what retro games make you become the angry nintendo nerd when you play them?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mupyfGBE0Y
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>>12122484Most 2D platformers.
>>12122484You mean a bald faggot who shits out 4 slop videos written by Screenwave a year?
>>12122484This autistic retard ruined the reputation of so many great games with his dumb videos. Nowadays he looks like a hollow husk and doesn't even review games he actually played anymore, he just reads a script written by a hired third party company.
>>12122484None because the angry nintendo nerd is a character and real people don't actually get mad at video games.
>>12122514well he wasn't playing a character in the video
>>12122502Name 5 games
>>12122498OP said "angry nintendo nerd", not "angry video game nerd", so only pre-2007 episodes
>>12122523Yes he is, James is an awkward autistic retard irl. >inb4 the story from his book where he had an autistic episode on the short bus be rode to school because the schools tard wrangler that rode along said the word "dick" so he started screaming and crying and ran off the bus and started punching the front door until he collapsed weeping on the ground
>>12122514>real people don't actually get mad at video games.I really wish this were true.
>>12122514Just watch some of Mike Mateis livestreams. He is the actual AVGN character IRL. Hell most of the collection in James videos is Mikes.
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>>12122537We've all done that, be honest.
>>12122502like fucking whatHe only repeated opinions that were common back then.
>>12122526>>12122670Milon's Secret Castle, Fester's Quest, Seaman, Pepsiman, Hydlide. In the Taito one they made him talk shit about genuine masterpieces like Gun Frontier and Raystorm.
>>12122502>Nowadays he looks like a hollow husk and doesn't even review games he actually played anymore, he just reads a script written by a hired third party company.Makes sense, that Ecco the Dolphin "review" felt like it was written by a dumbass who was bad at games
>>12122671>Fester's QuestI owned Fester's Quest as a kid, it was fascinating yet fucking awful. AVGN didn't ruin shit there
>>12122514shut the fuck up you retarded nigger
>>12122502Oh yeah dude, before the AVGN, Action 52 was in every top NES games lists
>>12122671>Milon's Secret Castle, Fester's QuestI think he complained more about the games being unfair that being bad>Seaman, PepsimanAt that point, AVGN videos were already irrelevant, dude.
>>12122484i still gotta go on a nostalgia trip and rewatch the very first triple dozen episodes of the nerdit would probably be nostalgic, but maybe in a sad depressing way..
>>12122671No idea what the last two games are but out of the first five games only pepsiman is good.Hydlide was good but he played the shitty nes port
>>12122671He didn't trash Seaman or Pepsiman. He enjoyed the wacky Japaneseness of both.
>>12122671Fester's Quest sucks and so does Blaster Master. Whoever decided to make an entire game of those shitty top down shooter sections was a moron. Awful guns, awful sections.
>>12122484Wait. I'm supposed to care about this gay eceleb youtube clickbait bullshit? What the fuck? Literally who? Literally why OP?Not clicking on that shit.
>>12122726Weak bait, but it will tug.
Name one of these grifting youtube cunts who actually worked as a hardware of software developer in the 90s or 80s and has a fucking clue about what they are talking about. Just one.Endless laszy bums, grifting worthless brainded millenial spastics bullshitting on for clicks. Sickening.
>>12122739*burps*Yeah, ketchup in the bag, please.
>>12122729You think that b8?. That's called honesty. Buy a fucking ad and check your ego in at the door, OP posting an enormous fucking nobody of any conseqence or value for discussion (you).
>>12122741lol
>>12122729>>12122741Same fag and seething literal who which can't afford an ad detected.
>>12122537>the short bus be rode to school because the schools tard wrangler that rode along said the word "dick" so he started screaming and crying and ran off the bus and started punching the front door until he collapsed weeping on the groundWe've all been there and if you haven't then you're lying.
>>12122546Mike Matei is based and all his rage videos are relatable and top tier. His taste in games is good too.
>>12122752>same fag replying to two different posts from a different samefagGee, really got me there, schizoid faggot.
>>12122537Nobody tells us anything. We're the balls on the dick.
>>12122739the guy who made fallout has a youtube channel. The guy who made the SoR soundtracks has a channel too. How are any of them "grifting" if the videos are free?
>>12123160If people try to give you things in exchange for money, they're grifters. I learned that by watching you, 4chan!
>>12122768guess who made the angry nerd? mike. if he had said nothing and let james move on to other video projects there wouldn't be avgn
some of the reverse races in Jak 2 got me to swear when the bullshit racers would suddenly crash into me and explode, instakilling me.
>>12122502>>12122671They hate him because he spoke the truth.
>>12122484LJN games
>>12122673Silverswine and screenwave were a blight on James career.
>>12122768Mike is a manchild with anger issues, his girlfriend left him.
>>12122671>In the Taito one they made him talk shit about genuine masterpieces like Gun Frontier and Raystorm.The faggots at Screenwave don't really care about video games and know nothing about them. Imagine saying that Darius Gaiden is just "Fine, I guess"
>>12122537If the tard wrangler said "dick" id cause a scene too. You just know he didn't say it for a good reason and james probably prevented some kid from getting raped.
>>12122502>This autistic retard ruined the reputation of so many great games with his dumb videos.I don't understand why zoomers lie so much.
>>12123565>somebody said "dick">they must be a chomo!Think about raping kids a lot, do ya?
>>12122496you must be a speedrunner
>>12123565See>>12122975James rode the short bus all through high school and was in special ed. The tard wrangler had to account for each student who rode that bus and the day before James caught a ride home with a friend and didn't inform the bus/tard wrangler beforehand. The next morning James got on the bus and the tard wrangler asked him what happened yesterday afternoon and James told him he rode home with a friend. The schools tard wrangler said "Oh well that figures... no one tells us anything. We are the bottom of the totem pole... the balls on the dick."James flipped the fuck out and had a panic attack at hearing an adult say "balls on the dick" and ran screaming and crying off the bus when they got to school, physically attacked the front door and collapsed bawling.He was 16. He also went and laid in knee high surf at the beach one night with him mom when he got kicked out of film school trying to "drown" himself as his mom stood on the beach yelling for him to get the fuck out of the water.
>>12122502Im going to say the games weren't the only casualties the discourse was the biggest victim. AVGN and the snarky "I hate everything" critics of the 2000s birthed all these faggots who dont want to talk about games they like they want to find a game they hate and nitpick it to death. Everyone wants to be the angry nintendo nerd and talk about how much of a shitload of fuck these games are.
>>12124589I can't believe this is what turned him toward a lifestyle of diarrhea dumps and rotten assholes of roadkill skunks and downing it with beer.
>>12122671>>12123536The Ecco the Dolphin video was probably the worst example of this. Sure there's the occasional fag that whines about its difficulty, but it's usually thought of as a beloved classic. I have no idea how they managed to fuck up so hard they thought it was a notoriously bad game.
>>12122526I can name two from memory: Castlevania 64 and Indiana Jones & The Infernal Machine https://youtu.be/130Id_HKRxM
https://youtu.be/s6KnTZb-xf4?si=C-V0_UlM3pX9Kum2So, tgfm just brought back a discussion that has been wiped under the rug for too much time now.The slobs and screenwave dust has finally settled, and people are starting to question Matei again.It's bizarre, but Mike (who was never liked in the old days), managed to not only make people forget about his bullshit but also make people praise him as "the real avgn", "mike was the genius all along", when in truth, James was still the one writing majority of scripts and acting as the nerd. The nerd comes off as this genuinely pissed off nerd but deep down you can sympathize with him. Mike's emotional childish tantrums on Twitch aren't relatable and are cringe.Anyway, Mike started being "friendly" toward the redditer truthers (ironically, since tct was created because of Matei banning everyone on the official sub reddit), and he even appeared on a video with those red cow channel, basically enforcing the "mike was the real genius behind avgn" meme which is going strong even today.But now, people are starting to remember elvis8bit and how he tried to defend himself anonymously, how he faked a dick pic. Question is: were those things just silly things that can be forgotten? It says a lot about Mike's character.
Lots of the old NES games. Megaman, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, Ghost and Goblins. The thing is AVGN is the perfect personification of what it feels like to struggle with a game. There's lots of fair good games that make you FEEL like the AVGN at his angriest when you're struggling with some level or whatever. That's why he's so relatable!
>>12122768>Mike Matei is based.Still praising yourself while pretending to be different people?
>>12124618Mike wrote a shit ton of the scripts in either in collobration with James or in some cases by himself, him and James have both talked about that. There is a compilation of him talking about scripts he helped write or wrote from various streams on YouTube. Also the vast majority of the gameplay footage was Mike since in reality James fucking sucks at video games. Yes Mike used to act like a faggot online, did tweet his dick out from the official Cinemassacre twitter, etc etc. This doesn't change the fact that it's accurate to say a large part of the creative force of AVGN was through Mike. Hell Mike is the one who hounded James to continue and expand the videos after James came up with the initial concept and first review. Mike is not the actual AVGN. Neither is James. The AVGN we all knew and loved (pre-Screenwave) was an amalgamation of James/Mike. Once that formula changed, it lost its magic.
>>12124637>Yes Mike used to act like a faggot onlineStill does
>>12124642He doesn't do much besides stream right? That and collect money from Screenwave as he is part owner of Cinemassacre
While we're on the topic of video game reviewers, anyone remember this guy? He was sure the loonest but also a looker. Goddamn.
>>12124654HE IS THE GAME DUDEHE IS SO RUDEHE FLEES THE COUNTRYWHEN THE COURT DATE IS DUE
>>12124652Yeah and hes still acting like an embarrassingly edgy tryhard 19 year old fratboy despite being 45 fucking years old now.
>>12124654anyone remember this guyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C06ItyuoBxs
>>12124654>>12124657I actually subbed him back in 2009. He was a much lesser AVGN but thought his reviews was decent enough while waiting for new AVGN episodes. I later unsubbed because he would waste so much time revising and reuploading the same reviews 10 or 20 times (I'm not exaggerating) instead of making new reviews.The whole Alanna stalking thing was fucked up, but Alanna did lie to Alex. Alex wanted a girlfriend, Alanna just wanted to have sex with The Game Dude and fucked other guys behind his back. He had every right to be pissed, but the insane stalking and attempts to win her back (why?) for months was generally insane. I hope he got mental help and settled down somewhere.
>>12124683Obsession isn't even a registerable word, to one who feels like they've lost their better half. Especially for the first time. Hope he's gotten better, too.
>>12124659>embarrassingly edgy tryhard 19 year old fratboyI would never use 19 to describe mike. I watched his stream for 30 minutes one time and cognitively he reminds me of my elderly father. You can see the gears of his mind spinning in real time as he formulates a thought and he gets stuck in pointless thought pits for way too long.
>>12124654Game Dude was cringe but also based. His cringe was so fucking acute it wrapped around to based. Didn't he rape some bitch and flee to Mexico?
>>12124698No, he stalked his ex for months then fled the country when Alanna pursued legal action. She dropped the case by now so Id imagine Alex is back in his hometown by now.
>>12124698You have to be cringe in order to be based. There's no other way.
>>12124589>He was 16What? Really? If this is true, James is even more autistic than crhis-chan
>>12124709Words full of wisdom
>>12124654>>12124657He had the best theme song of all angry reviewers. Unironically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYnlmGOZibQ
>>12123423I heard that shit is literally broken>>12124514>The Apartmentgood movie
>>12124596Yeah, it's never the originals that ruins things, it's all the shitty imitators who want to be like $thing_that_got_popular and become soulless trend followers clumsily aping the originals until the trend finally dies.t. old man who's seen this shit too many times
>>12124637>did tweet his dickIt was another man's penis
>>12124727Yes the story is from his book.
>>12125372how is that retro?
>>12122498>ScreenwaveI don't think they are partners or whatever anymore. Bimbo has to do some work now or maybe his wife.
>>12124654I have to watch the entirety of that 2 hour dinosaur video at some point. It's absolute schizokino.>>12124665Why the fuck would you call yourself "The Gaming Rapist"? That's the absolute worst publicity you can give yourself and it's not the kind that will endear you to anyone.
>>12124618>>12124637Mike was running all the AVGN social media stuff back in the day, the only reason the extent of his contributions weren't known was because he chose to not make them known.
>>12122484Solomon's Key for NES. This shit is hard as fuck, but I'll never forget that my mother (RIP) was somehow able to advance 20 levels or so higher than I was ever able to. She was also an uncontested Dr. Mario master. I don't know how she did it. I would find her playing my NES every time I came back from school, then we'd play stuff like Jackal or Super Contra.
>>12125426I fucking kneel, he truly is the king of internet
>>12122496Yeah, pretty much this. I love the game, but my god, some of those fucking Shines.
>>12123829You have to be blind if you think he isn't autistic.
>>12122496Your own fault for playing gaycube garbage.
>>12126212Shouldn't you be doing your homework?
>>12126217Sorry mate, I finished school some time ago, so I can discern the difference between garbage and a good game.
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Streets of Rage 1, particularly the boss fight against the 2 girls who jump and flip all over the place. That fight is a pain in the ass if you're playing single player. The second you finally manage to hit one, the other one gets ahold of you. That's when it would be really nice to have a special move like Grand Upper.
>>12126212Technically not wrong
>>12123829Mom people on internet are attacking my favourite youtuber!
>>12126091Gaming Rapist was some retard taking the edginess factor of the AVGN craze to an autistic extreme. It was considered baffling and offensive even at the time and you'd be crucified for it in current day internet.
>>12126224Then next you might want to learn to talk like an adult.
>>12123160>How are any of them "grifting" if the videos are free?the grift is to sell you on an "idea".it's mostly associated with political youtubers/streamers and a few culture warriors on the left and right who'll whine about representation in media and/or try to use buzzwords & slogans to validate whatever worldview they subscribe to. at the end of the day it's all first worlders LARPing as communists & nazis to see who can piss off the other the most.the only differences between the grifters is that the ones on the right are in it for the money and are willing to collaborate and work together to maximize profits while the ones on the left are in it for the fame and will stab each other in the back to climb that ladder.>what does any of this have to do gaming?absolutely nothing "grifting" in this context is a buzzword
>>12122502>>12122498>>12126242a-logging AVGN is like a-loggin the simpsons or family guy. literally just watch something else.
>>12122502It's a character, dummy
>>12126387I know, the real James doesn't even play video games, but his show's shitty influence is visible everywhere nonetheless
>>12122498I can't believe I'm seeing baldphobia on /vr/ of all places
>>12126370Calling a faggot a faggot isn't A-Logging faggot
>>12122484What a shitload of fuck. Quake was a perfect expansion to Doom, same basic idea of just the guns, enemies, and level layout coming together to create an open experience that makes you want to play it over and over until you've got the perfect route, luring the enemies just right and using the right weapon for each situation until you feel like a badass when you completely dominate the level..Then Quake 2 goes the whole other way and makes some linear tech demo, like some asshole took an Alpha build of Half-Life, stripped of all the enemy variety, story, level design and setpieces that made it fun, added all the Quake 1 guns to the game but said "oh we better nerf these first, wouldn't want anyone to have too much fun" then stretched the result over an entire game. You're running around brown and red halls, shooting samey robot enemies that look like they came out the margins of a ten-year-olds math notebook with the same mind-numbing "shoot it until it dies" strategy over and over which is only interrupted by the game trying to tell you about its completely forgettable third-rate children's cartoon story through shitty cutscenes that look like they were made by an intern one week before launch. What the fuck were they thinking?
>>12126427Romero may have been a procrastinator with a large ego who couldn't commit to a deadline, but he was the necessary component to the sterile program monkey known as John Carmack.
>>12126427Quake II was the beginning of the end of id - BUT Deathmatch'ing on "The Edge" was fantastic.
>>12122484Total goof but he was at the right time at the right place...
>>12124693I agree with the other anon, Mike has this personality of thinking that being edgy is cool.He's constantly pitching ideas he considers would be cool like "you know what nintendo should do? Release a Mario game with blood and gore and swearing!! Yeaaaah"
>>12126392>Isn't Dark Souls a 2D platformer like Zelda 2?
>>12126572You just made that up.
>>12126572Doesn't sound like Mike. But he does have autistic obessions and opinions about some things in games, like zero patience with cutscenes (and ¨Godzilla movies should be nothing but monsters fighting, all the human characters are fucking boring¨). And he's quick to call games shit rather than just admitting that he keeps repeatedly fucking up.
>>12126629Is he one of those guys who skips the tutorial then bitches about not knowing what to do?
>>12126630Yyyyyup.
>>12126459*necessary complementBut yeah, this. Romero was the John Lennon to Carmack's Paul McCartney. Wild creative energy to McCartney's effortless skill for composition. Without each other Lennon's solo albums are unrestrained self-indulgence that can border on the unlistenable, and McCartney's solo efforts become highly successful pop songs that are mostly quickly forgotten, which maps neatly onto Romero's crash and burn post-Id games and Carmack's long running series of best-selling tech demos.. (I don't know who would be id's George Harrison or Ringo Starr)>>12126629>Godzilla movies should be nothing but monsters fighting, all the human characters are fucking boringCan't say I disagree, with the past two decades worth of Godzilla movies in mind, removing the humans would probably be an overall improvement.
>>12126665>removing the humans would probably be an overall improvementThe last two Toho Godzilla movies proved the exact opposite
>>12126689I liked those well enough. But a lot of Godzilla movies (in particular the Western ones) have a lot of terribly dull parts about humans that could be excised and it would greatly improve them
>>12126689>The last two Toho Godzilla movies proved the exact oppositeYou mean Godzilla Minus One and Shin Godzilla?Shin Godzilla was utter trash which makes sense since Hideaki Anno directed it. Godzilla Minus One was decent on the other hand.
>>12126206>>12126242You have to be mentally ill if you actually thought he ruined the reputation of any game.
>>12126897He ruined a lot more than that, AVGN demeanor is one of the three great cancer of retro game discussion, the other two being nostalgia and collecting
>>12126897Cursing cultural impact for anything is extremely gay behavior. My advice for anyone offended by the Nerd and whatever impact he had on degenerate loser audiences who wanted to emulate him: get a personality
>>12126897everyone thinks the NES TMNT game sucks because of him
>>12126918>retards who take AVGN as a serious source of criticism think the NES TMNT game sucks because of himftfy
>>12126912That is a modern problem.
>>12126912>AVGN demeanor is one of the three great cancer of retro game discussion, the other two being nostalgia and collectingexactly right. Its embarrassing that this board houses the faggots that escape here to talk about how wholesome their childhood is and what a great deal they got on a toy and how much that toy is worth.
>>12126985Do you not like toys?
>>12126916>Cursing cultural impact for anything is extremely gay behaviorThat's literally how a huge chunk of the internet talked like.
>>12126912>collectingThis. Good luck finding something like Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde for $0.89 today.
>>12122526>Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero> Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage> Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge>Quest 64> Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II
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>>12126665When I say component I'm comparing ID Software to that of a well oiled machine
Dis gnigga gnomin
the first avng episode came out 22 years ago.back then we were 22 years apart from the atari 2600, now we 43 years... nearing fucking 50 years..............
>>12122502I know /vr/ went to shit back in 2020 but the contrarian responses here are bafflingCompare it with the archives and you'll see how different posters are now
>>12122484Probably Castlevania 3
>>12127432Modern gaming is so much worse now and retro gaming is overpriced.>>12127443Why is this such a surprise to you? Newfags are cut from a completely different cloth than oldfags, hell they probably don't even understand the original stereotype of a nerd.
I worked as a thrift store clerk the other day where two teenagers were talking about AVGN episodes while looking at the NES/Xbox 360 games. Is he still relevant?
>>12122537Don't forget, he was 16 when this happened.
>>12126629>Godzilla movies should be nothing but monsters fighting, all the human characters are fucking boringThat's true
>>12127701I remember something about him autistically refusing to go to a toilet, and rather just pissing his pants instead.
>>12127686eh probably not
Days of Thunder for the NES. As a kid I knew it was rubbish and used a Game Genie to slog through it. Only recently did I watch a playthrough to see how it’s supposed to play, and even with the guy getting the pit sections done perfectly, it still makes you lose every race except for the final one.
>>12122698People keep forgetting that he's a massive weeb
older than 95% of /v/
>>12128238I fear the day when zoomers start making endless retro game reviews from wii and wii U games.
>>12128208>People keep forgetting that he's a massive weebhe hates post-SOTN castlevania because it's too anime and not enough like the hammer films.>>12126370there's calling someone a faggot and then there's blaming them for "ruining" the reputation of a shitty game you played as a dumb kid who didn't know any better. like >>12126897 & >>12126916 said it's mental illness.>>12128358my favorite are codkiddies who pretend that the newer CoDs sucking isn't the due to the fact that they grew up.
>>12127667Retro gaming is free and better than ever
>>12128389He enjoyed SotN, but still prefers Castlevania 4 over it
>>12122484He's honestly and truly retarded
>>12128208He's surface level weeb
>>12128358>wii U gamesNot even zoomers played Wii U
>>12122484most of it really isn't that bad once you get the hang of it but the final level is just dreadful
>>12128389To be fair Japan's answer to "why don't people in our country like these games" was "make it star a high schooler and also Japan is SUPER IMPORTANT and check out his yamato nadeshiko shrine maiden girlfriend (but they blush when they hold hands kawaii~!)"
>>12122502Remember when he tried to commit suicide in very shallow water?
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>>12128474>the final level is just dreadfulI still haven't beat that fucking stage to this day and I probably never will.
>>12128546it's the only game i drink to get through and curse at
>>12128534>I chose "Continue">not 1CCing lifeDidn't beat the game. That's why he continued his life as a lifeless zombie
>>12128527If his mom was close by I bet a lifeguard was too. Going into the ocean and getting hit by a wave is probably not a near death experience even if it’s scary. BOTD
