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Dr_Osaka
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@HeadlessHorselessHorseman
Yeah that is true, I guess the problem I have is that I no longer find him funny so when he can’t make me laugh I tend to view his videos as lackluster cause not only is his humor bad but now I can’t even take his critiques seriously because of how awful they are.
And this isn’t even an issue with his newer content, I went back to watch some of his older videos like the Super Mario Bros. Movie and they don’t hold up for me sadly (from a humor & analytical POV).

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HeadlessHorselessHorseman

@Dr_Osaka
Walker did do a Video Game Confessions episode on Sonic (anyone remember that show?), so he has some superficial familiarity with the games, although, as is often the case with him, he doesn’t seem to be interested in broadening his knowledge any further.
But in my experience, Walker does a reasonably good job of avoiding media moralism and conflating his own opinions with objective truth, and he’s taken pushback into account. I think where he falters the hardest is when he goes after creators on a personal level, like with Michael Bay or Tommy Wiseau.
His analyses aren’t great (there are times when he hits the mark), but we know that he’s a comedian before he’s anything else, and to be honest, I’ve reached a point where I don’t think professional criticism of any sort has much value. There’s too much ego and individual taste hiding behind the standards. For all the shit that Walker gets, Roger Ebert had some of the same flaws.

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Dr_Osaka
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Sata Andagi!
@Background Pony #6DFC
It’s inevitable that Doug does a Nostalgia Critic review for it eventually, I mean I never thought he’d ever touch Detective Pikachu but he did and given the response that the movie got especially thanks to the redesign Doug won’t help being the dick he is by raining on everyone’s parade.
Plus Doug has shown very little interest in the Sonic series to begin with (I mean he doesn’t even know the loop de loop place is Green Hill Zone) so I don’t trust him to give any kind of proper review of it at all.

Generals » The downfall of TGWTG or Channel Awesome » Post 4460

Background Pony #6DFC
How much you wanna bet the next Nostalgia Critic video is gonna be a review of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie? Considering the sequel will be out two days later, it seems like an obvious choice. If that does end up happening, let’s hope Doug is considerate of the movie’s fans, since he upset a lot of them when him and Rob gave it a negative review on Sibling Rivalry.

Generals » The downfall of TGWTG or Channel Awesome » Post 4459

Background Pony #D7FD
Honestly considering Ralph’s friendship with YMS, who’s arguably more snobby in terms of movies, yeah.
That Joker review was a joke, nothing but someone bitching over a movie he didn’t like and insulting those who enjoyed it.

Generals » The downfall of TGWTG or Channel Awesome » Post 4458

HeadlessHorselessHorseman

@Background Pony #D7FD
To be fair, I was under the impression he only reviewed Joker because of fan demand, so if that’s true, I’m not surprised he half-assed his video on it.
I think he’s just kind of petty. There are plenty of reasons to criticize Doug Walker, but calling him “cringe” or “that awkward kid” is getting into channer territory.

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Background Pony #D7FD
The problem with Ralph is he wants to be taken serious as a reviewer instead of a “comedian”. But his reviews boil down to obnoxious self imposed “I know movies and this is trash”. The Joker review is an example of that, missing key points just to rant about how the movie borrows elements from other movies. Him reviewing the Linkara film feels like bottom of the barrel scraping and only doing so because of the drama between Lewis and Oney plays.

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Background Pony #D7FD
I’ve slowly come to realize why some people don’t like Lewis, especially with some reviews he tends to go into the realms of Kyle “Everything is a Fascist” Kalgreen. Although I find people like Ralphthemoviemaker making fun of the AT4W movie when that film was made for fun and not uber pretentious ala To Boldly Flee to be rather sad.

Generals » The downfall of TGWTG or Channel Awesome » Post 4454

Dr_Osaka
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Sata Andagi!
So I went on to Shinobi-03’s channel to go watch his response video to Doug’s Jurassic Park review and couldn’t find it anywhere, I went to see his uploads and was surprised to find that he’s quitting making videos.
Apparently it’s too much work for him to do and time consuming and in the end was meaningless because of how little views and subscribers he’s been getting, and I fully understand what he’s going through so I respect his decision though not sure why he removed his Jurassic Park/World response videos.
I suppose he’s not proud of them, but personally that’s why I subscribed to him in the first place because like Klayton Fioriti it was not only nice to see other devoted fans of JP but also someone who spoke out against people like Doug Walker.
Doug’s reviews of the Jurassic movies are awful; some of the worst content I have ever seen from him (yes even more then his Pink Floyd parody) and it was so nice to see someone like Shinobi-03 speak up and show how important these films are to people and that there’s no shame in liking something especially if you have facts to back up.
I suppose there are still plenty of people out there that don’t fall for Doug’s crap like MisAnthro Pony and Anomaly Inc. But still JP is important to me, it’s one of my all time favorite film franchises so that’s why I have such respect for Shinobi-03 and thus am disappointed we don’t get to watch his videos anymore (also his Deadpool 2 response his gone as well).

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Dr_Osaka
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Sata Andagi!
@Red-Supernova
I was a Nintendo kid growing up as well, my first console was N64 and ever since I’ve gotten the latest Nintendo system moving forward. I did rent a PlayStation to play games like Dino Crisis and Resident Evil but never owned one, though my brother did get a PS2 when that came out and we started getting games like Final Fantasy X and of course was my first introduction to Kingdom Hearts, and ever since we’ve also had Sony console as well (plus a Blu-Ray player) and I’ve always gotten the latest KH game to come out which thankfully were on the DS.

Generals » The downfall of TGWTG or Channel Awesome » Post 4449

Red-Supernova
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
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Ten years of changes - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of MLP:FiM!
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Thread Starter - The Mega Man thread!
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2017) - Celebrated Derpibooru's five year anniversary with friends.

Passionate opinionator
@Dr_Osaka
When the original Kingdom Hearts came out, I’m not surprised everybody picked up because all of their favorite Disney movies and characters were in it. That OG Kingdom Hearts commercial was the bane of my existence back in the day due to me being a big Nintendo fan and had no interest in investing in a PS2. Though looking back, I don’t think it would have been a bad investment since the PS2’s DVD component did contribute a lot to its success and having at least one game series to follow would have been worth learning the PlayStation controls.
I’m sure I would have gotten more accustomed to Final Fantasy earlier before Record Keeper entered my life and I would have shown strong investments into the original characters as well.
(Figures. He doesn’t really have the time to play all of those games but some research and acknowledgement would have been nice.)
@Dr_Osaka
He still should have played the other games regardless I mean it would have been more Disney-related content for Disneycember after all. But I’m sure the alternate gameplay styles of each side game would have been too much for his feeble brain to comprehend.
Yeah, I remember visiting my local Gamestop when KH3 dropped. The hype was that big.

Generals » The downfall of TGWTG or Channel Awesome » Post 4448

Dr_Osaka
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Sata Andagi!
So Doug finally got to Kingdom Hearts III

This was the one I was worried about the most because skipping over the other titles will lose you in what’s going on in the story, but apparently he watched a video or something to catch up on what was going on (not the best way of doing things but whatever) and decided to review it as it’s own thing which I do admire a bit because 3 does get hate on a lot by everyone and I understand just as well as anyone why so.
KHIII is/was pretty much Duke Nukem Forever in that there was so much hype built around it that of course once it finally came out it would inevitably get criticized for not living up to all the hype, but as someone who loves these games and am just happy to see a new one come out I’m perfectly fine with what I’m given cause even if the story isn’t perfect or the gameplay isn’t topnotch they still give me what I love about playing these games overall. It’s no different then my love for Sonic the Hedgehog, not every game is gold but I still play them no matter what because I support the series for what it is.
So yeah Doug thankfully didn’t botch this one entirely (though that doesn’t mean he’s off the hook for all the other shit he’s done)
Also Doug reviewed Disney’s Mighty Joe Young this year, ho-boy

Generals » The downfall of TGWTG or Channel Awesome » Post 4447

Dr_Osaka
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Sata Andagi!
@Red-Supernova
I hear you, I grew up playing Kingdom Hearts and while I mostly did because it had my favorite Disney movies in it at the same time I also liked the original characters that were made for the game and I was invested in their stories and wanted to see what would happen to them moving forward, I also enjoyed seeing Final Fantasy characters in the games as well since I played those growing up as well (oh and Doug didn’t even mention there were FF stuff in the game which again goes to show how uncultured he is about video games)
@Background Pony #1509
It could be because of Covid, it could have been because of the Pink Floyd review, we don’t really know the answer but one thing that can be said about the clipless reviews is that it seemed like he was doing them to avoid copyright strikes; a lot of clipless reviews included movies like Jurassic World, Batman V Superman, and Wonder Woman which he would do reviews for follow up movies like Fallen Kingdom, Justice League, and Wonder Woman ’84 which were not clipless reviews.
Either way I never liked his Demo Reel stuff so personally I prefer he stay away from that style anyways.

Generals » The downfall of TGWTG or Channel Awesome » Post 4445

Red-Supernova
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).
Betrayal! - Betrayed their team for a badge. Shame forever!
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Ten years of changes - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of MLP:FiM!
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2020) - Took part in the 2020 Community Collab
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Thread Starter - The Mega Man thread!
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2017) - Celebrated Derpibooru's five year anniversary with friends.

Passionate opinionator
@Dr_Osaka
Doug is SERIOUSLY skipping the other entries of the series and only going by the numbered games?! That is only going to spell disaster for him since its clear that ALL Kingdom Hearts games are canon and all have important stuff between them. Unless he loves looking like an unprofessional klutz, which given his track record, he is very good at doing so.
And he’s only doing this just because of his love for the Disney brand? This is more of a me thing but sometimes I just feel like its pointless to be a fan of Disney these days due to the common opinion of everybody seeing Disney as a corporate tyrant who only care about owning everything. So whenever he is appalled by a crummy Disney product as the Nostalgia Critic assuming that Disney should know better, I’m like “Pfft! Disney knowing better? What kind of drugs are you on?”
It blows because those games are very beloved in gaming culture and he’ll never get a chance to play them. Well, we know Pokémon is out of the question obviously.

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Background Pony #1509
Anyone notice there hasn’t been a clipless Nostalgia Critic review in over two years? Part of me wants to believe it’s because Doug saw the negative reception towards the Pink Floyd: The Wall video and realized just how many people don’t like the clipless reviews. However, the more likely reason is because the pandemic made it difficult for him to make those types of reviews, and he decided to put them on hold until things died down. Seeing as how Doug and the rest of his crew returned to the Channel Awesome studio a few months ago, I feel like it’s only a matter of time before he does another one.

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Dr_Osaka
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Sata Andagi!
@northern haste
Well I suppose that’s true, I mean it is kinda hard to sum up a huge game like Kingdom Hearts in a 12 minute video, I can understand that length for something small like DuckTales on NES or Lion King on SNES but you kinda need to dedicate more time to games that have lots of content in them especially since we all don’t want to just sit through Doug’s let’s plays just to hear his thoughts on every little thing going on in the game.

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Dr_Osaka
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Sata Andagi!
So I just found out that Doug is apparently reviewing Kingdom Hearts for Disneycember which is something I thought he would never do but it only took him what 15 years to finally get around to it (and unfortunately it had to be when I stopped giving a shit about him and his content)
I will say I’m intrigued but all worried about him finally talking about KH mainly because it looks like he is only talking about 1, 2, and 3 and let’s just say you’re not gonna understand a lot of what’s going on if you just skip over the other games. I mean yes they tell their stories out of order and it tends to be a bit complicated at times but even then if you enjoy the franchise then I feel like it’s important (not to mention Doug is missing out on all the new worlds that were added to Birth By Sleep and Dream Drop Distance)
Basically what I’m saying is I don’t want him criticizing the game for the wrong reasons.
With that said Doug’s review of KH1 is fine, he makes some good points about the story, visuals, and gameplay; and while I do agree the controls can be a little wonky even on a newer console he should keep in mind this came out on PS2 and was the first KH game ever made so there are gonna be some problems with the platforming and whatnot (Nomura wanted to make something that could rival Super Mario 64 after all)
One last thing I wanted to say is I understand that Doug is not a gamer or at least not a hardcore gamer so I get his frustration with JRPGs, which disappoints me because this means Doug will never play games like Earthbound, Final Fantasy VII , Persona 5, or any number of Pokemon titles.

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