your pacing I was actually able to see that you weren't really all that strange, but in fact, you were actually a reflection of the me that had played all those same games and felt all those same feelings, but this me had never given myself the time and space to talk about them... and here we are, all of us -- reflected deeply in the meta.
You do really good work.
I'm now going to devote, what I'm certain will be at least half of an entire day, to watching more of your carefully written, masterfully read, self-reflective meta-strangeness. Wow...
All of his old Kotaku reviews are legendary, def go back and watch them!
Underated comment.
Thanks.
+1 for his kotaku vids, the links awakening one is a personal favourite
if you’re new to tim rogers and you’re enjoying his work, i’d definitely recommend reading some of his stuff on medium (especially “just like hamburger, exactly like hamburger”, but it is a long one lol)!
I'm gonna hop in and also say you NEED to watch his Kotaku reviews. I throw one on and watch it in bites if I don't have time. Like 15-30 minutes before I fall asleep.
I'm going to wait to get the greatest hits version of the review at a discount, next year. Never watch a review at launch, people.
Tim, the storytelling in these videos is fantastic. You should be proud of yourself.
But also, it’s important to remember to be happy without these big splashes of achievement. You deserve it man.
Every time he off-handedly mentions that he moved to Japan on a whim and somehow made a life there for longer than he intended to, it reminds me I intend to move there too and simultaneously gives me hope and terrifies me that the consequence could be that my existence becomes as avant garde as Tim’s.
So, what you're telling me is that, despite everything, Tokimeki Memorial is the best review/game/let's play of all time? Amazing.
For real though, I'm SUPER excited for this omg.
EDIT: Madlad split the video up into seven videos???? Actually amazing. I'm so hyped for this, Tim.
When the world needed him most, Tim Rogers was there eventually. And it was worth the wait
it was so worth it!
You know, Arnold Schwarzenegger once said "leave no stone unturned, that's what makes you a champion" and my God... there are no stones left unturned after an Action Button review.
Was genuinely shocked to get to the end of the video and realise the "7 stories" thing wasn't just a bit obliquely making fun of Cyberpunk 2077's substandard launch state but that there are actually 7 other videos averaging over an hour each in length with the intent that I will watch no more than two of them. Bravo
Yeah me too i thought he was joking like he didn't really wanted to review the game
But i have watched story 4 and 5 and now i'm pondering if i should respect his wishes or binge the remaining ones... The style is pretty interesting at least i wanna watch the bottom line
Man, that "the Witcher 3 is a zelda game with just enough skyrim to hook me, though not enough skyrim as to spit me out" paired with the Breath of the Wild image is the most compelling argument anyone could ever make to convince me to give the Witcher 3 a shot. It so perfectly conveys all the meaning and appeal in a way I just "get" immediately. That's a powerful ability you have there.
Felt exactly the same!
I haven't liked a single Zelda game since Link to the Past, but Witcher 3 is my favorite game of all time (and Oblivion > Skyrim, to me). I've started BotW at least 3 times, but it never sticks, though. Don't miss out on it - especially now, since I regularly see sales of the Complete Edition of Witcher 3 for $10 out there. Just massive amounts of fantastic content for basically a fancy coffee.
I just went back and finished the FF7 Remake review, and his bit on trinket scrounging immediately made me think of BotW. And I do prefer The Witcher 3.
These reviews have gotten completely out of hand. I love this man.
Got to the bit where Timbo mentions recording one outta 7 Tim's in Notre Dame, Indiana. 20 min to go, this is preposterous. Measure of the man
Finally, a new installment of" The Incredible Life of Tim Rogers As Told through Games He Played Throughout His Years",
better known as "ACTION BUTTON Reviews Cyberpunk 2077"
I half-followed the first part on Twitch while I was being a good dad and chasing a toddler. I'll watch this more carefully later; I just want to say that I appreciate your work and will soon carve out free time to watch and choose my story carefully.
It's almost been two years since this beauty came out
"Patched again!" should be the battle cry of this generation.
"This game that was so good that I would literally not let myself play it because I felt, quite frankly, unworthy of enjoying myself that much." Never heard anyone else articulate this before and I've struggled with this problem for my entire adult life, and also haven't finished Witcher 3 because of it.
Jesus. Tim, I love your writing and specifically, the level of self-awareness in your writing. The whole bit about re-reading Neuromancer for the third time to dial back your loquaciousness followed by "Did it work? You tell me" was great and the capstone of "But you'd probably tell me: NO" was just genius.
Also, I love the amount of Chopin you put into these.
I listened to some of that book being read. It’s so bad. It was a sex scene. It was so bad. The book is bad.
"huh, one hour seems short for Tim Rogers."
"WAIT-
THIS IS JUST THE INTRO???
"Someday the pigs barbecue themselves" absolutely killed me.
After watching this video I feel like this guy therapist
You can't fool me Tim I know the delay was due to staying true to the ultra-meta simulacrum-ness of your review. Without sarcasm I think the delay will age well
Can’t thank you enough for the incredible amount of effort you’ve put into this series.
You always cross my mind whenever the train I’m on passes through Kita-Urawa.
If I were in a better position financially, I’d support you on Patreon, however I often find myself scouring the discounted food section of Ōmiya’s Don Quijote.
Looking forward to watching these reviews and hope you’re in good health, Tim.
I looked at the runtime and legitimately thought that he was taking the piss on over promising and under delivering until he said there was a link in the description.
So I’ve decided that I *will* see all six segments, but only ever two at a time. I will begin my “playthrough” by watching this video in full, and then selecting my two choices, watching those in full, and then watching the ending.
Tim, in all seriousness, I’ve had a terrible week. This is genuinely something that I really needed right now. Thank you.
Such a rebel and a huge snowflake all at once.
Seeing that this has been uploaded made me jump out of my chair in childlike joy. Thank you for this and enjoy your break Tim, you've earned it ❤️
Sometimes I write little reviews for myself when I finish a game/book/show. Ever since I discovered these videos the voice narrating the review in my head has belonged to Tim Rogers, not only is it his voice, it's his accentuation. And as if living rent free for months was not enough, now he has turned me into a Swiss cough drop addict. In what sinister way will he strike next?
This dude has the hottest of hot takes. Specifically referencing 'The Phantom'.
Keep up the good work!
The structure of this review harkens a lot to 13 Sentinels, the true game of the year of 2020 with its wildly ambitious storytelling.
So in other words, by structure and ambition alone, this is the review of the year for 2021.
If only it came to other platforms...
❤️👍🏻 .
I love how long these reviews are. The Tokimeki Memorial one is my favorite and I was surprised this video was only an hour until I realised you're splitting the segments up. I will watch two and then the end and then go for completion points once a month or so so they do not become repetitive as you describe. Thank you for the hard work, these are my favorite videos on youtube and I still want a japanese playstation to play Tokimeki Memorial.
I was LITERALLY WATCHING THE TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL VIDEO AGAIN.
BLESSED BE THIS DAY
I started this late, as I was brushing my teeth to go to bed. I found myself standing in the dark hallway in front of my bedroom like a weirdo, just watching. I can’t wait to plunge deep into all of these vids. Thanks Tim!
Why does he look like austin powers but depressed?
This is the Woodstock of our generation
Everyone remembers where they were when the Cyberpunk review dropped. Probably owing in part to the fact that we're likely in the same location as we were 4 minutes ago.
And his attempting to upload the review for several weeks only to have it permanently stuck “processing” at 99% completion was the Woodstock ‘99 of our generation.
"I immediately devised Season One of Action Button Reviews" is one of the best punchlines I've heard in years.
You managed to make the 1 minute intro of a review that most people skip an hour long. Bravo.
You are the most fascinating content creator on this platform.
Your end at this intro convinced me to do the planned 2 segments then final thought. I'll go back and watch the others later for additional context- in the same way you'd play a game again to experience all side quests. If not for the "intermission" I wouldn't have, it was a good decision.
Your humor, attention to detail and intellect are extremely entertaining and always a delight to watch. I wish I had more time to binge everything.
I got a notification that Tim was live on Twitch last night, and I live in an unsuitable time zone to watch live streams from the US. But my yearning was such for more Tim that I immediately dropped everything, forced myself to stay awake just to see how he was doing and what was up.
Not only did I watch the stream, but I carried on through the fabled playlist, as per his instructions, and my suspicion were solidified to fact; there is no one like him, the Tim. I don't watch Twitch streams, Tim is my only subscription there, and on here I only have a handful of subscriptions I so closely monitor on youtube to allow notifications, and he is at the very top among those.
I sincerely hope this might to some degree validate his inherent quality, and that maybe, in his regular bouts of self-deprecation and doubt, he might look to us and accept that he is actually making something of quality, something to be proud of. His content matters more than he might ever realize.
Thank you Tim.
I was sincerely beginning to think you weren't doing well. I was right to a degree, but no matter the struggle, you somehow managed to create yet another piece of media that outshines most, if not all, that some of us consume.
You are not alone, and fuck the insane people.
This is avant garde RUclips content presentation. I look forward to finishing it in a week or two, or a day if I give in to temptation...
No way. I was confused when it wasn't 10 hours like you said but now that day 1 patch has been seen it all makes sense.
Nice piano song choice at the end!
I haven't finished the review yet but one thing is for sure with cyberpunk. We've come a long way since pacman.
Holy balls, Tim. There's an additional 9 hours of content hidden away in that unlisted playlist!? I thought 1 hour felt short for you, but good glut o' editorial gravy.
Should have been a ten hour video!
I went on a huge binge of reading cyberpunk novels and watching cyberpunk movies because of this video and it's been amazing. Thank you, I can't believe how good William Gibson's novels are and unforgiven was the best western movie I've ever seen
i haven't eaten proper so i don't have the energy to type a full thing here, but Thank You Tim Rogers for being one of the best people on this platform. you were the reason my friends got into tokimeki memorial, too. you rock, man. please take good care of yourself.
I just finished and decided to come back and say: I haven't played Either Tokemeki Memorial or Cyberpunk 2077, but season one of Action Button has made me want to play exactly one of them
Hey, where did you get your propic? Where does it come from?
@@alec2733 it's shade the changing girl from the comicbook of the same name
@@echasketchersjr9189 loved that series, shade rules
I rewatch this video way too much and every time the line “…it did not fix the year” makes me belly laugh all over again.
is a tim rogers word burger of a review "vegetarian" despite being manufactured from the refined mind-meat of the world's foremost wordsmithical video game reviewing mammal?
It's Vegetarian but not Vegan
is Tim Rogers Verbiage spreading from commenter to commenter like Pokérus