How is he so bad at video games even after playing them professionally for over a decade?

How is he so bad at video games even after playing them professionally for over a decade?

How is he so bad at video games even after playing them professionally for over a decade?

How?
Because it makes money, that's how.

How is Sup Forums so bad at video games even after playing them for their entire life?

Are there even new subs released? Been a year since I last watched.

because he has the motor skills of an old man.
It's like watching your dad play video games

nope, dynamite heddy is the last. something awful's sub group threatened to not ever translate again if other people started subbing, so people stopped subbing.

TPBP

SA ruins something good again.
>something awful's sub group threatened to not ever translate again if other people started subbing
They haven't even released anything new in ages, guess no one wanted to step up.

Because the only thing that will improve is his experience, which only helps in a limited way in retro games.

Because surprise: playing old games won't make you good at all games, just those old games

That's the point, they hadn't released anything but kept saying "We'll do it, promise". since june 2016, then LC released wizards and warriors, and mysteriously SAGCCX managed to shit out not one, not two, but three full episodes in like a month and a half and said "Well if you want to translate, we'll just let these be our last". I think they're setting up shop for a patreon or something.

What the fuck? He's great at video games. He looks like he sucks at the beginning of all of them but he learns and beats most of them in his allotted time. I think he's better at games than most of Sup Forums.

He often has help from his ADs, who also have to stay back and finish the kusoge he couldn't finish.
Dragon Ball was one such game.

>but he learns and beats most of them in his allotted time
What the fuck are you talking about? Most of the time he has ADs help.

Because when we are adults we can't learn real transferable general skills. We just get better at that one thing we are doing or practicing.

>needed 30+ hours to beat dkc 2
>barely got halfway through Gargoyle's Quest 2 after a full day of playing it (not even that hard of a game, I beat it in about 2 hours the first time)
He's not too good really

He beat battletoads. I have been playing games my whole life and I can't do that. Also you get worse as you get older. Please look forward to it.

Because GCCX is a fortnightly show, and covers the vast majority of his gaming. Playing 20 games a year, tops, when a lot of those games aren't even difficult, doesn't mean much.

You can easily practice any retro game effeciently trough save states. In the end you will be able to beat the gams just fine in one sitting without save states in a really decent time.

This retard doesn’t understand how tv episode production works

>He beat battletoads. I have been playing games my whole life and I can't do that.
The Japanese version of battletoads is significantly easier than the western version.

That's interesting. I had no idea.

You're talking about a group that's literally sleeping with GCCX producer and them selling a shirt that was done by said whore at TGS.

Sup Forums needs to get their shit together and set up a new subbing group. And start with the licensed episodes just as a giant fuck you to the goons.

>Using save states
How to spot the PC casual

sometimes he plays badly on purpose to pad the episodes

>them selling a shirt that was done by said whore at TGS.
I wanted to vomit when I saw that shit in their TGS coverage. Honestly, is there anything worse than braindead fan-translators thinking they're above something because they met some fucking staff for casual sex?

I've actually noticed that for a lot of older Japanese games, the devs would make the western versions harder than Japanese ones. Just a few off the top of my head are Zelda 2, Castlevania 3, Dynamite Headdy and so on. I think it might have something to do with the fact that unlike Japan, renting games was legal in the west so they would make the games harder so that they couldn't be beaten in a single rental period and gamers would have to buy their own copy.

You say he's bad, but he's beaten a lot of really hard shit.
He compensates his lack of skill with his resolve to never give up.

renting wasn't legal in japan? This is really surprising as I had the perception Japan had the harder games and we got it easier.

Nips have always been fucking casuals, their retarded work culture means that only NEETs have more than an hour or two a day to play.

Nowhere is this exemplified more than by the absolute domination of the mobage industry in Japan. At least half of TGS this year was comprised of crappy gatcha games, and there are lots of nips who spend their whole paychecks on this shit.

It varies but the big ballbusters of the old days like Castlevania and Ninja Gaiden were a hell of a lot harder in the western versions

>e-celeb thread
Fuck off. Even worse that it's a dirty yellow monkey of all things.

ninja gaiden 1&2 were the same. It was 3 where they crippled western players.

I thought that the Jap version had a password system for the first two

Horse shit. I've amazed my younger nephews and nieces by knowing where hidden 1-Up mushrooms were in NSMB without ever having played the game before or using a guide. You can just sort of feel where the Mario team likes to hide things through practice and playing.

>Japan had the harder games and we got it easier.
I also used to think this. I think it comes from how people used to always say that the reason we didn't get the real Mario 2 was because they thought it would be too hard for westerners but that's probably bullshit looking back. The real reason was probably that Mario 2 was kind of a letdown as a sequel with barely any gameplay improvements from the original and they realized that it wasn't worth releasing it internationally. Super Mario 2 USA was superior in just about every way.

>e-celeb
GameCenter CX aired on Japanese television.

Who the fuck cares, get that shit off my Sup Forums.

Do we have confirmation of the sex, or is that just rumor mill Sup Forums?

Sub group drama like this happens often. Though a lot of the times when I see it it's the same fucking guy behind it. I remember a few years ago he was doing about 3 different manga from this one artist that were all older completed series, releasing about one chapter every 5 months at some point. After one huge ass delay beyond the normal 5 months some other group decided to pick it up figuring it was abandoned. They released 2 chapters to test the waters and the guy from before shit almost immediately and started bitching on every platform he could and released about 5-6 chapters of each of those series at once.

You're probably just thinking about RPGs.

It's actually really ironic, now that I think about it. America invents the RPG, ships it over to Japan and introduces them, and then for years Japan thinks America "isn't ready" for RPGs so they keep giving them the baby version, and the misunderstanding was never really cleared up.

For non-RPG stuff, yeah, someone on the western side would make the game harder. No one has ever clarified the reason why though. Some think the thing about rentals. Some think it was because the west also invented Video Games and therefore had more practice with it. You could shoot out theories all day.

I remember as a kid me and my friends thought the same about japanese games but we didn't even know there was a real mario 2 that we didn't get at the time. Not sure where it came from. It was when Kojima said something about european extreme difficulty being because the west likes harder games than the japanese I knew something was off.

Subbing drama is really pathetic tbqh.

His power levels are inconsistent, its part of what makes him entertaining

At least they're not Crunchyroll. I'd take 5 month delays over "localized" subs any day.

Fuck them. They don't sub shit anyway. If someone else starts doing it it's still a net increase in the rate of new subs.

I'd also like to know this.

Makes sense. They must have thought we were idiots with quick fingers.

This. I mean what sort of horseshit idea is that? "If you sub, we won't!"? Isn't that half the point? Who wants 2 people subbing on it, especially if one is going to fall apart at the drop of a hat.

he is just comedian and nobody expect him skillful
game play.

Actually, funny enough, Japan simply didn't think America KNEW about RPGs in general. The only successful RPGs ever released on the NES were Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy 1, but then DQ2 and 3 did rather mediocre, so that scared the Japs off. That's why we got the special American (not the Easy type, American type) version of FF4 and the "introduction to RPGs" Final Fantasy Adventure. Reports say that they shat their pants when Americans said that FFA was too easy.

Same thing with a lot of lets play YouTubers, it's just funnier to watch people fail so people never bother getting better

How did they even come to think that way considering their rpgs were inspired by ours? I wonder why they didn't bother with making rpgs on the pc too since they were clearly inspired by ultima and wizardry etc.

Well, they had no reason to believe that Americans knew about RPGs. The only famous WRPGs of the era were Ultima and Wizardry series, and those were computer games mostly famous in Europe.

>play RPG
>familiarize yourself with core mechanics that are still used to this day
>perform better in modern RPGs because you already know how they work

And yet there's shit like Japanese Ghosts'n Goblins, where you have to start the whole game again of you die twice.

The story of Wizardry and Ultima is a simple one. The creator of Dragon Quest, Yuji Hori, is a huge westaboo, and he wanted to trick Japanese people into playing RPGs by creating a game that would introduce Japanese to the RPG concepts in a Japanese way. In fact, Yuji Hori is so consistantly good at this, he also used Dragon Quest Builders in the same way. He was super into minecraft, and just wanted more Japanese to play it, but knew they couldn't handle being left on their own for too long.

Which gets into my other point regarding:
>How did they even come to think that way considering their rpgs were inspired by ours?
Japan is comprised of what Sup Forums has recently been calling "Useful idiots", and what your edgy teen calls "sheeple". Japan is absolutely all about having 1 or 2 people create a new thing that everybody likes, and then everyone else just copies that idea, but improves upon it and then vomits it out nauseatingly. They WILL improve upon it, as they aren't stupid, but they never CHANGE it, especially in a meaningful way that makes it better. That's why shit like Etrian Odyssey gets made. It's someone taking the concept of Wizardry and instead of making improvements upon the genre and pushing it forward, they instead just made a better Wizardry.

Hell, you're talking about a culture where you can shill your store just by paying people to form a line, and regular Japanese people will ACTUALLY line up behind them because "There's a line! It must be important!". You ever watch an anime and someone says a line involving the season that you SWEAR you've seen before? Something like "This is haruto, in the second year of his spring", or "This was the end of my summer"? That shit is because one person a long time ago made a bunch of poems about the seasons. They can eventually pinpoint the origin if you ask, but it just gets copy-pasted, and Japanese people think "That's just the way you do this certain thing. Like this".

>I wonder why they didn't bother with making rpgs on the pc too

Didn't the Ys series start on pc? And there's a bunch of others that have never seen the light of day over here.

I've been doing digging on that subject, I haven't found anyone to confirm. BUT, and this is what strikes me as odd, no one has denied it happened either. It's just a 'we don't talk about that' response. I doubt there's a smoking gun, which would involve one of the parties involved admitting to it happening. But the radio silence, and the fact that SAGCCX has basically been dead really makes me think there's something to this and it's not just bullshit.

Back to the mines.

He doesn't play them professionally. He's a comedian first.

Really interesting shit. Thanks bro.

chances are they're radio silence as they try to find a way to legally beg for money despite doing it for free for years, or because they got another deal for licensing DVDs.

I wouldn't be opposed to the DVD thing, but they cut out all the in- between segments and that's some of the best content.

Instead of shooting theories can I just shoot myself and finally end my own suffering? Why am I even here? I haven't even seen my parents in three years and the last time I had physical contact with someone else was when I got my flu shot.
Someone please just kill me. Please.

ive seen tons of speedrunners who are really fucking bad at new games they pick up.

like dean takahashi kind of bad where it seems like they have never played a single video game in their life.

you would think that speedrunning lots of games and having great hand-eye coordination means you can transition into new games with ease but nope.

>At least half of TGS this year was comprised of crappy gatcha games, and there are lots of nips who spend their whole paychecks on this shit.
Don't worry, that phenomenon will be coming to the West soon in the form of loot boxes.

>trying to beat sigma right now in mmx
shiiiet, and the rest of the game is actually pretty easy

There's still some degree of separation in the west. Loot boxes might be cancer, but at least you get a half-finished game.

With mobage shit, you get a cut down story written by interns and awful grindy gameplay you can pay to skip. It's the absolute death of video games, it'd be like if arcade games were all just books you could pay 25 cents to see the next page of.

I'm referring to the fact they don't even deny the whole Zari fucked Kan story that keeps making the rounds. They just go 'We don't talk about that'.

As for why they don't do work. It's pretty obvious that they have no competition, so they feel they can just sit on their ass. Because the only way the goons could monetize their translation work for GCCX is if they cut a deal with Fuji TV, which would involve Fujj TV licensing the series for release either via a streaming service like Netflix or attempting another DVD release and then paying to use the goon's services to translate like they did with RGM episodes. I guess they COULD start a patreon where they just say they are going to sub and do what they have done for free for years and see if people are retarded enough to pay them. But even that really seems muddy from a legal standpoint.

At this point people need to start propping up Last Continue or just start another sub group since SAGCCX is just happy being a reactive where they only do subs if they feel threatened by another group because they released a sub.

He's just the right level of bad to where you get to see him struggle but you also feel like he can possibly beat the games.

Subbing drama is one of humanity's lowest points. Even Crunchyshit is better than having to deal with dramafags.
Not like the old sub groups didn't fill their subs with shitty memes and jokes anyway

Mad stacks

Ninja Gaiden 1 US release is different, at the very least with Jacquio's fight. Any ninjutsu you had left fighting Ryu's father is not transferred to that fight nor to the last part. If you don't believe me check GCCX's episode and see how they conserve any ninjutsu left and then look at any US walkthrough

Entertainment value. I even remember in some episode his fellow comedian called him just right amount of bad at games.

>Charge Rolling Shield and use it
>Position yourself in front of the hole where worms are falling down
>Fill all tanks and weapons' energy in minutes by wall kicking a bit
>Hadouken the shit out of that fight and if you mess up, refill energy for more Hadoukens
Keep trying, don't forget Sigma's head requires 2 Hadoukens

Some people just don't get better at games, or in my case, get a whole lot worse.

Unrelated note, I've been watching bits and pieces of the 24 hour Lemming episode. And they really had to bullshit through that one to have Arino clear it in time. On his own, Arino only made it through 14 levels in 17 hours. After that, they had Nakayama and Emote clear 5 levels in an hour and then held Arino's hand for the final 6 hours so he could clear it in time.

What was nice, and I didn't know because it was never shown, was that Sasano, Takahashi and Tsuruoka gave videos of encouragement to Arino. With Tsuroka being funny because it looked like he was a hobo street musical singing that song from 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō.

Newsflash: People don't get jobs because they're the best candidate.

Newsflash: Yes they do. It's just that your definition of best and theirs don't line up. If they feel the charming, more sociable person is better than your neckbearded ass social-reject with the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing that field, then he's the better choice for them.

newsflash
being good at playing videogames does not maek you a good videogame designer.
"Play" doesn't work like that you dumb faggot

Is the movie any good? It's on Netflix here. Honesty I'm skeptical because it calls to mind the avgn movie.

It was shit and bombed to the point Arino and staff pretends it didn't happen.

Fucking this. It's partially why I've never got deep into otaku/weeb shit, even though I like a lot of things that coming from Japan. When I started watch anime in high school it was so novel and fresh for me. But the more I watched, the more I realize that I've seen this shit before in previous titles, and that it's all cliche over cliche with just a few new cool things here and there and it's kinda piling up, and just like that, I'm not that interested anymore.

So the AVGN movie comparison is warranted then?

Not him but yes. It's really mediocre and just like the AVGN movie it complete ignores the entire reason people like the show. Instead of just being a longform version of any given episode with arino actually traveling around to various places trying to finish a game, it's some narrative driven garbage.

>this thread
>no new subs
>been that way for months
Guys the scene is so dead, it is faster to learn japanese than waiting for subs.

blame SA, just like everything else, they've ruined it. literally the modern ebaumsworld.

I live in moon land and can cofirm that this is all true - especially the bit about lines. I've actually had Japanese people ask me if we should join long lines that we see just on the basis that "the line is long so the product must be good".

However, in reference to the bit about poems, I can't say that shit is any different in the west. Writing style is heavily influenced by what has come before. Most modern fantasy reads like a rip off of Tolkien, or possibly Gerorge Martin now. That's just the way popular culture is. Someone creates something with a hint of originality and then everyone copies it. That's why there are so many films that seem like tryhard copies of pulp fiction.

I would've accepted the AVGN movie as a road-trip film with Kyle Justin in the backseat and Mike Matei rotating through costumes the whole time.

if he is good at it show will have no meaning at all and Conan won't be imitating it.

The truth is by the time you learn Japanese you don't care about this stuff so much anymore. Since learning Japanese I've played maybe 3 games that didnt have English translations yet, and 2 of them got translated later. Sure I can watch a couple of extra episodes of Gamecenter, but that's not really worth an investment of thousands of hours. Nobody I know who is fluent in Japanese is actually hardcore into weeb stuff, because in order to actually get good you need to enjoy learning the language more than you enjoy watching cartoons or whatever.

That's exactly what people would have wanted.
Imagine the gccx movie, but instead of the crap we got, it was arino getting run out of roadside arcades and candy shops, finding old famicoms to play through a game across japan.

Same thing with the AVGN movie. I can appreciate the AVGN movie, and james' attempts to make the B movie he always wanted, but it's not an AVGN movie, it's a movie with AVGN in it, and a 10 minute mini-AVGN episode at the very end.

Matei is trash and the only good episode with him in it is Friday the 13th.

See, while I won't dispute that the west copies what's popular rather than what was made and what was good (a quick example comes to mind with portal being copied by indie game devs everywhere, but most people ignore the original style of the game portal was based off of), the difference between Japan and the West is simple innovation. Japan tries to make the very best example of X that they can. The West will look really hard at X and realize they can rip off one of the legs and now have Y.

The West's major problem in this regard though is that they keep looking at the lone product as it's become rather than where it came from. Instead of looking at Y and asking how we got there from X, they look at Y and ask "What makes Y, Y?", then they eventually bend it and morph it into Z, which follows into A, then B, and pretty soon we're on W wondering how to jump from X.

A good example of this is Point and Click Adventure game design. We went from shit like Quest for Glory, moved onto Maniac Mansion, then Day of the Tentacle, and kept evolving it until we got walking simulators, and now we're on narrative pieces like Walking Dead.

Mike is literally the backbone of the channel, it's not 2010 anymore.

The avgn review at the end isn't even well done either. If you're going to build up to a review for the whole movie you had better at least do a good job of it. I don't think I got a single laugh out of that ET review.

I get the same feeling from watching James now that I get from watching modern Jerry Seinfeld standup. They both just look old and tired and it seems like they ran out of jokes and passion years ago.

To be fair, west is less rigid when it comes to copying and there's much less chance for it to be popular.

>I can appreciate the AVGN movie, and james' attempts to make the B movie he always wanted, but it's not an AVGN movie
It's even worse than that. It's not even a good B Movie. James misses every single aspect of what makes a bomb fun to watch and just winds up with shit that's somewhat competent and therefore misses the mark. B Movies are good on accident. There's a handful of really clever jokes in AVGN movie, and just their existence alone brings the rest of the movie down cause you know they're trying to force it.

And that's why I unsubbed. James hasn't made a great episode since ROB anyway. The new episodes are absolutely garbage. That one with Lloyd Kaufman is honestly one of the least funny things I've ever watched.

The way you've expressed just seems to suggest that Japanese devs actually try to make something good while western devs just rehash crap, but justify it by adding a new gimmick.

Think of all those Ubisoft open world games and how samey they all are. Think of every western TPS made in the last decade that is just Gears of War reskinned.

I'm not going to say that the western games industry is worse than the Japanese one, but in terms of "originality" they're certainly not any better.

Both cultures are fairly creatively bankrupt when it comes to all mediums, with a small number of innovators coming out with original works. I'm sure that could be generalised to just about any country on earth.

I don't disagree. But I'm glad he at least remembered to put that in there. Or else I think the movie may have gotten a lot less "meh" reviews than it got, and more outright anger at the lack of anything actually AVGN.
You're not wrong. But all the same I'm happy for him, he'd wanted to do this, and did it, even if it's something that has forever blacklisted him from any actual directorial work.
that lloyd kaufman episode was 150% james fanboying over getting to work with him. And fuck you seinfeld is still funny. His humor has never been in standup, it's why he never succeeded in standup after the show started airing. He's most in his element just being himself. CCGC is one of the best short-form talk shows i've ever seen. And it manages to be great every single episode.