YMMV / Yo Videogames

• Awesome Art: In late 2017, several of Max's artistically talented regulars collaborated to produce a new all-animated intro sequence packed full of Call Backs to humorous moments from the stream (like Kenny's "Twenty-One!" moment and Steve's glow-in-the-dark T-shirt).
  • In 2018 he added to it by commissioning a new animated intro for the Youtube channel from Volta Bass (who's done work for Matt McMuscles before) with an original theme song composed by Little V Mills.
• Base-Breaking Character: 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).
• Broken Base: 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, 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.
• Crazy Is Cool: About 90% of what Asura does in Asura's Wrath is due to The Power of HYPE!
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • At EVO 2018, Max revealed that he'd been contacted by Guinness World Records 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 True Companions?
  • 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.
  • A few of the stories Max brings back from big conventions like E3 and EVO can become this. One big example: Devil May Cry head honcho Hideaki Itsuno cried Tears of Joy when Reuben Langdon showed him Max's reaction to the Devil May Cry 5 reveal trailer, since it demonstrated how much people appreciate his work and how excited they are about the game.
  • At EVO 2017, Max got approached not only by industry greats like Akira Nishitani (the designer behind Street Fighter II and Final Fight), 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.
  • 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 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 Samurai Shodown, another favorite series of Max's.
  • After E3 2019, Max revealed that during the Final Fantasy VII Remake 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.
  • Max loves pretending to hate his chatroom, but when he's in full Sincerity Mode he tells a different story.
  • Max started a new series around July 2020 called "Virtua Couch" to try and get a safe couch gaming-like experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In 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.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: While hunting Arch-Tempered Vaal Hazak in Monster Hunter: World, Max noticed someone in the chatroom joking about "Arch-Tempered Great Jagras"^note In other words, a Harder Than Hard version of the game's first and easiest hunt 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 he's certainly no pushover.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: In Max's 2015 playthrough of Final Fantasy VII, he admitted that when he played the game in the past, he somehow missed The Reveal that Cait Sith was Shinra executive Reeve the whole time, and knowing that fact improved his opinion of the character a lot.
  • Likewise, Spider-Man (PS4) 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 (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.
  • In the past Max teasingly made fun of "Battle Royale"-style games like Fortnite, but Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 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 Apex Legends dropped, he - a noted fan of 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.
  • Due to his love of the Alien franchise, Max played Alien: Isolation when it first came out in 2014, but was disappointed due to its slow start and because (as he put it) 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.
• Special Effects Failure: One of the unfortunate side-effects of the switch to stream archiving is that Max's recording method creates a ton of visual artifacts in the footage.