Hating anything becomes a fad. Even if the founding hatred has sound reason, there will be followers whose campiness will dilute the purpose of the original hatred's purpose. Halo was immensely popular because it was a functional FPS on a console with a lot of visibility to the Western audience. The new players were amazed, the longtime FPS players smirked with amusement and agreeably passed Halo over.
Then, FPSs began to emulate Halo in a desperate attempt to make money and be popular. As Yahtzee summed it up, "Let's be like Halo." Longtime FPSers took notice and tried raising their voices, saying that now that FPSs are visible to the mainstream eye, emulating a lower common denominator was no longer necessary. Words were unheeed and tempers rose. Eventually, the campy, tribal gamers with too much free time came in, arms flailing, spamming chatspeak and expletives, becoming much louder than the FPSers, who merely wanted the variety back in their genre. Now, Halo takes as much blind hate as it does blind love from all the frat boys.
The same logic can be applied to all the hate that the Wii gets. It has a lack of core following, core gamers raise their voices. Anti-fans join the fray, mic-spamming their hatred of Nintendo as if that has anything to do with their support for their console of choice.
Playstation 3... It's widely criticized as being overpriced and with too little first-party action. Anti-fans join the fray, recycling old jokes about the ridiculousness of the existence of Old Snake and calling Heavenly Sword a watered down God of War with boobs, without having played either of them.
To answer the thread title, yes, it is a fad to hate. In fact, hate is worse... it's a spectacle which gets in the way of the real issue.
Then, FPSs began to emulate Halo in a desperate attempt to make money and be popular. As Yahtzee summed it up, "Let's be like Halo." Longtime FPSers took notice and tried raising their voices, saying that now that FPSs are visible to the mainstream eye, emulating a lower common denominator was no longer necessary. Words were unheeed and tempers rose. Eventually, the campy, tribal gamers with too much free time came in, arms flailing, spamming chatspeak and expletives, becoming much louder than the FPSers, who merely wanted the variety back in their genre. Now, Halo takes as much blind hate as it does blind love from all the frat boys.
The same logic can be applied to all the hate that the Wii gets. It has a lack of core following, core gamers raise their voices. Anti-fans join the fray, mic-spamming their hatred of Nintendo as if that has anything to do with their support for their console of choice.
Playstation 3... It's widely criticized as being overpriced and with too little first-party action. Anti-fans join the fray, recycling old jokes about the ridiculousness of the existence of Old Snake and calling Heavenly Sword a watered down God of War with boobs, without having played either of them.
To answer the thread title, yes, it is a fad to hate. In fact, hate is worse... it's a spectacle which gets in the way of the real issue.
The next poster said:
but Halo 3 was to hyped but im not actualy talking about what this topic is about so I will end this post now before I kill you all with this pointless post so sry for this pointless post, this is a good time to end it. 
