tiggerkiddo
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Sonic...the fans of the games aren't bad, it's just everything else.
Well the Fe series has always had those guys always talking up the older games. I at least found that stuff interesting which got me to play older titles.I wonder if its better or worse than trolling or trolling by proxy of teir lsits thrown about like a bible on how to play the game that thou must not refute, even the bits that make no senselike character you'll never use (or have rerason to) is better than character with poor starting stats, massive growths and utility to enable 100% critical rate (that characters placement is mainly trolling purpose which became running joke though might be to rebel agianst the other extreme of "OMG best in game"). The two characters I'm talking about are some archer whose name I've forgotten and Est.
In any case lengthy debates are nothing new for the Fire Emblem fanbase. I wonder if nowerdays it is infested with the "older games were better" vibe that most other Nintendo fanbases have. I know I saw a few Gamefaqs posts (LOL) with people saying you have to go back to the SNES for a hard FE game which is the same sort of thing really and I know back in the day FE6 got slammed pretty badly for dropping a lot of mechanics in FE5.
Probably kingdom hearts. If it wasn't for that I wouldn't be on forums or even have this name. It went through some very awkward phases...they started announcing all these handheld games...the story....things just used to be so simple. Remember spending all my time on KHInsider back in like '03 or '04...there were better times.
Yep, a small FPS called Tactical Ops. It started as a UT mod and became standalone. Kind of the equivalent of Counter Strike but without Steam which back in 2003/2004 was a huge plus.
I was part of the T.O. Chilean league. They used to hang at a forum called zoomby.cl. The community was fucking hilarious, and even though we didn't have a proper anti-aimbot/hack system, nobody cheated.
Oh no, don't get me wrong I love BF, and BC2 is one of my most played games. It's just that the super hardcore has drifted away from the franchise. Visit MordorHQ for a few seconds and you'll see what I mean.
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Perhaps the greatest 8 bit video game icon next to Mario, and yet, the last few years, the fan base has become either conspiracy theorists or people who basically given up at another shot at redemption...(despite this isn't the first time Megaman died...)
The horror, we've become like Mother fans!J/k
It was like Dead Space never existed! It was a myth, a rumour....
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
The buck is this Wahrer? Some true meditation-esq stuff.
IDK man, Resistance 2 boasted some questionable decisions that kind of killed some of the uniqueness of Fall of Man but the community was still very much there. Some of my favorite gaming memories of this last generation stem from R2's 8 player co-op and organizing large-scale MP matches on various websites.
Oh gotcha.
So where have most of them gone? What game are they mostly playing now?
Man, I LOVE HALO, I LOVE IT TO MY BONES!!! But I can't play it anymore, think about getting older, all the Halo fan base got older, we don't have the time anymore to play like we did, to stay up all night on lan parties and online with friends, not just the game changed but we do changed as well. Now I do watch more gameplays than actually play it.
Ghost Recon, could say the same for all Tom Clancy games really.
Oh gotcha.
So where have most of them gone? What game are they mostly playing now?
Metal Gear Solid 4 completely killed any attactchment I ever possesed for the series.
I was a hardcore MGS fan for a long time and a long time member on MGSF and TUS. One site imploded and the other plumeted in activity as a result of the lack of intrest among long time fans posts-MGS4.
Was never part of any community(outside GAF), but the sheer adoration that fans give MGS4 really is a headscratcher. Do they really not expect better from the games? I turned in my card after MGS4 and I can no longer trust the fanbase. Shame as we were in sync with MGS3.
Funny to hear that so many dedicated sites walked away after the trainwreck that was MGS4.
Maybe the problem is you.
No, it's the game.
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Perhaps the greatest 8 bit video game icon next to Mario, and yet, the last few years, the fan base has become either conspiracy theorists or people who basically given up at another shot at redemption...(despite this isn't the first time Megaman died...)
The horror, we've become like Mother fans!J/k
Shenmue fanbase is alive and well
You can tell that SEGA
That's easy- Final Fantasy.
My first FF was FFIV in 1992. I first went online in 1994 when my employer connected their network to the internet, and one of the first places I started hanging out was a BBS for video game discussion. FFVI was coming out soon and there was a lot of talk about it. The FF fanbase was teeny-tiny back then, or at least the English speaking segment of it. I just remember how nice and civil everyone was back then. And there were hardly any arguments. It seemed like virtually everyone was in agreement- FF got better with every game in the series. I honestly don't recall any fights about how FFIV was better the VI, how FFVI fucked everything up and was "a betrayal of everything FF stands for!" and other such horseshit.
But then in 1997 FFVII was released, and that's exactly the sort of thing that started happening. I remember when FFVII was being previewed, everyone seemed really excited and positive about it. It came out in Japan, and the people who imported it reported back that it was awesome, every bit as wonderful as they hoped. But then it got released in the US, and about a month later the fanbase had suddenly increased in size by about 100x, and it was like a bloody civil war broke out. A lot of old school fans became bitter that suddenly their beloved private jacuzzi was being invade by newbies, so they acted like dicks, which made the newbies act like dicks, and it just got worse and worse. And it seemed to me that the situation kinda spread out from there and infected video game discussion in general. All of a sudden it seemed like every forum I went to, everyone was flaming each other about everything. It's been like that ever since.
Half of the Bayonetta fan-base turned against itself because they don't want to buy a new console.
All fanbases are from the outset "downfalled", i.e. they are all mindless sycophants.
You grew up, that's what happened.
Metal Gear Solid 4 completely killed any attactchment I ever possesed for the series.
I was a hardcore MGS fan for a long time and a long time member on MGSF and TUS. One site imploded and the other plumeted in activity as a result of the lack of intrest among long time fans posts-MGS4.
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I was there and in the forums when the messiah of FPS was announced, Quake 4. After years of shooters getting easier, the true king was to arrive. Then it happened. One of the largest fanbases in history was silenced. October 18, 2005. Never forget.
Quake Live then came to us but we all know that it isn't enough to fill the hole Quake 4 made. We Halo fans think we have it bad but you have no idea how bad it can get.
I'm on your wavelength now...never been much of a fan of shipping (but usually found it easy to toss aside*). Self inserted one (even if it is a game feature) is just awkward. Speaking of self insert... I guess thats one degree away.The wife stuff just goes into creeper territory that I dislike about other fanbases that have relationships as a mechanic. And while relationships do affect gameplay in fe, it still really rubs me the wrong way how discussion eventually devolves.
Final Fantasy. I like XIII but...yeah I can see why nearly everyone hates it and the fact they are milking it AND there are stronger RPG's coming from competitors puts them on notice.
I've was a Sonic fanboy. The rest should go without saying.
The funny thing about FF13 is that while it's divisive, the SAME THING was said about every FF before it. People on gamefaqs screamed that FFX was The Worst FF Ever and Square Enix Is Dead To Me.
FF13 sold fine. FF14 was a disaster. S-E dumped Wada. They know they have to get back into shape now.
This started with FFX.
People complained about Auron having no pit hair and this somehow ruined everything.