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Old 03-25-2003, 04:52 PM   #16
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the whole review topic seems to be dead right now, so I'll throw a couple new things into the picture:

System hating

Here's the deal: Most hardcore gamers I've encountered seem to always lean slighty towards a certain system (or company), or to desperately CLING to a certain system (or company). I know I'll have some people walking in here, chins up, saying "I am free of gaming bias". Yeah, you know the drill: Cut the crap and get off your high horse. I'm partial to Sony's PS2. Does this mean I will refuse to acknowledge other systems? No. Does this mean I grin each time I see the system doing well in sales? Yes. Does this mean I grin each time I see another system doing poorly in sales? Sometimes :eek:

What makes a person perceive one or more systems having a black cloud over it? Why will someone, whenever one gets the chace, throw in an either subtle or flagrant bash towards another system, or games of that system? Some of that is in me, and I see some of it in almost every other gamer on message boards, in gaming stores or in personal conversations. What gives?

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Old 03-25-2003, 05:03 PM   #17
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Fanboys will always be around, and thats a sad thing, but at least sometimes we can get some humour out of it.

Why people will go to no end in order to make a video game system look bad is beyond me. In most cases, fanboys will merely prasie towards the system they own. They spent a lot of money on it, so they have to make it look good, or else they might feel like that money spent wasn't worth it. Even if they do enjoy most of the games on the system, they still feel the need to praise it to death while giving an evil glare to all other systems with tremendous passion.

Why bother? It takes effort to hate something, and to show that you hate it. You're going to be cast down anyway by the gamers who don't carry the attributes of the pathetic fanboyism, so why do they constantly try over and over again to make themselves heard? You don't need to make a 500 word essay on a forum talking about why your system is 100 times better than all else (basically explaining how much of a fanboy you are). To be a fanboy, all you need to do is say it once, or better yet, put a label on your forehead so that way we won't have to hear it all the time.

A fanboy's opinion never changes. It was biased in the beginning, and will remain biased as long as that person remains a fanboy.

They are missing out on great games that are exclusive to other consoles. You know what I say to that? HA! Serves you right for being the biased dumbass that you are.
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Old 03-25-2003, 09:39 PM   #18
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I think its a good thing that there are fanboys. I mean, EDUCATED fanboys. I like to hear both sides of an opinion on something about each console. Kind of like how lately, there are activists for/against the war. I like to hear each sides opinions. But then there are people who are just plain dumb and say "My XYZ is teh RuLeZ!!!1" But I think fanboys are here to stay. Its impossible to eliminate the fanboy for each console. That is unless Microsoft brainwashes all of us into thinking MS only
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