Eh, as someone continuing listening to him, still same old shtick: edgy humor, with some correct critiques thrown in, but libertarian/fedora logic seems to die down a bit
Nah, at heart he always was northern working lad, just with incel (like legit) brainworms in the mix, idk, he always shat on corporations and psychotic modern shooters stuff, but with dose of stupidpol thrown in
I liked them cause you have semi-grounded gabe and weird yahtzee, with some off the wall opinions, and bickering over absolutely trivial shit. Kinda charming, cause you don’t hear such friendships interactions, usually people have similar-ish backgrounds
Too bad, I wanted to go spend $10 on a "mana potion" which is just vodka and bawls energy drink.
That's like, the cost of a bottle of beer here, bars are stupid expensive.
Yeah, it folded - it was way too early for a "gamer bar" in Melbourne and it went tits up due to low interest and high Brunswick St rents (at that time period)
at the time, I think people would have been into a good barcade - but a bar with current games consoles, 20 dollar shit cocktails, a yet-to-exist "acceptable gamer culture" and Yahtzee as the pull was always doomed to be filled with unshowered lads with no money
i still really like him. other reviewers dont have enough respect for my time
oh and apparently theyr a published author
He did a series (Yahtzee's Dev Diary) where he made a game every month for a year. It was pretty cool and as a hobbyist game developer I found his advice quite insightful.
The last time I saw him was him talking to Jack Packard (RedLetterMedia) about how Star Trek fans have a higher rate of paedophiles among them than the general public.
Lol, it wasn't like a huge amount. Just a bit higher than normal.
It was just Yahtzee being a bit edgy pointing it out.
You're confusing him for a different aloof misanthropic British video game person
Honestly RIP TB. Live fast, die young, spend a full hour of your 1.25hr game review going over the options menu. Unironically the best game reviewer out there besides Sterling.
TB was afaik in it for the "ethics in journalism" thing instead of the sexism. Based on his general history and behavior I think if he hadn't kicked the bucket he would have renounced his views on GG. He was fairly apolitical as far as I remember, but even as a dummy centrist he was primarily a consumer advocate and not whatever species The Quartering and similar G*mers are.
Still doing the same thing, except recently, he's actually been softer. Not on shitty devs or publishers, mind you, but lately, he's seemed less misanthropic and things like that. For example, his early Super Smash Bros. Brawl review was making fun of Nintendo fans, but his more recent Super Smash Bros. Ultimate review was more of a critique of the concept of Smash Bros, his main criticism being that while it's probably amusing to the big fans, and he'd probably be amused by a game with characters he likes fighting each other, it's still just a superficial thing, and doesn't really display what makes the source material good and interesting. Notably, that's a critique that applies not just to Smash Bros, but on things like Ready Player One and Space Jam 2. It's the kind of thing you'd see in a video essay, except compressed to 5 minutes.
Although I still think he peaked with the fake Duke Nukem Forever review.
