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WestEgg

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And welcome back to VIDEO GAMES.

I'm WestEgg. And you are reading the FAMIBOARDS StarTopic on ACTION BUTTON.

Action Button is a video game review series that premiered on May 25th, 2020 with the review of the Final Fantasy VII Remake. It shares a name with video game developer Action Button Entertainment AND video game review website, www.actionbutton.com, all of which were founded by Tim Rogers.

For those lacking the INTELLECTUAL NEED and COMPLETIONIST GRIT to read through a full StarTopic and watching several hours of video game review footage you may or may not be interested in, let us begin with THE BOTTOM LINE:

Action Button examines the meaning of video games.

To elaborate on this seemingly self obvious description of what it means to review a video game, or perhaps VIDEO GAMES themselves, I present six stories in the form of Action Button Season One. These videos are exceedingly thorough, ranging from two and a half to nearly NINE hours (The last review is broken into several parts for technical reasons). So settle in with your tiny wolf, and get watching!


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ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS The Final Fantasy VII Remake
Review published to YouTube on May 25th, 2020




ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS The Last of Us
Review Published to YouTube on June 19th, 2020




ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS DOOM
Review Published to YouTube on September 13, 2020




ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS PAC-MAN
Review Published to YouTube on November 22, 2020




ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Tokimeki Memorial
Review Published to YouTube on January 1st, 2021




ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS CyberPunk 2077
Review Published to YouTube on October 26, 2021




SIDE NOTE FROM THE ORIGINAL POSTER OF THIS THREAD: Please do not take the inclusions of this game's review as an endorsement of the game from either myself or from Action Button. If you watch this review (especially if you watch ALL of this review), you'll see that the problematic aspects of the game, from the transphobic marketing, to the crunch culture development and absolutely broken final product, are VERY THOROUGHLY examined.

Season Two of Action Button is Currently in Development. Here are the confirmed games that will be produced for Action Button Season Two:
  • Boku No Natsuyasumi
  • Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
  • L.A. Noire
  • Final Fantasy IV
  • Mother 2/Earthbound
  • and TWO MORE ADDITIONAL GAMES that are yet to be revealed!

The style of Action Button is extremely unique amongst the crowded field of YouTube video game reviews and video essays. Tim Rogers has a wealth of game knowledge and critical analysis skill, but paces out his in depth examination of each game with personal anecdotes relating in someway to said game, and entertaining side jokes as much for the amusement of himself as his audience that build throughout the series. These help lend a sense of levity and sincerity to the discussion around the games, in contrast to his usually strong, blunt delivery.

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On top of all that, the production and editing quality of these reviews, which improves further as the series progresses, is extremely impressive, containing several blink and you'll miss it jokes, elaborations, and flourishes. It cannot be understated how hard it must be to make a compelling six hour video about how a pixel art dating simulator released in the 1990s exclusively in Japanese is one of the most important and influential games ever made actually, and not only keep my attention the full time but get me to ACTUALLY AGREE WITH HIM by the end. It's been mentioned throughout his videos, that in addition to being a video game developer himself with Action Button Entertainment (including Ziggurat, Video Ball, and Truck Heck), he has also worked for Sony Interactive Entertainment in the past, as well as Kotaku, famously producing a (for the time's standard's) extensive, spoiler free review of Dragon Quest XI. In short, the man has put in the work, and it SHOWS.

If you were to ask me which reviews I personally felt were the most worth watching, it would likely be the videos for DOOM, PAC-MAN, and Tokimeki Memorial. His early reviews of the Final Fantasy VII Remake and the Last of Us are both great, but I feel he really hit his groove starting with Doom, which contains more personal storytelling and the beginning of several running jokes that build as the series goes on. Cyberpunk 2077 is best saved for the last review to watch, as, in addition to it's unique structure, it feels almost like more of a review of the entirety of Action Button Season One as it is the game in question. Of my recommendations, I would MOST STRONGLY recommend Tokimeki Memorial, which is currently the most popular by YouTube View Count of his current line up at over one million as of this time of writing.

I think I should mention at this point, that despite my sincere fondness for Tim Rogers's works, and for the videos he has produced, I am not actually that invested in most of the games he has reviewed in Action Button Season One. I have not even played the Final Fantasy VII Remake, The Last of Us, Tokimeki Memoria (for obvious reasons), or Cyberpunk 2077. I've played DOOM and PAC-MAN, but I mean, who hasn't played DOOM or PAC-MAN? And I can only say I've played those games as much as anyone with a passing interest in video games at large has without becoming a specific devotee of those series. And yet, these videos still regularly show up in my video rotation, these reviews of games that I am, at least divorced of other context, only mildly interested in at most. And yet, there is so much meaning in the analysis provided. For goodness sake, the review of Tokimeki Memorial was the REASON I STARTED STUDYING JAPANESE. In other words... Action Button reviews resonate so much with me because they truly do examine the meaning of video games.

And THAT's the BOTTOM LINE.

Anyway, I feel I've made my point in about as a long of a thread (likely longer) than many of you are willing to read, so I'll leave it here by borrowing Tim's Outro:

WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT,
THAT VIDEO GAMES WERE CREATED AWESOME.
THAT I WAS BORN STUPID, HOWEVER I WILL NOT DIE HUNGRY.
VIDEO GAMES FOREVER.
FAMIBOARDS
 
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Wow, there seriously hasn't been an Action Button ST yet? This dude's work is incredible, and I just found out about him about a month ago. I spent a full day watching his FF7R video, and I realized he could make me appreciate anything.

He has a photographic memory, by the way, which shows.
 
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”When a court of law made them change their game design, they made trash. Imagine if an actual chimpanzee made a Mario party mini game”

The developers of Jawbreaker catching the most random of strays 40 years later.
 
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tbh if it’s out by Christmas that’ll be a miracle

Look I love Tim and his videos are great but oh my god the wait is gonna destroy me.

I used to cut him a lot of slack because videos take time and I don’t want him to overwork himself but at this point, I’m like… dude come on. At least an update?
 
The Tokimeki Memorial video is the best thing I’ve watched in the past few years, including movies, TV, etc etc.

I’ve watched it three times! That’s 18 hours of anime dating sim discourse!
 
Derachi said:
tbh if it’s out by Christmas that’ll be a miracle

Look I love Tim and his videos are great but oh my god the wait is gonna destroy me.

I used to cut him a lot of slack because videos take time and I don’t want him to overwork himself but at this point, I’m like… dude come on. At least an update?
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Yeah I love the guy but I unsubbed from the patreon. i can understand delays but there isn’t enough communication. With the cyberpunk video and how wildly ambitious it was I get why it took so long, but I thought with season two it was going to get scaled way way back from that but it’s taken even longer. I might resub later if after the first review comes out and there’s some sort of consistent releases then
 
It’s happening!!!

This is going to make me want to finally play the new Shin-chan game isn’t it…
 
I really dislike premiers. I wasn’t able to catch it at the start, so now I’ll need to wait until later to watch if I want to start from the beginning.
 
Didn't realise how much I missed his weird-ass uncanny valley style of games retrospective. Will have it on my headphones in chunks the coming weeks <3 .
 
Watched the first hour, but I need to get to bed. Loved the office coworker conversation segment.
 
The opening with the fields and the low, Evangaelon-ish hum of cicadas is legitimate audio porn.
 
it's a miracle

welcome back to video games everyone
 
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WestEgg said:
I really dislike premiers. I wasn’t able to catch it at the start, so now I’ll need to wait until later to watch if I want to start from the beginning.
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I hear you, but it was kind of neat to run my Sunday afternoon errands and check in with little bits and pieces as I drove.

From what I heard, I don't feel compelled to play the game, but I do feel compelled to Be Outside.
 
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The bit with his girlfriend thinking the Sega Beetle battle game was more of an American thing was probably the funniest thing on the channel so far

”wasn’t there a beetle fighting scene in stand by me?”

”wow, what? No!”
 
"What is taste, if not the jagged, unique shape of our one person's incomplete perspective?"

This got me big time. So wonderful.
 
Finished it, definitely stands amongst his best yet. Loved the deep dive into him going back to Kansas and really diving into the meaning of nostalgia. I kind of miss the after section where he’d more informally talk about the video creation process for the episode that just finished and give some more raw thoughts about the channel and whatnot. Boku No Natsuyasumi is definitely going into my “play this game if/once you become proficient enough in Japanese to understand it” list.
 
I was hoping after Tim had said the Boku no Natsuyasumi review took so long because he was writing the scripts for the videos for season 2 at the same time that we might get the next video within a few months after the last one.. T__T
 
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I thought the post above the last one was saying the next review was coming out in 6 hours and got my hopes up.
 
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Action Button thread notification jumpscare.

I love, love, love Tim's content, but the wait is so long. I suppose this is for the best if he is going about all this in a healthy way.
 
BradenAndEggs said:
Action Button thread notification jumpscare.

I love, love, love Tim's content, but the wait is so long. I suppose this is for the best if he is going about all this in a healthy way.
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He is not. On the Insert Credit podcast and during his weekly Friday streams, he has mentioned multiple times working 16 hours a day.
 
Hate to bump this with no news (there’s no news!) but I just finished rewatching all of Tim’s reviews again and

this man really said he was aiming to have Season 2’s finale out by Christmas Day 2023

and I really believed him that he’d do it

and yet here we are, 8 months after the Boku no Natsuyasumi review, nothing

like I get these reviews take a whole lot of time and that’s ok but come on, Christmas Day 2023 for the finale? If Season 2 is as long as Season 1, 6 videos, and lets say the next review, LA Noire, comes out tomorrow (would be funny if it did!) he’d need to pump out each subsequent review in less than 2 months each to make it

The man said in July of 2021, almost two years ago, to expect season 2 to have “drastically shorter, more frequent, more netflixishly polished videos.” I am no longer expecting those lol

also tbh I feel like by posting this, there’s a non-zero chance he’s going to call me out (not by name) on a future episode of Insert Credit because he seems to love to do that. I feel like at least once an episode he will mention “someone on an internet forum said this about me” or “someone left a comment on my video saying” and now I am in the running for that I guess haha
 
Derachi said:
Hate to bump this with no news (there’s no news!) but I just finished rewatching all of Tim’s reviews again and

this man really said he was aiming to have Season 2’s finale out by Christmas Day 2023

and I really believed him that he’d do it

and yet here we are, 8 months after the Boku no Natsuyasumi review, nothing

like I get these reviews take a whole lot of time and that’s ok but come on, Christmas Day 2023 for the finale? If Season 2 is as long as Season 1, 6 videos, and lets say the next review, LA Noire, comes out tomorrow (would be funny if it did!) he’d need to pump out each subsequent review in less than 2 months each to make it

The man said in July of 2021, almost two years ago, to expect season 2 to have “drastically shorter, more frequent, more netflixishly polished videos.” I am no longer expecting those lol

also tbh I feel like by posting this, there’s a non-zero chance he’s going to call me out (not by name) on a future episode of Insert Credit because he seems to love to do that. I feel like at least once an episode he will mention “someone on an internet forum said this about me” or “someone left a comment on my video saying” and now I am in the running for that I guess haha
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I will never believe his comments about shorter videos until it actually happens.
 
Amazing how OP was written in Tim Rogers Voice.

The wait between videos is tough, but the fact that he's back on The Insert Credit Show regularly eases my pain. He had left during the production of one of his videos (Cyberpunk?) so there was just a void. Dark times.
 
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Y’all are gonna make me start a new watch session aren’t you.
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They’re good videos that I find get better upon rewatch. I love his videos, hence why I’m eager to see more of them, but I do get the impression that maybe he should stop setting literally any expectations on when they might come out
 
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Also hey while we’re all here

did anyone else find it kinda weird when, in the Bokunatsu review, Tim went and filmed a bunch of places he grew up in? Like I get that his reviews are oftentimes about his relationship to a game as much as they are the game itself and that’s ok but I did get a little tiny bit irked when dude was just like.. filming stranger’s front doors
 
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Also hey while we’re all here

did anyone else find it kinda weird when, in the Bokunatsu review, Tim went and filmed a bunch of places he grew up in? Like I get that his reviews are oftentimes about his relationship to a game as much as they are the game itself and that’s ok but I did get a little tiny bit irked when dude was just like.. filming stranger’s front doors
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It hadn't really bothered me since there really isn't another way to represent returning to a childhood home, and I would assume he got proper consent for anyone filmed, but I could see it being uncomfortable for someone else.
 
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As far as I'm concerned, the guy can take all the time in the world to make these reviews. They've only really gotten better and better over time (Boku no Natsuyasumi is my absolute fav and one of the only Youtube videos that made me tear up a bit, haha). I feel his Patreon and streams give enough stuff to watch and rewatch in the meantime anyway. I agree he shouldn't give timeline expectations that are impossible to stick to though, given the scope of his videos.

He has expressed a desire to hire a trusted staff to do some of the work for him in the future... Hopefully that's something attainable for him.
 
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Happy 1 year anniversary to the last Action Button review

I wonder if we’ll get the L.A. Noire review by the end of the year lol
 
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awhile back I did some nonsense regression analysis based on the amount of time between the release of each of the last few long videos (really normal, I know) and based on the upwardly-trending total days between each one, it indicated 370 days between the boku no natsuyasumi vid and the LA Noire one. so basically it'll be out this saturday, the 30th.

in all seriousness I don't care about how long the video takes really, and I've been backing the patreon for awhile now. I guess I do have some quibbles with how he handles this stuff, mainly with how he frames any change in stated plans as something intentional lol, but I definitely get why he doesn't provide updates/estimates anymore. in any case, that FFVIIR review commentary vid has gotta be coming any second now, at least...?
 
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Derachi said:
this man really said he was aiming to have Season 2’s finale out by Christmas Day 2023
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Sorry to bump with no news but

lol. Lmao

I really believed him! I really did. Again I get his videos take a while but maybe he should descope or stop setting clearly-unrealistic timelines or something. I’m excited for his next video, but honestly at this point I’ll be happy if we get it in 2024
 
The timelines never work out but cheers to everyone who subs to Action Button, because I absolutely love Tim Rogers lol. He does convoluted work and has several ongoing health problems, and I think the combination of that makes the wait long. But what a deliverance you get in the end. Tokemeki Memorial review still my fave.
 
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Derachi said:
Sorry to bump with no news but

lol. Lmao

I really believed him! I really did. Again I get his videos take a while but maybe he should descope or stop setting clearly-unrealistic timelines or something. I’m excited for his next video, but honestly at this point I’ll be happy if we get it in 2024
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There’s missing a timeline because it was a little unrealistic and then there is not just no videos, but not even so much as a single patreon update over 14 months later by the time the entire season was outlined to be finished, explaining the situation or what’s going on.
 
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So I was thinking about Action Button again recently, and how long it’s been since the last review. So I had a computer crunch some numbers.

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Wow! Five hundred and Seventy Days since the Boku no Natsuyasumi review. That’s a lot! I wonder how much longer we’re gonna be waiting for that L.A. Noire video.

Sorry for the bump with no news!
 
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