Matt Cassamassina Is Leaving the IGN Nintendo Team...

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SaviorX said:

Mr Khan said:

MontanaHatchet said:
I thought a lot of Nintendo fans liked Matt. What's with all the sudden hate for him?

We as a whole were generally rather divided about him. It's true that he was one of the fairer forces at work in the industry when it came to Nintendo (though that isn't saying much), but he had his own peculiarities that made him very unlikable to Nintendo fans. To me, the problem was that he has a bit of a fixation on Old Nintendo, and has occasionally spiraled into bouts of hatred for new Nintendo (and not, like, new new Nintendo that we know today. He had a bit of a meltdown with regards to Nintendo back on 2003)

Sounds about right.

Also, Matt is very graphics / style obsessed. He only compares Wii games to other Wii games but they seem to have a much bigger influence than gameplay does in his reviews. He is better than Bozon for the machoism that affects the "hardcore", he doesn't seem to let whether a game is M-rated affect his review, which is sadly Bozon's only real problem.