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.

[TVB]

That face just screams, "Fucking kill me."

Let me be the one to sum this episode up in one complete simple word...

boring.

That is all. Rolfe, for the love of christ, please retire the Nerd character already.

 

[Back me up!]

I would actually like to see that image/poster they made about the Black Box games being before the Titans.

 

[Pissmaster]

 

[Mr. Ghoul]

That face just screams, "Fucking kill me."

Tried to watch this out of genuine interest in one of my favorite childhood games but could not get more than half way through. Too much boring tangintal padding in the slob's' script. James also just looks/sounds constipated and awkward when he tries to be "angry". It's cringe.

Also, SHAVE THAT FUCKING LAST BIT OF DEAD RAT'S NEST OFF OF YOUR HEAD. EMBRACE THE BALD MIDDLE AGED WHITE MAN THAT YOU ARE, JAMES.

 

[BrunoMattei]

It could be edited down into an OK review. Remove the skits, non-sequiturs, and needless yelling.

It would be a 5 minute video, maybe 6-7 minutes with the Nord VPN plug, and it would still be bad.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

I think it's fair to say James just stopped trying.

 

[DinnerDates]

Jesus fucking Christ, not even 5 minutes in (with sponsor segment) and I'm already tapping out.

I think it's fair to say James just stopped trying.
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To be fair to James his current "studio" rn is significantly smaller than the previous one. Plus I wouldn't bitch some much about camera works since he can produce some banger like Contra or the Last Ninja w/o insane camera works.

 

[Juhlonduss]

If you had nothing to really say about Kid Icarus then why the fuck would you pick Kid Icarus? There's plenty of bad games that give you ammunition to talk about and he or Screenwave picked this.

They picked it because Mike Matei had just streamed it a couple of weeks ago and they have started to just reuse the gameplay footage from his streams. The caveman can't even be assed to play games for James anymore, top tier slob laziness.

Episode was shit, but I did get a little bit of a laugh from him saying Oedipus was "the original motherfucker." 1.5/10

 

[BrunoMattei]

They picked it because Mike Matei had just streamed it a couple of weeks ago and they have started to just reuse the gameplay footage from his streams. The caveman can't even be assed to play games for James anymore, top tier slob laziness.

Episode was shit, but I did get a little bit of a laugh from him saying Oedipus was "the original motherfucker." 1.5/10

I believe it but it doesn't feel like Mike wrote it. Maybe he contributed the "original motherfucker" line at best?

Once you watch James and Mike acting naturally in vlogs and streams you start to pick up on what lines most likely belong to who. Mike will go with the more profane jokes and go into more in depth knowledge over games plus their history consisting of shit not easily found on a Wiki. James will sperg about anything movie related and weird technical details and off-topic rants like ranting about the power supply for a console.

 

[Juhlonduss]

I just meant the gameplay footage was literally lifted from Mike's stream, though he is credited with "script help" as well as for the gameplay. Who knows how much he actually contributed, but I would guess it was most of the NES history shit and a couple jokes. The majority of the episode has modern James' writing style all over it, dude definitely seems like the kind of sperg that would be into Greek mythology. That farm skit was fucking retarded, too, definitely cut from the same cloth as all the skits James has been writing for the last couple of years. It's almost as bad as the surfing nerd skit. Did he just watch the first few Tegridy Farms episodes of South Park and think they were hilarious or something?

 

[Mr. Ghoul]

I just meant the gameplay footage was literally lifted from Mike's stream, though he is credited with "script help" as well as for the gameplay. Who knows how much he actually contributed, but I would guess it was most of the NES history shit and a couple jokes. The majority of the episode has modern James' writing style all over it, dude definitely seems like the kind of sperg that would be into Greek mythology. That farm skit was fucking retarded, too, definitely cut from the same cloth as all the skits James has been writing for the last couple of years. It's almost as bad as the surfing nerd skit. Did he just watch the first few Tegridy Farms episodes of South Park and think they were hilarious or something?

James doesn't write anything any more. Scripts are all shat out by screen wave for James to read on camera in a single static shot on the couch.

 

[RollerGator]

To be fair to James his current "studio" rn is significantly smaller than the previous one. Plus I wouldn't bitch some much about camera works since he can produce some banger like Contra or the Last Ninja w/o insane camera works.

Since they're not doing the podcast anymore they could rework that into a new review room. But that would take effort and James has no time.

 

[DinnerDates]

Since they're not doing the podcast anymore they could rework that into a new review room. But that would take effort and James has no time.

That's the slobswave jobs. What the fuck are they doing anyway these day. Ryan stop doing podcast with Mike (possibly taking HRT), Keiran still editing for James, Justin eating himself to bedbound, Tony doing his shitty podcast. James really need to whip the crack to get that new studio.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Since they're not doing the podcast anymore they could rework that into a new review room. But that would take effort and James has no time.

I doubt they have the money for that. The channel is currently producing one video every other month, so they can't have a lot of income coming in. At least not enough to pay the "team," James' salary and have enough left over for a capital investment in new studio space.

 

[DinnerDates]

Link

Ah the new studio might coming soon guys.

 

[demicolon]

He's so cute trying to comb his scalp's hair forward to hide as much skin as possible.

 

[thegooddoctor]

This episode was a struggle to get through and I think I'm done not unless he covers a game I'm interested in or comments from you guys hype up the cringe factor. There is what I would call a lot of padding in this episode. First you get yet another Nord VPN ad read. Then there's this whole bit about the Greek titans and comparing that to the NES library where the ultimate payoff to the bit is that Nintendo released 3 games at around the same time; two are masterpieces (Zelda and Metroid although IMHO neither aged well) and Kid Icarus is the black sheep.

Almost 5 minutes before he finally starts to talk about the actual game. 5. Fucking. Minutes...

Here's a good question: why a Kid Icarus episode? The game isn't really bad it's just mediocre. I'd get past the first few screens and I'd just lose interest in it.

Okay, I'm 6 minutes in and I'm just bored with his lazy summary. You know what would be a good gag that I don't think he'll do? He sums up the game with "Oh man, playing as a Greek God and killing monsters should have been awesome! Why can't they remake games like this and make them better!? Fuckers." Smash cut to the Wii Kid Icarus game (that everyone has since forgot) and James pretends to be blown away. It's an easy gag but could still be amusing.

6 minutes: he is still talking about Greek mythology.... Oh fuck, this just reeks of padding. If you had nothing to really say about Kid Icarus then why the fuck would you pick Kid Icarus? There's plenty of bad games that give you ammunition to talk about and he or Screenwave picked this.

Scratch that: 7 MINUTES HE FINALLY TALKS ABOUT THE ACTUAL GAME. Not the title. Not Greek mythology. Not other NES games that came out around the same time. But the actual fucking game.

He keeps interrupting his review of the game with more Greek mythology. He does a bit about a Greek god born from being pissed on - missing a GOLDEN opportunity to use a clip from Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master where a dog pisses on Freddy's grave and brings him back.

The entire gag of the episode is that the game is boring and too difficult and he has nothing to talk about. Which he has done this scthick before and better with the revisiting Dr. Jekyle and Mr. Hyde episode.

10:23 Suddenly he has 999 hearts? Did he Screenwave use Game Genie or is there a cheat code I'm not aware of?

10:45 Hearts are currency in the game - again, missed a GOLDEN opportunity to reference Simon's Quest again.

No mention whatsover of the really annoying "Haha you died music."

14:50 The game has enemies that look suspiciously like Metroids. No comment is made that Metroid used the same engine as Kid Icarus. That kind of trivia is not super common and could have actually been intersting to talk about.

16:40 Complains about farming in the game to raise the health limit. A fair complaint to make but he ignores the fact that Metroid had the same exact issue. If you died and used a password to continue in Metroid, you still had to farm enemies to raise health and gain missiles.

I'm skipping all the stupid and unfunny sketches.

It ends. The game has a 2nd loop. Unlike Ghosts 'N Goblins or Super Pitfall he doesn't even attempt the 2nd loop. Then he waffles his opinion with "The game is a classic but it sucks!" Okay?

No reference whatsoever to the Wii game. More Greek mythology gags.

1/10

This was a struggle to get through.

Thanks for this, now I don’t have to put myself through the strain of watching it, unless he makes something truly so bad that it turns into a type of anti comedy this is where I finally check out watching new episodes, I think James has officially exhausted any types of games he can do and has hit a creative brick wall.

Considering the sheer range of every terrible console or game he’s played im not sure what other kind of godawful retro titles there is for him to do. At this point the only ground I can think of him to cover would be flash games or really crappy bootlegs of classic games Aka 7 grandad, steam shovelware or at a last resort, flash games of some sort. I think he’s exhausted his creative resources at this point. Realistically considering the over saturation of game critics nowadays and the tired shtick of ‘angry gamers/critics’ at this point, what do people really want to see at this point from a modern AVGN episode?

 

[Captain Gomez]

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I still don't know why he thinks of himself as a movie maker.

He's literally a special education kid. That's why.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Since they're not doing the podcast anymore they could rework that into a new review room. But that would take effort and James has no time.

Doubt it. I think part of the reason why the podcast only lasted 16 episodes is that James really just didn't want to be there and didn't want to make the drive. Which is why in the last episode to promote that mystical AVGN NES game James recorded from his home.

They did use that podcast set two additional times when James interviewed Lloyd Kaufman and Joe Bob Briggs for the 2nd time. But I think that was just for special occasions. Not unless Screenwave moves the building right next door to James' home I don't think he'd bother to do it and even then I don't think he'd do it because he's too awkward and uncomfortable having to improv and not use a script.