James Rolfe Appreciation Thread

What are your favorite eps of AVGN? With 140 under his belt I personally fell like 120+ of them are very good to great. Even some of his latest ones have been some of his best.

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I've stopped following for a few years now, but I liked his console reviews.

He took a little dip in quality around episode 100 but he's been really good the past couple videos. The console reviews were always good too, though.

I like the ones about obscure accessories.

I feel like James dip was partly fan-induced. His fan base seems to be split between people who enjoy retro video games and remember the frustration of games being unfairly hard.

The other part of his fanbase seem to enjoy the "angry" part and seeing him yell swearwords.

So they end up bombarding him with requests to play games that have no nostalgic value and arent really games (theyre just broken). So you end up with a video of a game no one cares about and James yelling swearwords for ten minutes pretending to be angry and they seem to love it.

His Berenstain Bears one recently was really good I thought, I like that he tries to put a cinematic twist into his video games reviews.

I think he should go bald and have a wig/toupee for AVGN to wear, bald james would look nice and not embarrassing cus right now his hair is JUST levels of dissipating

Catlevania.

>tfw watched Angry Nintendo Nerd as a young lad
>tfw 10 years later James still making good content

Colecovision/intellivision

some one post the webm

The bible games episode and that video game that came with 52 minigames

His four part Castlevania review

Ikari Warrior

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Dragon of my Dream

His movie reviews

Night of the Living Dead commentary.

Hong Kong 97

I really like that he's gotten Mike, and to a slightly lesser extent, Bootsy involved in getting in front of the Camera. I'm warming up to Bootsy though.

That other guy, the fat one could fuck right off.

Spiderman

His name is Ryan.
He's actually not that bad, you just hate him because he's not a total cunt that hates everything.

I don't particularly enjoy most of his episodes though because they play flavor of the month/shit indie games a lot.

He's fine otherwise

He should review the Thunder Force series desu

God I love James and I've loved him for years.

I honestly don't think he's the smartest guy, or even that great of a filmmaker. But I love his videos for his genuine, non-pretentious opinions and his genuine love for movies and games.

Best feeling.

ghosts and goblins is a personal favorite, highly recommend it since its halloween time.

Good list.

>Dragon of my Dream

That was really good, but I think his masterpiece was Cinemassacre 200.

He needs to do more indie feeling shorts, more Sundance bait.

story?

>How did they get his name wrong, everyone knows it's Bimmy!

Might not have been the best episode but I laughed way too hard.

Sup Forums was full of 12 year olds calling avgn a cuck for a couple of years

Plumber's Don't Wear Ties
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CD-I zelda's and atari jaguars pretty good too

HellOOO I'm the Nostalgia Critic and I married it so YOU don't have to!

>Be James
>Only ever played some NES and Snes
>Admits to casually playing some xbox in college
>Doesn't know jack shit about Amiga/Atari/Sega/Commodore/MS/Sony
>Plays a game on non Nintendo system
>Mike is like NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>James is like "Nintendo was always best at this genre"
>Mike nods and rubs his footlong
>James gets an aneurysm when he plays a repro of a public domain rom
>guitar guy plays his guitar
>he''s the video game nerd, who doesn't know much about videogaming.
>Mike rubs his footlong
>James shits himself when playing Doom
>Super Nintendo did it better!!
>Mike rubs his footlong
>James gets sent an old 90s copier
>scratches his head
>Never saw this for sale in my local toystore..
>Mike rubs his footlong
>Guitar guy plays a solo
>James wants to play a very famous MSDos adventure
>Not impressed
>"Nintendo did this genre better"
>Mike nods and reeeeeeeeee's in agreement
>Then rubs his footlong

I was really surprised when Ryan said he had kids. I would never have guessed.

Giving Doug the attention he craves was James' biggest mistake.

yea the Night of the Living dead commentary was really cool. Also Chronologically Confused about Sequel Titles was a good one.

why do you keep posting this in all these threads? are you annoyed someone married your waifu douge?

look at how unhappy my little oval faced dougie looks here... THAT'S WHAT I'M MAD ABOUT

How to make a Nostalgia Critic video:
>rent an empty, flatly lit warehouse
>start with a long parody of a show that only you watch
>play clips from a movie that came out a few years ago
>make the most obvious jokes you can
>call characters by the names of other characters the actors played
>throw in a video game reference you don't understand
>come up with a "topical" Donald Trump joke that even Seth Meyers would reject
>whenever, and I mean WHENEVER, a character says something negative (this is terrible, don't push your luck, just die already) say that it's really the actor talking about the movie
>hold on your grimacing facial expressions before you cut away after every joke
>create a controversy that doesn't exist (is Mask of the Phantasm the best Batman film, is the new Alvin and the Chipmunks better than The Great Chipmunk adventure) so that you can settle this debate which, again, does not exist
>pray your video doesn't get removed for copyright infringement
>pray your autistic empire doesn't crumble any more than it already has
>pray that someday people will beg for a new season of Demo Reel
>go home and fuck your fat wife
>repeat weekly

why notask doug to divorce and marry you then if it bothers you so much?

>>go home and fuck your fat wife
>>repeat weekly
oh so that why you mad, he getting some and you aint!

>Plumbers don't wear ties
>The plumber wears a tie.

Silver Surfer
>You go too far to the right you die
>You go too far left you die
>You go too far up you die
>You go down you die
>You die
>You die
>You die

>You die.

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>also instrumental theme tune

I like (some) of the humor. Mostly the nitpicking and clever observations about games, not the juvenile poop jokes. Also like how knowledgeable he is. Thanks to him I got interested in the NES and bought one. Really glad I did

Which reviews are his most overrated?

I've always thought Action 52 falls down because there are so many similar games which is hard to work with. The Time Warp Tickers moment was great though.

You have to remember that when he first started, there was a novelty to having someone swear this much. Now that he's spawned a whole genre of angry video game nerds on YouTube some of that is gone.

>sega cd/32x review
>pretends all the good games for those consoles don't exist

Sometimes I like to watch the older episodes when I'm drunk. Pretty funny shit.