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.

  • 🐕 I am attempting to get the site runnning as fast as possible. If you are experiencing slow page load times, please report it.

Which videos do you like the most from Cinemassacre?

  • Angry Video Game Nerd

    Votes: 1,809 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%
  • Total voters
    2,849
Michael Bluth said:
Click to expand...
I finally got a chance to sit down and watch this. I'm not sure what to think...

The Phantom Eye is awesome and really funny, I just discovered it a while back thanks to a private torrent site. Kudos and RIP to Roger Corman (and AMC).

I think I am calling bullshit on this episode though. It comes off as fake and gay. 35% Corman (if that) and the rest fuzzy nostalgia heartstring tugs from lazy research from some Slobs (or Mike) finding the same copy of Phantom Eye for him. Or the Slobs just wrote it themselves and Bernie James was propped up for the reading.
 
innocent jogger said:
4. 5 seconds or so of Nosferatu film tribute at the end
Click to expand...
That to me was the most jarring part. It was like James insisted on including it so he could flex his "film-making" """ abilities """, but didn't have the knowhow to incorporate it into the video game critique, so he left it at just superimposing himself into the frames of the movie so he could destroy a game cartridge for the billionth time.
 
  • Like
Reactions: I_Lurk_Here, From The Uncanny Valley and BrunoMattei
innocent jogger said:
New AVGN

ETA:
1. That hair...Shave that fucking egghead or get a wig or something, Bimmy.
2. Why does the gameplay footage constantly switch aspect ratio? It started giving me a headache.
3. "Vampires can be killed by a fist to the balls or a kick to the dick." That legit made me lol
4. The 5 seconds or so of Nostferartu film tribute at the end was pretty cool. the rest of the episode was another Slobwave tier assload of fuck.

Also, "Gameplay by James"....yeah right. "James" who?
Click to expand...
This was so forgettable I forgot to post how forgettable it was.

It's sad because his Halloween episodes tended to be some of his best and usually had actual effort put into them. It isn't terrible like 2021 AVGN, but it's very low-effort. Dark Castle it is not.
 
Save the Loli said:
This was so forgettable I forgot to post how forgettable it was.

It's sad because his Halloween episodes tended to be some of his best and usually had actual effort put into them. It isn't terrible like 2021 AVGN, but it's very low-effort. Dark Castle it is not.
Click to expand...
Indeed, since his Deja Vu episode were really good i was hoping for Uninvited for Halloween. And he still hasn't touched the Amiga scene yet, i know i made predictions last year when Mike got himself a Amiga500 and tried out Castlevania and the sorts.
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
An interesting note about this game, an EGM edition around late 91 had a preview of this game, only to be released like 4 years later. Must have been a delay.
Click to expand...
With how many games revealed early on around the SNES launch never ended up coming out at all, almost nobody expected Nosferatu to come out at all. IIRC, it came out years later in the west than it did in Japan, but all the text was English in the Japanese release so there wasn't a clear reason for the delay, other than the reasonable hypothesis that SETA was a small publisher, especially their American side, and they just didn't have the resources for more than one game a year due to Nintendo's predatory cartridge production setup and pricing.
 
  • Informative
Reactions: Vida and From The Uncanny Valley
Another related thing about the game, I remember reading comments on other forums that speculate that the crystals that the player collects are magical which helps him punch monsters.
 
Travoltron said:
Screenwave slobs have false-flagged LowRes Wünderbred's new video "10 Years Later... Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014) - A Retrospective"
Did anybody snag this before Justin ate it?
Click to expand...
It only got 303 views which means that it must have been posted on the Reddit shithole and the Screen Wave minions spotted it. They most likely watch this thread as well.
 
  • Agree
  • Informative
  • Like
Reactions: Vida, From The Uncanny Valley, Tootsie Bear and 4 others
deeman said:
And he still hasn't touched the Amiga scene yet, i know i made predictions last year when Mike got himself a Amiga500 and tried out Castlevania and the sorts.
Click to expand...
Guess there's nothing that interesting on Amiga, it was popular mostly in Europe and mostly the snobby rich kids had it. Games looked and sounded great for the time, but there's barely any gameplay to speak of. Then Doom came out and the modding scene still can't make it work on Amiga.
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
  • Disagree
Reactions: The Valeyard, Stupid Sexy Flanders and deeman
demicolon said:
Guess there's nothing that interesting on Amiga, it was popular mostly in Europe and mostly the snobby rich kids had it. Games looked and sounded great for the time, but there's barely any gameplay to speak of. Then Doom came out and the modding scene still can't make it work on Amiga.
Click to expand...
For someone who loved his C64 video i would disagree, a Amiga episode would be kino, and i mean there is Ghosts n goblins and that Elvira game for the Amiga so he could do a Amiga horror episode... or rather, if Mike played enough Amiga games he could give James enough material.

I think he needs to stop look at "100 worst games of all time" articles and instead find those obscure games.
 
  • Like
  • Agree
Reactions: I_Lurk_Here, From The Uncanny Valley, The Valeyard and 6 others
Having a comprehensive extra length Amiga episode could be cool. Comparing and contrasting notable multiplatform games that showed up on the Amiga. I think you could do a pretty decent segment showcasing and talking about the sound chip (Paula?) that sounded fantastic for the time, however that could just be a matter of taste. Having a bit more of a technical episode would be interesting but possibly out of their wheelhouse.

However, that sounds like work.
 
  • Like
  • Agree
Reactions: Smar Mijou, boixosnois, The Valeyard and 7 others
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back