The Angry Video Game Nerd (TV Series)

Chronologically Confused About Movie and Video Game Sequels (2006)

James Rolfe: The Angry Video Game Nerd

Quotes 

• The Angry Video Game Nerd : The Final Fantasy series is a fine example. Not being a fan, I'm gonna try to explain it to the best of my knowledge. From what I understand, Final Fantasy II at the time of its Japanese release, was not released in the U.S. Neither was Final Fantasy III. But Final Fantasy IV came out here and because we didn't have II or III, it wouldn't have made sense to call it IV, so what do they do? They call it II. Now, Final Fantasy V wasn't released her either. So when VI came out, they called it III. Final Fantasy III also happens to be one of my all-time favorite games on the Super Nintendo. I remember that after that, Squaresoft started releasing the next Final Fantasy games on PlayStation. Things changed. There was no more fucking around with the titles anymore. When Final Fantasy VII came out, they just called it Final Fantasy VII, and that's where the confusion began. I wondered what the fuck happened to IV, V and VI, but what I should have been wondering, little did I know, is what the fuck happened to II, III and V? Once I figured that out, I was like, 'there are other Final Fantasy games we didn't know about? I was playing VI all along and not III? What a bunch of fucking bullfuck.

• The Angry Video Game Nerd : Let me take you back to when Campcom's Street Fighter II came out. I never heard of the first one, but hey, this is a pretty awesome game. Can't wait for Street Fighter III. Then comes Street Fighter II; The Champion Edition. Oh, cool. Street Fighter III's next, right? Nope, Street Fighter II Turbo. Okay, awsome. Can't wait for Street Fighter III. Super Street Fighter II. Uh, cool. Street Fighter III? Super Street Fighter II Turbo. What the fuck? At first I thought all these updates were nice to hold you over, but how many times can you update the same fucking game? It's getting ridiculous. I'm not gonna buy it again. Well, then, finally comes, Street Fighter Alpha, then then Street Fighter Alpha 2. And after that, I honestly lost track. There eventually was a Street Fighter III, like 9 million versions of it. But there was also Street Fighter Zero, Street Fighter EX, EX 2 and EX Plus. Not to mention, way back on the NES, there was Street Fighter 2010. I couldn't tell you where that fits in.

• The Angry Video Game Nerd : One of the things that really brings my piss to a boil is when there's a movie that has a whole bunch of sequels, all conviently numbered, but then they suddenly decide to stop numbering them. Take Halloween for example. Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III, Halloween 4, Halloween 5, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween H20, and Halloween Resurrection, oh God. If they continue like this, years from now, future generations aren't gonna know in what order these films came in, unless they do a little research first. But what I wanna know is why was it okay to number the first five, but not after that? Like they were embarrassed they made so many. Not to mention, each one just sucks harder and harder.

• The Angry Video Game Nerd : Whatever happened to The Naked Gun movies? First off, why is the sequel called The Naked Gun 2 1/2? What's half about it? I always assumed they incorporated half the script from the third movie into it and therefore includes half of the next movie. I guess that makes sense, except for the fact I never saw Naked Gun 3. Or 4, or 5 or any of them up until Naked Gun 33 1/3. How the fuck did I miss that many sequels? I couldn't even find them anywhere. They aren't even listed in Leslie Nielsen's filmography, so I guess he wasn't in those. Somebody help me. I can't find them anywhere. Where's the other half of Naked Gun 3? And all the others up until 32? I can't fucking find them. Where are they? I think it's pretty impressive if they're all numbered and that's gotta be a record for the amount of sequels to a comedy, but damn, that one just blows my mind. Wow, I gotta calm down now. That's enough of my gripes. Thanks for listening to my rants, and good fucking night... by the way, I'm just fuckin' around.

• The Angry Video Game Nerd : I always praised the Rocky movies. What a perfect string of sequel titles: Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, and Rocky V. No subtitles, all Roman numbers, consistent, perfect. But now they're gonna fuck it all up by calling the new one Rocky Balboa. Seriously? Are you kidding? Rocky Balboa? Why can't it be Rocky VI? Rocky Balboa sounds like it's the first one by just adding his last name. What if they made another one? Would they include his middle initial and then his date of birth? What a shitload of fuck. What kind of stupid excuse is this? Revealing more of the character's name. It's like making a prequel to Forrest Gump and just calling it Forrest. Now with talk of Rambo 4 coming out, what are they gonna do, call it John Rambo?

• The Angry Video Game Nerd : The Alien series is also pretty fucked up. They start with Alien, then Aliens, which makes sense. First there was one alien, now there's many. The title is consistent with the plot and it works. But then, uh oh, they make a third one. Oh gee, what are we gonna call it? Can't be Alienses. That won't work, and besides, there's only one alien again. So let's just call it Alien 3. That works. There's really not much else they could've called it. But now you'd think it's time to start numbering the sequels from now on. You think? Or would that just be too traditional? Well, the next one is called Alien Resurrection. At first I thought it was a fucking joke, apart from Resurrection being one of the most overused words to be found in a sequel, there's no reason not to use the number four. I mean, you numbered the last movie. Why can't you number this one? So what do you wanna do, do you wanna number'em, or use cliche words? I don't care which, but make up your fuckin' minds. You don't start numbering sequels and then go back to not numbering them. And there's more than one alien again, so why isn't the title plural like in Aliens? What were they thinking?

• The Angry Video Game Nerd : The Star Trek series did the same thing. Right now there's 10 of them. Star Trek I-VI were all numbered, but when they stopped using the original cast from the show, and started using the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, they dropped the numbers of the films and called them Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek: Nemesis. Okay, that's fine, but where'd the fuckin' numbers go? If they couldn't call Star Trek: Generations Star Trek VII, then why didn't they just call it Star Trek: The Next Generation off the show, and then call the next one Star Trek: The Next Generation II and just start a new line of sequels? But hey, some of the original cast was in Star Trek: Generations, so instead, they should call it Star Trek VII/The Next Generation Part I.

  Spock : Most illogical.

  The Angry Video Game Nerd : Actually, never mind. Just fuck it.

• The Angry Video Game Nerd : Mega Man 64. Did they really make it that far? No, that was just the Nintendo 64's stupid gimmick of putting 64 at the end of every fucking title.

• The Angry Video Game Nerd : Speakin' of Rambo, that's a series that somehow changed its title. The first one was called First Blood. That's it, First Blood. The second one was called Rambo: First Blood Part II. And then the third one was called Rambo III. What, they just forgot about First Blood?

  Rambo : Fuck'em!

  The Angry Video Game Nerd : The correct title would be Rambo II: First Blood Part III.

• The Angry Video Game Nerd : Mega Man is another series where the numbering become confusing. There's Mega Man I-VI on Nintendo, but then on the Super Nintendo, there's Mega Man X, which at the time I thought it meant Mega Man 10. But then came Mega Man X2 and X3. Strangely enough, there was a Mega Man 7 on Super Nintendo after all. That's right, two different series going on at the same time. Then on the PlayStation consoles, there was Mega Man X4, X5, X6, X7 and X8. There was even a Mega Man 8. A regular Mega Man 8 on PlayStation. Now if only they made a Mega Man 9, it would come full circle. Doesn't end there either. What's this? Mega Man Battle Network series? Mega Man 64? Did they really make it that far? No, it was just the Nintendo 64's stupid gimmick putting the number 64 at the end of every fuckin' title.