Good gaming channels on Youtube?

[karoliner]

 

[Ol' Willy]

Warlockracy is a grandson of NKVD officer, from whom he inherited several apartments in Moscow. Lending these is his main source of income

Classic

 

[Baron Dupek]

few months later another review of less known title, this time it's STALKER but isometric

 

[Hagashager]

Anyone remembers Classic Game Room (CGR)?
Mark is back because other options (books, comics, music, etc.) failed.
The bad news is - they will be on TikTok and Instagram, he still have beef with YT for some reasons. Maybe he switch to Rumble or Odysee.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrPWg2Sgmfe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
why

summary of what happend, if anyone cares

Spoiler

So, some of you asked what happened to Mark and CGR. I've followed CGR for a long time and this is my understanding of how things went down.

When Mark started CGR, he had advantages over most youtubers of the time. His father owned what I believe was a production company. It gave him access to better equipment and all the things that come along with that. At the time, there were way less youtubers doing his style of game reviews. That paired with his charisma, humor, and decent production, the channel blew up. CGR began making quite a bit of money from the YT channel. Mark hired a team and rented out an office building and giant garage, which you've probably seen in his videos. Once YT began making changes to monetization, the revenue from the channel dropped significantly. He was forced to close down his office and let his team go. I think at this point, he was doing the show from a small storage unit. At some point in all of this, he left YT, then came back. Eventually, he abandoned his YT channel altogether and stopped making gaming videos. Mark changed his mind again, then CGR moved to Amazon and he started a new show. The fanbase hated it. He cancelled it and gave up on gaming videos - again. In the past few years, Mark started using YT again. He changed the name of his YT channel numerous times and the focus of his YT channel changed every time I'd look at it. At one point, he was doing reviews on art pens, comics, action figures, and other nonsense that no one gave a shit about. During this time, Classic Game Room became Classic Game Room Publishing where he sells books that are illustrated with art and photos that are in the public domain. He also draws and sells his own comics. Also worth mentioning, Mark set up a Patreon where backer rewards were very late or never arrived at all. The real nail in the coffin for CGR though and any hope of Mark returning to gaming videos was selling his game collection on Ebay. The worst part about it, fans identified games and hardware they had sent to the show years ago. He didn't reach out to anyone to return any of the donations to the channel. That didn't sit well with a lot of people.

Mark has been called out by his fan base for his shadiness and questionable decisions. He's been pretty shitty with his fans and seems to have no regard for them. It's been sad to see how the CGR channel fell apart and Mark turn on his fan base. You can do a real deep dive on this if you look on the CGR subreddit.

tl;dr sold the whole collection on eBay

Oh that guy. I remember him. He didn't just have beef with Youtube itself, he had beef with other Youtubers if I recall.

Channel Awesome and Machinima both put him on their shitlist.

I never understood how this guy had any following. Being one of the first in his schtick reqlly is an advantage I guess. At his height I never thought he or his team were particularly better than anyone else.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Anyone remembers Classic Game Room (CGR)?
Mark is back because other options (books, comics, music, etc.) failed.
The bad news is - they will be on TikTok and Instagram, he still have beef with YT for some reasons. Maybe he switch to Rumble or Odysee.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrPWg2Sgmfe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
why

summary of what happend, if anyone cares

Spoiler

So, some of you asked what happened to Mark and CGR. I've followed CGR for a long time and this is my understanding of how things went down.

When Mark started CGR, he had advantages over most youtubers of the time. His father owned what I believe was a production company. It gave him access to better equipment and all the things that come along with that. At the time, there were way less youtubers doing his style of game reviews. That paired with his charisma, humor, and decent production, the channel blew up. CGR began making quite a bit of money from the YT channel. Mark hired a team and rented out an office building and giant garage, which you've probably seen in his videos. Once YT began making changes to monetization, the revenue from the channel dropped significantly. He was forced to close down his office and let his team go. I think at this point, he was doing the show from a small storage unit. At some point in all of this, he left YT, then came back. Eventually, he abandoned his YT channel altogether and stopped making gaming videos. Mark changed his mind again, then CGR moved to Amazon and he started a new show. The fanbase hated it. He cancelled it and gave up on gaming videos - again. In the past few years, Mark started using YT again. He changed the name of his YT channel numerous times and the focus of his YT channel changed every time I'd look at it. At one point, he was doing reviews on art pens, comics, action figures, and other nonsense that no one gave a shit about. During this time, Classic Game Room became Classic Game Room Publishing where he sells books that are illustrated with art and photos that are in the public domain. He also draws and sells his own comics. Also worth mentioning, Mark set up a Patreon where backer rewards were very late or never arrived at all. The real nail in the coffin for CGR though and any hope of Mark returning to gaming videos was selling his game collection on Ebay. The worst part about it, fans identified games and hardware they had sent to the show years ago. He didn't reach out to anyone to return any of the donations to the channel. That didn't sit well with a lot of people.

Mark has been called out by his fan base for his shadiness and questionable decisions. He's been pretty shitty with his fans and seems to have no regard for them. It's been sad to see how the CGR channel fell apart and Mark turn on his fan base. You can do a real deep dive on this if you look on the CGR subreddit.

tl;dr sold the whole collection on eBay

Oh that guy. I remember him. He didn't just have beef with Youtube itself, he had beef with other Youtubers if I recall.

Channel Awesome and Machinima both put him on their shitlist.

I never understood how this guy had any following. Being one of the first in his schtick reqlly is an advantage I guess. At his height I never thought he or his team were particularly better than anyone else.

CA and Machinima hating you is a plus, but you're right with that last statement. There's this time window between 2009 and 2011 that was very generous for a lot of random guys who just sat down and talked inane shit about games and movies nobody really cares about. Some of them are still doing it, and by this I don't mean Doug Walker or James Rolfe but the d-list weirdos too.

 

[Hagashager]

Anyone remembers Classic Game Room (CGR)?
Mark is back because other options (books, comics, music, etc.) failed.
The bad news is - they will be on TikTok and Instagram, he still have beef with YT for some reasons. Maybe he switch to Rumble or Odysee.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrPWg2Sgmfe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
why

summary of what happend, if anyone cares

Spoiler

So, some of you asked what happened to Mark and CGR. I've followed CGR for a long time and this is my understanding of how things went down.

When Mark started CGR, he had advantages over most youtubers of the time. His father owned what I believe was a production company. It gave him access to better equipment and all the things that come along with that. At the time, there were way less youtubers doing his style of game reviews. That paired with his charisma, humor, and decent production, the channel blew up. CGR began making quite a bit of money from the YT channel. Mark hired a team and rented out an office building and giant garage, which you've probably seen in his videos. Once YT began making changes to monetization, the revenue from the channel dropped significantly. He was forced to close down his office and let his team go. I think at this point, he was doing the show from a small storage unit. At some point in all of this, he left YT, then came back. Eventually, he abandoned his YT channel altogether and stopped making gaming videos. Mark changed his mind again, then CGR moved to Amazon and he started a new show. The fanbase hated it. He cancelled it and gave up on gaming videos - again. In the past few years, Mark started using YT again. He changed the name of his YT channel numerous times and the focus of his YT channel changed every time I'd look at it. At one point, he was doing reviews on art pens, comics, action figures, and other nonsense that no one gave a shit about. During this time, Classic Game Room became Classic Game Room Publishing where he sells books that are illustrated with art and photos that are in the public domain. He also draws and sells his own comics. Also worth mentioning, Mark set up a Patreon where backer rewards were very late or never arrived at all. The real nail in the coffin for CGR though and any hope of Mark returning to gaming videos was selling his game collection on Ebay. The worst part about it, fans identified games and hardware they had sent to the show years ago. He didn't reach out to anyone to return any of the donations to the channel. That didn't sit well with a lot of people.

Mark has been called out by his fan base for his shadiness and questionable decisions. He's been pretty shitty with his fans and seems to have no regard for them. It's been sad to see how the CGR channel fell apart and Mark turn on his fan base. You can do a real deep dive on this if you look on the CGR subreddit.

tl;dr sold the whole collection on eBay

Oh that guy. I remember him. He didn't just have beef with Youtube itself, he had beef with other Youtubers if I recall.

Channel Awesome and Machinima both put him on their shitlist.

I never understood how this guy had any following. Being one of the first in his schtick reqlly is an advantage I guess. At his height I never thought he or his team were particularly better than anyone else.

CA and Machinima hating you is a plus, but you're right with that last statement. There's this time window between 2009 and 2011 that was very generous for a lot of random guys who just sat down and talked inane shit about games and movies nobody really cares about. Some of them are still doing it, and by this I don't mean Doug Walker or James Rolfe but the d-list weirdos too.

My favorite was The Spoony Experiment. My God that man...that poor, poor man. His oldest shit, the FF8 and SNES reviews actually still hold up. Everything else though aged like milk, and the man himself is practically a different, infinitely smaller, sadder person at this point.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Anyone remembers Classic Game Room (CGR)?
Mark is back because other options (books, comics, music, etc.) failed.
The bad news is - they will be on TikTok and Instagram, he still have beef with YT for some reasons. Maybe he switch to Rumble or Odysee.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrPWg2Sgmfe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
why

summary of what happend, if anyone cares

Spoiler

So, some of you asked what happened to Mark and CGR. I've followed CGR for a long time and this is my understanding of how things went down.

When Mark started CGR, he had advantages over most youtubers of the time. His father owned what I believe was a production company. It gave him access to better equipment and all the things that come along with that. At the time, there were way less youtubers doing his style of game reviews. That paired with his charisma, humor, and decent production, the channel blew up. CGR began making quite a bit of money from the YT channel. Mark hired a team and rented out an office building and giant garage, which you've probably seen in his videos. Once YT began making changes to monetization, the revenue from the channel dropped significantly. He was forced to close down his office and let his team go. I think at this point, he was doing the show from a small storage unit. At some point in all of this, he left YT, then came back. Eventually, he abandoned his YT channel altogether and stopped making gaming videos. Mark changed his mind again, then CGR moved to Amazon and he started a new show. The fanbase hated it. He cancelled it and gave up on gaming videos - again. In the past few years, Mark started using YT again. He changed the name of his YT channel numerous times and the focus of his YT channel changed every time I'd look at it. At one point, he was doing reviews on art pens, comics, action figures, and other nonsense that no one gave a shit about. During this time, Classic Game Room became Classic Game Room Publishing where he sells books that are illustrated with art and photos that are in the public domain. He also draws and sells his own comics. Also worth mentioning, Mark set up a Patreon where backer rewards were very late or never arrived at all. The real nail in the coffin for CGR though and any hope of Mark returning to gaming videos was selling his game collection on Ebay. The worst part about it, fans identified games and hardware they had sent to the show years ago. He didn't reach out to anyone to return any of the donations to the channel. That didn't sit well with a lot of people.

Mark has been called out by his fan base for his shadiness and questionable decisions. He's been pretty shitty with his fans and seems to have no regard for them. It's been sad to see how the CGR channel fell apart and Mark turn on his fan base. You can do a real deep dive on this if you look on the CGR subreddit.

tl;dr sold the whole collection on eBay

Oh that guy. I remember him. He didn't just have beef with Youtube itself, he had beef with other Youtubers if I recall.

Channel Awesome and Machinima both put him on their shitlist.

I never understood how this guy had any following. Being one of the first in his schtick reqlly is an advantage I guess. At his height I never thought he or his team were particularly better than anyone else.

CA and Machinima hating you is a plus, but you're right with that last statement. There's this time window between 2009 and 2011 that was very generous for a lot of random guys who just sat down and talked inane shit about games and movies nobody really cares about. Some of them are still doing it, and by this I don't mean Doug Walker or James Rolfe but the d-list weirdos too.

My favorite was The Spoony Experiment. My God that man...that poor, poor man. His oldest shit, the FF8 and SNES reviews actually still hold up. Everything else though aged like milk, and the man himself is practically a different, infinitely smaller, sadder person at this point.

Spoony was always a broken man with mental and physical problems. He can barely function anymore, he's always too exhausted to produce anything of value. It's weird to think he was bigger than Nostalgia Critic at one point. I've never really cared for either of them, but Spoony showed the Ultima series to a relatively big and young audience, so there's that. I never liked that he amplified the issues some games had, including the infamous "what's a paladin" line.

 

[Hagashager]

Anyone remembers Classic Game Room (CGR)?
Mark is back because other options (books, comics, music, etc.) failed.
The bad news is - they will be on TikTok and Instagram, he still have beef with YT for some reasons. Maybe he switch to Rumble or Odysee.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrPWg2Sgmfe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
why

summary of what happend, if anyone cares

Spoiler

So, some of you asked what happened to Mark and CGR. I've followed CGR for a long time and this is my understanding of how things went down.

When Mark started CGR, he had advantages over most youtubers of the time. His father owned what I believe was a production company. It gave him access to better equipment and all the things that come along with that. At the time, there were way less youtubers doing his style of game reviews. That paired with his charisma, humor, and decent production, the channel blew up. CGR began making quite a bit of money from the YT channel. Mark hired a team and rented out an office building and giant garage, which you've probably seen in his videos. Once YT began making changes to monetization, the revenue from the channel dropped significantly. He was forced to close down his office and let his team go. I think at this point, he was doing the show from a small storage unit. At some point in all of this, he left YT, then came back. Eventually, he abandoned his YT channel altogether and stopped making gaming videos. Mark changed his mind again, then CGR moved to Amazon and he started a new show. The fanbase hated it. He cancelled it and gave up on gaming videos - again. In the past few years, Mark started using YT again. He changed the name of his YT channel numerous times and the focus of his YT channel changed every time I'd look at it. At one point, he was doing reviews on art pens, comics, action figures, and other nonsense that no one gave a shit about. During this time, Classic Game Room became Classic Game Room Publishing where he sells books that are illustrated with art and photos that are in the public domain. He also draws and sells his own comics. Also worth mentioning, Mark set up a Patreon where backer rewards were very late or never arrived at all. The real nail in the coffin for CGR though and any hope of Mark returning to gaming videos was selling his game collection on Ebay. The worst part about it, fans identified games and hardware they had sent to the show years ago. He didn't reach out to anyone to return any of the donations to the channel. That didn't sit well with a lot of people.

Mark has been called out by his fan base for his shadiness and questionable decisions. He's been pretty shitty with his fans and seems to have no regard for them. It's been sad to see how the CGR channel fell apart and Mark turn on his fan base. You can do a real deep dive on this if you look on the CGR subreddit.

tl;dr sold the whole collection on eBay

Oh that guy. I remember him. He didn't just have beef with Youtube itself, he had beef with other Youtubers if I recall.

Channel Awesome and Machinima both put him on their shitlist.

I never understood how this guy had any following. Being one of the first in his schtick reqlly is an advantage I guess. At his height I never thought he or his team were particularly better than anyone else.

CA and Machinima hating you is a plus, but you're right with that last statement. There's this time window between 2009 and 2011 that was very generous for a lot of random guys who just sat down and talked inane shit about games and movies nobody really cares about. Some of them are still doing it, and by this I don't mean Doug Walker or James Rolfe but the d-list weirdos too.

My favorite was The Spoony Experiment. My God that man...that poor, poor man. His oldest shit, the FF8 and SNES reviews actually still hold up. Everything else though aged like milk, and the man himself is practically a different, infinitely smaller, sadder person at this point.

Spoony was always a broken man with mental and physical problems. He can barely function anymore, he's always too exhausted to produce anything of value. It's weird to think he was bigger than Nostalgia Critic at one point. I've never really cared for either of them, but Spoony showed the Ultima series to a relatively big and young audience, so there's that. I never liked that he amplified the issues some games had, including the infamous "what's a paladin" line.

He did a very good job making the older Ultimas look like God's gift to Earth while portraying the later ones as either unforgivably terrible, or only good for ridicule.

His word meant a lot to me as a teenager. When I went to college and actually met, in the flesh, other CRPG and PnP players, it was jarring to find most of them thinking the Ultima series was worth knowing about, but otherwise terrible to play.

Also, his Counter-Monkey stories, while neat, are exceptions, not rules for PnP. I wonder how much of his Thieve's World story actually *was* the epic struggle and how much of it was hours and hours of jackasses looking in the rulebooks, arguing about stats and finally ending the night to go eat shitty pizza.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Anyone remembers Classic Game Room (CGR)?
Mark is back because other options (books, comics, music, etc.) failed.
The bad news is - they will be on TikTok and Instagram, he still have beef with YT for some reasons. Maybe he switch to Rumble or Odysee.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrPWg2Sgmfe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
why

summary of what happend, if anyone cares

Spoiler

So, some of you asked what happened to Mark and CGR. I've followed CGR for a long time and this is my understanding of how things went down.

When Mark started CGR, he had advantages over most youtubers of the time. His father owned what I believe was a production company. It gave him access to better equipment and all the things that come along with that. At the time, there were way less youtubers doing his style of game reviews. That paired with his charisma, humor, and decent production, the channel blew up. CGR began making quite a bit of money from the YT channel. Mark hired a team and rented out an office building and giant garage, which you've probably seen in his videos. Once YT began making changes to monetization, the revenue from the channel dropped significantly. He was forced to close down his office and let his team go. I think at this point, he was doing the show from a small storage unit. At some point in all of this, he left YT, then came back. Eventually, he abandoned his YT channel altogether and stopped making gaming videos. Mark changed his mind again, then CGR moved to Amazon and he started a new show. The fanbase hated it. He cancelled it and gave up on gaming videos - again. In the past few years, Mark started using YT again. He changed the name of his YT channel numerous times and the focus of his YT channel changed every time I'd look at it. At one point, he was doing reviews on art pens, comics, action figures, and other nonsense that no one gave a shit about. During this time, Classic Game Room became Classic Game Room Publishing where he sells books that are illustrated with art and photos that are in the public domain. He also draws and sells his own comics. Also worth mentioning, Mark set up a Patreon where backer rewards were very late or never arrived at all. The real nail in the coffin for CGR though and any hope of Mark returning to gaming videos was selling his game collection on Ebay. The worst part about it, fans identified games and hardware they had sent to the show years ago. He didn't reach out to anyone to return any of the donations to the channel. That didn't sit well with a lot of people.

Mark has been called out by his fan base for his shadiness and questionable decisions. He's been pretty shitty with his fans and seems to have no regard for them. It's been sad to see how the CGR channel fell apart and Mark turn on his fan base. You can do a real deep dive on this if you look on the CGR subreddit.

tl;dr sold the whole collection on eBay

Oh that guy. I remember him. He didn't just have beef with Youtube itself, he had beef with other Youtubers if I recall.

Channel Awesome and Machinima both put him on their shitlist.

I never understood how this guy had any following. Being one of the first in his schtick reqlly is an advantage I guess. At his height I never thought he or his team were particularly better than anyone else.

CA and Machinima hating you is a plus, but you're right with that last statement. There's this time window between 2009 and 2011 that was very generous for a lot of random guys who just sat down and talked inane shit about games and movies nobody really cares about. Some of them are still doing it, and by this I don't mean Doug Walker or James Rolfe but the d-list weirdos too.

My favorite was The Spoony Experiment. My God that man...that poor, poor man. His oldest shit, the FF8 and SNES reviews actually still hold up. Everything else though aged like milk, and the man himself is practically a different, infinitely smaller, sadder person at this point.

Spoony was always a broken man with mental and physical problems. He can barely function anymore, he's always too exhausted to produce anything of value. It's weird to think he was bigger than Nostalgia Critic at one point. I've never really cared for either of them, but Spoony showed the Ultima series to a relatively big and young audience, so there's that. I never liked that he amplified the issues some games had, including the infamous "what's a paladin" line.

He did a very good job making the older Ultimas look like God's gift to Earth while portraying the later ones as either unforgivably terrible, or only good for ridicule.

His word meant a lot to me as a teenager. When I went to college and actually met, in the flesh, other CRPG and PnP players, it was jarring to find most of them thinking the Ultima series was worth knowing about, but otherwise terrible to play.

Also, his Counter-Monkey stories, while neat, are exceptions, not rules for PnP. I wonder how much of his Thieve's World story actually *was* the epic struggle and how much of it was hours and hours of jackasses looking in the rulebooks, arguing about stats and finally ending the night to go eat shitty pizza.

My favorite story was the chaos that was unleashed when the DM used the capturing ability the Lady of Pain has, that sends you to some kind of maze (the same thing you see in PST) but one player decided to go with a minotaur pc which was immune to Maze.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Maybe this one since I never heard of this cool game before...

 

[Shinji]

Anyone remembers Classic Game Room (CGR)?
Mark is back because other options (books, comics, music, etc.) failed.
The bad news is - they will be on TikTok and Instagram, he still have beef with YT for some reasons. Maybe he switch to Rumble or Odysee.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrPWg2Sgmfe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
why

summary of what happend, if anyone cares

Spoiler

So, some of you asked what happened to Mark and CGR. I've followed CGR for a long time and this is my understanding of how things went down.

When Mark started CGR, he had advantages over most youtubers of the time. His father owned what I believe was a production company. It gave him access to better equipment and all the things that come along with that. At the time, there were way less youtubers doing his style of game reviews. That paired with his charisma, humor, and decent production, the channel blew up. CGR began making quite a bit of money from the YT channel. Mark hired a team and rented out an office building and giant garage, which you've probably seen in his videos. Once YT began making changes to monetization, the revenue from the channel dropped significantly. He was forced to close down his office and let his team go. I think at this point, he was doing the show from a small storage unit. At some point in all of this, he left YT, then came back. Eventually, he abandoned his YT channel altogether and stopped making gaming videos. Mark changed his mind again, then CGR moved to Amazon and he started a new show. The fanbase hated it. He cancelled it and gave up on gaming videos - again. In the past few years, Mark started using YT again. He changed the name of his YT channel numerous times and the focus of his YT channel changed every time I'd look at it. At one point, he was doing reviews on art pens, comics, action figures, and other nonsense that no one gave a shit about. During this time, Classic Game Room became Classic Game Room Publishing where he sells books that are illustrated with art and photos that are in the public domain. He also draws and sells his own comics. Also worth mentioning, Mark set up a Patreon where backer rewards were very late or never arrived at all. The real nail in the coffin for CGR though and any hope of Mark returning to gaming videos was selling his game collection on Ebay. The worst part about it, fans identified games and hardware they had sent to the show years ago. He didn't reach out to anyone to return any of the donations to the channel. That didn't sit well with a lot of people.

Mark has been called out by his fan base for his shadiness and questionable decisions. He's been pretty shitty with his fans and seems to have no regard for them. It's been sad to see how the CGR channel fell apart and Mark turn on his fan base. You can do a real deep dive on this if you look on the CGR subreddit.

tl;dr sold the whole collection on eBay

Just as a follow up to that:

Q: Will this be on Amazon or Netflix or other streaming services?

A: I do not have plans to release CGR 2085 Season 2 (or any upcoming seasons) on any streaming services. I always felt that the only way that CGR could survive was on its own platform, which is basically what I'm doing.

Q: Will this be on YouTube?

A: No. It's not 2010 anymore. I don't have a single top 10 list for you.

Q: Will this be on TikTok or Instagram?

A: No. Although, I produce a clip-format version of CGR called CGR 2282 for TikTok and Instagram. They're fun little clips about games and hardware mixed with music. CGR 2085 is completely different. You'll probably see MORE of CGR if this happens because I'll be doing it for six months....

 

[Arthandas]

A pretty thorough analysis of what's wrong with Alan Wake and Remedy as a studio.

 

[Alienman]

A pretty thorough analysis of what's wrong with Alan Wake and Remedy as a studio.

Just a few minutes in but I have to comment on the QR code thing at 5:17.

What kind of weird design decision was that? Had a laugh at that.

 

[Arthandas]

What kind of weird design decision was that? Had a laugh at that.

Quoting someone from the YT comments:
"The "live action" bits in the Alan Wake remake are in QR codes because they're not from Alan Wake - they're from the Control DLC that has Alan in it. It's a reference to the other game, not a revamped storytelling device."

 

[Alienman]

I see. Still, could have integrated it better. Putting it on some random TV would have been a classic Remedy with a QR code at end.

 

[Arthandas]

Nothing in this game is well integrated.

 

[Fedora Master]

A pretty thorough analysis of what's wrong with Alan Wake and Remedy as a studio.

I always found it to be incredibly overrated by easily pleased dolts. It doesn't do combat well and the story is laughable.

 

[AndyS]

Remedy has this habit of paying homage to stuff really awkwardly. Max Payne is supposed to be this hard-boiled detective story, but the dialogue and plotting are laughably bad, and Alan Wake kisses up to Stephen King and Twin Peaks but similarly looks idiotic compared to either. At least Max Payne is fun to play, though. Alan Wake is tedious.

 

[Arthandas]

I wouldn't say copying things 1:1 is paying homage, more like lack of imagination, laziness and intellectual bankruptcy.
Weird because Control is great and the Oldest House is super interesting, though I know nothing about SCP Foundation so I don't know how much of it is their own creation and how much was copied.

 

[flyingjohn]

Mortismal "Jade empire is better then fallout", strikes again:

 

[Baron Dupek]

^
... and ELEX higher than Gothic 2
what a mad lad meme

 

[Arthandas]

Mortismal "Jade empire is better then fallout" strikes again:

good gaming channels on youtube

 

[Ol' Willy]

Max Payne is supposed to be this hard-boiled detective story, but the dialogue and plotting are laughably bad

 

[Arthandas]

For anyone interested:
https://www.youtube.com/@ThorgisArcade
makes really good fighting games retrospectives.

 

[Spike]

Just discovered this guy. Really digging it. https://www.youtube.com/@michaelsnow1
And a sample video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAj70tgKLrA