Egoraptor is probably making a ton of money off his stuff. As for all the other people basically just ripping his style to make their own video game parodies... let them do what they feel like. It won't get them anywhere, so who cares?

If you want to interpret it that way.

I can tell you stories of people who do things like this because of GOOD artists, thinking they'll never be as good and popular as them and end up selling out to themselves.

If you want to reprimand me because I do things I like and sutff happens as a result, good or bad, whatever.

I wouldn't mind grand theft awesome that much if it was actually funny

Its to bad the awesome movies past the first one suck, and all the shit surrounding it do to. Not only that, but the awesome series has caused an effect I call score inflation, where new submissions continually get unprecedented high scores and places in the top 50.

Also not using any talent is trendy

mmm-.... pues a mi me gustan los cortos de egoraptor, nunca he estado celoso... y no me gustaría copiar su estilo. lo siento por chris y todos aquellos que lo hicieron.

it's so stupid...and sad. Ego does it because it's fun and he's good at it - he's got humor and voice acting. They rip off his stuff...and most of the time awesome movies that he didn't make aren't good...at all in my opinion, yet they get Daily Feature/weekly whatever and maybe more? ridiculous...

I don't care that they aren't putting their heart and soul into it because obviously if every flash had to be gold, there would only be like 10 submissions every few months, it's just...why can't they have SOME sort of originality? Why can't the viewers be smarter? Why 5 because your favorite character was in it even though you didn't like anything in the cartoon? Why blam because they left out something you wanted???

it's not the artists that makes me sad, it's the freakin voters.

But I think that the Chris guy's post is just really really pathetic. He has stated he enjoys doing his own cartoons, he's got ideas, he has all these things, but he's going to stop and make vid game parodies JUST because he wants fucking views and awards??? WTF can that get you? NOTHING! This just newgrounds, have fun, ppl...seriously. Being on newgrounds front page is not a big deal...at all. Sad sad...just make something you like.

If you enjoy vid game parodies, cool, make 'em, if you have sweet original ideas that you want to make happen, cool, do it up, but seriously...why just sell out when there's no gain at all? I mean, come on - "Yay, I'm not having much fun making these parodies, I'd rather have real fans and make my own stuff, but wooow look at my newgrounds awards and blog comments!" T_T

i found brawl taunts funny :[

man, chriss newspost actually made me angry.

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I'm going to do something about it, wait and see.....

It's just the way you look at everything. I find the constant hatred towards a few select artists, simply do to their succes and following, a bit crude. Why bother hating Egoraptor? He surely didn't want his movies to have this effect on people, and he surely doesn't deserve all the shit he's been getting. I admit, there's nothing I hate more then total crap spilling out of the portal, but that's no reason to blame the content on another animator. Some of the "Awesome" parodies are ACTUALLY kind of good, let me stress the word "some" though, hehe. You can tell Egoraptor is getting quite better with his animation quality. Ninja Gaiden itself was pretty well done, short may it be.

Movies like "Brawl Taunts" and "More Brawl Taunts" were funny at first, I'd say most people got a good laugh from them... -But like most I'd say it's been overdone, and played out. Both of them recieved over-the-top scores and remain in the Top 50 as of now, or atleast one of them is. Most of the anger fired at these two movies is caused mainly by the swarming mass of brawl fanatics. Did I like them? Yes. Were they good? Yes. Should they stay on the front page for the rest of existence? Probably not.

I'm too lazy to finish this, I'll add more later.

I should probably spell check it too, but whatever.

you dumbass. what don't you understand about "Im taking a break from origional stuff". i tried to make gt awesome lazy and badly drawn, because its a tribute to egoraptors awesome series, and i even said i'm not gonna draw like that anymore. so stop attacking egoraptor and myself, because it has nothing to do with him, and also because unlike your sprite collabs, my cartoons (even gta) had at least some effort put in, unlike yourself, you hypocrite.

its the internet oney-sephiroth!!!!!!!!!!!!

True but it's ok if you want to make movies if you want to, because you like it, or for fun, thats why i made super smash bros ST, because i love smash bros and i wanted to se a good smash bros flash i dont have any intentions of making monny out of it this kind of stuff is just for fun , i realy just want newgrounds to be calm, because on this rate parodies are going to dissapear, no more movies about TV shows or video games NOTHING!
they are funny and thats the only pourpose on newgrounds to entertain peaple,
but yeah about copyng styles , that is sure wrong because well the awsome series belong to egoraptor it's wrong to someone to make flashes like them,
its like if someone makes smashbros st 6 for me, that would suck!
newgrounds needs to do something about peaple making parodies out of other parodies.

first of all.

your critisizing the art itself. not anything behind it. also, whether people like ego's work or not isnt your problem.

complaining about a popular series that doesnt seem to deserve it will get you nowhere, seriously. also, explaining that the movies were a "bad example" and a disgrace to newgrounds is a bit hypocritical from when you said "dont get me wrong, i love your movies".

i admit, they are cheaply made speedily made parodies that are regarded highly by the hype. and YES, i have made a few awesome spoofs myself to see if the hype would really take off, and it DID.

oh, and thanks for insulting my sprite animations on meatwadsprites post! asshole >:(

but hard feelings aside,

i really dont care what you think about awesome movies, and since complaining about it isnt doing much, stop.

let the hype of awesome subside on its own. dont try to tear up fans dreams, let them have thier fun.

its already a known fact that ego diddnt put much effort in the origional awesomes, and it was intended to be pretty crappy.

but what you were implying is that the art in the awesomes matters more than the humor.

newgrounds isnt supposed to be the most artistic place on the planet. thats for deviant art.

i mean... look at tomfulp. he is a complete fan badlydrawndawg. he's also not a huge artist himself, BUT he's regarded for making newgrounds. and he helped pass "B".

so, ending this long-ass comment ill just say this.

THIS

Who cares about all this shit? Egoraptor is an AWESOME animator and voice actor, and if people like him didn't exist, what would animators strive to amount to? yes people rip off of his style, but most of the Awesome flashes that last over 1.5 minutes are decent. He's made a videogame parody revolution. Very few others have done that.

And rtil is mad about it! :O

um... egorapter make his movies with that crappy style becouse thats what we expect couse well ... the crappy style is funny to most people but newgrounds shouldint bag on u cous u dident like a flash or something like that

ps ur rite when some people copy his style it usuly ends up bieng crap al though ive never seen grand theft awesome so i wouldnt kno if it sucks

ppss brawl tounts rulz BITCH AND SO DOES EGO RAPTER

and u know what (dont take this personly) ur not qweat the artist ether (but ur still pretty good) and secendly dante224 rulz MAN

and diddent u get baned for a 2 days