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avgn; i fucked up
Topic Started: Jul 13 2017, 05:40 PM (345 Views)
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lizardmanlizardmanlizardman,Jul 21 2017
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Reverend Crush,Jul 19 2017
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lizardmanlizardmanlizardman,Jul 19 2017
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Reverend Crush,Jul 19 2017
02:52 PM
James is alright, but it's clear gaming isn't his first love and/or area of expertise; the man who plays a video game nerd is a film dork in actuality, and that's fine.

YUUUUUUUUUUUUP.

he's doing this because his actual movies aren't good at all.

If you don't actually pay money for the AVGN movie, and put it in the same tier as those shitty Channel Awesome "movies" they used to churn out before they started to crumble, it's pretty much what anyone should expect out of James. That was his "blowing the fanboy wad" vanity project. And I ain't paying for that. But I didn't hate it either. If that makes sense.

I do feel sorry for anyone that backed that Kickstarter... At least with my Ouya, I got my $100 worth.

I agree. The actual AVGN movie (for what it's worth) is passable, especially in comparison to the Channel Awesome movies. I was more so talking about shit like The Wizard of Oz 3 that's just not good in any capacity.

Speaking of internet nobodies though, anyone remember jedite1? as far as intolerable voices go, he's the deviated septum grand champion. and he made 30 minute plus angry video game reviews.

Lizardman is a fan of Armake21. He even watched the movie...
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edsel,Jul 21 2017
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strx10,Jul 20 2017
04:40 PM
Could be worse edsel, you could like the Nostalgia Critic.

I used to like him way back when he first started, then something happened where he wasn't on youtube anymore... or something? I havent watched him since. In fact, I didn't know he was doing stuff still.

Why's he worse than avgn?

I admittedly was a fan of his back when he was on YouTube as well and followed him up until about 2009. His quality went to shit around the time he split and did his own website instead of using YouTube and held a pledge drive where he realized "less is more" and he could pocket cash from suckers while producing a subpar product. Claw has linked me to a few of his videos over the years and his videos seem more and more forced and lazy as time went on. My favorite was he had a Kickstarter for a gameshow he wanted to make that raised $50k (was it $50k claw?) and the end product looked like something a high schooler did as a video production project. There's also apparently a whole bunch of people he allegedly ripped off along the way, but I don't know enough about that drama to comment.

AVGN has had the inverse happen. His quality has gone way way up, his reviews have gotten better as he's dropped the schtick some (I know it's around, but compare the latest videos to the originals), and he's never done shit as an obvious cash grab while screwing people over. I've gotta give it up for him on staying true to his roots of doing film making while keeping his rabid fanbase happy and making a living with the AVGN stuff.
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That's mostly true. It was 50k to make the gameshow, and they would make more shows if they got past that goal... they got like 89k. to make 3 shows. they made 2. a comics show that looks really fucking cheap and a gameshow that was really fucking cheap... they were supposed to make like 60 episodes of the gameshow show and I THINK they ended up making 10. maybe 12?

I liked that guy a lot way back when, back when he'd just make snide remarks about some silly old movie or show from 1985 to 2000. Most of the stuff now is popular new movies... I don't see whats so nostalgic about the new Wonder Woman movie... also the skits and everything. I liked it when it was just quick videos about these things... the only post revival episode of the nostalgia man I like is the Disney afternoon thing...

I had a thread in the anything else section about internet video reviewers. I should post in that again. Or maybe merge these two threads... I don't think that can be done though.
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I have deliberately avoided paying attention to all the youtube garbage. It just comes off as the hammiest shit and it's not like any of them could tell me something I didn't already know.
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the only legitimately entertaining thing about the AVGN's show is seeing all of these old, obscure games like Little Red Hood in the flesh and (usually) him showing the ending and the good bits of it because I'll never play half of those games to completion.

nostalgia critic drama is, ultimately, film companies are more litigious than game companies and YouTube took his shit down, so he had to go and make his own website. he inflated it with a bunch of internet nobodies and the whole thing collapsed in on itself because basically nobody was watching. The Amazing Atheist was even a contributor on his website for a minute, nostalgia critic was literally pulling every possible person in.

i don't know how it all came down but ultimately he either lost his appeal, didn't have the fervent fanbase he thought he did, or just screwed people over and was ultimately very lazy. probably all of the above.
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That fucking game show was so bad, I don't even think it was listed on Channel Awesome's website. Like, the only reason it exists looks like it's for legal reasons, since it was crowdfunded. But yeah, they ripped off a ton of people. Hell, most of their former contributors that either left or were "fired" have come out and confirmed that CA (not just Doug) is a huge scam.
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