History YMMV / ScrewAttack

** Craig's podcast on the [=ScrewAttack=] brand shutting down in April 2019. Especially the moment when Nick called in to say thanks for the opportunity and that the job boosted his self-confidence.

* InternetBackdraft:
** They put ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' on their Top Ten Worst 2D to 3D games. Considering the then-recent cancellation of ''Mega Man Legends 3'', people... Weren't pleased. Now It should be pointed out that [=ScrewAttack=] made that particular list back in 2007, four years before ''Mega Man Legends 3'' was cancelled. Still even before the video was rereleased fans were also frustrated with Screwattack for exaggerating the game's flaws and writing it off just for being different from previous Megaman games.
** They also put ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' on the Top Ten Worst Water Levels, citing the entire game (Nervous Nick ''did'' lampshade the CultClassic status, particularly for the sequels), and [[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Hydro City]].
** ''Top 10 [=GameCube=] Games'' is often regarded as one of [=ScrewAttack's=] worst lists for many reasons, primarily for unfairly bashing games like ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''.

* ReplacementScrappy: Some saw Destin as this when he made his debut shortly after Handsome Tom left the site. Notably the Video Game Vaults and Top 10s featuring Destin were amongst the lowest rated of the [=ScrewAttack=] videos on the late [=GameTrailers.com=].

* EightPointEight: Their VG Vault of an ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' game was criticized by non-Americans. [[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/710977.html The response video]] also states criticizing [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball soccer]] has a bad response outside America too.

* JumpedTheShark: Though [=ScrewAttack=] still has some popularity, a majority of fans agree this happened at some point. There is debate on when, though the consensus is that it was around when ''Death Battle'' got really popular.

* ReplacementScrappy:
** Some saw Destin as this when he made his debut shortly after Handsome Tom left the site. Notably the Video Game Vaults and Top 10s featuring Destin were amongst the lowest rated of the [=ScrewAttack=] videos on the late [=GameTrailers.com=].
** Averted with Nervous Nick who seemed popular with the users on [=GameTrailers.com=] and did the video game vaults and the top ten videos regularly with Craig.

** They put ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' on their Top Ten Worst 2D to 3D games. Considering the then-recent cancellation of ''Mega Man Legends 3'', people... Weren't pleased.
*** It should be pointed out that [=ScrewAttack=] made that particular list back in 2007, four years before ''Mega Man Legends 3'' was cancelled.

** ''Top 10 [=GameCube=] Games'' is often regarded as one of [=ScrewAttack's=] worst non-comedic lists for many reasons, primarily for unfairly bashing games like ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''.
* JumpedTheShark: Though [=ScrewAttack=] still has some popularity, a majority of fans agree this happened at some point. There is debate on when, though the consensus is that it was around when ''Death Battle'' got popular.

** As of October 10, 2016 basically all non-''Death Battle'' content has been stopped for good, the only exception being ''Top Ten'' (which is widening its focus to more than just gaming). Craig, Shaun, Bryan and Parker have have formed a separate channel, [[https://youtube.com/user/GameAttack Game Attack]], that will focus on gaming content and a podcast, hopefully allowing the gaming content to find an audience outside both the g1's (who are the vocal minority these days under all the Website/YouTube traffic) and the Website/YouTube-born ''Death Battle'' audience (who are notoriously unreceptive to non-''Death Battle'' content). [=ScrewAttack=] programming now consists of ''Death Battle'', ''DBX'', Desk of Death Battle'', ''Death Battle Cast'', and ''[[TheArtifact Top Tens]]''. To top it off, between mid-December and New Years Eve 2018, Top Tens (along with host Nick Cramer) have been moved to the Rooster Teeth channel ''The Know''. It's now all ''Death Battle'' all the time.

* ArchivePanic: While none of the "Video Game Vault"s are very long (2 minutes at ''most''), there are hundreds of them, which have been running since 2006. And there are ''tons'' of Top Ten lists. And that's not even getting into Death Battle.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: One clip of the week featured Stuttering Craig singing the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' theme song. But with new lyrics related to ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty''.

* FriendlyFandoms: With Creator/RoosterTeeth, due to both being gaming related companies based out of Texas who produce original shows and hold their own conventions. It also helps that they're both owned by Fullscreen, and in November 2015 [=ScrewAttack=] became a division of Rooster Teeth itself. Although not all people like this change. See They Changed It Now It Suck below.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Go listen to the "Corey's Secret Boyfriend" podcast. Her reaction as the tale of how she unwittingly seduced some poor nerd & accidentally agreed to go on a date with him before ''realising this in the middle of the night'' and breaking up with him the next day is only made less funny by the fact that it was only an audio podcast.

* GrowingTheBeard: The general consensus is that after the founders of WebVideo/TheGameHeroes left the site caused this - The vacancies left by the more subdued Handsome Tom & Perfect Liz were eventually filled by [[DeadpanSnarker Daily Destin]] & [[TheChick Maxifent Corey]], whilst [[TokenMinority Jose El Mexicano]], [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} High School Ben]] & [[ButtMonkey Nervous Nick]] took more prominent roles in the site. The biggest change was in the Clip Of The Week, as they went from small skits, to full-on productions at times.

* InternetBackdraft: They put ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' on their Top Ten Worst 2D to 3D games. Considering the then-recent cancellation of ''Mega Man Legends 3'', people... Weren't pleased.
** It should be pointed out that Screwattack made that particular list back in 2007, four years before ''Mega Man Legends 3'' was cancelled.

** ''Top 10 Gamecube Games'' is often regarded as one of Screwattack's worst non-comedic lists for many reasons, primarily for unfairly bashing games like ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''.
* JumpedTheShark: Though Screwattack still has some popularity, a majority of fans agree this happened at some point. There is debate on when, though the consensus is that it was around when Death Battle got popular.
* JustHereForGodzilla: Death Battle is the most popular features on the site, to the point where they people asking about it and giving suggestions for potential death battles in the comment section of other features.

* ReplacementScrappy: Some saw Destin as this when he made his debut shortly after Handsome Tom left the site. Notably the Video Game Vaults and Top 10s featuring Destin are amongst the lowest rated of the Screwattack videos on [=GameTrailers.com=].
** Averted with Nervous Nick who seems popular with the users on [=GameTrailers.com=] and does the video game vaults and the top ten videos regularly with Craig.

** As of 10/10/16 basically all non-Death Battle content has been stopped for good, the only exception being Top Ten (which is widening its focus to more than just gaming). Craig, Shaun, Bryan and Parker have have formed a separate channel, [[https://youtube.com/user/GameAttack Game Attack]], that will focus on gaming content and a podcast, hopefully allowing the gaming content to find an audience outside both the g1's (who are the vocal minority these days under all the Website/YouTube traffic) and the Website/YouTube-born Death Battle audience (who are notoriously unreceptive to non-Death Battle content). [=ScrewAttack=] programming now consists of Death Battle, DBX, Desk Of Death Battle, Death Battle Cast, and [[TheArtifact Top Tens]]. To top it off, between mid-December and New Years Eve 2018, Top Tens (along with host Nick Cramer) will be moved to the Rooster Teet channel ''The Know''. It's all Death Battle all the time.

** As of 10/10/16 basically all non-Death Battle content has been stopped for good, the only exception being Top Ten (which is widening its focus to more than just gaming). Craig, Shaun, Bryan and Parker have have formed a separate channel, [[https://youtube.com/user/GameAttack Game Attack]], that will focus on gaming content and a podcast, hopefully allowing the gaming content to find an audience outside both the g1's (who are the vocal minority these days under all the YouTube traffic) and the YouTube-born Death Battle audience (who are notoriously unreceptive to non-Death Battle content). [=ScrewAttack=] programming now consists of Death Battle, DBX, Desk Of Death Battle, Death Battle Cast, and [[TheArtifact Top Tens]]. To top it off, between mid-December and New Years Eve 2018, Top Tens (along with host Nick Cramer) will be moved to the Rooster Teet channel ''The Know''. It's all Death Battle all the time.

** As of 10/10/16 basically all non-Death Battle content has been stopped for good, the only exception being Top Ten (which is widening its focus to more than just gaming). Craig, Shaun, Bryan and Parker have have formed a separate channel, [[https://youtube.com/user/GameAttack Game Attack]], that will focus on gaming content and a podcast, hopefully allowing the gaming content to find an audience outside both the g1's (who are the vocal minority these days under all the YouTube traffic) and the YouTube-born Death Battle audience (who are notoriously unreceptive to non-Death Battle content). [=ScrewAttack=] programming now consists of Death Battle, DBX, Desk Of Death Battle, Death Battle Cast, and [[TheArtifact Top Tens]].

* HypeBacklash: The initial announcement of SGC was one, as the site hyped TheReveal to an insane amount. When it was revealed that it was effectively just a rebranding & upscaling of the site's "Iron Man of Gaming" tournament, people were pissed that after all the hype, it was for something that meant nothing to them as they wouldn't be able to get to SGC.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** While talking about ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur II]]'' in their "Top Ten Gamecube Games" video, which they put on the list due to having [[Franchise/TheLegendofZelda Link]] as a playable character, they state that his Legendary Weapon, the Great Fairy Sword, was a weapon exclusive to that game. That sword was actually obtainable in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' as a reward after collecting all of the stray fairies in the Stone Temple.

** As of 10/10/16 basically all non-Death Battle content has been stopped for good, the only exception being Top Ten (which is widening its focus to more than just gaming). Craig, Shaun, Bryan and Parker have have formed a separate channel, [[https://youtube.com/user/GameAttack Game Attack]], that will focus on gaming content and a podcast, hopefully allowing the gaming content to find an audience outside both the g1's (who are the vocal minority these days under all the YouTube traffic) and the YouTube-born Death Battle audience (who are notoriously unreceptive to non-Death Battle content). [=ScrewAttack=] programming now consists of Death Battle, DBX, Desk Of Death Battle, an upcoming Death Battle based podcast, and [[TheArtifact Top Tens]].

* SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}: The terminally ill g1 whose MakeAWish [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment wish]] was to spend one day at the HQ with the crew. They let him, and appeared on pretty much every feature on the site, he even hosted Hard News and ''[[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow saw under Craig's hat]]''. If that's not the greatest SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} in the entirety of the internet, then I don't know what is.

** In their top ten worst Mario games list, they claimed the US Super Mario Bros. 2 was put on the list simply because it was a dolled up installment based on ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic'', and not a real Mario game. A 2011 interview with Nintendo revealed that Doki Doki Panic did in fact start as an early prototype for a Mario sequel, before becoming Doki Doki Panic, which in turn was turned into the Us Mario 2.

* TearJerker: Jared anouncing his departure from the site on the October 1st, 2012 edition of ''Hard News''. No fanfare leading up to it, and no "At the end of this week[=/=]month..." in the anouncement, just Jared simply stating that he was no longer part of the team, effective immediately. The main reason that Jared was fired was due to him starting to focus more on his own projects over his work at ScrewAttack, causing him and Craig to talk about it, and both of them agreeing that it was time for Jared to move on from ScrewAttack.

** As of 10/10/16 basically all non-Death Battle content has been stopped for good, the only exception being Top Ten (which is widening its focus to more than just gaming). Craig, Shaun, Bryan and Parker have have formed a separate channel, [[https://youtube.com/user/GameAttack Game Attack]], that will focus on gaming content and a podcast, hopefully allowing the gaming content to find an audience outside both the g1's (who are the vocal minority these days under all the YouTube traffic) and the YouTube-born Death Battle audience (who are notoriously unreceptive to non-Death Battle content). ScrewAttack programming now consists of Death Battle, DBX, Desk Of Death Battle, an upcoming Death Battle based podcast, and [[TheArtifact Top Tens]].

** While talking about ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur II]]'' in their "Top Ten Gamecube Games" video, which they put on the list due to having [[Franchise/TheLegendofZelda Link]] as a playable character, they state that his Legendary Weapon, the Great Fairy Sword, was a weapon exclusive to that game. That sword was actually a obtainable in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' as a reward after collecting all of the stray fairies in the Stone Temple.

* FriendlyFandoms: With Creator/RoosterTeeth, due to both being gaming related companies based out of Texas who produce original shows and hold their own conventions. It also helps that they're both owned by Fullscreen, and in November 2015 allowed [=ScrewAttack=] to become a division of Rooster Teeth. Although not all people like this change. See They Changed It Now It Suck below.

** At the beginning of 2010 they released a video stating that VideoGame/DukeNukemForever would get a release date, [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS Nintendo would try out 3D again,]] there would be a new [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Kid Icarus game]] announced (Albeit, for the Wii, not the DS), and the [[http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/consoles/xbox-360-4gb-console/78479 360 would be slimmed down.]] Scary isn't it? Made even scarier by the fact that there was actually a Kid Icarus game in development for the Wii, but it got cancelled.

** As of 10/10/16 basically all non-Death Battle content has been stopped to good, the only exception being Top Ten (which is widen its focus to more than just gaming). Craig, Shaun, Bryan and Parker have have formed a separate channel, Game Attack, that will focus on gaming content and a podcast, hopefully allowing the gaming content to find an audience outside both the g1's (who are the vocal minority these days under all the YouTube traffic) and the YouTube-born Death Battle audience (who are notoriously unreceptive to non-Death Battle content). ScrewAttack programming now consists of Death Battle, DBX, Desk Of Death Battle, an upcoming Death Battle based podcast, and [[TheArtifact Top Tens]].

** [=ScrewAttack=] nowadays has stopped doing Hard News, Video Game Vault, and Screwin' Around to focus on Death Battle as their bread and butter. While Top 10 videos still trickle in, even supplemented by the Top X Reasons We Love/Hate series, Hard News, Video Game Vault, and Screwin' Around all grinded to a halt in mid 2014. This is mainly due to them being bought and acquired by a company which owned Rooster Teeth. Seeing as Rooster Teeth's version of Hard News has more views, and moving Hard News from [=ScrewAttack=] to gauge its popularity, it's safe to say that Hard News is down for good. As to whether or not this was a wise choice is up to debate, but business is business.

* FriendlyFandoms: With Creator/RoosterTeeth, due to both being gaming related companies based out of Texas who produce original shows and hold their own conventions. It also helps that they're both owned by Fullscreen, and in November 2015 allowed [=ScrewAttack=] to become a division of Rooster Teeth.

** One of [=ScrewAttack=]'s partners is {{Brentalfloss}}, whose "WithLyrics" videos are definitely SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic.

** Handsome Tom & 8-Bit Mickey ([[http://thatguywiththeglasses.wikia.com/wiki/Game_Heroes currently on]] ChannelAwesome) left the site in early 2008.
** Members of the SA Community from that time period would also recognise {{Marzgurl}}, TheChickWithTheGoggles, Lee from Still Gaming and Benzaie as members of the community.

** At the beginning of 2010 they released a video stating that VideoGame/DukeNukemForever would get a release date, [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS Nintendo would try out 3D again,]] there would be a new [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Kid Icarus game]] announced (Albeit, for the Wii, not the DS), and the [[http://www.gamestop.com/xbox-360/consoles/xbox-360-4gb-console/78479 360 would be slimmed down.]] Scary isn't it?

* SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}: The terminally ill [[OnlineCommunity g1]] whose MakeAWish [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment wish]] was to spend one day at the HQ with the crew. They let him, and appeared on pretty much every feature on the site, he even hosted Hard News and ''[[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow saw under Craig's hat]]''. If that's not the greatest SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} in the entirety of the internet, then I don't know what is.

* EightPointEight: Their VG Vault of an ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' game was criticized by non-Americans. [[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/710977.html The response video]] also states criticizing [[TheBeautifulGame soccer]] has a bad response outside America too.