What games aren't we allowed to critisize? And what causes fanbois?

I don't like any of the GTA series. I thought the early Driver games did driving better. The aiming system is horribly broken. There isn't enough variety in the world to be a true sandbox game. I mean if I start beating people down in a neighborhood, people around the corner should know who I am and start running. Cops should be called and I shouldn't be able to show my face around there until the heat cools down. I never see that. Let's see what the "fanbois" do with that.
 
I will always make fun of Halo, simply because it is overrated. It's nothing special to me.

Lots of Neo Geo games are untouchable: Metal Slug 3, King of Fighters '98 and '02, Last Blade 1&2, Blazing Star, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Fatal Fury Special. The list is pretty long... Pretty much any Neo Geo game is golden to a Neo Geo fan. ;)

People don't like to see Radiant Silvergun get bad press. The Phantasy Star games don't deal to well with criticism (with the exception of III).
 
We are not allowed to Criticize any series that has gone astray.

For example the Bionic Commando series. For many years all people knew was the NES game and said it was good while other people found out about the other versions realizing there was a Arcade game.

You can't complain about Bionic Commando since we all know it is made up fiction based on the events and superstition of WWII.

More importantly Bionic Commando is still fresh where you can do almost anything with it and people will say it is good. So anything that is like Bionic Commando we can't complain.

Other game series is as followed.

Dragon Quest. Each game story is different was unrelated to the last game.
Metroid. The creator left the building and there is no way to say good or bad.
Rockman. The creator left the building so there is no way to say good or bad.
Beyond Good and Evil. Never really was finished so it stays fresh in the mind.

Now if you ever seen the film "Surviving Picasso" . The scene where Picasso is talking with a American reporter ( kinda like the one reporting the Middle East ). The reporter begs him to draw something anything. He makes a couple of lines and calls it's art and says that it is art since it is never finished and he never finishes any of his works.

In terms of Picasso games like these are art since nobody really finish them people go crazy for them and hang them from there walls. It is like a human life it is never finished and once it is gone there is nothing you can do but stare at the remaining body and watch it turn to dust.

Now when it comes to games like

Mario
Zelda
Kirby
Sonic

They never finished the original series. In reality they just created more games and play the "It does not matter game...... what are you some kind of loser".

Kinda like if the writer of Harry Potter just decides that Harry family cam from a long line of Clowns who converted to sorcery. However they already did this in the movies by adding the stereotype Jamaican bus driver. Now all the people who respect the book do not care since they say it is just a movie but the people who respects all variations of Harry Potter would be ticked off but then again the auidence barely cares about this addition.

Lastly games like.

Starfox
Virtua Fighter
Biohazard
Nights

You can't complain about things like graphics since all these games at the time was 3d ground shakers while having nice gameplay the main purpose was to show off the 3d capabilities not to have any gameplay value at all.

However the games was creative and more importantly simply. Starfox was just a shooter like any other, Virtua Fighter is really just a regular fighting game, Biohazard made use of movie like Cameras angles, and Nights makes absolutely no sense at all but the idea of flying around freely in demision like ours but not ours was just cool.

Now that most games are in 3d now so these games fall into the other catergories of why to complain and why not complain.

Still in terms of reviews everything is good and nothing is bad the real challenge is to find something bad.
 
[quote name='TheOneGod']However they alredy did this in the movies by adding the stereotype Jamaican bus driver. Now all the people who respect the book do not care since they say it is just a movie but the people who respects all variations of Harry Potter would be ticked off but then again the auidence barely cares about this addition.[/QUOTE]

While I don't understand a goddamn thing you said, I want to point out that you are way off here. There is no Jamaican bus driver. There was a shrunken head with a Jamaican overtone, but the actual driver was an incredibly old white man. Which I guess means you don't really have a point here....
 
[quote name='The Crotch']Don't argue with RegalSin. While your rhetorical skills are undeniably great, I fear that, like the tragic figure of Greek legend, you too will fly too close to the sun. Your punishment will be swift, and when TOG is finished, you will be but an empty shell of a man.[/quote]

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Why do people encourage him?
 
[quote name='The Crotch']Don't argue with RegalSin. While your rhetorical skills are undeniably great, I fear that, like the tragic figure of Greek legend, you too will fly too close to the sun. Your punishment will be swift, and when TOG is finished, you will be but an empty shell of a man.[/QUOTE]

Are we confirmed this is indeed RS? I had a slight suspicion when reading the post, but I was not sure.

I will require several vials of unicorn's blood to progress further. And some eye of newt. The wildberry kind.

Edit: Ahhh. Sir Kayden, had I known that was him, I wouldn't have responded. I mean, he used actual words this time. Words! Not unlike you'd find in a library.
 
The evolution of Regal Sin? His post made absolutely no sense but it actually had some structure to it. There were complete sentences and the word were all spelled corretly. Is he some computer somewhere that's gaining sentience?
 
[quote name='Strell']While I don't understand a goddamn thing you said, I want to point out that you are way off here. There is no Jamaican bus driver. There was a shrunken head with a Jamaican overtone, but the actual driver was an incredibly old white man. Which I guess means you don't really have a point here....[/QUOTE]

It does not matter if the character was a mouse it is still Jamaican. He had the hair, the accent, and the speak say. Any Jamaican related person would state this character a Stereotype. I am not going to have this conversation. You obviously can't understand the words of god.
 
[quote name='TheOneGod']It does not matter if the character was a mouse it is still Jamaican. He had the hair, the accent, and the speak say. Any Jamaican related person would say the samt thing Stereotype. I am not going to have this conversation. You obviously can't understand the words of god.[/quote]

Now you're just being an effin prick.
 
[quote name='Strell']Are we confirmed this is indeed RS? I had a slight suspicion when reading the post, but I was not sure.[/QUOTE]I was about to cast my doubts because the post had some proper grammar and sentence structure, but the last post and lack of denial has convinced me otherwise.
 
[quote name='depascal22']Now you're just being an effin prick.[/QUOTE]

Now you are just calling me names over somebody dictating something to me which they prefer not to comprehend.
 
I usually catch a lot of flak when I mention that I didn't like Shadow of the Colossus. Seems to be the same for Beyond Good & Evil and Eternal Darkness. Of course, I always recommend people ignore me on those and try the games out for themselves (which is, y'know...what people should do anyway...). I realize I'm in the minority on those, but that doesn't make my opinions any less (or more) valid. :)
 
Okay, my turn. :}

What makes a fanboy/fanboi?
Lack of objectivity.

It's pretty much as simple as that. Anyone willing to overlook (and/or ignore) the facts of a situation is pretty much lost in the first place...lol. But, there are many instances where people don't understand the difference between a fact and a preference.

It's like asking if Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter is better...you will get people that side with either game for (usually) personal reasons based on preference. While there may be some actual "facts" that could be pointed at (graphics, control issues, etc.) for any game, the fanboy types are usually (okay 99.9% of the time) unwilling/unable to admit there is ANYTHING that can be seen as negative about their favorite.

ANY game is (and should) be considered fair game when it comes to evaluating/reviewing it for pros (positives) AND cons (negatives). As cool/neat/pretty/fun any game can be, that does not mean there is absolutely no room for improvement. Some people think each game should only be reviewed/evalutated on it's own merits and not compared to what else is out. That's a nice idea, but it just doesn't work all that well (mainly because we live in a comparative type world).

However, that does not mean a game can't stand on it's own. But, other games on the market must also be taken into consideration when reviewing/evaluating something. [However, that does not mean reviews (especially in magazines and/or game websites) should focus more on the game being compared that the game being reviewed...yes, I've seen that too.] In any case, each and every aspect that makes up a game should be evaluated fairly (both the good and bad points about it).

I think part of what hurts the ability for people to be objective about a game is some of the sheep mentality that allows them to accept a game based on it's "popularity" instead of the actual game itself. Hype can go a LONG way into helping propel a game into a higher status area when it truely isn't as great as all that...lol. For example, how many people rushed out to buy Halo 2 that had not even played Halo 1? (more than you would probably imagine). It's just too easy for some people to get caught up into something that's popular like that.
 
[quote name='TheOneGod']It does not matter if the character was a mouse it is still Jamaican. He had the hair, the accent, and the speak say. Any Jamaican related person would state this character a Stereotype. I am not going to have this conversation. You obviously can't understand the words of god.[/QUOTE]

Indeed!

Those darn Jamaicans! Leading such leisurely lives that they cut off their bodies! "Arms?" they say when you ask about them. "Arms are for de feeshes, mon!" and they cast them aside into the briny deep surrounding their lush tropical island! "And legs? Let them dance upon the sands!" and they bring knife to skin and let them jitter their way into freshly dug burrows, to live out their leggy lives.

Oh what crafty individuals they are! How I envy them! And the moment that shrunken head went up on the screen I was thinking "He had the speak say! DAMN YOU J.K. ROWLINGS! DAMN YOUR BLACK HEART!"

And then I proceeded to piss all over the movie screen in a fit of self-release induced rage.

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It was the greatest birthday ever!
 
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