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Nuvendil on 07 August 2017
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thismeintiel said:
Nuvendil said:

Wow you must be new to the internet.  Or did you just forget about the GTAV fiasco where a reviewer DARED to score it a 9 and proceeded to get harrassed, death threats, and a ton of people trying to pressure the site in question to fire said reviewer.

Or the people who bit off Yahtzee's head for not bowing down and worshipping The Last of Us as gaming's greatest magnum opus.

Or the people who roasted half the dang media for their less than stellar reviews for No Man's Sky.

Every franchise with big followings has fanatical wingnuts so get off your high horse.

I'll stay on my high horse, thank you very much.  The big difference is the VAST majority of people look at those situations and look down on those people and chatise them.  What do too many of the Nintendo fanbase do?  Make excuses for the people who were resposible for that crap.  "Oh, he should have known what was coming."  "He's just a hater who deserved it."  "It's all just clickbait, his opinion means nothing."  Looks like too many are doing the same here.

Also, you'll have to send me a link for the your first example.  As for the 2nd one, I agree with one person in the comments.  "Looking through the comments, I actually see more people going ''lol butthurt fans'' then... butthurt fans. I actually see more ''lol playstation faggots, xbox for life'' then... people who try and defend playstation and their titles. I see more people saying ''this game is so overhyped'' then i see people over hyping it."  Seems there may have been a few complaining earlier, but the comments are more overwhelmed by people jumping on the "butthurt fanboys" comments, without them probably even seeing any.  The Like to Dislike ratio is also overwhelmingly positive.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.dailydot.com/parsec/gaming/grand-theft-auto-five-gamespot-review-youtube-negative-comments/

It was a pretty widely circulated and publicized embarrassment. 

And yeah, I've seen lots of people criticize Jim for that review.  I do, but because I find it poorly reasoned and many things he criticizes in BotW he praises in other franchises.  I just find it a poorly constructed review.  But I didn't see the majority or anywhere NEAR it endorsing the madness.  A lot of people just didn't care what he had to to say.

The GTAV thing had petitions and everything.  It was one of the most pathetic displays in rescent memory.  Say what you will but at least Jim's review had an impact, at least it was substantially divergent from the overwhelming consensus.  The reviewer at Gamespot gave GTAV a freaking NINE.  

And keep in mind comments are curated, plus a lot of those "lul" posts get lots of upvotes and the review is very old you would have to tunnel waaaay down the chronology to find any comments anyway.  It's Yahtzee who pointed out the backlash in his next review, which is where I drew my source.  

And Jim got inundated with bitter complaints for giving Uncharted 4 the same score as I believe it was Dead Rising 4, which he pointed out in his Jimpressions video for The Last Guardian.

I can find you example after example of people flipping out.  Cause every fanbase of substantial size has its loons who regularly go beyond being critical to harassing, DDOSing (incidentally, Jim also got DDOSed for his No Man's Sky review), etc etc.

And I would like to point out that while some wingnuts were going crazy on Jim for giving Zelda a 7, I saw MANY in comment sections around YouTube and review sites declaring every single reviewer giving it a 9 or 10 tobe blatantly bribed, including Angry Joe and ProJared.  People even started trying to say REVIEW COPIES are now bribes.  Nevermind they've been a thing for litterally the industry's whole existence, they're bribes *now*.  And let's not forget the HUNDREDS of spurious 0 to 3 out of 10 user scores that had to be scrubbed by Metacritic, scores some of which were thrown up en masse by coordinated groups of fans of other games/platforms (I'm not lying).  Most of which were copy-pasted, others blatantly stating they didn't play it and are giving ut a 0 for reasons.  

Like I said, the crazies are to be found in every corner.  So stop acting like this is some especially shocking thing.

 

Edit: Oh and I remember distinctly that on THIS VERY FORUM that in 2014 when Last of Us was still being hailed as the second coming that many a Sony/Naughty Dog fan were belittling and dismissive of any who criticized it, declared it the greatest game ever and called anyone who disagreed haters or fanboys.  And who constantly threw the "over 200 GOTY award" line at everyone's faces constantly.  A line now rendered silly since Bethesda has now slapped it on Skyrim showing it wasn't even a peerless achievement like they made it sound.  So no, the Zelda fanbase isn't the only fanbase to rally behind their games in mildly obnoxious ways.  You're just seeing what you want to see.