Megalosaro
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Best episode is still the Nintendo Power retrospective. Wonderful ton and a perfect mix of humor and nostalgia
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Angry Video Game Nerd
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ThatObviousUser
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Was worried when I saw it was a 2003 game but I guess shittiness never has an expiration date. (Or whatever, you know what I mean. 
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I was cracking up at "YOU'RE WINNER" and the VHS-quality commercial.
)I was cracking up at "YOU'RE WINNER" and the VHS-quality commercial.
I will default to your expertise if you insist, but you really think there's nothing worse? At least it works in the sense that it boots up and runs. I feel like there's plenty of games that never even get to that state where people can even play it because of game-crashing bugs. I kinda disagree with The Nerd who thinks that frustration and functionality shouldn't be a factor. You can play and see all of Big Rigs' content. I don't see how that's worse than an awful NES game where you can't even make it past the second level because of control or design issues.
How does Big Rigs compare to something like Day One: Garry's Incident or War Z or Arthur's Quest? It seems like those games were pretty fundamentally broken from the outset.
PhoenixDawn
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I can't even believe that there was an actual TEAM of people that worked on Big Rigs. I know the development landscape has changed dramatically since then, but even still it seems like they literally got drunk one weekend and somehow ended up making and publishing the game all in the span of 3 days. I don't want to think that the team actually put months of effort into the game, I refuse to believe they could have failed that badly if it was a genuine effort.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Wow, haven't laughed this much in a while.
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
The commercial at the end is brilliant.
That was friggin hilarious!
Easily the best work Rolfe has done in some time.
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Need more of these and less Monday with Mike.
Why not both? I really enjoy the casual style of these little sessions. They´re a funny duo, that´s something I miss in the classic AVGN videos. I also like when they get genuinely annoyed, instead of the scripted rage in the AVGN ones. They are also hilariously inept sometimes, like when they even couldn´t figure out the run button in Dennis The Menace (even after Mike correctly figured out the jack in the box + wall switch part, but couldn´t run away from Mr Wilson).
But I really like Mike, seems a lot of people don´t.
This being said, the better production in the AVGN episodes definitely add to the quality. The Sega CD commercial parody is one of his finest moments.
http://cinemassacre.com/2014/01/30/avgn-movie-timeline-updated-91913/
I believe they're about 75% done with VFX now.
Conrad Link
Member
That episode was funny as, I have heard of the game before but never seen why it was so lol... now I know, tears from laughing so much.
Like the nerd pointed out the game itself is not frustrating to play but just broken. I'd probably have a lot more fun playing it then, say Little Red Hood for example.
I thought the easter European names made it clear, but maybe that's because I read the wiki entry some years ago:
I actually had it installed on my computer, but the novelty wore off quickly. Think of the backwards acceleration like falling forever in Portal, fun the first two times.
Being a racing fan with only a computer for games growing up I've played a lot of bad PC racing games so that might have had an effect. If you want to try it it shouldn't be hard to find the game.
I liked this episode very much, but sadly I had seen several videos about Big Rigs, so it didn't have the same impact it would have had if I knew nothing about it. I couldn't help thinking "I've seen this all before" at times, but even then James managed to make me laugh with his comedy style.
The ending was incredible. I'd say it was James at his very best.
The ending was incredible. I'd say it was James at his very best.
The show has really picked up again, after those dark years with him beating up Bugs Bunny for what felt like a whole hour.
He has cut down on the BS and gone back to basics, really enjoyed the last couple of episodes. They dont feel as forced.
Doubt you will see more PC game reviews, its just that Big Rigs has a certain reputation that is hard to deny
He has cut down on the BS and gone back to basics, really enjoyed the last couple of episodes. They dont feel as forced.
Doubt you will see more PC game reviews, its just that Big Rigs has a certain reputation that is hard to deny
This Big Rigs episode had me close to tears from laughing. It's by far best of his more recent ones I feel. The commercial he made for it is indeed fantastic!
I have never heard about this game before somehow, so that might have contributed to the fun. (Don't know how I've managed to miss it all these years, but that is beside the point.)
Is it just me, or does it remain magical for others here as well when a new AVGN episode gets released? They usually make my day at least.
I have never heard about this game before somehow, so that might have contributed to the fun. (Don't know how I've managed to miss it all these years, but that is beside the point.)
Is it just me, or does it remain magical for others here as well when a new AVGN episode gets released? They usually make my day at least.
Definitely explains why it's taking so long. Sounds like James is doing a couple full-time jobs right now just working on the movie. Can't believe he did rough VFX/previs stuff for all the shots himself to show the people working on the shots what to do. Then he's basically helping supervise all the VFX work (50 people!) while he's doing color-correction & editing and shots of his own.
Keep in mind the guy who's the VFX Supervisor (who worked for ILM) said they had more VFX shots than Iron Man 1.
The VFX shots he shows in this video look great (a lot better than the trailer).
Kinda worried that he hasn't started on sound design yet... that's probably the last huge roadblock.
I assume Bear McCreary's already done some preliminary work on the music. It seems like the rough cut's probably fairly locked down at this point and James has been tweaking it as he goes, so I don't think there will be a ton of editing left. I would think the final sound mix would probably be the last thing to come together.
It is arguably the least-finished game ever released, but I'd hardly call it the worst.
I don't play a lot of bad games, but I thought the recently released Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game was easily worse. I only played it because a friend stupidly rented it from RedBox. Stages are tiny, and absolutely terrible. Bosses have long phases of invincibility followed by tiny 5-10 second windows where they can actually be damaged. I'd get more joy driving a truck straight up the side of a mountain in reverse at 2000 miles per hour than I would from any section of that game.
I honestly thought that James was going to take the review in a completely different direction where he doesn't get mad at it at all. If you watch the first 5 minutes he is genuinely happy playing such a disaster of a game. Which is a I think the right tone to take for the review -- eventually he devolves into the usual "What a fucking fuckload of shit" schtick that I've come to find really tiresome.
SymbiantXenos
Member
MOTHER FKIN BIG RIGS
awesome video.
awesome video.
The cut has to be locked before VFX. If you haven't locked it then you could be wasting a lot of time doing VFX on something that you may not use. So you lock your picture, then you can go into FX/Color/Sound.
Interesting comment, you know he started AVGN almost ten years ago? James is eatin', I'm surprised he's even still doing AVGN videos in 2014, that's dedication to his fans. Angry reviewing is about dead now. James actually reviews games, he only gets angry when there is a real reason too. This is one the most AVGN AVGN episodes he's put out, no dumb skits, no long skits, no artificial anger, just game reviewing in his basement. What more do you want exactly?
Pegasus Actual
Gold Member
No dumb skits? Did you miss the faux VHS-recorded commercial? *groan*
Only just got around to watching this. Holy shit this is one of my favorite episodes. I'm so glad he got around to this.
The
reverse for the first time, photoshop, commercial, three handled trophy, plaid speed
Brilliant.
Right, which wasn't dumb.
Pegasus Actual
Gold Member
Well it sure wasn't smart!
Mr. Enigma
Member
The fact there was a "sound director" on this game is hilarious.
Haha, I'm not really sure why anybody watching his videos would expect him to act differently. It's pretty clear that's one of the reasons why he's so popular.
brianmcdoogle
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People once again complaining about new episodes got me thinking about what was my favorite "season" of the show, so I went to the Wikipedia page to see how each season is broken down, and I discovered a little fact that I never knew. In the Ghostbusters episode, the vacuum salesman is actually Kyle, the guitarist.
A Black Falcon
Member
Well, I guess your question is "what does 'worst' mean?" And while a game which is brokenly hard, or semi-functional, definitely should be in conseration for "worst", I do think that it's fair to say that Big Rigs is the worst, since it is the least complete game ever published (at least a a retail product). Sure, it's probably not the most frustrating game to play due to how it's impossible to lose, and probably isn't he least fun game to play, a but it is the least functional. Those games you mention there are broken, but not as badly as Big Rigs is. You can't go outside of the game world, you can't walk through everything, you can lose, there's no infinite-speed-in-reverse awesomeness, etc. They're just bad knockoffs. Big Rigs... is something different from that.
KefkaPalazzo
Member
I've been waiting for them to play this one...James mentioned they needed to do it in an episode a while back. Will definitely watch it tonight.
MrCunningham
Member
ToeJam & Earl is one of those games that has always had a dedicated fan following. But one that I could never really get into, because I never invested enough time into it to understand how to play it. I guess it's suppose to be a roguelike game.
His anger is almost always about frustration due to horrible controls, poor design, poor puzzles. Things that make a game stupid-hard or impossible. I'm not sure what there is to get mad about with Big Rigs, unless you actually paid money for it and expected a cool truck racing game.
A Black Falcon
Member
It's maybe a third of a game. The least complete game ever released on disc. You don't see how this is a big problem (and point for hilarity)?
Lol, fucking incredible necrobump and title change. He did the game justice.
I cannot believe the devs' post launch "support" for this game... they went out of their way to correct "You're Winner," the most iconic, memorable aspect of their game, while fixing absolutely nothing that pertained to the physics, graphics, music... oh my god. you could not make this shit up.
I cannot believe the devs' post launch "support" for this game... they went out of their way to correct "You're Winner," the most iconic, memorable aspect of their game, while fixing absolutely nothing that pertained to the physics, graphics, music... oh my god. you could not make this shit up.
Necrobump? This thread has been active pretty much for its entire existence.