Quote:It's not that his opinion is 'just different' it's that he typically makes judgements based simply on exaggerated game faults so he can swear and make crap up.
Actually, I thought your comments on the guy were a lot more level-headed than mikeroach's.
But I think a lot of you are criticizing him based upon the actions of his "fans."
I didn't even know that he had fans, but then again I've been out of the NES scene for the past several years, and I never watch response videos on YouTube because they are nearly always painfully crappy.
I watch his videos simply as a joke. The guy clearly has a love for old video games. And really, MOST of the NES games he has trashed really did deserve it.
Despite the OP, I distinctly recall several people in elementary school complaining about the landing sequence in Top Gun. It's an often-cited problem. I never really cared for the game one way or the other, personally.
But seriously, who is going to defend "Friday the 13th" or "A Nightmare on Elm Street"? The Simpson games really are awful. "Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu" was good for a ColorDreams game, but bad by most standards.
Of course you're going to disagree with a few of his picks. MC Kids was a lot of fun, even if it did seem a little too much like a Mario game. TMNT was great, but it was tremendously frustrating. I remember being pretty ticked off when I finally figured out that I could walk across that little gap he falls through several times. Simon's Quest was great, but it did suffer from a few of the problems one tends to see in early console adventure games. But I think it just sort of wound up being in the wrong place at the wrong time for the AVGN. I mean, there are plenty of NES games with slow text that you can't skip. It's annoying in all of them.
Quote: For example, in Silver Surfer he continuously dies during the flying pumpkin part when in fact it's not that hard at all. He keeps hitting them so he can keep swearing and make it seem like it's absolutely impossible to play. It's not. Damn hard, yeah, but really playable, I've beaten it without cheats.
Wait, so is it "not hard at all" or is it "Damn hard"?
Or, I guess you just meant the pumpkin part. I really haven't played that game in about 13 years or so. My youthful evaluation was that it was unplayable, so I wound up using a game genie, but I only really had about an hour with the game, so maybe it's just one of those that you have to spend time with before it becomed enjoyable. Also, I hadn't really played many video games before that, so I wasn't very coordinated yet.
Maybe it's like the NES version of Star Wars. I hated that game the first time I played it, but it grew on me quite a bit. It's still way too hard, though. You shouldn't have to memorize a game to be able to finish it.
Quote:It seems he may be listening to comments like mine a bit because he swore less, AND, finally, actually went into detailed explanations of game mechanics.
Yes, I'd say you're probably right that the whole thing is more enjoyable with an explanation of the game mechanics. Other than Die Hard, I think I've played every NES game he's reviewed. I might get different ideas about the games if I had never played them and only had his "review" to form an opinion.
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