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Content Patch : April 9th, 2013 - Ep. 065 [Ouya critique, Thief, Square-Enix]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCnYNerkTIk

I thought todays content Patch was pretty good. Talking about Ouya getting number reviews while still not officially launched yet, Thief and their 30FPS announcement, and Square Enix and budgets. Pretty good listen, and I agree with him on just about everything he talks about today.
 
Zeth said:
Thanks for the heads up. I try to check out his stuff every so often, I usually enjoy it.
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Ya, I think he really is great for the gaming community. He is a everything gamer, while also making it a point to cover and actively support e-sports, by having his own team. He is essentially, to me, a single man giantbomb, in terms of how much I enjoy him and value his opinions. He would actually be the perfect guy for Giantbomb to cover the e-sports scene, these guys should really get together, imo. Would be the perfect fit for Giantbomb looking for a moba/e-sports guy and TB has his own following.

I think he deserves a lot more attention, to me.
 
The thing with TB is that he's never really insightful. Most of his points are discussed many times over on any given forum.

I like him for his Steam sale coverage and his WTF Is series when he covers games I don't know much about.

As far as the whole youtube gaming personalities thing goes, well, it gets a whole lot worse. He's alright.
 
strafer said:
I think he even has an account here. Saw something on Twitter once.
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Ya he does, I think he got a John Walker treatment, and had a sped up visa, so he could get it. Dont think I have seen him post yet though. I decided, I'm just going to try and make it a regular thing, creating content patch topics. He normally brings up great talking points, whether you agree with him or not.
 
I totally agree about the whole Ouya situation right now. The thing isn't even done yet, and the fact of the matter is that people love to be overly negative about things because that is what's popular on forums and places like reddit, not to mention the general public on certain sites have a bias towards some companies while others can do no wrong.
 
Sub_Level said:
The thing with TB is that he's never really insightful. Most of his points are discussed many times over on any given forum.

I like him for his Steam sale coverage and his WTF Is series when he covers games I don't know much about.

As far as the whole youtube gaming personalities thing goes, well, it gets a whole lot worse. He's alright.
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I dunno, I dont think his "insightful" is bad at all. I think he normally takes a pretty well thought out stance on things. I mean unless you are using insightful in someway other then its definitition. I find him to much more articulate and insightful then your average(and most of) forum poster or your average games media personality, so umm, I disagree?
 
I like TB he does good work with his video's and watching those video's since World of Warcraft. And i had the pleasure to meet him at gamescom almost 2 years ago now when he lived in europe before he went to america. He is a very nice guy to talk with.
 
Izick said:
I totally agree about the whole Ouya situation right now. The thing isn't even done yet, and the fact of the matter is that people love to be overly negative about things because that is what's popular on forums and places like reddit, not to mention the general public on certain sites have a bias towards some companies while others can do no wrong.
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Ya, he makes a good point that it isnt marketed at the same kind of people. The one point I really agree with is, a system like this wouldn't be a bad idea for some one who really cant afford your core gaming experience. Also his talk about confirmation bias is quite true, and something a lot of us get caught doing.
 
He's completely wrong about the OUYA. The creators made NO indication that the device sent out to Kickstarter supporters would be a beta product. The opposite in fact! They literally said that it was "baked, done." It was only after the negative reviews came out that they started claiming that this was a test launch for early supporters. This is a classic case of adjusting the goalposts and no one should fall for it.
 
Some of the Verge's complaints about the Ouya will certainly be addressed during the "beta" period. But hardware issues such as sticky controller buttons arent (cant really) be addressed and remain valid
 
unbias said:
Ya, he makes a good point that it isnt marketed at the same kind of people. The one point I really agree with is, a system like this wouldn't be a bad idea for some one who really cant afford your core gaming experience. Also his talk about confirmation bias is quite true, and something a lot of use get caught doing.
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There is a very large contingent of people on GAF that fit this too.
 
He's ok, he has a habbit of making a point then going over it again and again and again and aga... You get the idea. He really needs an editor to clean up his scripts and make things much more concise.
 
I seem to remember a lot of people saying the Ouya could be great for gaming, etc. - basically hyping it up. I don't think I remember any negativity about it here at NeoGaf when the Kickstarter launched or around that time.

Is it possible that the industry, or the industry leaders didn't want this in the market, and decided to throw out some negative hype? Like, having some sites create some articles that would plant a seed of confirmation bias. Just the way some of those articles were phrased made it really easy to dislike it. But before, when they were asking for money, it was really easy to like it.

Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit here, though. :)
 
Jac_Solar said:
I seem to remember a lot of people saying the Ouya could be great for gaming, etc. - basically hyping it up. I don't think I remember any negativity about it here at NeoGaf when the Kickstarter launched or around that time.

Is it possible that the industry, or the industry leaders didn't want this in the market, and decided to throw out some negative hype? Like, having some sites create some articles that would plant a seed of confirmation bias. Just the way some of those articles were phrased made it really easy to dislike it. But before, when they were asking for money, it was really easy to like it.

Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit here, though. :)
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Yes, it's all a conspiracy.
 
Jac_Solar said:
I seem to remember a lot of people saying the Ouya could be great for gaming, etc. - basically hyping it up. I don't think I remember any negativity about it here at NeoGaf when the Kickstarter launched or around that time.

Is it possible that the industry, or the industry leaders didn't want this in the market, and decided to throw out some negative hype? Like, having some sites create some articles that would plant a seed of confirmation bias. Just the way some of those articles were phrased made it really easy to dislike it. But before, when they were asking for money, it was really easy to like it.

Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit here, though. :)
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No, it's just a mobile phone without any of the benefits of being a mobile phone to me. I don't see the benefits at all, besides that its cheap and allows for indie development. But that's why we have personal computers... and mobile phones. And PS3/4/Vita.
 
Kariodude said:
I agree with what TB says about gaming about 95% of the time. I just wish he wasn't so completely full of himself.
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Meh, I've always assumed that is his shtick as a video personality(you normally have to have one). Never really bothered me, because it doesn't really take away from his message.
 
unbias said:
Meh, I've always assumed that is his shtick as a video personality(you normally have to have one). Never really bothered me, because it doesn't really take away from his message.
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If you follow his Twitter, he's actually very self-critical. He's obviously projecting a bit of persona in his "Cynical Brit" YouTube channel, everyone does. It's human nature.
 
antitrop said:
If you follow his Twitter, he's actually very self-critical. He's obviously projecting a persona in his "Cynical Brit" YouTube channel.
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Ya, that is what I mean. It has always seemed somewhat apparent to me that, that is what he does as a personality. I guess I'm mroe used to it because a lot of sports jounalists/personalities are the exact same way, and I still enjoy watching most of them.
 
I was gona say Ive seen him be very self critical as well... He definitely admits hes not the greatest gamer and such. Hes just very passionate about certain aspects of gaming. A lot of which I agree with him...
 
Ingueferroque said:
He was one of the few brave enough to go against the grain with Bioshock Infinite.
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His video and Campster's made me think less of a lot of elements from Bioshock: Infinite especially it's gameplay.

TB's content patch videos are really good stuff. Always watch 'em.
 
Ingueferroque said:
He was one of the few brave enough to go against the grain with Bioshock Infinite.
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oh come on there's nothing brave about saying negative things about Infinite, especially when he openly stated to only being hyper critical for the sole purpose of providing another opinion from all the positive reception.
 
I really enjoy his videos, be it content patch, or wtf is, etc... From time to time I'll check my YT subscriptions and see any new interesting videos before going to sleep, but his always get preferential treatment.
 
Not a huge fan of TB but don't hate the guy or anything, some of his videos are pretty decent but sometimes he comes across as a bit of a dick.
 
CraftySkills said:
oh come on there's nothing brave about saying negative things about Infinite, especially when he openly stated to only being hyper critical for the sole purpose of providing another opinion from all the positive reception.
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Ya, I agree, but at the same time it is refreshing that he does do things like this, simply for the sake of trying to give more then the mainline opinion.
 
I think he's too verbose, goes on forever about the same thing. Still enjoy a lot of his videos though.
 
eot said:
I think he's too verbose, goes on forever about the same thing. Still enjoy a lot of his videos though.
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His rants can sometimes go a bit long, but I dunno if I would say he is too "wordy", just more like when he gets on a soapbox he stays there a bit long sometimes.
 
unbias said:
His rants can sometimes go a bit long, but I dunno if I would say he is too "wordy", just more like when he gets on a soapbox he stays there a bit long sometimes.
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I think the fact that he can speak clearly without stumbling for minutes on end really helps, better than others who simply do spastic cuts to hide their incoherency.
 
CraftySkills said:
oh come on there's nothing brave about saying negative things about Infinite, especially when he openly stated to only being hyper critical for the sole purpose of providing another opinion from all the positive reception.
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These days? I'd say it calls for bravery. I'd be terrified of starting a thread debating the rose tinted glasses everyone is having over Infinite.
 
A great pastime: measure how long it takes for him to get to pertinent discussion of a game in any of his videos.

It's steadily grown over time. I've seen videos where he takes five to seven minutes sitting at the menu screen just blathering on...and on...and on.
 
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