Fan boys

[Rydia]

How well do you tolerate video game fan boys?

I tend to avoid them. They can be extremely annoying. Espeically those that have unwavering loyalty to their console and are all "the Wii, 360, PS3 sucks!"

There are also the fanboys that will lecture you or flame you endlessly if you do not like the game they like. This is especially true if you say anything negative about games such as COD, Halo, Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect, any other popular game.

And worse are those that go to great lengths to define casual and hardcore gamer and proudly declare themselves hardcore as they brag about spending 16-22 hours a day on their game.

 

[Aeris]

I happen to be dating a video game fanboy. I find it to be rather adorable. We don't always share the same views but it makes things more interesting to discuss. He has his moments where he will get annoyed if you don't like a certain game but this is usually because he honestly thinks it deserves some form of credit. I have to admit though, I have met a few fanboys (like a friend of mine on Gaia) who flamed people who didn't like Splinter Cell. o___o;; We get on well and agree to disagree but I think that's because he has a soft spot for me.

 

[10th Doctor]

I can't stand these guys. I'll only want to talk to them if it's about gaming, or whatever, but god forbid you talk about something else. Unfortunately, I used to be a fangirl... so I kind of know what it's like to be one. In a way, I get that this may be their escape. But at the age of 20, or something?

I think that after a certain age, a little growing up needs to be done.

 

[Martel]

The short answer? Badly. Very, very badly. When a game gets a ridiculously high score that it doesn't (in my opinion, at least) deserve, I'm somewhat irritated. When I say that it didn't deserve the score and I get attacked by hordes of angry fans brandishing torches and pitchforks who are eager to put me up on a cross and burn me witchcraft-style, just because I have a different opinion to them, I tend to get very short-tempered.

Everyone has games that they like, which is fine. But those people who are obviously mindlessly going along with the crowd just because it's "cool" to do so, and not because they have reached their conclusions about a game through independant thought, those are the ones I just want to stab repeatedly.

I was caught up in the console war last generation (firmly on the Gamecube's side) but I have since, fortunately, outgrown it. I might go on about games I like a bit, but there isn't really anything wrong with liking something. It's when you insist that everyone else should mindlessly conform with your view of it that things become a problem.

That'd be what separates a fan from a fanboy/fangirl, in my opinion - the former aren't overly obnoxious and generally intolerable, and I have absolutely no tolerance for them at all.

 

[Valvalis]

The only thing that really irritates me about excessive fandom is when characters/parts of a game's story are taken extremely out of context, and these people are like "OMG, the entire story is about characterA X characterB or characterC vs characterD!," and then the production companies make spinoff games that focus only on those pairings or rivalries, even though they were not the main point of the game at all

 

[Soltharn]

I've had a fair few vocal arguments with fanboys/fangirls in the past. I don't go out of my way to provoke them, but I tend to point out what is good and bad in a particular game I happen to have played.

I also believe certain games attract better fanbases than others. This is most notable when I compare the Final Fantasy fanbase to say...the World of Warcraft fanbase.

Admittedly, there are a few games that I obsess over but I don't force my view on others if they choose not to like it. Personal taste plays a major part in most forms of entertainment, after all.