Line #4 YMMV/YoVideogames


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: In late 2017, several of Max's artistically talented regulars collaborated to produce a new all-animated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpxqHWOU_gY intro sequence]] packed full of {{Call Back}}s to humorous moments from the stream (like Kenny's "Twenty-One!" moment and Steve's glow-in-the-dark T-shirt).
2	** In 2018 he added to it by commissioning a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEw2-l70Bh4&t=1m49s new animated intro]] for the Youtube channel from Volta Bass (who's done work for [[WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay Matt McMuscles]] before) with an original theme song composed by Little V Mills.
3	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Simmons can come off as this on the stream, thanks to being very vocal on his opinions and delighting in every opportunity to mess with people (anime fans in particular are a favorite target of his).
4	* BrokenBase: In late 2018, Max announced that he would be doing streams with official sponsorship. While the vast majority of his fanbase was okay with this because very little changed from his normal streams[[note]]they're rare, Max still has control over what games he plays, and at worst he runs one or two ads during his normal multi-hour streams[[/note]], a small portion complained about him "selling out". In order to address this, Max tried to make it so the streams benefited his audience as well; the first stream saw him buying a gaming laptop from Walmart, which he promptly raffled away. There's also the fact that he only accepts sponsorships from companies or products he'd actually use himself, rather than just shilling for whomever will hand him the largest checks.
5	* CrazyIsCool: About 90% of what Asura does in ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' is due to [[AwesomenessIsVolatile The Power of HYPE!]]
6	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
7	** At EVO 2018, Max revealed that he'd been contacted by Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords because he'd won the record for largest online fighting game community, and would be featured in the 2019 Gamer's Edition of their book. They asked Max to come in for a commemorative photo shoot...and he told them that the rest of the team had to be in the photo too or else he wouldn't do it, because they're just as important to the channel as he is. How's that for TrueCompanions?
8	** [[https://twitter.com/unrooolie/status/1035734113615921153 This tweet]] from Kenny makes it even sweeter, since Max insisting on including the whole crew allowed him to fulfill his childhood dream of getting into the Guinness Book.
9	** A few of the stories Max brings back from big conventions like E3 and EVO can become this. One big example: ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' head honcho Hideaki Itsuno cried TearsOfJoy when Creator/ReubenLangdon showed him Max's reaction to the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' reveal trailer, since it demonstrated how much people appreciate his work and how excited they are about the game.
10	** At EVO 2017, Max got approached not only by industry greats like Akira Nishitani (the designer behind ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFight''), but none other than Daigo Umehara asked for a picture and later posted it to Twitter, referring to him as "Max-sempai". Let that sink in for a moment: an undisputed legend of the fighting game community considers Max his sempai.
11	** In December 2018, Max revealed that at one event he was approached by a Japanese man who, in broken English, said that he appreciated the [[VideoGame/FatalFury Rock Howard]] Legacy videos he'd done. When Max asked who he was, he introduced himself as Nobuyuki Kuroki, an art director for SNK and '''Rock's creator''', who would later go on to direct the 2019 reboot of ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'', another favorite series of Max's.
12	** After E3 2019, Max revealed that during the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' press event, he noticed some of the Square-Enix people paying extra attention to him. After the event was over, he asked for a picture with Yoshinori Kitase, the game's director, who agreed. And then Kitase asked for a picture with ''him'', explaining that when the game's dev team was feeling down or directionless, they would watch Max's reaction video to the original reveal trailer because seeing his sheer, unbridled joy at their work gave them the energy to keep going.
13	** Max loves pretending to hate his chatroom, but when he's in full SincerityMode he tells [[https://clips.twitch.tv/PowerfulArtisticPoultryPastaThat a different story]].
14	** Max started a new series around July 2020 called "Virtua Couch" to try and get a safe couch gaming-like experience during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7N1NMzZCO4 a CvS2 episode]], he insisted on paying a local fiber optic company ''$1700 a month for commercial-grade gigabit internet'' to deliver a quality stream experience, and throughout the episode he repeatedly insists he's only able to do so thanks to the continued support of his fanbase, feeling that spending his fans' money on better streaming was just the right thing to do.
15	* HePannedItNowHeSucks: Max is a CompassionateCritic through and through, but he still gets hate from people who are upset that he doesn't play or talk about "their" games as much as they'd like; of course, he also gets the inverse of this ("He Praised It, Now He Sucks"?) if he likes a game that others don't.
16	** Max actually addresses both these occurrences in a 2018 video where he analyzes what went wrong with ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', noting that if you ever said anything bad about the game the hardcore fans would call you a hater, but if you said anything good about it the game's haters would call you a sellout. Max himself had to deal with both sides, since he enjoyed the game[[note]]He's even said that, in his opinion, ''Infinite'' has the best gameplay out of the entire ''Marvel vs. Capcom'' series to date[[/note]] but still acknowledged its glaring flaws and tried (unsuccessfully) to convince Capcom to fix them before the final release. As if to prove his point, shortly after that video was posted, Max actually got ''death threats'' from people who didn't like what he said, and later on he said that some people even accused him of being personally responsible for its failure.
17	* HilariousInHindsight: While hunting Arch-Tempered Vaal Hazak in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'', Max noticed someone in the chatroom joking about "[[OxymoronicBeing Arch-Tempered Great Jagras]]"[[note]]In other words, a HarderThanHard version of the game's first and easiest hunt[[/note]] and chuckled while calling it "The ultimate boss!" About six months later, Capcom introduced the Greatest Jagras as part of the game's 1-year anniversary, and [[LethalJokeCharacter he's certainly no pushover]].
18	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: In Max's 2015 playthrough of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', he admitted that when he played the game in the past, he somehow missed TheReveal that Cait Sith was [[spoiler:Shinra executive Reeve]] the whole time, and knowing that fact improved his opinion of the character a lot.
19	** Likewise, ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'' completely changed his opinion of the character. While he never liked Spider-Man while growing up[[note]]Part of it was actually due to a near-fatal incident he had with a black widow spider when he was younger, which he credits to be the reason why he never used Spider-Man in the old Capcom fighting games he was in[[/note]] (though he understood why others did), the game's well-written, meaningful portrayal coupled with fun, dynamic gameplay made him appreciate both the heroic and human sides of Spidey, with him going so far as to say that the game was probably the best representation of Spider-Man ever made.
20	** In the past Max teasingly made fun of "Battle Royale"-style games like ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'', but ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps4'' actually managed to win him over, in large part because it paired the tried-and-true ''COD'' gameplay he'd loved for years with the Battle Royale concept. Simply put, he had so much fun with the game that he streamed it for '''over thirty hours''' over the course of four days, including playing with the whole Yo!VG crew at his house on the weekend and streaming for over ten hours by himself the following Monday and Tuesday. When ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'' dropped, he - a noted fan of ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'' - similarly spent a decent amount of time binge-playing it, but ended up dropping it because the three-person team format meant that the whole group couldn't play it together[[note]]He did entertain the idea of playing it with chat moderators, but that never materialized and they simply went back to ''COD''[[/note]].
21	** Due to his love of the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise, Max played ''VideoGame/AlienIsolation'' when it first came out in 2014, but was disappointed due to its slow start and because (as he put it) ''[[VideoGame/SilentHills P.T.]]'' was so scary that it made everything else seem tame in comparison. He came back to ''Isolation'' in 2020 for Halloween and, after getting past the slow beginning, had a great time and even said its atmosphere was some of the best he'd ever seen in a game.

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