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One final fade out
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun
Sad tidings, folks. Today is vid bud Liam Richardson’s last day at RPS. After a glorious eighteen months of photoshopping creepy smiles onto thumbnails and making astaggering 125 videosabout our beloved PC games, Liam is returning to the world from whence he came: the wild frontiers of software design. It’s been a pleasure having him, even if but for a brief window of time, and I invite you all to come and bid him a fond farewell below.
Liam joined us in February 2022, and cor, talk about throwing him into the deep end, what withElden Ring, Lost Ark and the Steam Deck all mere weeks away at that point. But Liam rose to meet all those challenges with aplomb, bringing his characteristic energy and enthusiasm to every video he made, whether it waschattingwith another member of the RPS Treehouse about the latest releases and previews, putting games under a forensic microscope to hunt downtiny little nugget-sized details, or asking big, important questions like, ‘Can we beat this game in time to get a refund?’ (said game being:Refund Me If You Can).
A Walk In The Rain In Ghostwire: TokyoAn artist’s rendition of our collective RPS Treehouse emotions right now…Watch on YouTube
A Walk In The Rain In Ghostwire: Tokyo
Liam also spearheaded ourRPS@PAXcoverage, a new project we started last year, also mere weeks after he joined us. I had the pleasure of joining him on our first PAX adventure, and I still think hisdeep dive into the Pinny Arcade communityis one of my favourite RPS videos we’ve ever produced. Likewise, Liam’s breakdown of all thebest carpets at PAX, which yes, is as unhinged as it sounds. Listen, we were both very tired, and jet lag did some strange things to Liam’s sanity on that trip. And of course, how could we forget, his interview with the voice cast ofTeam Fortress 2at PAX West last year?A true standout.
Liam’s list of achievements go on. He also lent his northern tones to ourIndiescovery podcast(RPS in peace), he was one of ouravid Steam Deck enthusiasts, and he remains probably the only person to have ever truly, deeply loved Fortnite in the entire RPS Treehouse, ever.
I won’t forgive him for insistingSonic Frontiers is good, actually, though. That’s just plain crazy talk.
