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.

[Captain Gomez]

 

[TV's Adam West]

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This has similar feeling to looking at family photos of Randy Weaver and his family.

 

[CyrusHowler]

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https://youtube.com/shorts/uwkF7RJS_Ts?feature=share

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

95% of TCT is cringe but it's worth it for the one time in a blue moon they knock it out of the park.

I legit don't understand why those people hate James so much. What is it about him that makes them so mad?

 

[Jason Wynn]

I legit don't understand why those people hate James so much. What is it about him that makes them so mad?

Pretty sure it’s just good old fashioned, low spectrum autism.

“Huuurgh! Internet funny man no make the funnies like me used to! That make me big sad angry!!!! Internet funny man must die!”

I exaggerate, but not really

 

[Green Kitbash]

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Just like a band, any member leaving changes things drastically. All of them are gone except for James. He is line the Guns and Rose's of video game review content.

 

[Grub]

I actually like Celeste, but not enough to want to try out games like Super Meat Boy (Celeste works for me because of its mostly positive nature, while it seems like other superhard games are all about mocking the player...

I liked Celeste. It got pretty hard in later areas. I didn't really pay much attention to the story when I played it though. I just remember it was some girl and she could jump and shit and you're climbing a mountain for some reason.

Super meat boy's pretty fun. It's hard but not ridiculously hard. The levels are all short and are beatable after a whole shitload of tries usually. At the end of the level you get to watch a replay of all your tries concurrently. It's kind of cool and makes it sort of worth it after replaying a level a bunch of times before you beat it. It's not nes hard. Like it's not unfair and it doesn't waste your time by forcing you to restart the game because you ran out of continues or some shit.

Cuphead was another one of those hard games I enjoyed. More for the art and animation than the game play. The gameplay wasn't bad but it got a bit repetitive.

None of these games are hard like games used to be. They don't have limited lives and continues, they don't have enemies that respawn the second they're off screen or enemies that appear in places you can't avoid them or cheap instadeaths. They're hard in an actual fun challenging way instead of frustrating and ridiculous.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

I tried sitting through the Kid Icarus review and it just made me depressed. A series I eagerly awaited and would watch right as it came out has degraded so much I can't even bother finishing an episode now. It's too boring and Bimmys uncanny reactions poorly imitating what AVGN once was is too hard to watch. The last modern AVGN episode I sat through all the way was Earthbound. Why does everything I love have to die?

 

[Goblin9]

The slobs do enable James but I think the issue started years ago and only continued to fester. I don't think Mike was forced out as Kyle left James before the slobs came into the picture.

Regardless of who to blame, James is ultimately the one at fault. He does things in such a boomer way and has no time management skills as he has made being a father an actual job. Considering the AVGN/youtube is his actual job, there is no real reason as to why he doesn't have time other than bad time management and his autism.

I don't blame Mike for ultimately leaving as he can continue being a neet streaming without having to forceably lug around James into doing anything nor does Mike have to do any of the work with making nerd episodes.

People also sort of forget that James is not a gamer at all and has already gone through his bad memory games long-ago. So even without the slobs and Mike, James would need to do the one thing which he doesn't do. He likes talking about movies but even he's shown to not bother with it as he has the slobs doing it for him.

Not aimed at you specifically but... what are people expecting from AVGN today? The series is 20 years old and James isn't a kid in college any more. He's a fully grown adult with a family and everyone else has moved on to do other things with their life. What could you possibly do with a 20 year old TV series spanning 200 episodes that would entertain the current audience? The format is a guy talking to a camera and occasionally beating up a guy in a Halloween costume. Any sane man would have called it done at episode 200 and lived off selling books/going to conventions to sign pictures for 20 dollars a pop.

I liked Celeste. It got pretty hard in later areas. I didn't really pay much attention to the story when I played it though. I just remember it was some girl and she could jump and shit and you're climbing a mountain for some reason.

Super meat boy's pretty fun. It's hard but not ridiculously hard. The levels are all short and are beatable after a whole shitload of tries usually. At the end of the level you get to watch a replay of all your tries concurrently. It's kind of cool and makes it sort of worth it after replaying a level a bunch of times before you beat it. It's not nes hard. Like it's not unfair and it doesn't waste your time by forcing you to restart the game because you ran out of continues or some shit.

Cuphead was another one of those hard games I enjoyed. More for the art and animation than the game play. The gameplay wasn't bad but it got a bit repetitive.

None of these games are hard like games used to be. They don't have limited lives and continues, they don't have enemies that respawn the second they're off screen or enemies that appear in places you can't avoid them or cheap instadeaths. They're hard in an actual fun challenging way instead of frustrating and ridiculous.

If you want meme hard then I want to be the boy fan games are the way to go. They're what if NES games were really as hard as people meme. Perfect execution and half a seconds progress every time you figure out how to die before you have a new death to figure out.

 

[Grub]

If you want meme hard then I want to be the boy fan games are the way to go. They're what if NES games were really as hard as people meme. Perfect execution and half a seconds progress every time you figure out how to die before you have a new death to figure out.

That sounds like some kaizo shit. The amount of autism required for that is too much for me.

 

[Shirō Ishii]

Not aimed at you specifically but... what are people expecting from AVGN today? The series is 20 years old and James isn't a kid in college any more. He's a fully grown adult with a family and everyone else has moved on to do other things with their life. What could you possibly do with a 20 year old TV series spanning 200 episodes that would entertain the current audience? The format is a guy talking to a camera and occasionally beating up a guy in a Halloween costume. Any sane man would have called it done at episode 200 and lived off selling books/going to conventions to sign pictures for 20 dollars a pop.

Considering being a youtuber is his job, it doesn't matter that he has a family. People expect some form of effort regardless if he did AVGN videos or some other series like Board James which was really good.

 

[skykiii]

I liked Celeste. It got pretty hard in later areas. I didn't really pay much attention to the story when I played it though. I just remember it was some girl and she could jump and shit and you're climbing a mountain for some reason.

Short summary is you play as a girl with depression and she's climbing a mountain just to force herself to commit to some sort of difficult task. The mountain itself turns out to be like a more positive version of Silent Hill in that it throws your worst traits against you (in this case Madeline gets to face a manifestation of her depression called Badeline, and there's a thing where they reconcile because Madeline realizes that she kinda needs her bad side). Oh and there's a bonus epilogue where you get to explore the "heart of the mountain" which turns out to be... weird? (I had to watch videos because I was not good enough to beat this part myself).

Cuphead was another one of those hard games I enjoyed. More for the art and animation than the game play. The gameplay wasn't bad but it got a bit repetitive.

I have a joke with my friends around Cuphead... I like to read its name as Cu Phead ("Kyu Feed") instead of Cup Head. Never thought of an alternate reading for Mugman's name.

I haven't played Cu Phead myself yet. It looks fun but part of me suspects the art style could get distracting.

I do still wish someone would do a video game where the artstyle is based on 80s cartoons or a non-shit era of anime though. One of the closest things I saw was a He-Man fangame made on the Beats of Rage engine which really does kinda look like you're playing an episode of the 1983 cartoon. Sad how rare things like this are.

....... I've never played an I Wanna Be the Guy game but I watched speedruns. From what I understand they are way more bullshit than NES games. Stuff like the rules suddenly changing just for a gotcha death. Doesn't help that they crash on most OSes.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I have a joke with my friends around Cuphead... I like to read its name as Cu Phead ("Kyu Feed") instead of Cup Head.

I though I was the only one. Except I pronounce it fed instead of feed.

 

[skykiii]

I though I was the only one. Except I pronounce it fed instead of feed.

Well, I hope anything that eats the Phead has in fact been Phead.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Celeste is about a tranny cutting his dick off.

If you don't believe me just google it.

 

[deeman]

Pretty sure it’s just good old fashioned, low spectrum autism.

“Huuurgh! Internet funny man no make the funnies like me used to! That make me big sad angry!!!! Internet funny man must die!”

I exaggerate, but not really

Yeah you do (exaggerate) but i'm like Jesus and i like to drink wine. So i forget you. Anyways, TCT had/has? it's place, as a reaction against the cencorship in the official reddit (Allthough after the banniong fisaco Screenwave werevery quick to point out that there doesn't exist any official Cinemassacre reddit. So i get it, the problem, as with all reddits is when it get's popular and you constantly hear the same memes instead of any discussion, so personally i have gone to sporadicly checking TCT atleast once a day to once a week, rather keeping tabs on the state of AVGN on this here thread instead.

 

[Goblin9]

Considering being a youtuber is his job, it doesn't matter that he has a family. People expect some form of effort regardless if he did AVGN videos or some other series like Board James which was really good.

James is an actor now not the director. I see where you're coming from but James is an employee not in charge so he does what he's told. The stolen scripts are what should have given that away. I'm not a big fan of the skits and liked seeing weird games so I maybe viewing it from a different angle to you. The quality has dropped in general (200 episodes will do that) but the lack of skits or camera angles doesn't bother me because I'm not in it for James's movie making skills. I want to see obscure games or bad ports I wasn't aware of.

...... I've never played an I Wanna Be the Guy game but I watched speedruns. From what I understand they are way more bullshit than NES games. Stuff like the rules suddenly changing just for a gotcha death. Doesn't help that they crash on most OSes.

It's the evolution of "oops when you jump over that pit a bird spawns and hits you/a fish jumps out and knocks you into it". It's the dark souls of Megaman games.

 

[TVB]

Better yet, I challenge you for the Cinemassacre Heavyweight Championship at Cinemania.

We'll do a gunfight in the dark at midnight

 

[CyrusHowler]

“Huuurgh! Internet funny man no make the funnies like me used to! That make me big sad angry!!!! Internet funny man must die!”

What’s sad is that if someone posted this on there, they’d get attacked by the drooling zomboids and called a slob in disguise before one of the same 5 memes floods the thread.”
“Justy is that you?”

I tried sitting through the Kid Icarus review and it just made me depressed. A series I eagerly awaited and would watch right as it came out has degraded so much I can't even bother finishing an episode now. It's too boring and Bimmys uncanny reactions poorly imitating what AVGN once was is too hard to watch. The last modern AVGN episode I sat through all the way was Earthbound. Why does everything I love have to die?

This looks like something a TCTer would post.

We'll do a gunfight in the dark at midnight

Eww, Family Guy.

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

I legit don't understand why those people hate James so much. What is it about him that makes them so mad?

It's classic parasocial autism

That's why it seems like his hardcore fans either love him no matter how shitty his content gets, or hate him with a fiery passion. They take it as a personal betrayal (or in the other case, have undying love) because they latched onto him like he was a real friend and/or father figure (ugh)

They can't just accept that it was a dumb internet show that never could have possibly lasted with their idea of quality forever. Even if you overlook that James isn't really a gamer, and he got through most of the actual games he played growing up, there are still only so many fucking retro games you can do before it either gets stale or you start hitting the "who the hell played this as a kid?" route.

It's kind of like how people got mad when Nostalgia critic started doing more and more recent movies. What did you expect, assholes? There's only so many "nostalgic" movies you can fucking do.

Enjoy it, laugh at it, or fucking move on. Seething over internet personalities is the most retarded thing a person can do.