Avgn polybius rom5/2/2023 ![]() ![]() He says that he found a lead on a possible cabinet with the game, and he leaves it at that.Īlready, it piques interest. Day One is great because it starts off with him sitting in front of the camera like any other AVGN episode, and giving a detailed run-down of Polybius and the rumours, and legends surrounding it. Each part was divided into Days, and he filmed it in the found footage format that I love so much. He controlled the pace right off the bat. Rolfe released his Polybius episode in a five-part serial. I’ve probably mentioned it before, but just as fantasy and the macabre share the same road and branch off, comedy and terror tend to share similar pacing, unexpected beats, and familiar ends. It’s funny how horror and humor relate to each other. James Rolfe went farther, utilizing this idea that has existed online since the early aughts. I went as far as a few ideas, some notes dealing with eighties nostalgia, and getting some concepts rejected by the SCP Foundation. It’d be the perfect test of my abilities. ![]() I did think about doing something with the Roman historian Polybius and his possible relation, of that of his work, to the game as an attempt at a creepypasta: a copy and paste internet attempt at an online and electronic urban legend of my own creation.Īs a bit of background, there was a time when I was fascinated with creepypastas - you can thank my late partner Kaarina, and Kris Straub’s Candle Cove for that - and I wanted to make one myself: to create a story so compelling, and seemingly real, it could become viral. ![]() I have nothing to add to the urban legend itself, as many people have delved into it far deeper than I can at this time. Polybius is a video game urban legend about an arcade game that apparently could affect the minds of those who played it: inducing seizures, insomnia, dementia, and pure insanity in those exposed to it. This was when I knew we were going to be in for a wild ride. Now, for those who don’t know, the Nerd’s whole theme is that he plays the worst-made video games ever created, and he critiques them and swears at them a lot while going as far as to even destroy hard copies of that game.īut this time, the Nerd was talking about Polybius. It was the Angry Video Game Nerd, who I hadn’t seen in a while, except he was talking about a whole other kind of game. I began to truly become interested in Rolfe outside of his AVGN role, perhaps more so than even the AVGN episodes themselves.Īnd then one day on October 27th Cinemassacre Plays, which was a channel dedicated to both Rolfe and Matei playing games and Matei in particular having rage-sessions, a short video was released. Mostly, I just listened to James Rolfe and Mike Matei talk about games and movies. After a time, I became more interested in Rolfe’s Monster Movie Madness episodes, and of course his interview with Joe Bob Briggs whose work I didn’t know I would become so invested in at the time. Rolfe had been busy working on his AVGN film, and a lot of the day to day posting had been given to Mike Matei, with some appearances by Rolfe. It’d been a long time since that episode, however. Towards the end, he creates character as he just can’t help but laugh, but at that point I was so invested in the whole “What the Fuck” lead up and conclusion, that I just - again - laughed with him. It’s so absurd, and so ridiculous that you can’t even believe it is an actual interactive game with rules or any sensibilities. I saw a deadpan humour, a story being built up about how he encountered this “vile piece of goat shit,” as he put it so poetically, a slow building dread in the narrative that he created, followed by the denouement of a game that arbitrarily hurts and kills the protagonist almost instantly. Seriously, for me the tone of the Nerd was set when I first watched his video episode on the Nintendo Entertainment System’s Dr. In fact, a lot of the time I laugh at the Nerd I am laughing at that part of myself. When James Rolfe plays the Nerd, to me he’s both a figure to laugh at, but also to sympathize with as a child of the eighties and nineties. His persona as a raging, scathing nerd stereotype that neatly eviscerates terrible video games, with nineties gross-out humour and profanity, really hit a nostalgic factor in my heart. I’d been following James Rolfe as the Angry Video Nerd for over a decade. I was on YouTube, navigating through the site, when I noticed an uploaded video in Cinemassacre Plays. ![]()
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