*If* you have time, there’s a lot of hours of them now.

This is an especially exciting moment for me, since I’m a big fan of your work. I bring up your article about Bioshock’s use of violence in my own video about it. Thank you for taking the time to watch a video that I very obviously made mostly in my garage, and thank you doubly for sharing it with others.

Here's a video that looks at all of the games in order— it makes a little more sense when you consider the design values of the whole series.

I want to talk in this guy's defense as an amateur youtube critic myself. I don't like any of his videos. But damned if I'm not impressed with what he's managed to accomplish with them. I work in food service, as a pizza cook, and I'm working my way up through college— I have no credentials whatsoever to participate…

I don't think you should have to be credentialed to do game criticism. I'm a pizza cook, but I do in-depth amateur game reviews myself, and frankly, I love the freedom of it to talk about the things I felt were important and unique. It's great, from a content producer perspective, simply because we do it for free and…

There's also the phenomenon of long-form game criticism. Amateur game critics are putting out long, detailed looks into games— more detailed than a major gaming news outlet would have time or inclination to produce. Angry Joe is vaguely in that category, but the Errant Signal guy, Campster, is a much better example.…