Unfortunately due to unexpected family issues; this blog will not be updated for a very long time. If I'm lucky maybe I can start up again in June. My main reason for not updating sooner is that I've just been so distraught over what has happened. I don't want to say too much due this issue being so personal.
To all you people I pissed off; I don't give a shit if you say I'm wussing out or some other crap. say it all you want; It's not true.
I will be back, I'm just not sure when.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Angry Video Game Nerd
Ok, apparently I've gotten a few comments saying BatDanNight wasn't "celebrity" Material. Well I doubt people will disagree here. James Rolfe, creator of the Angry Video Game Nerd series. Now let me start out by saying that up until about 2010 or so, I was a fan of his work. But then the quality started to take a huge plunge.
His game glitches episode was when he really lost me, and it became clear he was grasping at straws. *does best Mike Mozart impression* I mean really; The glitch gremlin? That more like something out of a children's cartoon. He even tells us how yo clean the cartridges; yeah because people who still own old school consoles don't how to do it by now.
I'm going to cut this off short to talk about probably his worst review.
AVGN's R.O.B Review
On May 14, 2008; James did an AVGN review of accessories for the NES. At the end of the episode he teases about reviewing ROB saying he'll get to it "Later". Then on May 29, 2008 IG posts his own review of R.O.B, most of AVGN blind fanboys say that he ripped off James by doing it before him, Since James specifically mentioned doing a ROB review. Those same fanboys more then likely forgot about back during the AVGN vs Nostalgia Critic feud, James said "There's no official sign up sheet for reviewing".
Anyway on March 3, 2011, almost 3 years "later", he finally puts out the R.O.B review his fans and blind sheep have been waiting for. What did they get? Pretty much AVGN's petty revenge against the Irate Gamer......5 years late. Seriously watch IG's review & James' back to back. there's too many similarities, it's uncanny.
1. While playing; they both glance over at ROB and how ridiculously slow it is.
2. Both ROBs end up being evil.
3. Both ROBs attack the reviewer.
4. The both defeat ROB by using a reflective surface (IG a mirror, AVGN a U-Force)
5. They get made when ROB kills their character in Gyromite
6. While play Block, they both get pissed when ROB knocks over a tower of blocks.
Sure a few seem to be a bit nit picky, but so were the ones against IG in his Back to the Future & TMNT reviews.
Now although they are similar, both reviews do have their differences;
James' version is more of well........comedic, for lack of a better term(and I use that term loosely). While the IG version, is more bare bones and explaining about ROB. Which James failed to do, I might add. Plus in IG's review ROB didn't talk while in AVGN's he had voice that sounded like the Speak and Spell with a cold.
Now another thing; although it was in one of IG's later reviews; he makes a joke about being Robbed and holding up R.O.B. A Lot of people criticized this joke; but in AVGN R.O.B review; When ROB as for Gyros, James spends a whole minute making a burrito and giving it to ROB. How is that joke not worse? At Least in IG's joke you actually understood it. To me when somone says gyro I think of a spinning device. Apparently a Burrito is a gyro. Maybe down south(I live in New England) they call it that normally, but don't a joke that a whole quarter of your fanbase wont understand.
AVGN: The Movie
Now my biggest gripe about James' his movie. Now He has said he wanted to be a filmaker, and making a movie his AVGN character is ok I guess. But instead of financing the project himself(Which he could do) he instead begs his fans for money. Now some AVGN fans were smart enough to see through James ponzi scheme, but unfortunately most of his blind followers were not. Now a few of the major problems I have with it are;
1. When he asked for money he gave very few details about the financing. (Is he aiming for local movie theater release, National release, straight to DVD, what?) We need to know what he's aiming for, otherwise (like it is now) James can just do the cheapest option, and keep the thousands of dollars left over for himself.
2. The fact that James could didn't need to ask the fans for money in the first place. He makes enough money to finance it himself, if he wants to go the cheaper route. Plus it's not like he's a struggling reviewer. He's on of the most popular and well known video game reviewers on youtube. He didn't need the fans help then, why would he need it now.
Now to wrap it up here, I suspect James AVGN Movie to be a series finale of sorts, since it's becoming increasingly obvious that he is running out of ideas for it. And he is just scrambling to rake in the last bit of cash he can.
AVGN definitely deserves a top spot on the Internet hit list, for going from such a respected and entertaining reviewer, to a desperate money whore, scrambling to milk his bone dry series even dryer.
See you guys next time!
EDIT: Since some people are incrediably dense, Allow me to post a video or two regarding AVGN's ROB review.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxw85OrYi9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo_xmkfl_iM&list=FLOfQ3rdfJ5rFRAeYSXMKgsw&index=10&feature=plpp_video
His game glitches episode was when he really lost me, and it became clear he was grasping at straws. *does best Mike Mozart impression* I mean really; The glitch gremlin? That more like something out of a children's cartoon. He even tells us how yo clean the cartridges; yeah because people who still own old school consoles don't how to do it by now.
I'm going to cut this off short to talk about probably his worst review.
AVGN's R.O.B Review
On May 14, 2008; James did an AVGN review of accessories for the NES. At the end of the episode he teases about reviewing ROB saying he'll get to it "Later". Then on May 29, 2008 IG posts his own review of R.O.B, most of AVGN blind fanboys say that he ripped off James by doing it before him, Since James specifically mentioned doing a ROB review. Those same fanboys more then likely forgot about back during the AVGN vs Nostalgia Critic feud, James said "There's no official sign up sheet for reviewing".
Anyway on March 3, 2011, almost 3 years "later", he finally puts out the R.O.B review his fans and blind sheep have been waiting for. What did they get? Pretty much AVGN's petty revenge against the Irate Gamer......5 years late. Seriously watch IG's review & James' back to back. there's too many similarities, it's uncanny.
1. While playing; they both glance over at ROB and how ridiculously slow it is.
2. Both ROBs end up being evil.
3. Both ROBs attack the reviewer.
4. The both defeat ROB by using a reflective surface (IG a mirror, AVGN a U-Force)
5. They get made when ROB kills their character in Gyromite
6. While play Block, they both get pissed when ROB knocks over a tower of blocks.
Sure a few seem to be a bit nit picky, but so were the ones against IG in his Back to the Future & TMNT reviews.
Now although they are similar, both reviews do have their differences;
James' version is more of well........comedic, for lack of a better term(and I use that term loosely). While the IG version, is more bare bones and explaining about ROB. Which James failed to do, I might add. Plus in IG's review ROB didn't talk while in AVGN's he had voice that sounded like the Speak and Spell with a cold.
Now another thing; although it was in one of IG's later reviews; he makes a joke about being Robbed and holding up R.O.B. A Lot of people criticized this joke; but in AVGN R.O.B review; When ROB as for Gyros, James spends a whole minute making a burrito and giving it to ROB. How is that joke not worse? At Least in IG's joke you actually understood it. To me when somone says gyro I think of a spinning device. Apparently a Burrito is a gyro. Maybe down south(I live in New England) they call it that normally, but don't a joke that a whole quarter of your fanbase wont understand.
AVGN: The Movie
Now my biggest gripe about James' his movie. Now He has said he wanted to be a filmaker, and making a movie his AVGN character is ok I guess. But instead of financing the project himself(Which he could do) he instead begs his fans for money. Now some AVGN fans were smart enough to see through James ponzi scheme, but unfortunately most of his blind followers were not. Now a few of the major problems I have with it are;
1. When he asked for money he gave very few details about the financing. (Is he aiming for local movie theater release, National release, straight to DVD, what?) We need to know what he's aiming for, otherwise (like it is now) James can just do the cheapest option, and keep the thousands of dollars left over for himself.
2. The fact that James could didn't need to ask the fans for money in the first place. He makes enough money to finance it himself, if he wants to go the cheaper route. Plus it's not like he's a struggling reviewer. He's on of the most popular and well known video game reviewers on youtube. He didn't need the fans help then, why would he need it now.
Now to wrap it up here, I suspect James AVGN Movie to be a series finale of sorts, since it's becoming increasingly obvious that he is running out of ideas for it. And he is just scrambling to rake in the last bit of cash he can.
AVGN definitely deserves a top spot on the Internet hit list, for going from such a respected and entertaining reviewer, to a desperate money whore, scrambling to milk his bone dry series even dryer.
See you guys next time!
EDIT: Since some people are incrediably dense, Allow me to post a video or two regarding AVGN's ROB review.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxw85OrYi9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo_xmkfl_iM&list=FLOfQ3rdfJ5rFRAeYSXMKgsw&index=10&feature=plpp_video
Sunday, March 25, 2012
BatDanNight
Ahh, how fitting that we start off this list with one of the most delusional people on the Internet. He runs a blog dedicated to hating on 1 person, The Irate Gamer(don't worry I'll get to him later). Unfortunately for him that's not even the saddest part, Some of the crap he complains about is just pure BS and hypocritical.
Lets dissect a few of his posts on IG shall we?(don't worry I will be as unbiased as I can, unlike him)
My favorite; his post about IG's Super Smash Bros. Brawl review.
"You know, I used to hate Super Smash Bros. Brawl." one sentence in and we already know how bias he will be.
"Easy, it was popular and lavishly praising the game would get him views." How dare this Internet reviewer review popular games to get views grrr.
As IG opens his review of Super Smash Bros "mee-lay"
"It’s “May-Lay”, you’re pronouncing it wrong!" How dare he pronounce a game differently then I do. What's next BatDan, you call him out for saying catsup instead of ketchup?
Now as IG goes on about the clone characters in Melee and how Brawl took care of the problem....
"NO IT DOESN’T! If anything it’s worse! Other than a different final smash, Ganondorf is still the same as Captain Falcon, Fox now has TWO clones with Falco and Wolf, Ness now has Lucas, and Young Link has been replaced with Toon Link and is still very similar to Link!"
Wow I doubt Batdan even played Brawl. He mentioned hating it earlier, so more then likely he rented it, played a few matches(not unlocking any of the characters he mentioned as "clones") and returned it. If, like myself, you've atleast completed the game, you could easily identify the huge differences in gameplay between the characters.
Ganondorf for example, is the exact opposite of Falcon. Ganon is slow and heavy, while Falcon is fast and light.
Ness is more offensive while Lucas is more defensive.
Fox and Falco are completely different. Fox is fast, while Falco is the high jumper. Falco also throws his reflector while fox doesn't. and Falco's blaster stuns opponents while Fox's doesn't.
Immediately following that load from BatdanNight night he follows it up with the most ironic comment; "the lack of research is worse than usual" No seriously, he says that after complaining about how Brawl still has clone characters. My god.....there's just no words to describe how ironic that line is.
Next from BatDanNight;
"He mentions how they got rid of “the duplicates” (as in the only 3 he mentioned), then Mewtwo, which he calls “not a big loss”. First off, fuck you. Mewtwo is awesome. Second, Mewtwo is technically still in Brawl, only his abilities transferred to Lucario. Then Roy, who he says was replaced by Ike. When he says his name he shows a picture of Ike from South Park. I know others have done this joke, yet somehow Bores completely failed with it. Lack of comic timing? Poor reaction? It’s up to you.
Yeah no bias there huh? Now in Melee; Mewtwo was my favorite character, but unlike this unprofessional prick, I'm not going to go apeshit because IG bashed my favorite character. anyway, again obvious Batdan didn't even beat the game, because when I played as Lucario I immediately noticed a difference between him and Mewtwo. The biggest being that Lucario's ability that makes it so the more damage he gets, the more he dishes out. He's also a bit heavier then Mewtwo. Now with Bores' Ike joke, I'll pick C. "I'm so bias that none of his jokes are funny." Or atleast that what Batdan chose.
BatDanNight:
"He brings up “huge milestones” which to him means the addition of Sonic the Hedgehog. “Nintendo and Sega together? Holy shit! Talk about world’s colliding!” This isn’t the first time it happened. Are you forgetting that one game you talked about? The one you called a piece of shit even though your only issue was that you sucked at the game? That one about the Olympics… ring a bell?"
yeah because there wasn't a huge outcry or anything for Sonic to be in the next Smash bros game, right? Now the game he is referring to is IG's review of Mario & Sonic @ Olympic Games. Lets see were the controls an issue with the game.......Yes they were. But again; I am focusing on BatDanNight, I'll cover Irate Gamer another time.
BatDanNight:
"He briefly mentions Snake (kind of obvious he’s never played Metal Gear Solid) and that the two have their own levels.
After IG goes over how he enjoyed Kid Icarus/Pit being in the game;
BatdanNight:
"His name isn’t Kid Icarus, it’s Pit! Kid Icarus was the game he was in. That would be like calling Marth “Fire Emblem” or Jigglypuff “Pokemon”. It gets worse when you remember that his name is listed below him on the select screen and the announcer says his name!"
Now is that such a huge crime? No. Kid Icarus was a very old Nintendo series, most people would only remember the character by the name of the game it was in.
BatDanNight:
"IG was worried that he would have to play with the Wii Remote + Nunchuck combo because it doesn’t work for fighting games. But is grateful when you could take out the Nunchuck and play with the remote on its side. Or you could not be an idiot and use a Gamecube controller, or the Classic controller. Not going to mention that are you?"
I guess I'm and idiot because I actually like playing it with the sideways Wii Remote. Granted IG should have brought up the GC and Classic controllers; most people got a Wii solely for Brawl. So most probably didn't have a Classic or Gamecube controller. Something bores should have brought up, but didn't have too.
BatdanNight:
"He says the graphics are “amazing” and sometimes found himself just staring at them. Sounds less like he was appreciating them and more like “ooooh I like shiny”."
What can I really say, he bashes IG for bringing up how the game looks. More immaturity from Batdan.
BatdanNight:
"IG brings up the stages. “All kinds of crazy places like castles and boats” Castles and boats? Shit man this game is insane right up there in the membrane! … So what games are those stages from? Anything? I don’t need the specific game, I’ll just accept the franchise it’s part of. No?"
Again, something he could have brought up, but he didn't have too.
BatdanNight:
Lets dissect a few of his posts on IG shall we?(don't worry I will be as unbiased as I can, unlike him)
My favorite; his post about IG's Super Smash Bros. Brawl review.
"You know, I used to hate Super Smash Bros. Brawl." one sentence in and we already know how bias he will be.
"Easy, it was popular and lavishly praising the game would get him views." How dare this Internet reviewer review popular games to get views grrr.
As IG opens his review of Super Smash Bros "mee-lay"
"It’s “May-Lay”, you’re pronouncing it wrong!" How dare he pronounce a game differently then I do. What's next BatDan, you call him out for saying catsup instead of ketchup?
Now as IG goes on about the clone characters in Melee and how Brawl took care of the problem....
"NO IT DOESN’T! If anything it’s worse! Other than a different final smash, Ganondorf is still the same as Captain Falcon, Fox now has TWO clones with Falco and Wolf, Ness now has Lucas, and Young Link has been replaced with Toon Link and is still very similar to Link!"
Wow I doubt Batdan even played Brawl. He mentioned hating it earlier, so more then likely he rented it, played a few matches(not unlocking any of the characters he mentioned as "clones") and returned it. If, like myself, you've atleast completed the game, you could easily identify the huge differences in gameplay between the characters.
Ganondorf for example, is the exact opposite of Falcon. Ganon is slow and heavy, while Falcon is fast and light.
Ness is more offensive while Lucas is more defensive.
Fox and Falco are completely different. Fox is fast, while Falco is the high jumper. Falco also throws his reflector while fox doesn't. and Falco's blaster stuns opponents while Fox's doesn't.
Immediately following that load from BatdanNight night he follows it up with the most ironic comment; "the lack of research is worse than usual" No seriously, he says that after complaining about how Brawl still has clone characters. My god.....there's just no words to describe how ironic that line is.
Next from BatDanNight;
"He mentions how they got rid of “the duplicates” (as in the only 3 he mentioned), then Mewtwo, which he calls “not a big loss”. First off, fuck you. Mewtwo is awesome. Second, Mewtwo is technically still in Brawl, only his abilities transferred to Lucario. Then Roy, who he says was replaced by Ike. When he says his name he shows a picture of Ike from South Park. I know others have done this joke, yet somehow Bores completely failed with it. Lack of comic timing? Poor reaction? It’s up to you.
Yeah no bias there huh? Now in Melee; Mewtwo was my favorite character, but unlike this unprofessional prick, I'm not going to go apeshit because IG bashed my favorite character. anyway, again obvious Batdan didn't even beat the game, because when I played as Lucario I immediately noticed a difference between him and Mewtwo. The biggest being that Lucario's ability that makes it so the more damage he gets, the more he dishes out. He's also a bit heavier then Mewtwo. Now with Bores' Ike joke, I'll pick C. "I'm so bias that none of his jokes are funny." Or atleast that what Batdan chose.
BatDanNight:
"He brings up “huge milestones” which to him means the addition of Sonic the Hedgehog. “Nintendo and Sega together? Holy shit! Talk about world’s colliding!” This isn’t the first time it happened. Are you forgetting that one game you talked about? The one you called a piece of shit even though your only issue was that you sucked at the game? That one about the Olympics… ring a bell?"
yeah because there wasn't a huge outcry or anything for Sonic to be in the next Smash bros game, right? Now the game he is referring to is IG's review of Mario & Sonic @ Olympic Games. Lets see were the controls an issue with the game.......Yes they were. But again; I am focusing on BatDanNight, I'll cover Irate Gamer another time.
BatDanNight:
"He briefly mentions Snake (kind of obvious he’s never played Metal Gear Solid) and that the two have their own levels.
“Having these two extra characters around is pretty cool” You mean Bowser and ROB? Because that’s what the footage is showing"
I didn't realize that you can tell when somone didn't play a game series just by the few words the use to mention the main character. and yes Batdan, he means Bowser and ROB. not the 2 characters he JUST mentioned.
BatdanNight:
"IG mentions that he’s glad that Mr. Game & Watch is back because that’s his favorite character. You know why he said that? To make himself sound retro. I bet he doesn’t even know where he comes from. It’s really obvious when he’s faking it."
So the ONLY reason he can like G&W is because he wants to make himself sound retro. Maybe he actually does like the character. If you played the game for more then five minutes you'd know how fun G&W was in both games. I like him too; I guess that means I'm just a wannabe retro gamer too huh?
After IG goes over how he enjoyed Kid Icarus/Pit being in the game;
BatdanNight:
"His name isn’t Kid Icarus, it’s Pit! Kid Icarus was the game he was in. That would be like calling Marth “Fire Emblem” or Jigglypuff “Pokemon”. It gets worse when you remember that his name is listed below him on the select screen and the announcer says his name!"
Now is that such a huge crime? No. Kid Icarus was a very old Nintendo series, most people would only remember the character by the name of the game it was in.
BatDanNight:
"IG was worried that he would have to play with the Wii Remote + Nunchuck combo because it doesn’t work for fighting games. But is grateful when you could take out the Nunchuck and play with the remote on its side. Or you could not be an idiot and use a Gamecube controller, or the Classic controller. Not going to mention that are you?"
I guess I'm and idiot because I actually like playing it with the sideways Wii Remote. Granted IG should have brought up the GC and Classic controllers; most people got a Wii solely for Brawl. So most probably didn't have a Classic or Gamecube controller. Something bores should have brought up, but didn't have too.
BatdanNight:
"He says the graphics are “amazing” and sometimes found himself just staring at them. Sounds less like he was appreciating them and more like “ooooh I like shiny”."
What can I really say, he bashes IG for bringing up how the game looks. More immaturity from Batdan.
BatdanNight:
"IG brings up the stages. “All kinds of crazy places like castles and boats” Castles and boats? Shit man this game is insane right up there in the membrane! … So what games are those stages from? Anything? I don’t need the specific game, I’ll just accept the franchise it’s part of. No?"
Again, something he could have brought up, but he didn't have too.
"Then he brings up stages that “bring back that nostalgic feeling” and cites the Donkey Kong and Mario Bros. stages. Once again, Chris is trying to sound retro because he’s an obvious fraud."
Again more immature bashing of IG. whether he deserves or not; how does that affect the quality of his review? IT DOESN'T.
BatDanNight:
"IG moves onto Subspace Emissary and only says that the cut scenes look cool. Aren’t you going to bring up how the plot is like a bad fanfic?"
With Brawl; the whole Subspace story is pretty difficult to explain. Like most people, I assume people played it for the game play not the story.
BatdanNight:
" “This game is hella fun” What are you Eric Cartman?
Now before you people start hurling your "Irate Fanboy" insults at me, I don't care for IG. I don't hate him but I don't like him.
“Especially when there’s four people playing” You can tell I’m having fun with this footage of me fighting three computer-controlled opponents.
“There’s really nothing bad I can say about this game” Yes, just ignore a lot of the games’ faults, it’s perfect in every way… for you to get views from the crazy Smash Bros. fanbase."
Yup more immature bashing of IG, what does that have to do with the review again? Oh that's right NOTHING!! Again, obvious that BatDanNight never played the game for more then five minutes. The game has flaws yeah, but very very few that aren't even worth mentioning.
BatdanNight:
"IG wishes to see other “Nintendo legends” like Mega Man, Simon Belmont, and Bomberman? No no no NO! Those are not Nintendo characters! Mega Man is owned by Capcom, Simon Belmont and the Castlevania series are owned by Konami, Bomberman is owned by Hudson Soft! Yes they were on the NES but that doesn’t make them “Nintendo characters”."
A decent enough compliant. But to be fair, Metal Gear Solid was on the NES. So I can understand the confusion Bores might have had.
And that's pretty much it. BatdanNight goes on about some "Captain N Teheory" he has aswell as more immature bashing Bores and pretty much complaing how IG gave the game a good review.
Yes, BatdanNight deffienetly deserves a place on the "Internet Hit List" Though I doubt we've heard the last of him.
Now before you people start hurling your "Irate Fanboy" insults at me, I don't care for IG. I don't hate him but I don't like him.
I understand what BatdanNight is trying to do, but he ends up falling flat on his face because of his obvious bias and immature comments towards Bores.
He's criticized IG before for deleting and blocking users who point out his flaws, well believe it or not BatdanNight has started doing the EXACT same thing.
Well that all for now, see ya ;)
Opening
Hello Internet community, and welcome to my new blog Internet Hit List. Now first off; to clarify this is not an actual "hit list", more of a "Hall of Shame" where I will occasionally write about random Internet celebrities who got alot more fame then they should have. As well as other Internet "trolls"(for lack of a better term). Whose delusional minds can't accept when they are wrong. I've got a long list so lets get started!
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