If he ever reviews a Disney game...
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I want to see James / AVGN cover Genesis accessories, the activator would be a good place to start, heh heh.
That's an awesome idea! I loved his NES accessories video, couldn't believe some of the crazy stuff they built back then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guntz
Two of my favourite videos were the 32X and Sega CD videos so a Genesis accessories one would be awesome.
His fame is certainly deserved but I really hate the flood of poor imitators, especially the one who blatantly ripped him off and has been relatively successful despite the fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gogogadget
I preferred his earlier videos where he was talking about games that he definitely played as a kid. Many of his more recent episodes were perhaps overdone and too little focused on the games. I also disliked a few of his George Lucas moments when he re-reviewed some of the games from his older videos. He seems to have a few styles. Some, like the SwordQuest video were cool because they were so informative. Others were funny because the child in you could relate. Then there are others where he is just testing his special-effects and being unnecessarily crude. I tend to dislike the latter.
I must admit, seeing him get angry and frustrated over games that are downright unplayable entertains me, mostly because i can relate :p
Rap was not, and continues to not be, a fad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
While I really like the AVGN, he'd never do the sort of episode I'd want out of an obscure system like the Jaguar. His entire schtick is about playing bad games, and with stuff like the Jaguar, where the entire system has a stigma about being terrible and the worst games are actually the most popular, he'd never give it a fair chance. I'd love for him to do a proper jaguar retrospective where he talked about the actual games on the system worth playing, but that'd require he'd spend far to much money. Also, judging from his Jag CD mini-review, he doesn't have much of a critical eye - he (or rather Mike Matei) tore into battlemorph because it had pop-up and never even tried to figure out how to play it. Cybermorph is legitimately terrible, but Battlemorph is one of the most underrated games on the system and several times better. Watching him blow off games like Tempest 2000, Battlemorph, and Zool 2 just lets me know he'd never give the system a fair shake.Quote:
Originally Posted by shrap
Which I understand. That's not what most of his audience wants. I tune into the AVGN more to watch a well produced show on video game collecting, not so much to see him rage at some games. I'd rank the nintendo power episode as one of my favorites for that very reason. Or the Atari 5200 episode where he didn't review the system or any games, but spent the entire episode summing up the frustration of connecting a new system to a nest of wires (something every collector has gone through).
Crossover hip-hop in the mainstream? Yeah, that never really died, pretty hard to deny that the Early 90's was absolutely full of crossover rappers that made music that aged horribly though.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
Zool 2 was an awesome game.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheSonicRetard
I mean rap and hip hop have been two of the most dominant genres for the last 30 years now. How long is this fad lol
I'll save you the trouble of waiting for it to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guntz
AVGN : So in *date* Sega released the activator, this device was a crude version of what MS later did with the Kinect,
lets unbox it.
*skip ahead*
OMG WHAT A PIECE OF GORILLA POOP, THIS JUNK ISNT GOOD ENOUGH TO DRINK MY PISS THATS MADE FROM MY OLDER PISS THAT I DRANK TO MAKE THIS HORRIBLE PISS,
WHY THE FUUUCK WOULD SEGA ALLOW THIS TO BE RELEASED, OMG MONKEY COCKS AND BALLS AND POOP, THIS SHIT SUCKS SO MUCH.
Yeah I like some of his video's, but he got predictable real fast.
I really like his "AVGN memories" videos a bit more because they buck this trend. With his normal AVGN character, if he doesn't have something bad to say about a game, he says nothing at all (because that's his schtick, after all). It's noticable when he "reviews" Terminator on the Sega CD twice and never raves about how good it is. He admits that he can't bash it, but spends maybe a total of 1 minute talking about it over the course of two different reviews, compared to the 10 or so minutes he talks about the NES version of Terminator.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
I get the feeling when I watch the AVGN that he's pretty clueless about sega stuff. He may own the systems, he remembers them being "the other side" as a kid, but he doesn't know the systems or their libraries. He started as the Angry Nintendo Nerd, after all.
At least he said something about the music in Terminator :P
Even then he's sparse on the praise. He mentions that it's the only terminator game to feature the terminator theme song, and that it's "real kick-ass" but he doesn't talk at length about who composed it, which would have been very relevant. Tommy Tallarico isn't some obscure name in gaming, after all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gogogadget
Again, I don't really fault the AVGN for all this stuff. He knows his audience, and I don't tune into his show with the expectation of watching him rave about some obscure games or how underrated a system maybe. The closest I get to that is Splash Wave over on youtube, which is a much different kind of show and dedicated mainly to the Sega Genesis and MSX2. I would love for the AVGN for what it is, rather than lament what it isn't.
Let me add a bit of perspective to the whole "he doesn't praise much" complaint. As an experiencer of life, let me tell you it is a million times easier to complain about something than praise it. Hell, if you cooked a nice meal, 99% of the time, your praise is that the food disappeared quickly, or there were no words spoken about it. Nobody will actually say anything, except to criticize it. Or, look at YouTube. Virtually every user there hates something, because hatred is easy.
So, I'll take subtle praise out of the AVGN gladly. The entire point of the show is to get angry and complain about crummy games. Just the fact he even talks about good games sometimes is out of the ordinary for that kind of show.
There are several OTHER very popluar online game reviewers besides AVGN.
You've never heard of Armake21 or even SilentRob?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Uw2LufaA8
Armake21 is a youtube legend. At one point, he had over 30,000 subscribers. His "Big Rigs",Total Recall,Quatarro Adventure reviews are infamous and very popular. And this was during the Fall of 2006 around the same time as AVGN.
Silent Rob a.k.a LeisureSuitGaming, hit it big in the Summer of 2007 when he became the first game reviewer to review "Action 52" pulling the game out of years of obscurity and starting a fire of interest in the shitstorm.