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Post by Welfare Willis on Dec 9, 2021 13:30:50 GMT -5
As long as James doesn't do any AVGN videos where no clips of the actual game are shown and instead he and his crew do amateur theatre hour skits...then no, he hasn't reached Doug Walker level. I've watched Life of Black Tiger and that Fear and Loathing parody, so yes he is on that Doug Walker level.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Dec 9, 2021 16:01:31 GMT -5
After watching lots of Mike Matei livestreams in the past half year, it has become more evident to me that of the two Mike was the one who was way more interested in video games compared to James (who is more into movie making and would have probably done a horror movie-themed series instead of AVGN if the latter didn't pan out), so it doesn't surprise me either way that ever since Mike left Cinemassacre back in Winter 2021 that something has lacked since then.
Nevertheless, at this point, there is still a key difference between James and Doug: James is smart enough to realize that the AVGN will probably always be his bread and butter and what brings in the YT views which is why he continues doing it. He knows that if he up and stopped AVGN and started doing something like Rex Viper full-time that it will probably end up like his own personal Demo Reel. Furthermore, he has a wife and two kids so a steady source of income is probably more important to him than spending long hours into making videos akin to the early AVGN episodes.
I certainly wouldn't have minded if instead of AVGN, he did James And Mike Mondays as his full-time replacement show since Mike could always provide the games and the two just had genuine chemistry as friends that I looked forward to each and every episode. Oh well, at least I have the Talk About Games podcast and Mike's livestreams now (though it was really neat seeing a video uploaded by Mike recently where the two just played 2-player Contra for 40 minutes...it really felt like James and Mike Mondays of old).
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 9, 2021 17:00:08 GMT -5
I mean I get it he's done a bunch of LJN videos already but I'm not sure a clip show for your big 200th episode thing (even if it's 1 /3 )
I can kind already see that the joke of the Back to the Future game is going to be a flop or something like... well we couldn't get the rights to Michael J Fox... so we made a new Nerd game....
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Dec 9, 2021 19:00:53 GMT -5
I mean I get it he's done a bunch of LJN videos already but I'm not sure a clip show for your big 200th episode thing (even if it's 1 /3 ) I can kind already see that the joke of the Back to the Future game is going to be a flop or something like... well we couldn't get the rights to Michael J Fox... so we made a new Nerd game.... It seems to be setting up that he realizes sometimes developers and publishers are put under terrible time frames to rush a game out, especially for movie games, and him vowing to go easier on LJN.
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Dec 10, 2021 4:58:42 GMT -5
I wouldn’t necessarily call it a a lazy clip show. There were new games in there that confused me for a bit. I was like “wait, did I see this one before?”
Also, I remember when the wrestlecrap guys did a clip show and people bitched about it, they brought up a good point, when it’s a small crew doing this stuff, a clip show is a huge pain in the ass finding all those specific clips. It’s easier for them actually film new stuff.
Considering this supposed to be about “all of them”, I’d rather they out they actually bring up all the old ones instead of me looking them up individually
Also, that hairline! You guys weren’t kidding. It didn’t bother me before but it’s starting to look like Robocop with his helmet off
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Dec 10, 2021 18:41:08 GMT -5
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 10, 2021 19:40:28 GMT -5
Guess the WWF games will included in part 3?
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 10, 2021 20:57:46 GMT -5
Sports segment I wasn't keen on but probably because, like the nerd I'm not a sports fan.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 10, 2021 21:21:44 GMT -5
Yeah this is pretty bad. His heart isn't in it but it's his bread and butter so I get still doing em. It's just not very good.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 10, 2021 22:03:44 GMT -5
Sports segment I wasn't keen on but probably because, like the nerd I'm not a sports fan. I had the first MLB game he talked about it... I had a lot of fun with it... watching him complain about them hitting a home run when he literally threw a changeup straight down the center... kinda hurt... cause... yeah of course that's whats going to happen.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 10, 2021 22:09:12 GMT -5
The football games too, he can't possibly be that clueless about them. I know he plays badly to exaggerated effect on purpose but was just too much.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Dec 11, 2021 1:25:39 GMT -5
The football games too, he can't possibly be that clueless about them. I know he plays badly to exaggerated effect on purpose but was just too much. And he only tried one mode in Quarterback Club for SNES. That game also had the QB Challenge (which he covered in the GameBoy review and complained about it being practice), and a mode where you got to replay past great NFL moments. It was ahead of it's time with it's variety and having moments in it. I liked the game.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Dec 12, 2021 7:27:58 GMT -5
I think the biggest problem with this is that it's so clear that he's run the LJN stuff into the ground at this point. Like, to the point that he can't even make new points about the games he covered before. And the games he hasn't covered he has so little to actually talk about that he's complaining about grass and turf in a football game. Hell, I'm more impressed that a mid-90s sports game offered that many options.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2021 10:35:27 GMT -5
The football games too, he can't possibly be that clueless about them. I know he plays badly to exaggerated effect on purpose but was just too much. At this point, he's just trying to find faults for the sake of the routine, and it shows. I don't know why he never bothered to transition the LJN talk to Acclaim, given Acclaim bought the assets of LJN as Acclaim managed to carry on the mantle of "that company that keeps distributing crappy licensed games nobody wants" before years of bad advertisement campaigns and an overall inability to hunker down and actually produce something the public would want to buy finally did them in. It only felt like a logical evolution, given that not every LJN game that existed was going to be horrible or even have much to write home about. It was, after all, a company that prioritized quantity over quality given they were a toy company that happened to get into video games.
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Post by Paul on Dec 12, 2021 14:11:33 GMT -5
I know he'd never do it, but I wish he'd just drop the Nerd videos altogether and do James and Mike Mondays instead.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 12, 2021 15:26:37 GMT -5
I know he'd never do it, but I wish he'd just drop the Nerd videos altogether and do James and Mike Mondays instead. Well Mike left the company I believe. at the very least they aren't doing James and Mike anymore. and the other problem is that Nerd videos are the bread and butter of Cinemassacre, the views and hype from that are what let him do all the other stuff.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Dec 12, 2021 15:31:33 GMT -5
I know he'd never do it, but I wish he'd just drop the Nerd videos altogether and do James and Mike Mondays instead. The main issue with that would be finding someone who'd do the video editing since that's one of the main reasons Mike didn't want to do J&MM anymore because of all the time spent into editing these episodes when hed rather be streaming.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 12, 2021 23:15:19 GMT -5
I guess I'm in the minority, but Mike annoys the shit out of me.
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Post by Perd on Dec 13, 2021 1:21:26 GMT -5
I had that Roger Clemens game on SNES. I’d play against my aunt. At first, she was t very good and I’d beat her easily. But she got better and started kicking my ass. So I threw a tantrum and refused to play her. Maybe this’ll be the Christmas I start speaking to her again.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Dec 21, 2021 18:44:36 GMT -5
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