also check my post history, or check the forum posts in general, nobody here is defending the forums or the site. Most people just want reasonable discussions, if you feel a certain way you should be able to articulate why you feel that way, I have done so, most of us have too, you just keep going all over the place and now are resorting to personal attacks.
I will clarify my position for you, then as a reasonable adult engaging in an intelligent discussion you follow up by doing the same, and we won't have any problems.
The reason I choose to read this site is because many of the writers are like me, long time life long Nintendo fans who can see that currently Nintendo is in a slump and many people are getting tired of the same old-same old, the Nintendo we grew up on was not like the Nintendo out there now. They still make great games nobody denies that, but that does not mean their games are as good as ever, or that every game they make is magically great too.
I don't like just Nintendo games so the few games that Nintendo does make that still interest me personally usually have to be pretty damn good. I can be lenient if say Sony makes a less than perfect game because they more than make up for it with other services and features and get full on third party support, value added reasons to buy their machine. With Nintendo I hold them to a higher standard, understandably so because they frigging created the standards all games are measured by, they are the standard that other companies are trying to live up to. Inevietably that means when they do something less than perfect, being a company known for being anal perfectionists, means that is going to get some attention.
I haven't played this Mario kart game but I have played enough to know that for me, having already been burned out, in order to get interested this would have to be one hell of a Mario Kart game, according to the reviews it is just another Mario Kart game so I know what to expect from it, nothing mind blowingly awesome that makes me think this is the Mario Kart to get me back into Mario Kart. I won't base my entire judgement on a single review alone, or any review at all this is the only one I read because as I stated I mostly read this site.
AS for why I read this site, to be clear, other fan sites are infested with what I call cheerleaders, people who just assume everything Nintendo does is magic and anyone who says otherwise is a hater. As someone who is not a hater I tend to take offense to being treated like **** because I might come out with a dissenting opinion, also ask around I am one of the least popular guys here so I don't think I can be accused of defending the forums either, but I can respect where they are coming from, a similar perspective as myself. Not like some other sites who just stay in a bubble where Nintendo never makes any mistakes ever. I dislike those sites, and the fans who flock to them, because it just gets boring hearing endless praises.
This is the talk back forum, which means it is reply only, so if someone, as I did, says something hastily they can not edit their post, as they often would otherwise, so I had to leave my comment there for you to see when I would have just hit edit and said something else instead.
I can tell you I am not defending Neal's review, or the reviewer himself, all I am saying is it is his fucking opinion, he has played the fucking game, YOU have not so YOU can not say it is a good game or not, and nobody is going to not buy the game based on the review of a fringe site that nobody is reading about a game on a console nobody is buying. Obviously I am over exaggerating the nobody but you can get the point, this is a friggin niche site covering a niche product that is by all accounts failing to meet expectations.