[quote=@SleepingSilence] Game critics are giving it near perfect scores. But yes, yes you can like or dislike something for pretty much any reason one chooses. *I don't want to spam more examples of the white knighting, because we'd be here all day.[/quote] It's got an 81 on Metacritic. 'Near perfect' scores is more like 'It's good because Pokemon is a baseline of good'. Guess what? Critics are people too, and chances are they at least have an informed opinion on something well before anyone else does. [quote]Kay? And games that aren't rushed, don't have those problems. Games can be fun, rushed. Bad movies can be fun ironically. Until we can argue complacency with laziness is good, don't think we're getting anywhere.[/quote] Games that aren't rushed often do have those problems. Case in point, Bloodborne, or Red Dead Redemption 2, or a handful of others I could easily mention. What evidence do you have that the game was 'rushed' other than the fact that they announced the game being in development PRIOR to Let's Go even being out and then a year after Let's Go it comes out in the Nintendo Holiday Slot. It's easy to say something is rushed when you don't have anything other than belief. [quote]Granted, he's not exactly the most tech literate. Though, it 'deletes faster' because of the Switch.[/quote] Yes and? Thank you for agreeing with me, I guess? [quote]Well, you'd be wrong. So...[/quote] I'd be wrong for...defending a game without comparing it to older games? Uh, no I wouldn't. Am I wrong in saying you're getting your information second hand? Because you're literally saying that. Unless your room mate is imaginary. [quote]You can fun ticket him later, Chief.[/quote] Says the king of parade shitting. [quote]This statement seems a bit confused, the former sounds like you're mocking fans for fandom.[/quote] Yes, I am mocking fans and fandom culture because there is not a single fandom out there that isn't full of shit raving lunatics that ruin it for everyone. [quote]And the later you're lambasting those that demonize fans who usually buy things because of nostalgia. (A thing this game does pander too, by adding a lot of 1 gen pokemon in the Dex.) Why can't you enjoy or dislike something & rightfully criticize it?[/quote] If you want to talk nostalgia pandering, that'd be Gen 7 where every regional form was just a Kanto variant. SwSh at least gives the nod to other gens with its variants, and there aren't even that many gen 1 Pokemon out in the wild. It is, in fact, a blend of Pokemon from different gens and of different typings so even before the first gym you can have a party of six Pokemon of various typings - waltz into the first gym with a Dragon type or an Ice type the world is your oyster. I'm not saying you can't dislike something or that you can't criticize. I am saying that review bombing something with criticisms that aren't helpful, thoughtful, or anything other than yelling into the same bubble as everyone else accomplishes nothing other than making people seem like whiny piss babies, especially when those same people buy the fucking game anyway. It's real easy to yell and criticize, but it makes you look like the BIGGEST HYPOCRITE if you spend half a year saying how shit a game is and how it's not worth your time and then day one you buy it anyway. Shit or get off the pot. [quote]And if you didn't happen to read my thing, or just forgot already, there's literally people saying you can't be sad about the game. But I digress.[/quote] Okay, and I got called a shill because I said "I'm having fun with it, it's not my favorite but camping is cute" so you know, takes all kinds. [quote]Sure, outrage culture bad. But then again, it's an erroneous comparison, as most of the time, the people hating something for social/political reasons would've never purchased the thing in the first place.[/quote] Most of the time, people hating something for social/political reasons still wind up seeing/buying/experiencing it anyway so they can reaffirm their beliefs and miss the forest for the trees. [quote]Because you say this like it's a universal rule, but it's not at all, and I'd argue most "angry gamers" incidents are almost always justified grievances. (Bad apples aside.)[/quote] I wouldn't. The only time in recent memory where there was any justification was Battlefront 2 and guess the fuck what, before the game came out they did away with the loot box business. [quote]And the last bit seems oddly doubtful for some reason, maybe because my roommate has it, and I can literally watch him play and everything. (I can even play it myself.) And you don't seem to thrilled about him having an opinion, or was one of the gazillion (estimated figure) people who played pokemon who called their rival a bad word.[/quote] Your room mate isn't here giving his opinion. You are. And when you open with opinions that aren't your own and come from second hand experience, yeah those get taken with a grain of salt. I don't watch a stream of a game for an hour and go "MAN I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS GAME IS OBJECTIVELY SHIT!" And on the topic of opinions: it's my opinion that people who name shit dumb bad words or give the player character's jersey number as '69' or '420' are fucking dumbshits who probably like Rick and Morty. [quote] Aren't the very best things in entertainment, even better when you think or go into detail about them and analyze what they got right? [/quote] There's a difference between criticism and analysis.