{"id":41970,"date":"2018-02-18T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=41970"},"modified":"2018-02-16T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T17:21:33","slug":"the-best-of-youtube-raycevick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=41970","title":{"rendered":"The Best of YouTube: Raycevick"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I discovered Raycevick<\/a>, a YouTube channel dedicated to retrospectives, primarily focused on shooters. I know some of you have nudged<\/a> me<\/a> in the past to check this guy out, but I didn’t get around to it until this week. I’m only about halfway through his catalog so far, but it’s really solid stuff. <\/p>\n

Like Joseph Anderson<\/a>, I often wish our tastes were more similar so I could get more out of his videos. Aside from Spec Ops: The Line (which he covered last summer<\/a>) I haven’t really paid much attention to military shooters. Sure, I occasionally sampled them just to keep track of what the genre was doing, but I’ve never been a fan and to this day I still get the lineages and developers of the tentpole series confused. If someone mentions Battlefield, Call of Duty, Modern Warfare, Medal of Honor, Black Ops, Ghosts, Rainbow Six, Bad Company, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, or Infinite Warfare, I usually have to consult Wikipedia to remind myself which ones are core titles and which ones are spinoffs from which other onesAlso I tend to get Company of Heroes mixed up in there, even though that one is a strategy game.<\/span>. But Raycevick knows his shooters and his videos offer a lot of great insights to the history and nuance of these games, even if they all tend to blur together for me.<\/p>\n

The one video I want to highlight is Be Your Own Consumer<\/a>: <\/p>\n