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He's reviewing video games for gods sake. You'd swear he's curing polio, a.i.d.s. or cancer. It needs to be kept in a rational perspective. Are some people jealous? Perhaps. I'm sure more people then not are able to keep video games as that escape from reality. When video games become your livelihood, perspectives change.Quote:
Originally Posted by playgen
I am not commenting on the ebegging stuff but i seriously doubt the movie will be any good, it will be chocka blocked full of all the irritating pointless characters and humour which ran thin years ago. I would have much more preferable if he raised funds for a different project more like his student films, if i were him i would've got bored of making AVGN stuff a long time.
I watched two, maybe three episodes of AVGN when he was new, and that was enough.
I have no idea what Cinemasacre is, and I had no idea this Game Gear video was from some side kick of the video game nerd guy.
The shit is stupid. No surprise that he has a large following. Shit is what people want.
Yeah. I could care less about it myself. I can't see a movie based on AVGN being any good. I think the reviews got better over time but in the process the "Nerd" character became sort of pointless.Quote:
Originally Posted by doomguy
To me, he will always be the Angry Nintendo Nerd as he was originally known, because that's what he really is.
He is but Nintendo would get angry if he didn't change his name and was selling stuff, etc.
Jesus, maybe he appeals to people like you because he's "angry"
I think people watch the avgn for the entertainment of the swearing and battle scenes. I really enjoyed the bugs bunny episode. He deserves to make as much money as he wants from what he does. I've seen much worse pieces of art make way more money than what james has been doing.
I'm excited about his movie. I hope it's something with less gaming and more insane characters jumping out and engaging in random battles with him.
I think that people do what they are good at and when they are forced into something else they have trouble doing the task. I think Mike is more of a behind the scenes guy and he is not used to being in front of the camera for a whole episode just being another guest character so he was in a way "forced" to make Something because the fans were wondering about the lack of content so he got forced into in a way to make a video and was a bit unprepared and does not have the years of experience of being a main character that James does. A less extreme is some Digital rev tv fans (anyone here watch that ?) prefer that Lok is behind the camera instead of in front of it because that is his main role and that is what he is used to.
I expected the worst but I watched that Game Gear review and it was okay. Pretty good actually. Dunno what you guys are complaining about. He even mentioned that he bought his GG because of the Illusion series ("Donald Duck games"), and he showed that he owns most of the Sonic games as well. He even showed footage of Sonic at one point.
In what way was this even a review? He talked about it a bit, said why he got one, and showed some shitty games. You call this pretty good? You must watch some horrible crap for this to be pretty good. It wasn't entertaining, it wasn't informative. I've had more fun watching those horribly lame "unpacking" videos, at least there I get SOME information. The mod he had done on his GG is awesome, that's it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christuserloeser
There's no need to get insulting dude. - You guys made it seem like this was the worst video ever made but I felt entertained for a couple of minutes. I enjoyed hearing him talk about how he got into GG. Loved that he bought his GG for the Donald Duck games (same reason why I bought my Mega Drive). The mod was awesome indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl
- I am not sure it was supposed to be a review. He just introduced the GG and showed us a couple of games he got.
I think the main problem is that Mike is pretty clueless about video games in general, which is completely at odds with him trying to make an "informative" video.
All of his videos can be boiled down to this basic structure:
"Here's a game. Let's try it out! Umm... this game is too hard. Let's see what else James has..."
Even as an introduction it was terrible, this is the level of quality I'd expect of a super obscure youtube "reviewer" with a webcam who has no idea what he's doing. I expected more from the guy who works with the nerd, specially when he has done good (read: ok) stuff like his game glitches show.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christuserloeser
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Originally Posted by MrMatthews
I'm not jealous of these modern day jesters at all. I am more appalled by how everything online has to be "humorous", which is defined as dropping insipid expletives every few seconds. No social commentary, no irony, nothing but self assertive expletives, that's funny? For a while I hoped this trend was just in the U.S. but now I know that everybody wants to be amused in this way. The whole thing is more depressing than funny.
People are looking into the matter of a guy just reviewing video games WAY to hard.