GameSpotting - Open Letter To Fanboys

[Supreme Cmdr]

hehe, oh man, if I had written this, I'd have worked wonders with the English language.

[John Prezioso]

Wow, someone's a little bitter. Never mind that he is mostly right...

[LostInSpace]

Personally, I don't understand the purpose of his rant. Basically, all I can see from his article is that he's a fanboy of not being a fanboy. I'm also sorry to say that most of us have busy lives and can't spend the time or money, picking, choosing and playing good games on whatever consoles they come out on. There are so many hours in a day, so many days in a week, so many weeks in a month and so many months in a year. A line has to be drawn somewhere.

Anyway, yes I am a PC fanboy. I don't object to consoles and their games as much as I object the dumbing down of games for the console or taking a good PC franchise (which started out on the PC and made it's glorious money from PC gamers) and flushing it down the toilet by migrating the game to the console and then just porting it back over to the PC. Duke Nukem, Deus Ex and Pirates Of the Carribean (the game reeks of a console port besides other issues) all come to mind in this respects. That's my gripe about consoles. Of course there are exceptions to this as well. Such as, Knights of the Old Republic. The one strange odd ball in this as well is GTA. GTA started out on the PC for the first two games then after that the games came out on the Console first while PC gamers sit and wait for a upgraded version to arrive on their systems. Heh, it's actually quite funny having a person who's only played the console version of GTA 3 and onwards and seeing it on a PC for the first time. "Oh my god, you can see to the other end of the city! In fact, you can see past two streets!!"

I can go on but I think everyone's gotten the point by now. Besides, it's only human nature to be doing the things he talks about. Take for instance sports. We all have our favorite team and even when they loose they are still the best. Why? Because we are fans. As for the other teams that we are not fans of, let's not go into what we call them. Also, take for example your wives, you choose that particular woman to marry because to you she's the best dang woman in the world (well we can only hope can't we).

In conclusion, I think his entire piece was rather parochial.

[Kevin Trotter]

Dude it s apparent he is writing about people like you...and probably me too.

[teknocack]

I used to be a fanboy for SEGA. Ahh, the glorious 16-bit days when I simply could not afford a computer but I could get a console that had "true arcade graphics". Rock on!

I have no animosity towards Adam. Parochial perhaps, I think that he was simply addressing an issue he had not before, just as he said. In fact, I was very amused. Mayhap I recognized the fanboy in me:

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Perhaps the most clever thing you as fanboys can do is to come up with derogatory names for competing consoles, such as Xbrick instead of Xbox or FlopStation 2 instead of PlayStation 2.

On message boards, the best way to convey your point is to write in all caps, ignore the rules of grammar, and include lots of "LMAO's" and "LOLs" in your post.

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Fanboy Quote: "yeah I'l tell you bro that the PLAYSTATION crushes THE SPANKTENDO SUXTY FOUR squeezes it into a little ball and shoots it into freakin space man!!!! LOL, LMAO, ROFL.

Anyway, it was fun to read.