"angry" gamers/critics

ForgedBlades said:
I can't decide if this new strategy by James of shitting out bad AVGN episodes every few weeks is better or worse than his old shtick of shitting out mediocre ones every four months.
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BrunoMattei said:
AVGN has officially entered the era of seasons 10-12 of the Simpsons. This is when the good and bad episodes begin to blur.
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Hearing all this - kinda makes me sad. James does sound like he needs to quit, already, despite being better at what he was doing than Doug ever was and whom needed to quit a long-ass time ago.

It really sucks to hear, but James has other outlets that he could look into, once he finally stops doing this, thankfully, so I don't see it being a total loss if he were stop being AVGN. Again, unlike Doug.
 
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CWCissey said:
Oh fuck.


Not James too!
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It's funny that James and Doug have reviewed something that had already been reviewed ages ago by people inspired by them. And their current reviews suck by comparison.

For those who don't know: RebelTaxi did Rapsittie Street Kids and JonTron did Charlie's Angels.
 
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Honestly, I don't mind some internet reviewers taking a hatius of sorts or even doing different things. Sure, some have tried and failed like Doug but it can help some people to at least take a break. After all, if you value your self, try taking things easy.
 
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Some reviewers just have more talent in transitioning into new topics to cover. Phelous, for example, used to cover really low-budget cringy horror movies but now he mostly focuses on bootleg toys or cheap fairy tale movies. And he's managed just fine.

Doug does the same shit over and over and over. And when he tried something different, it proved to be lame and unfunny as all hell. Some people just got it while others don't.
 
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Alto said:
Some reviewers just have more talent in transitioning into new topics to cover. Phelous, for example, used to cover really low-budget cringy horror movies but now he mostly focuses on bootleg toys or cheap fairy tale movies. And he's managed just fine.

Doug does the same shit over and over and over. And when he tried something different, it proved to be lame and unfunny as all hell. Some people just got it while others don't.
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That's what I like, variety and trying new things. Sure, I still enjoy Doug but has he once try something different for once that wasn't a skit filled review?
 
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BrunoMattei said:

IDGAF how many times this has been posted this is still funny as hell and one of the best oldschool RP's before they pussied out.
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Honestly, between them being legitimate angry over the sponsors on the old TGWTG site and Doug's terribleness in the source video. It's probably one of the weaker videos 'Beef and 'Betus did when they were making fun of LPers.
 
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So, to change the subject, for people who were originally into Doug Walker's stuff, what was the video that broke the illusion for you, and saw him for the hack that he is?

For me it was Scooby Doo where I began noticing problems, but the Man of Steel and King and I were also strong contenders. The Old vs New Spiderman vid is what officially killed him for me. (But even before that, his Thief and the Cobbler review was the first video where I didn't end up either liking or agreeing with him).
 
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friedshrimp said:
So, to change the subject, for people who were originally into Doug Walker's stuff, what was the video that broke the illusion for you, and saw him for the hack that he is?

For me it was Scooby Doo where I began noticing problems, but the Man of Steel and King and I were also strong contenders. The Old vs New Spiderman vid is what officially killed him for me. (But even before that, his Thief and the Cobbler review was the first video where I didn't end up either liking or agreeing with him).
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i just stopped watching after a while
it got boring
 
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friedshrimp said:
So, to change the subject, for people who were originally into Doug Walker's stuff, what was the video that broke the illusion for you, and saw him for the hack that he is?

For me it was Scooby Doo where I began noticing problems, but the Man of Steel and King and I were also strong contenders. The Old vs New Spiderman vid is what officially killed him for me. (But even before that, his Thief and the Cobbler review was the first video where I didn't end up either liking or agreeing with him).
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Sharknado is the one where I stopped watching regularly, even then I was on a Simpsons-like viewing autopilot.
 
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friedshrimp said:
So, to change the subject, for people who were originally into Doug Walker's stuff, what was the video that broke the illusion for you, and saw him for the hack that he is?

For me it was Scooby Doo where I began noticing problems, but the Man of Steel and King and I were also strong contenders. The Old vs New Spiderman vid is what officially killed him for me. (But even before that, his Thief and the Cobbler review was the first video where I didn't end up either liking or agreeing with him).
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For me, it was as soon as he started relying on preachiness/skits where he started to lose me. The Lorax video was when the flaws became really apparent to me, while there was no turning back after the Old vs. New Spider-Man video. I made it like two more episodes before I gave up.
 
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friedshrimp said:
So, to change the subject, for people who were originally into Doug Walker's stuff, what was the video that broke the illusion for you, and saw him for the hack that he is?

For me it was Scooby Doo where I began noticing problems, but the Man of Steel and King and I were also strong contenders. The Old vs New Spiderman vid is what officially killed him for me. (But even before that, his Thief and the Cobbler review was the first video where I didn't end up either liking or agreeing with him).
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For me it was Cat in the Hat. NC was already going downhill in my eyes after he revived it because I hated the skits and he had this awful tendency to get on a soapbox about how his opinion mattered. In fact I only watched it because Cat in the Hat is admittedly a guilty pleasure of mine (yes, the movie is atrocious but I have a lot of nostalgia for it). And what does Doug do? Stuff it with skits and at the end makes a big speech about why the movie was terrible and why kids shouldn't watch it when he could have just said, "It stinks" and be done with it.

By that point I was getting really annoyed with his videos; I never watched the skits because they went on for minutes at a time and the "story" bits he loved to cram his videos with were obnoxious padding. But the Cat in the Hat video was especially egregious because there was this running plot about Doug looking after the Devil's daughter and arguing with the "producer" Peter Soulless (real creative name, Doug) about the ethics of children's movies.

I watched the Nostalgia Critic to see him crack jokes and actually look at the fucking movie, not engage in irrelevant skits and story bits that bring everything to a grinding halt. After the Cat in the Hat video, I pretty much stopped altogether because I was sick of it.
 
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