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As far as I can tell it's becase Dunkey really isn't that funny. He's just got an air of "yuck" to him.

Because he's one of those 'my opinion is right your opinion is wrong' kind of reviewers.

From what little I've seen of him (because I frankly hate those style of reviews so I stopped watching after that video), he flexes between outright saying it or subtley implying it.

Now you can just claim he's playing into a character or that he's just joking. But on some level he, wholeheartedly believes that shit. Just look at his promotional video for his new publishing company.

Thing is, people don't like being condescended to. People don't like being told they're dumb or have bad tastes because of what video games they do and don't enjoy. And then he goes and picks really big targets like JRPGs. I mean, the man can do whatever he wants. But if you're gonna be a dickhead about your opinions then you shouldn't be surprised when you've attracted a lot of ill will.

I am kind of a fan of his stuff actually but now he is getting too prideful because of his fame and getting meaner too so him getting knocked down a peg seems fair.

That and bigmode sounds like it will just be a hilarious failure like mighty number 9 was lol.

Because people are getting tired of Dunkey’s shit that’s why. The dude is getting too big for his britches and is acting like he’s the arbiter of quality for video games. Plus his BIGMODE announcement feels more in line with a FilmBro claiming that he’s gonna make the best movie ever that’s on par with Citizen Kane. Point is, Dunkey is huffing his own farts and expecting people to think of him as some sort of Robert Ebert of video games while also trying to be a funny guy.

One of the reasons that people dislike him is that he has unironically, critised people for their tastes. He’s called sonic fans weird in “The Good Year” despite the fact that it’s the fans who were creating Sonic Mania (I wonder why his easter egg got removed?) He opens his GG strive video with “Anime fans are the new Sonic fans”.
We all know he hates JRPGs. He really didn’t need to play XC3 and make fun of characters, make fun of out of context sound bites and spoil major parts of the story for cheap laughs (just like FFVII remake, Octopath, XC2, etc.)
Beyond his video, he posted the spoilery ending screen of XC3 on twitter. He later deleted it. That goes beyond bias but it’s a clear lack of respect. After all, he gave proper spoiler warnings in his last of us 2 video.

Another reason is that he's willing to facilitate negative discussion when he makes no attempt to differentiate his “jokes” (? He calls a game bad and there’s no punchline) from real criticism.
I suppose you could say that these are more so critiques on his followers, but with his type of humor and influence, Dunkey should take responsibility for the community he fostered.

It’s not just this website but I do agree that the hate is disproportionate, but not completely unwarranted. I hope the best for his family and his company. I’m not optimistic, but I truly want to see some good come out of Bigmode.
I just hope a developer doesn’t get blinded because they’re chasing after dunkey clout.

I swear I have never seen Dunkey.
I swear I have never seen Anthony Fantano.

Would I be correct if I said Dunkey is the Anthony Fantano of video games?

Dude, MatPat has gotten 3 times as much hate over less than Dunkey. Are you really impressed by this..? Dunkey actually attracts that kind of attention towards him on purpose and does so in the most disingenous way possible while also having one of the most obnoxious fanbases out there where hating JRPGs is their whole personality. He used to be more than just "that guy who hates JRPGs".

It does not help his case that his standard of "good games" include 3 videos praising a mediocre walking simulator just to be a contrarian, ergo, attracting this kind of attention on purpose as I said. You do not get to poke the beehive's nest and then complain that there are too many bees stinging you.

… Huh, I guess even youtube videogame reviewers can have drama.

A few years ago people said that it was a more "chill" format than the tendency for gaming reviewing sites to explode every so often (looking at you IGN).

At some point, Dunkey claimed that Breath or the Wild releasing not far apart from Horizon: Zero Dawn would result in the latter selling very poorly. Apart from the fact that this didn’t happen, Horizon was on an already successful console and the Nintendo Switch was still brand new at the time. I imagine those who still gave a shit about console wars hated him for that too.

This. I never watched Dunkey that much (as such, I don't know a whole lot about his situation) and I've never been too big on RPGs, yet I can still tell he's gone in a rather unfavorable direction as of late. I can't say that he doesn't deserve to be successful in this endeavor, but you won't find me cheering for him either way. Dude clearly has a huge ego now.

@Gilan
Controversial reviewers (of games, movies, etc.) have been a thing for years. It can get way worse and HAS been way worse than this (not counting that Projared mess since it was unrelated to his actual reviews).

At this point you're seething harder than the people who are mad at Dunkey, your entire activity as of late has been shitting on people who so much as criticized the guy. Never mind the fact that you definitely keep telling people it's all jokes while simultaneously thinking that Dunkey's decade of game critique is "better than nothing" (still a joke btw he's not being serious lol.)

You can literally find a bunch of comments on the BigMode article right now either hoping it goes well or hoping whatever happens ends up being funny, that's not wishing failure, that's doing the same thing Dunkey does, doing whatever will end up being the funniest.

And don't lie, one quick glance at your activity and I can see numerous unnecessary insults targeted towards them merely for having a few choice words for him, how you can look at yourself and come out looking at everyone else being the angry ones when the mirror is right fucking there is beyond me.

I don't even give a shit about Xenoblade but I do give a shit about a critic's integrity and Dunkey wore his out years ago, accept people's criticisms and move along.

TL;DR:

Every time the criticism about his Octopath and Death Stranding review got brought up you just went "lol" and either didn't respond to it or just said "It was one thing tho" which it obviously wasn't. You can say you only reacted to the hate comments as much as you want but your activity says otherwise.

Clown thred go vidya forum. Hee-hoo.

I used to actually like Dunkey but it only works if he's playing a character and I just can't fucking tell anymore how much what is what.

Basically, this:

You can only pretend to be a jackass (pun intended) for so long before you become one.

damn….Jolly Jew got banned… his love for Dunkey is starting to ruin his life….

Dunkey is pretty much wrecking his image with his bias against RPGs.
Xenochads stay winning

i assure that jolly jew is a dunkey dickrider

Malos time