Its a rough buisness. Everything moves at the speed of light. Jokes are old the second they get told and memed to death within 2 days. How do you keep up with that level of media consumption? You can't.

When you burn out and have nothing left creativly, you still have to keep making content to pay the bills. Some guys who got into this line work barely keep their heads above water.

I mean could you or any of you keep that up for like 5 years? I couldn't and wouldn't want to.

All true, but I think it was, or at least could have been a little different for Spoony. Unlike Nostalgia Critic or Angry Joe who are fighting for the big mainstream audience, Spoony had his own audience, fans of old PC games, D&D and 80's movies, a crowd not so fickle, not so dependant on the moods of the internet and social media. So I thought he might go on, and do so without declining like NC and AJ. Then again, I remember him speaking about how "the writing is on the wall for us internet reviewers" way back in 2012. So I guess time was catching up with him too, and he knew it.

I think Angry Joe redirected his energy away from reviews due to the Content ID system that Youtube uses. Ditto for Nolstagia Critic, as his clip shows are not vulnerable to takedown.

All true and it bums me out.

I don't think he has commented on computer RPGs, but personally I don't like playing "flawed" characters like a low-intelligence mage. In a P&P game the DM can adjust the game to the players, so he could direct the game in a way that makes a low-intelligence mage interesting, like making the mage into a charlatan who is on the run from an aristocrat he cheated once, and you can then build a story around that. In a computer game everything is more or less fixed, so unless the game designers specifically expected you to play a low-intelligence mage you will just get stuck with a character that sucks.

Just for a quick laugh -a cameo I totally forgot about .

Also, I love the Treguard t-shirt.

Agreed. I can't help but remember playing NWN by myself which isn't a big surprise really, and after every fight i had to rest and restore spells/skills/HP. Honestly if you aren't pushing your all and being super optimized, you can't get too easily ahead in NWN. I wish the XP wasn't cut in 1/10th, then being 1-2 levels above what you'd need to barely scrape by would even out and you'd have an easier time rather than fighting the system.

I think NWN was the only game of D&D based where i actually beat the base campaign, but never any others. Quite often you end up save scrubbing, or doing something, quicksave doing something, reload and prepare, try again, etc etc. P&P D&D you don't reload if you die because you failed to notice a trap. Then again the DM will probably not throw something you can't handle, unless you did something really stupid like try to break into the thieves guild at first level to steal an artifact...

Randomizing a character can make interesting results which force you to think, and consider how you might play the character differently rather than min/maxing. Losing an eye, having scars, a background where you were fiercely loyal to the church until demons killed your family, etc etc. Those can't possibly be accounted for in a scripted game beyond the scope of basic path choices.

Is this a thread about spoony bards?

Well, Spoony did show up in a cameo in the Atop the 4th Wall Movie, so he's not entirely disappeared of the face of the Earth. A pity that seems to be all, I would have thought he'd have a bigger role in something like that, after all the collaborations he had with Linkara. I think they worked together way more often then some of the other people who are main characters here.

I won't be watching the whole thing, I was never a big fan of Linkara, and even less so of his storylines. Although I'll admit, it did give me a certain nostaligc feeling for the good old days of That Guy With the Glasses.

Spoony hates Fallout 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZah1GSDxk0

WTF was he thinking starting with Fallout 2 instead of 1?

I mean jeez him hating it speaks volumes that Fallout 2's first hours are BULLSHIT. Naked and only a spear. Fuck the people who rolled skilled with Small Guns :P

Well, as we know Spoony does not suffer bad beginnings in games gladly. I just wish he made a review or a vlog out of it, or at least an edited down version of the let's play like he did with Final Fantasy Online. In other words something actually akin to fun, not hours of watching someone play a game.

I can't believe I'm saying that, but there is actually a new review from Spoony! And only a year since the last one :D

Unfortunately it's not Final Fantasy XIII-2 or something Ultima, but still, it's rather fun. Now to wonder- is he back to making reviews (no too often, but at least from time to time), or is this just blip and we won't hear from him for another year (or ever)? Let's hope for the best, and expect the worst :D

Do you know what music has been used for the outro in this Counter Monkey video?

Now i really miss Spoony. Not long ago was rewatching the Baboon D&D story/blunder.

I just rewatched the Let's Riff on the Ripper. Spoony really was the only guy who could make watching someone play a game fun for me. ALthough the hilarity of the game itslef also helped a lot.

That guy... he's un-fucking-believable.