Not really. Tons of people on yt will just stay more neutral even if they are more negative on it.
Lmao, there's no shortage of people "telling it like it is" regarding Sword and Shield. If someone's "neutral" about their disposition that's their pejorative.
So what's wrong if a ton of people actually are just negative about it then?
It's weird because some stuff doesn't get like when criticized. Like when mario games are, you don't see vitrol like this.
To my knowledge, no Mario game's release followed a months-long harassment campaign against the devs that participants tried to paint as a noble cause. This year left Pokemon fans with a short fuse against negativity, and it gets overblown at times, but it's not exactly unjustified, either.
The amount of actual harassment to devs is tiny in comparison to just people criticizing the games though. The huge majority didn't personally attack anyone.
That's not what I said.
I mean mass effect fans had to sit through months of vitrol with ME:A, same with MvC fans for MvCi, yet there wasn't a hige defense force for those.
Generally speaking, neither of those games have a fanbase nearly as large as Pokemon, and the critical reception to SwSh wasn't in any way nearly as negative as either of those other games.
There are plenty of studios and franchises that people will dump on without a second thought.
Thank you for writing exactly what I noticed about his videos this year.
What I am saying is that the audience this video should in theory target is probably not in the mood for it. Arlo doesn't need to edit his video to accommodate people that want all sunshine and rainbows, but there are people out there that are just tired of YouTubers using the games as pinatas as they've been doing since July. They see a negative Pokemon thumbnail, and they click the button to hide it and move on because they just don't want to bother regardless of the content.
It does, but Metacritic user scores have a long history of getting bombed, and user scores in general aren't representative of the larger audience anyway because they only represent the scores of the users that actually care enough to leave a rating on Metacritic. But as it stands, in terms of the professional critical averages, Pokemon Sword is at 80 and Andromeda is at 71.
I feel like it's pretty telling that you'll see a large amount of users rotating through these threads with criticisms about the series/games, but the same small subset of users that will show up and try to invalidate any criticism leveled at the series/game.
Idk, I just know that I've seen hundreds of "fuck capcom, ea, Ubisoft, activision, etc" posts going back even to gaf, and gamefreak gets 1000x more defense than they ever have.
It was literally banned here to say "fuck gamefreak", but not the others.
I forgot what thread it was, but around release tons of people said it the first two pages and all got warnings.
Its more than a vocal minority that criticized the Pokemon games even if they sell they deserve all the criticism they got and you are one of the ones attacking on anyone who doesn't like the game and blindly defending gamefreak.
Its just a way certain people here try to discredit anyone not positive on pokemon.
No one is dismissing it. They are saying what amounts to a tiny percentage of a huge fanbase doesn't it make it fair to just negate all criticism.
it wasn't anything like you were discribing. Yeah it happened and the ones doing it should be banned but it was a very small part and one that everyone called out.
