Sengoku Strider wrote:
I dunno...
...as both an original Mighty No. 9 kickstarter backer and one of the Wii U's staunchest defenders, I'm gonna have to whistle a foul on both of these.
I'd say, there are different sides for that part.
#1 - comparing Final 2 to these games is weird as hell.
#2 - at least some of these games were met with more harsh reception than they deserve. Speaking of Devil's Third, it's no way a "bad game". It had amazing and very fun multiplayer, while singleplayer campaign is also better than most people decided to think of - blame journalists who played it more like a cover-based shooter... It is still a nice for genre fans if you play it more risky, like our forum user Iconoclast (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiQZ1sut0tU )
#3 - inlcuding Death Stranding together with "failed kickstarter promises" Mighty 9 and "game that went through development hell" Devil's Third is
absolute cringe, that only shows how Mark is biased for his tastes, and only supports theory of him not really much being into r-type and r-type alike shmups in general.
Also, if you disregard the whole thing because of few questionable details in a list of arguments, you just act the same as electric_underground, choosing to skip contents because "harsh" tone of writing is a red flag for you.
Maybe i take it a bit more harder, but that's personal for me as Daikatana (PC) fan - and that game is still "very trendy" to define as much worse than it is (with fanmade patches it's solid 8/10 fps classic) and it was (was around 7/10 game with problems on release year, but it became a fashion to consider it 3/10 garbage or worse). But clickbait youtube "influencers" use that to gain more views and followers, choosing a game that nobody "big and respected web persona" will defend , and then using it just as a
scapegoat. Just like commercial journalists, who give away all those 9/10 to sponsored AAA releases, and then they go hard and heavy on unknown/indie games, giving them shit reviews to compensate, which is unfair. You may disagree, but i noticed such behaviour for years.
p.s.
So ironic to read comments of Mark's fans speaking about "horrible hivemind of game defenders" while them being echochamber themselves, lmao. Also i still disagree that Despatche's comment was "offensive" (except directness of how he calls reviewer a "liar"?), while Mark's reply was 100% pure (passive)aggression.
Also they all (people in comment section) are
missing a point. Mark presents it like people are "angry about negative review being a thing" and using people's exhauste of game industry way with ""corrupt reviewers" to get sympathy. While it is not what it is, and not why exactly people were disagreeing with situation of previous video. But surely, it's much easier to call us "crazy fans who are in rage cause final 2 doesnt receive 10/10" and get free thumbs up for that from random viewers.