I'm not insulting Super Smash Bros. as a whole, just Smash 4 and Ultimate here.
I mispelled 'toddler'. The insult is supposed to be "roster-toddler", abbreviated to "rost-toddler".
It's a nonce word that mimics the more common and unrelated insult, "nintoddler".
I've directed this at people who care more about the characters that will be introduced into the game above all else,
including the gameplay itself, which is a childish way of viewing its quality. Hence "roster toddler".
It's not directed at people who defend the game in general, but I've yet to see any convincing defense of
the changes to the game's mechanics relative to the series's previous entries.
when it has not been released yet.
This has always been one of the weakest arguments of any game discussion pre-purchase-ability.
The game
is playable, and the game
is spectatable by non-players, and the mechanics
have been revealed at length.
We certainly know enough about it to discuss whether it is a good game or not, though perhaps only not definitively.
Sure, the developers could end up changing some things in the final release. But here's an example of how
weak this hope is---people thought the balloon knockback when the game was revealed during the summer
was a bug, and that Sakurai would fix it to be normal like the previous game. But lo and behold, it was 100%
intentional and will never be "fixed". Nevertheless, this didn't stop defenders from insisting that criticizers of
the game not tote this as a talking point against the game's quality before we knew the truth.
So, just because it hasn't been "released" yet doesn't mean everything that gets complained about now
won't hold true a month later.