Johnny Baghead

@johnnybaghead.bsky.social

Internet Scarecrow, #AnalogTuber Accessibility Advocate, Chronic Pain Haver (Chronic Enjoyer?) Baggiest member of @bghof.com https://linktr.ee/JohnnyBaghead

Hey turns out Human Head's 2006 Prey is a great game! Really inventive FPS level, puzzle, encounters and weapon design. I was legit hyped for Prey 2 solely based on just those gameplay reveals but this original game deserves to be remembered

It was only a matter of time... On Wednesday, 29th of July 2026, after 662 days of refraining, I ranted on stream about how Tank Controls are Good Actually in video games. Honestly a miracle I managed to hold off for nearly 2 whole years and knowing me, doubtful the streak will be this long agin

Screenshot from Johnny Baghead's "Ridge Racer V [part 2] stream on Twitch, where after not ranting about how tank controls are good actually for 662 days, 36 minutes and 33 seconds, broke the streak while talking about Fatal Frame 2 Remake and Silent Hill 2 Remake with chat.

Some updated Metroid Prime 2 revisit thoughts. It's not a bad game, sometimes it can be great, but the 2 specific gimmicks undermine this game at so many points, I honestly feel like it might be the worst Prime game. It's shocking how much is messes with Prime 1's design for the worse

This is a hyper specific public service announcement but if you disagree with a @bghof.com gameplay analysis of ours, saying it was a skill issue and your example is of us goofing off, such as Charkie repeatedly doing divekicks in DmC Vergil's downfall cos they look dumb is unconvincing

Turns out looking at every single OG Xbox exclusive takes a long time who knew? Let's finish looking at the rest of the library and adding to Johnny's tier list! Going Live on Twitch at 5pm UK Time AAAAA

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Johnny doesn't just love the PS2, he's in a polycule with the Xbox & Gamecube, maybe we should start ranking/playing those too? Xbox & Gamecube tierlist starts today and if there's time we'll start a summer classic, Super Mario Sunshine! Going live 6pm UK time!

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I've gotten further into my Metroid Prime 2 replay since @bghof.com Casual Monday show and done more dark world stuff and hey this game might actually suck? I legit haven't played it since I first got the Trilogy Wii version and played through it but I vaguely remember having issues and YES IT DOES

Btw I beat Metroid Prime 4, it is a game with very obvious issues, but honestly? might be the 2nd best game in the series. People might forget but 2 & 3 also have glaring issues that hold them back, arguably no game in the series is as tightly designed as Metroid Prime 1

I'm still really enjoying Metroid Prime 4 but I feel like I could write an essay about MacKenzie, an NPC who talks like a living tutorial while 99% of the time being a useless and redundent one. He's really out of place talking you through gameplay you've already been tutorialised on environmentally

Okay we've had enough of this merekat look, we're turning Daxter back to human form. That's right Johnny is finishing Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy on his PlayStation2 today! Stream start time roughly 4pm UK time

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A balancing act with making content around older gen systems is highlighting the positives without push blind nostalgia "everything was better back then" rhetoric. I'm here to enjoy how they're great and how they suck. The current industry makes that harder right now

Look at this Sony, does this make you mad? Can't take away MY copy of Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy for PlayStation 2! Wanna see me play it? That's what I'm gonna do live on twitch! No cam today the bags can only take so much sweat. Going live 7:00pm Uk time, or later depending on dinner

Boxed copy of Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy for PlayStation 2

Okay I think I've fixed the lense puppetry on my main bag head, but this is probably a sign I need to do the 2.0 rebuilt sooner than later. I've had to re-glue or fix minor things on him but considering the lense wires have come loose before/during the last few streams, might be at the limit

Got myself Metroid Prime 4 as a bday treat and were people not so hot on that game? Cos it's awesome, beautiful game, amazing music, mysterious world, interesting powers/spin on the Prime formula. Sure MacKenzie is the worst part but he's less than 5% of the game?

Today at 3pm UK time, Sunday might be a funday but our buddy Daxter is still stuck as a weird meerkat looking thing! We got to return him to his former humanoid form for the sequel! More PS2 Real Hardware Jak & Daxter 1 with Johnny Baghead.

"Jak & Daxter What Happened" thumbnail from some watchmojo video I dunno

A lot of people replying to this about how their retailers don't stock much/any video games. Yeah it's almost as if your lived experience isn't universal! Tons of markets are still primarily physical based, often out of necessity. Some people have no decent internet, have data caps, etc

Shane Luis@rerez.net · last mo.

If you sell a physical game console? You need a space in a physical store. If you do not sell video games beside that console on that store shelf? You lose sales. You lose money. You lose shelf space. You just lose. I don’t believe the console loss leader model can exist without physical games.

Hopefully today isn't a bad day to celebrate PlayStation cos I'm starting my first playthrough of a PlayStation 2 classic! Jak & Daxter on original hardware, a game that came on a disc! Stream start time 4pm UK Time

Render of Jak & Daxter

Fun Fact, in the 2010s the EU commisioned a study that found not only piracy had no notable negative impact in game sales, it likely leads to more sales. Fun Fact #2, the EU also tried to bury this report, if not for Julia Reda making freedom of info requests www.gamesindustry.biz/eu-commissio...

EU Commission: "No evidence that piracy affects video games sales"

A new report from the European Commission has stated there's no statistical evidence that illegal downloads affect lega…

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Nexxtic (Selaco Lead Dev)@selaco.bsky.social · last mo.

Sandy Peterson just cannot stop having bad takes.

F*ck pirates, as a man who designed video games from 1988 through 2012. 

70-90% of Doom's players pirated it. If not for that we would literally have had so much more for our workspace and upcoming projects - Quake may not have gutted id Software. At least 50% of Age of Empires was pirated which helped lead to our MicroSoft buyout and eventual demise. 

And your excuses of "we have to try before we buy" are complete bullsh*t. Doom let you play a full 9 levels free. Age of Empires let you play a battle free to see how it worked. We bent over backwards to ensure you'd know what you were getting into. 

Damn pirates are the guys who killed game companies. like Atari, Amiga, Cinemaware, 3D Realms (Duke Nukem!) 

And if you're NOT a pirate, I salute you. You are a gentleman and if you ever see me at a convention, walk up and say, "Hey Sandy, I never pirated a game." and I'll buy you a drink.

It's time to mash Square once again as Johnny hopefully blasts through the last of PlayStation 2's launch title Dynasty Warriors 2 + PS2 tier list catch up! Going live 1pm UK Time, bring water it's a hot one!

I felt my gameplay was sloppy after the @bghof.com stream of Mighty No. 9 tonight so I'm playing off stream to get better and knowing more how the game wants to be played, I dislike it more and it's a pretty physically rough game to play if you have any physical disability in your arms/hands.

As I've alluded to before I'm doing some research into Mighty No. 9 which is having it's 10th birthday in less than a week! Many moments are infamous for MN9 and one of them is it's launch Twitch stream, which seemed like lost media based on how people talked. NOPE FOUND IT I HAVE TO WATCH IT NOW

Surprise! Going live on Twitch within the hour to play some good old PlayStation 2 online! Playing Champions of Norrath online co-op with PS2 or Die & his sister! No exact start time, watch for announcement on when we go live! (sadly no real hardware today we can't get crossplay working)(yet)

I'm cooking BTS on some great upcoming @bghof.com content, beautiful stuff makes me wanna cry like an anime fan on prom night (with pride) Hence the lack of personal streams, but I'm going to try and push to do something Sunday and you may even see another PS2 online collab, stay tuned!