Okay, let me start this off by saying I'm a huge RPG fan. I rarely play anything but RPG's, save the exceptional mindlessly entertaining action adventure *cough*devilmaycryandsamurai7*cough*. Xenosaga is by far my most favorite RPG to date. I absolutly love that game and one of these days I'll get around to writing a review of it...as soon I as I remember where I put the damn disk...Anyway, Final Fantasy series run a close second, with Star Ocean and Xenogears pulling in for third...I've played others as well, but those are the ones that stick in my head the most.
RPG fandom reminds me of anime fandom. There are the elitist morons who bash everything under the sun and then there are the laid back people who just like to enjoy the games for what they are...merely videogames...However, for some reason, I find that RPG fandom tends to be far more vicious than anime fandom, and that the peers of this group cannot hold an intellegent coverstation with each other for more than 2.5 seconds. Apparently, the word opinion doesn't mean anything to fans of RPG's because no one is allowed to have one and if you try to express one your immediatly crucified....
Final Fantasy fans are by far the most absurd.. I akin them to a bunch of starved dogs in a deep pit trying to rip each other's throats out...Hello, aren't you dumbasses fans of the same series, just different games? But once again, we're back to the whole, "Not allowed to have an opinion" thing...*sigh*
Things tend to get even hairier when Xenosaga fans and Final Fantasy fans mix...War erupts and the world nearly ends. Blood baths ensue. Valkaryies come down from the sky...it's bad... God forbid either side thinks that their game is the shiznit...*sigh* I'll go out on a limb here and say, personally, I find Xenosaga to be the better game (out of all the FF games I've played so far), but that's just me. However, I have some how miraculously been able to be a fan of BOTH *gasp* FF and Xenosaga...imagine that....WHY this capability eludes other gamers is beyond me.
If you hate FF games, don't go to FF boards. If you hate Xenosaga/gears don't go to Xenosaga/gears boards, etc. It's as simple as that. No one at those respecitive "boards" wants to hear why you think their favorite game sucks. Only then, will I agree your opinion becomes moot (since you veto it by being an utter moron)...RPG games can be very different, and it's those differences that appeal to different people...not everyone is going to like the same thing, so why not shut up and give it a rest already....*Sheesh*
Posted by Zoso at June 8, 2004 02:49 PM