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Son Of General Retro Discussion
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Definitely a refreshing break from all the heavily scripted AVGN style reviews out there.
The thing I find re AVGN, is that there's just the right amount of scripting, so the commentary is not tiresome to listen to, mixed with the right amount of humour.
Generally I find unscripted reviews rely too heavily on stupid humour, & become quite tiresome to listen to. More commonly it's american-type blogger humour that's overdone.
AVGN's success in my eyes is the intelligence behind what he's doing, it's interesting, it's paced beautifully, the humour is relevant, the editing is brilliant & the production is very professional. Even not in character, as himself in James Rolfe video's, he has a very very nice balance/tradeoff between scripting & humour. For example
The editing, & production work for that simple video alone is brilliant0 -
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Yep. Don't worry, I just needed a victim from the mainland to make the pic relevant
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That Turtles Tunes looks absolutely fcuking terrifying
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The Great Chinholio wrote: »That Turtles Tunes looks absolutely fcuking terrifying
"Retr0 loves to skateboard round the fountain, all the live-long day"
It horrific isn't it
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I adored Turtles as a kid - still have a box of the toys upstairs. But I recently caught the tail end of the second sequel where they go to feudal Japan for some reason (no giant enemy crabs, alas).
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Unrelated note, FIFA and UEFA just got hacked, all personal info just got pasted online. Might have to give Platini a call...
Looks like Anonymous have officially announced #OpIreland on Twitter. Prepare for stormy seas... :eek:
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The thing I find re AVGN, is that there's just the right amount of scripting, so the commentary is not tiresome to listen to, mixed with the right amount of humour.
Generally I find unscripted reviews rely too heavily on stupid humour, & become quite tiresome to listen to. More commonly it's american-type blogger humour that's overdone.
AVGN's success in my eyes is the intelligence behind what he's doing, it's interesting, it's paced beautifully, the humour is relevant, the editing is brilliant & the production is very professional. Even not in character, as himself in James Rolfe video's, he has a very very nice balance/tradeoff between scripting & humour. For example
The editing, & production work for that simple video alone is brilliant
I think he must've been aware how stagnant his formula was becoming, and gladly took something of a break from AVGN last year to focus on his movie. The few ones he did last year were up there with the earlier stuff in terms of consistent, considered funny stuff.johnny_ultimate wrote: »I adored Turtles as a kid - still have a box of the toys upstairs. But I recently caught the tail end of the second sequel where they go to feudal Japan for some reason (no giant enemy crabs, alas).
Not good.
They also tried to make a television series out of live-action version, I know this only because they did a crossover with one of the later Power Ranger team, and Linkara covered it in his History of the Power Rangers series.0 -
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Hope it's better than 8 which I found incredibly dull. And how crazy was it that 8 wasn't in widescreen?0 -
I think he must've been aware how stagnant his formula was becoming, and gladly took something of a break from AVGN last year to focus on his movie. The few ones he did last year were up there with the earlier stuff in terms of consistent, considered funny stuff.
He stated publicly he's focusing on the movie, which leaves time for little else. He's in Cal-if-Or-nIa at the moment to begin pre-production & shooting. That's also being documented in small blog type videos. Here's one such vid - http://cinemassacre.com/2012/01/13/nerd-log-packing-stuff/
Regards AVGN becoming stagnant, I think it's the nature of the beast. He was prepared to kill off the character years ago he said in one of his out of character videos, but it became such a cult phenomenon he kept it running. I get the feeling he's quite conscious of the dangers of overcooking the show, as when you listen to him talking normally, he seems to have been studying film a long time & knows his stuff.
There's also Board James, where himself & Mofo Mike play vintage & often cool board games [yes, such a thing exists] & while it's more or less Rolfe being himself, it's a great little show. Check out Fireball Island
There's tons of non-avgn stuff on his site Cinemassacre so never let the AVGN character put you off what other stuff he does. People seem to think that Rolfe IS Avgn, when he's only one character.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this movie heralds the end of the AVGN character for the foreseeable future0 -
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Neo Geo Pocket is being re-released! Check out the awesome AES styling!
http://www.edge-online.com/news/neo-geo-pocket-reborn
I'm sold. Buying one day one.
Ah it's like one of these Megadrive things with twenty groundbreaking games already on it - BUT, it has SD support. So it's
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Yes, but it's SNK licensed and actually looks like decent build quality rather than that cheap, plastic Blaze guff.
The AES styling won me over. Says to me that proper care has been taken over this device build and styling rather than a slapdash approach.
Definitely getting one. The 20 games bundled in are worth the asking price alone for portable Neo Geo action. Backlit screen too, what more do ye need?
I'll still keep my original NTSC-J console though because it's great.
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Yes, but it's SNK licensed and actually looks like decent build quality rather than that cheap, plastic Blaze guff.
The AES styling won me over. Says to me that proper care has been taken over this device build and styling rather than a slapdash approach.
Definitely getting one. The 20 games bundled in are worth the asking price alone for portable Neo Geo action. Backlit screen too, what more do ye need?
I'll still keep my original NTSC-J console though because it's great.
Hmmmm...
Bit too early to get excited me thinks. It looks too similar to a poxy iPhone for my liking. In-built games rings alarm bells for me. Can new games be added I wonder. My sit-on-the-fence mood shall balance your exuberance. :pac:0 -
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Surely those Megadrive things are SEGA licensed too?
The backlit screen for the NGP is the big seller here though
The Blaze ones are, I think, but there's stacks of knock offs and garbage out there that isn't. What I meant by my comment is that this is made under license so, knocking the Blaze a bit, at least the SNK licensed device(s) should be good. I think what I said makes sense, if not I hope you see what I was trying to say...
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Indeed, the backlight is the champion. How hard can it be, really, to emulate NGP games on a portable? That said, Last Resort was never a NGP game as far as I know.
Means this thing is not an NGP part deux, but actually a portable AES? Or both?
Still. Day 1 purchase regardless. I'm off to go drool over that AES styling some more... 0 -
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The Edge article blows, here's a much better article, with more photos.
http://www.siliconera.com/2012/01/25/a-neo-geo-for-your-pocket/0 -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2GJX0TohTA
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