Nintendobard Video Reponds to the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) Castlevania 64

[nintendobard]

@TheCinemaphobic my Ps3 mic I use to record sucks so I sound angry since I have to yell into the Ps3 headset since it's crap to use and yes AVGN was created for HUMOR I'm not mad, at him see my follow up video.

[infrazoom]

good video

[buc555]

Great video man! 263 people clearly didn't watch the video and just assumed from the title that you were a troll.

[nintendobard]

@buc555 I made a follow up video about that and yes I did get a response from the AVGN website so go watch that on and my OK 1st review I made that needs reediting.

[Platinum5820]

I don't hate or dislike this video you can have your own opinion and he can have his. Me? I'm gonna sit back and play Nintendo

[nintendobard]

@Platinum5820 I made a follow up video to clear the air for everyone who saw it.

[Jaydecay67]

I bet all of the people clicking the dislike button or leaving rude comments here didn't even watch the whole video. He's obviously a fan of AVGN considering at the end he talks about how he's excited to see the movie and stuff.

[nintendobard]

@Jaydecay67 I'm a fan too so a made a follow up video for the trolls who did not understand this video.

[SovietCanukistan]

@thadarryl You know he seems like a nice guy despite the fact that his name makes him sound like he'd be a complete asshole!

[Twomoredays]

I love the avgn but i think he misses a great deal of the game just to be angry and funny. the music is awesome (yes, castlevania 64 has music)

If you are the 99% who never played c64 i think you should give it a try. Its really good.

[MagikGimp]

I managed to work this one out and yes one bit take a while but it's a challenge, remember those gamers? A tough game and pretty good actually no less.

[jensrobot]

voice is fine why so many dislikes. yeah tone was a littlebit angry but so what.

[nintendobard]

@jensrobot Have to yell into the crummy PS3 Mic so it picks up my voice, I'm not being angry at least not here, maybe in my Chono Cross review.

[jensrobot]

@SRNF you should probably evaluate your own life once more. You're doing it wrong! no need for this hate towards a man you don't even know.

how that stupid comment gets thumbs ups is beyond me, and doesnt paint a beatifull picture of our fellow man. but thats youtube for ya. revealing the true nature of the human race... sec im gonna go throw up.... back. LOL nice comment tho

[SRNF]

@jensrobot if you take youtube that seriously perhaps you should read a book or something

[nintendobard]

@SRNF I banned jensrobot now but I appreciate you help, also see my follow up video.

[b1gnate78]

I am here beause of Mike I watched the Star Trek Q&A then clicked on the link.

[nintendobard]

@b1gnate78 Were was that at do you have a link.

[zukodude487987]

This was the first castlevania i ever played and its still one of my favourite, despite some of its bad camera angles. I disagree with rolfe about the music because it had some great soundtracks. All the songs in the boss fights were really great and gave me the suspense and atmosphere for the battles. Dont get me wrong i love castlevania 4 very much and also the NES versions. They are all great and fun to play. I did prefer the whip tho on castlevania 64, because its much faster.

[designerunderpants]

Was this done on a emulator? Because the game looks so crisp, whatever way you captured it

[nintendobard]

@designerunderpants S-VHS N64 cable and Dazzle capture

[K4rakara]

...and all the game had to do is tell the player, in this case AVGN/James, to use the item with right C. There should be no need to look up a whole walkthrough to play a game from Beginning to the End.

[sperrin]

Really, this vid could have been 2 seconds long.

All the info required was "Press right C to place the item(s)"...as that's all James would have needed to know, not a walkthrough of the entire level.

[DeinKoenig]

you didnt get the idea. james could have looked it up, but he didnt. when it came out, i also stucked at the same point. and stopped playing it after several tries. its just bad designed and nothing is explained. everyone can now look up stuff in walkthroughs, but james does this only in emergencys, and a good game shouldn't need this, especially when its just about controls.

[hutton4059]

thanks for explaining that :)

[cmalessa12]

Thanks for explaining all that but you did so with a sort of condescending tone. Oh well.

[chaoticwarzone]

To be fair the nerd plays game like you just picked it up for the first time and gradually learning the controls and the overall mechanics of the game and of course bumping into the cryptic stuff game makers put in to make you look into buying that $24.99 something dollar strategy guide or Nintendo Power or that FAQ, But you are right the game doesn't seem as bad, after seeing your video and knowing the stuff that should have been information in the game. Like having a test with answers on it XD

[kZabbi]

libary

[AlucardsQuest]

@TheNorthernWord You're right but the thing is, most of his reviews are about channeling his reactions to the game as a child, or relaying his retrospective disappointment at the flaws that we glossed over as children... that's part of the joke. I personally went for years not knowing what to do in Simon's Quest. This part in CV64 bothered me, but it wasn't something I couldn't figure out. However AVGN has me trumped in that I would never be able to finish Street Fighter 2010.

[HaggarddraggaH]

I've beaten this game probably like 10 to 15 times, and without fail I get stuck on this part every time.

[Sdude151]

why so many dislikes to this video?

[nintendobard]

@Sdude151 My mic is horrible and people think I'm being angry and I'm not I have to talk loud so the mic will pic up my voice see my follow up video.

[nintendobard]

@Sdude151 People think I sound angry but the thing is I have to yell in order for the PS3 Mic to pic up my voice in Camtasia Studio

[tonberrymasta]

I think it made more sense when the items just didn't work.

[dividebyxer0]

It was a very informative video. However you should probably re-record the voice over. Use a friendlier tone to your voice. I think that would flip the field on that dislike bar. :)

[nintendobard]

@dividebyxer0 got a better Mic you can send me since the one I use sucks thus the yelling at times

[7round1]

Nice information, but you deliver it too angry. Maybe you did that on purpose to be funny? If that's the case, it didn't work as planned. If only you were a little nicer, that deslike bar would be much smaller.

[nintendobard]

@7round1 my Ps3 mic I use to record sucks so I sound angry since I have to yell into the Ps3 headset since it's crap to use.

[nintendobard]

@7round1 I'm not angry my PS3 Mic is a piece of crap and it can't pick up my voice very well at all thus the yelling.

[Zehutsumei]

@Driver80Deep Then you remember that in his 32X review, he shows the movelists for Primal Rage ripped directly from GameFAQs, rendering your argument moot.

[DrewtheMew]

I do have to agree with rookiegreene, the point of AVGN playing Castlevania 64 wasnt to show you how to play it, its to show how he views it and his personal experience with the game. Youre video also never shows the game telling you to press right C, so how would you know to do that? I also would like to point out this game is rather old, so when it was new, there wasnt widespread internet like there is today, so you couldnt have just looked up an FAQ. Simple as that.

[QualityPants]

@DrewtheMew Yeah, well, you use the right C button for practically everything else from opening doors, using levers and other objects in the world, picking up items, talking to people, looking at things etc. It's not like they just threw the right C button in there for shits and giggles for this one puzzle.

[kinnikufan]

@rookiegreene I certainly see where you're coming from, but I don't think he intended to come off sounding as condescending as he did. In my experiences with people I've learned that some people simply sound like they are talking down to others all the time. Then again, maybe this guy genuinely is, who knows?

[blott1978]

If Konami would have properly programmed the DAMN GAME...folks would not have to decipher cryptic clues just to solve one simple puzzle....Rot in hell you sarcastic fuck.

[ninjapatto]

why does this have so many dislikes?

[PodMaster2009]

Well I guess that James isn't that nerdy and that angry after watching this.

[youtoubakias]

Thankfully on the ps2 castlevania games they correct the mistakes by making better controls and camera,because i believe that those were the real problems in the castlevania 64.I don't wanna get misanterstood but this is my personal opinion.Anyway nice video and the explanation that you give to nerd was right,nobody is perfect everybody can do mistakes right?

[youtoubakias]

I remember that place its one of the hardest! anyway man this is not correct the mistakes that they made in this game.For me it was not a very good title,good enough though to stand in his reputation as a castlevania title like a first 3D castlevania.Is not that i didn't enjoy the game,it had its own good moments,but the worst was more.And they could do allot better job on N64 trust me on that,they just rushed the title out.And i know because i have beat every castlevania game.

[Jinjorider]

I like it! And don't scold me for saying this :joke: :D

[TrueManaBeast]

You have missed the point entirely. In numerous video's AVGN "James" has mentioned his hatred of having to go online an look at walk thru's. and with many of his games it wasn't an option at the time. Further more if it was a well developed game it wouldn't even be an issue. There is a differance between a puzzle and a game flaw that makes you think its a puzzle because it doesn't allow you to preform a basic function, or gives you little to no direction.

[glemmstengal]

I remember doing this as a kid, it was so challenging and rewarding when I finished it, good times

[Kafei2006]

I beat the game years before the AVGN video was put up, but by the time it was made available, I had already forgotten how I did it. But I DID remember the frustration due to the lack of clear instructions on how to do it. Internet wasn't quite common place yet back in those days, so you had to figure things out by yourself, unless you were rich enough to be able to afford magazines, on top of buying already expensive games. Figuring it out was part of the sense of reward that game could provide

[biscoito1r]

I wonder why so many negatives.

[nintendobard]

@biscoito1r They think I sound angry but the truth is the PS3 mic I use is crap and I have to yell a bit to get it to work correctly.

[winesti]

I didnt mind the attitude. It sounded more to me like he was pointing out the idiocy of the game rather than the player. But that`s just me.

[thomaszdrei]

These Castlevania titles were put-a-bullet-in-your-head-bad. No follow-up is really necessary; Castlevania 64 is just a bad, bad game.

The AVGN isn't necessarily saying that it was impossible to due this, he was recounting his own experiences with the game and how frustrating this part is due to his inability to figure it out. Using FAQs to beat games as a result of their inaccessibility doesn't change the fact that they're inaccessible due to a flawed design in the first place.

[seahawk97838]

@rookiegreene that's probably how he talks, so shut up

[EviltheNub]

If I remember correctly right-C is like the context button(pick things up, open doors, etc.) I don't know why the nerd couldn't figure that out. It's pretty standard to just do that when you have to use an item in a particular spot.

[djhenyo]

It is 100% obvious that you used an emulator to play this game due to the high resolution and smooth frame rate. Also, mandragora is not a chemical, it is a plant. Otherwise, good explanation.

[Keeginpwns]

James just posted this link on his website under his Star Trek Trivia video, just a heads up :)

[nintendobard]

@Keeginpwns Thanks, sorry for yelling my mic is garbage have to get a new one.

[therealhardrock]

Internet back then. Games should not be designed this way. They should not be designed so that the only way you can possibly know to do something is if someone else tells you. Besides,k I think he really knows more about the games than he lets on and is trying to recreate the experience he had of playing the game back when it was new.

[MayaSoto38]

@therealhardrock Thanks for explaining better. I didn't fully get what Pyjamaicat meant. (sorry) I guess when I was a kid I had alot of trouble getting though some games too. I never used guides, the games cost enough as it was.

A good unique part of his reviewing is him showing his experiences while playing it. Recreates alot of things you can relate to (minus the swearing!)

[nintendobard]

@therealhardrock I know I need to show the response AVGN sent me in another video, as for the game itself I think Konami should have finished the game before they shipped it instead of making us buy Castlevania Legacy of Darkness the same year.

[nintendobard]

@therealhardrock I was making a joke, sorry for yelling my mic is garbage.

[therealhardrock]

The problem that AVGN had was that he didn't know that the way you are supposed to drop the items is not the same way that you normally use items in the game. In 1999, the internet was still very young (most people still had dial-up back then) and websites like Gamefaqs didn't exist yet. It's like knowing to use the red crystal at the wall in Simon's Quest; nothing in the game itself tells you that you're supposed to do that and the only way to know was with Nintendo Power because there was no

[MrManiacProductions]

Subbed, thanks for the help :)

[nintendobard]

@MrManiacProductions No problem, but to be honest I was using a Castlevania 64 Perfect Guide when I made this video and that's something the Angry Video Game Nerd himself James D. Rolfe didn't have and I don't know if he saw it but his buddy Mike Matei (aka Mother Fucker Mike) did and sent me a response.

[MayaSoto38]

Great response. Was really frustrated with his review of this game at the time, thanks for clarifying things. James has a responsibility to review things properly and fairly since he has such a reputation for it with games in the gaming world. He did it no justice, especially considering there are FAQ's out there.

Also, how did he get that far in the game with that particular problem, when you consider that you place the nirto the same way you use other items, just as keys, open doors etc?

[nintendobard]

@MayaSoto38 I did get a response back from JamesNintendoNerd, however it wasn't from the Angry Video Game Nerd himself James D. Rolfe but, I did get a polite response back from James partner in crime, Mike Matei aka Mother Fucker Mike, and I'll post a video about it soon since I'm still working on my next video review and my Halloween Special before October is over and I have to finish it quickly. Thanks for your comment and don't forget to subscribe to my channel.

[pyjamicat]

@MayaSoto38 AVGN doesn't have a responsibility to review games properly and fairly because his videos are supposed to be over the top and primarily a form of entertainment, not informative reviews.

[MayaSoto38]

@pyjamicat You're right, just this was one of my fav games. When I was a kid, I would complete a game, then go look for glitches in it. (great way to spend your childhood huh -_-)

It sort of ruins it for me to watch his videos while keeping in mind that the bad programming etc is just a guy pretending theres things wrong with games. I didn't really think of it that way before. I just thought the over the top thing was his style, but at the same time he knew and enjoyed retro games also.

[nintendobard]

@MayaSoto38 I still prefer the NES and SNES Castlevania over the PSX and N64 Castlevania games. The main problem was Castlevania 64 was a incomplete game and Konami fixed that with the release of Castlevania Legacy of Darkness which is the finished game. I like Retro games too and though I don't like Wii because of motion control, I do like the Wii for Virtual Console and I have a Wii controller adapter that lets me use NES and SNES controllers as a Classic Controller.

[nintendobard]

@pyjamicat Yes the AVGN doesn't have a responsibility to review games properly but my intention was not to hate on the AVGN but to show him and others how to get though Castle Center (and yes I am aware that James is in character as AVGN and he used his frustration as comedy) I don't hate the Castlevania 64 Review far from it I love it and AVGN showed how people got frustrated when playing Castlevania 64. I'm yelling in the video a bit because the PS2 Mic I have is crap.

[Sniffzoer]

@nintendobard you should put this text in the description lol, thanks for the vid.