I absolutely loathe, abhor, and despise the few AVGN and AVGN-esque videos that I've ever wasted my time watching. I absolutely cannot stand these little teens, tweens, and twentysomethings liberally sprinkling their attempts at "reviews" with their smarmy, snarky comments, quick-cut, MTV-style editing, "clever" graphics and soundbites, and background emo soundtracks. Maybe it's because I'm in my late thirties that I feel so disconnected, but I like to think it's because I have a modicum of taste.
The one AVGN video that really boiled my blood was where he totally ripped on the Atari 5200 (which happens to be my favorite system). What a waste of time. He just spent the entire ten minutes or so showing (via horrible acting) how "difficult" it was to set up and how he wasn't able to play any of the games. One of his points was that the system and the trackball ("bigger than an NES!") were "ginormous". How does that affect the quality of the games? He was also (fake-)perplexed with the cord set-up. And yes, we all know the controllers were notoriously bad, so going the extra mile to find a workaround is the only hurdle to an otherwise excellent system. But his whole purpose was just to defame and rip on it. Yet another younger-generation gamer who just doesn't get it. (Disclaimer--I have nothing against people younger than me... just the aforementioned types of douchebags.)
The video game videos on youtube that I do enjoy are the walkthrough/speed-run solution videos, with straight-up playing and NO talking or cutting away to the person playing it. I get a thrill from watching someone going all the way through the NES Rygar and SMS R-Type and Wonderboy III without taking a single hit.
As for you, Game Dude, you need to change up your game, because, as everyone else here has mentioned, you're merely aping the AVGN, a very poor template to begin with. And it's quite difficult for us to care about you when you clearly don't care about getting to know us and interact with our community--you're only interested in spamming us to promote yourself. Abort mission.
