History WebVideo / NoahCaldwellGervais

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy:[[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with ''Ghost Recon: Wildlands'' as he feels that playing as a squadron of ruthless American vigilantes killing genocidal Cartel hitmen across a poor South American nations without a hint of self-awareness or LampshadeHanging is insensible at ''best'' and jingoistic and racist at ''worst''.

** ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'' was what he expected it to be yet it ended up disappointing him for its limited open world(s), enemy variety, its gameplay trying to [[FollowTheLeader copy Fallout 3/New Vegas's clutter-based loot]] and most importantly, its weak 'A, B or C' player choices with choice 'C' being the clear GoldenEnding for the first two story arcs (Terra-2 and Monarch), while he does recommend the game for ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'' and RPG fans, he admits that he doesn't plan on completing another playthrough as he felt that he didn't miss much on his first and only playthrough.

* DespairEventHorizon: Playing the ''Narco Road'' DLC for ''Ghost Recon™: Wildlands'' nearly broke him due to a combination of bad driving physics, insensible Latino stereotypes, grindy progression, anxious characters and the idea that a drug cartel can win the hearts and minds of the common people just with extreme sports and racing.

* AuthorFilibuster: All of Noah's videos (especially some of the more recent ones) are lengthy, and more than once he dedicates a few minutes to relay either an opinion or personal story, though he at least attempts to make it pertinent to the video game in question, such as his review of {{VideoGame/Control}} where he makes his opinion about difficulty in games (and what it says about people who prefer either extreme) known to illustrate how accommodating and well paced he felt the difficulty in that game was. He's also fully aware of his tendency to go on, he's even rather deliberate about it, and has gone on record saying that he doesn't expect anyone to ''actually'' watch every single second of his long videos and to stop watching once they've heard enough.

* NightmareFetishist: Downplayed, Noah has described himself as a "horror movie junkie" and his reviews of horror games are especially fond, though he does have his limits when it comes to the grotesque. Specifically, he felt that VideoGame/OutlastII was ''far'' too gory and bloody for his taste.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: He highly enjoyed ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' for not being a typical post-apocaliptic zombie story, for refusing to follow up the obvious story route set by its predecessor and for being an author-focused story rather than one made to please fans. However, he also admits that this was the reason why the game caused such an aggressive backlash from many fans (except those he claims are just homophobic and transphobic assholes) who wanted to see the continuation of Joel and Ellie's story and not the story of [[TragicVillain someone whom they wronged]] and who [[VillainProtagonist retaliated]] [[CycleOfRevenge against]] [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome them]] to show the audience that revenge will only lead to more misery to everybody involved.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: He highly enjoyed ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' for not being a typical post-apocaliptic zombie story, for refusing to follow up the obvious story route set by its predecessor and for being an author-focused story rather than one made to please fans. However, he also admits that this was the reason why the game caused such an aggressive backlash from many fans (except those he claims are just homophobic and transphobic assholes) who wanted to see the continuation of Joel and Ellie's story and not the story of [[TragicVillain someone they wronged]] and [[VillainProtagonist retaliated]] [[CycleOfRevenge against]] [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome them]] to show the audience that revenge will only lead to more misery to everybody involved.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: He highly enjoyed ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' for not being a typical post-apocaliptic zombie story, for refusing to follow up the obvious story route set by its predecessor and for being an author-focused story rather than one made to please fans. However, he also admits that this was the reason why the game caused such aggressive backlash from many fans (except those he claims are just homophobic and transphobic assholes) who wanted to see the continuation of Joel and Ellie's story and not the story of [[TragicVillain someone they wronged]] and [[VillainProtagonist retaliated]] [[CycleOfRevenge against]] [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome them.]]

* OldGuardVersusNewBlood:[[invoked]] A major theme of his Western [=RPGs=] retrospectives and reviews is the comparison between how the 90s [=RPGs=] were made and expected to be played in contrast to the post-2000s [=RPGs=] (for more background on this gap, see Analysis.WesternRPG). He reviews them from the perspective of a player/fan of both the ''D&D'' tabletop game and its videogames.

* TheyCopiedItNowItSucks:[[invoked]] His biggest complaint for ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' was the developers' insistence in mirroring the first ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' without expanding on its themes and tropes or creating something fully original for the new setting when they had a blank slate to work with. The fact that he spents an entire hour talking about it without going in-depth with the characters and sidestories shows how frustrated he was with the game.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/broadcaststsatic/videos Noah Caldwell-Gervais]] (b. 1988) is a Website/{{YouTube}}r who runs an AnalysisChannel featuring in-depth critiques and retrospectives of popular and obscure video game franchises and individual video games, starting with an hour-long retrospective of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series in February 2013. In January 2015, he launched a highly successful [[http://www.patreon.com/noahcaldwellgervais Patreon]] campaign and, by late 2016, was earning enough money to quit his day job as a pizza cook to focus on his videos. He was also able to fulfill his lifelong dream of traveling across Western United States (or "playtesting adventure", as he had dubbed it) at his leisure: between February and October 2017, he, his wife, and their dog journeyed in a restored [[HippieVan VW Bus]] from Seattle through California, Texas, the Great Lakes, and back to Seattle again, documenting their travels in a trilogy of videos collectively known as "the Triptych".

Noah's critiques are notoriously lengthy, with his retrospective of the ''VideoGame/{{Red|DeadRevolver}} [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption Dead]]'' [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2 series]] clocking in at just over 4 ''hours'', however, their depth and conciseness more than make up for it. On average, he publishes one game-related video a month, and has also been branching out into the TravelogueShow genre, tackling this classic genre from his unique, gaming-influenced perspective. A sorted list of his videos can be found on our '''[[Recap/NoahCaldwellGervais Recap page]]'''.

Noah's critiques are notoriously lengthy, with his retrospective of the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' series clocking in at well over 3 ''hours'', however, their depth and conciseness more than make up for it. On average, he publishes one game-related video a month, and has also been branching out into the TravelogueShow genre, tackling this classic genre from his unique, gaming-influenced perspective. A sorted list of his videos can be found on our '''[[Recap/NoahCaldwellGervais Recap page]]'''.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: While calling out how ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezTheCartel'' uses themes such as the drug war and police brutality in very poor taste and exaggerated manner, Noah points out that many of these things are based on actual problem that have been sensationalized by cable news, and ''The Cartel'' may very well be how other countries see the US.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Noah often uses his video game critiques to reflect on RealLife, as well, and when he doesn't have a good answer, he instead puts it into a question that strips the issue down to its very core and lets the audience ponder it with him (see the [[Quotes/BroadcastStatic Quotes tab]] for some examples).

* RightForTheWrongReasons: While calling out how ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezTheCartel'' uses themes such as the drug war and police brutality in very poor taste, Noah points out that many of these things are based on actual problem that have been sensationalized by cable news, and ''The Cartel'' may very well be how other countries see the US.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: While calling out how ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezTheCartel'' uses themes such as the drug war and police brutality in very poor taste, Noah points out that many of these things are based on actual that have been sensationalized by cable news, and ''The Cartel'' may very well be how other countries see the US.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: While calling out how ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezTheCartel'' uses themes such as the drug war and police brutality in very poor taste, Noah points out that many of these things are based on actual that have been sensationalized by cable news, and ''The Cartel'' may very well be how other countries see US.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/broadcaststsatic/videos Noah Caldwell-Gervais]] (b. 1988) is a Website/{{YouTube}}r who runs an AnalysisChannel featuring in-depth critiques and retrospectives of popular and obscure video game franchises and individual video games, starting with an hour-long retrospective of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series in February 2013. In January 2015, he launched a highly successful [[http://www.patreon.com/noahcaldwellgervais Patreon]] campaign and, by late 2016, was earning enough money through it to quit his day job as a pizza cook entirely to focus on his videos. He was also able to fulfill his lifelong dream of traveling across Western United States (or "playtesting adventure", as he had dubbed it) at his leisure: between February and October 2017, he, his wife, and their dog journeyed in a restored [[HippieVan VW Bus]] from Seattle through California, Texas, the Great Lakes, and back to Seattle again, documenting their travels in a trilogy of videos collectively known as "the Triptych".

* ShooOutTheClowns: Early on, Noah tried to lighten up his videos with jokes here and there, but these were very hit-and-miss, and after realizing that "being funny" is not a requirement for a good critique, he dropped them altogether.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/broadcaststsatic/videos Noah Caldwell-Gervais]] is a Website/{{YouTube}}r who runs an AnalysisChannel featuring in-depth critiques and retrospectives of popular and obscure video game franchises and individual video games, starting with an hour-long retrospective of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series in February 2013. In January 2015, he launched a highly successful [[http://www.patreon.com/noahcaldwellgervais Patreon]] campaign and, by late 2016, was earning enough money through it to quit his day job as a pizza cook entirely to focus on his videos. He was also able to fulfill his lifelong dream of traveling across Western United States (or "playtesting adventure", as he had dubbed it) at his leisure: between February and October 2017, he, his wife, and their dog journeyed in a restored [[HippieVan VW Bus]] from Seattle through California, Texas, the Great Lakes, and back to Seattle again, documenting their travels in a trilogy of videos collectively known as "the Triptych".

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/broadcaststsatic/videos Noah Caldwell-Gervais]] runs a video game AnalysisChannel, where he uploads in-depth critiques and retrospectives of popular and obscure video game franchises and individual video games. Noah (then a 24-year-old pizza cook from Seattle) hit Website/YouTube in February 2013 with an hour-long retrospective of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, and garnered enough renown to start a highly successful [[http://www.patreon.com/noahcaldwellgervais Patreon]] campaign in January 2015. By late 2016, he was earning enough money through crowdfunding to quit his day job entirely and to pursue his lifelong dream of traveling around the Western United States (or "playtesting adventure", as he had dubbed it) at his leisure. He finally got to fulfill that dream, journeying from Seattle through California, Texas, the Great Lakes, and back to Seattle between February and October 2017 in an old [[HippieVan VW Bus]] with his wife and their dog.

Noah's critiques are notoriously lengthy, with his retrospective of the ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' series clocking in at well over 3 ''hours'', however, their depth and conciseness more than make up for it. He usually publishes one game-related video every month, but had also briefly branched out into the TravelogueShow genre in 2017, tackling this classic genre from his unique, gaming-influenced perspective. A sorted list of his videos can be found on our '''[[Recap/BroadcastStatic Recap page]]'''.

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''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/broadcaststsatic/videos Noah Caldwell-Gervais]]'' runs a video game AnalysisChannel, where he uploads in-depth critiques and retrospectives of popular and obscure video game franchises and individual video games. Noah (then a 24-year-old pizza cook from Seattle) hit Website/YouTube in February 2013 with an hour-long retrospective of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, and garnered enough renown to start a highly successful [[http://www.patreon.com/noahcaldwellgervais Patreon]] campaign in January 2015. By late 2016, he was earning enough money through crowdfunding to quit his day job entirely and to pursue his lifelong dream of traveling around the Western United States (or "playtesting adventure", as he had dubbed it) at his leisure. He finally got to fulfill that dream, journeying from Seattle through California, Texas, the Great Lakes, and back to Seattle between February and October 2017 in an old [[HippieVan VW Bus]] with his wife and their dog.