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Firebrand9: RetroAhoy's voice is annoying, and is overly rhetorical, which is a deal-breaker for me. There's nothing he's doing that hasn't been done better elsewhere. Case-in-point : All Your History Are Belong To Us, which covers all the id games (and a lot more), in a much more interesting fashion, with far more depth, and doesn't attempt to glamorize it through vector art.
Different strokes for different folks.
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Firebrand9: Case-in-point : All Your History Are Belong To Us
Funny you say that, I find that series annoying myself.

As said, different strokes for different folks.
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Firebrand9: RetroAhoy's voice is annoying, and is overly rhetorical, which is a deal-breaker for me. There's nothing he's doing that hasn't been done better elsewhere. Case-in-point : All Your History Are Belong To Us, which covers all the id games (and a lot more), in a much more interesting fashion, with far more depth, and doesn't attempt to glamorize it through vector art.
RetroAhoy sounds great to me – enthusiastic, but not distracting. All Your History was also a great series, and then Rob Talbert was replaced as the narrator and the audience immediately rebelled, which just goes to show how important a good voice is. I love how he tells the story of Apogee’s founder Scott Miller writing phony fanmail in order to get John Romeo’s attention without alerting his bosses.
Post edited May 16, 2016 by markrichardb
Oh some love for RetroAhoy, that is amazing. I LOVE his stuff, mostly for the voice because it has a very legendary documentary feel to it.
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SpooferJahk: Oh some love for RetroAhoy, that is amazing. I LOVE his stuff, mostly for the voice because it has a very legendary documentary feel to it.
Totalbiscuit would have that effect. Retroahoy, ehhh.... Listening for an hour about what any watchers already knows is rhetorical. EG - Talking about the Doom sector effects on E1M3. People really need to know this is what happens? How about talking about the game's development and not splashing in the kiddie pool by stating the obvious by giving a blow-by-blow of a level's gameplay? It's like the guy has nothing more compelling to say so he states what anyone whose played the game for less than the average length of his videos already knows, minimally implicitly, and attempts to disguise it as "insight".

Even if his voice is overlooked, the lack of depth present in his videos make them at best a waste of time. Anything he states regarding development can be gleaned multiplied by orders of magnitude by just reading "Masters of Doom", The Book of id, the Game Developer articles on id Software, or Mike Abrash's articles on Quake's development. But, I value my time and prioritize quality. As has been stated, different strokes indeed...
Post edited May 16, 2016 by Firebrand9
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SpooferJahk: Oh some love for RetroAhoy, that is amazing. I LOVE his stuff, mostly for the voice because it has a very legendary documentary feel to it.
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Firebrand9: Totalbiscuit would have that effect. Retroahoy, ehhh.... Listening for an hour about what any watchers already knows is rhetorical. EG - Talking about the Doom sector effects on E1M3. People really need to know this is what happens? How about talking about the game's development and not splashing in the kiddie pool by stating the obvious by giving a blow-by-blow of a level's gameplay? It's like the guy has nothing more compelling to say so he states what anyone whose played the game for less than the average length of his videos already knows, minimally implicitly, and attempts to disguise it as "insight".

Even if his voice is overlooked, the lack of depth present in his videos make them at best a waste of time. Anything he states regarding development can be gleaned multiplied by orders of magnitude by just reading "Masters of Doom", The Book of id, the Game Developer articles on id Software, or Mike Abrash's articles on Quake's development. But, I value my time and prioritize quality. As has been stated, different strokes indeed...
I get ya on that but hey, he's there when TotalBiscuit is busy talking about current news and what not.