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Angry Video Game Nerd
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Friend of Sonic
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I have a theory that Board James is a prequel, and he eventually morphs into the angry, spiteful AVGN. Board James just seems so youthful and fun (well until he killed his friends)
EDIT: Oh wait, Board James has already showed up in AVGN. I guess theory defeated
EDIT: Oh wait, Board James has already showed up in AVGN. I guess theory defeated
Monopoly for the SNES.
They should had played on normal!!!
Hah I was thinking the same thing. Watching them play in those few minutes, it seemed like they didn't have the Golden Axe strategy down (divide enemies, use running kicks/headbutts, etc.). They were mostly hacking and slashing. Still, the game restarting on them was kind of funny.
Also, another video posted to Cinemassacre's channel:
Hooking up Multiple Video Game Systems by Mike Matei
Hah I was thinking the same thing. Watching them play in those few minutes, it seemed like they didn't have the Golden Axe strategy down (divide enemies, use running kicks/headbutts, etc.). They were mostly hacking and slashing. Still, the game restarting on them was kind of funny.
Also, another video posted to Cinemassacre's channel:
Hooking up Multiple Video Game Systems by Mike Matei
Mikey, what are you doing with all those switches? And on a LCD, too. I don't know how he doesn't notice all the input delay he's adding to his old consoles.
I think he went from HDMI to HDMI to composite to another composite. Though to be fair I think only changing the signal adds delay? So it would be the added delay from composite to HDMI and then the ms it takes for the TV to catch on.
Agreed, Board James is basically classic AVGN. It's James at its best. He really should start alternating between Board James and AVGN videos every other month, but I'm not sure his fanbase would agree. I love James & Mike Play as well, and the JonTron eps were golden. I don't even like JonTron, but he was really entertaining.
BassForever
Member
It's weird I've enjoyed JonTron when he's crossed over onto other youtubers channels, but his actual video series does nothing for me.
shanafan
Member
No, Mike said in the comments that it was in a different room.
Lovely Salsa
Banned
I think its time for me to move away from AVGN
I think he started losing it after he started playing the games thats been requested just because they're bad. His best are the ones he played as a child and that has haunted him til this day
There's no games left from those days
I think he started losing it after he started playing the games thats been requested just because they're bad. His best are the ones he played as a child and that has haunted him til this day
There's no games left from those days
eXistor
Member
I was just gonna post some thing similar. I still very much enjoy AVGN and I think this was a decent episode, but it's not the kind of game I want to see him playing. There are still lots of bad, more well-known games we can actually remember seeing back in the day even if we haven't actually played them.
But I agree that his childhood ones are the best, you can really feel the lack of interest in these episodes.
Petrae
Member
I think it's more a combination of factors:
1. James has a child now, which changes priorities.
2. James is juggling several different projects-- James & Mike Mondays, Board James, and other collaborative efforts (he just shot a TMNT review with Doug "Nostalgia Critic" Walker recently).
3. He's expended a lot of creative energy over the last couple of years, largely on his feature film, and it takes awhile to rebuild that.
Personally, I look forward to James & Mike Mondays every week. It's become one of my favorite series. Even if the AVGN series has permanently lost a step (which I hope isn't the case), it's given me enough laughs and joy over the years that I'll keep watching it.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Man, I haven't seen Nolstagia Guy in ages, but that TMNT review was pretty bad.
shanafan
Member
I stopped watching the Critic after he quit a few years ago. When he came back, his reviews turned in 30 minute plus reviews with focus on reviewing a movie - and having some hired actors side story that pertains to the review. That got to be too much for me. I prefer his old 10-15 minute reviews solely focusing only on the movie.
Sectorseven
Member
With that being said, is there anyone doing like a "next generation" type of series about PS1 and N64 games?
Obviously a lot of people cover those, but I mean a series where someone in his or her early 20s is covering shitty games they played as a child, with that same feeling of personal hatred the early AVGN had?
There certainly isn't a lack of material to use from that era.
Yeah, That setup is bonkers.
I had something similar:
The TV I had was a was a 32" Bravia with the following inputs:
2 Composite
2 Component
1 composite w/ S Video
3 HDMI
1 Coaxel
1 VGA
1 Optical out
Ad it's Height I had the following hooked up:
Composite 1: Switch with NES, SNES, Genesis/Sega CD/32X, Kensington Vii(Cheap Chinese Wii Ripoff, Hilariously bad)
Composite 2: Switch with PS1, N64, Sega Master System
Composite 3: S-Video Switch with: Neo Geo CD, 3DO, Jaguar, Saturn
Component 1: Switch with PS2, Gamecube, Wii
Composite 2: Empty
HDMI 1: PS3
HDMI 2: Xbox 360
HDMI 3: WiiU
VGA: Dreamcast
Coaxel: Atari 800XL
Optical Out: Sound Bar
The only daisy chaining I did was with surge protectors. I had one surge protector with all the regularly used stuff(sound bar, TV, PS3, Wii etc), and the other Surge protectors were daisy chained into another surge protector that was easily accessible on the side and that surge protector was switched off when I wasn't playing the retro systems. Those bricks don't last forever. I never noticed a lag problem and I didn't think the classic consoles looked too bad on a 720p 32" TV.
Also turning everything on at once is just insane, I'm surprised he didn't blow a fuse.
shanafan
Member
Ha, I thought the same thing! Even if I have my Xbox One, TV, receiver on - the moment I let my portable heater start running at a normal temperature, the circuit breaker turns power off
riskVSreward
Member
Ok, I'm way late to this but I just discovered The Irate Gamer and fuck that guy,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdjYYFOGE3k
I've been an AVGN fan for years, since his first few videos and I completely missed this other guy that entire time. Just watching this SMB2 video and he is a shameless carbon copy of James' character. Same style of video, same vocabulary, same style of editing and special effects... except his performance is trash.
Just... shameless...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdjYYFOGE3k
I've been an AVGN fan for years, since his first few videos and I completely missed this other guy that entire time. Just watching this SMB2 video and he is a shameless carbon copy of James' character. Same style of video, same vocabulary, same style of editing and special effects... except his performance is trash.
Just... shameless...
evilromero
Member
Wow. That's just painful to watch.
There's waaaaaaay bigger problems with the Irate Gamer than just being a Chinese Bootleg AVGN
The biggest is that he's not actually a gamer and doesn't know what he's talking about. Many of his complaints are baffling (like complaining that all you do in a fighting game... is fight, or how he always complains that NES games have lame endings), or outright hypocritical (often complains about games being too hard, then complains that certain bosses or even entire games are too easy), and often he makes comparisons that don't make sense (comparing Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin to Diablo)
His acting and delivery is immensely awkward. Even today (yes, he's still doing videos) he hasn't really improved.
He's under the belief that references by themselves are jokes, often going for bizarre Family Guy-esque cutaway gags that his 9 year old audience wouldn't understand.
He's inconsistent in what he wants his audience to be. There are times where he'll curse, but then there's times where he won't, or he'll even bleep himself. Makes no sense.
The biggest is that he's not actually a gamer and doesn't know what he's talking about. Many of his complaints are baffling (like complaining that all you do in a fighting game... is fight, or how he always complains that NES games have lame endings), or outright hypocritical (often complains about games being too hard, then complains that certain bosses or even entire games are too easy), and often he makes comparisons that don't make sense (comparing Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin to Diablo)
His acting and delivery is immensely awkward. Even today (yes, he's still doing videos) he hasn't really improved.
He's under the belief that references by themselves are jokes, often going for bizarre Family Guy-esque cutaway gags that his 9 year old audience wouldn't understand.
He's inconsistent in what he wants his audience to be. There are times where he'll curse, but then there's times where he won't, or he'll even bleep himself. Makes no sense.
BassForever
Member
The sad thing is the Irate gamer has fans who not only defend him but think he's better then the AVGN..............
SpookyFries
Member
Irate gamer made a video saying that he was trying to ride Jame's success.
BassForever
Member
Like 90% of the angry/internet reviewers that sprouted up on the internet within the first 2-3 years of the AVGN becoming big.
riskVSreward
Member
It just smacks of laziness. I mean, you can still be an "angry reviewer" without copying his exact style and presentation.
Plus I just found out he does like bullshit ghost hunting videos and I now care for him even less.
Plus I just found out he does like bullshit ghost hunting videos and I now care for him even less.
Diprosalic
Banned
his criticism of Mario Bros 2 is just terrible. also that game was awesome.
Starwolf_UK
Member
https://twitter.com/Mike_Matei/status/586413558260350976
Accompanied with a vine clip of Battletoads.
It's not just that. He clearly switched over to the Arcade version because the NES version doesn't have an invincibility cheat. At no point in the video did he reference the obviously better graphics.
Even with invincibility, infinite time and infinite lives, he still tried to make the game sound crazy hard. Hard to believe him when he's in God Mode.
I agree that the 'fun factor' to the latest AVGN videos has gone down a bit - but it's all understandable. James has spent a lot of time on this character, and when you consider the fact that James - as a real human being - seems to have quite a different personality form the Nerd (he always comes off incredibly polite and nice when he's not in character), it's probably draining to think up new ways to be 'angry'.
If anything, it's incredible that he's kept up the output for so long despite his other projects on top of his new family.
While AVGN may not be necessarily the same quality of content over the years, I still watch the new videos that come out and also enjoy whatever footage he has of him just having fun with games. Hoping all the best for him and thanks to all the great content he has made over the years.
If anything, it's incredible that he's kept up the output for so long despite his other projects on top of his new family.
While AVGN may not be necessarily the same quality of content over the years, I still watch the new videos that come out and also enjoy whatever footage he has of him just having fun with games. Hoping all the best for him and thanks to all the great content he has made over the years.
I believe that is almost everyone.
I don't see a huge drop in quality in AVGN episodes though. He just released some in December that were very good and I remember most people loving.
^The full 40 minute review is here
http://cinemassacre.com/2015/04/08/batman-66-blu-ray-review/
http://cinemassacre.com/2015/04/08/batman-66-blu-ray-review/
Diablohead
Member
It was alright, nothing like his episodes though everything felt so forced in the movie. James works best with 10 minute shorts.
and saying that i'm rather sick of his let's plays and lately average AVGN episodes thrown together, his time has come and gone for me.
James is just older now. He's done over a hundred episodes and basically still manages his site and content with alpomb. It stands to reason that if you do every trick in the book you know of, your gonna run out of material eventually. I don't think its a bad thing, but just a side effect of him trying to move on.
I actually was pretty amused by that Hong Kong 97 video, i'm still humming that song.
I actually was pretty amused by that Hong Kong 97 video, i'm still humming that song.
I think point 1/ isn't valid, and allow me to explain before yelling about why I think this
Now that he have a child, he certainly don't want to drop his N°1 project who generate hundreds of thousands of views, and the money that goes with it, that he'll want to ensure his child future
Sure he pursue others projects, noticeably other feature films, but I can't see him dropping the priority of the monthly AVGN videos.
However put me in the group that didn't like the kind of "games" he recently featured. Hong Kong 97 is a demo/indie thing from the past, that merely no one played, and that hardly qualify as a game to begin with.
I don't think AVGN is something he planned on having go for so long. He's goofed on the character and still doing videos in his earlier episodes, and there's truth in things said in jest. That said, I still enjoy the episodes, but for me it isn't the writing quality or whatever that I miss. I miss when it was on shittier quality cameras. Not sure why.
Portugeezer
Member
Maybe I am misremembering, but didn't he once imply he wanted to end AVGN and do more movie based stuff?
But anyway, this Hong Kong 97 game... holy shit.
One of the better reviews they've done on their site for sure. They haven't done something before where they go "Internet, you think this sucks for reasons X, Y, Z. You're wrong and it's actually awesome". It's basically the polar opposite to the Castlevania 2 review.
James & Mike are obviously big fans and I loved watching reruns of the show too as a kid in the 1980s.
SeventhSon
Member
Fox Mulder
Member
I'm not interested in seeing him cover bottom of the barrel shit dug up by the internet. Hey, it's some shitty Chinese thing that's a game I guess. Neat.
There's plenty of real games to cover if he's out of stuff he's actually attached to. If the fans like it though, gotta make them happy.
brianmcdoogle
Member
The problem I have with Hong Kong 97 or Big Rigs is... what do you say? There needs to be something interesting or at least a semi-competant game for the show to be interesting. It's why I stopped watching Spoony when he abandoned failed yet interesting game to focus on just really really really bad stuff. When you truly scrape the bottom of the barrel, there's nothing to say except "yup, this sucks".
Bucket-o-roadkill
Member
Yeah I don't get these odd knock offs or random PC games. I can't believe that through his childhood he hasn't played other NES games (or other formats) which he could do. I agree with stopping these requests from people and start doing these from past experience again. He's got a young kid, I appreciate that takes it out of you, of course it will. But look at the positives now moving forward, he wanted to do a BIG scale movie, he's done it. Look at the latest Board James video, it's the closest thing he's put out that resembles a classic nerd episode for years. The guy hasn't lost it.
Mike doesn't strike me as the brightest bulb in the building.
Naw man, that movie is straight caca, I forced myself to watch it to the end. Not even AVGN fandom saved it from a low rating on imdb.