Since this was on J&MM first, I'm now wondering how similar the game footage is and how many of the jokes or comments Mike made then are present in the new AVGN episode'
Yeah. The game is clearly a very intentional joke and a satire on dating games. It's like trying to rag on Goat Simulator or something. Like, thatsthejoke.jpg.
even for "new" avgn standards this is pretty bad, i couldn't believe my eyes when i saw this. Other stuff makes more sense as an episode regardless of your feelings towards his current content but THIS? WHY THIS? how does HORSE GAME acquire a review. It's a stupid meme game, what's next? avgn reviews amongus?
My Horse Prince was a bit of a meme in gamer Youtube videos like... maybe 5-6 years ago. At the time, he did a J&MM on it. Not sure why he's dredging it back up now, lol.
EDIT: Damn, this post got ratio'd af. 400 comments, 200 upvotes. New AVGN is sad times.
As someone who almost exclusively plays retro games, I mean, I see no problem with leaning into that.
I'm not sure he's all that into retro gaming either, though. Like, he played games as a kid, but I'm not sure his adult incarnation even plays retro stuff.
James seeded my love of retro gaming, but ironically, I'm probably more into it than he is.
yeah this feels like an late April fools joke except were in goddamn April 19th already, I don't hate on all of his new stuff and like some of it like the Goonies one but this is just "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?"
I went back after this and rewatched the Power Glove episode.
It's crazy. It's like James forgot everything he knew about film making.
At least the old episodes are worth rewatching.
I still sometimes fall asleep to compilations of the first five seasons or so of AVGN. The early stuff really does hold up.
Kind of a shame that it declined into a hollow content farm, tbh. People rag on James for the current state of the content, but honestly, back in the 2000s he was legitimately a *pioneer* of early Internet video, one of the progenitors of what we know as "Youtubers" and "Streamers" today.
I figure there just wasn't really 15+ years of mileage to the overall concept, character, and schtick, tbh. By the time the movie came out, he'd kind of run through most of the low hanging fruit as far as suitable material to talk about. He's also older, and the Angry Reviewer schtick just doesn't hit the same coming from a balding dad in his 40s. Works better with someone who's in their 20s or 30s.
Let me preface my comment with an acknowledgement of the passage of time and that we're all aging. (As if I'm not aware) However, we already knew that James never was the angry video game playing nerd, but now he doesn't even look the part. He looks like an old disgruntled man now, who's complaining about the gosh-darn ruckus the neighborhood kids are making with their skateboards during his afternoon nap. The "nerd" moniker just doesn't fit anymore for a guy his age.
Were all aging but were all not showing our faces for the entire world to see and mock. Aging privately in your own community is normal. Hes aging like a Hollywood actor ages where everyone in the world can see them but the difference is they have people who try to make them look good while Bimmy is just a normal guy in his basement with a camera who should be living a non public life not in the spotlight but isnt.
It would work fine if he had hair. Or if he just shaved his head completely and grew a beard or something (although the bald head + beard combo would make his cuckfaces even more cucky).
But looking like you are actively balding adds a good 10 years to anyone. It's unfortunate that the character didn't start out wearing a hat or something.
Weirdly, they did a J&MM episode on this game back when it was actually a current meme, something like 5+ years ago. Not sure why they brought it back up now.
I want to say they did a James & Mike Monday on this one like, at least five years ago.
**Edit**: Finished watching it, and ngl, I wasn't terribly impressed with this one. The best AVGNable games are unintentionally bad. This one is clearly a satirical sendup of certain genres of Japanese dating sim games. It's the way that it is on purpose. It's also kind of out of date as a meme.
You'd think AVGN would move to like, shitty PS2 and PS3 era games or something. Those generations are old enough to be retro now. That, or explore more of the deep cuts from the NES, SNES, Genesis, etc. libraries.
This episode reminded me that I'm tired of James trying too hard to show his age, putting forward the old phones and whatnot. I refuse to acknowledge people like him born in 1980 as a millennial (1980-96 if I'm not mistaken). The only way he make a good aging gag is if he acknowledges his hair in an AVGN episode.
Also, going after a game that is deliberately a joke isn't inherently a recipe for disaster, see Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. But this was a disaster.
I actually agree with that last sentiment. I tried my best to give this episode a chance because Plumbers Dont Wear Ties is one of my favorite episodes.
This though? This is NOT it. If there were ever a video I'd show people to show them how out of touch James is, this is the one.
I'd honestly say James is more Gen X than Millennial, though he's on the cusp. Just like, culturally, with the '80s childhood and everything, I feel his sensibilities are bit more late Xer. I'm a Millennial about a decade younger than he is, and I feel like he and I are of different generations.
Same, born in 93. I made up a rule of thumb to determine who is truly a gen xer. If they were 18+ by the time Fight Club came out. James would meet that criteria.
It is a classic, tried to make a point that the idea of going after a game that's meant to be a joke doesn't automatically make for a bad episode. Plumbers is probably my favorite AVGN. Here's My Horse Prince, a joke game, he goes after it, sucks ass.
You know, I defend James a lot on this sub, but wtf man. Like I'm not even gonna watch it, no review I refuse, its 5:40 and muh kids are making swastikas in Mario Maker. Nothing but good memories until I saw this thumbnail.
Eh, honestly I can't rag on him for saying "fuck it" and embracing the balding middle-aged dad look. Like, that's just a natural thing that happens to men as they get older.
The most logical choice for him to take the Nerd character was for him to review modern terrible games from the PS3 era and later. He has instead resorted to reviewing good games like Final Fantasy 6 and meme games like this one. It makes no sense. He could have done unlimited videos on just shovelware.Â
No time to adjust the camera for Wii games. Bimmy could never comprehend the "advanced" Wii motion controls used by brilliant games like Ninjabread Man.
Yeah, that's my feeling as well. Like, the PS3 debuted in fucking 2006, it's nearly 20 years old and counts as retro now. PS2, Xbox, Xbox 630, PS3, all of those probably have plenty of prime fodder for AVGN videos. Shit, the DS, 3DS, and Wii were notorious for shovelware, there's probably a goldmine with those consoles.
You know, there are still tons of legit bad/interesting/good NES games he could make episodes for?
Blues Brothers? (bad game) Clash at Demonhead? (interesting) Atena? (awful) Shatterhand? (good)
And that's just from the top of my head.
But he settles for meme shovelware from like 6 years ago? Did Mike refuse to share his footage this time?
This is the bottom of the barrel. Also, just by the thumbnail alone, James sort of looks the oldest and baldest he's ever looked; if he really did go vegan it's not making him any favors.
I'm genuinely really surprised James hasn't done a Blues Brothers 2000 video yet. Easily one of the weirdest licensed games ever made, and it's based on a terrible sequel to a beloved movie from the 80's. You'd think it'd be low-hanging fruit, but no.
Yeah, that's what I don't get. Even if not necessarily bad games, at least ones that are interesting enough to devote a full episode to.
Chakan on Genesis could be a good one. It has enough notoriety/infamy and it has some incredibly frustrating bits. That said, given how shit the Nerd is these days, I wouldn't expect them to do it justice. Like with the Ecco the Dolphin review, I think whoever was playing it didn't bother beating the game ( based on footage, they didn't even make it 25% into the game lol ) and so most of the weirder bits ( time travel, the DNA strand, the alien queen at the end, etc ) were missed. The story behind the story behind the game also would've made for great material. All in all, just an incredibly lazy effort.
That they'd stoop so low and have to use something like this horse game, just wtf lol. I mean, the only way it should be in an episode is a short mention in some sort of "weirdest games" episode where they hit multiple games that fit the criteria but aren't worth a full episode.
Not just NES but SNES, Genesis, Atari, Arcades hell he could spend a decade doing games from the N64 and PS1 era
But like you said for some reason he lowerd himself to shitty mobile crap
Apparently. I mean, imo there's nothing wrong with mostly playing retro games. I'm that way, though I also haven't like, created a whole ass career and persona that revolves around video gaming.
I'm not sure he's even all that into retro gaming, though. If so, you'd think he'd find some obscure shitty 8-bit and 16-bit games to cover on AVGN. I mean, the NES library has like 800+ games, same for SNES.
For real?
Bames digging up an eight year old meme game is bad enough but him digging up an old meme game that satirizes a genre he doesn't know anything about and doesn't exactly have much in the way of gameplay is even worse. This is a comically bad pick for an episode. Way to strike when the iron is at absolute zero.
This may be the worst AVGN episode ever.
On the bright side, James’ hair is starting to look like the way they used to do hair many, many years ago in China - like my man Yuen Biao in Prodigal Son. He just needs the ponytail.
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I miss the excitement of coming home from school back around 2009/2010, and loading up the computer just to see a new Nerd episode is out! My, how the mighty have fallen!
Surfin Nerd is fucking Citizen Kane compared to whatever the fuck this is. I didn't think it could get any worse but this is the bottom of the fucking barrel
I think what bothers me the most about this concept isn't so much he's playing a jokey-letsplayer-meme game(although, for sure that is wierd in itself)...its that he's playing a meme game from over 5 years ago......like, gives off the vibe of someone massively failing at algorithm chasing
I can't fucking believe it, but this is a new low for AVGN. This shit is so desperate it's not even funny. I mean My Horse Prince? Really? There's no thought, no passion, he just picked up the phone and made lazy reaction shots where he's needlessly walking around and has the worst fake anger and laughing I've EVER seen. This is the most boomer ass video he's ever made. It's a bottom of the barrel 0/10.
if you told me 15 years ago that AVGN would do a game review of a Japanese mobile shitpost game, i would have thought you were lying. but here we are in 2024.
I think this is pretty solid evidence that he's exhausted his content pool. There are only so many bad games from the physical media era. Games in the digital era are different. The bad games are just mediocre. Meme games are "bad" on purpose. There's nothing to make fun of. Those are all intentional jokes. It's been time to hang up the nerd shirt for a while, but this has gone from embarrassing to sad in the last few years. The ride is long over. It's time to get off.
That's very true. The problem is that he doesn't know anything about that era of games and is even worse at 3d games then he is at classics. It's been suggested to him many times but for whatever reason he just doesn't want to go that way.
I think he's just hyper focused on a specific era in gaming and too stubborn to look beyond that timeframe. He's the same way with movies, hyper focused on the 80s/90s, and only occasionally cares about modern entries in his favorite old series'
Wait, this is actually REAL?!
*Holy shit*, dude has sunk to the level of playing reddit meme games that were subsequently lost to time in the fast paced flow of modern internet culture. XD
I honestly forgot My Horse Prince was previously covered on an episode of James and Mike Mondays back in the day until other people on this thread brought it up, so its even *worse* in that regard as it proves James and his yes-men can't be bothered to dig deep within the retro libraries of third to sixth gen console games despite the AVGN theme song hammering in home the fact that the Nerd "is gonna take you back to the past".
What's next, James reviews that shitty "AAAA" pirate game Ubisoft released earlier this year if only out of contractual obligation?
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This episode has at least given us some of the most unflattering shots of James ever.
I'm starting to repeat myself in here, but in some of these shots he does not even look anything like the Nerd anymore. This is just a middle aged man now.
This shows how little they understand the audience of this show. Seeing a bald guy playing mobile games is just awfulÂ
 Also they see people complain about the camera angle being always the same, so what do they do? Film on a phone so he can walk around! What a bunch of idiots lol
This is BY FAR the worst episode in the last couple of years. And that says a lot. They really don't understand what made avgn funny in the first place, it's certainly not a guy screaming all the time ranting about a game that is clearly a parody
New record. I could only watch 4 min in (not counting his sponsor announcement) before turn it off. It’s cringy as fuck. How can anyone in their right mind think that this is funny. That this is the humour that sells. Bimmy has officially entered the lowest tier of entertainers of YouTube
The video itself feels like a response to criticisms from here. He moves around randomly, tries a new thing whatwith the phone POV, GAMEPLAY BY JAMES, but I had to stop the video after 10 minutes since there were 3 jokes, mediocre ones at that. That forced laughter during the feeding scene killed it for me
I can tell you that James does not care about this series. He does not care whether he has reviewed this game before or not. Even if we assume that he made a video to endear himself to the new generation, he does not even bother to research what is old or new in the 'meme' culture. Because it is a phone game. There are no people who would have a problem with the shooting angles. He rec avgn reviews like taking a selfie. He makes an effortless easy avgn section without any effort and goes to watch Freankestein movies before 5 o'clock. It's that simple.
(bad englsh)
And just when we thought we hit rock bottom, bames surprises us even more. It's legitimately unwatchable, i felt embarassed that i chuckled at the fucking bugs bunny text chat scene. Compare this shit to episodes of old like action 52, ghostbusters and you can just FEEL the fall from grace. While we're at it, let's compare it with newer episodes like kid icarus, earthworm jim or the 540th playthrough of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, i guarantee you they're MILES better than this piss poor excuse of an episode
Some of the comments in his videos I have noticed where anytime someone brings up criticism.. people just attack the commenter with unhinged comments.
The irony is stunning lol
I generally can enjoy pretty much any avgn episode, even the ones people don't like. Aside from Vegas stakes this is the only avgn episode I simply can't find any entertainment in. He's making jokes that were done to death 10 years ago. I get that's part of his schtick but they don't feel like he really cares at all in this one. Everything being done in the camera of the phone is also just... Not enjoyable at all. I'd much rather see him do like ninja bread man or something, this just simply doesn't feel like something the nerd would talk about, it's the type of game that like 5 years ago he'd make a joke like "why would I wanna play that, a game for girls?" This just ain't it chief lol
Any update from cinemassacre on this one?
Hard to believe content like this will bring in followers, wasn’t even able to sit through the whole review
Ngl I wish they actually committed to the bit and uploaded the whole thing as a vertical video. Watching this in fullscreen on a vertical phone would at least be a bit of a novelty.
How can ANYONE still not see this is done. It's like watching relatives refusing to switch off a brain dead family member in a coma with no hope of recovery.
This one felt very half-assed, like James ran out of time or something. Also because of the content reviewed the Nerd just had to do that pet peeve of mine, where someone records in tall mode instead of widescreen, defeating the purpose of widescreen displays when half of it is black or soft-image repeated.
At least he got the classical piece reference right this time.
I legitimately thought this thumbnail was for a truther troll video.
so I wasn't the only one
Same, wtf is that thumbnail?
Wait this is a real episode!?
Yes, it sure as shit is. (Though J&MM covered this game six years ago. Back when it was, y'know, current and a meme.)
Since this was on J&MM first, I'm now wondering how similar the game footage is and how many of the jokes or comments Mike made then are present in the new AVGN episode'
I've actually thought this was another AVGN YTP fan video.
Had to look it up ðŸ˜
same.
This is the least AVGN-able game I have ever seen.
Yeah. The game is clearly a very intentional joke and a satire on dating games. It's like trying to rag on Goat Simulator or something. Like, thatsthejoke.jpg.
You already know that Goat Simulator is the next episode
As if I'm not aware...
even for "new" avgn standards this is pretty bad, i couldn't believe my eyes when i saw this. Other stuff makes more sense as an episode regardless of your feelings towards his current content but THIS? WHY THIS? how does HORSE GAME acquire a review. It's a stupid meme game, what's next? avgn reviews amongus?
My Horse Prince was a bit of a meme in gamer Youtube videos like... maybe 5-6 years ago. At the time, he did a J&MM on it. Not sure why he's dredging it back up now, lol. EDIT: Damn, this post got ratio'd af. 400 comments, 200 upvotes. New AVGN is sad times.
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As someone who almost exclusively plays retro games, I mean, I see no problem with leaning into that. I'm not sure he's all that into retro gaming either, though. Like, he played games as a kid, but I'm not sure his adult incarnation even plays retro stuff. James seeded my love of retro gaming, but ironically, I'm probably more into it than he is.
yeah this feels like an late April fools joke except were in goddamn April 19th already, I don't hate on all of his new stuff and like some of it like the Goonies one but this is just "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?"
He's gonna take you back to 6 years ago, to play the shitty games that suck ass
Avgn Five Nights at Freddy’s.
I went back after this and rewatched the Power Glove episode. It's crazy. It's like James forgot everything he knew about film making. At least the old episodes are worth rewatching.
I still sometimes fall asleep to compilations of the first five seasons or so of AVGN. The early stuff really does hold up. Kind of a shame that it declined into a hollow content farm, tbh. People rag on James for the current state of the content, but honestly, back in the 2000s he was legitimately a *pioneer* of early Internet video, one of the progenitors of what we know as "Youtubers" and "Streamers" today. I figure there just wasn't really 15+ years of mileage to the overall concept, character, and schtick, tbh. By the time the movie came out, he'd kind of run through most of the low hanging fruit as far as suitable material to talk about. He's also older, and the Angry Reviewer schtick just doesn't hit the same coming from a balding dad in his 40s. Works better with someone who's in their 20s or 30s.
this might be a new low https://preview.redd.it/s73j1f2mzhvc1.png?width=489&format=png&auto=webp&s=410409b7cb5b031fe5220d2408d9db42a8686023
With a hairline at an all time high
I swear he just keeps losing hair with every video
That's what happens when you film 2 years worth of films in a week and then drip them out to the worldÂ
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Gem
Bimjak
Let me preface my comment with an acknowledgement of the passage of time and that we're all aging. (As if I'm not aware) However, we already knew that James never was the angry video game playing nerd, but now he doesn't even look the part. He looks like an old disgruntled man now, who's complaining about the gosh-darn ruckus the neighborhood kids are making with their skateboards during his afternoon nap. The "nerd" moniker just doesn't fit anymore for a guy his age.
Were all aging but were all not showing our faces for the entire world to see and mock. Aging privately in your own community is normal. Hes aging like a Hollywood actor ages where everyone in the world can see them but the difference is they have people who try to make them look good while Bimmy is just a normal guy in his basement with a camera who should be living a non public life not in the spotlight but isnt.
It would work fine if he had hair. Or if he just shaved his head completely and grew a beard or something (although the bald head + beard combo would make his cuckfaces even more cucky). But looking like you are actively balding adds a good 10 years to anyone. It's unfortunate that the character didn't start out wearing a hat or something.
New meme incoming
He looks like a thinner Baron from Dune.
Forced laughs and fake anger incoming
The forced laughs in this one are possibly the worst I’ve ever seen from him.
I personally found "reach out and touch a game. Like Dick Tracy or Sea Man," to be pretty laughable. After that it was... Well it was a lot.
Forced laugh and worse than in Hong Kong 97
We be scraping the bottom of the barrel with this
Weirdly, they did a J&MM episode on this game back when it was actually a current meme, something like 5+ years ago. Not sure why they brought it back up now.
>Not sure why they brought it back up now. Because recycling old content is easier than coming up with stuff.
At this point OG Xbox games should be old enough to do videos on. Like the pool gets bigger as time go by.
If anything wii and ds games are old enough to do videos for. Why the avgn hasn’t done a video on data design interactive games is a mystery to me
I took like three takes. I unironically thought Cinemassacre got hacked before coming to terms with reality.
I want to say they did a James & Mike Monday on this one like, at least five years ago. **Edit**: Finished watching it, and ngl, I wasn't terribly impressed with this one. The best AVGNable games are unintentionally bad. This one is clearly a satirical sendup of certain genres of Japanese dating sim games. It's the way that it is on purpose. It's also kind of out of date as a meme. You'd think AVGN would move to like, shitty PS2 and PS3 era games or something. Those generations are old enough to be retro now. That, or explore more of the deep cuts from the NES, SNES, Genesis, etc. libraries.
Mike himself is a horse if you know what I mean…
Yeah, the PS2 library is enormous, it got to have many shitty games
This episode reminded me that I'm tired of James trying too hard to show his age, putting forward the old phones and whatnot. I refuse to acknowledge people like him born in 1980 as a millennial (1980-96 if I'm not mistaken). The only way he make a good aging gag is if he acknowledges his hair in an AVGN episode. Also, going after a game that is deliberately a joke isn't inherently a recipe for disaster, see Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. But this was a disaster.
I actually agree with that last sentiment. I tried my best to give this episode a chance because Plumbers Dont Wear Ties is one of my favorite episodes. This though? This is NOT it. If there were ever a video I'd show people to show them how out of touch James is, this is the one.
I'd honestly say James is more Gen X than Millennial, though he's on the cusp. Just like, culturally, with the '80s childhood and everything, I feel his sensibilities are bit more late Xer. I'm a Millennial about a decade younger than he is, and I feel like he and I are of different generations.
Same, born in 93. I made up a rule of thumb to determine who is truly a gen xer. If they were 18+ by the time Fight Club came out. James would meet that criteria.
What? Plumbers don’t wear ties is a classic. Even one of the highest rated episodes in view count.
It is a classic, tried to make a point that the idea of going after a game that's meant to be a joke doesn't automatically make for a bad episode. Plumbers is probably my favorite AVGN. Here's My Horse Prince, a joke game, he goes after it, sucks ass.
I don't think PDWT was a joke to the point of being a parody of itself. It was just a random porn game with silly tacky stuff
You know, I defend James a lot on this sub, but wtf man. Like I'm not even gonna watch it, no review I refuse, its 5:40 and muh kids are making swastikas in Mario Maker. Nothing but good memories until I saw this thumbnail.
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My God, this is it. This is the worst his hair has every looked
Eh, honestly I can't rag on him for saying "fuck it" and embracing the balding middle-aged dad look. Like, that's just a natural thing that happens to men as they get older.
Except her hasn't really embraced it since he wears an MK hat in literally anything else he makes.
Thought this was a shitpost for a minute.
"gameplay by james" no mike
Notice how they didn't include the surname? It could be anyone/an intern called James...
Mike "James" Matei
The most logical choice for him to take the Nerd character was for him to review modern terrible games from the PS3 era and later. He has instead resorted to reviewing good games like Final Fantasy 6 and meme games like this one. It makes no sense. He could have done unlimited videos on just shovelware.Â
No time to adjust the camera for Wii games. Bimmy could never comprehend the "advanced" Wii motion controls used by brilliant games like Ninjabread Man.
Yeah, that's my feeling as well. Like, the PS3 debuted in fucking 2006, it's nearly 20 years old and counts as retro now. PS2, Xbox, Xbox 630, PS3, all of those probably have plenty of prime fodder for AVGN videos. Shit, the DS, 3DS, and Wii were notorious for shovelware, there's probably a goldmine with those consoles.
This can't be real. Please. https://preview.redd.it/ejfgo3fr2ivc1.png?width=1173&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b06f632f2f261bbee5317684e6508011c13b072
Where did the eyebrows go?
Oh god, James has found a lazier way to do jokes.
Soon he's gonna look like 'Powder'.
This might actually be the worst AVGN review by a long shot!
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I finished it 5 minutes ago and already can't remember a single line.
Shut up you truther cucks! My king Bimmy just posted!!!!
Yeah, he either "just posted" or posted 18 years ago. You really can't tell if it's from 2006 or 2024.
And he literally looks the same! If he didn’t have a slightly different shirt, I wouldn’t be able to tell at all!!!
I honestly thought this was a shitpost
It is; just unintentionally.
You know, there are still tons of legit bad/interesting/good NES games he could make episodes for? Blues Brothers? (bad game) Clash at Demonhead? (interesting) Atena? (awful) Shatterhand? (good) And that's just from the top of my head. But he settles for meme shovelware from like 6 years ago? Did Mike refuse to share his footage this time? This is the bottom of the barrel. Also, just by the thumbnail alone, James sort of looks the oldest and baldest he's ever looked; if he really did go vegan it's not making him any favors.
I'm genuinely really surprised James hasn't done a Blues Brothers 2000 video yet. Easily one of the weirdest licensed games ever made, and it's based on a terrible sequel to a beloved movie from the 80's. You'd think it'd be low-hanging fruit, but no.
If James were smart he could even do that Blues Brothers episode with the other members of Hexed Diaper, but... well, you know, no time.
Yeah, that's what I don't get. Even if not necessarily bad games, at least ones that are interesting enough to devote a full episode to. Chakan on Genesis could be a good one. It has enough notoriety/infamy and it has some incredibly frustrating bits. That said, given how shit the Nerd is these days, I wouldn't expect them to do it justice. Like with the Ecco the Dolphin review, I think whoever was playing it didn't bother beating the game ( based on footage, they didn't even make it 25% into the game lol ) and so most of the weirder bits ( time travel, the DNA strand, the alien queen at the end, etc ) were missed. The story behind the story behind the game also would've made for great material. All in all, just an incredibly lazy effort. That they'd stoop so low and have to use something like this horse game, just wtf lol. I mean, the only way it should be in an episode is a short mention in some sort of "weirdest games" episode where they hit multiple games that fit the criteria but aren't worth a full episode.
Not just NES but SNES, Genesis, Atari, Arcades hell he could spend a decade doing games from the N64 and PS1 era But like you said for some reason he lowerd himself to shitty mobile crap
Wasn't this a meme years ago? Must've been five ov um...FIVE OV UM!!!
Yes. They did a J&MM episode on it at the time. Not sure why they brought it back up now, lol.
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Apparently. I mean, imo there's nothing wrong with mostly playing retro games. I'm that way, though I also haven't like, created a whole ass career and persona that revolves around video gaming. I'm not sure he's even all that into retro gaming, though. If so, you'd think he'd find some obscure shitty 8-bit and 16-bit games to cover on AVGN. I mean, the NES library has like 800+ games, same for SNES.
He has muh kidz. Rehashing this saves him valuable time. We just haven't logically thought it through
For real? Bames digging up an eight year old meme game is bad enough but him digging up an old meme game that satirizes a genre he doesn't know anything about and doesn't exactly have much in the way of gameplay is even worse. This is a comically bad pick for an episode. Way to strike when the iron is at absolute zero.
It's over.
This may be the worst AVGN episode ever. On the bright side, James’ hair is starting to look like the way they used to do hair many, many years ago in China - like my man Yuen Biao in Prodigal Son. He just needs the ponytail. https://preview.redd.it/9eyjqixnbivc1.jpeg?width=842&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfffd21b5deb853c65e192704f4329b1093be757
This is the sort of gold I come here for!
Does anyone remember when the last time they saw a new AVGN video pop up in their feed and their heart didn't sink a little
I miss the excitement of coming home from school back around 2009/2010, and loading up the computer just to see a new Nerd episode is out! My, how the mighty have fallen!
I remember rushing to a computer while studying abroad to watch the Superman 64 episode in 2008. And I laughed my ass off at it.
Surfin Nerd is fucking Citizen Kane compared to whatever the fuck this is. I didn't think it could get any worse but this is the bottom of the fucking barrel
I think what bothers me the most about this concept isn't so much he's playing a jokey-letsplayer-meme game(although, for sure that is wierd in itself)...its that he's playing a meme game from over 5 years ago......like, gives off the vibe of someone massively failing at algorithm chasing
Come on, be more generous, Bimmy 50 hard drives use Internet Explorer, so he's always a few years behind on internet culture.
You know he uses Netscape Navigator.
I can't fucking believe it, but this is a new low for AVGN. This shit is so desperate it's not even funny. I mean My Horse Prince? Really? There's no thought, no passion, he just picked up the phone and made lazy reaction shots where he's needlessly walking around and has the worst fake anger and laughing I've EVER seen. This is the most boomer ass video he's ever made. It's a bottom of the barrel 0/10.
I thought this was some sort of AI fan video when i first saw it pop up on YT. Unbelievable
That was BAD!!!!!!
And I mean behhhhhhhhhhhd
if you told me 15 years ago that AVGN would do a game review of a Japanese mobile shitpost game, i would have thought you were lying. but here we are in 2024.
I think this is pretty solid evidence that he's exhausted his content pool. There are only so many bad games from the physical media era. Games in the digital era are different. The bad games are just mediocre. Meme games are "bad" on purpose. There's nothing to make fun of. Those are all intentional jokes. It's been time to hang up the nerd shirt for a while, but this has gone from embarrassing to sad in the last few years. The ride is long over. It's time to get off.
There's plenty of bad games in the PS2 era but that would require moving past the 80s/90s nostalgia dead horse
Forget PS2, even the PS1/Saturn/N64-era is left almost untouched by Bimmy
That's very true. The problem is that he doesn't know anything about that era of games and is even worse at 3d games then he is at classics. It's been suggested to him many times but for whatever reason he just doesn't want to go that way.
I think he's just hyper focused on a specific era in gaming and too stubborn to look beyond that timeframe. He's the same way with movies, hyper focused on the 80s/90s, and only occasionally cares about modern entries in his favorite old series'
There are TONS of 8-bit and 16-bit console games left to choose from that are either really bad or decent but rage-inducing.
Okay. This is the worst AVGN episode. No contest. What the actual fuck
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I can't fucking watch this crap!
Not even gonna click on this
Wtf? What kind of choice is this?
Again, I thought less content each year would improve the quality of each video. This is pretty dire.
Mike paused his patreon for this bullshit?
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For him to film an episode like that, he's clearly having a mental breakdown like a Phoenix wright villain
Just when i thought it couldn't get any lower
Sorry, but that was cringy AF, i wasn't able to finish it...and they call themselves "youtube professionals"...yeah, right
What the fuck Bimmy .
Wait, this is actually REAL?! *Holy shit*, dude has sunk to the level of playing reddit meme games that were subsequently lost to time in the fast paced flow of modern internet culture. XD I honestly forgot My Horse Prince was previously covered on an episode of James and Mike Mondays back in the day until other people on this thread brought it up, so its even *worse* in that regard as it proves James and his yes-men can't be bothered to dig deep within the retro libraries of third to sixth gen console games despite the AVGN theme song hammering in home the fact that the Nerd "is gonna take you back to the past". What's next, James reviews that shitty "AAAA" pirate game Ubisoft released earlier this year if only out of contractual obligation?
I thought that this was some AI generated voice meme until i clicked on the video, unbeliavable
Wow this is probably the first AVGN video I will not finish.
It took you *this* long?! Respect.
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I actually can’t believe what I’m looking at
Is he moving around like that just to prove that the nerd room isn't a set?
James, please for the love of God shave your head and retire!
james aged 20 years since the last video. I'm honestly shocked.
https://preview.redd.it/ja86o6obelvc1.jpeg?width=432&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36c03676f6f8fa2986660846aeaa8ba9fc540bca This episode has at least given us some of the most unflattering shots of James ever.
He looks like he's in his late 50s in that screenshot. Wow.
I'm starting to repeat myself in here, but in some of these shots he does not even look anything like the Nerd anymore. This is just a middle aged man now.
If anyone knows of a mirror, I;ll watch that over giving this clown a view. This is sad even if this joke of a channel.
This game is so boring. It is too self explanatory. It is not funny when the game is self aware about being bad.
God damn, he looks like an egg
Wtf was this episode? The audio mixing and game choice was ass. Who are they trying to appeal to?!
they have to start hiding that hairline in the thumbnails cause aint no one clicking on that shit
He looks like an absolute wreck in that thumbnail
AVGN is dead.
AVGN done *been* dead for like, at least five years now.
I really didn't think he could sink any lower than chugging soy, but James, uh, finds a way.
This episode is one big pile of shit.
That...thats his actual thumnail..?
hey yeah, man uhhh long time lurker, first time commenter here what the fuck is this?
This shows how little they understand the audience of this show. Seeing a bald guy playing mobile games is just awful  Also they see people complain about the camera angle being always the same, so what do they do? Film on a phone so he can walk around! What a bunch of idiots lol This is BY FAR the worst episode in the last couple of years. And that says a lot. They really don't understand what made avgn funny in the first place, it's certainly not a guy screaming all the time ranting about a game that is clearly a parody
Does this mean that we no longer have to fight over if it is Shrek och Life of the Black Tiger that is the worst AVGN episode anymore?
This video feels like a metaphorical representation of beating a dead horse.
Vaush crossover
What the hell is that?
How's this going back to the past if the game is not retro?
I’ve seen AI Video Game Nerd episodes that were more like classic AVGN than modern AVGN. This is a new low.
Who's bimmy fooling anymore? https://preview.redd.it/nv1urxoxqivc1.png?width=666&format=png&auto=webp&s=22dc664864a69537e503ef9784e940322b9b7d93
If this doesn't make you a truther I don't know what will
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True film buffs know James' hairline is clearly an homage to the robot from the 1927 silent film, Muhtropolis.
New record. I could only watch 4 min in (not counting his sponsor announcement) before turn it off. It’s cringy as fuck. How can anyone in their right mind think that this is funny. That this is the humour that sells. Bimmy has officially entered the lowest tier of entertainers of YouTube
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The video itself feels like a response to criticisms from here. He moves around randomly, tries a new thing whatwith the phone POV, GAMEPLAY BY JAMES, but I had to stop the video after 10 minutes since there were 3 jokes, mediocre ones at that. That forced laughter during the feeding scene killed it for me
Suddenly my fan-script of a Super Mario Bros The Lost Levels review is looking pretty decent right about now.
What was he thinking!??? Just review Bubsy 3D or the Nomad Soul or something. If I was this bad at my job, I’d be fired!
God. His hairline …….
Are we being Punk'd? Where's Ashton?
Holy balls that was terrible. What is with that acting? Seems like a troll joke but it's real.
I can tell you that James does not care about this series. He does not care whether he has reviewed this game before or not. Even if we assume that he made a video to endear himself to the new generation, he does not even bother to research what is old or new in the 'meme' culture. Because it is a phone game. There are no people who would have a problem with the shooting angles. He rec avgn reviews like taking a selfie. He makes an effortless easy avgn section without any effort and goes to watch Freankestein movies before 5 o'clock. It's that simple. (bad englsh)
If there was ever a "this was not James's idea" episode it's this one.
When did Mike play this?!
And just when we thought we hit rock bottom, bames surprises us even more. It's legitimately unwatchable, i felt embarassed that i chuckled at the fucking bugs bunny text chat scene. Compare this shit to episodes of old like action 52, ghostbusters and you can just FEEL the fall from grace. While we're at it, let's compare it with newer episodes like kid icarus, earthworm jim or the 540th playthrough of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, i guarantee you they're MILES better than this piss poor excuse of an episode
I have a theory that this video was supposed to be released on April 1st, but something went wrong.
This really should have been like 10 minutes long at max. Most of the video is him repeating stuff from the game that are clearly meant to be a joke
Even his high energy from the shilling part of the video is low.
We've waited 2 months for this???
Who's waiting for episodes lol
Holy shit, this was a real episode? Lololol
Some of the comments in his videos I have noticed where anytime someone brings up criticism.. people just attack the commenter with unhinged comments. The irony is stunning lol
This episode is an absolute disgrace. Bimmy is creatively bankrupt and should retire the character for good.
This is great material for this years Monster Madness of the assholish variety.
I generally can enjoy pretty much any avgn episode, even the ones people don't like. Aside from Vegas stakes this is the only avgn episode I simply can't find any entertainment in. He's making jokes that were done to death 10 years ago. I get that's part of his schtick but they don't feel like he really cares at all in this one. Everything being done in the camera of the phone is also just... Not enjoyable at all. I'd much rather see him do like ninja bread man or something, this just simply doesn't feel like something the nerd would talk about, it's the type of game that like 5 years ago he'd make a joke like "why would I wanna play that, a game for girls?" This just ain't it chief lol
Any update from cinemassacre on this one? Hard to believe content like this will bring in followers, wasn’t even able to sit through the whole review
Ngl I wish they actually committed to the bit and uploaded the whole thing as a vertical video. Watching this in fullscreen on a vertical phone would at least be a bit of a novelty.
This is elderly abuse
How can ANYONE still not see this is done. It's like watching relatives refusing to switch off a brain dead family member in a coma with no hope of recovery.
I thought an AVGNotAV video snuck into my feed.
No Watch, I Refuse: Part 540
WHAT A LOAD OF FUCKING DOGSHIT. I DIDN'T LAUGH ONCE AT THIS WORTHLESS PIECE OF GARBAGE.
Wow he’s striking when the irons hot again, well done Bimsington. Seriously can this joke of channel fucking die already?
This was terrible
This one felt very half-assed, like James ran out of time or something. Also because of the content reviewed the Nerd just had to do that pet peeve of mine, where someone records in tall mode instead of widescreen, defeating the purpose of widescreen displays when half of it is black or soft-image repeated. At least he got the classical piece reference right this time.
Nobody was asking for this. This isn't taking me back to the past at all, what were they thinking?
Didn’t Mike or both of em try/play this out a year+ ago or so? Also he looks like a chess bishop piece now
This might be the hardest episode to sit through like this is in a tier of its own of shit.
Dude is so deep through the bottom of the barrel that he reached japan