AVGN: Back To The Future Trilogy
Okay, so I don't know if there are a lot of Angry Video Game Nerd fans on here, but he just posted a revisiting and lengthy review of the games in honor of the upcoming anniversary. The beginning revisits a few of his other reviews but only briefly; the main event is all BTTF.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/703826
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/703826
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BttF 2&3 I owned but never even attempted to beat. That made the original NES BttF game look like a masterpiece, as you saw by The Nerd's review. I never could figure out what to do in that game. I never got past the Mario-esque level of jumping on dinosaurs and hamburgers.
And for the TRULY old-school gamers like myself, I present the ORIGINAL Back to the Future game. Which coincidentally enough, was a point-and-click game for the Commodore 64. A game that can quite literally be finished in 10 minutes as this youtube video shows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6I0xbPiWdw
You could probably beat it in under that if you tried. Anyway, it's still a confusing mess of a game, but it at least has midi versions of the music from the movie AND follows the plot closer than the NES game did.
I can kind of agree with this but to an extent that, it also feels he doesn't enjoy doing it anymore.
I personally liked his stuff better when it wasn't so over-produced like it became after he got super popular. It's kind of the same thing that's currently happening over at The Spoony Experiement. Spoony's stuff was great when he would just rant on crappy games/movies or just do long V-logs complaining about stuff. Now that he's getting more popular, his videos are becoming more complicated and he's stretching himself to thin. The end result is it takes longer for new videos AND they aren't as funny imo.
I think that is a reason that he is taking so long to release new videos (a month at a time). I think he is just trying to expand himself (such as the Board James videos & the movie reviews) to make the AVGN videos feel less tedious.
As far as BTTF hes a massive fan, and I think he just wanted to do something special for the anniversary. He already reviewed the movies; so that's pretty much out. I would like to see him do a documentary visiting the BTTF locations though, and I'm sure he'll talk about the Telltale games as James in a video.
I doubt it'll be James... but we'll see.
Anyway, after Telltale's released all the BttF episodes, I think it'd be neat if James (as himself, not the AVGN) made a video reviewing it, like he did for the new Ghostbusters game.
Sadly, that did not stop the complaining.
too bad that avgn stole so many of his ideas...
No. This is not the place for that.
I see what you did there.
Anyway, I do not enjoy Nerd videos lately. I don't enjoy whenever a reviewer goes too much into their own created plotlines instead of just... reviewing what he has on hold. The latest Christmas video was just painful with all the rhyming and stuff. I know it's a homage to Grinch but... Just review stuff, man.
At least he doesn't take it too seriously like Linkara. Oh my GOD so many bullshit self inserted plotlines.
So, the AVGN has a flux capacitor? I knew it!
Cinemassacre is also James Rolfe.
I love Linkara's story arcs. I think it's fun when a parody review show has better comic book-style stories than the comics being reviewed. That said, I can see why someone might not feel the same way.
too bad that avgn stole so many of his ideas...
see those three dots of sarcasm? (ok so i guess its hard to tell on print) I was just sharing and adding to the topic heaven forbid with my own opinion (I know in most places opinions different then your own are considered trolling). I personally prefer the ig over avgn, but it couldn't be more clear that in his earlier work he blatantly copies avgn. (see thats why the statement was funny because its really the other way around: too bad that ig stole so many of his ideas)
I wouldn't call them "better" compared to, well, anything, when the plot consists of randomly inserted punching scenes, an evil duplicate robot and "reality unwrapping itself and silly things happen because of it". It's Animaniacs humor without animations and it really feels out of place.
Yeah, well, err, I can't see why someone feels differently on the subject, really :l
The punching scenes tend to be gags, not story moments. All the major plot points in the story arcs flow into each other logically, most of the villains have interesting motivations or backstories (aside from the Insanos, who are just comedy villains), and events are foreshadowed often months ahead of time, making rewatching old episodes rewarding for more than just comedy value.
I'd elaborate, but it occurs to me that once again, I've veered this thread off topic enough. :P So, how 'bout that Rolfe?
He also interviewed AJ Locascio, who does Marty in the TTG BttF season