Gaming Personalities – Page 7

Kyle Justin – The Unsung Hero Of The Angry Video Game Nerd

It seems almost unfortunate that of the original folks responsible for the enduring popularity of the Angry Video Game Nerd franchise, theme song composer and independent musician Kyle Justin is the one who gets the least screentime in the series. Obviously, we see James Rolfe since he’s the Nerd… sometimes, we’ll see Mike Matei in some costume that looks better than his performances… and on rare occasions, we’ll have a guest appearance from new folks or some familiar personality… but the number of times Kyle Justin makes his presence felt in the AVGN series, barring any musical cues, is far few and between. It is unfortunate because, whenever he appears onscreen in a Nerd video, he ends up being the most entertaining and humorous of the bunch. And oftentimes, the highlight of a Nerd video.

Case in point; the recent episode of AVGN covering the NES version of Ikari Warriors.

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A friend left this in my email… and then I post it here for fanboys to rage over

“I still scratch my head every time

some numbskull says something like

‘[AVGN] hasn’t been any good since 2007!'”

-Some moron on the Irate Gamer Sucks blog

Wonder how this same guy would feel

if someone were to tell him the sad truth that

AVGN was never good to begin with.

Here’s the thing with AVGN;
the guy was funny when we first saw him,
but he was funny in the same way that
man getting hit in the nuts was funny.
I wasn’t laughing with him because of his talent,
I was laughing at him because of his dumbassery.

James Rolfe is a talented guy, don’t get me wrong.
But AVGN was far from his best work.
In fact, it’s shit compared to the stuff
he used to do before this whole e-fame thing.

Chris Bores should have found a better thing
to rip off in my opinion.

By the way, Dave. I’m still waiting on that coffee
you owe me. What’s the holdup?

Rare Wisdom From The Angry Nintendo Nerd

“I hate this game.

But why am I playing it?

Well, that’s the question

everyone has asked themselves,

and they all have

the same reason:

Because you’re angry,

and you wanna win.

You wanna beat the Nintendo.

But the cold fact is that

nobody cares but you.”

About that AVGN trailer?

I am working on a combination commentary/vlog thing on my thoughts regarding the AVGN trailer. I’m also experimenting with outputting some semblance of HD output here in order to give this thing a proper looky… don’t plan on switching to HD anytime soon (no point on my end considering the usual content I put out) but every so often it wouldn’t be an impossibility… provided this first try works.

Welp…

“Doug quitting the Nostalgia Critic series?
Moving on to do something else?

It’s official; Doug Walker is actually better
than James Rolfe.”

– Anonymous friend

(April 2022 Update: Doug Walker would return to the Nostalgia Critic show, which continues to this day.)

Interesting Comments…

http://thecinemasnob.com/2012/08/26/to-boldly-flee-part-2.aspx#Comment

Just for the record, I haven’t seen the first two parts of this thing. I have no intention of seeing any of it, in all honesty. My friend took a gander at Part 1 and wisely advised me to stay away. So I’m going to do just that, seeing as this latest endeavor seems to be ripping off Star Trek III as far as “plot” goes.

Comments on the above link, though? Entertaining stuff. It amazes me how much people will get riled up over something that’s “supposed to be silly” and “not taken seriously.” I disagree on that last part – if you didn’t take this project seriously, you wouldn’t sell it on DVD months later.

Pure Fucking Genius From Chris Bores

Didn’t think he’d go this route, but there you go…

(2024 Update: And then a decade or so later, he’d do some “e-begging” of his own to try and fund an Irate Gamer Blu-Ray set. Not gonna rag on him for it; we all change our tune on things over time and I still find this funny, so… whatever. He gets a pass… this time.)

Bullshit Full Of Shit Since Day 1

A friend of mine suggested commentary on a number of topics. Among them were recent editions of James Rolfe’s utterly worthless Bullshit series, which includes complaining about microwaves, GPS units, and assholes. Isn’t suffering through the first thirteen episodes of this tripe enough? Why go through more of this crap and Rolfe’s insistence that he shows off his fancy bullshit mask? Not to mention it’s a pretty crummy mask on top of that.

Out of all the recent offerings, however, there’s one episode that I do agree with to a point… and that’s iTunes. If there was any reason for me to avoid iTunes, some would be listed in that one video. But as for the rest of the Bullshit series… well…

MERDE! Again With The Motherfucking Borg!

So… new AVGN video is up on the Tubes

Looks over a bunch of NES games based on movies starring Ahr-Nuld… all honesty, it was a pretty meh episode. I guess some people will be happy he touched on games like Total Recall and Predator, but honestly, it was pretty lame. Especially since I’ve seen videos of this ilk on these games done better by other people and with less overcooked results. Oh well…

Work Of Genius

Somebody commented on the Angry Joe vlog I did a year and a half ago… something about an apology for expressing my thoughts about an incident involving Joe’s attempts at an interview during the Spike VGAs…

The fact that people are still commenting on this is absolutely amazing.

No, I don’t owe Joe an apology. Joe’s been doing just fine without it…