Does /v/ still enjoy AVGN?

videogames

Yep

Though Mike is keeping them alive these days

>>369087108
I don't think so.
His most recent episode was awful, and that was two months ago.
James seems to want to do anything BUT the Nerd these days.

His newer videos are beyond bad and I thought the 2011 videos were bad. What's with the sudden stiff acting? His character doesn't feel natural anymore.

Cucks are not to be glorified nor enjoyed.

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AY!

He took the money for the movie and ran from avgn. I don't remember the last time I saw his gaming room. It's just that video store room now

>>369087108
he seems like a dad that tries too hard to be cool

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>>369087580
It's like being a balding middle-aged man doesn't fit well with the character or something.

>>369087669
>SOZ YO' BE SAYIN' YOU DUN OWN DEH SEEGAH CEEDEE?

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASS

>>369087108

Yes actually.

But, I miss Bootsy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzWtnyhdn_4

Yes, but usually old episodes more so than new.

I haven't enjoyed his videos for the last 30 episodes. His acting is just way too forced nowadays.

>>369087584
In what is he a cuck?

>>369088590
People are fucking weird man.

>>369089231
>he doesn't know

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>>369088590
I don't believe it.

>>369087320
Very true. If it wasn't for Mike their channel would be nearly dead

>>369089413
Nope, I don't.

>>369087108
Sure, but Mike fucking sucks. I wish he would disappear.

>>369088590
What i don't get is that this person labels him autistic for not talking to them. Prehaps he just fucking hates your guts and finds it a waste of time to even speek to you.

>>369087743
Pretty sure this is exactly what happened.

>>369087108
I still enjoy it, just not as much as I used to.
I guess he is getting old and tired, or maybe I'm the one getting old and tired of these kind of videos.

>>369089895
Hi James.

>>369087108
he doesn't say "cuck" enough times for /v/ to like him.

>>369090220
Didn't /tv/ start that shit?

>>369090212
What? Did i offend you?

>>369089726
I prefer the nerd. Mike is okay though. Hes good at old games and his penis is ridiculously huge

>>369088590
>rambling paragraph long rant about how internet celebrity is "autistic"
>TOTALLY REAL PROOF ATTACHED
I seriously hope you losers don't actual believe posts like these.

I've read so many posts like these, of people pretending to be e celebs or saying they're a person who knows them who just so happens to be a 4chan browser.

I've met James at a con and he genuinely seems like a cool guy

>>369087320
I used to not like Mike but he started to seem pretty cool over time.

>>369090617
Hey Mike

>>369090718
He's gotten much better over the years. Seems like a nice guy.
I dont believe any of the crap they write about james on this board. People on here are so bored they have to resort to making up negative stories about genuinely nice people

>>369090905
The whole site was better when the word cuck was filtered.

>>369090724
Hey Dan how are you?

>>369090501
Hey Mike, that meltdown on /vr/ last night was humiliating. You should hide out for a little while until the smoke clears and people forget that you're a little pussy

I used to be able to sit at my PC and watch his shit all day but desu, I kind of prefer the Mike and Bootsy or Mike and James series

>>369091089
It was for a few weeks.
Dunno why they changed it back

>>369091274
Tell me more

>>369087320
>>369089547
We know it's you Mike. You got BTFO on /vr/ so you think you can shill your shitty videos here, but it's not gonna work.

Cinemassacre is a pretty shit channel now.

No Bootsy
Barely any AVGN
Ryan
Mike 24/7

>>369087108
funniest episodes are

>tiger handhelds episode
>mega man episode
>dr jekyl and mr hyde episodes
>any ljn episode

>>369092224
>No Plumbers Don't Wear Ties

>>369090617
Haters and stalkers are pretty autistic.

>>369092123
Don't forget Mike's tranny girlfriend he streams with too.

>>369092224
The Mega Man episode was garbage

>>369092264
>no Dick Tracy

Does James know LJN was a publisher and never actually developed any of those games?

>>369092369
Probably not, nor would he even care anymore.

>>369087108
jesus man
just posting that pic makes me feel old

i remember when he was still the angry nintendo nerd...

>>369092369
James knows absolutely nothing about video games other than muh nintendoes

>>369087108
He used to be good but his humor is running dry and the games/consoles he's reviewing aren't interesting anymore.

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>>369090905
He is not a nice guy. He bullied Bootsy off the channel.

https://twitter.com/ReallyBLBootsy/status/823607065595805696

>>369090617
everything is autistic now
you do anything that isn't normal (what fucking is anymore?) and your autistic.

reading books? autistic
look in a direction 1 second longer than 0 seconds? autistic
being on the net anywhere that isn't news or social media? autistic!

>>369092369
>never actually developed

They bought the publishing rights to z-grade Japanese games and had the sprites changed to match with their licenses. That was bad enough.

>>369092698
That was an autistic post

went to shit after he got married and had a kid

>>369093020
now your getting it, anon!

cuk him like a walnut.

>>369093083
People hate on Ryan... but who's the one who started a show with him? Mike. Who's the one who wanted to "go in a different direction" and got rid of Bootsy? Mike. He claims to be the creative force behind AVGN, but what does he do when he works alone? Elmo and Miney Crafta. He shitposts on here every day (nothing worse than last night), and he moderates the reddit page and deletes comments on YouTube. He's ultra sensitive and insecure. Mike isn't keeping Cinemassacre alive... he's driving it into the fucking ground while patting himself on the back.

>>369090179
Maybe a little of both, but you can definitely tell that he doesn't have the energy for it that he used to. I guess that getting married, having a kid, and working your ass off to make a shitty movie that nobody ended up liking will do that to you.

I'm still mad how phoned in the last Monster Madness was. It should have been the big sendoff, but he just sort of pinched it off, and said "I'm done".

Ryan from Statefarm will save the channel, You'll all see.
Indie games>retro games

>>369087108
Yes
I hope he does a Kamen Rider vid

>>369093819
Didn't he say he's only doing season 1 of PR?

>>369088590
I don't know why this is controversial. This isn't exactly new information, James obviously has autistic mannerisms and a childish sense of humour.

I don't know why the dude writing it is seems so bitter though. Sounds more like a scorned ex lover of James' wife than a relative in law.

>>369092681
Do we know what actually happened? I really liked Bootsy on Board James and the playthroughs.

Has AVGN ever seen this?
https://vimeo.com/64987176

>>369094001
Sounds more like Mike. I'm telling ya, he's trying to tear down James so he can completely take the channel over with Ryan. Not at all kidding

>>369087108
I enjoy watching the AVGN, and anything James does himself. I just can't get into anything else on Cinemassacre, especially Mike. Shit, I even like his newer stuff, if by newer we mean everything up to about episode 110. I haven't watched much past that, because it's like watching a friend you've known for close to ten years die a slow and painful death, but it's played for pity and forced laughter.

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Mike "Mineycrafta" Matei is a piece of shit, him and Ryan have ruined this channel. James doesn't seem to give a shit because he stills make money off it and he's too busy taking care of his family. Now he's a guest on his channel.

>>369094054
No one at cinemassacre will say what happened, but what we know for sure is that Bootsy got fired while in the middle of making a Mike Tyson's Punch Out ep of Bootsy Beats, and Mike released a walkthrough of the same game yesterday. So whatever happened, we know that Mike Matei is an egomaniacal snake. No excuse for that bullshit

Why do people hate Mike?

>>369094431
He's a motherfucker.

>>369094328
Cinemassacre would be dying with Mike

>>369088590

I was in that thread a few months back. The guy's a fraud and it's obvious just from the way in which he tells the story. None of this is probably true.

It sounds like it was written by a passionless asshole who just hates things that James seems to enjoy and got a kick out of writing some fanfiction.

>>369088590
Why does this guy hate James so much?

Is he jealous that he is fucking his sister good?

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>>369094431

>>369093690

This. Mike is an insufferable person on the camera. He is always interrupting, talking over people (especially James, all the time, before he can even finish a thought) and when he does stop good conversation about games to make a joke it's usually a joke already been made or a dick/fart joke.

Ryan seems like a fine site admin, and I'm happy they have a competent guy running that shit, but he has the personality of Burma Bat Shit. Mike is ruining the fucking Cinemassacre brand.

Of course I still enjoy avgn, he's great. Classic.


James is the most genuine guy on the internet, he loves what he does and it shows. Fucking awesome guy, I don't think there is anyone nicer or more down to earth than James on the internet.

>>369094569
Why does it mean so much to you? James is obviously a sperg. Even while interacting with close longtime friends he's still as awkward as an adolescent on his first date.

The news that he might be as weird off-camera as he is on-camera doesn't make me dislike him.

The weirdest thing about the story is how bitter and needy the writer sounds. He seems to resent James for not giving him attention. He probably had high ideas about being best buds with AVGN and is bitter about not penetrating James' wall of autism.

>>369088590
>Kickstarter

He used indiegogo.

Fake.

>>369094893

>Why does it mean so much to you?

I was in the thread at the time, made a critical analysis that took the sum total of reading the fucking posts he made, and blurted out what I think. What sort of a fucking stupid question is that?

Besides, we agree on the key factor regardless about the writer. Are you autistic?

>>369094331
What's up with that full playthrough shit anyway? I get that Bootsy did sort of the same thing, but at least he had the purpose of it being a walkthrough with the proper editing to support it, and most importantly with charisma.

With Mike's its literally just him playing the game, which is ok in the context of it being a Lets Play, but its clear and I think he admits that he practices these games a lot before he actually streams the playthrough. If he's just going to do a perfect run, what the fuck is the point? You can see that in a million other places done much better than him. Part of the fun of Lets Plays is when the player goes in blind and thus has interesting reactions to what happens. With him, he just robotically plays through the game like he learned to in practice, thus nothing interesting or unexpected happens and its just him filling up dead air with mumbled teenage humor.

I know why he does it; he's deathly afraid of looking like a "bad gamer", which is proven by how he always has to remind people on James and Mike that they're just messing around and he could really beat these games blindfolded if he tried. On top of ruining the concept of a lets play, its just autistic to be that insecure.

>>369095195
You're having a cry because someone called your beloved e-celeb autistic, and you're slinging that term around? Top stuff, m8. Go dive back into your fav friend simulator.

>>369094684
i can't belive this happend

When will James and Mike finally fight against each other?

>>369093770
>Ryan from Statefarm
Most annoying person i saw on youtube in a while.

James needs to stop Mike before Mike destroys everything.

Yeah, I sometimes let AVGN episodes autoplay when I fall asleep. Best feeling.

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>>369094493

It's not even James' main source of income and he's now a "guest". People only subscribed for James, even if he only uploaded a video a month people wouldn't unsub. Mike & mouth breather Ryan should've never been in front of the camera, you give them an inch and they take a mile. It's Mike that depends on the channel, if he wasn't shitting out videos (and even taking donations through live streams) all the time, he wouldn't have shit. It's whatever with Ryan on the business side of things, but as a personality on the show he's unlikable and boring as fuck. They've ruined the channel.

In a perfect world it would be James, Bootsy, and Kyle the Guitar Guy only. But Bootsy was dropped, Mike stole his idea for a Bootsy Beats to spite him, and James is a "guest" on his own channel.

>>369094984
Foiled again. Normal people call all those crowfunding sites kickstarters.

I still watch AVGN. Do people actually watch the other stuff? It's just dudes talking. What's the point?

>>369095213
It's hilarious when he says in the full playthroughs that he won't be talking much and we should focus on the game. If so what's the point of you even talking or forcing your ugly mug into the corner of the screen? Why am I even asking? Attention of course.

>>369087108
Not so much anymore

>>369095213
seems like he got pretty triggered when people called them out for not being experts at vidya during "person & person" videos when they are distracted and not being tryhards so he made more tryhard videos but still he is not consistent with them as in he doesn't go full tips and tricks in his playthroughs most of the time which could be his schtick if he wasn't such a dumb asshole

>>369095606
It feels like friends.

>>369095552
Only thing worse than Mike and Ryan Talk About Games are their livestreams. Utterly dull and both always look tired and uninterested.
Their Dead Rising stream is probably the worst I've ever seen, even DSP did better than them.

So who is the most THAT KID?

>>369093690
>(nothing worse than last night)
got a link or any screen caps of mike posts?

Mike's playthroughs of games could be good if he could stop cussing and getting mad over video games like the manchild that he is and focus on giving helpful tips on positioning, character choice, items etc.

It's so fucking cringey when he starts going "FUCK YEAH TAKE THAT YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT UNNNNNFFFFF FUCK YOU" to some generic enemies in games.

>>369095848
It feels like couple of gay friends Ryan is obviously in love with Mike he ogles him in almost every video i have seen it's very akward.

Oh look, the Mike praise in the thread suddenly stops just as he starts up another boring Lets Play stream. Coincidence? Really activates my almonds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwD-A_UNvS0

>>369095970
Mike is. He's like the runt of the class, the annoying little brother hyped up on sugar that everyone hates.
Ryan is the fat loser that eats worms

>>369096146
Why does he always look and sound so tired?
Does he stay up late shitposting on /v/?

Mike wasted so much time on that gay mario paint turtles intro shit. All what time and effort to something like that.. just why? What the fuck is the point, you are grown ass man, Mike, what the hell

>>369096146
>this kills he thread

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HE'S GONNA TAKE YOU BACK TO THE SHED
TO WATCH HIS DEAR WIFE GIVE TYRONE HEAD
HE'D RATHER HAAAAVE
A BIG BLACK BUUCK
FUCK HIS WIFE RIGHT IN THE REAR
HE'D RATHER LIIICK
THE DRIPPING SEMEN
OF A RIPPED TALL BULL AND DOWN IT WITH BEER

that's oc. rate/10

>>369096023
Not him but I think he might be referring to this. I went looking for it after I heard him mention it. Gonna read through it now. There's a post that says:

>Thread has been dead all day
>Someone points out the Bootsy post
>Mike spams replies to himself in order to cover up the post
>27 posts replying to himself and spamming song lyrics in multiple different posts in a few hours

>>>/vr/3812246

>>369096631
hello Ryan

how's the channel takeover going?

>>369096223
see: >>>/vr/3812246

>>369096706
damn
Mike's autistic as fuck

>>369096631
jesus, bootsy, just calm down. dont be such a douche about politics next time

>>369096146
I can't tell if this autist is trying to do some sort of sick social study to see if he can really convince people that Mike is a bad guy and kicked Bootsy out or if he's just a complete weirdo

>>369096146
Wait for him to finish up the live stream and then sit back and watch all of the "big dick" memes come popping up. "James is a cuck!" "Bootsy is an SJW!!" "AVGN wouldn't exist without Mike!!!" *picture of photoshopped buldge in pants* Fucking loser.

>Mike was AVGN all along

>>369097108
this is what Mike wants everyone to think

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>>369097052
>I created a ruse so elaborate that it caused Mike to stay up til 4am and livestream right on time to prove my point

Try putting the fork down sometime Ryan. You and Mike are crashing the Cinemassacre ship with no survivors and quite frankly its disgusting. James doesn't deserve this.

>>369097108
If AVGN secretly loved sucking dick

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All reviewers have a curve.

They start out with a handful of videos done crude and shoddy but it's subject matter they're typically highly invested in and have some personal impulse to inform the public about them, so the odd good joke or gag manages to come through.

Then they hit their stride as production quality mounts and meets the still good quantity of humour.

But after this point they start to peter out. By now they've already reviewed everything they actually cared about reviewing from the start. Now reviewing is a chore, so they'll fall back to more visual gimmicks and upping the production values and bringing in guest stars all in some desperate bid to distract you from how cold and clinical and depressing their lives are now as they plug away at something they no longer enjoy. Occasionally they might be handed a request and the subject material might resonate with their golden days of reviewing and you might be tricked into thinking they're back into form but it's just a once in a blue moon thing.

>>369095552
Every AVGN episode with Guitar Guy is gold. Didn't even know he was Spider-Man til years later.

>>369088590
what's wrong with autism? everyone in the world has a special place in their hearts for autism

>>369097289
Yeah nah you're a weirdo.

>>369097289
How come Mike isn't getting more shit for this? Dude, what a fucking bitch. That's like a crazy exgirlfriend move on his part. I lost any respect that I had for him (wasn't much lately)

It was funny that Mike got super butthurt about Game Sack's AVGN parody

>>369087108
there has to be a avgn to enjoy

>>369098068
on their reddit he just says

"For Mike and Bootsy, we did it through 2016 and it was a lot of fun! Bootsy is a great guy but we are moving in a different direction. You should be sure to follow his music progress, he will is working on a new album which he is planning to do sometime this year. He does some great music and I’m sure it will be a good album! You can find his music work here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCanst-ryE5AksjBL4gfZ-UA

Thanks! -Mike"

>>369089231
His wife posted twice on his blog, clearly she's fucking other guys on the side.

>>369087108
no

>>369087108
I still like him, honestly James videos only getting better, wish he was making them more often than once per half a year.

retard kiddies are sucking his dick on stream again and you can tell Mike's loving every second of it

>uhhh I take all the shots and do the dirty work because James doesn't want to deal with that

he is the poison killing cinemassacre, he wants to take over

he was good until he decided to make more videos than angry video game nerd

When it was only AVGN it was decent. Now is pure garbage

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No, I prefer JDG

Mike is such a fucking fraud. You can tell he's only repeating information second hand any time he talks about anything post SNES.

James needs to cunt-punt that motherfucker from the channel and go back to AVGN on a more regular schedule, and some reviews on the side would be ok.

>>369098596
he should also bring Bootsy back and start a once a week show "James and Bootsy play"

>>369098180
Those exclamation points are so phony. Mike hated the attention that Bootsy got. There's no clearer evidence than Mike ripping off Bootsy Beats and LITERALLY doing a walkthrough of the game that Bootsy was working on. I hope no one ever forgets this. Mike is a human pile of garbage and everyone should know

IT LOOKS LIKE HE'S TAKING A SHIT DO YOU SEE THAT HE'S TAKING A SHIT WHAT A MOTHER FUCKER HE'S SHITTING HAHAHAHAA

Mike has the humour of a five year old

That power rangers video was pretty neat

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>>369098180
>>369098180
>moving in a different direction
>Bootsy is doing the exact same thing he did previously on the channel
>has had it in the works for at least a couple of months (see pic)
>yesterday Mike just happens to upload a lets play of the same game Bootsy was doing his video on

PURE COINCIDENCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI4Ow38rxNM

>>369098497
James other projects are GOAT though. Ever watch Monster Madness?

jesus christ that stream chat is giving me cancer

>>369087108
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlZToIbgLv8

>>369098741
Jesus Christ, you can't write that shit!

Mike needs to pay for this.

The time is now.

>>369098768
I like Board James too. You can tell what he's actually passionate about doing something and what he's not; it really affects the quality.

>>369098741
Great job finding that Bootsy tweet. I forgot he said that. Mike is a shameless coward!

>>369092369

Very late response but yes, he acknowledged this in one of his more recent videos (within a few years), I can't remember which one. He was actually unusually defensive, he's usually very cool about being wrong. His defence was to say he doesn't care what LJN is, just that anything it's stamped on is bad.

proof that mike is shit and james is great

>James and Mike play Bully
>throughout the entire video, they genuinely believe the bully kids are the nerd kids
>this is okay for James to think because he is a busy father and a glorious man who can't read information boxes but Mike should be fucking paying attention
>after making firecrackers, they accidentally throw one and mike honestly thinks it is in fact dynamite
>"Oh my god is she dead!?"
>Afterthoughts at the end, James appreciates the atmosphere of the game, whereas Mike - and he literally said this - feels like the game is holding back compared to GTA and he is disappointed he can't go around killing children

>>>/vr/3829768

I saw this post and I went and watched the punch out video and it must be true. at 4:45 when he is punching don flamenco over and over, there is a spot in the chain where he doesn't throw a punch but you here the click from the controller as if he was mashing the buttons in time with the punches and the abrupt stop mid chain caught him off guard or something.

>>369100449
You're right. I just watched it. Mike is such hack. Everything he does is fake

>>369100449
You can't trust that dude with anything. If only Bootsy would spill the beans. I can't imagine the behind the scenes bullshit with Mike. Imagine all of the outtakes?

BROWN BRICKS

>>369100449
Mike makes a really gay gesture when he says "A-B-A-B" at that part.. the way he rolls his eyes and bounces his head. Cringe gay.

>>369099564
iirc it was beetlejuice

>>369101003
What the fuck was he thinking when he made this? Its like The Room of youtube videos.

>>369101003
Link?

>>369103480
Elmo is much worse. It's incredible and I thank God that he gave us TWO of the worst videos in YouTube history

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>>369087108
I'll be honest, the only reason I still think he's okay is because he refused to review that new Ghostbusters shitfest.

And the more that I think it about it, the more I'm realizing it was probably due to laziness more than principle.

His reviews are so few and far between, I'm pretty sure if he hadn't made a point of not watching/reviewing Fembusters, no one would've cared.

Kind of fucked up that the most relevant thing I can remember him doing is NOT doing something.

>>369087108
I'm halfway through re watching all of the episodes while playing video games

>>369104820
kys desu senpai

>>369088590
That Thanksgiving story honestly sounds more like something Mike would do.

>>369106532
no u

>>369094139
I would've be surprised. Mike is a legit sociopath. If you're a threat to him he'll fuck you over in a heartbeat.

>>369087108
i never stopped

>>369097362
They're usually heavily improv-based, too, which is really saying something.

>>369106910
It was probably Mike shitposting so he can drive James off the channel like he did to Bootsy.

>>369088590
>He didn't want people to see him filming of his house.

Or he didn't want people to see where he lives and send him SWAT teams there for no reason.

>>369100449

Oh wow, good catch.

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Who /stalker/ here?