History WebVideo / TheAngryJoeShow

** If a video game has {{Microtransactions}} of any kind, it will lose points in an Angry Review, no exceptions, ''especially'' if they charge for mundane things like a color palette. In fact, it has become a meme for Joe to freak out whenever he sees the color blue monetized in games after an egregious $100 price tag for a blue-color gun skin in ''Valorant''.

** ObviousBeta: similar to {{Microtransactions}}, if a game (especially a "live-service") has severe issues at launch involving explicit bugs/glitches, server instabilities, game crashes and inconsistent presentation/visuals[[note]]Screen-tearing, missing assets and textures, disppearing heads-up display/user interface, etc.[[/note]], Joe will take these things into account for an Angry Review and score the game for what it is at release, not for what it can/will be post-launch, even if these issues might be resolved down the line.

** If a video game has microtransactions of any kind, it will lose points. No exceptions. SPECIALLY if they charge for mundane things, like the color blue. In fact, it has become a meme for him to freak out whenever he sees the color blue monetized in games.

** For Corporate Commander, either "Don't need it!" in regards to something crucial that wasn't in the game, or "You ''need'' it!" for unwelcome additions such as microtransactions.
** "Are you out of your mind?!" for particularly [[CrackIsCheaper egregious]] microtransactions

** ObviousBeta[[invoked]]: similar to {{Microtransactions}}, if a game (especially a "live-service") has severe issues at launch involving explicit bugs/glitches, server instabilities, game crashes and inconsistent presentation/visuals[[note]]Screen-tearing, missing assets and textures, disppearing heads-up display/user interface, etc.[[/note]], Joe will take these things into account for an Angry Review and score the game for what it is at release, not for what it can/will be post-launch, even if these issues might be resolved down the line.

* ''Rise of the Ronin''

** Bad UsefulNotes/{{Kinect}} games, particularly those that require the player to lean, an action which the even the (supposedly) improved Xbox One Kinect can't pick up.

* ShownTheirWork: Joe does plenty of background research for his reviews, especially for games that are part of an existing franchise. For instance, being able to provide examples of ''The Darkness''[='=] SuperWeight despite being an obscure IP, and researching ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' enough to warn fans that ''[[VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon Assault Horizon]]'' was not a 'true' installment of the main series, despite earlier admitting he hadn't actually played any of the previous games before his review.

** ObviousBeta: similar to {{Microtransactions}}, if a game (especially a "live-service") has severe issues at launch involving explicit bugs/glitches, server instabilities, game crashes and inconsistent presentation/visuals[[note]]Screen-tearing, missing assets and textures, disppearing heads-up display/user interface, etc.[[/note]], Joe will take these things into account for an Angry Review and score the game for what it is at release, not for what it can/will be post-launch, even if these issues might be resolved down the line.

* ''[[Franchise/{{Avatar}} Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora]]''