Games that have been ruined by their Fans
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If a game is genuinely good, that doesn't mean that people that praise it are fanboys. People say Portal was brilliant because it was. If you don't like it, fine, but that doesn't mean that all the fans of the game spoiled it, it just means you're a different person from them, which should be easily deducable anyway.
Although I have to say, people get so worked up about Final Fantasy that it's just plain annoying. I'm not going to say that they ruined the game for me, but I wish people would just shut up about it already. And yes, I mean every game in the series.
Although I have to say, people get so worked up about Final Fantasy that it's just plain annoying. I'm not going to say that they ruined the game for me, but I wish people would just shut up about it already. And yes, I mean every game in the series.
I really enjoyed Portal when I played it. Unfortunately, all the Portal wanking has just turned me off from any future content. The problem is that it wasn't just random faceless strangers doing it. Yahtzee, Gabe and Tycho of PA, Scott Ramsoomair of VGCats, and countless others added to it. I just don't want to hear about it anymore.
Thank you! God I hate those people. I bought Smash Bros for the game cube mainly because my roommate at the time was like that for the 64 version. The gameplay was different enough that we were on par and I could crush him. Brawl's looking the same way sadly. Give it a bit and you'll learn to hate anyone who plays as that character from Pikmen.EittilDratsab said:
And as for the no items rule, what the hell? That's like saying "I've mastered Halo 2, but I don't like the grenades, vehicles or energy swords so we aren't going to use them. It's only worth playing if everyone's limited to just using the shotgun and the pistol."
As for Fallout...ah well, burn in hell.
Kidding, sorry. I admit I'm a fanboy for that series but come on you can't blame the fanboys this time.
What other series have had the developers abuse their fanbase like this? Ok, not counting X-Com.
2 good games and then 2 radically different ones that missed the point alltogeather. Its like someone went "Hey, Baldur's Gate was a great RPG and it did really well. Lets make BG3 look exactly the same as 2, but remove all the RPG elements from it and make the game consist solely of the combat!" As for Fallout: BoS....do you have to ask?
The reason why the Fallout fanboys are the way they are is really just classic conditioning. The last 2 times they heard someone say "Fallout sequel" they were hurt. So it's an automatic response by now. Whenever anyone says "Fallout sequel" they wince in pain before seeing the pain.
Though I'll admit, few games have a fanbase so rabid that they'll go off and make their own sequels as a form of protest (once again, not counting X-Com).
As for a game that was ruined...World of Darkness. The table top RPG I mean (Vampire, Mage, etc...). It's not a video game but it's a great example. They came out with a good game and it gave D&D a run for it's money. But they listened to the fans and kept giving them what they wanted, and eventually they had a game system that was burried so deep under all of it's books and ideas that it just got absurd and even the writers decided it had to be killed. If you've ever been to or been connected in any way to Vampire LARPs you understand what I mean.
As much as I love portal (i have still alive on my mp3 player) the fanbase has definitely killed it. The reason it was so good in the first place was because it stayed under the radar of hype and drooling fanboyism. Now that it has millions of fanboys making "cake is a lie" remarks every chance they get, a second release just wouldn't be the same.
Quite a few games I can think of.
But the main one for me is Final Fantasy 7. The fanatical worship of this game is just..unreal. Try breaking it to them that the games storyline isn't that great and that its just based on two simple things and they look at you like you've just gone and done something to a departed loved ones corpse at a funeral.
But the main one for me is Final Fantasy 7. The fanatical worship of this game is just..unreal. Try breaking it to them that the games storyline isn't that great and that its just based on two simple things and they look at you like you've just gone and done something to a departed loved ones corpse at a funeral.
I agree with Halo and Counter-Strike. I also must say that Guild Wars got stabbed to death by fans when ten year olds would sit gabbing off for hours about who knows what that you want to stitch their fingers together. Its why I shut down chat unless its team, guild or alliance. I also think Team Fortress 2 had a lot of potential but you have to mute everyone who vaguely sounds younger than 18 or else you'll get a earful of incomprehensible profanity. It's like almost every multiplayer FPS simply HAS to have the hooting buffoons and squeaking racists or else it simply wont be fun. If only there was a button that could send 20,000 volts into the persons chair and send them flying across the room as punishment for using more than 1 swear in a sentence. Either that or just bind the 'mute' button somewhere on the keyboard. This is why I play System Link Halo 3 instead of online, to save my brain from constant squeaking profanity torture.
~Lord Ascendant
I can be found in Guild Wars by the name of Kafitsel X.
~Lord Ascendant
I can be found in Guild Wars by the name of Kafitsel X.
Halo. Jeezus, I like Halo, but Halo 3 isn't the best game EVAR.
Most Nintendo fanchises: Go say something bad about Zelda in front of a Zelda fanboy, you'll lose a body part.
A lot of GH fans are bad, I love GH, GHII and III are the games I play the most on my 360, but even then I can only play Medium.
Most Nintendo fanchises: Go say something bad about Zelda in front of a Zelda fanboy, you'll lose a body part.
A lot of GH fans are bad, I love GH, GHII and III are the games I play the most on my 360, but even then I can only play Medium.
Halo. Holy Crap i got a lot of Hate Mail when i happened to mention it isn't the best game ever made on a different website.
God of War. I say it's not very original and i have to hide in Mexico for a few months.
Guitar Hero. I love those games but i hate how people start making it seem like their playing real guitar.
God of War. I say it's not very original and i have to hide in Mexico for a few months.
Guitar Hero. I love those games but i hate how people start making it seem like their playing real guitar.
I have to agree that most MMOs fall into this category. As a former player of SWG, Asheron's Call, and for its brief lifespan, Auto Assault, these games were rapidly ruined by the raging maniacs who play them nonstop and continuously demean newer and/or casual players. This is the exact reason I never even tried WoW, not even a free trial. However, I would like to submit EVE as a possible exception. I play it now, and the fanbase is generally older, which helps cut down on the bs, plus it's got a much smaller player base. The community is generally pretty open as well, and there are dedicated groups for helping new players get on their feet. Yeah, you have your d****e bags, but CCP (the developers) also added a block feature that not only blocks personal conversations, but all their chat on all channels, including open chat, so you don't have to listen to such morons, and can still talk in any channel. Despite that, I've only had to use it a few times. Just stay out of the forums though. They can be (and usually are) a cesspit.
As for shooters, I have not yet played CoD 4 online, having just got it, but I'm kinda nervous after reading these posts. Halo is tremendously overhyped in my opinion. Yeah, it's a decent shooter, but I fail to see what gives all those fanboys such a glorious, quasi-orgasmic experience. Maybe I'm just jaded cuz I'm tired of it ALWAYS being the game on the big screen at video game nights, but that's a separate issue. Battlefield 2142 I've remained loyal to, as I have only rarely had to deal with smacktalk spewing ten year olds, but that may have more to do with me being extremely picky about which servers I go to. TF2 and HL: Deathmatch, however, I will pretty much only play at LAN parties, unless I've got the voice chat muted. More is the pity: I love those games.
Oh, and there is nothing on God's green Earth that will make me start playing Counterstrike. I've heard the stories
As for shooters, I have not yet played CoD 4 online, having just got it, but I'm kinda nervous after reading these posts. Halo is tremendously overhyped in my opinion. Yeah, it's a decent shooter, but I fail to see what gives all those fanboys such a glorious, quasi-orgasmic experience. Maybe I'm just jaded cuz I'm tired of it ALWAYS being the game on the big screen at video game nights, but that's a separate issue. Battlefield 2142 I've remained loyal to, as I have only rarely had to deal with smacktalk spewing ten year olds, but that may have more to do with me being extremely picky about which servers I go to. TF2 and HL: Deathmatch, however, I will pretty much only play at LAN parties, unless I've got the voice chat muted. More is the pity: I love those games.
Oh, and there is nothing on God's green Earth that will make me start playing Counterstrike. I've heard the stories
I'm afraid none of you know what its really like to have a game ruined by its fans. Maybe you've had your perception of a game ruined but unless you spent 3 or 4 bliss filled months playing Phantasy Star online on the Dreamcast only to watch it get demolished you don't know true pain.
Halo portal and all those became annoying. PSO became unplayable.
Also Moto Gp on the xbox attracted a huge amount of bastards.
Halo portal and all those became annoying. PSO became unplayable.
Also Moto Gp on the xbox attracted a huge amount of bastards.
Everyone is saying halo,but I think the people online in halo are generaly nicer that in CoD4.In call of duty,everyone is either so british i cant understand them or a total loser who spends hours each day practicing his rant at anyone who even mentions halo.I dont even want to play call of duty most the time because everyone will yell at me because they see i own halo 3.I personally like both games and to the people who think they have to choose for some reason,Fuck you.
Everyone mentions the most popular franchises. Unfortunately, it's inevitable. The more popular something is, the more undesirables you will get in its community. What can you do though?
Play a game with a smaller following?General Ma Chao said:
But it is true, size does matter. The larger a game's overall population, the larger the said game's douche bag population. Despite that, I do maintain that some games do have less mature followings than others.