History DethroningMoment / TheAngryVideoGameNerd

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

* 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 {{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/{{Kuuenbu}}: In his "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 {{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/{{Kuuenbu}}: In his "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 {{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 [[JamesRolfe James Rolfe]] 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/{{PutYaGunsOn}}: The sexual jokes in Mike Matei's review of Elmo in Grouchland all sound like something written by an immature 14-year-old. The fact that he actually went out of his way to draw a cartoon picture of Cookie Monster walking in on Gordon and Susan having sex purely for the sake of a cheap contrived gag is the cherry on top of all of this.

Second, the bulk of the review is spent complaining about how hard it is to fly through the rings. However, it's possible to switch the rings off by changing the difficulty setting to "Easy" so that you just need to follow the compass. If he did that, he could've gotten to the rest of the game without losing his cool. Yes, there ''is'' more to the game than just "flying through rings and picking up cars". In fact, you actually ''do'' start fighting enemies once the third ring/compass stage is cleared, which is where the Nerd gave up. And what we saw was just the first level; There's still a LOT more to the game that he could've commented on.

* Bauglir100: The AVGN's ''Superman 64'' review, on its own, is fairly satisfying...if you didn't actually know how the game was played. First, he complains that the game doesn't have the Superman theme from the movies. Well, of course it doesn't have the movie theme: It's ''not'' based on the movie! It's based on [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries the animated series]]. If anything, he should've been complaining about the game not using the show's theme.\\\

* SpaceHunterDrakeRedcrest: I'm not a huge [=AVGN=] fan, though I'll occasionally watch his reviews out of interest or nostalgia. One of his most recent reviews caught my interest: a review of VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006. I was quite interested in it, since the game is so infamous for a number of reasons. I wanted to hear his opinion on all the bad things, from how glitchy and unfinished the game was to the romance between Elise and Sonic [[note]]Aside from a blink-and-you'll-miss-it acknowledgement of said romance's weirdness.[[/note]]. Suffice to say, I was let down. It seems to me that he only played the first level and based his entire review off that. It just feels incomplete. No mention of the Shadow or Silver levels, the story at large, etc...Rather, he ends it after the boss fight with Silver, gives it a SoOkayItsAverage review statement, and ends the review there. I suppose with an 11 minute review, I shouldn't have expected an in-depth review, but I'd expect something more than what he gave us. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot He wasted a perfectly good review.]]

* SpaceHunterDrakeRedcrest: I'm not a huge [=AVGN=] fan, though I'll occasionally watch his reviews out of interest or nostalgia. One of his most recent reviews caught my interest: a review of VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006. I was quite interested in it, since the game is so infamous for a number of reasons. I wanted to hear his opinion on all the bad things, from how glitchy and unfinished the game was to the romance between Elise and Sonic. Suffice to say, I was let down. It seems to me that he only played the first level and based his entire review off that. It just feels incomplete. No mention of the Shadow or Silver levels, the story at large, etc...Rather, he ends it after the boss fight with Silver, gives it a SoOkayItsAverage review statement, and ends the review there. I suppose with an 11 minute review, I shouldn't have expected an in-depth review, but I'd expect something more than what he gave us. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot He wasted a perfectly good review.]]

James Rolfe, we like you a lot, but every once in a while, you put out [[DethroningMomentOfSuck something]] that makes us all wonder: What were ''you'' thinking?

** {{darkrage6}}: Agreed, you'd expect this kind of blatant error from the IrateGamer, not from James of all people (the joke at the end of the Star Wars review is also the kind of random pointless joke you'd expect from the IG).

James Rolfe, we love you to death, but every once in a while, you put out [[DethroningMomentOfSuck something]] that makes us all wonder: What were ''you'' thinking?

* awdur: In his {{Seaman}} review, after the Seaman start mating, the Nerd says "I didn't know one of them was female!". The problem is, he does. During the evolutionary proccess of the Seaman, at one point they will pick a gender and inform the player. The Nerd blatantly ignored an important part of the gameplay just so he could make a joke.

* 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.\\\
* paskalordi: Instead of reviewing the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, James went on a bitchy rant about why he won't be seeing that movie. Unlike a rational man who would actually fucking WATCH THE MOVIE before judging it, James just whined about how it doesn't fit his nostalgia leaning agenda, which is all just bullshit and we all know the real reason is that James doesn't like girls taking the main roles instead of the old men. Go fuck yourself you fucking misogynistic pig.

* 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.

There’s also the fact that fans who supported the film’s crowdfunding campaign weren't entitled to getting a free copy of the movie, and moreover had to buy one in the end, which is ridiculous considering how generous James' fanbase was to him in the campaign. And at the end of the day, movie itself didn’t live up to the hype for me. The plot was convoluted (despite sounding interesting), some of the characters felt tacked-on, and many of the jokes and gags failed to hit the mark. This was quite the disappointment for me, because I was hopeful the movie would turn out great. Instead it just seemed too egocentric and demeaning to fans.

James Rolfe, we love you to death, but every once in a while, you put out something that makes us all wonder: What were ''you'' thinking?

* 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/{{Kuuenbu}}: In his "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[=/=]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 {{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 [[JamesRolfe James Rolfe]] 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/{{Kuuenbu}}: In his "SuperNES vs. 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[=/=]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 {{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 [[JamesRolfe James Rolfe]] 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 {{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]]!"