History DethroningMoment / TheAngryVideoGameNerd

* Please no HePannedItNowHeSucks. Someone having a different opinion than you is not nearly a good enough justification for something being seen as stupid or offensive.

* Tropers/{{Kuuenbu}}: In his "UsefulNotes/SuperNES vs. UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis" video, he lets his {{bias|Steamroller}} get the [[StrawFan better]] [[TheWarOnStraw of him]] and says that, unlike with the SNES controller, you can only press one Genesis gamepad button at a time. Anyone who has ever held a Genesis[=/=]UsefulNotes/MegaDrive controller for 10 seconds knows you can press two (or even three, though it's difficult and counter-intuitive) buttons simultaneously by adjusting the angle of your palm. Given how much he seems to be attempting a fair analysis, this JustForFun/{{egregious}} offense makes his self-admitted bias just plain facepalm-inducing. You'd think this would be something so obvious that no one could possibly fall for it, but if Creator/JamesRolfe could be this ignorant, it wouldn't be that big a stretch to see pre-teen Nintendo fanboys watching that video and saying "You see, you can't press more than one button on Creator/{{Sega}} like you can on Creator/{{Nintendo}}! I told you Nintendo is what Genesisn't[[note]]yes, there really was a SNES ad that used this phrase[[/note]]

We all like Creator/JamesRolfe a lot, but every once in a while, he puts out [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck something]] that makes us all wonder: What was ''he'' thinking?

* Tropers/{{Trialman}}: In his follow-up review of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'', I wasn't too bothered by the first review, but the follow-up was the real disappointment for me. He continues the game, and he does go a bit more in-depth on some things, but not enough to make me satisfied, personally. The real nadir though, is when he gets to the last story. He briefly mentions the infamous scene where Sonic dies, and then basically goes straight to the even more infamous Elise kissing Sonic scene. He just notes how dumb that moment is, and then stops the review there. He barely even implies that there is a certain DisappointingLastLevel between those cutscenes. Considering that infamy of ''End of The World'', you'd think the Nerd would have something to say about it, but the most we got was a throw-away line about collecting the Chaos Emeralds, which was so vague, someone unaware could easily think that they were collected in a cutscene. Quite frankly, the scarred ''Sonic 06'' box seemed to have more effort put into it than the review itself.

* Tropers/PRStorm: AVGN had been declining in quality quite a bit lately, but the point where I realized just how bad the show had become was the end of his ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' review. That final bit of him shitting into Ecco's blowhole is just disgusting, especially with the shots of the dolphin (plush) vomiting the Nerd's shit. I know AVGN's done stuff like this before, but the implication that he was shitting into Ecco's respiratory tract was just horrifying. For me, the scene is the most juvenile and painful attempt at humor in the entire show.

* Tropers/{{Midna}}: Since I can't just say "all of 'Minecraft with Gadget'", I'll just point to Gadget's "I love building brown bricks with Minecrap" spiel. It would have been mildly amusing, if infantile, if it was only said once... but then he just keeps saying it over and over for almost half a minute. One gets the impression that Matei thought the scene was comedy gold and wanted to milk it for all it was worth.

* Tropers/{{ninboy91}}: I don't mind that Rolfe prefers digital and streaming for movies, but his 'Top Ten Reasons Blu-Rays Suck' video still had me cringe. Some of his reasons come off as either bizarre nitpicks to just plain wrong information about the Blu-Ray medium itself. Bizarre being his criticisms about the Blu-Ray cases, but just fixating on special edition releases and ignoring the regular cases. And what he got wrong was the fact that Blu-Ray players always need to be online when he mentioned the updates, never mind the fact that cheaper non-online Blu-Ray players exist. Of course, it's worth noting that his Blu-Ray experiences are all based on using the [=PlayStation=] 3.

* Tropers/{{Fofa}}: Those weren't the only instances of CriticalResearchFailure those videos had, though those examples do stick out like a sore thumb. ''Castlevania 64'' doesn't have any music when it actually does (which you can actually hear in the video) and the majority of the games mostly happened inside the castle since the beginning, when he said that the games started doing it after ''Symphony of the Night''.
* Tropers/{{Kuuenbu}}: In his "UsefulNotes/SuperNES vs. UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis" video, he lets his {{bias|Steamroller}} [[CriticalResearchFailure get the]] [[StrawFan better]] [[TheWarOnStraw of him]] and says that, unlike with the SNES controller, you can only press one Genesis gamepad button at a time. Anyone who has ever held a Genesis[=/=]UsefulNotes/MegaDrive controller for 10 seconds knows you can press two (or even three, though it's difficult and counter-intuitive) buttons simultaneously by adjusting the angle of your palm. Given how much he seems to be attempting a fair analysis, this JustForFun/{{egregious}} offense makes his self-admitted bias just plain facepalm-inducing. You'd think this would be something so obvious that no one could possibly fall for it, but if Creator/JamesRolfe could be this ignorant, it wouldn't be that big a stretch to see pre-teen Nintendo fanboys watching that video and saying "You see, you can't press more than one button on Creator/{{Sega}} like you can on Creator/{{Nintendo}}! I told you Nintendo is what Genesisn't[[note]]yes, there really was a SNES ad that used this phrase[[/note]]

* Tropers/{{Teleport Ted}}: In the ''VideoGame/StarWarsMastersOfTerasKasi'' episode, the skit about the Lightsabers' GameplayAndStorySegregation - which depicts Darth Vader as helpless if his Lightsaber doesn't work, even though he has MindOverMatter and SuperStrength too. Given James's fanboy moments, you'd think he would've avoided such a CriticalResearchFailure. Thankfully, the rest of the episode is fine; but still...

* Tropers/{{Stario}}: Screenwave Media's takeover of Cinemassacre. Now, for those who don't know, Screenwave Media is a company founded by Ryan Schott, a friend of James', that's the reason for the new faces on Cinemassacre. AVGN is no longer written or edited by James, it's now written and edited by Screenwave. The employees have also received backlash (mainly Kieran, due to his {{Website/Twitter}} meltdowns), and they now manage the {{Website/YouTube}} channel, as well as other social media (except Twitter), that's also one of the reasons for the newer AVGN episodes being worse, as well as some dumb moments (such as The Nerd saying that {{VideoGame/Final Fight Streetwise}} has bad graphics, citing that it came out on the [=PS2=] when the [=PS3=] was out. The new thumbnails are also due to Screenwave.

** Tropers/{{supernintendo128}}: Definitely agree. Even though I'm subscribed to multiple streaming services, I still like to own my favorite films and TV shows on Blu-Ray or UHD Blu-Ray whenever possible. I'm not going to tell James how he should feel about Blu-Ray, but many of his points were either also problems with DVDs to an extent that he even complained about in the past (oversized or otherwise annoying packaging, unskippable trailers), are issues with his Blu-Ray setup (i.e. his [=PS3=]) rather than the format itself (DRM that requires an internet connection, the Stop button being sandwiched between the Play and Pause buttons), or just flat out nitpicky filler (he calls Blu-Ray a dumb name and cites that the disc isn't blue, for one thing yes it is, and another thing "Blu-Ray" refers to the blue laser inside the machine). He also has rose-tinted glasses for the DVD menus of old and calls Blu-Ray menus "uncreative" when Blu-Ray menus are smoother to operate and James was complaining about DVD menus a few years ago.

** Tropers/Kreutz : To me the reason why the ending of that Review sucks is because, on top of skipping the NightmareFuel that is The Vortex Queen, it doesn't feel like Ecco deserves to be treated like that. It worked with Bugs Bunny because the character was annoying and it was staged like the punchline of a slapstick routine, but with Ecco not only is it implied that he dies, but his bloodshot eyes and screams of pain make it a lot more horrific than funny. It also feels a lot more lazy in the production, like instead of James filming himself trashing around a guy in a costume, we get him punching and pretending to shit on a plushie, with stock digital shit effects instead of his trademark practical fake shit made with chocolate and nuts. The whole thing is and feels like a filler episode made to please the YouTube algorithm despite a few good jokes here and there, when it could been something as memorable or surreal as his VideoGame/Seaman review. I don't expect every episode of modern AVGN to be as incredibly ambitious as his review of VideoGame/TheImmortal, but that doesn't excuse mediocrity, especially knowing that James is capable of so much more.

We all like James Rolfe a lot, but every once in a while, he puts out [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck something]] that makes us all wonder: What was ''he'' thinking?

* Tropes/WiiGuy:I was going to give my Dethroning Moment of Suck to Majora's Mask, but I think his review of The Aladdin Deck Enhancer deserves it more for one simple reason: the opening sketch parodying Disney's Aladdin Live Action Remake with a Genie that makes Will Smith's GGI Genie form look impressive by comparison. What does the Disney film have to do with the thing the Nerd is reviewing? Other the name, it has absolutely nothing to do with the Disney version. Now if the nerd was reviewing the actual Aladdin video games based on the animated film, the sketch would work. But he doesn't at all. Whether you hate the live-action remake or not it at least had to do with the Disney Animated movie and its licenced game unlike the Deck Enhancer. Plus the fact this review came out around the same time the Live Action Remake makes me suspicious that he only reviewed the Aladdin Deck Enhancer just because the recent film was making the Aladdin name relevant to talk about. Seriously, the Nerd parodying the films that that licensed video game is based on is fine but this one? This was in-name only and reviews something Disney had nothing to do with.

* Tropers/Johnnyd2: While I do agree that the AVGN Ecco review was what caused me to lose faith in the Nerd, but for a different reason. The Nerd outright rage quits the game only a couple of levels in. Yes, I know the game is difficult and hasn't aged well. But it has passwords! So the Nerd could easily have skipped that labyrinth level and seen the rest of the game. The worst part is that given his reaction to the trippy time warp at the beginning, him getting to the later parts of the games, the alien-related parts, in particular, he could've written in an amazing reaction to that! But no! He pussies out and chooses to shit on (and into) Ecco instead without playing it all the way through. The only Hope Spot in all of this is that he mentions looking at the other Ecco games separately down the line near the beginning of the video. I hope that when/if AVGN does revisit Ecco, he looks at the rest of the OG Ecco in addition to the rest of the series.

* Tropers/{{Teleport Ted}}: In the ''VideoGame/StarWarsMastersOfTerasKasi'' episode, the skit about the Lightsabers' GameplayAndStorySegregation - which depicts Darth Vader as helpless if his Lightsaber doesn't work, even though he also has MindOverMatter and SuperStrength. Given James's fanboy moments, you'd think he would've avoided such a CriticalResearchFailure. Thankfully, the rest of the episode is fine; but still...

* Tropers/{{Teleport Ted}}: In the ''VideoGame/StarWarsMastersOfTerasKasi'' episode, the skit about the Lightsabers' GameplayAndStorySegregation - which depicts Darth Vader as helpless if his Lightsaber doesn't work, even though he also has MindOverMatter and SuperStrength. Given James's fanboy moments, you'd think he'd avoid such a CriticalResearchFailure. Thankfully, the rest of the episode is fine; but still...

* Tropers/{{Teleport Ted}}: In the ''VideoGame/StarWarsMastersOfTerasKasi'' episode, the skit about the Lightsabers' GameplayAndStorySegregation - which depicts Darth Vader as helpless if his Lightsaber doesn't work, even though he has MindOverMatter and SuperStrength too. Given James's fanboy moments, you'd think he'd avoid such a CriticalResearchFailure. Thankfully, the rest of the episode is fine; but still...

* Tropers/{{Teleport_Ted}}: In the ''VideoGame/StarWarsMastersOfTerasKasi'' episode, he mocks the {{Nerf}}ed Lightsabers -- in a skit where Darth Vader's fails to behead Chewbacca, leading to the former's CurbStompBattle via NeckSnap. But even without a Lightsaber, isn't Vader still a deadly {{Cyborg}} and KungFuWizard? Given James's fanboyism toward the franchise, you'd think he'd avoid such a CriticalResearchFailure. Thankfully, it doesn't ruin the rest of the episode (which is still good); but still...