ploki122

ploki122 t1_jaenqsh wrote

And... how is "Gen Zer" defined? Feels weird to have the lower bound (21+) but not the upper bound. I would expect the data to be something like % of 21-38 who consumes the following at least once a month global), especially since generations are usually used very pejoratively (which usually isn't the goal of a graph).

EDIT : Side note... how is that related to Logan Paul?

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ploki122 t1_j63s7v0 wrote

>but I bought it because it's still Pokémon

Doesn't that also mean that the game's not terrible?

Because Monster Hunter also notoriously had some of the worst reviews for quite a while, without the playerbase giving the slightest shit as the games kept getting better and better, and only recently managed to swing the reviews with Worlds.

In Pokemon's case, there's a lot of stuff that they aren't adding to the game, but they're keeping the formula intact of encountering cute pokemons, capturing them, evolving them, and just having a fluid gameplay of monster catching. If anything, S&S' and Let's Go!'s attempts to shake things up would justify the low ratings.

Now, Scarlet/Violet definitely had their fair share of technical issues, which would imo warrant those bottom spots more than whatever got BD&SP in the dump.

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ploki122 t1_j63pw85 wrote

I wonder how much of that is simply culture... Nintendo games will naturally score higher, since they appeal to most people nostalgia (then again, BotW and Odyssey are by far the best game of those series, imo). Then, you have NIS America releasing niche/weird games like Disgaea, Ys, Langrisser, and publishing a bunch of indie games... also, who's PQube?

With that said, I'm definitely surprised to see BD&SP, Let's Go, and S&S so low, given how well all of the pokemon games sell.

Otherwise, more to the point of the graph, those axis are actually terrible. 9.0 -> ~9.7 on one side displaying data from 9.0 to 9.6 makes it look even more disproportionate than it already is. Similarly, 5.5 -> 7.5 for scores ranging 5.6 to 7.4 makes Sonic force look like a complete disaster when it's "only" 4/10 points below the #1.

I feel like making it a continuous range would've helped a lot... something like 3 -> 8 for weakest, and 8->10 for strongest.

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