thoughthaver
Chain Chomp
this is why im giving every game a 0/10. even the ones i like. gotta keep these companies humble.keep nintendo on their toes
this is why im giving every game a 0/10. even the ones i like. gotta keep these companies humble.keep nintendo on their toes
I think the anti-piracy stuff might be the reason review bombers will give you if you ask them ; but as always it mostly comes down to console warring. Sony and Xbox hardcore fans haven't had a lot to play this year so they try to entertain themselves as best they can.Huh? What instigated this
I don't buy that at all. This is clearly very organized since it spanned multiple games. You don't just get a bunch of other companies' fans all of a sudden deciding to review bomb several old games at once. Ironically your hypothesis sounds very console war-y. At most I could see it starting from a smaller group for a "cause" and then maybe bad faith actors jumping on the bandwagonI think the anti-piracy stuff might be the reason review bombers will give you if you ask them ; but as always it mostly comes down to console warring. Sony and Xbox hardcore fans haven't had a lot to play this year so they try to entertain themselves as best they can.
It was just meant as a joke towards the drought of big exclusivities on PS5 and Xbox Series since the beginning of the year (I think I only booted up my PS5 and Series S for Ishin, Hi-Fi Rush and RE4 since the beginning of the year, and only one game of the three is an exclusivity) and a comment on the toxicity of hyper fans of any company who will find any excuse to jump on the bandwagon, as you said. Sorry if it sounded console war-y.I don't buy that at all. This is clearly very organized since it spanned multiple games. You don't just get a bunch of other companies' fans all of a sudden deciding to review bomb several old games at once. Ironically your hypothesis sounds very console war-y. At most I could see it starting from a smaller group for a "cause" and then maybe bad faith actors jumping on the bandwagon
If Advance Wars were review bombed for being ‘woke’, to me that’s different from the bigoted pearl-clutching over representation in games like Engage. I mean, at least there I can see what chuds don’t like (the merest hint of LGBT relationships) even if their fragile hate is really fucking stupid and easily set off over the tiniest hint of inclusivity. AW though… it’s literally the same cartoon character archetypes from 20 years ago, playing out their battles. It’s not even like there’s a twisted reaction to something harmless and positive, it’s just over… nothing at all. Which I guess just shows how empty the rhetoric of idiots throwing ‘woke’ around is, if it doesn’t even need to be an reaction to anything other than ‘I don’t like thing for no particular reason!’. Weird.It was just meant as a joke towards the drought of big exclusivities on PS5 and Xbox Series since the beginning of the year (I think I only booted up my PS5 and Series S for Ishin, Hi-Fi Rush and RE4 since the beginning of the year, and only one game of the three is an exclusivity) and a comment on the toxicity of hyper fans of any company who will find any excuse to jump on the bandwagon, as you said. Sorry if it sounded console war-y.
On a more serious note, I’ve seen here and there people calling for review bombs of Advance Wars and Engage because they were supposedly « woke ». Haven’t seen calls to review bomb Kirby and Metroid Prime, but a lot of bad faith actors complained about « remasters with a Dolphin texture pack », so it might be about that. For Cereza and the Lost Demon, like Bayo 2 and 3 I assume it might be because of the Nintendo exclusivity. While it’s obviously some kind of coordinated campaign, as OP pointed out, people might have different reasons to review bomb each one of these games.
From what I've seen, for Advance Wars the usual morons complained that they kept the """censorship""" of the western GBA release (namely Nell's outfit and Red Star being renamed Orange Star), but also that they hired "woke voice actors" like ProZD and EgoRaptor (I don't know why they consider them "woke" and I'm not sure I wanna know the answer tbh)AW though… it’s literally the same cartoon character archetypes from 20 years ago, playing out their battles. It’s not even like there’s a twisted reaction to something harmless and positive, it’s just over… nothing at all.
Ah thanks for the context. Yeah, wow. So ‘nothing at all’ then Agree there’s no point trying to understand the stretches and twisted logic required.From what I've seen, for Advance Wars the usual morons complained that they kept the """censorship""" of the western GBA release (namely Nell's outfit and Red Star being renamed Orange Star), but also that they hired "woke voice actors" like ProZD and EgoRaptor (I don't know why they consider them "woke" and I'm not sure I wanna know the answer tbh)
If Advance Wars were review bombed for being ‘woke’, to me that’s different from the bigoted pearl-clutching over representation in games like Engage. I mean, at least there I can see what chuds don’t like (the merest hint of LGBT relationships) even if their fragile hate is really fucking stupid and easily set off over the tiniest hint of inclusivity. AW though… it’s literally the same cartoon character archetypes from 20 years ago, playing out their battles. It’s not even like there’s a twisted reaction to something harmless and positive, it’s just over… nothing at all. Which I guess just shows how empty the rhetoric of idiots throwing ‘woke’ around is, if it doesn’t even need to be an reaction to anything other than ‘I don’t like thing for no particular reason!’. Weird.
Wow. Someone really needs a new hobby.It's not even only Nintendo first party games, it seems to just be almost every highly rated release from this year. Final Bar Line is sitting at a 4.0 userscore and as mentioned earlier games like DREDGE are effected too.
Who cares? It has no impact on anyone’s lives. I never understood people who give this any news or thought. It’s nothing
Actually, it could impact sales and for a smaller studio, that could impact lives.
Oh snap, I had no idea the likes of ProZD and Egoraptor were in Advance Wars!From what I've seen, for Advance Wars the usual morons complained that they kept the """censorship""" of the western GBA release (namely Nell's outfit and Red Star being renamed Orange Star), but also that they hired "woke voice actors" like ProZD and EgoRaptor (I don't know why they consider them "woke" and I'm not sure I wanna know the answer tbh)
It's a problem that even the Switch versions of smaller indie games like Dredge and Tin Hearts are being review bombed.Nintendo isn't a smaller studio.
What word has there been on thisI can't imagine that many people think this way.
And regardless, from what I understand, Advance Wars has already sold quite well compared to the expectations for it.
Gonna announce free version of Tears of Kingdom any minute now.this is why im giving every game a 0/10. even the ones i like. gotta keep these companies humble.
Doesn't matter to me, it's selling really well on Switch, second most downloaded eshop title in April, people are aware of its quality, 84 Metacritic, and it's a title I'll pick up somewhere down the line.This seems to also be extending to smaller indie games which is just a shame.
DREDGE is currently sitting at a user score of 8.0 on PS5, and 5.1 on Switch, despite the fact that it runs well on the hardware.
Nailed it.Even when they work "as intended" Metacritic's user scores are utterly worthless because almost everyone follows the "I like this game! 10/10; I don't like this game! 0/10" dogma, so the idea of someone wasting what has surely been a significant amount of time on trying to rig them is completely surreal to me.
That's great!metacritic seems to have removed the bombings. The games are back to where they were before