FANBASES! Do they affect you?
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PFFT! Those fanbases are mere children in the likes of the absolute worst: For you see...there is one fanbase that is hated and feared throughout the entirety of gaming culture and fandom history. The single most destructive and evil beings in all of creation that are so UTTERLY Beyond hope and more insane then even the Joker that it's a wander anyone even bothers with them anymore: The Sonic Fanbase.The Geek Lord said:
Say ANYTHING...Anything at all about any aspect of that series, and 95% of the fanbase will likely tear you to pieces for no fucking reason. That fanbase is rabid beyond all recognition, and the stuff of nightmares to boot. If there is any fanbase out there that has ruined games, it is the Sonic Fanbase.
Now if you'll excuse me, i have to hide before the sonic fans show up and flay me alive... *hides under cardboard box in corner*
While I want to say "Nah, I just ignore them", I tend to think like you, OP.
At the end of the day, I do enjoy my games regardless of their fanbase, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't want to pry some peoples eyes out at times.
I can't stand the majority of fanboys, especially when one tries to actually discuss something in a normal way. Is it THAT bad to admit that the game you love has some flaws?
I really liked FF13, but I would be a grade A retard if I said it was flawless.
At the end of the day, I do enjoy my games regardless of their fanbase, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't want to pry some peoples eyes out at times.
I can't stand the majority of fanboys, especially when one tries to actually discuss something in a normal way. Is it THAT bad to admit that the game you love has some flaws?
I really liked FF13, but I would be a grade A retard if I said it was flawless.
Yeah the sonic fanbase can be abit crazy at times, but thats partly to do with the mental torture sega have subjected their fans year after year, by promising them that each new game will be the perfect sonic game that fans haves been dreaming about. And then giving them a gamebox with a turd in it (Sonic 4 with its dodgy physics system didnt even do it right).
Add the fact that new fans have entered the ranks with each new game all with different tastes and demands and what you get is a massive clusterfuck of a fanbase
Add the fact that new fans have entered the ranks with each new game all with different tastes and demands and what you get is a massive clusterfuck of a fanbase
Only in the sense that all communities of MOBA's are absolute douchebags and make it impossible to have fun in such a game.
My most hated ones are the apologists, such as for the Metal Gear series.
Hideo Kojima has created some of the greatest games in the history of the art form but he has also been extraordinarily hackish, self-derivative and inane yet is not held to account for it. I suppose it's George Lucas syndrome.
As an MGS fanboy I don't see these apologists as true fanboys, I look on them as Star Wars fans who like the Prequel Trilogy: traitors. A real fan is truer to the vision than even the creator and is not swayed by money or imitation or need to "outdo the previous".
Hideo Kojima has created some of the greatest games in the history of the art form but he has also been extraordinarily hackish, self-derivative and inane yet is not held to account for it. I suppose it's George Lucas syndrome.
As an MGS fanboy I don't see these apologists as true fanboys, I look on them as Star Wars fans who like the Prequel Trilogy: traitors. A real fan is truer to the vision than even the creator and is not swayed by money or imitation or need to "outdo the previous".
I can understand the hate of twilight, they have turned popular culture impression of vampires from badass creatures of the night into emo pussy-whipped douche-bags.nbamaniac said:
But Justin Beiber? Child pop singers have NEVER had a good reputation, there is no reason to like Beiber but no reason to hate him either, he is a complete non-factor.
I,m afraid I might get mistaken for a weeabo,manchild or wapanese when I tell people I like anime.
I don,t mind game fanbases that much maybe COD,s for indirectly causing the stagnation of FPS industry.
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I also hate anything that has a insane fanbase (Twilight,Justin Bieber,ICP etc.) just because they mostly have a like-it-or-die mentality.
luckily I never ran into them!
I don,t mind game fanbases that much maybe COD,s for indirectly causing the stagnation of FPS industry.
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I also hate anything that has a insane fanbase (Twilight,Justin Bieber,ICP etc.) just because they mostly have a like-it-or-die mentality.
luckily I never ran into them!
Not at all, at least not for single player games[footnote]With the success of multiplayer games being directly dependent on how other players act, they are a relevant factor there.[/footnote].
If the fan base - or some part of it - is good, join up for the bonus of being able to discuss the game with, and get input on it from, others. If it isn't, then ignore it and simply enjoy the game on in its own merits.
What could be more illogical than letting people you dislike determine what you can like yourself?
If the fan base - or some part of it - is good, join up for the bonus of being able to discuss the game with, and get input on it from, others. If it isn't, then ignore it and simply enjoy the game on in its own merits.
What could be more illogical than letting people you dislike determine what you can like yourself?
Apple fanbase =
Dear god where do i start ..
I own a iphone but i really dont see why everyone that owns one used to preted they invented hot water... like apple never made anything bad. Those commercials and people quote them Oo
this is a breed i hate most... the brainwashed kind.
Talked to a Apple genuis (go figure calling someone that works in a apple store and doesn't manage a genuis XD )and its like talking to a propaganda machine.
And the claiming of things... look the sony vaio now has a apple keyboard.
No sony designed it for apple you twit.
Halo Fanbase =
Same thing really, this is not the best shooter ever made ....
get over it, it did not invent the shooter wheel.
Hey they might be awesome games, but i can't get into them anymore because of all
the bad feedback from fanboys over the year
(I use halo 3 discs at home as drink coasters)
You have no idea how bad that pisses people off
The anti sony people
It took me nearly 3,5 years to get an xbox 360
because of all the pro xbox people talking shit.
all the blind hate against sony lately i recently bought myself a new psp and ps3
so yes they in that way have affected me.
they are a corporation, they fuck up ... get over it
Dear god where do i start ..
I own a iphone but i really dont see why everyone that owns one used to preted they invented hot water... like apple never made anything bad. Those commercials and people quote them Oo
this is a breed i hate most... the brainwashed kind.
Talked to a Apple genuis (go figure calling someone that works in a apple store and doesn't manage a genuis XD )and its like talking to a propaganda machine.
And the claiming of things... look the sony vaio now has a apple keyboard.
No sony designed it for apple you twit.
Halo Fanbase =
Same thing really, this is not the best shooter ever made ....
get over it, it did not invent the shooter wheel.
Hey they might be awesome games, but i can't get into them anymore because of all
the bad feedback from fanboys over the year
(I use halo 3 discs at home as drink coasters)
You have no idea how bad that pisses people off
The anti sony people
It took me nearly 3,5 years to get an xbox 360
because of all the pro xbox people talking shit.
all the blind hate against sony lately i recently bought myself a new psp and ps3
so yes they in that way have affected me.
they are a corporation, they fuck up ... get over it
Ive adopted the idea of rating a game on how good it is and not compared to the past installment in the series, like what most people don't notice about comparing oblivion to marrowind. Oblivion was a launch title. We were lucky it was as good as it was.
but anywho on topic yes the fanbase ruins my experience alot. When i was shopping for a new console i was tied between PS3 and 360 and well the PS3 users were d bags and only bashed the 360 where as 360 users told me the ups and downs so i bought a 360 also i can't stand the cod fan base who cant let any flipping be different. They want every FPS to be just like COD. See battlefield bad company 2 for reference.
but anywho on topic yes the fanbase ruins my experience alot. When i was shopping for a new console i was tied between PS3 and 360 and well the PS3 users were d bags and only bashed the 360 where as 360 users told me the ups and downs so i bought a 360 also i can't stand the cod fan base who cant let any flipping be different. They want every FPS to be just like COD. See battlefield bad company 2 for reference.
But they are fans of something so trivial and irrelevant, who could care about child pop singers or even who cares about said singers?nbamaniac said:Look at my prev post. It clearly states my extreme hatred for the fanbases (I don't really hate the kid that much either). They are essentially douches, yeah I could ignore them but it takes a lot of willpower. >Treblaine said:
It's not like he's replaced anything nor stealing any limelight.
Or is there something about Beiber fans I've not heard about because what I see way WAY more often is Beiber haters. I've got no real objection to that except it seems out of all proportion, he isn't destroying music or the industry any more than any of his predecessors. In fact most of the hate seems to be directed exclusively at beiber, I remember seeing a top rated comment on youtube:
"The dislike bar is like Justin Beiber's penis, it's small but it really shouldn't be there"
(300 thumbs up)
So you're teasing a boy for having a small penis and saying he really should be completely dickless. I'd say this is where the haters go too far.
I mean Twi-hards are ridiculously retarded (the whole Wolfman ripped off new moon story) but I've never heard anything from Beiber fans. Got any good examples of lameless?
It's a neutral term.SvenBTB said:
The word "fan" alone doesn't have much meaning, people can be "a fan" of lots of things but not really care much about it. For example people say they are a fan of the James Bond movies yet they admit they haven't even seen more than half of them all the way through.
So fanboy for something, you're very keen for something and have AN OPINION on it.
Yeah, the implication of bias is definitely there but if you can call yourself a fanboy and admit that bias, doesn't that do a lot to diffuse it? The problem with bias is when it is hidden and unacknowledged.
True fanboys have PASSION. That means when it is good they LOOOVE IT! and when it is bad THEY RAAEEGE!! Fanboys who only love and covet their hate are, well, how would I distinguish them.
I call them apologists, they make excuses for shortcomings and prevent the thing we love being as good as we expect it to be. They are enablers of artists turning to trash.
Now I'm a mere fan of the Halo series, but not a fanboy. That is I played every game but never really loved its best bits and didn't really care when it fell short.
I have always found Halo-haters more irritating than the Halo-fans, because of the fact that they are apparently ALWAYS whineing about it. That is not to say that there is not irritating Halo-fans.
Back to fanbases, in my opinion the most irritating fanbase is whiteout a doubt the Apple-fans. Where do I even start, I have met so many off them who belive that they should act like a-holes to all who own a pc, a mp3 or a cellphone that is not made by Apple. And when they have to use a pc they are always whineing about it and how everything is better on the mac. And as soon as anyone says anything negative about Apple, they seem to fall into some sort of religous frenzy who puts the crusades in shame.
Back to fanbases, in my opinion the most irritating fanbase is whiteout a doubt the Apple-fans. Where do I even start, I have met so many off them who belive that they should act like a-holes to all who own a pc, a mp3 or a cellphone that is not made by Apple. And when they have to use a pc they are always whineing about it and how everything is better on the mac. And as soon as anyone says anything negative about Apple, they seem to fall into some sort of religous frenzy who puts the crusades in shame.