Angry Video Game Nerd. [Archive] - The Technodrome Forums

Peanut

03-10-2009, 07:51 PM

I don't think he's terrible, because he just did it for fun until it took off, but the kids who take his word as gospel, spreading it around, despite the fact they've never even touched the games in question, is nothing short of retarded.

In short, AVGN is a prety cool guy. he plays games and doesnt afraid of anything!

Ninjinister

03-10-2009, 08:31 PM

I watch his You Know What's Bull$#!+ and Cinemassacre stuff every so often, but nothing else. If I wanted to watch some dude repeatedly fail at a game and string together profanity with nonsense I'd go to my brother's house.

ThirdMarioBro

03-10-2009, 09:20 PM

I love his show, and regularly laugh my ass off at his material because it's funny as hell (and more entertaining than most of the garbage on TV), but the Nostalgia Critic (http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/4191-ferngully) is miles better.

Jester

03-10-2009, 10:11 PM

ThirdMarioBro

03-10-2009, 11:05 PM

Haven't watched a lot, but was entertained by what I saw.

NiNi

03-10-2009, 11:27 PM

He's alright. Not all episodes he's done in my opinion are funny, but there are some that can get me laughing quite a bit, honestly.

Mr. Snackpants

03-11-2009, 12:43 AM

Oh man, this guy is hilarious. He's definitely one of my new heroes! he's such a funny and cool internet game critic that loves to review and trash the worst video games in existence.

LogicDonny???

GK Punk

03-11-2009, 01:00 AM

anything involving screw attack sucks :o

ThirdMarioBro

03-11-2009, 01:28 AM

......ummmm, why?

GK Punk

03-11-2009, 01:53 AM

...You know I have ties to Screw attack...

Candy Kappa

03-11-2009, 02:44 AM

AVGN and Nostalgia Critic rocks!

Brodie

03-11-2009, 07:40 AM

GW hates things because of COrey

Barkworm

03-11-2009, 08:04 AM

Brodie, were you drunk when you typed that?!

Cure

03-11-2009, 11:17 AM

Is there some kind of unwritten rule that states we have to post on the drome if we're drunk? It sure seems like it.

03-12-2009, 05:02 AM

I think so. Although I know one shouldn't laugh at a drunken man and his ramblings, it's just too f***in' funny NOT to.

Angry Video Game Nerd... I watch him from time to time. He's a bit of a hit-and-miss with me, but I usually get a laugh or two out of him. If it makes you smile, it's not all that bad, right?

Brodie

03-12-2009, 09:43 AM

Wasn't drunk. I was wearing gloves. Its kinda the same, I guess.

Ninjinister

03-12-2009, 09:52 AM

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ThirdMarioBro

03-12-2009, 02:59 PM

...You know I have ties to Screw attack...

Gotcha'. Never mind.

Peanut

03-12-2009, 03:14 PM

Backspace
Your friend.

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Too bad they weren't your Mom's friend.

Ninjinister

03-12-2009, 03:23 PM

I was a test tube baby dammit!

Cure

03-12-2009, 03:48 PM

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Ninjinister

03-12-2009, 03:50 PM

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Yay..... :)

Peanut

03-12-2009, 03:56 PM

Watch out! He'll report you! F*cking whiner.

Storm Wolf

03-19-2009, 11:55 AM

I love the AVGN. I get quite a few laughs out of it myself. A lot of the games he plays were awesome back in the day. Haha!

I'll have to check out the nostalgic critic. Haven't seen anything by him yet.

I like some of the spin offs by other people as well.

When speaking of profanity...I'm pretty sure that's why half my 360 friends list are actually "friends" with me.....Sad I know....

Lisardo

03-31-2009, 03:07 AM

I love that dude! His reviews are hilarious and oh so true! I esp. LOL'ed at his review of the Atari porn games on the Cinemassacre site!! His TMNT NES game review was funny too, as was his Friday the 13th one.

Cropsy

05-28-2009, 11:16 PM

Does anyone agree or disagree on some of the games he's trashed?

pannoni1

11-06-2013, 08:02 AM

I saw the AVGN in person at a gaming con at the beginning of this year and am planning to see him again New Year's weekend. Since then, I've marathoned all of his episodes over the past month and found most of these reviews as entertaining as practical, though I would still use Game FAQ's/IGN for literal reviews. My favorite episode besides TMNT was the Tiger Electronics episode recently done. I myself had a few of these, and do agree that they were after their time, and feel like they could have come out in the '70s. Of course not everything was bad; I had the Star Wars Rebel Forces game that came with a shooter and the game was housed inside a cool Darth Vader hat; the games also were great on the go and had longer battery life than Game Boy. But the "has not aged well" remark is indeed an understatement. However, I found the most hilarious part being Tiger's R-Zone which pissed AVGN so much he had to praise the virtual boy. Let's not talk about game.com and fooling you into being Internet related. I also found the second Looney Tunes episode involving all those sequels to be hilarious. And once in awhile, the AVGN does proclaim that some games aren't exactly terrible and are still playable. Speaking of his movie, this is what he'll be reviewing:

Atari 2600 ET

Peanut

11-06-2013, 11:58 AM

This thread is from f*cking 2009.

Oisterboy

11-07-2013, 10:26 AM

Well if we're posting here anyway...

I like him. I think he's funny and I like how he gets people interested in retro gaming. Actually he put the fire under my ass to get more games. I already was collecting, but his collection made me super jealous and motivated me to get it going and step it up a bit.

Icebot

11-07-2013, 08:44 PM

I like AVGN. I think he's really funny when he gets angry when things don't go his way in video games.

XERO

11-17-2013, 08:48 PM

So... has anyone play the AVGN Adventures video game yet?

Sh*t's friggin' hard.

chrisdude

11-18-2013, 12:26 AM

One of my favorite channels. I subscribe to about 40 YouTube channels, and his is the only one I have set to ding my email when a new video is posted. Whether it's reviews, angry rants, or just 'James and Mike Play ____" (which may actually be my favorite), I just think he's an entertaining guy.

LeotheLateBloomer

11-18-2013, 12:36 AM

I love James Rolfe. He always made me LOL out loud. I like him a little more than Doug Walker, even though I love him too. I love their rivalry episodes were they insult each other and duke it out. I also love their review on the Coming Out of Our Shells Tour review. These days, AVGN is busy with the movie and is now a father o_o, while NC is doing blogs on modern hit shows like Avatar, Korra, and Adventure Time. You'd think Doug would go back to watch the 2k3 cartoon or even the 2k12 one.

DarkLightDragon

11-18-2013, 08:11 AM

He's only watching Adventure Time because that's what his fans wanted him to do. The Avatar stuff was just for the movie review and liked the series so much, he decided to do Korra (and since his brother is already a fan, he made some appearance in his vlogs).

Had people recommended 2k3 or 2012, I'm sure he would've looked into either of them too.

So...yeah, AVGN. Like his work.

LeotheLateBloomer

11-18-2013, 12:13 PM

Doug's birthday was actually yesterday. He's a year younger than James.

One thing I've always liked about James over Doug is that James has always dugged deep into the development and history of a franchise like how he explored other TMNT lore outside the 87 show he fondly remembers, such as the Mirage comics. Whereas Doug was completely clueless to the mythology on his TMNT (2007) review.

Whatswiththeheadbands?

11-18-2013, 01:03 PM

I like James' older stuff from 2008 the best. Although, saying that, my all time favorite video by him has to be either the Castlevania videos, or 'Plumbers don't wear ties'.

I still don't see how someone could think this was a good idea for a game

DyaF_gCKWsI

Trinxant

11-24-2013, 04:14 PM

This guy is very funny one of the best episodes is the Virtual Boy and 32X reviews or Terminator games reviews for different consoles...

However, the last episodies are not as funny than the others.

Aaronardo

11-28-2013, 09:07 AM

He's alright. Not all episodes he's done in my opinion are funny, but there are some that can get me laughing quite a bit, honestly.

This. Exactly this.

pannoni1

12-03-2013, 06:39 PM

For those of you thinking that his later episodes aren't as good, check out his latest episode (#115) that features himself reviewing his OWN games! You can even download the AVGN Adventures game; give it a try!

I've also come across some of his Board James episodes, and while some are funny, that dream phone video gave me the creeps, more than anything that he's ever presented, and he does explain why it freaked him out on the latest episode.

shuriken

02-02-2014, 12:59 PM

I was gonna mention Board James too. But they're cool in my book. He does have some practical info on his reviews before he starts to rage and scream profanities. His Die Hard, TMNT, and Shwarzenegger game reviews are my faves.

Leo656

02-02-2014, 03:41 PM

I found out about that guy way late. He's good for laughs. My wife had never seen most of those older games - heard of 'em, but never played 'em - so we had fun watching a bunch of AVGN videos so she could better understand things I could never fully explain in words.

Some of the skits are a little over-the-top but it's all in fun.

RaphAndDonnie

02-02-2014, 03:55 PM

I like AVGN. I've watched him for a bit now. One of my favorite reviews has got to be the Bible games episode. The Noah's Ark game with a Doom-esque feel was hilarious. :lol: I also really enjoyed the skit with Mr. Bucket.

Peanut

02-02-2014, 04:33 PM

I think the quality of his stuff has been a bit up and down (mostly down) the last few years prior to and following the R.O.B. episode, which is sad, because I think from episode 59 with the CD-I stuff right up to episode 91 Action 52/Cheetman he was absolutely at the top of his game.

He has had some decent/good episodes within the post-100 episode run, such as Ghosts N' Goblins and Schwarzenegger Games, but he also had some of his absolute worst stuff, which culminated into what is easily the worst episode he's ever made with Toxic Crusaders.

Both the AVGN Games episode and the Wish List episodes were more up to his standards, though. So I'm hoping he's turning a corner. Honestly, he's done so much stuff at this point that even if he doesn't recover I think he's made some of the best entertainment about games yet seen, so I'd be perfectly alright with him hanging up the pocket protector for good.

shuriken

02-04-2014, 08:44 PM

He has had some decent/good episodes within the post-100 episode run, such as Ghosts N' Goblins and Schwarzenegger Games, but he also had some of his absolute worst stuff, which culminated into what is easily the worst episode he's ever made with Toxic Crusaders.

I thought it was funny having Lloyd Kauffman around. But most of it was pretty bad. You could tell James was having a blast filming with him.

billbot85

02-09-2014, 11:34 AM

I love James Rolfe. I watched his AVGN vids for a while, and it led me to his other work on Cinemassacre. I especially love his movie reviews and marathons, his Turtle Tuesday videos, Board James, his vid on the Video Store and even the Michelangelo Pizza Taste Test. I like him a lot more than NC, and feel he's very insightful when reviewing movies (I find that he and I look at the same kinds of things in films).

Peanut

02-09-2014, 09:28 PM

His other stuff is pretty neat, but I personally don't have an interest in much of it. The stuff he does with Mike is OK, but I find Mike to have a kind of grating personality.

Prowler

02-11-2014, 02:52 AM

Been watching his stuff since late 2006. I believe around the time he released the Friday the 13th and the Nightmare on Elm Street episodes. He was still known as the Angry Nintendo Nerd haha. Hard to believe it's been over 7 years since I've discovered him one day randomly on Youtube while searching for TMNT stuff.

I still enjoy his episodes, nowadays more for their history facts of gaming than for the comedy. I really like those Atari 5200, Atari Jaguar, Tiger Electronics and Colleco/Intellivision episodes where he focuses more on the consoles than on the games he's reviewing. His old NES episodes, while hysterical back when they came out, they seem to have aged badly. Probably because he got a better camera and better production since moving to Gametrailers to make his movies look more professional.

I also enjoy his non-AVGN stuff such as Board James, James and Mike's Mondays and You Know What's Bull****.

Not sure how to feel about his upcoming movie. I've seen the trailer and I had to take a step back.

d3m01iti0n

04-14-2014, 07:39 AM

Great stuff. My gf likes his shows too. He seems to be a huge TMNT fan so Im sure hes lurking somewhere around here.

sdp

04-14-2014, 03:22 PM

I've watched since the TMNT II NES review came out and was posted here in the drome, back then he was just starting and becoming popular, wow in the coming months he became huge and a year later he was an icon on the internet, I'm glad I saw him rise.

Personally while I loved his style, after all the copycat reviewers on youtube, I kind of lost interest in his "normal" style but so did the Nerd and he started doing more elaborate videos with random stories. I personally loved that since instead of doing more of the same, he was evolving the show, sadly most people wanted more of the tired formula and he eventually started doing more what the fans wanted, and I don't like those videos as much. You still have plenty of gems in the later episodes.

I'm looking forward to the movie since it seems to be more of what he was going for before going "back to the basics".

ledahead

04-29-2014, 06:38 PM

Mike Mattei is such a douche bag. He just seems like a mean, condescending person. I don't even know how James can tolerate him.

Peanut

04-29-2014, 08:04 PM

That seems a bit harsh, but he certainly is difficult to tolerate for very long. In videos at least. I'm sure he's not always as over the top as he appears.

Casey

06-03-2014, 09:48 AM

Irate Gamer all the way!

Kidding. That guy is pathetic.

Casey

06-03-2014, 09:48 AM

Mike Mattei is such a douche bag. He just seems like a mean, condescending person. I don't even know how James can tolerate him.

Also, yes.

Prowler

06-03-2014, 04:15 PM

Mike Mattei is such a douche bag. He just seems like a mean, condescending person. I don't even know how James can tolerate him.
No idea if he is or not since I don't know him personally, but he's voice is annoying and his jokes are pretty cringe worthy.

chrisdude

06-04-2014, 05:27 AM

I never got that vibe. I look forward to James and Mike Play, every Monday.

Lou 500

06-30-2014, 06:02 PM

I enjoyed his early videos. He colourful, rage-filled metaphores for describing crappy video games made me crack up. Nowadays he isn't so over-the-top and I kind of miss it.

Prowler

07-01-2014, 05:29 AM

I enjoyed his early videos. He colourful, rage-filled metaphores for describing crappy video games made me crack up. Nowadays he isn't so over-the-top and I kind of miss it.
Honestly, I prefer watching him reviewing a game normally or just talking about gaming history nowadays. Jokes such as "buiffalo diarrhea" and "what a piece of ****" get old fast. Fortunately, James knows this quite well and tries to keep some variety in his episodes. His character had some development. If he kept doing the same formula of his early videos, it'd have gotten old fast.

I prefer the straight-up video game reviews myself. Especially NES ones. Not a big fan of his Atari games repisodes since those usually have him fighting Mike Matei dressed up as Jason or something like that.

Anyway, since the movie is coming out soon, I'm guessing he's gonna finish doing the AVGN stuff?