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.

Which videos do you like the most from Cinemassacre?

  • Angry Video Game Nerd

    Votes: 1,812 63.5%

  • You Know Whats Bullshit

    Votes: 143 5.0%

  • James and Mike Mondays

    Votes: 96 3.4%

  • Board James

    Votes: 441 15.5%

  • Monster Madness

    Votes: 270 9.5%

  • James' movie reviews

    Votes: 90 3.2%
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BullfrogBill said:
James hasn't put out an actual good AVGN episode since Ikari Warriors ten years ago. When the Toxic Crusaders episode came out I was shocked how bad it was, not that there hadn't been bad episodes of AVGN before that, but there was nothing as bad as Toxic Crusaders. From then on every episode has felt like pointless trash. I think Game Boy Accessories and Tiger electronics were decent but not near as good as anything pre Toxic Crusaders.
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I liked the Toxic Crusaders episode. Fuck you!
 
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Mr. Duck said:
The review is just a longer version of the short segment he did for that game on the Wish List episode, completely pointless.
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Not pointless, it's easier to expand on something you already talked about and thus has some familiarity with than do research/play games you don't know to find a subject for n AVGN episode. AVGN is all about money now at the end of the day. Nobody working on it really cares about it except it needs to be made so everybody gets a piece of the $5000 (according to Kieran) from every new AVGN because of the sponsorship and ad revenue.
 
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The review is just a longer version of the short segment he did for that game on the Wish List episode, completely pointless.
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It doesn't surprise me that Bimmy has ran out of games to cover, so he has to cover something he already covered briefly in one of the episodes but didn't even know, remember or even care about it 10 years prior. :story:
 
It's impossible to run out of shitty old games to review.

Rerez is doing their "AVGN" series and they always manage to find out some absurdly obscure stuff. Just some days ago they reviewed a 90s game they couldn't even put the name on the video title because it goes against the Youtube guidelines. The game is Gender Wars (based) if anyone is curious.

Screenwave is just lazy and don't go hunting for weird shit like that.
 
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BullfrogBill said:
James hasn't put out an actual good AVGN episode since Ikari Warriors ten years ago. When the Toxic Crusaders episode came out I was shocked how bad it was, not that there hadn't been bad episodes of AVGN before that, but there was nothing as bad as Toxic Crusaders. From then on every episode has felt like pointless trash. I think Game Boy Accessories and Tiger electronics were decent but not near as good as anything pre Toxic Crusaders.
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I personally think the last good AVGN video was the Berenstain Bears video, after that one, you could tell the quality dips exponentially.
 
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BullfrogBill said:
James hasn't put out an actual good AVGN episode since Ikari Warriors ten years ago. When the Toxic Crusaders episode came out I was shocked how bad it was, not that there hadn't been bad episodes of AVGN before that, but there was nothing as bad as Toxic Crusaders. From then on every episode has felt like pointless trash. I think Game Boy Accessories and Tiger electronics were decent but not near as good as anything pre Toxic Crusaders.
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The only real good AVGN is the the stuff from the 2000s when he was young and spry doing it for fun. When he got old and married everything went to shit because it was all for a paycheck at that point. Such is life.
 
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Mr. Ghoul said:
The only real good AVGN is the the stuff from the 2000s when he was young and spry doing it for fun. When he got old and married everything went to shit because it was all for a paycheck at that point. Such is life.
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Comparing AVGN between the 2000s to today, you could see that in reviews of Tiger Electronics, NES accessories, Dick Tracy, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and Ghostbusters, Bimmy had put in more soul and effort as he didn't need some fancy video editing and effects to make his videos look good. Nowadays, Bimmy only does this (like you said) as a serious job to pay for his rent and his family, and he just looks tired every passing video from mid-2015 onward.
 
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TVBForever said:
Tiger Electronics, NES accessories, Dick Tracy, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and Ghostbusters
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I personally wouldn't lump TIger Electronics in with the other ones you listed. Not as soulless as what he puts out now, but it's still past the classic era and you could already notice the quality declining even before that ep.
 
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Pissmaster said:
I'm surprised, honestly. In that case, I wouldn't hold it against James if he started cranking out AVGN "movies" that are just hour-long episodes, much like what South Park's been doing over the past few years.
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He did get a lot of positive reception for his Earthbound review. I bet he'd be doing better if he did longer "reviews" of popular games like that, where he does an abridged playthrough commenting on various things.

I just realized how similar that sounds to Nostalgia Critic.
 
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Megaton Punch said:
James doesn't want to be a small time video maker. He wants to be Hollywood. In particular, he wants to be 50s/60s Hollywood because it's what he grew up watching. If he could make a low budget black and white horror movie that gained a cult following, I think he'd instantly achieve nirvana and cease to exist in that moment. It's really all he wants out of life.

You see this all the time, especially with "content creators". They're making absolute bank working ten hours a month and they're still miserable because they feel like they're destined for greatness. 99% of all humans on earth would trade lives with him in a heartbeat, but some people are just incapable of feeling content with what they have. Sometimes that restlessness drives them to greatness. Usually, it drives them to alcoholism and an early death. Hopefully James can get his zen on and just embrace his incredible life, because he really doesn't deserve to go into a creative death spiral.
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Im not sure this is entirely true. His passion for much of his life has been low to modest budget horror films. Shit like that doesnt need hollywood and it takes ten second of knowing james to see he would hate hollywood and im sure he knows it . That said he does need to start working on his dreams again. AVGN has a warm place in my heart as it does many but you just cant do such things at such a rate forever. It feels like he is subsidizing his friends lives and doing all this for his demanding wife and their two kids.
I feel he has other things he wants to work on.
 
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Lancelot said:
Im not sure this is entirely true. His passion for much of his life has been low to modest budget horror films. Shit like that doesnt need hollywood and it takes ten second of knowing james to see he would hate hollywood and im sure he knows it . That said he does need to start working on his dreams again. AVGN has a warm place in my heart as it does many but you just cant do such things at such a rate forever. It feels like he is subsidizing his friends lives and doing all this for his demanding wife and their two kids.
I feel he has other things he wants to work on.
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I also wish Bimmy would go back to making micro budget indie movies. Shit, I thought his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movie (based on the infamous NES game he had reviewed in one of his earlier episodes) was going to be an actual movie, but instead it was just some short fake trailer, and I was really disappointed. If ol' Jimbo haven't hired his Screenwave slobs, he would've actually had made an actual indie movie outside of his AVGN movie.
 
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TVBForever said:
I also wish Bimmy would go back to making micro budget indie movies. Shit, I thought his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde movie (based on the infamous NES game he had reviewed in one of his earlier episodes) was going to be an actual movie, but instead it was just some short fake trailer, and I was really disappointed. If ol' Jimbo haven't hired his Screenwave slobs, he would've actually had made an actual indie movie outside of his AVGN movie.
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Yeah the screen wave shit seems like massive expensive distraction from shit he wants to be doing
 
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Stupid Sexy Flanders said:
I haven't even watched the latest video yet, but this thumbnail... :story: dude, just shave it all off.

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You will never understand the love a middle-aged man has for the last of his hair. It's a special relationship. Hello, little strands. I see there are slightly fewer of you today. It's okay, I could be fatter.
 
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