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Angry Video Game Nerd

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TheChillyAcademic

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FTWer said:
Yeah, I need to catch up on some of his videos. He really has some gems there.

Top 11 Dumbest Superman Moments

Great :lol stuff in that video.
"Nuclear Man is born in space from Supermans DNA... with a costume, bad 80's hair & a pre-stiched logo...."
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:lol

He has beautiful green eyes too!

hiimdaisy.jpg
 
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t3nmilez

Member
Going back to the X-Men review, has anyone actually beaten the original NES game? Goddamn that game was horrid, he could have spent an entire episode talking about more of the game's terrible decisions.

I actually beat all the levels as a kid, but doing so does absolutely nothing, you get thrown back into the stage select screen, with the only stage available being the danger room. There's nothing that you can do, the game becomes impossible to advance. I didn't find out until many years later, but apparently after you beat the levels you have to do some sort of code on the select screen to fight Magneto. The game gives you no hints towards this code, and it's very arbitrary and feels more like a cheat code than a game progression code. Terrible!
 
Boss Doggie

Boss Doggie

all my loli wolf companions are so moe
A lot of people have an "auto-hate" towards NC here if only because a) they saw Nerd first even though NC has also been existing back then, and b) NC is not a game-oriented person. So yeah, you're more bound to get AVGN since you're all gamers. Monkeysphere guys, monkeysphere.

But yeah, both have good stuff (though AVGN is losing it whenever he uses a skit). Nerd is also part of the That Guy With the Glasses Anniversary, and the two are really friends. They're even gonna make a combined review.
 
SonicMegaDrive

SonicMegaDrive

Member
Ookami-kun said:
A lot of people have an "auto-hate" towards NC here if only because a) they saw Nerd first even though NC has also been existing back then, and b) NC is not a game-oriented person. So yeah, you're more bound to get AVGN since you're all gamers. Monkeysphere guys, monkeysphere.
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and c) some people just have a permanent stick lodged up their ass.
 
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Wizpig

Member
Timedog said:
nostalgia critic is fucking awful. I guess if you're a weird al fan.....
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Every AVGN clone [Irate Gamer... oh god] / internet character trying to be similar to him is awful.
Thank god we have the Happy Video Game Nerd, i love his videos and he's also the only one that credits James Rolfe as his inspiration, ironic because he ISN'T a clone.

AVGN = Entertainment, good laughs
HVGN = You actually discover great games of the past in interesting videos
 
A Black Falcon

A Black Falcon

Member
Alex said:
The board game review he put up was really good:

http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=1169
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ElNarez said:
I liked Spoony's review better.
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Dragon Strike is an awesome game, it's one of my all-time favorites... I have it, as well as Hero Quest and two of Hero Quest's expansions (Kellar's Keep and Quest Pack for the Elf). All the contents of both games fix in the DragonStrike box, so I don't need to choose between one and the other when I have the box with me. :)

The video is awesome though. Awful acting, silly sparkling things around the characters... but awesome anyway. It's so ridiculous that it's awesome. :) It's better than the first Dungeons & Dragons movie, at least... that one was just awful. This is at least funny.

(Oh yeah, and the Warrior is Malibu from the original American Gladiators, I believe.)

As for the game itself, he doesn't really cover it much, but it's great. It has more variety than Hero Quest (the game it was 'inspired' by) in some ways, with talking to monsters, feats of strength and dexterity (hitting the manscorpion with its own tail would surely be one, or both, of those feats), etc in some ways, but the number of missions that comes with the game is somewhat limited and only moderate in difficulty most of the time (Hero Quest is just as easy to win, but has more missions and continuity, so you carry over your character; in Dragon Strike each mission is a self-contained one and you do not keep special items or anything between them.), and unlike Hero Quest there were no expansions apart from one or two missions in TSR magazines of the time, so once you've done them you just got to make them up yourself.

Because of that stand-alone nature, though, it's easier to play a single Dragon Strike mission than Hero Quest, so playing a game doesn't commit you to an entire campaign. This also means that designing your own missions isn't too hard; you just design it for the players. You don't need to take character equipment into consideration, as with Hero Quest, or worry about having to make an entire campaign, instead of a single mission. Or you can do what we usually did and just make it up as you go, traveling between the maps in an adventure... in Hero Quest that would require more planning, I think, with the character sheets, money, buying stuff between missions, etc, and really would need to be in a more formal campaign setting, as with the various campaigns in the original game and its expansions. So when playing a single game of boardgame D&D style stuff, I found I usually ended up with Dragon Strike, even though I probably like Hero Quest a bit more (though the elements like feats, talking, etc, add a lot and are very nice to have).

Dragon Strike does have only a limited number of monsters, so you rarely fight more than a few at a time. You can only do one point of damage per character per turn though (unless you have an item that boosts damage) so it is balanced, but compared to something like Hero Quest where you can face off against large groups, sometimes the game feels a bit empty, particularly in the official quests. Still, they are decently fun, the first time at least.

The official missions also all have somewhat annoying turn limits. In my own quests I'd just drop that, but the built-in quests all have a turn limit, and when you hit the turn limit the dragon comes, and he's tough. They are also all set on one map only. That was always kind of annoying, one of the main reason to want to do them yourselves is to use more than one map in a mission. :)

Also, because the maps are drawn, the game gets a bit predictable even when you are making up your own missions. In Hero Quest, you placed the doors, furniture, etc. into the rooms, and it has cool stand-up paper and plastic furniture to use, as well as tiles. In Dragon Strike, most of those things are printed on the board, so you have much less configuration of the layout. Now, you do get four maps instead of Hero Quest's one dungeon, and they are quite varied, but still, after a while, it's like "what's at the campfire this time", "what do the blue eggs do now", etc... :)

Of course to solve that problem you could just play real D&D, but if you want something simple, or for kids too young to understand the real thing, games like these are fantastic. I really have no idea why they didn't stick around, there were a bunch of great ones in the late '80s to early '90s, then the genre for some reason seems to have faded... the ones there are now aren't nearly as popular as Hero Quest or Dragon Strike were, I think.

Anyway, last time I played the game with my cousin last year, we tried to recreate the story in the movie in a campaign, from memory, both having seen it many times. We were doing pretty well I think (got more than halfway through), before we had to stop for lack of time. :) I've always preferred to play as the Dragon Master/Zargon/whatever, as opposed to the characters...


Oh, as an aside, US Hero Quest and European Hero Quest have some interesting differences. In the US one, Fimirs, the Gargoyle, Chaos Warriors, and most bosses have multiple hit points. You put skull tokens under enemies to mark how many hit points they have lost. In the European one, all enemies except for a very few bosses and the Giants have one hit point. This makes the US one more difficult... which is impressive, given that it's still very hard for a full-power party with a full set of weapons and a bunch of potions and such to actually lose to just about any possible enemy group. But in the European one it's even less possible. Oh, and the bad guy (the DM, that is) is called Morcar in the European one, but Zargon in the US. Also, while the base game and the first two expansions came out in both regions, a further three expansions only came out in the Europe, and a further two only in the US; none of those came out in both, so only player-edited rules allow you to play them by the altered rules of the other region's game.

The two US-exclusive expansions are very expensive now, going for upwards of $200 on Ebay... too bad I didn't get both of them back when they were new, instead of just one (though I did have a friend with the Barbarian Quest Pack, I didn't get it myself).
 
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Metal B

Member
There should be more thread about the guy withe glasses, the spoony one and Linkara ^^

I really like the spoony one, he is really funny and tries to plays the games to the end, like Final Fantasy 8 and Phantasmagoria 2 (i really love his Phantasmagoria videos ^^).

Also he is really a womanizer: :D
http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/05/18/spooning-with-spoony/

“…like being in between a black and white cookie” :lol
“Your daddy loves you fine.” :lol
 
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Totobeni

An blind dancing ho
Metal B said:
There should be more thread about the guy withe glasses, the spoony one and Linkara ^^

I really like the spoony one, he is really funny and tries to plays the games to the end, like Final Fantasy 8 and Phantasmagoria 2 (i really love his Phantasmagoria videos ^^).

Also he is really a womanizer: :D
http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/05/18/spooning-with-spoony/

“…like being in between a black and white cookie” :lol
“Your daddy loves you fine.” :lol
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the Shocker >_<

poor Nostalgia chick :(
 
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G-Fex

Member
Metal B said:
There should be more thread about the guy withe glasses, the spoony one and Linkara ^^

I really like the spoony one, he is really funny and tries to plays the games to the end, like Final Fantasy 8 and Phantasmagoria 2 (i really love his Phantasmagoria videos ^^).

Also he is really a womanizer: :D
http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/05/18/spooning-with-spoony/

“…like being in between a black and white cookie” :lol
“Your daddy loves you fine.” :lol
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Oh my god :lol :lol :lol
 
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Shard

XBLAnnoyance
That Guy With The Glasses Epic Brawl Behind the Scens Videos

Spoony Vlog Day 1
http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/05/12/chicago-vlog-day-1/

Spoony Vlog Day 2
http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/05/13/chicago-vlog-day-2/

Spoony Vlog Day 3 Parts 1-3
http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/05/17/chicago-vlog-day-3-behind-the-scenes-of-the-epic-battle/

Epic Brawl Spoony Commentary
http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/05/13/tgwtg-epic-brawl-spoony-commentary-track/

ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com Making of Epic Brawl
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/specials/7012-makingbrawl
 
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mucc

Member
Metal B said:
There should be more thread about the guy withe glasses, the spoony one and Linkara ^^

I really like the spoony one, he is really funny and tries to plays the games to the end, like Final Fantasy 8 and Phantasmagoria 2 (i really love his Phantasmagoria videos ^^).

Also he is really a womanizer: :D
http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/05/18/spooning-with-spoony/

“…like being in between a black and white cookie” :lol
“Your daddy loves you fine.” :lol
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WTF?
:lol
spoony is the man
 
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ahoyhoy

Unconfirmed Member
Did these companies even hire one single playtester? Seriously now, if a nerd who specializes in games from this era cannot come close to beating a game, there is a serious flaw in the design. They certainly must have realized this when making it.
 
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ianp622

Member
Man, I knew how bad that NES Terminator game was even when I was young. And that means it was really bad. I actually still have it.
 
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maharg

idspispopd
ahoyhoy said:
Did these companies even hire one single playtester? Seriously now, if a nerd who specializes in games from this era cannot come close to beating a game, there is a serious flaw in the design. They certainly must have realized this when making it.
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Eh, specialize in the era he may, but he often judges difficulty on a modern basis rather than contextual. Probably because it's funnier that way. Games were just harder then.

Fucker called T2 a better movie than Terminator. Bleh.
 
Darkmakaimura

Darkmakaimura

Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
LOL @ the wrench and the limited amount of lives!

I can't wait for the second part.

Dear AVGN, please make at least a video a week. You're awesome!
 
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