Game ruined by its fans

[kickyourass]

Well the closest I've come to having any game 'ruined' by fans is the Halo series, especially 3. I like the games, out of the ones I've played they range from pretty good to slightly above average, but fuck if I'm ever saying that in public. Sometimes I seriously feel like the only sane person who's ever played Halo, if it's not people going on insane rants about how Halo practically murdered their children with how horrible it is, it's people championing Halo as some kind of messiah in video game form.

I don't really let it affect how much I enjoy the games, but it's REALLY fucking annoying when the only person, other then myself, I know to have a middle ground opinion of the series is a foul mouthed Australian in a funny hat.

 

[Shia-Neko-Chan]

Kingdom Hearts.

Yeah, right, yaoi fangirls. Every single male in this game is gay for each other. They always have "I'm on top, no I'm on top" conversations and they're always going at it with each other. The girls in this game are an afterthought and every male in this game wants to have a giant freaking orgy with each other, and they're all extremely girly guys, because it's "cute".

Oh, and don't forget, anyone who opposes you turning characters they like and respect into one-dimensional gay characters is a homophobe. That's right, opposing the mis-portrayal of the characters they like and respect as extreme yaoi stereotypes just because you couldn't care less what their actual personality is, have an abslolute need to shoehorn homsexuality into everything, and only really care for their character design is extremely homophobic.

Ugh. I used to have to see this kind of art at least once a day, because I go to art sites and submit art to these sites every once in a while. Kingdom Hearts was hit by the yaoi fangirl stick by FAR the hardest.

 

[DanteLives]

Definitely CoD after MW1 and TF2 with all the sentry stackers.

 

[Mrmac23]

anime in general. the very reason i hate anime is because i used to be into it when i was waaaaaaaaaay younger. i was made fun of for it, and once i grew up, grew a pair, and realized what was wrong with anime; literally everyone else who was into it (or everyone most people noticed) were otakus, and even comic book nerds and geeks resent them, and thats sad.

As far as i'm aware, an Otaku is generally used to describe someone who likes anime. So you realized you didn't like anime was that you realized that everyone who liked anime... liked anime.
Er, what?

 

[mega48man]

anime in general. the very reason i hate anime is because i used to be into it when i was waaaaaaaaaay younger. i was made fun of for it, and once i grew up, grew a pair, and realized what was wrong with anime; literally everyone else who was into it (or everyone most people noticed) were otakus, and even comic book nerds and geeks resent them, and thats sad.

As far as i'm aware, an Otaku is generally used to describe someone who likes anime. So you realized you didn't like anime was that you realized that everyone who liked anime... liked anime.
Er, what?

i grew out of it, and i watched other people around me get sucked into it and become that pathetic kid with no freinds because he spends his weekends at borders in the anime/manga section (which is over now b/c borders is dead). I was being made fun of and being picked on for being a narutard, so i've steered waaaay clear of anime since a little before 10th grade. i'm a freshman in college now so looking back on it, abandoning anime was probably the best decision i ever made. for one thing i'm an approachable good looking guy with great fashion sense, not some kid in a yu-gi-oh shirts bought at target with his face in some FMA book. i even had a girlfriend at one point, six months, then we 'became friends' again and that took a lot out me, but i'm not gonna pour out my life's story to you.

 

[BlueSinbad]

I'd give FF6 a go if you're in to the older style of JRPGs, in regards to the whole "It's better than FF7" reasoning for giving it a go, I genuinely preferred 7 over that, and honestly, 8 over them all, but if you're interested in those types of games, give FF6 a go, it's a good game, but it just depends on your tastes.

I'm sure the game is fine by its own merits, and because it's a single-player game, when I finally do get around to it, it'll be easy for me to simply disregard how obnoxious its fans have been in my experiences with them. I do have quite a back log of games, though... quite a back log indeed. First I have to finish BioShock, then I have to burn through Final Fantasy VII, then I have to decide whether the next game I play will be Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Infamous, Lost Odyssey, or Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine.

Aahh I see that is quite the back catalog! But hey, when you do finally get through those games, if you still have it in you, I'm sure you can give FF6 a go ;P
Lost Odyssey is also pretty damn good!

 

[Idsertian]

There are multiple things wrong here

1. if someone's annoying, mute them
2. spawncamping is a strategy, and if given the opportunity you'd spawn trap too, you wouldn't back off to give the opponent the chance to gain map control
3. The only map glitch known in the game was taken off the playlists months ago
4. In terms of competitiveness Halo: Reach is actually the worst of all the Halo's. The DMR Bloom adds a random element to the game that rewards the unskilled if they spam and get lucky and it slows down the killtimes and gameplay

1. I do, frequently.
2. Spawncamping is not a strategy. It is never a strategy. It is a cheap way to "win" employed by people who can't play. It is also very, very annoying.
3. If you're referring to the ONI Facility ledge glitch, I am aware. But there are other exploits too. I am also aware they seem to have fixed the ledge glitch on another map, but I forget the name. (stock map, set in NA, suspended over the water) But there is still the odd exploit here and there, like the Living Dead playlist map that's set on top of the artificial cave in Forge world. People still manage to climb up there and camp on the cliff and on top of the structure.
4. What the dickens is DMR Bloom?

 

[genericusername64]

anyone who doesn't vote FF7 is wrong

 

[Trivea]

Final Fantasy. I do genuinely like the different gameplay mechanics and typically I'm rather fond of the stories as well as most of the characters, but the fans are just embarrassing...

And on the OP's post, the Halo fans are the main reason that I DON'T play Halo.

 

[DustyDrB]

2. spawncamping is a strategy, and if given the opportunity you'd spawn trap too, you wouldn't back off to give the opponent the chance to gain map control

Devil's advocate here. I actually also despise spawn camping and generally only play on servers (in TF2, the only game applicable to this discussion that I play) that will kick you for spawn camping. That said, you have to really fail as a team to allow spawn camping to happen. It shouldn't be so easy for the other team to gain that initial control your territory. Spawn camping is really punishing your team for that failure.

But, like I said, I hate it too. It really sucks the fun out of the experience, especially when your teammates aren't so good.

 

[Raika]

Aahh I see that is quite the back catalog! But hey, when you do finally get through those games, if you still have it in you, I'm sure you can give FF6 a go ;P
Lost Odyssey is also pretty damn good!

So I hear. I'm somewhat nervous, though, because everybody I've ever met who played it told me that it made them cry. I'm just not a crier, and I don't want to be the one emotionally detached fuckass who didn't cry at Lost Odyssey.

 

[ckam]

Call of Duty, any fighter video game, sports games ... a lot of things really.

 

[Raddra]

Its a toss up between world or warcraft and city of heroes.

Its odd but I think cit of heroes forum was the most acidic community I ever played with back in the day.

 

[Kae]

Halo because when I finally played the supposedly oh so glorious multiplayer that everyone talked so much about for years, all that happened was that I was getting killed immediately after spawning by one of my teammates with a shotgun and everyone else on the team decided it was not only hilarious but also that they should start doing it too, and no I wasn't even talking because I didn't had a mic.
I mean I still had tons of fun playing Halo 2's local multiplayer with my friends but it really made me not want to play shooters online for a while, fortunately Uncharted 2 changed my mind.

 

[Ventilator89]

I bought guild wars a couple of months ago, and im finding that the community is pretty bleh.

I stopped doing the campaign, (Got bored of it) and I just began doing PvP, mostly random arena. (I didn't really have anything to do with the community while role-playing)
Obviously, I'm not that great at random arena, but I'm not running into the enemy team and suiciding. I'm mostly just staying back and using my skills; but people were just like raging at me? Like seriously, a random arena match goes only for about a minute or something usually, and you have to go ballistic at me? Gosh, it's not a LoL game, it doesn't go on for 30 minutes.
You could tell me what I'm doing wrong? No, some people just say something on the lines of
'You suck, gtfo'
Plus, all the guilds i've joined are not that active.

Ah... raving on.... I feel so much better xD
Now that I mentioned LoL, It's community I don't really mind for some silly reason. I must be getting used to it D=

I nearly forgot Combat Arms, its community is HORRIFIC! ksers, hackers, mine blowers, people raging at you... and the blissfully ignorant Nexon... it has the lot.

 

[mezorin]

There's a few games, actually, that I cannot stand the 'fans' or 'elites' in the game. The usual suspect, the Call of Duty series gets note here. Enjoyable to play usually, except for irritating little bastards on console mics.

But the game that takes the cake for people that were just rotten bastards believe it or not was a Crysis mod called Mech Warrior: Living Legends. It is a mech warrior mod that basically makes the game into a true Mech Warrior sequel with not only mechs, but also aero space fighters, tanks, and even Long Tom artillery. Its as awesome as it sounds, and if this mod had a million people playing it, it'd be the awesomest thing ever for a mech warrior fan.

The problem is the game only runs maybe 2 or 3 servers on a given night, and all of them are full of the whiniest, bitchiest nastiest scrubs I have ever seen play a video game. Using long range, from cover missiles fired from a missile boat mech utilizing team lock ons (ie targeting lasers or NARC Beacons)? CHEAP! Using an attack VTOL or an aerospace fighter to bomb mechs from their blind spots? CHEAP! Over heating enemy mechs with a flame thrower? CHEAP! Using a mech heavier than their mech to early in the game? CHEAP! Using an anti aircraft tank to bag planes? CHEAP!


TL;DR: Mech Warrior Living Legends is intended to be played as Rockem' Sockem' Robots with even weight class mechs, or the veterans will ***** and screech you off the server.

 

[CLC Akira]

Ya, Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 2.

 

[CLC Akira]

As far as i'm aware, an Otaku is generally used to describe someone who likes anime. So you realized you didn't like anime was that you realized that everyone who liked anime... liked anime.
Er, what?[/quote]

I think you should go look up the actual definition for otaku.

 

[RatRace123]

I love the Mass Effect games and yet ever since I joined the Bioware Social Network (as a way to socialize with other fans of Ashley Williams without fear of being picked on)

Good, I knew I wasn't alone in liking Ash.

OT: This comes from experience, but the general attitude of many games' multiplayer fanbases turned me off of multiplayer. Mainly Halo, Gears and Left 4 Dead ( The latter especially stings because none of my friends have the sequel and they've grown tired of the first one. That means the only way for me to find a decent game would be to play in single player, which I don't mind, but it's quite a lot less fun; or for me to brave the Internet and hope to find a game without the dickheaded elitists or griefers ruining it. Which is extremely difficult since it seems those two make up the majority of the game's fanbase.)

I still play and enjoy single player on those games, but it's incredibly rare to catch me playing online.

 

[Sectan]

World of Warcraft. People cry about how LOLEAZYLULZ it is when someone starts talking about welfare purples, yet sit there AND PAY TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT! Shut up or cancel your subscription. You don't throw money at a chef when they keep screwing your order up and start spitting in your food.