History Headscratchers / TheSpoonyExperiment

* Just so we're clear, did Spoony actually end his review of FinalFantasyXIII, or can we expect at least one more part? If not, it seems rather [[NoEnding sudden]].

** I assume Spoony and Andrew managed to patch things up, or came to some compromise.

* Spoony's had two different animated introductions to his videos as of this writing. First was the original animation everyone knows, then there was the animation by Andrew Dickman he used for a short while until there was some falling out and Andrew told Spoony he couldn't use the introduction anymore, so he resorted to using his old one instead. However, Spoony's most recent video (Final Fantasy XIII part 3) has used the Dickman animation and I haven't seen or read anything to say what happened. So... what happened?

** Both probably.

* So, why does Spoony think FinalFantasyX is worse than FinalFantasyVIII? I mean, I can see why he hates it, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out why he hates it more than FFVIII. At the very least, FFX doesn't have an arbitrary and broken leveling system. Hell, he admitted that he likes the battle system.

* If Spoony said he didn't like FinalFantasyXII at the beginning of his FinalFantasyXIII review, why isn't he reviewing that first?

* Is Stereotypically Drunk Mexican Cyborg Early 90's Otaku Anime Kid a stereotype of Drunk Mexicans or of Drunk Cyborgs?

*** That, and he did admit to liking Final Fantasy XII in an earlier V-Log review of FFXIII. His opinion may've changed in the years following, for sure, but that at the very least implies that he doesn't hold the game in as low regard as the others in the series.

*** The aside comment seems more about the game's schizophrenic jumbling of protagonists/viewpoint characters as well as some issue with the combat system. It seems a but sparse for material.

** He might not like it, but it wasn't bad enough to require a whole review

* Okay, so I've seen floating around here that Spoony's battlecry is [[Film/RedDawn WOLVERINES!]], and yes, I ''know'' that it's potholed to ''Film/RedDawn'', so my question is this: Where does this come up (if at all) in his videos? I'm sorry, I'm just very confused... ^^; I mean, it was used in {{Kickassia}}, but it's also on Spoony's main page. Help...?

* Okay, so I've seen floating around here that Spoony's battlecry is [[RedDawn WOLVERINES!]], and yes, I ''know'' that it's potholed to RedDawn, so my question is this: Where does this come up (if at all) in his videos? I'm sorry, I'm just very confused... ^^; I mean, it was used in {{Kickassia}}, but it's also on Spoony's main page. Help...?

Why does spoony refuse to do an FFIX review I mean it's not as great as everybody thinks there are a bunch of flaws.
* The art style offended him so much he couldn't play it through, and thus he cannot give a proper review.
* Speaking as someone who has not played the game but has a friend who has, I've been told that FFIX is SoOkayItsAverage. The reason Spoony's reviews of FFVIII, FFX, and FFX-2 are so funny is because the games are so horrible. If he reviewed a FF game that was just "okay" it wouldn't be as entertaining.
* Spoony's super-long reviews like he does for FMV games, Ultima retrospective, and Final Fantasy don't come from nowhere, they come from his own experiences with the stuff and, more relevantly, his own strong feelings about them. As he himself admitted, he just couldn't bring himself to care about IX (due to the artstyle), and so any review he did would be forced due to that lack of strong personal feeling; it'd inevitably fall flat.

* Can someone explain to me if Spoony changed its criteria about judging movies recently??? because When he review Tranformers 3 he said that just a few awesome things happening at the last hour cannot redeem the movie for the sheer bullshit that you have to endure (ok fair enough, after all 90% of crap arent worth the 10% of whatever coolness may have) BUT THEN in some vlog that i cant remember well right now (UPDATE: It was the Eclipse Vlog) he said something about Sin City that baffled me. He said that he could have enjoyed the movie if it wasnt for Jessica Alba performance and it just ruined the whole experience. Ehm....what? how this makes any sense? so in one case we got crap that overwhelms the good bits but THEN in another case just one thing manages to ruin all the movie experience and cant let it go? how can a single moment ruin a entire experience even if in the long run the whole thing was satisfactory?
** Well there is the Dethroning Moment of Suck Trope for those kind of moments but i agree that there isnt much of a reason unless he was going to the movies with the "Must-Hate" mentality (specially for something as transformers)The moment that he mentioned in the Sin City reference was the actress Jesica Alba, isnt it? i also tough it was unbearable but not a deal breaker
** He's just relaying how he felt about the movies. To him both were ruined but in seperate ways, there's no logic to it.

* His rant on the Ultima IX Part 4 about how is better to die before see everything you love become meaningless and utter betrayal....i dont get it. Doesn't he know the concept of Fan Fiction? If the writers cant properly make a decent ending to a series why can he just write one himself? Sure, he may say that he sucks at screen writing but given the sheer amount of incompetent idiots that end up writing scripts for, say, Transformers 2, i would say that he is on the same ground as them. The only difference is that he cares about the source material at least. In fact, didnt he mention Spiderman's One More Day? does he even know that Joe Quesada was actually a fanboy of the material before assuming control of Marvel? Isnt that like a clear evidence that there is actually hope in "correcting" what went wrong? if a hack like him could, then Spoony could just take the reins on a Highlander production someday. I just dont see why is this a big deal, i am missing something in this picture?

** So what if it doesn't make it Non-Canon? would he prefer to be stuck in this Limbo of reviewing crap and lamenting that the professionals don't do their jobs? Hell, wasn't Tolkien inspired into making the Ents in the Lord of The Rings when he was disappointed that a prophecy in certain Shakespearean story mentioned a forest "coming back to life" but it didn't? Why doesn't he uses his experience and knowledge to make something like "Almost-High-But-Not-Quite Landers"? you know, Spiritual Sequels. Addressing the problem by making the Ultima IX videos isnt going to solve the problem because the industry is just the same it was at 1999 when the game was made. And if it takes time, effort and money to make something like that then, my friend, it means that Spoony needs a job; So he can back up his words about liking the things he loves by giving them the proper closure they deserve. Wont you agree?

*** But the alternative, being depressed that the games are forever defiled by EA and do absolutely nothing about it, isn't all that appealing. In fact, it would have been more noble and efficient if Spoony did a bit of research and made contact with the people that were doing the remake/remastering of the Ultima games (cant remember witch one they started with) so at the end of the review, he could list ALL the people that havent forgotten the Ultima legacy and promote their efforts REGARDLESS if he can or cannot help them with programming the games. That way, the newcomers that now know the series thanks to Spoony's Retrospective can now lend a hand to restore what once was the best Western RPG series. And that is better than just waiting for the planets to align and for Garriot to recover the licence from EA.

** Just in the tip of my tongue but it bugged me too. In fact, i wonder if he saw the Extended Cut where when you shoot that person instead and trigger the Non Standard Game Over by saying "SO BE IT!!". But more importantly, why did he take this long to notice how the franchises are equaly fucked up? Is there something that sets them apart? besides the fact that he played when he was a kid and we probably didnt have Mass Effect 1 at the age of 3 to develop THAT kind of devotion?

* What is Spoony referring when he talked about something of Quatum Theory (the "if nobody watches this movie, nobody will die") in the Final Destination 5 Vlog? How is that he only reached this conclusion and not in any other kind of horror movie?

* Spoony's super-long reviews like he does for FMV games, Ultima retrospective, and Final Fantasy don't come from nowhere, they come from his own experiences with the stuff and, more relevantly, his own strong feelings about them. As he himself admitted, he just couldn't bring himself to care about IX (due to the artstyle), and so any review he did would be forced due to that lack of strong personal feeling; it'd inevitably fall flat.

* Speaking as someone who has not played the game but has a friend who has, I've been told that FFIX is SoOkayItsAverage. The reason Spoony's reviews of FFVIII, FFX, and FFX-2 are so funny is because the games are so horrible. If he reviewed a FF game that was just "okay" it wouldn't be as entertaining.

* Speaking as someone who has not played the game but has a friend who has, I've been told that FFIX is SoOkayIt'sAverage. The reason Spoony's reviews of FFVIII, FFX, and FFX-2 are so funny is because the games are so horrible. If he reviewed a FF game that was just "okay" it wouldn't be as entertaining.