Literally this guy here is only reason I subscribed to Kotaku.

correction: when i say “both kings field and dark souls use souls as currency” i am completely wrong. the truth is that line was unfinished in the script. the prompter just went “both kings field and dark souls” and cut off. i saw that and was like “i have no idea what i was even going to write here. so i’ll just say something random and then cut it out during editing!” i said something random and then did NOT cut it out during editing :-( oops! making a show like this all by myself is kinda hard lmao

Who are you kidding? WE WANT A 3 HOURS REVIEW!

This video pushes all of my buttons. In a similar vein, I intend to push all of the buttons on my controller when this game comes out on Friday.

"If you've ever finished a Soulsborne game you know that exploring one is the closest playing a videogame comes to an actual romantic relationship" Tim Rogers understands my feelings better than I do.

I’d watch Tim Rogers talk about a single thing for 3 hours

I'm binge watching the Tim Rogers playlist. Just wanted to say the Hello is strong in this one. Thanks for reading.

Armored Core crawling onto the screen is a Master Level joke

Tim Rogers is a national treasure.

Props for showing up on camera, this isn't an easy feat and I'm glad you're following your new years resolutions, can't wait to see you get more comfortable and own it in the future ! Love your work - and your jacket !

You goddarn maniac, Tim! Always a pleasure to listen (and now SEE) you!

Is it coincidental that Sekiro's main character has a face with moving lips and a voice, as does Tim Rogers?

I love you Tim! The cadence in which you speak and structure your sentences, is a reaccuring reminder of what I love about writing.

Tim, I like just about every kind of video you make, and I find every video you make to be a gift. I want you to make videos, but mostly I want you to make the kind of videos that best allow you to keep making videos without exhausting yourself and the special mojo that makes your work so, er, treasurable. Thank you for the music, and be well.

Sometimes Tim Rogers reminds me of a character from "Wayne's World " interpreted interchangeably by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey.

Please do a three hour review Tim, sincerely the internet

Great stuff Tim. Your work is why I watch and frequent this channel. Keep it up! You will not die hungry!!!

I love this format, seeing Tim communicate these lines makes it far more personal, especially for his own writing. This create a really nice variety from the "voice over only videos" (which are also great) ... and frankly, I love Kotaku for the staff's individual personalities. This puts a writer's personality front and center and further communicates an idea or critique by a real person, not just the name on the channel/website. Thank you for experimenting with your format and for the hardwork of the team! Keep trying new things, you are all awesome.

ARMORED CORE SOULS Seriously, I have a desperate need

This felt really fresh compared to the other videos covering Sekiro out there currently. Great video Tim, I look forward to playing it just as much as you do!!

This was great! The real bonus for watching til the end was seeing you finally crack a smile :)

Great stuff. I love both ninja scroll and Bushido blade. Funny commentary for sure!

I love this. Now I guess I will go back to rewatching Kay Plays Dark Souls until 11:59 Thursday night.

Hey Tim! Long time fan of your writing, content and assorted works. Loving the new format! I'm a diehard From fan as well and can't wait to sit in a dark room with Sekiro as well. Thanks!

I subscribed just for this guy. More content with Tim, please.

Thank you Tim Rogers for just being... you. I would literally like a super cut of you saying the word, “literally”.

Great vid Tim, love the format!

GODDAMMIT TIM ROGERS WHY IS YOUR INTERNET PERSONA SO POWERFULLY LOVABLE

Great video Tim!. That is some good ass knowledge and sarcasm your dropping on us. YOU got me to sub to kotaku. Good job dude.

Stephen Totilo, please pay tim to make his three hour Dark Souks retrospective review.

Happy birthday for all soulsgames fans!

Tim, it’s a pleasure to see you uphold your 2019 New Year’s resolution! Please continue to appear on camera.

Happy Birthday Tim and thank's for the review!

Shinto Noise Beast would be an excellent band name. Thanks Tim!

I would enjoy a 3 hour Dark Souls review, no matter how inscrutable the framing device. A framing device I _would_ eventually _scrute,_ even if it took me 7 watches of those 3 hours. (I am now going to look up what scrute means. Let's hope for the best.)

I appreciate the double layered Armored Core joke in the beginning very much

I officially love this guy! he is blunt and hilarious! well done! subscribed!

Yay new format! Now I understand your tweet about Brian David Gilbert and Unravelled. 😬 The Activision puns were VERY good.

You, sir, make me feel like my love of these games has been--and always will be--the right answer. Thank you for adding to my confirmation bias, Tim Rogers.

Keep popping these out! 10/10

I’ve been waiting for Tim to make a Sekiro video, almost as much as I’ve been waiting for Sekiro itself!

I for one love that this video exists, I've also never have and possibly never will play a Dark Souls game, as I don't like video games that are super hard (I'm a, as Tim Rogers would say, chill with my buds kind of gamer who I only came back into the fold after not playing for six years after I bought a Switch), I also had it on in the background while I played my favorite online CCG (it's called Duelyst and you should check it out) and I just generally love Tim Rogers content. Thank you Tim if you're reading this, I'm proud of you for making this video.

Awesome! You obviously picked up a lot from the visit to Last Week Tonight

I feel much the same way about Tim's videos and commentary as I do about From Saftware's games. They feel like birthday presents, just for me. Hilarious and brilliantly written, with superb delivery. Massive props for clearly inflecting Dark SOULS and Demon's SOULS properly too, unlike the rest of the internet.

Bro I just subbed! “ I was born stupid, but I’m not going to die hungry! Not even once!” That got me good man

This is not a comment.

Great video. one of your best.

So good. Also I had no idea From Software made that slew of weird 2000s games whose box art is burrowed into my subconscious like a scent long forgotten.

Tim trying not to crack up at himself at the end is fucking brilliant.

So THIS is Tim Rogers. Nice to meet you my dude.

You have the best non reviews on youtube, I always look forward to what you have to say about the latest and greatest in video games! Thank you best 17 minutes ever !!!!

You’re the best, we need more videos of you like this.

You the man dude, thanks a lot seriously!

i liked it. very much. i also click like on all yer videos at hello. and yes i did watch all of it. i laughed (more than twice), and i love u even more now that we all agree we totally twice thousand percent biased and closed room in the dark it is

I like this style of video and I like you talking about From Software games. More please!

I swear if I didn't know Tim's age I would think he was 25 at most. If all you have to do to beat aging is become a Professional Video Expert, sign me up right now.

Ahahab I love Tim Roger videos. They are fun and you learn a lot with him. In a wierd way and with wierd database and facts.

This is awesome! So happy I found this video 😂😂 dying

Great piece! As an aside, I'm still hoping that the end of the game has the protagonist saving his lord - Lord Gohda from Tenchu. Plus points if our hero is mortally wounded and passes his blade to a pre-teen Rikimaru who is also held captive, and told to extract Gohda in a final mission that plays more like traditional Tenchu. I just really love Tenchu.

Omg not what I thought Tim Rogers would look like him :) , he has an awesome voice !

I would never visit this channel if Tim Rogers wasn't so hilarious🤣😂😆

This is the best review I have ever seen or could imagine!

Tim Rogers called Tears of the Kingdom release date of May 12th 4 years ago!!!

The best Activision joke I have seen in the comments section regarding Sekiro, is: “Activision: Costumers pay twice.”

You’re funny! Thanks... I needed that.

lololol the armored core cover floating un into frame

“Metastavision” is one amazing quote from this super quotable video lol

I want demon souls 2. My favourite souls-like.

Love this new format! However, my propensity for symmetry leaves me wishing you, Tim, would scoot just a wee bit to the right. I can’t rest easy as long as your arm is making metaphysical contact with the digitally-placed video screen. Surely you understand.

Every time I clicked away on this video and looked at something else I would click back for it to play the beginning of the clip before buffering... in any case I got to hear “HELLO IM TIM RODGERS” quite a bit and it was hilarious xD

good shit, i wanna see Tim actually play and review this game now..if even a little bit.

Wow, single handedly restored my faith in Kotaku. This was 17 minutes of awkward brilliance.

Man, I really love this format

This was the only video I didn’t know I needed as I wait patiently for Sekiro to arrive. I feel like I want to telepathically convene with everyone out there who is as excited as I am and just bellow ‘cummon!’

Just hearing the reference to Vagabond at 8:50 felt great. I am excited for Ghost of Tsushima. Sekiro actually reminds me a bit of Inuyasha with it's dark, beastly tone.

'Samurai didn't use grappling hooks' extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

The voice behind the legend reveals his face and Sekiro comes out soon, Coincidence i think not. Great video Tim!

I love this hahaha Tim Rogers is great

This video is exactly what I needed in my life. Got the sub from me. Can't wait for more of what ever this was lol ;c)

Even tho Tim doesnt work at Kotaku anymore, they really should be sending him regular paychecks for his contributions to the industry. Video games are better when Tim Rogers talks about them.

Amazing video, Tim.

good hand movements tim 🤝

my mind blew at the mere thought of "bladerunner souls" and now that is all i want even though it's something i have never even once considered before this video

the only birthday present I want is “video souls ball”!

You're just wonderful at convincing me to purchase video games. I was going to wait until next month but it's on sale now for 50$. After this I have to have a long contemplation on dragon quest XI.

nice to see Kotaku XP back. Where Gita tho???

I’m desperate for that 3 hour Dark Souls review Tim!

Man... John Oliver really knows his videogames.

Never seen a Tim Rogers video before, and I have to say this is one of the best gaming videos I have ever seen. Bravo!

Wait, I also thought of Ninja Scroll when I first saw footage of Sekiro! Can I go to your birthday party too? To be honest, the only reason I though of Ninja Scroll though is because it's on my mind's quick-dial of reference points to anything remotely like this. I suspect that many European fellas of a certain age have the same indelible memory of watching Manga (Video? Entertainment? I don't remember)'s Voodoo People trailer, and Ninja Scroll was the first of the Anime released by that company I ever watched. I also suspect many of those European fellas had the same feeling of discovery that I had. It was the perfect thing at the perfect time. (By the way, it's cool seeing Tim fulfilling this New Year Resolution. And it's cool just seeing Tim).

This dude should have his own channel, he's too good to just ba apart of something bigger.

Wolf's robo-arm really harkens back to Tezuka's Dororo

I see Tim Rogers. I must say... I clicked.

I really want to write a constructive comment, but all I really have to say is...keep giving us Tim Rogers. Such an insightful man

If more video game journalists were like Mr. Tim Rogers here. I would start taking them seriously again. This man is a treasure.

I'm also excited for Ghost of Sushimi. Btw I cant believe Tim Roger's is 40 years old.

So this is Tim Rogers fellow. Good chap

What a very well spoken individual you are...bravo pip...bravo

Dude, ya nailed it! Thumbs up... waaaaaaay up. How bout...Actderision?

I've been thinking about how beating your first Soulsborne game is a transformative experience. A lot of series newcomers ask whether Soulsborne games are for them if they aren't into hard games. In the case of Soulsborne, I don't think that's the right question to ask, because if you beat a Soulsborne game, then you become the kind of person that Soulsborne games are for, regardless of what kind of "gamer" you were before.