He Panned It, Now He Sucks: Difference between revisions

** He was also originally going to review ''[[Matilda (film)|Matilda]]'', but when he first announced it, his fanbase heavily criticized him, so he simply stopped it altogether.

** He did do another Roald Dahl movie, [[James and the Giant Peach]]. He was aware many of his fans liked it, and since he was trying (in character at least) to appease his fans after the poorly received [[Let's Play]] from the week before, he did the whole review in [[Happiness Is Mandatory]] fashion. Or ''tried'' to...

'''Critic:''' And that cloud looks like [[Conspicuous CG|a crappy CGI effect]] *[[Dramatic Gun Cock]] from 6 directions around the critic* I mean... [[Blatant Lies|a good CGI effect]]. }}

** Even though the video was to get attention for a horrible censorship bill that could destroy his livelihood, people with rather [[Skewed Priorities]] are rather angry that he called ''[[Digimon]]'' a horrible show.

* As one reviewer/critic who ''lives'' off [[Accentuate the Negative]], [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]] gets quite a lot of [[Internet Backdraft|flaming hate mail]]. But a particularly notable case occurred when he panned ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Brawl'', and devoted an ''entire episode'' the very next week to address some of the [[Fan Dumb]] that was chucked his way.

** One fan video reviewing Yahtzee's ''Art Of Theft'' in the style of Zero Punctuation [[Lampshaded]] this trope:

** In a curious inversion, quite a few fans [[Unpleasable Fanbase|react negatively whenever he actually praises a game]].

* IGN has been looked at this way by ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]]'' fans since the series suffered from hitting the [[Polygon Ceiling]], and the hate gets stronger every time a new Sonic game is released and IGN bashes it. Keep in mind though, they gave ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'' for the 360 a lower score than the [[Obvious Beta|glitch-ridden mess]] that was ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' on the same system.