Games that have been ruined by their Fans

[Frederf]

Rainbow Six. Man remember Rainbox Six 1? It was a thinking man's game. Now it looks like what 13 year olds would do with enough airsoft guns.

Guitar Hero is really hypercompetitive and it's really sad. Rock Band seems to attract some better folks for now.

Grand Turismo anything. It was more about car collecting, 1000 HP Supras than anything else. You were forever trying to keep up with each other in terms of car collecting.

I agree with Halo, HL2, and Bioshock being pretty overhyped. Running into a room, shooting all the dumb baddies and repeating never really did it for me. Halo might have a great story but I could never really feel connected to it when every room was the same shoot green lasers at stupid alien X.

 

[Keavy_Rain]

While I loved the original Halo and bought an Xbox for that game I have to say I wasn't too fond of Halo 2 or 3. I have a friend that questions why someone with a Halo faceplate on his 360 would say that.

He's a little slow.

I liked the first Halo because it was challenging yet fun. The third level, where you have to snipe at night, is by far the most fun level for me. I'll replay that for hours on end seeing how far I can get without being caught. The second one bored me. Too much story. I did like the cliffhanger ending, though. Thought that was sheer genius right there. Halo 3 felt like work to me. I never found a weapon I liked, the vehicles all left something to be desired, and the "Race to the ship" ending with the collapsing tiles and very strict linear path just infuriated me to no end.

Multiplayer was good but with CoD4 and TF2 out there it wasn't compelling enough to keep my attention.

As for Final Fantasy VII, I have to say that as a die-hard Final Fantasy fanboy (So die-hard in fact that as a kid I would tear out Final Fantasy game ads from magazines and put them on my bedroom walls) this game failed to grab me.

When I bought my first PlayStation it was for three reasons: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Final Fantasy VIII. I bought the first two games with my PlayStation and put a reserve down on the third. Loved Tactics and still play it to this day, same with VIII, but VII just failed to grab me. It was near the middle of disc 2 that I stopped playing and never went back.

I love the rest of the games in the series and have played through the various remakes and re-releases but VII remains the one Final Fantasy I just don't like.

Oh, and when Aeris/Aerith died my reaction was "Great. There goes my White Mage."

 

[Bishop99999999]

Metal Gear Solid 4. I always liked the MGS series for all the extra stuff they put in, even though the core gameplay was a little weak compared to other games, but the average PS3 fanboys makes it sound like the second coming of Jesus. It's just a game.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

The thing with the whole "No Items" in Smash Bros. is that they can give unfair advantages to the person who they happen to spawn near. It's really annoying when you do a smash attack and an explosive barrel/bobomb appears right in front of you before your attack hits. You get sent to hell through no fault of your own, only dumb luck on your opponents' part.

Or let's say you're in a 1 on 1 match and you're both down to your last life and at a high percentage. Then a star, or a heart container appears. Whoever's playing the faster character is almost always going to be the one to get it, unless it spawns right next to the slower character.

Sure, a game involving luck where you're just screwing around can be fun, but when you want the clear deciding factor to be skill, items can hinder that purpose.

There is no specific way that Smash Bros. is "meant to be played." If they wanted everyone to play with items, they wouldn't give them the ability to turn them off.

 

[Raan_Amano]

If you want to see a game get ruined by it's fans. Come to the Team Fortress 2 forums on Steampowered.com and just wait for the griping to commence, if the front page isn't littered with threads about nerfing this or buffing that to begin with. They, I don't want to say cater, but respond to a lot of people's comments, and sadly the most vocal aren't necessarily the best judges. It seems like it's going downhill fairly fast...

Are you refering to players complaining about the way developers balanced things, so they get all upset and complain until the developers change it?

 

[Bishop99999999]

Are you refering to players complaining about the way developers balanced things, so they get all upset and complain until the developers change it?

Dood, I got killed when a sniper shot me in the head! FIZ PLZ!!!

 

[Sixties Spidey]

i thought halo 3 was a great game. It isn't the best, but it isn't ruined. The storyline is awesome, and i am so surprised almost NO ONE mentioned need for speed. Pro Street =shit. The series went downhill with Carbon.

 

[emordino]

All too often good games are spoiled by hypercompetitive or mouthy fans. (I never did enjoy GoW multiplayer for just that reason, and yes it bothers me in the Halo series... and I wonder how much I'd enjoy CoD4 online given the "leveling" and concomittant snobbery.)

That's the nuts of it... however I don't think CoD is too bad, the leveling is done in such a way that you can do well no matter what level you're on. Plus I play it on PC without voice chat, so I don't have to endure the young uns.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

i thought halo 3 was a great game.

And to re-emphasize:

buy teh haloz

Really now?

- J

 

[Sixties Spidey]

okay, halo is ruined in the multiplayer part. At lan parties and shit, its okay. But online, there are some douches on Live, that ruin the good clean fun. Like racism and trash talk. I admit that i trash talk so much to my bro and friends, but i do it for fun. I am not the racist 10 year old assbag on live ( although i am 14 years old )

And probably Mario. After galaxy, where could mario go now? Hell? (God Forbid.)

 

[laikenf]

World of Warcraft

I played it for 5 minutes. I love the undead so I decieded to make an undead necromancer kinda guy. Looked a little bit cool. So I ventured out into the world. A friend taught me the confusing mission questing thingy. I thought it was kinda stupid but the quest I got was to go out and kill some kind of undead creature. I fought them for a little bit. Got bored sickly. Turned off the game. The fans didn't ruin the game, it ruined itself. The fans are the only ones who enjoy it. I like games like FPS's where I get full desisions and control in my attacks, not right click on them. That was pretty pointless. Everything in that game felt so off.

That is exactly what happened to me. Verbatim down to the undead charatcer XD

Count me in, I went through exactly the same thing on WoW. That game felt pointless from the get go, I didn't feel like it had a structure or anything and the combat system was... Meh.

 

[00exmachina]

Well I'd say first off is World of Warcraft.
- And let's just say there's a lot of reasons. Though one of the largest is the fans making world pvp so popular that blizzard had to remove it. Server killing raids weren't that bad in my opinion, but the new system put in place to handle the fans destroyed my favorite part of world pvp, which was the incidental non ganking pvp between even level characters.

On the non pvp side it seems like a lot of the class changes were simply made to shut up whiners. Sadly I played until I came to the realization the game used to be fun.



And I have to agree with the Marathon/Halo mention.

 

[laikenf]

okay, halo is ruined in the multiplayer part. At lan parties and shit, its okay. But online, there are some douches on Live, that ruin the good clean fun. Like racism and trash talk. I admit that i trash talk so much to my bro and friends, but i do it for fun. I am not the racist 10 year old assbag on live ( although i am 14 years old )

And probably Mario. After galaxy, where could mario go now? Hell? (God Forbid.)

Actually it wouldn't be a bad idea if Mario went all Satanic on us.

 

[irishdelinquent]

For me, it'd have to be Final Fantasy. I've never really been a fan of the series, and haven't bothered to play it. What definitely ISN'T going to change that fact is when people say to me "Oh my God! You haven't played FF7?!! What is wrong with you?! Are you mentally retarded or something?!" I'm not going to argue that it's a successful franchise. I'm not going to argue that it's not a good game, because I've never played it before, and that would be ignorant of me. But give me the same respect in that I don't want to play it.

Also, my favourite game is beating a dead horse, so I'll play it now. I'm irritated by Halo fanboys. I couldn't give two shits if it sold the most copies on launch day ever. I just don't care. It's fun and all, but the fanboys stopped me from buying it; I don't want to have to face a bunch of preteen boys who know more curse words than they ought to, who feel so inclined to call me a n00b when I fail to win a game. I've been playing games since before these kids hit preschool. I was there when games only had two dimensions. I played games that these kids have never heard of, and never will, because they're too busy playing Halo 3 all damn day long.

 

[Esta]

Without a doubt the Halo series. Way over hyped, and dumbass fanboys.

Great story, fun gameplay, to many idiots playing it online.

 

[The Treasoner]

I'd say City of Heroes, and maybe every other MMO.

MMO players are some of the whiniest gamers you'll ever meet. Guaranteed.

 

[General Ma Chao]

I should also mention FFA PvP fanatics for any MMO ever.

 

[The Treasoner]

I should also mention FFA PvP fanatics for any MMO ever.

I think you mean PK's. There's a distinct difference between PK's and PVPers.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I'd say City of Heroes, and maybe every other MMO.

MMO players are some of the whiniest games you'll ever meet. Guaranteed.

It's gratifying that I'm not the only one who sees MMO players as games, to be played with for my amusement.

- J

 

[Joe]

I think you mean PK's. There's a distinct difference between PK's and PVPers.

No, he means FFA PvP advocates. I like FFA (and PKing), too, but talk about guilt by association.