Love it. Ff6 is still my favorite in the entire series. I think he brought up all the wonderful reasons for it being the epic that it is.
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Angry Video Game Nerd |OT| ASSimilated by the worst games of all time
- Thread starter nintendoman58
- Start date
It definitely seems like post the plagiarism debacle James has been more involved the with creative process again.
I suspect he'll do one of these for A Link to the Past since he has said it is his favorite game of all-time.
Is there a non-internet drama version of what happened with AVGN?
As far as I can tell, he decided to focus on family and sell his "brand" to a company. The direction they took it was not what OG fans wanted (which I kind of agree with, but it's fine), and as a result, everyone hates everything he puts out now?
I don't love the new AVGN stuff, but I'm also almost 40 years old and started watching him while I was in college. Shit changes, ha. If he can make a little bag and live a comfortable life with his family and play video games, good for him.
As far as I can tell, he decided to focus on family and sell his "brand" to a company. The direction they took it was not what OG fans wanted (which I kind of agree with, but it's fine), and as a result, everyone hates everything he puts out now?
I don't love the new AVGN stuff, but I'm also almost 40 years old and started watching him while I was in college. Shit changes, ha. If he can make a little bag and live a comfortable life with his family and play video games, good for him.
It's pretty much all "he doesn't have the time/energy/personal investment to do the hustle the way he used to, and he trusted the wrong people to manage his personal brand for him".
Yeah, a lot of the drama doesn't even involve James. I think it's mostly with the management. You can look up the AVGN editor quitting, he went into detail about how he was made miserable, but none of it was directed at James
The RedCow videos of it and here's a summary of the editor's complaints
One of the writers plagiarized a ton of scripts and that was a big scandal. Mike had some skeletons in his closet.
If you have 2 hours to kill Lady Emily has a fantastic video going over the timeline of events.
View: https://youtu.be/EmC5Zte5RnM?si=HGRuFzPuZFnmLJUV
Her tl;dw summary is that, for the most part, the backlash/drama is mostly over blown by people who've developer para-social hatred towards James over the content not being as good anymore. Not that things like the plagiarism or Mike's local bandito comic aren't problems worthy of criticism, but there isn't some massive scandal like 90% of James content being plagiarized or James abusing his wife/kids.
I only remember a running joke on the AVGN subreddit about James not having enough time or needing permission from his wife. In reality it seems like he just takes things easy and is enjoying life. Looks like he can provide for his family even without needing Patreon or something
Yeah, the "bad writers" drama and him still supporting his racist trash friend Mike, even behind the scenes kind of soured me on the whole channel.
I do understand having some shitty friends you hold on to a bit too long, so I tried not to let that ruin my views, but man it left a mark and I can't look at it the same.
I do understand having some shitty friends you hold on to a bit too long, so I tried not to let that ruin my views, but man it left a mark and I can't look at it the same.
The channel basically seems like it was pre-Screenwave at least, so it's like they knew what was wrong and did their best to stop the bleeding. lol
Hah, the Mikey in 3D space directional clusterfuck segment was pretty great, as well as the running "Because this is Goonies II" gag.
I played the first Goonies on the NES in one of those 190 games in 1 cart. Man, looks like I lucked out cause the 2nd game is even worse. I couldn't get very far in the first game anyway.
