Beefjack writes: With fanboyism becoming a popular trend amongst the online gaming community, one Beefjack Editor gives his own thoughts on the issue and details his path towards fanboyism.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
If fanboyism can be avoided I certainly didn't... I'm still playing my Dreamcast.
So how can it be avoided?
Sega 4evar!
Sooner or later...
Eventually any intelligent person will have sorted all the positives and negatives out between systems to come to a logical conclusion that one system is better. At that point there is no need for discussion. There are going to people who see things differently, and not surprisingly, those people often choose to focus on one or two points instead of the big picture.
I think you're a gamer if
A)You can afford all of the consoles, and have a good time with both.
B)You can only really afford on console, and that's understandable, and you at least give the other consoles credit where credit is due.
C)You enjoy a game, and it doesn't matter what other people think about the game, or what reviews, either bad, or good the game got.
Fanboys who love Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo have a game that you enjoy, and you want to see where there franchise is going to go, isn't bad, but a fanboy who defends a company like Microsoft,Sony, or Nintendo, and then takes cheap-shots at the competition is stupid. I mean I grew up on the Nes, and the Snes, then the N64, and then a PS2, and then I fell in love with Halo, so I wanted an xbox(which I still have), and then I wanted a 360, but because of not having a lot of money got a PS3, and I can still enjoy a 360, and I don't make fun of my friends who have one. I do enjoy Halo 3's multiplayer.