The Angry Video Game Nerd

[John Crichton 4]

Castlevania, part 4

[John Crichton 4]

Woo hoo, shitty games are back!

Little Red Hood- NES

[Henry B 50]

Wow, that game fucking sucks!

[Trent B 337]

Hell ya that game fucking sucks. That's probably the worst game ever that he's reviewed. At least his anger was back with a vengeance with that game.

[John Crichton 4]

I liked the new angle with him turning around to talk to the camera behind the couch, with the game in the background.

I knew there was a classic ending screen gag coming.

[Henry B 50]

Winter Games.

[John Crichton 4]

OK, that one was good.

[Red 75]

One of the best I've seen him do in a while.

[Henry B 50]

"Who programmed this thing!? Maybe it was Fred Fuchs." I cringed when he originally made so much of this joke in the "Dracula" video, but in this one I found it hysterical.

[John Crichton 4]

Nerd continuity porn!

[Henry B 50]

It just SUCKS... should I say... monkey fuck?

[John Crichton 4]

It just shows that even back then there were crap console ports of computer games. The Enyx Olympic games were classics on C64, I remember playing them at friend's houses when I was awful young.

[John Crichton 4]

[Diego 21]

Heh, I remember renting that one a long time ago, while bad I don't remember it being so shitty, we'll see...

[Wojo 2,453]

I wonder where James Rolfe is from. He drinks Yuengling and Rolling Rock, which are big in the eastern US. I know Rolling Rock went national when it left Latrobe, Pennsylvania, but Yuengling is still bottled in Pottsville, PA.

[John Crichton 4]

New Jersey somewhere I think. Poor guy.

[John Crichton 4]

Hydlide

Prepare for a music ripoff so blatant that a certain popular composer should have sued.

[Henry B 50]

Well, that was okay.

[John Crichton 4]

Yeah, that's as far as I'd go too. Still, just OK AVGN is still a good time.

[Diego 21]

Am I hearing things or does the music in that game sounds like a Raiders rip-off?

Edit: Nevermind, just saw the rest of the video and it's obvious.

Anyway he makes some good points about Zelda although I actually kinda wish the next Zelda was more like the first, recent games in ther series hold your hand to much, to the point where in Phantom Hourglass, for example, you can't even leave a screen if you don't talk to whoever the game wants you to talk. I think it would be cool to go back to the more open aproach of the first game.

[John Crichton 4]

Ninja Gaiden

Widely regarded as a classic, but also one of the most notoriously difficult games of all time.

[Henry B 50]

Ahahahaha. Good.

[Trent B 337]

That was pretty funny.

[Trent Hoyt 13]

Action 52

[John Crichton 4]

Hah! Now that's an epic return.

[Trent Hoyt 13]

Too bad we gotta wait a month for another one.

[Trent B 337]

Too bad we gotta wait a month for another one.

That does suck and considering it's been three months since the last one. I gotta admit that one was pretty hilarious. A clear cartridge game that went for $200, you knew it was gonna be shit right off the bat.

I also think it's pretty cool someone designed an NES console out of a toaster.

[John Crichton 4]

I'm fine with the new timeframe, I think Rolfe needed to recharge his batteries and devote time to other projects. I'd rather have one quality AVGN a month than two middling ones.

[Diego 21]

His film about the Ghostbuster's locations is worth seeing.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

His film about the Ghostbuster's locations is worth seeing.

Red Letter Media has a video about that too.

[Henry B 50]

Rolfe's got a side character called "Board James" now. I thought this was worth posting. Way to take a double entendre and milk it for all its worth.

[Trent Hoyt 13]

Cheetahmen

[Henry B 50]

I just didn't care at all watching this one. It's like his comedic timing is off... or his comedic editing is off... or he just sounds like he's trying too hard.

[Trent Hoyt 13]

It's like he has lost the anger of his past videos. His passion for the series seems to be waning.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Even when he's phoning it in, he's hilarious!

[John Crichton 4]

Yeah, I had no real problems with it. Not classic, not awful. I agree that it had gotten to the point where he was doing the videos because it was expected, not because he really wanted to. The reduced schedule is helping a bit.

[Trent B 337]

Haha that's a great conclusion.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I think people expect too much from him. He's been doing the same shtick for six years now, of course it's going to get a little worn out, but still funny for those of us who get his references.

[Trent B 337]

I think people expect too much from him. He's been doing the same shtick for six years now, of course it's going to get a little worn out, but still funny for those of us who get his references.

I agree.

[Trent Hoyt 13]

Game Glitches

[John Crichton 4]

Eh. Middling at best. I think it's obvious that after nearly 100 AVGN videos and so many other projects pulling for his attention Rolfe is losing either interest, motivation, or inspiration. Probably all 3, and it's perfectly natural.

[Jacob 0]

When the title sequence started glitching out I thought there was something wrong with the Flash player.

Ha ha, ha.

...

Ha! Blowing in the cartridges to make them work! An all too familiar gesture.

[Trent B 337]

As James pointed out some glitches can be extremely fun, while most like the ones he pointed out are extremely irritating!

I knew about the skipping ahead to the warp zones on level 2 for Super Mario Brothers, however I never knew about that wall glitch! That looks interesting in itself.

I do with Crichton though it seems like he's getting bored with this stuff.

Like Jacob too I thought there was a problem with Flash Player when it glitched at the beginning.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

He definitely seems out of it. His earlier videos were hilarious and pretty clever. Like the Nightmare on Elm Street one where Freddy appears at the beginning and straps him down with cords from all the various system controllers, then makes him play the Nightmare game for NES. He just doesn't seem into it anymore.

[Trent Hoyt 13]

Ya, He is phoning it in. He will slowly fade the series out.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I'm betting his final episode will be a review of E.T., but then the Nerd is abducted by a spaceship, never to be heard from again.

[Trent Hoyt 13]

that would be a good ending

[Henry B 50]

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

I thought this one was pretty good.

[John Crichton 4]

It was pretty good. His best in a good while, I think doing something like Zelda reinvigorated him.

John- who's always been in the anti-Zelda II camp.

[Henry B 50]

It's different, and I don't like things that are different.