i can't wait to see the best ones in 20 years

I honestly hate how underwhelming the Greendog destruction was, seeing how James and others hyped it up in the Cinemassacre Podcast episode prior to this. Using the game's chill music doesn't help either, it just makes it more lame lol. Also, it's really funny how AVGN goes "those thiefs" to a Greendog track sounding similar to Hot Chelle Rae's Tonight Tonight even though Greendog released WAY before the song in 1992 while the song dropped in goddamn 2011

I love the guy, but you're bloody likely to have some stinkers when you have a years long career!

Great video! You have my gratitiude for making it.

I never even knew "We got this by the ass!" as a quote from something, but I think your point about James referencing movies and what works and what doesn't work still holds up. When James says "we got this by the ass!" it's in an episode where he's struggling for most of it dealing with the Power Glove's shitty reliability, but he says that in a singular moment where the Power Glove actually works well. You don't have to know the quote, it makes sense in context, and it's just a short, single sentence. Whereas James making a reference to that Vampire's Kiss movie feels really forced; it isn't just a single sentence, it's like an entire bit. It also doesn't really make sense as a bit, too, it's like bad observational comedy. Whoa, there are letters on powerups in games! Okay who cares. I think the real point is that the former is just a fun little line of dialogue that doesn't get in the way of the pacing of the video, whereas the latter just feels like James was (once again) out of ideas and just trying to shove another movie reference in even if it made no sense.

Maybe it would be better if the cult tortoure him by make him play the other shrek games

When i watched this for the first time i like it except for the hell kitchen part, but yeah, maybe is an amalgamation of many ideas that should not be toguether, like in past episodes there was the idea of making a movie about jekill and hyde the videogame, but the parody wasnt in the episode, it was in another video, so maybe this video should be like 3 diferent videos(? Like one for the avgn character going through the game, another more for history lessons and the last one to parody the logic inside the game itself, like, yeah, this are good ideas but toguether dont make so much sense

He is the tired nerd now, literally not angry

21:58 It's "Spark Mandrill", not "Mandriller" Know your mega mavericks god dammit!

I've never actually seen this episode, I had no idea it existed.

With the way he inserted an outdated meme reference like Hell's Kitchen, I'm always reminded of that character Jim Belushi plays from 30 Rock dressed up like a high schooler and going, "How do you do, fellow kids?" That's that Hell's Kitchen skit in a nutshell.

0:03 Why do I always get the feeling that that guy looks like a drunken James Murray from Impractical Jokers after 70's night at a local dance club?

Love these vids man. Glad someone who actually loved the series ranks them out. There’s another dude who made a 40 min rank video and it was absolutely awful.

Nope still like them. Even if alot of people dont

James has made alot of videos and i think most are at least a little funny. I grew up playing alot of these games as a kid his videos are very relatable. It is pretty common for people to disagree. I would like to see you make a video about these games that is half as funny as he is .

while i get everyones entitled to their own opinion and what not but this whole video sounds like cope, u cant just expect someone to pump out the same shit for over 20 years and expect ppl not to get tired of it. A lot of why we watch him is for his takes on games, shitty or not.

At least the American Movie quotes were brief and/or subtle besides maybe the Lottery line in Hydlide, but at least that one was pertinent to the randomness of its "bump" combat.

I think I fell asleep during this episode. I don't even remember it. lol

Yeah I skipped the Sim city episode. Not a fan of those kind of games at all, and I knew there wouldn't be any nerd ranting seeing how the game is rated highly. Really wish he would stop doing so many " good game episodes" Same with the Castlevania one. I watched him review castlevania games back in the day, feel like it has overstayed its welcome, and he's just scraping the bottom of the barrel for content at that point.

James Rolfe now just cosplays the Nerd. Mike Matai was clearly the REAL Nerd.

Is Rex Viper Riggs gonna be another personality?? Is this all because of Fred Fucks ? It's gonna be a video where he's gonna try tie it altogether and if this is anything to go on it's gonna be messy . Sometimes I think James thinks he's smarter than most ppl so when he makes this mess he has explainer videos to help us plebs because we just don't get it when in fact it's his messed up connect the dots

deja vu and nosferatu reviews are pretty good

Bring back Mike Matai!

He is just grifting off of his own nostalgia now.. geez

This is one of theee worst

So board James was in AVGN Resident Evil as well so is this a connection between these guys ? Is the nerd in this universe as well but he fell into video games instead of board games ?? Are they connected to the matrix or is board James in some kinda after life ??

This sounds like a kid who's made their first board game they sit you down to play then explain this mess of a rules

Ah yeah, the "Let's play a game for once." videos. I kinda got tired of those once he talked about how awesome Contra was and shared his nice and wholesome childhood memories about it. That was such a weak episode. I didn't watch any of these newer episodes but they seem to have a similar vibes. Is this the Angry Video Game Nerd or the Happy Video Game Nerd?

I actually didn't like Mario World all that much. But I liked the original Super Mario Bros. thats for sure.

The whole Mythology Explained video is one retcon after another. It's clear that James just wanted to have some fun with the 3rd season after the AVGN movie, and did whatever he wanted. This isn't me comparing James do David Lynch, but his explanation feels like someone trying to make sense of Mulholland Drive.

I’ve grown up watching AVGN and my feelings have mirrored his, but as he has aged and it’s gone from a passion project to a staple for his family the quality has dropped significantly and as a family man I can understand the procession I just wish he could realise the reason he has a following is because of the raw frustration he had with simple video games was the reason why he had such a great following

Yooooo I hear music from The Movies 2005 game

Well the nerd rated castlevania revisit as number 8 moment of 2024 , but then again out of everything whats he really gonna pick

What I think is the worst is that these aren't even bad videos he makes now. In comparison to the things I come across on youtube, I far prefer a mid modern AVGN episode. It's just that classic AVGN was so unique and fun that it's sad that the same man lost the magic to create it. I imagine it's due to youtube guidelines, but I doubt it, as I doubt it's their only revenue.

6:40, honestly I’d rather take a Shit Pickle cameo at this point over an old man version of Luke Skywalker. Mark Hamill has gone off the deep end in recent times because of his incessant obsession with politics, and Disney Star Wars totally nuked Luke Skywalker’s character.

One of the most forgotten avgn episodes

Are you gonna do a bimmy vs jimmy on the latest AVGN?

Why's he called green dog? he's not green or a dog . Why's he called AVGN ? He's not angry or plays games

“It’s Shit Pickle not Luke Skywalker” made me die

AVGN is like a fast food joint , when they first open it's wow it's delicious, fresh ingredients great service etc then it gets corporate it gets bland it's about the money and just pump it out for ppl to consume

Jimmy Vs Bimmy moment there , James talks about NES batman and says how good it is but is hard then look at master blaster says 1 minute of good things then $hits on it for 20 minutes

Batman part 2 has an awesome intro , but for me I don't mind Mike as bugs but his other characters have been so OTT especially the Joker ,I know some ppl like that its just not for me . Thanks for the videos keep up the good work and Happy New Year

Is friday the 13th episode your favourite?

Regarding modern AVGN episodes, It's more fun watching someone criticize the episode than actually watching it.

Nice mockery of AVGN on SMB. Very nice work! You've never played Blaster Master before? You're missing out.

I don't even remember this one... that's how uneventful it was. EDIT: Oh yeah, its the lava thing. Nevermind.

I do not remember this episode at all

7:48 I saw another channel point that out, but yes, the nerd's hypocrisy of leaving in an "intake of an outtake," the very same thing he complained about in "Plum bers Don't Wear Ties." James Rolfe doesn't try to hide the fact that it's an outtake. I bet that "happy birthday" bit was unscripted and James Rolfe came up with it right on the spot, causing him and anyone else in the room to start laughing. Honestly, that outtake could have been such an easy fix. Right as the nerd finishes saying "you" and just as the laughter is about to be heard, just remove the rest of that part. At least make it seam like nothing went wrong or silly. But no, the finished episode has that outtake part, even though it would have been such an easy thing to disguise by removing the laughter part.

Seems as though most agree in their opinions on this one lol.