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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeBpRiWGdWg

>> No.8603234

>>8603197
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eaBUeINW_3s
lol i can't believe i forgot about this iconic moment in gaming history

>> No.8603239

>>8603234
I remember it as the moment ridge racer was killed.

>> No.8603327

https://youtu.be/rbts2qTrbAg
go play mars matrix

>> No.8603360

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhps67H2_uM

What a time, a world that wasn't soaked in irony. Thank you based Crash poster, this is my new mission in life.

>> No.8603379
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWCtyneyEcE

>> No.8603396
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8603396

One of the first Youtube videos I ever watched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRmY9EYmj9U

>> No.8603397

What the hell is this? I've never seen a fmv intro version of CB TWoC: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JrAxigPk8Io

>> No.8603434

>>8603397
Can you read the comments explaining what it is?

It's a slot machine advertisement, like when Konami made a FMV for MGS3 for its MGS3 slot machine

>> No.8603449

Classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZfTvcehUE

>> No.8603459

>>8603197
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9kWv9Pc6BU
huh.

>> No.8603467
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>>8603459
Between reaction images like this and Shredder, it really showcased what generation early 4chan users were, mostly 80's kids.

>> No.8603532

>>8603197
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBwu3e8RjCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6L4u5n2yis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyUgRYnax5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wr40fGEmMQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6xb6Z5bJc0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynCMvs-TWSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wBBAWeT2oA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z29dYUXoloI

>> No.8603550

>>8603532
Speaking of vintage Ashens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPoSMClV1U

none of the games are /vr/ but eh

>> No.8603552

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSGW7CwD5GM

>> No.8603557

>>8603550
kek. completely forgot about that one

>> No.8603789

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-q8BzPobY

>> No.8603874

Alex Kidd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJJNLV4_jTs

Bubsy the Bobcat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kbQMyqLlIU

Little Big Adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5aSELmWy8

Vice City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cldw8rcsLA

>> No.8603912

>>8603550
Crysis is just barely retro according to the current sticky.

>> No.8603919

This is legitimately painful to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7DtbdT2ZQY

>> No.8603945

>all these reviews by the guy who wrote Hades.
https://youtu.be/qDZXO_o120c

>> No.8603965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhlr1tAqljk

>> No.8603968

>>8603965
Why the fuck does he keep sniffing it?

>> No.8603981

>>8603965
The audio problems on this made me think my headphone cable came loose.

>> No.8603985

>>8603965
The Souls meme is really that old huh.

>> No.8604079

>>8603197
Holy fuck that works. I had no idea how to search for old videos.

>> No.8604262

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6J3hBwW8kI

Doom Bill Gates, Funny(-;

>> No.8604269

>>8603467
Adding an anecdote that this can also apply to kids of the 90s who were poor and got hand me down VHS and game collections. Not that I would know of course.

>> No.8604291

https://youtu.be/1C4qNJSVfLo
Damn… has it really been so long

>> No.8604293
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8604293

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohfVOpBbXs0
I just searched "gay"

>> No.8604497

>>8604293
>Resetera
Ooof. I don't know what the other links are worth but if that QR code doesn't redirect straight to goatsee I hope you catch cancer.

>> No.8604515

>>8603234
>That one guy laughing at the silence
big ouch

>> No.8604528

>>8603396
Zoomercore: the thread

>> No.8604581

>>8603197
>before:2007

Holy fucking shit this is a revelation. Thank you OP and here's my contributions:

https://youtu.be/RoDqsj8FdAQ
https://youtu.be/MN5HkT8icgI

>> No.8604667

>>8604269
Or reruns. I also remember Ruby Spears Megaman being a popular source for image macros, and that was from the 90s. Nevertheless they're all gen-xers.

>> No.8604673

>>8603197
myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols/youtube

>> No.8604903

Are Ventrilo Harassments considered /vr/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftXGzxCw6Oc

>> No.8604904

I'd say 2010 was the cutoff for soul YouTube, 2013 at a stretch. 2007 may've been when the iphone came out but it didn't affect the feel of Youtube for a few years.

>> No.8604938

>>8604903
>"I see our problem child's gone"
>"I'm back, it is time"
>"Oh"
The seething after that is beautiful.

>> No.8604975

>>8603532
Is that eve lawrence???

>> No.8605060

>>8603449
This kid's like an amateur rapper or something going by the name "Herculez Beats" or something now in case anyone's wondering what he's up to these days. Not good or cringy enough to be particularly noteworthy though.

>> No.8605075

>>8603234
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aif8xAYYVqg

>GOOOOOOOOOOO
>RIIIIIIIIIDGE RACER
>Whoa it's Ridge Racer!
>Ridge Racer!
>It's 1995
>Alriiiight!
>Let's gooo!

>> No.8605178

>>8603197
Thanks OP. I was able to find old videos of Maplestory. The nostalgia trip was nice.

>> No.8605276
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8605276

Which of these old vidya YouTubers do you recognize /vr/?

>> No.8605293

>>8605276
oh god all those rantsonas crying about sonic 06, naruto and uncreative OCs with their uncreative OC. wasted my pre-teens obsessing over this shit. at least i found hvgn out of it

>> No.8605303

>>8605276
darknessthecurse is still fucking active and doing EXACTLY the same shit, even down to still using windows movie maker. its an utter 2008 yt time capsule that's STILL producing new content somehow. his modern videos get absolutely no views too which makes it all the more baffling he's still doing this same shit in just the same way

>> No.8605314

>>8605303
He did change a bit. He stopped screaming like in his older videos and instead of "Have a nice fuckin day" it's "I bid you all a fond farewell".

>> No.8605324

>>8605293
They also ranted about 4kids, Viacom, and religion, as was trendy in the Bush years

>> No.8605414

>>8605276
>jawsusfreak777

this dude was a cwc troll who was around for less than a year. his channel had only 4 videos making fun of trannies and autists. none of the videos could have gotten more than 2k views. why is he on this image? whoever made this must be the personification of the DSM-5

>> No.8605617

>>8605276
tubers were always bad
the good part about old YouTube was oc not retarded "personalitys"

>> No.8605618

>>8605414
he's probably in the image for the same reason you know about him

>> No.8605668

>>8603197
wow, haven't seen this in years, It used to show up a lot on my recommended, or whatever it was called then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA4cMk1Mx1Q

>> No.8605682

>>8605314
>"I bid you all a fond farewell".
another thing about these guys was how unabashedly fedoric they were. all the weirder he's still like that if not worse

>> No.8605687

>>8603874
>single digit framerate
>poorly recorded backing track
>cursor visible

*siiip* ahhh, they don’t make em like they used to

>> No.8605690

>>8605682
He even wore a fedora (technically a trilby) in his newer videos

>> No.8605696

>>8605075
Funny how 1990-1996 was considered retro in 2005 but 2007-2013 isn't really considered retro in 2022

>> No.8605698

>>8605414

You DO realize the irony in complaining about the guy's relevance while at the same time being able to remember and state all these details, right?

>> No.8605707

>>8605276
Whatever happened to Stanburdman? He just… vanished

>> No.8605724

>>8605696
It's gotta be the jump in graphics, there really isn't that much of a difference between now and 10 years ago
Meanwhile 1990 to 2000 is night and day. We went through ten years of iPhones, ten years of Skyrim and GTA, ten years of Steam
The 10s were a wash of a decade, really

>> No.8605739

>>8605724
devs blew their load in like 2011 and then just coasted off microtransactions and shit for the rest of the decade

>> No.8605769
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>>8604903
K I L L
F R E N Z Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC868dwd2Eo

>> No.8605782

>>8605687

To reach peak soul there is still one thing missing:

>Unregistered HyperCam 2

>> No.8605792

>>8605782
And Dreamscape by 009 Sound System, don’t forget

>> No.8605802
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8605802

>>8605276
>armake
>gaminggoose
>aqualung
>archfiend
>urinatingtree
>blackbustercritic

I haven't heard these names in ages.

>> No.8605803

I remember this
Good old amateur youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNTJn7AvAFA

>> No.8605814

>>8605276
>>8605707
I'll never forget his video on Hong Kong '97. That contagious laugh when he makes fun of the game over screen while the other 'tubers are clearly disgusted by it. Gold.

>> No.8605849

first videos i watched on youtube were video game parody dub videos from this channel called blackarms but they're LONG gone now. couldn't even find their shit anymore in like 2007

>> No.8605856

>>8603197
i completely forgot this even happened
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEYEeN-WnL4

>> No.8605871

>>8605698
>>8605618
i am aware and that's why i'm so astounded to see that dude on /vr/ in 2022. i was hoping that the aging schizo who made the image would show up in the thread and explain himself

>> No.8605943

>>8605276
I love how George Wood will always be known as Navgtr despite never actually having had anything to do with them

>> No.8605960

>>8605943
God I love him. Didn’t Navgtr start some crazy death rumours and went and photographed the grave of some dude named George Wood just to keep the lie going

>> No.8605971

>>8605943
>never actually having had anything to do with them
From what I've heard George Wood actually is the president of NAVGTR (National Association of Video Game Testers and Reviewers). They had the rights to his old Flights of Fantasy show and put the clips on YouTube, basking in the angry comments from people who thought the reviews were new or that they were George's real opinion (in actuality he just read transcripts of reviews from other people).

>> No.8605978

>>8605960
>photographed the grave of some dude
I never knew about that part, kek. truth be told I believed the rumor for the longest time. just now I looked him up out of curiosity and looks like he made a comeback not to long ago and is in on the joke now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8IlmaIceNI

>> No.8606024

>>8603532
turns out the gamecube beats the xbox on sturdiness? the xbox really is pathetic lole

>> No.8606028

>>8605971
I think that’s what made his stuff so striking. Reading reviews that clearly had jokes in them, but doing so completely straight faced and seriously. That Lara Croft breast cancer line was obviously a really morbid joke when written down but since George says it completely straight, it sounds genuine and unbelievably surreal

>> No.8606556

>>8605696
Post-1996 games were revolutionary and were setting new standards constantly that would be followed for many, many years. Post-2007 games are stagnant and follow the same standards and templates set over 15 years ago. It's very telling how nearly half the noteworthy games that game out in the entirety of the 8th gen are just enhanced ports/remasters of 7th gen games.

>> No.8606558

>>8606024
Not surprising that it failed given it contains a hard drive, "Nintendium" was still a real thing back then.

>> No.8606562

>>8605943
>Lara Croft breast cancer
>always comparing games to films
>Donkey Kong Country immediately declared "game of the decade"
>predicts Virtual Boy kicking the ass of the PS1 and Saturn
>declares FFVII to be overrated and inferior to Breath of Fire, Wild Arms, and FFVI for example
>boomer humor so unfunny it ironically comes back around to being funny

Extraordinarily based and ahead of his time.

>> No.8606660

>>8606024
how the fuck would you expect anything to beat a gamecube? the xbox is beefy but come on

>> No.8606865

>>8604079
The thing I also did was a bit different but it works too.
On Google type in "site:youtube.com" then the name of the game or whatever after a space. Click on "videos" and it'll give you results for that subject. Then you can specify a time range and set it to something like December 31 2005 to 2007, you can find very old and soulful videos this way.

>> No.8606953

>>8606865
Yeah but that method doesn’t show all the 05-07 videos, just the ones that are popular. The on-site method works better because it shows all the videos in those date rangers, even ones with like 30 views.

>> No.8607176

>>8605724
Yeah, but in 2040, the graphics are going to look about the same as they do now, because there's relatively little room for improvement. Graphics have a peak at "realistic" which they're already at.

>> No.8607591

>>8607176
i know it shouldn't but this makes me sad. there's no "emerging" art form these days. back then it really felt like the only way was up, it's weird how everything just feels kinda figured out now.

>> No.8607610

>>8603197
test

>> No.8607628

>>8605978
For the longest time I thought it was Geoff doing an impression, but it really is him. What a Chad.

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>>8607176

>> No.8607764

>>8605276
>AVGN
Was good but stopped being relevant when he sold out to Screenwave.
>Irate Gamer
He was always cringe, some of his earlier videos were okay but he was never funny and always riding James' coattails.
>Nostalgia Critic
More ironically funny because of cringe than actually funny.
>Game Dude
iirc this dude became a fucking schizo and fled to Mexico after he was threatened with litigation for stalking his ex girlfriend which doesn't surprise me given how autistic and creepy he came off, current whereabouts unknown.
>Yahtzee
Overrated and stopped being relevant a while ago, The Escapist magazine he works under is woke garbage too.
>Pissed Pablo
kek
>RazorFist
Still pretty based to this day, even if he is a bit of a snobby hipster in regards to comic books (and not just the shitty current day woke comics either).
>PlayItBogart
Didn't this guy turn into a tranny or something? Either way never really watched his content.
>HVGN
iirc he changed his handle to StopSkeletonsFromFighting. Still makes okay videos about peripherals and weird Brazilian shit, looks like a discount Chris Pratt now.
>Chad Warden
Ultra based, always will be.
>DarkSydePhil
He was always an asshole but I enjoy hearing about some of his weird antics from time to time like how an inbred couple attempted to blackmail him on social media and he got caught jerking off on stream.
>Ashens
Ashens can do no wrong, really- even if his content barely covers vidya anymore.
>Shokio
Don't remember him being relevant since that one rant video he made slamming Twitch simps which he called "thirsty niggas."
>Silent Rob
Alternates between being a bit cringe and being pretty based, the weird stories and rants he tells on stream are still very entertaining.
>SpoonyOne
Sad tale what became of him, used to really enjoy his videos and these days he reminds me of my miserable alcoholic uncle in a lot of ways.
>TheAmazingAtheist
Cringe

1/2

>> No.8607803
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>>8607764
2/2

>Cinema Snob
Probably the only TFWTG faithful that was ever any good, he wouldn't be out of place in an episode of Best of the Worst honestly.
>Handsome Tom
He kind of disappeared from the internet like 10 years ago, last known whereabouts he was raising a family and has kinda-sorta patched things up with Craig on a personal level which is cool.
>Stuttering Craig
No longer relevant but I thought he was funny and he seems pretty based from recent streams I've seen him do. RIP Screwattack
>Somecallmejohnny
Videos are pretty mediocre and nondescript but he isn't really cringe either at-least compared to some others.
>Linkara
Cringe in a funny way, gif-related will never make me not laugh
>IGSRJ
Based
>TheBestGamers
Extremely based, sad they aren't making content or streaming TheGameAwards and E3 with Oney anymore but Rockcock64 still does small streams occasionally.
>Repzion
He seems to have the best intentions with the vlogs he makes but he's kind of cringe too.
>Navgtr
Dangerously-based
>RebelTaxi
This guy's videos are okay but you can tell he's restrained by GoyTube's advertising algorithms these days.
>AlphaOmegaSin
His rants were pretty entertaining even if they covered the same ground repeatedly and got old after a while, like a headbanger version of YongYea. Doesn't make videos anymore but still shitposts on Instagram presumably because he got fed up with YouTube's censorship and wants to do normalfag real life shit like hang out with his kid, can't blame him I suppose.
>Nostalgia Chick
NO MOOOOORE WIRE HANGARRRRRS!!!!!!!!!!
>Guru Larry
H E E E E L L L O O O O O
Y O O O O O U U U U U U
SOMETHING SOMETHING PETER MOLYNEUX... HEH HEH
>RedLetterMedia
Overrated but still entertaining, especially Best of the Worst.

Everyone else is a "literally who" to me.

>> No.8607846

>>8607764
>PlayItBogart
>Didn't this guy turn into a tranny or something? Either way never really watched his content.
Mostly knew him since he used to shill his stuff on an MGS forum I used to frequent, since he did videos on the NES Metal Gears. Of course, his Snake's Revenge video is just him failing the first Jungle area and calling the game crap because of that (his later video on the first NES Metal Gear was a bit better). He wasn't a full degenerate back then and if there was something off about him, he managed to keep it well hidden.

>HVGN
>iirc he changed his handle to StopSkeletonsFromFighting. Still makes okay videos about peripherals and weird Brazilian shit, looks like a discount Chris Pratt now.
He's a bit too woke for me. Basically make a video shitting on Kouichi Sugiyama's music where he tries to act like a music critic, but it's pretty obvious he's out of his element and only did the video because Sugiyama apparently hated the gays or something and it's okay to shit on a highly-regarded artist if he's guilty of wrongthink.

>> No.8607874

>>8607679
pic is misleading. the original bust model was clearly sculpted with a smaller tri count than 60,000, and was just subsurfed up. look at the mushy structure around his neck ruffle. a model sculpted at that high tri count would have much more obvious detail

>> No.8608017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AzY9PY0Et0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMRe1Ja6DWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GmdN-ny4s0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh2ZbAaZ7FM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkTe_XPjkPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xV9-JC3eYw

>> No.8608227

>>8607176
i think its just the graphical innovation will have to move beyond just bigger textures and more shaders etc. wouldn't surprise me if they eventually integrate ai into the texture generation so you can make textures that have infinite depth based on how the player's looking at them. like the ai would generate fitting complexity as the player looks closer and closer

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>>8607803
>Stuttering Craig

https://youtu.be/P_ciD4NLFXo

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8608270

The very first gameplay video on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNCtWaGMW4w

>> No.8608297

>>8608270
It's fucking nuts to think that game was basically brand new when that video was uploaded.

>> No.8608346

>>8608297
The PC version had only come out 15 days before that video was uploaded in fact.

>> No.8608367

>>8605276
>AVGN
Made some high quality content but his stuff since 2015-ish has been consistently poor. The movie basically destroyed him. Mike is cooler
>Irate Gamer
Content is poor and not funny but Bores himself is a nice guy, having spoken to him a few times. I wish him the best
>nostalgia critic
Consistently terrible videos but he’s a good sport at least. His older stuff has a lot of charm though
>game dude
Absolute maniac. I think he’s still on the run.
>POVG
supremely based. I bow to him
>Yahtzee
Don’t care never cared
>Angry Joe
Enjoyed some of his content but he seems like a bit of a snotty cunt
>PlayItBogart
I understand he’s a tranny now
>HVGN
Didn’t like his stuff back then but his new stuff isn’t too shabby
>Chad Warden
Based
>Chip Cheezum
Enjoyed his retsuprae stuff. Don’t know what happened to him though. He basically just vanished off the face of the earth
>DSP
I used to hate him and I still kind of do but I have to admire his sheer stubbornness when it comes to being terrible at games
>Ashens
Inoffensive but fine
>Archfiend
Pencil neck weirdo. Always thought he was a bit obsessed
>Mariotehplumber
Easily the most based man alive. I still enjoy his videos and his ability to make so many people assblasted is amazing
>Retsuprae
Really liked their stuff but when they shifted over to making fun of games instead of Let’s Plays I stopped watching
>Spoony
Never liked his stuff too much (ultima series was cool though). Kind of a shame that he lost his mind
>Amazing Atheist
Banana
>Cinema Snob
Always struck me as a seedy motherfucker but he’s still at it, so props I guess
>Tom and Craig
Love me some oldschool Screwattack.
>SCMJ
Nice content. Still watch him occasionally
>Linkara
The most embarrassing man on the internet
>Navgtr
Absurdly based
>AOS
Used to watch him until he stopped uploading for months. He was fairly cool
>Guru Larry
HELLO YOOUUU
>Stanburdman
Good shit, shame he vanished

>> No.8608376

>>8608227
that reminds me of that "Euclideon" demo from years ago that claimed to present groundbreaking technology that allowed for unlimited detail and made polygons obsolete. it was debunked numerous times as just being voxels and it wouldn't work if it wasn't just a static unmoving demo like theirs was, and comments are disabled on it now kek.

>> No.8608402

>>8605707
Probably just grew out of it and got a family, He was already pushing 30 and had a fulltime job in his heyday. For some reason he's deleted alot of his best videos but people have archived them.

>> No.8608581

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESRnx5cyOc
Good times DESU

>> No.8608607

>>8605276
>Razorfist
Guy's a schizo with a hateboner for Kojima.

>> No.8608639

>>8608367
>Mike is cooler
AVGN is zombie AVGN, Mike is a legitimate angry video game nerd who plays old games in real time.
I miss old AVGN

>> No.8609761

>>8608639
It's because Mike Matei was the one who was writing the scripts for the AVGN episodes the whole time. Bimmy Rolfe is just a B-movie geek who never really cared about vidya beyond the NES and Super NES consoles his parents bought him.

>> No.8609991

>>8607803
That reminds me of this write up someone made about being with the cast of TGWTG movie and how they met everyone. Linkara had his online personality even irl, even doing a drawn out inquisitive 'hmmmmmm?' but was portrayed as one of the nicest guys there. Linkara's entire gimmick is being the cringey internet fanboy trope and I admire his dedication to keeping it up.

>> No.8610012

>>8603550
I can't believe Ashens is 100% bald now

>> No.8610768

>>8609991
Yeah he's a complete dork but it's not hard to see why people like him.

>> No.8611531

>>8605276
>pimpinmasterdx
miss him

>> No.8611810

>>8605414
>>8605698
I do not think he does. After all, if you ever cared about ecelebs, you are on the DSM-5

>> No.8612403

https://youtu.be/ZeIhfq0dXME
Dont know what to think about it

>> No.8612469

>>8605617
>the good part about old YouTube was oc not retarded "personalitys"
I really miss this. Just people vlogging, talking about their lives, telling stories. Everything feels so fake today.

>> No.8614235

>>8604293
based

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https://youtu.be/bBjk55hNjWw

>> No.8614285

>>8605696
Because in reality not much changed other than graphics after the PS2. Oblivion was just janky Skyrim and Skyrim is still relevant, same for GTA IV and GTA V. Battlefield is still Battlefield. The Last Of Us? Still the same. Basically no AAA franchise that existed back then changed much, and if it did like GoW, it was nothing major that wasn't impossible at the time.

>> No.8614287

>>8605276
There's a one who reviews old point n click games, but isn't here. Anyone knows who am toalking about? Can't remember.

>> No.8614293

>>8605276
Never followed youtubers but I know AVGN for obvious reasons.

>> No.8614516

>>8605276
I've encountered shokio IRL tons of times because he used to go to Project M tournaments a lot. Had no idea he was known outside of that until I saw this image.

Honestly not a fan of the dude, don't hate him but he's pretty annoying IRL, unsurprisingly.

>> No.8614520
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8614520

>>8608367
What the fuck happened? Comparing the pre-movie episodes directly to the new ones the problem is can't act for shit anymore. The old episodes had this consistent snarky, passive-aggressive tone that made them great and built up to the outbursts when they did happen. Now he's calm for the majority of the episode but then every minute or so will have some really forced Nick Cage tier screaming outburst that isn't really funny.

>> No.8614658

>>8614520
Reflecting on my own experiences on how my tastes in comedy has changed throughout the years, I would say that he probably just got tired of yelling piss and ass but still feels like it's part of the character so he has to just shoehorn it in somewhere. I like the calmer nerd better these days.

>> No.8614689

>>8614658
Really? I feel like he yells piss and ass way more often now. It's the angry tone in his voice in the old videos that make them great for me, not necessarily what he's saying. They're funny because he's just constantly annoyed instead of talking about a game and freaking out every minute.

I think the videos where he talks about games he actually likes still hold up though, his Earthbound video is probably the best one in recent years, reminds me of his Castlevania series.

>> No.8614694

>>8614520
He has two kids to take care of.

>> No.8614745

>>8614689
not that anon, but i agree his energy was completely different. it's understandable though, naturally he's in a totally different place in life now.
one of my favorite old episodes and a perfect example of this is the power glove episode. sure there's a lot of the typical over the top cursing stuff but he was still figuring the whole shtick out so it was fresh. and the rest of the video is just improvised riffing which is what I miss the most. you can hear him genuinely getting frustrated and he's just voicing the actual opinions he had as a kid now that he's a bit older and has had time to express it better.
now he's made a fortune out of his unique way of expressing that genuine frustration, it's impossible to keep that up forever. so as much as I don't really care for his newer shit I can't say I really blame him. crazy to think those first videos are as old now as the games featured in them.

>> No.8614770

>>8614658
I did like the raid 2020 review, especially the part where he starts laughing talking about satellites transmitting drugs and he just breaks out laughing. It felt very genuine.

>> No.8614948

>>8614745
I'd be surprised if it was genuine, he always seemed like a really calm and nice guy when he wasn't playing the nerd even back then. Maybe he got worse at acting or maybe there was just an inner part of him he was channeling that got lost when he got older.

>> No.8615117

>>8614948
>inner part of him he was channeling that got lost when he got older.
without a doubt. and he was never much of an actor, or even a nerd for that matter. i guess by genuine i meant more that it was coming from a genuine place, even if he was playing it up for entertainment value. his first videos were pretty much him going through the games from his childhood he still had lying around, and expressing the real frustration he experienced back then now that he had a more mature persepctive on it and could put it in more precise words than he could as a kid. he could still remember how legitimately mad he got at those games, and he was just getting it off his chest for the first time. now that he's gone through all those games he played as a kid and then some, the well has kinda run dry.

>> No.8615568

>>8614658
Agreed. My favorite newish review of his was that Earthbound one he did not too long ago.