James Rolfe / James D. Rolfe / Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) / Rex Viper and Cinemassacre / Screenwave - Now with not much grieving about a 41-year old man still making videos on YouTube. We're the balls on the dick.

[northstar747]

Yes mike was

Also they did a 32X but what about the sega saturn?

 

[Pickle Dick]

The most positive responses to the music video are just people calling it a guilty pleasure at best. I think James placed far too much leverage on Rex Viper, so much that it has effectively become the epitome of Screenwave-era Cinemassacre. If James has genuine passion for Rex Viper, that's fine, but for god's sake lessen the prominence of the slobs (especially Justin), and maybe sing the lyrics yourself?

It's strange how Mike's podcast isn't as cringy as half the Cinemassacre stuff as of late, even though his podcast is part of Screenwave itself (going by what sister shows they list in the descriptions of their videos)

this isn't me joining the "cinemassacre is over" crowd by the way, im just stating my opinion about all of this

 

[BrunoMattei]

Decided to give the full music video a shot, and man was it horrible, definitely the worst one and it's pretty sad to see how the quality for Rex Viper gets worse as it goes on. The vocals are really off at some points, and for the visuals they really are horrible at some points (trying to use the background of the band as green screen while putting the Megaman 2 game as the background really hurts my eyes, and wtf are these filters?) and that tiger dancing really made me cringe. The only good parts are just 3D animations of the Tiger Electronics doing training and maybe the Rex Viper Tiger Electronics mockup but that's it.

It's so bad that despite there's more likes than dislikes than usual, the comments are really bashing it. This isn't me cherrypicking the comments, these are the top comments in the video right now:

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It makes you wonder if this is finally going to get through James' little echochamber he has going on? People are not happy with the decline in quality, the laziness, the lack of interest, the Screenwave crew, the podcast, and the fucking cringe cover band. Does James finally wake up and actually try to improve or does he double down like the lolcow he's becoming? The Screenwave crew can only shelter the negativity for so long before the dam breaks. And I don't blame them because that's regular work editing, effects, doing little cringe sketches, and you don't have to do a traditional 9-5.

Most underrated comment right here:

Scrolling through the comments is way more entertaining than listening to his terrible band.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I think it's safe to say Mike was secretly the heart & soul of cinemassacre.

Huh who would have thunk that the guy who Likes Videogames..is the heart and soul of the Video game Review show and the Guy who has always admitted he was more into Movies was just the actor playing a role.



Really makes you think.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Huh who would have thunk that the guy who Likes Videogames..is the heart and soul of the Video game Review show and the Guy who has always admitted he was more into Movies was just the actor playing a role.



Really makes you think.

This clip the spergs at TheCinemassacreTruth curated recently was an eye-opener for me:

r/TheCinemassacreTruth - Mike discusses his contribution toward AVGN and whether he got paid for his acting - "James really likes to do the skits, I'm more about the game play"

54 votes and 17 comments so far on Reddit

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Mike basically tard-wrangled James into not becoming a Doug Walker for all those years. James only cared about his skits...I mean, films.


EDIT - archive

 

[Doctor of Autism]

James and Mike really were a perfect balance for each other since Mike knows more about games and research while James was better as a calm guy on the camera. The slobs just ruin that balance since all of them are essentially yes man at best and annoying fanboys at worst

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

Mike was the only one who gave a shit about games. The slobs just copy and paste from Wikipedia and TV Tropes and James... "My favorite Mario Kart is the one on SNES" Read: that's the only one he ever owned, and someone else, possibly Mike, had MK64, invited to play him a couple of times, but he didn't have an N64 so he was too jealous.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Mike was the more profane/childish of the two. And it balanced out perfectly with James not going as far as Mike with the shit jokes and Mike making up for James' lack of game knowledge and ability.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Mike was the only one who gave a shit about games. The slobs just copy and paste from Wikipedia and TV Tropes and James... "My favorite Mario Kart is the one on SNES" Read: that's the only one he ever owned, and someone else, possibly Mike, had MK64, invited to play him a couple of times, but he didn't have an N64 so he was too jealous.

Doesn't help the Slobs come across as fanboys basically making James do games they requested and want to be internet famous through James

 

[Tism the Return]

Doesn't help the Slobs come across as fanboys basically making James do games they requested and want to be internet famous through James

I don't remember if I've posted this before but each time Justin appears I get the feeling he's hoping this time will be the one, that now for real he'll graduate from "unfunny tryhard" to a proper A-grade e-celeb.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I don't remember if I've posted this before but each time Justin appears I get the feeling he's hoping this time will be the one, that now for real he'll graduate from "unfunny tryhard" to a proper A-grade e-celeb.

Honestly Justin or the guy doing the singing for Rex Viper come across as people desperate for E-Fame, especially the vocalist.

 

[Pickle Dick]

Doesn't help the Slobs come across as fanboys basically making James do games they requested and want to be internet famous through James

I don't remember if I've posted this before but each time Justin appears I get the feeling he's hoping this time will be the one, that now for real he'll graduate from "unfunny tryhard" to a proper A-grade e-celeb.

Honestly Justin or the guy doing the singing for Rex Viper come across as people desperate for E-Fame, especially the vocalist.

This is really the biggest problem with Cinemassacre right this very moment. It's not that James is incredibly untalented on his own - he can really show his own work on a good day - it's that he's choosing the wrong crew to help him with his brand. That wouldn't be too bad if the people he has working for him (Screenwave, Justin Silverman, and the ilk) weren't obviously trying to leech off his success, let alone if he's either apathetic to that fact or he's willingly letting them suck his creative blood because he won't admit that he's not having fun with Cinemassacre anymore.

Speaking of Cinemassacre:

just if anyone's interested, it's likely better than the newest rex viper video anyway

 

[BrunoMattei]

I think the problem is James and not so much Screenwave although they do contribute to the problem.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

I think the problem is James and not so much Screenwave although they do contribute to the problem.

Yeah James' issue is his lack of passion and how he seems like a bit of a pushover at times.

 

[Pringles Can]

I think the problem is James and not so much Screenwave although they do contribute to the problem.

Before the recent video where James showed his set I would have said the issue was 80% screenwave, and 20% James. Now its reversed. Not saying screenwave is innocent, or I sympathize with them. There's only so much they can do to James when he just wants to be lazy and not do shit. Its a classic case of the old saying "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it".

 

[Clark_Ashton]

In my opinion it comes from a lack of know-how and interest rather than straight up laziness, at least when it comes to James' involvement.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

In my opinion it comes from a lack of know-how and interest rather than straight up laziness, at least when it comes to James' involvement.

Yeah James comes across as a very old guy in the body of someone half their age and he is a pushover who has no actual passion for most games with some exceptions. It doesn't help James seems more passionate in talking about movies which is his best content (honestly wonder what would've happened if he decided to just be an angry movie reviewer instead of a game reviewer)

Before the recent video where James showed his set I would have said the issue was 80% screenwave, and 20% James. Now its reversed. Not saying screenwave is innocent, or I sympathize with them. There's only so much they can do to James when he just wants to be lazy and not do shit. Its a classic case of the old saying "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it".

Personally I still think Screenwave is more responsible since I think they mostly care more about fame and money more than turning out a good product. That's an issue since that sort of mentality does not balance well with James.

The only thing I'm hoping for is if the 200th episode is good.

 

[Pickle Dick]

(honestly wonder what would've happened if he decided to just be an angry movie reviewer instead of a game reviewer)

I think he planned on doing some sort of subseries of AVGN early on where he would just review movies, but he ended up sticking to games because I think it would've been easier for him to do skits surrounding the latter

The only thing I'm hoping for is if the 200th episode is good.

A few people here have had good theories for what the 200th episode is going to be like. Of course, given that its a milestone, it will be skit-filled to high heavens, but it couldn't be worse than the other skit-filled AVGN episodes we've had this year. I personally think it might be Blue Brothers, but assuming James keeps up with the two episode per month schedule (he's likely due to upload that new console review by the end of this month), his 200th episode will likely be posted on Halloween, which could likely give him more opportunities, such as reviewing a game based on a movie (like Swamp Thing, as @José Mourinho suggested)

On that note, I think the biggest draw to AVGN in the first place was that James or Mike would find some obscure game, let it be movie-based or whatever, and help give that game more exposure than it had before. Ironically, the most viewed video on the NES Swamp Thing game thus far was one they did many years back, and it has only about 300K views:

Something tells me if they do Swamp Thing as the 200th episode, it's probably going to be a case of James deciding the review a game that was already played through years ago on an semi-unrelated series in order to fill in an episode, ala The Rocketeer.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

honestly wonder what would've happened if he decided to just be an angry movie reviewer instead of a game reviewer)

He fucked himself over with that one by Gametrailers. I remember an interview from late 2007 before the Sega CD episode where he made it clear “”Angry nerd” videos are exclusive to Gametrailers.”

The TMNT 3 Angry Nerd had been out for a few months, and people were pining for more, but he wasn’t allowed to post anymore full “Angry Nerd” videos on YouTube.

I think James must have gotten to early into the greed of getting involved with this kind of thing.

 

[Pringles Can]

The only thing I'm hoping for is if the 200th episode is good.

I don't have high hopes. I want it to be good, and a breath of fresh air but with how things are going I think it's unlikely. It will either be a skit filled mess like Vegas Stakes, or a average game that James acts like is the devil, then destroys it in the end and acts like thats an epic 200th episode. Going for the first one personally, but if the second one happens then I'm not gonna be surprised.