Reviews for Decline of Video Gaming 2

[Slickernaut]

No.

Alright, I'll hand it to you in the graphics department.. You guys did a great job making this look good, and it's obvious that a lot of time went into making it.

However, your blatant overuse of copyright commercial music is maddening. I can usually put up with one or two, but you guys just jam packed your little show to the brim with music from the likes of Rammstein, Kung Pow, various video game titles, and then that Maroon whatever group in the end titles. I sincerely hope you do not seek further distribution past Newgrounds.

Content wise, this cartoon centers around a group of rather unfunny individuals I assume take on the appearance and persona of the real life authors. I was expecting more of what I liked in the first one, but this one was trying to combine aspects of Tomorrow's Nobodies with itself. It just wasn't funny.. Parts drug on for way too long, like the ads in loading screens on Resident Evil. Oh, and stereotyping Jananese people this much also isn't cool.

[Jeffshaw]

voted 2

like it says nothing too new or interesting... sorry...

[Ryanp666]

:|

hey dudes or w/e .. uh good movie, but u should include more games and crap, also didnt see a sign of da x-box ne where, only the 2 super crappy systems psx_ and gaycube_ . plus the games have worse graphics then the games now , they wud most likely (in the games that try to look real) would be like super realistic. Missed out on some of the best games (halo) , and absolutely no sport games. good concept just need more depth (like games we actually play) most the games u showed, in my opinion, already sucked. uh good graphics lol

[Raventail]

Hmm...

Look, no offense, but you can do a lot better than this. I know a lot of people like it and I did like your first movie, but not so much for the movie, but for the jokes. And watching this (really long) sequel, I realized that these jokes aren't really your own. They're pretty common. "FF timebar system is weird, Resident Evil is commercialized, etc." We've all heard these jokes before. Hell, many of us probably made the same observations to our friends. Of course originality isn't everything; presentation can make the worst cliche funny again.

But presentation was also pretty lacking; there's not really any setup for the jokes and punchlines beyond the "pregnant pause." And goddammit, there's so bloody many of them. "Statement. Silence. Punchline." And that's pretty much what made this movie so long and tedious. Too many silent moments and pauses.

Graphics are not bad, I guess. But there's places where it's really lacking. Like the hands in the airplane scene. The audio got really annoying after awhile; whatever recording method you're using, it's getting a lot of background noise. And put some life into your lines! Everything's a dull monotone. Being cynical doesn't mean always speaking like a Barry White on Valium. Sarcasm loses its edge without any emotion.

Also, isn't depicting yourselves as the topmost enemies of the big bad video game corporations pretty much self-glorification, gamer-style?

The-Super-Flash-Bros responds:

You make some good points. But maybe we CAN'T do better than this? Maybe we're trying our hardest, and this is all we can manage? I dunno. If you don't like the style of humour, thats fine, cos I know a lot of people do.
I do apologise about the inconsistency of the hand drawings.......they're so hard to make look right!
Decline was originally written as just 3 guys. We decided they might as well be 'us' - then we wouldn't have to worry about thinking up new names and identities. I suppose it is a form of self-glorification.......but I don't really see that as much of an issue. We're allowed to fantasise - we never went to e3, but in this, we do!

And - if we pick up on jokes that people have already made amongst themselves - then thats great! They'll be able to relate to us as gamers, and laugh for a second time.

"Graphics are not bad, I guess"
To be honest, I don't really agree with you at all. This is a tweened comedy, not a Disney fbf epic. For what it is, I think the graphics are pretty good. Sorry if that sounded cocky, but I worked very hard on them.

Thanks for the review! Maybe you'll like our newer stuff more. You seen the Another Day series?

-Dim

[classy-reviews]

why is this so popular?

Sorry, just didn't appeal to me. I understand the gaming 'in-jokes' and all but they still kind of sucked.
The loading screen games saved this entry from getting under 5.
Oh, the short after the credits was ok though, do stuff like that instead.