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This was easily one of the worst, most boring AVGN episodes. Holy christ it was awful.
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Didn't love or hate it. Kind of sucks he didn't at least put more of his own opinion into it. The p-bag thing was pretty bad as well.
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Aug 5, 2010 08:32
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RagnarokAngel posted:Great review, only part I really disliked was the beginning where he talks about the odd names for zelda enemies. Naming a few would have been ok but he practically goes through the whole manual to demonstrate his point. The buzzing noise for this part is really loving loud and annoying.
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Aug 5, 2010 08:50
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This wasn't a very good episode. I simply don't think there's enough in the source material to do much with, especially as he apparently thinks the game is decent-to-good. It's telling that the only laughs came from aspects unrelated to the game.
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Aug 5, 2010 09:28
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Maybe his fans should ask him to review stuff that is actually horrible, like more Superman 64 and less Zelda 2.
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Aug 5, 2010 09:32
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Watched the first 3 minutes then skipped to the last 3. Did I miss anything?
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Aug 5, 2010 10:00
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I thought the review was alright, I had some nostalgia from playing it as a kid that made me remember it as being kind of fun but I never made it that far. I'm glad I didn't.
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Aug 5, 2010 10:01
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Policenaut posted:Maybe his fans should ask him to review stuff that is actually horrible, like more Superman 64 and less Zelda 2. He shouldn't listen to his fans at all honestly. Most people just parrot games they've only played briefly but are still mildly famous, or were on a top 10 list somewhere (I can only imagine how many times he's asked to play E.T.). His best stuff comes from games that next to no one has heard of, and he has a collection big enough to pick one at random and do just that.
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Aug 5, 2010 10:40
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RagnarokAngel posted:He shouldn't listen to his fans at all honestly. Most people just parrot games they've only played briefly but are still mildly famous, or were on a top 10 list somewhere (I can only imagine how many times he's asked to play E.T.). That's why I'm surprised he did it. He's been ignoring requests to review E.T. for years. I think what people don't seem to appreciate that merely being bad doesn't necessarily make something funny to riff on. Superman 64 was terrible, but not terrible in a way that allows for much humour.
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Aug 5, 2010 10:50
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Kieselguhr Kid posted:That's why I'm surprised he did it. He's been ignoring requests to review E.T. for years. Besides, I found that videos like Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and Little Red Hood were funnier than a lot of the other videos because I never knew those games existed.
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Aug 5, 2010 11:21
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Jimbot posted:James interviews George Steele Hahaha. Showing that to my mom. He used to be her gym teacher in high school.
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Aug 5, 2010 11:51
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Obeast posted:He's probably holding off on doing that and maybe 2600 Pac-Man until a special occasion (like the final AVGN video if/when he decides to officially retire the character), or maybe it's just that ET is so well known for it's awfulness that he doesn't want to tell people what they probably already know about the game. The problem is E.T. well isn't that bad. It's a bad game don't get me wrong, but compared to a lot of stuff in the late Atari 2600 era it was pretty standard stuff. The problems with it and Pac-Man 2600 was the business angle. They literally made more carts than there were systems in people's homes, because they figured names like E.T. and Pac-Man would pull them out of the hot water. Naturally all this did was lead to a ton of unsold cartridges and some pissed off retailers who couldn't sell them and couldn't get their money back from Atari. When Atari went bankrupt they had to just dump the cartridges they had left. Over time this has been confused with the actual game and people think "oh this game was SO BAD they had to destroy them and dump them in New Mexico, that must have been pretty bad!" Seanbaby's list for EGM a few years ago is a huge blame for this.
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Aug 5, 2010 12:06
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James shows off his movie-monster knowledge each Tuesday this month by answering questions from a horror trivia book he bought at a convention. First up: Frankenstein.
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Aug 5, 2010 13:42
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RagnarokAngel posted:Great review, only part I really disliked was the beginning where he talks about the odd names for zelda enemies. Naming a few would have been ok but he practically goes through the whole manual to demonstrate his point. Yeah, I actually liked this one. It wasn't that Zelda II was terrible, it was just difficult, and I liked that he pointed that out. Basically anything he does with the Zelda series is fine with me except the Zelda fart theme.
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Aug 6, 2010 00:49
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RagnarokAngel posted:Great review, only part I really disliked was the beginning where he talks about the odd names for zelda enemies. Naming a few would have been ok but he practically goes through the whole manual to demonstrate his point. The thing I found weird was the following: He'd say: "And this spider-looking thing? Called a spider, right? NO. Called a Look Look." And then it would show the manual, but on the first line of every description, it would read "This spider-looking creature...." Kinda small thing to dwell over, but at least they describe the things on the screen as they appear. They just have weird names.
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Aug 6, 2010 00:59
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:The thing I found weird was the following: Tektite.
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Aug 6, 2010 01:01
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I thought the review was pretty good. I've watched most of his other ones and haven't found any that I thought were TERRIBLE GARBAGE but sometimes I skip over the skits.
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Aug 6, 2010 01:08
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It may have been one of the more juvenile things I've ever laughed at, but "Yeah! That should be the name of a band!" was fantastic. A pretty good review. I always remember being really disappointed in Zelda 2, just because it wasn't Zelda 1 (and I skipped out on a fishing trip with my dad to play it for the first time).
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Aug 6, 2010 01:12
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I liked the latest one. I think he tossed in that part of the beginning with the names because honestly when else would he get a chance to talk about the oddball names in a normally really good series of games?
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Aug 6, 2010 03:43
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Death Himself posted:I liked the latest one. I think he tossed in that part of the beginning with the names because honestly when else would he get a chance to talk about the oddball names in a normally really good series of games? Like I said it's fine if he limited it. Generally when listing stuff off you go with the rule of 3. Long enough to establish the joke but not wear out its welcome. If you do more than 3 you have to mix it up or people tend to get bored, and he kinda did with the "This looks like...like *ding*" joke but he went right back to "what's this? An X? No it's Y" format.
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Aug 6, 2010 04:12
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Policenaut posted:Maybe his fans should ask him to review stuff that is actually horrible, like more Superman 64 and less Zelda 2. I dunno... His Superman 64 reveiw wasn't that good, I'd say. More average, really.
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Aug 6, 2010 04:42
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Anatharon posted:I dunno... His Superman 64 reveiw wasn't that good, I'd say. More average, really. I got the feeling he only reviewed it so his e-mail inbox would be a little less full. It was an alright review, but felt phoned in and didn't have that genuine rage that makes most of his reviews entertaining. I'm honestly a fan of his reviews of "good" games like Metal Gear or Battletoads. It's because one doesn't have to hate a game in order to rage over things like questionable game design and hard difficulty. Just because a game is hard or has an annoying flaw doesn't make it bad, but you can still lose your cool over it. It's a side of the AVGN character that I enjoy seeing it. Oh, and the sperglords that flip out thinking he trashed "their game" is always priceless.
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Aug 6, 2010 06:08
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RagnarokAngel posted:Seanbaby's list for EGM a few years ago is a huge blame for this. Long before the internet existed, we talked about how completely lovely ET was. My cousin had it, it was garbage, in elementary school, we talked about it, it was crap. maybe the kids who were born after the NES was released (or in a lot of cases SNES) learned about it and hate it from the Seanbaby list, but it was widly known among gamers as the worst game ever long before it. Hah, I did love the Zelda 2 review. My reaction was like his "Wait, this is a bad game?". I actually preferred it to Zelda 1. Truth be told, it's the last Zelda game I really enjoyed (I admit, i have no played all of them, but I did play most of them). But he hits the nail on the head. Mountain of Death was insanely hard to that level. Holy poo poo. Not to mention even at our young age, we came up with the idea that link was getting his rocks off to restore his heath.
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Aug 8, 2010 02:09
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The two videos where James is being asked trivia questions about Frankenstein and The Mummy are pretty entertaining. It's amazing to see how much he knows about the old monster movies, it's pretty impressive. The only downside is the annoying girl sitting next to him shouting "HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW THAT!?" gently caress she's irritating.
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Aug 11, 2010 00:39
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Dr. Video Games 0055 posted:I got the feeling he only reviewed it so his e-mail inbox would be a little less full. It was an alright review, but felt phoned in and didn't have that genuine rage that makes most of his reviews entertaining. If he had played to the end, it would have been his most rage-filled review ever. Superman 64 merely starts terrible, and gets a lot worse from there.
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Aug 11, 2010 00:45
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He probably couldn't beat the first levels. I cheated past them out of sheer morbid curiousity. The later ones weren't any better... 
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Aug 11, 2010 01:13
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I disagree with the rationale that the video wasn't as good as his others because the game is actually a good game. His 4 part on castlevania was what got me into his videos and are still my favorites. Even the parts where he is talking about Super and SOTN are funny and well done. The video just needed way tighter editing near the beginning and it seemed like he just didn't have any good jokes near the middle. The ending was still pretty good, however. e: One of the first videogames I've ever played was Superman 64. I was 12 or 13 at the time and had recently gotten a secondhand N64 and a bunch of games. I managed to get about halfway (?) or so into the game. I honestly have no idea how I pulled that off, especially considering I wasn't very good at videogames at the time. gently caress Superman 64. I just looked it up and I remember beating the Dam level and then trying this other game called ocarnian or something. Liquid Penguins fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Aug 11, 2010 |
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Aug 11, 2010 01:14
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The difference is that the Castlevania videos made it explicit that it was James talking about a series of great games. In the Zelda 2 review, he's wishy-washy making comments about small, unimportant things. He's not really criticising it (outside of nitpicks) or praising it or talking about memories or anything, he's just kind of shrugging and saying 'well the baddies have silly names... I guess.'
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Aug 11, 2010 01:25
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An audio interview with Mike Nelson went up. http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/08/12/mike-nelson-interview/ It's a pretty standard interview but a good watch.
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Aug 12, 2010 07:53
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Top 10 lovely Shatner Films. Not a bad waste of 10 minutes. Somewhat interesting, although I don't think I'm about to see any of these movies. There is also his interview with The Night of the Living Dead cast, werewolf trivia and a a text review of The Expendables. StickySweater fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Aug 21, 2010 |
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Aug 21, 2010 18:07
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Ronnie posted:Watched the first 3 minutes then skipped to the last 3. Did I miss anything? No it was rear end and some really stupid, pedantic poo poo. "On the world map cities are far smaller than Link WHAT'S UP WITH THAT IS HE LIKE A GIANT OR SOMETHING?" Jesus, if that's the best you've got, maybe don't make a video.
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Liquid Penguins posted:An audio interview with Mike Nelson went up. http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/08/12/mike-nelson-interview/ How does one watch audio?
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Aug 22, 2010 11:28
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Dr. Video Games 0055 posted:I got the feeling he only reviewed it so his e-mail inbox would be a little less full. It was an alright review, but felt phoned in and didn't have that genuine rage that makes most of his reviews entertaining. I actually like his non-angry informative reviews (well, at least the parts that don't devolve into poo poo pickle jokes) the best, like how he goes into depth about glitches in various video games. I guess with all of the gimmicky "I'M SO ANGRY ABOUT VIDYAGAMES!!1" gag artists out there it's more entertaining to hear some serious, sober commentary which Rolfe can do well but usually doesn't due to his role as the Angry Video Game Nerd. RagnarokAngel posted:The problem is E.T. well isn't that bad. It's a bad game don't get me wrong, but compared to a lot of stuff in the late Atari 2600 era it was pretty standard stuff. Are you kidding me? I've played E.T. several times on the Atari and I felt like I'd rather have a brain aneurysm than try and complete that game. Teriyaki Koinku fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Aug 22, 2010 |
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Aug 22, 2010 12:07
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moller posted:How does one watch audio? With an oscilloscope, duh.
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Aug 22, 2010 12:24
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Computer Jones posted:In my defense he called it a "good watch," and unless you're into squiggly lines or they got the oscilloscope to play pong...
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Aug 22, 2010 12:45
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http://spoonyexperiment.com/ Spoony has FFX part 3 up. It is pretty funny!
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Aug 29, 2010 19:12
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Dude has become an arrogant douchebag I refuse to watch anything he puts out now, TGWTG ruins anything it touches with the exception of James and Ashen.
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Aug 29, 2010 19:48
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Yzzerdd posted:Dude has become an arrogant douchebag I refuse to watch anything he puts out now, TGWTG ruins anything it touches with the exception of James and Ashen. If we are talking about Spoony I agree, he used to be pretty entertaining but now it comes down to he is just a mean dick head. This most recent review isn't even funny it is just shameful how he tries "so hard to be edgy".
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Aug 29, 2010 21:25
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Meowbot posted:If we are talking about Spoony I agree, he used to be pretty entertaining but now it comes down to he is just a mean dick head. This most recent review isn't even funny it is just shameful how he tries "so hard to be edgy". I'll have to disagree with you there. He's usually like that in his video logs and twitter, but I think his videos are still pretty good. Especially his Ultima ones - which are informative. I like his Final Fantasy X stuff so far too, except the ending of the third (most recent) video.
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Hey, chill out, guys! Spoony won the prestigious Mashable Open Web Award for Funniest Person to Follow! You have no right to judge him or his inflated ego!
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