Why is there so much hate for AVGN nowadays?

[Raskolnikov]

Sure AVGN is less frequent nowadays, but I still like his content. Bill and Ted was hilarious!!

[Lakobus]

His old videos were great. Ever since he's started involving Mike in his videos, other than the art work, they've been ♥♥♥♥. It's all cosplay and play fighting and scripted swearing. The movie looks like ♥♥♥♥ too.

[Raskolnikov]

Originally posted by Lakobus:

His old videos were great. Ever since he's started involving Mike in his videos, other than the art work, they've been ♥♥♥♥. It's all cosplay and play fighting and scripted swearing. The movie looks like ♥♥♥♥ too.

I thought bugs bunny and batman were hilarious

[BridgetFisher]

I dont think people hate AVGN, never see much hate, opinions sure but not much hate. Maybe hate is the wrong word, people just dont care anymore since there is no new content in the last few years, that is normal, its like asking how come more people arent watching Seinfeld, well seinfeld isnt on the air so its pretty simple, same thing is same thing.

[lateralus_o_negative]

I love James and AVGN. True story, I once worked 36 hours straight writing a scientific publication and the only way I got through it was discovering AVGN and listening to AVGN in the background, I watched nearly 100 episodes in a row.

Although I'm a huge fan of AVGN, I'm not enjoying the direction that cinemassacre has gone in recently (Who does?). Obviously I have nothing personal against Mike but he just doesn't connect with me like James does and at the end of the day AVGN is winding down. Clearly james doesn't have his heart in the project (He has been doing it for years) and wants to move onto new pastures (which is fair enough and to be expected). Just like everything, it sucks when a fun enjoyable piece of continuous entertainment comes to a end, hence the hate.

[lateralus_o_negative]

Originally posted by Eek!:

The series has definitely dwindled due to other commitments and, as you say, the fact it's gone on for so long! I wrote in another thread a few days ago James kept trying to go bigger and bigger with each new video, too, and I think a scaling back of that would be fine were he to continue. They'd certainly come out quicker. I miss the old vids which were more like general game commentaries than anything else, although I don't buy the notion by another user that there was anything but scripted swearing (or at least when the series took off); they just became more obvious as he revelled in it!

Its not just AVGN, its the whole Cinemassacre website, what I love about james is his keen insight and extensive knowledge about retro gaming as well as classic cinema and kitch film making. Anyone who critisises James for having a heavily scripted and 'stock' attitude to AVGN needs to watch his funny, passionate and criitical analysis of the castlevania series. Anyone who questions his credibility should watch his review of Ed Wood's carear or his top 10 best twilightzone episodes. Personally I don't care if mike just ends up taking over the Cinemassacre website all together and James put his tallent to use in other creative projects.

[Raskolnikov]

Originally posted by lateralus_o_negative:

Originally posted by Eek!:

The series has definitely dwindled due to other commitments and, as you say, the fact it's gone on for so long! I wrote in another thread a few days ago James kept trying to go bigger and bigger with each new video, too, and I think a scaling back of that would be fine were he to continue. They'd certainly come out quicker. I miss the old vids which were more like general game commentaries than anything else, although I don't buy the notion by another user that there was anything but scripted swearing (or at least when the series took off); they just became more obvious as he revelled in it!

Its not just AVGN, its the whole Cinemassacre website, what I love about james is his keen insight and extensive knowledge about retro gaming as well as classic cinema and kitch film making. Anyone who critisises James for having a heavily scripted and 'stock' attitude to AVGN needs to watch his funny, passionate and criitical analysis of the castlevania series. Anyone who questions his credibility should watch his review of Ed Wood's carear or his top 10 best twilightzone episodes. Personally I don't care if mike just ends up taking over the Cinemassacre website all together and James put his tallent to use in other creative projects.

You know what, i'll have to agree. I wish AVGN would scale back on the scripts and preparation of his videos. I really enjoyed ikari warriors though. I have a feeling that AVGN movie will be his swansong.

[Darkenmal]

It's because we got used to him. A few years of awesome, hilarious videos, and then he ran of out of jokes and he started to rehash. Happened to the Nostalgia Critic as well.

[Drain]

Funny thing is that people like James and Doug Walker(NC) practically invented this web series sort of thing. Now days, it's all over the internet. Everyone is jerking off on YT in poor attempts hoping to be the next big thing and strike gold. The internet has turned into a gold rush for video makers. When these folks started doing this; almost no one was doing it, and they were actually best at it. They didn't even plan for this success; they just did it for fun then noticed that thousands of people were begging them for more videos. But now, you've got thatguywiththeglasses.com, drowned in talentless web series video makers and YT covered with them top to bottom. Some do it because they enjoy it. Others do it just to revenue farm by rushing to cover the newest game as fast as possible.

Originally posted by Darkenmal:

It's because we got used to him. A few years of awesome, hilarious videos, and then he ran of out of jokes and he started to rehash. Happened to the Nostalgia Critic as well.

None of this is true. He could rehash forever and people would like it. He'll always be a classic. The issue people is upset about is the fact that he slowed his video making to a crawl. As for NC; the show was stopped not from failing popularity, but due to Doug wanting to quit it himself. He was tired of doing NC. He wanted to quit it then go on to make Demo Reel. But Demo Reel bombed really hard because everyone wanted more NC, not Demo Reel. He later brought back NC due to this, but spliced Demo Reel into it, which was a bad move on his part. He made a big mess where NC+Demo Reel both had 2 different versions. The new version of NC is basically a splice of the first version with the first version of Demo Reel. It's a mess, and people are quitting NC as a result. Personally, I consider the Scooby Doo episode to be the last one. The newer ones are spliced with Demo Reel 1.0 and are too sketch filled.

[lateralus_o_negative]

Funny enough James has just come out with one of the better recent AVGN episodes, not over the top, passionate and featuring lots of interesting historical gaming info....well thats a turn up for the books.

[SylveonLover]

People on internet are trolls. when I see an Irate Gamer episode every hates him comparing him to AVGN. When I am here well... everybody hates the AVGN. That´s the troll folks!

[a13sonsuh]

It seems like the last 2 or 3 years he just kinda phones in every episode. He don’t really try anymore cause he is focused on other projects.