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elf help book posted:It's been talked about before but the general reason not to update is that everything works. If something breaks I'm sure he'll buy new stuff. If he has a process now and it works great for him, it really can be best if he touches it as little as possible. I'm just saying why an HD camera would be a waste of time, he wouldn't use it. Though the fact in his PS3 video he didn't know HDMI would be a huge update from composite was kind of 
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RagnarokAngel posted:I dunno if this is still true but I think he said he uses a really hackneyed way of editing. Just plugs a camera into a vcr and hits records. For a film student he's not really up to date on the modern tech. Here's how he says he records game footage: quote:A: All my game clips are recording to DVD, while I'm playing them. After i'm done, I just playback the DVD Is this the first AVGN in widescreen though? There's sidebars on the game footage that I never noticed before.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Though the fact in his PS3 video he didn't know HDMI would be a huge update from composite was kind of Eh, not really. I've known people who think that still, or claim they can't tell the difference. I also know people who say it's pointless to buy old movies on blu ray because they won't look any better, despite the fact that film has always been higher resolution (for lack of a better way to put it, film doesn't really use pixels) than what DVDs can show, it just comes down to if they put the time in for the transfer. Some of the best looking blu rays I've seen have been old movies. When it comes to HD video, a lot of people are still pretty ignorant about a lot of facets of it.
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That Gyromite music has been stuck in my head since I watched this video.
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TheJoker138 posted:Eh, not really. I've known people who think that still, or claim they can't tell the difference. I also know people who say it's pointless to buy old movies on blu ray because they won't look any better, despite the fact that film has always been higher resolution (for lack of a better way to put it, film doesn't really use pixels) than what DVDs can show, it just comes down to if they put the time in for the transfer. Some of the best looking blu rays I've seen have been old movies. When it comes to HD video, a lot of people are still pretty ignorant about a lot of facets of it. Yes but he was a film student. I know the average person can be kinda dumb about video technology but I thought if anyone would keep up to date on that stuff, a late 20s/early 30s film student would. I'm not trying to bash him or anything it's just peculiar for his background how little he knows about modern tech sometimes.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Yes but he was a film student. I know the average person can be kinda dumb about video technology but I thought if anyone would keep up to date on that stuff, a late 20s/early 30s film student would. Well, what kind of a film student was he? It's kind of a broad term and a lot of people in film school tend to specialize. Knowing the ins and outs of video capture from a television or game system is a very different skillset than...say...knowing your way around a camera or soundboard. I went to film school for four years, and I don't know the first thing about video capture, because my specialization was writing.
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Rocketlex posted:Well, what kind of a film student was he? It's kind of a broad term and a lot of people in film school tend to specialize. Knowing the ins and outs of video capture from a television or game system is a very different skillset than...say...knowing your way around a camera or soundboard. I'm in film school for production right now, and they have never once mentioned HDMI cables, cause we simply don't use them for anything. The process is all from the camera, to a memory card, to the editing software, to a server. So I wouldn't be really surprised at all if they just never mentioned anything about HDMI vs component cables there. He might be at an even older style film school where they're still shooting on actual film too.
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TheJoker138 posted:I'm in film school for production right now, and they have never once mentioned HDMI cables, cause we simply don't use them for anything. The process is all from the camera, to a memory card, to the editing software, to a server. So I wouldn't be really surprised at all if they just never mentioned anything about HDMI vs component cables there. He might be at an even older style film school where they're still shooting on actual film too. Yeah, after I posted, I realized that even if you had a straight production major there's still a good chance they wouldn't cover video capture from a device other than a camera. I imagine you wouldn't get into it unless you took some kind of heavy specialization in editing or something.
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And yet I, not a film student, know what HDMI is. I don't know why expecting someone with the slightest interest in film or games to know composite, component and HDMI is outrageous. And James has a huge interest in both of these.
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RagnarokAngel posted:I don't know why expecting someone with the slightest interest in film or games to know composite, component and HDMI is outrageous. Not everyone who games is obsessive about video quality - it's really a 'once you see it' thing. I was perfectly happy playing my Saturn with RF input (!) until I found out you could get a SCART cable for it like I had for my SNES.
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RagnarokAngel posted:And yet I, not a film student, know what HDMI is. I don't know why expecting someone with the slightest interest in film or games to know composite, component and HDMI is outrageous. It's not outraaaaaaaageous, but it's not something commonly covered in film school. It would be something he'd have to pick up on his own and, like he said, he already had a system that was working for him.
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Rocketlex posted:It's not outraaaaaaaageous, but it's not something commonly covered in film school. It would be something he'd have to pick up on his own and, like he said, he already had a system that was working for him. Yeah, does he specifically say anywhere that he just doesn't know enough about this stuff? I always thought it was just his choice.
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NOG posted:Probably one of the best episodes I've seen. I could go for one of those right now. So hungry. Not the best episode in my opinion, but certainly a good one, one of the better I've seen. Too bad he only really had two games to show off, and neither were all that deep. So it was more to do with the source material than his own contributions that it wasn't my favorite.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Yeah, does he specifically say anywhere that he just doesn't know enough about this stuff? I always thought it was just his choice. He did a blog video where he got a PS3 to watch blu ray movies and talked a bit about it. He mentioned his biggest surprise was the quality difference between composite and HDMI. I just find it strange a film/game buff wouldn't be in the know about this, that's all. I wasn't really directly correlating it to his archaic method of filming the show, if that's how he does it that's his choice.
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mobo85 posted:As the Nerd himself pointed out, it wasn't R.O.B. that did it. It was Mario. If anything, R.O.B. helped get the NES in stores as part of their post-Atari-fallout "it's not a video game, it's an ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM" pitch. And for that, we can be thankful to R.O.B. The story from what I've heard on old episodes of Retronauts is basically this. No department store wanted any part of video games after the Atari disaster, so R.O.B. basically became nothing more than a trojan horse used to get the NES on the market. Hence why there's only 2 games for it. Once the NES caught on it was completely ignored, until Smash Bros. Brawl for the most part.
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cronox2 posted:Once the NES caught on it was completely ignored, until Smash Bros. Brawl for the most part. Hey now, let's not forget his vital and important role in Startropics.
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For the record, Gyromite is awesome with 2 players And I swear we used to have R.O.B. too, but I only remember using him once, and it was just about as bad as shown.
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FreezingInferno posted:Hey now, let's not forget his vital and important role in Startropics. Not to mention his game-making cameos in Starfox!
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"It's a Gyromite controller. It plays Gryomite" was my favorite part. That was a pretty clever controller mod.
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I wish I could afford a HD tv so I could use the HDMI for my Ps3 and 360. That video summed up my feeling about ROB. Me and my cousin got one from a neighbor and was "holy poo poo game playing robot!" and after setting everything up and watching how slowly ROB did everything, I said "I could do this faster!". Gyromite is a stupidly short game, which I guess makes sense considering how slow ROB operated. I think we played Double Dragon the rest of the night.
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New video from Motherfucker Mike. This time, he demonstrates a weird glitch in Kung Fu on the NES.
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The Nerd looks at games based on Steven Spielberg movies...but perhaps not the one you're expecting.
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Man, what the gently caress was wrong with the 3DO?
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mobo85 posted:The Nerd looks at games based on Steven Spielberg movies...but perhaps not the one you're expecting. I'm glad he's at least going to finally get to it soon.
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Why do people even want to see E.T? It's on the same level of ugly and cryptic of any other atari game and has been covered and hyped by every other source. There's much more interesting poo poo for the avgn to cover than a mediocre atari game that filled landfills or some poo poo!
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RustyTrombone posted:Why do people even want to see E.T? It's on the same level of ugly and cryptic of any other atari game and has been covered and hyped by every other source. There's much more interesting poo poo for the avgn to cover than a mediocre atari game that filled landfills or some poo poo!
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RustyTrombone posted:Why do people even want to see E.T? It's on the same level of ugly and cryptic of any other atari game and has been covered and hyped by every other source. There's much more interesting poo poo for the avgn to cover than a mediocre atari game that filled landfills or some poo poo! Even if the game is over hyped as a game nerd reference (and it is), it's also ripe for some ham-handed AVGN skit-making!
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FlamingLiberal posted:Because it's always been (unfairly or not) associated with the near-death of the industry in the mid-'80s. At least I think that's what it is. Every review I have seen of that game is about 5 minutes E.T. 15 minutes Video Game crash. James always has really good informative videos, so I really wouldn't mind his version of it.
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The more pertinent question would be what wasn't wrong with the 3DO.
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Have his videos started getting corrupted near the end of each and every one for anyone else? It's only the last couple minutes, but it's consistent on them.
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RustyTrombone posted:Why do people even want to see E.T? It's on the same level of ugly and cryptic of any other atari game and has been covered and hyped by every other source. There's much more interesting poo poo for the avgn to cover than a mediocre atari game that filled landfills or some poo poo! I guess it's good he's getting ET out of the way since I imagine his inbox is constantly flooded with e-mails asking him to do it. RBA Starblade posted:Have his videos started getting corrupted near the end of each and every one for anyone else? It's only the last couple minutes, but it's consistent on them.
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I was going to post in support of the 'Why bother with E.T.?' crowd, but I love how the AVGN covers each and every one of his subjects. His coverage of the game (and of course, the crash) might just be as definitive as you could ask for, judging by his past episodes. Though, I must admit, I love how he's sort of getting around reviewing it. A meta-cock-tease, if you will.
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Then again it could be kinda ho-hum like the Superman 64 review. Still I liked this one 
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Lately when I watch these videos I get this problem about 3 or 4 minutes from the end where some rainbow color bar comes up on the top half of the screen and obscures everything. I have no idea what causes this.
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Kawalimus posted:Lately when I watch these videos I get this problem about 3 or 4 minutes from the end where some rainbow color bar comes up on the top half of the screen and obscures everything. I have no idea what causes this. I have this same problem too. Downloading the video doesn't help, it happens on that one too.
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RBA Starblade posted:Have his videos started getting corrupted near the end of each and every one for anyone else? It's only the last couple minutes, but it's consistent on them. I had this problem with the previous video, but not this one. I did download this one because Gametrailers wouldn't display it embedded though, so maybe that fixed it.
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I loving hate watching anything on the GameTrailers site. I used to think it was just me and all my lovely computers, but I'm actually on a (relatively) newer computer now and still couldn't watch it. Any time I watch using the Apple OS it's fine, though.
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James has also done a few videos recently taking a look at his and Mike's DVD collections. One of these is sort of amusing- a look at a very unusual menu on a childrens DVD.
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RustyTrombone posted:Why do people even want to see E.T? It's on the same level of ugly and cryptic of any other atari game and has been covered and hyped by every other source. There's much more interesting poo poo for the avgn to cover than a mediocre atari game that filled landfills or some poo poo! I'd like to see it because I want to know what the big deal is, having never played or seen it.
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