History Headscratchers / TheAngryVideoGameNerd

* Why did the Nerd, a big {{Transformers}} fan, have [[http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/51566 no idea who Trypticon was?]]

* 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).

* In the Nerd's Castlevaniathon, he's briefly seen playing (the proper) Rondo of Blood on his PSP, yet he seems to be unaware that the SNES game is wildly different afterwards; many of his complaints about the latter are exclusive to that version, and when he discusses ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania 64}} he complains about playing as a little girl, despite Rondo of Blood doing that years earlier.

** Its impressive how he manages to do all of these reviews and everything he does on the website while also supporting a family and maintaining a social life.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bByE7n2AJj4 Ikari Warriors:]] Where ''did'' their hair go?

** [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop If your name is on it, you can be blamed for it.]]
*** How is that a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop, anyway? Companies should and MUST care for the quality of the products they plaster their names on.

** Well, that's a bit of a loaded question; while he did indeed roast the Amiga with a FireBreathingWeapon (although he technically BBQ'd a broken model rather than the one used in the video), it's not a flamethrower per se; in point of fact, it's the Boring Company's patented Not-a-Flamethrower.

* This one is really petty. The "Rolling Rock on the Rolling Rocker!" gag was stretched out to the extent that it was. Yes, I know that some extended gags cycle from hilarious to awful and back again, but this particular gag ended up squarely at the awful end of the spectrum.
** That would easily put the "Rolling Rock on the Roll N Rocker" gag in the DontExplainTheJoke category.
** It seems to me that the gag was a spontaneous improv, judging by his legitimate looking surprise and the odd camera movement. That's probably something he'd want to preserve rather than cut short.
** I thought it was a great example of an OverlyLongGag done right.
** I thought Shit Pickle was the PokemonSpeak, Nerdy Turd only went "PPBBBBBTTTTT!"
** It lasted about fifteen or twenty seconds, can we really count that as an overly long gag?

* Super Mecha Death Christ. I'm not exactly a super religious fellow, but come on! A character clearly based on Jesus saying nothing but "FUCKERS!" is clearly nothing good. What further bothers me is how SMDC started as an ''Enemy'' and then became a good guy with absolutely no changes to its behavior. The icing on the cake? When James first announced he was doing a history of SMDC, I was expecting he'd finally explain why he started it, and that its only a parody that shouldn't be taken seriously. After going through the first ten seconds of that video, I turned it off in disgust that it was a fictional history...
** RefugeInAudacity, the nerd loves using this trope. Although I can agree that it can be taken so far, it just feels more groan-inducing than funny.
*** I'm a Christian who loves the Nerd's videos, for the most part, but that was one joke I actually sort of cringed at and just thought [[DudeNotFunny "...No."]]
** Wha?
*** Uh...I didn't think anyone could see it as anything ''but'' parody. It's [[CrazyAwesome a robotic Jesus firing rockets and laser beams against Satan]].
** Think of it this way: SMDC:Jesus::AVGN:[[Creator/JamesRolfe Rolfe]]. Sort of a similar parallel, taking place in a universe where everything and everyone is a twisted version of themselves (see also: WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, R.O.B. The Robot etc.) But yeah, it does nudge the DudeNotFunny line a bit.

* 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 UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn review.
** 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 ''VideoGame/{{Lunar}}'' at all, and said it was better than the 32X.

* Where ''did'' their hair go?
** If you're talking about the Nerd's receding hairline, what makes you think the Nerd doesn't age? Sure, James Rolfe obviously does, but nothing has established that the Angry Nerd is immortal. So he's just getting old.
*** It's referencing the RunningGag in the Ikari Warriors review.

** His ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' video references this, where he offers the [[DespairEventHorizon despondent]] Spidey a beer, specifically Rolling Rock. Spidey pours the drink onto the floor, not wanting "this corporate bullshit", instead "stick(ing) to the local brew" in his words,c omplete with showing off a bottle of Yuengling. That said, James still has a sip of the old RR from time to time (Especially the NES accesories vid. ROLLING ROCK ON THE ROLL N ROCKER)

* Sure, the Nerd was able to slice the [=VHS=] tape with a katana, but then he brings up ''the freaking flamethrower'' for Amiga [=CD32=] console... Was it the actual flamethrower?

** His {{Spiderman}} video references this, where he offers the [[DespairEventHorizon despondent]] Spidey a beer, specifically Rolling Rock. Spidey pours the drink onto the floor, not wanting "this corporate bullshit", instead "stick(ing) to the local brew" in his words,c omplete with showing off a bottle of Yuengling. That said, James still has a sip of the old RR from time to time (Especially the NES accesories vid. ROLLING ROCK ON THE ROLL N ROCKER)

* Sure, the Nerd was able to slice the [=VHS=] tape with a katana, but then he brings up ''the freaking flamethrower'' for Amiga [=CD32=] console... Was it the actual flamethrower?
** RuleOfFunny

* In-universe, is the nerd a real person or a split personality created by Board James?

** And, thanks to later developments, we now know that [[spoiler: Board James is ''totally'' a homicidal maniac.]]
* In-universe, is the nerd a real person or a [[spoiler:split personality created by Board James?]]

* In-universe, is the nerd a real person or a [split personality created by Board James?

* Why is there such a severe decline in comments for the Beavis and Butthead episode? There were a whole bunch of them posted when the video was first uploaded to [=YouTube=], and then...nothing. Even the Sega Accessories video (BaseBreaker that it is) gets regular comments, so what's the deal with the B&B video?

** His revisitation of it fit the now-established formula a lot better and had one CrowningMomentOfFunny after another.

-->'''Mother Fucker Mike ''': Season 2 Episode 33 Mirror, Mirror

** Think of it this way: SMDC:Jesus::AVGN:[[Creator/JamesRolfe Rolfe]]. Sort of a similar MeanCharacterNiceActor parallel, taking place in a universe where everything and everyone is a twisted version of themselves (see also: WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, R.O.B. The Robot etc.) But yeah, it does nudge the DudeNotFunny line a bit.

-->'''User''': What�s with the disappearing and appearing beard on James? Do you always shave it for AVGN filming and let it grow otherwise or what?
-->'''James''': You pretty much got it right. Lately, I�ve only been shaving the beard for AVGN and Board James. Been too busy to care much. And the videos are barely ever released in the same order that they�re shot, so you might see it going back and forth a lot. It�s like my evil bearded twin, like in the Star Trek episode. What�s the episode title, Mike?
-->'''Mother Fucker Mike ''': Season 2 Episode 33 � �Mirror, Mirror�

** Rare has a lot of DefensiveFans who wouldn't believe him, btw.

** The point there is, criticizing games is what he is supposed to do, and since his complaints on this game can be summed up as "it's too difficult and some things are counter-intuitive", people who would listen to his arguments without thinking on their own whether the new games are good or bad are the kind of people who don't like difficult or counter-intuitive games, and thus wouldn't enjoy them. Most of "old-school gamers" don't mind the difficulty slider being a little higher and the game requiring us to spend some time knowing how to play it, but most players from the "younger generations" want their games to be easy to learn and easy to play, only being challenging when they choose the game to be. And heck, personally I always cursed at the underwater level and never got past the third stage (the one after the dam), but I think it was a pretty good game, even with its flaws, and if I had a Wii, I would buy it because of that. [[spoiler: Conclusion: problem lies with the players, and not with reviews.]]

*** The ending credits for the movie contain his ''actual'' review of ET, and [[spoiler: he says pretty much the exact same thing you're saying here. It's not the worst game ever, only the most infamous one]].

** His song "I Live Behind the Couch" suggests [[spoiler:death by starvation, since the Nerd was so occupied with his games he never took time to feed him.]]

* In-universe, is the nerd a real person or a [[spoiler: split personality created by Board James]]?

* In the Dracula episode, he says that even though ''Drac's Night Out'' pisses him off, he can't really complain because it was never released. So why is it that he threatens to retire and end his entire series over ''Desert Bus'', which was also never released?

** It's just something that happens. The Nerd may be a character, but James Rolfe gives him [[WriterOnBoard a lot of his real life opinions]] [[WriteWhoYouKnow and interests]], so you can expect this "Out of Character moments" to occur. You can think about it as: [[CharacterizationMarchesOn the character getting better defined]](It turns out that the Nerd can act like a normal person too!); [[OutOfCharacterMoment James trying something different for the day]](You can only go so far with "fuck" and "diahrrea" jokes, after all); or [[CharacterDerailment he just didn't care]]. It's up to your opinion, really.

** Wild guess but since the J&MM video repeated basically everything in the AVGN video did the former become the one bombarded in messages?

** The cutscenes of Hotel Mario and the Zelda games are really what make them SoBadItsGood. The Nerd wanted to portray the games as DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible, so he only focused on the gameplay, which is probably a lot more flawed than the hideous-yet-hilarious cutscenes.

* 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. Without playing the games. I 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.
** 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.
** We have a trope for this: It's ReviewsAreTheGospel, also overlapping with MisaimedFandom. You'll notice if he's reviewing a system or game that isn't universally seen as bad, 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.