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.

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

The reason why Japs got easier games is that -I think- it was illegal to rent games over there.

Instead of renting games the shops had had tons of demo stations where kids could try the new games.

did fighting games have this problem. were arcade street fighter and mortal kombat made to be hard to charge more for fights
i think the arcade and console versions were the same difficulty
maybe the games were intended to start that way on arcade, but since fighting games are in theory skill based, there was no point in making the home console version easier to beat

Midway was experts at sucking quarters out of your pockets so MK being brutal shouldn't come as a surprise. The big money maker with fighting games was the VS mode, no matter how skilled someone was there was a hard limit on how long the match could go, unlike single player games were it was possible to one credit clear it.
That's also the origin of adaptive difficulty, Capcom might have been the first arcade game maker to implement(and use it as a selling point) it in Ghouls'n'Ghosts. That game ramped up the difficulty the better a player did in an attempt to eat their quarter, if someone is doing extremely well the enemies might even cheat.

 

[demicolon]

I've seen a lot of Mike's streams lately and they evoke old AVGN better than current AVGN.

 

[Shirō Ishii]

I've seen a lot of Mike's streams lately and they evoke old AVGN better than current AVGN.

That's because Mike IS the AVGN while James was just the actor portraying him. Mike recorded a lot of the gameplay and helped write a lot of the early scripts

 

[McSneaks]

Just beat the 2nd game, and more or less, yeah. There is a bit more creativity in the level design, where it feels original instead of "Here's where we ripped off Mega Man 2, and here's where we ripped off Castlevania", although there's still a handful of levels like that. I still enjoyed it, but damn, even on easy mode the game has a fucking fetish for death blocks. Those aren't a good challenge, they're annoying just for the sake of being annoying.

Still fun, but just like 1 it's carried by the Nerd and all the references.

The whole thing is bizarre he literally spent 10 years complaining about half the shit in the game about how it's horrible game design and not fun to play but now it's great because mUh IrOnY? Is that the reason to watch AVGN too?

You know if someone just handed him that game to play he would have played it for five minutes then thrown it in the corner. Probably wouldn't even make an AVGN about it because the level design is just so nothing. Same with all those fangames he generally he was like "omg that's me" (even though it was just a trailer for his POS). He even pretended like he was directly involved with it and it was literally the AVGN's game, not some completely random guy handing him a finished game he had nothing to do with lol. Guess it was softening us up for the future of his videos being the same shit

 

[Shiawase]

I've seen a lot of Mike's streams lately and they evoke old AVGN better than current AVGN.

I agree. Even the older AVGN season compilations no longer did it for me the way Mike Matei Live does.
Also, I adore Mike's love destiny with his live-stream chat. AVGN's toilet humor is no match for this.

 

[demicolon]

 

[deeman]

I'm not that much for long live streams but i do hope Mike will give Battle of Olympus a second chance (They bashed it in the J&MM but that's because... well, they sucked) since it's one of my faves.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I agree. Even the older AVGN season compilations no longer did it for me the way Mike Matei Live does.
Also, I adore Mike's love destiny with his live-stream chat. AVGN's toilet humor is no match for this.

I heard it mentioned elsewhere but it would be interesting if Mike made his own AVGN-style series. He's got the money and just enough reach to get people to edit and do the fancy After Effects shit for such a series. He's already got all of the equipment necessary. The technical quality would pretty basic but closer to oldschool AVGN episodes. The question is: could he pull it off and can a new "angry reviewer" arise in CURRENT YEAR Youtube? Who knows?

 

[demicolon]

We have Irate Gamer for that.

 

[TVB]

If only Alexander4488 brings back his Game Dude character.

 

[Shiawase]

I heard it mentioned elsewhere but it would be interesting if Mike made his own AVGN-style series. He's got the money and just enough reach to get people to edit and do the fancy After Effects shit for such a series. He's already got all of the equipment necessary. The technical quality would pretty basic but closer to oldschool AVGN episodes. The question is: could he pull it off and can a new "angry reviewer" arise in CURRENT YEAR Youtube? Who knows?

I think it could work if the right editing team handled it. Some of Mike's solo gaming journeys, such as Snake Rattle 'n' Roll, are very intense roller coasters showcasing a sharp contrast between Happy Mike and Tortured Mike. If this 6.5-hour emotional ordeal could be edited to have the same impact in a half-hour episode, I would be interested in seeing it.

It also helps that Mike already does a lot of capture work for James. He has gathered the equipment & knowledge to do digital captures as well as clean CRT screen recordings, and he sure is not shy in front of a camera.

The biggest obstacle is that he does his streams from an office break room, so he may have to figure out a different arrangement first.

 

[seri0us]

I think it could work if the right editing team handled it. Some of Mike's solo gaming journeys, such as Snake Rattle 'n' Roll, are very intense roller coasters showcasing a sharp contrast between Happy Mike and Tortured Mike. If this 6.5-hour emotional ordeal could be edited to have the same impact in a half-hour episode, I would be interested in seeing it.

It also helps that Mike already does a lot of capture work for James. He has gathered the equipment & knowledge to do digital captures as well as clean CRT screen recordings, and he sure is not shy in front of a camera.

The biggest obstacle is that he does his streams from an office break room, so he may have to figure out a different arrangement first.

Did Bob ever pop his head in on stream?

 

[Shiawase]

Did Bob ever pop his head in on stream?

I have not seen him yet. I hope he and Mike can work out their differences for a small collaboration.

By the way, I am so grateful that this stream provided us with real audio of Mike using the phrase "Bob walks in."

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Did Bob ever pop his head in on stream?

Nah, he is too much of an asshole to actually show up on stream

He just drinks all the coffee and doesn't make a new pot.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I kinda wonder if James was put in a comedy film with a good director he would do it really well. He might have very good comedic timing, but is tragically bad at virtually every other aspect of filmmaking.

 

[demicolon]

Someone would have to watch those ridiculous +10 hour streams to timestamp the interesting parts. The ones where Mike has to grind contain the most banter with the chat.

As for James I'm not sure he contributed anything to AVGN but filmmaking knowledge back when other youtubers had none.

 

[Michael Bluth]

An office break room? So does he have to set up the look every time? Or is a portion of the room set up with his posters and shit...but wow, that's some dedication on some other shit

 

[Shirō Ishii]

Someone would have to watch those ridiculous +10 hour streams to timestamp the interesting parts. The ones where Mike has to grind contain the most banter with the chat.

It's doable. They would just have to try to find someone from DSP land as the people who still make TIHYDP's are used to shifting through hours and hours of useless garbage to try to find the good stuff (more like they just go on the DSP board here as anything good and where gets posted right away, saving hours of work)

 

[JoeBidenSniffMe]

I always thought 2011 marked the end of the golden age, but he remained solid for another handful of years with some standout episodes like Hong Kong 97.

It's only the over the last 6 years has he really started to get stale, but yeah, 2011, even without the movie he had been doing AVGN regularly for half a decade by that point and it was bound to start to lose some luster.

I agree. I am thinking about buy his blu ray collection because some of his old video are really re-watchable years later. James video has a lot of value editing and production value, even the video that aren't that solid are still entertaining and rewatchable. Compare to other YouTuber that are all about streaming, v-logs, politics, and drama which gets boring, lazy, and become forgotten in a few years. Yet, AVGN you can go back and rewatch it and still be entertain.

 

[TokiBun]

the hard R gets dropped in the AVGN movie in a deleted scene.

r/TheCinemassacreTruth - The only deleted scene from the AVGN movie.

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I’m not crazy others can hear her say it with the hard R too right? Lmao