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.

[Patrick Bait-man]

 

[TVB]

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2004-14 Nerd is golden age Nerd right there. 2015-present Nerd is pozzed bullshit.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

That face just screams, "Fucking kill me."

 

[thegooddoctor]

First episode of 2023, I don’t know why the Nerd hasn’t made a joke about playing so many bad games has made his hair fall out.
Edit: damnit beat me by 3 seconds Jeff!

 

[Tism the Return II]

It was a really boring episode.

 

[Oats12345]

He should shave his hair. Doug did. He's not fooling anyone that his hair is almost gone

 

[ResignedCustodes]

The wreath just accentuates the bald, he needs to just let it go at this point.

After binging a bunch of classic AVGN recently, this is night and day.
"Kid Pit, starring Brad Pitt."
Insert fart noise
"Wow Holy shit, MORE LIKE HOLY PISS!"
It's soulless, and not funny, at least the old stuff still holds up.

 

[Shirō Ishii]

I'd rather watch old school irategamer than current AVGN

 

[Le retardon]

That face just screams, "Fucking kill me."

I'd had been funny if instead of doing a full review, he would interrupt himself every time he tries to start talking about the game just to retell ancient myths. Rinse and repeat for 20 more minutes.

 

[Travoltron]

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

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

First episode of 2023, I don’t know why the Nerd hasn’t made a joke about playing so many bad games has made his hair fall out.
Edit: damnit beat me by 3 seconds Jeff!

It actually started alright, but proceeded to fall off a cliff quality wise when he actually needed to talk about the gameplay and it came as meaningless bitching for the sake of bitching.

Also if anything the 3DS deserves shit for having some of the worse controls in a video game.

 

[I.B. Niggin]

This was honestly a pretty terrible episode. AVGN isn't even a dead horse anymore, it's firmly in worm food territory at this point.

 

[Two Dollars]

I'd had been funny if instead of doing a full review, he would interrupt himself every time he tries to start talking about the game just to retell ancient myths. Rinse and repeat for 20 more minutes.

Isn’t that basically Hotdiggitydemon’s Brain Dump?

 

[BrunoMattei]

That face just screams, "Fucking kill me."

I want to rate 'agree' and 'horrifying' at the same time.

He should shave his hair. Doug did. He's not fooling anyone that his hair is almost gone

I think that's why he put the little angel halo or whateveryoucallit on to try to hide his hairline.

This was honestly a pretty terrible episode. AVGN isn't even a dead horse anymore, it's firmly in worm food territory at this point.

I remember years ago saying the show had reached Zombie Simpsons level but faggots disagreed with me. But here we are and I am vindicated. Yay me and fuck the mindless fanboys I would tell them to suck a fart but they probably already enjoy doing that.

 

[TVB]

Isn’t that basically Hotdiggitydemon’s Brain Dump?

Yea, I doubt we're gonna see that. I don't want James to ripoff Max Gilardi. It's bad enough that he and the Screenwave crew rip off Red Letter Media.

 

[Korpon]

That face just screams, "Fucking kill me."

This is just sad.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I actually fell asleep during this episode

 

[Lucas Silva #4903141]

I am a "fan of the asshole-ish kind" so I don't even pay attention to most AVGN content anymore.
Last video of his that I remember enjoying was the one for the Amiga CD32.

 

[BrunoMattei]

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.

 

[skykiii]

That face just screams, "Fucking kill me."

I mean, playing Kid Icarus makes me wanna die too....