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Jeroen posted:For the record, he uploaded another video on his Youtube account today; it's the Star Trek video from a year ago. It's packed with the gimmicks we all loathe and a prime example why he should stick to matter-of-fact reviews. He's unusually good when he's ripping games apart on fundamental levels. I do like the line, "You want Genesis? You can have Genesis!" He's probably my favorite internet personality, which isn't saying much really. But hey, it's free entertainment, even if it is kinda gimicky sometimes. I can certainly appreciate his hit or miss style of creativity which is something I lack in every sesne of the word. So I certainly understand, true artist put out a lot of crap, but his good stuff definitley makes up for it. For every "poo poo" based character, there's a really good innovation, like with the Battletoads review. Also, the whole Atari sex games chronology is a great way to make uninformed friends go, "what the gently caress?"
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^^ I entirely agree, but that's not why I watch it. I can appreciate the creativity of some of the more elaborate reviews (Mario 3, Halloween, etc). This is coming from someone who never does dumb or silly things because I never try as I have no creativity of my own. That said, I'm willing to grant him some license to do weird things, because when he's successful, the payoff is much better than someone who plays it close to the chest. Also, if you like AVGN, you should also like The Nostalgia Critic. His videos are more in depth and much more focused on the content rather than the character.
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| # ¿ Jun 4, 2009 14:13 |
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In recent years, I've been of the opinion that although, I certainly liked SNES more when I was young, NES has more appeal to me now. It just has more quality games. I could spew off about 2 dozen good NES games. Less than half that for SNES.
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| # ¿ Jun 18, 2009 13:21 |
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Perhaps I should have increased both of those numbers. I still maintain that the NES had better games on the whole though. Having a ridiculously large ROM collection definitely helps put things in perspective.
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| # ¿ Jun 22, 2009 13:25 |
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I'll continue to watch regardless, but I can definitely understand some people's apprehension with regards to the same old song and dance every video. I'm perfectly in favor of him taking it in strange new directions and let the character evolve. That said, I've seen people declare some of his new videos are going downhill, just to come back and say that a new episode is awesome (Battletoads comes to mind).
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| # ¿ Jul 6, 2009 21:21 |
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| # ¿ Jul 22, 2009 20:48 |
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rotinaj posted:I just started watching AVGN, and this is the kind of poo poo that's making me stop. I just pulled a random screenshot I thought was funny looking. I actually think he was fairly reserved in this video. It was more, "what the hell is this?" rather than "Fuckballs! Diarrhea coming out my rear end is better than this!" Also, acting aside, he's generally comfortable in front of the camera and I think this is usually reliably good. If he were to spend more time getting all the mannerisms and facial expressions perfect, we wouldn't have a new video every 2 weeks. Personally, I'd rather have more content, then significantly less, slightly better content. I got an education in the 3D0 in a fairly amusing way, and I appreciate that. For someone who has time to kill, this is definitely something I'd recommend. LorneReams posted:I threw a NES controller so hard it embedded into the drywall in my bedroom. That level of anger is actually understating it in some instances. Honestly, as a kid, I never understood this level of anger. The only time I ever got upset was when I was cheated something outside of the game, like a game freeze or losing power after playing for 2 or 3 hours. I never got upset over not making a jump or dying against a tough boss and yes, I've played Ninja Turtles 1. StickySweater fucked around with this message at Jul 23, 2009 around 19:31 |
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Agent Escalus posted:Actually, I'd put money on it being the R.O.B. accessory/toy. If only because the little 'bot has made two distinct cameo appearances in past videos: at the end of the NES Accessories episode, R.O.B. appears behind the Nerd's head as he says that there's some stuff he didn't cover and is saving for later; anjd earlier than that, in the Wizard of Oz video, R.O.B. can be seen hanging from a noose in the hallway. That was actually a particularly interesting video. According to his comments on the site (I haven't tried this) the video is purposly designed to match up with Dark Side of the Moon, which if you remember, is known for matching up with the Wizard of Oz.
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| # ¿ Jul 28, 2009 13:18 |
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LorneReams posted:I liked ET as a kid. It took me a week to figure out how to beat it. Most games didn't even have an ending, so that was a plus. Games from that era had the charm of being made by one programmer’s singular vision. This as well as simple mechanics made for a bunch of pass / fail games. My favorite of the era was definitely Secret Quest which was released during the end of the Atari life cycle (when Nintendo was beginning to dominate). Secret Quest is basically a top down maze game (kinda like Zelda, but not nearly as complex) in which you set off the self destruct sequence of the reactor core and escape before time runs out. I like to think of it as a sort of proto-Descent. Anyway, end derail.
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| # ¿ Jul 29, 2009 20:48 |
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Has anyone here actually played Back to the Future Parts II and III? My God, the game is so bad. Of course, back then I had a huge tolerance for bad games, but even then I knew it was exceptionally so. It took me about a year or so just to figure out how to beat it. You have to collect items by doing minigames, which are in hidden areas. You need keys to access said areas. So you get the keys by killing enemies, you succeed in playing the minigame, you get the item, and then you need to place it in another secret location in the correct time period. But each item only has one area where it can be placed. To determine if that's the right place, you need to unscramble the words. So if you have a milkshake, you need to find a secret location that has the word scrambled in it. Each time you do this, you unlock a piece of the puzzle. Complete this series of ridiculous and unfun tasks 30 times and you beat the game... No not completely, just BttF 2. You've still got BttF 3 to go through. Did I mention there is no save or password feature? Despite having put an easy 100 hours into this game over the course of my life, I have never gotten to Back to the Future III. The only way I even know it exist is from a screenshot posted on wikipedia. Edit: While looking for a link for this post, I found there is a password system. For the first time ever, I'm going to get to play BttF part III. I'm excited! Edit 2: Played it. Sucks. No surprise there. It does seem much shorter though. You could maybe beat this part if you were masochistic enough to try. VVV Yeah, I had a game genie, but there's no code to send you ahead to the second part. StickySweater fucked around with this message at Aug 1, 2009 around 00:51 |
| # ¿ Aug 1, 2009 00:37 |
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James has a new video up for the new Ghostbusters game (360 version). It's a simple review. The toned down style is a nice change. Also, if you want more Ghostbusters discussion, the film forum has a new GB thread which has some good discussion.
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| # ¿ Aug 14, 2009 16:02 |
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One of my favorite vidoes of his is the Rocky Jumped a Park Bench which was shown at the Philadelphia Film Festival. If you're a fan of the Rocky films or even just the first (and best) one, you should appreciate it. His senior college work The Deader the Better is a pretty well produced zombie film and goes way beyond what we're used to seeing with AVGN. It's only a short, and I like to include it in my Halloween themed viewing material.
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| # ¿ Aug 25, 2009 21:46 |
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I get a lot out of the horror based videos. You could tell he took the subject manner seriously enough to do a justice to the characters and some of the clichés of their respective movies (ie. James going into the hall closet that has pipes and stuff everywhere in the Nightmare video). The idea that there's an eccentric crazy old guy who sells Atari games in his neighborhood for $100 a cart was great idea in general. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre episode was similarly well thought out (getting stuck on the wheelchair, etc). Maybe the nerd's lost some of his magic now and maybe it's not all that great, especially the new stuff, but it's free and I enjoy the character. So I hope he keeps making new stuff. By the way, according to his site there should be a new nerd video up tonight.
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| # ¿ Sep 4, 2009 19:07 |
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I'm a huge fan of James's 2007 Monster Madness and according to his site, it looks like he's doing another one similar to the first this year. It's a ridiculous amount of work, but it probably my favorite non-comedic thing he does. Also, according to the comments page, the next Spike video is supposed to be the Top 10 Twilight Zone Episodes. That should be decent too.
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| # ¿ Sep 17, 2009 17:07 |
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:Link? Star Wars Episodes 4-6 (Part 1) Star Wars Episodes 1-3 (Part 2)
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| # ¿ Oct 2, 2009 17:08 |
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Cannot Find Server posted:He liked Nemesis and said it was a good way to end the TNG movies, for one. I wish I saved the quote, but someone on the site here once said something to the effect that Nemesis was great once you realized that it was a movie made by 12 year olds, for 12 year olds. He said something to the effect of: "Hey guys, lets make this movie that's like where Picard has to go up against himself, only evil. And Shinzon has this ship that can fire while cloaked and has like a gazillion torpedo bays and poo poo. Troy can totally have this awesome like telepathic thing going on. Also, lets have Picard (Captain of Starfleet's flagship and career diplomat) drive this bitchin dune buggy!" Anyway, cringeworthyness asside, I still liked it better than ST: The Motion Picture.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Monster Party Yeah, I keep hoping he'll do that one too. It's a fun game though and doesn't really suck, but it is bizarre. It's a platformer with horror elements, but in a fun, light hearted kinda way. Also, I remember you have to fight a corn dog at one point too.
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| # ¿ Oct 18, 2009 02:41 |
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Yeah. If memory serves (and it does because I'm ridiculous with this type of useless information) Error is friends with some guy in another town. He tells you to talk to Error again. When you do, Error gives you some information, I believe it's info about a secret passage near Kings Tomb. So he's not useless if you don't have "the power." (EDIT: I had the power.)
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| # ¿ Oct 22, 2009 20:03 |
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Dracula X looked absolutley stunning for a Super Nintendo game. SCIV was an awesome game though. I ate that stuff up as a kid. I never played the genesis game. Something about CV on a Sega system just seems wrong to me, illogical as that sounds. I do hope he gives a few moments to CV64. I always wondered about that game.
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| # ¿ Oct 23, 2009 15:56 |
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In the site faq he says:AVGN posted:How do you record your game footage? So yeah. He uses the real games. I don't think I've ever seen him explicitly say he used a ROM even once. That must be real tough since a lot of those games show the ending. I know he does cheat on some of them though by using in game codes, level selects, or even the Game Genie on occasion.
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2010 05:41 |
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His new blog post says he's going to be taking a step back from the 2 a month avgn episodes so that he can improve the quality of each and work on new projects.
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| # ¿ Feb 8, 2010 18:08 |
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Ytadel posted:I don't blame him. He's gotta be getting a little bit tired of it at this point. I wouldn't be overwhelmingly shocked if in a year or so he announced plans to call it quits at the good round number of episode 100 (he's on 87 now). Yeah, I wouldn't mind that so long as he continued to do other interesting things. I know he mentioned the possibility of a feature length Nerd video at one point, and even said that he had some ideas for the screenplay, but that might have just been a passing idea, nothing more.
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| # ¿ Feb 9, 2010 21:55 |
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I really liked lazerdisc from an artistic point of view. If you talk to people who are big vinyl record enthusiast, you could probably coax them into discussing the value of the artwork, and how much more significant it is for them when assessing albums in general. You can sort of get a feel for this even just handling a vinyl record, if your like me and only have a few of them. The size of the pictures just has such a huge impact in how I view bands and music. I never even realized it until this whole MP3 craze of the last 11 or 12 years. Lazerdisc has the same sort of feel. If your more into content and don't get much enjoyment out of owning or collecting films or music, then you probably can't relate, but I think it's a shame that album/movie art is so much less significant now (album art more so).
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| # ¿ Feb 23, 2010 22:51 |
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As recently as 2006 (when I graduated from college for Journalism), some TV stations were still using (admitedly) outdated equipment and Beta tapes were still the main form of gathering and moving video. Wikipedia has some lenghty discussion about why this came to be, but I suspect at least part of the reason has to do with the fact that Betamax tapes had superior video and sound. It has nothing on todays video technology of course (both in ease of use, preserved quality, copying etc.), and I'd venture to guess any studios still using it are doing so out of cost necessity, not because it's easier or better.
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| # ¿ Feb 25, 2010 17:47 |
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I like his character of 90s kid... maybe it's just a generational thing though (I'm 26).
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| # ¿ Mar 4, 2010 14:11 |
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MrSaxamaphone posted:I'm pretty sure that you would literally explode someone's brain if you showed someone a modern 3d game, like modern warfare 2, to someone in 1991. It's interesting that we're really only about 1 and 1/2 generations (console generations that is) behind graphics that look like real life. I think they described it would be like a "lucid dream." Not sure what that means, but I can imagine it'll be pretty looking.
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| # ¿ Mar 15, 2010 13:35 |
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He's doing a countdown of his favorite 30 movies on spike, starting with 30-21, or something like that. I can't watch the whole thing now, but I'm looking forward to it. http://www.spike.com/video/cinemassacres-top-30/3359042
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| # ¿ Mar 19, 2010 14:44 |
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Awesome. This is one of my favorite all time games. I probably put 200 hours into it over the years. Thanks for posting this. EDIT: Doesn't surprise me he hated it though. EDIT 2: Everything he says is accurate. I still love that game though... until I played X3, which is my new favorite space sim. EDIT 3: Also, I too made board games as a kid. I made one which was like a D&D style game, but without statistics or rules at all. I also made one for a school project called "Escape from Africa" in which you traveled around the board collecting money. You had to get enough money to be able to get on the plane at the end of the game, while avoiding elephants, AIDS, Tsetse flies, and of course, the Devil himself. StickySweater fucked around with this message at Mar 26, 2010 around 18:41 |
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http://wcnews.com/holovids/cinematics_privateer2.shtml You can get most of the vids from here. Also, if you still have the disc, there is a program (also on this site somewhere) that you can use to export those videos. There's also making of vids, interviews, etc. I learned that essentially, the game did go through some basic testing with the testers making a bunch of suggestions, but they decided to just release "as is" instead. Also, apparently it was never supposed to be a Privateer game, they just changed their minds half way through it's development. Thats probably why there are no Kilrathi. EDIT: Beaten with the link. 
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| # ¿ Mar 26, 2010 18:46 |
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The Nerd is the best for that type of stuff. Colecovision and Intellivision is my favorite two parter, but there's also Oddesy and probably a few others too.
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| # ¿ Mar 28, 2010 20:09 |
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El Generico posted:Just to clear it up real good. No it won't. This discussion happens every couple pages or so.
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| # ¿ Mar 30, 2010 14:15 |
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There's a good outtake reel up from the Ninja Gaiden video. Normally they say, Ninja Gay-den... as in Ninja Homosexual-den. Gay-of-a-double-a-den. Two Snaps and a Gay-Den! EDIT: Here it is, http://www.cinemassacre.com/new/?p=5085 StickySweater fucked around with this message at Apr 7, 2010 around 05:33 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:Oh a reel of gay jokes, Kevin is literally human scum.  Uh, there were maybe three out of a 10 minute video.Also, that bothers you but large bouts of physical violence don't? I think you need to lighten up a bit. It was pretty harmless. I think his performance was better than Mike's would have been had he been the ninja. EDIT: 7 minute StickySweater fucked around with this message at Apr 7, 2010 around 13:47 |
| # ¿ Apr 7, 2010 13:26 |
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No new video, but there is an update. It boils down to Spike Movie review this Friday, followed by the 21 minute (nice) Ghostbusters tour on Monday, so that's something to look forward too.
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| # ¿ Apr 22, 2010 04:25 |
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Ghostbusters NYC tour video is up.
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| # ¿ Apr 26, 2010 13:45 |
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mystery at hog island posted:I turned the review off as soon as I heard Bad Reputation and saw that guy's poo poo eating grin. His vids aren't the best, but he did an interesting piece on scouring flee markets for NES cartridges. At the time I saw it those were his only ones on youtube so I don't know what the rest are like.
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| # ¿ May 7, 2010 04:16 |
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I always assumed he moved out of his parents house at some point. I know he got married right around the change in venue.
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| # ¿ May 16, 2010 16:40 |
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I liked the Critics reviews better when there was a focus on nostalgia. He didn't just review bad things. Not a single review in recent memory (that's not a top 11 list) is of a good movie or show. It's all crap. Compare this to the earlier stuff discussing Animaniacs, the TMNT movies, the various Nickelodeon stuff, etc. I like seeing crap discussed as much as the next internet lurker, but it gets a bit repetitive.
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| # ¿ May 18, 2010 13:43 |
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 OK, OK... enough browsing Encyclopedia Dramatica at work. I figure I'll only do it for a few seconds, it's always longer, and I always regret it.
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| # ¿ May 21, 2010 13:33 |
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I've never had a problem except for the convoluted eyesore that the Spike website is.
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