Yep. I enjoyed this episode but it's clear James isn't as enthusiastic as he used to be. I don't blame him. Sometimes you lose your passion as you've moved onto other things.
Even in games he didn't experience before making an episode he can be really enthusiastic. The Power Rangers episode is an example. One of the best in years.This is a sponsored video, so that may be why he doesn't seem as passionate or as enthusiastic as usual. The videos where he is are the ones where he grew up with the game and they frustrated the hell out of him when he was a kid.
Still, since we're on the subject of Sonic 06, has their ever been a development article done on it? It's one of those games where it's hard to understand why it was ever released as the only thing it really seems to get right i the music. Everything else is horrible. I just can't understand how a major development team could ever want their name attached to a game like that. It's basically AAA shovelware.
I still remember watching his review of the TMNT NES game ages ago. I didn't realise he was still doing these.
How does this guy get respect but Angry Joe doesn't?
Not to give the wrong impression, I don't care for the angry gamer shtick regardless of whom it's coming from but Joe seems often much more insightful when critiquing a game and gives games a pretty in depth analysis.
Neither are funny, but of the angry video game people on YouTube it doesn't make sense why people shit on his content and lash out when people post it and yet AVGN is so revered? Is it because he was one of the originals? Nostalgia?
I love the videos where he does tours of his game room and his video collection. His entire basement is basically one giant homage to the early 90s.Interesting to see that this is a sponsored episode (by Full Sail University of all things?)
He started doing these videos in 2004. In the 13 years since then, he's gotten married, had a child, bought a house, built an old school video rental store in his basement, and probably had a bunch of other life events happen to him as well.
He used to do these biweekly, then monthly, and we are now down to 4-5 episodes a year. It's not a priority for him, but he continues to do it because he gets to have fun for the Haloween episodes, and because it's how 99.9% of his fans discovered him
The point was HEY GUYS REMEMBER THE KILLER WHALE FROM SONIC ADVENTURE??The whale for example was a good joke, now that I think about it more, what was really the point of that killer whale?
Actually how major personalities did the AVGN schtick (retro rage humor)? I can only think of Irate Gamer and Spoony, and Spoony was the closest despite vastly different game genres.Difference between James and other people who do the angry schtick is that James actually has charisma on screen and is clearly over the top to be humorous, versus all of the avgn clones who took the "angry" part but ignored the humor part.
The last one from three weeks ago is fenomenalMan he really just isn't as funny as he used to be...or at least as funny as I remember him being.
Difference between James and other people who do the angry schtick is that James actually has charisma on screen and is clearly over the top to be humorous, versus all of the avgn clones who took the "angry" part but ignored the humor part.
I'll be honest, I don't laugh as much as I used to at his videos as I've gotten older but I still watch every new one and go back to old ones because James knows it's a joke character making jokes, while similar characters gloss over what makes avgn really work.
5 years ago Sonic 06 wouldn't have been a retro-game. It would have been a current generation title. At the time, AVGN wasn't even doing games from the 3D era.
Is it just me or does Rolfe seem like he's worn out in this episode? I mean, he's be doing this for like a decade now, so I would expect it. Maybe it's been like this for a while now; it just seems really noticeable this time around.
I feel this is the problem, the game doesn't make for a good episode of the nerd and feels kinda rushed at times'Bout time he touched this game. It's a bad game, no doubt about it, but I think he was fairly constructive in his swear-filled critique.
The game is bad but at this point, it's one of those guilty pleasure / Mystery Science Theater type of games that you can just stare in awe at just how silly it is.
The only things I didnt like from this review were:
- He didn't show off enough material from that game;
- He didn't make any major new gags out of said source material;
The loading jokes were stale 3 months after the game's release. The whale for example was a good joke, now that I think about it more, what was really the point of that killer whale? And despite a lot of the glitches, much of Sonic's game time is automated.
He started doing these videos in 2004. In the 13 years since then, he's gotten married, had a child, bought a house, built an old school video rental store in his basement, and probably had a bunch of other life events happen to him as well.
He used to do these biweekly, then monthly, and we are now down to 4-5 episodes a year. It's not a priority for him, but he continues to do it because he gets to have fun for the Haloween episodes, and because it's how 99.9% of his fans discovered him
One of the things I liked about him was that he was talking about games that I had never heard of, or targeting very specific criticisms that I hadn't seen expressed so explicitly.
James mentioned he had a lot of fun making the Power Rangers episode. If I used the AV Club grading scale, the Power Rangers episode would be an A and this Sonic one a B-. The one with Keith Apicary would be like a C- or D+.
The whole episode just felt disjointed; like he was going down a check list of Sonic 06 things to mention.
Load times - check
Sonic looking weird next to human people - check
Sonic's weird relationship with Elise - check
Tails dying in weird glitches - check
Shitty Silver fight - check
It's hard to add something new to a game critiqued and made fun of as much as Sonic 06, but I feel like he didn't even try.
I haven't seen AVGN in a while, but that seemed kinda forced. And apparently he just discovered green screen.
Still, it's very cool that he still does them.
Man he really just isn't as funny as he used to be...or at least as funny as I remember him being.
Would have been funny if he dicked the audience over with the same joke he used in Superman 64 by starting out with a review of Sonic 1 for the GBA (also came out in 2006):The early episodes were much more cathartic, because we as young gamers had those same horrible experiences, but couldn't express them to anyone. Games like Sonic and Superman 64 had been exhausted of that long before James could ever get to them. It's like a Youtuber shitting on The Phantom Menace years after the Plinkett video.
I wish he hadn't dropped his Motherfker Mike persona.Also, he was kinda MIA doing the movie for almost 2 full years and Mike took over Cinemassacre during that time.
This. But then again I was like 10 years younger when i first discovered him, and still thought copious swearing was cool; the schtick is old now.
I wish he hadn't dropped his Motherfker Mike persona.
I wish he had dropped Mike.
But most are saying the James and Mike videos are the best part of the site.
Also the things you have to do in the city to progress, like the captain quest, are unbelievable. This game would have been an embarrassment on the Saturn, how in the hell did this get made and released on the 360 back then?