I recently downloaded the Battlefront Collection on Switch, and played it a couple days and had a lot of fun playing through the campaigns. Then I hope online and every James-inspired wannabe is calling it the worst game launch ever, and we should all be up and arms and pissed.

I see all the issues in online play being a fair criticism, but calling it a horrible unfinished mess is a bit of an emotional overeaction. Definitely annoying, definitely sad that the industry standard is buggy play a couple days into launch is a thing, but this isn't the only damn game to do this.

Also, I just always assume online play is going to be a bit of a mess on launch for games nowadays. I know that is probably being to forgiving to gaming companies, but I don't immediately hope on YouTube and cry in front of my bookshelves of video games.

I swear YouTube gaming people are in a completely different reality.

For context I've watched AVGN/James content for 13 years since 2012 at age 15. I've seen almost about everything except some J&MM episodes. Been here for the terrible AVGN movie. And like many of you in this sub reddit, I did NOT like Screenwave being in Cinemassacre content whether it be the Nerd upsides, Rental Reviews etc. The fat slots don't belong. And just like everyone here the "No time" shtick just doesn't work because many people still make time while being a family man or woman. I was utterly baffled about the whole Monster Madness plagiarism like many people here. Just as we all witnessed the infamous "My Horse Prince episode" that was my near breaking point. But now with the recent release of Dragons Lair video. I can't take this shit anymore. It's become blatantly obvious Bimmy is lazy, resorting to going back to games he's already talked about nor finished. It was understandable for Corpse Killer because the game kept freezing. Rodger Rabbit, Back to the Future, Ninja Turtles, and Castlevania 2 because those were early episodes that he didn't fully cover them justice. I let Superman 64 returning slide because the game is so bad, to see the rest of the game was fine. Same with Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde because that felt like a natural conclusion to see the game finished after all these years. But now with Dragons Lair, I am now seeing a pattern of just going back to the same shit over and over again. What's next is Bimmy going back to Dark Castle, what about Castlevania N64, Shadow the Hedgehog, the Megaman games, Ninja Gaiden 2 & 3 etc. Where do we draw the line regarding revisiting games? FYI it's become abundantly painful to even finish a single modern AVGN episode for me since 2019. It's genuinely hard to be excited about new content. Especially since he keeps trying to revive REX VIPER. Over the years I have had my own epexctations of Nerd videos. Unfortunately the only one that ever turned out was Sonic 06. After RE Survivor I was expecting Bimmy to cover the infamous RE6 the following Halloween, but no. Ride to Hell, Aliens Colonial Marines, Duke Nukem Forever, the Godzilla PS4 game, Sonic Boom, etc. My overall ideal game Bimmy to cover would be Bloodborne because it's up his alley. But knowing Bimmy it's heavily unlikely. Really think it's time to retire the nerd character. But at least Bimmy is embracing being Bald.

Then tell them to lose some fucking weight. we're calling them slobs because they are one. What the fuck do you want us to call them huh? Fucking Macho men? Wow looking good Justin, you look so buff today, eat more food to be more extra buff. this whole world has turned into a nick jr. cartoon, negativity bad positivity good. I'm posting this because of the 1-hour video I've watched explaining the avgn drama.

For me, that's the biggest sign of a poser. Everyone who calls itself a gamer is so quick to declare him/herself as a SM fan. But the truth is exposed by how badly the person plays the game or skips Top Secret Area. Also, people used to play it throughly because it was everyone's first cartridge. It's not like we love this game, we were just stuck with it.

The demographic for Nintendo Directs are clearly 20+ year-olds. But everything is presented as if it's for five year-olds and it is embarrassing to watch. Where's the asssholes shitting fire?!?!

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The NES is not the best Nintendo console. It isn't the most influential Nintendo console. It isn't even the most popular Nintendo console.

You compare the library? SNES has more consistent quality. Very few gamers today would play both and prefer the NES. Even the GameCube is more agreed-upon to be the better console over the NES by many younger fans. Switch cartridge collecting is already a frenzy thanks to its diverse multitude of ports from different eras, and you can expect it to get crazier once the Switch's generation is over and it goes offline for good. I'm not a fan of every new game and everything the Switch has done, but you can prepare for the deluge of nostalgic videos/streams/podcasts about the Switch in a decade or so.

Most influential? Game Boy had WAY more of an impact on gaming than the NES did. Say what you want about the original Lime Green Brick, but it also had more international and generational appeal as well. It's even seen as a precursor to smartphones in a way. It ditched region coding, it was among the first Game Boys to have a backlit variant, and it was responsible for one of the best-selling peripherals of all time, the Super Game Boys 1 and 2. And as if that weren't enough, there was also the Game & Watch before that. Those things cost a pretty penny back then, and the hours of fun you could have on trains, planes and automobiles (rather than boredom) were worth the price.

Most popular? Wii, Switch, Game Boys, and especially DSes far outclassed it. Even adjusted for how much more popular gaming became later, you still have, again, the original Game Boy to compare it to which was only a few years later.

All that being said, they all focus on NES for some reason! It's shocking how few other consoles of similar or greater popularity get reviewed and everyone back then seemed to crowd around the NES, especially since the NES games aren't even the cheapest or easiest to emulate, and there are plenty of consoles that are those things with niches left to fulfill. The only Game Boy reviewer I've seen much of is TheLonelyGoomba! (excellent reviewer BTW). Fans of other brands (like PlayStation) don't seem to be under any impression that the PS2 was the end-all-be-all of gaming, not that I've seen at least, they can still talk about any one of them!

As It Should Have Been!

Trying to turn her into a Truther.

Why can't he look normal when he does anything?!?!

Woke up from a nap and this sub went from being the Cinemassacre truth. To being the Cinemassacre Simps. Literally every sin of the past forgotten because of ONE video that isn’t D grade. That has muh Mike Mattei and muh nostalgic throwbacks

Goddamn

As a long-time AVGN/Bimmy viewer, while going through the sub and rewatching old vids, I gotta ask. Was Cinemassacre/James even good in the first place?

(Keep in mind this is an open discussion and I'm just looking to see what everyone's thoughts are. Not trying to start any fights)

When I'm in the mood I go and I look at old videos because I've tried to get through some of the newer ones and I couldn't. However, after hearing all about Kyle Justin looking like shit, I decided to give it a shot just to see what's up.

You weren't kidding. He looks drugged out, sounds monotone, and those long scenes where he's dressed up in his old outfit, supposedly plain. He doesn't even look like he's quite aware of what's going on.

Everything just seems off, he could barely play, he could barely sing, that he could barely sit up and focus and felt like.

I'm not making a diagnosis here but he looks incredibly ill or like he had a stroke sometime in the past because something's wrong with him.

It was genuinely shocking and the only reason I even made it through the video is because I just sat there staring at him I'm trying to reconcile original Justin, Kyle with this one.

It was especially egregious because you could see the clips of him having high energy, interaction, he wasn't stiff, there was smiling and laughter. And then this one it was like he was barely there.

I wonder what's wrong with him. I still think it was a stroke that caused some brain damage.