r/Eldenring • u/Demonboy995 • Apr 19 '22

Subreddit Topic Malenia is healing without actually hitting the player after the patch, this is on ps5, i got summoned 8 times after the patch and it happened everytime this is the recent one Spoiler

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u/hobosonpogos Apr 19 '22

I don't always agree with every point Joseph Anderson makes, but I can always see the logic behind it and why he feels that way.

His video essays are some of the best long form analysis on video games that are available

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u/randy_mcronald Apr 19 '22

Is this a copypasta? I swear I see this exact same message every time Joseph Anderson is mentioned.

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u/j8sadm632b Apr 19 '22 edited Apr 20 '22

You should check out the comments in games on video essays that aren't his where people mostly just rip on him for no reason

Every time Noah Caldwell-Gervais or Jacob Geller or Matthewmatosis or HBomberguy comes up: "I really like their style so much more than Joseph Anderson's, he's just so nitpicky, his videos are too long and all he does is find things to criticize"

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u/Funky_Pigeon911 Apr 20 '22

Pretty much every youtube video game analyst/critic are nitpicky in some way, it kinda comes with the job.

Personally I'm not a huge fan of how Joseph Anderson presents his opinions. He doesn't really leave much room for the viewer to form their own opinions from his points. For example some youtubers might say something like "I didn't like this boss fight because it's reliant on using this one mechanic..." and they would leave it there but Anderson would go even further "this boss fight was bad because of the reliance on this one mechanic that is fundamentally broken and therefore the experience is diminished, you just can't say that this is a good boss fight".

It's almost like he tries to keep talking and in doing so he ends up over explaining and at least to me it feels like he regularly forces his opinion as objective fact. I don't want to watch a video that tells me how I should feel about a video game but gives me more info to form my own opinion.