How Under The Mayo Fails At Being A Reviewer

[@fmbloo]

Ok after all these comments let me clarify 1 thing, after a couple months of making this video. Some people didn’t get my points (I still agree with everything I said in the vid btw) because I didn’t further indulge into some of the points, or because they’re wrong. If you have questions because look into the reply’s I’ve made because everyone had that same questions about my points and I defend some of them. If you still have questions after that then feel free to comment, I’ll try to reply to it

[@spouwnerring]

You forgot to pin your comment

[@fmbloo]

@@spouwnerring omg I’m dumb as shi

[@reidbishop7965]

​@@fmbloo You nearly deafened me at the 3 minute mark with how quiet you talk before instantly switching to Mayo's thundering whining 😂 👂🩸

[@TheFakeBriskeh]

4:05 that's not even true, he hates ultra kill (based but for the wrong reasons)

[@redspy5011]

He'd say to add ammo to a city builder game.

[@coltonwilkie241]

It's so stupid how The Sims doesn't encourage people to build combos and experiment with different weapons. Please Sims developers add ammo to the game and a style meter too!

[@NotAcat0]

He says add ammo in ultrakill

[@redspy5011]

@@NotAcat0 we know

[@Major_Beetus-ki9rw]

Real

[@lure-ph2xg]

@@coltonwilkie241 he hate style meters

[@thekadju2450]

Sometimes I just feel like his reviews are based on how he feels that day. Good mood - game good Bad mood - finds everything wrong with it. He has a huge ego. I feel like he would never get out of his own way to actually try and enjoy something for what it is, instead of calling it out for not being what he wants it to be.

[@Cris-nx7tx]

This is literally like the same dynamic as CoD players when they perform good or bad in a multiplayer match, and it immediately affects their views on the game. They could complain about balance because they died first in a gunfight or say the gameplay and maps are a joke when their most likely playing the wrong way (although there HAS been some ups and downs in map design and gameplay but it could all be judgemental). And as horrible as the corporation behind that franchise is (or has become, anyway), I feel like most gamers don't even play games for "fun" anymore and get sidetracked by a competitive/victory-hungry mindset when the game isn't working out for them. They start bashing it when in reality everything in the game could be pretty much balanced and fair instead of just admitting they aren't the best that specific game and calling it a day which I guess is understandable in some aspects if you consider how idiotic the internet can be, which is just AS bad. This obviously doesn't excuse p2w or genuine crappy design but again it seems like every problem in the game nowadays has to revolve around that one group of people who can't get behind new physics.

[@thekadju2450]

@@Cris-nx7tx it all boils down to how subjective you are and to how objective you can be. I always try to enjoy something for what it is instead of complaining for what it isnt. If I complained about every single game I probably wouldnt enjoy anything besides a handful of games. I totally agree with your views. When it comes to what you specifically are talking about, yeah, had the same thing with some multiplayer games. Fortnite or pubg or cod, it doesnt really matter what you play, as long as you're winning, you're happy.

[@DANAR-ne3cn]

Yall got it wrong he enjoys those game but he is just an og gamer like myself i still prefer my ps2 over my xbox 360 game in the early of 2000 to 2007 wasnt made for one time walkthrough like todays games so i dont blame him he like his own era but its diffrent era for games so he will have hardtime find fun game

[@MrEffectfilms]

​@@DANAR-ne3cnif he can't accept that times have changed and games won't always be what he wants then he needs to stop talking about games and/or just stick to Resident Evil and Doom Eternal.

[@diddlenfiddle7311]

That ego even came through with DooM Eternal.

[@alienpl107]

UnderTheMayo explaining why playing ultrakill like a lobotomised toad with a stroke makes it bad and ammo system is necessary

[@supdup6890]

It really is just based on how much he enjoys the first 20 minutes of a game. If there is the slightest inconvenience or annoying section the entire game is ruined and a worthless piece of garbage. But if the first 20 minutes or so is the most fun part of the game its an instant 10/10

[@isaacdayton4962]

Doom doesn’t even meet that criteria 💀

[@Yourfat247]

@@isaacdayton4962what do you expect from doomguy’s new pet 🤣

[@MrEffectfilms]

The GameCube remake of Resident Evil and Doom Eternal have made it so that Mayo will not accept any other method of game design especially if it's from a genre he personally doesn't like. I understand not liking Elden Ring, I don't like it either, it's not for me. But I tried it for a couple of hours anyway just to see if this might be a case where I just need to play it in order for it to click with me. It didn't click with me but it was still impressive in some ways and I can absolutely see why others love it so much. This is what's called Objective Articulation, something Mayo clearly cannot do.

[@repomayne]

Real spill I agree with a fair few things he says about re games but his bias is so obvious in every one of his vids

[@beckgrit3688]

Its his biggest flaw imo, I love the souls games but he comes in wanting to not try because he thinks he’ll hate it. It doesn’t matter if you like the genre but if you actually try and olay and enjoy it so you can have a more rounded review rather than wondering the edge of the map for 3 hours complaining that he doesnt want to do anything

[@MrEffectfilms]

@@beckgrit3688 in the months since writing that comment I actually gave Elden Ring another try, did some research and looked up a few guides. My biggest issue with the game originally was not knowing where to go or what to do, that's a pet peeve I have that will instantly turn me off to something, I need directions. So this time when I started a new game and actually knew what to do and where to go I had a MUCH better time than I did the first time. Now I can finally say that I enjoy Elden Ring.

[@beckgrit3688]

@@MrEffectfilms i agree partially, i am not known for patience but do enjoy the exploring aspects of the game. Really my biggest issue with most souls game is the lack of a map, which without markers is still huge in helping you out because a lot of souls games are just hard to navigate

[@MrEffectfilms]

@@beckgrit3688 yes that has been a big problem since Dark Souls 1. I actually remember bringing this to someone and he said that I should just make one.......????? If I know the game well enough to make a map out of it wouldn't that suggest I already know the world well enough that I don't need a nap?! Maps are for those who DON'T know where they're going! And that's the biggest problem with Souls games, the fans. They refuse to accept any criticism at all of these games even if it's warranted. The one exception is they will sometimes complain about frame rate and performance on PC but anything having to do with the actual design they refuse to accept.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

To explain imagine dr skipper if he was doing games and bias

[@legomyexplosiveeggo]

Bro how does this guy like fast paced shooter games but purposely plays Ultrakill so stupidly stubbornly and refuses to experiment? Mfer don't know what he wants 😂😂😂

[@reenokop]

He should consider becoming a game journalist. I mean, they're bad in different ways but it could spice things up.

[@Yourfat247]

Don’t play the game at all or barely play the game? Only to have his review make up things about the game that isn’t even true? He’d be hired in a heartbeat

[@reenokop]

@@Yourfat247 Bro figured out how to walk forward in Doom Eternal. They'll get a restraining order.

[@giwi4]

All he says is "You walk to this place and uhh no there is cutsene that ruins my gameplay distracts me😢😢😭"

[@NotAcat0]

Imagine him play half life

[@Yourfat247]

@@NotAcat0he wouldn’t even buy the game and ‘review’ it 😂

[@kruegerpoolthe13th]

Imagine him playing a Metroid game

[@lilsoonerfaninmo]

Dude, Dread would chew him up and spit him out

[@ElvenRaptor]

@@lilsoonerfaninmoAnd then he'd whine about it like David Jaffe did.

[@NotAcat0]

Bc is no like doom eternal is a bad 0/10

[@Warpded]

That would be an offense to Metroid

[@witherverse1351]

Metroid is too good for him

[@fobo3361]

"guy's im not a reviewer im just a guy giving my opinion" is his primary argument, so never call him a reviewer or he'll just hit you with semantics and brush off your entire argument and all its valid points

[@Yourfat247]

That’s what his drones aka ‘fans’ parrot, he says his ‘opinion’ but then calls the game bad and talks objectively which is what’s ‘wrong’ with the game, not what he doesn’t like which is subjective

[@abstractdaddy1384]

@@Yourfat247 Opinions don't just spontaneously materialize. We have REASONS for them. People can debate opinions by explaining the reasons they hold them. Mayo actually made a funny video in response to comments like yours where he reposted a video of his, but after every sentence he dubbed in himself saying "in my opinion". I would hope people aren't stupid enough that they require something like this in order for them to not get butthurt that someone stated something "as if it was a fact" when it's obvious it's their opinion. If someone says x, y, z aspects of a game are bad for reasons a, b, c, do you really need them to preface every statement like that with "I believe" or "in my opinion"?

[@Passw0rdYT]

​@@abstractdaddy1384and on that same note, the reasons you have for that opinion could be extremely bad. Even if he is stating what is just his opinion, even when he isn't pretending to be objective, that doesn't render him immune to criticism for that opinion

[@abstractdaddy1384]

@@Passw0rdYT I agree. To be clear, the reason Mayo says he's not a reviewer, just giving his opinion, is that reviewers are supposed to be rating how good a game is "in general". Reviewing a game is actually different from describing how you personally feel about it. For example I'm not a fan of RE4 but I recognize it's a very well made game and I understand why people like it. If I reviewed it, I would give it very high scores and be forced to talk about aspects of the game that aren't interesting to me. If I gave my personal opinion on the game, I would talk much less favorably about it. I understand "review" and "give opinion about" sound like the same thing so this seems like a semantics game, but regardless, that is what Mayo means when he says that. It's not some throw away comment to shield himself from criticism.

[@Passw0rdYT]

@@abstractdaddy1384 respectfully, this is all nothing but semantics. It really doesn't matter what he calls himself, he puts his opinions on the internet and those opinions can and will be subject to scrutiny. If he doesn't want them to be criticized, he should not post them. He acts like such a victim when he engages in the marketplace of ideas and others engage back. Being a youtuber isn't a one way street Also, your RE4 example is a great point. You've shown that you are able recognize when a game is good even when you don't like it. Under the Mayo is seemingly incapable of this. I have never heard him make the same concession, which is what the whole "objectivity" criticism is about. It's possible that he's said it in abstract, as most people in the same position do, but not everybody holds to that in practice. when he's talking about any particular game he did not like, he has never said anything to the tune of "I don't enjoy playing such-and-such, but I think it's a good game nonetheless" he says the first part very often, but he is unable to follow it up with the second. He cannot understand the idea that a game he may not enjoy playing may still be a quality product. To him, if he doesn't like it, that means it's bad. Full stop. Even if it is just his opinion, even if he doesn't call himself a "reviewer", he is still saying it, and he is still wrong. And other people are allowed to call him out for being wrong. Simple as.

[@HandsomeDog255]

Under the mayo is type of guy who is stuck in the past especially in FPS it’s heavily implied that he loves “fast paced and fast thinking shooters” and heck me too I love that there’s nothing wrong of liking a fast paced shooter it’s just that he uses that criticism ON EVERYTHING. If he ever reviewed F.E.A.R one of my favorite FPS he would probably say it sucked because it’s “too slow “ trust me it may be a bit slow for a shooter but it makes you feel like a action hero.

[@TheBlueLink3]

Mayo has actually said he really likes F.E.A.R. What he likes and dislikes seems to be all over the place with little rhyme or reason. The only thing I can figure is that he likes fast paced stuff unless it’s horror. Then he wants it to be slow or at least very nostalgic for him.

[@HandsomeDog255]

@@TheBlueLink3 huh guess I missed that part but yeah If I was him I’ll just strictly review FPSs if he loves those types of games

[@FineWine-v4.0]

Fast-paced shooters are pure reflex based WTF is Mayo talking about

[@mercerfrey6392]

​@@FineWine-v4.0Simple. It's another really common trait of his: he contradicts himself CONSTANTLY. There's been several examples of his contradicting arguments in his reviews but the best example of this is in his SIFU "review".

[@Yourfat247]

‘Fast paced and fast thinking shooters’ is what he hates too. Anything above easy is too difficult for him, he hates knight but loves city for the same reasons

[@FDReiter]

I'm starting to hate him on the Style Meter video. Imagine calling the Ninja Gaiden ranking system is arbitrary when He felt good of Streets of Rage 4 ranking system which is literally the same thing.

[@michaelhunt6920]

Did he actually dog on the Ninja Gaiden ranking system. Probably cause he used too much ninpo lol. Damn. Now i gotta unsubscribe he dogged on Hack and Slash perfection. How dare lol.

[@haydenstout2347]

And ultrakill ranking system

[@da3m0nic_79]

I just found him grating as time went by. He always stated all of his opinions as if they were facts and deflects all criticism of himself in his comments sections by being condescending af. It sucks because I really used to enjoy his videos when I was getting into Doom Eternal and Dusk.

[@MisterN1]

Jesus that sperg out UTM had with a commenter on the livestream really shows what a lolcow UTM could be.

[@icemaster9728]

He actually made some decent points in his Ultrakill review, but he did it in a format that represents the fans as toxic. The whole interrogation concept was just stupid.

[@Alex8609BrindyJames]

I'm autistic and I try way harder to enjoy Elden Ring than he did in his livestream.

[@richardbors6548]

Oh look, a reviewer revewing , an other reviewer.

[@Yourfat247]

Then we have a reviewer, reviewing a reviewer, reviewing a reviewsr

[@Warpded]

Mayo comes across as the kind of dumbass who'd help a car across the street

[@bjarnivalur6330]

Man can do literally anything he wants, chooses to cry instead.

[@Yourfat247]

He chooses to not play a good game he doesn’t like only to choose to make a video reviewing it on his channel 😂

[@mattbailey7832]

How FMBloo Fails At Audio Balancing, Good god! Quiet ass commentary to then getting jump scared by mayo screaming at me! Valid point for sure, but my critique is balance ur audio better!

[@jamesgaming-kn1zz]

i think mayo just wants to force ACTION ACTION ACTION on everyone

[@killian9314]

Although i don’t like mayo and i think his alien isolation and titanfall 2 reviews are Atrocious. I have to take you up on the “reviewers can’t nitpick, because it’s not criticism” A nitpick, Is a criticism, but it’s a small one. Like say in a movie from a scene to another a character wearing a shirt differently, a comtinuity mistake, or say a reload animation having a funky hand clipping, a non gameplay bug. Those are Nitpicks. They are Valid. But they are like icing on a cake, you can’t make a case all out of icing. But what mayo does isn’t nitpicks, is not doing research and asking things that aren’t needed.

[@fmbloo]

Yeah you can classify nitpicking as criticism but it should be about small things that shouldn’t really matter to an all out score, under the Mayo nitpicks ALOT and almost all of his points are nitpicks and that’s caused from bias and like you said "not doing research"

[@tyby2076]

His alien isolation video was top notch. Funny how people get butthurt when a guy puts the nail on the coffin. That game is attrocious gameplay wise, tedious objectives, boring sections.

[@Yourfat247]

A nitpick is a SMALL criticism, meaning that it doesn’t matter at all in the bigger picture

[@Yourfat247]

@@tyby2076his alien isolation video was another biased rant. Funny how y’all get mad when you get called out for BS

[@GuiltyGaming]

A nitpick is a critique of an inconsequential detail. It’s what you fall back on when you have nothing left to say, either because-in this context-the game is quality and you have nothing to genuinely criticize or because the game is ass and you’ve already exhausted the list of its crimes against humanity. Honestly, I think a nitpick is like a pet peeve in its subjectivity and scope. I don’t think you could “nitpick” Kratos’ character development or the mechanics undergirding the combat in the new GoW, but I think you could nitpick UI or a QTE. My two cents here. Thank you.

[@michaelhunt6920]

I gotta be honest. I just started getting him recommended to me. I subscribed to him cause he had some of the same feelings i did about GOW Valhalla. But the more I think about that video it almost seemed like he dogged on it for the exact reason i liked the gameplay loop in it. He talks about old GOW (where the gameplay loop is fight, puzzle, open chest) which is the exact gameplay loop that the dlc goes with. So he just dogged on the game for trying to bring back that old gameplay loop with the new gameplay style. He seems like that dude who played Doom Eternal for IGN.

[@fmbloo]

It’s kinda weird because he’s gotten better at reviewing games now but now and then he has opinions that are questionable

[@Yourfat247]

@@fmbloobetter??? Have you seen his response video to people clowning on him for his Arkham knight review? 💀

[@fmbloo]

@@Yourfat247 that reply was 7 months ago

[@therandomhub3845]

“It’s not doom or prey therefore it’s a bad game. Also the best parts of the game are the worst to me” He’s like that one kid in school who would always disagree with people for no reason then say “It’s just an opinion” before running off to go ruin another conversation. He isn’t a reviewer, he’s the worlds number 1 hater and occasionally glazer who can’t bare to see people invalidate his ‘reviews’.

[@spouwnerring]

Under The Mayo got a lot of well deserved flak for his reviews and so we were all expecting that Mayo's review on God Of War Ranorok would also not be up to par. However when Mayo dropped his review no 1 talked about it because another KZbinr called Synthetic Man (gonna call him Synth from now on) made an OBJECTIVELY WORSE review on it. It was so bad that Synth made a 2nd video trying to defend himself and failed horribly. Mauler - on his 2nd channel called Mooler - made an excellent video, proving beyond all doubt that Synth isn't just the worst reviewer, but also that Synth is an extremely shitty human being in general. I do recommend to anyone who is intrested to go watch the EFAP reaction instead of the 4 hour video that I'm talking about. Yes the stream is 7 hours longer then the video I'm talking about (4+7=11), but Mauler some of his points in further detail, plus you can always watch in on 2x speed.

[@the_pentah00k58]

Jeez someone worse than Mauler?

[@spouwnerring]

@@the_pentah00k58 I don't know how respond to that.

[@Dr.Oofers]

@@the_pentah00k58 ??

[@genetenz]

Synthetic man was bang on with his review. That game was boring as batshit

[@spouwnerring]

@@genetenz Synth's review is objectively bad. Did you not watch the streams?

[@softwinters4544]

Today (or yesterday) mayo covered the new amnesia game. a game he overall enjoyed and praised but there was one thing that incredibly pissed me off. he completely skipped covering the story as the game tells its story through documents and reading mainly and he said he found that boring so he skipped them entirely which sure is fine. if you dont like reading a bunch of documents because you find it boring thats an okay thing to comment on but if you are a reviewer trying to convince me whether i should play or not play a game and you skip something as important as the story then you arent reviewing the full product which makes your review incomplete. its like reviewing a song and not covering what the lyrics means cause “i wasnt listening to them.” its kinda crazy.

[@tyby2076]

A good game tells its story in a better way than reading 100+ document dont you think? He also says he read the first ones but he saw that he wasnt getting anything from them. If a game tells its story only from documenta then its a really poor fucking story.

[@Eric_Nomad_Hixtone]

Mayo always despises storylines,he needs "gameplay, no story at all" type of games. Literally even if the game actually tries to make a good lore he'll @#$& ignore it and ask devs to remove it!

[@softwinters4544]

@@Eric_Nomad_Hixtone im not sure thats entirely true either considering how much he adores silent hill 2 and such and has praised that games story. i think he just wants a very specific way for a story to be told to him

[@softwinters4544]

@@tyby2076 sure but he also criticized signalis for having way to many documents and his solution to that was "just simplify the story so i have to read less" and i feel thats also an incredibly poor way of viewing it.

[@MartinCantu1991]

😂

[@PilotTrigger]

All I can say no mayo is NAPWISS

[@VHS_FUN1999]

I know this was posted a year ago but your points still stand. Under the mayo is a terrible game critique who cannot see past doom eternal. He's nothing but a grifter and just wants reactions out of people.

[@jackjax7921]

His Re 3 remake review make me hate Under The Mayo. Its biased asf as if the original Resident Evil 3 is a masterpiece

[@Hyphen372]

He's a leon Fanbody, hence why he hates it so much, he was beyond overdramatic with the title and the entirety of the video

[@empressink_]

Finally! I thought I was the only one who didn't like that review, all he did was harp and nitpick. I feel like that's been every video of his.

[@empressink_]

@GottaBounceBro😏 Agreed! I personally love the story but there's nothing better than just running and gunning in RE, lol.

[@RacingSnails64]

I thought RE3 remake was super dumbed down and linear compared to the original? It also turned sweet Jill into a brute asshole and turned free-roaming Nemesis into a bunch of scripted events

[@whambulance8607]

Bad taste. The original RE3 is miles above that DEmake, which is the laziest game in the mainline series. You aren't a Resident Evil fan so this comment will fall on deaf ears.

[@Kostte-zp6he]

for me, under the mayo have become just another clout hungry creator. there is like thousand game reviewer, and under the mayo think if he did not make the most outrages takes he will not get view. the worse is, more creators have became like him, they think if they enjoy the game that mean they are not critical enough on their game review. like they want to promote themself as a critical game reviewer, but if you look at their review they are not even competent on the game or just played it so poorly so the game looks bad. sometimes when the game really are hard, they do not want to admit its hard and just say the game have poor design.

[@milezvanisampion6457]

2:56 mayo jumpscare

[@Hyphen372]

Him being biased af is why I hate him, he says one game is "redemption of a game category" but another one is "A aBSolUtE diSgRaCe!!1!1!1!111!1!"

[@TheAutistWhisperer]

May the Mayo simps seethe.

[@Yourfat247]

Oh they are definitely malting

[@Liverator]

Saying that reviews shouldn't include nitpicking isn't exactly a good standard. Firstly, everyone has a different idea of what nitpicking is. Some say it's the Starbucks cup being left on the GoT set, while others say it can include character dialogue that goes against what the character would actually say. Nitpicking is fine if the criticism actually means something to the broader purpose of the product. If there's a tiny plothole in a movie that completely undermines the purpose of it, then that's a valid nitpick. It's also worth noting that someone pointing out hundreds of unimpactful nitpicks in a game can just as easily be considered valid criticism by showing the lack of attention the game recieved in development. (Like those 3 hour montages of various glitches in Fallout 76) Now that's not to say that I'm defending Under the Mayo. The dude doesn't even analyze game mechanics on any level deeper than a puddle.

[@fmbloo]

Yeah nitpicking is fine but don’t stretch it out as a main point, nitpicking is fine and rlly funny sometimes but what he did was use them as ground work or sometimes makes up the entire point of his argument which you should never do

[@godfrey4461]

Nah nitpicking has a defined definition. "the finding or pointing out of minor faults in a fussy or pedantic way." Trying to argue everyone has a different standard for it is semantics at best. Nitpicking should never be used as a form of critic because everything has flaws. Pointing out minor stuff just for the sake of it is petty and wastes time or something that would otherwise be a thoughtful review.

[@Hellwaterva]

Im sitting here like “his voice is fun and his takes are easy targets what’s not to like”

[@uddhav1080]

yeah me too

[@Ilovew00d]

I’ve always dislike his criticisms and reviews towards most things. He sexualized a female protagonist once all because she cursed for 4 minutes straight in a 6 to 7 hour video game and made lots of lies about her that made her sound like a bad character when she isn’t. The game she’s in isn’t perfect and the game has its flaws but the female protagonist is definitely not one of them.

[@Shnerpf]

He’d say that a driving game needs to be more like doom

[@TheGamernews1]

Video age like fine wine when seeing his recent response video.

[@fmbloo]

@@TheGamernews1 lmao jus saw that

[@partylrd8699]

Um dont tell this guy about Arkham Knight

[@rickyrackey7930]

If you think he’s bad, Synthetic Man is beyond horrible. He’s downright mentally unhinged. remember that The Bald Guy that screeched about Pronouns in Starfield? Well he called him a potential school shooter.

[@mrscruffles801]

Nah Synthetic man is funny.

[@rickyrackey7930]

@@mrscruffles801 More like downright racist.

[@angeloalvarez5520]

Synthetic man is antisemitic

[@UnclePaul1995]

He hate Doom, God of War, and Elden Ring. This Guy complains about Popular Games.

[@fmbloo]

He loves doom but the rest yea

[@UnclePaul1995]

@@fmbloo He hate any Games that are not Doom.

[@Cuchau911]

I like his reviews even if I don't agree with him most of the time. He has a tendency to like games only if they're very hard, time consuming and stressful. Now, I do like a challenge and often play games on harder difficulties but he's just a sweat seeker

[@juancampos9468]

But even then he’s inconsistent I mean when he played sekiro he didn’t like it even tho he didn’t take the time to learn the combat even tho he would criticize people for doing the same thing with doom eternal

[@andydufresnefromshawshank5866]

At least he’s not DW-Terminator that guy is the worst, just watch his videos and you’ll see what I mean. He instantly give first person shooters a 2/5 or lower because they’re first person shooters, except for COD 1. He critiqued Halo 2 for creating the health regeneration even though it was the first game to do it, and it made sense since you had a suit that would heal you now games milk it because I don’t know and it doesn’t make sense for a World War II soldier to have Wolverines healing powers. He also says that he can tell when a game is rushed, but doesn’t explain why he thinks it’s rushed.

[@Eric_Nomad_Hixtone]

There's a worse reviewer... Young Defiant. He literally says in his videos that if whatever game you like that he didn't you should end urself and that he'll block everyone who disagrees no matter what argument they have because "they're stupid anyway". And he does so unironically

[@andydufresnefromshawshank5866]

@@Eric_Nomad_Hixtone when you do that, that’s how you end up losing your career because you push everyone away

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

There is no epistemology neutrality. Bias is unavailable

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

Unavoidable

[@RacingSnails64]

I forget who made the video but it was titled "Subjectivity is implied." I think people ought to phrase themselves as fairly as unobjectively as possible, but also, people clearly think fucking differently haha. When someone says "this is good/bad" they're saying "I personally think this is good/bad." They speak objectively because they can only see from their perspective. People shouldn't be assholes, but when it comes to art they also have no power over your purchases and you can just click off. Why waste time on them when you could keep enjoying that thing you enjoy?

[@JL-XrtaMayoNoCheese]

@@RacingSnails64 @my tits 2+2=5 is not epistemologically neutral. It's biased fundamentally. Truth is bigoted against falsehood. You're making a subjective argument based on the concept that "good" or "the good" is not an objective metaphysical category, but a peferenec a set or group has concerning a thing. Good just like Truth cannot be a subjective. It's a presupposition that it is objectively truth and eternal. Only modernity seeks to depersonalize and remove Truth from existence in pursuit of narcissistic self affirmations and ad hoc subjectivity. The result is chaos. Murder, theft and lying are bad objectively, not subjectively. The same is true of Egoism, sloth, greed, et cetera. You then make a statement that "people shouldn't" or people "ought not do" but this statement is ENTIRELY meaningless if Truth and Goodness do not exist. Everyone "ought" to "do what thy wilt" under such ethical lawlessness. "enjoying" is not Truth. "enjoying" is not goodness. You need to prove that "goodness" and "truth" exist for your statements/claims to possibly be true or good. You cannot. Your comment refutes itself

[@gojiman1649]

The stream stuff i get, but the whole "he gets mad if a game doesn't hold you're hand" hes said multiple times that he doesn't like when games do that. Also the doom eternal part is a little weird for me. Its not that he wants games to be like doom eternal, its that he wants games to push you into there systems and incentive certain actions, combos etc LIKE eternal. it kind of comes off like "oh he criticized something about my favorite game, hes based" i think that's incredibly short sighted. Again i understand the stream stuff, i see why people get annoyed by that, but its just how he reviews games. Yes doom eternal plays a big part in his reviews, but they do for me too. Games just aren't as rewarding or as impacting as doom eternal was. If you didn't get into the game and master its systems then you simply wont understand why me and a lot of others have this same opinion. Hes not perfect, he does contradict himself which can be frustrating, but seems like people hate on him because he doesn't like popular games. Yes God of war 2018 was a great game and i won't deny that, but it just feels like a naughty dog game. The original trilogy had so much more creativity.

[@fmbloo]

Since this vid is kinda old, thankfully you have many video to look up about under the Mayo (for ur point about he wants games to be like doom eternal) You can still criticize him for contradicting himself even if it’s just "how he reviews games" what does that even mean if his way of reviewing games is making contradiction points and no admitting to it after u get criticized, than he should change his way. Trust me I love doom eternal but I don’t judge games based on stuff that I like about it, that’s coming in with a bias view if ur just waiting to compare it to another game when it could be totally different but function great or even better. The god of war feeling like a naughty dog game is crazy, idk what creativity you want to has an amazing story with great characters and arcs, it looks amazing, and the game if MOSTLY fun. But ur entitled to ur opinion

[@repomayne]

​@@fmblooidk personally gow 2018s gameplay was very lackluster compared to the old games, it just feels like Ubisoft RPG slop, and the story could've been good without having to compromise gameplay, the original trilogy did well in that regard. It kinda feels like they did it as an accessibility thing which isn't terrible on its own but absolutely is when it hurts the quality. As for him comparing stuff to doom I don't think that comparisons are a bad thing, comparing things that have similar qualities is an easy to understand way to point out a flaw in something by showing how it was done well in something else, I think his bias is made more obvious by how much he compares things to doom

[@DaviTalks-q3o]

The reason is simple: he claims that extrinsic challenge is the ONLY way to make a good videogame, for him if the game doesn't straight up force him to do things, he won't do them games, I don't even play the games he does but by simply watching his ''why challenge matters'' video you will understand exactly what I'm talking about everything that is even remotely intrinsic about the game he will just do what's extrinsic about it he doesn't dislike games because they are NOT doom eternal, yet because those games he dislikes don't have the hevay focus on extrinsic challenge that doom etarnal has which in his mind is the only way a videogame can be fun, that is why he loves super mario 64 but (reportadly) hates odyssey, because odyssey leans into the intrinsic gameplay and that lies beyind intrinsic or extrinsic, some games are just NOT made around challenge in general extrinsic or inrtinsic and some games are more about problem solving a different type of challenge

[@geeseguy1758]

I criticized his Trepang2 Review on one point he made about both wanting to run out of ammo and wanting more ammo? i am still confused. he then made an essay that can be summed up as "The situation was not the same every time" and then started calling "us hardcore trepang fans" Retards (I only have 7 hours in the game)

[@fragplaysyt_onmobile6245]

As a fan of under the mayo i do agree with some of the points such as the bias one and having a set mind rather than being open minded and about the ego he still does have some successful critisims and does it right in some way but if it contrasicts the exact way a game was before (god of war) he criticises it without looking looking at it in its own way sure there were issues in god war remake such as camera angles but that doesn't mean the whole game in shit the only series that he accepts the contrast between games in is Re

[@fragplaysyt_onmobile6245]

Just wait until they make a bad doom😂

[@TheCapitalWanderer]

he made several bad reviews lol

[@bast4rdlyreaper]

How do you fail at being a reviewer? A review is just your opinion on a subject. Its either a review that you didnt like, or one that is too boring to hold your attention. Though the main reason why you are "calling him out" is most likely because you want to prey pn the success of a larger and more successful channel. But anyways, i wrote all this without watching your video, so now, i will be watching your video, and see how this comment "ages".

[@fmbloo]

LMAOOO you jus made a comment without watching the video alr assuming my point 😭

[@VGF80]

Who is this guy? Gligar13vids?

[@Grivian]

I agree that nitpicking is generally not good when reviewing a game but to be fair UTM wasn't doing that when he reviewed god of war 4. He is unhappy about the change in direction in the game. Pressing a button to cut down a tree is not something you would expect in a god of war game. Now I know that the new god of war games have a huge fanbase, I haven't played them myself but I'm planning on doing so soon. The thing you need to remember is that the old GOW games also has a big fanbase and many of them preferred the old gameplay with jumping, airial attacks, grabs, zoomed out camera etc. Even ExtremeGameplays who love all god of war, new included, still don't consider the new games as god of war games. Complaining about the walkie talkie parts and everything that slows down the game is not a nitpick.

[@fmbloo]

He kinda was being very nitpicky, I get his point about his discomfort with the new controls, but his way of proving it is to be very nitpicky about certain stuff (the tree scene, blades of chaos mechanic.) There’s a video made by ZeroNeedsCoffee who talks about this in further detail

[@Grivian]

@@fmbloo I haven't seen that video is some time but didn't he just go over how he reacted to GOW4 the first time he played it?Telling a story to explain how he felt when he started playing the game. I mean in retrospectives it could go the other way around as well. A youtuber talks for 5 minutes about the christmas when his father gave him Arkham City and so on. I could mention the magical feeling when I first played mass effect and just pressed the start button. That would be the opposite of nitpick but still unnecessary.

[@fmbloo]

@@Grivian I don’t think that was his first impression of the game, even if it was what kind of person thinks about that the first thing you see, it’s like he didn’t even try to like it if he was immediately talking about how weird the tree scene was. Also utm used those nitpicks into his main argument in his video (which you should never do if it’s a nitpick)

[@darklordsonic9757]

based vid i do agree with all your points

[@SaveRufus]

Not all reviewers should put their biases aside. Mayo is very much a niche reviewer. He has incredible insight into player experience with the specific games he likes: classic fixed camera action platformers, survival horror, and fast paced shooters. This is precisely why the creators who actually make those games go to get an interview from him. This is also why I consume his content. I don't go to him for souls-like content because I know he hates it (even though he acknowledges that Elden Ring or Sekiro are GOOD games). The community should just stop pressuring him to play games he hates and let him give critiques of games he likes because he is very insightful. I liked GoW 4 and Valhalla but he gives solid critiques of both despite my disagreement with his ultimate conclusions.

[@fmbloo]

Reviewers AREN'T 100% unbiased but they should put most of their bias aside when reviewing anything, but when he makes a review on a game that's not rlly in his niche he makes points against a game that is just plainly wrong and full of bias towards other games, you can find many other videos explaining in detail more than i did. No one pressured him to play ultrakill of sifu and he still got a lot of stuff wrong

[@djeka415]

​@@fmbloo He just said he didn't like some aspects of the game, then explained why , and then tell how he would like them to be. Why people think he is a bad reviewer then? He can't change his preferences each time he plays a new game - to like it. And this approach works for people - for me, for example, couse I found myself having a similar preferences. And he NEVER insulted the game, just because he doesn't understand it - he, as far as i know, and I watched pretty much all of his reviews, was and is pretty much respectful towards any any game, even for a game with an obvious and stupid mistakes ( gltches, bad camera, repetitive gameplay)

[@fmbloo]

@@djeka415 the problem why ppl think he’s a bad reviewer is that he has bias when it comes to game mechanics. He likes something’s that he hates when another game does the same thing.

[@godfrey4461]

@@fmbloo Fact these people can't understand that is sad. No one is unbiased, but a good reviewer can put their bias aside to review a game on IT'S MERITS, not the merits of another game. That's his problem. He compares all games to "HIS STYLE." Then I must ask, why even review games at all?

[@DrunkPikachuu]

oh wow what a fresh and unique game! what if we removed everything good about it -mayo

[@BoTheJo]

Damn that elden ring clip is hard to listen to

[@Neptunenerg]

No one send hate to his channel

[@quantuminnovation2743]

Bit to late for that lad

[@1nva0er55]

UTM's God of War review was so whiny and entitled that i laughed. "Ugh, ive to fight a troll and a dog and a bear ugh why no chicken nuggets" like holy shit, we get it, you like the old games. The old games had plenty of common enemy tactics and strategies. Minotaurs and Cyclops were damage sponges, Satyrs were agile pack hunters, etc. He never makes the point quickly, he whines and complains with that annoying ass voice and slow pace for wo long, and keeps droning on and on about himself and what he likes, and thats why his videos are so long, theyre 10 minutes of content and 50 minutes of filler.

[@matthewmoore5698]

I watched his best and worst of 2023 not a squeak about Elden ring!

[@ultimateagent25]

Pretty good video, dude.

[@shreksnow1918]

It makes me happy to see that man descend into becoming a lolcow. Another example of him sperging out would be how he manbaby raged that Halo was it’s own thing and not a Quake clone. He’s like ReviewTechUSA, Wings, and DSP where he lacks self awareness and constantly contradicts/flip flops. I hope that one day he gets picked up by the Kiwi Farms. Now that would be funny! Speaking of Elden Ring both Ac Man and Quantum were on their way to becoming lolcows because both babymen kept escalating things further. I used to really respect Ant Man and was firmly on his side. Then I did a little research and realized that he and his squad (included ReviewTechUSA. Just look up ReviewTechUSA exposed or Junk Media reuploads. You’ll see what a snake that man is) were just as cancerous as Quantum. The whole thing was a complete dumpster fire. Also, Act Manchild’s content is basically just old thing good new thing bad😂. Here’s a great video talking about how Act Man basically doxed some kid for doing what Act Man bragged about doing back in the day (kzbin.info/www/bejne/haXMeKxqqb9shM0).

[@jackpray8669]

0:36 I'm trying to find the bottom video so can anyone help me out

[@AlexIsSleepy]

W

[@williamarkwright1805]

I thought this Mayo guy was cool...

[@bast4rdlyreaper]

There's nothing wrong with being biased, if you want to watch an unbiased or a biased review, that's on you. To be honest, the best way to get the real picture is to watch both biased and unbiased.

[@fmbloo]

I responded to that in ur biggest reply, also please but all your points into one comment. Makes it easier to debunk 👍🏽

[@Safewoood]

This man responded to my comment on a 2 year old video pointing out a bad argument with insults, that sais enough i think.

[@silent_stalker3687]

And now he talks about politics in games…

[@RacingSnails64]

He does??? I only ever remember him mentioning the Bush adminstration once offhandedly. He talks games first and formost.

[@silent_stalker3687]

@@RacingSnails64 welcome to dead space BS and feminism

[@friendofp.24]

I love spreading misinformation online, too.

[@ProTele-ql5om]

yo dude are you the review police ? I get he has controversial opinions, I sometimes disagree, but I can see his point. For exemple I like the last 2 god of war but I understand he's disapointed because he expected a continuation of the previous installement, not a generic third person action aventure with an AI companion like all the others playstation games. Also try to articulate I can understand half of what you say

[@fmbloo]

@@ProTele-ql5om why did you just sum up his god of war review to just his disappointment with the new mechanics instead of sticking to the old ones which was NOT his whole point. Like the clip I showed bro just nitpick just to nitpick

[@ProTele-ql5om]

@@fmbloo no he's right, starting a god of war game by cutting a tree is laughable, look at the others, in the trilogy you start by an epic boss fight

[@fmbloo]

@@ProTele-ql5om he’s not right, Kratos chopping the tree shows an emotional scene of him chopping trees that his dead wife marked so that they will spread her ashes in Jotuheim, it makes the player cut down the tree instead of a cutscene because of its impact on kratos. It also sets the tone for the rest of the game

[@ajdndbdjbdj]

Im no a native English speaker yet i understood every word he said, sound like someone just want to hate

[@ayydriel]

another based bloo upload

[@fmbloo]

the average W ayydriel comment

[@bast4rdlyreaper]

I just finished the video, and i think all your arguments are petty, as you are insinuating the way that he reviews games is inferior to the way that you think that games should be reviewed. Your whole video is just saying that you dont like his review style, and that he should try harder. Just seems like you are projecting and angry that your content is "better" and you think that you should be more successful. The thing i will say about him that is better than you, is he has a personality, he's funny, and has a good sounding voice, that's important when you are a "reviewer talker" person. I think he's most objective and best at reviewing the games he likes, like the Resident Evil games. Hus biggest flaw is his success, and being typecasted into a reviewer, thats the content his channel blew up on, and that he content that he makes. The reason that his other reviews are bad, is because he doesnt like the games, so his reviews are "bad". Look at someone like TheWarOwl who only reviews CSGO and other shooters, do you think that he would enjoy playing a story based adventure game? I stated it before and ill state it again, a review is your opinion of a subject, uts always biased on your enjoyment of the subject. If you are making an unbiased review, you are getting paid to do it for someone.

[@fmbloo]

Alr so before I start UTM has gotten a lot better at being objective with his reviews since this vid is getting old. But anyways. 1: I don’t think my way is the only way to review games, I just gave examples of what other game reviewers do in order to give more of an unbiased look. 2: I never said my content is better and I was never angry, it was fair criticism that you can see people agree with me. Idc if you think he’s better than me, idc if he has a "reviewer talker person" if his points are trash than they’re trash no matter how funny they are. 3: ofc he’s best at reviewing game he likes but when he reviews games that he has an opinion he has bias for, he gets a lot of stuff wrong and people (like this vid) call him out on. 4: No people hate UTM because he objectively gets A LOT of stuff wrong about games and has shown bias and hypocrisy when reviewing, which I’ve showed in my video. Don’t say that everyone else does that when you clearly didn’t watch anyone else’s videos on his reviews on games. 5: idk if thewarowl likes story games or not, I don’t rlly watch him but even if he did you completely missed my point. I was saying that since utm prefers shooters like doom, he expects other games to have the same stuff as doom such as elden ring, gow, ultrakill, etc. 6: yes a review is always bias and I’m pretty sure I said that in my video. But he is clearly bias for doom in certain videos, you can watch Niels ultrakill vid to be more knowledgeable on it. However like I said he has clear bias for certain games and he should try to be more objective with it, which I think he’s gotten better at. You clearly didn’t understand my video and you coincidentally skipped over my points and examples proving his bias and him being just flat out wrong on games, listen and you’ll get the points I made 🤷‍♂️

[@friendofp.24]

People get so pressed about other's opinions. Imagine wasting a week to make a cringe hit piece on a guy because you disagree with his opinion.

[@fmbloo]

I wouldn't care if it was his opinion that made me upset, he mostly get things wrong, not "in my opinion" wrong, factualy wrong. You clearly didn't watch the video

[@godfrey4461]

You realize you just did the exact same thing right? Opinions can be bad. It is normal for any person worth their salt to challenge bad opinions. Grow up.

[@xhehenem_4751]

Tbh Mayo always says "this is not review". He just tells his opinions about certain game he's playing. That's not review. And critique has space for you personal view and taste.

[@fmbloo]

If you search up what does it mean to be a game reviewer it says "reviewing a videogame is about understanding how a game should function and whether that experience works as intended" that’s what Mayo does, he’s a reviewer

[@DeadEndScreamer]

So if I say it's not a review and then say something like "Doom Eternal sucks because it's too easy, too orange and the game mechanics suck I wish it was more like Ultrakill" I'm above criticism?

[@TheCapitalWanderer]

"this video is not a review, DOOM Eternal sucks ass i can't have infinite ammo and can not spam charger pistol therefore DOOM Eternal bad"

[@combatbrony6705]

I domt agree on everything with mayo but i will say that his take on God of war is correct in every semse the new god of war is truely a disappointing sequel

[@fmbloo]

The new gow games are better than the original trilogy (OG still slaps tho)

[@waynegale4709]

What is this 240p bs

[@fmbloo]

womp womp

[@brandon221234]

Firstly, all reviews are inherently biased based on the user's personal experiences. Therefore, it is quite obvious that Under The Mayo's reviews are also biased. Secondly, he openly stated from the beginning that he raised money for charity in order to play Elden Ring, even though it was not his typical type of game. Imagine taking someone who loves Animal Crossing, and only enjoys that specific type of game, and throwing them into Dark Souls. It's highly likely that they would become frustrated with it immediately. It's unreasonable to expect everyone to like every game, and criticizing someone for not enjoying a particular game is unfair. Thirdly, the main goal of acquiring a PS5 was completely secondary and only intended for those who wanted him to review God of War: Ragnarok. He had no interest in buying a PS5 solely for a single game review. Finally, I noticed that there were ads in this video, so I've decided to stop watching at the 4-minute mark. Your criticisms against him come across as childish, and I don't want to contribute any further to your profits, considering how much you've already gained from me.

[@fmbloo]

Alright I accedenlty restarted my response so I’ll shorten it. 1: I know that all reviews are biased in someway shape or form, but when it come to UTM his bias in certain games brings down other games that he reviews, even stuff that is factually incorrect (which people have talked about on yt) and then gets stubborn when he gets proven wrong. 2: I know that he made the stream as a fail stream, I said that in my video. The point I made was 1: to show his tendency to nitpick for no reason, 2: his wrongful behavior towards his fans, him banning and cursing at his fans while them actively trying to help him progress in the game is stupid on his part 3: I know about the ps5 and idc, it was for a 1 second joke 4: idk why this is even a point, You need 1000 subscribers and 40,000 hours of watch time to gain any money from views or ads, and I have none of those so I can’t put or gain anything through those ads, youtube is putting ads on everything for them. Not for me. But good job missing like half the video to put a comment down 😃

[@CestJordan]

He’s not a reviewer. He says literally all the time that he’s talking about his experience playing the games, how he feels, his perspectives, which you don’t have to agree with. He says very plainly, all the time, the kind of systems, mechanics, and games he prefers. His videos are literally called “everyone told me to play” not “A Review Of…” This video fails at the title.

[@CestJordan]

I’m going to keep commenting as I watch the video. You keep saying Mayo is a reviewer, again, he’s not. 2- there is no such thing as a review without bias, that is such a stupid point I don’t know where to even start with it. The best anyone can do is be honest about their preferences and biases so viewers can be informed as to what informs the creators perspectives, which Mayo does literally all of the time, almost annoyingly so.

[@CestJordan]

You keep hammering the bias point, all I have to say is, you are wrong.

[@CestJordan]

Define nitpick…. You go on about how he nitpicks, but he makes clear his issues. In GoW he didn’t like Atreus because he thought the character was annoying, he didn’t like the camera perspective, he didn’t like the lack of skill based platforming, he didn’t like the forced in and poorly balanced RPG and loot rarity systems, he didn’t like all the walking and talking sections that take the player out of the gameplay, he didn’t like the combat because it was comparatively dumbed down from the old GoW games. For RE3, major sections from the game we’re missing without solid updates to the maps and storyline, the raccoon city streets map was small and limited compared to the original, nemesis never felt like a real threat and had an extremely limited role compared to the potential he had. All valid critiques. And again, I emphasize, all reviews, analysis, critiques, and discussions are based in opinion and personal bias.

[@CestJordan]

Bro, this video was bad. Underbaked, poorly researched, and half hearted. Try harder man.

[@fmbloo]

@@CestJordan 1st he doesn't make "reviews" like that anymore than when i made this video, but search up under the mayo review and you'll find tons of videos where he fucking reviews games such as redfall (which was 5 days ago) doom eternal, killbug, RE4, all gow games, RE8, and many more that either say review in the title or by definition a review. For my bias point sorry but you can't just say your wrong and I'm right, his bias towards games and mechanics makes his points towards other games fall flat because he gets crucial things wrong about games while praising another game foe having the same thing, there are many hour long videos about people having to constantly correct Mayo about hypocrisies, straight lies about games, those videos go better in depth into points which i should've gone more deeper in. and even lets say he's not a reviewer (even though by definition and by videos he is) his style meters or mechanical reviews/analyze while his knowledge of those types of things in games is good, his bias towards other games using the same thing or just lies straight up. Like i said there's many videos talking about the same points and topic that I do, just watch those.

[@fwamable394]

I don’t think I would call the original resident evils and silent hills fast games, so I don’t understand why you say he only likes fast paced games. Furthermore the statement that wants every game to be doom eternal is just false considering the wide variety of games he likes and has praised on his channel. Puzzle games, Platformers, fighting games, brawlers, survival horror. action horro Ect. Hmmmm it’s almost like he doesn’t want every game to be doom eternal but wants them to competently engage the player. Which he complements sekiro about despite not personally liking it because of personally bias. I also add that you treat the elden ring stream too serious and act like what he takes about in the stream are point of critiques. When those points are just expressing personal bias. As well as the stream being for the fans who want to watch him play a game he doesn’t like besucase that’s enjoyable. That’s why we donated to the charity goal to get the stream.

[@fmbloo]

Before I start the point of this video Was to show how Mayo fails as a genuine reviewer. With constant bias, contradictions, and terrible when it comes to responding to videos. Sure he liked other slower games, but he likes fast games more which is fine. But wouldn’t you say god of war and elden are a bit slower in comparison? Also about his "variety" he needs to expierment more and at least to attempt to like other games, him wanting every game to be like doom eternal isn’t my original point as many other people have caught that he makes points against other games that doom eternal has, or him wanting stuff from doom eternal into games that wouldn’t work. I would recommend watching other Mayo videos. Also I wasn’t really talking about the elden ring stream as itself as I already said that it contributes to extreme bias which a reviewer shouldn’t have, I mentioned it more as the last point I made when I was talking about the response and how he sounded to act like all he wanted to do was make a "disaster" stream. And sure maybe he wanted that and their many critics that commented on that. But him being drunk and disliking elden ring doesn’t excuse him screaming and banning his own fans that are trying to help him attempt to get some sort of enjoyment.

[@mayonnaise3959]

Resident evil 3 is the only fast paced classic RE game

[@greseduppig2011]

Did the idea of "Hey, maybe the statement he wants everything to be doom eternal is a hyperbolic expression for the sake of comedy" fly right over your head.

[@TylerMBuller12]

All reviews are biased in some capacity that doesn't make them invalid unless it's sponsored because then the opinion is bought off. That eliminates most large youtubers. Under the mayo knows what he likes and dislikes he only played Elden Ring because viewers wanted him to. Ya he knew he didn't like it before hand and clarified that so I really don't see the problem. Anyone who watches his channel probably has a similar taste in games so I think that makes his opinion more valid especially to those people. If you want to watch a bunch of yes men that agree with the general opinion of games just watch any fairly large youtuber with sponsors up the ass and a free copy of the game. It's kind of hilarious when anyone gives their valid opinion that contradicts the masses they are labeled as incompetent. Under the mayo has good reviews with valid critiques. But if you don't like first person shooters or whatever niche but quality game he likes than obviously you will hate his channel but that doesn't make the points invalid. Based off the gameplay here you posted and the fact you sound young I would guess you only like normie games. I mean that's fine but us older gamers expect a little more quality out of our games we didn't grow up with a bunch of movie games that play themselves and online games filled with microtransactions. The problem is that's the only type of game you know. We have standards because when we grew up we played games with actual good gameplay and not a bunch of soulless games that are about making money in the cheapest ways possible. These days every game is the same for the most part. They are just soulless cash grabs designed to get every penny they can out of people. I was around when the whole ubisoft formula was created that every developer uses now. I'm only 27 but I saw all this come into fruition. I used to play those mediocre games and thought they were good until I realized it's the same game over and over which is barley a game at all honestly. I think the industry should of followed what half life 2 established where everything is in game and the player is almost always in control it just makes games more satisfying. Movies and games should be separated because it should all be done in game by the player with very minimal cutscenes.

[@fmbloo]

Instead of spending awhile restating points I already made in other replys I’ll summarize it for you. Yes every review is bias but for the games that he reviewed that I showed in my video his bias pushed more of a false agenda which cause him to get things wrong. Him doing a stream about Elden ring was kinda hilarious of how much he tried to hate it and not give it a chance, ik it’s not his type of game but they way he treated his audience who were trying to help him have a better experience all because of a game he didn’t like is shitty No Mayo isn’t cool or different or considered "incompetent" by him being against popular opinion, he’s criticized because he gets stuff objectively wrong about games and has shown hypocrisy in his reviews. The gameplay I chose here was the most recent gameplay I found and put it in the bg, sorry it’s not some underground indie game that max 10 people know, this also has nothing to do with my points. Matter fact the rest of the comment is you venting about how games are now and idgaf bout that

[@TylerMBuller12]

Elden Ring is like the Eminem of gaming. You can't say anything bad about it without a mob attacking you. I don't know if he actually made a review of elden ring or not but if it's just a live stream he is allowed to express his displeasure of the game that's his honest live reaction. Ya he was a little harsh to his audience that's true but a lot of streamers don't like back seat gamers. I did watch that live stream and everyone knew going in he didn't like that type of game. We were there to watch him rage it's not even a review to begin with. I don't even think he ever reviewed the game and if he did he probably clarified he doesn't like souls type games which I know I've heard him say before. I'm not saying all mainstream games are terrible I think alot of the games I play are pretty mainstream even the indie ones are generally well known. But I don't think someone's opinion is invalid because I disagree with it. Like what criticism did he have that invalidates anything? He stated he doesn't like those type of games. Is anyone taking his opinion on that serious that likes souls games? It's impossible to be unbiased in any review we all have our own experiences that form our opinions. The only reason someone shouldn't be taken serious is if they are paid off in some way by the company making the game like most large reviewers or if you just in general don't agree with the majority of what they say. I feel like making educated purchasing decisions really comes down to finding content creators you like with similar views on games. Your not going to find me subbed to skill up or dreamcast guy because all those guys do is shill for games that I don't even like. I mean way even watch under the mayo if you don't like the games he plays and likes? He's not going to shill dark souls games because he doesn't like them and stands by his point. He could of shilled for the game but didn't because he stands by what he says. @@fmbloo

[@fmbloo]

@@TylerMBuller12 I didn’t say he teviewed Elden ring the point I had with him was contributing to his bias factor, case in point a little harsh is kind of a tame way to put it. He was screaming and swearing at his audience who was trying to help him figure out the most basic things. Especially when he started complaining about what to do in the first part even though it was right in front of him. And like I said again, bias is contributed to every review (I said this in the video) however if you have too much bias it can make you have things about game’s objectively wrong which he has done. That’s why people made videos about him, not because they disagree over an opinion, but he gets things blatantly wrong and acted arrogant when confronted about it

[@ExpertContrarian]

5:06 you’re not making any sense. You can’t even formulate a coherent sentence. You have no professionalism.

[@fmbloo]

I said that I feel like UDM likes the instructions 2 games handed to him, a fifth grader would understand this. Hope this helps 👍🏽

[@ExpertContrarian]

@@fmbloo there you go being unprofessional again. Go back to school and learn how to speak properly.

[@fmbloo]

@@ExpertContrarian gang I explained to you what you didn’t understand I’m not gonna talk like a gentleman after you insulted me 💀

[@ExpertContrarian]

@@fmbloo LMAO you can’t even handle a simple critique. Man, you love to nitpick and get triggered.

[@93836]

You sound like you have the education level of about a 16-year-old. It’s crystal clear in the way you put sentences and ideas together that you’re in absolutely no place to be judging anybody as intelligent as Mayo. Compose a strong, persuasive argument first, then the words you say will actually carry some weight. I would recommend you start with something like enrolling in a university. You can literally take courses on logic and argument formulation. That’s obviously something that interests you. But there are levels to it. And it’s an interesting and unfortunate phenomenon that people who are fairly low-level communicators, ironically they typically lack the ability to recognize it. And, lack the ability to recognize just how much higher another individual’s communication and argument skills are relative to themself.

[@fmbloo]

Calling someone out for low education while saying Mayo is intelligent is top tier glazing btw. If I’m so wrong, prove my points wrong I bet you can’t

[@soyuntomate6435]

"As intelligent as Mayo" Bro, are you simping over Mayo 💀

[@netslamders6803]

Ah yes. He is terrible at being the thing he has repeatedly said he isn't. Good job guys

[@fmbloo]

he is a gaming reviewer by definition and by looking at his content for more than 5 seconds, he's being more of youtuber who makes vids on mechianics (and less terrible takes) now then when i made this video

[@netslamders6803]

@@fmbloo I feel like even his videos from the time this was uploaded weren't really reviews. Reviews, to me, are made with the express purpose of giving people an unbiased description of a game (even though it's impossible to be completely unbiased when talking about the creative industries). This is done to give people looking into the game a better insight as to whether they should buy it or not. I feel like, even back then, Mayo understood that the core appeal of his videos is that he doesn't attempt to hide his biases, and instead takes advantage of then by giving unique perspectives on things. If he was simply another review channel and not what he is and has been for years, he wouldn't be as talked about or controversial as he is. As an example, Mayo's GOW video was made like 2 years after the game came out or something, by which time the majority of people that would have been on the fence about buying it when it came out probably would've made a decision already. He makes it clear that he is incredibly biased towards the OG God of War games, so that you know his background going into the video (why would a 'review' make such a big deal about the reviewers personal experience with a franchise?). He then goes through the game in the order that it plays out and, rather than saying his evaluated, considered take on the events of the game, relays his unfiltered thought process when he reached that point in his first playthrough. This to me isn't a review. And if I don't think his videos are reviews, and he doesn't think his videos are reviews, then I'd say his videos aren't reviews.

[@fmbloo]

@@netslamders6803 regardless if you think he isn’t a reviewer, it still doesn’t excuse him blatantly missing a major point of a game or making fun of stuff that a game uses while praising another game that has the exact same thing, and him being stubborn to his own audience when they correct him

[@netslamders6803]

@@fmbloothe entire section on nitpicking is about how it ruins the integrity of an unbiased review. His videos not being reviews competely undoes that entire portion of the video, so I think that it isn't competely irrelevant to what you're taking about. Loads of other points in your video simply don't make sense if you actually pay attention to the things he talks about. For example: "If you're not willing to play anything other than fast-paced shooters, don't criticise slower-paced games like GOW" He isn't 'unwilling to play anything other than a fast-paced shooter' at all. He's gone on record multiple times to say his favourite game genre is survival horror (you know, fast-paced shooters like fucking resident evil and silent hill) and hes made videos taking about how much he likes Slay the Spire, Braid, Celeste, Duskers and Into the Breach. Hell, his most viewed video is a praise-heavy rundown of his experience with fucking Papers Please. Even if he only played fast-paced fps games, ok???? Why does that make his experiences with GOW any less valid than yours, especially when he fell in love with the original God of War games as a kid and would naturally want to talk about the new one. "Just because Mayo didn't know where to go in Elden Ring, that means it's a bad game according to him" Literally not true. Hes said multiple times that he doesn't think soulslike games are bad, in fact he thinks Elden Ring is a good game but its just not for him. He doesn't think GOW is bad either, he even put it in his 'best games he played in 2020' video. Super Metroid is my favourite game of all time and he doesn't like metroidvania games at all, but it's fine because he never at any point says I'm dumb for liking the things he doesn't; in fact he's incredibly open to recommending metroidvania games he doesn't like such as Blasphemous and The Messenger because he knows that people like them even though he doesnt. "His charity stream was for a ps5 he'd use to play a game he knew he wouldn't like" You mean GOW Ragnarok? The game he said in a post he was excited and optimistic about? The game that, although he had big problems with, he thought had amazing boss fights and fun combat incentives? Imagine trying to pretend you know what someones opinion on a game is before he even plays it btw. And the part about the charity stream was wrong too; the ps5 goal and the donations to charity were completely seperate from eachother and this is either an unfortunate misunderstanding on your part or a bad-faith lie to justify your point that doesn't make sense to begin with. "He should respond to videos criticising him" Why? Why should he feel obligated to make videos on people criticising him? Do you want him to make a video responding to you? I'm sure that would do wonders for your viewer count. In fact its videos like this that explain exactly why he SHOULDN'T respond, because theres nothing to them. Its like you've only used the most surface of surface-level information to form this video that all it takes to competely dismantle it is a little bit of crirical thinking and research. Everyone who makes these types of videos about Mayo are a part of a hive-mind that are only capable of repeating the same baseless arguments. "Oh he makes doom eternal videos and he uses doom eternal for examples in his videos, so doom eternal is obviously the only game hes ever played and he hates everything else" "he didn't enjoy Elden Ring or GOW, so he obviously thinks anyone who likes those games are wrong and dumb for thinking they're good" "he didn't like GOW 2018, so he obviously purposefully hated GOW ragnarok even though the game isn't even out yet". Literally all it took to disprove one of your points was to go on his videos and press the 'popular' button, that alone proves you had no intention of actually giving a fair criticism of Mayo. Its an excuse to hate on someone for having different opinions on a game to you. That all there is to it and you know it

[@fmbloo]

The nitpicking point has been explained countless times but one in particular that I mentioned in the video was him questioning why Kratos swinging his axe into a tree wasn’t a cut scene and talking about the most minor things, those are nitpicks and he does this a lot, over time I’ve realized that I didn’t go in depth into my points as I should’ve, there are better videos talking about how nitpicky he can be towards games. I don’t get how him liking survival horror games more disproves my point, in both gow and Elden ring games he talks about stuff that makes the game "slower" which again many people in longer videos talked about. And also I never said that his experience in gow is less valid? Not sure how you got that, I said that he obv likes faster paced games and gow in comparison and I get that but making hour long video on how it ruins gow and blatantly gets things wrong with the story and mechanics makes it seem that he didn’t even give it a chance. Ik he didn’t call it as a bad game (even tho he’s been throwing shots at it a lot) but his Elden ring contributes to 2 things, that he doesn’t like slower games, and his unrightfull behavior towards his own fans (outright cursing and banning his fans, which you seem to leave out) No the game that he wouldn’t like was Elden ring? Because like YOU point out that he doesn’t like the souls game so he would livestream it, also I used the ps5 as a short joke that was used less than a second. As a didn’t have enough of an opinion on his ps5 shit, however I would watch other vids about his stream to get a full opinion. And of course your gonna use my video to generalize everyone else’s video when we all have very different points and very different games, you obviously haven’t seen enough criticism on Mayo because they’re way more games that he’s been criticized for getting wrong for the reasons that I stated in this video. And also yes I did give him a change l, just like him with gow, I also watched his content until I realized that his points didn’t make sense, had contradictions and hypocrisies, and just getting obvious things wrong. And of course you say I made this video because I disagree then him, I wouldn’t mind if someone disagreed on game opinions, but if it’s wrong it’s wrong simple

[@ExpertContrarian]

2:45 this is just such a stupid point. What you really mean is you just don’t want people to criticize things that you disagree with. The people they get upset over under the mayo seem to nitpick the most. You’re even worse than him Edit: dude REEEEEing about meat riding because he was criticized 😂

[@fmbloo]

Genuinely how did you listen to what I said in that timestamp and reach that conclusion, I said that if someone nitpicks a lot and calls it criticism makes for a bad review for any type of media. Now hop off his meat bro it’s not healthy

[@ExpertContrarian]

@@fmbloo i’m sorry that I have ears? There is no other rational conclusion to come to. It’s hilarious that you think I’m meat riding when I’m literally beefing with mayo. Y’all softies can’t handle any criticism 😂. Oh wait, sorry. I meant “nitpicks”

[@GrandRegentSScratch]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@ExpertContrarianhow can’t he handle criticism? And how is he a softie? All he did was reply to your irrelevant comment, you obviously can’t comprehend what he’s saying so you have to resort to making baseless insults to feel some sort of power, it’s pretty cringe if you ask me. Also how are you “beefing” with mayo? you literally have 0 subscribers😭😆

[@ExpertContrarian]

@@GrandRegentSScratch” all he did “ quit riding lil boy 😂

[@GrandRegentSScratch]

@@ExpertContrarian Womp Womp Lil Bro you ain’t him💀😭

[@thebigsandyrailfan]

Will FMBLOO PIN ME?

[@the_ebic_man]

yes he will

[@Garfieldloveslasagna420]

That sounds so sexual

[@fmbloo]

@@Garfieldloveslasagna420 you had to make it weird huh

[@Garfieldloveslasagna420]

@@fmbloo 😅

[@Freemanletmegetinyourway]

He fails at being a reviewer because he ISNT a reviewer, he said this multiple times

[@fmbloo]

He also says he is a reviewer multiple times, also fine even if he isn’t, he gets things in games wrong and gets stubborn when people call him out on it

[@pierrebalbin5434]

No, lol. He says repeatedly that he isn't a reviewer. He analyzes gameplay mechanics and S/Os new IPs that need exposure. I hope content creators who critique other content creators don't get monetized for those specific videos because this feels cheap. He can be a little annoying sometimes, but I'd rather follow someone I can disagree with than a people pleaser. I agree with him that pressing buttons for mild quick time events, or holding up or down to do things could be scrapped and enhance my experience overall. A good example of slow moments like that done right are probably the eye machine at the end of Dead Space 2. Very effective.

[@fmbloo]

@@pierrebalbin5434 if you watch his content. He reviews games??? Yes he talks about gameplay mechanics but that 1 has something to do in reviewing games, and 2 he also has talks about other aspects about games that contribute to a game review. Sure he says he isn’t one, but a person that reviews games for his main content is a game reviewer. And let’s say he isn’t, his gameplay mechanic analysis is flawed aswell, there’s many videos talking about it better than I could.

[@1nva0er55]

UTM's God of War review was so whiny and entitled that i laughed. "Ugh, ive to fight a troll and a dog and a bear ugh why no chicken nuggets" like holy shit, we get it, you like the old games. The old games had plenty of common enemy tactics and strategies. Minotaurs and Cyclops were damage sponges, Satyrs were agile pack hunters, etc. He never makes the point quickly, he whines and complains with that annoying ass voice and slow pace for wo long, and keeps droning on and on about himself and what he likes, and thats why his videos are so long, theyre 10 minutes of content and 50 minutes of filler.

[@1nva0er55]

UTM's God of War review was so whiny and entitled that i laughed. "Ugh, ive to fight a troll and a dog and a bear ugh why no chicken nuggets" like holy shit, we get it, you like the old games. The old games had plenty of common enemy tactics and strategies. Minotaurs and Cyclops were damage sponges, Satyrs were agile pack hunters, etc. He never makes the point quickly, he whines and complains with that annoying ass voice and slow pace for wo long, and keeps droning on and on about himself and what he likes, and thats why his videos are so long, theyre 10 minutes of content and 50 minutes of filler.

[@1nva0er55]

UTM's God of War review was so whiny and entitled that i laughed. "Ugh, ive to fight a troll and a dog and a bear ugh why no chicken nuggets" like holy shit, we get it, you like the old games. The old games had plenty of common enemy tactics and strategies. Minotaurs and Cyclops were damage sponges, Satyrs were agile pack hunters, etc. He never makes the point quickly, he whines and complains with that annoying ass voice and slow pace for wo long, and keeps droning on and on about himself and what he likes, and thats why his videos are so long, theyre 10 minutes of content and 50 minutes of filler.