Worst Fan Base Out There

[Dragunai]

Yeah I'm Gonna hop on the Cod / Twihard band wagon.
C.o.D players cannot accept that every title since MW1 / COD4 has been a reprint of that.
Not saying its an awful game... it is... but I'm not saying that =P

I use the same call sign here that I do on XBL. I sound either British or American depending on how you hear my mixed accent (South african / middle class English) and so on yet when I played a round on MW2 once I had 2 baby gangsta kids from the USA saying "Get the fuck out of here Dragunai, you fucking Chinese bastard," before I even spoke.

I then said "And how did you discern I was Chinese exactly? OH! you looked at my name and assumed, in that case S3RG34nt D34TH SN1PEZ you must be a ranking sergeant and a well renowned Marksman... Oh you're only 12 and a try hard? Mhhmmm I am disappoint"

Also had various CoD players from the USA ragging me for being British by claiming I live in London as I live in England... guy literally said "Do you live in London" in a mocking voice then instantly dropped out the lobby.

I had 2 English chav scumbags try and fail to give me aggro by saying "Don't you think you're too old to be playing video games," to which I responded "I'm over 20 and playing an 18, I'm the target audience you failed abortion,"

Twilight fans aren't as bad. They prefer to live in the denial that Twilight is simply Romeo and Juliet rebooted with failed Vampires and a chick who is uber suicidal for no other reason than to hook in the emo crowd.

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

I will go with Naruto, bleach, and dragonball Z fanboys. They can be very obnoxious. An honorable mention goes to fanboys/girls of COD , halo, twilight, and bieber.

 

[ZRendZ]

1. Any major sports
2. Touhou (Seriously not everything has to be made into a Touhou version, and i say about a good 50% of the fan-base has never played the games and only like it because they want to f*** the characters)
3. Anime (Just most anime and those who love Anime in general) The art style isn't 'Unique' almost all anime looks the same and no matter how many times i get people recommend me their favorite anime i will still not see it as the second coming of Jesus

 

[ToxicOranges]

Oh lawd, after reading this worryingly comprehensive list of everything to hate / defend ever, I think the most annoying fanbase would have to be ALL OF US.

Seriously, we should all try and be more tolera- ah screw it. I hate Twilight. I cant tolerate that poorly written shite.

 

[KanHanderan]

CoD fans, as well as PC elitists.

 

[drakythe]

I'm going to be very broad and say any group of fans who base their opinion on ignorance. I've attempted to hold a discussion with people ranging from 10 years old to adults 10 years older than me about the merits of the PS3 over the 360 and the 360 over the PS3. Or hell, PCs over Macs and Linux, etc, etc. More than half the time all I get is crap stats and 'fanboy lines' about why X is better than Y and Z isn't even in the same ball-park. If you are unwilling to even acknowledge something could be right because it doesn't fit with the "facts" you know, then please stick to talking with other fanboys. Those of us who would like to see things improve will be having actual discussions.

 

[Iwata]

In gaming terms, JRPG fans by a wide margin. Every time I get even remotely interested in the genre, the sheer level of obnoxious behavior by the fans pushes me away once more.

You should talk about JRPGs to/with me. I'd like to think I'm not obnoxious regarding them. But YMMV.

Maybe I should! At the store I hang out in (and at Gamestop where I worked) the JRPG fans constitute most of the Yu-Gi-Oh CCG fanbase, and those two topics are all they talk about. Every time we (me and other friends) watch Youtube gameplay of non-Japanese games, we invariably have to hear about how Japanese games rock, how Western games all suck, and how fucking Naruto would do such-and-such.

Urgh...

 

[Barley Seed]

Zelda, Battlefield, Call of Duty and Final Fantasy. I find each of those to have terrible fan bases, even though I'm part of two of those groups.

Non-game fan bases, though? My Little Pony, Bieber & pretty much all those terrible emo bands fan bases are terrible.

Also stoners, if they count.

 

[Leviathan_]

Either the MLP: FiM or the Sonic fanbase.

Worthy opponents, those two.

 

[runnernda]

OT: I wouldn't exactly call it a 'fan base'; but people who only play guitar hero; CoD; and other sports games; and call themselves gamers

I'm pretty sure that being a gamer has one criterion: you play games. Guitar Hero, CoD and sports games are games, so the people who play them are gamers. Don't be elitist.

OT: The worst kind of fan bases, regardless of the sport, are the fair-weather fan bases. I'm from Philadelphia, and as much crap as we get for being terrible people, you have to admit that we're loyal. Sure, we have our share of fair-weather fans who will trickle away from the Phillies games when we start to lose, but our central fan bases is as loyal as they come. I can't stand the people who will only support their teams when they're doing well. They need your support way more when they're losing, people!

 

[Hal10k]

The Fallout fanbase is in a state of constant war that has little hope of changing, ironically enough. You either have the veteran fans who insult Bethesda for committing the cardinal sin of making a first-person, semi-real time game, or you have the people who dismiss the older games out of hand simply because they're old. The veteran fans are worse, in my opinion, probably because they've been engaging in flame wars for ten years now and they've gotten really good at it.

I always feel bad that i came in to Fallout when it turned into an FPS and i know for a fact right now i could go up to Best Buy and get both 1 and 2 for a total of 20 bucks but i am too afraid that i wont like the games. Does that make sense?

You're right to think that you might not like them. Combat is a bit clunky and procedural, the interface could be a bit better, and both games suffer from bugs. That being said, they're some of the best-written RPGs that I've ever played, with an interesting take on the "post-apocalyptic" setting and genuinely deep moral choices. I'd recommend picking them up- if you like them, great; if you don't, nobody can call your opinion wrong, and you'll at least know for yourself.

 

[TheNaut131]

You know, I'm just gonna say that any fanbase you've recognized/stood out has a problem.

 

[Nulmas]

I always feel bad that i came in to Fallout when it turned into an FPS and i know for a fact right now i could go up to Best Buy and get both 1 and 2 for a total of 20 bucks but i am too afraid that i wont like the games. Does that make sense?

Actually, I think you can get 1,2 and tactics for that price.

As for liking them, that depends... Do you like classic RPGs, like Baldur's Gate? If so, go for it.

If you've never played those kinds of games, I'd say go for it anyway... But I'm biased

If you dislike them, avoid them like the plague.

The Fallout fanbase is in a state of constant war that has little hope of changing, ironically enough. You either have the veteran fans who insult Bethesda for committing the cardinal sin of making a first-person, semi-real time game, or you have the people who dismiss the older games out of hand simply because they're old. The veteran fans are worse, in my opinion, probably because they've been engaging in flame wars for ten years now and they've gotten really good at it.

First of all, Fallout 3/New Vegas aren't semi-real time. VATS is a semi-turn based gimmick to (try to) appease the hardcore veteran fans.

I'm an old-time Fallout fans and most of my experiences indicate that the gripe most old-school Fallout fans have with Bethesda has less to do with FO3 being first person and more to do with the lack of Fallouty feel in the game. That and the way they pictured the BoS, the slight retcon to the Enclave and FEV, etc... Oh, and the lack of real consequences in the game, the moronic ending, etc.

But, I agree with you on one point: The Fallout fan base is pretty annoying. Just ask J E Sawyer back when he was working on Van Buren (the original FO3)

 

[Darkwhite]

The most ill-mannered, annoying group of fans out there are those people who are fans of soccer. Doesn't matter which team. All of them are like this when it comes to it.

People who use are fans of red coloured text are the most annoying fan base. (Really, why use a light colour on a light colour? You're killing me here)

Seriously though, soccer? Well over half my friends are fans of soccer, and none of them are ill mannared, nor annoying. That's a fairly incredible generalisation.

I'd say dreamtheater fans are quite annoying. I know they are a good band, I know they are talented musicians, but that doesn't give you a license to run around interjecting dreamtheater into conversations with the most tenuous of links.

Football violence doesn't seem so bad in the USA, mostly its the Europeans, i'm from England and a Local Derby normally ends in a couple of deaths/hospitalizations (depending on the teams) The biggest problem is the football "firms"

 

[Stalydan]

Some honorable mentions go to:
My Little Pony
World of Warcraft
Xbox 360
Bieber

But the winners (or losers) are Deviant Art users. The sheer self indulgent idiocy I've witnessed there is second to none. And it's freaking everywhere! Not to mention the images that get put up there...

I could go on but I have stuff to do.

A shout out to the Diablo 3 fan base for being the angriest.

Ouch, I used dA. Love it, great way for me and my friends just to have a laugh and share our imaginations with each other
Plus, I like the gallery system. I draw but I mainly write so it's just a good place to post both of them without the hassle of posting links to loads of different sites.

 

[Ickorus]

Pop stars: Justin Bieber fans. (I think everyone can agree with me here, these guys treat him like the second coming of Jesus)

Books: Twilight fans. (Look at this fucking letter [http://www.latinoreview.com/news/taylor-lautner-fan-letter-to-universal-your-wolfman-ripped-off-twilight-9247#idc-cover], LOOK AT IT)

Games: CoD fans. (I refer you to this [http://www.ubercharged.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/1258035395841.jpg] now famous screenshot.)

Developer: Valve fans. (I am a fan of Valve but dear god sometimes I am ashamed of the other people who share that title)

Console: All of them. (All console fans[footnote]I won't say fanboys because I know plenty of girls also play games now, they just hide to avoid shit like TITS OR GTFO and other equally juvenile crap.[/footnote] suck equally, it's a platform to play games on, stop acting like yours is better than everyone elses)

Forums: 4Chan fans. (Fuck off, seriously)

 

[praygon]

Football(soccer) extreame fanboys and by extream i mean the people who would without a second thourght attack someone because there a fan of another team, The ones who go abroad get drunk and end up starting a miniture riot and over what kicking a ball around urghhh.

But i would like to clarify not everyone who enjoys football is a complete douche im just talking about the extreame chavy council house super fans with an average I.Q. under 50

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

This thread is filled with people who base an entire fanbase on one of their friends.

As for the question I'd have to say any fanbase.I find the CoD fanbase annoying because a lot of them seem to be critics in IGN and judge any shooter by the high standarts they think CoD is at.
I dislike the FO3 fanbase because they don't know what the original Fallouts are about and seem to be giving NV the thumbs down based on their experiences in FO3.Personally I think NV despite the bugs carried all the flair of the old Fallout and deserved better.
I dislike the Bethesda fan base in general because they shoot down every other RPG coming this year for Skyrim.
I dislike the Mario fanbase because I have to listen about how great Mario is.That could be a personal point because as a kid I never played Mario and found Sonic was a lot more fun.Also whenever I grabbed the Nintendo there was the Contra on.
I'm torn between disliking the WoW fanbase and the developers themselves.I'll go with devs as they ruined the game and fans can't be held accountable for someone listening to them whining.
I'd say the Dota fanbase but I have nothing against them.Despite the trolling,namecalling and complete intolerance to noobs.

 

[Mister Man]

I don't know because it's hard to generalize people. And often it's only the obsessed, vocal fans that makes a fanbase seem intolerable.

And a few of these seem to be from this one guy they met. Try to talk to more of the fans and I am sure that you will find someone who is sane.

 

[Rossmallo]

Runescape. Holy FUCK, Runescape. I literally think I am the ONLY person in the ENTIRE fanbase that actually like the developers anymore.