The Official Angry Video Game Nerd Discussion Thread

[Alpha2099]

Just wondering, are his videos still viewable with Internet Explorer 8? I can't get them to load from his site, and now Spoony's videos aren't loading either. Going into properties it seems the videos are hosted through screenwavemedia.com so that's the common issue between them, the old Spoony videos on Blip still work fine, it's just these newest ones are the problem.

I'm wondering if it's my browser. Can anyone confirm if it's a problem with IE8? I don't like upgrading browsers unless I have to.
Frankly, I'm amazed anyone is still using IE at all. I switched to Chrome years ago, and I was using Firefox years before that. Sorry man, I've been so far detached from IE. Wish I could help.

[JakeM]

Yeah dude, go to firefox for all the addons you can use on it instead of chrome.

[Rickstilwell1]

Like I said, I kinda prefer the informative reviews. Like when he talked about the Atari 5200, the Virtual Boy, or even the various Pong Consoles. I like learning about the history of gaming.

Yeah the 5200 one was great. It was actually the first video of his I ever saw. I still consider it among my favorite episodes.

[rkotm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwlfLMs46YA new AVGN, Alien 3.

[Alpha2099]

It was a decent video, but not one of the all-time greats. Obviously he's busy with Monster Madness right now, so I'm happy to have an AVGN episode at all. But you can kinda tell he didn't put as much into this one because his focus was elsewhere. Decent, but middle-of-the-road for me.

[Greg2600]

I enjoyed it. He pointed out the nuisances with the game, and the movie. His ending was funny. He did forget to mention Aliens on the FDS though, which wasn't much better than Alien 3.

[PizzaKat]

It was ok. I don't know but the newer videos just aren't as funny as his previous ones. I still enjoy watching Action 52 The Terminator Series Superman 64 etc. Ikari Warriors and especially Toxic Crusaders was bad. I tried watching his Monster Madness but having trouble with the player.

[Alpha2099]

It was ok. I don't know but the newer videos just aren't as funny as his previous ones. I still enjoy watching Action 52 The Terminator Series Superman 64 etc. Ikari Warriors and especially Toxic Crusaders was bad. I tried watching his Monster Madness but having trouble with the player.
If you look at it by the way he and the fans have defined seasons, I see it like this:

Season 1 is touch-and-go. It has good and bad moments, but he was still finding his voice, so many flaws and mistakes get a pass. Decent season overall.
Season 2 marks the beginnings of his rise in popularity. Great episodes like the Ghostbusters trilogy, Sega CD and 32X, etc. make this year stand out.
Seasons 3 and 4 are where he hit his stride. Most of his best episodes can be found in these two years.
From Season 5 onward, the quality varies wildly. Much of it is due to his burnout which he admitted to feeling, as well as starting work on the AVGN movie. That said, they're not all bad, and there are still plenty of gems in the pile.

Just my two cents, as someone who's been following him regularly for about 5 years now.

[bigbacon]

i've been watching since the beginning and honestly, the last many have been horrible. I know he is busy and all but come on. would be better if he just didn't make new ones until the movie was complete.

[The Adventurer]

I enjoyed this episode, not his best, but it was as entertaining as ever.

[Gameguy]

Frankly, I'm amazed anyone is still using IE at all. I switched to Chrome years ago, and I was using Firefox years before that. Sorry man, I've been so far detached from IE. Wish I could help.

Yeah dude, go to firefox for all the addons you can use on it instead of chrome.
I'd just like to know if the problem is with the browser before I change it, I don't like installing bloatware or unneeded software if I don't have to. I used to use Firefox with my old PC, I switched when several webpages specifically needed Internet Explorer to run. Surely someone here still has Internet Explorer 8 still installed on their PC and can check, IE8 came with Windows 7 and if most people just use other browsers then IE8 should still be there untouched.

[JSoup]

I tried watching his Monster Madness but having trouble with the player.

Try Youtube. I normally don't watch anything of his that's not AVGN, but this is a pretty good series.

[Edmond Dantes]

Eh, the Alien 3 video was okay. Actually, despite being yet another LJN game, I actually kinda looked forward to this one because this was a game I remembered reading about as a kid and I was always curious about it.

Also nice that he mentioned Alien Trilogy... I'm gonna have to buy that now (is the Saturn version as good as the PSOne version?)

I am disappointed that he only mentioned the NES one. I'm pretty sure there are other games based on Alien 3, not to mention other games based on the Alien franchise in general. What about the SNES version of Alien vs Predator (which I recall reading was a side-scroller, not a brawler like the arcade game)? Oh well, maybe some other reviewer will fill the void.

[Atarileaf]

I like the Genesis version of Alien 3. Its not perfect but I think it's certainly a fun, playable game.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbCKP3cCwU

[Tron 2.0]

Wasn't entertain in the least bit,though i wasn't expecting to much.He's has to finish the movie still,and also he is a father now so that means 'less time.I thought he would mention alien 3 for the genesis&snes,but id assume this was meant to be a quickie review.

[Greg2600]

Many people bitch, but he does get ad revenue from sites like YouTube for his videos, so the more the merrier for his sake. As for the movie, I think, as it is with most independent films, that James is not capable of performing the remaining editing himself. He doesn't have the expertise, and so he has to wait on other resources to be available. Then he will dissolve perhaps into the hell which is trying to get it distributed in some way.

[starsoldier1]

I know it's easy to complain about the review saying wasn't as good as previous ones but having personally reviewed the game too, I knew about the problems with the game he was addressing as well like bad controls and demanding game play. To me the review didn't need to be overly long because he pretty much covered all the bases in under 10 minutes. Here is my original Alien 3 NES review:

http://youtu.be/n_uEveTwrPg

[rkotm]

New episode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEz0IoffV9g
AVGN reviews...........AVGN games?? Yeah, there's more than one..had no idea

[Jorpho]

How meta. Except I bought that game, and now it's been spoiled somewhat... Oh well.

[PizzaKat]

Damn, so many games. I give credit to those who did them. The one who redid Megaman 2 and put it on a cart. That was crazy goood. The new one looks really hard.

[starsoldier1]

I want that Mega Man 2 remix!

[starsoldier1]

Ohya, my art in the intro of the new episode as well:

http://youtu.be/vrF64MaJnBk

[treismac]

A pretty sweet clip compilation.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dgImDJDwhg

[bb_hood]

A pretty sweet clip compilation.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dgImDJDwhg

Complaining about the jump in Ninja Turtles is silly because its actually very easy if you know how. You just tap the button gently. If you hold down the jump button you hit the ceiling and go into the water. The nerd is not very good at video games.

[JSoup]

The nerd is not very good at video games.

I think you've rather missed the point.

[Alpha2099]

Complaining about the jump in Ninja Turtles is silly because its actually very easy if you know how. You just tap the button gently. If you hold down the jump button you hit the ceiling and go into the water. The nerd is not very good at video games.
Considering that video was from his first season, it's very possible that he was over-exaggerating the problem so that it would make for good video. He used to do that a lot in his early days; die on purpose or make things look harder than they were. He doesn't really do that anymore.

[Jorpho]

Complaining about the jump in Ninja Turtles is silly because its actually very easy if you know how. You just tap the button gently. If you hold down the jump button you hit the ceiling and go into the water. The nerd is not very good at video games.In the DOS version, there's a jump right around there that is quite literally impossible – but why the heck would anyone play the DOS version?

[Edmond Dantes]

Yeah, the nerd clearly can get past that section since he shows later levels in his Revisiting video. His early reviews kind of annoy me because he's so obviously faking the difficulty... especially since the same people who are okay with it when Rolfe does it will immediately use this same thing against any other angry reviewer.

I've heard that Silver Surfer is actually pathetically easy.

[bb_hood]

I understand he is playing a character and that is fine, but I just dont understand why so many people hate on the first turtles game. Yeah it can be tricky if you dont know what to do but with a little practice its easily beatable. Its not that long of a game. Its my favorite turtles game on the nes.




I've heard that Silver Surfer is actually pathetically easy.

You are joking, right?

[JSoup]

You are joking, right?

It's actually not as hard as the Nerd made it out to be. It's hard and flawed, don't get me wrong, but as far as bullet hell type games go, it's not that bad. And I'm not that good at bullet hells either.

[bb_hood]

It's actually not as hard as the Nerd made it out to be. It's hard and flawed, don't get me wrong, but as far as bullet hell type games go, it's not that bad. And I'm not that good at bullet hells either.

Well I had not played it in awhile, so I went and I just played it for about 30 minutes. Its not impossible, its just hard. I guess the main issue is you die after one hit and the enemies move rather quickly. It kinda makes a frustrating experience dieing so much. If you could take one hit the game would be alot better.

[Edmond Dantes]

I recall someone on Shmups saying recently that they found Silver Surfer easy. That's all I know. Most of what Nerd says goes for most shmups

[Urzu402]

I don't know if this was brought up, but another game he exaggerated the difficulty on was Karate Kid for NES it was one of his very first episodes. I haven't personally played it but the Game Grumps played through it with no problem and they are no experts in gaming.

[Alpha2099]

I don't know if this was brought up, but another game he exaggerated the difficulty on was Karate Kid for NES it was one of his very first episodes. I haven't personally played it but the Game Grumps played through it with no problem and they are no experts in gaming.
Yeah, I knew about that one. You can kinda tell when you go back and watch the video again.

[CastlevaniaDude]

I understand he is playing a character and that is fine, but I just dont understand why so many people hate on the first turtles game. Yeah it can be tricky if you dont know what to do but with a little practice its easily beatable. Its not that long of a game. Its my favorite turtles game on the nes.

He actually said in one of his videos that one of his biggest regrets in his earlier stuff was the over-exaggeration of difficulty, dying on purpose, etc. He said at some point his gameplay became 100% authentic.

[PizzaKat]

ugh, Game Grumps..hate those guys

[Alpha2099]

ugh, Game Grumps..hate those guys
I tried watching them play Castlevania III once. I lasted 5 minutes.

[PizzaKat]

lol. Longer than I did.

[Greg2600]

I don't know if this was brought up, but another game he exaggerated the difficulty on was Karate Kid for NES it was one of his very first episodes. I haven't personally played it but the Game Grumps played through it with no problem and they are no experts in gaming.

Say what??? Karate Kid was aggravatingly near impossible when I was young. Yeah okay maybe an adult player can figure it out easier, I don't know. Part of what James does is to let the viewer reminisce about his and their childhoods. James clearly played Karate Kid many years ago as a kid, and found it brutally difficult, as I did.

[bigbacon]

never played karate kid until today and it honestly wasn't that hard (played it on virtualnes just because of this thread). I got past the storm level.

Not that hard.

[Greg2600]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONYyFiKjJ20

Great new video. Love that he still has all those old Sears catalogs.

[The Adventurer]

Did anyone linked the Game Theory episodes about the AVGN?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnOmfGMM_yg

[PizzaKat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONYyFiKjJ20

Great new video. Love that he still has all those old Sears catalogs.

I use to have something similar called Consumers Distributing which is in Canada. Now defunct, I should of kept them but I didn't care really and even my mom regrets throwing them out. I do have something from the late 70s or early 80s from another dept store that has Atari and Colecovision, I think..

[Jorpho]

Did anyone linked the Game Theory episodes about the AVGN?I think that was the first Game Theory episode I've watched, and I don't think I'll be watching another. Ugh.

And I totally remember those catalogs. Not the guns, though. Maybe Sears couldn't do that in Canada?

[Greg2600]

Besides Sears other similar books were from Service Merchandise and Consumers. May well have been the same Consumers company as in Canada.

[Greg2600]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwGDVMptn8k

Part II, in which among other things, the AVGN finally takes a well deserved shit on Pit Fighter for SNES!

[Jorpho]

Hee hee. I like the ending.

[JSoup]

Hee hee. I like the ending.

Was totally expecting a Fred Fuchs reference.

[JSoup]

New video up, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.
http://cinemassacre.com/2014/03/19/avgn-big-rigs-over-the-road-racing/

[Alpha2099]

I had heard this was a terrible game, but I had no idea how bad it really was. It's amazing that someone would release a game so largely unfinished.

[Greg2600]

his commercial and the warp speed thing at the end were well done.

[PizzaKat]

I just dont find his vids funny as they use to. This was pretty boring.

[Alpha2099]

I just dont find his vids funny as they use to. This was pretty boring.
In his defense, it's hard to even be angry at a game that just isn't finished. He even said it's not the kind of game he usually plays; he did it because he got a ton of fan requests.

[The Adventurer]

I legit cracked up when he started driving in reverse and I started to realize it would never stop accelerating.

[Jorpho]

I liked the faces, and the ending was pretty good. I have to wonder if he actually did all those on the first take.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

Wow, this games awful. It's that he's still making Nerd vid's. I really can't believe either that this game was released. Imagine if this mess wound up on PS2?? Never woulda happened.

[Gameguy]

New video up, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.
http://cinemassacre.com/2014/03/19/avgn-big-rigs-over-the-road-racing/


I legit cracked up when he started driving in reverse and I started to realize it would never stop accelerating.
I read the posts in reverse when I checked the thread, as soon as I read the part about driving in reverse I knew it had to be Big Rigs.

[Arkanoid_Katamari]

It's cool that he's still doing different stuff beyond the NES library, like the Tiger games and stuff like that. His videos with Mike Matei where they play random games are entertaining, also. Kinda makes me wish I owned an Atari Jaguar CD. Or at least the Jaguar itself.

[kikenovic]

I just dont find his vids funny as they use to. This was pretty boring.

I hear ya. 2009 was the peak of his carrer.

[Greg2600]

movie update, quite a task he has.

http://cinemassacre.com/2014/03/21/avgn-movie-update-march-2014/

[JSoup]

movie update, quite a task he has.

http://cinemassacre.com/2014/03/21/avgn-movie-update-march-2014/

The leak damage alarmed me for a different reason. I was under the impression that his den was a basement or otherwise descended room. In either case, the leak would have had to pass through a bunch of other things to get that low. That's....pretty bad.

[Jorpho]

He looks like he's aged.

[Alpha2099]

He looks like he's aged.
Well, he is turning 34 in July. Not that that makes him old, but that coupled with the long hours he's put into making his movie, plus now being a father, is sure to put some mileage on him.

[Edmond Dantes]

Just noticed there's a new AVGN episode, Desert Bus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFi2vcseEz8).

[bb_hood]

Just noticed there's a new AVGN episode, Desert Bus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFi2vcseEz8).

I dont know... desert bus is still better than Superman 64.

[jefis]

After the end of the newest episode I sense that The AVGN movie is going to come soon

[Alpha2099]

I liked the end of the episode better than the bulk of it. Once he established that Desert Bus wasn't meant to be taken seriously as a game, I felt that there was no real reason to complain about it.

[PizzaKat]

I wished he actually went through an actual game, but I guess it was a segway to his movie. It wasn't a horrible episode like the Toxic Crusaders with that old dirty man or boring like Ikari Warriors.

[Greg2600]

Well, the AVGN is targeted at folks who probably have never heard of, or know very little about, Desert Bus.

[Jorpho]

For a second I thought he might actually have a go at playing for eight hours, but I guess he doesn't have that kind of time.

I wonder why this is on Youtube and not Cinemassacre, as usual?

The piano version of the theme was a nice touch.

Where's that spiffy-looking calendar from?

[The Adventurer]

Where's that spiffy-looking calendar from?

1991

and I think I had one. Long gone now.

[Gentlegamer]

I wished he actually went through an actual game, but I guess it was a segway to his movie. It wasn't a horrible episode like the Toxic Crusaders with that old dirty man or boring like Ikari Warriors.

http://i.minus.com/iTecKweKczaq1.gif

[Alpha2099]

Sheesh. Yeah, Toxic Crusaders definitely wasn't one of his best.

[JSoup]

http://i.minus.com/iTecKweKczaq1.gif

Honestly, I was enjoying it right up until the inevitable overdone shit joke.

[Daria]

I liked the end of the episode better than the bulk of it. Once he established that Desert Bus wasn't meant to be taken seriously as a game, I felt that there was no real reason to complain about it.

AVGN is an entertainer, not a reviewer.