Irate Gamer vs. AVGN vs. NC

[The Halloween Captain]

i wanted this thread to be about AVGN irate and nostalgia critic not to bring in other clowns like that zero who sucks monkey turd ***

Are you kidding Zero is funny. Irate just screams AVGN. His accent is the same as well.

Just face the music, Irate gamer is seriously a ripoff and he doesn't make me laugh.

Fact is, Yahtzee (who makes Zero Punctuation) is the single best critic mentioned in this thread. He can't be called just another "clown" when he is superior to everyone else mentioned so far. AVGN isn't very good in comparison, and Irate is a ripoff of AVGN, so I have to appreciate the fact that Yahtzee is my favorite critic right now.

Now if there is a more entertaining critic than him, bring it up, but the current "big three" aren't very big.

 

[woody72691]

if i havent heard of him, he's a clown and i've heard a lot of critcs in my time

 

[The Halloween Captain]

if i havent heard of him, he's a clown and i've heard a lot of critcs in my time

That's not how it works.

A clown is a non-professional critic who thinks he's funny/entertaining, but he's not. AVGN and Irate Gamer are not all that funny or entertaining, thus, they are clowns.

A good negative critic is both regular in his reviews and entertaining to watch. It doen't matter if you've heard of him/her or not; if the critic does at least one review per month, and has game-bashing humor that is worth the time of the 5 minute review, then he is a good negative critic. If one critic has a better five mintue review than another on a regular basis, then the first critic is better than the second critic.

So stop bashing on critics that you never heard of, especially ones who are fairly well known (like Zero Punctuation, judging by the responses other posters in this thread, obviously is).

 

[Skrah]

That's not how it works.

A clown is a non-professional critic who thinks he's funny/entertaining, but he's not. AVGN and Irate Gamer are not all that funny or entertaining, thus, they are clowns.

A good negative critic is both regular in his reviews and entertaining to watch. It doen't matter if you've heard of him/her or not; if the critic does at least one review per month, and has game-bashing humor that is worth the time of the 5 minute review, then he is a good negative critic. If one critic has a better five mintue review than another on a regular basis, then the first critic is better than the second critic.

So stop bashing on critics that you never heard of, especially ones who are fairly well known (like Zero Punctuation, judging by the responses other posters in this thread, obviously is).

You're right. Although no one can decide if AVGN and/or Irate Gamer are funny or not, that's completely up to yourself. I personally like both AVGN and Zero Punctuation. IG sucks.

 

[The Halloween Captain]

You're right. Although no one can decide if AVGN and/or Irate Gamer are funny or not, that's completely up to yourself. I personally like both AVGN and Zero Punctuation. IG sucks.

Yeah, I need to remember that good is subjective.

Spoiler

Except concerning E.T.

 

[woody72691]

i really cant see where your taking this but who cares i now want your feedback on nostalgia critc, he's good, u cant deny that he is original

 

[The Halloween Captain]

i really cant see where your taking this but who cares i now want your feedback on nostalgia critc, he's good, u cant deny that he is original

Truth is, before you told me NC stood for Nostalgia Critic, I never heard of the series.

He's actually pretty good from the first few minutes of his Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog review. Clearly above Irate and AVGN IMO, but not exactly directly comparable.

I like that Zero Punctuation flashes a ton of still images at you really quickly, ranting about a game while taking his comments in sudden, somewhat unexpected directions. It's almost like he thought up his rant on the spot, so the continuity isn't perfect, which makes it very humerous ("Mixing real time strategy and turn-based strategy is like mixing jam and ****" - with visual representations, it's a classic). Nostalgia Critic, from what I've seen, uses the "So angry I'm smiling" style, which is actually one of my favorite forms of expressing anger. They are not easy to directly compare because not only do they employ radically different forms of annoyance, but they do it with criticisms of significantly different mediums with different styles of presentation altogether.

 

[woody72691]

i've never heard of him, i just go off the top 3 i know

 

[Skrah]

I just watched some Nostalgia Critic vids, and I have to say he's pretty good. Not sure who is better between him and AVGN, but he obviously beats IG.

His High School Musical review is hilarious.

 

[woody72691]

is it he does the best things ever

 

[Frown]

The Irate gamer gives his own Amazon products top reviews. I really dislike the guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlr8LnOB7j0

 

[The Halloween Captain]

You know, even if Irate does rip off his material from AVGN, it's still the same material, except he does it with better video editting.

I in no way like either critic, but if you have to chose between a bare-bones original and an equally good rip-off, the latter having nice special effects, then the rip-off is going to be both better and more popular until it is realized what the rip-off is doing.

 

[AranOcean]

I like them both, but I perfer AVGN. James is funnier, angrier, and more crude than IRateGamer, which makes AVGN better imo.

 

[woody72691]

doug will just go off on movies which is great

 

[Hoodie Ninja]

AVGN might be inspired by Sean Baby though i doubt it however, the fact is though, Seanbaby's reviews are also said differently, not only that but AVGN also doesn't directly quote Seanbaby. You can say Quentin Tarantino is in fact a Plagarist but his **** is completely different and his works are inspirations. Letalone if anything even if you are a fan of Irate, IF AVGN did steal Seanbaby's reviews, AVGN is the first person to adapt his style in Video Reviews making it comedic, i don't think seanbaby would ever be able to do that.

anyways besides that whole AVGN and Irate thing, i would just like to mention how idiotic it is that he lies in his Reviews trying to make good games look bad escpecially Aladdin, Aladdin IS one of the simplest Platformers done well, the controls are smooth and he totally forgot to mention the floating Cloth you can easily acquire even if you die. By pressing R1 he can easily get all those red gems in hard to reach places, yeah it takes SOME SKILL, but it's pretty easy with the Floating Cloth.

Anyways I would also like to mention that in the game Aladdin you can easily get continues by collecting the easy to get Golden Bug that flies out of Certain Chests, Did i also forget to mention 1up's that popup even after you die and restart from the checkpoint before you get the 1up? So you can literally get 1up's over and over and over even after u die in some parts of the game.

Also as i said he just completely forgot to tell anybody about the Floating Cloth which can help you alot with getting gems and escpecially fly by the levels like it's no tomorrow.

(i posted this on a different forum since he posted on gotgame that AVGN is a seanbaby rip off, and that the conscpiracies of Irate Gamer somehow using the same words "what a ****load of ****" and style is not a coincedence but of course fact original post http://forums.gotgame.com/index.php?showtopic=732)
Anyways also Armake21truth it's obvious your conscparicies are quite farfetched seeing as your thoughts of AVGN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnLbFW8-5c

are just all plagarist work, that is false, any person with a blind eye could see that Bible Game "noah's ark" that Noah is powerfull letalone make jokes about that and a SMB2 or Doki Doki Panic clone.

And AVGN didn't specifically say 3 animals or Superhuman Strength, in fact if anything he expanded the idea and made it even funnier, Irate gamer on the other hand has not expanded on the AVGN idea he is basically a Clone of AVGN, ask any normal person on the street and compare them 2, they'll say it's about the same.

The fact is AVGN is much more original then both Seanbaby and Irate Gamer, The fact is is that AVGN happened to review SOME of the games Sean Baby has which Were already known to be bad, the **** you said about AVGN could also be said about Irate Gamer. So your arguments are very very moot. They really have no sense to them except for same themes said very differently in a much more comedic tone then Seanbabies reviews.

Example

Sean Baby"Very few historians knew about Noah's superhuman strength. Here he is holding three farm animals above his head to get in shape for the repopulation of Earth. Back then, fertility exercises involved lifting cows."

AVGN "HOLY ****! Noah Did that all by himself? by picking the animals up all by himself? Noah man, nobody ****s with him, not even chuck norris." etc... not 100% accurate but that pretty sums up what AVGN says about his Human Strength.

The differences are completely obvious, AVGN is able to either review the same game with saying it completely different and adds comedic value (even if you do think AVGN plagarizes seanbaby this is irrefutable), or AVGN just reviewed the same game by chance and reviewed the same flaws.

However when Irate does it, his words are always too similar to AVGN escpecially in this Aladdin Review which is almost alike to his Silver Surfer review.

While Silver Surfer IS a known hard game and Aladdin is not a hard game, letalone Irate Gamer is really in it just for the fame, AVGN takes his work much more serious escpecially in his DVD's. How he says direct Quotes from AVGN such as his Silver Surfer review and Aladdin.

also one more thing i want to mention is that Irategamer is most likely an ONLINE TROLL their is no way he could come up with the exact same words and tone as AVGN when he says "you touch the ceiling you die, you touch the floor you die" etc... you know what i'm saying.

OH and one more thing (i know i'm beginning to sound a little repeitive but hear me out) one more reason why I think he is a online troll not only "Sometimes" copying off of AVGN, but from deleting every single negative comment about constructive criticsm's or any comparison to AVGN videos, and disables his comments in alot of his older videos to prevent so called "spamming." Which I personally think is highly cowardice.

AVGN has alot of negative comments as well on his Youtube videos along with some negative gametrailers comments but does AVGN delete his comments? Nope he takes it a like a man.

 

[Hoodie Ninja]

You know, even if Irate does rip off his material from AVGN, it's still the same material, except he does it with better video editting.

I in no way like either critic, but if you have to chose between a bare-bones original and an equally good rip-off, the latter having nice special effects, then the rip-off is going to be both better and more popular until it is realized what the rip-off is doing.

not really, all Irate Gamer does not have better editing, Irate Gamer just uses flashy CGI effects.

The knowledge of James Rolfe also has on movies is quite amazing, he is also a pretty good movie critic and know's his stuff. Just watch his TMNT Live Action reviews and also his top10's and Horror Movie History. Along with how AVGN is actually a true gamer, I say this only because alot of what Irate reviews are just flashy CGI effects without explaining simple things like Aladdin's R1 floating Cloth which you will get throughout the map.

So no, i don't think Irate Gamer is a true gamer, also AVGN's product and DVD quality is also better so Buisness wise, i would definately say AVGN takes it much more seriously.

Also Irategamer or ChrisBores obviously likes to copy other peoples work without really adding anything different from the original source like Ghost Hunters or Chris Bores version of Ghost Hunters "Haunted Investigators"

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_ys?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=irate+gamer&x=0&y=0

 

[Red Exodus]

I have never watched a IG vid so I can't pass judgment on him.

AVGN tends to be hit or miss depending on the game and whether or not he decides to make a skit. I prefer not to watch lengthy skits because watching him play games with terrible design is a hell of a lot more funny than watching him act.

Yahtzee is also hit and miss, sometimes it just feels like he's rambling on because it's supposed to go with zero punctuation rather than actually reviewing valid problems with the game.

 

[The Halloween Captain]

I have never watched a IG vid so I can't pass judgment on him.

AVGN tends to be hit or miss depending on the game and whether or not he decides to make a skit. I prefer not to watch lengthy skits because watching him play games with terrible design is a hell of a lot more funny than watching him act.

Yahtzee is also hit and miss, sometimes it just feels like he's rambling on because it's supposed to go with zero punctuation rather than actually reviewing valid problems with the game.

Truth be told, I kinda assumed Yahtzee dislikes video games in general, but likes complaining about them.

 

[Hoodie Ninja]

I have never watched a IG vid so I can't pass judgment on him.

AVGN tends to be hit or miss depending on the game and whether or not he decides to make a skit. I prefer not to watch lengthy skits because watching him play games with terrible design is a hell of a lot more funny than watching him act.

Yahtzee is also hit and miss, sometimes it just feels like he's rambling on because it's supposed to go with zero punctuation rather than actually reviewing valid problems with the game.

i kinda agree, his skits are descent his acting is descent but his reactions while playing ****ty games is priceless.

 

[freeman123]

Irate Gamer is just a cheap rip off of AVGN. I have no idea who Nostalgia Critic is, but he sounds like an AVGN rip off too.

 

[Frown]

Irate Gamer is just a cheap rip off of AVGN. I have no idea who Nostalgia Critic is, but he sounds like an AVGN rip off too.

No, he mostly reviews bad movies.

 

[Skrah]

Nostalgia Critic is actually pretty good.

 

[Zunari]

AVGN is my favorite of the 3, my personal favorite being His review on DR.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde.
I really like NC, but i cant say i have an immediate favourite.
As for irate gamer, he's just annoying. His voice is irritating, the jokes are stupid and it just sounds like hes going out of his way to make the game look worse than it is.
All in all, IG<NC<AVGN.

Of course thats only my opinion

 

[Kei_Takaro]

Oh btw, whatever happend to Armake/ NicotineAlien? I liked every review these guys made, AVGN alot too

 

[Brawlmatt202]

Irate Gamer SUCKS! Nuff said. :/

As for the Angry Video Game Nerd and Nostalgia Critic, I like them both, and they're both good at what they do. The AVGN vs. NC thing was an interesting take, both of them being arrogant jerks was a bit much for me, but it was all in good fun.

 

[Plummn]

For NC I'd have to say the tom and jerry episode. Irate guy, I'm not sure. Mabey the ROB review or ET? And for the AVGN, definatly the Zelda CD-i!

 

[woody72691]

man he went crazy durning the Zelda-cdi thing. those games are really bad.

 

[Skrah]

Another game reviewer that could be considered good is the Game Overthinker. He's kinda new.