All the hate that stems from that poll isn't much different from the vs threads we get on here, sure that place can be a cesspool from time to time but honestly for years now we've had plenty of sites with enough people going back and forth trying to validate their opinions through meaningless token victories. Brony's tried this back in 2010/2011 when they rigged Hasbro's naughty/nice poll to screw over TF and Batman fans to show that they were the bigger fan base, of course all that did was show how irksome they were but in the end they were also not the only group on the net to rig polls.
I also don't get the hate for UT, people hark on it for it's visuals and yet it does something that many games these days haven't bothered with all that much, which is to say giving you complete pacifist choices to make. Apparently a game being designed by one guy (which is one hell of an achievement compared to most games today) that tries bringing some new and old to the table with a nice story is somehow the worst game in the known universe, I mean just a few posts above mine we have a pointless Bloodborne vs an indie game which serves no purpose other than "I hate this game and universally want it to die and think it's utter tripe", it's completely meaningless to even try throwing such a notion in like that since it;s always going to be a subjective matter in the end regardless.
I like my Mario and Zelda games just as much but I also love what UT brings to the field, I love it's characters, it's stories. I'm not a fan of the battle system but I definitely and absolutely love and praise the fact the game allows you to approach it in a completely pacifist manner, a game where I don't have to kill anyone, where I can befriend them and still reach my goals, to me that is something really quite special and unique, something that other games/devs could actually take inspiration from, I would love to play more games where we can approach our goals without having to always kill this or destroy that.
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
