The Thief videos are great and I think there's a treasure of early 2000 shooters he could get into if that's all he does. But I would prefer if he branched out to at least theme-adjacent games of sorts, like Nocturne might be a good fit. It's not a great game but it is interesting and it led into the craptastic Bloodrayne franchise that later spawned an Uwe Boll movie.
I haven't heard someone bring up Nocturne in fuckin forever.
The "who?" and "why?" are often really good parts of his videos. There's a history attached to old, maybe failed or often forgotten games and that can't be said about currently early-access games.
He pretty much went the way of the AVGN and ran out of games to talk about. You could see in The Suffering that he slowly realizes talking about the more modern shooters is just doing a plot synopsis rather than talk about gameplay or the people behind the game.
I think the answer is simply he doesn't know and doesn't care enough about the game to do that. That's the difference between him and Mandalore or Sseth when it comes to doing these games that you can tell he doesn't have strong feelings for or is especially attached to (and he admits it too) - those guys go into such autistic detail about games because they really get into whatever it is they're doing a video about and it shows in the care and quality..
I personally hope he actually breaks his long-standing rule about not talking about mods. There's plenty worth digging up if he cared to. (I'd definitely watch Civvie review the wackier mods of Doom, or just touch on the bigger 32map WADs that had been produced over the decades.)
I don't even think it's dead per se, I think the early access model of releasing shit before it's done has killed the enthusiasm because (speaking for myself ) I hate playing unfinished games that have no end in sight and are potentially sitting on bugs and problems that go unfixed forever. How many of the boomer shooter/revival games everyone hypes up aren't even close to being done? I bought Gloomwood because I'm very excited for it and loved what we've got so far but realistically I almost want to put it in a drawer and forget about it until they fucking finish it but I don't think it'll be done for years and years, which is kind of embarrassing and annoying.
Once again, I'm inclined to point to his Postal series, in which he DID cover two TC mods for Postal 2: Eternal Damnation and Corkscrew Rules ("licensed addon" is a technical excuse when it's basically a mod in practice and original implementation).
Easy. Most of them aren't. I can only think of a small handful that are considered "full retail" by this point.
Such a shame both videos are dull shite. Fear review especially.
At least Fear had some good action shots. But Cultic just feels... Uninteresting.
Ya know, if I had 1$ for every time some faggot was going "Gaming is fucking deeaad!", I'd probably have enough to buy a PS5 by now, or at least the new Xbone. Seriously, fuck off with this annoying hipster shit.
Excuse me, at least call me old fag rather than hipster. But at least for me it's been years since any game came out I had actual hype for, while a lot of good game series I follow seemingly get gutted as more sequels are churned out.
