darkSpyro

For me, it's the game that counts.

The fanbase does not change my opinion of a game anymore, simply because, well.....gamers these days(this includes all of us at times) are spoiled, and are complete ****s, sometimes to each other, and it doesn't matter which "fanbase" you go to. We have this feeling of "entitlement", and that seeing as we bought a game, it should be EXACTLY how we IMAGINED it to be. Otherwise, we feel like we didn't get our money's worth. Some gamers go so far with their ****ishness, that they interfere with the development of games (take that one Minecraft scandal as an example).

There are also some of us who hate change of any sort. And no, I'm not even referring to Anti-LoS fans here, as I understand that those were different enough from the Classics to be considered unrelated (though I do frown at the people who knew exactly what was going to change before playing LoS, knew that it would be an action-oriented game, and then went on to say "durrhurr I dun liek et coz i haet action gaemz".....seriously, that's like me buying an FPS, knowing that I have a slight distaste for that kind of game, and then complaining about how I didn't like it because it was an FPS. I have come to expect boring drab from FPS games, therefore, I don't play many.....and don't give me the "they got it because it had Spyro's name on the box" excuse.....that doesn't cut it with me...). What I'm really talking about is the sort of people who complained at the EVER SO SLIGHTLY different physics in Sonic 4. The people who complained about an OPTIONAL Homing Attack move in Sonic 4.....

So yeah, nowadays, I have come to expect rowdy fanbases, no matter what the fanbase is of, but especially if the game franchise started in the 90s or earlier, simply because those fanbases can be full of old farts who don't want their little box tampered with, if you know what I mean. You might as well not have an interest in any long running game series if you are prone to have your love for a game tampered with by it's fanbase, and you should be wary as soon as a sequel is announced for a new IP.

More or less, I try to be the same. It is, however, not always possible to escape fanbases. I did at one point consider playing other Sonic games but I couldn't find information that wasn't tainted by some form of fannishness and it quickly made me lose all interest. I imagine people who never played a Mario game might feel the same way in this situation, and I know for a fact that many people who've never played a Spyro game feel exactly this way.

Mostly, though, the things I love the most I do not join fandoms for (especially not after what happened in this fandom ).

In the case of Sonic games, you can come to me if you really feel like playing more. I already made the user Darby a big Sonic fan, when she asked me about the franchise out of nowhere, and when asked for information, I just told her what the games mechanics were, as told by the developers, or in my own, formal words. When someone is asking me for info on a game, I always seperate facts and opinion, and I generally only give opinions when asked for them. Of course, I don't expect you to be interested anymore anyway, but if you do have interest, I can help ease you in, as it is kind of hard for newcomers to know where to start, seeing as Sonic is a huge franchise (ask Darby on that!).

This is the only fandom I have took much part in for now. There are two other forums I might join, and of course, I want to try voice acting in the summer, doing my versions of different characters, so that would somewhat count as participating in a fandom. I also want to do fan art of some other things. But for now, it's just Spyro.

Thanks for the offer, but I'll pass. I'm married to a huge Sonic fan and he and I share similar tastes. I've seen enough reviews and talked enough with him to know that I'm not likely to enjoy anything past Sonic 3 (and even that only on a limited basis), which is fine by me. I was only ever in it for Dulcy and Princess Sally and they never appeared in the games in any significant way (I don't count Sally's cameo in Sonic Spinball ).

I've been in a few over the years, most notably for Tomb Raider, Titan AE, Midna (the character), and Danny Phantom. In all of those cases, I just wandered away when the interest waned, my friends left, or the series died. I've been burned out on Spyro for a while, but severe boredom and a prefect mix of vaguely interesting new info combined with other things keeps me idly drifting around. For the things I really love now (A Song of Ice and Fire, Mercy Thompson, obscure YA fantasy books by Tamora Pierce, etc.) I have no interest in what fandom does exist or already know there isn't one.

Thought you might say that!

Boedom, and two non-Spyro things are keeping me on this site. Weird, I know...

To me, the game is what really matters. But when the first thing you see is a fanbase and how they act to it, it kinda ruins the fun of the games for you, or even makes you embarrassed to say you like the games if it turns out you do. Good examples of that are LoS, CoD, and to a smaller extent, Gears of War.

I don't get embarrassed to like things at all, really, so that's not a problem for me.

It is for me, especially in the case of CoD, especially here or on Youtube. I always have to watch my toes, since so many people hate those games. To mention that you like it is almost suicide, where tons of people would get on your case, saying how the game is broken and how there are better shooters out there (which is funny since I tend to play those shooters they mention), or how I'm "killing gaming".

I don't like CoD myself, but I don't exactly hate it.

For me, I have to be careful about liking Final Fantasy on this site, and even Sonic. And anywhere that accepts Final Fantasy as a franchise, I have to be careful about the fact that Final Fantasy XIII is on my favourites.

You shouldn't really have to be careful about liking Sonic. It seems to be very big here. not very sure why. But that's just me.

This is why:

"Sonic Unleashed on Xbox 360 is one of my favourite games ev-"
"WTF, GET HIM"
*stampede approaches*
"*sigh*....TIME TO UNLOAD!!"

From what I've seen in places like the Sonic topic, that isn't much of a problem. Like I said, there are a lot of Sonic fans on here.

Oh, I almost forgot. WTF GET HIM. *stampede*

But you don't have the Xbox 360 version...
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And I've seen people here call it the worst Sonic game ever...

I'mma try and rent it as soon as possible. First, I need my Gamefly back. >: O

It's not the worst Sonic game ever. Black Knight, 06, and Laybyrinth are all worse.

For me, just 06. I liked Black Knight and thought Labyrinth was a cool idea, but was not done right.