It's not total crap, but could use lots of work.
The main problem with this is that it got old a long time ago and it’s as boring as hell. When I found out that this Flash that was suppose to make me laugh was made by a bunch of RPG guys that hardly even attempted to properly parody video games that I’d be in for a long, boring, unfunny, crappy and massively overrated ride, and that’s what it turned out to be (kind of like RPG’s themselves).
Let’s start with the obvious; “Since we were so cruel to the DS last time…” How so? It was parodied as a pet in a non-insulting (but very funny) way, and that’s cruel? They could have mentioned dead-pixels for the PSP, the short battery life (not in the creator’s notes, but in the actual show), or the third-parties making porn videos for it and not doing anything to stop them.
The proper way to point out declining in video games and parody it at the same time is the way it was done with the DMC take in this episode, which is the only good part of this whole boring presentation.
Half of the scenes here could have been easily removed and not have been missed.
The sound is pretty annoying and bland. Dim, after 3 previous Decline episodes, still hasn’t learned to raise his voice, I still can’t tell Dan and JT, Tom really isn’t needed, and the voice acting was bad in general.
The music (when there actually WAS music) wasn’t fitting. And Guns ‘n’ Roses really isn’t that good of a choice for a Flash about video game descriptions.
There is only one funny scene. It’s the truth. Accept it. There’s something wrong with anyone who thinks otherwise. The humor was virtually non-existent. Mainly because there were so few attempts at it. Anyone who finds that there is more then one funny scene here is either under the age of 15, or it only takes something as stupid as a fart joke to make them laugh. Either way, this is seriously lacking in the intended humor department and people are finding humor where there really is none.
There are a total of 8 direct parodies of Video Games in this movie:
1 is funny.
2 is a Simpsons joke rip-off
3 is one you could leave out all together.
4 & 5 are the standard Link appearances to get a 5 from all the fanboys who can’t see that the Zelda games were never anything beyond mediocre.
6 is a parody of a scene from a great game that didn’t need a parody what so ever, as you can see by the sad attempt to make a joke with it.
7 & 8 just state the obvious without getting any laughs.
The mix of “insulting” of systems and games needs to be taken to a whole new level, and I mean quickly and with talent. Don’t just have Dim, JT, Dan, and Tom dick around with things forever and not even involve video games, instead treat it more like A Decline Christmas. Where there was there was no retarded unneeded plot involving people other then the main ones, and more direct parodying of video games and actual funny things happening.
And “Decline of Video Gaming”? I just realized that facts about games declining are almost never pointed out. For future reference they could point out:
Decline of Difficulty: The Zelda games.
Decline of Gamer Intelligence: Xbox fanboys who take graphics over game play (quality).
Decline of Story: Halo / Halo 2
Decline of Taste: DOA Beach Volleyball, Tomb Raider.
Decline of Developer Intelligence: Multiple crappy “.hack” games.
Decline of Ideas: Final Fantasy games.
Decline of Gamer Intelligence 2: Suggesting that games like Metal Gear Solid 2 and Killer 7 are to hard and have a story that makes them think.
Decline of Reviewer Intelligence: Complaining that games like Killer 7 and Resident Evil 4 look bad on the PS2 when they were never meant to be ported to it in the first place from a system with a superior graphics.
The crew obviously knows their video games, but rarely parody them or point out faults in actual funny ways, and could use a lot of improvement in many areas. If they were to focus on the actual declining of video games and mix in parodies in as well then this could actually live up to it’s name without turning into a boring mixed-up humorless mess.
