History WebVideo / RosssGameDungeon

* ScrappyMechanic: [[invoked]]Most of the games reviewed have a lot of good points but suffer from some kind of serious flaw, if not several, that makes them almost impossible to enjoy thoroughly. Ross has said several times that his ideal games for the show are ones that could be great except for a few critical issues that could potentially be addressed.

** Also from the ''Revenant'' episode, he professes his hatred for turn-based combat.

* ChristmasEpisode: Has one every year since 2014, with the first one being the winter-themed ''Polaris Snowcross'', admitting the "snow, therefore Christmas" connection is weak at best.

* AchillesHeel: Most of the games reviewed have a lot of good points but suffer from some kind of serious flaw, if not several, that makes them almost impossible to enjoy thoroughly. Ross has said several times that his ideal games for the show are ones that could be great except for a few critical issues that could potentially be addressed.

* BerserkButton:
** Anything that can kill a game (as in, nobody can play it anymore or at least nobody who doesn't already have a copy). Examples include always-online DRM that requires the game to connect to a central server, because the server ''will'' inevitably shut down someday (discussed in his ''The Last Stand'' and ''Battleforge'' videos), and companies getting {{Abandonware}} downloads taken down (discussed in his ''Test Drive 3'' video).
** The combination of BulletHell, [[OneHitPointWonder dying in one hit]], and a limited amount of lives being ''extremely'' prevalent throughout the vertical scrolling shooter genre. The lack of these things in ''Tyrian'' is a big part of why he likes the game so much.
** Mazes and maze-like design in games, especially in First-Person Shooters. He feels they are one of the wrong extremes of the SlidingScaleOfLinearityVsOpenness, turning games into a tedious labor of wandering around in circles until he can find the way forward.
** The Christmas-themed section of ''[=CarnEvil=]'' seriously pissed him off. He felt it ruined the atmosphere of what he considers a perfect Halloween game.
** Respawning enemies in a ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''-style RPG. He thinks it makes no sense, and that it diminishes the satisfaction of combat.

** Ross admits in ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' that he wants the token used to summon Umlaut. In Follow-up Episode #1 he recieves a 3D printed replica of the token.

* {{Catchphrase}}: Ross says "Let's talk about the music" nearly OncePerEpisode.

** In the ''Polaris Snocross'' episode, he calls back to the Christmas-themed section of ''[=CarnEvil=]'' that he despised by saying "I've got some ''good'' Christmas music for you this time!"

* ChristmasEpisode: Has one every year since 2014, with the first one being the winter-themed ''Polaris Snowcross'', admiting the "snow therefore Christmas" connection is weak at best.

* CreditsGag: The credits for the ''Revenant'' video have a magenta shadow under the text, like all of the text in the game (which was due to a bug).

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Invoked: Ross really liked the character of Joey from ''Arcade America'' and wishes he could have been in a better game, or a Saturday-morning cartoon, which is what the game obviously wanted to be.

* MeaningfulName: From his ''The Last Stand'' video, after playing the {{Allegedly Free| Game}} fourth game in the series, ''Dead Zone'':
-->'''Ross:''' You know what this means? It means ''The Last Stand'' series is a '''long con'''. This is what they were leading up to! They try to hook you on the early games, force you to play online later, then move in for the kill with ''Dead Zone''. Man... I admit, when I saw this was made by "Con Artists Productions", I thought they were just being stylish. I didn't suspect this game was '''literally''' made by con artists. Like, my homepage is "Accursed Farms", but that's just a name I made up. I don't actually live on a farm with fallow earth, and possessed cows, and a sentient scarecrow like in [[Literature/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark that one scary stories book]]. Not yet, anyway.

-->'''Ross:''' (from ''Tyrian'') I have a ship that's a carrot...

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After struggling through the increasingly insane difficulty and mind-numbing dungeons of ''Revenant'', thanks only to judicious use of cheat codes, Ross was almost to the final leg of the game when he was forced to look up a walkthrough and saw that there were at least six more huge dungeons left, all of them named "_____ Labyrinth". He gave up and skipped to the ending cinematic.

** For a more concrete example, he has described his obsession with video game maps as "sad".

* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: He suspects this about the ''Bip Bop'' trilogy, although it didn't stop him from hosting the games on his site with permission from the developer. Since the developer [[UnreliableNarrator supposedly]] told him that "the Harvest" was complete, it could be that they aren't dangerous ''anymore''.
* TimeTravel: Ross accuses the band Point Defiance of this, since their music appeared in the game ''Polaris Snocross'' a year before the band was officially formed, and the specific songs used in the game weren't released until even later, with some of them taking as long as ''six'' years after the game to come out.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Pops up in many of his videos such as in ''The Secret World'', where he finds some sinister-looking creature selling pumpkins and says that it doesn't seem like a good idea to buy any from him... they're a bit pricey. Or that being suspended in Hell is a sign of the end of summer in his ''Revenant'' review.

** Mazes and maze-like in games, especially in First-Person Shooters. He feels they are one of the wrong extremes of the SlidingScaleOfLinearityVsOpenness, turning games into a tedious labor of wandering around in circles until he can find the way forward.

** Mazes in First-Person Shooters.

** Respawning enemies in a ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''-style RPG.
** Turn-based combat.

* CallBack: In the ''Nyet III'' episode, Ross mentions in TheStinger that he can't read German, and in the ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' episode, he mentions that he still can't speak German.

* ChristmasEpisode: Had one in 2014 and will have one in 2015.

** One of the things "that triggers the obvious threat areas of the primal part of my brain" in the first follow-up episode is a teletubby.

* SelfDeprecation: Ross's summary of the show, which doubles as the page quote. Although YMMV on [[CrazyAwesome whether or not that counts as deprecation]].

* AprilFoolsDay: The review of ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}}'', released on 1st April 2015 had an extremely subtle April Fool's gag: it was an entirely serious, full-length episode, but every character in the game had [[SillinessSwitch their head replaced by a pumpkin]]. Ross did not acknowledge this at all, except for a comment about the game having extremely satisfying headshots for some reason he could not identify, and even played dumb in the comments section, feigning ignorance if someone brought it up.

* MotorMouth: Ross's advice on how to beat ''Nyet III'' is said ''very'' fast.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After struggling through the increasingly insane difficulty and mind-numbing dungeons of ''Revenant'', thanks only to judicious use of cheat codes, Ross was almost to the final leg of the game when he was forced to look up a walkthrough and saw that there were at least six more huge dungeons left. He gave up and skipped to the ending cinematic.
* SelfDeprecation: Ross's summary of the show, which doubles as the page quote.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight:
** Pops up in many of his videos such as in ''The Secret World'', where he finds some sinister-looking creature selling pumpkins and says that it doesn't seem like a good idea to buy any from him... they're a bit pricey. Or that being suspended in Hell is a sign of the end of summer in his ''Revenant'' review.
** In his review of ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}}'', uploaded on AprilFoolsDay, he uses some kind of code or mod to turn everybody's head into a pumpkin, and never comments on it once. Although he does repeatedly note that getting headshots in the game feels ''really'' satisfying for some odd reason that he just can't put his finger on. He also does a BaitAndSwitch when he decides to address "the elephant in the room"... which is just the ExactWords example above.

* CallBack: In the ''Nyet III'' episode, Ross mentions in TheStinger that he can't read German, and in the CarnEvil episode, he mentions that he still can't speak German.

* LongList: The list of things that are in Test Drive 3.

* MotorMouth: Ross's advice on how to beat Nyet III is said ''very'' fast.

* CallBack: In the Nyet III episode, Ross mentions in TheStinger that he can't read German, and in the CarnEvil episode, he mentions that he still can't speak German.

* BorrowedCatchphrase: Ross borrows Macil's catchphrase at the end of the "VideoGame/{{Strife}}" video.
-->"Fight for The Front and freedom. Move out!"
* BrickJoke: Ross admits in ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' that he wants the token used to summon Umlaut. In Follow-up Episode #1 he recieves a 3D printed replica of the token.
** In VideoGame/{{Strife}}, Ross mentions that looking up in a certain area reveals a minor spoiler, and at the end of the video he starts to look at the said spoiler.

* SoOkayItsAverage: A few of the games are doomed to be considered this, having been chosen for the show because they had a somewhat interesting concept, but were executed with such lack of effort that it's impossible to really like or particularly dislike them.

** Pops up in many of his videos such as in ''The Secret World'', where he finds some sinister-looking creature selling pumpkins and says that it doesn't seem like a good idea to buy any from him... they're a bit pricey. Or that being suspended in Hell is a sign of the end of summer in his ''Revenant'' review.

->""Fight for The Front and freedom. Move out!""

* {{SelfDeprecation}}: Ross's summary of the show, which doubles as the page quote.

* {{Selfdepreciation}}: Ross's summary of the show, which doubles as the page quote.

* SelfDepreciation: Ross's summary of the show, which doubles as the page quote.

* BorrowedCatchphrase: Ross borrows Macil's catchphrase at the end of the "VideoGame/Strife" video.

* BerserkButton: Anything that can kill a game (as in, nobody can play it anymore or at least nobody who doesn't already have a copy). Examples include always-online DRM that requires the game to connect to a central server, because the server ''will'' inevitably shut down someday (discussed in his ''The Last Stand'' and ''Battleforge'' videos), and companies getting {{Abandonware}} downloads taken down (discussed in his ''Test Drive 3'' video).

* FreezeFrameBonus: In the ''Test Drive 3'' episode when Ross is discussing about his obsession of video game maps, a map of Paso Robles to Monterey is shown briefly.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In his review of ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}}'', uploaded on AprilFoolsDay, he uses some kind of code or mod to turn everybody's head into a pumpkin, and never comments on it once. Although he does repeatedly note that getting headshots in the game feels ''really'' satisfying for some odd reason that he just can't put his finger on. He also does a BaitAndSwitch when he decides to address "the elephant in the room"... which is just the ExactWords example above.