I came up with direct response that consisted of two words, but let's try addressing you points directly.m_jim said:
A) Yes I did get the irony when watching the movie. Although that has fuck-all to do with the topic at hand. You might as well talk about sourdough starters or rainfall percentages in the Amazon river basin while you're at it.
B) The character flaw being demonstrated is not liking a game that Yahtzee gave an unfavorable review. He's given unfavorable reviews to other games, and the discussion threads didn't balloon this quickly. There must be some reason for it. Thee are actually two main possible reasons. The first Yahtzee gave in the Mailbag Showdown is that these people are not actually enjoying the game as much as they've convinced themselves that they are, so they react poorly to others confirming their own niggling doubts. The same thing happened when Phantom Menace came out. The second is what I've said, these are nerds with no self-esteem in themselves but in the games (and movies, and TV show, etc) of which they are fans. Both of these reasons indicate a pathetic immaturity, which only follows given the average age of Wii owners. But it is telling that Halo 3 did not warrant such a response, but that probably means that Halo 3 fans were too busy playing the game to give two shits about what Yahtzee had to say (unlike SSBB fans, apparently) or that Microsoft fanboys are more mature than Nintendo fanboys, which is a scary fucking thought.
And throughout this thread and the previous one are the constant piddling of the horse apple cobbler of "this is not a review" citing some minor detail or whatever that Yahtzee got "wrong." Since apparently you guys don't know, let me be the first to tell you: reviews are little more than advertising. For every person who is scared of some game by a review, there are like a million people who'll go buy it anyway. This explains why the Fantastic Four movies keep turning a profit. All a review does is make people aware that a game exists. The secondary purpose of reviews is to be entertaining to read in their own right. Any consumer advise found there is just getting some general idea of what the game is like, regardless of the reviewer's opinion. So whining about features that Yahtzee "got wrong" is at best misguided and at worst a thin veneer of bullshit to hide the real reason you're complaining, which is likely one of the two reasons above or a combination thereof.
But, all of that would fit better in the thread for the SSBB review. This thread is for the mailbag, which also exploded a bit, mostly because all of the SSBB fans took it personally, saying Yahtzee was portraying SSBB fans as a pack of grunting retards. (see, reason #2)
Since Yahtzee has not done a mailbag before, it's hard to judge if other mailbags would garner a similar response. But, he only had to select emails from the glut of responses he'd gotten to his review. I don't know if he used some kind of criteria for selecting these emails, such as selecting those that reflected a large number of the responses or if he just picked a few at random. But, in any case, Yahtzee isn't making SSBB fans look like twats as much as the chodes who'd written those emails in the first place... and continue to argue the point here. The actually intelligent SSBB fans... if they're even aware of this thread since they're too busy having fun playing the fucking game to give two shits... would probably die of embarrassment to be lumped into the same category as these idiots.
