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God drat that was a good one. The loving boat bits had me in stitches; some clown thought that was some genuinely good game design so he used it twice. Games like this are where AVGN shines -- finicky controls, awkward platforming and just outright cruelty with no way to anticipate it. Nothing will top the explosion of rage and frustration at the end of the Dick Tracy review though. That poo poo legitimately feels real.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:What legitimately terrible 8 and or 16 bit games are left for him to REview? Lovely music and graphics. Just the most awful gameplay. The levels involve you having to find five orbs and the logic behind them is beyond esoteric. Like "hey jump in this completely random non-descript spot to make it appear!". What I didn't know as a child is that the boss of the third area (with no visible health bar) had regenerating health. My brother and I literally fought that loving bastard for over an hour at a time. I feel like a montage of finding the orbs would be perfect standard AVGN fodder. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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The skit with Ernie was great, hope the Nes toaster survived  were there Seasme Street games this is a hint at? Good episode, how games like that got made I'll never know. Would of been pretty annoyed owing or renting that. Would of at least been a lot more playable if the movement was fixed to a grid as mentioned. Obtuse puzzles, instant deaths, items needed you cant backtrack too - ex Sierra employee? Slavik fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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Slavik posted:The skit with Ernie was great, hope the Nes toaster survived Ah, good old Sierra. The King's Quest games alone were full of item traps. A pie you can eat that is used at a later point, a basement you can accidentally thrown in twice, and the second time around the item you needed to get out was gone, so in both cases you were just hosed without knowing. The KQ-games even included tons of very dumb screens where you could just walk to your death if you tapped your movement keys the wrong way for a nanosecond. Very Last Ninja like. My favorite was in King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder, where there was a part where you could slightly walk off a staircase to die immediately. The game didn't even care if you where just one step off the ground, step to the side an you were just dead, complete with hilarious death scream. 
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Libluini posted:Ah, good old Sierra. The King's Quest games alone were full of item traps. A pie you can eat that is used at a later point, a basement you can accidentally thrown in twice, and the second time around the item you needed to get out was gone, so in both cases you were just hosed without knowing. That's why I always preferred the Space Quest games over King's Quest, as when you inevitably made a mistake and died at least you got a fun, graphic death screen. 
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iamsosmrt posted:The Last Ninja works so well because you get a real feel of how lovely the game was to play as he struggles with the control mechanics. It wasn't a very thorough play-through, nor did it need to be, it just played up certain parts for comedy's sake and the episode benefited for it. Exactly. Angry Nintendo Nerd blew up because it took you back to the time when games were obtuse bullshit and you had literal flashbacks to your previous experiences in games. This is a large reason why his Sonic 06', Earthbound, and Majora's Mask reviews are his most popular and beloved modern episodes because besides brand recognition, they have you recall your own experience playing the games or those similar to it. There's a reason why people keep referencing the scene in the Earthbound episode where the nerd replicates Poo's subservient meditation excerpt. It's because it was a trippy scene that everyone remembers and they reacted in a similar, though admittedly toned down, way.
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Enjoyed the new episode a lot! I was trying to work out what my favourite and least favourite episodes were, I'll have a proper look at the list later.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Exactly. Angry Nintendo Nerd blew up because it took you back to the time when games were obtuse bullshit and you had literal flashbacks to your previous experiences in games. This is a large reason why his Sonic 06', Earthbound, and Majora's Mask reviews are his most popular and beloved modern episodes because besides brand recognition, they have you recall your own experience playing the games or those similar to it. There's a reason why people keep referencing the scene in the Earthbound episode where the nerd replicates Poo's subservient meditation excerpt. It's because it was a trippy scene that everyone remembers and they reacted in a similar, though admittedly toned down, way. Sorry for the double post, something just struck me. I wasn't all that high on the Majora's Mask episode, but then again, I got it with a strategy guide, which heavily affected my experience playing it. A lot of the stuff I thought was obvious probably wouldn't have been without the guide, in which case I probably would've felt the frustration.
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Son of a Vondruke! posted:I was partial to Cobra Triangle as a kid. Kind of similar to RC Pro-Am, just with more variety in level objectives. Check out Eliminator Boat Duel if you like that game.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:What legitimately terrible 8 and or 16 bit games are left for him to REview? Faxanadu. Very ambitious game with absolutely dickish design - enemies too short to hit, can hit you anywhere on the screen, developer traps including a trap extra life before the final boss; terrible password system; and bugs - at least one upgrade actually makes you weaker. Would make a good episode.
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Mar 21, 2022 02:13
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Astyanax. Fun side scroller. Athena. loving inscrutable action game. The entire "Series" gen 1 library of NES games where they took slightly altered sprites from the games and made them the box art.
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Mar 21, 2022 02:39
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actually surprised james hasnt played athena
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God I remember renting Athena and that's one of the first games I ever thought was just straight up bad.
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Mar 21, 2022 02:50
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Athena is dogshit.
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there are also a few flawed but still good games on the NES he could play. Someone already mentioned Faxanadu
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FilthyImp posted:The entire "Series" gen 1 library of NES games where they took slightly altered sprites from the games and made them the box art. Most of those are pretty decent. I can’t really see an episode on one.
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Between the NES, SNES, TG-16, and Genesis there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of potential games to do. I do suspect a lot of his "bad" reviews are likely due to barely playing them himself and bring filled with Screensaver guys padding the scripts with pop references for cheap comedy.
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SeANMcBAY posted:Most of those are pretty decent. I can’t really see an episode on one. Urban Champion. It sucks.
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Mar 21, 2022 03:32
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I remember hating Tiger Heli and Burai Fighter. They're not good games but they're too boring and unremarkable to actually make fun of for an entire video.
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i played a lot of tiger heli as a kid because it came with my hand me down NES
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Can we agree that the Shrek episode is the worst AVGN episode?
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punk rebel ecks posted:Can we agree that the Shrek episode is the worst AVGN episode? the worst ones for me are the ones where mike is doing a character and wont stfu
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punk rebel ecks posted:Can we agree that the Shrek episode is the worst AVGN episode? I skipped the seemingly extremely dumb skit, and therefore I have no idea just how bad/how justified I was. From the sounds of it, "very".
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I just watched the Shrek ep, and even just skipping to his review and cutting off at the skit, it's pretty bad. Just a soul-less play through of the game, a bunch of lame humor and forced anger at the end before the shrek cameo even starts. I don't know if it's that Emily video, but I've been more mindful about why the good ones are good and why reviews like this are so terrible and easy to forget. Basically he just wanted to poo poo on the Shrek franchise and chose the lowest hanging fruit of a game to do it. After writing that, I skipped ahead a bit in the video to see if there was anything else interesting and I realized it's where that awkward self-tying with the onion gag rant came from in his behind the scenes video. I guess it's sort of a self-inflicted problem of focusing too much on a bad skit for an AVGN video over insightful gameplay anger.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I skipped the seemingly extremely dumb skit, and therefore I have no idea just how bad/how justified I was. This short clip is all you need to see to know how bad it is.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Can we agree that the Shrek episode is the worst AVGN episode? I always think of the Gilbert Gottfried episode.
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wa27 posted:I always think of the Gilbert Gottfried episode. It's up there. Outside of McCulkin, pretty much all of his "special guest" episodes suck rear end. I've also heard that Gilbert Gottfried doesn't really sound as obnoxious at all, like he has a completely normal voice, and the super annoying voice he does is just to get attention.
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wa27 posted:I always think of the Gilbert Gottfried episode. He's a national treasure and that episode was good. punk rebel ecks posted:It's up there. He has a podcast and when he's talking and interviewing someone his voice is fine. When he goes into a bit or if he laughs really hard, that annoying voice kicks in.
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Getting the guy from PepsiMan was pretty great.
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and they also got the pepsi tv game guy
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Legacy of the Wizard would be a fun one. Has he done those Wizards and Warriors games?? SeANMcBAY posted:Most of those are pretty decent. I can’t really see an episode on one.
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FilthyImp posted:He's done "series" reviews before and I think it'd be fun to see the variety of games contained in the early NES releases. The thing about the black box games is that they were from a different era of gaming, more of an evolution of the Atari era arcade score chasers and simple concepts. In Japan you can see the evolution of game concepts that eventually brought us to super mario, whereas in the states the system launched years later with mario along with the first few famicon games which were obsolete right away. Jeremy Parish’s video works series is good for those kinds of reviews, he reviews every single game for a console in order of release, reviewing them based on the competition and tech available at the time, so a game might be flawed but it’s understandable why. In the same way, if a game sucks and there are no excuses then he absolutely rips on it.
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FilthyImp posted:Has he done those Wizards and Warriors games?? They did a J&MM of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgszqQv2588 I had Legacy of the Wizard as a kid. A lot of people seem to like it, but I felt so ripped off. Everything in that game is so obtuse. It's hard to navigate, the puzzles make no sense, item drops can harm you, the graphics are bad even for 1987, etc. It's one of those old games where you had to draw your own map as you played and keep track of every special block and trap or you could never beat it.
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I remember quite enjoying the Gilbert Gottfried and Lloyd Kaufman episodes but I imagine I'm in the minority there.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I remember quite enjoying the Gilbert Gottfried and Lloyd Kaufman episodes but I imagine I'm in the minority there. Kaufman's was fun, I just didn't care about the game he dragged Gottfried in for.
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I'm surprised he hasn't done more classic Genesis games like Altered Beast. For Nintendo, I don't think he's really done those Culture Brain made games yet, Kung fu Heroes was kind of fun but wonky as heck to play.
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life of black tiger didnt really have that much material to work with in the first place imo
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iamsosmrt posted:I'm surprised he hasn't done more classic Genesis games like Altered Beast. For Nintendo, I don't think he's really done those Culture Brain made games yet, Kung fu Heroes was kind of fun but wonky as heck to play. Now the classic Golden Axe series would be worth a look, because the third one is just that bad.
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ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:Given that Altered Beast takes all of a mighty ten minutes to see through from start to finish, there's not really anything to say about it other than "it's pretty poo poo with the best-worst voice samples ever". It's a short game but there's enough goofy poo poo for him to riff on for like 10 minutes with some b-movie sketch on top. But yeah, Golden Axe would be another good choice. He hasnt done Revenge of Shinobi, right? The original version that has Batman, Spiderman, Godzilla, Terminator and Rambo is right up his alley.
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iamsosmrt posted:He hasnt done Revenge of Shinobi, right? The original version that has Batman, Spiderman, Godzilla, Terminator and Rambo is right up his alley. Shinobi as a series (or at least the 8/16-bit games) would make for some good Nerd material in general. Sure, the games are generally high-quality but they're also regarded as being very difficult, which is ideal for Nerd rage. Especially the SMS port of the Arcade original, which just starts throwing complete and utter bullshit at you by the last few levels. He'd also get to finish the topic with Shinobi III, which is tough but fair, and in turn stopping there allows us to pretend that Shinobi X never happened. We can also ignore the GBA game which shares the name of "Revenge of Shinobi" but isn't a remake and has absolutely gently caress-all to do with any of Sega's titles whatsoever!
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