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*** When he's talking about it in the tribute video, he's a ''lot'' more less in-character.
** Rare has a lot of DefensiveFans who wouldn't believe him, btw.
** He admits that '''a)''' he has to ''have'' the game before reviewing them, they have to ''work'', and '''b)''' it was deliberate AccentuateTheNegative. He didn't touch ''{{Lunar}}'' at all, and said it was better than the 32X.
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** People do that with any reviewer, from Nostalgia Critic to Zero Punctuation. And serious reviewers. I personally never listen to reviews when deciding whether or not to play/buy something and do some actual research instead.
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** People do that with any reviewer, from Nostalgia Critic to Zero Punctuation. And serious reviewers. I personally never listen to reviews when deciding whether or not to play/buy something and do some actual research instead.instead.
** We have a trope for this: It's ReviewsAreTheGospel, also overlapping with MisaimedFandom. You'll notice if he's reviewing a YourMileageMayVary system or game, he has more positive things to say. He even had a lot of positive stuff to say about the ''Atari Jaguar'' - you'd think he'd have ''hated'' it.
** We have a trope for this: It's ReviewsAreTheGospel, also overlapping with MisaimedFandom. You'll notice if he's reviewing a YourMileageMayVary system or game, he has more positive things to say. He even had a lot of positive stuff to say about the ''Atari Jaguar'' - you'd think he'd have ''hated'' it.
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* A lot of the {{Did Not Do The Research}} entries seems more whiny and nitpicky than actual errors on the Nerd's part. While there are some really big mistakes (like with Batman, Ghostbusters, and {{Aria of Sorrow}}), putting those side-by-side the tiny ones reduces their impact.
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* A lot of the {{Did Not Do The Research}} entries seems more whiny and nitpicky than actual errors on the Nerd's part. While there are some really big mistakes (like with Batman, Ghostbusters, Terminator and {{Aria of Sorrow}}), putting those side-by-side the tiny ones reduces their impact.
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* The people who take him seriously. No, I'm not talking about his massive {{Hatedom}}. People who actually treat him as an authority on whether a game was good or bad. [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch Without playing the games]]. This Troper had discussions with people who acted like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game wasn't anything but horrible based entirely off of the review. They didn't even bother to refute my points with anything other than "See the video". I even scanned an old magazine from the time period where they gave it a positive review, but nope, a comedy figure is more trusting than print media.
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* The people who take him seriously. No, I'm not talking about his massive {{Hatedom}}. People who actually treat him as an authority on whether a game was good or bad. [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch Without playing the games]]. This Troper had discussions with people who acted like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game wasn't anything but horrible based entirely off of the review. They didn't even bother to refute my points with anything other than "See the video". I even scanned an old magazine from the time period where they gave it a positive review, but nope, a comedy figure is more trusting than print media.media.
** People do that with any reviewer, from Nostalgia Critic to Zero Punctuation. And serious reviewers. I personally never listen to reviews when deciding whether or not to play/buy something and do some actual research instead.
** People do that with any reviewer, from Nostalgia Critic to Zero Punctuation. And serious reviewers. I personally never listen to reviews when deciding whether or not to play/buy something and do some actual research instead.
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* The people who take him seriously. No, I'm not talking about his massive {{Hatedom}}. People who actually treat him as an authority on whether a game was good or bad. [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch Without playing the games]]. This Troper had discussions with people who acted like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game wasn't anything but horrible based entirely off of the review. They didn't even bother to refute my points with anything other than "See the video". I even scanned an old magazine from the time period where they gave it a positive review, but nope, a comedy figure is more trusting than print media.
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** No, it's not. Not when 99% of the games he endures are tolerable only with the [[SaveScumming Save State]] function of emulators!
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** On his FAQ page, he says he just connects the console directly to a DVD recorder. Seems easier than using an emulator to me.
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** On his [[http://www.cinemassacre.com/faq/#question23 FAQ page, page]], he says he just connects the console directly to a DVD recorder. Seems easier than using an emulator to me.
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* Does AVGN have a "life"? He's a persona of James, but it seems the character is just a grouchy guy who plays bad games all day.
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* Does AVGN have a "life"? He's a persona of James, but it seems the character is just a grouchy guy who plays bad games all day. day.
**Nope. The Nerd pretty much spends all of his time reviewing shitty games. Its all part of the "You/I Suck" routine and is lampshaded in several episodes. Of course its all just a friendly gag and is meant to be funny rather than insulting.
**Nope. The Nerd pretty much spends all of his time reviewing shitty games. Its all part of the "You/I Suck" routine and is lampshaded in several episodes. Of course its all just a friendly gag and is meant to be funny rather than insulting.
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* His Sega CD review. It's all a matter of opinion, but the add-on had quite a few good games ([[NoExportForYou especially in Japan]]). Let's just hope he doesn't do a SegaSaturn review.
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* His Sega CD review. It's all a matter of opinion, but the add-on had quite a few good games ([[NoExportForYou especially in Japan]]). Let's just hope he doesn't do a SegaSaturn review. review.
* Does AVGN have a "life"? He's a persona of James, but it seems the character is just a grouchy guy who plays bad games all day.
* Does AVGN have a "life"? He's a persona of James, but it seems the character is just a grouchy guy who plays bad games all day.
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* His Sega CD review. It's all a matter of opinion, but the add-on had quite a few good games ([[NoExportForYou especially in Japan]]). Let's just hope he doesn't do a SegaSaturn review.
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*** Uh...I didn't think anyone could see it as anything ''but'' parody. It's [[CrazyAwesome Jesus firing rockets and laser beams]].
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*** Uh...I didn't think anyone could see it as anything ''but'' parody. It's [[CrazyAwesome a robotic Jesus firing rockets and laser beams]].beams against Satan]].
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*** Uh...I didn't think anyone could see it as anything ''but'' parody. It's [[CrazyAwesome Jesus firing rockets and laser beams.beams]].
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*** Uh...I didn't think anyone could see it as anything ''but'' parody. It's Jesus firing rockets and laser beams.
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** If your name is on it, you can be blamed for it.
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** [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop If your name is on it, you can be blamed for it.]]
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** It's likely that this is the game he said he'd be revisiting at the end of the Back to the Future game trilogy review.
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** It's likely that this is His revisitation of it fit the game he said he'd be revisiting at the end of the Back to the Future game trilogy review.now-established formula a lot better and had one CrowningMomentOfFunny after another.
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* Even though most of the complaints on the first TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles game for the NES are justified, I can't shake the feeling that in a few years, younger generations are going to see this video and, since the game costs $6 on the Wii, will wonder why they have to pay an extra buck for a shitty game. I know the Nerd has stressed exactly how big Turtles were back then, but I don't think he stressed how important that game was for the NES (one of the best-selling third party games, which is likely why they went out of their way to include it on Virtual Console).
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** I guess [[YourMilageMayVary]], cause I thought it was a great example of an [[OverlyLongGag]] done right.
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** Wha?
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** Maybe he know about Trypticon but calls him [[{{Godzilla}} Mecha-Godzilla]] as a joke and hey, he does look like Mecha-Godzilla when I first saw him.
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** Only in his Spiderman review did he just put the Super Game Boy screen on his Game Boy in post. Later reviews had him record the footage from the Super Game Boy itself.
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** Remember that the Nerd rarely mentions something recent. Back when the CD-i games came out, YouTube wasn't invented yet.
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** I still think the ''Back to the Future'' part should've been one video, with the ''Other Games Revisited'' part as a second. More updates, more revenue, more views. Why did he combine them again?
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** If your name is on it, you can be blamed for it.
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* After seeing his "BackToTheFuture and Other Games Revisited" review and hearing his soliloquy on LJN's logo, don't you think James would have learned by now that LJN didn't actually make the games they put their name on? They were just a publishing company; it was {{Rare}}, Acclaim, Beam Software, Software Creations and Pack-in Video that were actually making those travesties. The only thing LJN can really be blamed for is failing to test the games out and make the developers do it over. Did he not see [=LordKat's=] anti-Rare rant in his video about the ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' game?
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**** I thank you for leading me to discover that IG does have a separate page for research failures, as I didn't even think of that when I made my previous comment. However, my suggestion had nothing to do with comparing AVGN to other online reviewers; I simply think the number of examples is too many to be kept within the main article.
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** It's likely that this is the game he said he'd be revisiting at the end of the Back to the Future game trilogy review.
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*** Actually, when you think about it, AVGN's research failures are at least more forgivable compared to the number of research failures by TheIrateGamer, as the AVGN usually does more research on his games while TheIrateGamer [[BlatantLies claims to have played them for a number of years without and doesn't have proof that he did]], so there's actually no need to create a separate [=DNDTR=] page for the AVGN.
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** It's on all those sites, but its title was changed to "Wii Salute".
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* How does he record his Game Boy reviews? Does he use Super Game Boy / Game Boy Player and put a layer that looks like his GB on top of it?
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* Why exactly is Jame's "Console Wars" video only accessible on Myspace? It doesn't bug me, but I find it odd. It's not on Screw Attack, Cinemassacre, or Youtube. Just..''Myspace''.
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** Possibly justified in that the Nerd is a fictional character and the dialogue in the AVGN reviews is scripted; at E3 there very likely wasn't time to prepare scripts for every game on show so James essentially had to ad lib his dialogue.
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* A lot of the {{Did Not Do The Research}} entries seems more whiny and nitpicky than actual errors on the Nerd's part. While there are some really big mistakes (like the gargoyles, Ghostbusters, {{Aria of Sorrow}}m etc,) ones, putting those side-by-side the tiny ones reduces their impact.
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* A lot of the {{Did Not Do The Research}} entries seems more whiny and nitpicky than actual errors on the Nerd's part. While there are some really big mistakes (like the gargoyles, with Batman, Ghostbusters, and {{Aria of Sorrow}}m etc,) ones, Sorrow}}), putting those side-by-side the tiny ones reduces their impact.impact.
** While there are only a few that I would consider nitpicky, I do think that the number has gotten too big for one article (they take up more than one screen's height on my laptop). I call for the creation of a separate [=DNDTR=] page.
** While there are only a few that I would consider nitpicky, I do think that the number has gotten too big for one article (they take up more than one screen's height on my laptop). I call for the creation of a separate [=DNDTR=] page.
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* The E3 2010 videos by GameTrailers have James acting in-character as The Nerd. However, it mainly seems to manifest as him just interjecting curses into his speech instead of actually directing it at things that might warrant an angry response.
