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.

[Abaddon]

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I seem to remember there was an episode where the Nerd seemingly did die and that if you consider the episodes to have "lore," the Nerd would be dead by now. I of course can't remember which episode it was, but I'm not crazy, right? Anyone else remember that?

That said, the DR series is too new to be Nerd material, I think. I tried to play the first one but the controls and lack of auto-save annoyed me. If they ever remaster it with controls closer to what other third-person perspective games have nowadays and don't make it so I have to wander halfway across the map through hallways full of enemies who can take half your life bar in a single encounter just to save, I might give it another try.

It's older than Sonic '06, and he covered that, so I guess technically it's not too old in that sense.

Here's a fun fact: there's about as much time between Castlevania II's US release and when he made that episode and Dead Rising's release and today.

Castlevania II: Simon's Quest came out in the US on December 1, 1988, and he made the original Nerd video about it on May 25, 2004. So there was almost 15 years and six months between those dates. Dead Rising came out on August 8, 2006. There's just over 15 years and three months between then and today. (Then if you look at something like Independence Day, there was only about 10 years between the game's release in 1997 and the episode in 2007.)

 

[Pissmaster]

That said, the DR series is too new to be Nerd material, I think.

He did an episode of Life of Black Tiger, a PS4 game released in 2017. That seemed to just throw out any rules he had about how old a game had to be.

It's older than Sonic '06, and he covered that, so I guess technically it's not too old in that sense.

Here's a fun fact: there's about as much time between Castlevania II's US release and when he made that episode and Dead Rising's release and today.

Excellent point. Hell, it was really surreal to see comments on Dead Rising videos from people mentioning they grew up with the game, but that's just a reflection on how old it is now.

 

[deeman]

If it is the finale, my guess he would go out with a bang and finish all games he hasn't completed. not that i think he could muster that. Consider this a wild guess.

 

[PeriodicTrouble]

If it is the finale, my guess he would go out with a bang and finish all games he hasn't completed. not that i think he could muster that. Consider this a wild guess.

It's not going to be the finale. James is going to run AVGN into the ground because this is his job. This is his way to pay his bills and take care of his kids. We'll be lucky if James actually bothers to write this episode, but I'm not getting my hopes up. We'll probably get another episode like the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas parody episode because James loves his special effects and green screen.

 

[Jan Ciągwa]

I seem to remember there was an episode where the Nerd seemingly did die and that if you consider the episodes to have "lore," the Nerd would be dead by now. I of course can't remember which episode it was, but I'm not crazy, right? Anyone else remember that?

You might be thinking about Board James.

As for the 200th ep. games: please let them be classic 90s console titles like SNES, Genesis, 3DO, Playstation...
The episode could be about good game reviews for a change, how many times can you cosplay as Kotaku journalist and complain about sucking at games?

 

[John Carmack]

If it was an honest to god B horror movie and Slobwave had absolutely nothing to do with it at all, I can see James making something entertaining.

A mumblecore AVGN movie based on him dealing with various weirdos in a rental store would be perfect and easy to make on a slim budget. The problem is, there's no way the slobs would allow it to be made without them shoehorning themselves into it and fucking it up.

 

[Auntie Fester]

I'm gonna predict Episode 200 is Pokemon Games, for a few reasons.

1: It's perhaps the biggest gaming franchise in the world, and James has scarcely mentioned it.

2: It's old enough to be considered retro (it might be after James' time, but when has that stopped Screenwave era AVGN?)

3: He could emulate what is seen as his last great review in Earthbound by playing a classic RPG for the first time.

4: There's enough sub-par Pokemon games that exist to also be talked about. And even the original games are full of glitches and weird shit to talk about.

5: There's a chance his kids might have played the games and he's a bit more familiar with it now.

6: Justin's unnatural obsession with Gengar.

 

[Pickle Dick]

I'm gonna predict Episode 200 is Pokemon Games, for a few reasons.

1: It's perhaps the biggest gaming franchise in the world, and James has scarcely mentioned it.

2: It's old enough to be considered retro (it might be after James' time, but when has that stopped Screenwave era AVGN?)

3: He could emulate what is seen as his last great review in Earthbound by playing a classic RPG for the first time.

4: There's enough sub-par Pokemon games that exist to also be talked about. And even the original games are full of glitches and weird shit to talk about.

5: There's a chance his kids might have played the games and he's a bit more familiar with it now.

6: Justin's unnatural obsession with Gengar.

That would actually be the best case scenario

I got a sinking feeling the 200th episode is going to cover Shrek games. I say this because it just seems like the Fairy Tale Freakdown video was just "big" to probably warrant its own sequel, and it could also explain why he only covered that one game and not any other terrible Shrek games (which there are a plethora of)

If not that, than another good case scenario would be for him to review the Neo Geo and its games. If that happened, the episode could have a chance of being on par with the C64 as the best AVGN episode in ages, and given how he's spoken plenty about the Neo Geo in the past, I'd say its long over due

Or maybe he'll review a series of miscellaneous games as part of some dumb "big" episode, in which case I'll clock out of AVGN forever

 

[Least Concern]

If not that, than another good case scenario would be for him to review the Neo Geo and its games. If that happened, the episode could have a chance of being on par with the C64 as the best AVGN episode in ages, and given how he's spoken plenty about the Neo Geo in the past, I'd say its long over due

I wonder what bad games you could find in the NeoGeo library. Not all of those seven thousand SNK fighters were worldburners but I don't know if any of them were bad in particularly interesting or funny ways.

But I don't know, maybe there's lots of them. I didn't own one and neither did anyone I knew. See also CD-i and 3DO.

 

[The Valeyard]

With the current state of AVGN it’s just as likely that the 200th episode won’t cover retro games at all, and James will talk about something like Ride to Hell: Retribution instead when there’s nothing new to say about it that hasn’t already been covered by every other YouTuber.

 

[ICameToBooli]

I was thinking he might review the Takeshi games, but JonTron already covered Takeshi's Challenge to a T, and Fu-un Takeshi Castle seems way too obscure. Plus, he probably won't word two games as several.

 

[Doctor of Autism]

Honestly with how James is I'm going into the 200th episode with low expectations

A mumblecore AVGN movie based on him dealing with various weirdos in a rental store would be perfect and easy to make on a slim budget. The problem is, there's no way the slobs would allow it to be made without them shoehorning themselves into it and fucking it up.

This is exactly the issue with the slobs since they care less about actually doing management for James' channel and more or less use it to ride his coattails.

 

[I Love Beef]

I wonder what bad games you could find in the NeoGeo library. Not all of those seven thousand SNK fighters were worldburners but I don't know if any of them were bad in particularly interesting or funny ways.

The only one I can think of was Ashita no Joe, the shitty beat em up licensed anime game, and even then, I don't think it's worth an aniversary episode. But knowing Kieran, the annoying fatso weeaboo, he might shit on Fatal Fury and come up with hacky bullshit like how "Fatal Fury is just a rip off of Street Fighter!" or "Art of Fighting 2 is too hard!" or will take over the episode and turn it into a full on TGWTG level anime review of the video game OAVs done by Masami Obari, and then Rex Viper plays at the end a cover of Oh Angel from Fatal Fury The Motion Picture. I'm honestly this cynical of Cinemassacre right now, Screenwave can go die in an explosive fire of fart based methane, blubber and ignited mutant skin grease for all I care.

I was thinking he might review the Takeshi games, but JonTron already covered Takeshi's Challenge to a T, and Fu-un Takeshi Castle seems way too obscure. Plus, he probably won't word two games as several.

All of that forced humor, I can't wait what kind of schlocky unfunny horseshit the slobs will have to come out with if they review those games.

 

[Pissmaster]

Guitar Hero games, where the nerd reviews Guitar Hero and he masters it instantly with all sorts of shitty CG graphics making it look like he aced Through the Fire and Flames on Expert on his first go, and then the devil comes out of the screen and pulls him and the rest of Rex Viper into the game world and then they have the cringiest over-the-top guitar battle where the Nerd shreds on his 8-string and wins and becomes the biggest rock star on the planet, and then James treats it like Rex Viper canon and ackshually Rex Viper is the continuation of the AVGN so he can claim the series isn't actually over, even though it obviously is

 

[Jason Wynn]

Guitar Hero games, where the nerd reviews Guitar Hero and he masters it instantly with all sorts of shitty CG graphics making it look like he aced Through the Fire and Flames on Expert on his first go, and then the devil comes out of the screen and pulls him and the rest of Rex Viper into the game world and then they have the cringiest over-the-top guitar battle where the Nerd shreds on his 8-string and wins and becomes the biggest rock star on the planet, and then James treats it like Rex Viper canon and ackshually Rex Viper is the continuation of the AVGN so he can claim the series isn't actually over, even though it obviously is

I actually can see this happening. Damn you and your powers of divination

 

[BullDogsLipBrandClamjuice]

Guitar Hero games, where the nerd reviews Guitar Hero and he masters it instantly with all sorts of shitty CG graphics making it look like he aced Through the Fire and Flames on Expert on his first go, and then the devil comes out of the screen and pulls him and the rest of Rex Viper into the game world and then they have the cringiest over-the-top guitar battle where the Nerd shreds on his 8-string and wins and becomes the biggest rock star on the planet, and then James treats it like Rex Viper canon and ackshually Rex Viper is the continuation of the AVGN so he can claim the series isn't actually over, even though it obviously is

I cant help to think this will be the case

 

[MooseGump]

Guitar Hero games, where the nerd reviews Guitar Hero and he masters it instantly with all sorts of shitty CG graphics making it look like he aced Through the Fire and Flames on Expert on his first go, and then the devil comes out of the screen and pulls him and the rest of Rex Viper into the game world and then they have the cringiest over-the-top guitar battle where the Nerd shreds on his 8-string and wins and becomes the biggest rock star on the planet, and then James treats it like Rex Viper canon and ackshually Rex Viper is the continuation of the AVGN so he can claim the series isn't actually over, even though it obviously is

Then the slobs have a png of Chris chan in the background without not even knowing what he did

 

[ICameToBooli]

It must really sting when you can't even get an advertising deal with the shitty beer you drink in almost every episode while your screechy autistic internet cousin gets a lofty disney deal, especially when even a year ago people considered you to be far superior.

 

[PeriodicTrouble]

It must really sting when you can't even get an advertising deal with the shitty beer you drink in almost every episode while your screechy autistic internet cousin gets a lofty disney deal, especially when even a year ago people considered you to be far superior.
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Why are there so many people falling for this? The account says @Disneylsus not even @DisneyPlus.

 

[ICameToBooli]

Why are there so many people falling for this? The account says @Disneylsus not even @DisneyPlus.

In my defence it wouldn't be that far-fetched of a collaboration seeing as Disney has teamed up with other YouTube reviewers before, most notably John "Aryan" Jafari

OK tbh I was tired and didn't bother to check the authenticity