The Salt Factory

The Salt Factory (born: ), is an American YouTuber from evaluating older video game series such as The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Pokemon. His focus tends to fall under the aim of determining whether or not these older games hold up today, sprinkling in humor while paying extra attention to plot elements. Salt lacks an upload schedule, but does stream on Twitch nearly every Monday, Tuesday and Friday between videos. 
==Career==
Initially, The Salt Factory was headed by Salt with the aid of a few friends in 2016 to mid 2017. There was no focus on any particular genre outside of video game content during this time. Videos ranged from Let's Play content featuring Salt playing SNES games, more heavily edited (by Salt) videos featuring his friends playing new releases, and heavily edited Overwatch gameplay videos featuring both Salt and his friends. Salt still leaves 15 minutes of Deputy David Anderson saying "open up" as a monument to this phase of the channel.
Salt's career launched nearly the day after the release of What if Overwatch was a Turn-Based RPG? on June 18, 2017. After this video the channel gained nearly 7,000 subscribers, and left Salt at a halt with little to no idea where he wanted his content to go next. What Salt did know was that he did not want to make a "what if" series, and instead continued to create videos focused on humorous Overwatch gameplay. These videos are no longer listed on the channel, because he believes the videos are no longer relevant with the content he makes currently.
Around October of 2017, Salt decided to try his hand at creating his first serious critique (which is now unlisted): Against the Grain: Why I didn't enjoy Hollow Knight. Though not his most critically acclaimed video, it became the true start of the content The Salt Factory produces today. At this stage, Salt parted ways with the involvement of his friends on his channel, and began focusing on solo content. This experimentation phase led to videos which looked at particular aspects of different game series, such as Chasing Bugs - Why Gandhi Went Nuclear (Civilization) and The Culling's Wasted Potential.
On May 30th, 2018, Salt released his most viewed video to date: Was Oblivion as good as I remember? - My analysis after an 8 year hiatus.The video didn't gain much traction until the release of Please Don't Buy Overkill's The Walking Dead, which saw the channel pushed into new heights. The Oblivion video gained over 5 million views over the course of 5 years, and became the prime example of Salt's work, bringing many new viewers who wanted more content like it. This encouragement gave birth to Salt's evaluations of other popular Bethesda games like Skyrim and Fallout 3 which he has further proceeded by doing videos on the DLC of Skyrim and DLC of Fallout 3. With the positive feedback gained from his community, Salt established a relatively concrete formula which involves him fully playing a game while giving his analysis on relevant game mechanics and plot points. That said, Salt still occasionally breaks this mold with videos such as The Transformation of the Collectathon Genre, Animal Crossing New Horizons: The $60 early access game, and Is Old School Runescape worth playing today?.
Salt has been known to not want to constrain himself to a single developer's works, and has also branched out into games which have interested him more than Bethesda's games. These include the likes of Pokemon, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Fable, Bioshock, Metal Gear Solid, Mass Effect and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Salt's videos often include segments with personalized art drawn by his wife Cakebunn. Most of the art featured that is not directly from the game is drawn by her, with some occasional art drawn by Salt as well.
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