Fanboys in Real Life

[Bullfrog1983]

He wouldn't listen and still thought that FF12 (sucked), so I asked him what he thought of Basch, since I thought he was a cool character. He didn't know who I was talking about, then I realized I was dealing with a fanboy if he barely played the game.

That sounds pretty fanboyish to me, assuming that someone else is a fanboy for not playing one of your favourite games or knowing who some dude in the game is.

That being said I don't understand why "fanboys" even exist, who cares if someone likes or dislikes a certain game. Not everyone has to have a mindless uniform opinion on things, especially on those games that they choose to play over others.

 

[Palademon]

I hate havign to deal with the asse sin my school screaming K/D ratios at me, it's why I never play MW2. I have also dealt with anime fanboys, but that's slightly different, it's just annoying to hear my friends go "L's so awesome", probably more so because I introduced them to it and I thought Light's side was more relatable.

 

[orangeapples]

Well, it can't be scarier than meeting a group of Super-Otaku (When you see them, you'll know). I have never been more afraid in my life.

But yes, Fanboys are crazy. Trolling is fine when its on the internet (not really, but at least it is manageable), but when it enters the real world that is an entirely different can of worms. Real world people just don't know how to handle trolls like we do. We enter the world equipped with the knowledge of identifying trolls and how to ignore their comments. Not everyone is as lucky.

 

[Keava]

You make me feel old. Bad bad OP. Halo was what? 2002? For me it's a fresh new game, far from first FPS. Games like Operation Wolf, Wolfenstein3D or Doom where long before that, but does it make them better? Doubt it. But the impact of new renditions of first person shooters is much much smaller on me, it was first Unreal that really showed me the 3d shooters world.

But yeah i get your point, the nowadays production become the point of reference for new gamers. For them it's the essence of the genre, it's how it should like, and how all the later game are just poor copies of it.
It's the same with MMO market, where plenty of people will call everything a WoW clone, because they never heard about MMOs prior to WoW. They never played Ultima, EQ, or Lineage, they don't know how the genre evolved from the very first Neverwinter Nights game.
Can't avoid it, and there is no point in arguing about it, when you grow up in times when anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering effects are standard you can't expect them to appreciate the whole long way the genre had to go through to become what it is today.

FF7 is a different case tho. It was called a cult game so many times, that even people who never played the series will tell you that FF7 is the best... because everyone says so! I'll stick to my good old FFIII.

 

[Exterminas]

What exactly is the difference between being a fanboy and not sharing your opionion?
Based on the shop-story it seems like everybody else, who likes something is a fanboy about that thing and only you are able to make valid opinions.
Isn't that kind of like being a fanboy?
Now, I'm not tring to insult you, but from the story it sounds like you just realised that the mayority of people isn't always right, or reliable for it's well-based opinions.
I can assure you, this has at least been the case since 1939.

 

[Krion_Vark]

Somebody once spent three minutes trying to explain to me that "XBox 360 is a scam." He told me to get a PS3 because they "Never break." There was also an instance where I heard two people talking about playing Halo, and this random guy turns around and screams "XBox 360's are for faggots!"

TROLLS THEY EXIST OUTSIDE THE INTERNET OMG!!!

OT: I like anything with a compelling story Line and good game play or either/or and even those that don't have an AMAZING story.

To those ends I will defend both Assassin's Creed games because they have in my opinion great story lines. But I am not a fanboy of Ubisoft. I also like Bioshock because of the storyline and the twist in it that I didn't actually see coming in it.

 

[darkfire613]

There's this guy at my school who is The Nintendo Fanboy. He takes it to absolutely delusional heights.

He claims that the Wii is more powerful than the 360 or PS3. He says he "took them apart and looked at the parts inside." When I asked him which parts he supposedly compared, he said, "The motherboard, the RAM, the hard drive?" and trailed off. The Wii doesn't have a hard drive, and it is demonstrably less powerful than either console.

He said that he compared Modern Warfare: Reflex to CoD4 side-by-side on the same HDTV, and that the Wii one looked better.

He was bragging about having super high scores online in MW: Reflex as well. I got his friend code, and had my friend who has the game as well verify his claims. He only had two kills total.

After E3 2009, he told me that Bethesda announced a sequel to Fallout 3, exclusive to the Wii, at said E3. Googling showed nothing, so I asked him for a link. He never gave me one, saying that they had "deleted the article."

He claims he's had personal conversations with "the head of Nintendo," "the head of Sony," and "the head of Microsoft." He never names them.

He claimed back in May or June (it was about a week after CoD: Black Ops was first shown off) that he had an early build of Call of Duty: Black Ops. He claimed back during the Halo Reach beta that he already had a build of the entire campaign.


I know the kid is just probably a habitual liar, but others don't. Other people cling to his every word as gospel. Every day at lunch, he has a group of five or six people he preaches endlessly to about Nintendo.

Now, this wouldn't bother me except, he won't leave me alone. I used to try to be nice to him, but eventually lost patience. Even now, as I actively show my dislike for him, he continues to bother me. He constantly tries to engage me in "debates" about which is better, Sony or Microsoft. He seems more like a troll than a fanboy, actually.

 

[Deleted]

He wouldn't listen and still thought that FF12 (sucked), so I asked him what he thought of Basch, since I thought he was a cool character. He didn't know who I was talking about, then I realized I was dealing with a fanboy if he barely played the game.

That sounds pretty fanboyish to me, assuming that someone else is a fanboy for not playing one of your favourite games or knowing who some dude in the game is.

That being said I don't understand why "fanboys" even exist, who cares if someone likes or dislikes a certain game. Not everyone has to have a mindless uniform opinion on things, especially on those games that they choose to play over others.

basch is a main character though. he wasn'nt some obscure npc i said to trick him.

fanboys exist as long as there is something to fanbpy over, not just games.

(sub)posted on an ihone so excuse any errors(/sub)

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

My friends act like that sometimes, but mostly to eff with each other, and it's never meant seriously. I have run into people like that at school, though.

 

[Communist partisan]

I know what you mean, trying to recommend Halo 3 to someone, with an avid CoD fan nearby is never a good idea.

"Woah, woah! You don't have killstreaks, or perks! What the fuck kind of shit is that? Your just some ****** spacemen jumping around in the sky and using toy guns. No-one plays Halo, it's rubbish and good for nothing. Plus, World At War proved that vehicles don't work. So there."

I saw that happening to one of my friends he talked about how good the halo games is and a cod fan exploded in rage even if i don't like halo at all i atleast let my friend say what he likes about it (I gladly talk about it beacose I liked the halo 2 singleplayer ) whithout blowing his ears out whith a "HALO SUCKS BALLS!" and vehicles work in games, BF 1942 proved that So my point is yeah fanboys IRL is a "pain in my assholes" as Borat say^^

 

[Anarchemitis]

I distinctly recall some friends back in highschool who did not want to play Team Fortress 2. To abridge their apathetic blabber, their opinions could be summarized as

"I don't like the [segregated?] class-based gameplay, it means you can never diversify your gameplay."
"The cartoony graphics are distracting."
"The sniper can't run."
All of them played Counterstrike on the computer lab network at lunchtime. And all of them had played a total of less than 20 minutes of TF2, combined. Last I heard checking back there, Team Fortress 2 is the new Counterstrike, and they would probably give me funny looks if I ever brought up their previous opinions of the game they love and play all the time that they'd hated and never played.
I imagine their opinions now probably sound like

"The class-based gameplay adds an interesting dimension to the functionality of teamwork."
"The art-style makes every object and player very distinct."
"The spy kicks ass."

Admittedly that last point is in all likelihood a great given as any given day had many of them greifing each other, so they could all be classified as jerks.