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Which one is actually more terrible?
Nostalgia Critic 6 (20.7%)
AVGN 4 (13.8%)
Fuck it, Irate Gamer is the worst. 19 (65.5%)
Fuck it, Hewylewis is the worst. 0 (0%)
Total Votes: 29
AVGN Vs Nostalgia Critic; Which one is the worst?
Topic Started: Sat May 25, 2013 1:07 pm (1,143 Views)
Miro Fortan
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Nostalgia Critic has lately been selling himself with stupid reboots and "improved jokes". And AVGN is being Mr. Krabs who masturbates at the sound of cash machine with his stupid movie and lame unoriginal game, and everytime he makes a new episode he just swears and drinks beer and doesn't come up with creative jokes anymore, but which one is the most horrible?

Gotta go with AVGN, Critic got actually interesting after his reboot in my opinion.

And please, don't force me to tell who is hewylewis.
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NewStuffs
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Why isn't there an option for both (or all four)?

But really, I'll go with AVGN. NC was okay back then, but comparing the two is like apples and oranges.

Though I hate the skits that NC (and the reviewers on TGWTG in general) puts into his reviews.
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Bry
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Who the fuck is hewylewis?
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Hamsteere
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I think NC's still pretty good, I think (ironically) people may be looking back at his earlier review's quality through nostalgia goggles. While Doug's definitely fallen into a Family Guy-esque set of faults, like stretching out a comedic skit too long, or trying to force memes, he's had problems from the start, and I think having 2 weeks instead of 1 has genuinely improved the quality.

Never been a big fan of AVGN, you can see the scope of his comedic talents in about 2 COWABUNGA SHITTING episodes, and honestly sometimes his coverage of games are a bit weak, as he sometimes will only focus on small areas or problems. The nonsense about the crowd-funded movie and game didn't really help me like him either, so I'm still sided with NC...not that it matters in the slightest.

(In the words of Irate Gamer; heweylewis, WHAT DUH HECK IS THAT?)
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Bry
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May 25 2013, 10:25 AM
Never been a big fan of AVGN, you can see the scope of his comedic talents in about 2 COWABUNGA SHITTING episodes, and honestly sometimes his coverage of games are a bit weak, as he sometimes will only focus on small areas or problems. The nonsense about the crowd-funded movie and game didn't really help me like him either, so I'm still sided with NC...not that it matters in the slightest.

Well, he isn't really a nerd of those games, as he is a movie nut.

For me, I don't really give a shit about either of them anymore.

For NC, I just like to watch the flame wars about how he's not funny anymore, when he's slightly improved and doesn't really screech like a howler monkey that much anymore.

For AVGN, I usually watch a couple of episodes, since too much would probably burn me out.

For irategamer.. wait, he's still relevant?
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Oh geez, going back to my point about NC/Doug forcing memes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-yHDBHxAfI (and all the various related videos)
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Miro Fortan
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Fine. Looks like i have to explain who is Hewylewis...

*ahem*

Hewy Lewis Toonmore is a person(or character) who reviews animated movies, either as a person or in horrifying animated form.
Unlike NC he is serious reviewer, and he tries hard to NOT COPY him, which results in boring piece of shit.

His youtube work seems low, but his deviantart shows his "true side." He can draw, "horribly," but he is a rabid brony and also he supports Pooh's Adventures, we have talked about it so everybody knows it.
He used to be ok, but then he added stupid plotlines to his show. He suprisingly has a TVTropes Page:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebV...tedMovieReviews
And a site called ThatFellowWithTheCoat, HOMAGE????????

And a tumblr tag describes a lot about him: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/hewylewis

Logan (Hewy's real name i think) is to Doug what Chris is to James.
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BrawlMusic
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Ah, for a second I thought we were comparing an 80's band to internet reviewers.


I haven't seen either in a long time, but I say AVGN is the worst of the two judging from memory.
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DAC
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I'm gonna have to go with The Nostalgis Critic on this one. While the AVGN has gone on for too long, the Nostalgia Critics FEELS like it had to die a long time ago. Nc has never been that interesting of a film-maker, and his recent forrays into movie-making have demonstrated his lack of talent better than any in-depth essay ever could. It also helps that James Rolfe got his fame by his own efforts, while the Nostalgia Critic got his by leeching off James and as many other efamous people he could. Plus James is a much more interesting person, and it can be seen in his reviews and other extra videos. The Nostalgia Critic just comes off as bland at his best, and really irritating at worst, especially in his not review videos, like Melvin.

Honestly, the only quality he has over the Irategamer now is that he isn't a complete rip-off.
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gentlemanorcus
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NC has never been funny and I have a hateboner for basically the entirety of TGWTG except Brad. The AVGN has been pretty bad recently and seriously fuck Mike Matei or whatever his name is but at least he doesn't sound like a fucking howler monkey. The Irate Gamer hasn't been relevant in years, anyone who still makes fun of him is just beating a dead horse at this point.

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gentlemanorcus
May 27 2013, 03:21 AM
NC has never been funny and I have a hateboner for basically the entirety of TGWTG except Brad. The AVGN has been pretty bad recently and seriously fuck Mike Matei or whatever his name is but at least he doesn't sound like a fucking howler monkey. The Irate Gamer hasn't been relevant in years, anyone who still makes fun of him is just beating a dead horse at this point.

I take it you hate all internet celebs then, huh?
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God, I nearly wet myself laughing (and in fact farted a couple of times) when I saw those poll results.
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hurpdurpmanguy
May 25 2013, 02:46 PM
For irategamer.. wait, he's still relevant?

Yup, and he hasn't changed one bit.
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DAC
Nov 27 2013, 02:17 PM
hurpdurpmanguy
May 25 2013, 02:46 PM
For irategamer.. wait, he's still relevant?

Yup, and he hasn't changed one bit.

Way to go Chris, you've gone from reviewing buggy pieces of shit to endorsing buggy pieces of shit!
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Nov 27 2013, 03:54 PM
DAC
Nov 27 2013, 02:17 PM
hurpdurpmanguy
May 25 2013, 02:46 PM
For irategamer.. wait, he's still relevant?

Yup, and he hasn't changed one bit.

Way to go Chris, you've gone from reviewing buggy pieces of shit to endorsing buggy pieces of shit!

He hasn't blocked the comments though.
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Both the AVGN and NC have seen better days, but I've actually enjoyed more recent episodes from both. I guess if forced to decide between them at gunpoint, I'd have to pick the AVGN if only because I tend to watch and re-watch the NC more often. *shrug*

But heck, if Chris Bores is in the mix, him for sure. I know he really hasn't DONE anything over the last year or so, but still, he's definitely worse than either of the above by default. Especially due to his PewDiePie-like money-grubbing and inflated ego.

Never seen Hewylewis before so I can't really judge with the same amount of exposure/experience.

...

Can't we all agree they've all got their decent points and their horrible, 'What the frak were you thinking?!' moments? If that's not too wussy.
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I've tried to avoid this topic ever since I first saw it because I've had terrible experiences with both fanbases (especially Walker's), but I guess I'll give my two cents on the matter.

I used to be one of the worst kind of NC fanboy. Doug Walker's word was law to me. I constantly tried to get my friends to watch his videos, even though they constantly told me they didn't give a shit. When he started to spread his own forced memes, I would force them EVERYWHERE.
However, a time came when I got tired of the whole "angrily screeching at movies" gimmick, and eventually his other shit. I tried watching other TGWTG contributors, but they were all annoying in one way or the other. To this day the only one I can tolerate is Brad Jones, and the mere mention of Linkara is enough to make by blood boil.

Kickassia was the breaking point. I hated it, and it showed me that despite shitting on bad movies so much, Walker can't make a film to save his life. His LP fiasco and The Review Must Go On (plus everything it represented) only served to reinforce my dislike of him, his persona and his website. And every time I try to have a serious conversation with someone about why I dislike him, it almost always get something akin to "OMG, dude, how can you NOT like the NC? He's so funny and awesome! OF COURSE!XDDDD" as a response.

TL;DR, I can't stand the guy, his buddies or his followers and I don't think he has any talent.

James, on the other hand, can actually review movies worth a damn, and he doesn't rely on silly annoying voices for humor, which is nice. His AVGN persona can actually be somewhat entertaining, too, when it doesn't rely too much on dick & poop jokes. I find his more informative videos great to watch, personally, which is more than I can say for the Nostalgia Screech.

I can't say anything about the Irate Gamer that hasn't been said before.
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I think Hewy Lewis isn't the worst because we just can't find a way to link a musician who's stride hit in the 80's to some nobodies that anyone above the internet hasn't heard of before.
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Honestly, I would say Nostalgia Critic is worse, I tried watching one of his new reviews and I couldn't stand how much it looked like some kind of weird sitcom all of a sudden. I also sort of watched his "8 Crazy nights" review and couldn't stand how he takes 2 minutes of his time to tell us "I hate Whitie's voice". It's like all of a sudden the Nostalgia Critic went from sorta enjoyable, to pretty much Family Guy with a Movie Review. AVGN on the other hand has made stupid mistakes and might have become more like stuck up celebrity, but at least I still find myself sorta remotely enjoying him.

Though at the end, the Irate Gamer is my least favorite.
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gentlemanorcus
May 27 2013, 03:21 AM
NC has never been funny and I have a hateboner for basically the entirety of TGWTG except Brad. The AVGN has been pretty bad recently and seriously fuck Mike Matei or whatever his name is but at least he doesn't sound like a fucking howler monkey. The Irate Gamer hasn't been relevant in years, anyone who still makes fun of him is just beating a dead horse at this point.

If you mean Brad as in Cinema Snob, then that was actually the only one I enjoyed, atop the 4th wall had potential but I sort of got bored especially when he would read out the panels I dunno I was sort of like -_______-
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purpledrank
Jan 8 2014, 07:59 PM
If you mean Brad as in Cinema Snob, then that was actually the only one I enjoyed

Yep, there's no other Brad on that site that he's referring to.

And to be honest, that's the exact way I feel (though I also think Todd has his moments).
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purpledrank
Jan 8 2014, 07:59 PM
atop the 4th wall had potential but I sort of got bored especially when he would read out the panels I dunno I was sort of like -_______-

I especially hated that cringe-worthy side story he had going on back then in which he was a Power Ranger or something. Fucking stupid. And when he started forcing his ugly as sin girlfiend into his videos. And when he broke into a pro-capitalism rant right in the middle of a fucking review.

Sorry for dragging this shit on further, but I really, REALLY hate Linkara. More than anyone else on that god-forsaken site.
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SoupErr
Jan 8 2014, 09:48 PM
purpledrank
Jan 8 2014, 07:59 PM
atop the 4th wall had potential but I sort of got bored especially when he would read out the panels I dunno I was sort of like -_______-

I especially hated that cringe-worthy side story he had going on back then in which he was a Power Ranger or something. Fucking stupid. And when he started forcing his ugly as sin girlfiend into his videos. And when he broke into a pro-capitalism rant right in the middle of a fucking review.

Sorry for dragging this shit on further, but I really, REALLY hate Linkara. More than anyone else on that god-forsaken site.

And let's not forget that he used a Pokemon as a villain in one of said side stories.

Not just any old Pokemon, but fucking Missingno.

Yeah, Linkara's a retard, and I think this voids any and all opinions of his.
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Oh boy, I think I'm going to have the most unpopular opinion in this thread.

I liked both the Nostalgia Critic (just him, don't have much interest in Doug Walker himsel or the rest of TGWTG) and Angry Video Game Nerd's stuff, especially in their early days. However, like mostly everyone here, I prefer the Nerd more.

First off, we have the Critic. Yeah, his monkey screech of an outdoor voice gets very grating after a while. Plus, he doesn't care to do research on source material for the sake of comedy (case in point, his Pokemon and Felix the Cat reviews), and his newest videos (hit-or-miss for me... mostly miss) rely too much on overly-long cutaways featuring those Demo Reel guys. On the flip side, it's sorta fun to watch him over-exaggerate and spaz out over the stuff he has to watch. He thoroughly tears the movies apart critically, too.

Now for the Nerd. He goes way too far with the diarrhea jokes at times (although this is lampshaded recognized by James Rolfe himself, and he apologizes when he really gets vulgar, believe it or not), Mike Matei appearing as Bugs Bunny/Joker/Spider-Man/some other character is distracting, and more often than not he doesn't go more in-depth into the game/console/whatever, making the game look more bad than it actually was. But it's nice how he actually does the research for the crap he's not knowledgeable about, and he shows his work to boot. AVGN's stuff has a good balance of humor and informative, I find.

Please don't label me as a fanboy, pleeeeeease

Aaaaaw, damn.
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Jan 8 2014, 10:02 PM
SoupErr
Jan 8 2014, 09:48 PM
purpledrank
Jan 8 2014, 07:59 PM
atop the 4th wall had potential but I sort of got bored especially when he would read out the panels I dunno I was sort of like -_______-

I especially hated that cringe-worthy side story he had going on back then in which he was a Power Ranger or something. Fucking stupid. And when he started forcing his ugly as sin girlfiend into his videos. And when he broke into a pro-capitalism rant right in the middle of a fucking review.

Sorry for dragging this shit on further, but I really, REALLY hate Linkara. More than anyone else on that god-forsaken site.

And let's not forget that he used a Pokemon as a villain in one of said side stories.

Not just any old Pokemon, but fucking Missingno.

Yeah, Linkara's a retard, and I think this voids any and all opinions of his.

oh christ, dat comic.
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