History Headscratchers / TheAngryVideoGameNerd

* 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.

* Why do his longer episodes on Gametrailers get a glitchy band of colors in the middle of the screen near the end? [[http://i77.servimg.com/u/f77/11/37/25/27/nerd_m10.jpg See]] [[http://i77.servimg.com/u/f77/11/37/25/27/nerd_m11.jpg some]] [[http://i77.servimg.com/u/f77/11/37/25/27/nerd_m12.jpg examples]]. What is causing this problem? This ruined the "Back To The Future Trilogy" and "Star Wars" episode for me, and while "Action 52" at first was working fine, it got this problem too as I went to watch it again recently. Why does this happen?
** Site glitch? It might be the GameTrailers site doing it to the videos.

** According to one of his Behind the Scenes videos (if I remember correctly) he says he has a contract with Gametrailers.

* Is it just me, or did the Nerd seem a hell of a lot less vitrolic towards ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest'' in his ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' marathon? It was like he only did an AccentuateTheNegative towards the game just to stay in character and even that wasn't that much more accented than his comments on 'VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse''. Heck, he even said that it had a lot of nostalgic value and retained the classic ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' atmosphere, and while he practically declared FanonDiscontinuity on it in the first video, he gave the game equal footage with the rest of the classic games in subsequent videos and even the ending montage.

* Do the companies that made that bad games (espessially LJN) care about how much the nerd hates the games?
** The Nerd only reviews old games, so it's likely that many of the games he's bashing have been forgotten about or the companies have gone out of business. I don't think LJN's still around.
*** It's not around anymore. Its last game was published in 2000 for dreamcast, Website/TheOtherWiki says.

** 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, complete 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 accessories vid. ROLLING ROCK ON THE ROLL N ROCKER)

** They disguised the cartridges. The gold one was most likely ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'', since if you look closely it has a battery in it, which NCW doesn't need.

* Even though most of the complaints on the first ''VideoGame/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1989}}'' 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).
** 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. Conclusion: problem lies with the players, and not with reviews.

* Even though most of the complaints on the first ''VideoGame/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).

* How come, during his CD-i three-parter with his reviews of ''VideoGame/HotelMario'' and VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCdIGames, he did not once mention their use in WebAnimation/YoutubePoop? Does he hate [=YouTube=] Poop, or was he just trying to resist referencing it?

*** It's not around anymore. Its last game was published in 2000 for dreamcast, Wiki/TheOtherWiki says.

* Perhaps more suitable for the Creator/JamesRolfe page, but it's regarding The Nerd's game collection. What kind of day job does Rolfe have that he can a.) afford ''so much'' obscure and valuable merchandise (like, one episode he says he blew 700$ or so on consoles that didn't work) and b.) make hundreds of videos, which are significant effort and time investments, that are viewable for free, on what was for a long time a fairly regular basis? (Over 100 decent to great quality videos over 4 years!). Obviously, one has to admire his dedication and how much he cares for his fans. The logistics are just puzzling.